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It is sold in bottles, price 2s. 9d. or with glass stoppers at 4s. 6d. stamp included, with full directions for its use, by their various Agents in the Metropolis, and throughout the United Kingdom; but it cannot be genuine, unless their names art engraved on the Government Stamp, which is fixed over the cork or stopper of each bottle. Of most of the venders of the Magnesia may be had, authenticated by a similar Stamp, Ilannv's AROMATIC Seiner of VINIIGAR, the invention of Mr. lknry, and the only genuine preparation of that article. THE CHEAPEST AND BEST MEDICINE FOR COUGHS COLDS, AND ASTHMAS. CHURCH'S COUGH DROPS for recent Colds, ob stinate Coughs, and confirmed Asthmas, stand unrivalled. 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COMPETITION ; OR, THE TRIUMPH OF MERIT. u TO those who from honour have never yet swerv e d Due pref'rence conceding," an Agent observ'd, " The Public, fair Candour still prone to inherit, Are guided, and justly, by intrinsic merit— Impartially, then, by true test to attain A knowledge whose BLACILING your favour shall gain, These unlabell'd bottles I place on the table, From London Competitors each ; and that able Of choice you may be, on these Boots quickly, boy, Your polishing brushes with care now employ !" • Six different Blackings in Honour's pursuits, Went forth then to grace the like number of Boots; While known Amateurs mark'd the progress of each, A pref'rence by surpassing lustre to teach. Ilse task when completed.—" No difficult choice," These judges exclaim'd, with unanimous voice, s' 'Whosoever the Blaelitig this bottle contains Of Victory the palm most decidedly gains ; Here art gives this Boot with resplendence to class UnrivaU'd that glows with the radiance of glass; While each of the others apparently prays Permission to hide its now diminish'd rays." The triumph of Merit your judgment proclaims," l.lately the discerning Agent exclaims, Reversing the bottle, when lo ! each eye met The now reveal'd label of ,` fine Jet." While thus, all abash'd, Competition withdrew, More mark'd the applause by the Amateurs grew. " Thus W. 111111101" tney said, " has established his name, Despite of Detraction, in permanent fame!" This Lay Shining and Brilliant BLACKING Prepared by WIC' /7/;;lfitri. 30, STRAND, London; And sold in every Town in the Kingdom. LIQUID, in Bottles ' 6d. 10d. 12d. and lad. each. Alio PASTE BLACK I NG, in Pots, 6d. 12d. and 18d. each. A Shilling Put of Paste is equal to Four ls. Bottles of Liquid. rr Ask fur WARREN'. Blacking. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY !), 1825. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 8. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a Petition from the Inhabitants of Newton Abbot, and Newton Sushi% against the Duty on Coals carried coastways.—Laid or the table. The Peers were then called over, after which the House pro- ceeded by ballot to fix the attendance of the Peers on Appeal causes during the whole of the Session. CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION. On the motion of the Marquis of LANSDOWN, the Order of the Day having been read, The Marquis of LANSDOWN rot.e, pursuant to the notice which he had given yesterday, to move an hum ble ♦ddress to his Majesty, praying that he would be graciously pleased to order all dispatches received from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, relative to Religious and Political Institutions in that country, to be laid be fate the I lonse. He intruded on their Lordships on this occasion, because, combining the assurances given in his Majesty's Speech of improved tranquillity and in creasing prosperity in Ireland, with the statement that institutions existed in that country inconsistent with its prosperity, and requiring legislative enactments to Ie• press them—combining also, the indisposition of the Noble Earl opposite to commonicate to the House any authentic account; of the nature of the evil, he con ceived their Lordships to be placed in a situation both singular and unprecedented. Unprecedented, because he did not recollect any circumstances when a new re striction was ever imposed, even in time of war and of imminent danger, without a previous inquiry being instituted, and documents produced by the Government, to prove the necessity of such a measure for the main tenance of internal peace. The restriction now pro 'posed was not ono which fell on one class in particular; it appeared that it was to embrace all classes, and to affix a limitation to the privileges of individuals, to which they were not now subjected by law. 'This was the more extraordinary, as there did not seem to be a disposition in the Irish Government to enforce the law to its full extent ; and indeed it was even acknow ledged that the proceedings which it was intended to repress, whether blameable or not, were strictly legal. —Their Lordships were called upon to provide a remedy without any knowledge of the evil, and that at a moment when not only the danger was not alleged to be imminent, but in a period of pros perity and tranquillity, and when all parties agreed that an unusual degree of harmony prevailed in that very part of the country where the evil was said to exist. Of the causes of this tranquillity, various parties gave various accounts. The Catholic Association as cribed it to its earnest exertions and strenuous recoup mendations to the people of Ireland to keep the peace. The Lord-Lieutenant attributed it, justly, to his firm and equal administration. His Majesty's Ministers con ceived it to result from the measures which they had recommended to the Parliament last Session, whilst the other House might say that it proceeded front the ex cellent amendments which it had introduced into those measures. But whatever difference of opinion existed as to the cause of this general tranquillity, there was but one as to the important fact, that there was not one body of persons in Ireland willing or able to disturb the public peace. What moment, then, was chosen to assert the necessity, without inquiry, without the danger of rebellion, of passing new restrictions without giving their Lordships time to examine the nature of the peril which they were called upon to avert ! He should perhaps be told that all this inquiry, all these commu nications, were unnecessary on this occasion, because men might govern themselves by the notoriety of the facts. He must confess, that if there was one moment when he should have thought it impossible that noto• riety should have been used as an argument, it was this, for never had it less applied to this subject. It was noto rious how persons who might have been deemed the best qualified for judging, had been deceived. The actual law officers of the Government of Ireland, able as they were acknowledged to be, had been so completely de ceived by the nature of the subject, as to go before one of the tribunals of that country with statements so little borne out in evidence, that they were rejected by the Grand Jury on the shewing of their own witnesses.— Would well-informed men have gone befgre a Jury at all, if exaggerated statements had not misled them, and left them completely in the dark as to the tendency of what had taken place within the walls of the Catholic' Association ? Were their Lordships, therefore, on the assertions of the Noble Earl opposite, and the reports of Newspapers, to suffer themselves to be engaged in - so delicate a task ? Whenever restrictions were proposed on the ground of alleged danger arising from the ex-, ercise of legal privileges, it was the duty of their Lord ships to inform and satisfy themselves, first of the ex istence of the evil to be corrected ; secondly, of the nature of the remedy by which it was to be put down ; and thirdly, and above all, to take care that in extinguishing one evil, they did not create other and greater ones. Now to ascertain every one of those points, they re quired the dispatches for which he had called. It was necessary, before they should form a final opinion, that they should receive their information from the mouths of those who had the best opportunity of acquiring knowledge, and who gave it on their own responsibility_ They were ready to engage, even with that information, anti still more certainly without it, in a task of great difficulty, of which they saw the commencement, but of which no sone could say what would be the end—(Hear). The Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolsack, for it was impossible that such a nice piece of workmanship should be intrusted to other hands than those of the first Law Officer of the Crown, the Noble and Learned Lord, with all his talents and ingenuity, of which no man could think higher than he did, would have a dif flesh task in framing such a Bill as would prove effec tive. If its object Isere to extinguish the Catholic As sociation and Catholic Rent in Ireland ; if the Noble Earl and his colleagues should be able, without dis turbing the ordinary regulations of society, to prevent persons from obtaining that confidence from others which others declared- they enjoyed ; if they could prevent them from paying money to those to whom they wished to pay it; if they coulsi intercept the pas sage of opinion from one man's mind to another's, or that of money from the pocket of the one to the hand of the other, they, lie was ready to allow, would per form an extraordinary task. But if they failed they would have done nothing, nay, worse than nothing, for they would only have created an endless legislative conflict. But if the Noble and Learned Earl succeeded, he would immortalize himself as a legi,lator. The Noble Earl opposite, anxious to smooth the progress of his Bill through this and the other House, would no doubt state that it was not a substantive Bill, but only an amendment of the Convention Act. There was ►his difference, however, that the Convention Act treated of tangible objects, whilst the present Bill dil not. The Convention Act related to delegation. Ile would not enter into a general dissertation on the effects of dele- gation in that country. Some thought that where great grievances existed, delegation was not injurious. The Catholics might quote great authorities in its support, and amongst the test the Noble Lord who had so ably moved the Address to the Crown, and who considered delegation useful in representing public opinion re• specting grievances, though at the same time a mode tangible by law, and under the circumstances of Ire ' land, not to he permitted. The Convention Act also related to unlawful oaths, and it certainly might be said you shall not use such a form of oath ; but when there; was no outward form of proceeding on which - to lay the' hand, what remained for the law to perform but to get rid of %yards. The words Association and Rent might be objected to and proscribed, but what would ensue? that the same objects would revive under other names. Had not a Noble Lord, some years since, excited him-, self so much against the Catholic Committee that it had at last disappeared, and nothing more was heard of a Catholic Committee? but then the Catholic Associa- tion sprung up in its .place. So it would now be the case. They might get rid of the Association and Rent ; but would the people of Ireland associate or pay the less for it ? The Noble and Learned Earl would find it a hard task to persuade the Irish not to pay if they were disposed to do so. It was no easy matter to get money into one's pocket, but there was little difficulty in drawing it out. He would tell the Noble and Learned Lord what he would be able to do. He would not make the Catholic Rent less, but he would make it, more. When the French Poet Piron was on the eve of publishing a poem, he requested a friend of his, a Mem ber of the Academy, to state the night before at a sitting of that body that his verses were detestable, for, said he, the whole edition will be sold to-morrow. So it , would be , with the Catholic Rent ; the attack made upon it would dilly serve to double its collection. It was impossible that every effort to restrict existing privi. leges should not increase the wish of exerting them. He would venture to remind the Noble and Learned Earl of a fact connected with Irish history. Under the reign of Henry VIII. and during a period of violence and out rage, the Irish were in the habit, in moments of excite ment, to the two invocations or exclamations, Croma boo and Butleraboo. The corresi,ons.lents of the Go vernment very wisely wrote to their principals in Eng land, that those two words did all the mischief, and that they must be put down. The Cabinet met; he did not know whether it was a divided Cabinet, but on this question it was agreed, and came to the resolution that the noxious expressions must be put down. A Bill was consequently passed, expunging those words from the Irish language, and forbidding their use under the most severe penalties, but out of great humanity termitting the Irish in future, at moments of excitement, to cry out St. George. History did not say whether they had used the old exclamations or the legal ones, but it was known that the same outrages had continued to be committed. Be, did not mean to compare the Catholics of the pre -1 sent age with the barbarians of that, nor the legislation of that period with the legislation of this, but he thought 'it an adventurous thing for mere words to create so r much inconvenience; for this was not a subject in which we could merely say, "If we fail, we fail." If AL.. O'Connell were inclined to do any mischief, which, be was not prepared to say, he would ask their Lord ships whether that individual were more able to do it Wore he had been brought before the Court or after? -It would be for them to consider whether they would not increase substantially that power which they were about reducing nominally. In all he had said he had not sought for an opportunity of defending the pro ceedings of the Catholic Association. He had even no objection to say, that if the reports of those proceedings which reached him through the newspaper; were cor rect, he saw much in them to disapprove, both in their collective and individual capacity. But it wai impossi ble that large bodies should assemble to discuss reli gious or civil grievances, and that debates should be carried on without much being said or done, which other persons looking at things in a different point of view, must disapprove. Inflammatory speeches on 'such occasions were not attended with such dangers as had been represented. Having said that many et the proceedings of the Ca tholic Association appeared to him blameable, as reported, he must also say that he had seen much in them of which he approved. In a country divided into masses of different opinions and religion, it was fit that those opinions should find means of being represented. It was safer that they should be colkcted in a public than a secret manner; for they resembled those fluids and vapours with the na ture of which we were growing every day better acquainted, and which, when confined, were a source of menace and real danger. but when allowed a free vent mingled harmlessly with the atmo sphere. The Noble Marquis then restated the special ground of ilia motion, that before new restrictions were imposed, inquiry was indispensably necessary ; and concluded by moving an humble Address to his Majesty, to the purport described at the beginning of his Speech. The Earl of LIVERPOOL reminded their Lordships of the old saying, that when a man rose in a public assembly, it might be as well if he knew the subject ahout which he was to speak. In the same manner, when a Noble Peer rose to make a motion for informa tion, when, in a few days, all explanations were to be given, it might be as_ well if he had waited till those explanations had been pi oduced. It was true, that in the Speech fiom the Throne his Majesty had combined, with a - description of the improved tranquillity and prosperity of Ireland, a recommendation that remedies should be applied to some existing evils. It yeas true also that their Lordships had ,carried an address to tl:e Throne, in which they said tbat.they would consider the evil. There the matter rested. The Noble Marquis knew, from the votes on the table, that it was the linen lion of his Majesty's Ministers to introduce a measure latt that subject in a few days in another place. Would it not have been better for him, therefore, to have waited till he knew the object of that measure, which he must know so soon, than to make a speech on a mere suppo- [PRICE SEVEN PENCE. sition ? The Noble Marquis said that no te.triction k should be imposed without information to justify lune: cessity. If the Noble Lord meant that the grounds of the measure should be shewn,he (the Earl of Liverpool) was perfectly of his opinion. But those grounds might he grounds of general notoriety. The Noble Mat quis had acted on such grounds himself two years ago ; for when their Lordships had adopted a measure against Orange Societies, had he called for any information, or had any been produced except the simple notoriety of (acts ? He (Lord Liverpool) approved of that measure, rird thought a proper course had been followed ; bat the friends f f Orange Societies might also have had a igla to ask for information. As to the Catholic Asso ciation, if the measure proposed rested on official infor- . . mation, on anything confidentially communicated to his Majes:y's Govbrnment, the state of the question would he different. But when their Lordships should know its nature, they would find that this was not the case. It was introduced on no official or confidential inf..rmation whatever, but on facts which were as "equally known to each of their Lordships as to his Ma. jesty's Governmept. It was the boast of the Catholic Association that all its-proceedings were public and in the face of day. If it were fit to adopt a measure against that body, it was fit to grout:d it on that which they admitted, which they had published and acknow• ledged, and on nothing else. What grounds were there therefore for adopting the Noble Lord's motion at any time, but especially at a time when their Lordships knew nothing on the subject ? The Noble Marquis asked to discuss the question in the dark ; he (Lord Liverpool) wished to discuss it in the light, and to wait till the measure was before the House. The Noble Marquis also seemed to suppose that the measure was the contrivance of his Noble and Learned Friend on the Woolsack. Certainly, as a Member of his Majesty's Government, the measure could not be introduced with out his concurrence; but if it were ascribed to his • agency, he (Lord Liverpool) had no hesitation in saying that the supposition was totally unfounded. It was the measure of the Irish Government, approved , by the English Government. It was the measure of the Irish Government, founded on a conviction of its necessity to maintain the peace of the country. He should not suffer himself to be led into a discussion of the Bill, or of the conduct of the Catholic Association; but thus much he would say, what effects must be produced by such an Association, in a country abounding with reli gious and political animosities? The Noble Marquis advised that little stress should be laid on inflammatory speeches ; but there was a great difference between in flammatory speeches is a divided assembly, that was to say, an assembly composed of persons of different opinions and parties—and in an . united one, where all men entertained the same opinion, and acted from the same feeling. There was 'also - a great difference be tween inflammatory speeches, and inflammatory pro ceedings. The Noble Marquis also drew a wrong in ference from the result of the application to the Dublin Grand Jury. An individual had been indicted for ut tering words which were charged with being seditious. The Grand Jury had certainly ignored the Bill, and he had not been brought to trial. But how could the re jection of the charge against Mr. O'Connell lead to any inference respecting the conduct of the Catholic Asso ciation? There was nothing so dangerous to public liberties as drawing such inferences from the trials of individuals. He should be the last, after a person had . been acquitted, in thinking that he should again be brought forward. He, therefore, bowed to the de cision of the Dublin Grand Jury ; but he bowed to it as an individual case, not applicable to a general one. It was not on the words of an individual, but on the proceedings of the whole body that the proposed mea sure was to be founded. There never was a period at which inflammatory proceedings were less justifiable, from the prosperity of the country, and the general conduct of the Irish Government. For he called on the warmest advocate of the Catholics to state whether there ever was a period at which more equal justice had been administered to all parties, and a greater dis position bad existed to chew kindness to the great body of Catholics? But this was not all. He should re peat what he had said on the first day of the Session, that he looked on the Catholic Association as the greatest enemy to Ireland. It was that which checked its prosperity ; it was that which prevented the flow of capital from England into that country, where it was ready to run, by affording constant excitement to those animosities which it was the object of his Majesty's Government to allay. It was impossible for that body to proceed as it had done without creating opposite feelings, and defeating the object of the Governments, which was to spread universal peace. It all Associations could not be put down, then all Associations must be permitted, and if this were dune, in what a state would the country be placed? Some measure ought to be adopted, u much, and even more for the interest of the Catholics than for that of any other body. His chief objections to the proposal of the Noble Marquis were, that such a motion, in such a stage of the business, had never been beard of, and that it related to a Bill of which the House knew nothing, and which, instead of being founded on official or confidential in f ormation, tested entirely on proceedings which the Catholic Also . ciation itself admitted to be notorious. The Earl of GROSVENOR, should trouble their Lordships but with a few words. He should, in the ' first place, state, that the Motion of the Noble Marquis (Lansdown) near him had his most decided support; and, in the next place, the reasons on which his support was founded. The Noble Earl opposite (Liverpool) seemed to misunderstand the drift of his Noble Fr iend's (the Marquis of Lansdown) observations. The Motion had ati , Ant out of the recommendation in the Speech front the Throne to adopt means for suppressing the Ca tholic AssoCiation. Now, the Noble Earl opposite asserted that body had done great mischief, while many Noble Lords on his (Lord Go osvenor's) side, thought_ it had done much good, and all that was demanded was the information on which the former opinion was taken up. It was, surely, not pos , ible but the Noble Marquis at the lie of of the Irish Goverment had made some coin mu' ications to Ministers on the subject, which, in all probability, would throw light on the course the House should pursue. With respect to the inflammatory pro ceedings which it was alleged the Catholic Association had been guilty of, it was not in the nature of things that men, seeking such a great object as they did, could avoid expressing themselves or acting ardently. If they sat down with their hands before them, it was most ~~ 4 0.... 4 i. _ f .% ' e :, m Ai i E ey ost