The Sun. — 1824-05-28 (London, England)

CHAIRMAN—" Then, Sir, if your object in coming here trae merely to make a speech, you have now an opportunity of tifying your ambition, and of having yourself heard • be. you come.here with the expectation, or in anticipation of ban* prevented from addressing the Meeting, I am happy you WI been disappointed. You are now, Sir, given to understanut that you have the option of proceeding if you please." The young Gentleman again declined to address the Meeting any further. Mr. O'CONNELL rose to reply to him. The following are extracts from his speech : " Oh, Heavens ! in what society has this young lad beep reared, that at his age, and with his education, he should haf,e acquired opinions and feelings, the mere expression of whir,. makes humanity shudder ! Amongst what other class of men than Orangemen could he have imbibed such unchrisi tian ideas ? They could not have been engendered by' WV thing spoken in this room. He professes to be a Protestan!l but did one Christian sentiment drop from his lips during h", canting harangue ? Is he a Protestant friendly to civil age religious liberty ? The fanatical animosity with which he charges atrocities upon Irish Catholics, without stating one single fact to justify his calumnies, prove that he is not a friend to toleration, and that his shallow mind, perverted intellect, and habitual prejudices, have so overwhelmed common sense, that he has been unable to acquire any -knowledge of passing events, but from the statements of the Minister, the Orange Magistrate and his myrmidons; and, from these authentic sources, the people are to learn, spite of daily and woeful e perience to the contrary, that forsooth the laws are impartialli administered—that the peasant has no grievance or oppression', ecclesiastical, civil, or criminal, to complain of—that the Cath°' lie gentry enjoy-all the privileges and benefits of the Constitution "'This young gentleman may be but the tutored agent of some ploding, hoary miscreant, who, " sick at heart,"in seeing the Ca' tholic Association rise to importance, spite of calumny and wig' representation, dreads its determination to make known to the world the abuses of power, to proclaim the oppression of the task-masters of Ireland, the intrigues and profligacy of a fae; tion, obnoxious to all good men—a faction that has grown oiu and rich in power, by the basest arts and the most corrupt insinuation—a faction which has lorded it over the land without controul, and spread its roots in the dark, even to the bag', ment of the British throne.' This may be an expiring effort tyranny and weakness, or it may be the mere wanton pran' of privileged insolence in this young exclusionist, anxious for the exercise of his inherent right to insult an oppressed and de' graded people—for he may he a bravo hired by the Orange Club to assail my character and motives ; but, Sir, I have aO passed that time of life when mere personal ribaldry can mahe me forgetful of the obedience I owe my Maker, and of duty to my family, and would to God, Sir, I had ever been guided by the same feeling. Then let this juvenile Intolerant report to his employers, that I withstood his impotent rage, tin' moved by the vile calumnies to which it .gave utterance—that his slanders were to me but as play-things to a boy, which, after amusing him, he flings to the wind—that in him were' cognised an epitome of those odious peculiarities which distin‘ guish the heartless Orangeman, and that his monstrous atla' city in coming into an assembly of Catholics, whom he charge`.' with the vilest atrocities, but dared not to support by one proor, served 'but to excite our quiet contempt, whilst we could nefri withhold our pity at his early desertion of all those amiable sun honourable principles and feelings necessary to the profession of a Christian, and for discharging the duties of a good oitizen; and peoroamdt es uybejeuctitt;.. and nuosw,prSoiere, proceed a vtion cheering.) Mr. KTRWAN followed Mr. O'Connell. In the course "21 his address he observed, that the speech of the young gentle' man " had been conned over at the family coterie." Upon which the latter said, " Sir, you are wrong." Here gbuthsuittsesisn.,s,t_ru(cG teedn'teil business."—(Genera there were loud cries of " Order, order," and, " Sir, your name," when the Gentleman, in a voice loud, but broken With agitation, declared, " that if he gave his name he would be murdered in his bed!!!" A thrill of horror pervaded the meeting for some minutes.  111 r.