Star.
London, England, 1828-10-21 00:00:00

IRON UP?. 26 Ta CCT. 1.

We had received some days ago information that a
strong corps of the enemy was approaching, for the pur-
pose of raising the siege of Varna. It was said to be
'detached by the Grand Vizier, from the other side of
the Kamtczyk, to join Omer Vrione, who had left
Schumla at the head of a detachment of Albanians.—
Soontafter our outposts announced the approach of the
enemy. A strong division was immediately sent to re-
connoitre. Local difficulties, however, preventeJ us
.from acquiring accurate information respecting the ad-
vance as well as the strength of the enemy. During
the reconnoissance the Yager regiment of the Foot
Guards suffered considerable loss. Among the killed
are Major-General Hartung, commander of the regi-
.ment ; Colonel Sanger,ide-de-Camp to his Majesty
the Emperor; Word Busse, and ten other Officers.
The next day the enemy appeared before our position
on the South side of the Straits of Varna, but our corps
was already reinforced, and placed under the command
of General Bn
- On the 27th, Lieutenant General Suchozonet, with
the Ist brigade of the light cavalry of the guards, the
2d btigside of the 19th division of infantry, and two
batteries, was detached to the left side of the Strait of
Varna to threaten the tight wing of Omer Vrione. By
the rapid and 'complete execution of this movemet.t, the
Totkish camp in the village of Hadgi Hassan fell into
our hands. The enemy lost one standard and about
600 men. Meantime Prince Eugene of Warrensburg
arrived from the camp before Schumla with the lit
brigade of the 19th division, and having been joined by
the 20th regiment cf Yagets, he joined General Sucho-
zonet 'on the 28th of September, according to the orders
he had revived. Oa this day, General Bistrom re-'
pulsed a serious attack. The enemy, who, since his ar- '
rival, bad begun to intrench himself, left his camp in
great force, and attacked our redoubts. The action con-1
tinned with great impetuosity for four hums. 11:e fire
of our battery, as well as a vigr roes charge with the
bayonet, executed by the Ist battalion of the Yagers of
the Foot Guards, as well as by the Ist battalion of the
grenadiers of the body guard. decided ie.e rictt.ry.
Each of these battalions toisk a standard, and the
. t We give Ada, dates in the ollkial Bulletins according to the
new style.

Turks retreated, leaving behind 1,000 killed. In this
engagement the enemy bionght forward 15,000 infan•
try and cavalry, and had an equal number in the in.
trenchtnents. We lament the loss of the brave Gen.
Freitag, Commander of the Regiment of Gienadiers of
the Body Guard, and of Z tycow, of the same regiment ;
both fell at the head of the battalion. The next day
the enemy remained quiet, and was employedin forte.
lying his camp.
We resolved therefore to interrupt bis tranquill; ty.
and to attack him on the following day (the 30th) The
:nick conducted by General liktions was only a feint.
Prince Eugene of Wirtemberg led the second attack,
after arranging his force opposite the enemy's left wing.
Our troops were obliged to mai movie on ground broken
by innumerable hollows and thick bushes—a circus.
stance peculiarly favourable to the enemy's infantry, as
they conceal themselves in the bushes and fight singly:
In spite of these difficulties, the '2oth Regiment of Yia
gees succeeded in taking the first redoubt and one cab•
non. Our troops were animated with such coinages
that contrary to the orders of Pt ince Eugene of Wirtew
berg, the first brigade of the 19th division, commanded
by Gets. Jurnow, attacked the enemy's camp. This
ficer fell a victitn•tobis noble spirit, white his brigade,
succeeded in reaching the parapet of the enemy's
trenchments. Bus as it was here exposed,to the fire of
the enemy's musketry, attacked in front by a superior
torte, and threatened on the flanks by the enemy's ca-
valry, it was obliged, as it was too tar from the columns
which should have supported it, to retreat, after having
sustained considerable loss. It therefore retreated in
the best order, under the protection of our batteries and
"of an attack made by Hulans t f the Guard.

Tile action was then put an end to, and the corps of
Prince Eugene of Wirtemberg resumed its position au
Hwy-Ha:cm. The boldness with which our troop&
attacked the enemy's intreachments made so great as
impression on the enemy, that notwithstanding our loss,
he not only did not hinder the retreat of the corps of,
Prince Eugene, but has still remained today behind his
inttencbments.
The works before Varna are so far advanced, that the
mines reach in two places to the main rampart of the'
fortress.

DUKE OF NEWCASTLE AND LORD KENYON.

FROM THE WIWI EVENING MAIL.
The following very valuable letters have been ad-
dressed by these distinguished Noblemen to the Earl of
RATHDowNE, in his capacity of Secretary to the
Brunswick Constitutional Club t f Ireland." They will
be read sith feelings of unmixed satisfaction by every
loyal Protestant is the empire, affording as they do un-
equivocal evidence of that community of sentiment and
union of opinion which now exists—and politically, for
the first time, between the professors of the same creed
in both countries;
a Portman-square, Oct. 9, ISM
si My Loas—l do myself the honour of acknowledging your
Lordship's letter of the 4th inst. in which you were pleased to com-
municate to mo the honour done um by the Brunswick Club of
Ireland,for which I request your Lotdthip to ear la return my
grateful thanks.

" Cordially attached as I ant, personally and Iteredtarily, to the
sound cause of Protestantism, I cannot but be highly gratified by
the approbation of such a Gob. At the same dose I cannot bat
be well aware, and I value the testimony not the lees on that ac.
mint, that it is from sympathy of principles—of atuebment to the
sacred cause, much more than any merit which I can claim, that I
am indebted for this honour. Anzisnsly praying for Goo's blessing
on the Protestant cause, I bare the honour to be, my Lord, your
Lordship's most obliged and faithful servant, " KENTON.
" To the Lord Ratbdowne, &c. •

" Ramsgate, Oct. ii, lets.
" Mr Loan—Thoroughly impressed as I am with the fullest
sense of the honour conferred upon me by your Lordship's letter
of the 4th instant, I yet cannot pretend to express in adequate terms
the emotion I experienced on receiving such i letter from such a
body. I will merely state, that nothing on earth could be more
gratifying to nu, nothing more estimable, than the approbation of
valued and honourable men. May I beg the favour of your Lord-
ship individually to accept my grateful sense of your kindness, and
to snake known to the Bromwich Constitutional Club of Ireland,
that whilst memory remains I shall never forket that the dhtinco
don which has been conferred upon me by that patriotic and noble
union has been suggested by an honest desire to give encourage-
ment to all that is good and honourable—all that exhibits patriotic
devotion, elevation of sentiment, or undeviating rectitude of prix•
ciple: It is because I have endeavoured to advocate such princi-
ples that I have drawn upon myself the encouraging make of the
Brunswick Constitutional Club of Ireland. From my heart I re-
joins to know that _such men exist, and as the saviours of their
country, I trust that I may never forfeit their good opinion.
" Although unconnected with Ireland, except as a most im-
portant integral part of the British empire, I feel the utmost in.
terest in her welfare. Within the last three weeks I have received
such unbounded marks of kindness and confidence from various
bodies and individuals in Ireland, that I almost feel identified with
the country. Under these particular circumstances, may I ask,if
it woultLbe objectionable that I might be admitted as one of the
Members of the Brunswick Constitutional Club of Ireland ?
should consider it a peculiar honour to have my name enrolled
with those of the distinguished Members of your Club, and to co.
operate with them on ill occasions for the good of the Church. the
safety, honour, and welfare of our Sovereign and his dominions.
" I have the honour to remain, my Lord, your Lordship's very
sincere and faithful servant, " NEWCASTLE.
" The Earl of Itathdowne, &c. &c. Ike."

MEETING OF THE PROTESTANTS OF THE
COUNTY OF CAVAN.
MIRING= slum Tag DUBLIN RVENINO MAIL.
hi‘lldsy, the 13th October, will be long memorable
for the establithment of one of the most splendid Clubs
that have yet been firmed in the provinces. The fleeting
atCavan was distinguished even beyond those of the other
northern counties, for the number, rank, and property
of the persona who composed it. The ample Court.-
house was crowded to excess at an early hour. T.,er,
could not have been less than 2,500 persons in the gal.
leries, hall, and adjoining courts, and a great number
remaining outside, to avoid the crowd and heat.
At one o'clock, the High Sheriff proposed that Na-
thaniel Sneyd, Esq. be requested to preside at the
fleeting. The proposition having. been seconded by
Henry Maxwell, Esq. M.P. it was carried with the
loudest cheers.
The CHAIRMAN commenced by reading a letter from
Lord Farnham, who was unable to attend from inch.-
porition ; also letters from Lord Frankfort and F. Mel-
ville White, Esq. regretting their unavoidable absence.
IA then stated that the object. for which they were ah

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•embled was to estahlish a Brunswick Constitutional
Club, on principles similar to that of Dublin.
Thelimn &neuter then proposed the first Resets:ion.
:Reverend Martcus Banasrono—Mr. Chairman, I
bee leave to second the resolution you bare just beard
aid. Although I deeply deplore that a necessity aril..
trig from the state of society in this country should call
the Clergy .frons. the peaceable exercise of their vuca.
ion, to. take a part in such Meetings as the presents yet
I conceiseit would ill become one who is sincerely and
devotedly. attached to the Protestant faith, at this too.
mentous period, to slumber at his post—(Cheers). On
another occasion I should feel it necessary to offer an
spol igy for presenting myself, a Minister of the Gospel,
to.the attention of a political meeting; but at present I
stand in need.of none, for when the Church to which I
belong is atacked, I feel neither shame nor fear in rank.
,ing myself with its defenders. I should be sorry to tree
the Clergy, at any time, so far forget their duty as
citizens, as to shrink fore taking. a part in the de.
Gaye tither of Church or Stare, and, like those dege.
iterate children of. Ephraim, being harnessed and bear•
iug bows, turn their back in the day of battle—(Cheers).
I should. indeed be a blind observer of public events, if
I had net long ere this perceived, that every energy of
Priest and Demagogue is exerted to overthrow.that .oar
ivalled Church, whose Minister I count it my greatest
glory. to be, and I lank upon such Constitutional Asso.
ciatioirs as ee ate met this,day to form, to be a noble
concentration of Protestant strength for her support and
her detence.—(Loud cheers). .War have already delayed
too long-(Hear, hear). We have. alined Popery
undisturbed, to discipline and array her forces in our
very sight; we have allowed false representations of our
situation, and colour feeling's to be assiduously pro.
niulgated amongst our English brethren, wherein the
majority of Irish Protestants have been falsely repro.
seated as favour able to Roman Catholic Emancipation--
(Hear, hear)—wherein Roman Catholics have been
talwly declared to be a peaceable body of men seeking
nothing but equal rights; wherein the Roman Catholic
Association has been represented merely as a brawling
set of bridless lawyers, trying to harangue themselves
into public notice, a body without power, a serpent
without a sting ; and the very first question an English-
man asks of any one who attempts to undeceive him is,
Why do not the Irish Protestants call public meetings
in a constitutional manner, sod there declare their real
se ntiments?—(Hear, hear). The Brunswick Clubs will
pot an end to that question for ever —(Cheers). They
will unite every true Protestant in Ireland—(Cheers).
Our voice will be heard above the roar of the wild
ocean; it will reach the ears of England ; it will be
echoed from mouth to mouth ; it will acquire strength
as it proceeds, till it shake the walls of the Cabinet, and
pierce the very closet of royalty itself—(Loud cheers).
also fora great benefit from the union of Pro.
testants of every rank and cif every degree, high and
low, rich and poor, in one great body, for the support
of our unrivalled Church and Constitution. We shall
have also a noble fund for constitutional purposes, and
to preserve Protestants from Popish pernrcution—(Loud
cheers)—and I have no doubt it will be used to protect
the Proteitant, whenever the long purse ef the Associa.
tion may be ranged against bias in a vexatious lawsuit,
or where he it hindered in the exercise of his lawful trade
by Popish concilration—(Cheers). But above all, and
beyond all, it will let our English brethren—brethren
in faith, and brethren in blood, know our real senti-
ments and our real situation—(Hear, and cheers).
Look at the last proclamation issued by Government.
The arch-agitator affects to think that without it was
backed by an edict of his own it would have very little
weight with his breechless body guards in Tipperary.
In that edict, after his usual abuse of Protestants, under
the name of Orangemer, he advises the peosle ti obey
their Priests, asks them had they ever repented taking
theit advice? and emphatically answers--never. I am
sorry for it—(Hear, hear, and cheers). I had really
thought that were it only at the foot of the gallows,
they had grace to repent taking Father Murphy's ad.
vice in pursuing the bloody track of rebellion and
murder in the year 1798. 1 had thought that near a
century and a half bad cooled their excited passions...
that they bad repented of the bloody deeds of 1641,
when one hundred thousand Protestant men, women,
and children, in this province, died under the murder.
ous knife of the Papist savage, martyrs for the witness
of Jesus and for the word of GOD. But mill the Pro.
testant people of Old England ever allow the shadow
of such times to darken us again ? Never—(Chet
unless by weakness and disunion we betray ourselves.
Let us then be firm and united, declare our own DID•
ation, and the real views of Popery, ti our English
friends with candour and with moderation. Let us
solemnly and emphatically tell them that Roman Ca.
tholic Emancipation, no matter in what shape it comer,
no matter by what securities it is A :raked—(Hear, hear)
—will be regarded by every true Prutestant in Ireland
as a death .blow struck at the very Wtals of the Church,
and that the first voice of a Roman Ca:holic that Is
heard within the Chapel of St. Stephen's, will be re-
garded by them as the deasolti.ell of our glorious
Constitution—(Hear. hear, hear). That its immediate
effects will be to cause nunit:ers of our Protestant
Gentry to fling their estates into the market. sell them
perhaps to sonic Popish ruerchant 14. r half their value,
and go live in some land where they may worship their
GOD in peace: it will drive the greater part of cur Pro.
testant yeomanry, who are the very heart's blood and
sinews of the country, to emigrate to the far distant
shores of Canada, or the wild banks of the Mississippi,
to seek for that peace which winl be banished from
their homes ; and its ultimate effect will be to destroy
our connection wish Great Britain; and that Emanci-
pation, shackled with any conditions whatsoever, will
riot be the source of the slightest contentment to the
Roman Catholics—(Hear. hear)—tor they only valise
it as it will give them power to ii jure the Church, and
undermine the Constitution—(Hear, and loud cheers).
Let me not be supposed that ire thus doing what I con-
sider my duty openly and fearlessly, I speak hom a
reeling of enmity to mortal man. I thank G..li I feel
ho,thity to none—(Hear)—and to the best of. my belief
I have no enemy—(Loud cheers). I know individuals
of the Roman Catholic communion for whom I have a
high respect, and I deeply regret that the truth, as it is
in Culture, is hidden from their eyes. I come here to
declare my sentiments as a Protestant, and I hype every
PfOttsilol here will do his duty as openly and sincerely
as, 1 trust, I have dos.e. (Mr. Hereford sat down
'amidst enthusiastic cheers).
HUM, Ildnivrau, Esq, M.P. was prevented by the
ikerinS which his piestscalscite4 from addtesslns do

Meeting for ieveral minutes—l am devotedly attached
to the principles which seated the House of Brunswick
upon the throne, and established the Protestant ascen-
dancy in these countries, and I am devotedly attached to
these principles, because I consider that it is the Protes-
tant character of the Constitution that has made t nglantl
what she is—(Cheers). When other nations of Europe
were shaken to their centre, the Protestant character of
the Constitution of. England enabled her to resist a
power before which other countries, not so happily cir-
cumstanced, were compelled to bow down and worship
—it was the Protestant character of her Constitution
which has enabled England, amidst all the vicissitudes
and changes with which other countries have been
afflicted, to continue to be the arbitress of Europe, and
entitled he, to be styled the envy of surrounding nations
and the admiration of the world—(Loud cheers). I
also, Sir, revere our Protestant Constitution, because it
gives liberty to every class of persons, the rich as well
as the poor, who live under it. Gentlemen, we are
living in Ireland under the British Constitution—but if
we do not enjoy the full blessings of that Constitution
in as ample a manner as they are enjoyed in England,
to what cause are we to attribute so extraordinary a
circumstance? Are we to attribute it to a defect in
the Constitution itself, or are we to suppose that there
is something uncongenial in the mural and political at-
mosphere of this country, which unfits it for the recep.'
Lion of liberty, full and unshackled as it is dispensed
under the Constitution of England ? To what cause
are we to attribute it—that Protestants as well as 10.
man Catholics (for they ton suffer), who live under a
Constitution, which was described by Mr. Pitt as af-
fording equal protection to all, should complain of
not receiving that protection from the Constitution I
which is experienced in England ?—Gentlemen, we are
not to attribute it to any defect in the Constitution,
but to the exercise of a power which has hitherto been
allowed to usurp absolute sway in this country; a
power which is above the laws, and which Mr. Dawson,
at a late meeting in Derry, described as being able to
defy the laws. Gentlemen, if this power be above the
laws, it is because the laws which provide a remedy for
the evil were never exerted to crush it—(L..ud cheers).
Gentlemen, I have said, that the Roman Catholics do
not derive the full blessings under the Constitution,
even such as they are now entitled to ; and also that the
Protestants do not derive the full share to which they
are entitled, and which they have a right to expect. You
are all, yourselves, perfectly competent to bear testi-
mony to the truth of the latter position—and in refe-
rence to the former, it is only necessary to remind you of
the tyranny which the Priests exercise, not only over the
consciences, but the persons of the Roman Catholics.—
You have seen this monstrous usurpation of power on
the part of the Priests exercised, unsuccessfully it is
true, in this county, but still exercised to the utmost of
their abilities, to controul the freedom of election; and
you have all of you heard how that power was exerted
too successfully in Clare, where a Roman Catholic was
returned as a Member of Parliament. Gentlemen, with
respect to the Catholic Association, I have no hesitation
in stating, that unless it be crushed, it will be scarcely
safe for a Protestant to reside in this country—(Cheers)
I hold in my band a notice of a motion given on the
last day of meeting, by a Mr. Forde:
" That a Committee should be appointed to prepare an Address
to the people of Ireland, calling on them to deal exclusively with
the friends of civil and religious liberty, and on no account to deal
with Orange shopkeepers; and that it should be an inatruction to
the Committee to prepare fur publication a Directory, with the
names of all the merchants and traders in the city of Dublin, who
proved themselves to be friends of civil and religious liberty."
Phis, Gentleman, is one additional proof of the tolerant
spirt of the Church of Rome. It proves incontestibly
that she is now in the nineteenth century as intoleratt
and domineering as she was at any former period of
Inswry, and that her antipathy to everything Protestant
is just as predominant now, as it was when torrents of
P.otestant blood were shed, and numberless victims
were daily offered up as sacrifices in the cause of truth
and religion. It is one additional proof that Popery is
unchangedland unchangeable, and however much it may
be her interest to disguise her real character, and appear
every thing kind and conciliating—in short every I
thing she ought to be, were she not the Church of
Rome, we have occasionally some of• her children +
exhibiting her in her true colours, as besotted and in-,
tolerant as she was in the darkest ages of Papal bigotry ,
and superstition—(Cheets). Believe me, Gentlemen,
that if, in a moment of ill.advised liberality, Papists
should be admitted to greater political power in these
realms than they at present enjoy, the Protestants of
this country and of England too will be visited with a
recurrence of those scenes which have ever marked the
blood-strined track of Popery—(Loud cheers). If it

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be any s-tiisfaction to those who are now present, and
who are, I trust, perfectly convinced of my unalterable
attachment to the principlies of the Protestant Ascen-
dancy to hear a more full avowal of my sentiments
than is comprised in these few words, I well state that
I am an uncompromising opponent of Catholic Ewan-
cipation—(Loud the rs). I will oppose it by every
Constitutional means.—l cannot do better in ex-1
plaining the object which we have in view in es-
tablishing Brunswick Clubs, than to quote a few
words, not on my own authority, but on that of the
glorious King William 111. himself. In the declaration
which King William 111. put forward at the Hague,
previous to his depurate for Epglend, the following
passage occurs, which is just as applicable to the present
period, and the objects we have in view, as it was in
168844 We have nothing before our eyes in this un-
.dertaking but the preservation of. the Protestant reli-
gion. the covering of all men from persecution for their
consciences, and the sewing to the whole nation the
free enjoyment of all their law., rights, and liberties,
under a just and I gal Government." What, Gentle.
men, can apply with greater force to the Brunswick
Clubs than this? We do not establish Clubs for

the purpose of persecuting our Roman Catholic
countrymen; far from it, for we cannot help pitying
the wretched state to which the genius of their re-
ligion has reduced them. When we see Irishmen
like ourselves, endowed by an all-bounteous Provi-
dence with qualities of a first-rate order, but who,
in constlquence of having fallen into the hands of
Priests and Demagogues, have, instead of being as
warm admirers of the British Constitution ss ourselves,
become its deadliest enemies—whea we see such an
effect produced upon them, !row, I ask, can we withhold
our pity from Or drluded countrymen? if the Roman
Catholic peasantry were lea to themselves and to the
impulses of their own nature, they would be contented
and happy ; but being in the hands of men who feel it
necessary, in order to preserve their power over them,
to stifle all the kindlier feelings of the heart—being in
the hands of men, who, for personal aggrandisement,
as Cobbett says, teach the opposite ► f every virtue,
and whose strength consists only in the debasement
of the human mind—the unfortunate objects of
their machinations are as much entitled to our pity
as the authors and abettors of such a system aie to
our eseetatiou—(Cheerb): We are combined, Si,,
pusely Lot the purpose of defence; we show by on;

nanimity that we value our glorious Constitutior, and
valuing it as British subjects ought, we are determined
o preserve it inviolate. I would call upon the Pro.
testants of Cavan to assert their right to protection under
the Constitution—l would hive them sit; it firmly. but
at the same time constitutional!, —I would have them
tell the people of England that the poor It ish Protestant
is the only persecuted being in society—(Cheers). We
must look. Sir, to England for protection, and If we
make our wrongs known to her, she will not desert us•
If you, Gentlemen, wish to have a motto, I would refer
you to that of Derry—l would tell you totaise that cry
of ar No Surrender"—(reiterated cheers)—and I will
venture to say that the people of England will echo in
a voice a thunder the cry of" No Surrender!" (Cheers)
They will say, here is a people who ought to enjoy the
full blessings of a Constitution which they deafly prize
and highly value—they profess the same religion as
ourselves—they are bound to us by the ties of blood—
inheriting the spirit of our common ancestors, they are
determined to be free. It you show them that you are
so, by every constitutional means, depend upon it the
people of England will not stand by as idle spectators,
and the Government will interpose in your favour and
remove those evils that are preying upon the vitals of
the country. Be true to yourselves—assert your claim
to protection—demand it as your tight, but demand it
constitutionally—England must come forward to your
ass:stance, and instead of seeing Leland as she is at
present, exposed to all the horrors of Popish domina-
tion, she will then become—
" Great. glorious, and free,
" The first flower of the earth, the first gem of the sea."

—(Loud cheers, which la•ted for several minutes).
The Resolution was seconded by J. Botts, Esq. and
passed unanimously.
ALZIANDaa SAUNDERSON, Esq. M.P.—I have made
it a rule of my conduct through life, Sir, to follow in
the footsteps of my Reverend parent. In times very
similar to the present, in 1798, my father, although
always remarkable for the ki. dness with which he
treated his Roman Catholic countrymen, found himself
constrained by the exigency of the times to join an In-
stitution, to whose exertions the preservation of the con-
nexion between the two countries was owing-1 mean
the Orange Institution—(Loud and repeated cheers)
And although I feel great pride in stating that no man
was more popular than my father, he yet found himself
obliged to become an Orangeman. Gentleman, the
present times bear a strong resemblance to those which
have passed away—nay exceed them in peril—(Cheers).
Gentlemen, ive see the Catholic Association, which has
been so strangely allowed by Government to make
laws for the people, and set the legal tribunals of the
land at defiance; we see, Gentlemen, through means of
this Association, parochial bands of ruffians regularly
organised, and who now stand openly arrayed against
the Government and the Protestant institations of the
country, denouncing not only persecution against the
Protestants, but also against such loyal Roman Catholics
as decline to contribute to their funds, or refuse to fall
into the ranks, of their rebel army—(Cheers). I feel it
my duty to follow in the footsteps of my revered parent.
I feel it my duty to unite with my brother Protestants,
not only for the object of mutua' defence, but in order'
that we may be able to extend our protection to such
loyal Roman Catholics as may be manly enough to re-
sist intimidation. Gentlemen, 1 have always endeavoured
to conciliate the Roman Catholics of this county, and
when I stand up here to join in the formation of a
Brunswick Constitutional Club. I do so without the
slightest hostility towards them. lam guided in joining
this Society by the same love towards them that I feel
towards my Protestant brethren.
Jassu SAUNDERSON, Esq.—When one reads the
speeches of the Catholic leaders upon legislation, one
scarcely knows what they would be at—.(Hear,. hear I)
At one time the 40s. freeholders are considered the
pillars of the State, and must be preserved; then they
are found to be extremely troublesome, and most be
done away with: Now we are to have a radical reform
and the Union repealed. But what seems most to excite
their indignation, and incur their displeasure, is our
Church Establishment. Dr. Doyle says, it is an incubus
or a dead weight upon the (iovernment—that it is in-
tolerable to see the Established Church in possession
of 4,000,000 of green acres, and himself without one.
I have been lately in the county of Fermanagh, and
there was nothing the people there desired so much
as that Mr. Lawless would make his appearance among
them. If he had, they would have ducked him in one
of their lakes; not with a view of doing him any in-
jury, but to show him, and those who sent him, the
contempt in which they hold him. I hope, Sir, if he
ever should make his appearance in this county that we
shall treat him in the game way—(Cheers). I should
be sorry that any thing I might say could offend my
Catholic brethren, whom I estetm, and with whom I
have lived, and I hope to live upon terms of the strictest
friendship,but I would entreat the reflecting part of them
not to commit themselves in the present crisis. It is
much easier to raise a storm than to allay it. Let them
consider that the people of England must be made a coll.
Erecting party to any change in the laws; that there are
fifteen millions of them—that they are a people who
have always contended for their liberties and religion.
It is impossible to suppose that such people will make
concessions to persons with aims in their hands, much
less agree to any change which they think might even-
tually endanger their Constitution. In the next Session of
Parliament we shall see how they like the late proceedings
of the Association. To grant concession to those people
would be a proof of weakness, to which ne country hold-
ing the character among nations such as that of England,
would submit—(Loud cheers). As to our Protestant
' Clubs, they are merely a defensive measure—(Hear).—
The Constitution is threatened, shall we not defend it?

(Cheers). Much, Sir, as I dislike Clubs and Associations
of all kinds, I should be ashamed of myself it I did not
come forward on the present occasion, and enrol myself,
a Mamba' of this Club, or any club having for its
avowed object the determination to preserve our in-
valuable Coastitution—that venerable work, the wisdom
of our ancestors, under which we bare lived so long,
have prospered, and are happy.--(Load cheers).
OLIVER NUGIIIIT, Esq.—Of the reasons which induced
the formation of the original Brunswick Club I beg to
offer some explanation, and in doing so it will be neces-
sal y to revert to a short period to show with what view
it was established—(Hear, hear): From the unsteady
and veering policy of the Government on Irish af-
fairs—from their seeming carelessness and disregard
to the expression of feelings of the constiiutional pm-'
tion of the subjects of this realm, and I shall add,
from the supineness and apathy of that portion, the
Catholic Association presumed to raise its head, in
the shape, I may truly -add. of lawgivers and go-
vernors of the greatest number of the population—
(Hear, hear). They exei ted a dominion, they made use
of a power, for which exertion and for which use one
of our Monarchs lost both crown and bead—the levy-
ing of a tax upon the people without the concurrences,
or sanction of the law of the land—(Hear. hear). This
they have done, and term it a voluntary contribution ;
but is there one ignorant of the danger of awaiting a

refusal to pay h? In this county, and in the north
of Ireland, it is not so bad. The peasant can be aided
by the strong voice and opinion of a Protestant pope.
lation ; but in the South, woe be to him who has
moral and civil courage sufficient to enable him to
send the collectoi away eniptp.handed ; woe to him,
1 say—denounced from the altar, that altar consented
to the worship of the great CREATOR, now Filmed
and polluted by the black and political devices of the
weak and sinful creature—shonned by his fellowl, and
considered by them in the light of, and second alone to
the downright Conlormi,t ; happy for him if he escape
without loss of property, truly fortunate it be escape
ithout loss of life or limb —(Hear). They have asserted,
too, that the representation of Ireland is in their hands ;
and allowing this to be the case, how has this power
been conk' red ? By the working of the pr iesiliood on the
terrors and superstitions of a purposely benighted flock
—(1-leas)—by the rending of a tie involving the deaue t
interests of society, which alike binds in amity every
member of the community, the tie of landlord and te-
nant—(Hear.) This they broke in many instances; and
lruitle,sly, I am happy to say, endeavoured it in more,
of which we had a slight specimen in this very county.
Our political weight being thus les ened, little remained
to make the Protestants, as the Association had boasted,
mete cyvers—when in defence of our rights and liber•
ties, and to resist the encroachments of that hot-bed of
sedition before mentioned, the first Brunswick Club was
established in England, the beacon light of which
spread from tower to tower, from hill to hill, till not a
past of Ireland remained which was not illuminated by
its rays—(Loud cheers). On the advantages attending its
formation I shall not at the present late hour expatiate;
but one proof of them, and which, as being the most
obvious, is the only one that I shall at present pro-
duce is—the undisguised panic and dismay it seams to
have struck into the counsels and the deliberations of
the Cathol.c Association—(Hear. hear, and loud cheer-
ing). Mr. O'Connell makes speeches against us in
Munster—'writes letters against us to Dublin—and has
honoured us with the apt ellation of " blood hounds."
Mr. Sheil retracts his formerly expressed opinion,
and now, forsooth, acknowledges that we are not so
easily to be trampled on as he had flattered himself
—(Cheers)—and the manta of the pasty driven, from
Ulster by the union now so happily establshed
amongst Protestints, retreated with shame and degra•
dation to that focus of disloyalty whence they bad
issued—(Loud cheers). Among us, my friends, is
found every name in Ireland noted for his devotion
to the Throne arid the Altar, while am' ng them Pi iesu
and Demagogues form their principal bulk—(Year). In
conclusion, I would with to address a few words to any
one here who is termed a liberal Protestant—(Hear).
Such an one I would tell that he cannot serve two mas-
ters—he cannot retain his religion inviolate, nor his aliy
giance to his King and country undivided, by basely
truckling to an illegal and disloyal body, such as! have
described—(Hear. heal). They despise him for his pa-
sillanimity—we pity him f r his f .117 and infatuation.
They would employ him for the purposes cf agitation,
anarchy, and minion; we would turn his occupations
to the advancement of peace and good order ; and should
it at length unhappily be referted to the mood, be will
find that, having made use of him in every way, they
will, as they did in 98, when they had the power, and
as they bad universally intended, " whistle him down
the wind to pray at fortune"—(Loud cheering).
Rev. F. SAutufitasos—The population of this coun-
try is split into two divisions—the one, the Roman Ca-
tholic pot, seeking for their liberty—the other, the
Protestant seeking to preserve it. Do the Roman Ca.
,holies imagine we have their liberty in our pockets?
Would that we had, and quickly would we invest them
with it. Need I remind them, that let the very slave
breathe the air of this land, and with it he inhales his
freedom. A poetic adage has been addressed to them
which I beg likewise to eddies: to them, with, how.
ever, a far different meaning than that which the Agi-
tator has applied it—" Hereditary bondsmen, know
ye nor, who would be free, themselves must strike the
blow." Yes, my countrymen, you must strike the'
blow, but not against the laws and institutions of this
country, conferring and based upon liberty—not against
the upholders of liberty, for this would indeed be an
Irish way of obtaining it, but to be free you must strike
the blow to loosen those manacles which are now upon
your feet, depriving yon of freedom—(Loud cheers).
To them in their attempts to procure it is well applied
the well-known adage—" They are like dogs in the;
manger"—they will neither possess themselves of li
berry, nor will they permit us, who would, to enjoy it.
One object, Sir, we have in view, is to heal the diseased
public mind—(Hear, hear)—to bring back, by setting
forth truth, to an acknowlegement of law, of duty, and
of moral obligation, the minds of the Roman Catholic
peasantry, estranged by the RQIII4II Catholic Associa-
tion—(Hear, hear, beat).

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1828.