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that measure, ....retie be 'seven to protect the Cetholics anti public M Ireland Prone inconeiderate intolerance :old furious fanaticism. The fit:losing is a copy of the rt " I'o the Bight flonourable and Bonnie:able the Knights, Cinieene, and Ilargeseee of the I 'ltiftel Kingdom of Brea: Britein It•al Ireland in Purliamcnt assembled. " The humble Petition of the undersigned Irish Catholics, " Most lemthly shewene That your Petitioners have read the draft of all:lit:ow before this llotentratile I louse, for the repealing a =tale Act, and making certain provisioes therein specified, with eeepeet to the burial in Indeed of persens dissentirg from the Este- Wished remelt. That it is ieuly stated in said draft, that the easement of le.riel in the church-yen:4 of Protestant C Marilee Ana been lung tijoyet . l by all cheeses of his Majesty% subjects —that • no he:ay or inconvenier.ce el...tint: the rights, inn:- reete privilteeee, or prerogatives of the E s tablished Church , -ot Of the Ministers thereof, at any time ratiolted.or is now alleged to have resultixi, from suck practice or enjoyment in Ireland: and your petitioners further humbly submit, that they are I a:wailed by said Bill is the position that such practice is also etmilieble in principle, for the professed ote'eict of that Bill is to I monde 'het all classes of his 31ajesty's subjects may be permitted to have the rehl casement of burial, areerding to the rites of the several religions professed by them. That although the prin t:pie of teleratroo is thus distinctly reetegnietel in the terms of slid bill, nevertheless, its provisions nut only render such prin titer-net. but introduce new enartinewts more intolerant a' .1 ohnoeioue than those which they affect to remedy. That he t operation of said Bill, if passed Imo a law, would be to tempt and excite the Clergy of the Established (:hutch to the exercise of an odious jurisdiction —to taunt the great hotly of the peoele of Ireland, both Lay and Ecclesiastical, daily and •ttrly, :iron the degradation to i.hich the law proscribes (twin on at eetitit of their professing the hole:lie faith, to produce con stent and immediate collision betweee the clergy of the different conentonens, and to iecrea-c that split of teeuttion and discon tent alree,ly so perniciously prevalent in Irelond. That the provi e:ens efthe Teel) lied law weitld Imply in a particular manner to the Otv ;$o.,1:o. in:1.0'1116 5, the burials in that City are generally ! ed I. the .. 1.17 .11. yards of Prote,tant churches. That no iticonve -7.1..•er ILO ye-,!:...t tit)111 the prateice of free burial, as it existed in -• ei:y ao the at:poi:tom:it the Mast Rev. Pr. Magee, as A eettesnee et' the eeeeeee ; vole: petitioners humbly submit I) the cee.en'entetet of this Me:nor:dile House, whether it can be evt etuctl a jee; or re-v.:sable regelation, to subject the en joy went or eeteeesatio.• of ?twit a rieht to the caprice of the very some inetve"eele. ttlitoe teext et'.ltl4, respecting the same matter, here modeled tweet:say any application for the interposition of the Legtilettire. •1:1r peti:il) , l.rs are unwilling to temente upon this Nor:omen! lease with a tletailed reference to the manifold ...eon e•Ytollieu ere insuoineenetee of said Bill: they are more anxious to 40101 yo• r etteetio 1 to tile illiberal and impolitic principles which it :end, to cat ; eor c ;hey disguise the sentiments reeret and eiseptitiitinei!: with which they are impressed, on eh:varying that it. teet ne,essary eons:quo:ice would be, to pro r,elece, by implicat tor, tee S 3 1 ,111 1 ,!, of the Legislature, for pro ceedine, weree hare been totiver , ally condemned by every liberal dael Meg, as is insinuated by said Bill, that suet) ereeetlinge were indispensably unavoidable, according to tie. "Ni ., :'.ng " l'aue pedti therefoe.., Meat respectfully suggest, as a eem.e mere eeiteble to the high office of Parliament, and to the i•teeereviet• of the subiert, :sett th: real merits thereof, and also liethe to reetelly the cede created, that inasmuch as it '!!+.t i •eraceice of free lotrial has long existed in Ire !mil isithort any iti . eity or in....eve:tierce, and the principle thereof is di:eine:ly reteeteised prefe,ed, tile Legislature may . in its was hint tUretele eetelilish sari rieht by positive enactment, instead of tritoterring its own juristliteien or control to other persona, or Imtvieittns aeon-telly unnecessary, but directly tending to tee reel:tee :::oe of the toot prejudicial collision and discontent, without ad . ..01:1g, er eveil proi'eseit tg, to seek any sure coantervailing letectit or advantege. And it is funkier most humbly submitted, the: if it shell he considered neressery, provision may be made at t ;‘) prevent the use of !etch rites of borial in any Pro te-eoit chureln.yerd, ditring the performance of divine service in the churl. situated thereei. .• Vetir Pee•ientr., for these reasons, among many others, hitioley pray this enoitrable !loose (list the seidltill may not be peised iet t• len, but that MI6 111e3 . 4111TS may be adopted in the matter as tray protect the public feelings from the offensive inter pr.itino o,' eeitlayate fanatieion, or more furious intolerance. " And your Prlltiol7(''s. as in duty bound, will ever pray." The pat Ultm wet ordertel to lie on the table. S'r C. 'I vLE .eeeltented a petitioe from the inhabitants of Ma be e % Net e i , the duty OA coals carried coastwise.—Ordered to be laid or the A tneesage front the Lords announced their Lordship.' assent to va-lee e eopert.) IR COUNTY TREASURERS. 311. tit 11"1,1t: 'IIN gave netice of a motion, after the mews for leave et tete:id .tet pasied last Session respecting County Trea sure!, it: Ireland. . .... B: BM 14 BILL. Th • lri•ih Burial Bill s 39 read u immnd time: to be read a third time t••••iii•rriy.v. . _ 1,.1W ST.IIIPS. w Lill *a% real a %frond time. litl:-11 ISOGA. Mr. 1:01'1,M N gave notice of a motion for bringing in a Bill . .. . . , for !s:,p-.ring and drainioF hogs in Ireland. .. al ', '.I ICI tiii I NO tiOI.I)IERS. • Liell P.11,311i1?4'1'1/S gave notice of motion for bringing in a riii tar th, rz•i di ition of rates paid by innkeepers and others fur (in irt-ring 'lA.:lves. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the HMI." adj.iirrned at is glarter past sown o'clock. NoTWES (►F MOTIONS FOR TIM DAY. Mr. Co r.s.er —Com; of Memorial eoneeminq the absence of the At'onu•r.':c:rlal from the Isle of Mann ; also, Copy of Patent of tbr ba t—P.ill to establish a 31iidus for the Tithe of !•-••‘;:i in I:rlmid, in like manner as it is now established by Law 1., :re it Mr. IS , !mt;1;•—tlill to regulate the relief granted to the Poor in Sco.lrool. Yr. /lon..r—t'nrregunutence relating to Slate Quarries in Wales Lency I,llty under leoL—Expense incurred on the nymotith. tatIWItS OF TILE DAY. CT.) t , ti Committee. i' , •nr - t.. ( Irt land) Bill—Report. 111..rewtoent hill—Report. C.tnat,ti I .krt .I:ornsltnent (irelind) fna, , lvent btor.' Bill—Report. it Walks Bill—lteport. Ga II!: I. lA'S A 111 endment hill—Committee. FOREIGN' INTELLIGENCE. FRENCII P.IPERS. :r's Journals of Monday, with the Etoile of Tues. dpy's (let% reacbtd us last night by express. The following a-: Lox; t:tel I From the Efoi PARIS, 31ARCR 30. The Hess of the declaration of independence by the Paella of Egy i •l s,t. los man-what improbable. How happens it, in point of !kit it o' id not rather reach us by the med . of our merchant ships, win •!‘ are in threes intercourse with Egypt, than by the ii.• )dera and Augsburg. Al. :he i take Deenzes is arrived in Paris. '1 h.: f't t.-4 7 :vtiouvet announces that Al. Lareveillere-larrativ. EN-AE.IIONi of the National l'onvention and of the Etecutive Pi curvy, tii.d in Paris on the evening of the 28th bust. at the age of 711 re:.,. flett :tome, dated the 10th inst. state, " The cony:i f...Titre of:t• • Pope makes t• is but sensible progress. Yesterday but %ea.:ill:titled to cause himself to be conveyed in a chair to :Lc c' :wet of the tluirinal, where the Lent sermon in preached Atrun , S from Cosstantinople of the 28th state that great air o ig in the arsenal for the approaching cam •l- l iretks have effected a debarkation ut Carabourott. i don.a s and that the negociations opened by 31. Min sin ky with tiic t ittienan Porte are still carried on. he •ii •ion 0.1 M. Constant's admission to the Chamber his not tat:en place. RANCE. LONA, JM••co 7. f•in. r tl rerernonr teak place on the 7th Omani, at st. Laurent •i , ttu,ll. m lumour of five rictinou, Who, in n period of calamity tot Cdl l :k :13, uer.: eneriliecti to the sanguinary orders of ate ferocious [From the Constitotionne/ 1 PAW'S, 31 ARC IT 28. Al".7111r:‘ farl, Cons•antinorle of the Ist of Mardi, state that the 41.1re1l himself independent. Si is r ••43, 6 lately restored to the Marquis of M. r • •:•.1. , 1 st,ti decoratims of which h., had been i. It is reported that he is shortly to be a2rointe4 linanzz. MAltelt 20. I.7tters f-ant errs i' etersburgh inform UN that the communira tions r‘is capiial and the governor of the provinces of the Caucasus (i;e.t sal Werniolliff). who is entrusted with a very 'impurt:tve regne:l:iset in Persia, have of late become very frequent. It is :meatus! Li:at the object of thianegocation would Ire not only _to settic auriteit tl:seiussions which have arisen between the tw o Pawers, but :dui to bring about a perfect unciccuanding between the paltry of Russia and of l'ersia. Venuoloff keeps 'up all uninterrupted communication with the Court of Teheran. tool r'...mlian itgents arc awn observed to arrive at his residence, *ME. Ilia-siati sg.ties riet:r to the Court of the Seltah of Persia; but cc g iteatriel /et with the grcatest secrecy. It appears, froni all these ciremostar. cs. that Russian policy has succeeded in r,assining t h e influence which it had lust for a moment. and these Enielish ;yob' yis 'using ground. We must await the results whu:b this clia-ge must necessarily produce. and which, accord. 114 to all appearance.. will he of very ',Teat importance. Front the Ju.sis and des Dchols.l l' Au's, Mmiett 211. We learn from Marseilles, under date of the 2ruh klar:11, that . as soon as France was infOrined that Algiers had declared war .tyjailist Kpain, the liermionc frigate and La Porch: King's schooner aye (*.derv/ to sail Peon' Toulon with despatches for our Consul Algiers. Fritter olCcred its mediation ID order to settle the mis. nederstutding which' had taken place. and declared that it would rut Stiff.a the Algoritms to Annoy the Spanish trade. so long as his Catholic SI ideAry would deem the presence of our ships intlisfens -41. for her suet!. The holiness has been I.mvisionally settled, and the I/ crntione frigate has alteady landed at CarthagencSpriish t ~, prisoners captured by the Alleviate. This is another service whisk we have the satisfactiou of rendahig to Sperm Extract of a letter fives Brest, thud Sith March s— ,• Within so metime, certain journals of the capital seem to un dertake to misconstrue all facts, when they talk of our maritime operations. One of them despatches an expedition to the Baran- • nab, which from thence is to proceed to .tincrica, whilst several men of war are fitting out at Bayonne, and others are about to be laid upon the stocks. Another causes two men of war to be I launched at the marine arsenal of Bourdcaux. Nothing can be ' I more ridiculous than these assertion., nor ices grounded than the conjectures which they suggest. The Royal Navy has neither arse_ I nal nor dock-yards for ship-building ut Bounteous." The port of Bayonne, obstructed by a bar over which large ves sels cannot pass, only equips schooners: with which, however, we • ue to undertake the conquest of America. As to the armaments which arc about sailing for the Ilavannah, from thence to proceed to the American continent, they only exist in the imagination of the journalists or of their correspondents. Our port is new the only one of the kingdom in which there are ' any armaments fitting out, sod their destination is no secret. It has no mini object but to re-establish our various stations, which had been weakened ur sup ,, reurd during the war with Spain, by furnishing convoys to the French merchantmen, on their return to At all events, one must have a very erroneous idea of the navy, to believe that with a few frigate., despatched one after the other, and small schooners, any operation of importance may be under taken. Whilst the newspapers published on the banks of the Seine make a great fuss of the armaments fitting out at Bayonne, and of the men of war building at Bordeaux, we look to the moment when ' the navy budget will allow to restore to the royal navy a portion of its former splendor, add to our arsenal the activity which has ex isted at other periods. Fur.wcu }1.1111D11.--PARIS, MANCH"2I.—Five per Cents. 103 f. 30e.—Bank Stock, I.96of.—Neapolitan Five per Cents., in ducats, 654., in francs, 101 f. ilk. .—Bentes 24.—1t0 Spanish Loan of 1023, 6t} .— Exch a nge on Loudon, one month, 25f. 50e; Ditto, there nionths,2if. 35e.—Cours Artheativo, March W. PRICES OF BRITISH Rank Stock 3 per Cent Reduced. 3 per Cent. Cons. tits I 31 pa Cent. 4 per Cent. New 4 per Cent. 107 i I,ong Annuities, Imperial 3 per Cents. Bank for Account 2443 4 Cons. for Act. 94 gill India Stuck PRICER OF FOREIGN Austrian Scrip, 16 16 Ditto thr Account 164 Ditto paid in full, Chilian Ms. 024 1 2 Ditto fur Ace. 82 Odom!). Botts. 4 11 4 84 Do. for Acct. 6114 8; Danish Bonds 1004 Do. !larks Bancoll7 8 Greek Scrip. 14 94 4 dis. Mexican Scrip, 74 a Da. fur Ac. 74 I Neapolitan WIN 06+ Portuguese Scrip 7 A Ditto for Account 7j a Ditto Bonds 94 Ditto for Account Prussian Bonds, 1004 Ditto for Account 101 Ditto Bonds (IC2t2) 984 9 TOCks YESTERDA Y. India Rands, BO pr. India for Account, 290 South Sea Stock, Saudi Sea Old Annuities South Sca New Annuities Ex. Bins, 1,001. 57 Sd a S 7 Uiuo, 5001. 57 toli 611 g pr. Ditto, Small, 57 56 58 5 pr• Indorsed ditto Lottery Tickets, 251. 19s. STOCKS V EsT ERDA V. Russian lids. Shit 7 61 Russian for Acct. 974 Russian Inscription Exchange per ruble Ditto Metallic Stock (Baring) Ditto (Salim's) Span. Cons. All 1 20111 201 121 1 20 191 Ditto for Acct. 201 1 201201191 201 194 Ditto 170 St 253 Bds. 24 Do. b per Cts. (1023) 171 Ditto fur Acct. Anglo Me:. Mines united Ditto Trench Rents., 103 f. 25c. 103 f. Do. Ex. 23f. Mc. Mc. IM. Scrip, IR Ditto for Acct. 104 17 pr. Peruvian Scrip. Nrittolt preoo. NEW THEATRE ROY. 11„ DRI7III-I,ANE. This Evening. THERsDAV, April 1. will be performed THE MERCHANT OP VENICE. Sltylock. Mr. Kcan; Sawouno, Mr.Walluck; Lettucelot, Mr. Litton; Portia, P4m.W.Wcot. After which, SPANISII GALLANTS. TO conclude with the Foxec ur ALI. THE WoRLIEN A STAGE. To morrow there will be no Performance. THEATRE ROYAL„ COVE' VT-GARDE.. MIL C. KENIIII.E'S NIGHT. This Evening. Tilulvit)%r. April I, will be performed A' L IN THE WRONG. Sir John Reelle:4,4, Mr. Jones: Beverley, Mr. C. Kemble. Le ly Ite.tless, Mivv Chester. After the filet Act. Madame tAT.II.IAiI will sluff " Rule Retina's." anJ at the end tit the Comedy, "God Save the King.' To conclude with THE MARRIAGE OF rifiltßo. To-morrow, A Grand Muileal Performance, under the direction of Mr. llnehaii. THEATRE ROYAL, ENGI,LSH OPERA-HOUSE. MR. MAT!'F.WS AT 110 Mk: I This Evening, Timestmr, April I. and SATURDAY. With his ANNUAL LECTURE on PECULIARITIES. CHARACTER, and MANNY:RS; Founded un Observettons and Adventures during his late TRIP TO AMERICA. hi Three Parts. Pear 111.—A lionopolylogne, called ALL WELL AT NATCHITOCHES. AN the Character. of the EVellillirS EiltPriltilltllellt to be represented by Mr id %THEWS. Doors to be opened at Seven—Penortuance begins at Eight o'Cbrek. Boxes to he taken of Mr. Stet Cthiull, at the flux (Mice, Strand En trance. front Ten till Five. Places cannot possibly be kept after half•paat Eight u'Cloek. ADEI.PIII - 711kATR I , T, STRAND. TAN b:veuinc, TIII. , RSDAV, April 1, will be performed AIIsTRY.SS AND 1'll). Principal Charsetcr4 by Ucwirw Wren h, J. Reeve, and Wilkinson. l'ltt and alrwWaylett. After watch the Ballet of LA DA NSOVANIE. To which will tie aLLdu.l the hurletta of "aIASTEIt AND MAN. -7 1, ~.olirlude with THE !MACK DEMON. The Barites' PRESS commenced publishing yesterday morning at Five o'clock. LONDON, THURSDAY, Aram 1, 1824. No subject has created a deeper or more general interest of late than the recent discussions relative to the government and conduct of the Marquis of Hastings, during his langth ened and brilliant administration in India. From some cause yet unexplained, Lord Hastings, on his return to this country, was coldly received by those whose dominion in ' the East he had for near ten years upheld with a firm and a masterly hand ; his splendid services in Hindostan, which added so much to the extent and resources of our; empire in Asia, contrary to all former precedent, have re mained unrewarded and unacknowledged. Suspicion and calumny have been thrown around him in dark whispers, and he has been mixed up with a transaction of a trading company at Hyderabad with the Nizam, alleged to have been fraudulent to a large amount—an task which, on investigation fairly made, will probably appear to possess no criminality waatever, and with which every action tic the Marquis of Hastings, in private and in public, during his whole life, is in direct and utter opposition. The fact is, unfortunately for Lord Hastings, he is not in favour with either of the two great political parties in this country, though the personal protection of the King, to whom he wcs early and lung attached, procured his ap ipointment in 1814 to the government of India, and has I now got him that of Malta, shorn of the accompaniment of High Ccmimissioner of the lonian Isles. A sad falling off this from the 1./dental supremacy he wielded over eighty millions in Asia, his power uncontested from ('ape Co morin to the Himalaya mountai n s, and mor e a bsolut e than I ever Aurengzebe or Acbar wielded -hroughout Hindustan. I The transition is indeed a striking one, from such a situa tion to the petty rule of an island in the Mediterranean, about twenty miles in extent, and plyssess;ng not more than 70,000 inhabitants. " How fallen ! how chang'd F him, who. in the happy realms .4 light, ('loth'd with tranacei g salent htnt a did uutahine Myriads, though bright." The filet is, the polities M . Lord Hastings never accorded I with those of the high 'l'ory party now in power. Among I them, therefore, he found little protection when returned from India, and the Opposition party never can forgive him for that interference which, in 151:3. Mena from the Cabinet, just when they stood on the threshold, and prevented, by his advice to his Majesty (then Prince Re gent), those changes in the household which the Witig party required to be made More they eitter.d into office. Thus Lord Hastings stands a neutral between both, and in the hour of trial has wanted, in eonst:quence, those powerful friends on either side who would have otherwise stood firm around Lim. Cnder these circumstances the Noble Marquis has alga Mod to the country at large, and made his own defence. The pamphlet which contains it is his own production, and written in the first person. The advertisement stwa, that the manuscript was loft in the hands of Ids Lordship's friends, and that they have . deemed it right to give it to the public, and in doing so we think they have consulted the interests and character of Lord Hastings. The Noble Mar ' gins states, that he commenced his arduous career at !Calcutta, in October ISI3, with an embarrassed exche quer. This the Company had attempted to remedy, by 'economical retrenchments, principally in the military force. I At the moment of the ;overnor-Oeneral's arrival, he had Ito encounter " sac hostile discussions with Native Powers, 'each capable of entailing a resort to arms." The Pindar ties, then so numerous and formidable, &Mel a separate hostile association, and" the most serionsof the difficulties with which the ludian Government had to deal." Any attempt theri made to 4estroy that powerful banditti would have drawn the Indian Government into a war with the hla in hr which Lord attas,aeonke Hastings tforwhich we were not then prepared , but tenni!. The British p owe r g it l i th l s tl t i l a cri w ti as Y w il a u s iti m o ( i i t s n t p s a l i l ia c : tively so weak, that th e Council at Calcutta reject v ( the proposition made by the Governor-General of a retie:ti me:nee to the Court of Gwalior atminst the permission given to the Pindarries, to arrange their wareate within the dotoiniotut of the Mahe Rajah. The Council feared it might carry offence to Seintliali, and through that powerful Chieftain draw on a war with the Mahratta confederacy. of the six disputes with Native Powers, existing when Lord I Castings assumed the reins of government, four were amicably arranged; a fifth was decided by a short but de cisive warfare, and that with Nepaul then alone remained to be decided by an appeal to arms. To maintain this war, the Indian exchequer possessed no resources ; but the Nawab of etude, Saadat Ali, on a change of the system which hail long been pursued towards him, and which Lord Hastings declared to be " no less repugnant to policy than equity,' offered through his Cotntnissioners unliound ed confidence, and any advance of money which might be wanted for the enterprise against Nepaul. During this important discussion Saadat Ali died ; but his succes sor fulfilled all his intentions, and made the liberal offer of a crone of rupees, as a tribute, on his twee-se/on, which, with l eight lace, was accepted, but only as a loan. This sum was appropriated by the Goverment to other purposes be side the Nepaul war ; but the Vizier consented to advance another crore ; and thus, as Lord Hastings states, " The Honourable Company was accommodated with above two, millions and a half sterling on his simple reel ipt." The result of the war with Nepaul, a country difficult to act in, unknown to British officers at that period, and which, from the warlike tharecter of its people, and its natural defences, had resisted all previous attempts of the Mute:te n= Princes of India, was yet most successful, though the Gerka Commissioners had resisted every reasonable proposal for accommodation, and in the confidence of their strength declared, " that there never could be peace be tween the two States till we had yielded to them cur pro vinces north of - the Ganges." That formidable power, however, was wholly subdued. The Nepaul State was reduced to one half of its original extent, remaining with both its flanks exposed ; and as the most valuable portion of the territory conquered bordered on the dominions of the Nawab Vizier, it was ceded to him in perpetuity for the " second crore" advanced by him. After all the charges of the war were paid, there remained a clear residue to the Coin-' pany of 600,0001. besides (as Lord Hastings expresses it) "precluding future annoyance from an insolent neigh bour." The subsequent operations against the ferocious Pindarries, and Atom Khan, who laid the Rajpoot terri tory and all Central India waste, and the war with the Peishwa, Wijee Ilan, the head of the Mahratta power, were equally decisive and successful. The tnovements against the Pindarries were so ably and secretly conducted, that the march of a single battalion was scarcely known before the troops were in motion, and the entire campaign was concluded in little more than three months. lit the war with the Mahratta power, Lord }listings states that the Company did not incur the expense "of a single shilling." " The supplies to England," which, for twenty years pre ceding his administration, had not exceeded ese,ooBl., amounted, during his eight years of office, to 1,3e3,0001. and upwards: this, too, during a period of active and unusual exertion. Thus, during his administration, the' Pindarries were exterminated, and Central India rescued from their desolating inroads—the Nepaul war was brought to a successful issue—the cont . , deracy tioxl;tated against the British power in India by Dye Rain, and those con nected with him, was destroyed, and the strong fort of Hatkass captured ; the supplies sent to England were nearly trebled, while the revenue of the India Company, at the close of the last year of office of Lord Hastings, ex hibited an increase of more than five millions sterling, by actual receipt; and, in 1822-23, was six millions. In 1813 and 1814, the Independent Powers of India were so numerous and strong as to conceive themselves equal to expel the British Hiudostan. At preseut, and when Lord Hastin gs those shores, every native state in that vast region is in either acknowledged or essential subjugation to the British Government. Every suspicious Chief is hemmed in by our power, or by our Allies, the confederation of the Feudatory States, ex tending in an uubroken chain quite to the Indus. The services of Lord Hastings, in this short summary, are fully apparent. If we owe our power in India to Lord ('live, Lord Hastings at once extended and preserved it. lie should have met a different treatment on his return home. The annuity proposed to be voted him, formed bat a moderate compensation for services so distinguished. Ile had added largely to the/sower and the revenues of the, country, and a few thousands annually should not have been withheld from him. Money alone could not reward him for what be had done, but the vote would have funned a tribute of grateful acknowledgement from the Company ; and so far it would have been equally just and gratifying to Lord Hastings, to whose high and hitherto unitspeached character, we trust full justice will yet be done. A petition from two most respectable Irish gentlemen, Mr. Devereux, of Wexford (one of the Catholic delegates from Ireland in 1791), and Mr. M'Culloch, against Mr. Plunkett's Burial Bill, was presented last night by Mr. Hutchinson, the Member for Cork. We are glad to see that opposition already has been roused against this insult ing Bill. The Catholics of Ireland have not as yet had time to prepare them; or petitions from them would have been presented against it also. Mr. Plunkett, we find, has left town; he may find his Bill sent to the " tomb of all the Capulets" on his return ; at least such, we trust, will be its fate, unless it is completely new-cast in the COM mittee, and every shred of the odious intolerance that now disfigures it destroyed. We have the greatest re spect for any opinion given by Mr. Hutchinson ; any thing that falls from him is equally sincere and dis interested. We agree with him most entirely in his high opinion of Lord IVelksley. The empire at large (as Mr. Hutchinson eloquently but truly said) is indeed " much indebted to Lord Wellesley for what he has done to tran quillize Ireland: he was sure (Mr. Hutchinson. added), if all the good whiCh the Viceroy was so anxieus to ac complish did not follow from the measures he adopted, it was because he hail not the means of carrying into effect tilos! measures which would be alike beneficial to Ireland anti the Empire at large." We cannot believe that this most obnoxious Bill has met the approval of the Viceroy. Its intolerance smacks of other hands ; there is nothing of his enlarged or enlightened toleration about it. No, this statute was hatched by an ecclesiastical and lay council, couiposed of the ta:•ek and di:ink/TA/et/ Arch bishop of Dublin, of the hiiie.,ent Lord Manners, of Mr. Joy, the Orange Sulieitor-General of Ireland, aid the No:hit:eel of the Castle, the orator of the Grenville party, land the bringer-in of this Bill. Well may the Catatiaes exclaim with Blair, on this OCC4S;OII— Dull grave ! thou spoinit the dance efxouthful blond, " Strilist out the dimple from the dwelt ot mirth, " And every smirking feature from the fnae, " Branding cur laugater with the saute of madness." Mr. Plunkett, we see from Mr. I Intehinson's speech, has left town fin. Ireland ; and en his arrival there he will find his abominable Bill steered to the last letter in versa' execration. Good God ! is it not enough that the people of Ireland should be blasted by proscription while alive, but a tuertnary enactment of this description mien cent them off from evin the last refuge of the grave? Will it hot content the meek Archbishop of Dublin (he who loves religion so much, and power and money so very little), that while living the Catholics arc cut off from theall pursuits of honourable ambition, but the fell proscription must close even the church-yards against them, and give to their enemies a monopoly of the very tombs ? For where is the Catholic will suffer the cold re- . mains of those he loved to lie at the church-yard gates, waiting the contumelious fiat of the proud and micharita ble pat son? AVhere is the Catholic clergyman would ()W- I elate on such an occasion, where he may be driven with the cotlin from the gates ? The church-yard; hitherto have been open to the people of Ireland : Dr. Siege; wain Deji of Cork, intulteil a Ca,tholic clergyman at the grave; aurt be rEpeated, tie/Quips his agents, the stone uncharitable insult in Dublin ; but Cr be nor his familiars, as yet, dared to close the gates. This Mil renders the clergy of the Established Church absolute over the dead ; it says that no interment shall take place without tlie;r writtea eouseut, and only at such hours as they inay arpoint. There is nothitr; mandatory upon them ; they may refuse their !consent on the most itefolualt-d pret. sts. or name mid -1 night, if they as tlu• hoar of interment. The jesttit . cal speech of .Ir. Plunk( tt, on in , reducing this 11:11, has convinced no inn ; it was lil.e ail his orator, unprincipled, an .Z : 4 o numb for the toleration of the Grenville party, dose trafickers in politics ; we never yet knew anything good proceAl from flue:. The moment we hear of one of Mir party origimning any tatasurc of affected liberality, we exclaim at one to the Catholics, " the rigor cat, I [nix tie ilimanni. careen." The Duchess of Kent, the Duch: ss of Gloucester, and the Princess Sophia, paid a visit to the Princess Augusta yesterday. Yesterday afternoon, soon after four o'ehatk, a ('ahinet Council was held at the residence of the Earl of Liverpool, Whitehall, which was attended by all the Cabinet Minis ters, with the exception of the laud Chancellor and Vis count Sidniouth. The Cahile.t broke ttp at six o'clock. The Earl of Liverpool was a little better yesterday. The Earl 01' Clancarty visited the Marchioness of Lon donderry VeAterd4y. Yesterd - ay a ballot wa.s tak , n at the East India Howe, for the determination of the ndlowin;t owstion, viz.:— " That appiicatiou he made to radiamcnt, in the present Session, lor tli^ rep al of the !nth 'Parse of th' Act of I;eorke 111., e4l). by which the ('curt of Directors is prohibited frori s , :imliog to f nal, in the c.tpae;ty of a wribT, any Ira wbo shall not have resided during four Terms at the 11.tileyhury College." At six o'clock the glasses were closed and th livered to the sciutineers, who reported the numbers to b Ice the (WI'S, lOU - Ag;.inbt the qucstion Ma;::rity against the qn:stiin - 11.1 Ma. Lt. K 11 II IT E.—About a month ago we announced with regret the death of this very iespectable gentleman. From a very Immitle station in life he raised bums If to a very eminent one in public life. Ile amassed an imincnse fortune ; it is supposed upwards of a million cud a half; and the manner in which he bopioatlied it proved the sin cerity of his attachment to the political principles which he maintain:Al in Parliament. To his fourth sou, Motility for the county Dublin, we understand he has left 13,0001. per annum ; and a like slim to his at cond son, who suc ceeds him in the repr...w.ntation of the comity of lain-Mi. Both Members tai r their Rats on the Opposition side of the [lotus... The eldest stm of Mr. White, we believe, inherits only t,OOOl. per an unto ; and the reason of this unequal apportionment of his property is, that his two younger sons accords with him iu political principles, and the eldest had the very different ones of lord (ion, whit a member of whose family he had formed a matrimonial alliance. _ _ Dovr:11, MA at n 30.—Arrived, late last evening, the Monarch steam-vessel, from Calais, bringing Baron Longs tlorf, the Ilesiian Minirt:r, Air. Di-elievan, a Russian Messenger, Lord Grey, and li,atstan, Bmapartc's Mame. luke. Pegler, the Messenger, alvo arrived in an open boat with des.patelies. We mule sand Sir George Quentin has not been I.:- moved from the command of the Inth from any reason connected. with the Lite it:tern:Ll Ile has been in treaty with (!ole.ivi Wyndham li r thi.; eN,eliange more than a year. It is slid that the I oth are not going to India; they will remain in Dublin till m.xt July.—lr ish Ti ones. AFFAIR or IloNern.—A meeting took place at the " Irish Chalk Farm" (Sandymonot), on Saturday morn ing last, between two gi.titkinen, accompanied by their friends, when, after an exchange of shots, one of the par tics received his aaversary's ball in the kg, when they re tired, one to riirtak:. of eoffee—and the other a less agree able thjeenr—the assistance of a surzeon.--/rish Times. Fes u:a At or L.tnv Se unia.Y.--On Tuesday last the remains of Ilarinah, the holy or Mr. Alderman &holey (formerly Lord Mtvor of London), were remo...ed from her late residence, Battersea Riv, for interment in the fa. mily vault at Ilatters:•a Church. Tlu procerzion consist el of a hearse and six horses, which was followed by five mourning coaches and four, containing the relat;ons and friends of the deceased. The cavalcade was joined by a number of gentlemen's carriages, among whom were ob served those of Aldermon Magnay, Garratt, Brown, &c. A new melo-drama is to be liree:iht forward on Monday next, at the Surrey theatre, founded on the tragedy of Alasco. The winter season at the Coburg Theatre closed on Tuesday evening. on which occasion Mr. Lewis delivered an address of thanks to the audience. C.IPE OF GOOD HOPE. The following are extracts from the most recent letters from Graham's Town, Cape of G ood Hope. It seems that ever since the expedition of Major Sommet, the Calftes have lien very troublesome:— Gs/Awes Tow's. Thre. 16, Int. _ . . . . _ I hare just time today to incluse a little more information as to f)44l4ing events, but I nut sure my friends will forgive me for my lung silence, when they consider all things; the critical situation in which we arc placed, the continued murders and robberies of the savages, and the entire loss of our fourth crops, are not subjects to make one's mind sulliciently tranquil to sit down as usual. To enable yea, however. to feel as we do, you should whams the almost daily acts of tyranny and oppression, joined to the moat scandalous misrepresentations, to which we are subject---acts that, but for the speedy arrival of the l:ontinisaiunenr, would drive its to open rebellion. tall 111ajor Somerset is returned, having done the business well, lie has surprised .:111ocotrai's ketrai, taken '2,000 cattle, and killed 16 Caffrey; he has threatened all the Chiefs, that if they do not re turn the stolen cat tie- he will do the saute to them. The g reat ease whit rhich this has be.:n dune will ',take every one ask , w ily it has not been done before ? .• Tlitrc has hcssi a lean off,red to several lately by Riven; no thing but personsl security is rctittired. the highest amount is not more thin. six latu:rtsl I:oilars. I have ()::1y beard of too or three who have acccisted of it. This is evidently an attempt to please. now the Commissioner,. coming up. %Vlaatever changes the Cs.runii.ssioiters may mak • as to the ad. ministration of the laws of the Colony, they can make none re to Cie country, utul we arc more tlrtn ever determined to leave it. I do assure you ne hut , : weighed well a continuance here—ninother year will rosluee us to fa: beyond the situation of the miserable bums. You c.in have no Wet of the dreadfully wretched %Cent amougst th t respectable settlers here, and we tresoble for cur peo• spirt even fur this ;mit yoir. We look to the Coramitutioners feu. relief, and wilt that, perhaps, we had better evert beg our way out of this Can try than remain. Our ilisa:),•iiiiiitaietit this veer has been certainly much grater than ever. tVe Mewed but tittle Cape whert, fur we had no faith in it, and tot it turned out ; but we road: sire of rye and solid straw, and, b yond iny own i.ristaupthm, I flattered myself te have *2401. or 'AUL worth—lasts-ad of s hich, we areobliged to live on rice s o e,itib. mil it is sui.v, very tleile. tA.I4CriS au intense anxiity to know bow our third crop turned ot.t yon will sluice hare grieved. to hear that it failed, and now a fan that our fourth has shared a similar fate. ace.., uious (iv... arc we not c.ttstled to relief, or to be conveyed tram hence ? he n.il hcrc is not 50 treacherous as you imagine ; it is the t la ments, the tr:oit or rtgul.ui v in mobaure, and a certain patiforaw► hri-uthiug saltpetre air .hid, ruins to. and which mill ever prevent this colony being a regolar corn country. Drerminti I have ;fist heard that two CafTres were close w P.— - ...L_•11 kraal three night; ego; they T.Tie in alarm all night. These savapa are jest as restive as ever. Rely upon it eothing hut c ivili sa tion will do, and more '.‘lissionariesrhinilil be allowed to go in. ff'3 had my will: I would do ntrny with ie.l the Ilattentot crtablish nients (excepting as regards those for the education of children and kir the reeeption of the sick and aged), and mend the 5140tonartem into Caffrelard. The routirissianen were expected at I'itenhage this week. I have meet' a copy or a let 1.. x winch t:- has wriuco to the iLissinnur-i, mud thzir reply. Ile revues very much to the purpose, and denies I tr. Philips's. ass/mini that our failure 111% been irwiden cal us all ticvr experiments, in a new sod ; he prays to be lent to Van Iheruan'e Land. The ellbWer is very g0pti.....-titlt it roust altogether depend on the result of thtiriroluictes. whether they will feel thamseises justified in recotionetatisg tl his Majesty's tiurtirralueat wail the assists ance he nos. solicits. Isom thie it writ be Peen that the Commissioners have no power to act, and we may perrAt before the reply of liwrounnant cast react la spite of what we antiri , pateti, Daniel Clore ((Mn. IL's bro ther) is appointed to be Sacrebsey: a clerk in.the India warehouse to he our l v agent. IVe had hoped. front whstrhe Cossuisaktuora said, tititt)rettlers wee. , to till these situations. I hope it wiU nu be twit to.the Cai.onhoilonosa and to people at hot , g, that Irbil: our moalander is fighting in I:eiftseland, an ad. vertiwment :eppeirs troll; hint a+ l'onanisvioner of Stamps, IWO ott. for .fir , isrqr raper. Ai Ajur illoiasworth. of the Cape Corps, is appoioted A4l e 04.0 t:I) ionntaitistaly litaartival ; you are aware he is a senior 2.lajor Scauriet. EION.4DLE INTELLIGCNCE. The DA* of York will have a grand dinner party on the 9th inst. in the Rtstrle-yard, St. James's. Viscount f'attetan entertained the Duke and Duchess of I.rvds and a distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at his house ar I.:purge-street, litutorer-syuarr. The Earl of lharnley entertained the Directors of the "loch :le Music and a large piety at dinner yesterday, at his house iu I terk eley Lewd Ellenborough will have a grand dinner party oa Satur& y , at him seat, 1(061'11;1)ton. Gent-ral Huss will entertain the Duke of York and a lats.(' pane lof srottiogoished lictsanagirs at dial's.: this day, at Ilia l'orthit;d:place. Mrs. Benyon had a dinner party yesterday, at her house i u flrosvenor-'.quire. The Hight lion. R. Ryder had a large party at dinner yea:ealy,. at his house in Grosvenor-street. . . Sir Edmund and Mi.. If artopp have arrived at AVarren's Regent-street, f}ran their %eat, Four Oaks, IVarwiek.hire. Ittnarturm front the 11'aterloo Hotel, Jermyn•strecti-11 ColtitA Francis Russell, Mr Portsmouth; ffoa. Captain ti or gg Itu.sell, R.N. for the Duke of Richmond's seat, Gootrtual, sex ; and Br. Ilvlterden, for Bookham, Surrey. Arrivals at Orator'''. Hotel, Albemarle-street:—James gerald, Esq. &OM the l'outinent ; Lord and Lady Witliatli tiiick. Dapartures front ditto:—Thomas Bonner, £3. Mr Brighton ; and John Ittlietson. Esq. for fleltenbarn. 3.loljair aelvenotte hat arrived at the Pulteney Albemarle, stvet, from a tour. ('Montl, 51rs., and 31 iv; MliregoT, left the St. Pettn! , •:rgti /foul, I/over .aired, yesterday, for their seat, langlord Ha, (Jurdoe. E.g. has arrived at Nerot's liotd, Clitrard.sneet. I r fond-street, font Ins seat in Norfolk. . . . „ ArrsralN at !Blake's Ilotcl, Jereoyneetreet :—The Earl of t* ford nod land Acheson, from SOlfuli and T. W• S WU . ti Wl* tif Mrs. and 3lias Steuart, from Sunning Dale. !leeks. I).Fm. tures :--31e. and Mts. Spankie and family, for titer Viumuleoitroct ; apd 3Jrs. and Miss Lister, for Burwell Uncut:ll.ll;re. Arrivals at tlatiopg's Hotcl, 0:foul-street :--Sir Henry an d T o ady fitzberlacrs and Miss fitzberkert ; Mr. and Aiss. Haan', flout a tour ; Air. and Mn. A. Houblon, from Knee ; and )lia. Doane, from Chekcitham. Departures :—Hon. Air. and Airs. Stapleton, for Tunbridge Was ; Mr. Mn. and the Dim., Cubic, for Catfold, Norwich ; Colonel Wollaston, kw llutckloy P. N. liolv.rts. Esl., for Esher; Mn. Brown, for Esher; 311 s. and the Mitors }Anton, frr 'Wade°, Hunts 1 and J AMC% WiatO, Esq., fur Clifton. PARIS. [FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, MARCH ?9. I suppose, from my long silence, you began to conclude that I was gone to the land of my fathers; but the truth is, I have been spending souse tune among the ntliis of acme, and of late have *tamely exchanged a word but with ECHO, or a look but now and then with the classical bust of a hem, or the statue of an artiet or a detni-;,rod. I had a copy of the Eloqe de la Folic, by the renowned Erasmus, in my travelling trunk, and a copy of Ilolisein's Dome des Marta. These were my only intellectuals, and they were an excellent comment on each ogee. I hare at length returned to Paris, though not in the cemptrisori much delighted with my resting-place. Sycophants set) apostates multiply here without end; the reverse of Mr. MALT it 8 . 6 doctrine moms to hold as to this visa. The population, so far from being kept down by t meets of subsistence, has ass inclination always to rise tar ober? Can level. According to that great political economist, the number of a people augments in *geometrical progreutca; hut with this code there seems no principle of Corruption, like capital, has a perpetual- tendency to posh its way into new entrhvneals, and so it goes ou till every branch is tilled with it. The Chamber of Deputies, as yon will have. seen by the French Papers, are all on the right side. It is truly surprising with what apathy the Parisians appear to h.ive surrendered their freedom. You would never suspect that a revolution hail, within the last thirty years, shaken France to its foundation, and turned the world of royalty upside down. There is no trace left of that electrical shock of sentiment and opinion which seemed to have revered the human character, and to have recast BO ciety in a new tnonld. Monsieur le Comp& has re-ap pealed with all his pliancy of mind and flexibility of muscle, cut the veteran Monsieur le 31orques recounts his gallantries, as if nothing bad Lapp:mid in the in terval of half a century, to impair his enjoyment. Never in the very meridian of NAPOLEON s supre macy were the corps of moueliards so numerous as at present; they are a swarm of military locusts, which beset your path in every directik-. ; spies likewise iusinuate thema:lves everywhere, and exist in every shape, from the Croix de Si. Louis to the Garcon Jerkier. This you may well believe spreads distrust through every domestic circle, and compels the more guarded to express their thoughts rather in looks than in language. Report says, and I have no reason to question it, that three thousand individuals are annually arrested in Paris and the de partments, under various pretexts; and after suffering from one to six months imprisonment, as the case may be, without any public accusation, are at length: liberated, without being brought to trial ; and with no other satin. faction than heinginformed that no ground of charge csa be proved against them. And yet the Parisians live oa, after all,.smiling and shrugging, as if there were nothing se rious in this world; and should the ocean on a sudden cease to flow, I do believe they would still live on in the same way. A young Advocate has been itn . prisonrd in La Foree six months, on the charge of having shouted out " !" about the time of the famous at mutation : his period of confinement expires to-morrow. CsSDINAL Di; ltroz says, he never could succeed is making Anne of Austris understand the words n hies publique." Her Austrian Highness has a long mein of lr- Titimute relative:, to whose royal comprehension the phrase is equally inexplicable. There is an hereditary dulness in that respect, which seems to run in the family. One would have thought that the present revolutionary state c Europe was of itself enough to make the public good, alt the policy of promoting it sufficiently intelligil , le ; bee you cannot make this 'lndere:total even to the allitd Poten tates ; this hot,/ brotherhood would not believe in it. were even the prophets to rise from the dead. Their mile cility is not to be surmounted. They are ui itli,•r to be convinced by a demonstration nor a miracle. 'lle ruin of Route, we may remember. was asia-nip:isli,d by a trinenvitifte. The history of it mot:aims wai ter of momentous instruction to Europe. " II," rye Hobbes, " a man be against philosophy, philosophy will be against him." So likewise, if the rulers of a mit ien arc ga ainst freedom, freedom will be against them ; ant' is r quirk a no spirit of prophecy to foretcl which, in the k ci, will triwnph. The weather here is drearytin the extreme. The fasii.,cn ables of Paris were disappointed of their accustom, menade on Smiday. 'I he moaning was cold, be: were occasional gleams of sunshine sufficient to tetaiii haul tom abroad, when on a sudden the snow began Ao heavily and in large flats, which in a dun time Li - ti Gallic squadrons, and chased the comps for the rent e: the day. fatutin,s Count Ceorge Sta4;poole, aminst r..4•Lt;im charge was a short time.agapriferreel fur cm htstabitt:. tit of his nephew's property, whose CIISC wen stliutiged-be r rr.: : 1 ) 0 (..ourt of Assize of Pr.ris, and which created a consitlirti';' ,- sensation both here and in London, dial on Thnrsdav at his hotel in Rue St. 11 ,, nuee, in the 93th year of b Although we have not yet lset,;tin to .3fecadarrii:r, plans are projected for the improvement of the freet• among which may be number:xi tie proposal for wit"eT;tyi 1.1 Rite de Doe, opposite the Pont Reval, and the Rue de Series. This is one of the hest extended ....tt•ti. in Paris, but +tory ejectionable Lan its many 4;4.w-o:is.. 't plan is now lying for puOlic inspection at the.. - the loth Areimilie.,entent, 1%11..re any sti-zgesrioni 4Y ' '' provement from sc;entifie men arc rec.:iced till the :'• next, month, for the enlargement of tint street six I.'l, - 1 faros it-proceeds in a straight line, ethical is frctu the tt-:.tv /Oran/ to Let Among other roads, the rota in ruin is day ; hut the interested er neer! of the restored t in theesuse of mi:intry thspotisin, must soon:2 . er I.ttt.l • t: brukcn up. Thing. cannot go on long in the eaurse; bat in whtu it will end it were feat - WI to t;i4:!'t• eta long as Louis the Eight e enth surv i ve his intrtr . :'"s there will be enough, perhaps, of that 4• proud tl uleietwe' which ilutke so much rLy. to keep the surface of atiiiirs.stootith ; but whenever too afilieted Monarch is carted upon to give an accivalt s ewardship, and to exchange his earthly event, c'epetl upon it, will put a confect-racy ;:! t• the strtaigth of' which, it is .110 W not -t`ilSV In but the energy of svbieb, it will be 14‘I: st ill l ea s 4:4 t`i overcome. ¶1 i 4 Mr. IV entliat cliartei itlie to likt th apd stk fair pl: Lis Ip. clautr, V; :IS er li4J2 a ' I c sang is ezecifr ea ,the qUIUTO raValit pialars aboly trust i was till huts: c fill int katLni water, A' !Hi,: