Star.
London, England, 1821-01-10 00:00:00

DUBLIN OUTRAGE,

ADJOURNED MEET IN
VEG AV sus CORN EXCHANGE
TARN'

Thursday last, a numerous Meeting of Gentlemen
took place at the Corn Exchange Tavern, pursuant
to adjournment, to receiVe Litt Retort of did Glom.
tuitsee appointed to consult on the Most constitutional
niocle of demanding redress for the outrage commit-
ted on the Freeholders of the County of Dublin, on
Saturday se'nnight. LAURENCE CLINCH, Esq. was
'tailed to the Chair.
Mr. FINLAY stated, that the Committee had re
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'commended that an Address should be laid before
the Government of this Country, complaining of the'
illegal and unconstitutional conduct of the High
Sheriff of the County of Dublin, and demanding re-
dress for the outrage committed on the Freeholders,
on the 80th of December. The Committee also re-
commended that another Address (which would be
but an echo of the one to be laid before the Irish Go-
vernment) should be forwarded to Parliament, there-
by bringing the matter liefore the Members of the
two Houses.
Mr. H. DAwsoN then proposed the following Re-
so:ution
a That the Noblemen, Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders
tithe County of Dublin, having, in pursuance of the summons
of Sir Richard Steele, Bart. high Sheriff, assembled in the
County Court, in the Sessions House at Kilmainham, on Satur-
dre, the 30:h of December, 1820, and whilst comporting them-
' nlvrs hi a peaceable, orderly, and clec•rous manner, they were,
without any provoratioß, or justification whatsoever, and before
the business for which they had been so convened was con-
cluded, violently and illegally assaulted, dispersed, and driven
out of the Sessions' House, by an armed military force, acting
by the direction of the Sheriff."
This Resolution was seconded by ANTI!. BROWNE,
Esq. of Gardiner's-place; and, on being put from the
Chair, it was carried unanimously.
Mr. LUKE Pr.uN KETT then addressed the Meeting ; '
after which,

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Mr. DAWSON privosecl the following Resolution:

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" That the conduct of the High Sheriff of the County of
Dublin, his irregular method of conducting the business, his un-
provoked harshness to the Frei:holders, his threatening the
Meeting with the Military, his asserting au Address to be car-
ried, without having put the negative proposition on the ques-
tion, and finally, his dispersing the Freeholders by the Military,
(the Civil Power being present in great force, and no violence
or tumult requiring such interference), are gross and flagrant
violations of the rights of the Freeholders, and of the subjects of
these realms in general, derogatory from the freedom of public
queen, and forming a dangerous and ominous precedent."
Captain FOTTRELL seconded the Resolution.--
"Whenever the rights of the subject are invaded in
a free country, k is the duty of every man in that
country to seek the most constitutional mode of obtain,-
kg redress. These rights have been invaded, and it
has been asked, whether that outrage has been but the
act of an individual, or whether it has sprang from
a system of Government:acted on in this country ? I
think it but the act of an individual, as I cannot for
a moment suppose such a stain upon the administra-
tion tt Lord Talbot, as to think that outrage had the
sanction of the Irish Government. It should be
recollected, that during Lord Talbot's administra-
tioD. Magistrate made application at the Castle to
have the Insurrection Act put in force in Ireland, and
it was refused. Lord Talbot acted on the principle,
that lehient, were better than coercive measures, to
insure the tranquillity of Ireland."
The Resolution was, then put from the Chair, and
carried unanimously.

Mr. FINLAY moved—" That the Address to the
Lord Lieutenant should be adopted, as containing
the sentiments of the Meeting."
The CHAIRMAN put the question, and the motion
vas carried unanimously.
Mr. O'CONNILL came forward to make a few re-
marks on some observations which fell from Cap-
tain Foul relative to the outrage committed on
the Freeholders of the County of Dublin. I admit, ,
with Captain Fottrell, that under Lord Talbot's ad-1
ministration, the laws of this country have been ad-
ministered with an impartiality, and a-silent dignity "
befitting his high station and his upright character.
I admit that Mr. Grant's conduct has been everything
that is liberal and enlightened; and humble an in-
dividual as I am, they may accept this praise from
me, for it is not flattery. I cannot, however, look on
the late outrage, as the isolated act of an individual ;
but think it a part of that system which first divided, i
and afterwards distracted this unhappy Country.—'
I attended the County Meeting as a Freeholder—not
to oppose a loyal Address, but to support one; and
Sir Richard Steele's only reply to the observations
of the Freeholders he had summoned, was with
loaded muskets. There is a class of persons in this
country that are termed a exclusive Loyalists ;"
that is, they are loyal so long as they cad divide
the " loaves and fishes" among themselves. We
all witnessed the facetious eloquence of my Lord
Mouth, and the no less rhetorical powers of Lord
frankfort—(Great laughter)—who, see uudcreand,
moved and seconded the Address that was nut carried.
Mr. O'Connell dwelt much on the agricultural and
commercial distresses of this country, favoured as it
IS by the chief blessings of Pnovtoesce—hailed the
.spirit of liberty that seemed to pervade so many
vountries of the Continent, which, like a volcano,
,was ready to burst forth in all the sublimity of terrific
paiideur. Ile alladed to the suspension nt. the Ha-
beas Corpus A.-t in Lnglani, and, after having cen-
sured the conduct of those who would speculate on
servility, sat down amid the acclamations of the
Meeting.
The Meeting then adjourned till Thursday next.

PRESBYTERY OF EDINBURGH

(From the ildinitlrgh Stitr).

On Friday, at the Meeting of the Presbytery; Dr.
Notts brought forward a muticin for a Loyal Ad-
dress to the Throne, ttpzessive of the opinions of the
Presbytery on the present state of the Country. He
had prepared an Address, which he took the liberty
of proposing. It Was seconded by Dr. GRANT.
The Rev. Sir HARRY MONCRIEFF, Bart. rose and
opposed the allegatioss of the. Address, as far as
they imputed any degree of irreligion and disaffec-
tion to the Inhabitants of this Country, sufficient to
authorise the present Address.

The Honourable Batonet was supported,in a speech
of considerable length and ability, by the Rev. A.
THOMSON, who also contended, that under the pre-
sent circumstances, when the objects pursued at
Public Meetings were simply to vote for the dis-
missal of Ministers, or for their continuance in
office, the Address would be considered a party
Address. It was impossible it could be viewed in
any other light, when Gentlemen came there from
the Council Chamber of the City, where they had
been voting and signing such an extravagant Ad-
dress as they had heard of, and pulled out of their
pockets another, which they considered the very
thing for the Presbytery to vote and sign in co-ope-
ration with their Council Chamber Address.

After one or two other Members had delivered
their opinions against the Address, the Rev. Doctors
It4oLts and GRANT replied.
The Address was agreed to without a vote Sir
HARRY MONCRIEFF contenting himself with deliver-
ing, in his reasons of dissent, which were immediately
signed by the Rev. A. THOMSON ; and other Mem-
bers are expected also to attach their names, before
the next meeting of the Presbytery.

" The progress of the Scotch Addresses is a good
deal curious. They began in Perthshire under the pa-
tronage of the Duke of ATHOL, and various other
equally well-paid and disinterested supporters of the
Ministerial party in Scotland. The Gentlemen of that
County, who perceived the absurdity and hoax of the
Address, despaired of being of any use, and declined
attending the Meeting. Consequently, an Address
was sent up from the Freehold Corporation of that
County, ia. the loudest tone of complaint about the
irreligion and di:.affeeion of the country. But ere
the County of Edinburgh met, the comparatively
small but respectable body of men unconnected with
Ministry or Ministerial families there, had found out
the'secret, that even in close Corporations some at-
tention must be paid to the merits of the cause. They
therefore resolved to meet the Addressers face to face,
in the fair field of argument, and to ask on wise
ground the Address
.was proposed ? Fortunately the
junior Lord of the Admiralty, the LORD ADVOCATE,
the SOLICITOR-GENERAL, and that. great Statesman,
the Right Honourable Wit.r.ram Dusiows, were all
constituent Members of the. Meeting, and present
when the Mid-Lothian. Loyal Address was moved.
This Address reiterated the charge of irreligion and
sedition; but though every species of defiance was
given to the Addressers, each seemed more shy than
another to assign a specific reason for the statements
they had made. They thrust forward the stripling
Mr. JAMES WALKER; but the only tangible proof of
disaffection that he could give, was a passage in the
speech of an Advocate in favour of his client, ad-
dressed to the LORD. CHANCELLOR. The absurdity
and indecency of such an argument produced a re-
tort and reproof from Lord RossLetr, which we ven-
ture to say Mr. WALKER. will not soon forget. Then
came the LORD ADVOCATE, and the proof of disaf-
fection that he gave was in the convictions that took
place at Stirling, in July last! Can any man, wo-
man, or child, believe that this was the real cause
of the charge in the Edinburgh Address.' We leave
our Readers and the Public to form their own con-
clusion on the mere statement of the question.—
Then followed the Fife and Ayr Meetings; and here
also the adherents of Ministry were not allowed to
get an Address dispatched to The Gazette like an
advertisement. They were met, the necessity of the
Address was boldly denied, and they were asked to
explain why it was proposed to the County. But
here also the supporters of the Ministry were equally
chop-fallen. The Fife Address was offered by the
mover and seconder without even a single word of
comment or explanation ; and though the SOLICITOR-
GENERAL came limp Edinburgh to advocate it, two
or three attempts were made to carry it by a vote
tuithout debate. From what passed at Edinburgh,
the charge of irreligion' was abandoned in Fife.—
Thus Ministers were constrained, for once, to give
up their best ally ;—the continuance of such a
charge throwing an air of ridicule and absurdity
over the proceedings, which they feared that even
the weakest of their admirers might perceive.—
At Ayr, the nicknamed Loyal Address' was carried,
on a division, by a majority of 66 to 15. Its worth
may be inferred from the fact of Sir DAVID HUNTER
BLAIR, joint Patentee of the King's Printing-office, a
situation tuorth several thousand pounds a-year, having
been called, on account, we pre ume, of his known
independence, to preside as Chairman ! At Ren-
frew, the condition of the adherents of Ministers was,
if possible, still more piteous than at either Edin-
burgh, Fife, or Ayr. Their humiliation was here
perfect and complete. The Address was moved by
that truly independent Gentleman, Mr. MURK, of
Caldwell, Distributor of Stamps for Glasgow, Ren-
frew, and Ayr, a situation held at the pleasure of
Mini.sters, and word; from £lO,OOO to £20,000 a
year. Lord SUCCOTH, son of the late President of
the Court of Session, and himself one of the Supreme
Judges of that Tribunal, was the great orator on the
side uf the exclusively loyal ! Yet, after all, the Ad-
dress was only carried by the trifling majority of 601
to 44. What a majority in a Scots County 1"—(2 he
Scots,aa .)
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Ile Hinckley Ultra-Loyal Address, after it had
lain for signatures at different places for eight or nine
days, had only 39 names attached to it, out of a po-
pulation of 7000 or 8000 inhabitants! Of this num-
ber, 14 were not housekeepers, five or six were boys,
six receive pay from Government, being Excisemen,
&c. three were not residents of the place, and others
who did sign were compelled to do so, though they
were great sticklers for the QA.:EEN.ckiring her shame-
fur and scandalous kersecution.