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or the world dentinal their interference. Let them. by their drtermi►attions no the suliject, move to °flirt 'lllinois, that, however greatly they valise toot the rrrelloni of S►stes, ” , t it rr►luires something thsta the mere 1114111IC of patriots to Nom,* their enoisteusttee and approbation. Should negotiation* not be entered into with the Spools's Goirtnienent.at am early day of the Sessioit, we .triost WWI believe Aliat Congress will see the line necessity of intespoiasig, and taking possession of the island of A India. with such other ports within the ter e. of Spain, in the vicinity of the United State., •as may be deemed exp e diebt to counteract and prevent dt predations upon our com siserce, as well as upon the commerce of other no tion% from in wiaistloneised source. We believe we hoz ord nothing its asserting. that the time is wrur at hand, when bola eleselia and Galeestown will be token passestiaii by env Goreivinent, and held for future disposal. wtw youg, Nov. 47. IRISH EMIGRANTS. Nothing scarcely can be conceived more distress... ing than the situation of an unfriended stranger ar riving here from across the Atlantic, without the turnips of helping himself, awl without even coon', acquaintance with the men and things about him, to enable bibs IA judge what path 1w shrink' islet to secure him front the miseries of absoltire want.— Such, however, is actually the ritioation of lion.' deed. who annually land on our shores. To et. vide foe these forlorn brings, several attempts have heels made hr associstions of humane indivirlools here, but nothing hitherto has appeared so promis ing as that of which an account here follows At a meeting of Irishmen and descendants of In -hnsr►y held at Harmony Ilan, on Tuesday, the , 25th instant, fur the 'purpose of promoting a settleinent of Irish E.esigrrints; ANDREW MORRIS, Chairman, lv I LLI AM SAMPSON, Secretary. rpon motion of Timms, ADD,. EIISIFT, the Circular preeinu.ly issued on this subject was wail by the Secretary : (CIRCULAR.) It is a sentiment long felt, and often expressed, that 1111 l should be undertaken on behalf of the Einignisits who II telt to these shores. Wal low , 'm fixed destination, they remain in the sea port., uppt:l becoming victims of bail cows- i eel and bad example, they lose the pure and Inest energies with which they left their native land, and sutler worse than shipwreck in their moral qualities. the Goverientetit of this great Republic is well aware of the polvantage to be derived from so great a mass of laborious industry, when usefully direct ed and employed—and of adding to the nation's strengths, men whose attachment to the institutions of dos country is assured by so many ties. Rot it is in the order of things, that 6 1111 l eof the friends, particularly the coutitrymeu of these emigrants, who have been some time established um! known, should come forward to attest the necessity, and guarantee the solidity of the enterprise. If this has nett lwen done sooner, it is because every advance ia social improvement must come itt its sra‘opp. It is t h e rip tress of the occaviosp, and the coke of the times that now speaks. It has been remarked, that among the lands now /pea for sale and settlement, there are some tracts, particularly in the Etni,:ratit, sills the ii.struments to winch his bands are aucti.t 00000 ell, and in a climate congenial to Isis habits, might procure to himself immediate shelter and spall.isteoce —and, in a few years, be obit to repay with gratitude the bruefi•rt conferred on We, a hose mimes are undersigned, have suet to constilt upon the means of promoting some esta blishment that might be a rallying point f►r the rti,tre 'sell, and give to the wanderer • habitation and s Milne. We have thought of no better way than to address, by this Circular, the friends awl well-•ishers of Ireland, whose co-operation might give most wrieht to the measure ; and to submit, whether it might not be advisable to join all our efforts, and petition Congress early in the ensuing Session, for a grant of a suitable tract, upon crcd►t of 14 or 15 years, subject to such conditions and modificatious as the Gose ttttt tent may most fitting. To the Government we would offer no deceptive, (Missive, or precarious motive, rather choosing to make its w►sdom, benignity, and patriotism, the au thor of our hope. We request of you, if you approve of our senti ment. and of our project, to advance and promote it by your best endeavours; either by forming or- Kattiard associations, or by ohtai ii io ig individual sig natitres, to :I petition of the elfrct stated. We have ill yet been able to dig. .t a plan, and have rather chosen to make this humble beginning, in hopes that we ►hould soon receive additional light upon the subject from the correspondence we solicit. We shall, nevertheless, isroceeil to investigate the subject, and challenge the co.niwrist of good mud respectable men, and request of you to du the same. Vila will please to address your answers, and ail fun are Cot ft • ItOlidenee, tO Mr.JOlllee Abair, NO. Is, Frol,ktott-strt a t, New York. cw Yolk, Nov.lB, 1817. Thum.. Aolais Emmet, Weenie Worthy. \Valiant Sams too, John R Ski.!oly,Jarien R. Wallasey, John Meyber,Wen. J.kmet 31 'two, Camellia Weeny, Matthew Carroll, Robert Jaalts Moffitt. Mr. Estint then stated, that he had been re- 4 - - - - - quested by the Gentlemen aim thi•Meete tug, to ixplwin the übjeens f. r which it was car eened ; that it could sent be bro.-lower to exfoliate hefove those be was now addressing, au the situa tion of the frasantry and (arms re io Ireland ; it was at present one of itrapialifiert misery•, pertly ow coliiieseteil by their localoappresiortio, sod Daftly by the general cwiliamittes of Eton ;it r pelted them to fly to these alone,' in such trundler% sod under the pressore of so great poverty. that the most are live iwelividtod benevolence could switlwr provide them a ith • sisfficient present inctamr. nor procure for them, within a reasonalele time, the means of permanent settlement. The coo sequence was, that nowny of there unftwonesite stramer►s were totally lost to this country. or .fiirr.•t•d by want to bee noxious and dilligeTOUA to its cities. 'alow original disp►ositioms and qualifirritiosnr. if rightly directed nod employed, would have insole them valuable mod useful members of the community. Resides. the secounts transmitted back to Ireland of their cliwrippointinents and destitute situations, deterred many who were snffering at some the extreme of wretehedoes% from reoleavouring to better their condition in this more furossiate and favoured land— to the political isostititt of whiel► they were also most strongly attached. A very peinferl reflection on those rirrum staooa•s bad suggested to some Greitlemeis then present the live that the general Governmeist might he induced, l'y a ►trong and united spplica tion, to grata a portion of its unarttlt•d Imm,, on te►ms liberal and bountiful, so that ren asylum might be formed fir indostrioue and enterprising farmers, who would gladly fly front famine and per secution to a ►pot we hoe the, sweet of their limes falling on a fertile soil *mail yield them a rich harvest, for their own exclusive brnefi•, and where they might peacefully enjoy all the blessing oft at republican lilwrtt• they loved. The time for mak ing such an 'lndira& premed auspicious ; party asperities had *oftener, down, and prol►ally few would now be led by frailtiesl prejudices to give it oppositi tttt . Neither was it uswptecetlented ; a fa vour nearly Similar had been ' l ngratd to the French emigrants, and to settlers from Switzerland. It is true we could runt hold forth a pretence like the cultivation of the vine or the olive ; and we would irot sneered by practising any delusion. ‘Ve could offer nothitig but sit immense accession of industrious and hardy settler., who in a con genial soil and climate would become enthrones tically altnclied to the ment from whence they clerive 1 their blessings, and wherever they were found, would form a bar rier against every enemy. sinch might undoubt edly be expected (ruin the generous ►ympathy which the so►t-nos arid sufferings of Ireland had every where excited in the Coiled States, and from the acktrowledged lolm•rahty or its Constituted Au thorities; but very forcible arguunrt►te might also be addressed to its policy and interest. Not only those dist in the ordinary course of events *mild arrive here, whose usefulness is lust by the want of proper directi 0000 , and who become l•urdrus or scourges to our cities. would be rescued and placed in a situation wlwre all the energies of active and enterprising ds woul•l be serwirrut•le to them selves and the community; but also the very lact that such an avylum was (IWO and acceesilde, would infinitely increase the a►nnunt of mi.:elitism from Ireland, and people our wildernesses ;with incal culable rapidity. The plare twos' which we lease fixed our efts is it' the Misrule territory—it has been lately purchased, soil is not yet even survey ed. In the ordinal). course of • vesits, it is not likely to be brought into market (at least to soy extent) for messy }rare; but, if Congress listen to our application, and grant to the ►ettlers all es. tensfed credit, Cover iiiii rot will rec.-ire pi, meta for the land probably as soon as if it were suffered to remain unheeded till its regul rr tune for sale -4ratse round. A large body of antlers will be ere , shied to grow rich during the time that the laud would be otherwise waste and unproductive, and the value of all the rontigamis property be to the United States would be rapidly and im mensely immersed, to say nothing of the advant ages revolting from the etresigils or such a Willed frontier. All these comsiderst►oos may be strongly urged by mete, who can meet truly way that they are actuated by no views of pereemal speculation or emolument ; voles are willing to enter into all the labour of procuring settlers and organizmg tier establishment, without any prospect of gain, or even cosuperssation, except as to what may be twee/leery fur defraying the expressers of the ondertaking ; and who are desirous that the actual settlers should enjoy all the advantage,' wl►ich Government may be willing to grant. These are our views—we conceive that they may hr realised, if supported by an mated and active co-operation of those who think like les in other trans of the Union. We are, therefore, desirous of adopting and poiistirig , out to others what seems to be the best mode of giving system to that co-openttion; 11111110 y. the iiiii slims or so. tittle* totally divested of all party or political feelings. and &reeling the tetientieur only to this Misr,. 'There are already a siitheirot si 00000 her of politicel institutions is every State. iss which the zealous parttvatt (be his may) can art on them to their fullest extent— Let these societies lie 'tonna ground. or rather must:ended faeces, im which wh e n w r Int el we lay aside all onr liostiliiies, and juin as brothers in our prayers and offerings at the Marini of our common worship:. They are consecrated to every mats amongst us, by the purity of their object, by our earliest revollectioirs, by our unbroken affectiosi, and our strongest sympathies...by the u next irignish. rot love of our native land, fur which most of ns have okra& reuouured all sectarian antipathies and religions animosities; winds we offer as a solemn pledge to the country of our adoption, that our hearts will be always alive, from temperament as well as principle, to the emotions of patriotism ; and that those amongst us who have pledged their faith to her, however they may seem to differ on same minor politic3l subjects, will always be found firmly ranged and 'test under the sante banners, and forming one phylum whenever her more ittlw portant interests are concerned. Mr. Emmet diets moved four Resolutions, which being severally put, were carried, with some slight amendments, its fallow:- 1. Resolved—That it is expedient to form a Society of Irishmen, and descendants of Irishmen, for the purpose of endeavouring to procure from Congress a tract of land in the Illinois Territory, to be settled by Emigrants from !reload. 2. Resolved—That every, person of the foregoing descrip tion, who shall, on or before the second day of December neat, pny to the Secretary of this Meeting the sum of five dollars, shall he emitted to became a Member of the mid Society, until the number of subscribers shall have amounted to oar hundred, after which lime the subscribers shall be at liberty to elect their uwn officers, ■nd uu person shall after wards he admitted except by ballot. 3. Resolved—That it be recommended to Irishmen, and the descendants of Irishmen, in the other cities and towns of the Union, to form similar Societies, for the purpose of corresponding and co-operatiag with that which is about to be formed in this city. 4. Resoleed—Tlmt, astir meeting of Congress will shortly take place, and in order to prevent the loss of lime, a Cons twitter of fifteen be appointed to prepare the outlines of a memorial to that Body, to be submitted to the consideration of the Society, when formed and organised; and also to adopt such measures as they may think expedient for pro- moting and sec/iterating the organization of that Society. Mr. JOHN W. MULLIGAN, in seconding Mr. Emmet'a motion, expressed, in handsome terms, how much lie was gratified by the invitation to et tend, which lied given him the opportunity of claiming his title of descendant of an Irishman. A Committer was then eppointed, Iturstient to the fourth Itesolution, the iiiii nlwr being, upon motion and discussion, augmented to twenty-one. COMMITTEE :—Asulrew Morriss, Thomas Addis Emmet, William simulants, John W Thomas Kirk, Junes Mof f itt, Robert Sirantim, Matthew/ Carroll, /ion 111.NeTrto, Captain skiddy, M'Cortliy, Johu Meylier. James 31'llride, Comtism Iles ory, William Paterson, Col. Mullaney. David Dolmen, Captain 11'Sullivaii, James .1. 3/ 4 Duantll, Dennis H. Dilute, James Hayes. A subscription paper being then opened, a num ber of those present subscribed their names, and paid five dollars as their initiation fee, and became mem bers of the association. Those persons olio wish to become iii ;gloat members, 'Tiny do so by signing their names and paying their subscription to the Secretary before the 2d December, pursuant to the second Resolution. Alter tlw Meeting was adjourned. the Committee orgaiiired itwlf, rind appointed Sub-committees., to report a draft of o cotirtitution and a memorial to Coogress, and fur the di►cbarge of other requitite denim (From the " Bakiwi, Federal Gazelle.") A letter from Buenos Ayres, dated the 10th of August, received by a Gentleman in this city, says, that General Artigns has proclaimed Pueyrredon and three other's, siatives and merchants of that place, traitors, for sending ship* loaded Mill► pro visions to the Portuguese at Monte Video, said thereby enabling them to make • stand against the Patriots, at the time when the scarcity of bread at Buenos Ayres, and the sufferings of the people there, were extreme. The character of a traitor has been implied to Pueyrretlon from more than one quarter ; lie is formally designated us such by all the authorities which rule over the eastern shore of the Riser Plate, to wit : Entre-Rios, Santa Fe, Corrientes, and Paraguay. Perhaps these public declarations may be explained by the iogeuious author of the pamphlet lately published at Wash ington, entitled, South America. Pneyrredon has solicited the Congress of Buenos Ayres to extend the term of his administration to three years more, 4 , to deprive the citizens (which are his own words) of the inclination and propensity to chances and revolutions." What an instance of delicacy in the first Magistrate, to ask for Itionsell a continuation of his powers ! This, perhaps, can be satisfactorily exploined. What can he expected by this Goveristnent in sending Commissioners to Buenos Ayres, we confess we are at a loss to under stand ; the present period of the history• of that peo ple is marked by the cruelty and despotism of Pueyrredon ; and to select precisely this moment, seems a► Its like couttivog Solimaia its Turkey, Crom well in England, or Robespierre in Frasier. The credit of the present Administration at Racal* Ayres is such, that Don Manuel Aguirre, Commiss . f Piteyrredon to the United States, has not dared to defend his conduct, nor to answer the tunny crimes denounced against his patriotism and justice by the Press of this country and that of mill Europe. It is not easy to discover why the Executive of the United States should wish to form a connection with a was who rules by Military despotism. Of the thirteen pro% iisces which compose the no- • • 1 mina] State of La Plato, the four more important, Votoai, animas, I,a Paz, a n d' Cochabamba, are' in thelnostssion of the' enemy ; and Monte Video, Entre...Rio., Corrientes, Santa Fe, ■nd Patagnay, call Pneyrredon a traitor, and disobey his orders !! ! —Some South Americans. FOREIGN IN7'ELLIGENCE. GERMAN PAPERS. MENTZ, DEC. 22. • The Central! Committee for the affairs of the na vigation of the Rhine, induced by repeated attempts to obtain exemption from the payment of the tolls on the Rhine, orders the publication of the 25111 ar ticle of the Act of the Vienna Congress, which is as follows : " No application for exemption from the tolls, •r for a diminution of them, can he attended to, either by the col lectors of the tolls, or even by the Central Committee, and thin without any distinction respecting the nature, the ori gin, or the destination of the cargoes and goods, and without regard to the persons, corporations, lilies, or states, to whit* they belong, and by whose orders they are trans ported ;" and the Central Committee orders, that from the Ist of January, 1818, all articles without exception, whirl, are shipped on the Rhine, are subject to the payment of the tolls on that river. Done at Mentz, 9th December. MILAN, DEC. 17. Ills Lnperial Majesty has given two patents, and an exclusive privilege, fur five years, to the cele brated beirclibmist, Liteatell, in the whole kingdom of Venice and Lombardy, for the manufacture and sale of two machines of Ibis invention. One of them serves to ruit.e water in such quantity, Nod to such a height, as no oilier machine yet discovered can 4 , Get. The second is for the purposeof threshing out corn in a very advantageous maniser.—(Frank fort Gazelle, Dec. 9.7. ADAC. DEC. 20. A little book has been published at St. Gallen, under under the title of " England's Imhof:try and her Mechanical Intentions are the ruin of the Continent." This book might take a motto out of Solomon's Proverbs, but it must be e modest than the one chosen, which compares it to golden apples in silver dishes. Tney are indeed but watery fruits served up in mean earthen vessel. ; in other words, we find in it the every-where-repeated lamentations which the title announces, which may have some foundation, but is most partially represented. IVe find the vain longing after past times, which will never return— the foolish wish fur the revival of relations never to he recalled—the remelt-vs malediction of mechanical inventions, which are called a curse to humanity, umd a reproach to g f magistrates and governors— the inconsiderate invitation to the latter to render this curse ineffectual, by measures of compul,nan nod prohibitions—we find, in a word, well meant indeed, hut empty declamations upon things which require very different colons. Ilars.—(Aratt Gazette, Dee. ) sulTzrot.AND. DEC. 9.0. The Great Council of Berne has adopted, by a very great majority of votes, KM a basis of the matri monial rode, now lrr revision, the principle that children born out of wedlock, are to have the name, the rank, and civil rights of the mother, and the father (known or proved to be such) to contribute a proportionate sum to their support. This resolu tion is, in fact, only a modified revival of the law which prevailed flour] the year 1585 to 1712. LONDON, SATURDAY. JANUARY 3, 1818. From the New York Papers which have arrived at our Office, we have extracted several articles of interest ; but we would particulary• direct the atten tion of our readers to the report or a Meeting which took place on the 25th of November, at New York, fur the purpose of providing means of sub sistence and employment for Irish Emigrants. The Meeting consisted principally of Irishmen and the descendants of Irishmen, the notice of whose names, at this distance of time, will. by a distressing association, recall the memory of events, which it would be well for the honour of humanity to have consigned to oblivion for ever. But whatever opi nion may be entertained in these countairs or the delusive principles they had imbibed in early life, it is gratifying to mark their exertions in a distant and fo►eign land in favour of their unfortunate countrymen ; to observe the gene►ous anxiety they evince in rescuing the wanderers front vice and misery ; and to trace in this: attention to the CUM. forts and happiness of the poorest Irish, the same spirit of patriotism that prompted thee► to actions more elevated, though less virtuous. From the circular letter that convened the Meeting, it appears that the great number of emi grants from Europe to North America, hail been the cause of much serious ii.convenience to the United States, while the unfortiniate creatures themselves, who had sought the shores of Ame rica in the severest poverty. and without having any acquaintance in their adopted country who might direct their labour to good purpose., had for the 'A l r most part experienced the extremity of snot. Among tf.e worst provided adventurers w.-re tLr labouring Irish, and in the catalogue of renew t • and inconveniences resulting Gorr the great num bers of Emigrants, the names of Irishmen, els might be eriwcted from their comparatively greatti jo verty, most frequently occurred. An able-bodied mate, starving in the midst of a wealthy population. is always dangerous. The stimulants to crime within hits and around him, aml if lir 7ields r., temptation for the sake of protracting existent.., let those censure him who in a similar had sufficient virtue to resist. It stea.s t. iv unaccountable that the American f;:sverion. 1:t had teever taken advantage of the great illtql1•1 within their power of correcting this evil, an d of turning the European -Emigrants to its oven aggrandizement. The General Government lots, ever since the revolution, been earnestly bent on th e acquisition of territory ; but it surely requires little wisdom to know that extent of waste territory does not constitute strength. Iu the distresses of Europe, the United States had an excellent opportneniv of peopling their interminuble tracts, and no policy seemed more obvious than the upplication of very small sums indeed in transporting emigrant colonists to the interior, need in providing them when there with provisions for a season, and the implements of husbandry. It would be a cheap purchase of a hardy peasantry, and in them, of an inexbauttible source of strength and riches. In some instances, those of Swiss and French compel tries of Emigrants, the General Government dui indeed grant tracts of land, but they were induced to this act of liberality by the hopes of having the vine cultivated by the new settlers. Mr. Teost es ADDIS EMMET, in his speech at the Meeting of New York, says, that no such flattering hones ran be held out in the case of the Irish Emigrants; hut surely a hardy and proverbially industrions pea santry, well acquainted with the cultivation of all the produce of their native soil, is an object worth purchasing by the grant of come waste and now unprofitable land. The vine and olive minister to luxury only, but the first wants of our nature require corn in its several species, and potatoes. To compensate for this strange negligence on the ',art of the Government, is the object of the So ciety to be formed in New York, and if the Con gress shall assent to a proposal of these Gentlemen, respecting a grant of some lated in the Illinois tea.- ritory, money will be raised by subscription her transporting the Irish Emigrants to that part of the Continent, and there providing them with mein,. of subsistence for the present, and of wealth and happiness for the future. The affairs of South America are noticed in many of the Northern Papers. The er s.i on o f East Florida, by Spain, to the United States, is confidently anticipated—and, as if in contempla tion of that event, the seizure of Amelia I 1 lsaner. by the States is hinted at, troops have been embarked at St. Mary's, probably for that destination. Amelia Island, since the departure of Geeser,l M•GREGuit, has herti a theatre of unceasing cot - filets between certain rival partisans, sib., unite, however, in equipping vessels for general indiscei minnte piracy. Some letters will be found in our e Y.• tracts relating to Pn EYRREDO N, the President of the United Provinces of La Plata,whose clear and manly exposition of Isis own conduct, aid of the progres sive maturity of him new Republic, we lately pith haled. His character, however, could not ese;e l ,e censure amidst the confusion of a general revolu tion, and while it continues in its present unaliated violence, it is impossible to determine upon the correctness of any representation. We Lindy noticed the successful operations of the Pa triot General PAEZ, who had been reporter! dead in the Royalist Prints. Another Ned more important leader, who had beret killed off in like trimmer by the same hands. use tejnice to find, still survives, and maintains a formid able attitude. Accounts from New Otteillift, of ti c 18th October, state, that ‘" Mina had conducted a powerful force to within six miles of the city or '.Mexico; that a good understanding was expect4,l to take plsice between the adverse parties ; and that both north, unite in tuainta• • g Mexico as oil in dependent nation." It is stated in the Biographical Sketch St. ATIIANASIIIs. given in another part of our Paper, that the Creed which bears his name the opinion of the Lest and latest critics, the pr.,- duction of some Latin author, of a later age.— This Creed then is nut Holy Writ, as stated in The San of last night, nor even a tumuli produc tion of certain origin ; and, therefore, is not en titled to the same veneration and respect as the Litany or the Lord's Prayer. It was upon this ground, while we deprecate all liberties taken wiin Scripture for a profane purpose, we condenimd Mr. tlons.'s trial for his parody of the Atlialiasnia Creed. Even so far back as the reign 111:N av 11. we find the celebrated Tuos. AI;EL4ET resislia the order of the King to try a murderer, the atrial umutess a f whose ime had eucitrd is gener,d indignation—BECKET main • * g that it wits con trary to law to put a man a second time on his trial for the 'mole offence. But W. Horst: uss put a third time on trial fur the sauce olivncr, mul upon ground weaker than that 011 weed. i.e had Leen twice acquitted. The late Doctor WA rso‘. IL.1 4 0:),.1 . 1..414r, in his Bie3raphie‘il.lhecilut, A THE BRITI SH PRESS: