That, it was in this same HOUSE, that a petition from the electors of SANDWICH, Complaining that Sir Thomas TROUBRIDGE, one of their members, had obtained his commission in the navy by criminal means, was, while the fucts were not denied, rejected by the "reformed House of Commons." That, it was this same HOUSE, that my resolution against Sir ROBERT PEELwas EXPUNGED" upon a motion, put by Lord ALTHORP WITHOUT NOTICE, and amended by the Speaker without the leave of the House. That, it was in this same HOUSE, that the suns were voted for the new the "Poor-law Amendment Bill,” brought in by Lords ALTHORP and BROUGHAM, was passed, in 1834.' That, it was in this same HOUSE, now consumed by FIRE, that the vault (now let down by fire) resounded with PRAISES on "the MAGNANIMOUS "Alexander," when he had burnt to ashes a city with three hundred thousand people in it; and, beyond all doubt, with not less than a thousand women in child-birth, to say nothing of the sick, the decrepit, the aged, and the infants! Oh! God of mercy! Might not palaces, and for the famous gate-those, whom the insipid and time-servway! ing wretch of the Morning Herald That, it was in this same HOUSE, that abuses; might not that people of Lonwere passed the Cash-Payment-don, whom the base crew of RESuspension Act of 1797; PEEL'S PORTHERS, reeking with the heat of Act, in 1819; the Small-Note Bill gin, and always eager to libel their own of 1822; the Panic Act of 1826, suffering country; might not the people which, at last, leaves the taxes un-of London, instead of being "unreredeemed, while the wheat is flecting," have DULY REFLECTED brought down to forty shillings a quarter. That, it was in this same HOUSE, that the BANK, the PAPER-MONEY, and the FUNDS were enacted. That, it was in this same HOUSE, that LOANS were voted, which, at last, have created a debt, the bare yearly interest of which amounts to thirty millions of sovereigns in gold! That, it was in this same HOUSE, that a vote to take off a part of the on the people's daily drink was rescinded. That, it was in this same HOUSE, that Sturges Bourne's Bills were passed, giving plurality of votes, at vestries, to the RICH, and authorizing the employment of HIRED OVERSEERS. on the hundreds of things, of which I have, from mere memory, mentioned only a small part? These things are always present to my mind. Why should they not be present to the minds of the people of London ? With regard to what is to be done in consequence of this fire; how the fire came to take place; what Mother Jordan's offspring thought of the ruins and of the ashes, when they "inspected" them; as the base reporthers tell us they did: these, and particularly the latter, are matters to be more fully dwelt on, when I possess more authentic information. But, I must say, that those who talk of this matter as of a mere fire, do not, may it please their reportherships, reflect. It is A GREAT EVENT:\ come from what CAUSE it might, it is That, it was in this same HOUSE, the a great event. It astounds: it sets Special Commissions of 1880 were thought to work in the minds of milapproved of. lions: it awakens recollections: it That, it was in this same HOUSE, that rouses to remarks: it elicits a comthe petitions on behalf of the poor munication of feelings: it makes the DORSETSHIRE MEN were unat-tongue the loud herald of the heart : and it must in the nature of things.... it IS a great event! say the base, stink tended to. That, it was in this same HOUSE, that ing reporthers what they will, it IS a great event! dial: Welcome to Ireland! Welcome to Ireland," coming from thousands of voices, at which the object of this hearty welcome seemed, as was natural, very much pleased. I do not care one straw where the Parliament may meet: it may meet in a barn for aught I care. To be sure, it can, if it and our constituents, and the At BALLYBRICHAN, Mr. O'SHAUGHall-ruling governor of the world choose, NESSy and his son came out from his do as it hitherto has done; but it cannot mansion, with wine and cakes, of which do the same things in the SAME Mr. Cobbett partook, and he received PLACE, at any rate. Mr. SPRING from that kind and zealous and humane RICE may again lay upon the table a gentleman an account of the wretched bill for altering the stamp-laws, and state of the poor people on that rich and never mention the matter again; but he fertile spot; who were driven to the necannot lay it upon the SAME TABLE! cessity of picking up (after the diggers) Another bill of indemnity for stopping the scattered potatoes which even the cash-payments may be brought in; but crows had rejected. it cannot be brought into the SAME PLACE! Aye, aye; say the stinking reporthers (poh !) what they like, it is a great event! WM. COBBETT. MR. COBBETT'S ARRIVAL IN THE CITY OF LIMERICK, About four miles from Limerick, he was met by Mr. BRIDG EMAN, the Rev. Mr. O'CONNOR, and other gentlemen, with an open carriage, with four horses, postilions in the best style, and a green flag fastened to the carriage, with the word REPEAL upon it. Proceeding on towards the city, the country, people pouring down into the main road from every direction; by the time that he reached within two miles of the city, the assemblage became immense. Here he was met by the TRADES of the city, On Sunday, the 19. of October (he with not less than THIRTY SILK BANNERS having slept at Charleville on Saturday emblematical of their different callings. night), the author of the HISTORY OF Here he was met by Mr. DEVITE, in his THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION, pro-carriage, and by several gentlemen in ceeded, at ten o'clock, with his friend gigs and cars; and thus, with probably Mr. O'Higgins, in a post-chaise, to-a hundred horsemen, and at least forty words LIMERICK, two gentlemen having thousand men on foot, the author of come to Charleville just before his setting the PROTESTANT REFORMATION enoff, to bring him an address from the tered the ancient and famed city of Lancient city of KILMALLOCK, at MERICK; hundreds of handkerchiefs which place (six miles on from Charle- waving from the windows and the top's ville) he was unable to stop, without of the houses, and amidst the heartbreaking his engagement with the gen-cheering sounds of "Welcome to Iretlemen of Limerick; but he promised land! welcome to Ireland!" issuing from to send from Limerick an answer to thousands upon thousands of lips. Every their address. human being seemed pleased; delight The assemblage was very great at seemed to be seated on every counteCharleville, and Mr. Cobbett was hearti-nance; gratitude for his disinterested ly greeted on his departure. At BRUFF, and generous exertions for Ireland apwhere he changed horses, the landlord, peared to be mixed with surprise at the Mr. FOGARTY, being apprized of his ap-health and strength and gayety visible proach, had prepared four horses and a in his person and countenance. It s carriage, and two postilions, in very impossible for him, himself, not to be handsome dresses, with white hats and pleased; and it is but fair to presume gold bands. Here the street was crowd-that he put his best looks on for the oce ed with people, and cheering most cor- sion; for he did look as good-humoured and as gay and as delighted as he could possibly have been on the day of his wedding. 272 dressed the people and returned them thanks for their generous conduct towards him. MR. (From the Limerick Star). COBBETT'S ARRIVAL IN LIMERICK. The procession entered the city from the CORK-ROAD, went down Williamstreet, turned into George-street, there stopped, and there the president of the deputation from the trades read AN - ADDRESS to Mr. COBBETT, he standing on one of the seats of the carriage, a position which he had occupied during the whole of the procession. In answer At half-past two on Sunday the con"that, to the address, he observed, "under the then circumstances, he gregated trades with their colours and "must beg the addressers to have their usual dresses, according to ap"the goodness to give him till the next pointment marched from Mr. Clanchy's, "day to answer a document containing John-street, to greet and welcome the "sentiments on subjects so numerous, hon. Member for Oldham; at the same and each of them so important; but, time were seen driving out of town "that it required no time for reflection vehicles of every description and in“to enable him to say, that he set a "higher value upon the praise of the numerable horsemen, notwithstanding «trades of Limerick, than he should the continued wetness of the day, some "set upon that of all the LORDS and of whom went over five miles out of "all the KINGS in the world; and town to meet him. On the hon. Gen"that, though his business in Ireland tleman's arrival at the Blackboy turnwas to be able to lay the condition of pike the congregated trades and the "the working people of Ireland before thousands that accompanied them hailed the English people, and to call on him with the most enthusiastic cheers. "the latter to stand by the former in "all the lawful means of obtaining "redress, he never could be made to "believe, that, if there were in all Ire"land only the men who now stood "before him, the people of Ireland "could long remain in a state such as that of the people on the rich and fertile lands over which he had passed "that day; that he had come across thousand square miles of land more “fertile than any spot in the whole "world of similar extent; and that he "never could be made to believe, that a that spot could, for any length of "time, be made to contain, as it now "does, the most destitute and wretched "people upon the face of the earth.” By this time the people had taken the horses from the carriage, which they then drew down through Patrick The procession now marched down the Cork-road, William-street, into Georgestreet, and halted opposite the Mailcoach Hotel to receive the address of the trades. Since the first Clare election, on the arrival of O'Connell in Limerick, we have not seen so vast an assemblage as were now congregated, amounting at least to from forty to fifty thousand souls. ADDRESS OF THE CITIZENS OF THE TO WM. COBBETT, ESQ., M.P. The unanimous voice of the ancient street, Rutland - street, Bank - place, city of Kilmallock hails with joy and Charlotte's-quay, Broad-street, John-pleasure the honour of a visit from you. street, the Square, Cornwallis-street, It is an honour and pride to find within and to Quinlivan's-hotel, in William-its magnificent ruins and dismantled street, whence Mr. Cobbett shortly ad- towers so sterling a patriot, and so san guine a friend to the welfare of this Englishmen by you as will be producbeautiful but neglected country.tive of substantial benefits to Ireland. We rejoice to have the benefit of Your sound experience, and practical knowledge, to bear testimony to the legislature of our wants and miseries, of the present heart-rending sufferings of our poor (who are aged and infirm), without employment for the able-bodied, while thousands of pounds are drained annually out of this parish. We can carry you to the hovels of the poor, where you will see their wretched beds of wet rushes. Revolting to the tender feelings of human nature must it be to see man slumber on such a wretched weed, after his diurnal trip for pitiful alms among the farmers, who are harassed with rack-rents, and to behold these poor people making weekly sales of the proceeds of such charity, to pay lodging money. We invite you to view our magnificent abbeys and churches, emblematic of the purity and majesty of that reli Michael Murnane, P. P. Thomas Walsh, Edmond Barrett, *.. Timothy Sweeny, a gion your History of the Reformation Kilmallock, 19. October, 1834. so ably defended, and now in the hands of the richest church in the world, from whose superabundant wealth funds could be had sufficient for the support of the aged and the infirm, of hospitals and school-houses; but alas, for Ireland! ANSWER. TO THE PARISH PRIEST AND OTHER We humbly trust the legislature will at length come at the root of the evil; and we again rejoice to behold in you Gentlemen-Not being able to stop so powerful an auxiliary, to co-operate at your city without breaking my enwith Ireland's liberator for the regene-gagement with the people of the city of ration of this fertile and beautiful coun- Limerick, I could not avail myself of try, that thereby capital may be intro- your kind invitation; and was obliged duced, employment to the working to confine myself to a mere passing view classes, maintenance to the poor, edu- of those extensive remains of ancient cation (untainted with sectarian preju-grandeur, so consonant with the surdice), cheap laws, and extensive poor prising fertility and inexhaustible riches man's magistracy obtained for this neg-of the surrounding country; so clear an lected country. evidence of the political wisdom, as well We put these forward as main griev-as of the piety of our ancestors, who, by ances; not forgetting to beseech your foundations like these, kept constantly co-operation in aiding the legislature to alive "honour to God in the Highest, put down all other monopoly. "and on earth peace and good-will toAs we hail your arrival with joy, and wards men"; who, in this best of all as auspicious of better days, so do we possible ways, caused the produce of the sincerely wish you a safe return to your earth to be enjoyed on the spot, anil native land, full of hope such an impres- created a happy yeomanry, held by the sion will be made on the minds of ties of gratitude and veneration, in will ing and cheerful obedience to their land- to be assured, first, that I regard it as my lords. With this passing glance, and bounden duty to render such aid to the with these melancholy reflections, I was utmost of my power; and second, that obliged to content myself; those re-having now with my own eyes, had the flections being succeeded, however, by fact of this ill-treatment, and of all its the bitterest execrations, coming from attendant miseries, confirmed, and my the bottom of my heart, on the memory excellent constituents of Oldham, who of the ruthless spoilers, whose ferocious feel most acutely for all your sufferings, greediness has, at last, instead of that having charged me with the performyeomanry by whom the monks were ance of that duty, I should, if I were to surrounded, placed a swarm of rack-neglect it, he amongst the basest and renters, whose only food is an insipid wickedest of all mankind. and spiritless root, whose bed is the rejected produce of the hog, whose place of abode is inferior in point of comfort to that of the lowest and filthiest of animals in other countries. and who are liable to be, and frequently are, toss ed out of, even of these, to perish WM. COBBETT. Limerick,19. October, 1834. ADDRESS OF THE OF LIMERICK. with hunger and with cold. If you, CONGREGATED TRADES OF THE CITY gentlemen, and your fathers, had, like us Protestants, ever abused and vilified what are called "monkish ignorance and superstition," you might have been TO WM. COBBETT, ESQ., M.P., &c. &c. said to be the makers of your own mi- Venerated Sir,-In your tour of beseries; but, having, with a constancy nevolence and charity, you have receiv and self-sacrifice, wholly unparalleled ed the grateful acknowledgments and in the history of the world, remained, ardent welcome of millions of our couneven unto the death, faithful to the re-trymen, expressed in all the honest sinligion of your fathers, the magnificent cerity and intensity of their feelings, but ruins which press the recollection of there is, there can be no place to which those sacrifices and of that matchless you are more endeared, more welcome, fidelity, to the mind of the beholder, than to the city of the violated treaty, the cannot fail to fill him with indignation living monument of the faithlessness against the spoilers, with anxious wishes and perfidy of those, who have misgofor your deliverance from your present miseries, and with a resolution to neglect nothing within his power to effect that deliverance. Gentlemen, your kind and highly vaJued address, for which I tender you my best thanks, introduces so many topics, and each of so much importance, that it would be impossible for me to treat of them here; without far too great an encroachment on your time; but, gentlemen, I must observe, that, if the unconstitutional doctrine of passive obedience and non-resistance be taught in the schools to which you allude, I abhor those schools from the bottom of my heart. With regard to the matters, relative to which you do me the honour to request my aid in your behalf and in behalf of ill-treated Ireland, I beg you verned England as well as Ireland, and the proud record of your own exertions in the cause of civil and religious liberty. Welcome then, a hundred thousand times welcome, within our ancient walls. Did we not with all the devotion of the heart thus welcome the ardent friend and supporter of "liberty, literature, and religion," we would be unworthy of our fathers and unworthy of our country. We have seen within our walls many of the titled aristocratic oppressors of the people, dukes and marquises, and viceregal governors, but we turned from them with contemptuous indifference, not recognising them as friends to liberty or mankind; but, sir, in your venerable and venerated person, the second Hampden, of half a century's service, with what pride and ecstacy do we see |