sons of most respectable property. Many of them possessed considerable estates. Their loyalty and patriotism were equally known and acknowledged. Among them were Lord Charlemont, Mr. Flood, Mr. Grattan, Mr. Stewart (member for Tyrone), and Mr. Dobbs, a barrister. Their demeanour was peaceable, and such as became the cause that had assembled them. They passed the following celebrated resolutions.

"Whereas it has been asserted, that volunteers, as such, cannot with propriety debate or publish their opinions on political subjects, or on the conduct of parliament or public men

"Resolved unanimously, That a citizen, by learning the use of arms, does not abandon any of his civil rights.

"Resolved unanimously, That a claim of any body of men other than the king, lords and commons of Ireland, to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a griev

ance,

"Resolved, (with one dissenting voice only,) That the powers exercised by the privy council of both kingdoms, under, or under pretence of the law of Poynings, are unconstitutional, and a grievance.

"Resolved unanimously, That the ports of this country are by right open to all foreign countries, not at war with the king, and that any burthen thereupon, or obstruction thereto, save only by

the parliament of Ireland, are unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance,

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Resolved, (with one dissenting voice only,) That a mutiny bill, not limited in point of duration from session to session, is unconstitutional, and a grievance.

"Resolved unanimously, That the indepen dance of the judges is equally essential to the inpartial administration of justice in Ireland as in England, and that the refusal, or delay of this right to Ireland, makes a distinction where there should be no distinction, may excite jealousy where perfect union should prevail, and is in itself unconstitutional, and a grievance.

"Resolved, (with eleven dissenting voices only,) That it is our decided and unalterable determination to seek a redress of these grievances; and we pledge ourselves to each other and to our country, as freeholders, fellow citizens, and men of honour, that we will, at every ensuing election, support those only who have supported us therein, and that we will use every constitutional means to make such our pursuit of redress speedy and effectual.

"Resolved, (with one dissenting voice only,) That the right honourable and honourable the minority in parliament, who have supported these our constitutional rights, are entitled to our most grateful thanks; and that the annexed Address be signed by the Chairman, and published with those resolutions.

"Resolved unanimously, That four members from each county of the province of Ulster (eleten to be a quorum) be, and are hereby appointed, a committee till next general meeting, to act for the volunteer corps here represented, and, as occasion shall require, to call general meetings of that province.

"Resolved unanimously, That said committee do appoint nine of their members to be a committee in Dublin, in order to communicate with such other volunteer associations in the other provinces as may think proper to come to similar resolutions, and to deliberate with them on the most constitutional means of carrying them into effect.

"Resolved unanimously, That the committee be, and are hereby instructed to call a general meeting of the province, within twelve months from this day, or in fourteen days after the dissolution of the present parliament, should such an event sooner take place.

"Resolved unanimously, That the court of Portugal have acted towards this kingdom (being a part of the British empire) in such a manner as to call upon us to declare, and pledge ourselves to each other, that we will not consume any wine of the growth of Portugal, and that we will, to the utmost extent of our influence, prevent the use of said wine, save and except the wine at present in this kingdom, until such time as our export shall be received in the kingdom of Por

tugal, as the manufactures of part of the British empire.

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"Resolved, (with two dissenting voices only to this and the following resolutions,) That we hold the right of private judgment in religion to be equally sacred in others as in ourselves.

"Resolved therefore, That as men and as Irishmen, as Christians and as protestants, we rejoice in the relaxation of the penal laws against our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, and that we conceive the measure to be fraught with the happiest consequences to the union and prosperity of the inhabitants of Ireland."

"To the Right Honourable and Honourable the Minority in both Houses of Parliament.i

MY LORDS, AND GENTLEMEN,

"We thank you for your noble and spirited, though hitherto ineffectual efforts in defence of the great constitutional and commercial rights of your country. Go on:-the almost unanimous voice of the people is with you, and in a free country the voice of the people must prevail, We know our duty to our sovereign, and are loyal. We know our duty to ourselves, and are resolved to be free. We seek for our rights, and no more

than our rights; and in so just a pursuit, we should doubt the being of a Providence if we doubted of success.

Thus ended the business of this memorable day. The meeting was held in the church. Its moderation and patriotic character equally rejoiced the friends and disappointed the enemies of the volunteers. The latter hoped to have found some rash or unconstitutional proceeding which might have been made a pretext for destroying the union altogether.

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Passing from the field to the senate, we find Mr. Grattan, the untired labourer in his country's cause, the oracle and idol of his armed countrymen, still urging the claims of Ireland for independence and liberty. On the 22d Feb. only seven days after the Dungannon meeting, he moved in the house of commons for an address

to the king, to assure his majesty with unfeigned attachment to his person and government, that the people of Ireland were a free people; the crown of Ireland a distinct kingdom, with a parliament of her own; and that with one voice they protested against the interposition of any other

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