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NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1825. NO. 11
LETTER
‘ ADDRESSED .
: TO “THE WILD IRISII.”
On the Speech of Mr. O'Connell, and on that of Sir
. 2°. Francis Burdett.
. . »~-». ” Kensington, 2d March, 1825. >
““Witp Inisn,” . toot
On the 26th instant, Mr. O’Connell, at a General
, Meeting of the Catholics, at the Freemasons’ Tavern.
the Duke of Norfolk in the chair, made the Speech,
a report of which (the fullest I can find in the broad
. sheet) I publish in this Register, (for a full copy of
this speech, see Truth Teller, of the 16th April,)
and that, too, because I am convinced, that it will
’ give my readers ‘more pleasure than any thing else
cupys It has been admired beyond any thing of the
kind, of which I have any recollection. My sons, all
~ of whom heard it, came home full of praise on it, and
gave me an animated description of the attention with
‘ which it was heard, and of the impression which it
produced. But, they are young men, and likely, be-
sides, to lend a partial ear. Since that I have seen
several good judges, who were present: and every
one has told me (and all are Protestants,) that it was
‘sthe first Speech that ever was heard.”’ ) Any report
‘of sucha Speech must be imperfect ; but, so far, as
with that of those gentlemen, one of whom, who is
well acquainted with the private character of Mr.
O'Connell, concluded ‘his’ eulogium on him in these
words : ** O'Connell has all the talent and none of the
faults of Sheridan,” than which it is’ hardly possible
* ‘to say more in the praise of mortal man.
What, then, does one of the ‘ wild Irish’ come over
here and beat all the Ciceros! And that ¢ wild Irish-
man’ an adherent, too, of the religion taught’ in the
‘dark ages ;? and, moreover, educated, 1 dare say,
' without any aid, direct or indirect, from the ‘intel-
lect’ which cometh from the north of the Tweed!
- Strange! What: the ‘wild Irish’ send one of their
natives to make a speech that puts all the big, bluff,
bragging, bungling bullet-heads toshame! I will tell
“ you a secret, ¢ wild Irish,’ and that is this: that these
stammering, hackering, repeating and ‘ blundering
bullet-headed Ciceros will hate you more than ever for
this, There are certain offences that they will for-
give: but this is not one of them; and, as a friend, I
advise you, when you send over another set of * wild
itish,’ not to. send tall, straight, handsome and elo-
quent ones ; but to get together, with the beadle’s or
even the devil’s assistance, as ill-looking a crew Gf
that be possible) as any that these ‘wild Irish? will
have seen before they get home. © .. * :
« Before I proceed farther in my remarks on the
“peeches, mentioned at the head of this Letter, let
ine make a remark ona speech, ascribed by the broad
sheet, to Admiral Sir Joseph Yorke. The broadsheet
we oot this gentleman said, during one of the
land would mon the House of all houses, that ‘Ire-
coxtey ‘Tred hee be what it ought to be, ‘until the
2 * % twenty-four hours under water,’
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dison, and, with a view to that deposition, a consider-
able naval force must be kept up,”
‘deposed’ by Sir Joseph and his colleagues and their
Blue and Baff, remained in office till the end of his
unmercifully beat the deposing Blue and Buff, made
the war cost this cockawhoop country seventy millions
of money, which make a part of our present debt, and
saw the deposers, at last, sign a peace with him, in
which they wholly sunk the great point on which they
had gone to war, and by which they actually gave up
every point contained im a sine gua non that they had
laid down! Now, Sir Joseph might not have made that
speech: it might, for aught I know, have been fubri-
cated by the Old Times Newspaper ; but the effect
was the same, whether spokenor not, and { have no
hesitation to say, that that speech, short as it was, cost
‘that cockawhoop country many millions of money.
And it is by no means in probable, that the « under
water’ may, first or last, dothe same, whether it were
actually delivered ornot. | oe
To return’ to the speech of Mr. O'Connell: it
lasted nearly foar hours without a single stammer (so
_| To be sure, Sir Joseph is high authority, having a} much in vogue in ahother place,) and without asingle
late Lord Lieutenant for one brother, having another | mark of impatience in any part of the audience, who,
brother who has a large sinecure, having a son, of | atthe , close of the speech, rose up and gave three
about twenty-five years old, ‘a post captain in the | cheers with waving of hats!” And, mind, the greater
navy, and having had two nephews (sons of the late | part of that audience were Protestants! Mr. O’Con-
Lord Lieutenant) to whom was granted the reversion | nellis now, the Newspapers tell us, a Liveryman of
'{ of the fat Irish sinecure (of about eleven thousand | London. Let the foes of the Catholics now, then,
pounds a year) held by the late Earl of Buckingham- call a Common ‘Hall if they dare! Those who say
shire, and of which one of those nephews would now | that the people of England are against you, have,
have had the emoluments, had it not pleased God, | here, the full means of putting their assertion to the .
that both should cease to exist. st
Therefore Sir Joseph is, without doubt, high au-| they know that their assertion is false. They know, .
thority : but, he (if he really did say that which the | that nine-tenths of the Protestants of,England are for
broad sheet imputes to him) certainly overlooked the | you. But let them, then, call a Common Hall.
very plain fact, that if all the ‘wild Irish,’ were ‘Wild Irish, what think you of Mr. O’Connell’s
drowned, there could be no sizecure of eleven thou- | speech being translated, and published in French ?—
sand pounds a year, for the son of the Earl of Hard- | The translation is nearly finished, and it will be pub-
wicke. To be sure, those sons being dead, it may be | lished next week, at 183, Fleet-strect, and a part of
all as one to them, and to their relations, whether the | a large edition will be sent to Paris. ‘Oh!’ (the Bo.
‘wild Irish’ be, or be not, twenty-four hours under | roughmongers will say,) this comes out of the Ca-
water ; but, it is not all as.one to others, who want} tholic: Rent, and Cobbett is at the bottom of it : so
sinecures ; and, if there were none of these things in | that this says nothing in behalf of the speech:? No,
harder press. upon the sine- | you insolent bloated beasts ; it does not come out of
‘ : the rent, nor is Cobbett at the bottom of it.: I, .
But, tall © wild Irish,’ there is another’ ground of] like Mr. O’Connell, despise hugger-mugger ; and
hope that you will not be put under water for tweaty- {will tell you all about the matter, On the Ist
four hours ; and that is, that Sir Joseph Yorke’s opi- of ‘this month’ a French Gentleman came to me, |
one can judge from a report, my opinion coincides | nions are not always confirmed by events. In a der | showed me a part of the speech that he had translated, *
bate, in this ‘same House of all houses, on the ist of| and, as he wanted Mr, O'Connell to look over the
June, 1814, just when we were all cockawhoop upon } report, in order that his translation might ba as perfect
the ousting of Napoleon, Sir Joseph (agreeably to | a3 possible, he applied tome to write to Mr. O'Con-
the report in ‘the Old Times newspaper,) speaking nell for this purpose. Idid this; and, I dare say,
on the subject of the force of the navy (he being then though I have not seen the gentleman since, that it
a Lord of the Admiralty,) said: “That, although one | had the desired effect. But mind, the thought of mak-
great enemy of this country had been deposed, there ing this translation originated with the translator him- :
test. Letthem put it to that test. They dare not :
was another gentleman whose deposition was also ne-| Self; the printing and publishing are to be wholly at
cessary to our interests; he meant Mr. President Ma- | his own expense and risk ; and, in short, it is a thing
arising solely out of his own admiration of the Speech,
and of his opinion, that it will sell well, in France and
Now, my wild friends, you know how’that matter | lso in England. Now, observe, this is an honour
ended: you know that Madison, so far trom being| Dever done toa speech of the bighouse! Never.—
There were, indeed, French translations of to oz
three of Pitt's speeches in good ‘anti-jacobin” times;
then term, was then re-elected, and that he did most | but, they were Treasury affairs. They were works °
ofthe ruixs. Never before did a foreigner think of
such a thing as that of making and of publishing, on
his own private account, a translation ofa speech de.
livered in England:: I-am not at all surprised that
this should now be dona, The speech is for all coun-
tries! Every foreign government must be interested in
its contents. It will work good in many ways ; but,
in no way so powerfully and effectually as in this.
To turn from this Speech to the cold, spiritless,
compromising, silly, and, atthe same tine, shuffling,
parcel of words, which the Morning Chronicle has
put forth, uader the title of “Speech of Sir Francis
Burdett, Baronet,""made in the House of all Houses on
the Ist instant; to turn from Mr. O'Connell's frank,”
honest, heart-moving appeal, to the last-meationed
rubbishy parcel of words, is like being drenched with
small beer from the tap-tub, while the whole frame is.
glowing with the effects of Champagng. “I haye no
toom, at present, for particular remarks on this small
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