The National Register. — London, England, 1811-08-25 00:00:00

528 threatened appeal - to the people. Vie will ask the Catholics what they mean by the 44 impotence of G o vernment." Do th e y know what forms the strength of Governments ? The !Tide!, of their subjects. To say that a Government. is impo • tent,. is therefore to charge its subjects with dis , loyalty. Let the Catholics be more guarded, lest, notwithstanding their incessant professions of fide lity, both their words' an d actions do not subject them to imputations 'which we trust:would be un founded. They mention " fear" as one of the causes of the forbearance of qovernment: fear of whom, or what ? Is it of the disapprobation of the British Parliament ? It fully sanctioned„ after in vestiption, the issuing o f the Proclamation now carried into effect. Is it of the displeasure of this the Throne ? The sentime nts of His subject are well known, and those of the PRINCE REGENT may be ascertained from Ms acquiescence • with the measure. Is it of the Irish people then? — How can this be, as long as they, who form the • three-fourths of the population of Ireland remain dutiful subjects?---Let the Catholics not suffer • themselves to be misle d. They have already proved, by proceeding with their elections after the arrest of the Dublin Delegate s, that their end is not solely to try the legality of their conduct ; for then they would have waited till the pending trials should have decided the point, but rather a continued and systematic opposition to Government. They now boast that their Protestant brethren have declared in their favour. They tell us, with exultation, that • Magistrates and Sheriffs, countenance by their ap probation and presence both their meetings and elections, which thus assume a Parliamentary form, and that they can now marshal against Government the agents and ()Ulcers of Government itself. Let them reflect that if men entrusted with the exercise of lawful power have been persuaded to prove false • to their charge, to disobey the commands of Su. preme authority, and to sanction and encourage disobedience in others by their presence and the influence of their example, there is no cause in this for exultation, but for grief, as a grievous offence has been committed both against the Throne and the country. We trust that should any Magistrates have been deceived by % artful explanations given of the tendency of the Pro clamation, which is represented as destroying the right of 'Petition, -instead of merely forbidding the election of Delegates, they will soon obtain more correqinformation, and instantly return to a proper • sense and exercise of their duty.. We hope also, that no longer deaf to impartial warnings, the Ca tholics may at least suspend their proceedings until t he verdict of the Jury and the decision o f die Court • cease by the loudness of their declamations and the virulence of their writings to inflame the public mind in Ireland, to a pitch de structive of- the salutary unanimity which ought to prev4il throughout the whole of the British empire. FOIMTGN INTELLIGENCE: •Tilf,-NA.TIONAL REGISTER. - -‘‘ __l. .1, „ II shall be known, and LISBON PAPERS. ASTORGA,KILT 14.—0 n the 2d inst. Don Julian Sanchez was in the vicinity of 'Zamora, and notwithstanding he insulted the garrison, they shut the gates, and would not come out. At four he returned to bis usual post at Ledesma. • As Joseph wishis to gave a pretence for his return into Spain, he has decreed a meeting of the Cortes. (Fine Cortes 1 a deli berate body, surrounded by foreign bayonets, and without a wilt .Ectrarogant imposture ?sever .fails to degenerate into stupidity) an 4 the first Deputies he has named, are of the provinces which his troops do not occupy. This nomination will be intelligence to send off to France .to quiet the general commotion which obliged his brother to order him to leave Paris in ;24 hours, and Ftance-in three days. Before it shall arrive, the French must know the state of our cause. How can they be duped with these absurdities ? It is the property of fools tothink they deceive every body. . . Our beloved and able Genitival, Santocildes, entitles himself daily more and more to the reward which ought to attend those heroes who expose their lives for the liberty of their country. He has been joined by 700 cavalry, by which he will be enabled more effectually to repress the pride of these monsters. The tinny of Galliria, including Ike reserve, Consists ut present , 0'22,000 men of the line. LISBON, Jo LI( 30 _Yesterday we received Me Correio Exact°. de Corunha of the 19th inst. in which• we find the tollowing notice : . . " On the s th , th e p retended King Joseph arrived at Burgos. lie cannot have been mush fatigued, having made but very short stages, surrounded by the troops of hit brother in such a manner, that in some villages he was thought to be brought in a prisoner. The retinue of Joseph assert, that within six weeks there well arrive in Spain 30,000 Italians, and within three months after an eqn 1 number. CORUN NA, JULY 9.—The Navarrese and Biscayans join the parties of the worthy Chiefs Mina and Longa, and others, with the utmost enthusiasm ; so that if they were well supplied with arms they would soon form a considerable army. Among the soldiers rescued by Mina, in the action of the 25th of May, arc eighty Englishmen, who, locked in the arms of the Spaniards, cannot leave them, in consequence of their gratitude for so for tunate a cieliverance.—(Lisboa Gaz. July 26.) 'Assort, JULY 30.—8 y letters from Oporto, dated the 26th inst. we learn that, on the 2 tth, an extraordinary degree of heat was felt in that city. At seven o'clock the air began to appear very red in the west, and soon after in ; e on easth t, and not long afterwards likewise in the north and south e eastern side the atmosphere became very dark, and as night came on a vio lent storm of wind blew from the sea, which dismasted many vessels and dashed others one against another, occasioning a great deal of damage. During the storm, which was likewise se verely felt, there were prodigious flashes of lightning from all quarters of the hemisphere, accompanied by most violent claps of thunder to the great terror of the inhabitants, who with loud cries put up prayers for mercy. The storm lasted a considerable time. Nothiil equal to it is remembered by the oldest inha bitant of Oporto. Fortunately, however, no persons were killed; some were so overcome by terror, that they were taken seriously ill.—(Lisbott Diary, July 30.) ',cow N, JULY X2B—No news from the army; all there con tinues the same—going into q uarters in the line last described. There has been a convulsion at St. Michael's. On the llth, 12th, and 13th of June a continued series of shocks levelled every wail on one side of the island ; but the.loss of lives was not great. Meanwhile, a smoke, stones, &c. were thrown up by a volcano, which appeared at sea, three leagues from the shore, in such quantities as to form an island three miles long and two broad, where the water formerly was thirty fathom dccp. The irrup tion stilt continues, but daily increasing. Lisaost, JULY 24.—Letters from i3lvas, of the lOth inst. state Lord Wellington continued to review the troops, some divisions of which had marched for Biera Bait a, and that it did not ap• pear the French had any corps in the neighbourhood of Elvas, except a detachment in Olivenca, another in Valverde, and the garrison of Baciajos. • • . • . General Ballasteros is said,.by.the same accounts, to maintain himself in Niehla—which also assert that the corps which was