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OATHOLIC QUE: 5T101.4. the meeting that took place at Sligo; the result of which has been to petition the'PßfNcE llioES: - .1.- to resist. thc turo).Lent '' Claiins" of th© Irish Papiqs, xvill, we understand, prove the precur-- sor of si m ihr in Ireland : and there can be no doubt but that so patriotic and laudable an example witi likewise be followed throughout Great Britain, where the benefits resulting from the happy union, al:' Church and State must be at least as fully appreciated as in the Sister island. — That tie insidious attempts which have been made' to injure this goodly 'bulwark of the Constitution, by a few turbulent individnals, 'aided nominally. by a great portion of the vulgar and ignorant po-' pulace, Should have created's° considerable an agitation :has been nvter of astOnishrnoit and. regret to us ;. and it is high time that the enlight-, coed part of the community, botb here and in the sister kingdom, shouhl testify their abhorrence - of ssnch proceedings. . The pages of history.abound with instances of the detestable intrigues, 'absurd follies, and blOody licts of the adherents of PAP/if. ItomE, but well known as they generally are, they are nevertheless too often suffered to rose their‘infinente by want of due consideration ; arid it is doubtless with the -laudable and patriotic view of keeping these facts in remembrance, that Mr. &ion', the author of that.excellent and 0(4 . 10 Publication, the Clovis Calendaria, has so . judiciausly 'touched on such topics. The work certainly odes not profess to treat on Catholic absurdities ; but as-id the gene ral historicaranount he has afforded of the politi cal- holidays, ecclesia , ,tical ordinances, popular. customs, kkc. noted in r *referable, to the Alma nack, he has had to deseribe.thoie, remnants of Ancient absurdity, yet held, in, remembrance. : . by their retention in those ephemeral publiCations, fie has, in a like.historieal.manner, re-introduced to our notice the gross and in many instances im pious rites and ceremonies or that Church from which we are emancipated, to afford, as it were accidentally, but very opportunely, a caution against ,admitting the pdssibility of a return of such abominations. Several parts are appropriate to the present times, hut the following in part!cu lar is, so peculia: apMicable, that an apology is not requisite for introducing it to the attention of our readers. After giving, in tic article on the " Gunpowder asuccinct and judicious de tail of the principal circumstances connected with ' that horrid attempt, we find the following given ::3; the sentiments of the Protestants of those days, which' are strictly in unison with what must be the reasonings and .feelings.of the enlightened of the 'present time: • "From the confessions of Oine of the conspi- rators, particularly of Robert Winter, it appears that in the reign of Elizabeth, about four., years prior to this. diabolical. plot s the Catholics,' en r4,..t.zl at tl.e undeviating preference displayed by the Queedfor the , RefOrniecl-Church, had meditat ed sonic great effort to - r-estolish Popery l in Eng land. - Robert Winter had,, for this purpose, been depnted by Oswald - Termond, alias Greenwell, a Jeguit, Henry Garnet, the superior:of that society it, England, Robert Catesby, and Francis Fre shaM, two English gentlemen, topraceed private ly to Spain,. with a proposal that an army should be sent to England, with which, these persons assured Philip, the then Spanish Monarch, all the Catholics would instantly co-operate. Whether this original design would have been. attempted taust everrem•lin in doubt, though it be well con- Ermid that, through the mediation of Arthur' Cresswell, a Jesuit resident in Spain, PetruS cesa, the King's Secretary, and s'ranciscus, San-- clovallius, Duke of Lerma, the affair was ericou-, raged by Philip ; and that Robert Winter, upon some assurances he hall received, returned to Eag,= land, to corrimunicate with Cateshy and the other s idllains. The death of Queen Elizabeth, before project could be sufficiently matured for e . se . -. 'Cation, and the accession of James the 'wholly disconcerted the conspirators ; the Plan,. before approved, now met with the determined re fusal of Philip. ,had sent ambassp;dois to treat with the new King;' nobly declared that Mo narch, and he could no longer listen to their PropOs ds, however faVourahle their prospects of success.! • James the First having.been educated in die tenets of the Roman Church, that circum stance afforded the Catholics a probable expecta tion of acquiring by address that ascendancy in the state, for which they were ready to' enter into any'sChemes, however atrocious ; but . for happily succeeding-generations they were' disappointed 'in their fond expectations. Whether, from princi ples of conscience or of , a political nature, Jaines proved a firm supporter of the Protestant interest. The rejection of thepetition of the Papists for li berty of - Conscience, did riot diSenurage them from preparing others of still more boll pretensions ; ut - the bloody reign of Mary was too fresh in the I ;emembrtutce of the nation to afford Irma proba-• foility of success ; the 'Protestants around the hrone'interposed every obstacle that policy could inggest to these designs, from . a firm and well ,l'ounded conviction, that admission of the Catholics 1 0 equality_ q t . rights, would be, infallibly followed by ,Q struggle for political and ecelesictstical ascendancy, tPf which the f a tal cons e quen c es w e r e ob v i ou s ! ueprived of all hope . of assistance ftom Philip, and t lespairing of succeeding by petition, a-design was onceiveti of retnoving by onc.blow the chief ob 'taeles to their wishes,.by blowing 'up the King Ord the Protestant NObles and Commons with 4jilnpowder,' when assembled by his Majesty in arliainent. Catesby is universally admitted. _to P.re- . been the author of this diabolical plot," &c. The variety of interesting matter contained in qtis work, indu;es us to recommend it tp tbe fa- We attention of -the'publie. SWINntING.-;--Two genteelly dressed men have 'rely committed various depredations, in obtain bilg goods of different yadespeople -by plausible l ilt fraudulent pretences. 'they got two Ni al ita" bI e 'irses of a dealer in Blooinshury, on' Friday, oe'ruaight, w hi c h are t race d to have been sold the i t IY after for little more th a n half th e i r va lue. Qey gave a bill at seven clays, with the accept !lee of a fraudulent & in i n th e City,. w hi c h i s 4 • Ir lee liras up. POET Iti.r: 19ti DL:FE.e.IT OF THE FRENCH, BY WITZENSTEIN. . (From Tlu SitTuusf.) • ,The.l.im's his reilening with old time Keeps in the old Style, as we tanght by NN[ELLECGTO tnblime, •'T 41 tire New Style he . beats foe. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. . . , • A Court of Comnion Council was -„'esterdaii called, to take into consideration an Address of congratulation to the Prince Regent,• on the,late splendid Victory. • • . . . • 'irhe requisition having been read, the business was opened by_ " _:_. Mr. Deputy Box. He stated, tlnkt it had tap peared to bins, after the various deznonstrations of joy which have been manifested in the •City, and , iodee& throughout the country, on account of th e late glorious victory, rather an extraordinary Cir cumstance, that no Gentleman bad called the at- - tention of that Court to the subjet '. He had at first hesitated to bring it forward himself, ,but finding, on inquiry, that unless he did so, a total silence might be expected ; he had resolved, how ever incompetent to the task, to make theattempt. He felt that but little talent was necessary on the part-Of a person who rose-for theparpose of 'mak ing a motionlike that, with which it was his inten tion to conclude. On such an occasion, so satis fied was he of success . , that he was .confident, if . he were to put the question.at that Moment, with , out saying one word more, not one hand, not one heart in that Court, would rise to.oppose•it: On so piond an' event, however, as the victory of Sa lamanca, he might be allowed a few observations on.the manner, the • immediate and the remote consequence's' of an affair so splendid. The first advantages resulting from it were, that the king dom. of Portugal wits -completely secured and eva , cuated,,..Spain reanimated to make head against her oppressor, and a new impulse given to the other Powers now rising to resist the, tyranny of Prance. This action, in his mind, gave Lord Wellington the place of one of the first Gene rals this country had produced.. • He then. took • a view of the forces under the command of Lord Wellington, and compared them with those to which they had been opposed under Mainnont.-,-- .All circumstances considered, this appeared to him one of the most splendid victories that hattever graced the annals of this country... In Marking their gratitude to Lord: Wellington, they Ought • to bear in mind what his skill and valour had. • previously achieved. They ought to recollect the brilliant exploits which had immortalized his name atAlmeida, Ciudad Rodrigo, Bada-, joz, 'Vimiera, Talavera. as well as what he had last performed at Salannanca.. When these con,- siderations. were allimed their proper 'effect, as he trusted they would-be, he thought Lord lington must appear entitled to the warmest gra titude of the country and, of that Court. • He de dared he had no wish to connect any thing with ,the motion which. did, not belong to .it, and con. clatter'. by. moving, " That a Loyal and Dutiful Address be presented to his Royal HighneSs the Prince Regent, to congratulate him on the im portant and splendid victory Obtained :over the French by the, allied army under the command of Lord Wellington, on the 22d of July. last." Mr. QUIN thought it vas impossible, whensuch a motion was before the:Court, for any person to hesitate to second it with proper spirit. When he looked at the victory which had been obtained, without saying that the • Marquis of 'Wellington. was the first General this , country had produced, without snaking any odious comparison,.he would say that in Europe it would be difficult to find hii superior. He could not but's-ensember the doubts and fears which bad prevailed in this country when the . gallag Marquis - was first sent against the foe: He might say that he had• been sent out at. the head of a forlorn hope, which forlbru . 'ope had become through his skill and valour a triumphant army. He then took a view of the ge neral conduct of Lord Wellington, which he cha hacterised as equally entitled td - praise, %when he appeared inactive, and when he pat 'forth alltis energies. If he were not equally 'sanguine with others in his anticipations of the final- liberation of Spain, to none would he yield in admiration of the conduct'of Lord Wellington, which he could not but compare to,"that of the gallant .Admirlil Blake, . who, at a, period when great changes took place at home, merely said—" Let those who form the Government of the country send me out'. against the foes of the country, antll them if 'it be possible." If he were disposed to do so, he could say much on the conduct of Go vernment ; he could ask why Lord Wellington had not been assisted by an expedition which had been ..fitted out from a certaitlisland ? .and he could put • many other interrogatories of a similar nature - but on the present consideration, .he wished to throw every doubt, every minor consideration into the. 'back-ground, that on this day they riight all he united, heart and hand, in. the tote which they were called upon to give. That which,. of a country like ours, had before been problematical, . bad now beets proved, andit was seen by the world, that Entail:Lon land could , make.berself not less forthidable than she was acknowledged and felt 'to . be by sea. It had also "been seen, that a country sunk in the 'deepest misery, once roused, might be lifted from its degradation, and enabled to resume 'its proper. rank. He con cluded, deciaring.that he most heartily seconded the motion. Mr. I3LuNDELL objected to an Address to the Prince Regent, as he thought such an address was but an address to the Prince Regent's Ministers. It•was his wish that their thanks should be given to Lord Wellington direct. • This.he thought would be more cOngenial ivitb the feelings of the Court, and he therefore threw' out the idea. He then read a resolution, which went to give their thanks to Lord Wellington, which, however, he observed, be did not wish to press to disturb the general harmony. Oefurther stated, that, unless it ap peared to be the wish of the Gentlemen present that it should be adopted, he should forthwith withdraw it. • [Some coni , ersation followed, which, though warm at firstilerminated amicably, on its being intiinatod that it‘Was. intended to follow up the motion before the Court with a vote of thanks to Lord Wellington.] Asn differed fnom the last speaker (::tine. IThuid(4l), in thinkinn; that the present vote ‘vould be a vote of.thanks to the Minister; of the Prince flegetit . , as he was perfectly satisfied that the motion was brought forward with the hest motives, and with intentions tbe most lionest.- He howeventhought the stispieions of the Worthy (fientieni6 justified by what i pad formerly taken plaCe in.that Court, which had disgraced itself by proceedings of such, a nature, and allowed to be* introduced into a Committee . , what materially dif fered from that which they .had to expect from what had passed in Court. :He however Oilfered from - the Honourable Gentleman, becauF-e be thought that if he had any such reprehension, the proper way of proceeding was to attend in his place, and on finding that, such an attempt nnn?e. to bring forward his proposition:. the 'Worthy Deputy tic-1,10 had' brotight the mot:on forward, concurred in the surprise he hod ex pressed, at the inactivity of the Court on such an occasion. Had be originated tise,proposition -now before them, it might have appeared as if he had been running a race for popularity, and this feel ing, he assured them, upon his honour. had alone kept bins froM so coming forward. , t He, however, inclined to the opinion that the inactivity. of the Court might be, ascribed to their having exhausted themselves OrCformer occasions'so far, that they had done in anticipation every thing that it wa3 in their power to tlo. He had stated, when the . I . Court voted a sword to Lord Wellington, that the. Noble Lord had done all that it was nracticabic for him to effect under circumstances like those in which he had been placed, but he di., object to Voting a sword where no battle had been fought. The French had retreated, apd were pursued by Lord Wellington, and a sword had -been voted to his . Lordship by that Court,. in anticipation of a victory. .He(Mn..Waithman) . regretted that they . had done so, as he thought it would have beeu more gratifying to his L . ordship,, and more honouraWe to that Court and )to the country,` thatshch ho nours should have been, reserved for. Hine till now. This, however, not Jsaving been done, it now .rethaified fonthem only to compliment and congra tulate.' The Worthy Deputy had stated ir to be his iutention to connecnnothing, with the motion which didnofbelong to it.: 'he (Mr. W.) trusted he would abide by that assurance, and then he was satisfied that - the motion would be heartily • concurred _with by that Court, and prove gener ally satisfactory to the, country: He hoped our Rulers would imitate our enemy at least in one thing, by turning their attention towards the et= taininent of peace While success was on their side. They ought'to make propositions for peace when they stood upon high ground, And not wait till their prospects were clouded by reverses. If the Cotirt were to go . Mie step further than was pro posed at present, he thought it ought to be to embody something like a wish for peace 'in .their resolutions—He concluded, dec'aring that no sub ject introduced into that Court had ever had more his un'Tialified approbation than had the motion befbre them. Mr. S.'Dixox hoped the Court would not go beyond the motion. In answer to what had fallen frz):n-the last Speaker ; respecting the sword voted to .. Lord,Wilington, he contended, that the Noble ; Lord was entitled to as much credit for conquer- ing the French, army under Massena, by delay, as for vanquishing that under Iviartnontin bctle, He for one would give a preference. to that victory wh cb could be obtained without bloodshed. He thought the whole conduct of Lord Wellington entitled to the highest commendation. Nr.BrtowN, conceiving what had been said by 'the last Speaker but one (Mr Waithman) with re -spect to an address submitted to the Court, to be intended to apply to an address which he had brought forward, pledged him4el4,that that address had contained nothing- which he hati not mention ed iu.his speech. - A.fenv ekehanged on this subject by Mr.,Waithman and Mr. Brown, Which were interrupted by the Recorder's putting the ques tion. The. Hesblution • was carried nei;:ine con truclicente. A Committee was appointed to.dtaw.up. the ad dress, which was agreed 'to when. reported.--, Thanks- were voted to Lord Wellington, .and. the Court adjourned. The late election to the Headship of the new Downing College, Cambridge, has been deClared void. By . the will of Sir J. G. DONIqgiNG, the "foundt!r, the power of electing was 'vested in the Archbishops of \Tom( and CANTERBURY, and the Hands of Clare Hall and .St: iohn's"C6lleges, fOr the time.being, a majority of whom are entitled to such nomination ; hot in case. no such majo rity be declared, the right of nomination i to devolve on., the LORD CHANCt.LOr. .of ENO LANb. "Thq late cand,idates were, Sir HAR 'WOOD; who had one vote; Mr. CHRISTIAN one!) and Nrr. Sedeant LENS two tbnt, before the d'ay ot . election, Sir - IliewooD transferred his interest in favour of Mr. CHRISTIAN, WiliCh put ting him . upon, an ccLuality. with Seijeant LENS, the CHANCELLOR was called upon to nominate to the Headship thiS, 'however, his 'Lordship is said :to have' .:ecliued doing, 'under the particular circumstani:Ts of the case, and has therefore di rected. that a new election shotild take place in the course of thenet 'rerun. A banking-house in the City' has 'lately been defrauded by a confidential clerk, who reaed tit Dover to transact their business. there. He is -a young man of such respectable connections, and was - so very high in their confidence, that 4e 'was allowed to draw drafts' on the bankers : he took advantage- of this, and. drew for a very largesum, with which he absconded on Monday fortnight. On the discovery being made, Adkins, the Bow street officer, was employed to pluvie him wad i by long and diligent inquiries, tracecihim through several circuitous routes to Gravesend, Yarmouth, _COlchester; and Cheltenham, where he had taken a lodging for Fix months, under a feigned name. Here he, by some means, discovered that be Wyss pursued, and .made a precipitate retreat to Tewkes ,bury, where Adkins at last found him out, and took-hifu into custody. Yesterday the of cerpro ceeded with him to Dover. He had got involved in some s2eculations of his own, and in s 9 nae, Liuni, - gling:tr444actlnns. . • POLIVE. GUILDPIALL.—C Shuttleurgi Was yesterday taken before. Sir J. EAM - Elt, under the folihw ing cifeutnatanets :—The Over , eer of the- parish , 'Of St Rartholomeiv the Great stated, „that a re spectable inhabitant of his pariSh had applied to him to relieve a female, who had: been. de eerted by her husband. She :vas a . nAticti of Wake field., in Yorkshire, - and was married, about weeks back, to the prisheer, who had, tihaer pre •tence of seeking a convenient resinen:e, quitted Wakefield three days after the ceremoa . ,an to tally abandoned her. At- the end of four h. eeks; . her friends learfie.4l.that a box, directed to . a per son in London; had. been seat by .the friends of the prisoner to theechaeli-office e to,be forwarded as directed. This led to a suspcion that the pri soner had gone to' London . ; alti• thither the -young _ woman aid her sister resolved to conic, and thkp.arrived in London as soon as the box.— By the , advice of a iriend, ,1.0 whom they de tai'led the circumstance, they went to the book keeper of the • White" Horse Inn, nner-lane, where the coach had come te,.‘ told him their hard case, and solicited his assiStaiice, which he readily granted : and the prisoner having applied for the box, after it was refused to a p,ersoil who first demanded it, on the groand of his not being the owner, he was watched, aid traced to the house of an acquaintance. Here he was visited by his wife and her friends ;' but so far was he front receiving her with the kindness she expected, that he spurned her .vith cohtempt„ and sad, he would 1,-never live with her, us .11e. anothcee yhurig womau better.• 11 es entnated ; the poor creature had no other remei., - that: to apply. to the parish for relief, which .-was must ti) ,briog .the matter to an. issue and pechniary assistance hay ihg been afforded her, chum the ground of her 1 being deserted by her husband, the Overseer, in .order, to iadeiunify himself; had the prisoner ap prehended by . a constable. Fil - PNTRICK, the Clerk of this Office, con ceived that the over:;eer had' acted with a rigour beyond the law,- and that, : by apprehending the prisoner without warrant, lie had 11-2ep guilfy of an unjustifiable act. Pie was alst; of opinion, that the presidiiir A.ldermtv had no cognizance of tl:c offence. Tae overseer, on the contrary, defended his conduct, by produeng the Vagrant Act of the 17th of (ieo. 11, in which it was ilistinctly laid down, that any man running away front his wife, and leaving 'her " chargeable on any parish or place;" was a vagrant, and liable to be apprehended. by any person whatever, and conveyed before the Magistrate of the ,district in which he was so apprehended; who, by the same Act, had 'power vested in him to treat,such offender as a vagrant. The female in question having .become chargea ble on his parish, as casual poor, and he bemg bound to relieve -her, and •to for4eard her to her proper settlement, he conceived ,was a. suf ficient ground for the course he had adopted. After some discussion, which Mr. Fitzpatrick • said he was positive the Magistrates had no power, on veni'ch the Overseer firmly grounded himself upon the Act, and in which Sir 'J. EAmrn.. pressed his. determination to do hstiee ,to the tit;- fortunate female,who had been so oasely deserted, provided the law would bear him oucthe City.So 7 licitpt, who happened to be attending the Loam- Pion CoUncil,..wa's'ent.for, as: t l ll etst ,nude terminating the: discussion e , On his. : ; arrival, the case was stated to him by Sir Jctrs, attd lie gave it as- his opinion, that the of could .not be answerable to the parish.. of St. r Wtrtholo mew, as they 'would, refieve - themselves from the burden by ' . passing the , individual, - , who had become chargeable. upon them, to 'hes proper parish.. A•,remedy,. however, did exist; and that was by detaining the prisoner until an opportunity was afforded for the Parish Officers of Wakefield, who were likely to become the suf ferers, to attend and prost.cute, if - they thought proper. Under this opinion, Sir J.. ordered the prisoner to, be remanded until Tuesday.. A York- . . shire friend of the_ prisoner attended, and at tempted to justify him by saying he was under age. As, liewvier, the, Marriage was solemnized by lice se, the City Solicitor - observed, that, if that was the'ease de facto, he Avas liable to a pro secution for peijury, as he must, 'haye sworn he was of agehelwe be gotthe license. The young woman-,w4a so much affected, at the whole scene, that she fainted, and was carried from the Office senselesS, 'lt appeared that the marriage was the• result . of, a twa years' courtship, and that both parties were 'respectably conaected.. MARLBOROUGH-TSTIEET.-A young man, the sou of a gentleakan of \ fortune in Portland-placee was charged with having uttered several forged bankers' checks., with intent to defraud Prescott and- Co.- and pthhrs.' SMITRFIELD - MARKET, SEPT. 4. This day's Market was but thinly supplied with the dill'erent kinds of cattle : Pork sold at •last 'price, Beef, Mutton, Lamb, and Veal, are cheaper, and the trade for the most part was somewhat flat. .L---The sales in the Hay Market were not lively Hay, Straw, • and Clover, •obtained last prices.-- The following. prices and numbers are an accurate statement Tosi:ilE the Offal, per - Stone of 8111. Beef, 4s. Wel. to 55.6,1. •Ivr:titetf, 4r,: 10d. to 59. Bd. Veal, ss. ed. to es. 4d. Lainh, Zi o 4d. to 61. 4d. Pinli, 55. to 67. 2d. Beasts, 700. • Sheep and Lambs, 6,503. Calves; 140. - Pip, 2CO: • SMITTirtZtD rtcyNrAnnr.T., Hay, 31.01. t 3.1.'155. Straw, 21. 10s. to 31. Ss. Clover, 6L Os. to SICC3.' CoRN-E.T. CHAN'GZ, SEPT.4.—The Market t 9 -. day has fe.,v arrivAls of Wheat, And ,again not 'inUch,. , renlaining on band, waiting supplies, the few sales' effected are 'is aned ne4rly, - at the last quotation ; Barley rather lowe'r ; Melt and White -Pease tinclnate bat little in pricc,i Beans of each. scrt'suniewhat clearer; we haste tolerable supplies of Oats .on hand, and the tradodu!l ;n sale, harrtl7 at the late reduction ; Flour continues at late quoted. prices. Wheat - - !,18s. 1.165. 1509. Fine.ditto - 1525. 1555. Rye Barley - - - 535. 65.5. Malt - -90 s. 'Ms. White Pease (hoii.) - 755. Grey ditto 735. 903. Beaus. - - - 7 925. .975. i Tick Bean, • - 91)3., 95e. 1 Oats - • - - 675.6.3 A; R 64. • rflami ditto - - G-. 7Q,. ditto - - 72 , . 71. Rape Seed - - r 571 .57k. Fine Flour - —115 s. Ins, Sri:owls - r - 1104 1151, . .