The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1824-12-30 00:00:00

THE PRESS IN INDIA. ;Cc have frequently expressed our opinions against the ,e,hlishittent ot a free press in India. Mlle of the best s rsuntents in favour el such a measure are coutaincel in a ,ses of " hetes: to the Marquis of Hastings, on the in ,:n Press, by a Friend to Good Government,' from which tc mete a sew extracts Censership deprives the prsss of its nationality, seppress.ece th. reby the voice uf the public - sa rdine the vi.•ws and assisting the sinister intere h sts the administrators.. " Should the present condition of the native Indians re • ,',re a Ceneorship upon the press, or a eurression of the ~sie 'misc. this condi:lost must indicate that these two ss have either welds to make known, nor injuries to corn ; it must involes the admiseion that the In liens ▪ either brutes or angels : brutes, as bleeps: 1;e of any ;senan teeing ; angels, its superior to all human passions. tithe Indians arc brute beasts, where is the need of ? It angels, could they refraitt tittles, i re); f rom •. • at tit- insanity of despotism, and at the misery • great statesmen, who, in the plentitutle of power, se so we • ••It afraid of a whisper ? If the Indians are -enter brutes nor angels, but men and subjects; and it; 3; otiecte, they have no injuries to complain of, nor as ss e, wants that are not Sully F. 36811,11, the it governors trust he deserving only of the highest cello:shim. Could then these governors be ever truly uneasy on account of a iSte press? " If the Censorship on it is called for by the present cordition of the Indians, such condition muse be opposite people among whom the press to the cvnelitien or all those kne has ken, and still is, free. Let us e :amine this el re ciceePy. " A free press exists at present in the Northern United States of America, and in Greece; amongst the Britons, and the itt.groes of St. Pouting° ; in Chile, and in Switzer hie! : in Mexico, and in the Netherlands. " From !see to Isl 3, F.icily had a free press; front 1816 to Isle a Censorship; in Istse the press was freed again. In Is2l it was re•StlitiCClCti to a Censorship. The press of N a ples was free iu lssu, and under a severe Censorship at the end of I es2l. " Tie' Spanish press, from ISIS to I S2t, was first free, dun under Censorship ; then free again ; and once more placsel under a censor. "France, from ISIS to 1524, has possessed both the fret:dein of the press and a Censorship at different periods of time. Wortemberg. Saxony, and Bavaria, once enjoyed a free press; but those countries have been since compelled readopt the Censorship. " The press in India, till Lord Wi.llesley's administra tion, was perfectly free. A Censorship was first ordered lv him. It was removed by your Lordship in Isis:, and foe press enjoyed practical freedom during all time early part lel your ailininistratioo. Your Lordship's successor, Mr. Adam, has, however, rejected it to a law worse even tan the Censorship a thousand times. " By those facts it appears evident, that a free press has 'existed, and may be safely exercised, as well in the torrid sad frigid, as in the temperate zone ; that enlightened na tions, and people the least advanced in the scale of civilize non, have ken indiscriminately expered to its free action ; that the Censorship was deemed expedient, not only upon a Frees extremely free, but also upon a press of very limited ;ewers; that such restrictive measures were applied to !Mous people, in the most opposite regions, at the same time, and at different ones ; and finally, that the freedom I: the press, and a Censorship on publication, have been alternately substituted, the one for the other, in the LIMO countries, at different periods of time. " In the face of these facts I would beg leave to ask, whether some revemblance must not exist between the resent condition of the Indians and the people of some of these various regions, among whom a free press has been, :ed is yet established ; or even between the Indians them selves, at different periods of their history? If no such tesemblance is to be found, we must suppose the Indians be either a new species of animated beings, or to be teased of the wand of Circe. Should the Indians exist .y the souls of an inferior order, as imagined by Plata, or r the thinking properties of matter, according to the idea !Pythagoras, what would they care for a press, either or without a Censorship? (Jr what could the Cen tip oppose to the instantaneous and wonderful meta phosts to be produced by so fatal a wound? If any .mblance between the conditions of any of those people that of the Indiana themselves can be discovered, since press has been advantageously exercised upon people • all possible circumstances, it would be to reason east existing facts, to suppose that a Censorship on the in ludia is required by the present condition of her abitants. " As nature does not acknowledge the idea of privileged ions—as men cannot change in a moment their na ll character—as no government was ever incapable of ventent—end a., when the Censorship was imposed the press in India, and upon that of the difi'erent " States, it was not produced by any change is the . of the people themselves, but by a change in the of the governors ; so it would be more reasonable to e this allegation of a necessity for a Censorship on ban press, not from the pretended condition of the . of that country, but from the actual disposition of .e rulers. " Wherever an administration has been honestly and • disposed, a free press has been always hailed ; and the contrary dispositions have predominated, a con t of ignorance and official dishonesty Las been ,at for in the Censorship. The !Julien press enjoyed great practical freedom under air Lordship's Administration. The establishment of free blications hail nothing for you to be apprehensive of, and anxiety you have always evinced to benefit the whole • entrusted to your care, to hear the voice of the and not to be deceived by the intrigues of a few teetered such an establishment dear to your ge ass . clings, and comfortnable with your honourable sslities and noble disposition. " The great Frederick of Prussia, petting aside his gold ~ .arple, used to mix in disguise with the lowest of his vets, in enter to be informed of their real want,. and ainsitions. You, trey Lord. thought to obtain equal in maation in your private cabinet by the medium of a press. _ _ . " more luminous proof of wisilom, integrity, and cannot be gi%esl by Ministers, than when they cntli&ge the freedom of the pass, the touch-stone of -At, 4111%11c ITINt dlectiial antidote against illusion. " In India, it has been said, there is no public! " 11 , I ask, offer thanks, perform duties, and pay the 'rtes? Even the basis of d:e forests can fed, and have 'nuts to cxprt.s, and injuries to complain of Is the eon ...ion of the Indians, or their public, inferior to that of , rheasts? lEd then the metamorphosis which happened r• the wife of Lot, happen also to the whole of the Indian 'svic? or that of o'hail: tezzer happen to those who •:lare that there is no in India, though a large so of human beings exists there? • "Tit^ Indian people, it leis also been affirmed, arc not seine condition as the public of England. This is ve:y true. But is it a necessary inference of such •: , nl : ,tllkt the Pu - nwr can possess no freedom of the press • welt a ground ? If t•o, the English public alone must regard.,l al the wile privileged nation of the world 'r•!!!' erenjnring a free press, for there is no nation in IC, Lune co n di t i on as h erse lf. But Greece, Holland, ra:.rla n d, Mexico, and the Ilaytian people, are •n Enos!, end yet they enjoy a free press; A Nr,les, Si c i v, anti Spain, while they dill not at all "'Wile the English, also possessed such freedom." The bnpelling agency must be always proportioned to fasting reaction. A greater impulse is, therefore, re .i!te to v:ake a grtrer and more inert natter effect its per funetior s If the Indians arc, in their present con as niere hr:: a of the }kid, if the ballast of the Ilat's-tes'el is thus inert, the only remedy for this is to he found in a press extremely free, or au more tr...., that, among a people moro sensitive and re quickly olo:o.41. rhe conlinds that a free rrcss in Indis is eon 'liable to the wants and wishes of the Italian people. oluerves...- ' What must be the wants anti what the wishes of a ?le so so t • Fond as the Indians are? These penp'e lire 1. 1 a government autttorised to act, without oblizatiun to answer for the manner in which it treats them. 'chile peopk !.ave un ri,:ht to us , “milile and petition: they are at a great fram the India Directors; they have no re! , res . ..ittativ.'s; eoun,ellot a for tilt ir I I p?i , r t ; and tin direction of tht: a:rain of ti Ai: vast country is entrusted neither •,.) the it cottuiryinen. nor to the officers disposed to he nateralia.d amom:: them. The only palholinm of safety for a rople so condi:lone I, he round in a free pri-sti. 'chi , est thlisiturint a!one eon make the British authorities in Eindaati p...rcti%e the r: al nature of events occurring in thee.: ii stint regions, and induce them to sympathise with the misfortunes of ti.eir vast pep:tlation. ‘Vititotat such a pret , s, the occurrenc:s that really happen can 414.1i!;nrcil at our hour; and the calls of justico, genere,ity, and himeMitv, suecessfury clul.ll. It is impossible, without the ail of s , :ch a medium, that the dejected and degraded j liintlons can pr,•vent their rulers from passing the proper I limits of their power, anti injuring their rights and na terc,:s. " It withnut slich a pr se, for a people ao deprop,(l. to lit:3e cnlti%at:d, FA) far dislant, and having no roprcseiratives, to siie,:ced in obtaining redress against opprorsive fuactionaria, who rulo the country with despotic authority, trim rich gnat influence there, and who are In re so he fo•lip:ts :mil interests with th-ir future jut; es. liein En:lisi. gentlemen have 1),•,•11 unsuccessful to their at:einpts to obtain redress: how then can ixor, i!;noraio, distant, and unrepr.a:nted natives i-Nl:t'ot success? " No loan can iK :o Hind, or so prejudiced, as to be incapable of dis.:atting how great are the facilities of the Indian A , ltninistntion to t•por,ss dose people. No im partial intittirer can deny how &Meg!! it is for the Indians to ('pain redress elicit injured. la a condition so fa ourable :0 the .',:lininistratima. and to disadvanta 'eons to the the true interest of the :tat e ca n no t b e to add to the inieris of the latter, and to coatr new facilities on the former. Vet this rill be ellleted by those who intend to deprive that country of a free prim'. is it the prlvileg tl, or the foe national press, thst could ratify the wishes, relieve the urgent tlsstrei.s, and supply the wants of the *tidian population ?" ASIATIC SOCIETE From the n.'nt?• nr (*wirier Stipplernem.] On Irtalneadr.v, the dtli of August, a Meting of the members of the Asiatic Sawiry was held at the S.teiety's apartments, in Chowringlre,J 11. Ifattnisic . rcw, Eqt. I'vsident, in the Chair. Air. IL 11. llokson, awMateent to the resident at Katmandoo. °resented, to he tiiposited in the 31 UICIIIII, through the medium of Mr. Ir. !I. 11.111,y, Vice.rr..sident, a great number of valuable anti exce-etlingly curious Iron ll'ltote. viz. —Potts, or reit. giros tracts ; juntas, idols of brass and clay, pictures of a reli gious kind. called Thangaiis ; pimures of civil architecture, articles of warring upper', personal ornaments of the religious kind, ditto not religious, inaphments of art, household and domestic utensils, presses and moulds.mullels of temples, musical instruments, natural productions. The manuscripts, &r. appear to be well calculated to throw considerable light on the religious creed of the Irhoteans. From 3lr. Ilettlarsou's edmmuniration we learn that the Nepaul mission which lately returned from China, brought with it, among other things, a very line Chinese mule, which has been since sent down to Calcutta, together with two yaks, a wild and domestic dog of Blame, a shawl goat, a four-horned sheep of Whose, and one of the common kind. The wild dog is said to be the first of its kind procured, and was brought from Moastang, a place near the lean of the snowy range, and about twelve °mauls nortiuwest from Kama:Attu. 177 bc either of I .r the souls • ! the thinki lh• thagors tali or wit! rship oppc xrphosts to mutblane e I rd that of t *tyre press Ii r.der all pc s ;ainst exisri :.:ss in ludi bi touts. " As astir itions--as mai charm proverm ut pun the pr uropean St; ntlition of of the duce this crc Indian Ic of dm • it ruler's. " WlK•resc ldy disposi here the cot tealment of knight for in The ludi !cur Lordsi • ,^oblications I me anxiety y ple entrus hlic, and flier/, re's :rocs fct'lin Alines and " The grt irel purple, i =sjects, in f, aitimrs. emotion in press. ".1 more e; ';nurage tc .rit. audtl UNICORN. Among the curiosities soliberally scot by Mr. Ilndgson it • hirgo suiral horn, said to belong to the Unicorn, and with it draw. inga of the iiithle by a ll'hotean peasant. The drawings are sta:;11 to convey the true image of a living animal of the deer kind. out of the Centre of whore forehead grows • horn of the de. scripihin transmitted. The animal is described as gregarious, gra. minororatec and its flesh good to est. Its mime is Chiroo; its colour bright bay, and its dwelling plate the plains of ll'hote, be. rend the II Mialayah, and especially the woody tract of country situated a few days north-west of ISigurche. known to the natives by the name of Changibing. The testimony of the poor ll'hoteans, whom trade and religion bring down annually to Nepaul, appears to be uailorm respecting the existence of this animal ; but they hesitate about procuring it, though urged by • promise of a liberal reward. They declare that the Chiroo is too large and fierce to be taken alive, or to fall under their simple weapons; but they some times find the horns, naturally shed by the living, or remaining after the deray of the dead animal. These horns they dedicate to their divinic les, and the one obtained by Mr. Hodgson was brought to listmandoo to be suspended in the Wink* ulthe Temple of Sumb'hood Ness h. LIVERPOOL. AND MANCHESTER RAIL-ROAD: We are informed that shares in this concern meat 100 guineas pre mium each, contingent upon the passing of the Bill in the next Session of Parliament, of which there seems little or no doubt, as it is said that every landowner on the line has given his consent.—Birmineenn Chmniele. A short time ago, as a servant of Mr. Walkden, jun. of Barton-upon-Humber, was bringing home a two-year old colt, in the neighbourhood of Lincoln, he overtook a man who complained of being tired, and entreated bard for a ride, which the groom kindly acceded to, and dismounted for the purpose: the stranger, however, had only gone a short distance alongside him, when be turned the horse about and rode oft' full speed on the London road. The groom, astonished at this audacious act, followed with all the spree, he could ; but the villain was soon out of sight. On being hotly pursued, he quitted the colt, fairly knocked up, in the neighbourhood of Sleaford, and succeeded in making his escape. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—The following melancholy accident occurred here (Dublin), about twelve o'clock on Christmas-day. The hat of a person passing over Whit worth-bridge, near the Four Courts, was blown into the river. lieu:feted a reward to any one that would get it for him ; when two young men, of the names of Porter and Reilly, the former a shoemaker, the latter a quill-dresser, got into a yawl for the purpose of recovering it. which they did ; but the boat was drifted by the force of the tide down to Carlisle-bridge. There they succeeded in getting the end of the painter, or bow-rope, on shore, and several persons drew the boat up the river, nearly to the place from whence she was first taken. Here a young man of the name Kearney, a shoemaker, whose father, a poor fisherman, owned the boat, induced Reilly to leave her, and get in himself with Potter; Reilly taking his place at the rope on 'bore, where, whilst he and others were drag ging the boat, the rope suddenly broke with such force, that the boat went partly down by the bow, end precipi tated Kearney into the river, upon which Reilly plunged into the otter to save Kearney, when Porter jumped out of the boa:, thinking to take hold of Reilly, thereby to save himself; but Reilly perceiving his own (Linger, swam to allow, and was taken up. Meantime Kearney's father, an aged man, plunged in to save his son, but his efforts were inefrestnal. Ile le mite weak and exhausted ; still he would not take hold of a rope thrown to him from the quay, until the people cried out, to drc.ive him, that his son was safe. He then took hold of the rope, and was dragged up the wall. The boat drifted ngam down the river, to where the oyster boats lie at Carlisle-bridge, at which place, about two o'clock, she was stopped; when it was found that Kearney had twisted the painter round his wrist, and his body thus remained suspended from the boat, which, if known in time, it is theught he could have been saved. The holly was brought to the Dispensary in Fleet-street, where Doctors M'Carthy and Purcell, and Sargceus Keem and Thorne, exerted theinselna to restore animation, sided by the scientific skill of Monsieur Simon, who applied his galvanic apparatus, but the vital spark was extinct. The body of Potter has not yet been found.— Dubb'a ,Wrninz Ii A 7..•.:1D and Co. inform the Public, that at nine o clock To-morrow .dousing the Lottery begins drawing, mid will Ito entirely f ?tithed the same day, when Two Prizes of Thirty Thousand Pouittle, and all the other Prizes, and every Ticket, must lw drawn, and all decided. Hazard and * Co. have a variety of numbers on sale, at their off ces, where in th e last two months have been sold Prises of e.OOO/. and 80,0001. Royal Exchange Gate, ito, Corn hill. and 324, Oxfurd-street, entl of Regent-street. The Ticket, No. 5,301, drawn on the 16th December a Prize of' .20,0001. was roll in one half and eight mitteenth shares, by RICHARDSON, GOOLLUCI. and l 'n. Stiak bru!cers. at their office, 104, Bank - bu ilding ',-bu ilding ', The holders of the Ames may receive their money on demand. State of the Wheel— Prizes of - - - .C 30.000 .. 2 - - . -1, 01 K) 2 - - - - - :40 10 - . . . . WO &c. &c. :ma must ho drawn To-morrow. A great variety of Numbers (warranted undrawn) arc nn sale at Richard son. Coallurk. and Co.'s o!fi , v, No. 10 t, corner of Bank traildina. C..:rehill. Til BR:TIMI PRESS. CALAIS, DECi..MBIR In the course of my travels in Germany many parts of the country pre , entral a most fright ul picture from the late inundations. During the journey from Ileswig to Ham burgh I saw some hundred miles laid under water ; the' road in nv, rul places covered with it ; which obliged me ; to tale circuitous routes through the fields. I often thought I should have been carried down many currents, carriage anti baggage, such was their rapidity. The scene around was awful—houses nearly covered with water—in short, the whcle appeared one vast sea or extensive lake. In Hamburgli the water rose to so great a height as to cover many of the streets, where boats were sailing, for tho relief of the soarers in the shops and apartments under ground, which are numerous in that city. Many parts of the country about Weiner), Munster, Aix-la-Chapelle, &c., are also overflowed. When I arrived at Brussels I saw Mr. Stratford Canning. He and Sir C. Begot and Lord Strangford had interviews. Sir Charles has unfor tunately lost hooks, prints, &c. to the amount of 2,0001., in a vessel iu whi c h they v:cre sent to England from Peters ' burgh. The tax on dogs has givfn offence to many, who are •bgntalical in their opinion of its injustice. One thousand dogs, to my knowledge, were Hied after the law had passed, and that, too, in a single village. From Glum to the French frontier I found many parts laid under water, which cite 'ldea to the very edge of the road, on each side, and exhibited a woful picture, from Bur- ' rounding so many houses. OC•er parts in the direction of thi • place (Calais) are test covered. Since last Sunday it has blown the most tretittnilous gales at south-west ever reeol'ected by the oldest inhabitant, with a heavy sea. eaurday the temrsst was most frightful, when a ship ran upon the send near the Pier-lead, where she now lies, with her sails torn and flying like strings. Only one vess;:l has arrived since last week, which was frost England, with 100,000/. of specie, from s London ermine, which has been sent en front this place to Holland. During the hurricane the thermometer of Fahrenheit remained pretty stationary, it was two flays at S'. This morning, nine o'clock, it was at S 7, and the wind changed to N.E. 'The inns here have profited by the storm, as they are filled with persons who come daily from Paris, from the Netherlands, and other parts, to embark. Considerable improvements have been made here, by makir . ; footpaths in the streets and paving them, and agreeable walks are now forming all round the ramparts. There is an English congregation here, of which the Rev. Sir. Liptrap is clergyman, whose young daughter officiates as clerk. There are three services on Sunday—half-past ten, half-past twelve, and six in the evening. PLYMOUTH, Dec. addition to the preservation of the officers and crew of his Majesty's ship Partridge, all the stores, even the ballast, were saved. The vessel is left high on the beach, and it is expected that she may be got cif the next spring, for which purpose some of the crew are left there; the remainder, with the officers, were con veyed from the island of Vlieland to Amsterdam, and from thence by the canal to Rotterdam, where they arrive on the 14th instant ; a vessel was engaged by the British Con sul to receive them on baard on the 16th, and land them at Sheerness, so that they will soon be here, a vessel being ordered for that purpose. A FOICIED Tint.—There prevailed bete during Wed nesday afternoon a strong gale of wind from the N.W. which in the evening chopped (rs sailors say) almost due north, and brought such a mighty sea into the neigh bouring chan:iel, that our coast was visited with the highest tide that has been experienced for several years. —We regret to add that this tide occasioned a most serious loin to two farm rs of Fislitoft. Messrs. Bailey and Tete, whom it bereaved of no less than twenty-three sheep that happened to be grazing on Fishtoft Marsb.—Boston Gculte. During a severe gale on Monday se'nnight, the wind mill belonging to Mr. Osborne, of Sible Iledingham, was blown down. The man in the mill had a most providen tial escape. He was at the time upon one of the upper floors, wben observing the danger to which he was expos. d, at the instant before the mill tell he slid down by the sack rope into the round-house. The mill was crushed to atoms the nott tuomeut, but the miller escaped.—Bstry Post. Cores e.—ln the year 1534, coffee became known to the inhabitants of Constantinople and was publicly sold in a coffee-house, elegantly fitted for that pm pose ; and though it was condemned by the Mufti, in consequence of the clamours excited against the prevailing use of it, coffee was still drank in private houses ; and the officers of the police allowed it to be sold, on paying a tax, and under cer tain restrictions. It was not long, however, before these restrictior.s were removed, and the sale of it became more general than it had ever been. It is reckoned that as much is spent by private families in the article of coffee at Con stantinople, as in wine at Paris. Thc custom of drinking coffee is so general, that you are as much solicited there fur money to drink coffee, as you are here for money to drink your health in wine or beer : and among the legal causes of divorce, the refusal to supply a wife with coffee is one. Coffee wasnot introduced into the western parts of Europe, till about the middle of the 17th century : the Venetians were the first who imported it, and the custom of drinking it in France, (at Paris in particular) was esta blished in the year 1669, during the stay of the Ambassador from Sultan Mehemet the Fourth in that city. The first use of coffee in London was earlier than at Paris ; for in 1632, the Greek servant of a Turkey merchant opened a house fur the sale of it in George Yard, Lombard-street. The first mention that is made of it in the statute books is, in the year 1660, when a duty of four-pence was laid on every gallon of coffee made and Oil, to be paid by the malice ; and in 1673, King Chalks issued a proclamation to shut up the coffee-houses, because they were seminaries of sedition. On Tuesday last Mr. Hope, a butcher, residing at Ep som, having directed a lad to take out a spirited horse be longing to him, and walk the animal up and down in front of his house, the boy had no sooner got out of sight of his toasters house than he was advised by a man to mount the horse, which he accordingly till , and the moment he was on the middle the horse act oilat full speed on the Lon don-road. In his career the horse came in contact with a chaise-cart, the shock of which, at the rapid rate the animal was going, entered his chest, and penetrated to the depth of above a foot, and then broke off; leaving the broken pan of the shaft in the wound. The boy was thrown into a ditch with the shock; and received but little injury. The poor animal, after having met with the shocking accident, ran upwards of SO yards, and then dropped down dead in the road. Tue RICENT Bsc•re FROM YORK CAIPTLKWIII. ham Reed, the prisoner who escaped from York Castle along with Charles Holt and John Watson, on Sunday night, the Sth inst., and who had contrived for so long to elude the active exertions made use of for his re-capture, has at length been apprehended, and is now safely lodged in his former place of confinement. The means he made use of to secure his retreat were conceived with great inge nuity, and carried into effect in a manner in wind', had there been no Mer-pied in the way, were well adapted to ensure his final success. It appears, that immediately on his escape from our county prison, 11.7 exchanged his prison dross in York, and secreted himself in a cow-house, at the• village of l)ringbousca for several days. lie then pmeeeded to the neighbourhood of Boutfract, whence be took the road to Snaith, Market-Weighton, and Burlington. The disguise lie had assumed rendered his recognition elmost impossible. Ile appeared to be boih blind and very old. and was led on by a boy, in this manner begging his way from town to town until he arrived at the latter place. It having been suspected that he might travel in that direc tion, bills describing his person were plentifully circulated around, but the constable of Burlington, who took him into custody at a halging-house in that town, on Friday night last, though he hail before narrowly scrutinize' would have let him escape, his disguise was so coral:.-te. it it had not been fur the infortostion of a beggar-man who had followed him for nearly forty miles, and who gave the information which ultimately led to his apprehension. Ile stated, that his object was to have got to Newcastle, where be intended to procure employment as a collier. Ile was brought inta York Castle on Sunday even:us.—Fort C Trout. PUBLIC MEETING AT GALWAY. A general meeting of the inhabite.nts of this town took piece, ritsuant to requisition, e't Thursday last. at the large room. Conc.lly's Hotel. At ium: o'.:4lek, Mr. IlnowNE, MO Sherd% wok the Chair, and statA to the oirictiii:t, which was very numer ous, and highly respectabW. the purport of the requisition. The lion. Mawr t N l''ptrs, II Tait: AM said, that as the object of the meeting was to attest tie peace, good conduct, mid lora:iy of the town, anti defend it against calumny, he felt himself hound. as a Magistrate, to coin t forward, anti thus publicly state that the best order and he believe:l a more peaceable. loyal pt- , )),«, were hot to be found in his Msicsty's dominions. Ile begg t d alma to read a letter from Colonel Ross, the very rtspectable utfii:a at present commanding the gamson, stating, that ••• no extra o rdinary precautions weredeemed necessary in consequence of the law alarms, but that the garrison was regulated solely according to the ordinary military rules." Mr. Extecrt said, that he was happy to hear Mr. French bear so ample testimony to the peace, good order, and loyalty of the town. It was for the purpuee of upholding this character seeino the many idildiollll report's lately eirettlated, that they were row assembled. The elentlemen most active in convening the meeting, had prepared certaie rest:l4l6one, which he was requestee to pro. pave, and *hid . ; he did with great pleasure, fully coincelire in their tenor. Ile would take the liberty of reading then:. The re solute:es were rout, when Mr. Lynch observed, that here s u ch eaten:l:Mos reports could not obtain credit; but they might injure the character of this country in England and elsewhere. are, it' not put down, denim,' that cenfidencee which is the foutidatlon of all social and commercial prosperity. (Great applause.) Doctor Vet Tell mid, I feel happy in seconding the Reeelittinne just read. I hare, team iiir re4e,sion, an opportunity of kr.owing w.ll the sentiments and conversation of ali classes, from the him:tent to the lowest, and Ain convicted of the absolute neceseity of t h is meeting ; for, Sir, reports or the wore tendency have beim given out respecting our tranquil, peaceable, and loyal people at de affected; and attemprinee to wise disontet between pereets of diflacet religions, Sir, they leave actually g..ne PO far as to any that a messacre of Pnnestiotte wee intended • as foul and as hellish a calumny as ever dings' ed the tongue of eland, r itself. Si?, I will answer for it, that she Ceetolics of this meeting and of this county would be the first to rally mend their l'oneidato fellow countrymen if there was the slightete danger, which there fee nee, and form a guard of honour in clef .rd them at the expense of their properties and their lives. (Loud cheers.) After some further minder ob.errations, he observed emphatically, that Cbriettan charity and love for all mankind formed the basis of the I atholic Reli;,•ion ; and the Roman Catholic t 'at:china, put into the Melee. of children, distiectly stated, " we are most strictly bound to love oar neigh bours as our selves." elle text question of the Car, &ism was, Who is our neighbour? The anima is, " All mall. kind, of whatever climate, creed or profession, even our enemies." Sir, it is monstrous that attempts should be made to misrepresent oar principles and loyalty ; and I ant sure all Catholics and libretti Protestants will join in putting down such attempts. Illr. MACLEAN—I address you, Mr. Cha;tmen, for the purpose of also seconding the resolutions which have been propeeed to his meeting by Mr. Lynch—l do so at the request of ninny valued friends, whom I would not r e f us e, b u t with feeling', of unaffected diffidence, which I caenot conquer; for it is not my habit—it does not consist with my inclination or any ability, to press myself forward on public occasions, when I know there are others so much better qualified to command public attention. There is, therefore, abundant need that I should bespeak your indulgence; but I shall hest deserve it by ee. mining you for as short a time as possible. (Much cheering.) I had fondly hoped that the tongue of detraction would have tired of its office, where there was so little to feed upon ; that the humiliations it had received on former occasions would have taught at least a lesson of prudence, if they could not excite a feehog of remorse, and that it would have Bought the indul. genet of its depraved appetite and malignity in some noire pro. muting soil—ln some ground more associated with the recollections of disturbance and disaffection—where it would have found the aid of put events, on which to build present suspicions. Hut it would appear that slander could nut rest satisfied, unless she assailed the fair fame of Galway—the proud it.habluuits of ages of _loyalty —a loyalty undiminished by the severity of the Penal Code, and unseduced by the machinations and allure ments of disorders gone by—Galway stead firm to her charne tee for quietness and peace la the worst of timee—ahen danger end contagion of evil example raged without—equally as when mi say and contagion of disease raged within her walls. (Loud ap plause). As a Protestant and a Proprietor--as one deeply in terested in the subject-einterested, were the reports true, to the extent of no less than life itself, I teel no hesitation, cot the slightest, in declaring—and I consider the declaration to be a duty and an act of justice to my Catholic fellow.eiezens, and to those of every persuasion —my strung and free conviction, that the town he threatened with no danger--thit our lives and properties are perfectly secure—that the re ports arc equally groundless and injurious --and that it is most wise to fling from us a stigma so undeserved, to which, until of late, we were happily strangers, and which, fur the time to come, I fervently trust we may know, as we know the dangers which have this day caused us to assemble—only by report. (Groat applause). On the resolutions being put, Mr. el ILITIX said—Sir, an address has been framed embracing the spirit of the resolutions, which I will beg leave to read to the meeting, and am happy to see so great unanimity prevail. I have listere I with great satisfaction to the gentlemen who preceded me; in particular I have listened with pleasure to the remarks of the liberal Protestant Gentleman (Mr. elacleatta which were so ho no to himself and so gratifying to the Meeting. These gen tlemen have adverted to a more recent ;eriod ; but I will go further ' back, and remind you, that when a French Invasion threatened this island, and the enemy were at our gates, it is in the recollection of many who hear me, that the inhabitants of Galway formed them selves into a volunteer guard, to repel aggression and domestic tumult, to maintain the cause of' their King and country its the hour of doubt and danger, for which they received the nierkee ap. probation of the Government, and of the able, judicious, and pa. triotic General (now Lord) Hutchinson, who contended here. from that period to the present moment, the same uniform loyalty has marked the people of Galway. Surely the authors of these its. &minatory rumours, which have this day assembled us, caenot be aware of those facts. They cannot know the real character of that people whom they attempt to agitate and malign. else they would be convinced that their futile efforts would not merely peeve 'Moe five, but exhibit that character to public view in the tenewed ear- else of the same constitutional loyalty and patriotism. and cover their own guilty heads with proporUonate co:elusion. (Cheers.) Sir, it appears that reports have born spread of a malignant nature, with art, industry, and system. Religious frenzy. that east of all political monsters, which, under the guise of charity itself, and in the sacred name of religion, engenders the most ur.cluistiau feel- ings, and causes the must accursed deeds amongst mankind—that feeling of folly mixed with mischief, the very opposite of the great chriatian principle, which teaches us to love Slid to do gcoe to all mankind, the baleful feeling, heretofore unknown here, and iney it long continue ao,has been attempted to be introduc e d. an d' accoun:e of the most calumnious and meat frightful description have been forwarded to prejudice the Government—to abuse the craluley the English people ; to scatter discord among the various classes of society—and, in the general confusion, to establish a narrow, arbitrary monopoly, and defeat the just hopes of the Catholics of Ireland, now peaceably and constitutionally seeking redress for their grievances from the Legislatureand the Throne. (Applause.) I Sir, this plan has been generally and systematically acted upon. We have been misrepresented to Government itself. le c cannot, indeed, set our enemies—we call for them in vain—." they fly at that light which they hate"—but, in the bosom of a must peaceable, unoffending . people they are hatching their dark plots of calumny, and scattering their envenomed arrow with unwearied assiduity. Hut. Sir, though we cannot trace every diverging stream into its dark unhallowed retreat, the fountain of those evils may plainly he discerned. In the public press, in the speechee, iszet and exclusive policy of the enemies of the Catholic. of Ireland. and, I should add, the enemies of all the liberal Protestants also, we have a chain of evidence and facts which leave no doubt that the tame' intolerant spirit which divides ties tat, island Into contending sects anti parties, essentially favours that distrust which the author of those vile reports seek to encourage and promote. In truth, Sir, the people of Ireland, and particularly of (lawny, are in the minds of such persons provokingly loyal and ordeily.— (A laugh.) The disturbances in the Smith are happily at an end, or nearly so.—the Orange press may calumniate, but cannot stir up the people to rebellion—the Catholic Clergy (that most meritorious and abused body of awn) continue to preach peace anti loyalty to the people—the Catholic Association has baited an address, teal- eating the same sentinitntr--and hers, in Galway, and after three months of misrepresentation and influsonatery reports, the result is a general meeting of the Catholics and Prot: scants this day, to brand the authors with shatne-.-to vindicate our loyal cmuniniated population—to disabuse the leoverninem, Legislature, English people, and, in a word, every littoral mere arid to renew and ce meet those ancient bonds °fatuity amt coliedence, and peel fellow. ship, which will ever bind together liberal teen, of every creed, in optinein» the introduction of di.serdion into the town of t ialwac. I —(Cheers.) Truly, Sir, these arc re•tilet gratifying to every mate end proportionsbly aliiictiug to every seeeeeief level die. turbee of the peace. From the tittle our revered Sovereign )::t our ANOVA Uldlislllolllrlt. calumny hew not cea ed. Ile was not yet mew, when the spirit of party was at work, to defeat hi. henign invita. none, and his admire:departing admonition, which will ge deem to posterity ass se inertial of his wisdom and goe.latea. It w es not the Catholic. nor the liberal Protestants who did this. No; loot froat that hour the spirit of pany has not rea‘ril to put forth the most nines abuse on the great body of th • mottle tit frelene, on their re lieious and political principles, ley pee:caws, pun: alas, and, most of all, by the Peas— " Which all around its fell contagion flings, Till every breeze bears slander on its wing.." (Much applause). I call upon all liberal Protestants and Ca. teolic., a. they value the peace of the etetnere, their progen y, their ditty to !leaven, to truth and justice, to the twice of charity, and religian itself, to combine in rebutting and putting down such slanders ; to units in aupportirot the gracion% mandate of our man! King, • name dear to every Iridium,. ((le:Tr.) I saw hini in Ireland, without a soldier, us a coatieing tether, :n the midst of his people. Is it sue.) people, Sir. glut is inelignal, and to such a Sewerage that we are accused of being disloyal ? To tie feet sect: calumnies, to justify our principles before the world, we have tees day met ; and I have the honour to propose the Address for the approhetion and adoption of t h is meeting. After Mr. 31artirt ronclutki. Capta'.n 31ea►Ta. P. 31. IturLe., an. tidily. Isa:T. and 31•11, ruiott, sevc rally Aditr?:,.l the ttlectiil,l. SUPREMP COURT, AMU/MY. IJErT. FENWICK'S CAFE. The points reserved by the Court during the trial of Lieut. G. R. S. F r,a irk. and movie! on Monday last on a. rest of juticinenti, werti—lst, 'Wollner the ju-:.diction Willa proved as hod in th e in.. diet:tient, i. r. whether the sorrel iler hint cc:omitted within the tsrsitorr of a native Priori; in PAO', in ath!::.e, scrim:ea: of Itoouliny. %Vitt-titer than evideneii to prove Livid Fenwiiik a stihji•ct. 11, It holier. sto Mdict nwitt the Court had ion unthr2C (.co. It!. Ce 1.. ..nd 29, whiell makes the servants of the Company, a'.l oti, ot . his :Us testy's resident in India, a:minable te th , •l, •..f Oyer and Terminer, aid (ion! Deli ve-y. in the Iltitiill with Itni:t in In. dirt. for worth-Ts. ft.lnric<, hc. done by ti ci. ill any f :he countries or pats of Axis, America, beyond Oa Car of Good !lore, to the Siraitstif Mag' l' .an, within Cie limits e: the CNC;Uaiai ifelie of the niid Muted C011i•ally. • As to the first point the I ;nurt held that there was n t l ega l and mlatissible evithiecc that the inerliLr •-•I within ':IC territories of a native l'rin n in alli'V.re Wi•il ii"ss. - rvent of Ihttbay. The toi.ity of nrii.imso with the Giticion or eiis said to he in writing, and th%t there could be no other of shit lre .tr admitted, t-reitt the treaty tise'f, which had rot`:.:: ti pro- Mir, it. and the eviihntre was not •titticientto the Rajah of Lonawarra was in alliance at all with to t tiovLrt , tlt- , t —.Vs to the seentul rebut, Cie Court not think it tiee,ii..ary eive any formal do-nom , , but ininuste,l en opinion thitt co• s commissioned others, cr the Company as c nail therefre as his !.T:•.it,!v . :l io i` - a third point, the tote:loin" , averments We7e tint in the in.;to , I The Court theiaftire the, i'ded that I.,eit.etiant Fenivii;'; .. , I.•dit dis. e ar;ett, but stone tia:C to consiltr the :node .n whic4 tau should bs done. - - - --- MARRIAGE OF CATllritres AND I'IIOTFFTANT.V. At the last meeting of the C .tholie At.sortation. 31e. ritc, imit iv repined from the t:ooimittee appointed to ic.itiire of at the Bev. Mr. 0' / It appeared that two Calleihe tr.elestnen, industrious and pore; sous in rensee: ive 1.: I beer married in the WWII of Derry I tat. Preshrtetians. .1* ! !.ct the parties, dreading f.,e penal tie. of an obsolete law, n ert t to imply to a maple-i,cey;ar, hut on r..tle.l.:ion they ea:ne t Rev. 3lr. who te-ItOrtoed the tin:the-gr.. etre . •.. 011ogan, Couts:, thou!:t acted tin:or right in a ''ng to the wishes of the parti,s, Al the y1441i1:,' V/1.1111..11 a . 'IT ;, Pro. testants of th- Lstal.l.shed Choler., but Prer'oy lie (Mi. OT.W.E.C!:) nes not cleanly corvine d dt.t Mr. 4 in,Tan WWI not right in the vine he tun: of the settee. Ii nearer, a !tench of Northern Malis:-atet e.-re elevrir of a ,-...teary opinion, and after the parties had lived six weeks of. !her, the sight of God at least, as man and wife, it was r.•:e.npteit on the part of p leat' Northern Magistratew, to Wore, throe young romen to the Li:graded cuttition of prostitutes, acrd their has. bands to the light of mere keepers. These worthy Magill. trates were Messrs. Beresford, John Itrare, M•lfsiislaud, Lyle, and Coniilly Gage. The yomig men atid women were re ciontriereled, hcl o rc then • priwn,s, to give evidence the Priest, bat to their honour they uosnimoosly ft,- I. (Loud and continued cheers.) A luard ul ers.;o:nis wis then de spatched from Newtown.Limavady t t Osery. an•l tie: whops party were sent und-r escort to tit.: I ,te.:r place. Theo yowl: women were eimmittril to gap', under a win mt. and separated from their litishands. erode tlwy were cumin I:ett to lodge information aglisist the Rev. Mr. O'llotan, a irost wintry and exemplary tilen was ol , ligeti to fly to France to map* arrest on n capital felony. This was a stein 'mantled by the mtg. gmions of rianninn prudence on the part of the ( lergyntan, for the ..inidoe t h Jourva!, Wi 4 ll s savage hail g!iriteil ever his anticipated txecntion. (I ies of shame). Coder these circum stances the case came before the Law Cm:id:tee, aial they had felt therisrlresjustificil in giving a tee of three guineas to Mr. Perrin, fir his opinion in this case. Law Committee earns to the conclusion, that the comm;ital vas totally an illegal tom: mittaL The Statute of 1;93 bed repriltil the Lin as :t turmerly existed, and hail transmuted the ori.mell punishment iPto 6901. penalty. Ile was aware that Lortl Fillsorilen hail given an opinion contrary to this. Ilia Lerilship had deck!, that the priest should be hanged first and fined afterwards, but this was too bad even for la Popish Priest. (Laughter). It was en'. that no deteace could be made in this, unless the Protestant Clerireintin chose to give a certificate ; but notwithstanding this, the Law Committee had de termined to try the question in the way of an action for false im prisoninent. fie knew it was the object of some most influential politicians to divide the Clergy from the Laity of this country. He had seem letters from some of the highest characters, attempting to persuade the Clergy to separate their interests from the interests of the Association ; but he was happy to have it in his power to state, that these offers were unanimously rejected, that the Clergy and the Laity were animated but with one mind, and that, united as they were in heart and spirit. their endeavours, honestly arid power. fully directed, must bend to the advancement of the Emancipation of their countrymen. The follorier is a copy or the Committal:— " City and Ceitilty of) By the llagiatrates assembled at a Londonoerry. ; Petty Sessions, held at Newtown-Lima ratty, in the said County, on the 22,1 day of November instant. Be it remembered that Laurence Loudin, mbeth Loudin, otherwir.e. Moody, also Jido. Canning, en the part of the said Moody, complained of illegal marriages ce lebrated Mown n Quigly and Martha Loudin, and John Kyle and Anne Loudin, ell of Nesintosen-Liniavady, in the said county. And whereas summonses were duly served upon the tut lowirg persons. namely, Win. Quigly, John Kyle, Frederick ()'Kane, Anne Loudin,, and Martha Lutidin, and they having ape petted to rive evilence to said unlawful marriages, and having Men severally celled upon ro give their SCITMI respective evidence tmtehing the matter &fon said, they, and each of them respectively. refused to give nisch evidence as the statute in such cases require; whereby the said Quigly. John Kyle. Frederick O'Karte. Anne Loudin, and Martha Loudin, are liable by the statutes to three years' imprisonment in the common g.ul of said county. " These me, therefore, in his Majesty's name. commanding Comm. and every of one of you, on ingot lured', to take, receive, and in close custody keep, the bodice of the said AVillistn Quigly, John Kyle, Frederick ()'Kane, Anne Loudin, and 3lartlia Loudin, let the gaol of the said City and County of Londonderry, for the spacto of three years, without bail or maiteprise. " Given nailer our hands and scale, this lnd Nov. 1024. (Signed) • H. 111:1i1;40M), (Seal) "JOHN CROMIE. t Seal) " MARCUS 31•CALSLAND (Ssai) " To the Sheriffs of the City and County of Londonderry, their Haulers, and ill others curcerned." The rea titer ° f' thin J oeument exiled forth strong marks of din. approbation.-31r. O'Connell condoled by saying, %!r. Chairman, I Will not longer detain you or the meeting, but conclude with moving that the Committee be directed to bring the action as re commended. The motion was amionded by lily. O'Connell..mn. and it passed unanimously. FATAL ACCIDENT. A Coroner's Inquest was held at the Triumphant Chwict, Pembroke-mews, Knightsbridge, before T. thugs, Esq. on the bolt' of Thomas Randall. _ _ Dine Bamford deposed, that she lien in King's Heatt.seurt near the wooden bridge, Pimlico. Low Saturday week, about 20 minutes before 11 o'clock at night, she beard the deceased cry. " Ilelp, help, for Goers sake help, or I shall be lost." She went out, and crossed the bridge. The watchman came up, and she tuld hint to listen; they then heord hint cry „ Oh!" Other persora soon came, shin George Rope found the earn, who was close under the caping-stene of the New Wharf now making by the bridge. The deceased was in the mud; be was taken out, and carries( to the King's Head public-base. He was alivs and sensible, but could not move any part hut his left srnt. Henry Pitman, house-surgeon to St. George's Hospital, stated, that the devoted sus brought mon the 10:h instant, between use and two o'clock in the morning. Witi.css examined him. ari, found that he had received a violent blow on the back part of Gee neck ; it appeared us if he had fallen on some hard substance. He lingered until tl:e 23d, when he died. It hos sir ce been aster. ttined that his neck and breast.bune were broke's, which was be cause of his death. _ _ George Rope, carpenter. *aid he was coming out of the Stog's Ilend public-house. about ;tall-past eleven o'clock on Saturday week last; he licant the riles et a man; he went to the middle ef the bridge, when deceased exclaimed, " Who will assist me." It was very dark. and he could not see him. Witness went down W the wharf, and jumped oft the coping -stone into the waver. 1141411 was about a foot deep, and four:Pen feet under the coping-stoae. De called out, when the deceased begged him to come and assist him. At that tine lie was about twelve feet distant from Mtn. There were mime pieces of timber unikerneath ; his thigh wad %nese onopier:e a peat or .take was at the back part of' Ids head, and his knee crippled aeaMet hit breast. Witness raised hint on his knee. and called out ter assistance a:.il lights. Deceased said be had come Imin 11r. 4%11111 . F. t'anteer., 14, rse Guards, and wss gen% over the briilde to 11r. Death, a plumber, to repair ....ene pipes. Fib appeared sober. Ile 0111 conveyed to the King. tired public. howie, where sonic brat:iie red water was adminiare•aetl to him. ard he was Men re moved rn the llmpitat To ace.rant tor the deceased being where he was fimnd, "-mess sated, that some prtmises, formerly inclosed on the ►tile of the Whigs*, were Dow laid open. ar..l the deceased. it PAMIR, endeavourcil to go to the King's Dead public-ho•tse, the lights e.f which could he seen boat where he till f Red for want of a rail to other security, the pow men, it beteg !I down. The ants , rettirm.i e vcrd•et, " Act lJerta/ Death be a fall." The Coroner sae rtivestcd by the .luny to c form 31css-a.. , chn. son, son, amt Brice. the owners of the tett when, ot the fatal acciderd, and to tequeat that a rail or light nmy be placed there, tee prevent further accidents. Thr ..nruto Aectur .—The other day the driver of a farmer's waggon :it tt , toke by Clare was going with his waggon through the street of that village, when the horses, startitiii st Lf nue cattle, turner► suddenly round, and ran ce The jiver man, thus taken by surpri7- 1 01 ,,,..k, L 4 down and run over by the horses as well whivis of the wa;:gon, by which he had both broken, and ow , et . them in two places. with 11 protrild'ng throti i :li the skin, his wrist terribly and his ,j.tw•baue }woken in duee plats, besides swab s rise, was ell as the his Isgs ' the isj le►