Star.
London, England, 1828-11-08 00:00:00

BRUNSWICK CLUBS IN IRELAND.

Tuesday. the 4:h of November. a General Meeting
of all the" Heads of the Brunswick Clubs" throughout
Ireland was held in the Great Room of the Itinunda,
in the City of Dublin, for the purp .se of forming a
National Association, by way if bend ..1 union to the
Provincial Clubs, and in other respects to devise means
for concentrating and giving eff ct tii the proceedings
of these institutions. Tne meeting wss most nume-
rously. as well as respectably attende.f, there being
present, besides the leading men and N •blemen. Mem..
bees of these Associations, whets in connection with
them, to the number rf from 1,800 to 2 000.

At twelve o'clock L ird Castlemaine, Lord Mayo,
Lord Enniskillen, and the other principal ,Members of
the Commit ee of Managers, appeared upon the plat.
form, and were most warmly greeted. Besides these
we observed upon the piatform--
Lord Longford, Lord Rathdonney, Admiral Oliver, CaL Wing.
Geld, Walter Jones, E. Cottinghami W. L. P. Trench, W. liturin
Henry Mazwell, M.P. Thomas Lefroy. Thomas Elias. R. B. St.
George, Charles Boyton, U. W. Kelly, Nathaniel Sneyd, Le.

The Earl of CASTLINAINE being, by acclamation,
called to the Chair, commenced the business of the day
by stating the principles upon which the Brunswick
Clubs were founded. These principles were plain and
simple, being purely, simply, and %holly the preserve.
don of the integrity of our Constitution— (Applause).—
the preservation of the integrity of those Protestant
Establishments upon which they all felt that the Con.
stitution was based. With respect to the means by
which these principles were to be cat tied int r effect,
they were union, firmness, prudence, and good humour
—(Cheers). Let the truth be assn.:ed, but wi.h tem-
per ; for the example of ot'ler Societies, which he should
not name, aas rather a hracon to warn these Clubs
from intemperance, than incentives to provoke them to
retaliation. Clamou► would be used against them ; but
to clamour they could oppose candour, to faction they
could oppose fact, and to figures cf speech, or " rheto• .
rical artifices," as they are c riled, they could oppose that
species of confident truth aht h the convict.on of pro-
priety of action dictates—(Cl.eer•). The Noble Lord
concluded by calling upon the Secretary to read the
Report.
Major Ecctss read the Report.
It stated that Branch Clubs were established in every
county, and almo•t in every town in the kingdom, in
connection and co• tespoi dence with each other, and
others were still being (mined. The Society was de•
nominated strictly defensive, its existence being derived
from the violence of the Catholics. A general but vo-
lumen y contrite ion was recommended as a necessary
assistance to cat ying into effect the extended views of
the Clubs. Allusion was made to the threats held Gut,
and in some places practically enforced, of withdraw•
ing Catholic custom from Protestant iraJespeople. But
were the Catholic population prepared ►or the measure
of the Protestant Gentry engaging none other than Pro-
testant servants, and treating only with Protestant
tenant,? Moderation vr, e strongly recommended,
all personal hostility to the Roman Catholics discl
and every member of the Clubs individually adjured
not to carry into the relations of social life any of that
opposition which, as Protestants, and up n public
grounds only, they were obliged to show to the political
claims made by their Roman Catholic brethren. A list
of the towns in which Clubs had been formed was
read, the Secretary saying that, large as it was, he bad
season to know that many were omitted. The number
read was 108. Amongst these was Dabber. the men-
tion of which el cited the loudest cheering. The Report