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concluded with recommending the formation of Clubs
thrt ughout the kingdom.
Major ECCLFS moved the adoption of the Report.
I'4r. KELLY, another cf the Secretaries, seconded the
motion with great pleasure. He congratulated the
Meeting upon the appearance which it that day made,
and which he, who had seen the first beginning of these
Societies at Mr. Moore's dinner, three months ago, then
thought almost impossible. In every sentiment of the
Report he concurred, and in none more cordially than
that which disclaimed the slightest or hostility
to theirßoman Catholic brethren. In the call for univer-
sal co-operation he also joined. Let them all unite, and
make known what their feelings and their alarms were
to the Legislature, the Ministry, and the Throne. The
House of Brunswick had done its duty to the country ;
they had brought it to the highest pitch of prosperity—
(Cheers)—and that it might long be guided by the
principles which placed that family on the Throne,
ought to be the wish of every good Protestant.—The
Illustrious Person at its head was himself a guarantee
for the due administration of those principles. With
the kindest heart, all the qualities of a perfect Gentle-
man, and all the attributes of an honest man, he never
could consent to forego those principles which first gave
bit family a claim upon the people of this country.

The Report was agreed to. - -
The Earl of MAYO—Previous to my reading the first
resolution which is to be presented to you, I beg leave
to declare what my political and religious creeds are.
As far as my religious creed is concerned, I am a
straight-forward Protestant of the Church of England,
admiring ber Liturgy, and revering her rights—(Loud
applause). As to my political creed, lam a strenuous
supporter of the Church, King, and Constitution, as
they are by law established, and finally settled in 1688.
And that those realms may enjoy the Constitution in
its fullest vigour, to use a vulgar, though a forcible ex-
pression,

As long as grass grows
And water flows,
is the wish of the humble individual who now addresses
you—(Great cheering). The Noble Lord concluded by
moving the first resolution.
" That, associated as we are, upon the principle of defending
the integrity of our Protestant Constitution against the dangers to
which its existence is this day exposed, we conceive it our duty, in
the present posture of affairs, to employ every means which a legal
and a Constitutional exercise of our privileges, as British subjects,
can place at our disposal, in order to effect its preservation."
Mr. SAUNDIERSON, M. P.for Cavan—Before seconding
the resolution, I beg leave to ray a few words. I was
one of those who hesitated for a long time to join these
Clubs: and I should not have done so now, if not driven
to it by extreme necessity. It the Catholics had con-
fined themselves to the making endeavours to obtain an
extension of their political privileges, I should not have
joined, for neither you nor your clubs would have ex-
isted. We are forced together by hard necessity, by the
dangers which threaten our properties, our lives, and,
what is dealer to us, our liberties—(Loud cheeis). I
have joined this Association without any feeling of hos-
tility to my Catholic countrymen, but, on the contrary,
in the full exi ectwion of In ing able to protect them, in
Common aids nryself, from the dangers which due:own
us all. These dangers it is not necessary for me to parts.
culatise, but I would entreat those Protestants who are
no: yet with us—those Catholics u ho are not yet blinded
to their situation—to view the hot, id appearances of the
times, the disaffection, disloyalty, treason, and
graceful sympathy with the enemes of the country,
which threaten to pour in upon us a dreadful tempest,
. and to involve us in a frightful rebellion, with all its
dreadt d 'consequences—(Cheers). I ask them to join
with, us, and avert that dreadful calamity. I second
the B s-lotion with great pleasure.
Tr.: Resolution was then put from the Chair, and agreed to.
Tree Earl t t ENNI/BKILLIM WAS received with deafen-
ing -bouts. I think it incumbent, said his L-rdship,
urn every Protestant in Ireland to come for ward man-
full , in • tippott of cur glorious Constitution, and to do
every thing to unite the Protestants of Ireland in one
solid mass, to oppose t' e machinations of the disaffected,
now spread over the land—(Loud applause). The Re-
solution which I hold in my hand is well calculated to
promote the object, and thereforw I offer it with confi-
dence to ref consideration. I therefore move—
" That the Constitution which we thus willingly pledge ourselves
to support is the effect of that great national settlement of these
countries, the Revolution of MS, under which the system, de-
signated by the law by the name of Popery, was completely ex-
cluded from the civil Constitution of this realm, not merely because
that system had been pronounced erroneous in matters of religion,
but because it bad been found by experience to involve a political
system unsuited to the free spirit of the nation, and inconsistent
with the independence of the Crows."
Mr. Wows Nicene, M.P.—My Lord, I feel it an
honour conferred upon me to be selected to second this
resolution ; it is a distinction to which I claim no title,
exc• pt as the Representative of the Metropolis in which
you Are now assembled. But permit me, before I enter
enoreimmediat ly upon the topics comprised in this re-
solution, to j..in in the congratulations which have been
offered upiis the success of the Protestant cause, exem-
plified as that success so strongly is by the proud—l
would say the magnificent—display of this day (Cheers).
It is some lot Oer gratification to me to see the amazing,
unexpected, unparalleled progress of these institutions ;
and can I deny myself the futther satisfactiou of wit-
nessing the manner in w!..ich the opinions of the cant us
Clubs throughtnit the country have been expressed, the
mode in which they have been c• nducted, and the tem-
per by v hic h they have teen char actor 'zed ? They have
eshbi,ed characteristics which will always I hall e attach
to the Protestant Constitutional Clubs this
of t...s country—
zr.l tempered with discretion, and fit mness combined
with moderation'. There is no constitutional truth none
true than this—that the spirit of freedom of the British
nation is its totally unsuited to the system of those who
are excluded from any share in our Constitution, as
that the independence of the Crown is inconsistent with
the continuance of that system. It is true that the
free spirit of the British nation manifested anti sus-
tained itself in the earliest periods of British history;
and we ate told, ard told triumphantly, that our
Rowan Catholic ancestors were the first to rats,
and maintain those glorious struggles which were the
taunlation of British liberties. My Lord, I admit that
statement—i give our Catholic ancestors all the credit
to which they are entitled ; they were und. übtedly
brave, frce-spitited--they were independent men—
(Hear). They lived, however in times when, in the
Carignan world, there was only one religion, and that
under the controul of the Pope of Rome; but still the'
tree spirit of the nation ruse above that controul, and
di-played itself not only in its own character. but ac-
gutted a new one, by the struggle in which it engaged
—by:the constant, active, and finally successful, resist.
once which it made to the usurpations of the Church,
of Rime. I think lam well grounded in hazarding
this eonjecture—Aat if those Wave characters who
graced the first annals of the liberties of Britain had
tell the light of the Reformation, they
.would have been
tit first to embrace it—if they had lived at the tra of
the IL volution, they would have been the foremost
in the rai.ks of those who brought that glorious
event to a happy termination--(Loud ct ecrs). In that
great and glorsous esent, then, in; Lord, do we find