The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-06-12

DEATH TO recover the indepen ence which h our ma
tonal right: being compelled thereto by very neces
sty and willing rather 10 brave danger like men than
| to languish under insult"
"Ths promise of unto DEATH made upwards
of 400 years ago. is" says the historian Yet for
gotten and it is melancholy fact, but worthy of re-
mark, that IN our own days, lalludDg to l79S blood
has flowed in Ireland account Of the old quarrel Of
the conquest The period In fuurity when this quar-
rel shall be terminated il is impossible TO ioresee;
and aversion for England, its government its man
ners, and ITS language is still the native passion OF
the Irish race From the day of the invasion, the
will of that Of men has been constantly opposed
to the will OF ITS masters il has detested what they
lave loved and loved what they have detested.
This unconquerable obstinacy this heightened re-
membrance OF departed liberty,-ths faculty of pre-
serving aud nourishing through ages Of physical mi
sery and suffering, the thought of that hch is no
more,-of never despairlng of constantly -vanqush-
ed cause, for which many generations have
svely and In vain persisted in the field, and by the
execulioner,-is, perhaps, the most extraordinary
and the greatest example that people has ever g-
ven' (THIERRY, History fthe No,man Conquest, roI
Ill p. l6S l72-4) In tins tenacious attachment to
past national recollectons and ardent belief in ult-
mate political regeneration, under the de-
pressing circumstances, the Irish may be cassed with
the ancient Messenians the Jews the modern Greeks
| and the Poles
| 2Grattan's Miscel Works, p. 1919, 100, and Bar
rngtons Hist. of the Legislative Union, part II. p
| 10, l and II, edit. 1909
| 3Plowden's Hist. Rev. vol. H. D. as
| 4MacNeven's Pieces Of Irish Hist. D. s.
| 5Morning Chronicle, Goth October 1883. At home
the Ulster portion Of the Volunteer force alone was
80, l52 men, but few hundreds less than the whole
OF the British army at Waterloo! One PROVING eof
Ireland could do that then what arc the FOUR to
what they might be now Tania RELlclo potuit
suadere nlaiorum
6Grattan's Speeches, VOL iii .. g.
7Peces Of Irish History p. g.
0Speech of Sir j. c. Hippesey, on the Catholic.
Question, May 18th, 1910, D. so. In this glorious
Storm" says Mr. Alison, the loss of the British was
about 600, but twice that number of the enemy fell
and 900 were made prisoners, besides 900 who
escaped in boats tina, the number of the garrison at
first, had been greater than that Of the beseging
force! History, rot VI p. 1907 All very we'll Mr..
Alison, but why is all this glorious storm" set down
to the credit of thousand British and nothing at
all said of the three thousand Irish compartment 'Far
play Jewel, as we say in Ireland; and, please
| God, we must soon get it!
9Sse, on tins point able article on " O. ConneH
and the Catholic us ociMiOn," in Tails Magazine for
1885, p. 307 and 800
10 Military Observations respecting Ireland, and its
Attack and Defence, p. 12-Dubin, 1904 This in
structive pamphlet, printed without the writer's
name is attributed to Gen Cockburn
From the county of Wexford, in particular which
DIR. MacNeven supposed to have supplied 40 900
men to the instruction Of 1893 great numbers af-
ter It's extinction, volunteered into the British force
preparing against the French in Egypt Numbers,
Also who were sentenced to transportation preferred
joining that expedition; and, with regard the Irish
recruits III general 1t need scarcely be remarked that
the governm mt OF that day would be anxious TO have
many of them possible in such service, or any
where, rather than in Ireland. The subsequent dis
tingushed bravery in Egypt Of those Wexford repre-
senatves OF the British heart and the British arm
IS Drohy adVetted to by Hay, in his History of the
wexford lnsurrectIon. The insurgents according
to the continuator of Tones e were also consider
ably influenced to join the British expedition against
Egypt, by wish OF revenge on the French, the ap-
parenty iaithes deserton Of Ireland by the Repub-
liza deseruon, however, which was principally #
not wholly owing to Bonaparte, who when told. pre-
vious to his wIld-goose-chase expedition to Egyp:
that the Irish were prepared to rise and ought TO be
assisted, basely REPLIED that nothing more was TO be
desired from the Irish, than that their rnov ements
should operate as powerful diversion in favor of
France. Never was and selfish policy
more signally and deservedjy punished First, The
line fleet OF France, consisting, besides frigates &c.,
OF Is ships OF the line, was destroyed b. Nelson at
the Nile. Secondly, large portion Of the picked
veterans OF France, persisted in Area ard Asia,
uselessly because for no ultimatel, available pur-
pose. Thirdly, the French were beaten and expelled
from Egypt by British army, one-ialf of which
CONSISTED, as we have seep of lrishmen and the COM
mander of which army, at the time of the French
capIuation, was al lIishman. FOurlhly the French
and Napolecn's brother Joseph, HON he made king
OF Spain, were likewise driven from that country
and France itself invaded, through similar means
direct6d by the retrbuliye genius' of an Irshman
Filthy, Napoleon himself was irrcrieyaby defeated
and dehroncd, and France conquered ty the same
lrishmen, who, had Napoleon, IN 1888 landed his
Egg ptlan army OF 40 600 in ireland, would, in
all probability, have been vi known exc, p as re-
iugee Irish loyalist" Sxthly and lastly this over
throw Of Napoleon was, TO v, ry considerable ex-
tent, effected by Irish taxes, as well as by Irish
troops, both of which England would have been de-
pryed, OF, had Napoleon done I" Justice to Ireland ("
victory" says Bourrenne, on the Adee lin
ltaly) would have been far better for France than
| one ON the Nile" But, how much better still for
/ France would have been victory on the shannon
and the Liheyi This Napoleon himself ackpow-
ledgeG, when too late TO Las Cases at Saint Helena
81, an lieu de rerps lion GEgypt" said he eje,ese
fate eee dlRLAsDE que pourat p4rgletrre atijourd-
hui ~ Napoleon but too well deserved the fate he
met with.
| QD Sir f l.. Bulwer's words are 1.-Two tn rts Of
the army too, Li.b, and the lowest If tlem-the
dregs Of an Irish popuIace What a Election % eng
land aud the Lngllsh, vol j. p. 81 Yef, ind, eI,
What II Il ctioDp
O2) Military Observsfions respecting Irelard and
ITS Attack and Defence" y. ~.
! Q3) On the 18th May 1890 Mr.. sloney. M p.
called the attention of tie House of Commons to 'the
increase which bad ken place the number Of those
/ employ Ell ~ the manufacturing and mechanical oc-
equations as compared with the agricultural class"
From bis Calculations 1t OF pears that IN England, the
manufacturers r mechanics as com AIRED with the az
rculturists to g. in 1901 sto g. in 1921 ard
in s30, they os to l. In Scotland the increase
the ioIme; the latter class sti mo rapid;
the Ernes as 3 To in 1901 bs 9 10 in 1921;
and IN l. 80 as two TO one. While the general al
vance of The population of Eng Ian and Scotland for
] twenty year., down 10 1880 30 yer cent the
augmentation OF their manufacture had been so per
cent, AMI, IN cases al Leeds aud Of Glisgnw
as blgh a. 81 pr cent in one town. and less h n
100 per in the other (Sre Combe's Constitution
of Man, p o. How sutab to the formation Of a
military population the ayocatons OF the q eat maorty
oilhose manufacturers are vii be best seen by peru
sal Il the deblsiirg destructive fleets of heir pur
sui upon their suutions and those of Their of
spring, denil,d IN the horrible picture of hu nan sui
fcrng az human arce presented the pariiamenta-
~ evidence the factory system In Ireland, on the
contrary informed 10y the details of the cen-
- ~lI L. L. 4. II.