The Morning Pot.

PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.
HOUSE OF LORDS ,
WEDNESDAY, April 15.

Their Lordships met at an early hour, and
immediately adjourned to Friday. Their Lord-
ships then, preceded by the Lord Chancellor ,
waited on the King, the Queen, and on the
Prince and Princess of Wales, with congratula-
tory Addresses, expressive of their satisfaction
on the joyful occasion of the Prince's Nup-
tials.

The Speaker took the Chair at two o'Clock,
for the purpose of going to congratulate Their
Majesties, and the Prince and Princes of
Wales.

Mr. ROSE gave notice, that he would move
the House in favour of Member of Friendly
Societies, who enlist in the land or sea service
Persons of this description, he observed, are so
numerous as to amount, in the aggregate, to
about 300,000. What he wanted was, that in
the Bill passed for the regulation of such So-
cieties, there be inserted a clause to continue
such as enter into the Army of Navy, Mem-
bers; so that on their return they may be par-
takers of all the benefits, on paying up, to the
time being, their deficiencies in contribution.

The several Orders of the Day were deferred
to Friday.

The House then adjourned.

After which the Gentlemen appointed to
carry the Addresses, went, preceded by the
Speaker, to present them accordingly.

LONDON.
APRIL 16.

Monday His Majesty's Ship the Diamond, Sir
Sidney Smith< no role > , Who several gun vessels, failed
from the Downs; as did the Amphion and
Children sloop, with the Worcester, the Kent,
and the Earl Cornwallis East Indiamen, for
Portsmouth ; the Ipswich, Capt. M'Ghie, for
St. Domingo; the Robust, Capt. Craig, for
Jamaica; the Hibernia, Capt. Ferres, for Bel-
fast; the Chigwell, Capt. Ryan, for Africa ;
the Echo, Cap. Fottersdale, for Providence;
the Zephyr, Capt. Scott, for St. Vincent; and
the Theodosia, Capt. Hearn, for Portsmouth .

Tuesday afternoon failed from the Downs,
His Majesty's ship the Prince of Wales, Admi-
ral Harvey, with the Culloden, the Thunderer,
Russel, and Pomona frigate, on a cruise.

Advice is received from St. Vincent's which
is brought over in the Favourite, Captain Tod,
of the safe arrival there of several ships from
London , Liverpool , Bristol , and Ireland; and
that four French prizes had just arrived there,
which were taken on their Passage from Ame-
rica: they were laden with flour, &c.

By the last letters received from Gibraltar ,
we have received advice of the safe arrival of a
great number of ships from England and Ire-
land. When this account came away, the in-
habitants were in very good health, and were
well supplied with provisions.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at
the India House , when the vacancies made by
Messrs. Pattle and Ewer's disqualifications were
declared, and th following Commanders took
leave:

MADRASS and BENGAL.

Robert Burrowes< no role > , Francis.
Kennard Smith< no role > , Minerva,
Richard Hutt< no role > , Hillsborough.

The Court adjourned at Five o'Clock till
Wednesday next.

Nothing can exceed the [..] and arro-
gance of Administration, and the measures they
pursue are vey opposite to the boasted freedom
we are said to enjoy. Following the accustom-
ed track of corrupt influence, they have ordered
that all the Corn contained in the Dutch vessels
that have been stopt shall be sold by their Fac-
tors; and though the cargoes belong to British
subjects or to those of Neutral and Allied Nations,
and actually proved to be so, yet Ministry insist
that their Agents shall fell the whole, or that the
Corn shall not be restored. Merchants cannot
have their own property restored to sell them-
selves, or to oblige their friends with the sale,
but must entrust a man they know nothing about
with their interest and concerns, and who, per-
haps, will be at no great pains to make an advan-
tageous sale. If this is not unjust, arbitrary, and
oppressive, we know not what is.

From particular circumstanes of servility,
prostitution, or jobbing ability, many men have
been raised amongst us into high places, to the
astonishment indeed of all honest men, perhaps
to the discredit of the Prince, certainly to the
dishonour and injury of National character;
the story of men like there needs no enlarge-
mentthey are notorious in the public estima-

DUBLIN, APRIL 11.

CATHOLIC MEETING.

AT a most numerous and respectable meeting of the
Catholics of the City of Dublin , convened by public no-
tice at the Chapel in Francis-street , on Thursday the 9th
of April, 1795,

Sohn Sweetman< no role > , Esq . being unanimously called to the
Chair,

Mr. Byrne, Mr. Keogh, and Baren Hussey, reported,
that they had on Friday the 13th of March, presented he
Petition of the Catholics of Dublin to His Majesty, which
Petition he was pleased to receive gratioulsly; and that on
application to His Majesty's Minister for such information
as they might think fit to impart, the answer returned was,
that the King's pleasure on the subject of the Catholic
claims was communicated to the Lord Lieutenant, and that
he was the proper channel through whom it might be
known, but that the Deputation, in consequence of their
instructions, did not consider themselves at liberty to make
any further application.

Resolved unanimously, That the Thanks of this Meet-
ing be and are hereby presented to our Worthy Deputies,
[..] for the sprit and [..] in undertaking,
and their zeal and fidelity in executing the trust reposed in
them by their fellow-Citizens.

Resolved unanimously, That the Thanks of this Meet-
ing be respectfully presented to an Agent, Theobald
WolfTone< no role > , Esq . for the readiness with which he accom-
panied our Deputies to England, and the many other im-
portant services he has rendered to the Catholic body in
their pursuit of Emancipation; services which no grati-
tude can over-rate, and no remuneration can over-pay.

Resolved, That we see with the greatest concern by the
removal of our late much respected Viceroy , Earl Fitzwil-
liam, contrary to the unanimous win of the whole Peo-
ple, how little the interest or the witness of Ireland avail,
in a matter of the highest import to her well-being.

Resolved, that we derive consoction under the loss
which we all sustain by the removal of the late popular
Administration, in contemplating the rising spirit of har-
money and co-operation among all seeds and descriptions of
Irishmen, so rapidly accelerated by that event; and we do
most earnestly recommend to the Catholics of Ireland to
cultivate, by al possible means, the friendship and affec-
tion of their Protestant brethren, satisfied as we are, that
national union is national strength, happiness, and prospe-
rity.

Resolved unanimously, That the Right Hon. Henry
Grattan< no role > be requested to introduce the Catholic Bill imme-
diatley on the meeting of Parliament.

[A Passage from a printed book intitled, "A Letter
from a venerated Nobleman, recently retired from this
country, to the Earl of [..] being read, to the fol-
lowing effect-" Then, for the first time, it appears to
have been discerned, that the deferring the Catholic ques-
tion would [..] not merely an expeditocy, or a thing to be
desired for the presentbut the means of doing a greater
service to the British Empire than it has been capable of
receiving since the Revolution, or at least since the
Union!!!" and also another passage, "That if the con-
sideration of this question could be deferred till the Peace
was established, his Grace should have no doubt but that
it would be attended with advantages which perhaps are
not to be hoped for in any other supposable case," And
it appearing that those expressions, supposed to be those
of a Personage In high official station, can admit of no
import or meaning other than that of a meditated Union
between this country and Great Britain.}

Resolved unanimously, That we are sincerely and un-
alterably attached to the Rights, Liberties, and Indepen-
dence of our Native Country; and we pledge ourselves,
collectively and individually to resist, even our own Eman-
cipation, if proposed to be conceded upon the ignomini-
ous terms of an acquiescence in the fatal measure of an
Union with the sister kingdom.

Resolved unanimously, That while we make this undis-
guised declaration of our sentiments, in order to satisfy
the Public mind, we are of opinion that a measure so full
of violence and ruin, wil never be hazarded; convinced as
we are that no set of men will arrogate to themselves a
power which is contrary to the ends and pruposes of all
Governmenta power to surrender the liberties of their
country, and to seal the slavery of future generations.

[A numerous Assembly of the Students of the Univer-
sity, who this day waited on the Right Hon. Henry Grat-
tan< no role > , with an Address, having appeared and before [..]
[..] in the [..] respectful manner, amidst the loudest
plaudits of the Meeting, and the Secretary having, by their
order, communicated their Address, together with Mr.
Grattan's Answer.}

Resolved unanimously, That we observe with grateful
cordiality and honest exoltation, the appearance of so large
and respectable a body of the learned and ingenuous youth
or Ireland, this day among us; we accept their patriotic
adoption of our cause as the surest omen of its success;
convinced that the most malignant efforts of our corrupt
and bigoted oppressors must speedily give way to the
UNION, irresistible as it is natural, of letters with liber-
ty, of wisdom with justice, and of science with truth.
And we invite and request the present respectable visitors,
and their brethren of the University, to honour our future
Meetings with this presence and support.

Resolved unanimously, That our sincere and grateful
thanks be, and are hereby returned to our Protestant bre-
thren of Belfast, and of Dublin; to the different counties
and great cities, who have addressed either the Crown or
Parliament on our behalf; and to every body of men, and
every individual among our Protestant brethren, who have
stood forward in the cause of Catholic emancipation, the
cause of Irish Liberty.

Resolved unanimously, that the necessary expences in
printing and othewise, attendant on our present applica-
tion to the Legislature, as well as the engagements of the
late General Committee, remaining still in a great measure
undischarged, and for which the credit of he Catholic
body is pledged, require the measure of a speedy and libe-
ral subscription.

Resolved unanimously, therefore, That was recommend
earnestly to our fellow citizens in the different parishes of
this city, to appoint Gentlemen forthwith in each parish,
to receive such Subscriptions as may be offered for the
above just and necessary purposes; and we call on the
Catholics of Ireland to co-operate with us, by contributing
on their parts liberally towards the discharge of the debts
incurred in the pursuit of our common emancipation.

Signed by Order of the Catholics of Dublin,
RICHARD Mc CORMICK< no role > , Sec.

FRANCIS-STREET MEETING.

Feeling the magnitude and importance of
the Debate at the Catholic Meeting in Francis-
street Chapel, on Thursday last, we most de-
voutly hope, that we are not on the eve of an
awful and tremendous explosion. Those men
who cry "Peace! Peace!" when there is no
Peace, have much to answer for, if precipitating
the island to choose between a British and a
French connection, under circumstances of pe-
culiar disadvantage to the sister nation, is a
matter of sufficient interest to demand justifica-
tion, loving the People, as we do, from duty,
from inclination, from prejudice, from passion,
we confess, tha it is not without pain we bring
ourselves to say, that the transactions or Cabi-
nets are by no means [..] objects for the vulgar
eye to look upon. Possibly the veil which blind
assent supposes to cover an angel, may, if torn
asunder reveal a monster. If the public [..]

her surviving children receive their baptism at
the font of blood. May Ireland never be har-
rassed or disgraced by such shocking scenes!
May returning reason inspire our councils to
avert this last and worst calamity, which it would
be criminal not to mention, there is too much
reason to fear shakes suspended over our head by
a single hair! and if we may be presuming
enough to advise so great a man as Mr. Pitt, we
would strenuously, seriously, and fervently re-
commend it to him, to form his opinion of Ire-
land from the portentous events which daily
occur in it FROM THE CATHOLICS, from their
OWN DEBATES, and of neither from men who
are most strongly suspected of a propensity to
defame those whom they may pillage and op-
press, and whose system of politics it may have
been to bring al the vengeance of the law to
bear upon in obedience to the gospel.

The herd of Ministerial Writers who have
opened in full below on the confidential ser-
vants of the late Administration, rest their at-
tack upon three charges which may be fully re-
futed by so many plain words.

I. They assert, it was the ignorance and in-
temperance of the Fitzwilliam Administration
which shortened its duration.

Of this charge, it may be observed, that the
rapidity and exactness with which they disco-
vered and dragged into light the peculatros who
had plundered the Public for so many years,
acquits them of Ignorancethat they were in-
temperate in the exposing of those offenders,
may be true; for in the language of the Irish
Court, that is Intemperance in public justice
which goes to weaken the influence of Govern-
ment.

II. They assert, that the confidential servants
of Lord Fitzwilliam were those who for many
years had been in Opposition to the prosperity of
the County.

The fact is, they opposed those who would
have kept Ireland dependant on Great Britain;
who would have prevented the extension of
her Trade; who added millions to the debt of
Ireland; who sold the Peerage; who bought the
Parliament; who multiplied the Excise Laws;
who created useless Places for the purpose of
wicked influence; who would have made the
Regent of Great Britain the Ruler of ireland ;
who proposed and supported the Propositions;
who opposed a Place Bill, a Responsibility Bill,
a Pension Bill, 'till they were unable to oppose
them any longer, and then granted a wretched
substitute for them.

III. They charge them with having procured
intemperate Addresses, for the purpose of giving
inflammatory Answers.

Of this charge every man will see that no in-
fluence could have been extensive enough to
have procured all the Addresses which poored
on Lord Fitzwilliam from every quarter of
the Kingdom. If by the inflammatory Answer,
it meant that of Mr. Grattan to the Catholics,
that was given After the result of Lord Fitz-
william, and therefore granted it were inflam-
matory, instead of what it really is, temperate,
for the insult which occasioned it; it cannot be
considered as one of the causes which shortened
the Fitzwilliam Administration.

In consequence of the resolution entered into
on Saturday last by the Seceding Students of
the College to Address Mr. Grattan on Thurs-
day, a programma was on Wednesday published
by the Provost and Board of Senior Fellows, in
which hey threatened with their most heavy
displeasure all such Students as should assemble
for that purpose, or be any was concerned in
that measure.

From the side of Catalonia we learn, tha Ge-
neral Urutai has been ordered to march with
the major part of his army to Barcelona , an im-
mediate attack of which city is expected by the
enemy.

Agathocles and Dionyfius were two tyrants of
Sicily and who indeed acquired a name by their
ability, though disgraced by numerous vices:
they were cruel, vengeful, exterminating; they
severally derived their origin from the lowest of
the people: the one left the wheel, the kiln,
and the clay, as Pimceus has said in the way of
reproach, and came young to Syracuse, yet each
of them in his time raised himself to be the tyrant
of that renowned and opulent city. Their pro-
scriptions, their enormities were beyond belief;
their lives, though surrounded by all the infig-
nia of state, were a constant tissue of affright,
suspicion, information, midnight terrors and
daily alarms, till at length they fell unpitied, un-
lamented by any but the partizans of their vices,
the agents of their atrocities, the busy informers
against life and character.

The present in accounted throughout Europe ,
a BULLYING Administration; they had recourse
to threats to make America depart from her
Neutrality; they menaced Sweden and Den-
mark, and they in a dastardly manner blockaded
Genoa. In every effort they failed. But no-
thing will teach men of incredible ignorance
[..]
are now trying another experiment of then our
lying system on Ireland, which as in other in-
stances, will we venture to prophecy, over-
whelm them with disgrace and confusion.

SPAIN.

The late reports, so eagerly circulated, of a
great victory gained by the Spaniards over the
French, in Rousillon , turn out a mere fabrica-
tion of the Treasury Prints in this Country,
By the Corrunna Mail we learn, that no battle
whatever has been fought; on the contrary,
the Spaniards, at Catalonia, are retiring before
the French in every direction, and long before
this Gironne, in the center of Catalonia, is in-
vested by the French Army.

In the North West of Spain , the trifling
skirmishes of small parties, in Navarre, were
known in town a fortnight since; but by the
last accounts directly from St. Andero and Bil-
boa, it appears that the French Army, in great
force, is moving to besiege Pampeluna, the
capital.

KIDNAPPING.

This infamous traffic is not yet abolished, as
the Public hoped and supposed. Since the ex-
ecution of the unfortunate man for the Riot, at
Charing Cross , those wretches have agin dared
to recommence their practices, thinking they
are protected by the Law.

Late on Tuesday night, a Crimp, whose shop
is at the Rising Sun, in Charles-street , West-
minster , attempted to intrap a youth of fifteen,
whom he saw in Newman-street , Oxford-road .
He gave the boy a shilling, and desired him to
fetch him some tobacco, which the boy unful-
pectingly did, and returned to give him the
change. The wretch laid hold of him, said he
had taken the King's money, and was dragging
him away, to go for a Gentleman Soldier . The
cries of the youth alarmed the neighbourhood,
who ran out and rescued him; and upon hear-
ing the story, delivered the fellow to the mob.
He was first well ducked under a pump, and
then demanded to tell where the House was,
which upon his refusing, his tail was docked,
and his ears flit, and part of one cut off. The
fellow then confessed, and an immense mob
proceeded to Charing Cross , down to the Public
House, in Charles-street . The fellow begged
to go backward, when the jumped over a wall,
and escaped into Gardener's-lane . The croud
which was immense, demolished all the win-
dows in front of the Public House, and some
of those of the Crimping Office over the way,
and would have razed them both to the ground,
but the Guards arrived, and through the tem-
perate conduct of the Officers, the people dis-
persed, and not further mischief was done.

BISHOP OF OSSORY.

It is astonishing with what effrontery some
Papers of the Day fabricate the grossest false-
hoods, and to what lengths they carry their pro-
stitution of principle. However, the means
they make use of to support the Interests of a
declining Party, defeat themselves. This [..]
strongly instanced in the low abuse levelled at a
celebrated Irish Prelate, not less conspicuous for
his Virtues, than for his very brilliant Talents.
Unable, even with the microscopic eye of prac-
tised malice, to discover the smallest blot in the
fair page of his exemplary life, the wretched
hirelings of insolent and abusive power, main-
taining the true Grub-street character, affail the
worthy Prelate on a point of their own creation,
charging him with having been a Catholic, a
charge as destitute of Policy and Truth, as it is
weak, ridiculous, and illiberal. For admitting
a moment the assertion true, what is the infer-
ence? Certainly, that those who direct these
black shafts of envenomed Slander, in gratifying
their Envy and Malice, fairly incur the impu-
tation of being inimical to the principles and
progress of the Reformation; thus the impolicy
of the attack is evident and its falsity equally
so, form the total silence of the Irish Papists on
that head, for there are not wanting in the Sister
Kingdom, any more than here, engines of lying
business, wherewith Tyranny, Bigotry, and
Wickedness, may assail the Liberal, Virtuous,
and Patriotic Character; but in Ireland it would
be in the Power of all who read the calumny, to
refute it.

We feel ourselves to blame in giving to such
lying infolence the only notice it can possibly
receive, and we apologize for vindicating a
Character not vulnerable to such despicable ef-
forts of Literary assassination.

Not less than 100,000 of our Countrymen
have fallen during the present Crusade against
the French. We had fifty thousand English-
men on the Continent, and the Regiments were
twice recruited. If we were to believe the au-
thentic accounts, in the Gazette, we have not
lost two thousand men, though as many have
been swept away by disease, and for want of
medical assistance, in the course of a month. If
we take a view of the decrepid old men and
children who compose our now levies, it is
impossible not to condemn the measures of Ad-
ministration and to [..] every Military
[..]
ment.

Lord FITZGIBBON, the Irish Chancellor, has
left Dublin, and is gone to his seat at Mount
[..]