Star.
London, England, 1828-10-18 00:00:00

BRUNSWICK CLUBS.

THE KENT MEETING.
The preparations for the Meeting on Penenden Heath,
next 'seek, have already been commenced by both the
parties.
The British Catholic Association have advertised and
circulated their Address to the Protestants of England,
adopted 4 the Meeting of that body in 1826. They
have also sent emissaries, or agents, to distribute the
same Address throughout the county, and divers small
tracts have also been dint bored abundantly.
On the other hand, the Earl of Winchelsea has con.'
vaned a Meeting of the Committee of the Kentish
Brunswick Constitutional Club on special business, un-
derstood to refer solely to the approaching Meeting.
'the Noble Earl will appear on Penenden Heath, accom.
ponied by a very numerous body of his own tenantsy
and freeholders, as will also Lords Le Despencer, Syd•
• Besley,t and others of influence in the county.
It is thought there will be a greater assemblage of
the Nobility and Freeholders on this occasion on the
Heath, than has been the cue for a considerable number
of years at any County Meeting. Bands of individuals,
• *her opposed or favourable to the objects which the
requisitionists have in view., are organising in every
quarter of the county—communications ate daily
taking place between the Rochester Anti-Brunswickers,
or Pro-popery Advocates, and those residing in East
Kent; and flag., blue and green, are preparing to pre-
cede the different bodies of Freeholders, so that Penenden
Heath wilt exhibit all the bustle of a contested election.
The obi ct of the Meeting, with regard to which
there exists some misunderstanding, is, for the purpose
' of petitioning Parliament to adopt such measures as may
be best calculated to support the Protestant Establish•
anent of the United Kingdom in Church and State.* ,
PROTESTANT MEETING AT ARSIAGH.
AMMAN MOM INK NIWILY TBLIMORAPII.
Thursday, pursuant to advertisement to this and
other Papers, a meeting took place in Armagh, for the
purpose of establishing in that city, not a county—but
a central—Brunswick Constitutional Club.
About one o'clock, Lieutenant-General MOLTNEAUX
took the chair, amidst general acclamations.
ROGER HALL, of Narrow-water, Esq. then rose and
proposed the first Resolution. He was followed by the
Rev. Dr. MILLER, of Armagh.
Dr. MlLLsa.—Sir, I rise to second the Resolution
which has been just now proposed. In doing this, I
think I c Inuit better fulfil the purpose of this assembly
than by laying before it, to the best of my ability, the
state sif that Important question by which this country
SO
the British Empire have been so long agitated.
This question has, indeed, been agitated daring thirty-
lift years; but I think that I may confidently affirm,
that only now, at the close of so long a period of dis-
cussion, are Protestants beginning to understand it in
its true character and extent. But the question has, in
the progress of discussion, assumed a graver and a
darker character. • It was after some time discovered

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that the Roman Catholics of Ireland demanded con 6-1
dence, but would not justify ialspapny stipulation. It
was perceived that the Roman Catholics of helm*,
looked not to a liberal participation of The blesbings of '
a common Constitution, but to the acquisition of power,

and to the predominance of their church. It is new.
avowed by the demagogues who lead, while the priests
direct the-patty, that their object iv to have Iceland to
themselves by a dissolution of the Union, to overthrow
the Protestant Church of this part of the empire, and
to rear ainmig us an unmixed and uncontrouled domi.
nion of a ltomish priesthood—t Hear, hear). Every
man feel, that a Isis's has now alibied in which a final
tetmination of this great question must be made.
The Government most not continue to be agitated by
a desperate faction. It must shortly be decided whether
the claims of that faction shall be conceded, with what-
ever enoitfications, or whether the vigour of the Go-
vernment shall be exerted to silence the clamour of
its demagogues, and to maintain the existing institu-
tions in undimini.hed authoii y? Every Protestant,
indeed. also feels that the chief direction of the Govern-
ment is in the hands of a man in whom he is disposed
to place the most absolute confidence. .Of that illus-
trious individual I shall here pronounce no panegyric.
To prai,e the Duke of Wellington would now be as
idle as, in the language of our great dramatic poet,

" To gild refined sold, to paint the lily,
" To throw a perfume on the violet."
It was said of a great ancient, as a very high panegyric,
that he overcame envy by merit. This was a noble
eulogy, for indisputable must be that merit against
which envy can find nothing to object. But it has been
reserved for the Duke rf Wellington to do even more
than this, for he has Alenced not only envy but pane-
gyeic—(Cheers). Bait great as is our confidence in the
Prime Miniates—a confidence confirmed by the perse-
vering hostility if the same party to which Me ate our-
selves opposed, we must not fin get that in a free Go-
vernment, the ablest and must honest Minister can act
only as he feels that he is supp. ited by the sentiments
of the public. The Roman C.tholics have taken good
care that he should know their violence. Let the Pro-
testants also acquaint him with their firmness—(Great
cheers). Let us entreat him to consider, that his fame is
entwined with the Constitution of his country. He did
not fight to repel an invading enemy. for Nelson had
blasted that preiumi tuous hope. He fought to main-
tain the liberty of his country by vindicating the gene.
ral independence of Europe. How. it might be asked,
might that liberty have been assailed if his country
could not he invaded with success? I answer, by do-
mestic tieason, acting in subservience to the views lila
daring and successful usurper—(Hear)—Mho knew that
he could not be safe while the Binish empire should dis-
play to the world the animating ex imple of freedom.
Let the Prime Minister be now told. that in opposing
the claims f the Roman Catholics he is still contending
in the same causes; that the glory whet] he has
acquired in the war is necessarily committed in the
struggle in which that Constitution is now endangered;
and that in maintaining the Constitution he is uphold-
ing the trophy by which alone his fame can be trans-
mitted to succe•eing ages—(Hear, hear). I have said
that Use question is only now beginning to be distinctly
understood. No man cast be surprised at this asser-
tion, who reflects that it has, in the course of the long
discussion, been presented to Protestants under not
fewer than eight different forms. The Roman Catholics
would now repel with scorn the pretence, that any
change had been effected in them by the general pro-
gress of improvement. Their Church, they contend, is
unchanged and unchangeable—.incapableof embracing
error, and consequently incapable of abandoning any
principles by which it had ever been actuated. This
immutability may. in words, be confined to matters of
faith ; but since every temporal occurrence may be, in
some manner or other, connected with the maintenance
of the faith, its controuling influence is extended to all
the political conduct of the Romanies. The plea of
abstract right may at once be dismissed. as a remnant
of that jacobioical doctrine of the rights of man, which
towards the close of the last century infested the world
—it bas, In fact, been selinquished by the Roman
Catholics themselves, who consider physical force al
surer ground for their pretensions. Of the Treaty of
Limerick, and the alleged engagements of the Union,
it is' not now necessary to say a single word—for these
transactions have been solemnly investigated, and the
pleas which relate to them have been scouted as delu-
sive. The practice of other Governments has been
justly rejected by the Duke of Wellington as an autho.
rity—for the King of Great Britain, as he wisely and
spiritedly remarked, could never, as they have done,
negotiate with a hope for a coocordat, since this would
be to seek the aid of the Pope for the government of
his own subjects. When the Roman Catholics deny
that they are in any respect changed, and openly rely
upon intimidation for success. the notion of liberality,
in conceding their demand, should of course be aban-
doned. Old as I am, I am not disposed to bow down,
like the rude savages rf the Sandwich islands, in fear-
ful veneration of the volcano which is sending forth its
streams of burning lava, to wither the prosperity and
to desolate the hope of my country—(Hear, hear, hear).
What, then, is the true alternative in this momentous
deliberation? By a prompt and vigorous resistance we
may. even now, arrest the progress of disturbance—for
whatever may be the violence of the priest-excited mubi
titude, neither the lawyer, who traffics in sedition, that
he may fill his bag with briefs—nor the priest, who
seeks to terrify a wavering Legislature, that be may
gain advantages for his Church, can at this moment
speculate on open hostility. They may, indeed, in their
machinations, relax all the bonds which hold society
together.—they may, perhaps. transform into banditti
the warm hearted, but disorderly peasantry of Ireland;
but their policy is to threaten rebellion, without ever
proceeding to an extremity which they know would
be fatal to tbemselves—(Loud cries of Hear, hear)
The arch-demagogue has even assured the ignorant
peasai try, that he would never desist until they should
all be independent of the advice and aid of lawyers,
which, as an educated man and a lawyer, he knows to
be impossible. If any person should ask me, is there
not cause for fear ? I would reply, I see much cause for
fear, but none for submission—(Cheers). The prudent
fear—the cowardly submit. Let the Constitution put
forth its energies—let the demagogues be firmly told
that their pretensions never can be conceded, and the
popular excitement, now maintained by the hope of a
speedy triumph, will languish; the demagogues shall
shrink back into their individual impotence, and even
the clergy shall discover that the season has gone by
in which the pretensions of their church could be as-
serted with any probability r f success. Nay, mote; I
will venture to predict, that even from that dark clout
which now lowers over the Constitutirio, the light of
hope and safety shall burst upon us. In Cavan. wh re
first the 'famish Priests interfered in the struggle of an
election, a re-tenon took place, which surprised us by
a considerable secession from the Church of Rome—
(Hear, hear). And I do nut speak without some spe-
cial information when I say, that in Ennis, where that 1
outrage on the Constitution was recently brought to its I
consummation, symptoms of a similar movement of the
people are already manifested. (The eloquent Divine I
then went into a lucid strain of reasoning, to prove the
utter impracticability of connecting the Popish Church
with the Protestant States and illustrated his positions

by appropriate references to the history of modern
Eutope.) Is the warning voice of history to be des-
regarded, as if tinder the malediction of some irri-
tate& divinity ?—(Hear, hear.) If Ire pits it the imas
ginatiOn to penetrate the gloom of such a luturits,
possibly no distant futurity, as the description of toe
historian would place before it, we may picture to our.
selves some anxious traveller visiting the Chambers of
our Legislature to witness the scenes in which a Ire..
Constitution had imparted so much energy to a country,
then sunk into the-debility and worthlessness of Spain,
under the influence of a mind-oppressing hierakchy.
Here he would, perhaps, be told, an honest and firm
Minister would lain have saved the country, but a spirit
of delusion had deprived him of the efficient support
if its representatives, and forced him to capitulate with
a faction, which observed no conditions. In the other
Chamber the last stand was made for the Constitution
by the time-honoured Eldon, who, ender that Consti-
tution. had long administered equitable ju-tice, with no
other complaint than that he had rendered it more per.
test than the urgent occasions of society admitted—
and that in discharging his multiplied duties he had not
performed more than human ability was capable of ac-
complishing. Here, also, a Prime Minister, sincerely',
attached in peace to the Constitution be had preserved',
. en war, found himself Compelled to commit that Con.
stitution to hazard, by trusting to apparent securities
for its safety. All has since perished. The Crown has
been forced to follow the course of the Dembcracy.l
The Confess sr of the King is now the true Prime
itirtet. The Chambers of the Legislature stilt hold
their mock debates to deceive the isnot ant multitude—,
but an AFOst,.liC Junta decides all public ineasurts-1
and the influence of an usurping priesthood paralyzes
every mind—(Hear). Diktat is now what Spain had
been before, when Burke, the prime at.triur of all this
ruin, characterized her as a whale stranded on the sea
coast of England, inert and helpless—(Cheer.) Tea
thousand ships of war have rotted in het ports-matter
innumerable vessels of commerce ne longer cover the
seas—her seamen have sought other coantries for em-
ployment—her looms and her forges are all idle—the
spring of mind is broken; and power, industry and in.
tellieence, have perished with it—(Heai, hear). The
Constitution, as I have mentioned, is essentially Pro-
testant. lf, indeed, the Prot stant people of (heat
Bri-
tain have, under any delusion, become insensible to the
blessings of their free religion, and ate willing to yield
up the banners i f that free Constitution of Government
which they have inherited with it teem their lathers,
there is then indeed no remedy ; and we must yield cis,
the overpowering influence of modern libera.sty. It
you are still indeed Protestants, and value your Govern.
neent as a Pr testant Co sun ion, publish your prowl.
pes to the world ; support the firmness of your Soya
reign ; enable the leading Ministers of the Crown t:.
put down the audacious faction which is even now con
vulsing the State-,(Cheers). The religion and liberty
of Leland cannot perish, and leave yours to subsist in
safety. If this island were subject to the Chutch of
Rothe, its whole power would be immediately and
strenuously ex,rted to complete the conquest, by redu-
cing Great Britain under the same domination. Now,
therefore, is the question of the Constitution brought to
trial, and by your present conduct it must be deter-
mined, whether after the present year you shall have a
Constitution ? (The Rev. Doctor sat down amidst the
deafening plaudits of the meeting.)
ACHESON ST. GIIOROI4 of Woodpark, Esq. proposed
the second resolution, en a short but impressive and
energetic speech.
The Rev. Dr. Kowloon, of Armagh—Mr. Chair-
man, I second the Resolution with a satisfaction, which
is, however, qualified by regret, that the measure which
we are this day assembled to take should have been
deferred so long by the Protestants of Leland. Year
after year have they beheld the unremitting exertions
of their enemies, the treachery of some co their de-
fenders, and the faint-heartedness of cthers, with an in-
difference amounting almost to folly; they have made
no use of the immense poster which they possess, either
to chastise their adversaries or support their friends.—
That this ill advised line of conduct has worse than
failed needs no proof ; its results may be traced in the
ferocious debates of ilee ruffians ram govern the Popish
population of Leland • in the confidence with which
their advocates in Parliament now make assertions,
that, but a few years since, would have called down on
their authors the unmixed displeasure of every friend
of the Constitution—(cheers)—and in the timid and
divided policy of the various Ministers of the last few
years, who all seem to have bad no higher object than
getting smoothly through the Session, and to have
thought that the management of the House of Com-
mons was the oirly object in the empire worth attending
to. At this moment a large proportion of Ireland is in
a stale little short of rebellion ; having allegiance, sal
to its Sovereign, but to a gang of needy lawyers and
intriguing priests, in comparison of whom the aid
Rump Parliament was a respectable assembly—Nowt
cheering). Its population (as the Association do met
fear to publish) are armed and organized, and only wait
their orders for any outrage. A system of persecution
is arranged against all, r f whatever persuasion, who».
fuse to submit to their guidance; fire, murder, robbery,
are busy at their command ; and, with all thiss they
have the matchless impudence to call themselves the
pacifiers of Ireland-I.(Cheers). Mr. Chairman, the
system of which we ate about to become members,
is rapidly spreading through the kingdom; before
Parliament meets its arrangements will be perfect;
and it will, as its first results, enable us to address
that body with the same facility as our adversa-
ries; it will give us a voice which they cannot
but hear, when it proclaims the power, the wealth,
the intellectual energy, the numerical force of the
Irish Protestants; and which, though they may ne-
glect it, will, I hope, interest in our behalf the more
powerful sympathy of the people of England. The
people of England know little either of our value or our
danger—(hear, hear). At present the greater part of
them know not how largely we contribute to the pros-
perity of the Empire, how mainly we secure its union,
r they would never leave us to the mercy of the poll.,
tical bunglers who now represent them. With them'
neither Ministers, ner even Parliament dare trifle; and
when we appeal to them for aid—when we entreat them.
by our one religion, by our kindred blood, by our com-
mon cause, will they not interfere in our behalf? And
when they express their feelings, who shall withstand
them ?—(Loud and continued cheering.) But the time
admits of no delay; our movements must be proem*,
rapid, and universal; for our enemies will unquestillele
ably redouble their exertions to preserve, if possible, the
vantage ground they are losing. Already we are de-
scribed as incendiaries and blood-hounds; we are said
to be cheering on the Protestants to a massacre of the
Catholics; these people seem to think so Much 'aheet
plans of murder, that it is ever ready on their lips. I
do not know how any thing that we could tempt them
to do would have that effect, for they have already
gone to the utmost limit of daringa—oothing but a re-
acting of 1641 can surpass it. Within the last few days
a thing has been got np, with two or three hundred

signatures. which calls itself a Protestsat
like others frosts the same mint, its pettifog;
and its couclufilon preposterous--(Hear.
I p • make • few ',masks on this singui
not that it merits such notice itself, but
will enable us to understand something of
ings of those who are plCssed to style themselves
Protestants. You have all probably sten
lion. We have no unwilling associates;
es brine their whole heart and soul to the
of the few who remain neutral, the wishes
on our side. At this very hour, we knolls
ings like ours are proceeding in this county
included. '
judge from that of the others; and, before th
the year, the rolls of the Brunswickers will 1,
complete a census of the Protestant populetii,
frii nds can desire, or its enemies fear. Our -'
Rgious liberty, which in a popular Government
can only be preserved by havglinsigettuhere
tenant in all its parts. the Legislature
content that the Roman Catholics shall
according to their pleasure; but we have the
feet conviction, that, bad they the power of 1,
es, they would allow moo such liberty-0.1,4
fore, while we can withhold it, they Mail
such power; they shall not mount the most ,
the steps which lead to it; for we know them
to suppose they would stop at the rest. All
Roman Catholics could in justice claim, they
possessed ; to what they now seek or may
seek, they have not a shadow of right; whatever
thee ancestors had were forfeited by their -
conduct, and the safety of the empire requires
shall not be again created. live, therelore,
stake our stand. With the help o f Goo ire.
Min it to the last ; and this day gives u' arm
es the discipline of our enemies--the;.
activity—all of them, in short, which can
out dishonouring and disgracing those
them ; they shall be used by us in the prelervation,
banquillity, the maintenance of the Constitaties,r
the enfircement of existing laws. l trust we
once sore the deliverance of our country,
ourselves as trustworthy subjects to our Sovereign,
flit time of insidious and hollow peace, as
sots were found to be amid the horrors of
war.(Great and enthusiastic cheering).
The Meeting was also forcibly addressed by Amason
von, JOHN Ysys Buiteass, Mascot SVUOM Buys;
U. J. &C.
On the breaking up of 'Le Meeting. Dr. gismos
Moaticasua were iieterally chaired, preceded
The town was during the day crowded in a most
manlier. The moat perfect order prevailed.
Brunswick Clubs have been fainted at Bangor,
May, Ballygarly, and Largaa.

THI4; EVEraNG SI

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It bas been for some time rumoured—upon obi
authority we know not—that a design is enter
forming the new Greek States into a Kingdom, and that
the Prince GusrAvus AooLruus, son uf the King d
SVIRDIN, is the individual most likely to be investc4
with the Royal dignity. It is not difficult to perceive
from what source a project like this must

and it is evident that it can be from no other than the
Power which, of all others, has, throughout the - '

of the struggle of Greece, taken the greatest interest is
her throwing off the Turkish yoke. and lent her the
most effectual aid for that purpose. It is nctorious that
the influence of Russian agents has tended mates Ay
to promote the insurrection of the Greek., and that
emissaries of the most powerful of the Continental
Despots have been going about the Mores exciting the
people to rise in the name of Liberty. The appal,*
desire of-the Emperor of RUSIIA to promote flee into
tutions has thus not only weakened in the Mores the
Turkish Power, which it has ever been bis 6rst wish a
subdue. but it has acquired for him a popularity in the
northern provinces, some of which, as Salvia ass
Bosnia,bave already volunteered to submit to bis yoke
We give the Emramoit full credit for his instrunientatio
in bringing about that happy event—the terminational
the thraldom of Greece ; but we much doubt whethe
his IMPERIAL MAJUTT would relish the sight of I
Federative Republic in the Mores, whose independence
should be goat anteed and watched over by the oche
European Governments, and paeticularly by Greet
Britain and France. Count CAPO DISTIUA, the presto
nominal head of the Greek States, is a creature el
Russia ; and how could it be expected that a Swat&
Prince, owing his appointment to the same source, would
regard the imperial will as any other than a law?--
The object of Russia, we repeat, is to sever Greece trot
Turkey; but not to permit her existence as a really frtc
Republic. Good frequently comes out of evil; and,*
dislike throwing imputations on motives when the reek
is a mattes of congratulation; but we cannot ow/ilea
the visible and ill-concealed march of Russia towards
the still further aggraadisamat of her already ova•
grown danieions.

The cements of the Flea& and German Papers w
ceived yesterday are of considerable importance, jaw
much as they confirm in every essential particular the
iatelligeace previously received of the replan of the
Russians before Schwab, and the disasten of its 'KOS
towards the Danube. They also show that the Turks
were fully aware of the importance of following np the
advantages they bad gained; for it is stated that the
GRAND VIZIER was matching for Adrianople, for the
relief of Varna, and that Museum Bay was pursuing
the troops which had retreated from Schemla.--
A detached corps bad also been sent on the road to
Silistria and Hirchora, is order to take advantage of
,ihe late events betide the fuu ef those places. Vol

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