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the mere slaves of their landlords, boosts sod by the strong ties of local affections; ItistAW do not receive in return the advantages which serfs and slaves elsewhere enjoy as the recompense for their lost freedom. They ire laborious agents for the profit of others, themselves drawing from the land they cultivate hardly enough of the plainest and coarsest food to sustain their wretched exist ence; yet should an indifferent harvest occur, or bad markets blight the hopes which the bounty of Providence had inspired, the rapacious steward or agent of the absent Lord does not hesitate to seise the cattle and wretched furniture of the peasant's miserable hoed as distress for rent, and sell it by auction at a moment's notice for less then • fourth of the value. The man and his family are drive• from their home, and if io the bitterness of his heart he should breathe a vow of vengeance against his oppressor, it might chance to be recollected at the first moment of general disturbance, like the present, and• help to swell the torrent of disaf- fection. The Special Commission will shortly be opened io the city of Cork. The gaols of that city unfor. tenately contain many prisoners who will be made the subjects of capital indictments. The shooting of the prisoner BuciCIAT has not yet been investi gated, and undoubtedly if it should be suffered to pass by without inquiry, the peasants of Ireland will have great cause to complain of the want of epos' justice. The body was buried without the previous holding of an inquest, to ascertain the causes of the death, although it is certain that the Coroners no the city of Cork had been apprised of. the me. lancholy occurrence insufficient time for the proper discharge of their duty. It will belong to the Grand Jery of the county, assembled et the open. ing of the Special Commission, - to present this in stance of neglect, and the Jades will not fail to mark the circumstance in a proper manner. It would, we are convinced, contribute more towards restoring the tranqnillity of the southern counties of Ireland if those who killed BUCKLEY were pub. licly brought to triad for this charge, than if fifiy of the deinied peasantry were executed by way of striking a terror into their companions. It will not be easy to terrify men who venture, almost naked and without arms, to face the King's troops in the field; but it would teach them to place • higher value then they now do upon their lives, if they sew that they might repose upon the protection of phi laws, and that they were not. in fact, reduced tot the necessity which they now universally seem to feel, of forming illegal associations in defence of their persons and properties. , - I • After the breaking op of the Cnbipet Commit "s" ' afternoon a messenger was sesst ea e to the Kura at Bright**. Thursday morning. at eleven o'clock, Mr. K ATE, the King's messenger, arrived in Downing. itrect with dispatches from St. Peteisburgh. The ascproger travelled with great speed. He left SO Petersburgh on the 11th of January. Yesterday morning Earl BATuunsT left town fool, Bromley, ►n • Kent, nu a visit to Sir Cu Lotto. The Noble Earl returned to Louth* its the evening. Mr. WILMOT. the Under-Secretory of State for the Colonial Department, has returned to town from a visit to Lord GRANVILLE. Yesterday the Earl of HARROWEY. as Lord President of the Council, gave his annual dinner to the Cabinet Ministers. the Great Officers of State, and the Clerks of the Conned, when the roll of those Gentlemen, three for each county, who were nominated in the Court of Exchequer last Novt'mber, was arranged. previous to their being pricked for by the KING. The Lad of LIVERPOOL gives a grand parlia mentary dinner on Monday ut Fife House. . Tl►e Right lion. the Speaker of the House of Commons ha. issued cards of invitation for his first public dinner on Sunday, the 10th instant. The new Crown, wlidi, we understand, is of the most splendid description. and which is to he worn by his MAJESTY for the first time on the opening of the ensuing Parliamentary Session, been de posited in the Jewel House ut the Tower. The decorations of Ins MAJESTY'S state coach are now completed, by placing on the back parotid of the body the royal arms. beautifully executed, and tastefully ornamented with the several Orders of the Garter, Bath, St. Patrick, trod St. Andrew. The Ktma has been graciously pleased to ad. dress a letter, in his own hand-writing, to Sir HURT HALFOED„ the President of the Royal College of Physicians. desiring that he and his successors should consider themselves vie rule rjficii Physicians Extraordinary to his MAJESTY, and that in their attendance at Court they should appear dressed in the costume prescribed for those who enjoy that honour. A vessel has arrived at Liverpool from Buenos Ayres, with letters to the 30th October, ten days later than the advices previously received from the same quarter, but they do not contain any political hews. Order and tranquillity prevailed, and the Aim of the Government were gradually Oecoming Thole organised. The markets were glutted wits► merchandise. which had induced several English homes established there to send cargoes ►ound Cape Horn, to Chili and Peru, and th►s circumstance *ill no doubt add to the dilemma of the many ape "dunes who already swarm on all the shores of the Predle. A letter from Lisbon, dated January lit, says—. !Ulnas DE CAIIIIO lately made a cootie's, , w hich is supp or t e d by a ll t h e A mer i cana in th e free its object i s to d e clare the port of Lisbon ', r ,tefer Brazil pr o du c ti o ns, an d to repeal all the •tistom-iiouse regulations which embarrass the ' rid e between Portugal and Portuguese America. b °tin's! would thus become the general tiorpot for oar Colomeo.” - the 1 -~ ; a, 1 I - si td" t , •-••••••• .."" CAP Wimp, - POETRY. [FROM A SERIE. OF PORNO, JUST PUBLISHED, ENTITLED " ITALY."I GINEYRA. Hever you should come le Modena, (Where among other relics you may ate Tamers bucket—but 'tie riot the true one) slop at a Palace near the Reggio-gate, Dwelt iw of old by one of the Donati. Its noble gardens, terrace above t , And rich in fountains, statues, cypresses, Wall long detain you—but, before you go, Eater the boos`--forget it not, I pray you— Auld look awhile open a picture there. 'Ti. of a Lady in her earliest youth, 't " The last of that illustrious family; Dose lay Zsmpieri—bnt by whom I care trot. He, who observes it, ere he passes on, Gams his fill, sad comes and comes oohs, That he may call it up, when far away. She sits, iselinirg forward as to speak, 'Het Hps b ilf oriels, and her finger up, As tbo' she said w Bewsrer her vest of gold aceridered with dowers and clasped from head to foot, ♦a satarald stone in every golden clasp ; Aed ea her brow, fairer than alabaster, A coronet of petiole. But thee bet face, &lovely, yet so arch, so full of mirth, the overflowing' age innocent ►eart— lt harems tor still, lb& snaoy a year has Iled, Like some wild melody ! TT Alone it hangs OSe► a mouldering hair-lows, its companion, Aa oaken chest, half-eaten by the worm, But richly d by Antony of Treat, With scripture stories from the Life ut Christ ; A chest that came from Venice mid had held The ducal rubes of some uld ancestor— That by the way—it may be tree or false— Bat dJu't forget the picture; sod you will not, When you base beard the tale they told me there. sho was an only child—her acme Gi The joy, the pride of an indulgent father; And in her fifteeeth year became a bride, Marrying at, only son, Francesco Doris, Her playmate from her birth, sod her nest love. Jest as she looks there la her bridal dress, . She was all geotleoess, all gaiety, Her pranks the favourite theme of every tongue. But now the day was come, the day, the hoer; Nuw frowning, smiling for the heasdredth time, The nurse, that ancient lady, preached decorates; And, in the low, of her yonth, she rave Her hand, with her heart le it, to Francesca. Great wu the joy ; but at the nuptial feast, Wheis all este down, the Bride herself was wantiv. Nor was she to be found! Her father cried, " 'Ti. but to make a trial of our love!" And filled his glass to all ; but his bead shook, And soon from guest to guest the pack 'wad. 'Twits but that instant she And left Franceseu, Laughing and looking beck and flying still, Her ivory tooth imprinted on bis auger. , , , Bet oovr, alas! she WM Isot so be Amend ; Nor frees that hour could auy thing be guessed, But that she woe uot! Wary of his life, Fraiteeteo flew to Venice, and. anbasking, Flung It away la battle with the Tor*. Donati lived—and long sight you have even An old men ersuderinias iu qUeet of dome-thing, Something he could not fiuil—be knew nut what. When he was gone, the house remained awhile Silent sad lenantleas—then weal to strangers. Full fifty years were past, and all forgotten, When on an idle day, a day of search Mid the old lumber la the gallery, That mouldering chest was noticed ; and 'lvan laid By one as yorug, as thoughtless as Ginrvra, " Why not remove it frutu its linking-place ?" 'Twat done as swot as said ; hut um the way It burst, it fell; sod 10, • skeleton, With here and there a pearl, an emerald-stone, A golden clasp, clasping • shred of gold. All else had perished—save • wedding-ring, And a small seal, her mother's legacy. Fug with a name, the name of both, There fbi. had she found a grave! Within that chest bad she concealed lime'', Fluttering with joy, the happiest of the happy; Wises a spriaplock, that lay its ambush there, Faaatword bet down for ever ! • Arrivals at Edioburgh— Lady &noun ; Sir Ronald C. Feretsrann, M.P.; Henry Monteith, Esq. M.P.; and Lieutenant-Culonel Departurev from the same place— The Earl of Ro•sly• ' Lord Loughborough, Sir David Moisrreiffe, Sir James Writhe, the Hononrahle Maule, M.P. the Hon. William Holm., !Well Fergus.. lon, Esq. of Keith, Mrs. Emission, Min Cleland, and Captain Dunbiggin. There are at this time only five of the theatrical enntempormirs of Mr. GARRICK living. viz.—Mr. WROUGHTON. MI.. HARTLEY, MI•. MATTOCKS, Mr. WEWITZER, and Mr. QUICK ; the youngest of whom has passed the 75th year of his age. The funeral of the late Duchess of ST. A 1.11 AN'S reached Lincoln on Tuesday forenoon from Lon don. The hearse was hung round with escutch eons, and attended by mourning casette., in one of which was the usual solemn emblem of deceased quality, the curtmet of her Grace. borne on a velvet cushion : pliiipes and other sable hoitours closed the melancholy procession. The body lay io state all Tuesday at the White Hart tun above-hill, and proceeded thence for Hedbourit 011 IVedneaduy. Great Tom sent out his dolelul mood in the fore noon half-minutely, and the bells of the other churches in Liuculu I:twilled as the procession passed. - • -... rail Dub sad Doehearse OweWaltham, ao4 the 111111,0f ......a ttlativarl @linnet iklit sues oin. i 717 7 .1.7 7-7111 IV" . im• aglawhisseimaratesaiwar is rativA d Aim , fitaßl iiiiiielvetrlok . 110 ' Win . 16 4 1 1 , 1 1 4 11 1 081 day. 1wt . : 4+1224 sr Lord snd Lady Nugent are expaelsk from Heir seat, Liter', Backs. The flattidaery family are sepecleffitieletreelnillteagy the seesaw from their seat, Hatfield.. !I nt Viscount and Viscountess Grateelftlitaltimeiliatai to arrive this day at their residence Is lieubsastleetel. Berkekysqusre, from their seat Is Suffolk Lord Eacembe has arrived at Claremont Hotel, Road stead. Sir Henry sad Lady Georgina Wellesley united yester day at the Clarendon Motel, New Bond-street, from Hat field. Sir Jobs Newport, Bart. has returned to town from Hun tingdonshire. Lord Boston nod the Hoe. Mimes Irby are strived at their house in UM!, GrUllVellOrStfeel, from their seal,.llllaimer Lodge, Backs. Lord Sinclair has arrived at his house in Sacked's-street from his lest, Niabitt House, Berwickshire. Earl Gower arrived yesterday at his house in Haaiiltos place, from 'lnmost Greneille's seat in Suffolk. Lord F. Osborne has arrived in town from a tour. Lord Glavainis left town yesterday for his seat, St. Paul's, Walden, Herts. Was.Frentsolle, Esq: 111. P. sad family, have arrive.' at their house in Staniopeatreet, Mary-fair, fur the season, front their seat, Engl-field Green. Messrs. Fardale are arrived et the Royal Motel, st. Jaineesstreet, from their seat in Lincoloshire. Captain Philip, 10th hussar* ' has left ditto fur Bath; and Jnbui Gore, Esq. fur Oxford. Captain Jones, 10th humeri, Imo left town for Walk Captain Lewis has left Haickeit's Hotel, Dover.streetAir his seat in Hants. • •••• James Lemieux. Esq. arrived yesiaiday at thipa.Japies Hotel, Jermya-street, from Scotland. Lord Grenville is expected in lowa ow Monday from hie meat, Dropeisure Lodge. The Duke of Grafton is expected In town neat week from his scat is Soffolk. 'IPASWONARti storzitWir .. r t s . COL 1 I AG. • TRIMPTON PARK MEETING, ESSEX. THURSDAY, JANUARY 31. THE SILVER CUP.—COUPLES. Mr. Waldron's y. d. Sancho, beat Mr. Harrisou'shlk. b. Maria. Captain Giotto • bl. d. Fiddler, beat Mr. Foes brindle d. Lurch. Mr. Wolcosnlis w.d. Petty, heat Mr. T. Gee's y. tl. Warrior. Mr. Illaplesues fawn b. Sally, beat Mr. Hutchinson's lalk. d. Diamond. FIRST TIES FOR THE CUP. Mr. Waldron'. Sancho beat Capt. Colattes Fiddler. Mr. Maple-fuses Sally beat Mr. Wolconab'is Petty. TIES FOR THE CUP. Mr. Waldron's Sancho beat Mr. Alsplesim's Sally. Sancho won the cup, and Sally the maples. MATCHES. Mr. West's Mk. d. Smuggler, beat Capt. Nara w. b. Nancy. Mr. Pontine. r. b. Juliana, brat Mr. Horucastle's y. d. Wasp. Mr. Phillips's r. d. Neale, beat Mr. Ruileu'r hr. d. Put. ' The harts were strong on their legs, and made souse excel ' bIN runs. Tliti CHASE. .• -..s a• 4 .. . --••••-• , , ms svataset4 .at I • 1111 r. Siefweirs #Ox bounds will !meet fiat iffy, Fe em MT 4, at Stone's Guess; cm Thursday, at 7, at Coe Abbey; `aged es Saturday, 5, at alitlideldeach usurmiNg at half-punt 'Tan o'clock. Mr. Chauorth's fox hounds mill meet on Monday, Fehrm 'try 4, at Stow Wood; Warheads), 6, at Brpckball ; Thu dip, Y, ee Puwaley Park ; and Saturday IL M ii , ..ak.. W ,l a.1.7.-r— -ftratarimniitig at half past ten. Earl Fitswillisin's hounds will meet on Monday lig Aversby Wood, os Wednesday at Thorpe Wiiod, I ' Friday st Startwiek Pasture—each day at ten o'clock. ~, i Lord Yarborough's bounds will meet uu Monday n Ashby Cottager 's Platt, on Wednesday at 3leltOu Wood, on Friday et Ludford, and ou Saturday at Sival op Cressniail--each day at eleven. The Earl of Searbrusigh's hounds will meet on Monday neat at White Honors, un Wednesday at Gammon Town, said on Friday at White Houses—at haltpast tru o'clock sack day. : BMWS Illuar.—Sie Richard Sottores hounds will meet on Monday at Olankney, on Wednesday at WelEugore, on Thursday at Langieurth Bridge, and on Saturday at Spittal— each day at eleven. The Gillingham fox hounds will meet on Tuesday at Hingham, on Thursday at Holme Wood, and on Saturday at Hagnehy Cross-lanes—each day at half-past leo. We understand Geo. Oahaldeston, Esq. Imo, taken the Yorkshire Holden...as country, and will courrunime bunting on the 16th instant. Mr. Meynell's hounds have lately had some very capital runs, particularly one ma Monday re' 111 l fgt.' ; they met at Cation, and found in the Osier.bed, and after a Borst of Ave and-thirty minutes, killed their fox in high style, at Nether Seal; the scent greatly improved after the lir.' tensity Mi nute., and so quick a thing has not been tape:tented Were this. season. Few parks of bound, of the present day rank so high in estimattur as Mr. tleyuell'a. TROTT, G 314TCu. The match fur 300 guineas between Mll~4 Al:Addison and Muir Idsworth, to trot three miles, mid to carry ten stone each, was decided early yesterday morning WI the Mains,. read. Betting was six to four un Mr. Maddison, and even that the winner did nut du the ground in eleven owinistes. The cavalcade was thin, a secresy haring hero observed to Imp the borers from breaking bib, a gallop from noise. Mr. Mailitismia bruhe at h•lf • mile while trailing by three lengths, but he came up with {lr. floarklaworth's mare at the twu miles, she having bruhe into a gallop also. A severe rate Wiwi, neck and neck, until within • hundred yards of when the little the mare had left in her was exerted, and she won by three lengths IU eleven minutes and forty eight wruude. It la thought that the exertinn in the Morse to catch the mate alter breaking, lust the match. The Right Hon. N. Vassirraiti was on Thurs day night admitted a Fellow of the Society of Aunt queries, into which learned body he was vleetvil on Thursday se'siniglit. The Eail of ABERDEEN, the President, was iu the Chair. This is the last day of Mr. Hoes's Sale of Books by Auction, at 45. Inagate-Nit, w h en h e w. sell a ;outlaws.. illuminated early MS. of the Bible, in three volumes, on •cllas; with • Collection of O.Tford Almanacs, Sae impr►saious; Books of Prints; sod other splendid Works in elegant Bindings.—The Sale will com mence at Half past Ttsehe to a minute. On the 14th last was found in the g r ave l pit, Ilt or to ' J anney Mill, two miles Iron, Spileby, at shout twelve lett below the surface of the earth, a tooth to-longing to sow siiiinal with winch we are tinacquaintrel at this day. It appears to be one of the grinders of an animal of immense size, and is now inn state of petrifaction. Its weight is 21b. 3us.; and it answers to the description given in the Encycloperdia Britamniea of one of the grinders of the Hippopotamus. The curious may see it ou calling ut Peavey Mill. *Flit ....4410.1rl - 7 /A ell d 1 Ti Ailiat l 4o l 4la•- • 1111775 H PRES 4 will s'• ..,oeit Alir M e i . 1 10 Tlr lt! , I - • : Lo well.. • =JR, JANUAItIf p o i %ASO% Hooded, not Demi 1: 'lll6l-4Ve lire here in an age of wonder, of civic and Wl tical excitement almost unexampled in the eveatio I history of oar country; we breathe, in fact, an 'atmosphere so highly charged with the elements of rivW discord, that the phases which 'obscure and brighten our horizon at intervals ni rapid succession, might be regarded as so mall "mounts anticipations of future dimention, if we had not been Ise( accustomed to witness the intol er ance, and' to despise 1117 impotence, of a faction to whom these iembeatiuns are solely . attributable—of a faction too, which, is their representative . character, have been most signally.hommeed (though most elnworthily rewarded) by Royal femme; yet now array them selves% open and insolent rebellion against the sill of their Sovereign. This you will think strange, almost incredible, cousiderimi the entire stale of our editions with your eons. try, and after all the rude a which have been lately made to reconcile the policy of a Governmeat now most anxiously disposed to meliorate the condition done people— to render us, In fine, prosperous and happy. But we strug gle with this Intolerant faction, of which the Corporation is the foes% as with an hydra, and rhea we hope to have I achieved a victory and crushed the mousier for ever, we Gaol him revive again, assuming a thiourea% fantastic slid pro : scriptise shapes, each partakiug of some new attribute of his original deformity. During the King's visit all was joy and exultation, witani. only tied concord; the great body of his subjects received him with triumph awl seelani•tiarti—eau simultaneous burst I I of pure undisguisail loyalty spread from shore to shore— the whole Gallo* appeared to rise en muse to welcome the Royal Stranger to a laud which had never before felt tie fuWsieps of owe of his rare in tinalioyed friendship. They did not desire may pledge for the anticipated happineee they hoped to enjoy form the visit—their loyalty was the Native offspring, nut alone of principle, but of passion, glowing Rom the purest source of national lioapitalily—it was not a frigid token of allegiance to the first magistrate, bet the powerful impulse of a former attachment to a favourite Prince reanimated and revived, and by a happy coincidence of circumstances, now Goodly consecrated on their restive lend —" They gave, in the fulness of their joy, generous credit for the future blessings of his reign, and paid in ad vance the dearest tribute of their effeetiusi." But this great national jubilee has been celebrated, It mesld sees, is vain; the faith whit+ was plighted epos the altar of our country, our Sovereign himself assisting at the ritual, in which was included au one of the least of its eon ditioes, an abstinence from all irritable excitement, lies been grossly violated, not alone at the Bacchanalian orgies of the Mansitro•bouse and at Morrison's, but in the midst of the forum, in the face of open day. The wounds which siege. recommit, Civil war, bigotry, and prejudice had Melded, which time had eiratrised, and Royal beneficence had emirs . soured to lae.l, by his own gracious condescension, have , been opened anew, and the demos of discord, loosened from his chain., revels in malignant triumph at the misthiefs which he hopes still to inflict upon the peace of our society, and the interests of our unhappy country, as if our soul, 'already saturated with the blood of her children, and strewed . with motmentents of our shame, of faction, and civil strife, world seem to have imbibed so much of the poison, as to have imparted even to the offspring of successive geomatioes of the same caste, an instinctive •ntipaiby to the growth of liberality, an heritable claim to the right of predominance, asemsdaety. and exclusion. lileetodhese proofs of a disposition to counteract teeny eillhollet our Government to diffuse a spirit of euatiliatiow t% our people been confined to the civic revels to which alluded, although we might exclaim, " keine et, yet we might still hope, in the charities of our us. tf trite, that when the conflox of the passions produced by the Influence of excess had subsided, and reason was again allowed to resume her dominion, some maiefestatiems slf contrition would have followed, and adopting fur use motes, fnjerferum I-median est Wirier," the de unken exploit would have passed away, and the eta% be at once washed from am amaieeies. But the late triumph at the Etldbittasit House, with the circumstances attending it—the yell of an civilised, intolerant seelansation, which was put forth on the rejection • , f ten or twelve moat respectable Catholic mer ' chants from a constituent body, composed of I,MIIO Pro.. ' testauts, has al once dissipated our hopes and confirmed our lean, exposed the folly of tampering with the perjudiees of jimorancie, suit demonstrated the danger of coullding power he the fanatics of exclusion and bigotry. I It is Notoriously uwiug to our political misfortnees that / Is faction, iusienifieent sod contemptible in all the relations • of comparative wealth, indepeollenee, and commercial re. .epectubility, have been able to usurp the dominion of our City, and to regulate its political concerns with so much of the despotism of party spirit, 1111 to exclude every particle of that constitutional liberty which we happily enjoy from our own Government. Some feeble • Innis have been made at different intervals to purge this body, or the Corporation, ea it is usually termed, of the dross of which, with few ex ceptions, it has been generally composed ; to engraft open it, and indeed to persuade the leadiug mud respectable classes of the mercantile interests to assume their station% ' sod mole especially as to the Guild of Merchants, so %a ported in numerical strength and smarm; rousideration, to maintain, by a eumpeteut delegation, the weight and superiority to which they were entitled. But so many of the former description had already obtained a sort of p ip. live right of euecession ; so much uf petty caballing, party spirit, and low intrigue, usually prevailed, that it became not alone a formidable, but a diseesling task, to attempt soy reformation; and thus the faction in power, at all times eu euuspicaues fur intolerance, yet so destitute of any other claim to distinction, have been enabled to remote is quiet possession of the tyranny which they have raised. Though little disposed to cavil with the policy of our ' present Government, and still less to arrest or control the privilege of rewarding conspicuous merit, the strongest ex citement to emulative distisetion, yet whet. the wishes of our Sovereign have been an directly violated, and his Govern ment %stilted (net' threateued), in the very mansion too, minds he had himself consecrated to peace mid harmony, we must be allowed to feel a certain degree of indignation at the honours which have been lavished with so unspariug a hand on certain individuals of this body. It is to he sure I a deduction forced upon every man's reflection, that badges of this kind, conferred without merit, can hardly be WWII without contempt; and we also k mow that, with true exeeptionw, they have been fortuitously cast is the wry of those why oh- tattled them, and therefore gives' with (ithe impartiality, but still without the slightest superiority of claim from indivi dual merit. We feel, dere lute, that a deep injury is in. Aided upon the established order of civil society; it is to • danger of being suddenly inverted by this extensive mid its. discriminate distrihntion of hoover, conferring nut •leurr personal, but hereditary rank. In teeth — We have Noights, Baronets, and Peers, Whose silly vanity excite our jeers; But all must own, 'tis rare, If mighty furtuues common its% can share ! Whatever part our new Lord Lieutenant may have felt himself obliged to act spun the errimesenceoteat of his dime% we have since then ample reason to conclude that ' his whole heart is devoted to the interests of his toiletry, and that he adopts with sincerity, yet without forget ting the interests of the empire, the principle " Liberia, of notate scauss." It cannot be concealed, however, that his path will be strewed with %Mashie% and that among the principal obstacles of his purpose will be found the deeply rooted policy of his predecessors. A policy whirls has justly acquired a suet of proverbial celebrity from the uniform perfections of its character—a policy in winch civil liberty has been always peering.% s. the non .1 mosey of moms.' security and national mosperity, ma weiforualy sautioed to the prejudices uf religious bigotry and imulerauce. A combination of such evils must (as it has done) have arrested i te u h il pror c t n ee i s pr a t i i f o e o i n e , ilia p si a t r e i n i, ,..e . her i th and e ardour is.x o t f ia i g n : e m l b lt. ed e that emulative spirit which gives activity to genius, enter prise to commerce, and by a system .of prose' Ipl lON Pleadtly pursued, dealing • 101 l participation to those physical ad vaster. which Provides% had lavished upon our island, I • Sir Rubcri SL•w. __:mot: ••f! • R q• : - -- - • lab* aliklirodilkAiiii to the semi., a living monument ~0 4. „„,, ~, taimo i rc of civil discord, dist : A c t ium , seil is ourse _ Tet the partisans of ibis systerni-ii the advecates , for Its continuance—the biguts of the old school—the Mo nopolists of place, power, and dominion, hate sew. eat tbeursefees against its dissolution, and ages of ppm,. elod, of enjoyment, and of practice in its evils, Os •r• tom and its crimes, will nut satisfy them: tl:ey lute but lie thirlitical disorder, breathe freely but its the atmosphere of &Mimetic strife, social disunion, and nat io nal d egra d at iou. 'nay now exclaim, that the Protestant Church is in darer, lbw Protestant people betrayed, and the Protestant Cassino- Ition attacked, by the policy of our preseet Guverumeet, as suming the great privilege of Catholic Emancipation as one ' tails objects. The Church! what arc the elaugers which me nace It ? ft is fenced around by the barriers of aristociary--. its Noll from whence Its pillars have ariaeu almond rectos. sod ( betonyth to the Est•bliebed Reletion-19 20ths at least ti' I the proprietors of our island, irLetior rerideut or at :rower. Ipr:ifess the Protestant faith; they, lit fact, austaia the h.:,.. den of the revenue of the Chu, 4, by rveuiuslly couteii.c. Ilog, in the abuse ratio, to it s s u pp o rt s th ee , i f coi • version from this faith he not one of the commie:more, of emancipation, from whence cometh the danger? Any modification of the tithe system was titter ioicaded eve abridge the revenue of the Church, mid an actnil. she. lition of this whet% except from revolution, could ne ver be attempted but on the priuciple of seibotit•tioe, and this would still fix the burden where it stood, for a tax I of this description, in whatever shape it coined, must, b^ regarded at abstracted from the revenue of the laud. aril consequently from the pockets of those who own it ; hat with a Proteetant King, a Protestant Parliament, eu.l a Governmeut its all things substantially, ems filially, and literally Protestant, from whom cometh the Jaeger ? The Protestant people betrayed! flow is this sophism to be maintained ? The Protestant population, it is true, bear% a disparity in numerical strength of at least one to three • I i their Catholic brethren ; but this Lomeli's l sumo ioril sin phy sical force is opposed by a political predotninsace in all the other attributes of power, quite sufficient to temos:e any an t it i paled danger from its meaning, unless *c appreh.tol a dere• limit:to of the duties of our Goveisemeut, totally incoueis. tent with the energy of its character. Along with this, the commanding influence of the landed interests already stated can hardly be affected, except by that which would divest them of their property; nor can property itself be ex posed to any greater danger of transfer and revolut:iel by this mst, than if we remained as we arc, for already and for many years a perfect equality of right belong to Catholic and Protestant in the acquisition of landed pro perly. While the interests of mankind, therefore, coutiLee to be regulated by the iuflueuee of property, so long must the connexion between landlord and tenant, mliaterer be their religious creeds, continue subject to the same indu. rime. Heber the legitimate ascendancy of the landed interests over the political represcatatient of our country smite,. little danger of declension from Catholic eusaucipation. But, for the sake of argument, let it be admitted, that at no distant period the number of Members actually Peat i to Parliament amounted to one-third of our entire represen tation, consisting of 100 Members—a thing utterly improba ble, within the range of any ordinary computation—what could they attempt, however disposed, against a phalanx con sisting of MB Member% together with the remaining heal ' of their own representation? An alliance with the Opperei lion, however intimate, could hardly endanger the safely of the Coustilution i• the opinion of the stanchest Tory, or the most violent Ultra, nor milers we convert them at once isle a band of traitor% ready to batch another gunpowder plot, can there be any justifiable pretext, at this enlightened period of our history, for refusing a privilege, tine cootioued possession of which must evidently be censtingeot spot. the constitutional discharge of its duties. This responsibi lity must, i• troth, be considered as one of the great eccuri ties which connects itself with the measuie, whatever may be alleged by one of its leading advocates t to the contrary. II is manifestly a great experienced is legislation, mainly bottomed epos the confidence entertained in the continued loyalty of the Catholic people, and retributive justice miss' necessarily follow any vistiatioa of the compact ; but as Alio mischief sever could arise under rircesenstaneee ineurtitio; less danger to the security of the Empire, neither can Ite experiment be made tinder a coincidence of relations more favourable to its adoption. The Constitution attacked! The constructive application of this charge has been already anticipated; two, in fart, • f its constituesit and most important brunches have been euth eiently examined, yet enough remains behind to render it still of paramount interest. The Constitution implies the Cu vernmem, for we must regard both in this cave to he ay nemyrauus terms; not so much because they might in them selves bear distinct application% as because they most'be indissolubly united to give force to our mg...mews. What are the dangers then to which nor Government is liable to be exposed from Catholic Emancipation? The physical energies of a people, however numerous, eau only be ren dered available to any purpose of hostility by an organised disposition of their force. In this rase the highest ratio which can be maintained with troth is one to three. Taking the strength of the *bole empire at 21 millions, and 'et limiting the Catholic people of Ireland at above five Mil lions (excloolve of at least 2,000,000 Protestants), we ski., then, could say effective, ur suceeessful disposition of five force be attempted against the peace, and without the know. ledge of the other three-fourth% practised, as the greater put t have been, in vigilantly watching, mid socressfully resitting civil commotion in eve. y shape, whether of civil war or pea. (Mal agitation ?—we confidently soy, impossible. But why should any suspicion be now esocitaioed that airy such eke position smelly prevails among the Catholic peoplel Thiry have no encouragement ft ors experience, the monitor Ads wisdom, to hazard another attempt at separation, &for key ing failed under circumstances Mitt favourable to the melt enterprise, than any which ever can occur aosi a. The ittealty of a devoted people, comparatively week is plepvcal strength, hut mifficieutly organised is military elieeiirier, iucluding, let if be recollected, a militia force, almost win. sively Calkofic, was atiuudautly sufficient to sustain die contest, nod, with trilling succour fium Euglanel, to vital' the spirit and extinguiels the hope which f.d and commeuce it it ! But have they any encouragemeri from the de-dosing strength of Iliitish power? Nurse: for that was never mute furoodable, su ad t h e attributes of civil and political etitr.2ll., during the exiettuce of the ssieriarchy Yes, more forni,do. ble to her euemirs, more glorious to herself, more em"iieut and distinguished throughout the world—mute ce en peient, iii fine, to crush setsellioo, punish treason, lied to control, yet to consolidate, by bold, liberal, and cunslit.itionad emits, all the elements of leer greatness. But bare the Catholic people any putierefesi metiers for wishing an entire cuosolidatioli of .d.ength, moral, pont cat, and physical, with the British Couetitutiem ? They have time and anxiously desired 'leis itui .... , is.fitietieed ii•d -0. - ..- be the superior eminence, the purity and *iodine of tin ( 1 / 3 , 6"- her, but that instinctive pessiiiii which the love of comic. f tied time unrivalled glory of the empire toast hove He spired them oath. It is besides in tie 1131111IC of ILA*. it gather wisdom from expelienee, and the le•sena of ilitsel _ tuae have generally au extra tendency to beg. t emeteeno- Every circumstance which could s xctte a diapoiatioit Ito or wive the embers of pulisical hostiiity to iii di-li :o.n.o. : eye sad connexion, have beets enter removed tit t t.th.e.c.t.ti, while the political settlemeet of Europe has it., il .i..ur. mountable obstacles to the future pewit.% of e.-re:eti to. tropic. Suppose she uneasiest then accomplished, rill site vigilance of the British Government relax, ill pro b e. ::•in ele they confer power on those who might indulge a lateut oh& position to bossy it? %Vial they repose coufide bee in rod (erring places of trust and resiponsibility, without tried tel terrify ' Will they reward ambition *Muesli merit ? --iei vices wiihuut desert ?—dieti 'Owe Geom.& in iii,.... m a. rate oegligtote of the duties of their bust ?—aud 'warden the adesiontration of their affairs over the must imminent portion of the empire to men utiworth) of the ch ar . :e t it such mischief-, us such M00...01e0, as we might better boil them, wise eeppos..l to re , tiit es a necessary conseeloyaca of cleave:meows, then melted *4e should be honied to mid; • Mr. O'Cunsell %list's the Catholic population of Lt_ laud at ..w-thud of the *bole empire ; Ist.t this is est dently au extoffetasiou whicS I base uodispositioo to adopt. t Mr. OTostoell, srho shades to tba menu:twat of Ow peal statairaaa, if the Ineaattre'of Emauctpativa toicrecnily itoplittl nays taJclually. • . 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