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I Ito liar the __ _.*, every sod hostility. If such rivalry and hostility exist, I am sure they txist n ot with the Catholics. We have also been 44l.llTed, that there is DO ViSi tonal power. although it is distinaly specified by the statute, that the Lord Chancellor and tholudges of the country stall he visitors of the morals skid condha of the scholars. as connelled with civil p dicy ; wisely and prudently abstaining from any arnerference either in their religious doftrine, or discipline. If this measure had not been over and over discussed by the Parliament of Irelan d, if its eligibility had not been generally submitted, if the diminution of Catholic incumbents was not by deaths and other causes very considerable, then there might be 3011 e strong reasons for not voting this branch of expenditure without mature inquiry.—But I am sure it is in the recolleaion of the House, that when I proposed the miscellaneous services of this year, I did most particularly advert to the increase of she Maynooth Grant ; and I was induced to make the observation, anticipating as I did, an opposition, either to the principle or amount of the Grant, from a certain quarter in this House ; (Hear!/ I di.' think there were certain persons disposed to quarrel with that measure. But why quarrel with int, and not quarrel with my predecessor in office ? 'rise objeaton, in consequence of its not being re. terrrd to a Committee, as a Money Grant. was for merly as valid as it can be made against me. I have iatroducod nothing new, but have undevi atiegly adhered 13 the plan, which was previously chalked out. Bto I cannot conclude, without im peening on the I louse the small provision which is claimed for the education of the Priesthood of at least three millions of people. Every principle of humanity and sound policy seems to me to coil on ibis House for its acquiescence." Mr. B.%NKES expressed himself hostile to the grant. He woeld support the good faith both of the United and Irish Parliaments ; hut this perma nent and growing addition met with his determined retivance. Mr. GRATTAN professed himself a supporter of this Inatitntion, ittai.much as it tended to promote the true principles of kh-oirstaritism,by disseminating the Etas ledge and the prattice of Christianity. The quesrion was not whether the people of Ireland should he Protestants in preference to Catholics, but whether the Catholic laity should he condemned to a stee of savage life, and the Catholic clorgy com pelled to learn foreign politics. and to engage in hostile. view. ? The position was this, will the Rouse pn-mit the Catholic priesthood of Ireland to be the peioioners of th. King of the British !Janda, or of the Consul or Emperor of France ? Will any man say, that they will learn Monad a doarine less dan gerous than that which would be taught at home, under the eye of the Government, anti the regu lated superintendence of the Judges of the land ? Formroy, the ohjeffion to Catholieat y was not on the score of teligioes tenets, or articles of faith. It was Joe disposition to foreign vi"ws which excited the alarm, and restrained the public confidence. The Catholic religion, however metaphysical, or meta p los kJ. was perfeftly iroootteiial. comoared with she question of loyalty. It was not she r rero g Wet s el tt.c Virgin 44mvy, or a tilief in traostihstatiiiation that excluded Catholics from civil right,—it was a doubt of their attachment to the throne. The oath to which Paliament restriEted thrift was not to their religion, but to their allegiance, to their denial of all foreign views and hostile hopes. The annual Parliamentary Grant went to cut off all foreign views, and to inspire the principle of grati tude aid loyalty. Will. then, the House defeat so important and beneficial a purpose? will it subsi dize foreign powers to fight for Catholicity on the Continent, at the same time, that it has denied to their own countrymen, the means of education, because they are Catholics ? ( Hear ! hear!) Will two hundred pastors be thought mote than suffi cient for the instruaion of four millions of Cathn lies, whilst 1200 are allowed, by low, to a Prote stant population of shout one million ? Will the House, for the paltry addition of five thousand pounds. starve the Catholic religion, learning, and civilization; at the same moment that it has voted a sum of 40,0001. to the Protestant Charter Schools? Bin a moment since it voted a MID of 3,0001. to the Foundling Hospital, without a word or a mur mur ; and can it immediately after inch a pant to the *times of men,refuse the means of religious con solemn to millions ? Nine thousand pounds bays been also granted to the Presbyterian Clergy—a truly proper grant; yet the Catholic demand is alone liirvoted to attack. Is such a marked dal terence either proper, or right, cr wise? Let the House decide on the enlarged and extended prin ciple of religion; and let it also recoils& that the Catholic will he an enemy if it makes him one ; and-that it will certainly so make hint, if the Legis lature force him abroad. Loud M A HON—.• Mr. Speaker. I can by no means coincide with th, opinion and conclusions of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite. with re spea to this measure rt support to the Catholic Priesthood. In my mind, it should be considered en the more enlarged principles of national policy. as one of those great and desirable means of con steeling that religion, and the views of its professors. with the interest of the state. The influence of the Catholic P , in that country, is well known to be extensive; unftntunats ly, the events of the rebel lion have too strongly exemplified this; and, tipsier such a cenviEtion, 1 ask, is it not an in estimable benefit to have the care of their education committed to the Government ? 1 do contend, Sir, that such a measure is snore than a ne cessary one ; it is a great aft of national policy, acid even were it not a legacy bequeathed by the Irish Patlisment, I, for one, should give my vote, even at this time, for a similar establialisueut." ( Hear. hear!) Mr. WII.BERFORCE could not coincide in the conclusions of his Noble Friend (Lord Mahon) ; he bad little expeaatiens from the loyalty of those edu cated in that seminary, whilst their superiors, the Bishops, were appointed by a foreign power. He thought the enlarged religious views of the Right Hon. Gent. savoured too much of that principle which public report had attributed to have been said on some late occasion of a great man on the Couticent, namely, that o he was an honoraryNiem her of all .ligions." The situation of Ireland was to him a subjeft of long regret, it was in a great de gree °wit% to the inattention of this cos .try. The LSI, means a relict were a diffusion of light and knowledge ; he sttongly recommiaded a vigilant inquiry into the application of the Parliamentary Gra; is for the advancement ot the Protestant religion. Lord HOWICK wat from principle a steadfast friend to the established religion, hut he th , :ught that friendship insincere, which tended to stimulate hatred and envy. He could not approve ot that system, the effcd of which was not to make men become Protestants, but rather to ceaw to be Chris tians. It was extraordinary to Approve of the ori ginal grant, and then to oppose its being altered according to times and circumstance,. It was true, that although the Colleges in Flanders and Spain were shut against the Irish, a very extensive one was lately instituted at Paris; and a cutiousfad had within a sh:vt time come to his knowledge, conneded with that institution.—A Donor Walsh, at the head of the Paris College, had written to some Irish Students, whom the want of room at Maytmoth had sent to Lisbon, to encourage them to remove to Paris. On the com munication of this intelligence to the Irish Bishops, they forwarded the information to His Majesty's Government, and denounced, with excommunica tion and exclusion, any of the Irish Students at Lisbon who should avail themselves of the invita tion to Paris. Against the dangerresulting- from the foreign appointment of the Bishops, complete security cannot be had ; but proportionably as the means of domestic education are increased, so will that danger diminish. The apprehen sion of rivalry, the Matte Lord treated as chi merical; be would call upon the House, on the principle of, t' do unto others, as it would wish to be done by," and mit, were the Catholic. enti ded to no return for the tythes duty paid, for the great proportion they afforded towards the Protest ant Grants ? Mr. MAY spoke in support of the Resolutions ; which were severally put and agreed to. Adjourned at a Quarter past Eleven o'clock. FORSIGII IN7IJ.LIGENCE. PROM THE HAIAIRJAC.H aiNDALTONA PAPERS. stout', VIC 15. (From The Te ltrark.) A letter, dated Arnsdorl, tht: tith of February ► confirms the accounts wa have already given, and which we , e brought by an officer who left that place on the sth. The letter of the (ith furnishes the following particulars : The Emperor set out from Altenstein, on the 31 of February, and pas.e.l the night at a small Getkendorf. two leagues from that place. He proceeded next morning from thence to Schiitt, where he slept the following night. On the sth, he arrived at Arosdarf. The enemy was met on the Si, beyond Certken derf, hut in the night he ififeAed his retreat. Ile is pursued. A corps of 20,000 men is cut otr ; pro bably not one of them will escape. The enemy is flying in the utmost confusion, not knowing whither to turn. He has already lost 30 pieces of cannob, many colours, baggage, and an immense quan:iii, of provisions. The two depots of Liebstadt Gutstadt have also been taken. The Emperor is in excellent health. T..e wea ther is charming. The cold continues at between and 3 degrees. The sun shines the whole (Lay, And the soldiers are full of zeal, ardour. and energy. its. 17. His Excellency General Clarke yesterd ty re ceived official letters from Prussian-Eglau, dated the 9th of this month, w!tich communicate to him the great events that have taken place since the Ist instant. We proceed to give a succinft account cf them, until we shall have received the Willetins. The van-guard of the Russian army, defeated at Mohringen retreated Or Liehstadr. Several divi sions, and the corps of General F.ssen, arrived from Moldavia. reinforced this army. The enemy ap pearing to have formed a plan to attack, the firn peror ordered the Prince of Ponte Cerro to make pretended retreat, in order to draw them towards the tula. On the Ist February he marched against the ene my, and joined him at Passenheim. On the 3d, in the morning, the army of the enemy, which retreat ed with speed, was turned upon his left wing, and shut in between at the Vistula. The Emperor repaired to Getkendorf, placed there in hattle army the corps of Marshals Ney, Augereau, and Sault, and his own guard in reserve. To cut off the retreat of the left wing of the enemy, Marshal .tinult received orders to take pos. set.ion of the bridge of Bergfried, which the enemy defended with twelve of his best battalions. These battalions were thrown into disorder by two French regiments, lost 4 pieces of cannon, and 1,600 pri soners, and wete tibltged to abandon all their fine positions. The enemy's cavalry was complet,ly routed on Cie 4th, by General Lasalle, who pur sued them six leagues, with drums beating, and pawed the slight at Despair. A column of the en-my, which had not passed the Alle, found itself turned, ar.d cut off by our left wing. Marshal Ney, who punned it, made several thousand prisoners, and took from it tti pieces of cannon. In come quence of these movements we have taken from the enemy his elopes of Liebstadt, and of Gutstsclt,,ass also a past of his magazines upon the Aile. On the Stis, the army continued to pursue the enem•r. The Grand Duke of Berg overtook them, with his cavalry, between Olaadau acd Het. The -.- dragoons . and . rams-Tees at l selted the enemy's rear guard, consistitt of 12 battalions, cut in pieces two trgiments of..itau s ian iefatitry, and took their Colonels, standards, and goes. Marshal Aulerrau had taken post at the village of Hof ; six of the enemy's baualions attempted to retake it. The Grand Luke of Berg then made the cuirassiers charge a second time. They fell upin the flank of the enemy, and threw them into disordea. The next day the army continued its march to Eg late, and on reconnoitring, the mew was found in a position beyond that town. Three Russian regi menu, posted on the eminence which defended the entrance to the plain behind the little town of Eg weee dislodged by the 46th and 18th regiments of the line. The enemy had posted several regi ments in a church and the adjoining church-yard, where they made an obstinate resirtanee. After a bloody conflift the enemy was driven from his po sition. The next day began with a violent cannon. ade on both sides ; the Russian arm!, drawn up in columns at the distance of half a gun-shot, suffered considerably. At the moment when Marshal Au gereau was manteavring, in order to join the corps of Marshal Davonst. the snow, which. fall..f.ar, en veloped both armies in tech obscurity, that they lost sight of each other. This continued for half an hour. When the weather cleared. the Grand Duke of Berg and Marshal Bessieres, by a hold manoeuvre, fell upon the enemy's cavalry. and made a dreadful carnage among them. Two Russian regiments of infantry were broken. and a third was enabled to make opposition only by the circumstance of its Ewing supported against a wood. The squadrons of the Imperial Guard twice cut their way through the whole army of the enemy. Wre than 20,000 men were routed, and forced to abandon their artillery ; and bad it not been for the wood and some disadvantages of the ground, this vi&ry would have been decisive. The snow also, which several times darkened the air during the battle, delayed the march and the co-operation of our columns. Marshal Ney advanced by Altiorf, and took post at Schmoditen. The enemy, hemmed in be tween the corps of Marshals Ney and Davoust, in va;n endeavoured in the evening to re-take the place. He was repulsed with loss. Ntxt day the enemy was pursued to the river Frisching. He is retreating across the Pregel. On the fiiild of battJ he left 16 pieces of carman, and his wounded. All the houses in the plates through which he passed : are full of them. On this single day he had at leai.t 7000 killed. Between 12 and 15,000 prisoners, a like number disebled from service, 18 pair of colours, 45 pieces of cannon, are our trophies of the different anions which have taken place since the Ist of February. • As the enemy is defeated, and driven back 100 leagues from the Vistula, the French army is again going into v:inter qusrters. Ptivate letters, deserving of credit, announce, that th- enemy are loving Koningsheog, andirctiriag beyond the Memel. BEALIS, Ski. IS. The Tele:path of this tilay contains the follouu g " Though the aancxed letter, datcd Pros..ian Eg lau, the 9th of February, at five in the evenn.g, WAS written before the accounts we gave yesterday, we cannot, however, forbear communicating it to our readers, as it is from an expetien..ed soldier, whys was an eye-witness of the battle of Egiau. Its authenticity may be relied on. The battle of Eg lAll is one of the most remarkable military events. Ihe Ru%sian army has been dreadfully cut up. It pa ,sed the whole night without being able to rally, and is one day's march before us. The Russians lost from 40 to 45 pieces of cannon. at least 10 pair of colours, between 10 and 12,000 prisoners, and 10,000 wounded. Thar loss is estimated at .3,0,000 men.' WARSAW, 'EC 14. The battle of Egl m lasted from eight in the morning till siz in the evening. The combined Russian and Prussian army first began the engage ment with three French divi dons, which, on this occasion, added fresh laurels to those they had al ready acquired. Afterwards the divisions of Ney and Soult likewise took the most decisive part in the battle, io which the Russians made such an obstinate resistance, that whole ranks of them were extended on the field. The Imperial Guard, in particular, made a horrid carnage. 'The Emperor's Adjutant, General Corhineau, was killed by a cannon ball. Marshal Augereau is wounded in the arm. The division of Marshal Lannes, who was personally engaged, and was slightly wounded, is nnw commanded, in the vicinity of Ostrolenka, by General Savary. At the battle of Fglan. in which the French gained a complete v& Cory, His Imperial Majesty commanded in person. The vianry was so much more brilliant, as the Russians fought with ob. stinacy. One of the Emperors Adjutants is killed; an d Marshals Lannes and Augereau are sligbtly ~*-~!~ I wlanded. A 4 *Russian corps is said to hays been cut dfr. STUT!Aao, res. 15. A Courier has :trivet, ibis rto,rornt; with t!tat the fortress of Sehweidniti h4ll sar rendered t., the troops of His Majesty, the Kio; of Vs'irtomberg. DANES Or THE ELBE, VER. 23. The late combats which have taken place, up to the 9th of this month, upon the theatre of the war transferred from Poland into E 4 tern Prassia, have been fought within a compass of 12 German miles, and the French army has made a inclement from the South to the North. The Corps cf Marshal Lannes, which f,:rrted its right wing, has maintained the position of the Ns• rem% and has not been disturbei during the late affairs which have taken place in Eastern Prus.ia HAMCIL.MG:I, 711.3. Letters (ram Posen state, that the Emperor N.- poleon will go to pass some time at Qasis. and thst Msrshal Massima will command the atm! , in his .Is sence. The Queen of Prussia. k is said, is espeßed at Schlusselburg, from whence she will proceed to Petersburgh. Thai Palace of Catharinelhdl is prepared fur her reception. THOIIO. rEs. 14. Marshal Lefebvre attacked Gmeral Rnquette on he 11th of lobtuary, at Nlarienwerder. The latter had seven squadrons of cavalry, one hattzli ,, n r f infantry, and lour pieces of cannon. The eneo'y was rooted at all points, and pursued, sword in hand, more than four leagues. The road was co vered the whole way with dead and wounded. Ge neral. Roquette was indebted for his escape to i.e swiftness of his horse. POSEN, res. 13. An Order of the Day, signed by General He. douville, dated Feb. 9th, and inserted in 7Ac Breslau Gaz , ne, mentions, that Schweidnits lated on the 7th, and • that the garrison were to march out as prisoners of war, on the 16th. veins*. Cal. 3. It is confidently asserted, that the French army in this neighbourhood is to be in:Teased to 103,0 CA men, and is likewise to be joined by 25,000 Spanish and 25,000 Neapolitan troops. At Venice, a land ing nt the Russians from Corfu is apprehended ; the Gulph of Venice is filling more and more with enemy's ships. DANTZTC. JAN. M. In consequence of the illness of Field-Marsha'. Count Kamenskoy, His Russian Imperial Majesty has given the chief command of the army to Ge. serai Denningsen. General Count Bushoevden has left the army, to resume his fundions as Governor-General of Li• vonia and Courland. CONSTANTINOPLE. JAM. 9. 'rho 26th of December was the day of the depar cure of the Russian Amba3sador, the Chevalier ha. linsky. He took with hint all the 7ersons belonging to the embassy, and embarked in the English Admi ral's ship the Canopar. We have, however, not yet re ceived intelligence of his arrival in the Dardanelles. where :a Russian frigate is watiog to convey him to Malts. liis hotel, and all the houses belonging to Russian subjeas, at Constantinople, have been rigidly respe&ed by the Turkish *Government lnd pen pie. The evening previous to his departure, a packet from Sebastopol, bound to Corfu, freighted with military stores and specie, entered the Streights.---s This vessel was toz.-,lly ignorant of the existing rupture between the Porte and Russia, and was cannonaded as she passed by the batteries situated on the Streights. She nevertheless continued h-r way to this city, where she was, at length, compelled to submit, after the Captain had thrown overboard all his dispatches, the loss of which is exceedingly regretted. Some remonstrances of the Biitish Am bassador were suffic.ent to procure liberty for the officers and crew, ail of whom M. Italinsky like wise took with him. On the 27th, the Declaration of War was for.. malty pulisired in the Divan, inasmuch as the Ilescript of the Giant! Signior to the Grand V4ir, was read aloud. Nevertheless. the departure of thin Prime Minister tnr t h e arm y, o f w hi c h he has the chief command, will not take place before tire month of March. Nor has he yet appointed cry Kcimakan or deputy. But as, according to cus tom, he must be accompanied by the Reis Eleadi and the Ki. j s Bey, the persons who are to odie:ste for the latter during thew absence, were omnivared the day before yesterday. Haled Eircodi, who not long since returned from his embassy to l'arii, has received the appointment of Chief Secretary in the Department of Foreign Affairs. . In short, all mea urea have been taken in each a manoer, that, by next spring, a very respe&able force will be colleted. It is said, that the troops of the 111 W organination will not be employed in this war , in order not to offond the people, on whom it is ee letssary particularly to rely during the preset crisis. The relent of a considerable 2•9: , Mil iv, ; 4 , •••• rt. 1 tint F e l ers es et's;