Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-11-12
IRELAND.

seems to be ominous of bloody crisis. The
public feeling is strongly tending TO ihsurrec-
ton; and coun,eracting measures are not, oil
course, lost sight OF by government sharpen
ed Into vigilance by the most tyrannous and
selfish objects. As TO The extent Of the disPo'
si,iou for a rising, faint idea may be formed
by the statement OF the Times. The editor
saws: awe are FLIED with pain, but by 10 means
with asronishment, by our Dublin corresPon,
dence Of This day. The letter from Clonmel, II
I've had none but reasonable minds to deal with,
nigh, be left 10 work its own effect upon the
public. tcontans a narrative OF certain a.
isrm,pc proceedings in the chief town Of the
populous and powerful county Of Tipperary.-
Mauy thousands OF Catholics marched on Sun
day last from various quarters OF the county 10
me appointed rendezvous OF Clonmel. The
description Of one brigade or corps OF this null
titude may serve for all oil them. "lhe Cahlr
marty arrived 6rst with band and colours, about
500 horsemen, all stout. able fellows, dressed
in green uniform: they we're followed by several
thousands on too., generally clothed IN green
Jackets and pink facings white trowsers with
green edge run up the thigh. They marched
three deep, and kept time, like the soldiers, 10
the tunes the band was playing" Then came
the Ard6unan men, SC. But the Clogheen
men, i: appears, were the most formidable
There were Of them at least 1900 horsemea
mEor all the world like cavalry re gimen';' and
so the account goes on.
These movements on the part OF the people,
though Stimulated by long endured grievances,
are, we fear, premature as regards sound POLL
CIV. The parties Can hardly avoid being crush
ed by he weight Of the government force; and
blood will 1ow like the ocean tides, without a
nelora,ion after all! Perhaps It will be saic
and the argument may be unanswerable-
that further submission is impossible, and that
death is a preferable alternative. If this be
true, and we apprehend it is fearfully> so, woe
be,ide and befai the founders and ahettors of the
sys,em! The parade of philanthropy in the
British nation as to Greece, Portugal and Spain,
cannot but be- regarded Us parade only, while
this heart-eating incubus is permitted TO pros
,ra,e gallant portion Of the empire So near at
home The Times seem TO apprehend danger
even 10 England itself. He says:-"li the Co.
ment viii not at once come forward with a
CANDID declaration Of their desire 10 aPpease
the Catholics, the passions Of The Irish people
-pro,es,ant as we'll as Catholic--wlll prove
TOO violent to he wilhhelc. Events VIII out
strip the lozy metitatious OF men who heed not
he prclusiye rocking OF the volcano. Yet
even if their dreams be disspated by The first
exnIosion. and their power destroyed by IT.
wbat indemnify have we--ihe English nation
for The ruin OF this noble empire, in the down
fall of its heidstrong aud stupid auihors!"-
y. Y Statesman.
LONDON. Oct. IA gentleman who has just
arrived here from Dublin, describes the state oi
tina, city as fearful
We learn from quarter on which we place
great reliance that the Cabinet Councils held
on Friday and Saturday were occupied in de
Iral, ND. hal HOG a
deliberations were caused by dispatches rr-
ceived from the Lord Lieutenant, 10 which re
mentioned tina, considerable alarm was excited
by he public meetings Of the peasanlry In large
bodies aud in mi'itary array in the southern
counties, and requested instructions from Go
yernment for the regulation Of his conduc'
that Proclamation was in consequence drawn
up prohibiting those meetings, and was lmme
diat,ly sent of 10 Ireland; aud that Sir Aniho-
nv Hart, who was in the country at some dis
lance from London, was summoned to town on
Friday night, arrived on Saturday, and depart
en- fo, his post in Ireland on Sunday.-Lirerpool
.4dreriisey.
The state OF Ireland becomes daily more ..
farming. The Catholics and Protestants are
respectively making the utmost efforts to M
,jmidate eac h other and To influence Parliament.
The TWO parties may also be said to be drawn
up in military array, and only an occasion Is
wanting, which mere accident might furnish,
To plunge the country into civil war, We have
not been ACCUSTOMED TO use this tone concern.
ing ireland, bur the accounts of the last week
from that country de.ail facts which excite
much more serious apprehensions than we bave
ever before felt, or than the British public ge-
nerally entertain, concerning the tranquility OF
= the sister lsland.-Ibid.
DUBLIN, Oct. 2, O'clock M.-The follow
ing Proclamation has jus, been issued:
A PROCLAMA TON,
Nv the Lord Lieutenant General and General Governor
ofIreland.
ANaLEsEY.- Whereas, in certain counties in
this par, of the United Kingdom, meetings Of
large numbers Of his maJrs,y's subjects have
beer lately held, consisting Of persons both on
foo, and on horseback, coming together from
various and distant parts aud places, acting in
concert, and under the command OF leaders,
and assuming the appearance OF military array
and discipline, or exhibiting o,her marks and
symbols Of illegal concert, to the great danger