Star.
London, England, 1830-10-23 00:00:00

MR. O'CONNELL'S LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF

IRELAND.

" The proclamation signed by Sir Henry Hanlinge, an English offi-
cer, holding a situation here, and paid with our money, prohibits a so.
ciety,which has as yet no existence,ftom meeting. This set is according
to law—that is—there is a statute in force enabling this Englishman to
prevent Irishmen from consulting together in order to obtain legal or
legislative relief.
" The proclamation will, of course, be obeyed—readily obeyed.—
That obedience does not alter the nature of the conduct of those who
prevent Irishmen from meeting, but it is essential to our future success
implicitly to obey this proclamation. There are but three things which
can impede the now certain repeal of the Union.
" The first is bigotry. By religious animosity we were degraded and
divided. The enemies of Ireland will endeavour to excite it again. It
is their old game ; but I am convinced the endeavour will now be futile.
" The second is—The organisation of secret societies and adminis-
tering of illegal oaths. I learn, from undoubted authority, that this
attempt is on foot—l call on the people, as their friend—l warn
them to avoid every Illegal society, and every oath whatsoever.
" The third is—Any attempt at force as violence. The Anti-Union
cause would be annihilated if there was any attempt made to achieve
it by force. Upon this point I desire to be most emphatic. Irish-
men I no man but a bitter enemy of Ireland will think of using force
or violence. I think I can confidently pledge myself that the Union
cannot bat unless some attempt be made to dissolve it forcibly.

" Any efrnt of that kind would disgust all good men. NJ man 11:
honour or conscience would countenance so absurd and wieln.d an effort.
• We cannot fail to succeed, if we wait for the peaceable and moral
combination of the p.ople. It will require time, and the absence of un.
reasonable terror t,,e,..arb.ne them. The animosities of religious discord
are too recent no• to demand patient consideration, in order to prevent
their intetfsring with the progress of that legislative independence which
the virtuous and the g.7tl of all classes and persuasions will certainty
athiew.-, ludas% pis:vein:ll by the folly or the criiricsot sotneof the people.
▪ Patirnce--patiznce—lbedience to the law—bur the more firm
tent:Ls:oton on that :Lecosr.t to await the season s Welt is approachihg,
and in which our on:wry triumphant, by :he peaceable,
detly, and kindly cnraharat.on of all her people.
•• Your obedient servant,
" Illerrinii.square, Oct. 19, 1830. `• Daum Et. (Yea re N:;11.1..

" FILLOVJ • COUNTSITKLIU..-TilCl3 eX13:1; 311 Act of P311:,111`...1.
livi:jet despetie ewer t., the Lord Limtenatit over all inee:ings tt
reland. Even the Se:emery to d:e Lord Lieutenant—such is the
contempt entertained Lomas Ireland•—even the Sub Secretary, or what.
ever he be, think.: Ithu.clf justified Lt trampling on the libertiet of the
Irish pe.i.ple ; and, accordingly, Iu the absence of the man to whom
the law has eonfal ti despotic discretion, he reclaims down the ex-
r.-ssion or Irish u .:taica:a in the name of the absent Lord Lmutenant.
•• But th.: semis eras of I eclami cannot be suppressed. The universal
Incs of a dontes..ic and 113!10!11/1 leglslatuth will find means to make it.
self known. These means vela be the more efficacious, because they
will be 1,....ccab1e; they sill be irresistible, because they will be legal
and consthut i,•nsi.

•• No lams: on e:Jtit t m Ir•rvent the Irish from being a people, rod
Ireland front heiag a nation osaia, save tide folly or the crimes of someof
the Irish theinsava.

•• To check tile Trog-res. of Idly—that is, of isizotrv—on this sub-
' ject—to prevent the potability of the colunirssiou of crime, it is ne.
cesNary that thme should b funned a society, to meet in Dublin.
I propose that such a society should be called • Tne Association of
Irish Voluateers.! The motto of the Society to be 1782, over the word
• Resurgent.'
" I isropose that t!sis Soci:ty should be, of coarse, an urarms7d So.
' cie:y—that it shoal I melt in Dahlia uuJer such regal:aim:se., should,l
whilst they prevented the possibility of any tcodency to a breach of
the peace, be so cp..h in ha procesidings a.: not to have any thtng of
a secret or private character.
" A priucipol object of this Society will be t t pr.sture a rtition
from every Parish in Irs....msi for a tepeal of Lite ;Joie!).
" Such gentknicu as ti..sire to Ikeonte members will traastnit their
names and addresses to Lslvr. Dwyer, Esq. No. Xi, Lower Stepher.
street, with an animal subscription, in advance, of 11.
" So soon as a sufScient number of uatn:s are given inot meeting of
the subscribers will be held, to frame and forward petitions to t!s: lac.
gislature. . . .

" I have the honour to be. your devoted servant,
" DAN lEL O'CONNELL.

" Illerrion.s.F.v... Oct. 19. 1a30."

SPllll7' o%' TUE JOUR %ALS.

TlMM—Among the objections made to to, actual state of our re-
presentation, one of gr.ut moment undonbteilly that from the pro-
digious changes which have taken place in the contlit!,:t of various
districts of this country, towns or boroughs which in forever ages had
representatives to sii,ned to them because of their opulence or population,
have since declined in both blow that point at which they could origi-
nally have put forth any title to the privilege ; while elhetv!tcre, spots
unknown little further back than half a ce-tury, have swelled into
greatness of wealth and numbers, and arc left to the humbug of
virtual representation for the guardiuiship of their local interests in
Parliament. Unquestionably it must appear nothing less than mon-
strous, that in a country where representative Government is not quite
an acknowledged farce, one half-ruined house like Old Sarum should
enjoy the power of choosing Jegislators to coerce the free agency and
fetter the interests of more than half a million of Englishmen, inhabit.
ing the immense commercial emporia of Manchester, Leeds, Binning.
ham, and Sheffield, while these latter places cannot approach, but as
petitioners, that house wherein the delegates of Batton and Old Sarum
are seated in security artd full legislative power. It is evident that the
ancient maxims of British state policy must all have been abandoned
ere such a marvellous contrast could have arisen between right without
representation, and representation wholly devoid of right.

Posr.—The Proclamation of the Irish Government, issued so op.
portunely for the suppression of present mischief and the frustration of
future rebellious designs, we are happy to find, has not only given just
confidence to the loyal, but already dismayed the disaffected, who, what.
ever their ultimate purposes may be, affect at least for the present to
respect the law upon which the wise and vigorous measure in question
is founded. The cloven tbot, however, still sufficiently displays itself;
for although Mr. O'Connell, in a letter addressed by him to the People
of Ireland, recommends in the first instance submission to the law, he
immediately afterwards proposes the formation of a Society not less mis-
chievous in its tendency than that which the proclamation goes directly to
suppress. In this insidious proposition, however, the prime Agitator
proves himself to be as palpably defective in legal knowledge as he Is noto-
riously remiss in loyal obedience ; for the new seditious ssociation recom-
mended by him would be no less dangerous, and consequently no less
cognisable by the existing law, than that against which the wise Pro.
clamation of the Government is expressly and distinctly directed. The
Executive therefore will be duly watchful of the dark and dangerous
proceedings of this restless Agitator and disturber of his country's
peace ; and his motives being thus apparent, even through the veil so
artfully thrown over them, the strong arm of the law will, we trust, not
fail to be employed in the efiectual frustration of such infamous designs.

HERALD.—The German sovereigns arc said to be effected with a
panic at the progress of the Belgian insurrection. If their fears were
to teach them wisdom it would be well fur mankind. They have created
the cause of their own alarm by governing, not in accordance with, but
in contempt of, public opinion. They could not bear the language of
truth : they proscribed it from their palaces ; they! silenced it in the
journals; but now they are forced to hear it when it speaks in a voice
of thunder ! It is clear that sovereigns who are taken completely
unawares by the present state of things in Europe lied no foresight—no
political sagacity whatever—neither they nor their Nlinisters ; yet such
a state of things, or something like it, had been often predicted by
writers who wished Kings to understand that their own honour and se-
curity could have no lasting foundation but in the happiness of their sub-
jects. But this, which is the object of all good government, scarcely ever
entered into the thoughts of those Continental Kings and Cabinet., who
i now find all their military barriers but feeble bulwarks against the
flood of revolution. Like the Roman Emperors, they impiously Sr.
rogated to themselves a Divine title, while their mode of exercising
power betrayed anything but the attributes of Divinity. They al-
lowed themselves to be intoxicated with that insidious poison which
most deranges the understanding and corrupts the heart, and enjoyed
the incense of flattery as the fumes of cheer daily sacrifice. Who can
wonder that, in their vain notions of regal excellehce and contempt
for the people, they lost sight of all those great duties which con.
stitute the virtuous and wholesome efficiency of power I
—Who can wonder that they considered themselves exempt from the
obligations of morality, and that they thought it neither crime nor tits.
honour to violate the most solemn engagements when it suited their in.
wrests or inclinations ? Some of them now hold :heir Crowns only in
consequence of the patriotic spirit with which, alter their armies had
been repeatedly beaten by Napoleon, their people rose and drove the in-
vader from their soil, and which spirit was excited by Royal promises
of Constitutions and civil improvements, which promises have
been most shamefully violated. It is because we arc enemies to
the subversion of order, and everything which tends to promote
anarchy, that we tell these plain truths to those who, by
hating and persecuting truth, and unjustly exercising power,
have, with the exception of England, convulsed the whole
state and elements of society in Europe. Could any •policy, based on
the broad foundation of wisdom and virtue—could any polity that did
not contain within itself the principle of its own destruction, after an
undisturbed growth of 15 eare—be shaken to pieces by the events of
three days Y Such is the stability *Attie policy which such a statesman
as lleuernich, and his pupils, have built up to overawe the mind of
Europe, and to keep in eternal vassals; e the: mot dreaded enemy of
unjust power—opinion. It is time to try another course—not the course
of war and desolation, with the vein idea of preventing the progress of
political reformation—but the course of justice, of conciliation, and of
voluntary improvement, which it is yet in their poser to do, and thereby
render the revolutionary spirit harmless, be:tee violence proceeds teo tar
to listen to the counsels of mason.

Cliaonscxx.--As to invasiocs of English liberties— attempts made
against the liberties of the people of this country, who is to make the
attempt; In France there was a struggle between the King and the
nation, and the King was defeated. But who is to make an attempt
against English lib.rties Will a Boroughmonger Government at.
tack Botoughmongers ? Dog, says the Tu.kish proverb, will not eat
dog. Would Boroughmongers be such arrant fools as to cut their own
throats by making the King absolute? Why, they derive all their
consequence from the Parliament. ' The English people would in
some way resist." Resist, how ? Would the English people
resist any encroachment on its liberties by the Parliament ? Be.
cause any person in this country would be Insane to think of
,any attack on the people, except through Parliament. Ours
le a Parliamentary Government. The Oligarchy names the
Parliament, and the King is merely the head. Every thing in
England Is different from what it seems, and this able Reviewer, while
extolling the French for their promptitude in resisting encroachments
on their liberties, still exerts himself to perplex the question, by speak-
ing u if there was any resemblance between the position and character
of the French Chambers, and those of the Parliament of England. The
question in this country can never be between the Government and the
Parliament, but between one division of the Parliament and another—
between the ins and the outs--between the shares of the loaves and fishes
and those who seek to share them. From the top to the bottom, every
thing in England is fiction, and hence we find this able writer con.
Mainly comparing realities in one country with what in another

• country have nothing in common with t•:.m bet the tame. All that
the writer says about the Frenen Pc, . a s.s. tits to us Ii I•le to the same
hjection—naniely, that objects es- entiaily distinct ate eantrasted with
etch other. •' If Nubility (he says) is to expire with ea:h Pets that is
created, what an enormous influence is given to the Crown over the fa-
milies of the Aristocracy ?" He might as well say •• what inflow, an
American President has over the families of the Senile ! there
! is a real, and not a virtual Representation, the Crown is necessarily hien ii-
' nett with the nation, and no one would ever dream of the idea of neekiiii in
Peerage to counteract the Representatives of the Nation. The
ten, would have no motive for 'raking themselves obnoxious to
the natioa, by opposing the Deputies, for the sake u: a King
1 who durst not resist the Deputies. The prevailing idea in Fraece
l'iat the elevation to the Peerage should he altogether a partottal
dia-
enction, and the sons of Peers would no more think of sure' ding to
the Peerage than the son of a Judge would think of sueeve,:ing to a
Judgeship. A Senator in America never thinks that his Solt st mold
succeed to a Senatorship. The F.nglish Aristocracy are pm; mu! in
' property, and possess the Government ; and the people being t!•eir yin.
perty, it is natural they should think their sons ought to succeed to the
property. But in France the people are everything Ow Aristocracy
a matter of history ; and the people. Navin„ or,ir utility in view, wish
to have a Peerage in the sense of a Smia ie. Tne PtieraAc of England
ought to be put out of the question, whet we ate speaking of a country
like Frances

THE GRAND DINNER IN I',

E CITY.

Yesterday, a Court of Aldcnu Wa, tiummorid to meet at two
o'clock, at the Guildhall, to take into consideraticn the ;no, adritetbio
means of disposing the police fore,! of the city on the llth of Noventhrr,
and making some minor preparations for the reception to their Majes.
ties. There did not assemble, howver, 11l Ore than eight Aldermen,
and, of course, a Court could not be made. Thew- alto rwt then j9iucil
the Committee, and the subject was ent2r,:d up in, hut nothing deti•ii:
was done.

His Majesty was graciously pleaseil to intioilt; to the Consts;;.tee,
that he would set out for the Guildhall in nose to reach it a, e
o'clock, and the Committee are in daily expectation of receivn-,..
Majesty's list of viaitors. The doors of the Guthiliall are to be tit, tats
open for the Common Councilmen and their ladies from one to three
o'cliwk. The Lord Mayor is to return from Westminster by water to
Blickfriars-hridge, and to proceed straight to the Guildhall, as it is cal-
culated that if his Lordship should go in procession to Temple-ism- ;
meet the King. the obstructions in the way of the two cavalcades wouLi
he productive of great confusion.
The Garen ors of Christ's Ilmnpitnl having determined that his M.
jesty shell b, n'tirissed by one of the boys, according to the ancient
etistont, a phstfurs is to be erected within the railings of St. Paul%
chute-I.lyard. exactly opposite to Ludgate-hill. All the scholars will
stand on this platform, and flags and decorations will meet the eve upon
all sides, while the eldest boy will read a short address to His ilaj;isty
as the royal carriage pries. The address will not occupy two minotsu
in the reading, the season of the year having been very properly taken
into consideration by thosa who thoug'at it necessary not to allow such a
privilege to slip from them.
It is supposed that from V 4 to 770 will dine in the hall, and the
ounitux do not consider that it will ba necessary to have tables laid
out in the old Court of King's Bench. No gallery is its be erected round
the hall. The Expense incurred by the erection of the magnificent
gallery in the year 111314, as well as the great inconvenience attratZi:l4
the admission of 800 persons, in addition to the compaay, were, we
burros:. the. bar to this arrali.,,,ement. It has term customary to
compare the approaching ocmastoo with that of the period at
which the Prince Regent and the Monarchs dired at Guildhall,
but there is no analogy. The eisit of the It;;ent and the Can-
tinental Kings was very different from u hat Willi= tha Four:l..**
will be, as to the occasion and as to ule er toe. The
interval between the day of invitation of ti;,; &c. and the
of the dinner, was eight days, from the 10th to the lash of June. and
the preparations were made with the utmost rapidity, am: with corms.
ponding expense. . _ _

Sesci•al persons from the City Companies, ur.d eh' various
trades, were in waiting to ascertain the sentiments of the Committee, as
Lathe aid they should render on the approaching day.

NAVAL I.V7'ELLIGE.VCE.

The Jane, of Workington, was fallen in with on the Ist instant, t
lat. 47. long. 21. waterlogged and abandoned.
The Dispatch, Fulton, from Whitehaven to Ballyshannen, ws
stranded in Luce Bay 20th inst.
DEAL, OCT. 22.—Wind W.S.W. moderate.—Arrived the Wilt,s.
Tate, from the Cape of Good Hope ; Arethusa, Taylor, from Rio di.
Janeiro ; George and William, Nicholson, from Odessa ; and Lid .
Chulon, Don, from Leghorn.
PORTSMOUTH. OCT. 22.—Wind S.W.—Sailed his Majesty't slop
Etna, for Africa ; his Majesty's ship Samarang, for Chatham ; his Ma -
ljesty's ship Adventure, forWoolwich • Hope transport, for Nwea,tle
and Georgians, Thompson, for Chatham.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 21.—Wind S.W.
num:suns, Ocr. 21.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived the Stanmer Fcki!,
from Lisbon—sailed the 17th inst.

STANDOATS Cant" OcT. 22.—Arrived the Salus, Crickman, Irt it.
Odessa; Nymph, Butcher, from Smyrna ; Providencia, Douro, frvo.
the Iklorea ; Ellen, Johnston, from Trieste; Henry Bum: ban*, Clark.
front Genoa; St. Antonio de Magdalena, —, from Tarragona
Heroine, Benson, from Denia ; and Commerce, Clark, from hlalaga.
BRISTOL, Ocr. 21.—Arrived the Hercules, Warren, from Antigua ;
and Robert Peel, Jones, from Messina.

Muroso, Ocr. 111.—Arrived the Eliza, Leonard, from Sena
Leone ; Aurora, Tuscan, from Gallipoly ; and Dolphin, Halberg, from
Maneilles.

LIVERPOOL, OCT. 21.—Arrived the Islam, Taylor, from Barb.-
does; and Elizabeth Gillespie, Curran, from Ahearn.
CLYDE, OCT. 21.—Arrived the Corsair, Henderson, and —,
Ewer, from Malaga.

It is, we believe, arranged for the King's Speech to bo
delivered by his Majesty in person on Tuesday, the 4d of November.
Parliament will assemble on Tuesday next ; but the whole of the week
will be occupied in swearing in Members and choosing a Speaker.
The Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel issued cards of invitation
to the Ministerial Members of then respectiue Houses, for a dress din.
ner, on Monday, the Ist, when, as uquil, the Royal Speech will be read.
CH•RTLEY TILE FATALIST.--Tho unprecedented pop-
lathy of that admirable work " Cyril Thornton," has stimulated ano-
ther of Blackwood's contributors to appear in the field of fiction, with a
new Novel, called Chartley the Fatalist. This work, like Cyril Thorn-
ton, records the adventures of a gentleman of birth and fortune, during
his youth and manhood, but with this difference, that Chartley is it flu.
eneed through the days of his manhood by a strange fatality.
from one of the most extraordinary marriages that 1115,4 j:. chaps ever
solemnized. So remarkable indeed is this event. wl:tch is from life,
considered to be, even by the author himself. that he has thought it ne-
cessary to certify its truth in a r.otic prefixed to his volumes.
The undermentioned Fast India Company'es slips arrived
at Bombay as follows ; viz. the Duchess of Athol irod Thomas Coons.
the former on the 17th, and the latter on the 22d of April ; and the
Abercrombie Robinson, on the 14th of May. The William Pantie
arrived at Calcutta on the 21st of April.
A Meeting cf tbe Parishioners of Lambeth took place at
ten o'clock yesterday morning, at tile Vestry Hall, but upwards of
1,200 persons being present, it was adjourned to the School Room.
The object of the Meeting was to coassder the propriety of eLe:ier
a select Vestry. to consist of the parish of and four ii.h..bitanc
householders, with the view of reducing the rates, which it was steed
had increased to the amount of 1,0001. per annum. The prof'.
aition was, however, overruled by an immense inajori,y, and the Vestry
adjourned sine die.

A new Opera, from the pen of Lord Burghers;:, ri spoil-
ing which much interest has prevailed tor some time past, is row in iv.
heareal by the pupils of the Royal Ac,tienty of Nlustc, and will he re-
presented in the Grand Concert Room of phe King's Theatre. 'l'be
performances are under the especial patronage of the Queen, and her
Majesty is expected to honour tb r.i with her presence.
CANAL PACKETS.—There were launched on Adenine
week, at Lynn, two curious packet boats, or !tither a twin boat, earned
William the Fourth and Queen Adetaine, intended to ply between
Goole and Knottingky, on the Aire and Calder Navigation Conip.asy's
Canal, in conjunction, it is said, with pickets and coaci•es, when wilt
form a direct conveyance from Hull, by way of Goole, to Leeds, Wake.
field, and other manufacturing towns in Yorkshire and in Lancashire.
This packet is built on a new and highly scientific conrituction. invented
in Scotland, and introduced into England by Caa:ain John Moody, ut
Goole. She is of great length. affording comforahle &coitus.,
for paimengers, having spacioo. cabins and other apartments. She owe
justly be termed a twin whit, Pitying two keels, two stem posts. with
a tunnel pawing through tie middle, ineenionsly construeted so as lei
make her very stiff and of an easy draught of water. Her speed will
be at least eight or nine miles an hoar, and will overcome that surge
which has hitherto proved so inconvenient and dertmetive to cotes!
banks. Another vessel, of the same construction, will be isuLehed at
Lynn in a few days, and prectid to Genie.
The Marquis of Ilertford's law residence in Pic-
cadilly, formerly the Pelt/ rev Honi, is to be thelhead-quarters
of " The English and Foreign Union"—one of the new Chiba about
to be formed. According to the published prospectus, the object
[of the Club is to keep op th.e ftiendly intercourse of persons of
rank and disfinctien--military, naval. litersry. and sekntiiie, of for b4n
umlaut—with those:4,lone own,,,countty : place wnere newly.arroad
foreigners may meet and asseciate with that whe may have pre.
ceded them, and where the travelled inglishir.an may renew his act
quaintance with those foreigner, tie may have met with almond.
Workmen have begun to excavate the ground for %Lr.
Crockford's intended Dew building in St. James's street. The plan. ur.
understand hiss Aces twice changed. At Lest it was intended to eq h abl•s
a betting room similar to 'Fetterman". This gave way to a project fur
funning a magnificent Basest, for the sake of the most splendid storks,
dos Both these twain a, it is said Wien settkd down ID( Oh tam br.
r probably surer cud, If erecting a km of shops similar to those
nearly tumPleted so the opposite side.

1.411 V

COURT OF KINO*N BENCH. OtT. 22.
Tztursatutw tried neural cftnimon jut)! caysco.
SAM) V. tIittLIPII.

WAS an action on a bill of exchange for 431. ss. accepted by the
It 1.1ia1.1. The bill was drawn by a pereon named (lark, or. the de.
t.itant. It was an accommodation, bill, ard Clark got it discounted by
ttitt Channot., who indorsed it to Fard. The bill having been disho.
claret, the plaintiff brought this action.
'fne defence was usury, Channon having taken no less than 131. ss.
diet:mating the bill.
The usury having been proved the Jury found a verdict tOr the de.
fe! 11/111.