The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-09-22 00:00:00

Our Readers will see, that we have made the
utmost etertions to procure the earliest anti fullest
account of the proceedings of the AGGREGATE
MEETING of the FREEMEN and FiteLnoenues of
the CITE of Donuts', assembled on Tuesday last,
at the Royal Exchange, to take into consideration
the necessity of adopting some effectual measures
for the Repeal of the Union ; and we believe, it
will be found that much of this Report we have ex-
elusively. Be this as it may, we have relinquished
every other object to make way for this. Et en the
otettion, whether Banknotes have commenced
their career of depreciation or not ; and, in fact,
whether the Bank and the Funds are solvent or
nut, has appeared to us of leas importance than a
question which touches the present situation of Ire-
held, and developcs her teniper and her views. The
Bank of England may crumble into dust, or be
turned into a now Hall fur Rag.fair clothes; and
the funds may disappear in the metamorphosis, and
the INORPENDENCE and CONSTITUTION of Eng.
hind survive..-....8ut the loss of Ireland is to
Englund her lest wound, under which she mush
expire. With the enemy she has to resist, and will
here tq guard against, even under very wise and
cioderate counsels on the part of her government,
Ireland is of more importance to England than
three-fourths of all her own counties. Ireland, by
the fertility of her soil, her harbours, and her
happy scite in the ocean, is naturally formed to
amass an amount of surplus wealth, for the general
defence of the Empire, tar beyond the compa.
rative natural means of Britain.—Remove the
obstructions to her agriculture and commerce, and
she will have that accumulated wealth, and you
will have your full share of it, for all purposes of
national prosperity and national defence. But it is
not only the wealth (which you fiud you sadly
want) you may gain from and by Ireland, under
proper management, but a population to fight
your Inttles you may also gain—and such a popu-
lation ! hardy in formation and habit—daring to
any extreme that sanity can :attempt—impetuous as
madness—and as firm and immoveable in purpose as
Patience herself I—Such is the population
you may have at your will, and with all
its warm affections too, for Ireland loves even
more ardently than she hates! Well, then, Is
there any question that can enter into a rea.
sonable co.opetition with this of Ireland ? The
Bank ! Let the Bank and its Orators stand still
where they are, till we have looked at Ireland;
eml Whenever Ireland moves, let us never keep our
eyee remote or wandering from her! And is it of
no moment, Ireland such as we have described, and
your perils such as you know them to be, to consi-
der what the wants and wishes of Ireland are, and
what your conduct ought to be? Let us, then,
have a little more reasoning on this subject. We
have painted the distresses of Ireland to you ; we
heist shown their origin in the kind of domination
rebid this country has exercised upon Ireland, but
More especially iu that most cruel, insolent, and op.
pressive deed of the Mims' ; we have shown you
all the natural, the inevitable consequences of
the Union, in the langour of Ireland's agri.
culture,; in the withering up of her com-
merce; in the want of food among her labouring
families, and absence of peace and sickness of
heart, amoog' her merchants, manufacturers, and
ether traders; we have echoed, and re.echoed to
you the consequent cries of Ireland, and have re.
fleeted her tears ! What more will you have, to be
awakened to a sense of her sufferings, and a coat.
punction for your injustice? You cannot have
more for these objects! to stir these feelings in
you! And if you must have more from Ireland,
it will be of another nature, and be directed
to another object. Appeals to your generosity,
appeals to your pity, caunnot be pushed fur-
ther. They will bear no increase in the heart.
rending misery of the scene, they will bear
no heightening by any other "of form of expres-
elon What is then to follow must be addresed
to your fears, and beware it does not awaken
them—WHEN IT IS TOO LATE I—We
have said thus much, to draw the attention of our
Readers, before all things, to the proceedings at
the late Meeting in Dublin. They will find enough
in these to excite great and interesting feelings—
they will see a vast assemblage of persons delibe.
rating amid voting upon a question which had to do
even with their very existence, as orderly as if it'
bad been indifferent to them, yet as effectually
as if no other passion but what regarded them
could enter their bosom. The whole conduct of
the Meeting, it is impossible to meet with too high
praise. The capital of Ireland has set the two-fold
example of what is ta bath. to save Ireland, and
bow It isconstitutionitlyAswell as effectually, to be
done. The statements mid arguments in the Petition
to the Howse of Commons we must refer our readers
to, at length. There are passages we would mark,
but that our Readers cannot fail to feel their force.
Of the Petition to his Majesty thesame may be said.
'The Speeches are full of the ablest reasoning, and
best-toned feeling. It would be almost invidious to
`notice pirticular speeches, or particular passages.
But, to shew what the feeling in Ireland of the
necessity of Repeal is, and how it displaces all
otherfeeliegs, we must observe,thatMr.O'CoENELE,
a Raman Catholic Leader, In Ireland, ended his

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elotititiattipeech, bye:claiming-44 if Mr. Pt ncavis,
" would eater into a treaty with tee, milking it a,
" Condition, that provided I would consent to a
IC re-enaction of the Penal Code against the Ca.
" (holies, the Act of Union should be repealed,
" I declare to God, I world accept the condition."
—There are no terms which can adequately express
the value of Sir J. itIDDALL'd conduct On this oc.
easion ; nor can any, do justice to the sense the
Meeting had of his high worth. Tho best of
thanks the whole people could give him were also
his. Although there were more than 10,000 persons
assembled in the immediate vicinity of the Ex.
change, no disorder prevailed. The populace see
the dawn of deliverance at hand approaching through
peaceable means, and feel their misery too deeply
to interrupt its progress by any folly of theirs.
All this grows out of the necessity of the ItrticAt,
and the CO.OPERATION of ALL PARTIES to Obtain it.

Ireland is at length happy I—shappy in her view of
her interest!—and happy she will be in the result!
Mr. FOSTER'S friends slid not, it seems, expect
the people would conduct themselves with the win.
don) that should give no opportunity of coercion.

It is stated to us, that 8000 troops, with a large
park of artillery, were la preparation for auy

Previous to the dissolution of the Meeting, a Re..
solution, proposing a piece of plate, value 100 gui.
neas, to Sir JAS. RIDD %la, was unanimously carried.

Alf. RANDAL JACKSOW is a prolific subject for
comment, but we are sorry we must postpone the
further consideration of his speech at the Dank
Meeting till Monday, to make wdy for the even
more important subject of the NEW Opposition in
IRELAND to the unhappy measure of the UNION.
Mr. JACKSON' has found some abettors among the
Morning Papers, and we shall advert to their argu.
ments in the general discussion of the question.

The critique on the Lyceum Theatre, contained
in the Herald of this d.y, implies a censure on our
observations of yesterday, on the Play of the hypo.
trite. We shall not pan this unnoticed; fur the
question now raised is, in truth, of much impor-
tance. We shall only now say, that the Theatrical
Critiques of the Iler old are remarkable for their
discrimination generally, end sometimes for their wit,
but very rarely for any good moral tendency.

Thursday morning his ble.ttarry and the Ptie.
ceases AUGUSTA and SOPHIA, took an airing hi
Windsor Park till twelve o'clock.

On Thursday, the Dnke of Crtatirce, teconi.
panied by the Duchess of YORK and a young lady,
visited Westminster Abbey, and remained tiewing
the wax-work and other curiosities from t* o'clock
till four,
Yesterday the Disko of CtrurixßLAND walked to
Covent Garden Theatre, and viewed the interior by
day-light. His Royal Highness has scarcely any
remains of his wounds.
The Paincess of W AXIS intends, In a far days;
to visit Tunbridge Wells.
His Grace the Archbishop orYonx, with a se.
feet party of rank and' fashion, are now sojourn.
ers at Lowther-hall, In Westmoreland, the magnia.
cent seat of the Earl of LONSDA LE.

Lord DUDLEY and WARD, we are happy to
state, is perfectly recovered from his late iudis.
position.
Sir Wur.rass SCOTT lately arrived in Dublin,
with the intention of making a tour through a part
of Ireland.
Mrs. Fox was taken suddenly ill •on Monday
morning at St. Ann's-hill, near Chertsey. Dr.
Pope was sent for express frost Staines. She is
now considered in a fair way of recovery.
Lord COCHRANE and his brother have been at
Badajos, and on the 3d ult. set out for Lisbon.
Tho workmen have commenced clearing away the
ruins of St. James's .Palace, occasioned by the late
6re, preparatory to re-building the apartments
which were destroyed. The benches In the walks
are repairing, and five or six new ones are to be
added.
A Penny Post Office has been established in Bath
and the neighbouring villages.
By a letter received from an Officer in India, we
understand a grand expedition is fitting out, con.
sisting of the 56th, 69th, 78th, 80th, 84th, 86th,
and part of the 47th Regiments of Font, with 3000
Sepoys ; they are to rendezvous at the island of
Madagascar, and when joined by troops from the
Cape, are to proceed against the Isle of France.
A Battalion of Marines is orderded to be formed
for some new enterprize. The men are now select.
ing at Pertinsouth, and it is supposed that the com.
mend will be given to Major Savage, of the Ma.l
rines.
A Company of the Bth Royal Veteran Battalion
is under orders to embark, at a musmeot's polices
fur Heligoland. 4..‘
A Court Martial is now sitting., skt-OWehriAo‘
Captain HOPPER, of the Id West "inhviielVflitili:
for disrespectful language to his Comeratkilfitolll.
co., Colonel TeRRa. Major Paton's, bf
Northampton Militia, is Judge Advocate. •
A strong illustration of our " increasing corn,
coerce" and our " growing prosperity" (if the
proofs which daily present themselves upon 'this.
head needed corroboration) is afforded by ari
spection of our Custom-house entries. There bet
been no export of any description from this tow*
since the 3d ins,. ! nor has there been any impail
since the sih 1! . (Galway Chion.)
It is in contemplation to render the communicate
ties betwien England and Ireland shorter and,sners
conveuient, by the North-West of Scotland. The:
harbours of Portpatrick and Denaghadee, accord.
lug to the plan,• are to be deepened, and otherwise,
Improved, to facilitate the entrance or (,ile packets‘
and render it less difficult to tohMlCO#44lo4lbark
cavalry and troops. . - -•

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