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Xt Lobd , —TTpona more attentive perosal of the let-Mr of Mr . ABTntrs O'OoxitOBio Lo * d Cxstls&ea « b , Iflnd th » t itiroald U an injustice to the writer , now the otij survivor of t&e Irish patriots of 1798 * to jive prbled exbaets from it , ami , therefore , I hs / m reaotred apoa publishing the satire of this vahable docsmnt . I shall satisfy mywlf , lor the present ,-with a ftatement ot tbe leadin * teatate * , as far * a nwaMarj , to alfl in tfct eonrpmrboe botweea your Government and thai of Lord Castlbkbagh . The -writer states , that Lo « i
C aSTLERKaGH , Lord Chance ll or Clajus , and Mr . Cook * , the Irish Secretary , waited upon him In his eeH for the propose « f making terms between the 9 oTemment and the incarcerated victims of the oligarchy . He states the term *; and then proves that Lord Casilebeagh violated every pledge , * nd wilfnlly misrepresented every oceurrenee which took place between Goverameit * nd tbe state prisoners ; but all through there is no attempt to suppress tha letter * of jfcote prisoner * intended for publication . O'Coskob comp lains thai of the stipulations consisting ot one bondred sheet * , oalj one -was published by Lord
CASfLX&EAGH . My Lord , to put the question of publication beyond a donbt , I transcribe the follo-ning note , written by Mr . > ' cilson to Lord Castlereagh , for your perusal : — "TO LO&D CASTLEKEAGH . " Mt Loed , —PeeHng , in common -with my fellow ¦ prisoners , extremely hurt at a publication which tends I ' to baud © nr names ¦ with infamy , I thint- it incumbent ! cm me . "who commenced the negodatton , to justify our dimeter and motives , by setting the ¦ whole in a true I ^ ui nt of Tie *; at the same time -wishing to pay all due ! respect to Government . 1 trouble you with a copy of | tt eleuer , which 1 hea > to send bt this night's I POST . I ALSO TAKE THE L 1 BSKTT OF SESDISG ^ OU j THE . NEWSPAPX& , WITH 111 S OFFENSIVE PASSAGES ! ¦ ¦ 1 \ \ t \
* T » " T- * T * Tr * a" * J ~ YT-r I rXDEKSCO-KiD . ; "lam , kc ., - ! " Samuel Ubil&ox . j M New Prieon , 12 th Sept ., 1798 . " ! TB&a pata piibifcsSon , and the use of newspapers , j bejoj » d- » - ^ p «» tJott-ofetoubL One m ore extract to prove !
the means . resorted to for the purpose of ext-Trticg conieaakm , and I hare done ¦ with this letter for the _ pre- ¦ ^• eot . It appears that seventy-three of the state pri- i aocers entered in ? o a compromise to save the lives of Oliver , Bend , and Byrne , and to stop tha shedding of aore blood , by becoming voluntary exiles . Every . means that threat , cruelty , and tortnre could devise . ¦ were put in requisition to force my father to coDfe *? guilt and Implore pardon . The last attempt resorted to for that purpose is explained in the following
exanw * . " Ton knswthat I bad expressly declared that my iffOther troilZd Hf . f esder into onp eondiHvro icith the Go- \ temjRtjii : yet you hare attempted to terrify him into ; into your measures , by sending him the very note y » n ! had sent to me ; sni when this was treated " with the I contempt it deserved , yen toot advantage of our sepa- ! ration , to try to make him believe that I had promised 4 be should enter into conditions . " : Now , my Lord , I hare finished with the extracts , t promisiDg yon the l&jaZ bc 7 iefii of the whole letter here- i after . From these extracts we kara that ninety state I fOBoners , in tlie days of unparalleled tyranny , under j the administration of Castlereaj ^ b , -were sUo-wed to ! iwd Bswsp&pers , to see Mends , zxA to eorrespoiid \ hi they pleased , with eren members of the GoTernment , througu the press . -
. My Lord , when John Frost was arrested , hired as-• ssins , lifing upon the game of Sir Charles Morgan , and basking in the smiles of a tyrannical aristocracy , were allowed to iatawate . print , and circulate the basest and foulest slanders on the w nfn ^ n , to maie him an Pasyricthn to jonr f * l domiaioa . Misfortune k busices and con&isUncy in price-pie were tortared by a hinling press into acts of fraud and f ^ KKtacy , while the -rictini was not allowed exen to s ^ c
ths missiles aimed at his reputation , much less to u « e the preas for their refutation . Xo , my Lord , while ¦ &esehireiiEp were thus hv ^ iig at lae r . patation of animpiisonbd Tictim , the press did not oefrnd him ; let , on the contrary , one of tho « e emr » loyt-d fur the jeaVlemanly serriee of assassination , had the effrontery to dangle in my face the rery purse from which ten BOTenigns had been paid for the copy of tho indictment , with -which it was sworn , in my presence , upon titt Same day that Py ^ st had been serred , aud which
Was nert-Kssry for his defence . ^ Lordy while upon this subject , I mitrtate , by ^ fcWEEag ^ Mi wwo immrGmr MkutuujQtmnX Hmti he will not prosecute ma for libel , to prove that the Jffoeecution of Frost commenced by the perjury of one rf your ofBcars . I nndertaie to prove that , but for lh » said perjury , the trial could » ot hare proceeded ; and to grore that the Attorney-General at once saw it—that Baron Parke endea-ronred to expose it , but ¦ Ws tschnicslly folfe * : J -san prepare ^! to gire the mm of the person ir £ \ purchased the indictment , » d also of the whole ertdence alindsd to ; and yet was Ieompeilfid to sit in court , sod par tially -witness such * -told-bl c * ded attempt at assassination , without having h in my po-srer to arrest the bkyvr .
'rflst , WiJ'Ams , and Jozies , then . I pronoTrnoe to b € ;' Tietims of a Hireling press and perjnry . And now to » pply the case of the state prisoners in 1788 to my oirn i eaesinlSid : — J Tbey -vrere charged with high treas-DU . Castlereagh i * ai the ruler of Ireland ; and upon tbe ruin of their ' casra ct £ > depended the breaking up of their party , and , ' consequently , falsehoods the most atrocious were circu- ! l * ted to effect the tyrant ' s invariable means of breaking j ffldon , by destroying confidenoe . Divide et im-1 Pea , " then , as now , -was the motto ; bnt then , ths ! ** u sed had the privilege of reading new-papers , acd Of publishing lfctu « in them . Tfot so now .
My Lord , the prisoner * in 1798 were flowed to see ; fceads ; I was not The prisoners iu 3 793 were allowed ' to commnne freely with their solicitor * ; 1 was denied J S ^ a * ilsat ; and to show that you lose by the contrast , j **** - & Castaereafh , let me remind you , that you ] » l « o s ent your mate , Mr . Crawford , to me . Yes ! your j * ° B-eSei * nt mute came to me on the 5 th Jane . He j kitted from me th * t I was writing * a statement o £ my I «« e for the Times newspaper . He returned to you on ! tte 6 th , with tbe information , and , on the evening of \ the day « f his arrival , yon wrote the following tyran- ! * i » l order to your deputy turnkey : — i
"WTiitehall , June 6 , 1840 . j Sra , —TVith reference to that psrt or my ltiter of i yesterdays date , which relates to Mr . Feargus OCon- ; tor being allowed to see his friends and relations at ! » 2 reasonable and proper times , I am directe-i to ac- ' plaint you that the Marquis of Normanby Qoes ' njt ' atend to interfere witk any existing regulation , re-9 'Qring the presence < -f an oScer of the jail during suchafeariews , bis Lordship being of opinion that the regulation in that respect should be observed . I atn . Sir , Toar most obedient tumble Semnt ,
» . ii . PH 1 LLIPP 5 . Barnard Hague , Esq ., York Castle . Now , my Lord , that letter forma the groundwork of ay charge . When 1 wa 3 inc . rv rated , you in one House , and y * ur time-serriiig minions in the other , inaiediately set to work to destroy my character , ard *? title to confldeaoe . Yonr understrapper , yuung S&nouth ( Fox Maule ) , told a palpable and wilful ^ "ehood , while your penny-a-: ine Attorney-General ** ttftd the House that I had recommended a system ° f organised plunder throughout the country ; the fact ** iag that he liTas by plunder , while I have spent my own money in an honest endeavour to stop his and your £ ar ai « legaiised Qenredations .
My Lord , Arthur O'Connor charges Lord Cattleroask * iih the publication of fabricated and piecemeal evi-^ ce . while the true and veritable statement was in « a posseekion . I " charge you with precisely the same oiae . I charge you with having sanctioned perjury oa the 4 th , retracted oa tbe 10 th , btiug PabEshed on the 11 th , on the justification of * a « e whose adviser and controuler you wtre . charge you with haling told Lord Brougham , 5 the 3 rd , that you had text an inspector to *« i , to inquire into the truth of my allegations , * luleyou have retained , without pnsentation ' to the *^^ 7 » all the evidence , which was in perfect form «» in spection on the 10 th , till the present time , now Be * lly a month ; while you have , during that period , yoarsdf , and by young Sidmo ^ th and Campbell , tad Z 0001 * to . the moat disgusting fakehooda to cover your
t reachery . Yea my Lo ^ y ^ MKi 7 imagined ttat , according ^^ C astlereagh Bystem , you would first g ? . g aud then ^** ° J confidecce . Smih hi * been the means ever used ' * eak Bp union * lonned against powerful tyranU « tyranii nut create a dread in the minds of the
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jurie * . assurinj ; them , that apon their -rigour , / integrity , and eoorage , u jurors , depend * the ppewrratioa at life and property . The prws b the raoaft-pieee of thii Blander . The judges Me rare to do their duty to their own order . £ 62 , 000 of secret Mrrieot can procure an abundance of witoe « e «; aad wt » n the work of legal destruction is * coompli « a » ed , t £ en comes ttie destruction of tbe confideaee « f tte people in their le& 4 en-then oomes t he prison diseipllne-tbe open-mouthed Pressthe . corrupt Homw * ffice _ the pliant Justice-the forgetful turnkey—the flippant Under Secretary-the specious law officer , all arrayed against the silent captire . Who e » n stand this ? -the man who boldly dares to face it
My Lord , it is a pity that you and yonng Sidmouth were -not of a enicifying age in tae days of Castlereagh . What powerful auxiliaries you would have been to a mister in every way so aoitlng to your taste , and deserting your Bupport In these days of centralisation—in these days of forced and unnatural fictitious trade , the press , the initiative of torture , is more corrupt than the Irish press in 1788 . Eyeiy newspaper is now the organ of WB » local faction , bound by the ties of Trealth , in the shape of advertbenientB . t ^ circulation of the most
** t « teTeiT *> ld daily or weekly paper , In England , wtth the aisgle eraeptions of tbe Weekl y DupatcA and ^ orthera Star , does not cover one-half of the current expense ; and , in truth , the mere amount ef circulation is matter of no further importance to advertising journals , than the consequent grist which it brings to thtir miU . I have do hesitation in asserting , after anxious observation , that had it not been fer the wholesome check imposed upon your lice ntious rule by the Weekly Dtipeich , you would have plunged this couutry by your folly and ignorance into a bloo Jy civil war .
My Lord , it is a hazardous undertaking to defend the help , ess against tie great and mighty powers arrayed a ^ a ' an them : —a Monarch , nursed in luxury &nd taught to fcate those who feed htr-a House of Lorda , consisting of men born , bred , and educated in dire hostility to those who support them—a House of Commons , returned by their avowed opposition to what is called an infringement upon vested right-a local aristocracy , creating confusion that they may fatten upon disorder—a Church , whose tenets are upheld by civil strife and deadly ftu-3—an army , taught to believe that promotion can only be procured by butchery and hatred of civil rights—a pelioe , selected from the off-scourings © f the rabble , and officered by men too le-w to be otherwise associated ; -with a magistracy , selected to intiu
\ '' , duce tb « new Whig standard of Poor Law diet , ; scarcely knowing their right hand from their left—and ¦ Judges elevated to the judgment seat , when the rising . gecinsof the junior bar had thrown a cloud around their I former brightness— suppert of a depraved Government , , r&iher than knowledge of profession or good character : Wrr-. the test of fitness— a jury class , taught to believe that tbe hamis that feed them are raided in deadly strife gainst thrir very existence—a press , corrupted by the necessity of pan . iering to the prt-judice of all : th ? se masses , added to taxes wrung from the indus-: trious , and fpent , a portion of them , in the employment of s ^ ies an ^ perjurers , under the Oviloua title of secret service money , ia the amount of which you have entdene Cas'iertagh .
. ¦ ¦ sly Lord , what had we to oppose to such mighty , odds ? Nothing but a disorganised people , kept from 1 open outi . reak by their horror of civil war , and Dot by their cowardice . No ! by their hatred of the principal ' crime "with which they are charged , namely , love of tiftsimctlon . My Lord , you would have discovered the real eba-; racterisjio of the English aad Welsh working classes , r H you had Tenjfcsed lo hang Frost , Williams , and j Janes .. - Th&pj * Afe < & ^ mwld you ' TiaYe seen a gn * t ; nation reduced to a houseless wild '
: : \ [ ' ' j My Lord , in pretty nearly the same language : used by my father to Lord Camdon , in 1798 , ; I now inform ycro of my crime . 1 tell you to your : very beard tbe avowed charge against me is , stretching . forth my protecting arm bttween innocent men and death ia the shape of WHIG legal murder . When before have ' , you witnessed a special commission met by such an i : array as were opposed to it at Monmouth ? When ! bare you seen two of the ablest men at the English bar , ; | bath being M . P . ' s , and one an ex-Attorney-General , i takeH special at an expense of over one thousand
guineas ? When care you aeon , one , two , three , and four of the ablest men on circuit , opposed to your Attorney-General and Btaff , for the defence of political offenders -srithont a whole coat to their backs . ' When have you seen such a eight accomplished by the energy and perseverance of one man ; and that one man ever to be foand at the dock side , standing by his party to the last ? Is it wonderful that he should now address you , for inch flagrant offences from the cold hospital of a felon ' s dungeon ? Such has been my crime , together with a knowledge of the fact that you turned traitor to your King by tbe sale of your trust .
My Lord , I shall very shortly publish for your perusal the speech of Arthur O'Connor made in the House of Coaimons , in 17 y 5 , upon the question of Catholic Emancipation , and by -which ha sacrificed £ 20 , 000 a year and a Peerage . I shall also publish Ma letter to Lord Castlereagh , both in the Sorlhern Star , together with some affidavits from jurors who were made drank in the jury rooms in 1798 , and
threatened by their brethren and constables with instant de ^ th , if they did not find their Irish victims guilty , which they did ; and in consequence Of which Mr . William Orr and others were hung . From these and othtr documents , yon will be struck with the state of Ireland at that time , as compared with the state of this country at the present momtnt ; and also with great similarity between your policy and that of Lord
CasUexfcaah-My Lord , I have now before me a large book , entitled " The Beancies of the Press , " consisting of 650 pagt g , containing selections from the Press newspaper , established by Arthur O'Connor , whan Omtleraa ^ h had suece ^ ed . in destroying the Northern Star . I few it is tbe only volume extant . Thousands were destrojed , in tbe general destruction of Irish knowledge which followed the English rebellion in that country . Mine was scorched ; it bears evident marks of the flames Vut it W 23 preserved , and will tell many tale *
My Lord , if you attach any value to posthuajeus fame , ( which , judging from your life , I must be permitted to doubt ) , you cannot avoid shuddering wnuu you bsstow a thought upon the character -which the impartial historian will be compelled to afiis to your deeds and those of your party . When the now boasted triumph at ilonmouth shall be fairly handled , and when posterity Bhall learn , that John Frost , Zephaniah Williams , and William Jones , were illegally tried , uud © onseqMtiUy illegally comricted , but nevertheless , banished from heuse , from family , from country , and from home , and when it is understood that the Act has been pronounced illegal by Barons Parke and Alderson , and Justices Littledale , Pattison , Williams and Coleridge , the four latter Justices of the
Queen ' s Bench , and whose peculiar province it is to take jealous cognizance of all things affecting the interest of the Monarch . I say , when this picture is looked upon with unprejudiced eyes , and when the reader discovers that Normanby , who purchased his promotion and change of title by being the general gaol deliverer of Ireland , was the then Home Secretary for England , and that he , who was softened by the passing brecae of complaint in Ireland , was deaf to the judgment of » ix judges , to the remoastranoe of a generous people , and to- th « -widow ' s implorings and tbe orphan ' s mourn in England . Will it be credited that the Irish Mnl . gafre was the English Xormanby ? My Lord , there waa policy in changing your name .
My Lord , yomr gaols are now fulL This month and the next will see some restored once more to their ^ families and their friends . Do you hope to pacify them by- bonds for good belmvieni ? te frighten them by re-
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collection of the past , 0 * to purchase them by the means of the secret service fund ? If » o , my Lord , I trust you may be mistaken . I have great reliance that the past will bat spur them on to deeds of greater daring ; and still greater la tbe consolation that oar cause con better bear the loss of a deserter than it could before yon strengthened it by persecution . My Lord , mark the difference in the position of the respective parties . The Tories are ruling the country while the Whigs are in office . You are compelled to tether your Government wherever yon find a spot of untouched pasture ; and , like the harpies , you
destroy everything -whereon yoor polluted touch lights You ream like gipsies , ready to pitch your tent where booty offers ;— here to-day , and gone tomorrow , if yon are sprung in one fastness , you betake yourselves to another;—a kind of brigand settlement , only strong in the weakness of the assailed . Upon the other hand our cause is based upon a rock . If we are surprised and driven from the project for a season , we return to proceed , not to recommence . Our foundation is seasoned , but not destroyed . Each course we lay is sure of adding to the temple , until at length ¦ we crown it with the cap of liberty .
Foolish , simple Lord r did you Imagine that yonr geniuscould stop the rushing streams of knowledge ? That WlfeMoqneneB cooM say to the swollen , waters , " TtesfarshaKthougo , and no farther r and that by such command the flood" would cease to flow ? Did you imagine that the borrowed legion from your friend , to suppress English Chartism , was a free-will offering ? My Lord , before the winter shall have past away the hints of your Irish treason of 1835 , will befVlt , and sor ely felt , in Ireland . Do not deceive yourself . The abstinence from spirituous liquors , is nothing more nor less than a preparation for a spiritual assault upon your law church ; and that it may succeed , ( which it will if the great juggler is not allowed to interfere and make money of it , ) is the anxious wish of ray heart .
My Lord , you were near , very near , beating me . YOU oppoted me to the most powerful foe I erer bad to contend with ; what fatigue , exertion , and hard labour could not effect , was nearlyaccompliBhed by sloth . Yes , my Lord , you knew the effect which a sudden transition from great labour and excitement to solitary confinement was likely to produce . It was the most powerful opponent I ever met For ten days and ten nights did we struggle for the ascendancy , till at l ast conquered . I felt the blood running contrary to ita wonted course ; I felt the pressure of life upon organs but little used to work , while the stillness of Uiobo
accustomed to never-ceasiDg motion seemed to have caused a most unnatural uniting which promised the result which no doubt you eulculated upon , when you removed me from a sick bed to a felon ' s damp dungeon , you tyrant upstart ! It has been observed , by one who understood human nature well , that th « deportment of a host may be inferred from the reception which the guests met with from the dogs in the court , yard ; and , in truth , my Lord , if wo are to judge of your quality and bre © d ng by the cur that snarls for you in the court yard , I must say that you aro not well bred .
My Lord , ia what consists the triumph of your party just now ? By spies , informer 3 , perjurers , a bribing press , subservient judges , foresworn juries , corrupt Attorney-General , backed by phybical-force . You havo crammed tfca chamel-hoases of the land ; but are yon so mad , or blind , as to suppose that a heavy day of retribution will not come ? My Lord , five years pince I predictod the storm , whiah . would one day gather round you , and now I tell you that Minll shortly burst upon you .
My L » rd , f < Jr me thero is neithe * terror in your threat , n $ r intimidation in your tyranny . 1 am more free is ray narrow cell than you can be within the U"iimmeia > -i # tjyc & < KumrjiL _ caaecienj » k Whal poot ^ ou ^^ i ^^ mSS ^^ p&B ^ forty years ago , Castkreagh was atte ; aian enormous expense , to suppress the " Northern Star" in Ireland , that-you would , even in this stroke , imitate him here .
" Lay not the flattering unction to your soul !" I before told you that the poverty consequent upon misrule , would have gone far to reduce tbe circulation of the Stzr , but as I am no trafficking politi « ian . I have the heart felt consolation to know that the ameunt of circulation in no way marks its utility , for whether it circulate 20 , 000 or 100 , 000 , not one more or less will r ead its contents . The man who borrows will derive
equal benefit with tha man who buys ; and If to injure me yon hope , I defy yon ! I don't depend upon the sale of politics for my support , while yours is mainly derived from that source . Every thousand of the circulation of the Star is more than equal to fifty thousand of the Times , or a daily paper , and for this simple reason , tbe squire , his valet , and the upper servants , read the Times , while there axe one hundred readers for every number of the Star .
My Lord , a prison has no terrors forme . Surely you cannot imagine that I have bustled among Irish politics for eighteen years , and among English reformed politics for more than eight years , without now and then calculating upon the hazard of standing by the weak and oppressed ? My Lord , 1822 was a year of rebellion in Ireland . At that period , I Vtl prosecuted- I stood alone , of all my order , firm by the labourer , against landlords , parsons , magistrates , police , farmers and all . My Lord , at that period the nocturnal burnings could be
seen from every hill . Special Commissions indiscriminately consigned the sane and insane to the gallowB . Every petty tyrant had a license to shoot I know one gentleman , my Lord , who dropped his men right and left with a double-barrelled gun , while they were in the act of walking from their father ' s potatoe garden , with their spades on their shoulders My Lord , I was then threatened ; but I stood it | Again , in 1831 , 1 was marked for having sounded the cry of " No tithes ; Universal Suffrage , and Repeal of the Union !"
In 1832 an attempt 'Was made to persecute me ; but I met it and beat it My Lord , to enliven this dull narrative , I will tell you an anecdote of that period ; and as the late Chief Baron Wolfe was one of the characters , it may be the more interesting . At that period , my Lord , I , together with many others , was arrested for taking the chair , proposing resolutions , and speaking at anti-tithe meetings . Captain Stawel , who had been through life a Liberal , was a candidate for the Borough of Kinsale . Mr . Hoduet and several others had been convicted , and received heavy sentences . Sir George Bingham ,
commander of the district forces , was to be prosecuted for an assault upon a peaceable meeting . The Crown would not prosecute . I was junior counseL ; O'Connell was to conduct the prosecution ; but he got frightened upon impq-nTilling the jury , and left court . I -was there doing the Crown business , and , according Ib the custom in such cases , I was resolved to have as fair a trial as I could . A whole host of High Church names came tumbling out of the jury list , one after the other , of course , by mere chance ; but such a one as the poor Chartists have never had . Well , I was resolved that the prerogative of the Crown should not suffer ia my hands , and I set them aside , one after tbe other , Judge Moore , raving , and telling me that it was an abufee of the power of the Crown , which he nerer saw equalled ,
—nor did I , for I never saw equal necessity for it However , my Lord , I got a jury that found Sir Georg e Blngham guilty , and he was order ed to pay— £ 1 , 0 » 0 ? no ! £ 6 , 000 ? no ! but—6 d . My Lord , I received a compliment from the Judge , and left the Court . Upon leaving the Court , I met the late Chief Baron Wolfe , who was then crown prosecutor on theMunster circuit Captain Stawel was leaning upon me , when Wolfe ttid , ' O'Connor , are yon a good sailor ? " " No , " I replied , " Why do you ask ? " " Because there is a transportable count in one of the indictments against you and Captain Stawel ; tell him so , if you know him . " Poor Captain Stawel dropped his arm , went to his lodgings , was seized with a brain fever , and in a few days died . I went into Comrt , my Lord , and demanded trial ; when
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Mr . Bennett , another of the crown prosecutors , said that if I would promise to be a good boy in future , I should be let out upon my own recognisance . I refused all compromise , my Lord , and insisted upon trial ; when the lane was sent to the Jury , and I was acquitted ; and in less than twenty minutes I was on m way to another oatitithe meeting , considering it my duty . Well , my Lord , I got over that , and from that period I hare been returned twice for my native county , doing all the work myself , opposed by the whole of the Protestant aristocracy and the press , as well as . the Catholic aristocracy ; but I beat all with
the people . From that poriod to the present , my Lord , I have marshalled the English people in such a manner as no power on . jearth can much longer withhold from them their just rignls ; and did you Imagine , with all those sins upon my head , that I have not calculated the danger , and am prepared to meet it ? If so , my Lord , you must either be a dolt , or take me for one . No man ever yet stuck honourably to the working classes without losing his life for the offence , and I am sure to lose mine in the same course ; and , therefore .
the only consideration is . to sell it with as much benefit as possible to the cause . My LotA vl have served longer In the one course than . any jhSh who has ever gone before me ; andfrmn that course no power on earth shall ever drive me . Therefore , my Lord , you know the resolution of ono who from his prison tells you that he has made up his mind to have Universal Suffrage , or to dio in the struggle for its accomplishment , being convinced that nothing short of it ever can promote peaee , eomfort , and happiness .
My Lord , this is the second and the last letter whieh I have time to write to you now ; but be assured that I will be on the look out for another outward bound cruiser off this iron bound coast , by which , opportunity serving , you shall hear more from Your prisoner , FEARGUS O'CONNOR .
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TO MESSRS . LOVETT AMD COLLINS , AT WHITE CONDUIT HOUSE TAVERN ,
LONDON . On Monday , a splendid entertainment was given to the above gentlemen , to congratulate them on their release from Warwick Gaol . A considerable number of the fair eex wore in attendance , and the scene was altogether inoBt gratifying to the friends of the Charter . The chair was taken by Tuoius Waklet , Esq ., M . P . On his right sat Mr . Lovett , whose appearance showed that his health had been greatl y injured by the confinement anil treatment he had undergone ; and on tho left of the chair waa Mr . Collins who , though much thinuer than before hie
confinement , did not appear to have suffered so severely lrom it as Lovett . Mrw . Lovett and her daughter were also present , as was Mr . Thomas Duncombe M . P . for Finsbnry , to whose great exertions in their cause wore to attributed , in a great degree , the abatement of tho rigours of their confinement . Upwards of 1 , 260 persons sat down to a most excellent and substantial repast . Tho entry of Lovett and Collins was hailed with the most enthusiastic cheering and affectionate demonstration of respect and esteem , the ardour of whioh was , however , damped by the evidently ill state of health and acute
suffer-^ ing of the S former . Ihe dinner having been despatched , and the cloth removed , . Mr . Waklkc proposed the first toast , and was received with ; tho most enthusiastic applause . It was a great gratification to him to pronouao * the word Ladies 1 J 1 addressing a public meetiujfjn ^ fcltlflcouutry . H « deeply / regrotted that thoy w « 8 tetet more frequently present to grace and ornaafitnpitatl foften , their proceedings . He knew not whytk « c ^ 4 ^ teH !^^^^ F «^^ P ^^^ w the * wiiriflSMo i | 4 T < H » te . HeW ^ roud to * ee thcm . tbdMi because 111 a mentina of tha 4 n < . ^» ... n
they TOW not dare entrust their wives and daught « ffi&Biott # thorn . Ou another occasion of this kind hftSpid invite % k Aristocracy to come there and see J ^ S ? they OMpfetod themselves . There mi nothing sypintf wWpig men so rude or ill-behaved as to rejHiwr it necessary t © exclude females . ( Caeers . ) The business of the . meeting at the present moment was not an idle and uBeless ceremony ; they bad riot como there , as a mere matter of form to attend a public festival , but for the execution of a solemn national duty , whioh was divided into two parts First , To pay their re 8 peota to men who have sincerely adsojated their cause , and had been martyrs to it . ( Ch «! Bj 8 . ) , Secondly , To hold out to the British people an example in these persons , which was worthy ofcimitation . ( Cheers . ) The first toast he
hau to propose was one which related particularly to themseafes . It was one iu which all felt a deep interest * for , in point of fact , it was the toast of the people . ( . Qheers . ) That was a fitting toast for such a meeting aa the present , and one which , at all meetings of BWlishmen , ought to be drunk with enthusiasm . > - ( Cpeers . ) It vrasjpot the toast of party or faction ; ifev * a not the toail-that embraced only the section : ofm ' &tyir $ toa , t it comprehended Iltfri&tkfr nation . Mtherwt ^ ed to advocate ' infafa&i they y'ou ^ mi ^ T ^ ikB ftpod-opim&im ^ country . ¦^ rB . Vlt w »« otSteirwi 8 h ^ Ar ct fiom , theKlfar * mm ! ¦ happiness of other men . ( Uheers )« rh » d therefore to propose the toast of , n The MSa the m ¦ '¦*¦ " »• of their rights . " ( Great cb ^ SHUU ) ¦ .
T he t 0 « P * fc » aid 8 * to 0 most wrtbnsiastic ap £ ! SStJ # 4 . ' : v - : Thtwo ^^^ JS ^ fthhe Ladies w ^ sfeS 2 K JKn ^ C * fc pw * K was a > 1 » P * eu »» r epoch in the history of the country * apM »* w » in the hikit of dscfcrinjr their cpnteari ofeff toiwfaon dembttfl tootherf Milh 0 n 8 f ° « & $ ^ " ^ S !? ! ^ ? ' *?* thV most powertuwBptfi © a < i » fiwe of the globe wast ** th « r € Tr&i . " * ° J * P ^^ ^ vSnmen ^ ( LaughtejS ^ Did fc * * b * ¦ ¦ " ^¦< totWrt * HMt . |^ rot at all ; ltffesthe best ^ f all kinds of eovernm ^ t and if » ef £ uld but bfe ^ led by th eir ^ KEv * would *!*« . do wroniSiaauehter . \ nw « ' Zl
a little wf in thiajowftry who was then PreMdent , and me ate wards were anxious on tho nr « qfl « t occasion jgit bJJrhealth should be drank ? fie ^ was sure that ^ at ^ ould i » eet with the approbation bt every ^ ej ^ preBent .. It was a splendid position to occupy * thphrone of so great a country as Eneland but ivwafcore spTteodid still for tho posse 4 r of that thp ra&feS gft »> ar _ t that felt for the dis-^ rtjWm * . lf *» , J ?« aidont of the nation for ot htPim > 8 he ^ ught to be told of it . She was sorrowed , doubtless , by petaon ^ wh * baafcte * in-the sumrfmifi of courtly corruption , seldom , for their own purposes , let her hoar the truth ( CheVra ^ Butthej would not allow her to be blinded as to what was passtog , and she would Bee , in the Dublin
records or me aay , wnat tbedesiros aud feelings of the people were then at meetings of the present kind , whero Englishmen were enthusiastically coneregated for the purpose of paying tribute to private worth , and the defenders <> f public principles , and the . people should tell their President what were their feeluiga with regard to tha . t President ' s public duties . in proposing to tha present mefltim ? th « to ^ rf « Ti « . Q ^' to .. hiasi ;? 3 St £ i made to it which h « believed , all would deom to be ot importance . ( Cries oi - No , no . 'V He agreed with tho pcrsonwho said "No , no , " and ho woulfoethelast li ^ ^ S ? ^ f tiie . « 5 '« tt of the country if lht »? i £ " ^} vere * ^ not been such as to 3 rw J ? SW * ? u ^ a ? confusi <> n . cries of ** Off , off ^ -and " Hea r the Chairman . " ) All that he aeked of the meeting was to hoar the ' toast , and if they would not his doty was ended . ( Considerable
confusion-amid which Mr . Wakley said-Suppcse it is proposed—( Increased confusion ) -only hear the toast , ami then determine for yourselves , whether you wiU adopt . it or not . ( Cries of "No , no ; no Vrti ° a ^ <*¦?*** ' " aud considerable coufuaion . ) If they did not support him ia the discharge of his duty he must abdicate his seat ; ( LongS continued cheenng . y A toast has been put into his hand by one ot the Stewards—a man whom he had known for many years , and he believed that a more respectable man did not exist and he believed that the toast haoVmet with tM # P »»* al and general concurrence of the Btewwdt ^ XCries of « No " ) If such was Jiot ^ catoTthon let tho Stewards that wer « r « f > D 08 cd toehold up their hands ; and if it was decided agaiDSt , he would not put it . ( Groat confusion . ) He only asked the meeting to hsar the toaAhefore they condemned it ; it was— "the Qaeen aadfprinoe Albert , and may they soqn , as parents , feel Sympathy for those , who having children , are
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confined in prison for political offences . " ( Great cheering . ) Ho thought the meeting would not dislike the toast , when they heard it . In every nation there must be some ruling power , some one who Bhould be selected as their guide . He was there as their direction post , and when he pointed they ought to obey . The toast was then carried , only twelve hands being held up against it . The Chairman said the next toast he had to propose was with regard to the subject that had brought themtherethat day- " Tho health of William Lovett and John Collins , the unc ompromising friends of S ^ & v «? " **¦> Among the men who had struggled hard night and day for the ARUhlininnPht
Ot liberal prujppleswas Mr . Lovett . ( Great cheering . ) He had had the pleasure of knowing him for many years , and Mr . Lovett had known him , though not pornaps with equal pleasure , because he had not gone on several occasions eo f * r as Mr . Lovett had done —( cheeK ) -in uphohjhig the principles that he aavocated . ( Cheers , ^ .. was true that he had not ? Sfi i soj » r ' a"d toykfipjijoja Care not to tlo 80 for SL * ¥ T ' « t « *»« faney for Warwick Gaol . (( JjFbat laughter . ) He . had no fancy for the dreadful punishment he had undergone , or the horriblo and undeserved persecution he had endured . ( Great cheering . ) He ( Mr . Wakley ) had endeavoured to keep out of the clutches of those harpies , who would feol as moch , if not more pleasure in feeding udqb
his rat bodjr , than upon Mr . Lovett ' a thin and attenuated one . However , notwithstanding all this , he could assure them that there was not a more aincereadvocate-than himself of the people ' s cause , and he had yet to learnthat he could best support the cause of t he people by being immured within the walla of a dungeon . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Lovott had suffered , not for his own offences , but for ihe misconduct and folly of uthera , together with the mistaken zeal of many most excellent men—men who , he would venture to say , were prepared to sacrifice their lives for the benefit of their country . ( Hear , an . 2 - ) Mr - Lovett was known to nearly the whole of those who were present ; he was one of the National Convention of the workinp classes ; and
, nine or ten years ago , he had resisted , even to the gacrmco of all he possessed , rather than obey a law m the making of which he had no participation . ( Cheers . ) He w&b drawn in the militia , aud for refusing to serve he was taken before the magistrates ; they said they would make him serve ; he refused to do bo , stating that he would nover be the man to cut throats by tfrire . ( Load cheers . ) If a foreign army came he expressed his readiness to fight if trio quarrel was just ; but he was the last man who would out the throats of his countryman , because they demanded their rights . ( Great cheering . ) * When the magistrates found they had so determined a man to deal with , they were glad to get rid of him , aud desired the officers to turn him out . Off
he went , and bo did his furniture too ; for immediately after he disappeared from tho polioe office , « 's furniture disappeared from hig house . ( Crief of Shame , shame . ") It was a shame , but it was a still greater shamo that they allowed it . ( Cheers . ) Notwithstanding this , Lovett was not to be intimidated , but joined tho union « # f the working classes , and aided in the support of every principle that had for its object the welfare of the people . ( Cheer * . ) They knew what he had lately endured in consequence of tha support of his principles , and he ( Mr . Wakloy ) thought , if anything was wanted to show the necessity of an alteration in that representative system , it was to be found in the treatment which tho political offenders had lately rooeived . ( Cheers . )
The Spanish Inquisition was a treat compared with it . ( Cheers . ) There persons were killed in a short time ; but the treatment political offenders received caused a lingering death—such a death as a poor Coroner like himself could not tako cognizance of after it had takcu place . ( Cheers . ) With respect to Mr . Collinu , he had not the pleasure of knowing him before that evening—though a brother in principlo , he was a stranger to him in person till that Unv « . He thought that Mr . Collins must bo a marveUously good man , for up to the present hour tho tongue of slander had not fixed one blot on his good name ; he had only beeu guilty in the eyo of corxuptioniats , ot advocating the tauso of the people ; * for that he had been imprisoned , and whose release
Tor , tha ' * imprisonment they were then met to celebrate . What was it they preached ! Was it murder , robbery , rapine , or bloodshed 1 They . preached jflfflfrk'MTOsftyff " 0 waa L " ' anilet Hve ^ { Continued cheering . ) In raisMg themselves to a higher ' position , they never wore desirous to step upon the necks of others ; they knew what it was to work and gain thoir daily bread by toil , ami all that they wautad was to humanise those who * knew not what toil was . ( Tremendous oheeering . ) Was there any man there , he would ask , who would be ashamod to-morrow of what he had done that day f- ^ Cheers . ) Was society in such a state in England that it was impoBSiblo to
pay respect to two deserving men ? It might be so to some hungry ruffians who surrounded tho Court , but it could be no disgrace or stigma to honest Englishmen . ( Cheers . ) He was proud end delighted to bo there that day , aud it gave him tho greatest pleasuro to Bee Mr . Lovett once moro out of his infernal iron den ; and it gave him equal pleasure to see Mr . Collins . He believed him to be as estimable a character as Mr . Lovett . Ho thought that poor Fiusbury was likely to be placed in the Black Book , for though he had looked to the right and to the left , he had been unable to discover , with the exception of his worthy colleague and himself , any other Members of the House of Commons prese ^ ,. g ^ ni ^^ jjhe Members of that House , he ^ Statm&a ' torjMttri nacl adrooatedj&eir cause with the
ihl mm , ; i » L Me , Ajtiioubv . Mr . Warbnrton , and jBfi |^ ae- ! rXe » e ^)— 'Kad supported motion of t ^ ajp i ^ y-cMletigae on the Bubjepi of those who were Irioarceratoti , and hia worthy colleague ands himself ought then to be in the House of Common ^ as Mr . A ^ lionby that night intended to bring forward the case of another individual who was imprisoned , not tha $ he believed their two votes could do any good , &i # l « r , for one , would lite to be thereto have his say . ( Loud cheering . ) The truth was that they never could carry any motion in the House of Commons that had the good of the public at heart ; they were w a miserable minority , and so they would be until the principles they advocated were successful . ( Cheers . ) The Hon . Gentleman concluded by propoerng the toast of
" Wm . lovett and John 42 olliuB , the uncompromising friends of freedom . " ( Great cheering . ) Air , "A man ' s a man for a' that . " Mr . Xovm then rose , and was greeted : with anth usiadtfo and long , protracted eheeringv He looked wan and nervously excited , but tho expression of his eye gave proof of the deep interest which he felt in the scona before him and in the proceedings of which he was the chief object . Silence having been restored , he proceeded to address the assembly as follows : —Mr . Chairman , Ladies , and Gentlemen , I am delighted to be ouco more surrounded by generous and warm-hearied friends —( cheers)—instead of the wretched victims of injustice , mietfovernment , and . crime , with whom I have
been compelled to associate during the last twelve months . I am pleased to « have your cheerful welcome ., and receive your honest congratulations . ( Cheers . ) . Thpae who bare noi experienced the constraint ; monotony , and misery of a prison , cannot adequately estimate how welcome and refreshing ; is tho grateful blessing of freedom ; but &till I would say , welcome once more tbo starving imprisonment of Warwick—welcome all that despotism can devise or inflict , rather tban injustice should be perpetrated , the right of public meetings be questioned , or bodies of peaceful people be attacked , and not a voice ba found to denounce the oppressor , and publish his infamy to the world . ( Cheers . ) It has ever been the maxim of my political creed to
speak and act as truth and conscience dictated ( olieers ); for my friends , if , in these times , men stop to weigh their own personal safety and interest against these , they will do bat little to advance the freedom of their country . True it is , that in acting upon this maxim I have suffered in person and property , as he must be prepared to do who undertakes to oppose injustice when armed with power . Butlife at best is but storms and clouds intermixed with moments of sunshine ; and it is questionable , after all , whether I have not enjoyed more happiness than many of my prosecutors ( cheering ) , for the reflection that I was suffering in a righteous cause , destined , I trust , en ; long , to be virtuous , sustained by spirits , and even in moments of jbbfe greatest depression
afforded mo satisfaction . tCheers . ) The punishment that has been inflicted has failed to convert truth into falsehood—to make mo less in love- with justice and sound principles , or to pkco Whiggery on a more secure basis . ( Great cheering . ) My friends , I am st ill convinced , as sincerely as I ev « r was , that most of tho poverty , vice , and crime with which our country abounds can be traced to corrupt and exclusive legislation—an evil which the passing of the People ' s Charter would put au end to . ( Cheer 9 . ) Yes , n > y friends , the passing of that Charter would lead to the formation of a Parliament cdmposed of good men of all classes , who would at once proceed to mitigate the evils of poverty and oppression , and devise the means by which prosperity and happiness should soon gladden the faoe of our fertile land . ( Cheers . ) But while
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.. £ / ^ : . ^ S s'V- *^ . - ' * < - ¦ I am anxious for tbefls chants , !« M adToetfc fof violence and disorder- ( renewtd eheeringV-fbr notffi « n i ? * Tiolent action of Lord John «™ ffi' * i lWf eade *™« red to excite the people to 22 £ f ° * tha I 4 * 3 r force « dviolence , *^ I am * . 2 S ^ L ^ *** anarch ' ' the <«• tow * . SL ^ w ° " ?? " !? ° PP « wIon overthrown oa frLS k tLong * 3 load Peering . ) No , my IK ' ° ** - meB im be foan < l to % the moat effective promoters of violence who ara the K * * 1 *?™ Of 5 njU 8 tice ' P « t * P- ' e" £ « nd 8 mo hered wrongs have in all ages b £ n found the most destructive of peaee . nr ^ rit , , nn i ,., « . »
life . It is because I wish to preserve all that is good in our institutions that I want to see them purified from evil ; and all true reformers will be found to be the be « conservative , at laot . ( Great cheering . ) 1 hose who hypocritically profess to conserve the institutions of the country , which are to them the instruments of power and plunder , will , tho moment that they are thwarted in th « ir nefarious purposes , become the most outrageously violent and destruc tive . ( Cheers . ) I am not going to deny that , in the pursuit of our object ? , some have expressed theinMves violently and acted imprudently t gad while I have not Bcropled to express my own opinioa that such conduct would do much to ininre ' anr
cause , by driving away the timid , and affording excuses to our enemies , I would not conceal from myeelf or others the numerous heart-rending cases of misery , which were the chief causes of that bitter feeling whence the violence flowed . ( Cheert . ) It is to be hoped , however , that the majority of Kadicais now see the necesaitv of substituting reason , argument , ani legitimate efforts , for invective and menace , threats « nd violence . I know it is said , that to reason with despots is to throw reason away ; but inasmuch as despotism does n « t exist of Us own intrinsic power , but by the aid of unreflecting millions , tho moment the minds of thosn millions
are informed , and their judgment * convinced , th « T moment , will despotism fall in tho thiat . ( Great cheonng . ) When I look around for tho men who , twelve months ago , were uniting their voices and energies on bthalf wf the poor auU oppressed , I pcrecivc thoir places to-be vacant ; their friend *» . » sorrowful , and the flush of triumph is exhibited on the brow of their persecutors . I etttininto th * g enerous feelinga -of devotion which caused them to bo carried forward on the stream ftf . * nthusiasm ra » 4 loathe the treachery which tempted them to pass th « boundB of reason and propriety ; but it is to bo hoped that the results of their impetuosity will tend to check our imprudence , and pave others from the net of the spoiler , ( Hear . ) But , ™ l "' r * onr caa 8 e may have sustained a check , have wo less ground for hype now than we had ? Has thU reign of Whijr prosecution—thia
crusade against all that is l « ft of English freedomthis era of espionage and false-swearing bludgeon men—has this filling of our prisons with victims , caused men to see- that there is no necessity for reform ! No ; on the contrary , our princioles have progressed in proportion as persecntion has waged against us . ( Cheering . ) The doubtful have been convinced—the apathetic have beeu awakoned , and the extravagance and corruption which churacterisa the system under whieh we live , have been rendered so apparent to all , that , ere long , the couvictiou generated in men ' s minds will burst forth
with one voice—a demand for that reform which has been advocated and urged by the poor imprisoned Chartista . ( Cheers . ) A . fcTeat deal has been lately said about our reorganisation ; and I hope it may not bo ~ thought presumptuous if I express a hope that , in a snort time , I shall be prepared , with my friend Coilins , to put forth my views oa that subject —( . treat cheering)—for though imprisonment has indeed injured our health , it has not tame < l our resolution , or withered our ho ^ oa . No ; the abilities wo possoss will be devoted to the . cause , with the same earnestness 38 ever —( cheers)— and of all the information 1 have
reeeivcu hiico my liberation , none has given me Breater pleasure than that of tho pyopla to ereefc Trades ' -Halls , ia which to hold their meetings and transact their business ; and I trust that I may bo instrumental to some extent in promoting that object . ( Cheering . ) I had hoped that oi . e beneficial result would htiv « arisen out of our treatment in prison , I mean that Parliament would have been induced to mik-j a distinction in the ircatnvnt of political offenders aud other misdemeauants . Ia this I have been disappointed . Ihe laws relating to such persons rtiieot bat , little credit on tho law makers of the nineteenth century . Two men may be sent to prison by the Bame judge , under tho same sentence
of punjshment , aud yet , iu consequence of the powers given to the local magistrato 3 , their treatment may be to diasimiiar as to render the one comparatively comfortable , while the other is absolutely " miserable and wretched . Is it not a disgrace and libel on all legislatiou te think that a cp que of magistrates should thus have it m tneir power , according to their caprice or prejudices , to play the tyraut with impunity ! ( . Hear , hear . ) la our case , one of the vigiting magistrates —a clergyman , the Rev . Mr . Bondia , informed ub , that they , the magistrates , would be- much moro disposed to pay attention to our afflictions , if it h * d not been tor our very highlycolourcd petition ; so thatpnuiilimeats ^ were jpfiicflRl upon . us not ioutiio
* # ft * M-2 Vffig ^ stateoWnfwOFi ^ i ^ P ties that yrere inflicted upon * us before our trial " . I miiHt ati'ibine- lutuVo tiino inform you how every allegation in that petition has sinco been proved true by the allegations made in the gaol . I must also shew . you how , when Parliament applied lor the rules of the gaol , the old dietary table , which had not been in force for two yeirs , was substituted for that thctf in use . JJ ^ jffie ! shame !) Y < & , my friends , by that , trick theHatinttj was induced to think that the prisoner * in'Warwick Gaol had half a pound of meat twice a week , as well as two quarts , of soup a-veeek , 'whereas , vre had not- ' -oiio bit * ofsolid meat during the week , " ajld 4 : only a pint and a half of soup twice \ & week ,
each qaantity ef soup being made of a qu&rler of a pounu of meat , instead of half-a-pound , which tha magistrates had always declared it to be , until the cook himself told us to the contrary . ( Laughter . ) In speaking of the Visiting Magistrates , however , I would except Mr . Collins , the Member for Warwick , who always dissented from their acts and proceedings , and who came up ^ to town expressl y to bring our petition , and did aS-maay other kind and generous serviced . ( Cheersjv Another subject to which I m , u £ ^ allude is the kindness of friends , and I beg itttflt ' presa my gratitude to my countrymen for ^ me eierijipnamado ia bclialf of myself aai family dtiii ^^ ' ija prlso n taent . Their gen erous , induct remov ^ J ^ ^ ief ; Mx «« tgr 4 t $ &- ; . pij / : mi $ tz of my Muntrymen > . : 2 R ^^^^»^ feoring . > ' J ^ ir ^ Si
beBfavolence andMnerosity , on aifferent occasions , I now xe&QYst Jnv ^ Sordini tbasks . ' 1 also take this- opportunity ^ dr wqpraeaing my thanka to those senile- ; men and members of the House " of Commons w&at ; have exerted themselves on our behalf , and especiall y to Mr . Place , whose- exertions were untiring , aft ala * to , our kind friend Mr . Duncombe , aOd more espcciaUy for his noble and manly conduct ia defending the reBoIutionarelatiiig to us in the House of Cymmons . ( Tromendbu 3 eheetiug . ) My thanks are also , due to Mr . Wwburtoa , Mr . Home , Mr . AglionbyiJUr ; SBrgeaa * Talfomfd , and the whole of the ty » eB # Bi ^ W&T ^> ed ibr Mr . l > M » ottibe > tbsoU » 4 ioii « 2 irncTO 9 lii 8 idn , let me eay , that I know not that j oah make any better return for yonr exerv t : ona in my behalf , than by honestly aud straightforwardly " pursuing the same conduct that has called forth your approbation . :
Mr .-Lovett resumed his seat amidst the most enthusiastic expression-of applause . Mr . Collins then came forward , and was received with the most rapturous delight . Hecaid kecould scarcely command his feelings so & 8 to address the meeting ia any thing like plain and intelligible language . The assembly had been led to expect by the Chairman and by hia friend Jbovett , that he would go more into detail respecting their tre&Mo * Dt « Warwick gaol . To aim it awakened manr"bmer ' recollections ; but they would not be unmixed bitter * , because when he recollected the indignitfe * aeap ^ L j or intended to be heaped , upon them , he wus aleo " convinced of the justice of their prfndWesy and the rectitude' of their conduct , that enabled them to
euuure those indignities , and to smile at tbfe ptany attempts that were sometimes macto to crush their spirit * . ( Cheers . ) They had heard , and manjrof them knew well , what William Lovett had been pre- vioualo his incarceration in prison . They knew bis , h ' rm attachment to certain principloa , and the noble manner in which he defended those principles , bnt ' he ( Mr . Collins ) had seen him in circumstances that could hardly be imagined , and certainly not adequately described . He had seen him languishing upon a bed—ho begged pardon—a straw pallet —( heai . )—inhiaillness , with his imagination , as the imagination . ' of every father and husband must be , frequently carried back to the scenes of his own fireside , and he had seen him exposed to indignities , but he had ' never seen his spirit quail before tbo enemy . ( Loud cheers . ) He had never beard an expression of regret from him for anything he had
ever done , or said counecUd with the cause of tho people—( cheers)—and the hope he had of that causebeing speedily regenerated . ( Reiterated cheer * . * . The ruleaand regulations of the prison had , on »•¦• motion of a member of tho House of Commons , bees printed . The Magistrate said that the petition which ho and his fellow-sufferer Lovett presented was " : hjgaly coloured ; " but they could not contradict it in a single statement that was aiade . They published , as Mr . Lovett had told them , as oU dietary table which had been altered two yean ago . and hencethey deceived both the PariLuntfattBdlhe whole couutry . It would be hUdnty , as h *¦ ynm av little stronger in eonstitution tfaairlwl ! M |^^ idtL' ' to endeavour to undeceive them np « atlX » JrBartfctt- " lars . ( Hear , hear . ) The magistn ^ ll 'tti ^ ned ia their dietary table , that he and- hfe felfew prisoner - had half a pound of meat twiee a we ^ b : althoiiU they had stated , or the fact was , thai l ^ y had n «^ P for nearly six months , exoept thjree days , ^ rheip ^ ' ( Concluded in < m Eighth pagt . ) *'
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V " «« elasa composing cotonon OL . III . No . 143 . SATURDAY , AUGUST 8 1840 "" » ° «»^ ° h ^^ . ,, ., * J Plve ShnUngB p « r Quarter .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 8, 1840, page unpage, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/king-y1kbzq92ze2696/page/1/
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