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a lady Of great personal charms aud int %llectual
accomplishments, and who accompanies the
prince in his forced visit to England.
Mitcheli's Letter.

MltcheIps Letter.
The following is the letter written BY Mr.
MITCHELL to the Protestants of Northern Ire
land. Under the new act such language i
made felony, and the penalty is Transportation
for a term Of years, or for life, as the jndce in
his discretion may see fl. Bail Is not allowed
under this act, and Mitchell has consequently
been ordered to prison. There does not appear
to have been much excitement when he was
arrested, and the organs Of power boast that the
people would with Indifference see him trans.
ported. We cannot believe this. 1t must BE-
false that the population of Dublin would stand
by quietly and see consigned to a lifelong ban.
!shment a man whose only fault is q splfimmo.
lating struggle to give them the blessings Of
liberty.
In this letter, he takes, II will be seen, the
ground Of a republican. lie wants no crown.
no petticoated sovereign, no girl, no debauchee.
no IDIOT, to rule over Ireland by hereditary right
and the grace of God. lie speaks out his sen.
timents like bold, free man, and the merciful
government of England sends him to prison,
perhaps to Van Dieman's Land. But 10 the
letter :-Ltica Herald.
81 tell you frankly, that I for one, am not
loyal am not welded to the Queen Of Eng.
land, nor unualterabiy attached to the House of
brunswick. In fact | love my own barn better
than | love that house. The time is long past
when jehovah Amounted Kings. The thing
has long since gfoeen a mops,rous imposture,
and has been already, in some civilized coun.
tries, detected, and drummed out accordingly.
A modern King, my friends, is no more like an
ancient annointed shepherd Of the people than
an archblshop's apron is like the Trim and
lhummlm. There is no divine right now but
~ the sovereign people.
AND Tor the institutions Of the country I
'oathe and despise them we are sickening and
dying OF these institutions fast they are con.
Stunning us like a plague, degrading us to pau.
pers in mind, body, and estate, YES making our
very souls beggarly and cowardly. They are
4 failure and a fraud, these nstitutions-from
tn tonmost crown.jewel to the meanest detec.
i've $ note book, there is no soundness in them.
Tod and man are weary Of them. Their last
nour Is at hand; and | thank God that ] live in
me days when shall witness the utter down.
tail, and trampie upon the grave of the most
portentious, the grandect, meaDest. falsest. and
c%ruelest tyranny that ever deformed the world.
My friends, the peoples sovereignty; the
land, and sea, and air Of Ireland, for tho people
of Ireland; this is the gospel that The Heavens
and the earth are preaching. and that all hearts
are secretly bnrnipg to embrace. Give up for
ever that old Interpretation you put upon the
word Repeal Repeal is no priest.movement;
It IS no sectarian movement il is no money
swIncie, nor Eighty-two' d~elusion, nor %pufrery,
nor OConnelism, nor Mullaghmast preen can
stage play, nor loud sounding vanity of any
sort got up for any mans profit or praise. 1t is
the mighty passionate struggle of a nation has.
tening to be born into new national life in
which the unspeakable throes all the parts, and
powers, and elements of our Irish existence
our considerations, our protestant repeal associ.
atoms, our tenant-riglt societies, our clubs,
cliques, and committees, amidst COMMISSIONS
enough and the saddest %jos,l,ng and jumbling,
are all inevitably tending, however unconscious:
ly, to one and the same illustrious goal-not a
local lcglslature-not a return TO our ancient
constitution'-not a golden link, or a patch.
work parliament, or a College-green cha pei NJ
ease to St. Stephen's-but an Irish Republic,
one and indivisible.
will speak plainly. There is now growing
on the soil of Ireland a wealth of grain, and
roots, and cattle, far more than enough to sus-
tain in life and in comfort all the inhabitants of
the island. That wealth must not leave us an.
other year-not until every grain Of it is fought
for, in every stage, from the tying of the sheaf
to the loading Of the ship. And the effort ne
cessary to that simple act of self preservation
will at one and the same blow PROSTATE British
dominion and landlordism together. 1t is but
the one act of violation. If we resolve but 10
live we make our country a free and sovereign
State.
will you not grid up your loins for this grea,
national struggle, and stand with your country.
men for life and land? viii you-the sons OF
a warlike race-the inheriiors of conquerine
memories, with the arms of freemen in all YOU
homes, and relics of the gallant Republicans o.
90 for ever before your eyes,--will you stand
folding your hands in helpless loyalty ant
while every nation in Christendom is seizing or
its bir,h-right, with armed hand, will you take
patiently your rations Of yellow meal, and you
inevitably portion of eternal contempt?
If this be your determination, Protestants o
Ulster, then make haste, sign addresses of 10y,
atty, and Of confidence in Lord Clarendon, ant
protest, with that other lord, your unal,erabl,
attachment to our venerable institutions
JOHN mitchell.