The Sun. — 1829-01-19 (London, England)

FROM THE MORNING POST.)  The Devon County Meeting took place on Friday List, and most cordially do we congratulate the public upon the triumphant and glorious result. Au ample report of the proceeding. is given in our preceding columns; by which it will be sten that at the meat numerous and respectable meeting ever held in that great county, notwithstanding the unprecedented efforts made by the Catholic party to defeat the object of the friends of the Constitution in Church and State, the proposed petition against the Catholic Claims to political power and consequent supreme ascendancy, was carried by a proud majority of at least fifteen to one! The erer-to-be commended example of the County of Kent being thus laudably followed by Devonshire, as well as Cheshire, and numberless other places in every part of the United Kingdom, we may fairly pronounce the Constitution to he now in a suite of perfect safety; and upon this happy event we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of ag:►in most heartily congratulating the Nation upon so truly gratifying and happy a result. Well and truly did the high Sheriff of Devon observe, " that if he might judge tom t.e weight, respectability, and talent of the assembly, it was fair to presume that the true sense of the County would be ascertained en the occasion." That sense has been unequivocally ascertained to be in favour of the Constitinions in Church and state; nor can we help observing, that the opposition displayed on the occasion was unworthy even of the blind zeal of Lordy.brington, whose sentiments exhibited so markek a weakness and total disregard of facts as to place his Lordship 8611 lower than ever in our  • estaMlttion. His view of the immediate question was of the most erroneous description ; his ideas were borrowed from factious publications of the most common place sand desperate character; and his wretched adoption of the ignorant and misehlevous in-intuitions of the worst ie,ral bAsest enem'es of the State in regard ri the effect of the conduct of his 3lsjesy's Ministers upon the Councils of Foreic.ft Nations (which is known to be powerfully cn. ?tennis.l e • . at the present moment beyond all pre, cedent), proves him to be either toteliy ig-ndrant of the subject upon which he ptesumes to spew, or that he factiour.ly asserts what the lii6e,t superficial observer must know is directly At reverse of nniversady acknowledged AyrA obvious facts. Finely and truly did Thomas l.ethbridge observe on this ee'easion--" I rather think it will he found Oral those who lived before us were as wise as ourselves; they knew what they wree about ; they had enemies'to deal with) e.nd so have we; and at their head I pet the Oatholic Association of Ireland, of which the Noble Lord (Ebrington) is a mvrabtr.—(Elear, hear, hear.)--I had heard Ai much before, and if he had not admitted '.71 the manly , way he has done, I should have thought it my duty to elicit it. The Catholic Association is opposed, in tan, to the principles of the Constitution ; it includes in its body, sorry am I to say it, my Lord Ebrington; and it assembles what ? why men' whom, judging by their speeches, I am compelled to denounce, before this Assembly, as traitors to the Constitution!" (Cheers.) Towards the conclusion of the proceedings, the impatience of the Meeting f'r the Question, in consequence of the /,.t4e.ness of the hour, became so great that seete Gentlemen who akressed the assemblage Were almost wholly inaudible; nor is this to be wondered at when it is considered (as has been well observed) that the Meeting took place in the very scene in which Popery was permitted to commit its last atrocities in England; but the freeholders of Devon are formed in a great measure of the sons of those whose klood still cries from the ground against the murderous House of Stuart,and against the infernal conspiracy, to pervert the law of God, and to extinguish the liberties of man, of which the last crowned member of that murderous House was but the unconscious laioister; or if not of the descendants of the actual victims; of the sons of those" who saw," to use the words of Hume, " the whole country strewed with heads and limbs, when every village beheld the dead carcase of a wretched inhabitant."