Speeches of Phillips, Curran, and Grattan, the Celebrated Irish Orators (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831. Excerpt: ... SPEECH OF MR. CURRAN, IN BEHALF OF ARCHIBALD HAMILTON ROWAN, Ea-. FOR A LIBEL IN THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH, IRELAND. On The 29th Of January, 1794. The Society of United Irishmen at Dublin, to the Volunteers of Ireland. William Drennan, Chairman; Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Secretary. Be it remembered, that the right honourable Arthur Wolfe, attorney-general of our present sovereign lord the king, gives the court here to understand and be informed, that Archibald Hamilton Rowan, of the city of Dublin, Esq. being a person of a wicked and turbulent disposition, did on the sixteenth day of December, in the thirty-third year of the reign of our present sovereign lord George the third, publish a certain false, wicked, malicious, scandalous, and seditious libel, that is to say: "Citizen Soldiers, --You first took up arms to protect your country from foreign enemies and from domestic disturbance; for the same purpose it now becomes necessary that you should resume them; a proclamation has been issued in England for embodying the militia, and a proclamation has been issued by the lord lieutenant and council in Ireland, for repressing all seditious associations. In consequence of both these proclamations it is reasonable to apprehend danger from abroad and danger at home; from whence but from apprehended danger are these menacing preparations for war drawn through the streets of this capital 1 for whence, if not to create that internal commotion which was not found, to shake that credit which was not affected, to blast that volunteer honour which was hitherto inviolate, are those terrible suggestions and rumours and whispers that meet us at every corner, and agitate at least our old men, our women, and our children: whatever be the motive, or from whatever quarte...