Sept. 21,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



T , ere no drunken orgies— no toasts of " To hell 



with the Pope and O'Connell." There was nothing of 



hkhwaj to Belfast. Three years ago the North would have 

 been in a blaze of triumph at his conviction. Now there 

 was no triumph of the slightest kind. Such neutrality, if it 

 went no further, was a matter that they ought to hail as 

 harbinger of better Jays to Ireland. He rejoiced in 

 that neutrality. He was grateful for it. He thanked 

 the Orangemen for their forbearance, and he expressed 

 his strong- st gratitude to them for that proof that they 

 were becoming more Irish than they had been formerly, 

 and that they, at least to his sense, held out a prospect 

 of better days for their common country ; but what had 

 since occurred ? Since he had been liberated, had the 

 popular triumph been marked by any discontent on the 

 part of those who opposed them ? Had there been a 

 meeting held to express their resentment at the manner 

 in which the ultimate success of the cause of the pri- 

 soners had been attained, or to disparage the conduct of 

 those through whom that success had been announced ? 

 It was quite the contrary. -He was proud to say he had 

 received the congratulations of persons who had been 

 formerly opposed to him, and whose politics were even 

 yet not identified with his. He was proud to say, that 

 many who would formerly rejoice in his convic'ion had 

 joined in the illumination that had followed his liberation. 

 These were excellent symptoms, and they ought to do 

 everything to insure a continuance of them, by recipro- 

 cating the kindliness that was extended towards them by 

 those who were formerly opposed to them. The first 

 subject which he had to bring before the Association, in 

 pursuance of the notice of motion he had given on the 

 last day of meeting, was that it be referred to the com- 

 mittee to rpport on the necessity of holding the Clontarf 

 meeting. He had preceded the announcement of that 

 subject by describing the increasing disposition of mutual 

 forbearance among all classes of the community, as one 

 of the strongest motives for regulating the future conduct 

 of the Association in calling or not calling that meeting. 

 His own opinion was that the Clontarf meeting was now 

 unnecessary ; and he was sure if it were not necessary it 

 ought not to be persevered in, as it would be considered 

 to have too much the appearance of triumph and defiance. 

 That meeting had been legally convened ; its purposes 

 and its objects were legal ; and its suppression was un- 

 justified by law and unsanctioned by any constitutional 

 principle. Need they now vindicate that principle ? He 

 thought not ; and for this reason, that the indictment 

 itself had done so. The first five counts of the indict- 

 ment declared their meetings to be illegal, but the counsel 

 fur the Crown were obliged, in open court, to consent that 

 those counts should be pronounced falsehoods, and that 

 they should be acquitted of the charges of holding illegal 

 meeting". The principle was therefore already esta- 

 blished, and they were therefore under no necessity of 

 vindicating it. They would thus show to their fellow- 

 countrymen of every religious persuasion their anxiety 

 to take no step in promoting the Repeal cause that was 

 not absolutely necessary for its success. He would im- 

 press this upon his Protestant fellow-countrymen. But 

 way should he mention them when he had more Pro- 

 testant gentlemen sitting near him than Ca'holics ? 

 Ineybad41 monster meetings. They held them with 

 rfect tranquillity and the absence of the slightest 

 breach of the peace or violation of order. Not even a 



m — their purpose 



. ment and to the 



people of England the conviction of the great majority 



a t Ifisb nation that tn eir country was misgoverned, 

 and that the Union ought to be repealed. They had de- 

 monstrated that completely, and therefore, though he 

 would go through the form of referring the subject to the 

 committee on account of its importance, it would be wi h 

 we anticipation that the committee would decide as he 

 l -** done, that the Clontarf meeting would not now be 



w« e fi Sar J' The next 8ub J e ct to which he had to refer 



as the formation of a Preservative Society. He thought 



I ' a ?ciety ought to be formed of men who would make 



th««T*u for ,he service of their country, and he 

 ^ug.,t,t would be wtll that they should be entirely 



SSf from t,!at Association ; that each should be dis- 

 e\vl\] - and unco »trolled by the other. He wanted to 

 * *? tne Pnnciple of fixity to their arrangements, and to 

 move the impression that any of the institutions of the 

 country wtre to be injured or disturbed by the repeal 



tend lm V Union ' If there was one thi "S that would 

 be in I 6 - an «ther to inspire confidence, it would 



a , "• * v,n f Persons of property formed together in an 

 ment u f ° f the ^-establishment of an Irish Parti*. 

 O'Brien ft aSreedwithhis fiends Mr. Grattan and Mr. 

 real da° a COutinuan ce of the Union would cause a 



Mr O'R 8 ^ l ° P ro P ert y> but he did not go so far as 

 senary; lCn Wnei he said that he Wl uld oul y resist 



(Mr err 88 long as he could resist [t ' For bis 

 senaratin nn . eli ' 8 ) P ar *> he would never consent to 



Reneal f U any circu mstanceP, and he would give up 



result n mo , rrow if he thought it would lead to such a 

 for the R n i contrar y» on e of his reasons for working 

 that it . n e ?! a ! w as > tnat ne was most firmly convinced 

 section h t lbc 0q] ^ mean8 of mainlining the con- 



ral extras r Q the two countries. He then read seve- 

 ralism ?„ fr0m Mr - Gra y Porter's pamphlet on Fede- 

 *° eavV ft ! U ri P0 « of ,he same °P'»ion«, and con inued 

 of House nfT V e »ervative Society, acting like a kind 

 be most J ' would > when brou ^t into operation, 



and alarrnf f am8ge ,° US in amoving all False impressions 

 ras from U»e minds of the landed proprietors of 



the country. The third subject which he had to bring | they commanded th it he and his fellows "shouldbe restored 



--™- «» me peace or violation ot ore 

 ogle accident occurred at any of the 

 •mg to show to the British Parliai 



to all that they had lost." There was he solemn judgment 

 of the House of Lords for them. How could they give 

 him back three months of his life ? An inch was a good 

 deal in a man's nose, and three months was something 

 at his time of life. They might stop the clock, but not 

 the flood of time. Wh *t could they do ? They could 

 punish the authors of the wrong, whom he would be 

 ready to forgive when they acknowledged their offences. 

 Having alluded to the peaceable state of the country, 

 and ridiculed the idea of a Coercion Bill, and of his ab- 

 staining from agitation, as recommended in the Sun, Mr. 

 O'Connell proceeded to argue that he had been convicted 

 of fifteen crimes by the Jury, where only five were 

 larged against him. A gentleman had asked him the 

 day the verdict was r< timed if it were really true, and on 

 hearing that it was so, he asked him (Mr. O'Connell) 

 have the Jury convicted you of the murder of the Italian 

 boy? No, siid he (Mr. O'Connell), because they were 

 not asked. Haviug referred to other circumstances of 



r orward was, that of the impeachment of the Ministry. 

 With respect to the Judges, he thought the better course 

 would be to have an address to the Crown from both 

 Houses of Parliament for their removal, as was the case 

 in the removal of Sir Jonah Barrington. That would be 

 the most constitutional principle, as it would require an 

 inquiry before Parliament in the first instance. He had 

 heard, whilst sitting in the gallery of the House of Com- 

 mons, that if Catholic Emancipation was carried, Pr 

 testant property in Ireland would be destroyed. Had 

 that statement proved correct? No ; and the feirs now 

 entertained with regard to Repeal of the Union would 

 prove equally groundless. Now, it was importaut that 

 those who thought that the value or stability of property 

 would be injured by Repeal should become acquainted 

 with what he told them emphatically, that the Repeal 

 would not injure either one or the other, but that by it 

 the Irish people would have the benefit of Irish taxation, 

 and he did not think that man worth cone Hating who 



did not think that worth striving for. He would now the state trials, and inveighed against Judge Burton and 

 come to the address to the people of England, and the the other Judges, Mr. O'Connell concluded a lengthened 



!. There was no speech by a vivid picture of the triumph of the Irish 



impeachment of the Attorney-General, 

 need for him to enter into the details of the trial — but 

 he wanted to know this : they had heard much of Eng- 

 lish sympathy. He was loaded with letters, telling him 

 that he was wrong in fixing on the English people the 

 ults of their governors, and that he should not have 

 used such harsh language towards them. Now, he must 

 remind the English people, with all respect, that they had 

 borne with the greatest patience that the Times should 

 lavish the foulest abuse upon their Irish brethren, and 

 should call their priesthood " surpliced ruffians — hooded 

 incendiaries — monkish assassins/' and themselves " felo- 

 nious multitude." Now, if he called them Saxons, was 

 it not a very mitigated term, compared with the lan- 

 guage he had quoted from the Times, at the period when 

 writing the Whigs out and the Tories in, which it mainly 

 succeeded in by exciting a spirit of anti-Irishism and a 

 No-popery cry in England ? Saxon was no term of re- 

 proach. It was an honoured name, and the purest 

 portion of liberty was derived from Saxon laws and 

 institutions— the parliamentary system, trial by jury, and 

 the shrievalty; but even if it were a disgraceful name, 

 was not " felonious multitude" rather worse I Was 

 not " hooded assassins " as bad as Saxon ? Wei 

 not " monkish tyiants " and " surpliced ruffians '' quite 

 as strong as Saxon ? He would remind them how he was 

 received in England during the discussion of the writ of 

 error — he was received most kindly and cheered in his 

 exertions. He proceeded to eulogise the Covent-gardcn 

 Theatre dinner, and the warmth of his reception at 

 various times in England. He was, he continued, now 

 arrived at the time when he would test the English. 

 There should be no more discussion one way or another 

 as to what their feelings towards Ireland were. On this 

 question they would either join Ireland or not, and one 

 way or another the public mind would be tested. He 

 told England from that place, that if she joined them 

 they would do her ample justice, and would sound her 

 praise in shouts whose echoes should reach themselves 

 again. They would pray that she might be great and 

 powerful— that she might obtain every advantage in peace 

 and victory in war. He promised them in return the 

 lion heart and sttrnt hand of Ireland. He promised them 

 her glowiDg intellect and the congregation of her virtues 

 — her temperance, her morality, her chastity. He pro- 

 mised them the whole of these, if they joined Ireland in 

 obtaining the victory over injustice. He had a right to 

 expect it. Supposing that the member for ihe East 

 Riding of Yorkshire and the member for Bath, Mr. 

 Wilson of the Corn-law League, and the proprietors of the 

 Morning Chronicle, Advertiser, and Globe, as well as 

 the Secretary to the Lengue, were indicted together, 

 hurled into a dock together, not allowed to appear by 

 attorney, but were treated like so many sheep-stealers, 

 and were tried by a jury of their political opponents — 

 Mr. Wilson, for instance, by a jury of tenants of the 

 Duke of Buckingham, selected by the Duke himself— 

 that they were sent to gaol for three months without a 

 shadow of law to warraut it, as seven of his friends were 

 — for where, he asked, was the authority to do it?— what 

 right was there to do it?— what a cry would have been 

 raised from one end of England to the other : the very 

 stones in her streets would have raised their voices. 

 The English had a quick way of remedying injustice. 

 Had such a thing occurred there, the people would have 

 raised one universal cry, and 'nstead of asking for inquiry, 

 would demand where was St. James's or Buck- 

 ingham Palace ? England would have vindicated justice, 

 and, turning out her myriads, she would have driven her 

 tyrants from their seats, however lo r ty. Now, was the 

 Member for Yorkshire in any way a more free-born sub- 

 ject ;han his son John I As for himself, he wis born in 

 slavery ; but his son was born free : or was he not as 

 much "entitled to protection as the Member for Bath? 

 If not, what became of the Union ? Let the people of 

 England give up the humbugging idea of deluding 

 Ireland, and either join her heart and hand, or allow 

 her to consider them as her bitterest enemies. Her bitterest 

 enemies, he said, because England stood between them 

 and her oppressors, and would not remain neutral. 

 England, however, must now take a part with them or 

 again-t them. He offered her the allegiance of the Irish 

 people, which would make Louis-Philippe tremble on his 

 throne, and would wipe away the disgrace of Mogador. 

 But he had his price. He was to be bribed, and Irs 



In return for that he would make 



bribe was justice, in reiurn 101 «»«v ~~ — ™ i — » . , .- . J i rT ,i r , l ltv-ohiCe at v,ov« 



England the greatest of nations. He was amused with a ; was issued fom the Ad-i «U 

 passage of the judgment of the House of Lords, wherein | arrest Lieut. Robert I uddicom 



people when their Parliament should be restored to them. 

 After some further business had been disposed of, Mr. 

 O'Connell announced the rent for the week to be 715/. 

 —It is rumoured in Dublin that the Whigs have made 

 overtures to Mr. O'Connell, offering to support him if 

 he will be content with a federal Parliament ; and many 

 of the leading Repealers show a disposition to abandon 

 unconditional legislative independence as impracticable, 

 and to content themselves with its shadow in the form 

 of a federal Parliament. Mr. O'Connell has already 

 expressed his willingness to accept a "grand jury" 

 Senate as an instalment; and even thus early the more 

 violent Repeal organs begin to look upon the matter in 

 the same favourable light as their leader appears to re- 

 gard it. One of these papers says, " Another striking 

 circumstance which has occurred, is the junction which 

 is alleged to have taken place between the Whig and Fe- 

 deralist party. One of the few elements of strength 

 which was wanted in our Repeal movement was an Eng- 

 lish party. The English people are the arbiters of the 

 question. It would greatly increase the certainties of its 

 success if there were an English party ; and it appears 

 that we are likely to be supplied with such an auxiliary 

 immediately. The Whigs of England can never hold 

 the reins of power without a union with the Repealers. 

 The latter virtually rule the empire, and if they be wise, 

 they will continue to do so, until they are permitted to 

 rule their own country. The Whigs have the usual exi- 

 gencies of a party, and must have power. We are 

 authentically informed, by one of their own organs, that 

 a union with the Federalists is debated, if not decided on. 

 We shall not then be long without seeing the last great 

 act of the political drama."— Mr. O'Connell has caused 

 the bed on which he slept during his incarceration to be 

 removed to Merrion-square, and has sup; lied Mr. 

 Cooper, the deputy-governor, with a new one instead, 

 declaring that he would keep it as a memorial for his 

 children.— A rumour has been prevalent in Dublin for 

 the last few days, that the Premier is about to confer the 

 dignity of a peerage upon Chief Justice Doherty, that 

 the Ministry may have the aid of his abilities in the 

 House of Lords. 



Cork.— On the 2G:h ult. Capt. Warren, an officer in 

 the army, residing at Cove, entertained a number of 

 friends at his residence, where a ball and supper was also 

 given to a large and fashionable party, including a number 

 of naval and military officers attached to the Irish 

 squadron, now stationed in Cove. Several articles of 

 valuable plate disappeared after the ball, and it was sup- 

 posed that some of the servants, carmen, boatmen, or 

 others, whose services are usually required on such occa- 

 sions, made free with them, and" nothing more could be 

 done than to circulate a description of the property, and 

 acquaint the police with its abstraction. Up to Satur- 

 day last nothing more was heard about the matter; but 

 on that day a respectable female entered the shop of Mr. 

 Hawkesworth, Grand-parade, and offered for sale, as old 

 silver, some pieces of forks and spoons, which were rnucfr 

 battered, and the part where plafe is usually marked 

 evidently hammered with a blunt chisel, or some such 

 instrument, with a view of defacing the marks. Mr. 

 Hawkesworth, who is an extensive silversmith and watch- 

 maker, had before him at the time a strong magnifying 

 lens, with the aid of which he was at once able to trace 

 the crest on one of the pieces, and on another the initials, 

 as described in the hills. He told the lady who brought 

 it that there must be some mistake in the matter, as ne 

 could distinctly identify the articles as Capt. Warren I 

 property. To this she at once said it could not be the 

 case, for that it had teen given her that morning by an 

 officer of the Royal Marines, to sell as some old silver, 

 which he had a long time in his possession, and had no 

 other use for. She informed Mr. Hawkesworth that she 

 was the wife of a gentleman holding a Government situ- 

 ation in the Ordnance Store Department at Haulboulme 

 Island, and that she was entirely unaware of the property 

 having been come by improperly. Mr. Hawkeswortn 

 having been assured of this from another q aart f r ' r\ 

 pressed his regret that she should have been « D J ec ££ 

 to any trouble or annoyance, and the W» « 

 return home, acquainted her husband ™%** m £ 

 ter, who at' oJe made .report m -ting of *• 

 occurrence to the commanding omcer 

 through whoa, it was '"ns.itted officii o the AJ^ 



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