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F I A - . . , I'INDICATIO.T OF TIIE PRESENT A itAll It .4 1.1')". The progress and occurrences of the Roman Government, offer examples' 'for the guidance of . warlohe nations. Soine obaenratioirs which ap peared in Tux IiMITISH Pfaff, under the head of Atissmithiet Vat Admiralty, dated the 17th Aug. lasi, amplying censure and blame against that en lighteued Board, appear to be the production of a prima wedded to the peculiar naval haling of Eng-. laud, and averse from 'doming any changes upon the model or other couatries. - Now, every person, converuot with the History of flume, knows that the Romano frequently adopted the weapons and modes of their enemies. to improve their own mili tary tactics. I need toot en ttttt crate all. the in sta.les which history has recorded upon this rub jeer ; it will suffice to confine myself to the taws that more immediately apply to the point under esio.igleratiots; which cases seem to have itilluencsd the coisliect of the distinguished person, now pre. siding at the Admiralty—graced, l am told, with trivialise, as well as Nobility; who appears to have his eyes steadily fixed upon the Records of Rome, whilst, in the habit of Mars, hacoutrolo and casti gates Nemeses. lit ancient Rome, as in modern France, all Com manders of fleets were General Officers. Its the 443.1 year of the Romeo Itepoldtc, when the Pirates became so formidable as to rigour the potency of Rome to change its aJeatent, Pompey the §Great was appointed to the chief comomind of the Roman navy, us well as of the army; every thing afloat being pat under his control and dare tina, with lifter* Liut.-Generals subordinate, to assist in 'carrying Sig orol•rs Him exec:ll6mo. But, secordtio to, the-national prejudices and liat.itudes of this country (previous to the present era,) our navy Gas been considered as constitutionally hole pestilent of the control or command of military officers—nay, as even superior to them; insomuch, that although naval ravers have occasionally cow- Mended Fmgliah armies., conjointly with fleets, um military officer ever could directly command any portion or part of ilis English ,Royel navy. To subdue this prejudice, must be• considered as au intended improt. inent, winch, arlirst, may require ailirese and covert nisnagemenf, pad a prepara tory disposition to be formed in the individuals, upon whom the retention olthese proud iwrroga tives depends; which cam only be accomplished by their humiliation. The triultiplesition of their min k . bees, and a circniniicription of (lieu incomes. form the certain means for insuring this point. The wit dory of public measures is discovered iss their after effects! With what indignation did the ruler of the navy wield the truncheon of authority against the sour of Nepal/we, who dared to wish that the hardships of their situation should he laid before their terneticent Sovereign ? How instantaneously was their professional superior removed from his official situation, and, seemingly, punished, for having been the channel of ouch a counnuoicatioso, his alleged offence being sympathy ! k may hereafter appearq what was meant to be effected by the arrangemeht of she late very grand Expedition; which, in magnitude. exceeded all that ever had preceded it ; when a fleet of 3ti battle ships, and transports, and armed ships. and rin-vessels, without ontab*r. was commauded by ▪ Gag of the lowest order:--buleeci, in the course of the service, the intention seems to have been felt by the executive individual, anti the secret die covered. where the supreule authority was iutended to be placed, and where it 'venially existed. Nal. it wasseid, upon the occasion, that the appropriate' duty of the Admiral, online service, was to unthet . telegraph signals for the Genera/. Such appears to have been the first step towards the revolutien %bit is intended=doithtless for the benefit of His lidojesty'a service ! This was not the only impiovement borrowed spoil that occasion from our enemies, and triumph wetly adopted. Ships of oar, arm.' enjimee. sod moverted into transports, and store-shipi. and hos pital-ships. and prison-ships. was a favourite inven tion of the Preuch ; to whom (instil this last Expe dition) it was exclusively peculiar. 1. have been informed that 'the professional, Lords, under a Goner Admiralty, resisted such an expedient, when projected. They alleged that it would be destine. thre of the ships, of the discipline of the seamen. and the spirit of the service, when war should mime to be the exclusive occupation of the British navy ; and that the Captains and Officers would feel themselves degraded, when they became the terriers in place of the defenders of taeir country : The infallible loos of their best acumen, by luck p transformation, was also apprehended. As to the former of these oLiectioue. respecting the Captains and Officers, perhaps, upnri the late occasion, it might be an otijict of the measure; and, with re gard to the loss of semen-is. the Roman History soey supply a built for remedying such a coarse garner. In the 17th Bonk of That brier's Roman Ma ier", ~.bane Id mod 3d, we are th a t when the Romans determined to establish a naval force to cope with the earili4glatmns by sea, al well as laud, they had no experience whatever in mari time affairs : But the. Historian states, that they had got possession of one of the Carthaginian ' Quisieverenies, which the Consuls made the model for building Ail), of war—" and they carried on the work so vigorously. that within sixty days after the timber was fellud, they had a firet of t6O sail riding at 'minor." Whilst the ships were budding, • the Conselsolso set about manufacturing seamen, iss a way which the Historian , explains in the fol low:mg word* :- 1 . The men were placed upon benches, in the same order which they were soon to obse.rve on board the galleys, with a boatswain sta tioned in the middle. At his signal anti coinaland, they moved, plied or stopped their •oars, in the same meatier as was prised at see."—And, with Shia education, the Romans became such expert seamen, that they aeon defeated the Carthaginians, who had been uurtured from their infancy to the istissagernent of ships. At that time, the ships of war Mere impelled chielly by oars ; and thew diP ferret rates were distinguished by the number of banks or ranges of benches. The eaSeif OtherWaia DOW • ships being pat in motion and manoeuvred entirely by the flanagetatat of sails and rigging. But may ant sails sod rfaiirg be erected on shorey as well imeavidioa,, sod, adore thereby trained : in liormidpat of die jona-At Woolwich, far is . , • - 4 ._ • I stance !—Nay, the marts and yard may be made to rock ; and, by our improvements in chemistry and oneelssuics, artificial storms could be raised. ;athen natural 'ones did out occur: Anti in this mats aer the nary could be recritibli as expeditiously us the army : And may Not tits become a general re source—or time resource of a Geuerel—for Immo factoring ►eameu ? By such en expedient for snpplying seamen—by officers reared at acakinies--und the various im portant improvement*, before enumerated, bor rowed from the practice of our eilensieii--if once the protesaionsil prejudices apd habitudes of Eng lishmen could lie overcome—the present. Ruler of the :,ilinitally, by * continuance of his &flintily tratims, wilt buccertl iu putting the maritime rola hivilltnent of (ireut Britain upon a footing with the A'avy of France. NAVIOATOIL ROMAN CATHOLIC MEETING, A meeting 'tribe Roman Catholics of the City and Count) of Cork, was held, on the Ist instant, pursuant to pulilie arleertisesuent, at the Bush 'ra ver 11, Cork. At a quarter rast one o'clock, John Galw■y, or Lots, Esq. was called to the Chair. Counsellor M'Cit write adilressed the Meeting, and ebwrveil, that the Catholic taints bad beeu .o frequently discussed, that he deemed it unnecessary tociipatiate on the subject. Every individual of the body in his intercourse with life most oftentimes feel that he is not placiql out a level with his Prides. tint fellow subjrts, the uirimest of whom is elevated above the Catholic, however the latter may be 'mule respeetuble by his telcut, or dignified by his virtues. This was a situation which insist operate upon their kelings, in proportion as they felt a csiiisciotisnesa of their Miiliticr, or a reuse of the injustice of these re stric s. All they prayed was an equality of privileges, and when lie reflected upon the import- Miler and uncertainty of the crisis in which we are engaged, he was surprised there could be rimed any Minister so impolitic as not to hung every individual feeling into the public stock of defence. Their brethren were now employed in other parts of the country in preparing petitions to be presented in the next Sessions, to pray a removal of the re niaiaing disabilities, end he trusted they would adopt corresponding exertions in the same cause. After several other appropriate observations, the Learned Gentleman coucluded by calling ou the meeting for subscriptious to defray the necessary expenses of presenting the petition. and forward ing the cause in which they were engaged. He stated it to be the object of the Committee to co operate with the *limn Catholics of Dublin, to whom Welch merit wee due fur their active exertions; but that it was conceived necessary to shew the bre thren at large, by theirdistinct Itesolutious, that the Catholics of Cork, who were hitherto so supiue, were now determined to assist cordially in endeavouring to establish their claims ; and he submitted the pro priety of following the example of other counties, in baring a separate petition presented by one of the Members for Cork. Oa the 'steam tieing put on the first Resolution, Mr. Bo Li moved the `following atneuchaeat, which was seconded by Mr. Murphy : " And that our pctoion be acciunpanied with the offer or a oeptive power t. the Crown on the appoiuttneuts to our Prelacy." Mr.M'Csrruv opposed the Amendment, at some length, strongly asserting. that It was not in the power of the Laity to make such an offer ; thit it was the peculiar province of the Clergy, slid that that body have already decided against it. Mr. DOYLE, in reply, was astonished the learned Gentleman did not give something snare satisfactory than assertion—he unlisted that it was not the poem liar province of the Clergy—it Misdated nut with the essentials of the religion, had nought to do with the discipline of the church, and therefore he con leaded that the laity had the power to decide up on it, standing, at, probably it could, a grand bar to their emancipation. The admission of the right of the Clergy to decide upon any qiiirstiou, that wuaW clisrh with the political rights of their fluek, is en admission of the truth of that ocausation, which, he trusted, their conduct on that occasion would contradict, that the minds of the Catholics of Ireland was invested in their priesthood. The King of Prussia exercised this negative power the Emperor of Russia has a reto on the appoint ment of Catholic Bishops—so had the States on the appointment of Catholic Priests, within the United Provinces; and this concession on the part of embolic Churches, similarly situated as in this country, has been always approved by the Holy See. In the present subjugated state of the Continent, when the Pope, in common a ith the Crowned Heads of Europe, is under the dominion of a man, whose great object is the annihilation of these countries, not to allow this negative power to the King to shield his throne from the possible iiiftuetice of the common eheiny, he considered most ungracious indeed. The successor to the Popedoos may probably be Botta itaite's uncle, CarJival fraiche. How desamous then would it appear for the Catholic Prelacy of Ireland to receive, without the power of this who in their Sovereign, their alitstnienta from him-- lie conjured them not to become their own ene mies—the givisig this veto would be complimen tary to the feelings of the Monarch, it would ap proximate us to him. and tuake us fuel wore int ' mediate subjects by the Royal breast. It could quiet the fears of the English people, and sc. quire such au hest of friends to their cause, as most issure its soaves. Mr. H. concluded ley calling on the leartied Gentleman who opposed the amendment, to *hew, by something more than as sertion, that the present uteetihg was use untitled to discuss the subject; and adman% fur a ino. meld the truth of suck assertion, as they were assembled in the hope of the prayer of their pen tioo beiug granted, was it not their duty to pre sent it with every possible reemorneudation, and anticipating every obstacle that might stand in its way, allow themselves the right of discussion us to the service the refs might be to their cause, or the deteisakot it might prove to their religion ; and if the imislt of that investigation should be in its favour, respectfully to request the dignitaries of the chinch to take the subject egoist into con sideration, iss the hope of their opinion coming into osincislenee with their own. if they refused 11111Prflikeh it area in dist way, they would exhibit .• . • a mental _servility to the priesthood, most deeply to be deplored. Mr. POWLII began by apologising for trespassing us the attention of the meeting, which he felt the more necessary, as he had been so long removed from participating in their pursuits. Wherever his fortune had placed him, and whenever the oppor tunity presented itself, he alwayvidvecated their cause with his best abilities. lie did nut agree with the Gentlemen who spoke last, on the expediency of his aniessdaseat ; he declared we had no right to interfere io polemics, or mingle the pursuit of our civil rights with the doctrine or discipline of the Church. On this occasion, we would assume a power. which neither law um religion pee us. Af ter an age of martyrdom, it was, now no time to barter away our rights, or abandon cur tenets. He concluded, by declaring himself entirely again►t the amendment, and for the resolution in its ori ginal form. The question Wkithen pot on the amendment. and it wee negati►ed by a large majority. The ether Resolution, were then passed, and tile meet ing entered into stibscriptiOns to defray the loci dental expenses of the petition. WATERFORD, Nov. 4. Committed by %Veldon Jordan. Esq. Pairiek Grady, charged with hasiug, at the fair of Lowe's Green. on the 19th inst. assaulted Sir Thomas J. Fitsgerald, Bart. u Magistrate of this county, in the execution of his oßice, and with being at the h ad of a party who tares/ stones, and asiterwarda tired at R. B. 11. Lowe, E.q. By tint same Magistrate, Kit-hard hierhas.Jantas Nerhas, and Thomas Many, charged with having a•saillted R. Butler G. Lone, Esq. while in the execution of his duty, as a .%lagistrute, with having, rereteed from .hits, Deltas iitsgeredd, whom he apprehended for rittiiug at the fair of Lowe's green. and with being of a party who fired at him at the said fair. LOU LION LION CASTLE. The hospitable doors of London Castle, near Kilmarnock, the beautiful seat or the Rigbt Hon. the Countess of Loudon and Moira, were, on the 45th Octob e r, thrown open, for the reception and entertainment of the puor k in huuuur of that memo rable era. At this elerint mansion. the anapicious day was observed by every act of charity and benevolence that could do honour to the human hear% or tend to characterize the truly greet intd generous spirit of ils noble posmin,or. By the direction of the amiable Countess. two hundred of the poor inhabitants were invited to pit down, at her bountiful table, to partake of old Eogh.h fare, consisting of toast beef and mutton, ale and whirkey. _ _ lin the clui:t being removed, her:Ladyship ap peared at the head of the table, and congratulated her visitors on me happy occasion of their meeting. flaring filled a glass with wine t her lodyship gave, " Health to t►e Kieg, aed way God Hess hiss'" The toast was received with that satisfaction and delight. which must recur to the mind of every liuglisbmau, when he r-fleets on the security he Ma% evjoyed, and the advantages , that his eountry het, derived, under the mild cud prosperous Go vernment of our beloved and venerable Monarch. On imposing the King's health. Lady Loudon held her wet, Lord Hungerford, is her arms, and, presenting him to-the company, observed, 14 I offer my son to your notice. nt friends, and were he able to express himself, Tam confident he would join in the general wish. for the contiuutace of health and happiness to Ilia Majesty." This interesting circumstance had the most pleas jag effect on the hutirst rustics to in hom it i.ss ad dressed, and made them doubly //no/ in the eCumion of their loyalty, which •wits expressed by giving repeated cheers. The entertainment was kept on, with onsbating on the part of the noble donor. mod Mtth iticielomil satisfaction on that of the humble v,it ors, till a late hour; whey they retired, with th,me happy feelings, which the munificence of the iich fails t,, produi e blithe hear', of the poor. The noble Lord of Loudon Castle (who is sig nalized snore by virtue and pleilangsropy, than by ►ook awl title) was, on this occasion, absent; hav ing proeeesled to to participate its the festivities of that •city, on the happy occasion of our good kiug having enteral(' his 50th year. FERUCIIW.i ANIMAL. WEND C, OCT. 15. A carnivorous animal is now committing great ravage, in the part of.the department of Gard, on tbs side or the monitors of Villefort tart of St. Andrr.Cal•crsr. It has already devoured several cliiidren. Authentic reports have been made to the nrighl►ouriug hlagistrates of these accounts. These who have seen it, are list, however, yet agreed upon the species of this terrible •uiwal. Some say it is a huge wolf ; others, that it resembles a bear.— They have only ►een it • distance, and their terror prevented theta from making iccurate ol►serva tions. ♦ peasant who saw it, says, that it is as large as an ass, with brown hair. The Mayor of Saint Audre-Capcme, iu a letter of the 14th, state., that accorditig to the proof' which he had ctilleated, it resembled, to shape, • large wolf, with the hair on the back all bristled, and of a blackish colose, the tail long and bushy, and the muzzle extremely long. lu certain communes, it has been ordered, as • measure of precaution, not to let children have the care of cattle in isolated places. Several _hunts have taken place, to purge the country of this animal, and it has even been fired at I y se veral persons, but' hitherto Without success. How ever, the measures takes 'mows& a hope that it will soon cease to eziiit.--filisaitestr./ The Magistrates of Bow-street hove offered a re. ward of tool. for the discovery of of the persons who attacked Mr. Katsina's house, in Great Ras. sell -street, on Moortsy aught. Tly, Durham transport, from Lisbon, with part of the 71st regiment on board, bound to England. has arrived at Cove. She was one of the fortyiame transports, all having sick and woundrd troops, that sailed about three weeks hack, under convoy of the Conflict and Graider gun•brigs. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. rorremorre, ioe. Sailed the Ulysses, suppobed for the Down; Royal Surereigx yacht, for ditto; end the Ler. went bloup of war, oil* cruise.—Wiud N. *either r Laintem, Nov. 1, Arrived the . Carteret packet, front Malta and Gibraltar, ti days from the latter place; the cap. tun of her (Patterwin) died on the passage. Also ►arrived the Richards, Richard*, from Barry; and the Friends. Dime, frost Bridgewater. Sailed the ✓uhus, Lewis, Ind Hannah, Lewis, for London; and the Salt Cat, 11.nutound, for Teigu asouth.—Wind Wert. TORBAY, NOY. G. Arrived, last evening, end sailed again this day the Frederickstriii frigate, with a fleet under eon -voy, for Liaise'', Operto, Gitsraltar. &c. coasisting of about An sad. riaMOUTII-0001 9 10T.6. This morning arrived a beautiful sod fast-sailing French Imperial corvette, called the Men, of 11 guns, 16 twenty-four pounders, Capt. Le Teufel, taken on the night of the soth of October, by the Surreillinite, Capt. Sir G. Col lyer. She sailed from the river Loire. the evening before her capture. bound for Guadeloupe, and Las on board a variety of storm, on account of the French Government. Her dispatches* were thrown overboard. Arrived also, the ppiegk, 18 guns, Capt. Camp bell, from a cruise, to relit. Came its, the dleinter ketch, hut ordered Apia to sea immediately, after a Freud! In ivatter, item off the Start this morning. Sailed last isis:ht, the Ball Spencer cutter, for the Beet off llochfort. Sailed the Harlequin fumed ship. with a &at for the Down.. Passed by a large Wan from the westward, sup posed to be under convoy of the Grwkr, Lieut. Crosaman, from Scilly. The Cadmus, which arrived yesterday, brings am unpleasant account, that the Lyra's boat, with Lieut. Smith, a midshipman, end 13 men, went up the Charente, to cut out a schooner, auppoi , irsg her to be a merchantman, hut usfortutsately she proved to be armed, and full of mew, who Soon over powered the English party, sad mad. them pri soners. Wind N.V.I" • Doyen, m•y 7. A brig called the Hepp Refine, of Boston. arrived here, this flay. from Dieppe, with upward. of gotassengers, English, Americans, and French ; among them were a great many women. There were two young men, who luid been detained is France since the peace—o►ne the son of a Captain Robert l'llampson, of !lisle*, and another belong iug to Croydon, in Surrey ; the latter sl•eaks very little English. We are informed they had beds been milt over to school. There are now lying, fitted out, at Dieppe, 111 large lugger ori•ateera. The Americans complain much of their treat cr-itit while in France. By the above couveyanee several newspapers, of a late dour. are brought *crow. DIAL, NOW. 7. Wind having shifted suddenly to the Northward, last oi:;ist, and it blowing strong, steersl vessels lost their• anchors and cables, under the Neeth Foreland: antong them are the Awe, Woodall; mid the disphelon, Pur.lev. Arrived from the River, and sailed to the West. ward, the Speddows, Bowes, —; sad M• velal others. YARMOUTH, ROL 7. Palled by yesterday, after post, about 100 . ;ado Aetna Baltic convoy, under the protection of throe •hips of war. . COAL-MARKET—Novvasait I. Ships at Market Ships sold. Price. 119 i ..NOWCARIIe SS 7 ..Soudirlsod.... di...— 34s. tat to bus. ad. PRICE OF STOCKS I YESPARDAY. Saab !flak, 3 p.r Cipit. Reduced - a ptrCeit. Csols uu SI. . 4.lms Ceui. .. S per 4:rot Nosy.. ll3li 100 11..epg Aonsilios Imperial 3 per Cent. •• • liiii 9 Usoilitits forita Fat.•lr . India it.. 11411 4O 31 V, 30 peso. lathe.lorr Sass .. to IS pren.. COMMAS fur T. RISK, Statak•ltruker, 4, Certain', aiedg, Claariag-eraw ___ _ BIR'I4I. • On the 31kt of October,. at Radley, Berk% the Lady of Sir George Roo yer, Bart. M.P. of it daualiter. M ARRIAG E. At St. Bride's Oct. t, Jallttll Rowley, of llothsru, to Mimi Merry Gisle„ of Staines. DEATHS. On Wednesday se'anight, at Newlem, in the lad year of his uge, Christopher Pemberton 13q. of that plan, l u n y years Iteceiyer.Getteral foe Cand;ridgeshire, In which office Mr was lately succeeded by has sea. lie was for rly tiller of Catherine.hall, A B. 1741 ; A.M. 174 ; an,l a gentleman of the greatest respectability. Oa Tuesday, after a few days illness, ninth regretted, tint Rev. George Borlase, B. D. Caspistieal PrO(C3001" tiary is the l'oiversity of Cambridge, and also Rector of New mu, is Sittolk. tle wain many years Pillow sad 'llllof of St. Peter's Cottage, A. B. 1764; A.M. 176: ; and B. D. 1741'. The former (ghee is in the appointmcut of four gentlemen only, the latter by the Senate at large. Lately itillyouot-place„ Dublin, Mrs. Elisabeth Pett wife of ilitimas P. signets, F.aq. Lately, at Bath, the Right Rev. Dr. Sharrock, Roman 0111194 C iiinkill.Ut that ihrtnet. In the night of Alum's! Sic frith October, at Flushing, of the complaint which has proved so generally fatal to thr Sri fish troops in Welchem:, I.ieut. Gerald Pitszerald, of Ilia Majesty's fish Regiment, deeply regretted by has famine Officers. Ow Worinsluisy se'noicht, at Chichester, Miss Hewn, sis ter-is-kw is the Lund Bishop of that Diocese. Oa 310nt10y,.1,,1in Stratford Collins, rag. an eminent Soli r.f !loss, Herefinrdebite. He bad rode os cr In White hall, near that place, to inspect souse alters' ma% going no there, anti loot ruined a botme bat a few latulutes, hefore lull back to his chair, saidelleirtd- HIGH WATER AT LON DON. BRIDGE,III tai DAY. Morning 9 Milt. Aft 3 I Aftersoaa 30 alma. after 3 1.()N pON --I'l,rtirti by C. SMITH, Nw t, Cleowst's auA pc6ltahr.l at the Office. N.. 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