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Lord Russell, son of the Marquis of Tavistock, will preside at the dinner to be given in Drury Lane Theatre to the Members for Mid- dlesex, on Monday week. On the list of stewards, are the Dukes of Norfolk and Devonshire, the Marquises of Westminster and Tavistock, the Earls of Essex and Fitzwillium, Lords Suffield, Dinorben, Ken- sington, Strafford, William Bentinck, and Mr. Portman. A meeting of Lambeth " Radicals," as the report" styles them some- what too vaguely, was held at the danterbury Arms, on Wednesday, for the purpose of considering Mr. O'Connell's charge against the English Radicals, that. they had done nothing for Ireland. A letter to Mr. O'Connell was read by the Chairman, the tone of which will ap- pear from the following passage.
The gauntlet, which you, Sir, have so unceremoniously thrown down, we take up as the signal for an onset, to which, in spite of an inequality which may be supposed to exist, we come cheerfully and fearlessly, both for our own and the People of Ireland's sake. We declare that the charges you have flung at us are unfounded, and we will prove our veracity while we deny yours. Was not the Irish Coercion Bill brought in and made law by the men whom you de- nounced as' bloody-minded and cruel?' Yet these are the very men with whom you now take council, and whose political existence you deem It to be the busi- ness of your life to prolong, and whose resignation you seem to consider would be death to the liberties of Ireland. Did not the Radicals of England respond to the call which you made to meet and petition against the passing of the Coer- cion Act, over all the land ? Was there any lack of activity and determination to procure justice for Ireland' then on our part? We think not. Did we not equally show our sympathy with the People of Ireland when the tragical circumstances of Rathcormac came to light ? The Radicals of England, as well as yourself, expressed their decided opposition to the Tithe system, and, in conjunction with yourself, met and advocated the principle, that unless mea- sures of' reform were given to Ireland, equal to those proposed for England, your proposition for a repeal of the Union ought to be adopted. Can you recol- lect nothing of these things? Sir, we are English Radicals, and not 'growl- ing, or low-minded under yowling Radicals,' which you courteously please to call us. We are neither. Whig-Radicals ' nor 'Tory-Radicals,' but, we trust, men with minds too lofty to he willing to become so mean as to lend ourselves to party trickery, or swerving finesse and political chicanery. We do boldly and uncompromisingly express our hatred to all our enemies, by wnatever name they may be called, or whether they choose to rank themselves with Whigs or Tories."
In a subsequent passage the demands of the Lambeth Radicals are thus stated- " Do we want discernment because we demand for Ireland a truly Reformed House of Commons, equal representation, universal suffrage, vote by ballot, short Parliaments, an equitable remuneration for labour, a national system of education, just taxation, a rightful division of the soil, no established church, and a free press? With these. Ireland would need no justice-rent, no Irish Association, no local Parliamente,sor sundering of the Union."
We suspect the Lambeth Radicals any more than they intend, when they talk of the " rightful division of the soil ;" though, indeed, we have seen some doctrines advauced in Tory newspapers in reference to the rights of property, which encourage the notion that the great landholders are little better than great robbers, who should be com- pelled to make restitution of their plunder. Mr. Cleave attempted an apology for Mr. O'Connell ; who, hehre said, undertook more than he could manage, and whose words therefore not always wise. This excuse was not very well received. The letter was adopted unanimously ; and it is to be presented to Mr. O'Connell on his arrival in town.
A public meeting is to be held on the 20th of February, 'elt the Crown and Anchor Tavern, to set on foot a subscription for a monu-
ment to the memory of Thomas Muir, William Skirving, Thomas Fysche Palmer, Joseph Gerrald, and Maurice Margarot, the distin- guished Scotch victims of Tory persecution in 1793-1-5. Mr. Hume will take the chair.
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