Star.
London, England, 1821-10-05 00:00:00

WATCH-WORDS OF SEDITION !

(Front the Dublin Morning Pat, Sept. 5.)
In our Paper of yesterday, we complimented the
new Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, on their laying aside
party trappings at the Civic Procession. We wish
now to be understood as having recalled whatever
might be considered in the least degree complimen-
tary to the first of these personages. This individual
has made an ominous commencement of his (The-

meral dignity, and assumed an awful responsibility.
He has revived—deliberately revived, the obnoxious
party toasts, the introduction of which, at public
festive meetings, the King had so pointedly and so,
recently condemned ; and, what is perhaps more
important in the view of a Corporator, which the

King's Ministers had also condemned.
Several Gentlemen, known to be of liberal feelings
and principles, had been invited—a Catholic or two
had also been invited, and, having heard this, we did
not conceive it possible, that their host could have'
prepared for them such a reception. The insult was
prefaced, it is true, by a bit of Blarney—but blarney
is not much to our taste ; and we venture to predict,
that no Catholic will be influenced one whit by it,

unless it be to reject, with scorn, the contemptible
apology for the offence thus deliberately and wil-

fully offered.
We shall not occupy our columns with the dull
recital of dinner 514; a thousand times repeated on
such occasions. We shall, however, lay before our
Readers the flimsy apology of Mr. Alderman James,
for reviving, in the presence of the Reprc!entative of
the King, a party toast, for the giving of which, at
a moment when every excuse was allowable, another
Alderman had recently incurred the King's displea-

sure, and for which he was censured also by the King's
Rep' esentative. HovP the Lord Lieutenant could
have considered the revival of the toast, in his pre-
sence, after the affair of Alderman Darley, in any
other light than as a gross offence, is to us nut very
intelligible.
There are several versions of this worthy Alder-
man's Speech. The Report in the Corre.pondcnt
seems to be the most authentic—it having, most
probably, been written by the worthy Alderman the
next morning—we take it, therefore; as conveying his
cool sentiments. This Report is as follows :
The LORD Mayon •rose, and said—" The toast
which I am about to propose, has been uniformly
given upon the swearing-in dinners of my predeces-
sors; the sentiments which are attached to it differ
materially; and it is only by a reference to the feel-
ings under which it is given, that k becomes obnoxi-
ous, or otherwise. We must all admire the beauty
of Christian charity, and of brotherly love; and, in
the arduous and difficult situation in which, thus
early in life! I have been called upon to fill the Civic
Chair, it will be my study, as it is my duty, to pro-
mote, as far as I can, the conciliatory disposition
which it is our most gracious Sovereign's wish
should subsist among all classes of his Majesty's sub-
jects. Be assured, my Lords and Gentlemen, that I
would be the last man whose disposition would lead
him to wound or irritate the feelings of any of my
Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, with' whom I have
ever lived, and, I hope, ever will live, in the strictest
bond of harmony and brotherly love. And in the
toast I am about to submit, I do so as the head of the
Corporation I have the distinguished honour now to
represent, as well as in accordance with my own po-
litical consistency. I therefore give you—
" The Memory of King William the Third !!"
The applause was very great at this period; but
the LORD MAYOR, in the most dignified and truly
conciliatory manner, very emphatically addressed the
Assembly, by hoping that the announcement of the
toast would not create exultation ; as he, the Lord
Mayor, gave the memory of him, as the founder of
the British Constitution, and the friend of civil and
religious liberty, under the hope that, in such a
sense, it could not be offensive to any man living.
We have, perhaps, tired our Readers with the worth-
kss subject; but it must be recollected, that the acts
of the most insignificant characters acquire, in this
wretched country, an undue importance from the
mischiefs which they occasion, owing to the anoma-
lous and unnatural circumstances under which we,
Irish, are compelled to live. It is in vain that we
talk of conciliation, or union; whilst that mass of
corruption, the Corporation of Dublin, is permitted,
by " Charter," to poison the atmosphere by its pesti-
ferous exhalations, the body politic cannot be re-
stored to a healthy state.
One of thlse invited was Lord CLONCURRY. How
his Lordship felt upon this occasion, the Reader will
perceive by the following letter, addressed by him to
a cotemporary Journal:

" Dublin, October 2, 1821.

" Sta—Bring named as one present at the Loan MAyou's
Dinner of yesterday, I beg leave to say (in order to prevent mis-
representation of my conduct), that when his Lordship toasted
King William,' 1 turned down my glass, and remained seated.
At table with the Lord Lieutenant, and a guest of the Lord
Mayor, I felt that it would not be decorous for so inconsider-
able a person to take further notice at the moment. I wish,
however, that the Lord Mayor, when he determined to repro-
duce this toast, had given notice, not only to the Lord Lieute-
nant, but to the Roman Catholics whom he had invited, and,
generally, to all those not likely to forget, in one short month,
the benevolent injunctions of our Sovereign.
44 Individually, I have a greet respect for the memory of

KingMam the Third. Ile was a liberal alt elnl3ll-•: r
ienjed more shod to Ireland than any king I ever heal 4::
cept his present Islujesty ; but as "Alayor. and Cis-puNtors ar;
not necessarily Historians, they ganetally give this t0.,,t
party motives, and it has long is,:com e kbil of •pass wc,"4
among those who desire by the insult mid exclusion of theft
Pa s
worthy fellow-citizens, to arrogate to themselves those pet.,,,
honours and emoluments which want of industry or talent an
der so necessary to them.

Bad taste and bad feeling received a mortal wont: freea
the hand of his Majesty—and if for one moment they may mit
their heads, public opinion and the march of events must put
them doers. The King commands, and the tames require heat.
valence and union.—Your obedient servant,

"4 CLONCURRT."

THE AliM V.

The whole of the 13th Regiment have arrived in %bre :4
rtunrtrein'lraini;rtiitih':C•''ZatnC:.7l
have been replaced In Londonltrry by the ..zd Royal Fl
ay
The 79th Highlanders, stationed In Limerick daily elimL,
change of quarters.
The 49th Regiment, at present tioin7 duty at Watert,,,,4„.
are
eunderto orders tot totoencilibaatrhkanalt,
tthlelarte
ment of lkcember, whcn they are to sad for the C;:1•r.
Part of the 11th Regiment arrived at Cove u:: Tuesday
night, from Plymouth.
CAUTION TO 51 TIIV:1 were !att.:y arprekere,l
as deserters from the Dunstries-shire and Galloway
three of whom were a few days ago ern:minted to the i 4 4
Dumfries, for the period of twelve months, i 3 terms ot. Ihe
of the 4:ld Geo. 11 I. cap. 91, viz. six months for b.vtez
listed into the regular Army 'duce their et.gageme.:t tvit
Militia, and six months for having absented themscle,s to,:atfe
training of the regiment in June last. In at/di:int to this, t;;f
h.tve to serve five years more in the Militia, ai.d
fulfil their engagements with the regular Army. .'l'w.j
above were marched as deserters upwards of 4no miles.