Ireland: Algerine Act

IRELAND.— The affairs of this unhappy and distracted country assume a more sombre appearance, if possible, by every fresh arrival. It will be seen by the following proclamation of the Marquis of Anglesey, that the enforcing act has commenced its operation, in the county of Kilkenny.

Proclamation of the Irish Government under the New Bill.
DUBLIN, Sunday, April 7.– The following proclamation extending the provisions of the bill to the county and city of Kilkenny, appeared in the Dublin Gazette. It is stated that a proclamation will appear early in the present week, prohibiting the meetings of the Volunteers, the Conservatives, and the Trades’ Union.

By the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland.
A PROCLAMATION.
ANGLESEY.– Whereas, by an Act passed in the third year of his present Majesty’s reign, entitled “An act for the more effectual suppression of local disturbances and dangerous association in Ireland,” it is amongst other things enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant and other Chief Governor of Governors of Ireland, with the advice of His Majesty’s Privy Council in Ireland, at any time after the passing of the said Act, and from time to time during the continuance thereof, as occasion may require, to issue his or their proclamation, declaring any county, county of a city, or county of a town, in Ireland, or any portion thereof, respectively, to be in such a state of disturbance and insubordination as to require the application of the provisions of the said act.

Now, we, the Lord Lieutenant, do by this our Proclamation, in pursuance and execution of the said Act, and by and with the advice of his Majesty’s Privy Council in Ireland, declare the county of Kilkenny, the county of the city of Kilkenny, the city of Kilkenny, and the liberties of the city, to be in such a state of disturbance and insubordination as to require the application of the provisions of the said Act.

And we do, by this our Proclamation, warn the inhabitants of the said county of Kilkenny, the city of the county of Kilkenny, the city of Kilkenny, and the liberties of the said city, to abstain from all seditious and other unlawful assemblages, processions, confederacies, meetings and associations, and to be and remain in their respective habitations at all hours between sunset and sunrise, from and after Wednesday the 10th of April, inst., of which all Justices of the Peace of the said county, and county of a city, constables, peace officers, and others whom it may concern, are to take notice.

Given at the Council Chamber in Dublin, this 6th day of April, 1833.
ROSSE Wm. M’MAHON, Wm. SAURIN, JOHN RADCLIFFE, JOHN DOHERTY, F. BLACKBURNE, R. H. VIVIAN. “God save the King.”

From the Dublin Pilot.
We publish a letter from Mr. O’Connell tonight, as his opinions and intentions cannot be communicated in any language more forcible than his own.

London, 14 Albemarle-st., Wednesday.
My dear Barrett,– The die is cast; We are all slaves. One more injustice has been committed towards Ireland. Let us now struggle for the double repeal–
First, of this new Algerine Act.
Secondly, of that union which alone caused this act to be passed.

I feel the awful duty imposed on me by the Volunteers. I will endeavor to perform it honestly, at least, if not well.

Announce to the people of Ireland that I intend on every Monday, whilst the Algerine Act continues, to publish a letter to them in the Pilot; I will, please God, begin on Monday next.

I mean to take up in detail the necessary agitation in each county in Ireland. Our enemies shall not triumph over the people, nor put down the popular sentiment. We will agitate within the law, without either moral guilt or legal offence.

Call on the people to be quiet, to hear with patience this new indignity. Let them hope for better days, and better days must soon arrive.

Give a caution to the atrocious Whitefeet. They have played the game which the enemies of Ireland wished them to play. The execration of every good or honest man is upon their crimes. The vengeance of God will sooner or later, be visited upon their wickedness.

How sincerely ought we to detest the vilest of the vile Whitefeet– the last and worst of those villainous miscreants, who have given strength to the enemies and weakened the friends of Ireland.

But still I do not despair of my country. No. Even in the crimes which are committed against her, there arises a hope that those crimes will accelerate their own punishment, and create thereby that state of things which will insure the speedy restoration of our national and constitutional independence.

Believe me to be, very respectfully yours,
DANIEL O’CONNELL.

The Dublin Times asserts that forty-four officers from the half-pay list were to be immediately commissioned to act as members of the court martial to be held under the Irish Disturbance Bill. A considerable military force was ordered to proceed to the county of Kilkenny to carry the enforcing law into effect. The object of including the city of Kilkenny with the county, in the proclamation, is said to be, that the trials of persons apprehended in the adjoining parts of the county might take place there.