The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-21 00:00:00

IRELAND.

(From the Dublin Freeman's Journal.)
DUBLIN GUILD OF MERCHANTS.

On Monday, a meeting of the Members of this
Guild took place, at the Merchants' Hall, Welling-
ton-quay, at half-past one o'clock, for the purpose
of receiving -the Report of the Coal Committee, and
to transact other business.—CHAßLES TtioßPE:Esq.
Master, in the Chair. _ _

The Report having been read, it was moved and
carried, that it should be adopted.
Mr. Allen, the Cleric of the Guild, then proceeded
to read the following letters, which had been re-
ceived from the Duke of Wellington, Lord Eldon,
Robert. Peel, and George Dawson, Esqrs. in answer
to the Addresses which had been sent forward from
the Guild, on their resigning office. The letters
were as follow :

London, June 16, 1827.

SIR--I have received your letter of the 10th inst. en-
closing the unanimous address of the Guild of 11Ierchants.
Dublin, testifying the approbation of my fellow-citizens of
my conduct, for which I beg you to convey to the Guild
my most grateful acknowledgments.
I thought it better to decline to belong to his Majesty's
Councils, for reasons well known to the public ; but I did
not, nor shall I refuse to give my support to the Administra-
tion formed by his Majesty_ on every occasion on which I
shall think their measures calculated to promote the honour,
the peace, or the prosperity of the country.
I have the honour to be, &c.
C. Thorpe, Esq. WELLINGTON.

London, June 16, .1827.

SIR--I have had the honour to receive the address of the
Master, Wardens, and Brethren of the Corporation of
Merchants, or Guild of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, on my
retirement from office. It is a great satisfaction to me to
learn, that that most respectable body has deemed me en-
titled to its thanks for the support which I have endeavoured
to afford to the British Constitution in Church and State.
To preserve and maintain, unimpaired, that Constitution,
the Corporation may be assured that I shall not fail, during
what remains to me of life, to exert my utmost endeavour.
I have the honour to be, &c.
C. Thorpe, Esq. ELDON.

Whitehall, June 19, 1827.

SIR-I request you will convey to the Guild of Mer-
chants, of the city of Dublin, my best acknowledgments
for the honour which they have conferred on me, on the
occasion of my retirement from office.

You will oblige me by adding to those acknowledgments,
the assurance that, although no longer a member of the
Councils of the King, I most cordially participate in the
feelings of loyalty and respectful attachment to his Majesty
by which the Guild of Merchants are animated, and that
I shall, in a private station, take the same interest in
every" Measure calculated to promote the honour of the
Crown, and advance the general welfare of the United
Kingdom. I have the honour to he, &c.
To C. Thorpe, Esq. ROBERT PEEL.

June 20, 1827.

SIR-I have bad the pleasure of receiving your letter of
the 10th instant, transmitting to me an address from the
Guild of Merchants, in which they have done me the
honour of expressing their approbation of my conduct in
retiring from office, in consequence of the late changes
which have taken place in his Majesty's Gtivernment.
I beg that you will convey to the Guild of Merchants
my warmest thanks for this testimony of their approbation,
and to assure them that, next to the pleasure arising from
a consciousness of having done my duty, I place that of
receiving from my fellow-citizens so flattering a prod of
their esteem, as is conveyed in the Address which they had
the goodness to send to me.
I have the honour to he, Sir, &c.
C. Thorpe, Esq. G. R. DAWSON.

It was then moved by Alderman NUGENT, and seconded
by Mr. SuTrEit, that these letters should be inserted ore
the Journals of the House, which being put from the
Chair, was carried by acclamation.
Alderman NoGENT was then called to the Chair, and
thanks being returned to the Master for his very proper
conduct therein, the Meeting broke np.

THE PETITION TO THE KING.
Corn-Exchange-rooms, Dublin, July 5, 1827.
Silt—l do myself the honour of transmitting, by order,
to your direction, a petition to the King's Most Excellent
Majesty, which was this day unanimously adopted at an
Aggregate Meeting of the Catholics of Ireland, in Dublin.
The petition, Sir, would have been much more nume-
rously signed if time permitted. This circumstance, and
the urgency of the affair, will, I trust, plead my excuse for
humbly requesting that you will have the goodness to lay
the same before his Majesty with all suitable expedition.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient and very humble servant,
NICHOLAS PURCELL O'GORMAN,
Secretary to the Catholics of Ireland.
The Right lion. Sturges Bourne, his Majesty's!
Secretary of State for the Home Department.

Whitehall, July 9, 1827.

Sir—l am directed by Mr. Secretary Sturges Bourne,
to acknowledge the receipt this day of your letter of the
sth inst., accompanied by a petition to his Majesty, adopted
at an Aggregate Meeting of the Catholics of Ireland in
Dublin ; and I am to acquaint you that Mr. Sturges
Bourne will not fail to lay the petition before the King,
agreeably to your request.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
N. P. O'Gorman, Esq. S. PERCEVAL.

(From Tuesday Night's Dublin Gazette.)
COUNCIL CHAMBER.
Dublin Castle, July 16, 182'7.
His Majesty by his Royal Letter, having appointed the
Right Hon. William Lamb, to be of his Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council in Ireland, he this day took the
usual oaths, and his place at the Board accordingly.