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To ^'English People.
TO ^' ENGLISH PEOPLE .
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MY WELtBELOVED FmeSDS , Vhenrl was ealed from my native land , an adopted ine ; and for now seventeen years : have received Madness , affection , and gratijide from your order , and to such an amount Jiat yon may rest assured , that , wherever I nay be , or , whatever may be my fate , I will lever forget you , nor desert you . * II told you in last week ' s " Star , " that I would make you jump for joy this week and I will , if you long for freedom , and the means < , f accomplishing it , as much as I do . Know , then , that-when you lead this 1 U ^ U he on my way to the " Green Isle "— 1
here to assistmcementing a union between the people of England and Ireland , which n ? : ther despot , oppression , persecution , class , o 5 t villain , shall destroy . Ihave received the firmest and most pressing invitations to he jjjeent at . the forthcoming Conference , and I 53 also going to attend the Irish Universal parage Association meeting , on . Sunday j ? stj the 18 th . And you may rest assured , jut neithc . rexcitement nor enthusiasm shall yd me to the commission of a single indisfreet act , for , as I have told you many a time p d oft , I would rather he a drummer in the < rmy of Progress than the Commander-in Chief of a retrogade or stand-still movement . a
My beloved friends , had it not been for the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act , and from the conviction that Clabesdox , the Gaoler-general of Ireland , would have put it in full force against me , I would have visited my country when her defenders were persecuted , and you may rest assured that I will now protect myself against the harpy fangs of what is termed the law . . " My beloved friends , I look upon , ting fraternisation between the people of both . countries as the solid foundation of such a union as
tyranny cannot destroy , or subtlety impede . At foot of my letter you -wfll find a requisition sent to me b y my countrymen , in 1847 , and you , who understand my tactics , know that I always "bide my time ; " and now thanks be to Almighty God , the time is come . In this -week ' s " Star'' you - will read the jarrative of my Father ' s trials , sufierings , and persecutions , extracted from " Cobbett ' s
Bepster' of 1810 , with that writer ' s graphic wmment upon it ; and in nest week ' s "Star " you shall have a faithful narrative of all that transpires in FATHER-LAND ; and , upon ny return you shall hear all ; till when , Believe me , Foot ererFpnd , Faithful , and Uncompromising : Friend , FeAEGUS 0 'COK 2 fOE .
"TO FEAEGTJS O'CONNOR , ESQ . "Respected Sib , " y ? e t y ° or fellow-countrymen and dtkens of Dubhn , having learned through the public -Fress and heard through other channels , of the great and lasting benefits which , you-are conferring upon the working peop le of England , whose cause you have espoused and advocated through good report
and tnrough evil report , and for whom you have suffered long imprisonment and great Joss of property , most respectfull y invite you to return—even for a short time—to your nutive country , to hold public meetings there , and to develope those political p rinciples and plans for the redemption of the working classes ofyourownjeountrymen , which have been so eminently successful in England .
" Sir , it is almost needless to state—for the whole world-knows it—that after forty-seven years of suffering and struggling for liberty , our condition is twenty-fold worse now than when we commenced . Disfranchised , turned out of our holdings , sent adrift upon the world , forced for years past to live upon lumper potatoes , which the very p igs reject , when they can get a better sort ; our numbers diminished b y some three or . four millions , instead of having increased like the inhabitants
of every other country ; and now , after all our , persecution , we are deserted by those in whom Ave confided so long ; left at the mercy of every tvrant— 'of every reckless political charlatan -i . who look upon us as things to be used up for their interests . We are left without rudder or compass , br even a single plank to keep us from sinkiug ^ -to rise no more . Under these circumstances , which are but a mere outline of our abject condition , we hope and trust that \ oc will accept o f this our hearty invitation .
" I ? est assured , Sir , that you—and such of your English friends as may chance io accompany you—shall receive from us a cordial welcome—a cead millefalte . " Dublin . March 27 th , 1847- "
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DUBLIN XATIOXAL CONFERENCE . ( From the Dublin Freeman , ofKor . U , lSi 9 . ) Mr . Patrick O'lliggins has banded to the Secretaries this communication from Feargus O'Connor , E * fi , "M . P ., Fort Robert , county Cork , member of the I'i'ianciai-and Parliamentary Reform Association of En « 'l : md : — " I felt the Irish blood begin to How in mv veins , and my heart became inspired with hove when I read your determination to regenerate our common coautrr bv the moral , forcible , and invi' c'W * duvelopement of the Irish mind . There is no ? s sentiment expressed by those who have undertaken to originate Ireland ' s regeneration in which 1 n ' n -net lioartilv asrrec , while you may rely upon
H « bat Ireland will remain a beggar at H 11-Ws door , - and the laughing stock of the whole world , so long as she is represented rathe Saxon parliament by government tools , lickspittles , and patronage hunters , who would cheerfully sell then- country for a mess of pottage , and to associate wita whom , as an English representative , mafces me trouble for the fate of unhappy Ireland . To carry oat this movement you musthave the smews of war ; and having spent thousands and tens of thous and , in ill ? creation and direction of the English mind , with the view of serving the industrious of both countries , mv subscription to aid yon m the good cause , whether annual , monthly , or weekly , shall be as large as that of any other contributor and a * W ;; Ctually paid , "
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EXTENSIVE FIRES . STnATFOED . -EssEX . —On Thursday morning about < = < x o ' clock a fire , involving a serious destruction of Valuable property , broke out in the family mansion beion-hrcto a gentleman named Tint , situate m + hc « 5 ore it Stratford , Essex . The flames , when & pScd , were burning furiously in the back Sow around floor , and in a V ^ ***™ ^ outlined the comp lete possession of the staircase loSStely no lives were lost The lire was not i ^^ hL ^ tilMr . Tmk ' sbmldingwasdestroyed ,
nnd the whole of his costly furniture reduced to £ XJ Thepremises of Mr . Moore next door were likewise seriously damaged . The premises of Mr Blenkarn , on the other side of Mr . Vmk's , hare also S " ometoage . and the furniture is greatly SSS by Lastv removal . The total loss inust be £ / vConsiderable , butfortunatel j , lfr \ nuYito tSe & c , was insured for £ 1 , 000 and it is understood th at a quantity of the p late has been saved . The criffin of the fire could not be ascertained . CEOMin-sTMEL-Aoother disastrous conflagration also occurred on Thursday morning , at the Sofor . c manufactory belonging to Messrs . HamnTah and Dav ; No . 30 , Cromer-strect , B"ws * nck-^ behind Cromer-strcet Ch apel . The flames Snot subdued until the manufacturing
pret oIm ? s of Messrs . Hanimaa ana uo . »« e — £ v Sroyed ; he -jows of the ^^ fof £ the edifice damaged by water . f ce ™ <^ nn-road sisssgss Messrs . Hainaiah and u > . ^ werein-FiiM Office , but none of theotnei parties wt , ^ sured .
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NARRATIVE RELATING TO MR . O'CONNOR . ( From " CM ttf * Weekly ToMcal Register" of May 12 th , 1810 . ) The public will not have forgotten that at tbe ^ tune when the forcible entry was made at Sir Francis Burdett ' s house , at the time when ce army was called forth to execute the warrant of the Honourable House—at the time when the soldiers , in pursuance of this object , entered Sir Francis ' s dwelling—forced this true Englishman ' s castle , and with muskets loaded , bayonets fixed , swords drawnand i ^ - « AxxivAiivji RELATING TO
, the match at the touch-hole of the cannon , succeeded in forcing him to a prison ; at that time Mr . Roger O'Connor was in Sir Francis ' s house . The public—or at least that part of the publie who have been , for the last fifteen years in the habit of attending to political matters—know that about thirteen years ago Mr . Arthur O'Connor , a younger brother of Mr . O'Connor , was charged with treasonable designs ; and after some vain attempts at producing a legal conviction of him , the government of Ireland entered into
a treaty with him , agreeing to drop all . proceedings against certain of bis friends , and to put a stop t » the works of the army against the people—to whom he was known to be attached—upon condition of his giving them whatever information he might possess relative to the views and resources of the people in insurrection ; arid upon the further condition of his emigrating to any country not at war with England . In consequence of this treaty Mr . Arthur O * Connor emigrated , and is at this time understood to be the conductor of a
celebratedprint called the " Argus , " published at Paris in the English language—a print which it is supposed , and perhaps truly , has done , andisdoing—agreat deal of injury to this country . When the peculators and boroughmongers , and their abettors , are hard pushed , when they are driven into a corner , when they have no defence to offer , and when even their arts of shuffling and lying , and false swearing and canting faU them—when thus hemmed up they have ( as the attentive observer must well know ) always recourse to charges against those from whose powers of
detection and exposure they meet with annoyance . - These public robbers , like private robbers—and indeed likereal criminals of every sort and descri ption , always , instead of thinking about their own defence , think about nothing but of the manner in which they shall attack the motives , or the character , or both of their accusers . They do not say "the charges preferred against ns are false ; " they dare not say "the things alleged against us are not crimes . '' But unable to deny either the criminality of the deeds , or that those deeds have been done by them , they say nothing at
all about the charges against themselves , but fall to the preferring of charges against their accusers ; charges , too , which have nothingin common with , which have no sort of connexion with , the charges preferred against them , and which they do not attempt to repel only because they cannot repel them . In default of truth they never scruple to resort to falsehood , m these their charges ; .. but their more common way is to make up that sort of mixture of both , which when applied to a purpose like that here spoken of , is called misrepresentation , and which is perhaps the . feasest . of all possible
modes ef hostility . To this mode of attack the boroughmongers and their hirelings had recourse upon the occasion of Sir Francis ' s committment to tho Tower . They saw him in p rison—they saw that physical force had prevailed over him . This they would have liked well—this would have delighted them—this would have flattered their guilty souls with a promise of cessation , at least of those deadly hostilities which Sir Francis , at the head of the people of England and of the whole kingdom , was waging againt them . But they saw , to then . ' inexpressible mortification—they
saw , at the same time , that the soldiers had been called out—they saw that horse , foot , and artillery had been inarched to London—they saw that it required an army—ay , a larger army than I believe wehavenmo in Spain and Portugal —to take the unarmed Sir Francis to that p rison to which a vote of the honourable House had doomed him ; they saw that it required THE CO-OPERATION OF THE ARMY to enforce the Orders of the honourable House against the avowed and well-known enemy of injustice , cruelty , corruption , and public robbery . All this the boroughmongers
and their hirelings saw—all this they knew ri g ht well the nation and the world would see too—they were fully aware of the effects of such notorious and striking facts ; they knew well , they felt , they were taught by instinct , that in minds even the least cultivated and accustomed to reasoning , the ri ght , the true , the inevitable , and to them the dangerous conclusion , must be drawn from those facts , —and , in due time be acted upon , —unless the public could by some extraordinary effort be instantly misled by falsehood , or intimidated
by alarm . Accordingly , soon after the Piccadill y exhibition had been crowned with success the boroughmongering crew set to work in their vehicles of falsehood . First , they would fain have persuaded the world , that it was nothing but " a contemptible rabble" who opposed the imprisonment of Sir Francis ; but then there was the army , there were the cannons p lanted in the streets and squares , there were the armed boats broug ht up the Thames and stationed opposite the honourable House . There was no getting rid of these facts ; and unless they could be gotten rid of ,
it was , the boroughmongers saw , m vain to attempt to cheat the world into a belief that the friends of Sir Francis were " a contemptible rabble . The next fetch was to accuse the friends of Sir Francis with violent and inurd « ro «* 'actions ; with firm * off p istols in the streets at the army , and with bavin" formed a design to block up the ends of streets , and tumble down the bricks and tiles upon the heads of the army . If this bad been true it would have afforded nothing m support of the assertion , of the friends of Sir Francis being a " contemptible rabble , " but it was notoriously false ; and we have now prettv good proof of the falsehood , im
the failure of the offer of £ 500 to bring lortu any evidence of a transgression of the law having been committed by the people , while it has been proved , upon the oaths of two juries , that some of the Life Guards did commit wilfulmurder upon two , at least , of the people . There is no getting over this . Soldiers are sent to aid in executing an order ot the " rcpresMtatives of the people , " and in this execution the said soldiers commit murder vpon ffie people , while it has not in any case been proved that the people , though some of them were murdered by the soldiers , committed any act of violence upon the soldiers . "What then were the boroughmongers and
their hirelings to do ? Whv , resort to their o ! U expedient , namely—abuse , defame , vilify , the persons bv whom this exposure had been produced . For this nurpose the accident of Mr . O' Connor ' s being in the house of Sir Francis at the time of its being broken open , was eagerly seized on , particularly by one writer , who , in his conduct upon this occasion , has discovered a degree of malignity and of cowardice rarelv to he met with even in the crew to which he belongs and never to be found in any other description of men . The baseness of this man s attack unonMr O ' Connor is . truly unspeakable . No words cin do justice to it . It was not merely a wanton attack - Mr . O'Connor was not only an unoffending nirrv in the case , and it was not only attacking him
fnr the alleged crimes of his brother since he icjttne Wom . m well as while he was in it . In addition to all this thcro was the reflection that the assailant was favoured by a strong popular prejudice existing
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in England against the very name of O'Connor : and the assailant , however deficient in point of understanding and talent , had cunn ing enough to perceive that this prejudice would in some degree , at any rate , work for him and his abominable cause . There was , however , something so detestably unjust in the attack that very few persons were influenced by it . Detestation was the feeling that it generally excited ; yet I could not satisfy myself that I had done my duty without bringing the case of Mr . 0 Connor full y before the English public ; and , therefore , for the purpose of doing .. which i begged him to furnish me with a narrative of what had passed in respect to accusations against him by the government—which narrative , indeed , 1 was the more anxious to possess , from bavin * ii Tin 1
ncara mat liberal-minded , kind and honest man , Ur . Lawrence , say , that never was treatment more unworthy than that which this very gentlemen had received , and concerning which treatment the doctor sent me some papers during the administration of Mr . Fox and Lord Grenville . This circumflt . naturally gave a spur to the other motives , which led me to desire to possess Mr . O'Connor ' s narrative , which having obtained , I hero present it to my readers t » his own words . Upon reading this narrative , where is the just man who will not join me in execrating the recent attempt " toexcite , to renew a ' susplcion of his character and his niotives ? Well may he set out with observing thatthe people of Englandinow-worse than noi } tina ^ f' * Jreland : "' Btl
this is not strange . " Divide and oppress" ia an old maxim ; and it wouM be strange indeed if this maxim were forgotten by the boroughmongers and their hirelings . Hence , the never ceasing calumnies upon the Irish people . Who , upon observing the manner in which Mr . O'Connor has been spoken of since the affair of Piccadilly , would not imagine that he was a low desperate adventurer , or at least a man living vpon Sir Francis—a sort of hireling patriot—in short , a -man-almost as despicable as if he were a tool—a gulper of false oaths under a boroughmonger—almost as despicable as if he were a journeyman m the work of corruption . Yet is Mr . O'Connor a gentlemen of ancient family and of independent fortune , having his possessions in lands , being one of the owners of his native country , and
having , of course , all the motives that a man can Sossibly have for- preventing that country from eing robbed—for preventing property from being taken from Vie owners , of whatever description the robbers may be , or under whatever name they may approach . With this preface I shall submit the narrative to my readers , beseeching them to reflect that Irishmen are not only men as well as themselves , that they have not only feelings as well as Englishmen , but that Englishmen possess non ' oTitstothe enjoymentof which Irishmen are not fully entitled , and that to deny this proposition is to declare open war against the people of Ireland , and fully to justify every act that they have , or may , commit in hostility to England ; a denial , therefore , which no one but a traitor to his king and country will ever attempt to
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MR . O'COmrOIt'S SAItRATIVE . From a desire to make the people of England acquainted with Ireland , of which they know worse than nothing , receiving as they do , all their accounts through the medium of a description of persons in the constant habit of calumniating that people : and from a wish to give the people of England the means of forming a judgment between the government of Ireland ( during the residence there of Lords Camden and CornwaUis ) andme , it cannot , especially at this mement , be thought obtrusive in me to lay before a just , but prejudiced public , a faithful narrative of those facts which took place in my particular commencing on theSfth of December , 1796 , and ending on the Stlbot May , 1803 , a space of
nearly seven years , during the whole of which time , a continued fire of persecution wiis" kept up at me . Connorville , the former , place of my residence , is situated about fourteen miles from Bantry Bay , where a French fleet made its appearance on the 23 rd of December , 1796 . To oppose a landing of the troops on board this fleet , about 5 , 000 of the Irish militia had advanced and occupied the villages about me . For the manner in which my tenants , my friends , and myself treated these men , I refer to the panegyrics in the' Houses of Parliament hi England and Ireland . at the time . ~ We cheered them in their distress ; we administered to their wants , of which they had no ordinary snare- ' . On the 27 th of December , about nine o ' clock at night—such a hideous night as my remembrance cannot parallel— -I was informed that my porter ' s
lodges were full of soldiers in quest of quarters . I went to them . They were in a sad plight . I found them to be two companies of the Wexford militia , with seven or eight officers . Day or night , rough or smooth , my countrymen were welcome to me . I had then a large house well stored . I was in the midst of plenty , full of happiness . I brought all the men to my house . My mind has no register of the time they remained with me , nor what I did for them . My tenants were very good to those with them . My friends ( that was the whole country far and wide ) opened their doors to this native army—let them want for nothing—and even when the terror of invasion had subsided my tenants and myself presented the poor fellows with the billet money to Vrhich we were entitled , to buy them shoes and stockings . I did my " utmost to make thesituation of the officers as
comfortable as possible , and this I will say , that I received from all more thanks than wcrcduc , and experienced their gratitude far exceeding the obligation . I learned afterwards that these officers—strangers heretofore to me—had been directed by some agitators to my house , in the expectation of my not admitting them , which was the opinion also of all the officers in the army . I dare say such of them as live at this day will acknowledge that tliey received a more hearty welcome at Connor Yille than at the house of the most " loyal" man in Ireland ; that is , the man that has the largest pension , or most lucrative sinecure or post in the kingdom . Whilst this division of the army was in their cantonments in my neighbourhood , when the men lost their
muskets , bayonets , and ammunition—which frequently happened—they came to me , and I had the tilings restored to them . The soldiers became attached to me . Xong—indeed always before these events—I had been an object of great jealousy and hatred ; I had ever been in the habit of committing a crying sin in Ireland . I had borne myself so to all " the people , that they were greatly attached , to me . Iliad appointed arbitrators in every parish through an immense district , who decided all controversies , the occupation of the pettyfogging lawyer was nearly gone . I curbed the vice of drunkenness—I pre-• vented riots—I did all the good I could . It will not , . therefore , surprise any person in the least conversant with the character or complexion of the
ruling factions in Ireland , that I was an abomination to them ; and , when to these vices in their eyes the thanks of the poor soldiers were superadded , my crimes were not to be endured , and I became an object of suspicion and distrust . In this state of things—the French force having left the coast—a young man , from my neighbourhood had gone , in the beginning of March , to sec some friends of his at Bantry , where he was arrested for administering the Oath of Union . On being questioned , lie acknowledged thathc had received it / rominy steward , a lad not more than eighteen years of age , who was also arrested ; and both were conveyed to the prison of Cork , where every means were used to extort confessions from them to implicate
me . They declared , however , that I was the last person to whom they would disclose anything of the kind . Their honesty and persistence in truth were called treason to their country and attachment to me , and a council was called together in Dublin , at which it was determined that I was very dangerous , and a warrant was issued to arrest me on suspicion , the act of Habeas Corpus being at the time suspended . The secret , however , was not well kept . I discovered the p lot . I lay down in my own house tho ni ght on which I knew that an attempt was to bo made to seize on me by a large detachment of horse , attended by lords , esquires , and generals , and their staff—and before they had marched half a mile from their quarters I was ( at a distance of twelve miles ) apprised of their having set out . They made their search for me , and a considerable depot of arms , which they were informed were secreted in the lofts and cellars of my
house ; neither were there , and they marched bacl > . The next day I wrote to the judge , who was then holding the assizes at Cork , saying , that "If lie would give me assurance of a TRIAL , then for anything that could be alleged me I would go to him , otherwise that I would not surrender . " As he was not authorised to g ive me tho assurance I demanded , and as I preferred the liberty of the common air and the use of my own limbs to unlimited imprisonment , I stood out till the latter end of April , when , finding my health somewhat hurt from the manner of my living , particularly from damp , I left home , and came to England on the 27 th of April , where I remained till the middle of Juno , when Ireceived advice from home that several of my tenants and others of the poor people , to the amount of fifty-one , had been flung into prison , and that twe unhappy men had been induced to swear against them . The same packet also contained a proclamation that had been issued by Lord Camden on the
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17 th of May before , inviting every person to come in and surrender , and give security for . the peace on an assurance of being no further questioned . ' Tory happy at the opportunity this proclamation afforded me to devebpe ^ the conspiracy against the people n prison , andtoa . d them in their defence , I returned to . IrelAnd ^ surrendered myself at Hallow to Lord Kmsaleand'Su- James Cotton , on the faith ot the proclamatttoj performed the terms required of me , which was ^ O / give . bail to bo of the . peace for seven years , of all which I apprised Lord Camden and his ^ secretary , and Mr . Pelhara . now Lord Chichester , on June the 18 th . . From Mallow I went hoimr on . tnerWh . of July , and on the 14 th was arrested by ; Brigadier . Gen . Eyre Coote . at his ¦
ti & mn . winmer M . ted inviuH , ne . Before he detamedme he looked- for greater , certainty into his orderlyliook , and _ there found , as hesaid , ah order , dated the 1 st of July , -to arrest me . On his havinir donesohewaj latalosswhatto do with me ,- and attended . hie tuBandon . where I was to . remain till he should hear from Dublin . On the third , day of my stay in Bandon I received ^ letter from Mr . Pelham , uated '^ in Dublin the ' same day I was arrested , at the . ; camp , near Bandon , 180 milesfroto town , saying , thapord Camden wished inuchtWsee me in Dublin , andithat if I would -comply ^ T ? might depend upon mfeuffi'son <; being perfectl y ' ' safetfroip arrest , anditbi &^ shouldJieauar ^
home immedWiw |[ i ^™ aeft ^ Mr . Coote ; -wftflraiafynWfc ^ ffl ^ o ^^ knowofmy , arrest at the time Mr : "i ? elhain '" wrote , ho could not let me go till he teemed an answer from Dublin to his letter , apprising the government of my being in custody . In a few days he received his orders , which were to send a military officer to attend me , and Capt . Roche and I sat out for Dublin . The Capt . had a sword , and ho had on his sash and gorget . There is a high hill between Bandon and Cork ; we alighted from our carriage ; it is a place of rendezvous ; some twenty or thirty carriers were assembled here ; they had not seen me since my return from England . Capt . Roche first saw his danger—his sword could not defend
him , his sash and gorget could not protect him . „ I perceived the workings of his mind—a look of kindness from me to him would save his life ; I superadded a word of esteem . Capt . Roche was not molested . We arrived in Cork that evening , where we halted for the night . A man of the city got access to mo . Cork is the place of my nativity ; I have friends there ; would that every man could say the same where he is best known ! I discovered that it was intended to offer violence to Capt . Roche , I prevented it . I took him in safety to Dublin . On our way we called at the camp at Ardfiunan , where the Wexford militia lay . All the officers requested of Capt . Roche to tell Lord Camden the services I rendered them and the thanks they owed me . We
arrived in Dublin and saw Lord Chichester , who liberated me from arrest , and wrote to Mr , Coote that I was not to be molested again . I returned home , and in the Beginning of September I went to the assizes of Cork for the purpose of defending my tenants against the conspiracy before mentioned . I sent them all to their homes and prosecuted the witnesses , who were both transported for perjury to Botany Bay . I now hoped to enjoy with my ' family that peace to which innocence has always right to expect . I was cruelly deceived . An unsigned , unsworn to paper was sent up to the Grand Jury on the 17 th day of the assizes , when two of the judges had left the country , and a bill of indictment was found against me for High Treason . On this paper
I was arrested and flung into prison , where , in a dungeon nine feet spare , filthy beyond description , I lay rotting for seven months , never having felt the Muence . of the sun nor breathed on by the air during tho whole time ; at the end of which I was conveyed from this dungeon to tho court , to p through •« a trial" upon charges of every species of treason and rebellion . Two witnesses were brought up under a strong military guard . They were sworn . AVhat did they depose ? That they knew nothing of me ; that one of these papers was written without the knowledge of the witnesses ; that when it was read to him he declared it to be false , and refused to swear to it ; that he was offered £ 30 D a year to swear to it , and threatened to be
instantly shot , if he persisted in his refusal , and he did persist . The other witness swore that what was called his -information was all written down without consulting him—that when he . refused to sign it he was threatened to be hung , and-that at length he was prevailed on to put his name to it on his receiving an assurance tnat it never was to appear , and that it was only a matter of form . J was acquitted instantl y . All the people , all the military expressed their joy ; the judge trembled ; he was seen stretching out his imploring arms from tho bench to me , in the dock , amongst robbers and murderers ; he was heard to cry to me for mercy to protect him ; and I did protect him , not a hair of his head was touched . On my being released I did
not return even to my house ; I did not even take one day ' s repose . . Ko , my beloved brother was a prisoner at Maidstone ; he is one year younger than I am ; we were reared and educated together , never oue day or night apart for eighteen years . The thought of him banished every idea from my mind ; I set off to him that very night , arrived in London in four days , as quickly as I could travel . I wrote to the Duke of Portland for permission to be admitted to my brother ; I received his answer at five o ' clock next morning , by four Mngs messengers , with a warrant to arrest me ; and from my bed was I taken to the house of Mr . Silvester , and that evening was I taken off for Ireland . We landed about ten miles from Dublin at night ; I saved Mr .
Silvester and the Bow-street constable—my companion—from a watery grave , and conducted them safe to Dublin , where we arrived at three o'clock iu the morning . I now for the first time since I left London lay down , and had not been in my bed more than three hours when Mr . Silvester awaked me , to tell me that another king's messenger had that moment arrived from the Duke of Portland to take me bach instantly to London . This was about seven o ' clock in the morning ; about twelve , Mr . Silvester informed me that Mr . Coote desired to see me at the Castle . Mark the instability of fortune . Behold O'Connor , brought by a constable , to have the liberty of being admitted to the presence of Mr . Edward Coote ! I did sec him , the interview was not
of long duration , the conversation was not of many words , but it was important . I asked him the meaning of these proceedings , what post haste treason Iliad committed in the four days that I travelled from Cork to London , above 400 miles . Hear his answer : " We do not pretend to have any charge against you , but wo know your power , and suspect your inclination ; had my advice been taken , you should not have been brought to trial in Cork . My opinion was , that you should have been kept in confinement under the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act , and it now appears I was right . " Well , that afternoon about two o ' clock , I was obliged to set off back again towards . - 'London , where we arrived the fourth morning—having been forced to perform
journics of nearly 1 , 200 miles , and cross the Irish sea three times' in thirteen days and nights , daring the whole of which time I never was permitted to take off my clothes , nor to lay down for more than seven hours . I was kept in custody at the house of Mr . Silvester till my brother ' s acquittal at Maidstone , when we were both taken to Dublin , where we were lodged in the same prison room on the 2 nd of June , 179 S . In July , a special commission was opened in Dublin for the trial of all those against whom any charges had been exhibited ; amongst whom neither my brother nor I were . Three had boon executed . Mr .- Byrne , a relation of the Marchioness ^ of Buckingham , was condemned , and was to be executed on the 24 th of July . On . Sun
day , the 22 nd , some negotiation was set on foot , in a way never yet ascertained , between the Government and some of the state prisoners in Dublin , of which it appears that neither my brother nov I had any intimation till Tuesday , when Mr . Dobbs and the sheriff of Dublin entered our apartment , and showed us a paper purporting to be an acquiescence on the part of seventy-three of the prisoners to give information of any arms ammunition , and plans of warfare , and to emigrate on condition of a general amnesty , and of pardon for Mr . Byrne , who was to die that day , and for Mr . Oliver Bond , who was at that moment on his trial ; if he should be condemned . My brother and I declined entering into any agreement ; Mr . Byrne was ordered for instant execution , which instantly took place . Mr . Bond . was to die on the Friday . We heard no more of the paper
till Thussday evening late , when the same Mr . Dobbs , accompanied by Mr . Samuel Kelson—one of the prisonsers from another of the prisons , came to that whore my brother and I lay- All tho prisoners were called together ; Mr . Dobbs produced a letter he had just received from Mr . Coote , stating " that if my brother and I would enter into a treaty with the government , bv which we should engage to give every information in our power of all matters relating to tho rebellion , and particularly our relations with foreign states ; there should be a general amnesty—Mr . Bond should bo pardoned , and we should bo permitted to emigrate to any country not at war with England ; but that if we persisted in our refusal , military commissions should be issued in the north for the trial of the prisoners there , the courts should proceed in Dublin , and the yeomanry
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should remain m active duty . " We both refused . . We said if there are any charges against us , proceed upon them . Why proceed against others , because we will not enter into any negoeiation ? " We went to- our own rooom , whither Mr . Dobbs came presently . He represented to , us the dreadful scenes of slaughter and detestation that would follow close upon our declaration . It appears that my brother was influenced by these considerations , and to save an unarmed people he consented . to sacrifice himself ; but I heard these such proposals and threats with a very differentear . My answer was thailset at defiance , all their machinations , that-1 was ready" to mtet aiiy charge that mild be brought against mebut
; that I never would enter into any agreement with the Castle of Dublin during my life . Nothing now was left unattempted to induce me , by very fair promises , or to intimidate me by the most alarming threats , to sign this agreement . All were unavailing ^ At length Mr . Marsden came as if secretly and as a fric >\ d , to let me know what by chance ho had heard at the . Castle . ; That it was determined to seize nuj estate if I did not comply . My answer was , that I was prepared against every thing , that I was resolute never to comply . In consequence of which orders were despatched to tho ^ officer . , commanding atBandon ; ; to ; send detachments . ofJiors e and foot ffl * ake ; pp 8 session of niy housed which" they did vt * f ^ am « uiifc $ > bletweB ^^
They .: expelled iftfiir : ' ^^^ k ^^ awS' cJtitSreVT & niny servants ; the officershrokeopenmy cellars , drank alt my wine ; they ordered the men to kill my sheep and oxen , on which the whole party Subsisted ; they converted my iron gates into ' shees for their horses ; they made firing of windows , doors , and frames of the house and offices ; burned all my farmin" utensils ; destroyedimy gardens , the wall trees ; the hot house , greenhouse , and all the plants ; turned all their horses out into young plantations which were all ruined , stole every thing moveable , and committed every species of devastation for eight or nine weeks that they remained there , for which I never received one penny as remuneration from that day to this . After this visitation it was again
demanded of me to sign the paper . ' My " answer was always the same . Still I was kept a prisoner ; and . when those who had entered into the agreement were sent to Scotland , I was forced by Justice Atkinson and a company of Buckinghamshire militia , at the very point of the bayonet , into a coach , convoyed on board a tender , and conducted to Fort George , in which military garrison / was kept for a year and ten months , where by the lenient treatment I received I lost the use ot ray limbs , and was reduced to the very verge of life ; at the end of which time I was brought to London , and 'let go on the 24 th of January , 1801 , upon a dreadful recognisance to some immense amount , not to rctnr % x to Ireland , and to reside in such part of . England as
the King of England should from time to time appoint ( and Middlesex was named ) during the , then war . I took a house at Southgate , in Middlesex , where I resided for haif a year , but having no land there , I looked out for a place with land to occupy my time . I found one to suit me at Elstree . As I was a stranger , and as the rent amounted to £ 500 a year , I applied to my old friend and companion Sir Francis Burdett , who immediately became my security . There I lived for one year , when the treaty of Amiens taking place I was desirous of returning to my own country , and applied to Sir Richard Ford , tho magistrate , before whom I acknowledged the recognisance , to gel it up . 7 ) i vain . After many fruitless efforts , he at length informed me that it
was determined never to give it up as long as I retained the power of living in the south of Ireland . I judged it . better to part . with Connorville than be shut out from my country . I got A LICENSE to go to Ireland , and on the 1 st of May 3803 , 1 let « lease for ever of the place of my earliest days . Whereupon I got up my recognisance immediately . I purchased , for £ 40 , 000 , from Lord Wellcslcy , tho Castle and Estate of Dangan , within a few miles of Dublin ; where I have resided with my family ever since , coming over occasionally to visit Sir Francis Burdettand a few other friends in England , where though I have estates . I have never been known ,
Jivcctly or indirectly , to interfere in any concerns of the country . I never attended a public meeting or a public dinner '; though I have many friends ; I seldom associate with > any one'but Sir Francis Burdett and his family . -M y fortune is ample ; and neither I nor any one of my family , ever eat one morsel that was not piroduced from our oivn estates . We never received any of the people ' s money in the shape of pensions and places , nor was any man ' s meal or com orts ever diminished by one of us . Surely then I must bo a most disloyal traitor ! In fine , many , ' very many , in Ireland love me ; tho militia was attached to me . I surrendered on the
solemn faith of a proclamation , which faith towards me was broken ; I protected Capt . Roche , I defended the Judge , I saved Mr , Silvester'and the Bow-street constable . There is no kind of place tliat has not been my prison ; iny own house , camps , giiard-houses , taverns and hotels , castles , wherries , paekct-boats , messengers' houses , court-houses , bridewells , state prisons ( as they are called , ) tenders , garrisons , palaces ; and as a prisoner have I been travelled from my own house in the south to Carrickfergtis in tho north of Ireland ; from the western extremity of Wales to Maidstone—nearly the eastern extremity of England ; from Dublin to Fort George in Scotland—within forty miles of John 0 ' Groat ' s house to London ; in mail coaches , post carriages , and carts , on foot , and on horseback .
And all because , ( for I know of no other cause , ) that ten years before the French Revolution , I saw the absolute necessity of a reform in the Commons in Ireland , which was a cknowleded afterwards by the factions of England and _ Ireland , and because I would not consent to a legislative union , which 1 regarded as equally ruinous to both parts of the kingdom . On tho whole , then , let the people of England , now that they are in possession of their solo senses , decide between my accusers and me , whether the laws were infringed by me who have gone through every ordeal , who have always courted investigation and inquiry , who for years NEVER CEASED TO DEMAND TRIAL , or by THEM who sought tho protection of a BILL OF IXDEMIfllT , passed by an assembly of which they themselves made a part . "
Such , reader , is the political history , such arc the crimes of Mr . O'Connor ; such is the person to have had whom in his house at the time when the army stormed it , was—if the public had been still fool enough—to be set down to the account oi Sir Francis , and as proof presumptive at least that he had wicked designs—designs against the p ' cace and safety of the country ! Header , if you be an Englishman , awiliave neither job nor contract , nor place , nor unmerited pension , nor defalcation in your accounts with the public , in short , if you profit from no species of public robbery say , how should you like to be treated as Mr . 0 ' Connor was ? How ' should won like this sort of treatment ? How should
you like to . have your house , your gardens , your iields , your plantations laid waste anddestroyeil as his were ? llow should you like to be hurried from prison to prison , to bo thrown into dungeon after dungeon , and when you demanded trial refused that trial 1 But surely I need not ask those questions . Well , then , is there to be no feeling for him because he is an Irishman ? Are wo ready to avow this to the Irish people ? 1 trust not ; I trust that wc shall prove to that unfortunate people that wo feci for them as for ourselves ; that we are as ready to resent their wrongs as wc are our own ; that in a word , we regard them as our countrymen , and that we are resolved to consider their enemies as out
enemies . This is the way to produce an union with Ireland , a reed union , an union of the hearts of the people of the whole kingdom , and this sort of union it is that the boroughmongers and their hirelings would wish to prevent . Hitherto , indeed , they have prevented it . They have never missed an- opportunity of misrepresenting the people of Ireland . They have caused tho people of England to believe that those of Ireland were bent upon a surrender of their country to France , and that all their demands relating to political and civil liberty . were , mere ^ retences . What evils have not sprung from this accursed source ? I beseech the reader to consider
that it is not in nature , that the people of Ireland should not bate us , if we persist in our credence to these calumnies . It is , on all hands , agreed , that Ireland is our vulnerable part . Does it not then become us to strengthen that part , to use all the means in our power of regaining the good will of the Irish people , and to induce them to make common cause with us against the common enemy ? And what can be more opposite to this than reviving tho memory of those cruel times to which Mr . O'Connor ' s narrative refers , than tearing the skin from the hardly-healed and hardly-hidden wound- ' . What ho has said helms been compelled to say . lie has been calumniated in tho -most foul and infamous
manner . Io remain silent might have been , com strued into a consciousness of guilt . His calumniators , therefore , are answerable for tho revival of the memory of that winch he was willing should bo forgotten , and which nothing but boroughmongering malignity could have induced any one to " attempt to revive . "Wit , Cosbett , Botlcy , May 9 , 1810 .
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¦ ^ ORinAMrxorf . -At the recent municipal elections the Chartists of this town , contested each of the three wards , and succeeded in returning one of their number to the town council , namclv , John Perry , for the South Ward . Gray Hester , ' ( Chartist , ) for the same ward , was defeated by eight votes only . Six years ago Chartist candidates for the same ward polled one vote each , this year they polled nearly four hundred votes each . In tlie West Ward , Gurney , ( Chartist , ) polled eighty-three votes , and Pcbody polled sixty-three votes . In tho East Ward , Bass , ( Chartist , ) polled forty-three votes ; and Wells thirty-seven votes . Chartism in Northampton was never in such a hcalthv and vigorous state as at the !
present time . On November the Stli , there was a magnificent soiree held in the Sew HaUr A ' ewlard 350 sat down to tea , and Jones' splendid band por * ^™ ed various solos and quadrilles during tea . Seven hundred were present at the public meeting , * ° w"je' \ a Payment of-threepence was- required , Gerald . Massey addressed the meeting , as did Messrs-. Small and Gammage . Numerous songs and recitations were given , and with three tremendous cheers-for liberty all over the world , this largemeetmg separated . ' Biiston . —At the usual meeting held in . Hallstreet , on Sunday last several new . members- were enrolled . We wish to call the attention of on * Walsall friends-to- the object we put forward a few weeks ago , that they also formed a part of this district . The friends of Dr . M'Douall shall have our earliest attention , : ' ¦•' ] ¦
Manchester . —On Sunday evening last Mr . Williams , of Stockport , delivered an animated lecture in the People ' s- Institute ,, on the War of Interest , which was- listened to throughout with great satisfaction . Atfter the lecture * Mr . Ambrose Tomlinson gave a recital of his sufferings while in York Castle .. At the , close- of tlie meeting it . was unanimousl y agreed ; that the county delegate meeting should be held in the Hall of Science , Camp Field , on Sunday , tko-25 th insfci . Tho chair to-be taken at ten o ' clock iii the morning . » ' HuDi > BBSECBia >;—iAt the-usual weekly meeting , held at Mr . ^ Emsall ' s-Tomperance Hotel , Buxtontojtdy . jiVvras resolved , Vl'hat the thanks of-thi » Earnshaw . J ^ lri ^ r ^ Bf ' thu loenlify , for-: hhv trustworthinessland indefatigable exertio ' ns in thtf cause of democracy . He retires from office with all the honour due to an henest man . " ; '
BisotEY . —On Sunday last Mr . Robinson , of Wilsdcn , delivered two lectures in this place , in the New Odd-fellows' Hall , on Ancient Democracy—and in the evening on Temperance . The lecturer : gavegeneral satisfaction . , Debut . —In accordance with a resolution unanimously passed ata public meeting held at the Town Hall , ( the particulars of which recently appeared in the Northern' Star , ) I forwarded the memorial ,, adopted in behalf of all our imprisoned brethren , to-Lawrence Heyworth , Esq ., M . P ., for presentation to Sir G . Grey , and have received the following letter from that honourable gentleman in reply : — Yewtrco , near Liverpool . November 5 th , 1849 ..
DfiAit Sin , —I liave had great pleasure in transmitting to Sir George Grey tho pitition from tho inhabitants of Derby , hi public meeting assembled , and which , bv authority of the meeting , you hav » done me the honour ' of forwarding to me . Ihave expressed to Sir George Grey " nn earnest hope that the prayer of this petition may be favourably , received by her Majesty , the Queen ; and am , dear sir , ¦ ¦¦ Yours truly ,. . W . Lewis Faire . Lawbknce IIeywomh .. Halifax . —Public Meeting . —A large and enthusiastic meeting called by public placard , was held here on Tuesday evening , the 13 th inst , " in the Working Man ' s Hall , Bull Close-lane , for the purpose of aduptiug a memorial to the Queen ,
praying tor a tree pardon to all political offenders . Mr . J . Cmssetx was called to the chair ; when the following resolutions were passed unanimous ! } ' , being moved and seconded by Messrs . G . Webber , Maud , llushton , and Crossley , supported by . Mr . John West . 1 st , — " That this meeting is decidedly of opinion that the imprisonment of men for expressing their honest convictions upon political subjects ,, is directly at variance with that spirit of freedom said to be inherent in the British constitution , and contrary to that liberty of speech , in the expression of political opinions , which is considered to be the right of all British subjects ; as we consider that an enlightened public opinion is the safest and most itfectualway
to attain this nation ' s rights , and , therefore , that the expression of thought on all questions of religions and civil polity should be free and unfettered . This meeting , also , is of opinion , Ihat the tyrannical and persecuting spirit of our undefined sedition laws call loudly upon Parliament for their liberal revision or immediate repeal . " 2 nd . — " That a memorial be drawn up by a committee of three , founded upon the above resolution , and pres-ntcd to her Majesty the Queen , through Mr . Cobden . M . P ., praying for a free and unreserved pardon to be extended to all political prisoners now confined in any of the prisons of Great Britain . " 3 rd . — '' That it is the opinion of this meeting , that
the lime has now arrived when the people of Great Britain should memorialize the Crown ,, and petition the Houses of Parliament for , a remission of the sentence of all political Cunyicts' now suffering in our penal settlements , and that we recommend the consideration of " this question'to all'patriots . " 4 th . — "That Mr . . William Danielle , Mr . Georgo Webber , and Mr . J . Clissett , form a committee to draw up and forward the memorial founded upon the foregoing resolutions . " The meeting was afterwards addressed by' Mr . John West in his usual talented manner .. Votes of thanks were then voted to Mr . West , the chairman , when the meeting separated . -
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TO THE DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC OF GREAT BRITAIN AM ) IRELAND . BnCTitr . ES , —We , tho undersigned , being a committee acting for , and on bohaff of , Dr . M'Douall , now a political prisoner in Kirkdale-gaol , do most respectfully return thanks for tho timely aid afforded by those localities who have been ever ready to protect the pntriot ' swife and children from want . It is not generally known tho great sacrifices that our friend M'Douall lias made , struggling for the cause of the people , against tyranny and oppression , during tho last twelve years ; wc arc certain , was it known , a greater . number , of his admirers would have come , to his help before now . The amount of monev , spent by him for tho people ' s
cause—the valuable time , - and the extraordinary talent and genii !? ,, which might have been employed in providing a competency for old ' : igc ,-and the support of his family . But that is not the least ; he has suffered at ' the hands of Whig judges and juries « oar three years' incarceration in a dungeon ' s gloom , with one hour ' s exercise daily in the company of murderers , robbers , and all other immoral inmates of a prison . From his lonely cell his prayer has been , next to his wife and children , that the Supreme Power would change the hearts of tho tyrants ninl oppressors :, and tlwit the poor may obtain tho just reward for their labour they arc entitled fo < ret .
It is scarce six years ago , when this good man advocating the ri « hts of the poor , by a slight word , gave oil ' ence to the possessors of power , whereupon they issued a proclamation offering one hundred pounds reward for his body , which forced him to seek shelter in a foreign land . In tine , we know of no man who has suffered move , and borne it so patiently , as our friend Dr . MM > oua \ l ; be bavng spent his all , and sacrificed every domestic comfort and familv . interest for the people ' s cause and a dungeon ' s gloom ; and all for us and otir order ! Then shall we ever deserve to enjoy heaven-born liberty , if we so basely desert him now ? We consider his claims on us can never bo repaid . Therefore ^ with a view to assist him , wc propose a National Tostinial , to be called
" THE M'DOUALL TESTIMONIAL , " to be raised bv voluntary contri butions , from all Chartist Democratic localities fir the express purpose of enabling this patriot to recommence his own profession as a " mcdical man . His talents have been admitted on several occasions , by the public press ; his abilities , as a writer and orator , are very welt known to be pre-eminent . We therefore beg leave to inform our friends throug hout the kingdom , mav be desirous of contributing to " The M'lkuwU Testimonial , " that all subscriptions will be received by tho Treasurer of tho Committee , and acknowledged privately , or through the Northern Star . Wo are , Brother Democrats . On behalf of Dr . M'Douall ,
Yours Fraternally , William L'Costixe , Joiix Waddeix , Chairman , James Mkrckr , Axdkew M'Fee , Treasurer , William Roiuxsos , James . SEniJi' , Secretary . P . S . ^ All Po st-offico Orders made payable to Andrew M'Foe , 6 , Agustine-street , St . Martin ' s , Liverpool .
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FUKD FOR THE WIDOWS AND CHILDREN OF SHARP AND WILLIAMS . The following subscriptions have been already received bv tho Committee : — Sir Joshua Walmslcy , M . P 2 0 0 Mr . James Harmcr , ( WeeklyDispatch ) ... 110 Mr . Thomas Prout 1 1 0 Mr . "William "Williams ... 110 Mr . George W . M . Reynolds f > 5 0 Collected at a Public Meeting at Derby 0 17 0 Digby Arms Locality 10 0 Subscribed by the Clerks and Compositors in Hemioids ' s Miscdlanv Ofiico ... 0 10 0 Mr . D . ' lluitV ... * 0 5 0 Proceeds of Hall in tho Tower Hamlets 0 10 0 T . W 2 s . Gd . ; per Mr . lllingworth , Is . ; Mrs . and Miss Eagle , Is . ; Anonvmous Correspondent ot lleimohh's Miscellany , Od . ; " Ditto , 0 d . ; G . W ., UJ . ; a Youth , 3 d , ; J , 111 ( Shoreditch ) , 2 s . ( id . William Davis , Chairman . G . W . M . Rkv . volps , Treasurer . Jons J . Feumsasdo , Secretary
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