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because men of sense scorn their protection, look out for sparks of talent in cellars and stalls, and, having found something to their taste, stamp it with their own seal, that it may pass current with the world.-Another remarkable point in this Correspondence is, Lord Byron's protestations, from the very starting-post, against the identifying Childe Harold's character with his own. That, he says, is my second objection to my name appearing in the title-page.

Want of room compels us to refrain from dwelling upon many more particulars, of strong interest to the literature of the day; for these we must refer to the book itself: hoping that the prudence of those concerned in the injunction will induce them to take off their embargo, and enable the public to read the letters of their own poet in their own language.

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the injunction, that these letters (addressed to his mother)! | Lord Byron justly attributes to the vanity of patrons; who, contained a farrago of blasphemy and impiety: in this assertion there is not the shadow of truth. They are almost entirely narrative, and refer to the scenes through which the writer was passing at the time, interspersed with allusions to his domestic and economical interests, such as a son would naturally write to his mother. In a letter from Constantinople, he gives a sort of summary of his travels. He describes himself as neither disappointed nor disgusted. He had lived with the highest and the lowest; had passed days in a Pacha's palace, and many a night in a cow-house. He found the people inoffensive and kind. He remained some time with the Greeks in the Morea and Livadia; and, though inferior to the Turks, he found them better than the Spaniards, who, in their turn, excelled the Portuguese. Of St. Sophia he speaks as of a building of great interest, but not to be mentioned in the same page with St. Paul's. What he states of his servant Fletcher, is pretty nearly what most persons might repeat, who have taken English servants to travel. Besides his lamentations after beef and beer, and his contempt of everything foreign, his incapacity for acquiring even a few words of a foreign language rendered him a heavy incumbrance. The plague of speaking for him, the comforts he wanted, the pilaws he could not eat, and the wines he could not drink, his endless calamities of stumbling horses, want of tea, &c. &c. were an endless source of laughter and of inconvenience. Of travel Lord Byron remarks, that he saw all countries with reference to his own. When he finds England superior, he is pleased; when otherwise, he is at least enlightened; no very strong proof, by the by, of that inveterate dislike of his native country with which he has been so often reproached. If his pleasures in this particular were less frequent than his instruction, there are many of us who will not be inclined to think it altogether his Lordship's own fault. Lord Byron kept no journal; he had no intention of scribbling his travels, and had done with authorship! Speaking of a Bavarian artist, whom he had employed to take views for him,-This, he says, will be better than scribbling, a disease he hopes himself cured of.

As early as the year 1811, Lord Byron seems to have made up his mind to his future course of life. He says, that if by circumstances he should be obliged to sell Newstead, he will at all events pass his life abroad. Newstead was his only tie to England; and that once gone, neither interest nor inclination would lead him northward. Competence in England, he observes, is ample wealth in the East; and the spot where he can enjoy a delicious climate and every luxury at a less expense than a college life at home, will always be a country to him. This then, he says, is the alternative: if he preserves Newstead, he returns; if he sells it, he will stay away: words remarkable for their prophetic import, and for their evidence of the deep fixedness of the notions of the writer.

With his return to England, which soon follows, his cor respondence with his mother ceases. If we may judge from this specimen of his powers, we may assert that Lord Byron's epistolary writings will, at some future day, take a prominent place among his other literary productions; unless an irreparable injunction against their future appearance in an English dress should be obtained.

The remainder of the volume contains a further correspondence with Mr. Dallas. These pages comprise some remarks upon the encouragement afforded by the great to mechanic and illiterate pretenders to poetry. Were a regular-bred author to write such verses, they would not be tolerated. But every one is in a stare of admiration, that a cobler or a tinker should be able to rhyme at all. Some applaud out of sheer bad taste; others out of pure humanity. This is injustice to men of education, who, when they have done their best, hear their own qualifications cited against hemselves. The success of prodigies of this_description

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MONDAY, JAN. 3.

French papers of Friday arrived last night. The following

are extracts:

The Moniteur of Friday, Dec. 31, contains nothing official. "Augsburg, Dec. 25. "We have just received, by way of Bucharest and Widdin, letters from Constaninople of the 27th, 28th, and 29th of November.

"The Grand Signior has ordered the formation of a new army of reserve, composed entirely of Asiatic troops. Orders have already been sent to the Pachas in Asia to send their troops without delay. This army is to be encamped about Constantinople. The Grand Vizier intended to take the command of the Ottoman armies in person, but the Divan has decided that his presence is necessary at Constantinople, to preserve tranquillity.

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The extraordinary meetings of the Divan have debated chiefly the affairs of Greece. Some members having advised conciliatory measures; the majority, with true Ottoman pride, declared that new efforts must be made during the winter, to prepare a great naval force by the spring. Nothing has been decided, on account of the penury of the treasury. When the last courier left Constantinople, people spoke, though very cautiously, of a rigorous measure which was going to be executed, namely, the deposition of several of the richest Pachas."

The Etoile, dated Saturday, January 1, among various articles from Turkey, in Asia, has one from Damascus, stating that the destruction of Scheraz, in Persia, by an earthquake, is positively confirmed. It happened June 20, 1824, and it is said only 500 inhabitants escaped. At Aleppo there have been smart and frequent shocks.

FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, Dec. 31.-Five per Cents. opened at 101. 75.; closed at 101.90.; Bank Stock, 1,945|; Neapolitan 5 per Cents. (Falconnet's certificates), 877.; Rente d'Espagne, 18.; Royal Spanish Loan, 1823, 57.; Exchange on London, one month, 25.; three ditto, 24. 85.Cours Authentique.

Letters were received on Saturday from Bahia, dated Nov. 2, which contain some details of the events which led to the assassination of the Governor, General Filisberto Gomez e Caldeira, who, we understand, is a relation of the Brazilian Envoy now in this country. It appears that orders had arrived from Rio de Janeiro for disbanding the Portuguese regiment stationed at Bahia, in consequence of some doubts entertained of its fidelity to the Emperor. This order was communicated to the officers who commanded it, but who, not obeving with the promptitude insisted on, were plased

under arrest.

This irritated the troops of that regiment so highly, that they took up arms on the night of the 28th of October, and, marching to the house of the Governor, murdered him in his bed. After the perpetration of this act, with a levity not uncommon among the soldiery of this part of the world, they retired to their quarters, uttering cries of "Live the Emperor!" On the event becoming known, the other regiments were called out, by whose aid the mutinous soldiers were disarmed without bloodshed, and lodged in safe custody to await their punishment. The tranquillity of Bahia is understood to have been completely restored.

The freemen of Canterbury residing in London are preparing for the general election. On Monday evening between 70 and 80 assembled at the White Hart, Giltspur-street, Mr. Gibbs in the chair. There was more talk than anything else, though the meeting did not appear destitute of an object, viz. that of having "a bit of a bustle" in their favourite city: and as this cannot be brought about without a third man(God bless the third man, we say)—after drinking, with the greatest sincerity, success to the present sitting members, the same compliment was paid to the presumed opponent of both, Sir R. T. Farquhar.-Kent Herald.

The cause between Miss Foote and Mr. Hayne has found insertion in the French papers. The Journal des Debats on Sunday begins a translation of the trial in the following terms: "Miss Foote, the first actress of Covent Garden Theatre, demanded 10,000l. sterling with interest, from a very rich young man named M. Hayne, for having broken his promise of marriage. M. Hayne, according to the expressions of his own Counsel, was a sort of innocent who had been made the victim of a coquette; but notwithstanding the certificate of innocence given to Monsieur Hayne, by his Advocate, he was condemned by the Jury to pay 3,000l. sterling (72,000 francs) damages, and costs."

The Courier asserts-we forget whether it be through a Correspondent, or in his own style imperial-that there is no one else fit for public office in Ireland but a Protestant; in short, that there is a natural, as well as a legal, necessity for a man belonging to the Church by law established, before he is worth anything to the State. Wellington is a Protestant, and, upon this principle, he owed his success to his religion; Plunkett is a Protestant, or he would not be almost the first, if not the very first, man in the Senate. Your Protestant, particularly your Irish Protestant, is a superior kind of being; he makes the best soldier, the best statesman, the best orator, the best bishop, in the world. Non ex quovis ligno Mercurius fit; but any Protestant block will answer the purpose; you have only to hew it into shape, and forthwith it will discourse most eloquent music. The God of theft and blarney himself is not more au fait to his divine vocation. Now, we believe (under correction) that a Catholic, provided only he was permitted, would fight as well, and talk as well, and write as well, as a Protestant. There have been, in the olden time, and even lately, Catholics who have done all these things with some applause, not so well as your Protestants, but certainly with some credit to themselves, and some profit to their cause. Napoleon had the misfortane to be a Catholic; yet it is now almost admitted that he was a passable General, and had some inkling of legislation. Bourdaloue was a Catholic Bishop; yet, if history be not a fable, it is thought he could preach almost as well as the Bishop of Derry, though he had not the mod fortune to possess a life interest in 97,000 green acres. Michael Angelo was a Statuary and a Painter; yet the connoisseurs will tell you, we know not with what truth, that he was not inferior to Chantrey or Sir Thomas Laurence. For our parts, we are almost unwilling to attribute the success of Mariborougit to his being a Protestant, any more than we do the thrashings which Old Glorious so often received from Luxemburg, to the Catholicity of the latter. It is our opinion, an erroneous one perhaps, that religion has nothing at all to do with strategetics. It is cerhis, we believe, that neither Alexander, Hannibal, nor Caesar, were Protestants; yet, as the man in the comedy says, "they were pretty rows in their day.”—-Dublin Evening Post.

OPPRESSION OF THE IRISH CATHOLICS.-The last Number of the Edinburgh Review, in an article on "Mr. Moore's" Memoirs of Capt. Rock," rives the following abstract of the penal statutes existing in the last cenary against the Catholics of Ireland. They will startle some of the scendency-men, and diminish the wonder with which many persons new the frequent and violent distractions of Ireland: By the articles **Limerick, the Irish were promised the free exercise of their religion; it from that period till the year 1778, every year produced some fresh enalty against that religion-some liberty was abridged, some right imtired, or some suffering increased. By Acts in King William's reign, hey were prevented from being solicitors. No Catholic was allowed to

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tries for education, was to forfeit all his lands. In the reign of Queen Anne, any son of a Catholic who chose to turn Protestant got possession perty, or to take a lease for more than thirty years. If a Protestant dies of the father's estate. No Papist was allowed to purchase freehold prointestate, the estate is to go to the next Protestant heir, though all to the tenth generation should be Catholic. In the same manner, if a Catholic dies intestate, his estate is to go to the next Protestant. No Papist is to widow of a Papist turning Protestant to have a portion of the chattels of dwell in Limerick or Galway. No Papist to take an annuity for life. The deceased, in spite of any will. Every Papist teaching schools to be presented as a regular Popish convict. Prices of catching Catholic Priests from 50s. to 10l. according to rank. Papists are to answer all questions respecting other Papists, or to be committed to jail for twelve months. No trust to be undertaken for Papists. No Papist to be on Grand Juries. Some notion may be formed of the spirit of those times, from an order of the House of Commons, that the Serjeant at Arms should take into custody all Papists that should presume to come into the gallery (Commons' Journals, vol. iii. fol. 976)! During this reign the English Parliament legislated as absolutely for Ireland as they do now for Rutlandshire-an evil not to be complained of, if they had done it as justly. In the reign of George I. the horses of Papists were seized for the militia, and rode by Protestants; towards which the Catholics paid double, and were compelled to find Protestant substitutes. They were prohibited from voting at vestries, or being high or petty constables. In the reign of George II. four-sixths of the population were cut off from the right of voting at elections, by the necessity under which they were placed of taking the oath of supremacy. Barristers and solicitors marrying Catholics are exposed to all the penalties of Catholics. Persons robbed by privateers during a war with a Catholic State, are to be indemnified by a levy on the Catholic inhabitants of the neighbourhood. All marriages between Catholics and Protestants are annulled. All Popish Young) has no other tendency than that of driving out of the kingdom Priests celebrating them are to be hanged. This system (says Arthur all the personal wealth of the Catholics, and extinguishing their industry within it; and the face of the country, every object which presents itself to travellers, tells him how effectually this has been done."

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THE LONDON MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, JAN. 3. We had a considerable arrival of Grain last week, but this morning the additional quantity from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, are moderate. Of fine Wheat, the quantity at market is small, but millers are backward in their purchases, although the best parcels are quoted 2s. higher than on Monday last. Barley, which was looking up on Friday, is rather dull this morning, and last Monday's price is quoted as that of to-day. Beans and Pease are dearer. Oats are good sale, and may be quoted higher than on Monday. The top price of Flour is firm at 70s. per sack.

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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.-POPE.

PROCEEDINGS IN IRELAND.

Among other alarmist assertions, a statement has run through all the Servile newspapers, that the Catholic clergy are actively engaged in disseminating among the people a work called "Pastorini's Prophecies," in which the destruction of the Protestants is foretold, with a view to familiarize bigoted Catholics with the idea of a pious exterWe were not deceived in our confident anticipation, that the prosecu- mination of heretics being near at hand. Now the truth is, that this tion of Mr. O'CONNELL would end in the utter discomfiture of the same work has been reprobated by all Catholics of reputation, ever prosecutors. They have been defeated at the very threshold: even a since its first publication, about 50 years ago. Then as to its circupicked Protestant Grand Jury threw out the bills of indictment, not-lation by Catholic hands-Mr. ENEAS M'DONNELL, the Agent of the withstanding a charge from Mr. Justice MOORE, in which a most Association, has published a letter in the London journals, in which convenient latitude was given for finding sedition, not only in the he defies the alarmists "to name one single Catholic Clergyman words themselves, but in the circumstances under which they were throughout Ireland, who has, publicly or privately, directly or inspoken-" the time when and the place where." All would not do, directly, assisted in the distribution of the book, or any extracts from however: it was impossible to send a man to trial, for simply paying it." But Mr. M'DONNELL enables us to give a shrewd guess who a compliment to the illustrious BOLIVAR. The sensation created by does circulate the "Prophecies." He attended a meeting in London, this event in Dublin is naturally very great. The feeling of triumph last April, of a set of Intolerants calling themselves the "Irish Society on the part of the people at large is mixed up with a contempt for the of London," at which a Reverend HUGH M'NEILL, son-in-law of the baffled absurdity of the prosecution, which must be peculiarly galling Archbishop of Dublin, declared in his speech, that the "Catholic to a man of talent like Mr. PLUNKETT. On this side the Channel, Priests of Ireland were, at that very time, actually engaged in plawhere Irish party spirit is little understood, the prevalent sentiment is carding Pastorini's Prophecies in every quarter of that country, in that of astonishment. "How could the ATTORNEY-GENERAL be so order to excite the peasantry to deluge it with Protestant blood." blind to the humiliating consequences of an almost certain defeat ?" After the meeting, Mr. M'DONNELL appealed to the Reverend Genis asked by every one who has admired the eloquence and ingenuity tleman to name one only of the body he had denounced in so wholeof the speeches of the Right Hon. WILLIAM PLUNKETT. For want sale a manner. The Protestant Minister confessed he could not, but of a more probable solution, we are fain to adopt the supposition of a and that is worse." Mr. M'DONNELL then asked for the name of some added "Well, if they don't do it publicly, they circulate them privately, contemporary-that after the failure of his attempt against the Orangemen (who were indicted for high treason, for throwing a bottle in the private placarder, and drew from this precious Preacher of the Gospel theatre at Lord WELLESLEY!) the Learned Gentleman was impatient of Peace, the following admission-"Well! all I know about it is, to vindicate his trimming principles by a blow at the Catholics, and that I got five or six copies from the Archbishop of Dublin!!" Upon caught at the merest whisper of revolutionary allusion. Never, cer- before a public assembly, to bring a charge of sedition aud bloodwhich circumstance, the Champion of Protestantism had thought fit,' thirsty conspiracy against probably the most exemplary body of priests in the world!

tainly, was a man in office more humbled.

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We are sorry that the same Number of our Paper which announces this genuine triumph of the Catholic Association, should contain a confirmation of our fears, that they would be unwise enough to proseThe vile faction which preys on Ireland's vitals, does not however cute the Courier for its attack on Maynooth College. The Committee confine itself to words, in its endeavours to plunge the country into to whom the question was referred reported unanimously in favour of anarchy. The reader may see some curious particulars in the dethe prosecution, and accompanied the advice with a recommendation bates of the Catholic Association. The newspapers of the past week of two singularly inconsistent measures. One is, that an offer should furnish more. The High Sheriff of the County of Down, Mr. be made to the Proprietors of the Courier, to direct the legal proceed- CROMMELIN, lately stated to Lord WELLESLEY, that the sale of arms ings solely against the writer of the offensive article, if they would in Belfast had increased to an alarming extent. The report of course give him up a manifestly just and honourable course. The other is, travelled through the official channels to the Home Department; inthat the trial should take place in any Irish county the Association quiry was ordered; the Chief Magistrate procured returns from all might select, under a statute called Judge Johnson's Act, which it the dealers in arms; and it turned out that the sale had actually seems gives to prosecutors this extraordinary and monstrous privilege. decreased! At Rosstrevor, near Newry, a servant gave information, It may be said, in palliation of such a proceeding, that it is a fair reta-that three men, one with his face blackened, got him to show them liation to make the corrupt advocate of everything established taste the the road to a neighbouring village; that he went with them a part of bitter effects of a part of that legal system of which he is ever lauding the way, and that they were waited for on the road by other men. the excellence. But principle should not be sacrificed to revenge. Upon hearing which very marvellous and significant story, without a The Association would advance its cause and reputation much more single conjecture of probable mischief, two magistrates, named HALL by showing itself above retaliation, than by taking advantage of a dis- and MAGUIRE, called out the Yeomanry, kept them in arms all night, graceful law, to strike at a single adversary, and by that means afford scoured the country, and in short threw into alarm the whole of a an example and justification for the Orange faction to treat their poli- remarkably peaceful and orderly district! Truly, this is a new tical enemies in like manner-which they can do with more effect feature in Irish affairs-the poor ill-used people persisting in remainthan the disfranchised Catholics. It is useless to attempt to fight a ing quiet; and the selfish domineering faction employing the basest dominant party with the weapons of law: a blow may be now and arts to incite them to violences which would put again in requisition then successfully struck against an official partizan, but in the long Orange bayonets and gibbets! The humbler classes of the Irish run the faction in power will have terrible odds in their favour. Be- could not possibly have a more timely or convincing corroboration of des, how do these doings tally with Mr. O'CONNELL's own declara- the truth so forcibly impressed on them by the Association in their ton the other day, that the Catholics, adopting the advice of JEREMY late admirable Address-that the Orangemen alone benefit by the BESTEAM, Would "not return persecution for persecution?" Shall a insubordination of the Catholic peasantry. popular body, appealing solely to public opinion for its own success, not be content to rely on public opinion for a complete exposure of the pitiful aspersions of a Tory Journalist against a public college? With all our sympathy with the Catholics, and all our sense of the urious effects of defeat, we cannot help wishing that the Association ary share the fate of Mr. PLUNKETT in their prosecution. The artice in the Courier, however false and absurd, is not, in our opinion, rminal; and therefore our hostility to the writer should never betray es into a wish to see him subjected to a punishment which can only inflicted on a principle that would justify a hundred prosecutions

gainst patriotic writers.

The Courier, however, is prepared with an alarmist inference, in case the Catholics should be obstinately pacific. The poor Irish can never be in the right! When they are provoked into outrage, the cry is, "We cannot grant indulgence now, lest it should be mistaken for concession to violence." When they are determined to be patient and orderly, in order (as they hope) to give their oppressors no excuse for withholding their rights-" Ah," says the Treasury hireling, suspicious state of things!" The reader may think we exaggerate, but take the heartless retainer's own words:→

a most

rage. And why? What future hope is it that has wrought this rapid "There is a marked, perhaps an ominous, pause, in the career of outThe Orangemen are put sadly at fault by the peaceableness of the change? A mine is quiet, till the moment it explodes. This may be Catholic population, and are trying hard to make up for the lack of Association which has brought about the miracle. To that body the Caone reason of the calm. But no-say the Catholics themselves-it is the linary riots, by plots of disturbances of their own manufacture.tholics now look-in its efforts they confide-its commands they are pre

THE EXAMINER.

which should be suffered to exist? Is it consistent with the character,
the honour, or the interests of the Government, that its own duty, its own
paramount functions, should be thus usurped? We say, unequivocally,
that if the Associatiou really do thus stand between the Catholics of Ire
land, and not only the local government of that country, but the general
government of the empire, it is a position fraught with danger; a position
which it should be compelled to abandon."

What does this reasoning amount to, in plain language? Simply
this-the Catholics are quiet, in obedience to the Association;
therefore they will rebel, in obedience to the Association, whenever
the latter gives the word, as it inevitably will sooner or later; there-
fore the calm is ominous, and its cause, the Association, ought to be
abolished forthwith. Was there ever a more stupid confusion of
ideas, or a more disingenuous twisting of good into evil? The Ca-
tholic Association is a volunteer body, undertaking to exert them-
selves to procure civil rights for their countrymen.
engaged, they address those countrymen, entreating them to abstain
While thus
from violence for their own sakes,-shewing them how much outrage
delights and benefits their foes the Orangemen, and proportionately
injures their own cause. In short, they give excellent advice, in the
most argumentative and persuasive form; the Irish poor adopt it;
and this is converted by the Government scribe into crime and dan-
ger-because the influence which the Association, by its advice and
services, acquires over the Catholic population, may, it is argued, be
exerted to incite them to a grand rebellion! We beg the reader to
observe the series of monstrous assumptions involved in this argument.
First, it is taken for granted, that the Catholic Association are engaged
in a traitorous conspiracy that all their present language and pro-
ceedings are designed solely as the means of obtaining a despotic
influence over the bulk of their countrymen, to be used, at the first
favourable moment, in stirring up an insurrection: an impudent and
calumnious assumption! Secondly, it is assumed, that because the
Association have, by reason and eloquence, persuaded the Catholics
that it is their interest to try a peaceful and legal, instead of a violent
and sanguinary, mode of obtaining relief from their load of wrongs,
therefore the Association-(whose sole influence, be it observed, is
derived from the respect and affection with which their zeal, talent,
and consistency, inspire the people)—could, whenever they please,
persuade the Irish, that it is their interest to recur to outrage and in-
surrection! The Courier might as well contend that if a man gives
his friend good advice and does him a service one day, he will there-
by acquire such an influence over his mind, that the next day he shall
be able to persuade him to a course diametrically opposite to that
which he had previously recommended. The secret of this annoy-
ance at the pacific influence of the Association, is however let out
presently afterwards. That assembly, it seems,
tions of Government." How? Why, the Government, when nobody
66 usurps the func-
interferes, keeps the population in constant ferment and disturbance;
but when their own friends and advocates-(the Catholic Association)
talk to them in the mild language of reason and sympathy, the Irish
peasants are induced to be peaceful-an anomaly perfectly intolerable
to a supporter of Legitimacy and Social Order. What! to think that
the peasantry should riot, rob, kill, burn, and destroy, when they are
commanded by the awful voice of mingled Church and State to be
submissive; and that they should become as quiet as lambs, when
simply advised to be patient by an unauthorized Association of mere
subjects, who cannot even boast of corporate rights! The audacious
fellows, too, to presume "to perform the duty" of Government, as
the Courier terms it-how can any well-constituted mind bear the
idea, that where the people would rebel, if all was left to themselves
and their superiors, a set of impertinent fellows should step in and
kcep the peace between ruler and subject!

tween government and people, on one side of the narrow German Ocean, is quite the reverse on the opposite coast. We begin to suspect that those who have attributed to GEORGE the Fourth a secret certainly could a Royal Declaration be better timed, supposing the wish to enfranchise his Catholic subjects, are not mistaken. Never in his teeth, the first time he gets up in the House of Lords, to hold object were to serve the cause of the unfortunate Irish. Lord ELDON forth on the necessity of keeping six millions of fellow-subjects in de himself will be strangely puzzled, when this proclamation is thrown gradation and misery, because they profess tenets in common with whole communities in neighbouring states, equally tolerant and tole

rated.

IRELAND.

CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.
The week's Rent was stated to be 4931. 8s. 6d.
Thursday, December 30.

against persons detected in sowing plots. He alluded to numerous
accounts received of such attempts from various parts of the country.
Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice of a motion to institute prosecutions
before the Magistrates, that he had seen 1600 men drilling with pikes at
Dromakeenan, on the night of the 17th. Enquiry was made; the Police
At Roscrea, a wretch named Reynolds, a pensioner of Government, swore
examined the alleged spot, but not a single foot-mark could be found;
and Reynolds absconded. Letters written in blood had also been thrown
into the Barracks and Post-office.

to meet Mr. O'Connell and the other Gentlemen of the English deputa-
tion in London. Mr. Shiel delivered an eloquent speech, pointing out
A letter was read from Lord Cloncurry, in Devon, expressing a desire
the mode in which the people of England might be convinced, that there
was nothing inherent in the Catholic religion which rendered its pro-
fessors unfit for political freedom; and that it was the policy, as well as
duty, of England, to enfranchise seven millions of fellow-subjects, whose
tion by a just concession,
disaffection was dangerous to the state, and would be changed into affee-

tion respecting the prosecution of the Courier was referred. The Com
mittee unanimously recommended that the prosecution should be com-
Mr. O'CONNELL read the Report of the Committee to which the ques-
menced, and that under Judge Johnson's Act, which authorises a prose-
cution for libel in any county in which the libellous matter circulates,
the defendant should be summoned to stand trial in some county likely to
instituted against the writer of the article concerning Maynooth, if he
could be got at. That the Proprietors of the Courier should be informed,
ensure a fair and impartial verdict. That the prosecution should be
that the prosecution of them would be dropped, if they would give up
the writer. That the proceeding should be by civil action (which allows
the defendant to plead the truth) if the proprietors chose to waive the
technical difficulties which opposed that course. And that, at all events,
acquittal should be entered, if the truth of the alleged libel was proved.
the prosecutors would enter into a written stipulation, that a verdict of
accordingly.
The Report was adopted; and measures were ordered to be taken

way gave notice of a motion, that part of the money destined to promote Some conversation arose regarding Mr. Cobbett's works;-the Gramthe education of the poor, should be spent in the purchase and distribumars and the Cottage Economy were in particular eulogized. Mr. Contion of the latter work.

PROSECUTION OF MR. O'CONNELL DEFEATED.

court in Green-street, Dublin. Mr. Justice Moore and Mr. Justice Van The Special Commission was opened on Saturday, January 1, at the 98 names were on the panel, and although a great many of the most deleur presided. The panel of Grand Jurors was called over. Although wealthy and respectable merchants of Dublin are Catholics, not a single Catholic was placed on this panel.

A more effectual answer than even the exposition of these absurdi- seditious, but they must be quite satisfied as to their spirit and purport. In charging the Grand Jury, Mr. Justice Moore said, that it was not ties, has however been given to the Courier, and the whole Anti-Catho-They were further to consider the intent with which the words were necessary to prove the exact words spoken, which were alleged to be lic tribe: we mean by the Proclamation of his Majesty the King of spoken,-whether the person uttering them, taking into account their HANOVER, inserted in our last Number, in which the perfect inde-spirit and context, the time when, and the place where uttered, had a pendence of each sect in the Hanoverian dominions, is more seditious and unlawful intention, or whether they were spoke in the plain particularly explained and secured, to prevent all misconception and ordinary sense, without any such meaning, of his Majesty's rigid determination to place every religion on a perfect civil and political level. The Catholic Association will do In the mean time, Mr. O'Connell left the court, and was enthusiastically The Jury retired about half past two. well to have this Proclamation printed in a cheap form, and circulated greeted by the people in the streets, who persisted in following him to witnesses (sundry Reporters for the Dublin papers) were sent in to them. The bills of indictment and the in every corner of the island, as well as read by every parish priest to Capel-street, in spite of his remoustrances. his congregation, for a dozen successive Sundays. We do not say it Jury returned into Court, to ask the Judge, whether the identical words settles the question about Catholics and Protestants living together in must be proved. Mr. Justice Moore said it was not necessary, if the harmony, without striving to tyrannize over each other, provided there substance and meaning were the same. Mr. O'Connell's Counsel argued At a quarter past five, the are no political distinctions on account of difference of faith, because that the identity of words was essential, but the Judge ruled otherwise. that question has long been settled by the experience of all the great The Jury returned, and at half past six finally came into Court. As they and enlightened communities of Europe, as well as by the example nounced, that the finding of the Jury was-No BILL of the United States;-but we do say, that it puts the matter in a handed down the bills, a solemn silence prevailed. The Clerk anshape which must be overwhelming to all loyal Anti-Catholics, who are not prepared to maintain, that the good King of ENGLAND is a bad King of HANOVER, or that what is politically just and wise, beDifcourt 20

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enthusiastic applause escaped the anxious auditory. The shout of triumph was echoed outside; and now people of all ranks and conditions The instant these joyous sounds were caught by the crowd, a burst of were seen running through the streets, shouting, "No bill! no bill!””

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