Star.
London, England, 1828-11-04 00:00:00

MOTION Of THANES TO MR. SHiIL.

Mr. LAW LEE* would call on the Association, regarding
a motion s hich he was about to propose, to dispense
with all forms and technicalities; it was a motion or
thanks to their talented, pattiotic, and indefatigable
countryman. Richard Shitl, for his splendid and most
effective advocacy of the cause of civil and reli-
gious liberty, at the Meeting on Penenden Heath—
(Vehement cheering). The conduct of Mr. Shiel
on that occasion would be long remembered with
pride and gratitude by the people of Ireland,
whilq the Cobbetts and Hunts would be eternally
degraded in their estimation. and in the opinions of
all liberal and thinking men—(Cheers). But Mr. Ct•b-
bett says that Mr. Shiel did not speak the speech. It
the bull-dogs of Kent had the patience to listen, they
would find that he could speak as well as write. and in
a manner to astonish them. Alter some further observa-
tions, in which he spoke in very eloquent terms of the
invaluable eloits of Mr. Shiel at the Penenden Meeting,
Mr. Lawless concluded by moving the following Reso-
lution—" That our Chairman be instructed by this'
A,sembly to communicate to Richard Shiel, Esq. their
ardent gratitude for his splendid, eloquent, add omen
swerable vindication of the principles, religious and poli-
tical. of the Catholics of Ireland at the late celebrated
meeting of the county of Kent."
Mr. BARRETT rose to second the Resolution of thanks
to Mr. :Wel, which very properly preceded, as it was
entitled to do, all other motions. His speech consisted
almost entirely of a severe pall& against Mr.Cobbett.
Mr. J. DWYER took the liberty of suggesting, that
1,000 copies of Mr. Shiers speech should be printed
and citculated, wider the direction of the Committee.
A m •re eloquent or useful speech he had never heard;
of the many talented ones delivered in Catholic debates.
Mr. LAWLESS seconded the motion.

Mr. J. littowria thought it would be much better
to leave the number as %sell as the circulation of the
copies of the speech to the Fmsnce Committee. A
laryer number than 1,000 may, perhaps, be desirable.
This suggestion was achpt.d, and the motion was
can ied.

Mr. LAwLnas moved a vote of thanks to the No.
blemen, Gentlemen, and Freeholders, who had co-
operated with Mr. Shiel, in his defence of civil and
religious liberty rit the Kent Meeting.
MIA anuoND seconded the motion,which was carried.
Whilst Mr. ,Lawless was addressing the Meeting,
M. OY►;onneil entered. He was greeted with long
continued and enthusiastic cheering.
Mr. O'Comust.t. then rose, and said that he was proud
to report from the Adjourned Leinster Provincial Meet-1
ins at Mullingar, that the occasion at least fully equalled,
in splendour the meeting held at Kilkenny. He con.'
sidered, from all that he bad there witnessed, that the
independence of Westmeath was secure. Mr. Tuite was,
at all events, perfectly safe—nay, there were even con-
siderable expectations that Colonel Pakrnham, the bro-
ther of Lord Longford, would be returned for that
county on the nest election, and certainly there was
no man more deserving to be one of its Represen-
tatives. At Mullingar the Meeting had agreed to call
on the Association to send a deputation to England
the moment the sittings after term were concluded ;
and if they would confide in him to form one of this
deputation, be should feel great pleasure in going.on O.
Four or five others should be appointed at the ensuing
Aggregate Meeting for this mission ; and he would, in
addition, require the aid of one or two Catholic Clergy •
men, who might answer any theological arguments that
might be offered by their opponents on the other side of
the water. He would bring forward a plan of their
measures, in full detail, at the next meeting. Another
proposition he would make, that two Gentlemen front
each county and large town in the kingdom, should ac
company the Member for Clare, when he went to talc.

PRICE SEVENPENCE.

pis sat in Parliament rest Fehrisarl. Ile concluded by
novi.tg •t.tes of titank. to 1.4c1ie% who h contribUted
tile legit at Mullingar--to the collectors of the tent
here, and also to the s.ilibtribers

These motions were disposed f, when a person pre-
sented himself to tve Chair. and said that he was en.
cooraged by Mr. O'Connell's liberal manner of offering
to hear any objections that could be preferred against
Catholic Emancipation. to submit the objections which
,e enterfained against that •s easure—(Cries of Hear,
and soma confusion).—He had thought proper,
.fter heing a Roman Cathnic for twenty years, to
change his religion. His objections to Emancipation,
end he thus publicly avowed them, were these—After
11l absence abroad for eight year', he returned to his
wive town (Galwa)); he there declared publicly, that
laving changed his creed, if all the Ca holic Clergy in
that town would meet him, arol cony me him hat be
was wrong. he would return to the profes.ion f his
orginal faith. Nubs., there wete 48 Priests in Galway,
with all of whom (escept those mho were introduced
uring his absence), he bad been ou the most intimate
terms, and no: one of them would speak to him on his
revitn. But it was not even that which he felt so much
or, but tho.e Clergymen who had influence with his
gamily and relative., told him not oniy that his eternal
salvation was destroyed, but they would also forfeit
theirs if they held any communication with him—.
(Laughter, and cries of Name). Oliver Clayton was
his name—he was not afraid of it, and would never
deny it. He stopped there four months, doing every
thing he could to get himself restored to the favour of
his father and mother ; he had a br• tier al'o, and
si.fers, all sufficiently pious in their way, but with all
their piety they would not be reconciled to him. And
thus he was thrown upon the world destitute, without
friends or a home. while he was convinced that through
the interference of the Priests, if they had used it in his
favour, he could have got reconciled to his family; and
further, he had 48.000 people in Galway. who were
ready to swear, that but fur the interference of the
Clergy, he Might have been received by his•friends.
He therefore considered it his duty to oppose Vie Email.
cipation of the Roman Catholic Clergy, and he would
repeat it everywhere, for he was cast upon the world
utterly destitute, in consequence of the cruelty of that
Clergy whom be once thought could send him to hell
or heivert. This was all be had to say on the question
of Emancipation, and he considered it his duty thus
openly to avow it.
r. O'Counamerw.This Mr. Oliver Clayton, whole be
knew befire, was a Roman Catholic, but not such a
Roman Catholic as he (Mr.O'Connell), for he believed
that the Roman Catholic Clergy could send him t • bell
or Heaven—in that he agreed with him; but'he was at
a loss to know, if he would not consent to emancipate
the Priests, what he intended to do with thi• people/
What he would suggest to him was to get, if he could,
an Act of Parliament prohibiting the Priests to speak a
word to any one of the name of Clayton—(Laughter).
'!'lre amount of the rent was then announced to be
3721. 14s. ltd.

Mr. Dowat.r. aitaiLLY was callyi to the chair, aid
the Meeting adjourned.

DINNER TO MR. SHIEL

Yesterday mobil; a public dinner was given to Mr.
Shiel, at the London Tavern; William Smith, Esq.
M.P. in the Chair. In addition to she large room,
several other roams were occupied by the company
who attended, who were admitted after the dinner to
hear Mr. Shiel. The cloth having been removed,
The CHAIRMAN said, this Meeting was called on the
spur of the occasion ; we do not meet, certainly, by
thousands in the open air—that is to say, there are not
thousands of men who come with prejudiced minds de-
termined to take only one step, and not to hear one
word in opposition to their own intentions; but we
meet here a number of Gentlemen, belonging chiefly
to the City of Loudon, not under the nomination of
any Peer or of any agitator Ant men accustomed
to think for ourselves, to ponder over the cumin•
stances of our country, and then to act as those cir•
cumstanees shall be for cur country's good. I have
been reproached in one of the P.prrs of this morning,
that I, as a Protestant Dissenter, have taken the Chair,
and my good friend professes to lament the false step
that I have tak,n. I feel no such regret. I -tand here,
Gentlemen, not as a Protestant Dissenter.•.l mans
which otherwise, and upon every other occasion. I am
proud to bear; but lam here simply as aPs :tent,
interested for the honour of Protestantism, and for the
good of our United Kingdom, and in that capacity
alone I Mee the honour to meet this very numerous and
respectable assembly. lam told that amongst us there
are agitators, and that I, for One, ought not to give
countenance to agitators. I know the invidious yen e
which may be put upon that word, but though words
may be perverted. they do not alter the nature of things.
As we ate told in a book with which we are many of
us well acquainted, when bodily diseases were to be
cured, :he waters of Siloam were to be agitated; top
when moral diseases are to be healed, agitation k also
requisite: The pestilence which breathes over the sur.
lace of the polished ocean is often woes* than the raging
storm. It is now my duty to give a toast, which lam
sure will be drunk with universal applause. I give
you. not merely se The Bing," but 4. The Bing, who,
to his own honour, and the satisfaction of his subjects,
has voluntarily made the declaration that the Crown is
a trust to be employed for the benefit of the people."

His Majesty's health was drunk with loud applause t as was abs
" The Duke of Clarence, sad the rest at the Ilayal ad
" The People, the source of all legklasate power."

The CHAIRMAN. in proposing the next toast, referred
to the Meeting it Penenden Heath, respecting which,
he was at a great loss to know whether audacity or
,tolly was the more prevalent? but this at least he was
sure of, that such folly and such audacity could not be
exceeded elsewhere. He concluded by proposing—
'. Domestic Union, and National Strength. aad may they
be promoted by the removal of all Religions
Disa-
bilities."
Mr. Fox, an Unitarian teacher, upon this toast being
drunk, presented himself to the notice cf the Meeting.
He said he should question his own propriety of con-
duct in standing before such a meeting thus early. did
he not bear in mind the peculiar character of the meet-
ing—did he not remember that it was not an assembly
brought together by the arts of demagogues, appealing
to vulgar prejudices, nor a herd cf serfs congregated at
the command of their landlords, but a meeting of the
reophiof the metropolis, who thus caressed, promitly,