Star. — London, England, 1804-02-07 00:00:00

POLUNTEERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. at , ed. de. of the liar rice in rig- Ave res. pa. ied, I am, Sir, your's, &c. A CONSTITUI lON•LIST. mni4 hAI De• IC 1 1 :ini ALM. why 'app. and 0 a• Sta—From repeated kiints in the Newfpapers, we are led to tuppok, that the Minikr has it in contem plation to introduce a Bill into Parliament on the fubjea of the Volunteers. It is rumoured abroad, that a Regulation is about to be adopted, to autho• rise the retignation of all thole Members of Volun• rater Corp* who may .not be willing to emend their fervices for the term of five years, or during the continuance of the war. The ends propofed by fuch an alteration in the Conflitution of that very refpeltable Body, I appre. bend to be a permanent fervice and a nriti ditcipline. When an end is propofed, it is the province of wifdom to dikover and to employ the moil !bitable Meant of accomplifbing fuch end. But Ihould the deft means be found likely to defeat the propofed end altogether, wifdom will decide that we tad better remain in a lets, than precipitate ourfelves into a' more imperial nate. Should the rumoured means be employed, there deeds no one to rife front the dead to tell us, that the ad will be altogether defeated. Let us proceed to an examination of the compaB between the Government and that loyal body.— Tbeir Cervices were received generally (not to fay univerfally) on certain conditions. They have ful filled, and are fulfilling thole conditions to the full of their fermi obligations. An indefinite term of trek's does not ilarm them, but with a chearfainefs dad patriotifm equal to any thing in the hiaory of the civilized world, they are ready to follow to any point of the country at which their Cervices may be wanted. And many thonfands amongft them, whore various occupations render their prefent public fer 'ices very inconvenient to themfelves, are firmly bound by a high knfe of honour, and a dread of theme, to a fulfilment of every duty which d a , bare undertaken. Men of this defcription, to whom the country is To highly indebted, will, in the event of fuch a pro jolted law, have it in their power to avail themfelves a an opportunity to refign, with their honour per. fealy feared from the Wafting breath of calumny.' T am not *muting myfelf with ad idle fpeculation, but I am led to the difculßou of my &Nee, by the ftnbwkdge of many intended te fi gnations, in the event of inch an As being paffei Is it, Sir, that the Manger of the Coefiiisties is in.. ennidatad by the lofty tone of Mr. WINDHAM—or s gat he wilbes on this fubjei to compromife with that great man, whore name commands my mo* torofeund refpe&—Mr. Parr I He cannot pars over the wide diaance that feparates him from the former but by turning the Volunteers to the right about with cootesopt and theme. He may meet the latter Gen tleman on the fubjea by introducing a few mild sad moderate regulations, without Shaking the folid Cervices of a Volunteer Army. Is it. ' r. that the enemy is Amp. or is it that the ilihni has a Peace in his pocket. that this Ihould be asafidered the properelt point of time to hazard the ushissing of the public force t Public force is a free Country depends on public opinion. Thank GOD we are a free Country fand in this dreadful time of trial, the voluntary farviees of patriotic foldiers are eonfidered as a debt due for the bleffings of that fublime political Conftitation, which at once both creates and is fuftained by public opinion, and which has in no one inftance been de faced by Mr. Anotacroc—And however the libel. lons infiraments of faition may be inclined to. deny him the brilliancy of Genius, they cannot but yield to him that bond! parity of heart, which difdains every temptation to bend the law to the purpofes of a narrow and felfilh policy. I trufl and moll devoutly hope, that no loch Ad Say take place as that alluded to. One laudable exatnpls to the prevention of fo great an evil has been exhibited in the Conduit of the Briflol Volun• leer Cavalry—they have unanimoully withdrawn every power from their Committee, except that which relates purely to Financial matters. BMW. Feb. 4. 1204 The late Mr. VAUGHAN. M. P. for Carmarthen, who died a (port time fence immensely rich, hag. tlunong other bequeas, left Lord Cawooe a freehold came (f the yearly *slue of ten thoufand a ycar. Yeilerdity Daniel Fitmaw-ice, one of the perfons ordered for execution to-morrow, was refpited during hi. Maleay'. pleat - ore. Mr. R. who decamped lag week, has taken with btla hem Mr. L 51E R, of Newcagle, 2 4,CC31. Rock j from another Gentleman t,6001. from two others at,d irom ten more soot. each, making 5,0001. in the wlptle 32,0001. _ _ _ COURSING.LMI. PFnCIVAL'S famous dog Mart, of tliP Stem'dad blood, in (hiking at a hare the other Cay, broke his (boulder to piece.. So fallsionable 1145 the 5w.w14,7 LI4-41 now become :a the South, that rt the tail Swaffham Meeting they won every thing. Mr. Ilucatt, the celebrated Jockey, has (CIA down to I , ffer Mr. PFRCIVAL fifty f•tiocas for Ali y two of the .t.cowSall Motel that he would recommend to run a match at Newmarket. Pecitte roe 147-tit.ocract.--Report rays, that the G4JaIZ Chtrirn has challenged Mr snor A, and that the latter has agreed to enter the lilts with him on certain conditions: tit, That the battle thonld take place on a flags 24 feet fqiiarc. ad, To tight for guineas a tide. 3d, 11cfuro the Jaye of oaccting the Wog to be elepoliml. TIIE CITHOLIC IffESTION. Chrrefroadaiet between the Right Hon. Leid Roomette. Lord High Chioceikar of Irekus..l, sal tie Riess Hoa. the Earl oir Fir Goss. As. Ste. Ste. hoot the tici of AKA, to tit 16th of flepeanbct, dog. To vrbkh is added, the oarrathe of the, Rey. P. O'Nets, a pas% psi& of the musty at Cost. related' to to the oserefratatence.—.Cadrialfraw navies STALL . • (NUMBER 5.) FILO* TI! LOAD CNANCILLOIL, TO TUS BAIL OF PINOALL. My-place, Dublin. Anzio se. 1803. My Lord—The high raped and eaten* I bear for your Lordlhip, whole loyalty and humanity have been at all times conSpicuous, and the manner in which your Lordthip, in the letter with which I was honoured yellerday, has expiated your regret, that any part of your former letter S hou ld have given me pain, compels me again to trouble your Lordibip wiyh a few words. The pain I felt arofe from an apprehenfion that I could not hope for fuels a change in the fentimenta of thofe of the people of Ireland, who adhere to the See of Rome, towards thofe who refute obedience to it. as might lead to their living together in peace. In tome parts of Europe, mjsfor. tune appears to have produced to much of humility, that the perfons, who have occupied the choice of that See, iave been inclined to bend towards countries in which tome of its molt important pretenfions have been rejeaed ; and in this Rate of humiliation, it might have been ho pa that a fenfe of the weaknefs and imperfeaions of man might have been Cu far felt, as to lead the adherents to that See, in Ireland, no longer to teach their followers a doarine to repugnant (as it appears to me) to the repute of mankind, a,. that to Avhieh I had alluded in my letter. I conclude from your Lordthip's letters to me. that there is no perfop amongft the adherents of the See of Rums, in Ireland, whofe mind, however cultivated. however liberal in other retinae, can be thought to confider . any perfons as Chrißians, who refute obedience to that See. I conclude alto, that the prießs of that perfuafion, Rill teach their flocks, that all who refuk obedience, are guilty of a wicked rebellion againll divine authority, which mull produce their eternal damnation in the next world, and render them ob jais of horror pad diaike in this. As long as this doarine (which, with all humility I fay it, appears to Int to be repugnant to every idea of Chrithan charity taught by the Scriptures) (hall be preached to their congregations; and until thole congregadna, (hall be taught that Proteßants of every defcnption, although in their opinion in error on certain points, are to be confidered as members of the Church of Coma., and their brethren in the faith of Coats?. it teems to ene, that there can be.no hope that ekhor- tations to loyalty and obedience to a Proteßant Go vernment will have any effea. Men of education and property may feel loyalty and obedience to fuch Go vernment to be proper, or at leaft expedient; but preaching to men of the lower orders, and efpecially to thole without property, loyalty, and obedience. under fuels circumllatices, cannot be fincere, without fuppoling their minds of a refinement of which they are utterly incapable; and teems therefore to me to be either mockery or folly. Perhaps I am too pre (umpteen& in forming this opinion. but it teems to me confirmed by recent events. and 1 cannot other. wife account for the faa to generally afferted by the Prießs of the Ramiro perfualion, that during the late Rebellion, their exhortations .to loyalty and obedience bad no effea. I find it alfoionerinesi by the circum fiances, that thofe Prießs were. I prefume, utterly ignorant that thofe under their initiations had ever conceived hi their minds the horrid purpofes which they manifcited on the 23d of July. and which.perfoos came from all parts of Ireland with defign to area. I have the honour to be, with much yelper, My Lord, Your Lordthip's obedient bumble fervant. The lad ot Etnsall. Ike. az. Ike. aszrestrat.s. (No. 6.) Minna. IT THE EARL OF VIROALL. Grad Denmark- then. Sept 4 My Lord—l mud beg your Lordthip will be kind enough to excufe my not having (Roper aekasiwledg.' ed the receipt of the IA lent. you disi me the hn-, none to addrefs me, which has been occationed by my, abfence from town tor tome days pad. Honoured. as I mutt feel by your Lordfhip's correfpondence,' and the expreffions of perfonal regard towards me! contained in your letters, I am the more anxious to imprefs your Lordthip with that favourable opinion of the perfons in this country who profefs the fame religious faith I do myfelf, which it has been my an deavour to prove to you:: Lordthip they are defers , . ing of. Nothing but my with to procure for them an objet fo deferable, and my high refpett for your Lordthip, would have induced me to touch at all on a diicalLon of religious ruble& ; and not having been, I fear, fortunate enough yet to fatisfy your Lordliiip's mind, u to the objeaions you make to our religion, I mould be glad, with your Lordthies permiffinn, to flare them to tome of our fupenor clergy, who would, I am pretty certain, enable me to convince your L.rdfhip, that our religious do trine preaches chnity and brotherly love to ALL mankind, a ithout diiiinetion of reli;ion ; true and fincere al legiance to our good King—inviolable attachment to the Conditution and our Couutry ; from an honeft and confcientious cony idion that fuels is the duty of god fobjcel, and a good Catholic. be the religion . of the Monarch what it may. For my own part, my Lord, I cannot attribute the unfortunate fituation this country to any thing conflated with matters of religious f aith; Jacobinifm, and French princi. pies and politics, the want of morality, and the de praved date of the human mind, are. I conceive, the fources of our inisfo , tune. ; Religion may have been made a toot by wicked and defigning people : this has often happened ir. every country, and is ealily dialed when religious differences end. The dif trafted an.i melan:holy date we are in, every body mud lament ; how it is to be amended is a matter for tire :t.a.:fmon ; and Purely it would be diffinet to find an objef. more worthy of your Lordthip's high talents any I have the honour to be, with the greatell refpea, My Lord, your Lordfhip's very humble And obedient (avant. fICCALL. To the Meat Hoc. I Aid liodefdale. kr- tee. to (No. 74 fIOW TPS RIGHT PPP. THS. LORD CPANCELLOIL TO THI l&lL Cot PIMG•LL. M• LOUD, Pty Place. &Pt. e. 4:1% I n”:cif ac H tle qnalified as inta w r Lordtbip reprekuts youtteil to be, to tiiicufs with a.• pctfotis to whom you refer me the points ton. mention. I can only fay, that the impreffion made on the minds of thofe of the lower orders, certainly does not cor refpond with the doarinis which your Lordthip re prefers!a to be the doctrines of the religion yon prefers. I have no doubt that your Lordfhip heartily and con fcientioiltly embraces and nits uprin thofe dOrines ; the whole tenor of your life thews that you have done fo ; but the whole tenor of the condo., of the lower order! of the people of the Romifh perfitafion thews that loch doBrines are not ethrtif? taught to them ; and if I am to judge from the writings, as well'as the conduit, of tome of the higher orders of the laity as well as of the clergy. I cannot believe that they are thoroughly impreffed with the feelings which appear to guide your Lordfhip's liberal and beneficent mind. On the contrary, in many inftances it arrears to me, that the conduit of tome high among the priefthood, is calculated to excite in the minds of thofe under their care, hatred to their Proteftant fellow.fubjeas, and dilloyalty to their Government. I am atfured, from very high and very refpoltatile authority, that (at leaft in one diftrift) the Priefts who were inftru mental in faring the lives of the loyalifts in the late rebellion, are univerfally difcountenanced by their Superior • : and that a Prieft proved to have been guilty of fandlioning the murderers in 1798, tranl sorted to Botany Bay, and fince pardoned by the mercy of Government, has been brought back in triumph lay the fame Superior, to what in defiance of the law he calls HIS jartjb, and there placed as a martyr, in a manner he atoll infulting to the feel. inks of the Proteflants. to the jufticoof the country, and to that Government to whore lenity be owes his redemption from the punifhmcnt due to his critnes _ _ _ It is ftrringly reported, that the fucceffor to Dr. Hossyr (whole difaffeelion was fo mauifeft, that perhaps Government confulted its difpolition to le. nity much more than its duty, when it permitted him to return to Ireland) is to be a man alto notorioully difaffeeed. If the appointment is to be made in the dual manner, at the recommendation of the higher order of your Clergy, I cannot think that much of loyalty is to be expeeted from thole who recommend ed filch a man*. If the authority of the See of Rome loperfedes the ordinary recommendation, it mull be reconciled that that authority is now Di the hands of France ; indeed, it cannot be forgotten,. that your whole Pricithond acknowledge obedience to one who is the vafal of France, who erifts as a temporal Prince at leaft only by the permiflion of France, the 'avowed enemy of the Government under whits we live I under filch circumßances, it cannot be lice ed, that any &NA and confcientioos means have been or will be taken by the Priefts of the Roma perfuallon, to make the lower orders of the people, compofing their congregations, loyal fubjebs of the Prnteftant Government of this country. I have the honour to be, with the &welt repot and elleent, My Lord, ' Your Lordibip's molt obedient and humble Servant, lIIIDESDALII I. To the lad et Mop% ike. &e. TO 1111 1101OATT.AND -0111111tY OP THE COUNTY • •" • ' OVAIOILIL Tee . 11Velete' l eTeleenitillielt Tile ILIT. MITI! CAUL. ) a. 'Arita mutat tit 'akaavaaeaeo 1 1 4 /1Di:110T, t 110. 7. 07 Tea conassiponsawee). ) Lords and Gentlemen—The prefent mild ad minitiration of his Majeay's Government in Ireland, having grueiondy recalled MC from a painful and hurniliaiing exile, to liberty in my native country, I avail myfelf of the codicil opportunity to &licit your ottention, while I endeavour, by a plain fiatement, to remove from your minds t hat odium' which mike prefouation and obloquy have long excited again* me; and which, unreformed, malt render my exit ante here equally painful to you and to snyfelf.— Were this obloquy and mifreprefentation confined in its dices to my own individual perfon, however de rivable the reinaatement in your good opinion be, I &auld hardly prefume -to intrude upon you ; but my charatet ideas, in Come degree, that of the body to which I have the honour to belong ; it inte rval; the reputation of many refpedable perfons who have humanely interfered in my behalf; and what is *ill of far greater importance. it may poffibly intereft the reputation of his Majefly's Government in Ire land, which, with diferiminating impartiality, bath looked down upon me, enveloped as I was in a miff of calumny; bath *retched forth a parental band to releafe me from impriiimment, to break say chains, and to expunge the holly fentence which configned me for a time to fbame and (offering. I (hall be particularly careful while you condefcend to indulge me with a hearing, to confine myfelf to what is abfo- lutely necenry for my exculpation. To exprefs, or even to harbour refeatment, would ill become me at' any time. but particularly now. I forgive from my foul every injury I have received, and every perfon concerned in inflieing it ; not only religion requires this at my bands, but common fence and plaice. When I was arreited and punithed, it was. doubt lefs, in the luppolition that I was deeply engaged in the horrors which difgr aced many parts of this king dom at that diiireffing period. To have been pointed at, as an United Millman, as concerned in the shed. ding of blood ; as an abettor of trealon ; as affei.ting to, and encouraging murd:r, was naturally a death. warrant in that moment of irritation. It it were al• lowed me to complain, I should only find fault with the precipitancy of the proceedings which then af flifled me. Had I been favoured with a regular trial, or even a calm investigation, the error would have been difcnvered, and my misfortunes would have been obviated ; but though the sneafures were •In the diftriet allude.' to, the Stqcsioe" kkeled foe his Vi. car Gsneral, ;the hlgliet" htuation in his power to bettow,)• gyman who, in the year bad het, oapplly Inftram c ot .1 to faviug the lite of a rekeetable Ointletu.in, by putting hiss midi guard agalnit an intim. Vide Nirreire of the Prieft lore intimated, and which is printed at tkc c lore of dins Corr. rpondcnce. $ 'rise fuecelThr to Dr. Huth yl• trt yet mtmed. and it was Imp.tffilik that the 'tut* pricer ettt, , .l have accurate Irformation on the folifeel. 'I he recommen.!att trt to Home is In the Whops of the Promner, e whom one is Dr. Marian and =other Lir. Coppinger ; hothhave eminently dftlingulfletl theinfelvca by th.lr refusal attarhment to the lirtith GO.MllllCili. and by their pa thetic and 11101 ,0 1. , exhortation. at'tirctred to their Clergy, for Jae pomace ei ear:ling and maintaining loyalty and food moiled la their rerpettim dierkia. This letter was net anfwcred. Eat alter tome Mime CM CaerefmandeneermeaumenCld. and fear k mt. were Isaterchangedt but as clic latter have n int* eiruarloa. titv tame ince:rrs Tao near 'lift fur they Pag+ , ;-&-w-.. at kr Wu fair, now laid berm the mbik. precipitately adopted, they were to, seder thy ft& convedion, of my flagitious guilt; and however pals. ful to me, were certainly much lighter thee fray guilt would have deferred. Hanging were too Mild' for ii; and did my conrcience charge me at 'bill MO' went with what I was acceded of then. I Gould think mytell favoured by tranfportatioo t I thoold bide my head during the remainder of my ignontiakelse day* from the fight of the mod atrocious fellow-4:6051015t but no proof of there enormities ever has, or ever can be adduced. My Lords and Gentlemen, lam now liberated: Not through a pardon folicited for, or granted me, but on the merits of my cafe. To vo. lunteer in perjury is an excel** of wiekedrieft fo vile as not to he attributed to the mod abandoned without the Itronged proofs. Under a full conviditio that an appeal to the GOO of Truth in rapport of known falfehood, would be nothing les than a tall upon him to expunge my name for ever from the book of life; to withhold from me all participation in the merits of my RIDEIIIIR; to doom, of its own nature, my foul to never ending mirety ; I now mod folemoly fwear. in the pretence of Aiwtonre Goo, upon his Holy Gotpels, fird, that I was weer an linked Irith man ; that I never took that oath; that I never en. couraged, advifed, or permitted others to take it; but on the contrary, that 1 difthaded others from taking it; tome of whom have had the genertifiry to maks affidavit of my exertions in this behalf; and there are tome. who have candidly added, that they would have taken it. had I not prevented them. Some of thefe affidavits have long fince been laid before Go vernment. together with the other doeimeats of my exculpation. Secondly, Ido declare upon my oath, that I never figned the death-warrant of any teem ; or an silent to the murder or to the death of man; and that I never was alked to fign firth t' warrant or affect. This declaration is further Are . ingly corroborated by the following eiscutoßancir.... no fuck paper has been ever produced spine m00...1 . It would have amounted incontrovertibly Vs coaftd- racy of murder; it would stone have condemned me to the ;gibbet ; and there can be no doubt, if yogi web; Eider the temper of my,treatasest, that loch an bite portant paper would one have been kept back thfoigil lenity. There are tome Gentlemen of this co ositer e who have declared to others that mll attet it, that they bad this paper in their bead; that they bent my lignature : I now call upon &mime& refpftlfollyi ia lo moilear:teal'', and without intending the o ‘r W fence; I challenge than, I defy themVlffi ggl it. When there Gentlemen went afibit ' dift friende; during my Duran:wt. why.' tbii= viai ,not brought forward previous relay meat, or before the Chart of logokYrivilkt ai ts is me Youghal t (owe could 'e % , While others affected that it was f 'ln diet inquiry. this paper was &tweeted ; 1 Mr* it; let it be produced; trod if it todloot.he judice remand it for ever to its calumny. It was mypecullar mishirtemo' charges then made mond me were ow ;Ow held from tnytelf, bet even my Friends hod aiD= , oration of them, except by corona; sepOrt. lien was bofily employedin thltentinating the 'mi.' ous atrocities ruppoted to have been committed b me : but nothing tpecificaNy authenticated hod want - pita : the very committal was fo vague as to have excited the aftonithment of a profeffional friend of mine in Dublin, and to have eventually led to my dircharge. I Audi now proceed to the particulars of my cafe. Immediately upon my arm*, I was brought into Youghal. where. without any previous trial. I was confined io a loathforne receptacle of the Barrack. called the Black Hole, rendered tiiii moll offenfive by the Reach of the common neeelltry ad joining it. In that dungeon I remained from Friday until Monday, when I was condaded to the Ball.alley to receive my parlament. No trial had yet 'star- vened. nor ever after.—l was dripped and tied up; fix foldiers flood forth for this operation ; tome of • them right handed, tome left-handed men. twat a time (as I judge from the quicknefs of the ladies) and relieved at intervals, until I bad received two hundred and feventy five lathes Co vigoronay end fo deeply hailed, that my back and the points of my [boulders were quite bared of the Rear. _ _ _ At that moment, a letter was banded to the of ficer prefiding. written, I tinderfiand. in my favour by the late Hon. Capt. O'Barss, of Rofiellan. It happily interrupted my puniarrnent. But I had not hitherto fhaken the triangle ; a difplay of *feeling which it kerns was eagerly expeded from me. To accelerate that rpeiltacle, a Wire Cat was introduced. armed with (craps of tin or lead. (I judge from the effed, and lions the defcription given me:) What ever were its appendages, I cannot eafily forget the power of it. In defiance of flame, my waillhand was cut for the finning firokes of this lacerating infirn mem. The very fira lath, as it renewed all my pangs, and (het convulfive agony through my entire frame. made me (hake the triangle indeed. A feennd flilion of it, penetrated my loins, and tore them ex cruciatingly : the third maintained the tremulous ex hibition long enough—the fpedators were fatisfied. I thould fpare you, my Lords and Gentlemen, the difgufling minutenefs of this la& detail, but it will be found materially conneaed with a moll dreadful charge which appeals upon the minute of a court of inquiry, held to inveltigate my cafe the year fol lwing in Youghal, tinder Gen. GRAHAM. by order or the Marquis CortswAttis. Before this Court I was not brought ; nor Any friend of mine fnmmoned thither to (peak for me. It was even a fubjed of female remark in the peifon-fliip, that while I lined there among the fail.ws, my trial, as they termed it. was going on in Yougbal. With the proceedings of that Court I am to this day unacquamted. It was ordered I know, in ermfequence ef a memorial upon my firuation, banded to a dillingnilhed Nobleman. and by him prefented at the Cattle ; I was nut con. fulted with regard to its contents. Unfortunately for me, it was penned with more seal than accuracy ; letting forth, among other hardasim that after my punithment, Ihad been left without medical aflame, (on the report. I prefume of a fitter iu.law, who vit:ted me within the interval between the whipping and apothecary's arrival) ; it further !rated that I had been whipt and thrown into a Juni/tog; intlead 4,f flaring, as it ought to have done, that I had been thrown into • dungeon and whipt. This inverfiow wa. fatal to me. For the evidence iif Mr. Green, Apothecary, mo& plaufibly contradided thefe alle gations of the memctial ; and that cireunsflance, when coupled with the fobfeqnent horrid chargesan dacioutly forged and kilted into the Meatsa of the