On Monday, the new Lord Mayor of Dublin, Sir GEORGE
WHITEFORD, was sworn in at the Castle, in the presence of the Lord-Lieutenant. It appears, singularly enough, that this gentleman was the foreman of the Grand Jury which in Lord WELLESLEY'S former Viceroyalty ignored Lord PLUNKETT'S bills against the famous bottle-conspirators. Lord WELLESLEY of course gave no symptoms of recollecting this circumstance ; but delivered the usual address to the Lord Mayor, with great dignity, and in very gracious language. In the evening, the Cor- poration gave a grand dinner to the Lord-Lieutenant; who, in re- turning thanks when his health was drunk, took occasion to an- nounce the principles on which he intended to conduct the Govern- ment of Ireland.
" That morning he had the honour of receiving the Lord Mayor, and he then said, that the commands of his gracious, his benevolent, generous, and patriotic Sovereign, were to steer, free from every distinction, a plain course, that should be in the high region above all those animosities which had raged in this coun- try, and distracted Ireland for years. That was the principle of his government. It was his anxious hope that he should be able to maintain the dispensation of impartial justice to all, and the strict, pure, and vigorous administration of the law. In the patriotic breast of his Sovereign there was no animosity ; there was no trace of par ty-spi rit, of any distinction, or of any description. His Sovereign was prepared to receive the loyalty of all in his pure open bosom, and to cherish it in his pure and open heart. The injunctions of his Sovereign to him were to admit of no distinction of any kind, and to let no distinction interfere with the strict and faithful discharge of the government of a great, a loyal, and a faith- ful people. These were the principles upon which he started, and by these principles he would adhere. This was his determination ; such was his fixed resolution ; and as lie could answer for his own intentions, he would say, that by no other motive would he be influenced, and certainly by no party motives should he ever be swayed. He should, lie assured them, struggle to per- form his duty to this, his own, his native country. He would study to secure the happiness of that country, and, above all, study to maintain the happiness, comfort, and prosperity of this his native city.
This address (not the worse to Irish ears for its tautology) was received with loud cheers; several other toasts were given, and the Marquis departed. The Lord Mayor, who had attended him to his carriage, on his return immediately gave the old Orange toast, " The glorious, pious, and immortal memory !"
We certainly hope that the Marquis WELLESLEY will be the impartial representative of his Sovereign, which he has declared his intention to be ; but if in an evil hour lie should be inclined to swerve from his course, and endeavour by unworthy means to conciliate such a body of men as the Orange Tories of Ireland, we trust that he will be reminded by some faithful counsellor, that notwithstanding his urbane and complimentary behaviour to the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the old offensive toast of the Orangemen was announced by him while the sound of the Lord-Lieutenant's chariot-wheels was still within hearing of the revellers. The toast was undoubtedly given, if not received, in the same spirit which in former times made the "Exports of Ireland " so bitter an insult to this same Lord WELLESLEY.
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