The Opettator
MARCH 2, 1833 IRELAND
A NUMEROUS body of the inhabitants of Dublin assembled on the 20th February, to take into con- sideration the proposed measures of coercion for Ireland. An attempt was made, by a person named Walsh, to procure a resolution in favour of a declara- tion of rights, somewhat similar to the one adopted by the Americans at the commencement of their Revolution. The more temperate part of the meeting, however, objected to this proposal; and it was with- drawn, after a good deal of clamour. Resolutions were then passed containing a strong protest against Earl Grey's projected measure, and ,declaring that it was brought forward without due examination into the state of the country, which by no means warranted such an unconstitutional enactment. The leading' gentlemen at this meeting were lawyers and merchants of great respectability, and the tone of resolutions and proceedings was temperate and firm.
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