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on there by the attempt to controul the feelings of a Protestant people, 
possessing the whole intelligence manliness and education ; masters by 
birthright of almost the whole landed property of the country ; men 
bound together in an untameable abhorrence of the vileness and vices of 
popery, every recollection of whose hearts points to the ancestors 
who achieved the revolutien in England, crushed rebellion in Ireland, 
drove the popish slaves of James from one field of battle to another, 
until at last, on the stone bridge of Limerick, the last spot in 
Treland left to the foot of renegades, they forced the signature of that 
glorious treaty which sent the popish army to live and die, mercenaries 
in France, and consigned the baffled adherents of popery in Ireland to 
the obscurity and impotence fittest for the slaves of priesthood. 
Of those Protestants there are thousands and hundréds of thousands, 
men who will not shrink from the side of the constitution, let come what 
will. A single petition from the Protestants of Ireland, contains s1x 
HUNDRED THOUSAND NAMES! Let ministers hear this, and think of 
what they are doing. We shall tell them, that the voice of the Pro- 
testants of Ireland is the voice of truth, wisdom, and self-preservation ; 
and let ministers ask themselves, are they prepared to stifle it? or have. 
they the power, or is there any power on earth that could stifle it? 
We say, may God avert the trial of that question ! 
Let ministers look to the declarations at the great Protestant meeting 
in Dublin, on the 13th of February ; and, when they read the speeches 
delivered there, ask themselves whether such men either deserve to be 
put under the heel of an insolent and idolatrous priesthood, or can be 
ut under that heel. Let them see how the nervous language of Sir 
B. King was received. 
__* My Lord, we are not come here to whine and whimper over the funeral 
_ pile of the Constitution—(Cries of hear, hear.) My Lord, we are come here 
one and all, I trust, I hope, determined every man, if necessary, with our 
lives—(cries of “yes, yes” )—to support the Protestant Constitution in Church 
and State—(Renewed applause.) If, my Lord Mayor, this then be your. 
sentiment, let us now rally round the embers of the dying Constitution— 
Bapplause). Let us endeavour from them, while they still remain, to ignite a 
ark of fire which may kindle into a blaze of feeling that shall enlighten and 
Illuminate the whole land—(Loud cheers for some time.) Then shall the 
voice of the people be heard, and I trust that our watchword will resound 
throughout the nation, and that all will unite in defence of our. Protestant 
Constitution.—(Cries of “ Nor Surrender,” throughout the whole assembly). 
What is it we are now called on perhaps to fight for >—what called on to pro- 
tect and defend? Our lives, our liberties, and our revered religion—(Cheers.) 
My Lord Mayor, I shall rot longer trespass on your kindness and patience, and 
of this assembly, than by expressing my hope and conviction, that you 
ill this day, before your departure from this meeting, call on our revered 
e eign, and surely that call will not be made in vain—(cheers, and cries of 
e will” )—to stand forward in defence of that Constitution for the preser- 
ation of which he holds his throne—(Renewed cheers.) I am satisfied, my 
fds and Gentlemen, that if we make that application to his Most Gracious 
d y, our beloved Sovereign, the head of the House of Brunswick—(ap- 
ise )—that House which has been called to the Throne of these Realms for 
maintenance of the Constitution of 1688, to maintain and uphold those 
iples—the call will not be made in vain—(hear, hear)—and that a Sove- 
of that family will not hear his people’s voice in vain. Gentlemen, if 
speak to our beloved Sovereign, in language couched with that respect, 
hat veneration, and that honour which becomes us, and which he so strongly 
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