Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-11-26
TIL. ADVOCATE.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 90.

Cel,bra,i7a in ireland A meeting was re-
Gently held in Dublin to express the sympa-
thy or Inc Icish pcople with tho late trans
actions ia Fronoe. Lady Morgan, aud a
number vi other distinguished females, ho-
sored nc occasion with their presence.
Several emi mont men addressed the meet.
in. sinDp% Thorn was Mr.. Shiel, who com
meuiei or the revolution in Franco in the
mos, animated strain. A portion of his ad-
dress is given below, and we recommend it
TO the ro.dor AZ one of unusual eloqusnco
and patrn'ic icrvor
A nation said Mr. She'll. has started up
and with simultaneous suddcnuess, and
with no other weapons than those which, i'm
the precipitation OF tho emergency, the re-
sources of heroism could supply, has deliver
cred itsolf from tyranny. Boys, with beard.
less checks. but with the breasts of veterans,
had rushed To the assault with the needless.
moss with which they would had engaged in
their ordinary sport-womou threw off the
iceoienoes OF tleir sex, and, infiamed with
daring vaiour, narshalod themselves with
their husbands, their brothers, and their chill
dron-every fragment became missile, ev-
cry rooi rampant, every street field ofcom-
bat, and every portico tho theatre of some
torrents of blood were shed, and heaps of
massacre were accumulated, was, waged
with arelentlcss fury, until at last the cause
ofthe people, the cause of freedom, and of
the God who intended us to be free, was tri-
umphant, and the standard of liberty waved
over tho palace of the tyrant. IL was the
fashion to boast Of the heroic deods perform
cd by the Democracy of Marathon and Pla.
tea, but those days were exceeded in heroism
H.. L
won victory to which no parallel could be
found The marvellous heroism of the
French, too, had been succeeded by Gle
mency 40 miraculous, that furnishes equal
materials to valour for its worship and to
humanity for its alteration. I" Mercy" con-
tinuea Mr.. She'll, " then appeared in form
NOR, angelic than any in which her moral
beauty over was disclosed. The glorious
and majestic spectacle, in which liberty APP
pears in SO holy companionship, and so
God like a society, between heroisn and for
bearance, has been accomplished. For three
successive days, at morn, at noon, when the
sun was setting, and in the depth of midnight,
the metropolis of France heard the peal of
the tocsin, tho thunder of artillery, the
charge of embattled squadrons, the shouts of
smbattled thousands. In that time how ma
ny fathers were left chldless At the cost
of how much widowhood and of how much
OrpHdndns WAS hOorty achieved ana when
the combat had ceased, when the cannon had
ceased to roar, and the belfroys of revolution
were silent, what scene the homes of the
great city must have presented and vet, o.
ven at that moment, full and pregnant
with terrible emotion, when hot and reekinp
from that terrific combat, when their kindred
lay dying or dea before them-with the ia
ces!of the fallen in their eyes, with the groans
of the wounded in their ears--when, il ever
blood rose up and cried for vengeance, with
means of retaliation proportioned TO the
wrongs which they had sustained, be it said
to the everlasting honour of the inhabitants
of Paris, that they forebore from revenge
as easy as it would have been iust-that they
closed their hearts against the invocatlons of
natural voDgeance-and that as mercy is
the noblest attribute of kings, and is said to
be inthroned in their bosoms, the people af-
forded proof that it was ono of the proper.
ties of the still more sacred sovereignty,
which they had asserted, and an attribute to
tho majestic supremacy of the popular will"
Mr.. She'll, in conclusion, said he hailed the
free constitution of France as another bull.
wark to that under which we lived, and in
tho foundation which had been laid of the
rights nd liberties of other nations, he be-
held new hopes, and another range of lofty
pillars raised up for the support of our own
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