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ORK, SATURDA
, MARCH 8, 1844.
§ Ofice, No. 70 Bayard
t Street,in the rene.
9.
Be STATE TRIALS MELODY,
Ain—" The Minstrel Boy.” epee
ea; hes ‘ end
T. B.C. to the Court is gone,
‘Ina dreadful rage you'l find him :
~ His wig and gown he has girded on,
. ~~ And bis conscience fleag bebiad him. ar’
*+ Tuneful Nive!” said the future Lord, vy OD
“Tl make you sing * Peccavi,’ Pe get
For Roas shall swear through a twelve inch board, *".
And Despar.) make his * Davy.” . ag
* arr a . ! I . ed
‘ ‘The trial came, but all Europe's gaze
Could vot keep his tensper under, i +
'-~ While he tore at once Tue Nation's lays,
~ And the jury’s ears asunder, 6 >? ;
"And egid Bob Peel will honor me, © 0/1" *
/, And Quixoue laud my bravery, ea
—, When 1 tach these Irish bow to be
sounds of her fine * brass band”? °
. | Swept B. C.'s voice away. ; ren) 4
_ And then bis eyes, with phrenzy’s dame, |
Jared from each bursting socket, .
. © Till dark oblivion kindly came
51 And put bim in her pocket. ©
a EPIGRAM. ;
Sey not that Alpha’s brain is dull, mt,
But thus, with me.and candor view ity. ||
» His brain’s all fires-it is the scull ©.” 7
*’ Phat will not let the rays pass through its.’
: ee <, Lhor the Truth oe .
- TIE DUBLIN REVIEW ON GRATTAN.
0 Pendidit hic auro patriam, dominumgue potentem
Ls os dmposutt x flritleges pretio at que refizit. .
. ™ Iris Leavers From Orsionp ro GRaTran HAVE 6ACRIFI-
cv cep Inengayy to THe Mor oF Bririsa Emprae.”_ >”
‘ fee ES Dubliit Natio
| Az. Epitor,—Leaving the fall tidé ‘of Irish patriotism; for
awhile, to fluw oo with accumulating. force, to effect the me-
smorable Revolution of *82,—the glorivus resulis of which, the
‘eller. e
"| the idea of the Union first seriously broached: and never afier-
“|the opposition, however, defeated the fravdful scheme. But
'| would be enabled (compelled 7] to contribute one
:| thing io the shape of rational robbery, exceed the cool assur-
*} patriation,
verament might contrive to make the Irish’ people bear a ‘con-
siderable portion of the Eaglish burtheas without the slightest
suspicion, of the wholesale fraud iatended; and thus gradually
relieve themselves while robbing their neighbours. Thea was
wards lost sight of by the grasping cupidity of England: so per-
tinaciously did the ‘robber nation persevere with true. blood-
hound sceat on the wack, until the prey was fioally run down
and devoured atthe Union. » - es ed
: It wae about thie period in 1749, the English Cabinet, through
the Lord Lieutenant the Duke of Dorset, attempted to prevent
the Irist parliament to appropriate the surplus revenues of the
kingdom to national purposes... Tbe object was, to find some
pretext for having them drawn away to-be expended in Eng-
land. The firmness #hd determination of the Irish members in
‘though batiled, the English Cabinet never lost sight of the prin-
ciple: which then began to attract much attention. ..
Nhe Political. Economists, as usval, led the way inthe in-
iquitous scheme of, national plunder. Sir.Mattbew Decker
writing oo trade in 1751, moiotained, that. © by @ Union with
Treland, the taxes in Great Britain would be materially Jessen-
ed !"—i. e. in other words, England was in debt, and noi hav-
ing wherewithal convenient to pay, ebe ought to seek the means
by robbing Ireland!» Some years later, another writer of this
conscientious class, labuura to prove, that by a. Union, Ireland
million annv-~
ally to the taxes of Great Britain!” Well and fatally did Eng-,
lish ‘statesmen, Whig and Tory, improve on the Jesson taught
by these writers until poor Ireland was reduced to beggary,
poverty, and ruia. Hear Posilethwaitia his work British Com-
mercial Interests, coolly asserting, that, **as Eogland does al-
ready possess no iaconsiderable share of the lands of Ireland, eo
the Union would prove an effeciual method to vest the remaia-
derin ber: for as the riches of Ireland would then chiefly return
to England, abe continuing the seat of Empire, the Irish land-
lords would be little better than tenants to her, fur allowing them
the privilege of making the best of their estates”? !!!° Can any
ance of this Protestant scouudrel, who 60 deliberately decides
onthe wholesale plunder of an entire kingdom? Bob this is
Protesiant morality, so often found assoziated with plausible
isn ear one specimen more? Dalrymap
Memoirs, MATIN I776, wheo the Lord Livecuaat &
be seatover to forward ihe pluo cf the Usiun:—* 09 Union}
stould be atiempied unless a Wisttor-i,-came frouy Ireland
and not even then unless there wes a sufficient body of troops
«weakness or the treachery of the Irish Leaders, so culpably
. permitted their wily enemy to deaden or destroy, at the return-
dog and unguarded ebb,—let us glence at the state of public
feeling in England, relative to the connexion, between tbe two
countries. It is of no little iayportance to the reader, anxious to
“ auain an accurate knowledge ef tha causes and events connected
i with the Revolution of '82, as well as that of the execrable
Union, {within seven short years efterwards,} to be made fully
acquainted with the state of the English miad at these two mo-
-ynentous periods, . The more especially as the matter seems to
Shave been almost eotirely over-looked by all who have ueated
Y professedly on Trish bistory. - By this, 1 do net, however, mean
thuse simperiog scivlisis denominated, par excellence, editorsof
newspapers—civatlantic newspapers ;—who are, with very few
exceptions, the most irtemediably ignorant and yet the most
disgustiogty presumptuous race, ever permitted to corrupt tbe
taste, pervert the morals, or dam up all sources of useful infor-
» mation of the community ;—but meu traly learned, inquisitive,
“aad cuaversant in the melancholy gonals of ill-fated Ireland. |
Fifty years before its occurrence, England had contemplated
+ the fatal Union.” Let aot that be forgotten ~~balf a ceotury be-
**fyre it ok place, was the “mooster conceived, England who
has uaver failed to avail -bereelf of ao opportunity to crush a
rival, or secure her ewo monopoly, by cenuralizsng the resources
3 and powers of all her dependencies and appavogee, had been
i Yong casting wistful luoks towards the, reveaves of. Iretand
~ White the Irist patriots, orators, and statesmen were engaged
sia wordy war, soaring to heighihs sublime of elogueuce, bet-
' “ating for specivus plausibilities, emusiog themselves with empty
~ pageants, and flatering the pride of a deluded country, with
glorious sconstitusions, baseless as nocturnal dreams,—robber
“England was proling like a wolf on the watch for prey ;—she
‘was planning tbe Union.) So fur back as 1750, exacily balfa
century before it-was effected, the idea was broached and re+
~ duced to palpable embodiment io all its native deform
5 Sanonstrum evitialeet infandum. > 0) 6) 84a igoctn
,» -*t Io the course uf the year 1750, the finances and revenues of
\ that pre-eminently moral and evangelically, pious ead Protes+
S$ yant country began to feel the public charges, debts, and taxes
incurred by the suppression of the Rebellion of 1763, and: the
“(uns secessful waren the Conliseot—extremely irksome, and 8
“s Jittle 09 onerous fur the brawny shoulders of Joho Bull; so it
i
ye
}
"| opposition in both houses made the most vigorous exertions, aad
to keep the madmen in order”! | An acknowledgment this, nol
only of the nefarious project sv long cherished by Eugtand, but
the apprebension entertuiced of Irich bravery. Tbis schem
of natioual spoliation was in fact explivitiy avowed by that in-
carnation of ministerial profligacy anc
younger Pitt, ov bringiog forward bié +* Commercial Proposi-
tions,” {which with his wonted hypocrisy, be never intended
should pass]—saying, ‘that ** the uniform policy of ‘England
was to deprive Ireland of the use of ber own resources, end to
make them ‘subservient to the interests and opulence o!
land :” *
Yet with all these premonitory symptoms of the intended rob-
bery, not only of Irish revenues and properties, but of Irish lib-
erties, did the leaders of the volunteers proceed in their unguard-
ed career towards delusive dreams of imaginery independance,
while the vast majority of the people lay pining in misery, de-
gradation, and slavery: seeking only their ow aggransizement,
aod the greater security of tbe Protestant ascendancy and church,
as by law established, until all—Protestaot and Catholic,’ mas-
ter and slave, armed volunteer and unarmed reformer, the son-
guinary Orangeman, and the brave but misguided United Irishs
non, were swallowed up together in the vortex of ell-cdsurbing
English centralization, he execrable Union, “ ; Coe
Puling parsgraphists who know just as little about Trish t
tory as they can be expected to feel of Frist patriniem, will im-
udenily din into the ears of creduloys readers, that one of these
* pure patriots,” who’ principally contributed to place Ireland,
bound hand ‘and foot, under the tender metey of ihe Muloch of
British Empire, is a mao wortby of highest admiration! But
this is to read bistory—newspaper history—and write for the
lomatic iniquity, the
2
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“Wy return to the proceedings of the Irish parliament, we most
refer to lke sessions anterior to 62.‘ For 2 redress of the grie-
vances specified in the second letter of the Historical Sketch, the
speedily consolidated a most formidable phalanx against the
measvres of the government. So great were the telente and
abilities displayed, so unanswerable the argumenis, bo overpuw-
ering the eloquence, so ardent the geal aod Patriotism, ao perse-
vering the incessant attacks agaiost every thing reperded ee en
abuse, that the English and Irish guvernmenie become serio
ly slarmed; both cabinets resolved, at all hazards, et any price,
i hat by obtaining a control
4 very sigaciously concluded, t y z ac
: ver ihe revenues -and resuurces of, Trelaad,* the English go!
Sie ence ad tly tla fee te Bch ad
i had wolhivy owe. t
2 an rete fury homer ike ce trary ay bt
, with English gold. Dr.
:
Tohneou, one of the iutrigrically gre
of the
ad, spoke in
been too
meting |
ha Union
go a feieud in I ve rob? «| 1
Repub you at ‘
; prominent of the popular leaders. The infernal divide et impe-
at every sacrifice, to break down, buy ofl, ur cajole the most
ra invention of the Welstr monk wae set at work, io all its
pristine vigor; and uphappily earong the Cehic lace, with
its want of proper: subordination, ite vaulting ambition, en:
mityy jealousy, and epirit of rivalry, this cursed policy, bas
rarely, if ever, failed io effecting ils. Celeterioue designs:
By this Machiavelian policy, did England first obtain a foutbold
| dent.Jao object of ridicule and Contempt from its picfligaie, ver-
tire island to berself: by the same vile acts, does she still retain
it: bitherto baffling-all the patriotic exertions of ber noblest sone,
her honest friends, and eloquent advocates.
Wily England clearly foresaw, that if abuse efier sbuse wes
permitied to be swept away, the! Legislative Independence of
Ireland, and perhape Catholic Emancipation must be conceded;
and that 80, all bopes of getting unlimited contro! of her revenues
and resources would be effectually disappointed. “This was a
consummation most devoutly not to be wished for; not only by
the tyrannic government, but unbappily by the great body of
the Eoglish people; whose wants and wishes make the law :—
the mercantile, agricultural, manufacturing classes: all, in a
word, interesied in the degradation, impoverishment, and plun-
der of unbappy Irelands: That insatiable spirit of cupidity,
[which bas, io every age, impelled England into so maby un-
just wars], had been, in a special manner, directed towards Ire-
land for the preceding forty years: almost imperceptibly at firet,
as broached by thé class of unscrupulous writers above-mention-
ed, but finally pervading all ranks. Whig end Tory, merchant
and farmer, peer and plebeien, all conscientiously conceived
that—-" the revenues‘annually collecied from the industry, fro-
gality, toils, labours, aweat, and blood of the Irish ought of right,
be regarded as spoils of conquest, and too valuabe as an item in
teliet of English taxation, to be expended in Irelaod :—that that
despised appanage should cuntinue a dependent vassal ;—that
she should not be allowed to enjoy the rights of domestic legisla-,,
plunder!" . a
‘That thece were the sentiments of the overwhelming mojority
of the English people, not only at this period, but more’or less
at every other of the unhallowed connexion, no one conversant
with history, can gaineay :—it is even their opinion, at. this mo-
ment: and it is ouly the beaven-dircted exertions of the illustri-
ous Liberator, and bis noble co-patriots, tat can compel the
obber toa full restitution. . poms
From the long and successful experience in the prosecution of
her plans for monopolizing the rade, commerce, and wealth of
the world, Englaod was perfectly aware that Ireland with an
independent pailiament, wonld, from ber insular situation, her
teeming fertility, her inexhaustible resources, penial climate,
the ingenuity, quickness, activity and energy of ber hardy, tem-
perate, brave aod enterp £ population—soon become a for-
dable competiior end epVishle rival.”
4 i penalgte ble to English jealousy ;
lish people OF tmp; Ln nesani Whio or Toprycslost sioks-
of crusbing or Llasting it; by every meaus &uaat every oppor-
tunity. ‘This is the polar star directing the unvaried course of En-
glish mizisters ; as most congenial to flatter the prejudices and
Fill the pockets of the English people: ead under this malign
influence, the fixed determination of all parties, there is, at ell
hazards—the Unton, ‘ * *
Let our readers then bear distiactly in mind, that the pro-
ject of the Union, avowedly for the spoliotion end plunder of
lreland, broached fifiy yeurs before its occurrence, bad been gra-
dually extending all over Eng!aad,—bod been long eontempla~
ted by successive Cabinets—whether Whig or Tory—and at
the very period of '82, was being negociated by the Whigs both
in Ireland and England, and was in sad, but sober reality ace
celerated, instead of being tetarded, by the brilliant but unsub-
stantial Revolution of °82; which pointed out to England the
imminent danger of any longer protracting the consummation of
her stupendous national robbery, Tbe blunderiogs aod uucon-
stitutional conduct of tue Trish parliament, {aker gitainiog ite
“‘independence’’} led on by the Whigs (on boih,'sides of tbe
chanvel, relative to the " Regency Question,” on behalf of thet
igotem We retcallicst, sweetest young Prince™—
cBicted a deadly blow on the permanence of
tbe veunted constitulion of "823 -"ia fact, the Trish’ parliament
was atthis period, [seren cnlize years efter # became indepen-*
satility. So mueh for the able etatesmen and pure patriots of
821°" Let it also be remembered, that the base subserviency ‘of
the Trish parliament or rather of ite Whig “majority led on by
Gratian.—in so diegracefully pandeting to the corrupt’ and
proiligete courtiers of tbe modern Sardsnapalus, ‘was one of the
strongest orpuments brought forwerd: dfierwards by the advo-
cates of the Unions and oue that bad a most perniciobsly pow-
erful eflect throughout the empire. These be thy gods, ob
Pitot CR er ae
* Hoving conducted our resders down to the memorable era of
"82, advaucing per ignes suppositos cineri dolosomihey must
geadily heep their attention fixed on the long cherisbed object
of each successive English and Irish Cubiner, Whig or ‘Tory.
No maner bow gloved over paltiated or excused by political par-
tans, oraiorial declaigiers ort lying: historians, the plunder of
the Teish people and the degradation of the: Irish: pation were,
under sume evplemistic Laie, the avowed objects of the Tories,
wad the cuocesled purposes uf the Whigs? both olike the im-
mitigable evetuies of true Irish independeoce, lrish prosperity
or Trish happiness; and both implacably ioveterate in their de-
lestation of every thing Catholic. OF the two, it may be seid,
that the Tories were with few éxeeptions tbe more bonorsble:—
they were mauty, open, undispuised, biuer and unreleming ene
emies; "from whom the Irish Catholics expected nothing bus
chains and stripes t aud were therefore prepared for the worbly
but against the Whigs, deep, designing, plausible, treacherous
ia Ireland ;. by i, has she beem erabled to appropriate ahe en
: Wn
fouwardly fair and, fierdy, wei iawerdly dice and deadig
ture :—that therefore she must ever continue a * bewer of wood *
and drawer of water’—a slave fit only for scora, Stripes and»
+ teed . viet fy