"choose to protect us or to join | print in any country. It would

"the Priests."

bring down condign punishment upon the head of the author even in the United States of America. It is precisely the case contemplated by BLAKSTONE, when he says, that every individual is not to take it into his head, that he has a right to judge of the amount of the provocation which is to justify resistance.

Yet, Sir HARCOURT LEES sends forth his menaces with impunity! We hear of no arrest of him; no harassings of him; no holding

Here, indeed, as the Chronicle well observes, is ground for prosecution. Here is the most audacious threat ever held out to any Government. Here is a man absolutely menacing the Govern ́ment with open resistance and with attack by military force which he says he is organizing, unless the Government shall, within two months, change its conduct with regard to Ireland! He speaks to the Ministers by name. He challenges forth Mr. CANNING, and of him to bail. He belongs to he speaks of another part of the [that faction, who have so long enCabinet, as the "POPISHjoyed impunity, that he has no GRENVILLES." Everybody knows fears. He thinks (and appears that, if the GRENVILLES be of the justly to think) that he can say or Catholic faith, they are every one do what he pleases. There is noof them perjured men. Every one thing which Englishmen dislike so knows, that there is not a male much as partiality. The arrest member of that family who is a of Mr. O'CONNELL has excited Catholic; and the sole ground of here a very strong sensation; but the imputation rests on that which that sensation would have been ought to atone for ten thousand much weaker than it is, had we faults against that family; namely, not before us the conduct and the the princely generosity of the late impunity of SIR HARCOURT LEES. Marquis of Buckingham towards Every man now sees very clearly the family of Bourbon and its de- what is going on in Ireland. pendants at a moment, and for Every one sees now the real cause years, indeed, when the backs of of all the miseries of that country the whole world were turned upon and of the enormous expense to them. Any thing so audacious as which this country is put on acthis publication of SIR HARCOURT count of those miseries. LEES never before appeared in

Let me, in conclusion, Gentle

The people of England were astounded, they were stunned into reflection by the fact, the hideous fact, that whole parishes in Ireland were actually starving, while England's ports were crowded, and her markets lowered by the influx of Irish food. Such a phe

men, express a hope, that the ar-land within these last two years. rest of Mr. O'CONNELL will pro-Severe as were your sufferings of duce no excitement to acts or 1822; painful as they are to think words that may tend to diminish of even now, they will finally proin the smallest degree, that fa-duce the most beneficial effects. vourable impression which is now entertained here with regard to the glorious struggle in which you are engaged. I perfectly agree with Mr. O'CONNELL, that you should mix your cause up with nothing else; that you should go steadily on making your case known to the whole of the civil-nomenon could not fail to make its ized world; and particularly to the way to the senses of the most people of England, whose pre- thoughtless. There required no judices, though deeply rooted, be Parliamentary Committees and you assured, will soon be removed. Reports to set people to thinking They will give way to the calls of about the causes of such a horrid truth and justice; and you will state of things. What! an army here find friends efficient and paid by England to keep the faithful. starving Irish quiet, while the ports of England were actually crammed with ships bearing to our shores Irish provisions, and while a general subscription was making throughout the country to purchase driblets of meal and potatoes, to send to that very country which was filling the shops of all the towns of this island with bacon, pork, butter and bread! This unheard-of state of things; this state of things so far out of nature, set the people of this country to thinking. Your Association are developing the causes

In the meanwhile, temperate discussion, industrious exposure, facts judiciously collected and arranged, and circulated in the most extensive manner, will be the most effectual means that you can employ. I have had a great deal of experience in public matters; I have long been an observer of the workings of the public mind in England; and it gives me the greatest delight to be able to say with truth, that I never saw so great a change in that mind as I have witnessed with regard to Ire

of this state of things. We all now be brought by the direction of this see that which we never before same Attorney-General? There dreamed of. We are now trac-will be plenty of time hereafter ing back to their causes these to refer more particularly to the evils, of the origin of which we debate or proceedings to which I had before no idea. here allude. Be you assured, Proceed, Gentlemen, as you that the eyes of the English peohave begun. Make your case ple are steadily and anxiously known to the world. Leave the fixed upon these transactions. embodying of nilitary force to SIR HARCOURT LEES. Bid your suffering countrymen to have patience a little longer; and be you and they perfectly convinced, that England will do you that justice which has been so long delayed, and which, when it shall be obtained, will, by every man who has gratitude in his heart, be ascribed to your fellow-labourer and countryman, Mr. O'CONNELL.

I am, Gentlemen,
With the greatest respect,
Your sincere Friend, and
Most obedient Servant,
WM. COBBETT.

Let me, since I have the pen again in hand, express to you my great pleasure at having heard the praises you bestow on Mr. JOHN SMITH. These praises flow from that gratitude which has always been a characteristic in the Irish people. He has been, since 1822, and then in particular, your real friend. His zeal, activity and humanity, on that trying occasion, are truly beyond all praise; and the talent which he displayed in the correspondence relative to the means of relieving the miseries of Ireland, reflects the highest honour on his mind. I do not know Mr. SMITH personally: he has, in his place in Parliament, censured me; but, I have recently read his letters addressed to the sufferers of that dismal day,

P.S. A Correspondent has just reminded me of the complaint which the Irish Attorney-General made, the Session before last, in the House of Commons, relative and I should be ashamed of myto the way in which JURIES self, I could not view my own conWERE FORMED IN DUB-duct without self-reproach, if E LIN! Is it, pray, before a jury, did not publicly join in those such as he described, on that oc- praises which your gratitude has casion, that Mr. O'CONNELL is to so justly bestowed upon him.

I am pleased to see, too, that very nature he abhors the you do not overlook the important" Orange - ruffian," true descendservices of Mr. HUME. His mo- ant of the plunderer. And how tion relative to the law-established many English gentlemen are there Church of Ireland has done much of family as ancient even as he ; more than any single effort that I know of, to open the eyes of the English. Observe, too, that Mr. PLUNKETT was his ostensible and set opponent! Never was triumph more complete than that of Mr. HUME. He gave us chapter and verse as to the root of all the woes of Ireland, and of one great cause of taxation in England. Indeed, what has he not done to give us,

of fortune as ample; of minds as independent; abhorring the "Orange-ruffian" as cordially as he; and yet how silent they are! And that, too, at a moment when they must see, that if the troubles of Ireland be prolonged, the whole kingdom is menaced with ruin!

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Kensington, 30th Dec. 1824.

on both sides of the water, a true | MR. ALDERMAN DARLEY. view of the workings of the THING? You can have no idea of the difficulties that Mr. HUME has to contend with; yet, his industry, his zeal, and his real solid talent overcame every thing.

SIR,

SEEING that your time must be so incessantly taken up with the weighty affairs of arresting, holdAnother subject of congratula- ing to bail, and the like, give me tion is, that you have fixed on leave to be your purveyor of SIR FRANCIS BURDETT to present news; and, as a beginning, pray your petition to the House of accept from me the following little Commons. You are now, then, pithy paragraph from a New York in the hands of an English gentle-paper of the 24th of November :man of great patrimonial estates, "OUR NAVY.-When Britain wholly beyond the reach of every "attacked us, in 1812, we had thing that leads to dirty compro-"six frigates and fourteen sloops, mise, and of talent (if he will but" and other small ships of war. bestir himself) equal to this or to" We shall have, actually comany other undertaking; and that" pleted, hy the end of 1826, he will bestir himself now, it were "twenty-two ships of the line, almost impious to doubt. In his " thirty-seven frigates, and more

“than a hundred smaller vessels. the coolness imaginable." I'll be "Such is our progress in the sworn for him he did! Par might "short space of fourteen years! have a very different view of "Our merchants cover the sea things from that of JAMES and DACRES. PAT might be of the religion of his namesake, the

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"with their ships; and now those ships sail in security. We shall "never again hear of American Saint, and, preferring the post of " seamen impressed and flogged captain, or admiral, to that of "for refusing to fight against common sailor, he might not choose "their country!" to remain where no skill, no va"and what is lour, no devotion to King and country could make him either. Besides this, PAT might have a notion of his own about "countrymen," and might not call those his countrymen, who begin battles of Skibbereen, or who "shoot fellows lurking in a shrubbery.”

"Well," say you, that to me?" Not much, perhaps, but a great deal to the King and the kingdom. Something that says, that it is not very wise to refuse to do that which will make us one united people. And, now for an anecdote to amuse you a little amidst your cares.

It is too much to hope, that you will be able to find time for the reading of Essays on political economy, or I would recommend

WM. COBBETT.

JAMES, the "Blue and Buff" historian, in his attempts to gloss over the disgraces of the late American war, says, that one to you an attentive perusal of the cause of the success of the Ame- following article on the probable ricans was, that they had in their fate of Bank-notes. But, enough ships a great number of our for the present. seamen," chiefly Irish;" and he tells us, that the unfortunate youth, DACRES, when captured by CoмMODORE HULL, saw one of our own seamen, "an Irishman," sitting on the deck of the American I HAVE, over and over again, frigate, "making bullets for the given it as my opinion, that the destruction of his countrymen." Small Note Bill, which was a And he adds, that, notwithstand- partial repeal of Peel's Bill, ing his (Dacres's presence) he pro- would only provide a respite, and ceeded with his work with "all that the catastrophe would be

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