(From the Dublin Morning Post.) FRIDAY, TEN O'CLOCK.-We give, in a second edition, a Proclamation which was posted throughout the city at an early hour this morning. It will be seen that it contains restrictions on a much more extended scale than any that has beretofore been published. Whether or not it will have the effect of altogether suppressing political meetings in this country remains yet to be proved. It has, however, caused great excitation in the city, and various are the speculations to which it has given rise as to its probable result.

next day, the O'Connell Tribute Sunday.Tralee Mercury.

TO THE

TAX-PAYING PEOPLE OF

ENGLAND.

Bolt-court, 19th January, 1831.

BROTHER SUFFERERS,

You have now read the whole of the The excitement created by yesterday's Pro-see that it is the people of Ireland, and foregoing documents; you must clearly clamation has been greater than we have witnessed on any of the preceding occasions. We not any demagogue, or association of must confess that the effects were really demagogues, as the impudent vagaastounding. It appears, now, that a complete bonds of loan-jobbers and tax-eaters trial of skill is at issue between the Govern-call all those who have an objection to ment and Mr. O'Connell. Whatever skill the be robbed of the last penny of their Government may use, they have in addition, the balance of power in their favour; whilst, earnings. It is the constant practice of on the other side, Mr. O'Connell announces these impudent vagabonds to represent his determination to use no weapon but the all those who have the spirit to oppose law-no support but public opinion. But Mr. the measures by which they fatten; it O'Connell has another task to encounter: he has at once to combat the Government by is their constant practice to represent legal means, and to control the feelings of his all such men, as men destitute of forfriends by means of his extensive influence; tune and of character. What, then, is to check the progress of public opinion from it that can give these men such enoradvancing to public exasperation, and yet to keep up the public opinion at the point which mous power over the minds of the is deemed requisite to give it due weight. We people? have already given our opinion on the "Proclamation" system; and the last Proclamation, though different in degree of force, is precisely the same in principle as the others on the sub. ject. The question of Repeal or no Repeal will be lost or carried by the public opinion; if that he firmly for it, the Repeal will take place-if not, there is an end to the possibility of its accomplishment.-Dublin Morning Post of Saturday.

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powerful indeed, if the organs be so Their arguments must be lies in her heart; the organs are destivery contemptible. But, Corruption tute of neither property nor character; but still the weight of these, in addition to all the talent that they possess, and all the just confidence that the people place in their judgment, would be nothing at all, were there not good THE CATHOLIC BISHOP OF KERRY grounds for the propositions that they AND THE O'CONNELL TRIBUTE. advocate; The paragraph which appeared in The West-Ireland were not cordially for the repeal in short, if the people of ern Herald regarding the Catholic Bishop of of the Union, could the Paget-StanleyKerry, we have authority to say is false in all its parts. It is false that he refused the use Proclamations have been necessary of the chapel. It is false that he controlled Could it have been necessary to prevent, any of his clergymen. It is false that he dis- by force, people from dining or breakapproved of the collection. Indeed, his own fasting together? munificent donation to the O'Connell Fund, which exceeds that of any other Ecclesiastical It is clear, then, brother tax-payers, Dignitary in Ireland, ought to be sufficient to that it is the Irish people who call for stamp the paragraph with falsehood, and a repeal of the Union; and supposing should have made our enlightened contempo- them to understand their interests, let rary hesitate ere he opened his columns for a bundle of falsehoods regarding our truly esti- us now see whether our interests would mable Prelate.-Tralee Mercury. not be advanced by the same measure. THE O'CONNELLTRIBUTE-THE ARMY.-WeI have always been for a dissolution of understand that the Officer commanding the depot of the 10th Regiment, now stationed in our Barracks, received an order on Saturday last, by express, to prevent the Catholics from attending Mass at the parish chapel on the

this Union, because I thought that such dissolution would be for the benefit of England as well as Ireland. In the Register before the last, I gave what I

deemed some very cogent reasons in ment inflicted on farmers and gentlefavour of this dissolution. I showed men for employing Irish labourers ; clearly how the union robbed Ireland and, observe, our labourers have counof the main part of its resources, and tenanced in the commission of these how it made the people the most violences on this account by the memwretched upon the face of the earth; Ibers of parliament themselves, who, showed how it reduced to hog-food, and in their speeches in Parliament have, hog-food alone, the people whose labour a hundred times over, represented this sent forth bacon, pork, beef, mutton, and inundation of Irish labourers as a great butter, in hundreds of ship-loads, to evil, and especially as one cause of the feed other nations. In the space of one sufferings of the people of England. month (last spring), more than nine They, the English landowners, and thousand Irish hogs, fit for the knife, Burdett particularly, have represented passed through one single turnpike- these Irish labourers as interlopers who gate, at Speen Hill, near Newbury, in come and take away all the advantage Berkshire. When I was at Bristol, of the harvest from the English lalast spring, I every day saw droves of bourers. This has been repeatedly the fat hogs and fat sheep landed at that talk in the House of Commons for town from Cork. Nearly the whole of years past. Is it any wonder, then, Lancashire, and a great part of York- that the English labourers should have shire, are fed by Ireland, down to the risen upon the Irish labourers and their very eggs themselves. I have heard of employers? Here, then, is clearly one a man at Manchester who imports Irish cause of the union of the two countries. eggs to the amount of forty thousand The taxes, tithes, and rents are brought pounds a-year. In short, with the hither; the bacon, the pork, the flour, exception of the soldiers, the tax- the butter, the poultry, the eggs, come eaters of various descriptions, and com- hither, and the sturdiest of the Irish paratively a few persons in trade, with labourers come hither in order to get the exception of these the laborious their teeth stuck into some portion of people of this productive country never them. Now, a repeal of the union taste flour in any shape; never taste would, to a certainty, produce a repeal meat of any sort; never taste even a of the Church establishment there; miserable egg. Their only food is that and thus all the tithes would be left in damned root which it has been sought the country. The Irish tax-eaters would to render the food of the working peo- live in Ireland, for the greater part, ple of England; but to which food they at any rate; and the Parliament being have, I thank God, shown that they restored to Ireland would keep a large will not submit. part of the land-owners constantly there.

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Now, is there any man who will look me in the face and say that the people But, now, will not some narrowof Ireland ought to be made to live minded short-sighted Englishman say: thus? Is there any Englishman who "This would be bad for England; for will say that he would assist to kill the" she would not then have expended Irish unless they will consent to live" in her so large a part of the rents, thus? A tax-eater base enough to say tithes, and taxes of Ireland." This, this may be found; but to be found no even if there were nothing more; even such man is, who lives upon the fruit if we were to acquiesce in this opinion, of his own labour. For my part, my is an opinion to be urged, in opposition astonishment is that any Englishman to the repeal, by no man who does not can be found, who does not live upon deserve to be hanged upon a limb of the taxes, who is not for a repeal of the tree nearest to the spot where he the union with Ireland. It is very well utters the sentiment; for, what argument known that, in many instances,violences is this but that of the robber and the in Kent, and other counties, and that murderer? He robs because he wants even fires have taken place, as a punish- to take away the property of the person

that he robs; and he murders his vic-dred thousand, who is at all aware of tim for fear of detection; and, brother the manner in which the Irish people tax-payers, the Englishman who can have been treated since the union. wish the power of England to be em- Those who were the advocates of the ployed to compel the Irish to live upon union told us that it would produce the accursed potatoes, and to be clad tranquillity; that it would place the worse than the savages in the woods of people of Ireland under the protection America; ; the Englishman who can of an enlightened, impartial, and pawish the Irish people to be compelled ternal legislature. From the date of to submit to this, in order that England the union to this very hour that legismay thereby profit, is, disguise the lature has been passing acts as occasion matter howsoever he may to his own demanded for abridging the liberties of heart, a robber and a murderer. So the people of Ireland. This conciliatthat, if it were true that England ing, consolidating; this tranquillising gained by this treatment of Ireland; measure, had been adopted only six if this were true, the proposition in favour of it would be rejected with scorn by every Englishman who deserved not to be hanged.

years, when the sun-set and sun-rise bill was passed by the united Parliament, but to operate in Ireland only. Now, let me put it to any English But the proposition is not true: it is farmer, for instance, how he would like not true that England has gained, or to be treated in the manner that Irish can gain, by the sufferings of Ireland farmers have been treated. Men should proceeding from this source. That do by others as they would be done measure which is called the union; unto; and if they fail to do this, very that unnatural alliance; that dog and frequently, they are sure to get punished cat marriage; that unholy junction, first or last. Let us see, then, how the which was effected by means never to English farmer would relish the sun-set be thought of without feelings of horror; and sun-rise bill; suppose a law were this measure took place just about passed to authorise the King, or rather, thirty-one years ago; and from that his Ministers, to issue at their discretion day to this day, England has been be- a Proclamation, forbidding all the coming weaker and weaker with regard people of any county, or of all the to foreign powers; and more con- counties, of England, to quit their temptible in the eyes of the world; her houses for more than fifteen minutes at burdens more and more oppressive, any one time, between sun-set and sunand her people more and more misera- rise, and to keep this prohibition in force ble and discontented. I do not pretend for any length of time that they pleased; to say that all, or any-thing like all, the suppose that, during this prohibition, sufferings of the people of England, and men or women might be brought before the loss of character to the country, two justices of the peace, conjointly have arisen from the union; there are with a barrister appointed by the Gonumerous causes of these lamentable vernment, and be by them imprisoned and disgraceful consequences; but at discretion, or TRANSPORTED FOR there can be no doubt in the mind of SEVEN YEARS; and this, too, obany man that the union with Ireland serve, WITHOUT TRIAL BY JURY. has been one of those causes. Without Yes, English farmer, suppose yourself that union there must long ago have and every member of your family, liable been a repeal of the Protestant Church to be transported for seven years, for Establishment, which is the great curse being out of your house for fifteen of Ireland. Without that union there minutes together between sun-set and never could have been the necessity for sun-rise! Suppose this; say that you the terribly coercive measures which would like it; and then join the Bloody have been adopted and enforced in that Old Times newspaper in vilifying Mr. country. There is not one Englishman O'Connell, and in calling upon the out of fifty thousand, or out of a hun-Government to send an additional army

to make the Irish content without a re- and now it is found necessary to perpetupeal of the union. ate this terrible law, in order to prevent a

I shall be told that this terrible repeal of the union, which, as I said power, that this horrible discretion, before, means, in other words, a total was intended as a temporary measure: abolition of tithes and a repeul of the I know it, or, at least, I believe it; but church establishment in Ireland. And, I know that it has lasted twenty-four to effect this purpose, the law is necesyears. I shall be told that it was in-sary: there can be no doubt of that; tended just to keep the country quiet and something besides the enforcement till the all-conciliating measure of Ca- of this law will be necessary; there can tholic Emancipation should be adopted; be no doubt of this; but the question but that measure has been adopted, for us Englishmen to decide is, whether and the terrible sunset and sunrise law it be for our advantage, that Mr. O'Conhas not been repealed. I shall be told nell and the Irish people, should finally that this terrible law was a law of ne- succeed or be finally subdued; and for cessity in order to prevent the greater my own part, I have no hesitation in evil of open rebellion. I may well saying that I do most earnestly pray for admit that to be true; for what can the former, and that I do most anxiousyou want more as a proof of the mis-ly hope, that the Government and the chiefs attending this union? The parliament will give way, and will union has lasted thirty-one years; and, adopt a series of such measures as shall if, at the end of the thirty-one years tranquillise Ireland in reality, and unite such a law. BE NECESSARY in order it in heart, instead of name, with this to preserve the country from open re- kingdom. bellion, have we not here a complete proof that that union has tended to disturb Ireland and to injure and weaken the whole kingdom? And, on the other hand, if the Bloody Old Times assert that the existence of this terrible law be NOT NECESSARY, then let it employ its elegant pen in eulogizing the character and disposition of those by whom Ireland has been governed for the last thirty-one years.

There are, however, writers enough, and there will be, I dare say, talkers enough, to urge them to follow a directly contrary course. These thoughtless and mercenary and barbarous scribes are crying out for force. Their phrase is, "If we must fight for it we must." They are for war against Ireland; they are for sending over Englishmen to cut the throats of the Irish; they are for uniting the two nations by making their But to judge of the effects of the blood run in one common_stream. Union, what need have we of more than" Fight for it"! my friends? Fight for the Paget-Stanley-Proclamations, which what? Why, fight for the church we have now read. The justification of establishment of Ireland; for that is the these proclamations, and of the mea-real bone of contention. Fight for the sures adopted in consequence of them; religion of the church of England! the plea of the Government, is the old Oh! no! for not one man out of ten standing plea for all such acts; namely, belongs to that religion in Ireland. All NECESSITY. In the famously-fine the rest disown it. All the rest deem it speech of Mr. O'Connell you find the a thing erroneous, when they give it speech of Stanley, the speech of the the very mildest epithet. All the rest Marquess of Anglesey, the speech of fly from it, as from something to which Lord Brougham, and the speeches of they have a horrible dislike. It is not, several others condemning the law un- therefore, for this that these bloodyder which these proclamations have minded men would have us fight. It is been made, and consenting to it only as to uphold and enforce the laws relating a temporary measure to afford security to tithes and to ecclesiastical property. while the Emancipation bill was passing It is to compel the Irish to pay those and being carried into effect. The Eman- tithes against which we in England are cipation bill has been carried into effect; petitioning from one end of the country

this would cost something, I take it; and that cost would assuredly fall upon us. The cost of only one campaign would be, first and last, not less than about fifty millions of pounds sterling! There would be spies and informers by whole bands to pay; there would be remuneration for losses sustained; rewards for loyalty innumerable, and in amount prodigious; pensions for wounded,

to the other; to compel them to submit to those tithes and church rates, which we, though under circumstances not a thousandth part so irritating and so galling, find to be absolutely insupportable. This is what these men would have us fight for; for as to separating England from Ireland, the charge against Mr. O'Connell and the people in this respect is as false and foul as any that ever issued from the lungs of corrup-provision for widows and orphans, tion. and, in short, a new national debt

Besides, in what a state of things is it, created; and all for the sake of upthat it is proposed to commence this holding tithes; all for the sake of famous fight for tithes and church lands upholding that by which millions are to be kept in the hands of a few families made miserable for the sake of supportthat now possess and have so long posing the splendour of a few families. sessed them? In what a state of things The end, however, does not come, is it that this fight is to be commenced notwithstanding all this. The country and to be carried on? England herself must be laid desolate; it must be made is in a charming situation for making unproductive and worth nothing; or war upon Ireland, for upholding tithes, there must be a force maintained to or for any other purpose. France is keep the people in subjection. If it marching on through the bankruptcies require thirty thousand soldiers now, it of loan-mongering Ministers to a repub-will require sixty thousand after this lic, taking the successful revolters of Bel-fight, to keep the people in a state of gium under her wing; and this too amidst obedience. So that the fight is not the shouts of a thousand to one of the all: there are taxes and debt that hang English nation. The English labourers to the tail of the fight, as we now find have issued their proclamation against then hanging to the tail of the glorious the infernal potatoes and salt; and, victory of Waterloo. these stupid and bloody men imagine, that they will go and compel the Irish to live upon potatoes!

But "fight for it!" Suppose we were to fight, and were to triumph; and suppose this triumph to be as complete as these bloody men could wish it to be. The Bloody Old Times suggests that an absolute power of dungeoning bill should be passed for Ireland, and that Members of Parliament should be as liable to be shut up as other men: that is to say, the bloody thing proposes that Mr. O'Connell should be seized at once, and shut up in a dungeon. Well, now, suppose the Whigs to do this first, and then suppose an English and a Scotch army to go over, kill two or three hundred thousand Irish with as much facility as Bobadil obtained his victories, and make the rest of the people live in slavery and misery as complete as ever; suppose all this to be accomplished, and that is supposing a prodigious deal;

Such would be the consequences of victory; those of defeat I must leave others to describe. But have I described all the consequences? Have I, above all other men living, forgotten that there is paper-money in Ireland? aye, and in England too! Oh, no! And who is there that does not know that a fighting for it would reduce this paper, in an instant, to a state inferior to that of its parent, rags? In short, it is impossible for the paper-money to circulate in Ireland for one moment after men begin soberly to anticipate a fight. You have seen that Mr. O'Connell, at the close of his second letter, (inserted in this REGISTER,) notifies, that if the Government proceed to a suppression of the Press, he shall recoinmend an universal rejection of the rags! That would be effectual for the putting a stop to their circulation. The contagion would reach England immediately, and put a complete stop