The National Register. — London, England, 1811-08-11 00:00:00

to detain him for my decision respecLaia t , ceived your letter expressing. his father's request _ send home, I have now sent him to New York by the Prince Ernest packet, and will order the discharge of Jos. Leeds, on the arrival of his Majesty's ship Eurydice, if he is (as I suppose) on board her. " I assureyou l Sir, I shall he ha2py to receive any reptesen tathiiiyou-thai ineased - to make vie, ?with 'all the dererenee to which they will he entitled, as I perfectly coincide with you, that when American Citizens are impressed by mistake or other wise, they should be immediately released. " I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your most obedient humb!e Servant, " H. SAWYER, Rear-Admiral. 44 Thomas Barclay, Esq." IRELAND. An Irish Paper received yesterday morning, contains the fol lowing paragraph ; , 4 It is said that the Duke . of Richmond is to be re-called, and that the Duke of Keat, contrary to the policy hitherto adopted with respect to the Royal Family, is to be appointed Lord Lieut. tenaat of Ireland. Connected with this arrangement is the no_ urination of Lord Moira, as Commander in Chief of this Island:. Different parts of Ireland are proceeding In the election of de legates, notwithstanding the law which declares, that if any purses shall attend and vote at such election or appointment, or by any other means vote or act in the choice or appointment of math representatives or delegates, or other persons to act as such, every person who shall be guilty of any of the said offences re spectively, being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanour." It appears from the Dublin Papers of the 6th, that several counties have held Meetings on the subject of the late Proclama tion issued by the Government. The Catholics of the county of Kildare held a Meeting, which was also attended by several Protestant gentlemen, at which it was resolved to proceed on the Resolutions of the Aggregate Committee in Dublin, regardless of the Proclamation enforcing the Convention Act. No Magis trate appeared on this occasion to act under the late Proclamation. It is, however, to be observed, that thb was a M e eting c alled to consider the Proclamation, and not for carrying into etfect the Resolutions which it condemns. The county of Kilkenny met for the same purpose on the sth; and a Requisition for a simi• lar Meeting in the Queen's County, of which Mr. W. Pole is a representative, has been signed by a number of its inhabitants. Mr. George Udell a Protestant Magistrate, has written a let ter to Lord Manners, stating that the Convention Act does not apply.to the Catholic proceedings.that he considers them per fectly legal—thatin this opinion be is supported by that of some eminent lawyers—and that so far from obstrticting, he will, on "tbeteontrary, protect these proceedings. Her Grace the Duchess of Richmond, and two of the Ladles Lenox, have set off from the Vice Regal Lodge in the Phcenix Park for Scotland. A gentleman of the name of Courtenay, who has a large 'estate in the county of Limerick, has lately let out the same in a manner worthy the applause and imitation of every land-owner in Ireland. He has leased the lands in s -nail convenient f. rms to the actual occupier for 31 years and,a life; and has allowed to make deduction* at the rate of 20 or 30 per cent. on the rent for the first ten years, providedsligy.will shew to a certain value, laid out in labour or otherwise. The good effects of this system are already betinninglciappeir. Several of the poor tenantry (made industrious by-thistle advantages) are building small kilns In the stountaina t anddrawing limestone from the quarries in the low lands. They ase also raising manures and draining the lands. No system could tend more to give the peasantry a taste for industry and peaceable habits. Notice is hereby given, That a . General Assembly of do Pro prietor* of the THAW". AUCLIWAY COblP.% NT will be held at the Globe Tavern, in Fleet-street, London, on Wednesday, the 21st instant, between the hoursof Twelve and Two o'Clock, by Ihrther aljournment from the 7th instant, pursuant to the Act et Parliament in that case made and provided. Dated the 9th day of August, 1811.—S. W. WADZION, Clerk of the Com- WY- A few days ago, a man who was mowing bay on the Berming ham estate, near Tuam, had both his legs nearly cut off by the Scythe of a fellow-labourer. The sad accident was caustA we bear, by a sudden and inadvertent turn of the baser, in order to ilaswaree with some other men cOgaged in the same avocation ; awl in an effort to . place his scytke, it turned in his hand. and in asw came in contact with tip legs of the unfortunate sufferer, wise pr kin but a few fads. . 'OUN7' t MEETING. , _ • A respectable, though not very numerons meeting of th e Freehoiders and Inhabitant s of th e count y o f issex was held on Saturday se'nnight at the Town Hall, in Chelmsf rd ; at twelve o'clock about 200 persons asstnibled, when Mr. Burgoyne pro posed that Mr. Du Cane do take the ch..ir. Mr. Du Cane was then unat imously call ,:d to the Clair Mr. Du Cane having stated the nature of the requisition, and the object of the Meeting, The Rev. Mr. Only rose to propose a series of Res dutions, declaratory of the present corrupt state of the Repre,entation in Parliament, and of the necessity of a radical reform. He said, that if ever there was a time at which it became the landed in terest of the country to co-operate with firmness and cordiality against the factious intrigues and designs of what was ailed the monied interest, that time had now arrived. He then adverted to what he alleged to he the more notorious proofs that the Commons House of Parliament had not for a ting time spoken the sense of the natihn, and concluded a speech of considerable length, by proposing the following resolutions, which were seve rally put, and unanimously agreed to : " 1. Resolved, Math was averred in a petition to the House of Commons, on the 6th of May, 1791, and evidence in proof of the facts at the same time tendered by the petitioneri, that three hundiTd and seven of the Members for England and Wales only, are not sent to Parliament by the valrages of the people ; but are, through numerous breaches and evasions of the free dom of election therein set forth, returned by one hundred and fifty-four Peers and Commoners. And also, that the al' Cations in the said petition still stand in the journals of Par:lament un contradicted. " S. Resolved, That it appeats to us undeniable, that this a - plorable decay of popular representation in Parliament, co- , pc rating with the Seeeennial duration of the same Parliament, is a gross and palpable departure from the only Constitutional cha racter of the Lower House of Parliament—." a full and free Representation of the Commons of this realm." " S. Resolved, That the elective franchise was by " an esta blished principle of our ancient and excellent Constitution, distributed between the freeholders and the householders; and therefore, that it is the opinion of the meeting, that in addition to the land-owners, and in lieu of returns to Parliament in the name of depopulated, or close, or venal Boroughs, the house holders of Great Britain and Ireland, directly paying certain assessments to the State, ought, except in the cast of Neer: of the Realm, to have a yoke in the election of the Members of the Commons House of Parliament, _ _ _ " 4. Resolved, - That in the opinion of this Meeting, a law for taking th-, Poll of the Voters under such regulationa as would prevent in future the ruinous expense of contested elections, is 'not- more necessary toward the independence and int.7grity of Parliament, than it is for the preservation if public morale. " 5. Resolved, hr hat the county of Essex, which, in res p ect olr its extent,population, coninietee, and taxes. is one. of the first 'counties in the kingdom, may no longer be deprived. as it is at present, of its ,fair and just proportion in the representation of the people, nor its inhabitants left under the oppressive influ ence of decayed, dependent. and corrupted h ,roughs. " 6. Resolved, That a petition from freeholders and house holders in Essex be presented ti the [fuse of Commons, pray ing for a Parliamentary rrstora:ion of the undoubte I and fun damental right of the people to a represkntation by free riect.on to short Parliaments; and at the same time Resolved. That ail such Reform in the power: of electing the Members to sit fur them in Parliament, ought to p-oceed on the approved princip 'es of the English Const tutionof Government by the three Estates of King, Lords, and Commbus, arid ought not to infringe the the privileges of the Peerage, nor the prerogative of the Crown." Mr. Montagu Burgoyne congratulated the meeting upon t 7 a able and constitutional speech they had jou hr aid from le verend and respected friend.-.He was }'lad to sue so nary Clergymen then present. 'lnv union of the Clerg and the Laity in so good a cause, .could not but be productive of dig happiest effects. The objections to a Reform wet-. , first; rho danger of a revolution ; but the friends of Reform wanted no revolution; they wanted nothing but what was to he Mind in the records of the Constitution. At the same time he thought it most desirable that Parliamentary Ref , rin should not 'use too late. He rather wished that it should be cone d;:11 (hair ex t irted. Late reformation, he agreed witTi Mr. Burke, was im posing terms upon a conquered enemy. Mr. Western, Member for Mahlon, pronounced himself a steady friend to Reform. He thought that the inl a bhants bad a right to assert their claims to the tight of petitioning, at the same time he could have wished that the meeting bad been convened usider c.irc,unist=tices more sus• piclous. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. W111 1 141,01m.11•00.• • rting him. But having re- I t ' ESSEX CO !hers _request to send him . 5.