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'OBSERVATION S 0 N' TTI lS &ATE Vi.NO.I3I,FFICTS' 01 I n ELECTIVE FRAN CIiNE IN. IRELAND. Stith States as *ere fortunate enough to re 'bounce tbc Superstitions,erforS•of ,Popery, and to emancipate themselves from the tyranny and rapa city of the Holy Sirs in the 16th century,, • found it•necessary to 'exclude its votaries front the en joyment of . political•poiver, 'and' from the high and confidential offices of government, because they were hound by the leading tenets of their religion to'snbvert it. For'this reason, Lor,RE, in his Essay.on Toleration', and ATIL,Totz on the best Mewl to Prevent the groVoth of Popery, argue strongly against even allowing Popish worship in a Protestant State: Though Popery was a fruitful source of treasonable cons . piracies, insurrections, massacres, and rebellions in Ireland, for. neatly 200 years previous to the Revolotion, its votaries were not excluded from sitting in Par liament, or front voting for Members thereof, till after that event. The first Parliament inilreland, tp which all the Counties and flotonglo -, rettwned Representatives , was convened by .1 A ti I . in the' year . 1613. Sir ARTHUR CT.IICIIRSTFaii the Lord Depnty, observed on that general election, '' they were all (meaning the Popish Members) elated by a general combination of Jesuits and Priots, who charged all the people, upon pain of exeunt - mtmication, not to vote for any persons of 'the Ling's religion ;„ and that many of thent who were returned in this manner, had been leaders of 're bellion in Inc former wars."—DcsiderataCuriosa . Iliberniea, p. 280; in his history,,book 4, chap 7. observes, that promises, threats, oath* of association, and all the devices of policy and faction w.re employed by the Popish party to , min an infinence in the elections ; and that they had snch success, that most of the Privy Counsel lors who stood for comities, were rejected for pi, s h anti factious torbuleot Lawyers, their Compe titors." The unbounded inflttence of the Popish Clergy was used in the stone manner in (he gene-, tab electidn held in the year 1639 ; for the Vice toy; Lord STAFFORD, tells us in his State Letters, that , tbe utmost pains were taken by Popish Priests and Jesuits, to Ott:Vent any of their flocks front voting for Protestants ; that they administered. extrajudience oaths to them on the altars for that purpose, threatened them with the terror's of ex.- Commitnication , find even denied the sacraments to those who would not comply.—Letter 6. 2'r7, 270. liaVing at that time the dreadful rebellion of 1641 in contemplation, they were solieitous to strengthen their patty in Parliament. It appears thu Popish members of, that assembly dis played 'in, strong 4 spirit of disaffection as' their constituents ; for on the 224 of June, 1(312, the Parliament expelled 41 Popish members thereof, fOrbeing deeply concerned as conspirators and actors in that horrid rchellion.---Trisli Conimons' Journals, vol. i. p. 298,299. The Irish papists were not subject to any penal I..itrictions at that time; for Lord ChiefJnstice LO . wther truly 'observed, on the trial:ot Sir reilim O'Neal, a leader in that rebellion " They had Peers and Commoners in Parliament, justices of the Peace, SheriffS, Lawers, .and Attornies, who were not required to take the oaths of alle giance arid snprenutey, from which Protestaws were not exempt. They had also the free and tto restritined exercise of their religion, and exercised. Papal jurisdiction in their Metropolitan and Cdtt si4torial COurt.s."---Boriase, p. 375. hat great Statestmtn, Lord Orrery, observes in hi,State Letters, vol.. ii. p„.40 . 2, that though" an envenomed hatred had ever existed between the Popish Lot& and Gentlemen, of English and blood, disaffection to a Protestant State had ~,mpletely at cordially milted them, which the P , pe had loot, but iu v.lin endeavoured to effect." op.! lemler in the constiracy (4' 164 t 4ciottssed upon oath, that all the Popish Lords, Anti tit litleMell hi Ireland Viren: engaited in it : anti that measures were taten to murder all ttl, VrOtest ants hi the of the 23d of Octo ber. Ilk confe4sion' i.vas 'confirmed by . the con cm-rent testimony tit same of his accomplices; which :time rcader will find in Temple, 'florlase, Nalton o ttoil Witt ner. 'l'he confederate Catholies of Kilkenny, who osurped all :the powers of the Legislature anti the ExecutireGoverntneut,raisedtroOps, levied motley, and - waged wur against the King's Viceroy, offer ed Ireland , in the, enur;te of that destructive re . belliou• to the Pope, the Kings of Franre and Spain, and finat!y invested the Doke of Lorrain wlth regahr 'llorlase, 128,129, 130. Again in 1689, - t be popish assembly con vented by 'Limes 11. ‘vitieb asitimed the temhlance and the - fanetions of Parliament*, as the eonfede r ite Gatholitc of y had prcvionily done; entleavoureil to eitertninatellie - whole of the Pro testants by a most grievous persecution, and by rt hill of attainder, and'to make IrOand independ . wit. England. Ail thitt•the'reader w 11 find in Archbishop King's state o f - the Irish Protestants, and to Harris's • life- of the grcat and Immortal Klotz IV.illiant. It is not less singular that true, that the icish Papiits, forfeited the whole of the lauded pr,opert-y,ot: trelan,t, in a little inure tlon 80 years for rcbellio'h j ,aad that, before titev tvcii subject to any pea r restrictionsf wh;ci! lUl\ jag statenrent 'taken from authentic . 1 ecoas Skin piece There were eonfisetedin the reign of Jamey I. 2,886,837 in the Provmee of Uloe'r - - - Let out by the Court of Claim.% as forfeited in 80 60 00 ' the great ROOline, 'or 16 , 41 - f Forfeited in the Ittbetlion of 16i.;) .I,fifio,•7P2 11.697,620 . . At length, the l'rotestant State fottnd itself under a necessity of imposing penal disabilities,on the Irish Papists ; and that great Statesman Lord Clare observed, in his speech delivered in the House of Lords, the 13th of Maretu, 1";'03, that it was done " to abridge the power and influence of the old Irish Catholics, and that it %yds a code forced upon the Protestant Parliament of Ireland, by hard necessity-s-a code which was dictated by self-defence and self-preServation, and has been flout time to time relaxed with an open and un suspecting liberality, which has beeti but ill re quited by that body of men who have profited ltit •;" anti he f a rt her observed, '' they must ac ktiOWleslge the vt istiom anti 'necessity of the old popery laws, to which 1 do not scruple to say, Ire land stands indebted, in a great measure, for her internal tramptillity." . 1 The temp , nary t ranqeillity. which these penal restrictions produced, in compelling the Irish nOm a nists to yiela, though- relnctantiy, obedience to the laws, led Government erroneoesly to hes. lieve, thal in this enlightened age they had re nounced or forgone!' the pernicious pi inciplesof their religion, which for 200 years had been, co y , stantly productive of anarchy and bioodshe'd,--- They therefoee gradually repealed the penal statutes; and in the year 1793 laud a. law passed, by which they' obtained the elective franchise and tomiy other'privileges. When that law was iii progress through the House of Lords the Ea! of Clare, well knowing the danger of granting ally share of political power to 'Papists under a Pro lestant State, observed, if this . bill.do pass, FA - lg.- :had will again have to win Ireland with the sword ; and the dreadful rebellion of 1798, and the scenes of 'robbery and asiassinal ion which for five years preceded ; it, proved the truth of his prediction. On obtaining' these privileges, the General Committee of the Roitran Catholics of Ireland assembled in Dubliii the 25th of April, 1793, .passed a vote of thanks tO the ,King,. tlie Viceroy, the Parliament, and the Protestants Of Ireland, and declared that in future they would be regardless of all religious distinctions. , They also 'resolved, " that the stun of two thousand pounds be applied' to the erecting •a statue to our most .gracious sovereign George 111. as a autonomic of our gratitude for the important privileges which we have obtained front Parliament, thiough his parental recommendation." An a few months it was discovered, that this Cont. mittet, notwithstanding these fervent professiOns of loyalty and fidelity to our gracious Sovereign, had begun, through their agent, Theo&ald Wolfe Lone, a negociatioa with the French Republican Government, for assistance to - separate Ireland from Great P,ritaio ; which they equalities! till the essplasion of the rebellion in 1798 . , luttuag in the year 1794 sent an envoy to Paris for that puts. posc, wheru tie constantly resided, lit the he ginning-f- the year 1793, soon after the elective tr a uct i be w a s conceded to the Roman Catholics, a popish biteditti, called defenders, in most parts of Ireland, began to plunder Protestants of their rerms . in, the night, and tO commit barbarous out rages on their persons and property ; insomuch that they were under a necessity of- seeking an asylont itrthe Metropolis; 'or in garrison towns. It , vas proved by the Report of the Secret Com mitt et! of the blouse of Lords of 1793, that this banditti were encouraged and proteeted by the General Committee tit the Catholics, who acted! with so much dissimulation. This , system of terror ' created by the defenders was for the pia-, ' pie4e of expelling Prstestanti, front the country,.• and of preventing any persons. but, Papists from being renters of the land, and consequently free. holders ; by which they would make. Protestant Representatives in Parliament dependent.' on them, and subservient' to their design, of acquiring an aacendancy ore the subversion of the. Prorestant establishment'. Another cousequence of this con cession Wits, that not only Roman Catholic gen-. denten, but even petty farmers, Who had a lease for life of a few •acres, proceeded to anuntlacture freeholds in the following manner : ' They built wretched cabins with mud walls, covered with rushes or straw, with a hole in the middle to let out the smoke Land they annexed to each three or four perches of grOtind, to make cabbage garden. The wretched oecupier thereof is persuaded,by his Priest to swear, that . his tenement is Worth 40S. a s year s over and 'above the rent. He in cludes in this calculation his wages its. a daily ht.. bottrer ; and with eqnal propriety, a beggar, who occupies a hovel byt he road side, not better than' a pig's sty, may take that oath . , bectufse his col.. lectioni as a Mendicant exceed slOs s per amtinn. By such infamous means eight or ten freeholds ate carved out of an acre of grown'. It will he found on extunining the - registry,' that nine teutirs' of the freeholds in 'many parts .Of Ireland are,of this description; for when .the Roman Catholica hcgan to fabricate freeholds in this Manuel*, the Protestant Nobility and Gentry fotoni. themselves under to neeiSsity of adopting the same praetice, to. maintain their interest ; and they possess 99 parts of 100 of the fee simple and freehold estates in Ireland, In Consequence of this, the Popish multit fide vote almost, to a man ; and as 'they are , completely' under the dominion of their 'clergy', it candidate for a county or a large popular hor , moi • has no chance of success, unless he pledges him self to support t4e Popish e claims in the most on qttalified manner. Trtts • - has ..occasioned a most material obstruction to t he administration •of justice, by creating.► ii subierviency to the 1 1 00kb:clergy and their tlocks, in Protestant ; Noblemen and Gentlemen, nho are • ambitions of popular tstvour, Llnd in their retainers and dependents also. In consequetice of this, they as Magististtes are guilty of the:_grosseat pester .. sign of . justice, iu .screening inaietactot s of the Popish persnasion from the vengeance of the IHW end their inferior ar,ents follow their example. Hence it has arisen, that in sonic counties in Ire land the' e are two partici, one of whom, actuated * by false tints sinister airshitlnn, e.,'Pous'cs the canSe of pottery and anarchy ; the others consisting of , . conscientious ind . ependent ...tentlett:en, 're often - deterred from doing their duty as Maitgistrates, lest they shoold be assassinated, "theirlqmsei shotdd be burnt, or their cattle !toughed, by a Popish banditti, who, for many years, have 'tfiadt a prac tice of roaming the 'country In ttte `night, tinde'r the denomination of defenders, white -buys, thrashers, carders, curavats', or shitnavUti, ilicting - yeng,ettnee ott such persons as take an active and determined part in the administration Of justice, or refuse to obey their mandates,tW votiog at elee.tions, or ,on any other occasion, which they oost ttp in the night tin their chapels, or even on the Poit-otlice. in country towns. In short, - party spirit, when inflamed anti inveuomed by re ligious fanaticism, assumes an extraordinary de gree of Mr. home very justly observes in his history, eh Ap. 47, vol. vi.'' That the nligions spirit when. it mingles with factions, contains in it something supernatural and unaccountable ; and that in its operations on society; effects correspond leis to their known causes, titan iS found in any Other' circionstances of society." . --Titht great Scats's- Man, the Earl of Clare, made nitteh the sante oh tervation in the year 1793, he shewcd the danger of valuing politicai power to Papists under a Pro testant State, and foretold all the evils which Woubi arise from granting them the elective frfinc6ise. • sitiee the Union, Poitish priests in many parts of Ireland have tutkoifested the same intrigo big • srstrit and inteMperate zeal, at elections, 'ts , ilicir they did in 'the years 1613 and 1G39, In cobseqttenee• of which 'they have.been attended with dreadful scenes of strife anilterbelence. This has beets the case in the county of Tipperary. in a most alarming' degree. On the eketiOn Of the • municipality at .INi.smes,, in the South of France, in the year 1791, party spirit awakened and in flamed that intolerant and sanguinary Spitit wards - .Protestants, which is LiSeparable front „Popery ; many Of them were butchered jtt that town, and at. Montauban, and the ,pries were assidtionsly'empioyed in sweariug the pi . pie n o t to vote for Protestants, whom thil marked by the appellation of blocks.-- 4 -Annual Register of 1791,, p. 84. in the month of September 1815, on the' eve of the election of tiepin ies at Potty -two 'Protestants • were butchered, for the purpose of deterring the electots from nominating as eandi dates any persons•of that persuasion. The leading Canons-of the Runtish Church in ! Culcate as a religioni duty, the extirpation of he relics ond•the subversion of heretical states. The :Pope is" . not only empowered, , but cowl - sanded 'and sworn to enforce mem ; a Bishop is hound by oath, to obey his orders ,and 'mandates, 'and so is aTolsish 'Priest; who is also required' by , his canonical' oath, ,not only to Maintaits'and these canons, but to inculcate them - into his flocc..l proved all this itrthe most utuptestionAbk manner in my first letter. l'rofessing such di.rc tritscs, and tinder the influence of such a Itierar ' ci t y, it cos mos be a tuttttcr of snrprize, that the Irish Romaoists, duties; the last 300 years, have etithraCed every opportunity that afforded them any prospect of seeeets to overturn the ConStitAtion, to massacre their Protestant fellow-subjects, and to separate their native colons' rfrons England; or that some of the most fertile ,and populous parts of it s hould at this tittle be agitated and disgraced by noc turnal tobbery anti assas,ination. For the constant perpetration cif such crimes, during'2oo years we - vim's to the lievolotitart, they were ,laid under penal disabilities, ,4“,41 excluded from all political power. at that period which made them its some degree peaceable amid obedient ; but ever sinee the rernoval of these clisablltties , and the conces sion of the elective .6-ant:hist to (bent, they have returned to their 19rmer practiCes. Whoever re fleets on the doctrines, and the hierarchy of tile Rotnish alit on their practical effects in every Protestant in Europe, trona be convinced, I that peace and .iocial of can ma he maintained in stud that it. never Cua attain any degree . of prosperity, ‘vitilf.. its Roinish, in4abiwnts enjoy any share of political pOwer. cRAMIEft. LAW INTELLU,3ENCE. coma OF KING'S BENCH, Jots 25. ' • ' . BAIIINC; V. collate. - ..• 'TWA as an acti•in to recover the price of 50 v hogsbe Is . of . ingar, - sold to the defendants by Messrs ! Cole's,' Brothers, brokers, op account of the plaintiff;,'Oessts. .Baring'and Co. This evrts A second 'trial of the' same cause; and , it will be,reOollected that the rpiestion was, whe ther the vender' of goods - had a right to set off the debt of the broker. against the price, so as to defeat the 'Chita of the principal, 'in a case where he name of elm principal was not disclosed to' the purchaser' by they broker. At the last trial ' the . Jury- found- ti. Verdict for the plAintitf, directly in the teeth of Lord Ellenborough's di= reetion in point of lavr.,.upon-'the authority of - George e., Ci7.l!_r,vitt i in the Term Et.ports ; but the Court of King' . l - terCh set aside their verdict,, and the case-now came down for a second triai; for the purpose ot-tendering a bill of exCeptions to Lord Ellenboroitgl, direction, with a Yiewsto a writ of error s , ht the IJouse of: bOrds, Some . additionlil eyidente was ,'exatnined, and it was agreed that a - v«rdiCt shriltld be' taken 'for the pi4itiiiff, for 14231. 3s. CA bjcetjo a case, - and with liberty to either party to turn it into a Site- cial Verdict.: '. , LEWES V. MAZAREDO. This was an •action againvi FraneisCoMazaredo and other's, eminent wool-dealers, on a bill Of ex change' for 1,000/. to which the defence was, that it %vat founded in usnry. The transaction was as :---The Nittzeredos were indebted to Lewes in the slifll of 1,960 . 1. for which . money was to be 1 )441, but it not being - convenient to the latter to pity . the (Floury, it wits agreed that Lewes should tktite b;11,-, of exchatige at two months; but there was`to be ap fir the interest, antlalso o t tc-rightb Percent. Commisiion for the discount ! witite, , S that this wits paid to the broker for 111'0'mi:411g the di.connt, But it also appeared that the, bill tvas afterwards di:it:minted with Sir 541. Illuxam, AO he took wore thiui the legal ler.es - t. The prsisent 'pl.C.nti.l baring .tlerve through that usitrions, indnr,sentent, the q►testio►i was, whether it vitiated the bill in hands ? Lord ELLRNBoßotient said Ire would not not... suit the plaintiff., but take a note of the object lOW, and leave the, A ttorniy;•General - tO rauv,:the Court. Verdict fur the plaintiff. 1 t I t :i iB POLICE INTELLIGENCE, mARLBottouCiH-STREET. CURIOUS CARGE OF POT-STEALING.—Ir. Cook; landlord of the Artichoke public-house, at Lieu= singtoty, was `examined before, gr. NF..tiE,' on at charge of stealing porter-poti Irmn other publi cans. It appeared_that the prisoner had, sent 15 pewter pots to A pewterer's in Skinner-street, lii- Shopagare, who, on examining them, Observed; that out of the Whole only it wi t s r thirktd with his own name ! This surprised hint, and he ,was resulted to let the other pertons, whose names appeared on the pots, know of-the circumstance; and accottlingly wrote a letter to each of them, who were - the pri'soner's neighbours : the day fol- , lowing this Office was crowded with publicans; requesting a search-warrant to search his pre mises, which .was granted, and limit:, the officer, was dispatched to execute it ; and on his arrival at the house, sonic excuse wa, for„his nou-4, .appearance ; hut the officer %v as not to be trilled „with, and proceeded to search the premises, whcre. he discovered the prisoner in the act of defacia: she names oft several pots with a file ;.be found more in the c...ll.tr,'and the 'whole amount of pall liratis'pewter Pots Loua(' in the pi konet's passes ,inn about . 20, hcionging to the persons :—Mr. Beishant,. Civet Car, Kensington, 3 pints ; Mr. Kirhy, Catherine Wheel ditto, 3 pints ; - Arr. Clork, Windsor Castle, 11:0ii:InetH. Finch, Coach am: Kensingtmi, 2 quarts ; Mr. Chadhand, ditib, 1 quart; Mr. Menzies, Cro , vu disk. `4 pints ; besides, all that were found by thtf 'eer in the , house, and whicti.cannot he tr:iccd• ruff 'account Ut their nattes being defiteetl.—llit: Ma: ghtrete onlercd.the tuan to . give responsiblOitiL tut his appearance. 4IAN . SION-HOCSF;. Yegterflay 'Mr. Corny., the pai4obrolier, of Snow:-hill, applied at thii Office, nod gave inFoi mation of a soqiictous person having called At :hi' s house, nod offered for pairn a gold repeating . . watch, ,shagreen case, which he stopoeih Upon observing the suspicion that was excited, the per,on who preq.oited the ivatch retteatd, and the latter wns dclivered into the hatidi ot Cartneright; the Marshalman, in order, it poilite• to discover the owner, B W-STRE T jartics' AbLott was chtitged stipicion of ing cottimittecttlirers folontes : he was inet'itailV yesteithy morniogby John Clare, one of the . Lord Mayor's (lay p.itrole, near St.. Clemcio'i chord', with something balky ut the bottom of 4 . sllt()C%lfr)ek v.'ll ColtSitle red a tlisgiiiss stopped :11,d searc h e d v.i m , when it provetl to tic , about lthiolrecl we;;;ltt. ol lead, which (Iflibt. he had stolen. ile was corlinsitted for Ittrtlicc v" .. - Illy James Ititireva w;l5 convicted of elm villg 0 0504 i calling Oil the Lor . ti's lias, in 1ov.::01-gar" tlen-toatket. iIArroN.G.A !WEN. • GBRAT AND EX7'I,:s;SIVP: F010;1'.6Y:--YCSterilaf • George Blaker and Grace Illakvr, his +► ifc, sce rc ; bought up in the custody of Wad, sea. ilt": lircnyil, officers, for a third examititiati, chArgt''' with uttering forKed notes, .parportia , 4 to lie i" II e Bank of IS,,rigland. 'Flic detail have fartcob! bs.en before our readers. l'bere are foil!' cli"rgl' agaiast .the prioners, wiz° Ivere tally coauoilte" for trial. GUILDHALL. Ytnterdlty Thonias Jones was ti brought (1 : 1 1 1 1 , 1 ( n i ‘ a Y C i t i l i t a . r it e a li n i , property of Joseph Tilt,. on, S1111(14 , 1/ the 1- b h hoc. The prisoner, iii h!i is defence, lid he:hud houg h : . the ware upon. the highway, between ',Nla rton k ovt , Kingston but flint of the colt he knew n oll ' ii c` whateyer. lie was folly committed for triril• ........, , gClergyman in the West, who had "" r°1.4 " . " nately gnarrelled with his parishioners, lvid ittel the mil: fortune to have a shirt stolen froni th' i hri edge where,it hug to .dry and he pos!td l' 3 '` hills offering a reward for, the discovtly.of t''' offender. Next morning the followkng hi"' tverc. tonne written at the font of the copy stuck agajo bc the church-door :-- , . . Sonte'tlii'ef has : , foleit the p4rgori's shirt, To'skin ewild be iie.arer The parish will gite rive ll,,mired Mamas 'lb him that steals the ve,ii er ! • 011-Stitnrday,. Melle i r . :1 1 :; - 1 1 1 ' , Ii t S lie Lail). of George 11 Esti.llerwicli,,oire, 0! a daog.hter. At Rieinnon4, near Dohlin, the Lady of John Doan*, OT Altil4l, t:ounty of 4 ....;a1 , 1 - ay, af a son• , On the o '2401 Mit . UppVC liarlev-Al ref, the Lady u. Oarlanth E. of MichacEtow-Ilail, Etse:., of a son. mArtniE.D. At Galway, Robert Tlviles:Mnonsell, F... 1. Ranker> 114 , 1 ,i; rich, to Miss Ma,in4ell, dattiliter and co-lielres4 of the - Thomas Itlaunsel,l,-Lstt. of l'lnssey. On 'l.'nes(lay last, Yi Itashleigh, Lsq, M. P. .1 billy, in Coro all, to Caroline, eldest t 4.1 Pittman, Esq. of I*y-church-holm, Wilts. At St. Martites in the. F . ' • 11 k o, emir it e • corarfit c , Grectivs ich arid Crarcn-strret, ‘l . 1 ; 1. so o, • Beach - croft, of Lo.aibetti. DIED. Bally - Ott the tsth inst. the T.adv of Henry Hatniliiin, of ' Inaealliin the County of Nleatli, Esti; f 0n,t4 . 4 3 d 4)41. at. Maidstone, A l exan der, Pg. the British osconi: • On Thurs M day last, William galart, Eq. of Providence-I'ov' Hackney, aced 6i. At Inverkeithing, Fifeshire, on the Inth inst. Mr. WO • Grandison Bar, late of Gray's It age'4.9. 1.3 Death of Ifell-yre Di oc.—On We y last, Mr. Nianglinti, the well-known coachman of the !4, itgraPh , ' which he has driven-nhout 14 years. Ile dt ;i d Pucl , riidge otiSutithy, awl in the everting set oft Oa t ., return to Cambridge; but had onlY pv)ceeded about a )", when he either fell or wag thrown oat, as he was form u 4 the read, 411,1 coureyed back to Pnekeridge, where he ling e r till Wednesday morning when he expited.--fle Wes upol r of 60 years of age.* LONDON: Pi inted by .1: CAltAT.killl4, No. 7 ? , C , r,a t ri i , . hu , itlings; and published by•W , A.. St TIM'S, lir' x '" at the , Surf-Ottsc,e, No. 112, Sttand where A vertist-• !penis, Orders, Utters (post-paid)ide - C , be ddresse,d,