Star.
London, England, 1821-11-10 00:00:00

F~r,icL

ORANGEISM.

The (Dublin) Freeman's Jrp,7nd has the following
further remarks on the decorations of the Statue of
King WILLIAM :

di FOURTH OF NOVEMBER.

" The feelings of regret and disgust, excited by the
conduct of the Orangemen on Sunday, are deep and
general. On the other hand, the forbearance and
discretion of the Catholics, in resisting the ptovoca7
tion which was so daringly held out, merit unqua-
lified praise.
" It is said the 4 Grand Lodge' disclaims all par-
ticipation in the offence. Who, then, were the offen-
ders? It must be presumed the Magistrates of Dub-
lin knew the characters of the persons before whom
they bent their authority so submissively. We cannot
think so meanly of ii,em as to suppose that they were
overawed by a few cbscure ruffians—a handful of
nameless raggamuffins.
Magisti ales were so willing to be vanquished,
or they had so little hive of opposing a successful re-
t.istance to the Orangemen, that they do not al:Tear to
have taken a single step to prevent the Decoration.'
" Many persons who gave the Public Authorities
cra'it for sincerity were sanguine enough to entertain
expectations, even to a late hour on Sunday afternoon,
that the emblems of discord would he removed. The
Lord Lieutenant drove through College-Green twice
in the course of the day. Several of the City Magis-
trates rode and walked through it—any two police-
men might have taken the trappings down. The
Lord Mayor, who called the Magistrates together,
and wrote to the head Police-office, might have done
it in a few moments by the two policemen who
walked before him through the streets. Yet easy as
it was, no attempt was made to accomplish it. The
decorations remained untouched until the perzong
who placed them on the Statue removed them with
due form at the appointed hour of one o'clock Pn
Monday morning. This ceremony was performed
with the usual indications of tt jump') —shouts, huzzas,
&c. but the actors ie it did not come within the de-
set iption of rioters mentioned in the orders issued to
the policemen; and of course they were not interrupted.
• "Amongst the many proofs of their unqualified
contempt of the Constituted Authorities of the coun-
try, exhibited by the Orangemen on Sunday, we may
mention that a copy of Lord Sidmouth's celebrated
Letter, burlesqued in the most absurd, paltry, and •
disrespectful manner, was posted on the pedestal of
the statue; and a copy of the Magistrates' Procla-
mation was hung upon the railing which surrounds
it, as if to spew how complete a dead-letter that do-
cument became as soon as it appeared outside the
Board-room. But thus it has ever been with Ulnas
in all countries. The most unqualified supporters of
power have been always its most violent assailants,
' when they found their own interests in opposition to
it—and wherever factions have been reared and en-
. couraged, they have, in the end, never faired to sting
the hand that che: ished them."

•
We are glad to perceive that The Correspondent,
the organ of Government, condemns, in the I.,rcngest
terms, the outrage of dressing King %%Allan:is statue
on• Sunday. The following passages ate equally cha.
racterised by truth and liberality :
" Last Saturday we wok the opportunity of re-
cording our sentiments on the impolicy, the absurdity,
and the illiberality of celebrating the anniversary of
the birth-day of that great and glorinus Monarch,
who established civil and religious liberty in this
realm, in any manner which could either wound the
feelings of our Roman Catholic countrymen, or indi-
cate the existence of any emotion in the heart of a
Protestant, inconsistent with the precepts of religion.
" We did hope that-such illiberality would cease,
as the Roman Catholics had for a long time emerged
from those slavish principles which attached their
forefathers to a race of ;Princes who were unworthy
of dominion, and as the Protestants could see in their
fellow-countrymen of a different religion, only the
homntrable votaries of freedom.

We have charged such fomenters of discord with

ignorance—and we go no farther for the prdof than
the insctiptions on the flag which was attached to the
statue. One inscription says—' On the ',Mtn 's Day
the debtor is free• The merit of that immunity
should be ascribed to the Stuarts; for, though they
were bad and tyrannical, the Act which prevents.the
arrest of debtors on the Sabbath was pas:ed in the
reign of Charles 11.—and the Irish Statute, which
was not enacted until the reign of William 111. is
only a transcript of the English Act.
" The ether inscription, by which they exhort others
to Fear Goo and honour the King,' also proves the
gross ignorance of such fomenters of discord. They
profane the Sabbath, and they engender strife, though,
in the fulness of their ignorance, they think, at the
same moment, that they fear Gun, who enjoined the
day to be holy, and who commanded all his creatures
to love one another. They exhort others to honour
the King, while their, in the same ignorance, violate
the injunctions of the best of Monarchs."
After some further observations, The Correspondent
ascribes the dressing to " the stupid and obstinate
folly of a few drunken mechanics of Dublin, who ate
unworthy of any communion of Christians," and thus
sums up—. •
" Since the foregoing observations were written,
we have received information, which we conceive en-
titled to credit, that all the Orange Lodges in Dublin
disavow any participation whatsoever, either diiect
or indirect, with the persons concerned in the act, and
conceive that they should not be loaded with obloquy
for the irregularities of any unworthy Member of the
Institution, over whom they had no controul."
• This was an appeal to the principles ;old pockets °rats
Orange rabble, which was well k:.o n to be irresistible.—En.

LEGAL WIT.--Maeteth. What is't you do?
Witches. A dced without a name.
" Which is not worth a farthing." exclaimed a lawyer
in the pit.