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1•11111! FACTS.-FOR THE MEN OF KENT. Kensington, Oct. 21, 1828. GENTLEMEN—Great efforts will be made, at the approaching County Meeting, to make you think about any thing and every thing, except the things in which you are really interested. You will be amused (if you will sutler it) by a great deal of de clamation about "civil and religious liberty." Others will entertain you with the " dangers of Popery," and will endeavour to make you so hot, (especially if the day be warm) as to cause you to.imagine that you are in Smi!Veld, and have the faggots actually blazing around you. One side will cry out " our Holy Religion ;" and the other will deprecate " bigotry," and will talk 90 tenderly about " our brethren;' the Catholics ! But none of them will say a word to you about the following facts, which are to form the basis of the Petition which I shall have the honour to present for your apprOval. They will none of them tell you these things, namely-- That all the temporal possessions of the Church, whether tithes, glebes, college lands, abbey lands, cathedral lands, and all such possessions of every description, were founded on the basis of CHARITY, and were granted not to the Clergy and the Bishops for their own use, but IN TRUST for the good of the Nation at large, and especially for the relief of the poor, the widow, the orphan, and the stranger. That there were no poor -rates, no church- rates, and no paupers in England, until the present Church was established ; and that the poor were relieved, and the churches built and repaired, out of the tithes and other revenues of the Church. That, by degrees this sacred trust has ceased to operate, and the tithes and the rest of the revenues of the Church, have been taken possession of for the sole use of the Clergy themselves and their families; while the burthen of relieving the poor and of building and re pairing the churches has teen thrown upon the people ; and that the share of this burthen borne by the County of Kent, at the date of the last Return, was, annually, 418,281 pounds sterling on an average of years. That there are four hundred and twenty-seven Parishes in the County of Kent. That these are all in the hands of less than two hundred Rectors and Vicars, many of whom have Prebendaries, and other benefices in addition. That there are eighty-seven of these Parishes, which have Parsonage Houses, that our Gentlemen Parsons tell the Parliament are not good enough for them to live in. That there are seventy-five other Parishes which have no Parsonage Rouses at all, though the Clergy are bound by law to keep up all Parsonage Houses, and to keep them in repair ; and though the Bishop of the Diocese is bound by taw to see that these houses are not dilapidated. That there are THIRTEEN PARISHES in this garden County of Kent, which have NO CHURCHES AT ALL, but in which the Tithes are, as elsewhere, exacted even to the last blade of grass. • That there are 44 Parishes in the County, each having less than one hundred inhabitants, none of whom hardly ever see the face of a Parson, and yet, who have tithes exacted from them to the utmost rigour ; and that, while this is the state of the County, that County is taxed for the building of New Churches, which are intended to add to the emoluments of this same Clergy. That, bad as all this is, one might almost call it good when compared to the situation of Ireland, which contains 3,403 Parishes. That these have been Moulded into 515 livings and that these have been given to about 850 Rectors and Vicars ; and, of course, each Parson has the Tithes and Glebes of more than NINE PARISHES. That, of the 3,403 Parishes, there are only 139 which have Parsonage Houses, and that, consequently, there is but one Parsonage House to .every 24 Parishes. That in the 3,403 Parishes, there are only 465 Churches, so that there. is but one Church to every seven Parishes. That there is net more than one Churchman to every six Catholics or Dissenters throughout Ireland, and that in some Parishes there are no Church-people at all. That the Catholics and Dissenters build and repair their own Chapels, and support their own Ministers, but are compelled to pay tithes and church rates too, even where there are no Churches in existence. That the Tithes are collected in the most rigorous manner by men called Tithe Proctors, who go • armed on the business, and have frequently troops to assist them. That the poor creatures are sometimes stripped of every thing they have in the world, and the air is made to ring with their cries of misery ; and sometimes, thirsting for revenge, they break out into acts of violence and blood, and the gaol and the gallows are called in to tinish the dispute between them and their _pastors. That this is the great and efficient cause of all the troubles of Ireland, where no poor rates were ever established, sad where the people are, therefore, left, in hundreds of thousands of cases, to perish from hunger, while we are taxed to pay an army, a great part of the business of which is, to keep the peace in Ireland. Gentlemen, I have stated numerous facts here, and I have stated them for the purpose of giving an opportunity before hand to any one to contradict me, if he can. Pray, my friends, be not amused by hy pocritical stuff about " Catholic Emancipation." What relief could the poor people of Ireland receive from putting half a dozen Catholic Peers into the House of Lords ; a dozen or two of Catholic 'Squires into the House of Commons, and silk gowns upon the hacks of two or three score of Lawyers, who, for the greater part, stand in need of hemp round their necks, instead of silk on their backs ? - . 14/th Vl4, Sii Gentlemen, " Catholic Emancipation" means the giving of a share of the taxes to the Catholic No bility and Lawyers, who, being empty, would come upon us so sharply, as not to leave a drop of blood in our bodies. We know well what these men mean they have once already offered that the 40s. Catholic freeholders of Ireland should be disfranchised, if England would let them into Parliament and give them silk gowns, and would pay SALARIES ANNUALLY To TEE CATHOLIC PRIESTS ; this astonishingly im pudent proposition was actually brought before Par liament )1)1825. The scheme was defeated, or we Protestants should now, at this day, have had to pay salaries to the Catholic Priests of Ireland, in order to ititiuce them to persuade the wretched people of that country quietly to pay tithes to th e P rotestant Clergy. This very scheme is on foot at this mo ment and to you be lon g s the duty to def eat it for , ever. I shall have the hon our to propose to you, to peti tion for the abolition of all Clerical Tithes, both in England and Ireland ! for the appropriation of the rest of the Church Revenues to the relief of the poor, the orphan, the widow, and the stranger ; leaving to the Clergy the use of the Churches, the Parsonage houses, and the Glebes, and, if more be necessary to their support, leaving that su pp ort to come from their own flocks, in like manner as support now comes to the Priests and Ministers of our Roman Catholic And Dissenting fellow-subjects. Gentlemen, once more I warn you against the tri c k s of the two factions, who, as the sensible people of Maidstone told them, in 1816, are all " tarred -with the same brush :" one faction has as many church-livings, as many sinecures and pensions, as many relations in the Army, Navy, and other lines of emolument, as the other faction : they may, and they will, carry on a sham debate for the purpose of deceiving you into a vote for one or the other faction, and n either faction cares a straw which : all they to prevent wa nt i 5, you from voting for yourselves, Aly friends of Kent, be not their tools : you never yet were, and, I trust, that you will now maintain your character for good sense and p u bli c sp i r i t. I am, Gentlemen, Your most obedient and most humble servant, %V. COBBETT. No EXTRA CHARGE FOR FEEDIN G ! PERSIAN LION) JUST ARRIVED ! ! !-The noble pair of Persian Lions, brought over in his Majesty's ship Bombay, 84. guns, Captain CAMPBELL, have been purchased, an d now form part of the unrivalled Collection at the Royal Na_ tiunal Menagerie, Exeter-change. As this (in consequence of the Strand alterations) may be the last winter that this superb assemblage will be submitted to public inspection, the Proprietor, anxious that every one may have an oppor tunity of witnessing these grand and majestic animals at it4,l hour of feeding, respectfully intimates that no extra *charge will be made at that time, Eight o'clock in the LITERATURE. ODES UPON CASH, CORN, CATHOLICS, &c. LONDON, 1828. We take it for granted that this brilliant little duodecimo--the contents of which have from time to time sparkled in the columns of the Times newspaper—is the production of Mr. Thomas Moore. Two cogent reasons have in duced us to come to this conclusion : first, the internal evidence supplied by the poems them- selves; secondly, the fact, that if Mr. Moore he not the author, no one else—with the exception, perhaps, of the writer of those able graphic sketches, " Parliamentary Portraits"—with whose compositions the public are acquainted, has hitherto shown talent enough to enable him safely to claim them. Setting it down, therefore, as a fact that to Mr. Moore, and to him alone, we are indebted for the present volume, we hasten to return him our thanks for the gra- tification derived from its perusal. We have always had a high opinion of this gentleman as a wit and satirist. To much of the venom of Churchill, and the epigrammatic invective of Pope, he adds an ease and brilliancy peculiarly his own. Indeed, however startling he the assertion, w; infinitely prefer his humorous'to his serious productions. In the first, he is always at home, always easy, always natural ; in the second, he is too often hurried away from the path of correct taste by the ignis-fatuus of some pretty conceit,—he mistakes fancy for feeling, exaggeration for energy, mounts a child's rocking-horse and thinks he is bestriding Pegasus. His Irish melodies, on which, perhaps, his fame is most securely based, have every beauty but that of character and appropriateness. They are pretty, sweet, fan ciful, elegant, now and then energetic, but in no one instance that we can remember, convey the stern, passionate sensibilities of a nation mad with the accumulated wrongs of ages, and panting to burst their chains. They are fitted only for the drawing-room, to steal away the hearts of ladies—not to rouse the vengeance of the patriot. They condescend to sue for pity, when they should proudly invoke revenge. Their very music is softened down to effeminacy, polished to tame• ness : hence Mr. Broadhurst, the most feminine of vocalists, is the most successful in singing them. The leading defect in Mr. Moore's poetry is its exceeding desire to conciliate public fa vour. To this he sacrifices taste, judgment, and discretion. If he can only tickle the ear by sonic pleasing conceit, which wears to a su perficial glance the aspect of sentiment, he is satisfied. Thus in his popular lines on the Death of a Young Lady— Death chilled the fair fountain ere sorrow had stained it, 'Twas frozen in all the pure livht of its course, And but waits till the sunshine of heaven has unchained it, To water that Eden where first was its source, the ear is more gratified than the taste : the imagery is specious but imperfect, and though we glean a general idea of the author's meaning, yet it is encumbered, not assisted, by, his meta phors. In contradistinction to this, and to show also that when Mr. Moore writes from the heart, he writes with the most pathetic simplicity, we place his well-known stanzas on the Village Bells. Those evening bells--:those evening bells— How many a tale their music tells Of love and hope, anti that sweet time, When last I heard their tuneful chime. Those happy hours have parsed away, And many a heart that then was gay Within the tomb now darkly dwells, And hears no more those evening hells. And so 'twill he when I am gone, That tuneful peal will still ring on, While other bards will walk those dells, And hymn your praise, sweet evening bells. In these exquisite stanzas the reader will not fail to observe the natural, indeed homely sim plicity of the style and sentiment. There is no ambition, no affectation, no parade of ornament about them—yet familiar and unadorned as they are, they cut deeper to the heart than a thousand glittering metaphors. Imagery, in fact, to be effective, should be very sparingly used, parej plod sails est mamt. It is a tempting, a dan gerous gift, and untempered by discretion, hurries its possessor—no matter how prolific his genius —into a thousand extravagancies. When, how ever, it illustrates its subject, or points a senti ment, it throws an inexpressible charm over poetry. In Mr. Moore's lines, for instance, on Memory, Oft in the stilly night, When slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memos y brings the light Of other days around me. The hopes, the fears of boyhood's years, The words of bliss then spoken ; The eyes that shone now dim►n'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken. When I remember all The friends so linked together, I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one who treads forlorn, Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are jled, whose garlands dead, And all but him departed, the closing simile steps into the assistance of the sentiment, and forms a beautiful and affect ing exponent. There is nothing cold or recon dite about it, it rises naturally from the subject; nor is there one out of a hundred among his readers, who has not felt that sense of desertion, arising from the flagging of a mind over-excited by society, to which the poet so affectingly al ludes. This is the great distinction between natural and artificial imagery; the one encum bers and confuses, the other sets off and eluci dates poetry. The " Epicurean" is a notable i nstance of the latter class of metaphor carried to a n extravagant excess. It is a rich nosegay of artificial flowers—dazzling—versatile—glit tering all over with the hues of the rain bow ; yet despite its gorgeous exuberance, r one simple heath blossom, breathi ng th e :: i L ld alla p h erf ß um oo e kh o !' nature, is to an infinitelyotl i less all .; tent, possesses the same defect. It is full t o overflowing of fancy, but that fancy has been so eldhorated—so piled up with tinsel ornaments — that that feeling has been literally crushed out beneath it. The only affecting passage in the whole poem, " Oh, ever thus from childhood's hour," Ste. is the only one distinguished by its unadorned sim plicity—a fact which, of itself, fully bears out our theory. But, whatever may be thought of of Mr. Moore as a serious and sentimental poet —and, when we condemn him here, we only mean to assert that his taste is frequently viti ated, not that his .genius is at all equivocal— as a wit he is unrivalled. No scorpion ever stung with half the deadly effect of his sarcasm. It is, at times, absolutely withering ; but, when it merely glances at some dull pompous aris tocrat—a Newcastle—a Kenyon—a Lauderdale —or au Ellenborou g h—the effect is incon ceivably grotesque. " The Two-penny Post Bag" is, perhaps, the most popular of all Mr. Moore's jeux d'esprits. It is a perfect pep per-box, sharp, stinging, and pungent. Now and then, however, it displays a laughing vein of mirth, as in the following arch allusion to Scott (at a time when his poems were in vogue) the graceful point of which can only be equalled by its drollery : You've heard, Sir, that Scott, of great northern renown, Is coming by long quarto stages to town ; And, beginning with Rokeby (the job's sure to pay), Means to do all the gentlemen's seats on the way. Now our plan, Sir, is this, and I think we shall beat him, To start a new poet through Highgate to meet him, Who, by dint of fair proofs, no revises, quick coaches, May do a few villas before Scott approaches. Next in degree to the 'Twopenny Post-Bag comes the Fudge Family, which is characterized generally by good-natured familiar vivacity. It is less caustic than the Post-Bag, but more amusing. With respect to " Tom Cribb's Memorial to Congress," and " Fables for the Holy Alliance," we cannot venture to speak of them, as we have mot yet seen them ; but of the present volume we may assert, without fear of con tradiction, that it is fully equal to the best of Mr. Moore's jeux desprits. The wit is buoyant and sparkling, full of ease and richness, with all the polish of Sheridan, and all the point of Con greve. What for instance can equal the inimi table drollery of the following allusion to my Lord Lauderdale's powers of jocularity? Bright Peer to whom nature and Berwickshire gave A humour endow'd with effects so provoking, That when the whole house looks unusually grave, You may always conclude that Lord Lauderdale's joking. Or the lUdicrous exaggeration evinced in this aversion to the stale topics of Corn and Catholics, Yes, waft me Parry, to the Pole, For—if my fate is to he chosen, 'Twixt bores and ice-bergs —on my soul I'd rather of the two be frozen. No man—as we observed before—cuts up a blundering aristocrat in such capital style as Mr. Moore. His keen wit pierces at once through the thick fencings of ermine robes, dims the dazzling star or garter, and betrays the inner man in all the shivering nakedness of his nature. ,We really pity the individual on whom this unequalled satirist vents his venom, and have often fancied that the least Lord Ellen borough could do, after Moore's allusion to his lore-locks, would be to have his head slaved. With all his severity, however, let it never be forgotten that Mr. Moore's talents are ever on the right side; ever directed to promote the cause of justice, freedom, and humanity. Himself a man of high and sensitive honour—a first-rate wit and poet—a patriot—an enthusiast—a versatile and accomplished scholar—he respects these qua lities in another, and reserves his scorn only for the talented but abject renegadoe—the un blushing adventurer—or the prosing bigotted Brunswicker. THE LAST SUPPER; OR, CHRIST'S DEATH KEPT IN REMEMBRANCE. -LONDON, 1828. If a dissertation on the most awful of all reli gious ceremonies, conceived in a spirit of en larged and philosophic piety, and beating in its every sentiment the glowing impress of Chris tianity—luminous in style, forcible in appeal, be nignant in doctrine,—if such high qualifications can make a work popular, then will this have an immediate and extensive circulation. To be ad mired, it has only to be read ; and no one can rise from its perusal without feeling himself a better Christian and a better man. CONSTABLE'S MISCELLANY. MEMORIALS OF TILE LATE WAR.••--.EDINBEIRMI, 1828. We have rarely met with a volume which, within so small a compass, comprises so much sterling excellence of style, and variety as well as novelty of information. The first subject is entitled " Memoirs of the War of the French in Spain, by M. de Rocca ;" and though this particular portion of the late campaigns in the Peninsula has been already ably and even fully detailed by Southey, and a hundred other writers, all of whom, some in a greater degree than others, have nearly exhausted the subject, yet M. de Rocca has contrived to bring forward an abundance of fresh facts, which throw a new light upon points'already known, and elucidate others of which till now" the public has been comparatively ignorant. As far as interest is concerned, the present historiette among mo dern works is equalled only by the " Journal of a common soldier in the Peninsular war," so well known for its deep and earnest, yet simple and unpretending style and matter. But the gem of this little volume is decidedly the account of the battle of Waterloo, which, for variety and con densation of anecdote, beats any thing we have ever read on the subject. It bears throughout the impress of personal observation. The writer himself has been a sharer—and no inglorious one—of the horrors he describes. We recom mend this detail of one of the bloodiest anti most triumphant battles ever fought, to the no tice of all Englishmen : when they once begin, they will assuredly not lay down the volume till it is finished. As a specimen of the writer's manner we give the following brief extract, which we would willingly lengthen did not our space and time forbid it : " It was evident to our general officers, about half-past five o'clock, that something extraordinary was about to be performed by the enemy, from the evident concentration of all w orts of troops. At once, all their heavy cavalry, cuirassiers, carahineers, dragoons, and the cavalry of the guard, rush e d f orwar d u p on the British centre. Napoleon had now in full operation every corps he could 'mister, except his reserves; and he spoke and felt as if the battle were liis o wn ; h e even a ff ec t e d ga i ety , an d, on no ti c ing s guide tremble at the shot which fell around him, said, Do not stir, my friend ; a ball will kill you equally in the back as in the front, and wound you more disgracefully.' To Bertraad he said, ' We shall arrive at Brussels in time . fur supper:: " The Duke of Wellington, relying on the valour of his troops, entertained a very different opinion ; nevertheless, be Was anxious for the arrival of the Prussians; and often cast his eyes towards the plac e from w hi c h h e k new they • • were to issue. The stream of the action ran with awful force upon our line, but it withstood it like a rock of the ocean. The battle, says the French relation, referring to this particular period, 'is maintained—neither side give ground—new columns advance—the charges are renewed— three times the position is on the point of being forced, and three times, after prodigies of valour, the French are driven back.' '°ln this desperate battle I saw,' said an officer, 'the Duke of Wellington, the Prince of Orange, the Marquis of Anglesea, Sir Charles Alten, Lord Hill, and other valiant chiefs, encouraging all by their presence, and at times even heading the charge.' Still it was difficult to say how matters stood, or might turn out. The enemy, though beat off at every point, continued to rush with incredible courage upon the battalions opposed to them, which were all of them rapidly diminishing, and showing a less for ' midable front. " Every moment the fall of some officer of rank was an nounced. The Duke of Wellington, when in the centre of a dreadful cannonade, witnessed the fall of Sir Alexander Gordon—Sir William de Lancy—the Hon. Lieut.-Col. Erskine, and the brave General Van Merle. General Cooke lost an arm, and General Alten was also wounded, as were many other useful and eminent officers. The men were falling in lines, and our centre must have been shaken but for the exertions and memorable example of the 30th, 73d, 69th, and 33d regiments, who not only withstood the reiterated assaults of a powerful and numerous infantry, but repulsed twelve or thirteen charges of the enemy's horse. The Duke himself was an eye-witness of their bravery; but he said, I cannot holp it, they must keep their ground with myself to the last man—would to God that night or the Prussians were come !' "It is mentioned iu Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk,' that a gentleman had the courage to ask the Duke of Wel lington, whether, at this juncture, he looked often to the wood, from which the Prussians were expected to issue ? 'No,' was the answer; I looked oftener to my watch than to any thing else. I knew that if soy troops could keep their position till night, that I must be joined by Blucher before morning, and we would not have left Bona parte an army next day. But I own,' continued he, I was glad as one hour of daylight slipped away after ano ther, and our position was still maintained.'—' And if,' continued the querist, by misfortune, the position hail been carried We had the wood behind to retreat into.' And if the wood also was forced ?'—' No ! no ! they could never have so beaten us, but we could have made good the wood against them.'" The volume is closed with an account of that affecting tragedy the Death of Napoleon at St. Helena. It is short, but full of pathos ; and takes the sketch of Dr. Antommarchi as its guide. MINOR POEMS ; by JOSEPH SNOW—LoNnow,I 828. This is an intelligent little volume, and one that we have no doubt will be read with consi derable interest. There is no assumption about it, no stilted language—no ambitious absurdities whether of thought or feeling; we are called on therefore to hint a word or two in its praise. The Poem we like best is that on the Death of the Princess Charlotte, which is solemn, mournful, and religious, as befits the theme ; the Epistle to Lord Byron is more objectionable, and too highly spiced with invective. We are not as a general 'tile partial to poetic anathemas, they argue, we conceive a lack of ideas, which they are but too often brought in to conceal. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank stock - 'South Sea Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. 65% '6 s:z,', New Ditto — 34z per Cent. 933i Ex. 8i11a,.£1,000 '2d. 74 75 pm. 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VIENNA, OCT. 10.—According to • letters from Bucharest of the Ist of October, General Geismar has succeeded in repulsing the Turks, who had pene trated to Krajova, in Little Wallachia, and has com pletely beaten them with 4,000 men, which com posed the whole force under his command, even after he had received some reinforcements. The details are expected. The mail from Constantinople is this moment arrived. In a cursory view of the letters, which come down to the 26th of September, there is nothing new in that capital, the inhabitants of which continue to be in a state of enthusiasm, on account of the narratives of victories which follow each other, according to the Turkish bulletins, • (From the Journal du Commerce of Sunday.) PARIS, OCT. 18.—The Geographical Society had offered a prize to the traveller who should first pene trate to the mysterious city of Timbuctoo. This enterprise, which has hitherto been attempted with out success, and has cost the lives of many travellers, has just been accomplished by a young Frenchman M. Caillet. The fortunate traveller has arrived at Toulon : he is addressed to the Geographical Society by M. Delaporte, Consul of France at Tangier. The Central Committee of the Society being informed that he was reduced to the greatest poverty and dis tress, lost no time in voting, in its sitting yesterday, and forwarding to M. Caillet, a sum sufficient to supply his most urgent wants, and enable him, when he is released from quarantine, to set out immediately for Paris. (From the Gazette de France of Monday. ) PARIS, OCT. 19.—Nothing is spoken of in tho higher circles but the disappearance and deplorable end of the Marquis de Falaiseau, Inspector-General of the King's Household. The Police and the Officers of Justice are engaged in the investigation of this affair, which is said to be accompanied by horrible circumstances, and in which persons of some rank in the world are reported to be implicated. His family, it is added, has received a note, in which the victim announced that being under the dagger, and having only a few moments at his command before dying, he made use of them to give information re specting his melancholy fate. An event, hitherto covered with a gloomy and mysterious veil, gives rise to innumerable conjectures. What is positively known is, that M. de Falaiseau has disappeared, and that no reason is known which could have induced him to abscond, or to conceal himself.--Lyons Gazette. (From the Journal des Debuts.) LISBON, OCT. 4.—The 2d battalion of the 13th Infantry embarked yesterday on board a 48-gun frigate and two small brigs. These three vessels, which are destined to make the isles of Terceira submit to Don Miguel, are to sail this evening, and will go first to Madeira, where, after taking on board 600 of the troops in that island, they will proceed on their voyage. An English packet arrived here a few hours ago in five days from London, and by letters which the Captain has handed to English merchants, we are informed of the landing of Donna Maria at Fal mouth, and of the steps taken by the Austrian Am• bassador, before the arrival of that Princess, to obtain the assent of the English Ministry to her continu ing her route to Vienna. • These letters speak of very active negociatious going on at London for the marriage of Don Miguel with his niece, and of new instructions sent to Lord Strangford at Rio de Janeiro, as it is feared his mission to Don Pedro may tail. These instruc tions, it is said, direct him to represent to his Im perial Majesty that England, France, and Austria concur in the propriety of Don MiguePs marriage with his niece, and that opposition on the part of Don Pedro may have inconvenient results. It is also said, on the authority of same letters, that the Marquises de Palmella and Barbacena do not parti cipate in the views of the English Cabinet, and that they are supported by the Russian Ambasador.— It is added, that they, in concurrence with the Viscount de Itabayana, the Emperor's Minister in London, have, on their part, sent despatches to Rio de Janeiro, which are of a nature totally differ ent from those addressed to Lord Strangford, and well calculated to defeat the mission of that diplo matist. We announce with pleasure that the Irish Re venue for the Quarter ended 10th of October has experi enced a considerabl e improvement, a► compared with the corresponding Quarter of last year. v,ot ' • '"CW • ' • t i" lb . I _ , .' 44lo `xViier 4ZP A*4* *A r til 7 '111V".• LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1828. Friday is an ominous day in the annals fa superstition, and no doubt Friday next will be as memorable as it is ominous to the cause o bigotry in Kent. The meeting on Penenden Heath is now the general theme of conversation. It is to be the grand display of the supporters of personal interest and religious intolerance arrayed against the friends of civil and religious liberty—and the well-wishers of their country. Let any man for a moment calmly contemplate the motives of those who are so base as to pro mote such a meeting for such a purpose, and he will naturally conclude that the Religion of the State is indeed in danger--that the institutions of the country are threatened to their centre if such an assemblage can preserve the one or shield the other. What is the object of the promoters of this meeting ?—ostensibly the support of the Constitution ! but really the perpetuity to themselves of a monopoly in Religion—and all the other good things in Church and State at the expellee of conscience—liberality, and every thing sacred. The promoters of the Kent Meeting have but one idea—the law which favours them is the best, and must be the best, no matter at whose expense that law is put in force. They feel not its ter rors, and can have no sympathy with those who daily mourn the unequal distribu tion—the hard measure of justice dealt out to their fellow-subjects. With such men it would be idle to reason, because their interest is opposed to reason ; they feel the unsoundness of their cause, and endea vour to impose upon the credulity of the igno• rant by appealing to their passions with cri©s that the Church is in danger, and other assertions equally absurd, but which create an alarm propor tioned to the ignorance of those who are duped— by the knavery, or confounded by the influence, of those who maintain over them a spiritual or tem poral authority. But the day is not yet their own. We trust that the men of Kent will prove them selves worthy of better days—and that they will treat this last shift of Bigotry with that high spirit of contempt which is so characteristic of men Who have learnt to think for themselves. Let them but muster in their strength, and the triumph of conscience is their own. The Morning Chronicle puts forth the fol lowing as the last list received of the Noblemen and distinguished Commoners on the liberal side, who are expected to be present : MARQUIS CAMDEN. EARLS'AMHERST. • --- COItNWALLIS. - DARNLEY. - COWPER. - JERSEY. THANET. -It ADNOIt. BRECKNOCK. V►scoUNTS TORRINGTON. SAY and SALE. LORDS SONDES. TEYNII A M. - CLIFTON. Mussrts. CALCRAFT, M.P. ROBARTS, M.P. HONYWOOD, --- HODGES. RYDER. LAWBRIDGE. SIR li . WILSON, M.P. " The Meeting on Friday is expected to be unusually large. Handbills of all descriptions are in circulation from one end of the County to the other. The spirit of the County has been fairly roused, and we now look forward to the result of the meeting without apprehension. What we were most afraid of was lest the well disposed, situated at a distance from Maidstone, might he remiss in their attendance, while the Brunswickers would be sure to muster all whom they could command by fair means or foul. " However, let not the liberal be deceived by their confidence, but let each man act as if he supposed all to depend on himself. No man is justified, under such circumstances, of trusting that the exertion of others will make up for his own remissness." We find the following in the Morning Papers, which is happily illustrative of the characters who intend to sport their persons upon the Heath in defence !) of the " good cause of Self-interest and Religious. Intolerance Tn KENT BrtuNswick CLUB.—There was a Special General Meeting of the Committee of this Club on Satur day, at the Bell lun, Maidstone, convened at the request of the Earl of Winchelsea. The meeting was a very full one, and we understand it was unanimously resolved, that they, the members of the Committee, should use every exertion in their power to procure a full and early attendance of the friends of the Constitution ornimilPeeeandett of Itlie,eathonri- Fri day. The following Noblemen, &c . Intend t o be pre sent, in Support of the p Constitu tion:—Lord Bexley, Sir Thomas Blomefield, Bart. of Shooter's Hill; Sir Brook William Brydges, Burt. of Goodnestow ; Sir Samuel Egerton Brvdges, Bart. of Denton Court; the Earl of Chatham, the Eail of Win- Chelsea and Nottingham, the Earl of Cornwallis, the Earl of Abergavenny, the Earl of Guildford, Sir Edward Dering, Bart. of Surreudon Dering; Sir Charles Farnaby, of Bromley; the Rev. Sir John Filmer, Sir William Geary, of Oxenheath ; Lord Harris, the Rev. Sir John Head, B4rt., Lord Henniker, Si r E. haled, o f W oo d_ church ; Sir Edward Knatclibuli, Bart. M.P., Lord le P Despencer, the Earl Nelson, Sir Henry °yonder)/ John Brydges, 111. P., Lord Rokeby, the Earl of wieb, Lord Sondes, Viscount Sydney, Lord ThudAi John Twisden, Bart., Sir Wm. Jervis Twisden,l3ar/' Sir Walter Stirling.—A splendid array ! L SAf' . The Hamburgh steam boat has just a rris' and brings the Reporter of the 17th ins t '' following is an extract from its contents• Berlin prices come to• day unaltered ; the fji has as yet made no alteration in its late art ° m ents. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent. Anglo-Russian Loan Baniburgh- Russian Loan Anglo-Prussian Loan of ISIS Austrian Bank Shares Austrian Metalliques _ ..... Exchange upon London, at two months_ 1 3 t 1 The last steam-boat fr o m L on d on brolig', ii ot considerable quantity of gold pi as t res . M ono the first ten d a y s o f th e presen t In o f 66 cargoes of corn have passed the Sot' these 30 were bound to British ports, 1 , Dutch, and 12 to French ports, one t° men, one to the Canary Islands, and, 011 " Zaute. These papers contain nothing neil ft° the seat of war in the East. oct?ber . End of rbitit The French Papers convey no news ° I portance from the theatre of war, which c° depended on. Extracts will be found other column. By Philadelphi a Pa pers , d ate d S ept. 20, te the head of intelligence from Buenos 'Ayre s ' l ,, mentioned that Colonel CALDERON ba j cife j serted to the Argenti ne cause , w ith four hug of the Emperor PEDRO'S best German sol di .2 Ti this agai n 'ort VUg q 4r. th e ( , A seizure took place at the Custoni-P`c e j def er , this morning, of a vessel with t we l ve 101 Ti the kegs of br an dy on b oar d, s h e h a d f a l se t'e c}; ' (4 4 ,, t lO4 the upper deck w a s l oa d e d w i t h corn. In another part of our Paper we have Z . ( 1 11 4 an account of the Bucks Brunswick Club , Nli e , ner, at which there was nothing more th 9"en 0 n usually original, unl e ss it b e speech 1 ,, It et Reverend Gentleman, whos e j es t s (he 41 gre delighted to hear it), savoured rather o f, t ' pot-house than the County H a ll. This Je ri o 1 () th CICERO, among other peculiar accusati°: av charged the Catholics with " a desire to t he 1 their opponents, and then to get drunk Ate of"n whiskey." He add e d, w ith s i ngu l ar e l eganc e," thr ot old Paddy had better be q ui e t, or we will s e '' him about his business." We point a ttentio ° l these two striking remarks, not so much f r '' ' their consummate mildness, polish, and P sophic turn of argument; as from the cir clllll , stance of their being uttered by a Clergyman/ ‘ vi education, one would naturally suppose, have produced far different, though, perhke )14 , his eye, inferior blossoms of eloquence. 13u/ knew his audience : he knew well what style thought and sentiment they could best ciate; and, as it fell to his lot by univ ers al °ll i sent, to return thanks for th e most importot characteristic toast of the evening ; it is not O res : amiable to presume that he is the gentee te' : and ablest representative of an Orange Cie r gl man to be found in the whole County of 13uc si , Happy County, blest with such an extraord i )1 , genius ! Happy genius, which such a CountY 6 think extraordinary ! Fclices ambo ! hpr is We understand that Mr. SHELL has ar ri , ; in town, and proposes going to the meeting Penenden Heath. THE FUNDS.—(THIS DAY.) ~oc‘" CITY, TWRT,VP, 0' Cr— t jio The City is without any political intelligenc e th e morning, and the only topic spoken of has beer of state of his Majesty's health, which is generalli sidered dangerous. The mystery whi c h esi st- j , this important and interesting point has cre 3 , te or il! hope that some authentic communicati on will 0 4 be made to the Public, and thereby re lieve t i ol' from the attendant anxiety and suspense. Collo opened in the mornin g a t 85i, se ll ers , h ave beer ' '0 buyers, but are now 8.5 i 86, for account, a li ci4 eighth less for money, the Commissioners 85-3- ; there is scarcely any variation in the pre t il4 on Exchequer Bills or India Bonds, the former be 74 75, the latter 84 85 pm. o tir The Foreign market is q u it e idl e , s car cely ` o o' chase having taken place all the morning, BO sequently prices are nearly nominal, withou t deviation. In Shares the discount on Real Del Monte - na ile has increased to 170 150, a call having been i h ' fir e on this once favourite speculation; all ether " are without variation. to e , Up to the present hour the Hamburgh st e p fir haa not made her appearance, which has be e 4 - 0111 tributed to the foggy state of the weather. '' t ice curiosity has been excited this morning by a I ' o oo from the principal Officers and C omm i ss i o ners t l Majesty's Navy, posted at Lloyd's, announPia 0 1 1 they will be ready t o r ece i ve a tender for t i 11- 8 11 t. on the 29th inst., to take from the Thames ece Falmouth 179 adults and 126 children, from th to Rio de Janeiro, to sail immediately after th e sel is fitted out at Deptford; it is not, nor is it for' ful, to state whether the parties passengers a re r ,tho' tuguese ; the number of children mentioned i 5 extraordinary for refugees; and, if Germans, oL o tl• not aware any of these were in this neighbour , ' al The state of Ireland has been the source e t ' gr e et conversation to-day, as well as the Brunswick "' b e e lug in Kent, on Friday next ; the latter 114 7 At te much deprecated by t h e lib era l an d l e ss b'g' ll part of the community, and the result c annot be of a nature to widen the breach wbirh 51 t Vea „ exists t oo p ower f u lly b e t ween t h e P ro testant Catholic party of his Majesty's subjects. • Three per Cent. Consols, 85 ; Ditto, for the M 85i 6; India Bonds, 84 5 pm.; Exchequer Bills, ' 74 5 ' FouxioN.—Brazilian, 62+ ; Buenos Ayres, • Chain, 261 74 ; Colombian, 19 1 ; Danish, 60 Greek, 174 18 ; Mexican, Five per Cent., g 8 9 Six per Cent., 38 1 • Peruvian, 164 lin; Per t 551 61; Russian, 94 4 ; Spanish, 111 1. MixEs.—Anglo Mexican, 68 74 dis. ; BraxiliaV 55 pm. ; Bolanos, 195 205 pm. ; Colombian, '7 6 ill Real Del Monte, 170 150 dis. ; Tlalpuxabua, 15 20 share; United Mexican, 191 181 dia. T th e Bo() 06;, for TWO 0' C. 6 0 ‘if iCO Consols have bec ome ra th er fl a t, and the 17 Pri, has receded t o 85i, se ll e rs, for Account. I '4 The Foreign Funds are generally a shade b e 10; Brazilian, 62i ; Portuguese, 56 ; ColombitO. I,!ni Mexican 6 p er C em t.,'3B/ ; an d Austrian , 9 1 4. Co , ` THREE 0' CL 0 01 , r e i , Consols for Account, 85:1- ; for Money , sellers,