Star.
London, England, 1829-03-09 00:00:00

LONDONDERRY.

The following is in course of signature, and will be
most numerously signed. It is an appeal which should
not be overlooked, connected as it is with associations
of Popish cruelty, which would make the blood curdle
again to remember. The same spirit that actuated the
brave ancestors of the present appell4nts glows una-
batedly in their veins, and, if it be necessary to make a
stand, at their posts will be found the gallant apprentice
boys of Derry—
TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

MAY IT FULANI TOOL Maass y,
We, your Majesty's most dudful and loyal subjects, designated
the LOYAL, APPRENTICE BOYS of the CITY of LON-
DONDERRY. humbly beg leave to tender to your Majesty the
homage of our unabated fidelity and attachment to your Majesty's
sawed Person and your Illustrious Family, and to offer up to the
all-wise Ruler of Princes, our ardent prayer that your Majesty may
be long continued to reign OW an affectionate and loyal people, and
to MAINTAIN those principles which secured to us our Freedom, and
the benefits colour invaleable Constitution.

Accustomed as we have been, from our youth up, to venerate
and to cherish the principles of Protestantism•—h ibituated as we
have been to dwell with delight upon the valour of our forefathers,
to sympathise in their sufferings, and to glory in their fame, we
cannot, Most Gracious Sovereign, be talent and indifferent specta-
tors of the unconstitutional conduct of those who would under-
mine that noble structure for which they fought and died.
When we view our Satiate W.st.i.s, the refuge and fortress of
persecuted Protestantism—when we cast our eyes on the scenes
that surround us—the venerable Monuments of Martyred Heroes,
whom sufferings balmed in our memories—when we tread
that hallowed gro=here an host of unprincipled tyrants yielded
to the small but determined phalanx of Protestant valour, we can-
not so far forget our gratitude to our deli a, or the duty which
we owe to our children, as to submit to the surrender of that Con-
stitution which was purchased with so much blood, without pro-
testing, in the face of the world, against the contemplated and aw.
ful change, and declaring our DETEIUMINATIUN TO alms: ty by every
Constitutional means in our power.
We therefore earnestly implore your Majesty not to sanction any
measure which has for its object the introduction of !tonna Ca-
tholics into the Cabinet. the Parliament. the Privy Council, and
principal executive Offices of the State, thus leading directly to the
subversion of the Protestant Constitution, which your Majesty, at
your Coronation, solemnly promised to maintain s reject, we he.
speck you. the counsels of all such as would advise it, and dismiss
them from your Royal presence; they are equally unfaithful to
your Majesty and the people committed to your charge, and unlit
to be directors of the destinies of this great Protestant empire.
In this patriotic undertaking your Majesty may rely upon the
determined support of every true Protestant ; and your Majesty's
loyal and affectiottate subjects, the Apprentice Boys of London-
derry, will not be counted among the last of those who are ready
to maintain the Protestant succession to the Throne, and the Pro-
testant Constitution of this kingdom ; they will follow, most Gra-
cious Sovereign, the glorious example set by their forefathers, and
rise or fall with the Laws, Liberties, and Religion of their country,
bearing emblazoned upon the National Standard the glorious motto
1, of their ancestors--" No Surrender!"