The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-10-12 00:00:00

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REPEAL OF THE UNION;
T. the light MIL Alma tia.trtesi mesa/ Os
tiers 4 Ms CBI f Dekko%
.Petrhestese. •. • •
WE, *Odium, you, Sit, in rya "name Of your
CONStITITENTS. FREE'
HOLDERS of the CITY of DUBLIN, wavers& at the
ROYAL EZCHANGE, on the 16th of Sept. for the purpose
of humbly &Mullin* tahis Majesty, and to rarliarneut, Peti4
tious fur the REPiIAL of the UN/ON.
These Petitions exhibit a feeble outline of the reheats ennse.
goatees of thin meusisre; consequences which you foresaw with
the prophetic wiidum of a -Statesman, and which you ebonies
termed with that surpassios merge of etioquestoe, amid that tow
daunted ardour of patriotism, which have distlogifithed your
political career, from the period AL witilt.iksts pima foreCoits.7-
.mitaitirso be feetaatt, tirtturlitgriii, time, whets that Comilla& .
lion rank beneath the oohed efforts of Despotism sod freed.
Your COorfitetuis, Sii, impileilly Confiding in thin integrity
which has never hen questioned, in that spirit whkb has so
fretriently been proved; in that patriotism which has Ideas
titled soar mote with that of your Country; doubt not that yeti
r will evert, in her behalf, thine transeendant talents by which
you obtained so much fur her liberty, and to which, aided by
the Representation and the People of Ireland, she still looks
for the te-estiblisliment et her Rights. •
By the destruction 01 these Rights, by the maihilithas of
her Parliament, she has been reduced to the afilictioas of op-
, prealou andel' poverty. Despoiled of her local Legislature,
deprived of her resident Nobles and Paltry, she does not yet,
however, feel debility ; nor will site, while she has such an riel-
vacate sell". (1 Gtattaal, yield to the saggestioon of despair.
Your Constituents, Sir, feel, in common with the Irkh People,
that the melancholy effects of the Union are mast Manning aid
dangerous, not only to the 'teemed safety of Ireland, bet to the
strength sad interests of the Etopire, serving, as they do, in
encourage the common ~guy in his design of *obverting the
Constitatino, anti of suhjugnting the people of these Islands.
To a Repeal, then, of that Fatal Measure, they look for a
relief from their present sufferings, and for a protectioe from
those more dreadful evils, by which they are mesuseed. Year
Constituents. therefore, Sir, feel justified la the hope, that
when their Petition is considered by their most gracious !Dove.
'vim hit 51aje•ty's parental affection will induce him to at-
tend to their prayers. They also feel confident thatiehrn the
Representatives of Great Ilrit.tin have the true cause of Irish
Grievancet, fairly and fully stated to them, they will sympar.
thise with their fellow-subjects, and feel this incontrovertible
truth, that by whatever right the People of England enjoy a
free and tors; Legislature, by the same Right the People to
Ireland are justifiable in elainthig a regenerselooof their statist
Parliament, miler the authority of which abate they can feel
epeourlyessafe, happy, or free.—Your Constituents are per-
. modes% that such a resestablishment of a ratite:al Coattitatisia,
Is the say meats by which Commerce can be revived, or that.
the cheerful Contributions of the People to the payment of, . •
Tans, teethe support of the honour and safety of the Empires

'Signed by Order,
FtILDEILICK W. CONWAY, See,

The Committee having waited on Mr. Grattan aecording to
appointment, nn Thursday, the 4th instant, with the foregoing
A DEI [MSS, that Gentleman was pleased to give the foLowing
ANSWER:
To the Committee appointed by the ziggregate Meeting of the
Freemen and Freeholders of the City of liti
1810.
GEN CLEMEN,—I have the honour to receive an Address pre•
sented by your Committee, and expressive. of their wishes that
I should present certain Petitions, Mid support the Repeal of
an Act, entitled the. Act of Uniaii.—And your Committee adds,
that it speaks withtheauthority ufsay Constituents—the. Free*
wound- Freeholders of the City of Dublin.
I Ise tow:sore you Cumaniuee, and throttgli them, my murk
beloved and much respected Coostintem., tato I slain accede
to their proposninti; shall preseat tiicir Petitions, and shall
support the Repeal of the Act of Union with a decidedattucte.
meat to our h Urea Britain, ;Lod to that ItaN
mony between the tea Countries, without which the connexion
cannel last. I do mu impair either. as I apprehend, whet; I
assure you, that I shall support the 'Repeal of the Act Of Union.
You will please to observe, that it proposition of that sort is
Parliament he either prudent or possihle, must wait until it
shall be called for mid hacked by the Nation.— W hen primioSed
I shall then, us at all times I hope I shall, prove myself au
Irishman, and that Irishman whose first and last passim) was
his native country. . .
As to the persimal approbation with which you bare ho-
noured me, it is, I must say, your kindness that overrates my '
preteasimi, hurl have one pretetbiun, which neither age, nor •
time, nor dist:envy, can elfaCe—an attachment to Ireland anal-
tered and unaiterahle.
I have the Moaner to he, with the greatest esteem,
Your very humble Servant,
Dublin, Oct. 4, 1:113. HENRY GRATTAN.
To ROBERT SHAW, Eq. one of the ecepresentatiocs of timidity
of .Uublio, in Parliament.
SI Noel in the future of your Constituents' the
Freemen nod Freeholders of the City of Duhlin, convened at
the Royal Exchange, for tae purpose of tabulating to his ,
jesty nod to Parliaineio, Petition% praying a Repeal of the Le-
gislative Uoion between Great Britain nud Ireland.
In submitting these Petitions, we augur their most favoura-
ble reception anal warmest support at your hands; from your
candour and integrity, as our Representative, from the respect
you have ever manifested fer our sentiments, from your past
exertions in opposition to the destructive hientawe' of Union;
and from the sanction your presence has already conferred 04
tae proceedings for procuring its Repeal.
To those sentiments of respect and confidence, and, in than
hopes of success front your manly and honest exertions,-we
can assure you, that your Consthaents join in heartfelt rm.
Signed by Order,
FREDF.It ICK W. CONWAY, Set.
The Committee having waited upon Mr. Shaw with the
foregoing Address, he was pleased to give the followingonswer:
Gas Ti.an EN,—I feel much obliged for your, kind rind datter-
ing Address; it is thegreatest possible gratification to ate, that
my pithlie conduct sbeibld have met the wishes of so liir;e sad
uspectable a body of my fellow-citizens, as the Freemen and
Freeholders in Aggregate Meeting duly assembled. Since I
have oast the however beingoneof your Representatives, I base
always aneadered it any chit.) to attend any alerting of my Con.
stitueiits, legally convened, for the wpm. of- bearing their
sentiments; nod I thought myself particularly called oa t.. dais)
,„, die late occasion, wnen a question Of's° much importance
for the welfare of tar Nation wits to be agitated. Upon the
subject of the Union, my sentiments have been already must
unequivocally avowed. Ttios,- sentiments remain •hanged.
It is with mach sutwfaetion I contemplate the part I took:,
when that measure W.:l discussed in the Irish-Parliament, nod
it Car Mot but afford site atidilLorl II pleasure to dint, that my
conduct upon that occasion is at this day rteollceted by you
Willi approbation. With these impressionr upon say toted,
you win, I trust, readily believe me, *lien d arsare you, that
l shall feel must sincerely snappy in u-openitiog ia.all each
Ivi.loeuat6leatiattisons",yosbeetursielibesultycwakitutitiVittlethtriwiitnenreistittilte:folibluebeilitiof,
the general prosperity of Ireland, and the power and stability
of the Empire may demand.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
l'otir most obedient and faithful humble Servant,
Merrion-squarc. ROBERT SHAW.

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