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THE HQRTHERN STAR. ____. October 4, * i^...
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THE NORTHERN ST A Li SATURDAY, OCTOBER i, 1815.
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The Hqrthern Star. ____. October 4, * I^...
THE _HQRTHERN STAR . _____ . October 4 , * i _^ _.
^ Just Publisiied, ' / ' _ _ Lnonevolna,Ej Foolseap 8ro., Neatcloth,Pnce7^.6d. The Purgatory ¦ Of Suicides
_^ JUST PUBLISIIED , ' / ' _ _ lnonevolna , eJ foolSeap 8 ro ., neatcloth , pnce 7 _^ . 6 d _. THE PURGATORY ¦ OF SUICIDES
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BT TmITaI _SS TH , _Cl-BTIST . / How , Publisher , 132 . Fleet-street . _^ Orders from tbe Country to b . > ent through th . _iJT _codPBR'S NEW WORK . _^ _» bUsI _^» _SS & _S . 2 TOl 8 _- * 12 m 0 _- '
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TBE _CONNOISSEUR , a Monthly Record of the FINE ARTS , MUSIC , andthe DRAMA . _COKTENIS of Ko . TIL : —Royal Academy of ArUThe Prima Donna—Decline of tho _Dranin—British _Arch-sological Institute—The Pine Arts Commission—Shaksperian Critics—Conservatoire de Paris , Arc . — Grand Prix de Rome—Dramatic and Musical Snmmary _^ _-ton-Mpondenos—Miscellaneous , Ac . Ac . The Illustration : —A Portrait of JIurillo , from a -painting hy hiuuelf , drawn on stona fay II . C . Maguira . An Original Ballad , hy S . Wjlde . OMSIOKS OP THE _"PBESS . "" To all lovers of the fine arts we recommend the « Connoisseur . " _*—Xortftem Star . "It ought , and we lave no doubt will , continue to receive the same patronage nnd extensive circulation which it has hitherto done among persons of taste in the cul-* rni « of lie arts and sciences . "— Ccmxiridgi _Inisptxxdtri '
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ROIAL ADELAIDE GALLERY . ¦ ¦ m NOVEL _ENTERTAINMENT . ATMOSPHERIC SaHway daily , with explanatory lecture . The New Zealand Chief . Pahe a Range , will give a course of lectures on the Manners and Customs of New Zealand , on the evenings of Monday , "Wednesday , and Friday next . Mr . Russ-11 continues to _deliver his unequalled lectures on Character , on Tuesday , Thursday , and Saturday evenings Lectures on Science , Ac , daily , including Major _Beniowiki ' s Artificial Memory , Seal ' s Rotatory Steam Engine , Kollman ' s Locomotive Engine for ascending inclines on Railways . Every evening a Grand Promenade Concert , supported by firstrate talent , both vocal and instrumental .
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COLOSSEUM . PATRONISED and visited by her Most Gracious MAJESTY and his Royal Highness Prince 1 BERT . OPEN DAILY from Ten till Six . Proounced by the Press , and confirmed by every visitor « _be the most perfect triumph of Art in its various _branches , both b y Day and Night , tbat has ever been achieved . Equal to six exhibitions . The Glyptotheca , containing works of the first artists ; Mont Blanc -and Mountain Torrents , Superb Conservatories , Gothic _ Ariary , Classic Ruins and Fountains , Panorama of Xondon , re-pakited by Mr . Parris _, & c . Admittance , 3 s . Children , half-price . The Stalactite Caverns , the -most magnificent of all the temples which nature has "built for herself in the regions of night , ls . extra _.
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WEST RIDING OF YORKSUIRE . MICHAELMAS SESSIONS . NOTICE is hereby Given , that the Michaelmas General Quarter Sessions of thePeaeefor the West Riding fif tLe county of York , will be opened at _KUABESBOROUGH , on Tuesday , the Mth day of October next , at Ten o clock in the forenoon ; and by adjournment from -thence will he holden at LEEDS , on Wednesday , the 15 th day ofthe same month of October , at Ten ofthe clock in the forenoon ; and also , by further Adjournment from thence , will be holden at DONCASTER , on Monday , the 20 th day of tbe same month of Octoher , at half-past Ten of the clock in the forenoon , when all Jurors , Suitors , JPersons bound by . Recognisance , and others having business at the said several Sessions , are required to attend ihe Court on the _several days , and at the several hours i . above mentioned . i
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ilAltE ON SPINAL DISEASE . THIS day is published , price 2 s . Gd ., CASES and OBSERVATIONS illustrative of the beneficial results -which may he obtained by close attention and perseverance in soma of the most chronic and unpromising instances of spinal deformity ; wiih eighteen engravings ou wood . By Samuel Base , M . R . C . S . London : John Churchill , Princes-street ; and may he "hnd of all booksellers .
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& REAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY , 14 , Wateuxoo-place , Los-jo * - * . BiaECTOBS . The Ghisholm , CRairman . WiUiamMorley , Esq ., Deputy Chairman . Henry S . Barber , Esq . James John Kinloch , Esq . 3 ohn _Brigliunan , Esq . Henry Lawson , Esq . Francis Brodigan _, Esq . Henry Penny , Esq . James Win . Deacon , Esq . Robert Poiver , Esg .., 3 _I . D . Alexander II . Irvine , Esq . The Rev . F . W . Johnson John InglisJerdein , Esq- Yickery , A . M . ACniTOHS . C . B . Rule , Esq . T . C . Simmons , Esq . G . Thomas , Esq . PHTSICUN . John Clendinning , M _. D ., F . R . S ., IC , Wimpole-strect .
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RICHARDSON , MANUFACTURING . CUTLER , ESTABLISHED 1805 ,
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COALS . PROVIDE FOR _TVINTER . _PROVIDEST FAMILIES , subscribing ls . _perwetk to the Metropolitan Coal Companj ' j Shilling Club , o » - obtain four half tons annually , without further _'J _,,. _^^ fines , & c . The Company ' s price current is , Best Screened _JTalls . end , 25 s . per full ton ; Seconds , 21 s ., 22 s . and i _» - . ( joke Ks . ed . ' Office , 279 , High Holborn .
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GENUINE TEAS AND COFFEES FOR THE MILLION . The cheapest place in London for Teas and Coffees is at tlje Warehouse , 24 and 20 , Regent Street , Westminster , near the Vauxhall Bridge Road . THE Proprietor , E . _WARMINGTOX , takes this oppor . tunity to return thanks for thc liberal supporthe has received since he opened the above premises ; and to those who have not yet favoured him with theirpatronage , B . W . most strongly solicits a trial , feeling assured that the articles sold at the warehouse , both in price aud quality , will give universal satisfaction . Goods in any quantity sent free to all parts of London and the suburbs * , and persons in the country , by remitting a Post-office order , will find their instructions faithfully attended to .
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EXTRAORDINARY ECONOMY TO TEA DRINKERS . THE DESIRE OP ENGLAXD . —The PIQUA PLANT , now sold at 3 s . Gd . per lb ., is three times the strength of tea , and is also equal in flavour , more delicate in taste , _nGnitely more healthy , as is proved by physicians and _eheisists of hi gh standing , also by persons in great num . bars with the most delicate lungs and stomachs . It is most pleasant and invigorating , and is recommended to the debilitated for its invaluable qualities , to advanced age for its strengthening properties , and to the public generally for its moderate price and intrinsic excellence . _TllE TEST . —The proof of the efficacy and healthful effect of the plant in preference to tea or coffee : —Let a nervous or dyspeptic patient use two or three cups of strong tea upon retiring to rest , and the effect will be night-mare , disturbed sleep , and other violent symptoms of indigestions , £ <*
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TO THE EMBARRASSED .-IMPORTANT . THERE are thousands of persons who have struggled long against the force of misfortune , but few are nware that hy a very recent Act all small _tradurs owing debts not exceeding £ 800 , forma * , nnd all others owing to any amount , can be entirely raised from their difficulties at a small expense , and without imprisonment or bankruptcy . All such Mr . Weston beg * will apply to him at Moira-ehambers , 17 Ironmonger-lime , _Chtapritlt , b letter or personally . - Persons summoned for small debts should » " . . diately , as they may thereby save _^ Zisrives _^ _oxTZ quent and lengthened comnii . _tlueiits to prison
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ITOTICB TO _EMIGRANTS . THE Undersigned continue *¦ _ , Fivst-Class _Fust-Siiilll * " . !? g » r ? S S _??!^ SHIPS , which average fro- -S AMbRICAN PACKBl _; lowing Ports , viz . : _ * " WOO to 1500 Tons , for the fol-HBW YORK ¦ _„„ --. _„„ P 1 _IILADF' , BOSTON , B-UTI * _-U'lIIA _, I NEW ORLEANS , Emigrant ** - > iORE , 1 BRITISH AMERICA , & c . uddres' m the country ca _* . engage passage hy letter ; n j . * _oed as underneath ; in wh . _sh case they need not be _, _» -. verpool until the day before the Shi p is to sail ; and ' . * ay will thereby avoid detention and other expenses , besides securing a cheaper passage , and having the hest ocrtiis allotted to tliem previous to their arrival . For further particulars apply , post-paid , to JAMES BflCKETT & SON . North End Prince ' * Duck , Liverpool ,
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TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ORDER OF INDEPENDENT ODD FELLOWS IN MAN * CHESTER , SALFORD , AND OTHER DISTRICTS . Brethren , —A Placard _hivsJutcly be « n circulated through this and other districts , signed W . Katcliffe , C . S ., containing the grossest falsehoods , and holding out a delusive bait to entrap the unwary , hoping by this means to get you once more within thoir -power , tliat they may make a selection of Victims to glut their ven . geance . We need scarcely warn you to beware of their machinations , for too many of you have already expe-
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This day is published , under the sanction of the G . M . and Board of Directors of the National Order of Independent Odd Fellows—NO . II . OF THE NATIONAL INDEPENDENT ODD FJELLOWS' EXAMINER . Price Twopence . CONTAINS : Appointment of tho Officers of the National Order of Independent Odd Fellows ; Report of the Manchester Board of Management ; Quarterly Committee ofthe Manchester District ; Liverpool Address ; A . list of the Plunderers of tlie Order ; Stoclsport District ; Minutes ofthe Provisional Committee ; Probe ' s Strictures on Ne Sutor ; Vindex v . the "London Journal ; " Ratcliffe , the difaulter _, tabooed at Doneaster , . be . Lc . To be had of the Booksellers . Printed and published by J . and W . Popo , 48 , Tibstrect , _Market-street , Manchester . To whom all orders and communications aro to be forwarded .
The Northern St A Li Saturday, October I, 1815.
THE NORTHERN ST A Li SATURDAY , OCTOBER i , 1815 .
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PEEL AND UIS " DIFFICULTIES . " IRISH "CONCILIATION , " AND ENGLISH "SHORT CROPS " ASD "SPECULATION . " Hitiiemo Peel has had a most wonderful "run of good luck . " Coming into power , as he did , at a period of great " commercial depression ; " when " late PANIC " had hung on the limbs of commercial enterprise for years , paralysing every exertion , and superinducing gloom and dismay in all minds ; coming in at thc end of a cycle of bad harvests , and at the end of ten years of gross mismanagement on the part of the Whigs , whose blundering , or whose
anxiety to feather their nests , so bare from their long exclusion from power , prevented them from raising an income equal to their expenditure , and who , therefore , were constrained to add to that debt the enormity and expense of which has acted like an incubus on the energies of the nation for the last half century ; coining in , under swell civenmstances , and having the foresight to take advantage of the great confidence reposed in him to give a turn to commercial affairs , to institute the principle of direct taxation on realised property and income—and being blessed , moreover , with three great and glorious harvests in
succession , which caused food literally to abound ; coming in under these circumstances , and when America was recovering from the depressing effects of her " late PANIC , " consequent on the immense issues of paper-money and the accompanying frenzy of speculation—and when , with this , the war with China was brought to such a fortunate termination as to open up to our merchants and traders a market of most immense extent : coming in under tliese circumstances , and being aided by adventitious 011 _CS , Peel ' s career has been eminently successful as a whole ; and he has been the first
Minister for the last thirty years that has had showered on his head such high commendations from all classes of the commercial and trading world , almost irrespective of old party distinctions . His financial measures ; his repealing of many ofthe duties on raw materials and on products employed in manufactures , and exacting a tax from property and income , brought him not only an income equal to his expenditure , Bht left him that i wonder of modern times—a surplus wherewith to purchase the repeal of other taxes that pressed on the productive energies of lhe kingdom ; and tiraafes
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was enabled both to restore " _co- " _, „ . ., „ , ¦ . „ ,,, , _.-fidence" in the money market , " and thus m- _., accommodatlon .. easy , and give an impetu ** _, , r . • * i . -..- - to the general manufactur my interest , sotti _** . . . , , ., , ' _tii the becalmed vessel on the stagnant wa < - '•** _ . .. . _* , . , ., , ci _* 3 once more afloat on the tide ot _,..- ¦ - . _.-osr-inm-: " though his operations have fixed u the owners of property and _enjoym of income the tax they regard as so odious _^ _heyoni the possibility oi ' wriggling it off so long as the present chargo on the debt lasts . The good harvests also aided his
financial measures most opportunely ; for * _, by making food plentiful , and thus rendering it unnecessary to purchase from abroad , they retained at home immense sums of money to be employed in Industrial operations , that Would otherwise have had to be sent to other countries in exchange for the corn we were sliort of . The improved aspect of _ji £ ih _* s in America , on the recovery of that country from a . dire and misery-scattering monetary revolution , andthe new Chinese treaty , also came in aid or his measures _•* . so that altogether , so for , Fe ? . l was "in luck ; " and he has had thc credit of having * brought about a period of " prosperity" totally
unprecedented in all our previous histories of "Prosperities" and their accompaning "Panics . " In periods of _puospbritt , few parties , even the most virulent and unappeasable of politicians , are disposed to find fault with the Minister : and from a like cause , ia periods of distress and " ruination" scarcely any Minister can stand . It was from this cause , that so many *> f the trading classes so readil y gave up the Whigs at fhe last general election : anxious as they were , that somebody else should try to tinker up the old kettle ; and aware as they were that any change could hardly be for the worse . With _thia class , poli
tical reasons go a very short way . As for _patmotisu , they have no conception even of the meaning of the term ; much less of the duties which it imposes on them . They may be attached to their" party ; " and , in ordinary times , willing to be as subservient to party as can be desired : but with them the real touchstone of -goodness is sueh success in finance as will bring about " a roaring trade ; " and to the sleeve ofthe man who for thc time being can accomplish tliis , will they pin their faith ; sacrificing to
him the principles and claims of their party as readily and vith as little remorse as ja Lcadcnhall butcher sacrifices the lives of young lambs . Many who ac t from motives such as these , contributed no small share of the exertions that raised Peel to power ; and by them he has been well sustained : while the general success of his financial and trading measures has blunted thc edge of the keenest opposition , and altogether ( for the ; timc ) disarmed those that are neither " hot" nor " cold . " .-
Not that Peel ' s career has been wholly free from difficidiies . Far from it . But then his position in relation to his ( once ) party and the circumstances of the times , has enabled him not only ( for ihe time ) to surmount somo of those difficulties—but actually to turn them to advantage . He had to work a party , pledged to the teeth to maintain a certain course of policy both towards Church and State : that policy he had to break down—and he had to make thc party
pledged to maintain it , his instruments for their own destruction . Placed as he was at their head ; being their only " leader ; " being the only man they had capable of , grappling with thc difficulties of the hour ; fearful of losing their hold of that power which they had once more wrung Irom the hands o ? the incompetent V / higs ; hungry from a ten years' absence from "the loaves anil fishes " : thus circumstanced , they were constrained to throw themselves into the inexorable Minister's
arms ,- and be dragged by lum through all the mire and filth of tergiversation , ArosTAsr , and unfaithfulness . Once chained to the car , there was no retreat . " In for an ounce—in for a pound . " Independence once gone , there was no step in degradation at which they could halt : and thus the first " difficulty" that Peel had , —a difficulty at one time most formidable , —was , by dextrous management , turned even to advantage : and the world was edified by seeing political morality trampled undor foot , and
the essence ofthe "high and noble ; in the land noting themselves down as obsequious _toobi , giving the lie to all their previous high-sounding professions . Once off the firm ground of principle , and once launched on the current of _ctyedienvj , like swine in water , they cut tlieir throats with their own pettitoes and the _GnEAi Conservative tarty , formed out of the wreck of Toryism , has had its brief hour of existence , and is now numbered with the things tha * were whose end was shame .
Another " difficulty" that Peel had to contend with was Ireland . Indeed he proclaimed this as " the difficult * -. " Bound up , as he was from former identity , with the Orange faction , his elevation to power was thc signal for the rival faction to _¦< Babble , bubble , toil and tvouhle , " at the agitation for a Repeal of the Union , which had been recommenced when the reins of power were slipping out of the hands of the Whigs , and when it was evident that the days of _patrosaoe were numbered . And a formidable " difficulty ' Ireland from the first proved ! Fuel was artfully added to tho agitation-fire , to
" Make the Hell broth boil and bubble , " 'till it threatened to boil over ! Defiance of the SAXON was deemed so noble an act , and so worthy of undying fame , that the _lile-imparting chisel ol the sculptor was set to work to _iireserve the attitude and eternize the action and the words ! Peel was dared to " go to law "—which daring he closed in v ? ith : and for montlis lie was kept in the very " Lot water" of thc " State-Trials . " Though worsted there , still the hard-fought battle of the courts had the effeet of letting off the superfluous steam , and ol lowerin g tho heat of the cauldron down to safety
degree : and then Peel sought to take advantage ofhis position , and overcome his master " difficulty" by a series of cunning concessions and well-timed " conciliations . " To this end , wchad the project of endowing Maynooth—an adroit attempt to detach the Roman Catholic clergy from , the " embodied discontent , " and to leave the master spirit of the ' * difficulty " without one main means of moving tho masses . To this end also , we had the New Colleges , conceived in the most " liberal" spirit—a spirit , which , while it did not give ascendancy to Catholicism , did put down the ascendancy of Orangeism . To this
attempt at conciliation , Peel gave np the dearlycherished " prejudices" of his youth—the " principles" on which he had rallied his party after the Reform-Bill dispersion _: and to this end did your Sandons and your Gladstones vote their former life A LIE , and " embody" in practice the principles they had unceasingly and uniformly d _» cried . To this end also , were tlie Orangemen snubbed . A great show of impartialitxj , and of a determination to deal with both agitating parties alike , had to be made and therefore Mr . Watson and another Justice , who attended Orange " monster meetings" rabid
Orangemen , were dismissed from the magistracy . But still all would not do . The " Repealers" were not to be so foolishly caught . The endowment of Maynooth was accepted , with thc insulting commentary that the hand that conceded it would also concede Repeal when the agitation was strong enough to be appeased in no other way . The New Colleges were spurned , because thc scheme of education was a " Godless " one : for the pupils in them were not handed over to either one set of priests or the otlur . The Roman Catholic priesthood were not to be detached from the effort to " kaisb Rome , " through the instrumentality ofa " good cry" fov nationality , by sueh a mere " sop
in the pan" as Maynooth , although there was the " golden link to bind them to the State" in prospect . And thus Peel ' s " concession" and " conciliation " failed of its object . His Irish " difficulty" was not _lessened . His '' good luck" seems in this case to have forsaken him , and the tide of fortune to have changed : for while he thus failed to hook the party for whom he set the bait , he exasp erated into active warfare the party who did support him when first he cncoulitercd the '' difficulty . " Hc railed in winning new friends—and lie lias arrayed against him ] _, ; . _* old ones . The dismissal of Mr . Watson and Mr . _Archdale stung the Orange faction to
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madness ; and while Lord _Wincuelsea in England has flung his " commissions , " as Lord-Lieutenant of several counties , into Pkl _' s face , through sympathy with his Irish Gilurch brethren , and as a reproof for Peel ' s _sacrific-M his " friends , " the Earl of Roden and the Marquis of Dow . vshire , with scores of J . P . ' s , have repeated the acts of Mr . Watson , and dared I ' m to take a similar reveuge ! That challenge Peel has not dared to accept : and tliere he is now , with the Roman Catholic _prelates PROTESTING against his New Colleges Act as » " godless scheme of education , " and calling on the
Irish people to spurn it from them with iudignant contempt , because the priestly "finger" is excluded from the College " p ie ; " there he is , with no thanks for his Maynooth Grant , to carry whicli he broke up his own party , and scattered " Conservatism" to thc winds ; there he is , with O'Connell as insulting as ever , preferring his demands , and bitterly taunting the "firm Minister" witli having given way to popular demauds iu his numerous " concessions ; " and there hc is , with the Orange institution revived : with tlie old waning embers of bigotry fannedinto aflame , * and with the . bristles of the whole sect of Irish Church
Protestants " setup" against the " traitor Peel . " If Ireland cverwas a difficulty to the present Ministry , it is doubly so now , ' Ministerial " conciliation" having failed , a new tack has now to be taken . The ORDINARY LAW is again to be invoked on the "disaffected" Repealer * : on those who will not be satisfied with the small "sop" thrown to them , as a taste of what they may get , if they will only behave themselves decently towards the Government . " Conciliation" having proved inefficacious , coercion is to bo tried . The defeat and ingloriousncss of former prosecutions seems to be forgotten ; and it would appear that the " gentlemen of the long robe" arc to make another effort to " lay" tho evil spirit of Burgh-quay by the heels . At least , we infer as much from the following significant article from the Morning Herald of Monday
last : — " How long , oh Catiline , wilt thou abuse our patience ? " was tho indignant exclamation of thc Roman statesman to the Roman incendiary . With one voice all good men in the empire have long tins , apostrop hised Mr . O'Connell— ' * Catiline , " as thc Chancellor most truly termed him — " Catiline , without his courage . " Lon < j impunity , however , has made the timid daring . It has become a serious question whether , towards such a man as this , further forbearance may not savour of criminality ? A mountebank , harmless in the mere collection of his pence , becomes dangerous by the circulation of those poisons to which thepublic may fall a sacrifice .
It seems to us high time to crush a nefarious system , held , we are satisfied , in equal abhorrence by every right-minded subject , whether Roman Catholic or Protestant . The reflecting Roman Catholic cannot fail to see , that , by the . present Minister , Irish agitation has been stripped of all its pretences , for he has made equal law and equal favour a reality . The loyal Protestant must admit the j ustice of the principle which deems civil _distiinrtion to be neither an inheritance nor a monopoly , but the legitimate reward of talent , guided by " industry , and not disqualified by sedition . Both must be blind indeed not to perceive , that as Christians and countrymen , they havo a common
interest in the prosperity of the realm , which , like a liouse , if divided against itself , must foil . It is the sacred duty—it may be the salvation of ailfirmly to denounce that withering conspiracy by which , under pretence of repeal , all tliat they hold dear or estimable in life may be ultimately compromised . Wc say , advisedly—under pretence of Repeal . We deny that Mr . O'Connell ever seriously contemplated such a measure . Other considerations apart , he is by no means such a blockhead . With Queen , Lords , and Commons , opposed to it , ho must feci its impracticability , save through a , rebellion . Now , a rebellion , he declares , he deprecates , and though he says it , we believe him . Of
course , we feel called upon to give some reason for so revolting an ad . r . ission . Wc believe him , then , because rebellion would cast down the idol of kis worship—his own selfish interest—it would compromise at once his profession and his safety . It is not only not incredible , it is on thc contrary consistent , that he whose sole divinity has been self , should of all extremities deprecate rebellion . Little docs it matter , however , what he means , if what he docs leads in that direction , —if the clear tendency of his whole course is to sow discontent among the people , to frustrate where he can , and to malign , when he cannot frustrate , the good intentions ofthe Government . The most liberal concessions have
regularly been met by this man ' s obloquy , and the practical , we may calf it the paternal benevolence of the Minister has been encountered , but not checked , by the baseness of his ingratitude . Abundant evidence of our assertion crowds upon us . We content ourselves with his conduct on tllC Maynooth grant and the Irish Academical Institutions Bill . What he docs mean we are not called upon to explain . If we were , we would answer unhesitatingly , that wc believe his object , and his exclusive object , since the Emancipation Act , was thc successful furtherance of a mendicant calling , disguised under the desecrated name of patriotism . But of what moment is his latent meaning , if his overt acts manifestly tend to mislead the ignorant and encourage the disloyal ? We repeat it—if the wise
policy of one ofthe wisest Ministers England ever saw is to be allowed its fair probation , this man and his abettovs must no longer be permitted to evade law and neutralise legislation . It is now manifest that no Government , be it Whig or be it Conservative , can satisfy Mr . O'Connell . The question then is , whether wc are to be ruled , as heretofore , under thc English constitution , or coerced under the Irish dictatorship ? This is our alternative . It may happen that Mr . 0 'Cosnf . ll may not succeed in the concealment ofhis meaning , or that a yery mercurial and not yery prudent population may mistaken , and then who can calculate on the very frightful , yet very possible contingencies ? May not the crisis really arise , whicli , to serve a purpose , this man affects to fear—a crisis in the convulsions of which his voice
may become powerless ? Who can answer for a phrensied rabble—where dwells the magician who can modulate at will thc yell of fanaticism or soothe the paryoxism of popular insanity ? If the crisis should arise , what excuse will the Minister , or what solace will the nation lind in the admitted fact , that the prime mover of thc madness never meant it ? We will go even further still . We do not believe lie would await it . We have little doubt that when the " poisons in jest" were circulating freely—when a whole empire was Hung into convulsions—when _, the hell-hounds of civil war had been let slip , and when law and life and property and civilization became the nrev or nlavthinrrs nf
the infernal pack , —we have no doubt at all that the innocent author of such terrible calamities , without power to stay them or courage to share them , would consult in flight an ignominous safety . His nature is not changed since the death of Mr . Magbatii , or since the Irish secretaryship of the present Mimstsr , or since the memorable night when Mr . Doherty evoked the " vow in heaven , "—that convenient vow behind which he hides and slanders , —that Christian vow which permits thc sin and remits thc responsibility . His whole career
justifies our supposition , for what has it examplified but one course of selfishness the most invariable and intense ? In Aim the characteristics of his country arc reversed . Her dauntless chivalry is changed to caution , or rather to cowardice ; her careless generosity to sordid avarice ; her heartthat _gushing spring of all her thoughtless , but ofton S _^ _T'il glves * _* _7 ' in hini * t 0 thc < _- ° i bead to calculate , and tho itching hand to grasp . We defy the vilest slave that flatters him to point out a single proposal which he did not mWia m *
touow up by a pecuniary demand . Far be it from us to attempt to enumerate the mendicant claims or patriotic imposts—the _association rent—the precursor rent-the repeal rent-the enrolment shilling—thc annual contribution , and the thousand other soul-sickening expedients by whicli a starving peoples little is made less . It , however Ireland s self-styled patriot press is credible , the collection since the Emancipation Act must amount to half a million ' . ! The Court parasite , in the face of mankind , plies his base vocation , and avows tho vileness b y which he earns his wages . Shameless and servile , he is at least no hypocrite But where shall we parallel throughout history ' s annals a patriot holding out the Cap of Liberty for alms . He a patriot ! Then was Amstides Unjust ; Pm _cori'unt : and _Maiivkt . _.-,. _!?* .
,, ling . Surely , surely , this system must have an end ine nation expects , and justice demands it . Let the same dauntless spirit which , despite evevy obstacle , gave equality to the Roman Catholic , now _CXt « lia justice to the Protestant , by crushing a tyranny odious alike to both . We tell the Minister , and we tell him advisedly , that all which is valuable in the Roman Catholic community will hail his interference with gratitude , and his success with joy . lie may depend upon it , though terror keeps them silent the intelligent are disgusted with the transparent juggle , and thc poor are tired out with the interminable extortion . Indeed it is high time . There was never exercised under the mask of freedom a more iron , relentless unforgiving despotism-no , not in the worst days of the worst revolution . We appeal to the most infatuated follower of _O'Conn-ell whether , in his wildest dreams , he dare exercise a will—whether lie dare breath a , _scrunlc without
being denounced-wiicthcr , on his very first step to > yhat they told him was liberty , lie did not find _himset'e a slave i it any man doubts that passive _obeo . 'ejice was the condition of his favour , let him
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recur to the period of the Reform Bill ; That m suse threw , as he then loudly boasted , half [ _u representation of Ireland into his lianik H 0 lV () i ( . he exercise that power ? Did lie select as _memfe *! , those who could expose the wrongs , while tiny _~ empliiied the genius of their country ? _Alnsl tj 7 ~ land of Burke and Sheridan , Cuiiran , and l _' _m _^ had mut es fur its _representations !—otceffent mute . ' who did thc bidding of their master , even to tl * strangling of their own independence , * a quiescent vassalage was notoriously their sole _qualiiii-atio * -, When the Speaker claimed for them freedom * «* speech , he might as well have -solicited the "k ' _uu _)^ of Solomon ; of what use , indeed , could speech li _^ been to thoso who denied tho of
were faculty _tlionel _^ which , even had thev possessed , they were prohibit _^ from exercising ? In this , his nomination _parli- * . ment , ( he lust of gain alone interfered with the h ,,. _* . of domination . But the ruling passion could not Ik > restrained , and even the hated Saxon might assume the livery , provided he purohased it at— " soy _tH thousand pounds . " At this very moment the dicta _, torial princi ple is as avowed as ever—sixty slaves are to no returned at the next election , provided thoy consent to have no will oftheir own . This is a eon . dition precedent to their elevation , if elevation , in . deed , that can be called which would degrade even M'Hals ' s " cow-boy" representatives . If , however , the system is not crushed—if the Conciliation Hall convention is permitted to tax , and legislate , and denounce as usual , we are far from doubting this disgusting consummation . An organised reign of
terror is established , and tliose who are audacious enough to bo independent , are left ft choice between exile and proscription . Hut though absence may screen thc person , it cannot protect the reputation , _Nofliiihtcan evade the winged venom of _Concilia tion llall . Age , sex , station , patriotism—all that is honoured in life or even sanctified by death , onlv whets the obliquy of thc Christian convention . Tie whole world has been its high way , and as its _Freucli prototype possessed its orator , so does _Uurgh-quay its slanderer of " the human race . " Arc wo called on for examples ? Stand forth from your _obsouritv •' ye base , brutal , and bloody Whigs , " st . „ , „ _^ the scorpion ingratitude you nourished ! jj j . witness , Lord Brougham , slavered now , ami _sla _!* , dered now—as if one poison could counteract" -in other ! Attest it , thou shade of Giovtsr . ' _{ £ Fourth , to whom on his knees thc _injote ' / J _, sponsible blandly promised a diadem •*• ,. * a n _, r
and whose memory lie pursues witn ceasel ess v t , peratiou . When a hollow pretext v . _•«» , _« ¦ _„ _,, « ** fawning upon the _Meleournes and the K 0 lm ,, 1 in order to get places for thc tail , did hc „ _; , _«'• cover that the Coercion Bill was Lord _GnK't * which was Lord Melbourne ' s measure ? and _mr ' shameless still ! did not Lord Melbou- _ive _mc-ui _* submit to take tho credit of being _iiifjipaljla A doing the very things which , under Lord U _* i , ' had notoriously done ? Did not this venal den gogue pretend to discover that Lord _Koiauxrv In ! for the first time governed Ireland on priiw _' mW ., equality ; when it was notorious that thc _adminis _trations of Lords Welleslky and _Asjclksi-y _though partially unjust to Protestants , were founded on _tltfe principle * , and did not Lord _Normani-v , like Lor . ) Melbourne , meanly submit to profit by what \ t knew to be foully false 3 Again—did the" virtues r ) Georgk , the pious and the good—did the « b ! _1
iraiiKiicss oi nis son , William IV ., secure themimmunity ? Where is the exception among the riril sections—which of tlieir leaders—we name tliem-. Peel , Russell , Roebuck—has escaped ? _jj-jT alas ! how should they , when even he who conce n ' _trates the perfections of them all—he , _1 _'Viar £ glory , Europe ' s champion , the envv , were ' lie r « the admiration of the whole world—when ll ' m , _^ roN himself has had his setting splendour W , it by these mongrels ? Did the lustre of their teltm ' or the memory of the services lavished upon Uic Roman Catholics of Ireland , shield _Plcnkei or the unburicd Busiie ? Was the modesty of England ' s matrons , or the valour of her soldiers , imrevilcd ffas not her population wholesale spat upon as " Saxon ?" Why was Franco insulted in the person of her Sovereign , the lustre of whose crown is lost in thnt of Im virtues ? Was it inset that liberty should be wounded
in thc persons of Mina and _Espariero , or if Jlnssian absolutism required that her Emperor -Aiould U branded as a " monster , " ivas it to maintain slander ' s impartiality that thc peaceful tomb of Washi . vcio . v should be outraged , and republican America placed under proscription ? These are your _demagogue ! Your tribunes oftlie people ! Yourliberty-brawlcK ! Your Irish toleration-mongers ! Give power to such men !! Why the very graves of buried despots would disgorge them to do homage to their master . * . Tlte grovelling reptiles , spawned from the Lifi ' ey ' s slime upon Burgh-quay , perfect in themselves , arc also specimens of their tribe throughout the world . The transformation from the demagogue to the despot is of course . Give them hut authority , and they : _u « sure to avenge themselves on those principles of freedom by proclaiming which they hypocritically attained it . No matter what distinction adventitious
circumstances may have drawn between tliem—whothcr robedin the purple of Domitian , or disfigured by the rags of RoBESi'iEnnE , they are all the same . Thc same infernal fetters link the whole fraternity—the same frigid philosophy which shuts out man ami nature from their sympathies—the same hard , cr afty , mercy-hating spirit , which , in our memories , crushed throne and altar in the name of libcitv , and then mocked its goddess from the scaffold of the guillotine . May Heaven avert the sway of such men from deluded Ireland ! The mild majesty of _England's Queen would be superseded for the worse even by the Council of Three Hundred , and our holy Church needs neither light noi * purification from the fires of
the Inquisition . Wc have not the least objection to Mr . O'Connell ' s antics , so long as they _inerelv render /«» -M * _y ridiculous . He may parody ambition to the top ofhis bent , in tho robes of an alderman , or travestie Punch _in'the chair ofa lord mayor—lie may even befool himself upon "Tara ofthe Kings , " and bowhis "ii * - crowncd" head for thc Milesian cap from which Saxon tyranny has purloined tho bells ; but when hc approaches the yery verge of rebellion—when he supersedes the legislature by the levying of taxes , and the courts of law by the creation of tribunals , ami thc executive by what hc boasts to be a monster organisation—when a weekly congress holds its permanent session in the metropolis of Ireland ,
despatching , through the country its missionaries ot sedition—when every authority , institution , nnd establishment in the land are made the subjects ol ridicule or slander ; and when the unhappy people , now impoverished by mercenary exactions , and now inflamed by revolutionary falsehoods , aro taught to repudiate the Government of England for the sympathy of America or the fraternisation of Francewo do say it is an unnatural state of things , which should be at once terminated . Sir Robert Peel may rest assured that the Roman Catholic community , their nobility , gentry , aye , and a vast portion Of their clergy also , grateful for the conciliatory spirit of his system , await but his signal to tender their co-operation . The ancient Roman Catholic names of Ireland—the Fixgals . the TnismLKSToxs ,
the _GomiAN-sTow-vs , the Bellews _, _arcnotfo be found in the muster roll of sedition . They stand aloof in significant estrangement , and represent thousands and tens of thousands who have long been disgusted at the shameless imposture by which their bodyiiaTO been misrepresented , impoverished , awl ( lisjiraccd * Ireland , long compromised by the extremes of both parties , relies for relief from both on the firmness ef thc Minister . Wc speak in no spirit of cxclusivcness—we stop not to ascertain the colour of his creed who evades the law er violates thc constitution Whether it be the first Protestant mag istrate m lhe land , or the paltriest mountebank that tumbles on Burgh-quay , let each , wc sav , have an equal measure of justice . By this just system , pr omptly , ami rigidly , and fearlessly carried out , the people oi ireland will feel that thev are under tlic rule of an
nilpartial and a paternal Government . This article is not an ordinary one ; nor is it h'Oi » an ordinary pen . Assuredly it is not from any ° _f _t' , c usual writers in tko Ilivald . The very form of tlie article , —to say nothing of its power and force , so hrt superior to the ordinary twaddle of Gramfmama , — bespeaks this . The Herald is the Ministerial organ * and thc article in question bears all the external impress of demi-authority . It is intend ed to serve two or three purposes * . to frighten _O'Coxxe" _-. J ' *; ' _° mischief
first instance , by letting him know that towards liim is brewing ; to pave tlic way ' __ legislatorial measures to put down political agitations and political societies in Ireland , and to secure the support of thc Whigs to such measures , seeing ¦ the measures of " conciliation" to which _boikjW _' _™ were parties , have failed to satisfy even in'les l ' ' and it is intended also to quiet the perturbed spirit of Orangeism , by showing the teeth of the _LAtt once move ready to bite against the file of Repeal *
The picture that the Lord Ci iascellob draws oi _O'Coxkell , in thc article just quoted , ( for _wj charge thc article to Mm ) is a masterly one ; one , wc gnc 1 t ' to say it , —which the actions of the original more than justify . The shameless mendicity . of the Burghquay " patriots" has long stunk in the nostrils 8 t __ al true lovers of freedom : and the tyranny cxcrciscu over thouglit and action by the imperious dictator , has long been thc scorn of every friend to practical liberty . These things make it difficult for thc real Repealers—those who are so from princip lc-bc cause thoy recognise the right of all peop le to judge ol their own wants , and supply their own necessities ; tlio transgressions ofthe first princip le of independence by the money-gorging freedom-deny ing junta at t c " Conciliation Hall , " wc say , _malie it difficult tor the acters-out of thc democratic creed to touch witli them , _became he that handles pitch must expect to be defiled _* UIL if the THREAT conveyed in the
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 4, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_04101845/page/4/
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