The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-03-11 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN. ' loolllidg 4l44 l, W 64 a-mammy qualification for admission' into a Illootasuff corps. When smell aspersions were cast lison so valuatsio a body, the Honourable Gentlemen was hound is etindair to state front what 'nerve be received his information. alle (Sir George) denied that there was any foundation for such aspersions. It wan admitted, that to England yeetrawary were necesaery to preserve the peace of the country ; then how much more necessery in Ireland, at any time. and still more in MI. It was stated on a late occasion by his Right Hon. Friend, the Attorney-General for Helene, that three protloces were beset by a hand of new, worn to subvert the laws, and extirpate Protestants. From this associafaen, Protestants were protected by the yeomanry. The lionottrahle Gentleman lied referred to the conduct of particular corps. Now he would state what wee the conduct of the Derry corps last year. They were • prat en permanent duty on the Pith of October, and con tinued so till the June following, during which time their conduct was seek se to deserve the thanks of Government ; end riot one enuiplaint was made by any Roman Catholic.— Oo of Dee. last, the anniversary of the shutting the gates of Derry, this corps abandoned the celebration of that day, held so dear by every citizen of Derry. — (Hear, hear). He (Sir G.) having been .n Dublin during his Majesty's visit, when he returned to Derry on the !26th of December following, a few ittividuals waited upon him to compliment him on his return. The Sunday following, a resolution was entered int* at the Catholic Chapel, at Derry, and a complaint forwarded to Lord Tal bot. that the yeomanry of Decry were guilty of a breach of his Majesty's recommendation, in appearing in uniform with etOnsin their hinds, and playing party tunes,which were very offensive to Roman Catholics. An inquiry was immediately Instituted, wh i ch lasted five days, the result of which was, that not one yeoman appeared lii uniform. or had a drum or fife; and When asked what party tunes wire played, it was replied that they were the " Rattle of the Royale." " Cro pies Ile down . ' and "God save the King." He could hot tear the attacks without refuting them, made upon so valua ble a body—a body which was necessary to keep down the growth of rebellioe in Ireland. He was born in the same principles which they upheld, and those principles he would maintain through life. He did not, however, know any one men In Londonderry, among those persons, with whom he was more immediately connected, who was en Orangeman. 'Ft..country gentlemen, rcspeetnble farmers, and artisans in the North of Ireland, were compelled to associate toother upon the principle of self-defence, which was the first law of nature. In 1911 the Ribbandmen commenced their outrages, and it then became necessary for the loyal part of the popu lation, to unite against them: Mr. S. RICE said that this was a question which ought to be dismissed with good temper. it was very e rong to infuse into itany thing that was likely to_promote angry feelings. lint besides this consideration, there were others which would induce him to oppose any harsh reproaches on the Orange body. He knew that there were attached to that holy, some of the very best and most honourable men that could be found any where, brat whose powers of utility were cramped by the nature of the obligation they were littler. This applied as well to the sworn Orange men as to those who, like the Right Honourable Gentle ness, took the infection in the n aural way.—(A laugh.) The Right Honourable Baronet seemed willing to 'Nun an the forms of Orangeistn, while, at the same time, he gloried in its spirit. —(H.ar, hear.) The Honourable Tef craw then contrasted the Masonic with the Orange Societies, and said, that the latter disturbed the peace of the country, while the former were perfectly notori ous. He calle d upon the Government to put 'down is good faith, a system which led to the most calamitous sons-quences. He would ask, why were the Oranremen allowed to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne? What must inch a practice bring to the mind of the Catholic ? Did the Noose recollect that James IL was looked upon in [rebind as a legitimate King, who was endeared still more to the majority of the in habitants by being of the same religion with themselves? LIM the House recollect that the Revolution, whatever advantages it might bate brought to the Protestants of Ireland, brought nothing bat hardships and misfortunes to the Catholics? The forfeitures which it caused tltytntlnted to 100,000 of acr..s, and the outlawries to 4,000. While the /Licht lion. Baronet and others glo ried in the principles of the Orange system, it would be vain for Government to pass a Bill In suppressing it. It was the police that first introduced Orangeisin into Limerick, the part of Ireland with which he was more clorely connected, and from that time the spirit of party there hail hecbme much tusre violent than at any for me' ..peioail. The Hunottrahlv Member next entreated Minister , to adopt towards Ireland the recommendation contained in an Address to George 11., which he read to the house. It deprecated the existence of all party dietinctiotti, as hostile in every respect to the general irterests of the people. He did not require from any man to forswear his early opinions; all he desired was that all parties in Ireland would attend to the parting admo nition of the Kini. Sir H. HILL., in explanation, denied that he lucid out any encouragnt to Urangertem to persist, though he enproved of the Protes t ant s ystem, on which they pre f.:seri to ,ct. Mr. DAWSON deprecated the mode it bleb his hononr al;le friend (Mr. Itice) took of producing conciliation. It was certainly too conch for him to say that Orange 's= so far pervaded all the public es•ablishments, that it was first introduced into Limerick by the police. — Now he (Mr. I)) could assert with confidence that, to rg before the police bad gone down to Limerick, (Jr.,neeism exist-d in a certain town in the South of Irelan 1. it was well known that Bandon was the very focus of Orangeism. It was there, too, that the symbol a..d motto of Oratageism was to be read upon the gates 11 these words:— " Tuik, Jew, or Atheist, May enter here ; but, not a Papist." Th's motto had been affixed to tbe gates fur a series of .*. years, and if his holt. friend took the trouble of referring • to it, he might have found that it was the watchword for all Orangemen in the South of Ireland. The hots:mem ber then defended himself, as the Captain of a Yeomanry Corps, from the imputation of commanding men who were disto there of theublic peace. lie next vindicated, in general terms, the e nduct ot,the Irish Yeomanry, an stated that, when these corps were first ,'arms I. all persons were admissible, without any distinction of religion. — The Cathelics of Dublin, however, he said, were tannin . ing at the time to associate with the Proteeantr, and ad - dressed a letter to Mr. Secretary Pelham. demanding to be enrolled as a separate 11041; which was refused. Hel ext contended that, in the Notth of Ireland, where the eenienry corps w er e numerous, there were scarcely ► any outrages committed by the peasantry ; whereas the very reverse was the catildin the South. There were is the Smith lint few corps tovmparatively ; yet the peasantry lc all the counties, with the exception of Waterford, Lad neither any fear of (ion, nor any respect for man. Mr. S. BICE euplained. Sir JOHN NEWPORT said be would not retaliate upon the North of Ireland the calumnious imputations • which the Hon. Member had east upon the Southern counties, when according to his statement of the pea santry had no fear of Goo nor no respect for man. I'he Right Hon. Baronet then proceeded to observe that the yeomanry or any other description of local force was not applicable to Ireland, however it might answer in Eng land. Ile was unwilling to recall the horrors of 1798, tat he would say that at that period there was a great deal to condemn on all sides. Much an he had suffered from the persons implicated in the rebellion, he would still say that sanatural means had been token to goad them into it?—{Hear, hear )—Tbe Right Hon. Baronet in the course of some further observations, said that this was not the proper time for going into any discussion respecting the Irish yeomanry. Ile was sort that a due attention to the recommendation contained In the King's Letter, would hare • greater effect towards _ . trinquillising Ireland than any measure that could be adopted. ..Mr. DAWSON explained. His of serrations with re spect to the South of Ireland were confined entirely to those parts where the peasantry were in a state of open Iswitility to the laws. Mr. PLUNKEf T was exceedingly reluctant to go into any discussion on this subject. Nothing conkl in duce him to rise on the present occasion, except the re ',mks made by the lion. Member for Aberdeen. That Hon. Member had appealed to him (Mr. PO to state whether there were not grounds for believing that the yeomanry of Ireland had misconducted themselves 1 He would say in answer to that appeal, that no instances of their misconduct had come before him in his official ca pacity, nor did he believe that they existed in a general case. There were certainly some instances of individual misconduct, but these were not greater than were to he found in other public bodies, and whenever they did occur, redress was always had upon application to the proper authorities. He must in justice say, that there were oo fair grounds of censure against the yeomanry as a body. He could not, however, fort-ear from expressing his regret that so few Catholics were to be found in the yeomanry of the North of Ireland. He could by no means conceive, in the assertion of an Honourable Mem ber (Mr. Dawson) that the Catholics were unwilling to ' enrol thews .Ives with Protestants. He himself perfectly ~collected the time when he was an active member of a yeomanry corps. It was in the year 1796 that the plan of forming one was first suggested at his house, by a num ber of gentlemen, and an application was made to (do main , nt in consequence. At that time the rebellion which was about to break oat, was hatched and planned, not by Catholics, but by the Protestants of the North of Ireland i and in the whole line of country from Dublia to Bantry Bay, there was not one Catholic to be found who .belonged to the Society of United Irishmen. The Catholics were then anxious to enrol themselves in the Yeomanry corps, which were formed in Dublin, but they were not met by a. corresponding spirit on the other aide. They were refused admission into those corps They consequently sought of Oovernment to be permitted to form a corps of themselves, but that the Government thought pi oper to refuse. He felt bound to say that the Lawyers corps, that body to whom he had the honour to belong, were the first to open the way to the admission of Catholics, who enrolled themselves in considerable numbers into that corps. The Yeomanry corps who re fused the admission of the Catholics were, no doubt, most honourable and loyal, lint while they were a ith one hand putting don n the rebellion, they were with the other 'band exciting rebellion by the exclusive principle on which they were formed. With respect to what his right hon. Friend said of the prosecutions instituted by him against the associa ion of Ribbastletaeo. he wish ed to correct his Right hon. Friend. He did not say that three provinces in Ireland had conspired to extermi nate the Pro'estant Religion. The associations were bad enough, without making them worse, by ascribing to them motives which they had not. 'f he extermination of the Protestant religion did not form the object of those associations. Without 'lying that the Orange As sociations were more dangerous than the Ribband men, he should not hesitate to declare, that the for mer contribateil to raise the latter Associations, and not the Ribband men to raise the former; for the Orange Societies and exist prior to them. The great danger which he saw in the Ribband men Associations, was, first, their secresy ; and, secondly, that they consisted exclusively of one religion, and their object was to oppose the laws of the land ; but the extermination of the Protes tan! religion did not come within the scope of their designs, So far at least as could be collected from the evidence pro duced on the trials. They infra have different opinions and 1 views, for they consisted of various classes of men, all of i the very lowest order. Their plans and opinions were, of course, equally various. At one time it might be recollect ed, they contemplated a junction with the Radicals of Eog• lend, but It could not be collected from any part of the evi dence that they had formed a design of exterminating the Protestant religion. He had already brought many of the unhappy, deluded victims to justice, and contributed meek to the brhaking up of that dangerous Association. He bad confident expectations in the result of the measures that were then before the House, for doing away with them en tirely, and tranquillising that country ; but the best way, he thought, would be to try by persuasion to prevail oa those persons who had incautiously joined the Orange men, to withdraw from that association. On that point I there was no difference of opinion between himself and his Right Honourable Friend the Secretary for the Home Dorf partment. With respect to the probable efficacy of those measures, his Right Honourable Frietfil entirely concurred with him. With respect to the feefings of those who had joined the Orange Societies, he agreed with his Right ilo nourable Friend. In his opinion the beat policy would be to give those parsons time to retire by degrees, and not to precipitate them. He knew that most of those persons were anxious to get out of • those associations: and it would not be good policy to make that retirement more 'oppressive than was necessary. The danger did not so melt arise from the secresy of their engagemmts, as frian the circumstance of the societies being composed exclusively of persons of one religion. The object of the Orangemen was, he had no doubt, to assist the laws, and to protect the Throne and the Constitution, with a resolution, however, never to admit Catholics. From 1 that two in!erenee were to be drawn ; first, that the Ca tholics were enemies to the Constitution; and, secondly, that all those, not being Catholics, that did not enter diom: associations, were also enemies. The danger was that counter associations would be formed, by tue Ca tholics, to oppose the Oran Semen. He hoped, however, the prospect of terminating all those unhappy differen mg was last approaching. General HART bore testimony to the good conduct of those corps of yeomanry in.o which Catholics bad got admission. Mr. BUTTERWORTH opposed the amendment. Mr. GRATTAN defended Ms countrymen from the sweeping charges of the Right Hon. Member for Lon donderry. It was from the North of Iteland the United Irisl.men, and the Gran4e Societies, proceeded to dis turb the Sonth. In Dublin. at present, the yeomanry corps were mixed with Catholics and Protestants, who perfectly agreed among themselves. Mr. GOULBURN opposed the amendment, the object of 'which appeared to kiln to be to dissolve at once the present yeomanry corps of Ireland, who were, as the re cords of Ireland proved, always ready, at a call, to ren der themselves useful to their country. Justice should be rendered equally to all, and it was an essential part of it not to gi ve offence to any. Mr. A ERCROMBY said, the proposition of his honourable friend (Mr. Hume) was not to put an end to the yeomanry corps of Ireland, but to limit the supply to six months, in order that the house may be able to form an opinion of the bills to be brought in by the right hon. gentleman (Mr. (;oulburn). He hoped the Government would redeem the pledge which they had given of extending to Ireland the operation of the Act of the 39th of the late King. Ile understood that a re commendation to that effect, was contained in the de spa'ches of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, so far back as the month of November last. It was on ad understand ing of that• nature, that he had withdrawn a motion which lie had lately made in that house. Colonel TRENCH opposed the amendment. He be lieved the Catholics to be as loyal as any other class, and hoped they and the Protestants would be always funnel ready to defend the Laws and the Constitution of their country. Mr. Secretary PEEL admitted that the Lord Lieuten ant of Ireland gave it as his opinion, that the extension of the 39th of the King would have a beneficial re sult. Acting on that principle, the Government did In tend to assimilate the laws of both countries. He difft ed with the bon. and learned gentleman (Mr. Aber et Denby) as to the object of the speech of the honourable member for Aberdeen, and he thotight that honourable member, while he said he wished only to suspend his judgment, was, in fact, precipitpting the judgment of the 1110aSP. The Irish yeomanry corps male up a body of ' 30,000 men always ready to come out at the small ex pense of 19,0001. a-year.—(Hear, hear.) The honour , able gentleman in his speech passed a sentence of con , demnedon on that body, and produced a warmth, he was sorry to say, on the part of some honourable mem ' bees, who as honest representatives could not be sileneeil when their constituents were traduced.• The conclusion so be formed was, that the honourable member was im posed on by the representations that were made to him. Mr. G. BENNET supported the amendment. •1 Mr. C. HUTCHINSON rose amidst loud cries of I . Question, question!" He said (with some warmth) that he should not yield to noise. if any Gentleman thought him acting disorderly, he ought to say so. But 'it was disgraceful to attempt to put a person down by , clamour. The Honourable Member then applied bimseit to the question immediately before the House. lie beg ged leave to assure the house that in the south west coast of Ireland, in the town be represented, and in another town, Clowned, that the Catholics readily came forward to register their names in the volunteer corps in the year 1798. In 1798, he couteadede the rebellion was not a Catholic rebellion. . Mr. HUME then withdrew his amendment, and the original Resolution was agreed to. A Resolution was then read, voting the sum of 11,5691. for the use of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. Mr- HUME objected to the expense of keeping up the College merely for the purpose of educating youug men for the community, and not for the Arley. He concluded by moving, as an amendment, that the sum be reduced to 8,000/. After a few words from Lord Palmerston, Colonel Davis, Sir Alexander Hope, Mr. Grey Bennet, Mr. F. Palmer, the amendment was negatived by a majority of 107 to 14. On the next Resolution for voting 29,1501. for the ser vice of garrisons at home and abroad. Mr. HUME moved, as an amendment, that the sum be reduced 19,1501. After a few words from Lord PALMERSTON, Col. Davis, and Sir A. Hors, the amendment was withdrawn,and the original Resolution agreed to. The National Debt Reduction Bill was read a se. cond time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow (this day.) On a motion mide by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER for the house to resolve itself into a Committee on the Assessed Taxes Reduction Bill, Mr. CU RW EN rose to declare his decided oppositioe to the part of the Bill that went to continue the tax on the windows and houses of poor people, while it was in tended to remit many taxes on the higher orders. Ile was decidedly hostile to the Window Tax altogether, but this tax would operwe as a grievous hardship on the great mass of the people, of whom there were above 17,0110 wholly unable to pay the same. He concluded with moving that it be an instruction to the Committee, that they should make provision for taking . off the House and Window Taxes from hotises under . 51. a-year rent, and having no mere than six windows. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he should oppose this motion. It was true that houses pay. inc W. a year were liable to the tax ; but the law pro vided that, if the reams occupying such houses received parish relief, or it they had &certificate from the Minister of their parish, declaring their in ibility to pay, they were exempted from the tax; and he could enure the , Hon. Gentleman that this exemption went to a very great extent. Now if the law made such a provision as this, ' the inference must be, that the tax did not fall with un reasonable severity on the poorer classes. Besides, they would be now relieved from one-half of the Window Tax; aul if the Hon. Gentleman's suggestion was agreed t o , many persons in a higher class set life would bring them selves within the circle of the exemption, and no one could tell how far that would go. He was uot with out hopes that some additional relief would be af forded hereafter. He would t +lce this opportu nity of mentioning two alterations which he in tended to propose in the Bill. There were no poor rates in Scotland ; and al no exemption could be &aimed there on the score of receiving parish relief, he should propose that the exemption should extend to cottagers who lied three or more children. The next was, that the exemption which already extended to shop-boys under 15 years of age, should further extend to those under IS. Mr. Alderman WOOD s'ated that there were repeated instances of surcharges, where men were casually called in tb perform jobs in warehouses, and where it was con tended that a guinea a year should be paid as a tax fir each of them. The consequence was, that not only en just surcharges were made, but that great numbers of poor people were kept out of employ. Mr. BRIGHT strongly objected to the Window Tax, the whole of which he thought ought to be taken off. The house then divided :—For Mr. Citroen's motion, 34, —Against it, 87.—Majority, 53. The house then resolved into a Committee on the Bill. Mr. HUME said he fully concurred in the proposition of his hon. Friend (Mr. Curwen) that it was neress iry to afford relief to the occupiers of small houses. The sum they paid to Government was no more than 60,0001. or 70,0001. a year ;and that sum could be no object with the Government, compared to the relief it would give. Sir FRANCIS OMMANEY thought this tax ought not to be taken off, Mr. WETHERELL took notice of the incongruity of laying a tax for a groom upon every horse in a College. although only one groom might have been employed it. taking care of ten he , and he hoped the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his justice, would prevent this hard ship front falling on the Colleges, where many Unrste3 and others kept horses who were not able to bear this burden. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that he saw no reason why Gentlemen in Colleges should not pay for grooms as well as any other class of persons, The Honourable and Learned Gentlemanseemedm ;neve as if it was the grooms who paid the taxes, mid not thd e who employed them. All he could say was, that if per sons had the advantage of the men's labour, they shoul•1 pay taxes for them. He could make no exceptions in favour of gentlemen in Colleges. Mr. CURWEN wished to ask the Right lion. Gent. whether be had any objection to putting English cottages upon the same footing as tie Scotch, with regard to house taxes, by exempting front payment, au housekeepers who had three children. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he had no objection to accede to the suggestion, but he feared the exemption would not produce any very extensive benefit. Mr. CURWEN undertook to say that its effects upon the poorer cottagers would be most extensively beneficial. Mr. ROBERT PRICE suggested the exemption of per sous chargeable with the three-and-three-pence house duty for four windows, on the ground of the inconvenience at tending their making an appeal when overcharged. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that no house was chargeable with taxes, which did not 'pay x. yearly rent. The Mouse then resumed, and the Report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow. The other orders of the day were then disposed of. ' Adjourned at half-past eleven. ion So great was the hurricane on Monday night, that one of the largest elms in the close of Salisbury tcaa torn up by the roots. This is the first soixdfall to him who shall be appointed to succeed the late Dean Talbot. MAt DUE, ARIL DVS, DAIS n UI I ... 3101130 d 0 ..... Waterford.• • —0 0... .118mbro u I 2.... a & J airy .•. .0 ' 1.... Franc , . 0 0.... Lisbon. • . 0 ... 0 O.... Flanders 0 2....00ttruburg....11 ft.... Malta .. ....0 Alta. 1.. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Hank Stock S per Ct. Red 3 per Ct. Cons.. Se per Ct. 4 per Cents New Fours NI 91 93 b per Ct. 1717 I.oum Ann ... Imp. S per Ct.... Irish 6 per Cents. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock . Ditto Bonds • .s. 24, 264. pm. South Sea Stock South Sea Old Ann Ez•Bill.2d. s 10s lls pm. 10001. ( lOs !lip:. -.4lisail Ws Its pm Cos.tockeet..— . , ~• .741 74 Lottery'rielteso . (slo• tabtatcontan. TUESDAY EVENINO, MARCH 11, 1923. PARLIAMENTARY COMMENTARY. In the House or COMMONS, a petition sas presented by Lord Archihshi Hamilton from some ship-owners in the coal trade, Mr. Greaten expressed his wish that the tax were taken off coals; but after some little conversation about it, the subject was dropped, without _ . leading to any practical result.—The Army Estimates Mr. Hume proposed several amendments ; but the only one upon which this illustrious assembly came to a divi sion, was a motion for getting rid of the place where they breed up officers at an enormous house upon the Heath down. by Blaekwater. This has been an eye-sore to us for pretty near these twenty years : however, the assembly maintained it by 170 votes against 4S.—The most interesting part of what passed was the following: upon Mr. Hume's first motion for lopping off army ex penses, Col. Davrawstated as a reason for his not voting with Mr. Home, his conviction, that, if France went to ear with Spain, England would go to war with France! Upon this rose Sir Wm. de Crespigny, who expressed his hope that the Colonel spoke merely from imagination; and that he had not the authority of his Majesty's Ministers, whereon to found such an opinion. While he said this, in addressing the Ministers, Mr. Peel appeared to give an auenting morement of the heat; Another sad blow at the speculating. Quaker'. That asvuting motion of Mr. Peel's Lead is a good five shit- Hogs a quarter lost to the speculating Quakers.—in short, every thing now indicates a resolution rot to a , - sist the Spaniards.—We always thought that this would be the case, if the Orange-quarrel could be patched up. We always thought that every soul belonging to the ministry, of whatever age or of whatever size, uiebed, at the bottom of their hearts, success to the French, as far, at any rate, as was necessary to extingui,ht the Spanish revolution. We never em peer d war on our part, unless .it were necessary to enable the enemies of the Orange-men to make fight against their adversaries. We always expected, and we said that if that dispute euuld be accommodated, we should have nothing to do with the war, in spite of Lord Liverpool's charge of aggression against France; and in spites)! Mr.Huskisson's speech atLiverpool.These speeches breathed war ; but the Orange dispute having been set tled, we see how the thing turns so nicely towards peace and strict neutrality. We beg our readers to look at our friend the Chronicle this day. In observing upon the debate last night, it has these remarkable words—" We " sing the question of obligation arising out of the " treaty with Portugal, we do not hesitate to say, that,if this cosntry he free to choose, it WILL NOT ISE 1' ADVISABLE FOR IT TO BECOME A PARTY " THE WAR !!!"—This is throwing a shield °ter the Peninsula, is it ? This is a proof of that " mighty potter of the British empire," which the Chronicle told is was to be the protectress of Spain! In what did the Chronicle think we were to protect Spain except by war? Let our readers bear in mind, too, the exultation of the Chronicle at the speech of Mr. Brougham ; its exulta tion at the speech of Lord Liverpool ; in chart, its con stant and strenuous endeavours to cause it to he believed that it was not only the duty of oar Government to co to war, but that it would go to war, if the French dared to enter Spain ; but, the fact is, that the stock-jai:bin:7 crew have recently discovered that a war would clear cif the Debt in assignats; and, from the moment it made that discovery it has been kr peace, and for letting tl:e Spaniards take their chance. To return to the House of Commons, Mr. Hume proposed to cut off the charges for the yeomanry of Ireland, after the next half year. This gave rise to a very angry debate, during which Mr. Hume, in speaking of the conduct of the yeomanry, spoke, amongst other things, of their treat ment of Mr. Plunkett is effigy. Mr. Plunkett, in a pretty long speech, took no notice of this; shifted tine 'object off with wonderful address; spoke of the Itilibon• men, but defended even them against the charge of bar • ing wished to overset Protestantism, a charge made by the opposite party in Ireland. Their schemes, he hal been to join the Radicals in England and over:et the Government. Infinite pains was taken to incntra . c the opinion that tire Catholics had no desire whatever r,) overact Protestantism ; which, if true, is, indeed, a nr)st wonderful thing : a great deal too wonderful, indeed, kr men of moderate faith to Lelieve.—After this busitl+r was closed, the subject cf the A'srssed Taxes was h , lore the House. Mr. Curwen moved to take off the Douse-Tax 'iorn houses a viler five pounds a year, and the Winlow d'ex from horses with less than six w inilows. Something of this sort, though we do rot discover exactly what, wag assented to by the Ministers. 61 STRAWS " snow wator war Tax trials stows." Yes; they certainly do sene2 fur that purpose: and, if the Spatdardr wish to know which wey tie White liall.n itd is biotin, with regard to their cause; let them !ook a little at t',.e fonoutog arn s aws.—The l'otattra newspaper. S:1, 3. that, if the Spaniard. come it-lamp:art 4nt of the strnr,•le, all thie tnonnrcLies in. Europe wilt run a risk of being overthrtmn.. The COURIr4t A :presses; is analuas wish to see the Staniorgs to be de/ea:ed.- - Now, is it not certain, that thv. CouniEß would not do this, unless its owners th . )1:0:t therrv.ires vale ince of receiving for this th., approbation of the Minieters --- Next, the very same language is used bi all the pope!' cratnonly called Mini:feria:. 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