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London, England, 1828-12-10 00:00:00

a higher rent, get farms that heroic were held by Pro-
tenants. Let landlords no longer. continue to send
their Protestant tenants to A n.erica ;,,wer e we to believe
all we hear, this country is-•a paradise for Protestants.
He concluded by calling upon the Protestants ales'
siahakt
aticit,hiehailkcontinue their loyalty and attachment to
Eriinstitaion, to show no act of exasperation to those
a arkeply seeking an opportunity of it•jurink us;'
r us prove, by our peaceable conduct, that we art
waling to live in peace and charity with all men, and
we must expect that a hleseiug will follow us.
(During the delivery of Mr. Porter's speech, the platform was
- greatly crowded, and as a great number of the people below pressed
heavily on some of the supports, part of it gave way ; but so gently
did it fall, that not an individual was in the least injured ) ..
The Rev. R. N• HORNER, in a spe •ch distinguished
alike by real eloquence and constitutional principle,
stated the grounds of his opposition to the demands of
the Roman Catholics. and the dangerous character of
' the pretensions to political power which they put forth.
He concluded with the following forcible appeal to the
assembled Protestants—Protestants of Tyrone, you have
nobly done your duty. Be firm, be persevering—respect
the legish.ture and the la ws,and you must be triumphant.
Protestants of Ulster, let your respective counties run
the race of generous emulation, and let theit contest
be, which shall exhibit most decided zeal in support of
Protestantisto, our country, and our King. Protestants
of England, now or never I It is not the affair of a
• mere Province which is debated, It is not a mere Irish
question which is depending. The best interests of
England are at issue! Your religion and your liberties
are at stake. The Church of Rome, that grey iniquity
is tooting forth her energies worthy of Eer most vigo-
rous years, in order to grasp again that power with
which she once enslaved your bodies and your minds.
The men who drank success to foxglove, and gloried
in the protracted agonies of the beloved and lamented
York, are fit and ready tools of the Inquisition—and,
though the fires of Smithfield are not burning dream not,
for an instant, that the torch which lit them is extinct.—
Protestant defenders of a Protestant Constitution, Wel-
lington and Peel, behold the vast array of strength
which Protestants place at your disposal.—(Hear). See
what is emphatically the nation standing up in your sup.
pit, and act with a promptitude and decision worthy of
yourselves—a gangrene is preying on the vitals of the,
country—apply no paltry palliation—use no wretched
nostrum to bottle up disease—mark what the exigency
of the case requires, and operate with a fearless hand,
even though the patient should be tied down. There is no
man who will not,for the permaneptsecurity of his rights,
cheerfully accede to their temporary suspension. There is
no man who will cot choose to be the subject of prero-
gative for a season, wither than the slave of Popery for
ever. Cru-h, then, the Roman Catholic Association,
that engine of the Priests to convulse the country, and
inspect their own despotism on the ruins of the law.—
Consult, and I use the word advisedly, consult for the
elective fiend:rise, so that the return of our It presenta-
tires may not depend on the anathemas of a Psiest—
reiavigoryte the Protestant ascendancy, and pronounce
the destinies of the Constitution with an silo perpetna.
. The Rev. K. STEWART proposed the sixth Resolu-
tion.* He animadverted at length on Mr. O'Connell's
Jesuitical declaration, that he would fire on the Pope
should be invade these kingdoms. Mr. Stewart then
refuted the common place argument in favour of con-
cession, deduced from the conduct of King John's Ba-
rons in extorting the Magna Charta from him in op-
',coition to the t ffotts of the Church; and he concluded
by expressing his hope‘ that as no power on earth can
'Take Popery lass fel, so no power on earth would ever
be able to make British subjects submit to a Popish
Parliament.
The Rev. F. GIIILYAIII seconded the sixth Resolution.
hi
r He spoke at great length, and concluded amidst 'pod
applause.
• J. 1) Eccles, Esq. after an appropriate speech,
Moved the rest Resolution. He was delighted, he said,
to see an missy loyal Protestants assembled till such an
occasion. At considerable inconvenience and by con.
side' ab e tuition he had been enabled to attend that
meeting, and the display of numbers and respectability
which he had witnessed were More than a recompense
for all the trouble he had undergone.
The Rev. WM. JOHN Levu% to an excellent speech,
seconded the resolution. He concluded as follows
if I have-salready, elsewhere, expressed a sincere and
earnest wish that the perilous times which have been
threatened to impend over us, may never arrive—that
it may please Goo to avert them; a prayer And wish,
which I now from the bottom of my heart repeat. But
should it unfortunately prove otherwise, should an
alternative ar se, which I can conceive, when it would
to the duty of every mar, no mauar what his profes-
sion, to stand forward in defence of his religion, his
King, and the laws of his country, I an. riot, Sir, when
I c' ntemplate snzli a case, testraiired (even by the
rre:ence of my, fatl•er) from saying that he has already
f ught, nay fell (though he now lives and is present), i
ip the set vice of his country, and that in the hour of
danger, of extreme, the last necessity, I would desire
no more honourable task, than by his side to conquer
Or to perish in the defence of the Protestant religion—.
tie religion of tte Bible."
Toe next Resolution was moved by EDW. EVANS, E-q.
and seconded by the Rev. T. LINDSAY, who, amongst
many excellent things. said that he wished to press on
the attention of this County Meeting the propriety of
atrnngly representing to the Legislatuie the necessity
of eradicating the Jesui-s out • I Ireland. They had
be n banished Iron. many Itornin Catholic countries.
aid yet they had been allowed to establish themselves
tete— to found Seminasies, to acquire property. and to
diffuse at pleasure throughout the country their dan-
getous lei ens. ,
The succeeding Resolution was moved by A.M,Caus.
LAND. E q. and seconded by the Honourable ANONSW
4T EWA ST.
EON? Alla IL CAbLIIIIILD, Esq. in moving the MCI
Resolution, addressed the Chair in a strain of manly
elocrietice. which at inat vas elicited the loudest bursts
of approbati.n.
• After the remaining Resolutions had been put and
anima, the thanks of the Meeting were voted, amidst
deafening shouts of applause, to the Chairman, for
convening it, arid also for the ardour and abi iry with
which he had fulfilled the duties f f the day. No sooner
leas the Meeting dissolved than the people thronged
round the High Sheriff, and insi ted on chairing him to
his hotel. When the procession had re, ched the middle
of Marketoquare, D.. DAwsou, in the name of the
Pia test ants of Dusiganrion. presented him with a glass
df wine. which was received and drairk by Lim, amidst
tremendous cheers. On the glass was a carved repre
sentation of King William, sua.ounded by an typo-
ire ate motto.
Notwithstaodiag the immense multitude that was
eongregstedmid that from different parts of the country.
not a single instance of riotous or disorderly conduct
occurred during the dal, and in less than two hours of er
the meeting, the streets of Dungannon were as quiet as
if no sdch astembly bad twin held. We should have
tint Ted before, that numerously as the meeting, om

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