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<p n="2535"> The Morning Pot.</p>
<p n="2536">PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo996">HOUSE OF LORDS</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
WEDNESDAY, April 15.</p>
<p n="2537">Their Lordships met at an early hour, and<lb></lb>
immediately adjourned to Friday. Their Lord-<lb></lb>
ships then, preceded by the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50909_occ326">Lord Chancellor</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_occ326" type="occupation" value="Lord Chancellor"></interp>
,<lb></lb>
waited on the King, the Queen, and on the<lb></lb>
Prince and Princess of Wales, with congratula-<lb></lb>
tory Addresses, expressive of their satisfaction<lb></lb>
on the joyful occasion of the Prince's Nup-<lb></lb>
tials.</p>
<p n="2538">The Speaker took the Chair at two o'Clock,<lb></lb>
for the purpose of going to congratulate Their<lb></lb>
Majesties, and the Prince and Princes of<lb></lb>
Wales.</p>
<p n="2539">Mr. ROSE gave notice, that he would move<lb></lb>
the House in favour of Member of Friendly<lb></lb>
Societies, who enlist in the land or sea service<lb></lb>
Persons of this description, he observed, are so<lb></lb>
numerous as to amount, in the aggregate, to<lb></lb>
about 300,000. What he wanted was, that in<lb></lb>
the Bill passed for the regulation of such So-<lb></lb>
cieties, there be inserted a clause to continue<lb></lb>
such as enter into the Army of Navy, Mem-<lb></lb>
bers; so that on their return they may be par-<lb></lb>
takers of all the benefits, on paying up, to the<lb></lb>
time being, their deficiencies in contribution.</p>
<p n="2540">The several Orders of the Day were deferred<lb></lb>
to Friday.</p>
<p n="2541">The House then adjourned.</p>
<p n="2542">After which the Gentlemen appointed to<lb></lb>
carry the Addresses, went, preceded by the<lb></lb>
Speaker, to present them accordingly.</p>
<p n="2543">LONDON.<lb></lb>
APRIL 16.</p>
<p n="2544">Monday His Majesty's Ship the Diamond, Sir<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50909_n2544-1">Sidney Smith</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2544-1" type="given" value="Sidney"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2544-1" type="surname" value="Smith"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2544-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
, Who several gun vessels, failed<lb></lb>
from the Downs; as did the Amphion and<lb></lb>
Children sloop, with the Worcester, the Kent,<lb></lb>
and the Earl Cornwallis East Indiamen, for<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo997">Portsmouth</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo997" type="placeName" value="Portsmouth"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo997" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
; the Ipswich, Capt. M'Ghie, for<lb></lb>
St. Domingo; the Robust, Capt. Craig, for<lb></lb>
Jamaica; the Hibernia, Capt. Ferres, for Bel-<lb></lb>
fast; the Chigwell, Capt. Ryan, for <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo998">Africa</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo998" type="placeName" value="Africa"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo998" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
;<lb></lb>
the Echo, Cap. Fottersdale, for Providence;<lb></lb>
the Zephyr, Capt. Scott, for St. Vincent; and<lb></lb>
the Theodosia, Capt. Hearn, for <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo999">Portsmouth</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo999" type="placeName" value="Portsmouth"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo999" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
.</p>
<p n="2545">Tuesday afternoon failed from the Downs,<lb></lb>
His Majesty's ship the Prince of Wales, Admi-<lb></lb>
ral Harvey, with the Culloden, the Thunderer,<lb></lb>
Russel, and Pomona frigate, on a cruise.</p>
<p n="2546">Advice is received from St. Vincent's which<lb></lb>
is brought over in the Favourite, Captain Tod,<lb></lb>
of the safe arrival there of several ships from<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1000">London</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1000" type="placeName" value="London"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1000" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1001">Liverpool</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1001" type="placeName" value="Liverpool"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1001" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1002">Bristol</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1002" type="placeName" value="Bristol"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1002" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, and Ireland; and<lb></lb>
that four French prizes had just arrived there,<lb></lb>
which were taken on their Passage from Ame-<lb></lb>
rica: they were laden with flour, &c.</p>
<p n="2547">By the last letters received from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1003">Gibraltar</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1003" type="placeName" value="Gibraltar"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1003" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
,<lb></lb>
we have received advice of the safe arrival of a<lb></lb>
great number of ships from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1004">England</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1004" type="placeName" value="England"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1004" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
and Ire-<lb></lb>
land. When this account came away, the in-<lb></lb>
habitants were in very good health, and were<lb></lb>
well supplied with provisions.</p>
<p n="2548">Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1005">the India House</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1005" type="placeName" value="the India House"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1005" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, when the vacancies made by<lb></lb>
Messrs. Pattle and Ewer's disqualifications were<lb></lb>
declared, and th following Commanders took<lb></lb>
leave:</p>
<p n="2549">MADRASS and BENGAL.</p>
<p n="2550"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50909_n2550-1">Robert Burrowes</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2550-1" type="given" value="Robert"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2550-1" type="surname" value="Burrowes"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2550-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
, Francis.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50909_n2550-47">Kennard Smith</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2550-47" type="given" value="Kennard"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2550-47" type="surname" value="Smith"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2550-47" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
, Minerva,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50909_n2550-3">Richard Hutt</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2550-3" type="given" value="Richard"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2550-3" type="surname" value="Hutt"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2550-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
, Hillsborough.</p>
<p n="2551">The Court adjourned at Five o'Clock till<lb></lb>
Wednesday next.</p>
<p n="2552">Nothing can exceed the<obscured></obscured>
and arro-<lb></lb>
gance of Administration, and the measures they<lb></lb>
pursue are vey opposite to the boasted freedom<lb></lb>
we are said to enjoy. Following the accustom-<lb></lb>
ed track of corrupt influence, they have ordered<lb></lb>
that all the Corn contained in the Dutch vessels<lb></lb>
that have been stopt shall be sold by their Fac-<lb></lb>
tors; and though the cargoes belong to British<lb></lb>
subjects or to those of Neutral and Allied Nations,<lb></lb>
and actually proved to be so, yet Ministry insist<lb></lb>
that their Agents shall fell the whole, or that the<lb></lb>
Corn shall not be restored. Merchants cannot<lb></lb>
have their own property restored to sell them-<lb></lb>
selves, or to oblige their friends with the sale,<lb></lb>
but must entrust a man they know nothing about<lb></lb>
with their interest and concerns, and who, per-<lb></lb>
haps, will be at no great pains to make an advan-<lb></lb>
tageous sale. If this is not unjust, arbitrary, and<lb></lb>
oppressive, we know not what is.</p>
<p n="2553">From particular circumstanes of servility,<lb></lb>
prostitution, or jobbing ability, many men have<lb></lb>
been raised amongst us into high places, to the<lb></lb>
astonishment indeed of all honest men, perhaps<lb></lb>
to the discredit of the Prince, certainly to the<lb></lb>
dishonour and injury of National character;<lb></lb>
the story of men like there needs no enlarge-<lb></lb>
mentthey are notorious in the public estima-</p>
<p n="2554">DUBLIN, APRIL 11.</p>
<p n="2555">CATHOLIC MEETING.</p>
<p n="2556">AT a most numerous and respectable meeting of the<lb></lb>
Catholics of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1006">City of Dublin</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1006" type="placeName" value="City of Dublin"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1006" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, convened by public no-<lb></lb>
tice at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1007">the Chapel</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1007" type="placeName" value="the Chapel"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1007" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1008">Francis-street</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1008" type="placeName" value="Francis-street"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1008" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, on Thursday the 9th<lb></lb>
of April, 1795,</p>
<p n="2557"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50909_n2557-1">Sohn Sweetman</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2557-1" type="given" value="Sohn"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2557-1" type="surname" value="Sweetman"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2557-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50909_occ327">Esq</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_occ327" type="occupation" value="Esq"></interp>
. being unanimously called to the<lb></lb>
Chair,</p>
<p n="2558">Mr. Byrne, Mr. Keogh, and Baren Hussey, reported,<lb></lb>
that they had on Friday the 13th of March, presented he<lb></lb>
Petition of the Catholics of Dublin to His Majesty, which<lb></lb>
Petition he was pleased to receive gratioulsly; and that on<lb></lb>
application to His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50909_occ328">Minister</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_occ328" type="occupation" value="Minister"></interp>
for such information<lb></lb>
as they might think fit to impart, the answer returned was,<lb></lb>
that the King's pleasure on the subject of the Catholic<lb></lb>
claims was communicated to the Lord Lieutenant, and that<lb></lb>
he was the proper channel through whom it might be<lb></lb>
known, but that the Deputation, in consequence of their<lb></lb>
instructions, did not consider themselves at liberty to make<lb></lb>
any further application.</p>
<p n="2559">Resolved unanimously, That the Thanks of this Meet-<lb></lb>
ing be and are hereby presented to our Worthy Deputies,<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
for the sprit and<obscured></obscured>
in undertaking,<lb></lb>
and their zeal and fidelity in executing the trust reposed in<lb></lb>
them by their fellow-Citizens.</p>
<p n="2560">Resolved unanimously, That the Thanks of this Meet-<lb></lb>
ing be respectfully presented to an Agent, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50909_n2560-1">Theobald<lb></lb>
WolfTone</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2560-1" type="given" value="Theobald"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2560-1" type="surname" value="WolfTone"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2560-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50909_occ329">Esq</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_occ329" type="occupation" value="Esq"></interp>
. for the readiness with which he accom-<lb></lb>
panied our Deputies to England, and the many other im-<lb></lb>
portant services he has rendered to the Catholic body in<lb></lb>
their pursuit of Emancipation; services which no grati-<lb></lb>
tude can over-rate, and no remuneration can over-pay.</p>
<p n="2561">Resolved, That we see with the greatest concern by the<lb></lb>
removal of our late much respected <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50909_occ330">Viceroy</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_occ330" type="occupation" value="Viceroy"></interp>
, Earl Fitzwil-<lb></lb>
liam, contrary to the unanimous win of the whole Peo-<lb></lb>
ple, how little the interest or the witness of Ireland avail,<lb></lb>
in a matter of the highest import to her well-being.</p>
<p n="2562">Resolved, that we derive consoction under the loss<lb></lb>
which we all sustain by the removal of the late popular<lb></lb>
Administration, in contemplating the rising spirit of har-<lb></lb>
money and co-operation among all seeds and descriptions of<lb></lb>
Irishmen, so rapidly accelerated by that event; and we do<lb></lb>
most earnestly recommend to the Catholics of Ireland to<lb></lb>
cultivate, by al possible means, the friendship and affec-<lb></lb>
tion of their Protestant brethren, satisfied as we are, that<lb></lb>
national union is national strength, happiness, and prospe-<lb></lb>
rity.</p>
<p n="2563">Resolved unanimously, That the Right Hon. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50909_n2563-1">Henry<lb></lb>
Grattan</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2563-1" type="given" value="Henry"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2563-1" type="surname" value="Grattan"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2563-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
be requested to introduce the Catholic Bill imme-<lb></lb>
diatley on the meeting of Parliament.</p>
<p n="2564">[A Passage from a printed book intitled, "A Letter<lb></lb>
from a venerated Nobleman, recently retired from this<lb></lb>
country, to the Earl of<obscured></obscured>
being read, to the fol-<lb></lb>
lowing effect-" Then, for the first time, it appears to<lb></lb>
have been discerned, that the deferring the Catholic ques-<lb></lb>
tion would<obscured></obscured>
not merely an expeditocy, or a thing to be<lb></lb>
desired for the presentbut the means of doing a greater<lb></lb>
service to the British Empire than it has been capable of<lb></lb>
receiving since the Revolution, or at least since the<lb></lb>
Union!!!" and also another passage, "That if the con-<lb></lb>
sideration of this question could be deferred till the Peace<lb></lb>
was established, his Grace should have no doubt but that<lb></lb>
it would be attended with advantages which perhaps are<lb></lb>
not to be hoped for in any other supposable case," And<lb></lb>
it appearing that those expressions, supposed to be those<lb></lb>
of a Personage In high official station, can admit of no<lb></lb>
import or meaning other than that of a meditated Union<lb></lb>
between this country and Great Britain.}</p>
<p n="2565">Resolved unanimously, That we are sincerely and un-<lb></lb>
alterably attached to the Rights, Liberties, and Indepen-<lb></lb>
dence of our Native Country; and we pledge ourselves,<lb></lb>
collectively and individually to resist, even our own Eman-<lb></lb>
cipation, if proposed to be conceded upon the ignomini-<lb></lb>
ous terms of an acquiescence in the fatal measure of an<lb></lb>
Union with the sister kingdom.</p>
<p n="2566">Resolved unanimously, That while we make this undis-<lb></lb>
guised declaration of our sentiments, in order to satisfy<lb></lb>
the Public mind, we are of opinion that a measure so full<lb></lb>
of violence and ruin, wil never be hazarded; convinced as<lb></lb>
we are that no set of men will arrogate to themselves a<lb></lb>
power which is contrary to the ends and pruposes of all<lb></lb>
Governmenta power to surrender the liberties of their<lb></lb>
country, and to seal the slavery of future generations.</p>
<p n="2567">[A numerous Assembly of the Students of the Univer-<lb></lb>
sity, who this day waited on the Right Hon. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50909_n2567-1">Henry Grat-<lb></lb>
tan</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2567-1" type="given" value="Henry"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2567-1" type="surname" value="Grattan"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2567-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
, with an Address, having appeared and before<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
in the<obscured></obscured>
respectful manner, amidst the loudest<lb></lb>
plaudits of the Meeting, and the Secretary having, by their<lb></lb>
order, communicated their Address, together with Mr.<lb></lb>
Grattan's Answer.}</p>
<p n="2568">Resolved unanimously, That we observe with grateful<lb></lb>
cordiality and honest exoltation, the appearance of so large<lb></lb>
and respectable a body of the learned and ingenuous youth<lb></lb>
or Ireland, this day among us; we accept their patriotic<lb></lb>
adoption of our cause as the surest omen of its success;<lb></lb>
convinced that the most malignant efforts of our corrupt<lb></lb>
and bigoted oppressors must speedily give way to the<lb></lb>
UNION, irresistible as it is natural, of letters with liber-<lb></lb>
ty, of wisdom with justice, and of science with truth.<lb></lb>
And we invite and request the present respectable visitors,<lb></lb>
and their brethren of the University, to honour our future<lb></lb>
Meetings with this presence and support.</p>
<p n="2569">Resolved unanimously, That our sincere and grateful<lb></lb>
thanks be, and are hereby returned to our Protestant bre-<lb></lb>
thren of Belfast, and of Dublin; to the different counties<lb></lb>
and great cities, who have addressed either the Crown or<lb></lb>
Parliament on our behalf; and to every body of men, and<lb></lb>
every individual among our Protestant brethren, who have<lb></lb>
stood forward in the cause of Catholic emancipation, the<lb></lb>
cause of Irish Liberty.</p>
<p n="2570">Resolved unanimously, that the necessary expences in<lb></lb>
printing and othewise, attendant on our present applica-<lb></lb>
tion to the Legislature, as well as the engagements of the<lb></lb>
late General Committee, remaining still in a great measure<lb></lb>
undischarged, and for which the credit of he Catholic<lb></lb>
body is pledged, require the measure of a speedy and libe-<lb></lb>
ral subscription.</p>
<p n="2571">Resolved unanimously, therefore, That was recommend<lb></lb>
earnestly to our fellow citizens in the different parishes of<lb></lb>
this city, to appoint Gentlemen forthwith in each parish,<lb></lb>
to receive such Subscriptions as may be offered for the<lb></lb>
above just and necessary purposes; and we call on the<lb></lb>
Catholics of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1009">Ireland</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1009" type="placeName" value="Ireland"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1009" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
to co-operate with us, by contributing<lb></lb>
on their parts liberally towards the discharge of the debts<lb></lb>
incurred in the pursuit of our common emancipation.</p>
<p n="2572">Signed by Order of the Catholics of Dublin,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50909_n2572-48">RICHARD Mc CORMICK</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2572-48" type="given" value="RICHARD"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2572-48" type="surname" value="Mc CORMICK"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_n2572-48" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
, Sec.</p>
<p n="2573"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1010">FRANCIS-STREET</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1010" type="placeName" value="FRANCIS-STREET"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1010" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
MEETING.</p>
<p n="2574">Feeling the magnitude and importance of<lb></lb>
the Debate at the Catholic Meeting in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1011">Francis-<lb></lb>
street</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1011" type="placeName" value="Francis-street"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1011" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
Chapel, on Thursday last, we most de-<lb></lb>
voutly hope, that we are not on the eve of an<lb></lb>
awful and tremendous explosion. Those men<lb></lb>
who cry "Peace! Peace!" when there is no<lb></lb>
Peace, have much to answer for, if precipitating<lb></lb>
the island to choose between a British and a<lb></lb>
French connection, under circumstances of pe-<lb></lb>
culiar disadvantage to the sister nation, is a<lb></lb>
matter of sufficient interest to demand justifica-<lb></lb>
tion, loving the People, as we do, from duty,<lb></lb>
from inclination, from prejudice, from passion,<lb></lb>
we confess, tha it is not without pain we bring<lb></lb>
ourselves to say, that the transactions or Cabi-<lb></lb>
nets are by no means<obscured></obscured>
objects for the vulgar<lb></lb>
eye to look upon. Possibly the veil which blind<lb></lb>
assent supposes to cover an angel, may, if torn<lb></lb>
asunder reveal a monster. If the public<obscured></obscured>
</p>
<p n="2575">her surviving children receive their baptism at<lb></lb>
the font of blood. May Ireland never be har-<lb></lb>
rassed or disgraced by such shocking scenes!<lb></lb>
May returning reason inspire our councils to<lb></lb>
avert this last and worst calamity, which it would<lb></lb>
be criminal not to mention, there is too much<lb></lb>
reason to fear shakes suspended over our head by<lb></lb>
a single hair! and if we may be presuming<lb></lb>
enough to advise so great a man as Mr. Pitt, we<lb></lb>
would strenuously, seriously, and fervently re-<lb></lb>
commend it to him, to form his opinion of Ire-<lb></lb>
land from the portentous events which daily<lb></lb>
occur in it FROM THE CATHOLICS, from their<lb></lb>
OWN DEBATES, and of neither from men who<lb></lb>
are most strongly suspected of a propensity to<lb></lb>
defame those whom they may pillage and op-<lb></lb>
press, and whose system of politics it may have<lb></lb>
been to bring al the vengeance of the law to<lb></lb>
bear upon in obedience to the gospel.</p>
<p n="2576">The herd of Ministerial Writers who have<lb></lb>
opened in full below on the confidential ser-<lb></lb>
vants of the late Administration, rest their at-<lb></lb>
tack upon three charges which may be fully re-<lb></lb>
futed by so many plain words.</p>
<p n="2577">I. They assert, it was the ignorance and in-<lb></lb>
temperance of the Fitzwilliam Administration<lb></lb>
which shortened its duration.</p>
<p n="2578">Of this charge, it may be observed, that the<lb></lb>
rapidity and exactness with which they disco-<lb></lb>
vered and dragged into light the peculatros who<lb></lb>
had plundered the Public for so many years,<lb></lb>
acquits them of Ignorancethat they were in-<lb></lb>
temperate in the exposing of those offenders,<lb></lb>
may be true; for in the language of the Irish<lb></lb>
Court, that is Intemperance in public justice<lb></lb>
which goes to weaken the influence of Govern-<lb></lb>
ment.</p>
<p n="2579">II. They assert, that the confidential servants<lb></lb>
of Lord Fitzwilliam were those who for many<lb></lb>
years had been in Opposition to the prosperity of<lb></lb>
the County.</p>
<p n="2580">The fact is, they opposed those who would<lb></lb>
have kept Ireland dependant on Great Britain;<lb></lb>
who would have prevented the extension of<lb></lb>
her Trade; who added millions to the debt of<lb></lb>
Ireland; who sold the Peerage; who bought the<lb></lb>
Parliament; who multiplied the Excise Laws;<lb></lb>
who created useless Places for the purpose of<lb></lb>
wicked influence; who would have made the<lb></lb>
Regent of Great Britain the Ruler of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1012">ireland</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1012" type="placeName" value="ireland"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1012" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
;<lb></lb>
who proposed and supported the Propositions;<lb></lb>
who opposed a Place Bill, a Responsibility Bill,<lb></lb>
a Pension Bill, 'till they were unable to oppose<lb></lb>
them any longer, and then granted a wretched<lb></lb>
substitute for them.</p>
<p n="2581">III. They charge them with having procured<lb></lb>
intemperate Addresses, for the purpose of giving<lb></lb>
inflammatory Answers.</p>
<p n="2582">Of this charge every man will see that no in-<lb></lb>
fluence could have been extensive enough to<lb></lb>
have procured all the Addresses which poored<lb></lb>
on Lord Fitzwilliam from every quarter of<lb></lb>
the Kingdom. If by the inflammatory Answer,<lb></lb>
it meant that of Mr. Grattan to the Catholics,<lb></lb>
that was given After the result of Lord Fitz-<lb></lb>
william, and therefore granted it were inflam-<lb></lb>
matory, instead of what it really is, temperate,<lb></lb>
for the insult which occasioned it; it cannot be<lb></lb>
considered as one of the causes which shortened<lb></lb>
the Fitzwilliam Administration.</p>
<p n="2583">In consequence of the resolution entered into<lb></lb>
on Saturday last by the Seceding Students of<lb></lb>
the College to Address Mr. Grattan on Thurs-<lb></lb>
day, a programma was on Wednesday published<lb></lb>
by the Provost and Board of Senior Fellows, in<lb></lb>
which hey threatened with their most heavy<lb></lb>
displeasure all such Students as should assemble<lb></lb>
for that purpose, or be any was concerned in<lb></lb>
that measure.</p>
<p n="2584">From the side of Catalonia we learn, tha Ge-<lb></lb>
neral Urutai has been ordered to march with<lb></lb>
the major part of his army to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1013">Barcelona</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1013" type="placeName" value="Barcelona"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1013" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, an im-<lb></lb>
mediate attack of which city is expected by the<lb></lb>
enemy.</p>
<p n="2585">Agathocles and Dionyfius were two tyrants of<lb></lb>
Sicily and who indeed acquired a name by their<lb></lb>
ability, though disgraced by numerous vices:<lb></lb>
they were cruel, vengeful, exterminating; they<lb></lb>
severally derived their origin from the lowest of<lb></lb>
the people: the one left the wheel, the kiln,<lb></lb>
and the clay, as Pimceus has said in the way of<lb></lb>
reproach, and came young to Syracuse, yet each<lb></lb>
of them in his time raised himself to be the tyrant<lb></lb>
of that renowned and opulent city. Their pro-<lb></lb>
scriptions, their enormities were beyond belief;<lb></lb>
their lives, though surrounded by all the infig-<lb></lb>
nia of state, were a constant tissue of affright,<lb></lb>
suspicion, information, midnight terrors and<lb></lb>
daily alarms, till at length they fell unpitied, un-<lb></lb>
lamented by any but the partizans of their vices,<lb></lb>
the agents of their atrocities, the busy informers<lb></lb>
against life and character.</p>
<p n="2586">The present in accounted throughout <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1014">Europe</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1014" type="placeName" value="Europe"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1014" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
,<lb></lb>
a BULLYING Administration; they had recourse<lb></lb>
to threats to make America depart from her<lb></lb>
Neutrality; they menaced Sweden and Den-<lb></lb>
mark, and they in a dastardly manner blockaded<lb></lb>
Genoa. In every effort they failed. But no-<lb></lb>
thing will teach men of incredible ignorance<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
are now trying another experiment of then our<lb></lb>
lying system on Ireland, which as in other in-<lb></lb>
stances, will we venture to prophecy, over-<lb></lb>
whelm them with disgrace and confusion.</p>
<p n="2587">SPAIN.</p>
<p n="2588">The late reports, so eagerly circulated, of a<lb></lb>
great victory gained by the Spaniards over the<lb></lb>
French, in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1015">Rousillon</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1015" type="placeName" value="Rousillon"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1015" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, turn out a mere fabrica-<lb></lb>
tion of the Treasury Prints in this Country,<lb></lb>
By the Corrunna Mail we learn, that no battle<lb></lb>
whatever has been fought; on the contrary,<lb></lb>
the Spaniards, at Catalonia, are retiring before<lb></lb>
the French in every direction, and long before<lb></lb>
this Gironne, in the center of Catalonia, is in-<lb></lb>
vested by the French Army.</p>
<p n="2589">In the North West of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1016">Spain</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1016" type="placeName" value="Spain"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1016" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, the trifling<lb></lb>
skirmishes of small parties, in Navarre, were<lb></lb>
known in town a fortnight since; but by the<lb></lb>
last accounts directly from St. Andero and Bil-<lb></lb>
boa, it appears that the French Army, in great<lb></lb>
force, is moving to besiege Pampeluna, the<lb></lb>
capital.</p>
<p n="2590">KIDNAPPING.</p>
<p n="2591">This infamous traffic is not yet abolished, as<lb></lb>
the Public hoped and supposed. Since the ex-<lb></lb>
ecution of the unfortunate man for the Riot, at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1017">Charing Cross</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1017" type="placeName" value="Charing Cross"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1017" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, those wretches have agin dared<lb></lb>
to recommence their practices, thinking they<lb></lb>
are protected by the Law.</p>
<p n="2592">Late on Tuesday night, a Crimp, whose shop<lb></lb>
is at the Rising Sun, in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1018">Charles-street</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1018" type="placeName" value="Charles-street"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1018" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1019">West-<lb></lb>
minster</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1019" type="placeName" value="West-minster"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1019" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, attempted to intrap a youth of fifteen,<lb></lb>
whom he saw in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1020">Newman-street</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1020" type="placeName" value="Newman-street"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1020" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1021">Oxford-road</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1021" type="placeName" value="Oxford-road"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1021" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
.<lb></lb>
He gave the boy a shilling, and desired him to<lb></lb>
fetch him some tobacco, which the boy unful-<lb></lb>
pectingly did, and returned to give him the<lb></lb>
change. The wretch laid hold of him, said he<lb></lb>
had taken the King's money, and was dragging<lb></lb>
him away, to go for a Gentleman <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50909_occ331">Soldier</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_occ331" type="occupation" value="Soldier"></interp>
. The<lb></lb>
cries of the youth alarmed the neighbourhood,<lb></lb>
who ran out and rescued him; and upon hear-<lb></lb>
ing the story, delivered the fellow to the mob.<lb></lb>
He was first well ducked under a pump, and<lb></lb>
then demanded to tell where the House was,<lb></lb>
which upon his refusing, his tail was docked,<lb></lb>
and his ears flit, and part of one cut off. The<lb></lb>
fellow then confessed, and an immense mob<lb></lb>
proceeded to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1022">Charing Cross</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1022" type="placeName" value="Charing Cross"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1022" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, down to the Public<lb></lb>
House, in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1023">Charles-street</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1023" type="placeName" value="Charles-street"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1023" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
. The fellow begged<lb></lb>
to go backward, when the jumped over a wall,<lb></lb>
and escaped into <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1024">Gardener's-lane</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1024" type="placeName" value="Gardener's-lane"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1024" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
. The croud<lb></lb>
which was immense, demolished all the win-<lb></lb>
dows in front of the Public House, and some<lb></lb>
of those of the Crimping Office over the way,<lb></lb>
and would have razed them both to the ground,<lb></lb>
but the Guards arrived, and through the tem-<lb></lb>
perate conduct of the Officers, the people dis-<lb></lb>
persed, and not further mischief was done.</p>
<p n="2593">BISHOP OF OSSORY.</p>
<p n="2594">It is astonishing with what effrontery some<lb></lb>
Papers of the Day fabricate the grossest false-<lb></lb>
hoods, and to what lengths they carry their pro-<lb></lb>
stitution of principle. However, the means<lb></lb>
they make use of to support the Interests of a<lb></lb>
declining Party, defeat themselves. This<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
strongly instanced in the low abuse levelled at a<lb></lb>
celebrated Irish Prelate, not less conspicuous for<lb></lb>
his Virtues, than for his very brilliant Talents.<lb></lb>
Unable, even with the microscopic eye of prac-<lb></lb>
tised malice, to discover the smallest blot in the<lb></lb>
fair page of his exemplary life, the wretched<lb></lb>
hirelings of insolent and abusive power, main-<lb></lb>
taining the true <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo1025">Grub-street</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1025" type="placeName" value="Grub-street"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50909_geo1025" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
character, affail the<lb></lb>
worthy Prelate on a point of their own creation,<lb></lb>
charging him with having been a Catholic, a<lb></lb>
charge as destitute of Policy and Truth, as it is<lb></lb>
weak, ridiculous, and illiberal. For admitting<lb></lb>
a moment the assertion true, what is the infer-<lb></lb>
ence? Certainly, that those who direct these<lb></lb>
black shafts of envenomed Slander, in gratifying<lb></lb>
their Envy and Malice, fairly incur the impu-<lb></lb>
tation of being inimical to the principles and<lb></lb>
progress of the Reformation; thus the impolicy<lb></lb>
of the attack is evident and its falsity equally<lb></lb>
so, form the total silence of the Irish Papists on<lb></lb>
that head, for there are not wanting in the Sister<lb></lb>
Kingdom, any more than here, engines of lying<lb></lb>
business, wherewith Tyranny, Bigotry, and<lb></lb>
Wickedness, may assail the Liberal, Virtuous,<lb></lb>
and Patriotic Character; but in Ireland it would<lb></lb>
be in the Power of all who read the calumny, to<lb></lb>
refute it.</p>
<p n="2595">We feel ourselves to blame in giving to such<lb></lb>
lying infolence the only notice it can possibly<lb></lb>
receive, and we apologize for vindicating a<lb></lb>
Character not vulnerable to such despicable ef-<lb></lb>
forts of Literary assassination.</p>
<p n="2596">Not less than 100,000 of our Countrymen<lb></lb>
have fallen during the present Crusade against<lb></lb>
the French. We had fifty thousand English-<lb></lb>
men on the Continent, and the Regiments were<lb></lb>
twice recruited. If we were to believe the au-<lb></lb>
thentic accounts, in the Gazette, we have not<lb></lb>
lost two thousand men, though as many have<lb></lb>
been swept away by disease, and for want of<lb></lb>
medical assistance, in the course of a month. If<lb></lb>
we take a view of the decrepid old men and<lb></lb>
children who compose our now levies, it is<lb></lb>
impossible not to condemn the measures of Ad-<lb></lb>
ministration and to<obscured></obscured>
every Military<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
ment.</p>
<p n="2597">Lord FITZGIBBON, the Irish Chancellor, has<lb></lb>
left Dublin, and is gone to his seat at Mount<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
</p>
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