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HIS DA' ) present q i . s . Rob sum Of her undel., r was rna‘ under the, from the: wt. In C. ement of was instil. )e paid to of any 111 had tieem, consent he order - If Mr. Ai; TOW, the ( • ;el with re' dissolve liery in µ'• ►uid a ttend 'elve Pr his Lord' Inc to-morn Bat his Lc aat any mat dch were maticularly, tip the 11 !stifled the them. A occurred ti Counsel )e Lord Cl' the parties' dings; uuj le R 0115,,! Lord (jk leclares, `` i i upon any 'tint be I I) the decre e ecessary v in the fill Master of ! in the of Tern') ion to stag' led a motto tertn, rt ; 'essly. decY irst made ter was fel head or 46th or practle', ted, that nature) le order r etual 10 5 1 1 ueousider,s,, ',WS= 01)1Pd 1014 the O'd only sltol e i ion, solve i be all events, ' i f e suitor' !fore sugg: t i pposite Pe decree 01 . 0 , 1 le a pplics9 e j y disrega rts, .e her upon i v deal with i,LENP Y sacted bugi se6l reet. SQ. Ivi•` . 0 16 successshear, no means i Ol d be sign.' 0 , !oven of t i ljr, mstacy of aken his d of civil r e p vfligaey n ye runk with bv y, seven b o Dews®N h which he, - jo ilipt the 0. 0 , , the &sole' for t , hence do How of P t 0 , irty.—the e' Dublin Of CLV O 0 ~ oment a s r° , Diu!), oP e° l,, prising ra 1l -one that Ilford Po' e : u bjec r suffer Pe'"" t th e " " - is. AltiOg arranges 3en° has MOW ° t for m pruden the fact 91 . 1 :: cps to be 8 0 , and the re°. mus t cora l " h• t i cr c n o ß ni o ) 8 m itt& racter in t he Ireland or c fated to pr o ' e are all or CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION. (Abridge 4 from the Dublin Morning Post of Monday.) , The Association met on Saturday—Mr. Quin in the Chair.. Mr. J. Murphy, acted as Secretary. Mr. BRADY proceeded to observe on a recent event, 'calculated to excite the highest emotion ; such event s were sa id to g i ve joy in heaven—he Meant the conversion of an enemy.—Loud cheers.) Georg e Robert Dawson, born and educated in the densest atmosphere of Irish Protestant prejudice, bound to the faction by the influence of early asso ciations, of private friendships, of ,family conmee ki"sllsi Qf politicit.l interest, of official obligations e tt is, the Child and the champion of ascendancy, Who even amid its BabYlonian banquet, was heard to utter its inevitable dooM. (Loud cheers.)— The . JlePresent a tive of a, great Protestant county , a Member of our Adthininistrtion, deemed a4ti-Catholic, proclaims to his constituency as a conviction resulting from domestic experience and official information, that the salvation of the empire depends on the concession of the Catholic claims. (Cheers:) What Mr: DawSon has announced is the conclusion of the Cabinet or it is not. If not, and that he has once braved the prejudices of his consti tuents, and forfeited the favour of those who wield the power of the Crown, he has given more une quivocal assurances of sincerity than ever politician FaVe bef ore upon a c h ange o f op ini on . B ut ta k e life other hypothesiS, and suppose that Mr. Dawson nas hilt uttered the impression of the Cabinet, is he then to be taxed with the want of candour if his con vietion has yielded to the same force which has over come minds not les strong 116 r less reluctant than his ? Protestants of Ireland to you I appeal. lie as icing been the darling object of your love and ad miration ; you have known him long and well: Be Y o u.„ prepared td q uestion the hono u r o f G e o rge Robert Dawson ? While he was bur opponent we Never ventured on such an outrage. Is it for ydu to Plant a brand upon his manly brow ? Oh, then, if n ot —if though ydu may be disposed to differ from hi m, you have no reason to distiust him—listen to the 'apt ful warning he has given you—think of the ourt es of information from which his new opinions a te j derived—recollect what were his early prejti oii.es—calculate their strength from your own con victions and feelings, and judge what force was re 'luisite to overcOme them—consult your better u nderstandings, and prepare to lay down your e rroneous ideas of ascendancy —your exclusive and mistaken interests, as a sacrifice to the general W elfare—to the tranquillity ofour common country— to th e s t a bili ty an d grandeur of the united empire-- to the glorious cause of civil and religious liberty, to which you are fond of believing yourselves at t;'ehed.—(Loud cheering.)—But if you are unwil hlug to g i ve ear to t h e a d v i ce or authority of Mr. "awson ; if y ou di sregar d th e argument of justice, the appeal to your generosity, attend, I pray you, to th e stern necessity of the case. What is the a lternati ve , said Mr. Dawson, concession or what ? The men of Derry sat appalled and silent at the awful interrogatory. I shall con c l u d e by as ki ng , Wh • thatY it is such a revolution is produced at once in our feelings, and such joy, nay, enthusiasm, ex cited amongby us an event of this kind ? Is it, tha t it assures us of our emancipation ? No; we feel that our cause must triumph without the aid, nay, in despite of the assistanc e of more powerful individuals than Mr. Dawson.—(Loud cheers.) — It is because it affords a foretaste of what we desire more than Emancipation, concord and good-will a mong Irishmen. It is because we desire no tri umph ov er our fellow-citizens, nar wish to wring our privileges from reluctant hands. It is because we wish our Emancipation to be an act of national am nesty, that we are ever ready to grasp the proferred hand of friendship, and to acknowledge as a boon what we know to be a right. The Learned Gen tleman sat down amid loud and continued cheers. The amount of the Rent was soon after announced to be 695/. 2s. 41-d, Mr. W. R. MAHON was called to the Chair, and the Meeting adjourned. MR. DAWSON. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. DUBLIN, AUG. 16.—The speeches delivered at the dinner given by the Ascendancy to Mr. Moore en Thursday, and the proceedings at the Derry dinn er on the 12th, continue to occupy the undivided attention of the Dublin public. It would be very difficult, if not impossible, to describe the state of Popular feeling which has been induced by these harangues. It is considered, in point of fact, that t hey have accelerated a crisis which every sensible fNan foresaw, but which few could have imagined to eso near. The avowal of Mr. George Dawson,— k clr it amounts to this—in favour of e mancipation, "as produced an explosion of what they call the 4 P rotestant" opinion in Dublin, as well as in the ttOnitry, greater by far than that created on Mr. kgrawnlow's adhesion to the Liberal side. Mr. „ i /awson was considered as the most eloquent ;:ikrapion of the Ascendancy,--falsely, I always s ' l eught, for in the most violent of his speeches, ther e Was generally a saving clause, there was ge hlerallY left a locus pecuitenticc, of which it was up erarent to those who paid something more than a -u h rs° rY attention, he had resolved, at some fitting ° + - Pertunity, to avail himself. Mr. Brownlow de lerteed the f act i on , w h en h e was ena bled to appre l§t the m ac hi nery w ith w hi c h th e y wor ked, at the i 4v estigation into the conduct of the Orange Sheriffs, the case of the assault on Lord Wellesley at the 4reatre. He had also, at this period, an opportunity 4 , seein g t h e i r o bj ect an d d es i gns; and not being t 4 tutigled by th e consider a ti ons of place, or personal h: as ideration, he deserted the junto as a mere selfish efeder a ti on . B u t M r . D awson d eserts them now, , h what appears the very crisis of their fate, when i to 'Y were making a great effort, when they calcu 'll upon the support at least of a part of the Go pernment, and of the most poWerful and influential 4 4 1 11 ; and just after the return of Mr. O'Connell for k e , County of Clare, be passes from the Orange I ,P li a,s and arranges himself with the Liberals. Yon W i f t i fs J k a dge, on perusing his excellent speech at Derry, hi e ;:n You will find in the Dublin papers, whether sil e ' ea scals were sufficient. We think they are un 40Werable ; that is to say, those persons in Ireland agree with the Times in opinion on the absolute 'tee • sity of Emancipation, hail the accession. of aqd Nit,. , ...open Dawson to the cause vith ardour Thtlidelight. Far different, however, is the treat elle.t be has already receired, and is still likely to „canter, from the adversaries of your principles, (41 the same time the adversaries of peace 13 e• te "‘ n d• This treatment was partly exhibited in by 4 Y , in th e v i olence with wh i c h h e was received an , Portion of his ow n cons tituents. It required, I hi ofwormed by a gent l eman w h o -.vas present, all por nt 41 steadin ess of purpose and manli nes s of de the cl e at to meet, and in a certain extent to subdue, nezi o a Mour with which he was assailed. His con attack' John Claudio Beresford, the Alderman, Net of ed him strenuously, and it d eman d e d all the pet s " Si r Georg e Hill to keep the peace. Several never Were ejected from the room, and there were da : longer faces in Derry than appeared the next fac j ti: Mcm g the snore selfish and dependent of the the • 11. They regarded Mr. Dawson 's defection as *ton ;:glial of the desertion of the Duke of 'Welling a.. geiii mtneelf'n ahnodldi i t n i g s really difficult to conceive that the high office of Secretary to c ommit Board of which the Duke is the head, should u n til d nlit himself So entirely as he did without som e how with will ev era taeding with his Grace. This matter, how speedily be ascertained. Either he acted 0 :Il? the cognizance of the head of the Government, cou ir be did not. If h e did not, he will be dis sust:e i w aimed, and must resig n : if h e did , h e w ill b e doeb t ne and then there can ex i st no longer any d, he t , of the Duke's dispositions. This appears to view generally taken of the matter here, and 11',2.mkkine it will be found not altogether incorrect.— nne,. , !119n 111/I.TH.On Sunday, the 17th int, 'etburY) Gloucestershire, Mrs. Jacob Wood, of a sta son. at SUMMER ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. • • r 4 LIBEL. THE KIN(:, V. V. ILLIAU HENAN - HALPIN. Mr. PHILLPOTTS .opened the. pleadii'gs. Mr. CA97PBE!,I, (;with. whom was. also 'Mr. C. PHILLii.Ps) stated the case. Te ! prosecutor was Mr. Samuel Young Griffith, a gentleMah of highre spectability, the proprietor of the Cheltenham Chro nicle, and the author of a valuable and useful work called the Cheltenham Guide, containing an account of the antiquities and rise of Cheltenham, from the earliest period to its present state of wealth and splendour. the defendaitt wits Mr. William Henry Halpin, who had been in the employ of the pt&- secutor, Mr.,Griffith, as an assistant in the manage ment of the Cheltenliain Chronicle. He (Mr. Camp - - bell) should , mention it as an ill ustr ati on o f thi s lilsel, that the prosecutor had formely been em ployed as the secretary of a Mr. Webb, a Man of eccentric habits, whom the Jury had possibly heard of, and who went about through the country seeking for objects of distress whom he might relieve. Shortly after that period the prose cutor suCceeded hs tattler in the proprietorship of the Cheltenham Chronicle, and the defendant entered his employ, and continued in it until his conduct ren dered it necessary that that connexion should be dissolved. The Learned Counsel would not state the reason of his leaving the service of the prose enteri but the defendant on that occasion said that he should have OceaSion to repent it, and he was as good as his word, for it would appear that he must have at that time plotted the publication of one Of the most atrocious libels that ever disgraced the pen of man. The defendant was the author of a pamphlet which he (Mr. Campbell) held in his hand, entitled" The Llfe and Adventures of James Webb, the noted Philanthropist; together with the birth, parentage, education, and life of his equally notcrrious Secretary, detailing their most extraordi nary adventures at different places, collected from the manuscripts of the late Miles Watkins." 14e (Mr. Campbell) should satisfy his Learned Friend (Mr. Curwood) that the defendant was the author of this publication, and that it was published by him In the county of Gloucester. He should prove also that in order to stimulate public curiosity, the de fendant had advertised the book in a Cheltenham paper, and for the insertion of the advertisement had paid 10s., and subsequently had paid for a paragraph, descriptive of the work forthcoming from the press, stating that it would be positively published in the course of the ensuing week.— It was impossible for any one to open the pamphlet at any page of it without witnessing libels of the most scandalous nature. the prosecutor's name was Samuel Young Griffith : in this book he was described as " Young Zamiel Gripeall." The Learned Counsel then proceeded to read several passages of the pamphlet, giving a most odious de scription of the person of the prosecutor, and ascrib ing to him, from the earliest age, cunning, cruelty, dishonesty, selfishness, and the most odious pro pensities which degrade human nature. John Duncombe, the younger, a printer and publisher, living in Queen-street, Holborn, received in the course of last summer, a manuscript to print, concerning Mr. Webb, the philanthropist. I know _Mr. Wm. Henry Halpin; he brought me the manu script, and desired me to print 500 copies. I saw him several times while the work was in the press; he came to know how the work was going on.— Every proof-sheet was corrected by Mr. Halpin. had direction from him to send 100 copies to Mr. Williams, a bookseller, at Cheltenham; 50 to Bet tison, 50 to Weller, 25 to Harper, arid 12 to Miss Roberts. Three of these persons are, I know, booksellers at Cheltenham. I received also another list of persons to whom copies were to be sent, Mr. Neyler, of the Plough, and Mr. Pruen. Mr. Ney ler, I have since heard, is Mr. Griffith's father-in law. Another copy was also sent to Mr. Nicholls. After I had sent the parcel to Mr. Prince, Mr. Hal pin called and said he would take them, as he un derstood from his attorney it was no libel, as no one could come forward and say they were the parties.. He wished to have a print of the principal person in the book, Young Zamiel. Mr. Samuel Young Griffith said—l am now the proprietor of the Cheltenham Chronicle, and have been so about ten years. I was secretary to Mr. James Webb in 1814: I had a salary from him of 2504 per annum. I was in his employ about 12 months. I have resided in Cheltenham ever since 1818. Mr. Halpin was employed by me to assist in conducting the paper. Me ceased to be in my em ployment about 15 months ago; he was so dissi pated I could not keep him. I could not discharge. him, as he had en agreement. The period of his engagement is not yet expired, but he said he would not stay with me if I did not give him a larger sa lary. He wanted a higher salary, but I refused, and he said I should repent it. Cross-examined—l first became acquainted with Mr. Webb in the latter part of 1813. He was a very liberal man. About 6001. or 7001. came into ray hands to distribute in charity. I never received a larger sum at Dover. I never followed Mr. Webb in com pany with a Mr. Miles Watkins. I know Mr. Miles Watkins. I deny that I ever received a large sum from Mr. Webb. Mr. Webb was a strong-minded man. He was not an idiot. I never heard of the affair at Brighton, although I am the proprietor of a newspaper. I never heard of the way in which this great philanthropist ended his career. I parted with him because he was going on the Continent— I followed him with a trunk to Calais, by his direc tion. He treated me very kindly to the last. I have seen Miles Watkins at Dover, but not been in his company. I never slept in the same room with him. 1 have seen a Mr. Sherman, an attorney in London. Never did any business against me. I never heard he was employed to frame a bill of in dictment against myself. Re-examined-1 never received a single shilling of Mr. Webb on my own account. He never made any complaint of me that 1 know of. Shortly be fore Mr. Halpin came into my employment, I re ceived a letter from him, which was addressed to my deceased brother begging to be employed in the most humble way. I then took him into my em ploy, and supplied him with clothes before he could appear. He was in so destitute a condition, that the printers, thinking he was a journeyman printer in distress, were going to relieve him. I never asked him to return. Mr. Henry Sissons, a druggist, at Cheltenham, saw Halpin since the publication of his book, and told him, that since he had been in London a pub lication had appeared at Cheltenham, of which he was supposed to be the author; that if he was the anther, it was a most dis g raceful publication, and, whoever th e aut h or was, he ought riot to be ad mitted into civilized society. He said, whoever was the author he had sufficient motives for writing the book. Mr. CußwooD then proceeded to address the Jury for the defendant. In doing so he felt considerable difficulty, as the case weighed heavily on his feelings; he was totally unacquainted with either of the par ties, and in the discharge of his duties spoke only as he Was instructed. lf, by the lin e of defence he had adopted he was wrong, the fault must fall on those who bad instructed him. He was winin g to admit that if there was no truth ix the contents of this pamphlet, it was a very bad libel indeed ; but whatever might be the result of the verdict, he thought Mr. Griffith would have but little to pride himself on. Why did he not file a criminal in formation, when the defendant would have been called on to answer for the charges he had made ? Fortunately, the law of libel was now altered to what it had been : it was now competent to the Jury to take the whole matter into their considera tion ; and if they thought the defendant had not been actuated by malicious motives, they were bound to acquit him. The law of libel was net of English growth : it was not suited to the genius or freedom of England, but was imported from the civil law of Rome at the worst period of its history. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to comment on the evidence for the prosecution, particularly on that of Mr. Griffith, and concluded by contending that the defendant Was,not to Name liecauge he could n o t prove the troth of the chargi.• opifit the prosecutor', Es the prosecutor had, by the , Course he ho 4; adOpted; precluded him from availing himself of the testimony which. he • .would, under any other cireurtidttices, have produced. Mr. lit snY then called Miles Watkins, who said, I have Mr. Sarond Young Griffith some years. I met him, your Piceadiffy,, 1814. I'll say nothing but the truth. Mr. went and hired two saddle horses. Mr. Webb was then out of. London, and I went with Mr. Griffith after him down to Dover. We went to Wright's Hotel, your Honour. Mr. Griffith and I slept th ere about a quarter ,6fan hour i in the same bed, and th e chamber-maid came. , interrupted ~• , • Mr. Justice GASELtE here Ole nation, expresSing his opinion that such evidence Was irreleVant: „ • . Mr. ttilr. - !;ELL . thought it his duty to say a few worgs to the Jury upon a (16ei'.' . 2e the most infamous that had ever yet been offered. It had been ,44,id' that the prosecutor should have brought an action. Why he had brought an action, and what was the result ? Why, the most abject apology, and the disclosure of the name of the author. Under such circumstances, nothing tarnairicd but to bring that author to cpndign punishment ; and he (Mr; Cow bell) must regret that the pillory was abolished as a punishment for libel ; but it was some consolation to remember that the tread-mill still remained. Mr. Justice GASELEE having shortly summed up, The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. John Hunt was indicted, charged with commit ting a rape on the body of Ruth Phelps, an idiot, on the 4th of August last, in a field at Copse-grove , farm, near Bisley. Jacob Phelps had a sister named Ruth Phelps, who had been an idiot from her birth. She was now 22 years old, and could hear and speak a few words, so as to ask for meat and drink, and call for her father and mother. She laughed sometimes, but never cried when ill-used. She did not know the difference between the seasons, but knew her father and mother. The witness on the 4th of Au gust saw her coming out of a wood near Lydyard park, followed by the prisoner. She had been there with some of her female neighbours to get wood. She first went into the field where the witness was mowing, and then into another to which the pri soner followed her. Seeing him leading his sister by the hand, witness went, after them, and saw them . together in the field. The witness then described the situation of the prisoner and his sister in such a way as fully established the charge against the pri soner. He said he did not think his sister knew right from wrong. Jane Phelps, the mother of the idiot and the last witness, said, she knew her daughter to complain of the boys who sometimes ill-used her, and she thought she was sensible of pain and pleasure. On being called on for his defence the prisoner said he had not completed the offence when the brother disturbed them, and that the girl had so licited him. Mr. Baron VAUGUAN felt himself bound to say that he could not consider this poor girl what the law called an idiot. There could be no doubt she was as deficient in intellect as any one could be falling under the denomination of any thing short of an idiot; but still as she was, it appeared, susceptible of pleasure and pain, it would be too much to take away a man's life on a charge of his having'used vio lence, and committed those acts which the law re quired to have proved to establish such a charge. Under the direction of the Learned Judge the Jury acquitted the prisoner. The prisoner, it appeared, had been tried in 1818 for a similar offence, with two others. William Wilcox Flower was indicted for stealing two pigs, the property of Robert Furber ; a second indictment charged him with receiving the same, knowing them to have been stolen. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sentenced to seven years' transportation. William 'Ferrel, aged 33, was indicted, charged with stealing a black gelding, the property of Samuel Smith, from the parish of Buckland, in this county. The prisoner, in his defence, said he had been em ployed by a man to lead the horses, and had been paid 2s. for the job.--Guilty. Mr. Baron VAUGHAN, in desiring sentence of death to be recorded, told the prisoner that he might consider himself very fortunate to escape by leaning the country for life. Jane Walker was indicted for stealing a pound of bacon, the property of James Barton. Guilty-- One month's imprisonment. The trials of the prisoners concluded with this case, and Mr. Baron VAUGHAN proceeded to take Common Jury causes, with a view to assist Mr. Justice GASELEE. On Thursday evening last, a gentleman who had accompanied some ladies to the Haymarket Theatre, left them, and shortly after returning to the box, fell forward insensible. This, conjoined to a powerful smell of lauda num, aroused suspicion. lie was conveyed to a neighbour ing tavern, and Mr. TUCKER, surgeon, of John-street, Adelphi, who was in the theatre at the time, attended. On searching his pockets, a phial, labelled, was discovered.— The jaw was firmly clinched, and recourse was instantly hail to large effusions of cold water, which after some time enabled Mr. TircEErt to get down a solution of sulphate of zinc : vomiting followed, and the young gentleman was conveyed to his lodgings, in King-street, Soho, where be was finally saved from the death which awaited him. The quantity of zinc, given in drachm doses, amounted in two hours to five drachms, which did not, however, produce protracted vomiting. GENEROSITY OF THE IRISH CHARACTER. —ln consequence of the part taken by the peasantry in the Clare Election, several of the small gentry all along the line, from O'Brien's Bridge to BroadfOrd, refused giving the usual employment to the people—but when the harvest set in they were glad to pull in their horns. The work men, hOwever, resolved on paying them in kind, and would not come without an advance of wages. This was all con fusion—but a Protestant Gentleman, active during the Election for the return of Mr. O'CONNELL, seeing a large field of wheat, belonging to another Protestant gentleman, in imminent danger, hinted to some influential among the people, the hardship of allowing the field of corn to he lost. On which, although the owner had supported Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD, the hint went round, and by two o'clock next day the entire field, consisting of several acres, was cut down, bound, and bundled into stukes, independent of the weather. To accomplish this, and ten-fold more if ne cessary, the people of the three surrounding parishes were seen moving at four o'clock in the morning, a number of them mounted with their wives behind them to hind, and of three or four thousand who assembled, several groups reached the place preceded by fiddlers, pipers,, &c. This circumstance altogether deserves a ward.— Tipperary Free Press. A VISIT TO THE ToMB OF BURNS.—I visited the tomb of Bums in the yard of the old church here on the 27th July. If it had not been often noticed before, I should endeavour to describe it. I was disap pointed with its appearance. It is heavy and inelegant, and unworthy of the poet. His remains were removed to their present position front another corner of the church yard. The only inscription on the monument is the name of BURNS. This is simple and expressive, and in better taste than the rest of this poor memorial. The figure of the Poet is considered by some to b e a f a i r resem bl ance , but by otters it is found great fault with. Sir WALTER Scerir, who has visited the tomb more than once, is said. to have remarked that the face was more like his own than BU RNS'S ; and it certainly reminds us of some of the ep graved portraits of the living bard. A book is kept at the tomb for a list of the visitors. I turned over its pages, hit there were no very celebrated names. I must ac knowledge, however, that I took but a casual. glance ; and I hear that few persons of rank, talent, or celebrity, have ever passed through Dumfries without paying a tribute of respect to the tom)) of BURNS, and calling upon his amia ble widow. She is now at Edinburgh, or I should have had the pleasure of seeing her. she mingles here in the best society, and is much respected for her genuine kind ness of heart, and simple and unpretending manners. Her house (in which the poet died) is neat and comfortable ; and the street in which she resides was named after her celebrated husband the day that the foundation-stone of his monument was laid.—Edinburgh Evening Post. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. CHANGES. The Duke of Devonshire, from Chiswick, to Devon shirt 'loLse : Marchioness Dowager of Salisbury, for Gor hatubirrY, an, a visit the Earl and Countess of Verulani ; Ear:l Countess De la, Warr, tor 13 4 .it'shrst Park, near East .Grinstead ; Earl Dudley, for Roeliamiterf; Cliedii4Yel.d, at Chesterfield House, South Audley-street, from Brighton ; at! Somers, at Thomas's Hotel, from the Continent ; Mr. Giles, far St; 41bans ; Col. Vabriel, in E at pso ß m ag A ; silArisor.rt.F; Forsyth, Thonia:i Ltut,nd, Colonel flolt, t; t Sir 'William Johnson, Bart. Lair: e or i r fd s r ; Windlesham Rev..,John Tydd Moore, at Piccadilly, H f o r u o s m e, i i n /l n E rv i s r s e s7 a a n t ; i e l, for Johnson Hall, the Hyele Park Hotel, from Laniherlon Park, Qu e en's County; Mrs. and the Misses Stanley, from Clii4erland street, Portman-square, for Coburg House, Bognor ; Ictf.• and Mts. Mason, in Dover-street, from their seat in Suttey; Lord St: Vincent, at Ellis's ,Hotel, from Mulls gat,-;; C'eniYrrit the London Hotel, Albemarle street, from Paris; J. tisl, { Esq : at ditto, from Ire land ; Mr. and Mri. Rave St. Jameis-street, from their seat in Surrey ; Lady Turner, rits:": fairsittyt, aftd Miss Thompson, at the Pulteney Hotel, Albertail-EVeet, fro're their seat in Yorkshire; Captain Barton, fro m ditto, for the Centi'n' , .int ;, Major Burdett and Major Halford, at Kirkham's Hotel, Loy er Brook-street, from the Continent; Mr. and Mrs. Featherston, iron tha ,British Hotel, Jer myn-street, for their seat in SornersetsilW J. bane, Esq. M.P. from his house, Great George-st.,Westminste;, seat, Wormsley, Oxfordshire ; Viscount Maynard, for his . deari, Easton, E,sex ; Captain Vernon, from the Bath Hothei, Agilfgton , street, for the Continent; Captain and Mrs. 3laiadason, et tlloarcs Hotel, Lower Brook and Davies-Streets, from the lilerS!,' Mrs. Robinson, from ditto, for Cheltenham ; Colonel King, LV:1 1 1 clittcry for the Continent. ARRIVALS AT BRIGHTON. Mr. and Mrs. Dean, Mrs. Buxton, Mr. and Mrs. Col. Jim, Miss Mansell, Mr. Ross, Mr. and Mrs. Taunton, Mr. Dragurrettiy Mr. F. Craft, Mr. and Mrs. Farrant, Mr. Clark, Mr. Faidie, Mr 4 Simmonds, Mr. and Miss Matthews, Mr. and Mrs. Wells, Mt. Clark, Mr. Shaw, Mrs. Bignall, Mr. John Ross, Mr. 'fritter' acrd family, Messrs. Andrew, Mr. and the Misses Neill', Mr. C. Tile man, Mr. C. V. Ridout, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Itlaniin; Mr: Patterson and family, Mr. and Mrs. Toomy, Mr.Sowerhy, Mr. Moffatt and family, Major Cape and family, Mr. and Madame Goddefroy Fenisch, Captain Fletcher, Rev. Mr. and Miss Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Cramer, Mr. and Mrs. Verbecke, Mr. Turner, Mr. Turner, jun., Mr. Parker, Mr. Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. Fontayne, Mr. Holdsworth, Mr. Letchmore, Mr. and Mrs. Cramer, Mr. Day, Misses Ashley, Mrs. Harlock, Mr. Ruff, Mr. Stenning, Mr. Beale, Mr. Thomas Thorpe, Mrs. and Miss Wright, Mr. Stormer, Mr. Smith, Mrs. and two Misses Pratt, and Lieutenant Hawkins, from Dieppe ; Captain Hubner, Dr. Kanagh, David Roberts, Esq., and Mrs. Roberts, Lord Walsingham, Lady Agness and Capt. Buller, Lieut.- Colonel Dalrymple, Major De Castro, Mr. Johnson, Mrs. Haweis, Mrs. C. M. Smith, Captain Paul, Messrs. Dan vers, Brown, Baillie, Brown, Webb, Campbell, Baldwin, the Rev. Mr. Dunn, Mrs. James Sowton, Mrs. Lilbune, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Hector Macklean, Mrs. R. Prime, Rev. Dr. Toremdy. ARRIVALS AT HARRONVGATE. Lady Dundas, Hon. General Walpole, Captain Smith, Lord and Lady Doneraile and family, Sir W. and Lady Dunbar, Sir E. and Lady Banks, Lady Williams and fa. mily, Captain and Mrs. Salvin, Lady Broughton, Captain Stanley, Captain Cbarnley and family, Archdeacon Man sell and family, Captain Dowbiggin, Colonel White, M.P., Colonel King, Major Frazer, Sir T. Paring and family, Admiral and Mrs. Worsley, Colonel Worsley, Major and Mrs. Roberts, Captain Brown, Colonel Fox, Captain Bar ton, Captain Clinton, Captain and Miss Rhodes, Captain and Mts. Cook, Captain, Mrs., awl Miss'Archer, Major Webb, Major Graham, Captain Taylor. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TROTTING MATCH AT SUNBURY COMMON. This match, in which 60/. to 40/. were laid that a gal loway, measuring 14 , hands and an inch in height, did not trot 28 miles in two successive hours in harness, was de cided yesterday afternoon. Soon after four o'clock the galloway, harnessed in a beautiful machine built for the occasion, weighing not more than 1091111., was driven to the ground by Mr. Frederick Smith, whose weight is I2st., and who undertook to drive for the proprietor. The gal loway, though well set and compact, had any thing but the appearance of speed ; and at starting, at 16 minutes past four, the odds gradually rose to 3to 1 against it. The first start, 11 miles, was performed exactly in 45 minutes; the horse fresh, and at a winning pace. The second start, nine miles, was accomplished in SS minutes, leaving 37 minutes for the last eight miles. Time was the favourite till the last few miles, when those who had backed time altered their tone, and backed the horse—a course which proved to be perfectly justifiable, for the match was won with comparative ease, in two minutes and 20 seconds under the stipulated time ; after which, to the astonish ment of all, the animal was trotted back to the Red Lion at Hampton, a distance of nearly three miles, with little appearance of fatigue. The little animal broke twice from the trot, and once it stumbled, and nearly endangered the seat of the driver, who handled the ribbons throughout with great skill ; but notwithstanding these impediments, it fully confirmed the confidence of the proprietor, and we are happy to state, after proper care, was apparently little the worse for its exertion. COWES REGATTA, Au°. 18. The match to-day for the Cup (of 100/. value) given by the inhabitants of the town to the Royal Yacht Club, was decided as follows : Time of arrival at starting vessel. TONS. If. M. S. 1. Alenai T. A. Smith, Esq. M.P....175...... :3 17 4a . 2. Louisa Earl of Belfast 139 3 22 30 3. Lullworth Joseph Weld, Esq. IV 3 35 43 The Miranda and Harriet gave up before arriving at the starting vessel; The Elizabeth (Earl of Darnley), Eliza beth, Peri, Dolphin, Charlotte; Owen Glendower, Liebe, and Therese, withdrew before starting. The Match for the 25/. Silver Cup, given by several Members of the Royal Yacht Club, was decided as under:— Time of arrival at starting vesseL 'rose. is. M. S. 1. Iphigenia Mr. Daniel List 13 1 49 50 2. Lotus Edw. Janverin, Esq. 15 1 50 50 3. Duke of Gloucester C. Fryer, Esq 15......1 57 10 4. Alexandra G. C. Wilsford, Esq. 12 9 0 20 5. Queen Alab ' J. W. Patton, E5q....17 SPARRING'. Ben Burn took his benefit vcsterday at the Royal Tennis Court, Windmill-street, and the swell mustered in pretty good numbers. The sparring on the whole was so-so, with the exception of two or three bouts from the nobs. Lennox and Palmer opened in the usual style, and were followed by Sheen and Riley, who did all they could to recommend themselves to each other and the audience. Alit Reid and Watson, then produced a lively turn, of which Reid had all the best, from his busy hitting and getting away. Oliver and Bitton exhibited their usual quickness and agility, and produced more laughter than all the rest.--3em Burn and Harry Harmer then rattled away, till Burn observed that it would be as well to "walk about and show themselves a little." The mild one being a blinker, hit short, and Jem had a little the best. The latter then challenged Dobell to set-to at Mendoza's bene fit on the 2d September, for Si. a side, the best in fifteen minutes. He said he would stake money at any time, at Isis house, the Red Horse, in Bond-street, and would, if he wom give the 51. to poor eld Dan Mendoza.—Smith and Lew Latham then took a friendly rattle, and Smith (a p u pil of Jem Burn's) behaved like a Briton. Tom Gay nor and Cannon showed off what they could do, and Tom invited his friends to the Queen's Head, Duke's-court, Bow-street, where he opens his first ,‘ free and easy., this evening. Some of the best chaunters are to be present. Wallace and " the American Youth," who fought Bill Franklin, then went to work very amiably, and after a long struggling bout, blackee hail the best. Ben Burn and Ned Neal then mounted the stage for a wind up. -Ben returned thanks, and regretted that Ward, Curtis, and some others, who had promised to set to for him, had not kept their word. Neal looked rather fut. Nichols was present and looked better. • Teignmouth Regatta, which took place on Tuesday last, went otf remarkably well. The weather was favourable for the occasion, and the company, both for number and fashion, exceeded all former precedent. Up wards of two hundred attended the public breakfast, and three hundred the ball in the evening. The first class cup was not sailed for, a sufficient number of yachts not hav ing been entered. The sailing of the other classes was very superior ; the second class cup having been won by Mc. JANVEKIN'S yacht Locos ; the Ladies' silver goblet, by Mr. PnimArs's Elizabeth. The prize for first class open bouts, was won by Mr. SL ALE'S cutter Fakon ; the sec ond class by Mr TUCNMA N'S sloop Hebe ; the third, by Mr. BEEvis's sloop Sea Flower. The racing was also well supported, and that by the twelve-hand-high ponies afforded much amusement, these little gentlemen not being of the most highly disciplined description, and frequently bolting...,E,reter Alfred. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC .10tiRNALS. The line's from Ireland, of the last clay or two, and our corrtzrondeu ce , quarter, will part narrative, jid ala s r 'a r tn n. e produce The uproar excited among the Orange faction, by sech ( I , e r i e i t l i t i r ,t y e , re f s r t o a i t , I. 4 llfaNyat of the Catholics from Mr. Dawson--; partcOininn an old. 'Wl l ie:di:tilt Member of the Ascendancy, a n d the Duke of Wellinert oi now a placeman in s Administration—ceuld astoii sli nobody who -L:'l'felerstands the intrinsic wealenelse of the. party which the' hOnoniable gentleman has alizthdoried, and the extreme danger to a declining cause Crain a defection of the most prornin'ent of its ad v o cates, 1 We cannot read Mr. Dawson's spc'eth' without in ferring from it a determination of the Golern- ment, whose 'servant he is, to " look at the Catholic Question lAtii a view of settling it." —The Duke of Wellirigtoie is not a man to be trifled with by those who tad office under leitni His Grace must be suffitiently ac oldineel With ,the action of circumstances Upon the hail*/ tnitlO, to feel that such au avowal as that made by Mr ! Dawson, Secretary to the Board of which he it himself the chief, vvuld inevitably excite hopes diroteghout the whol'ES' Cfatholic community, the disappolneneent of which &OAT have no other than a most disas trous influence tipilif their irritated passions, and on the peace of that eetintry s where law is in effect a sort of tenant at will tO the multitude. We do therefore in our inmost judgment believe, Ist, tie Mte Dawson would not have thought of promulgating melt sentiments without appriz ing the Duke of Wellkdon of his intention ; and 2d, That the Duke would either have de clared his willingness to adopt the opinions of his Secretary, or, adhering to his own former prineiples, would have said to Mr. Dawson— " I Will not consent that you, as Secretary to the Treasury, should throw fresh fuel upon the fermentation of Ireland, and enhance the per plexing and formidable difficulties whieh already surround the King's Goternment in that island, by raising hopes of emancipation which I cannot conscientiously fulfil. If you, a member, though an inferior one, of my Ministry, declare your self now for the first time in your life, a decided convert to the relief of the Catholics, all the world will of course conclude that the rest of the Adniinistration have been converted likewise J you will therefore much injure my re putation either for consistency or integrity, by affixing upon me a belief which I must within a few months disavow. You will inflame to mad ness—first, the confidence, and next the resent ment of the Catholics; and you will in so far place the Government, with respect to Ireland, on a footing more desperate than ever. As I cannot, therefore, and oeglit not, to restrain you from publishing your sincere opinions, I must only submit to you the expediency of your tak ing the credit of them exclusively to yourself, and of previously relinquishing your office." Language of this nature, we presume to think, would be no more than prudent on the part of a Prime Minister, who had not yet made up his mind to sanction powerfully (however indirectly) the sentiments about to be delivered on a ques tion the most critical that • ever concerned the British Empire, by a gentleman supposed to enjoy some degree of favour with his Grace, and known, from the nature of his office, to be in daily communication with him. The continuance of Mr. Dawson in the service of His Majesty's Government, encourages in us, therefore, a reasonable assurance, that the head of that Government has actively approved the amended politics of the Member for the county of Derry. If it be so (which God grant it may), we hail the symptom as the most grateful and consolatory that has blessed the King's domi nions within our memory ; and that memory now extends far back. The ,prospect, indeed, may not be to all classes of Irishmen in the same degree delightful. Bad spirits'have crossed their country's path, with bitter curses, and devilish incantations. An Orange incendiary at a party feast threatens at once the Sovereign and the people of Ireland with 400,000 armed fanatics, " brave," " disciplined," and " loyal." Loyal ! to whom ? Not to King or country, we pre sume, for these are to be the victims of their loyalty. Loyal, then, to the enemies of their Sovereign and his subjects,—to the cause of outrage, of insult, of selfishness, iniquity, and oppression ! These are the " rights" for which Masters in Chancery and Dublin Aldermen are ready to stake their lives and for tunes against the apprehended wisdom of the Legislature, the peace of the empire, and the recovered dignity of a long prostrate people. The Orangemen, indeed, are furious, because they are weak ; the Catholics, in whatever relates to action, temperate and tranquil, from the con sciousness of ascending power. Our only tear for Ireland is, that the Orange fury may burst out in such explosions of violence, as to subdue the patience of the Catholics on one side, and on the other to outstrip the liberal preparations of the Government : thus ensnaring the honest partiality of Englishmen towards professors of the same faith, by stamping on the conflict so provoked by the ascendancy faction, the epithet, • equally undeserved and odious, of a " Roman Catholic rebellion." We conclude by saying that Parliament has not a moment to lose in the work of law, or Government in the duty of de claring itself.—Times. We have received—a- considerable number of letters on the subject of Lord Strangford's known veracity and special mission, which, without any disrespect to their writers, we must decline pub lishing. His Lordship's diplomatic character is now so well understood, as to be 'generally ap preciated; and if he is inflicted on the Emperor of Brazil, the insult must be gratuitous and in tended. In such a case, we hope his Brazilian Majesty will evince the same spirit which was shown by the Emperor of Russia, and that his Lordship will retire from Rio with the same tes timonies of respect as those which signalized his departure from St. Petersburgh. His Lord ship, smarting under our recent exposure of fiis pretensions, and feeling the necessity, on ac count of his patrons, of doing something in self defence, without knowing well how to set about it, has put forth what lie calls " Further obser vations on Colonel Napier's Ilistory of the Peninsular War," and has thus challenge, a fresh rebuke from those who in charity, wished to spare him.. The subject of dispute with Col. Napier is of course the history and contents of his Lordship's famous despatch, purport ing to be dated " His M,) 3 b ut ' Skip Hibernta, 29 ;' confessedly writ ten at Mr. Canning's house, Bruton-street, London, Dec. 19- I n his Lordship's observa tions respecting the concoction of this despatch, he manifests an extreme anxiety to mix up Mr. Canning's conduct with his own, to throw upon the deceased Minister a share of the reproach of a false date, and to treat him as the Golden Pi l opin was treated by its baser companion in Swift's fable of the two lawyers. But if Mr. Coming requested a summary of the facts in several despatches, for the convenience of being laid before the public at one time, did the Right Hon.- Gentleman likewise saggest to his Lord ship the necessity of making the followhig apology for haste, in drawing up such a com pilation three wreks after the date of the letters. vhich it embodied .....-,. _ " i ItarM thought it expedient to lose no time in communicator to his Majesty's Government tile important intelligence contained rn.this despatch. I have therefore to ap isologige for the hasty and in:- Pc , :fect manner is which it iswritten." o muds for the date of this i d a nd tt h li a s fec.t document now for its fact. His Lora " hasty and imper ship, pretending that contents we're nearly a transcript of -real despatche written off the 2.7 Tagus,thinforms of November, us pilation, that he proceeded to Lisbon " on the diint ed Bruton-street iateill co mostm- interesting , communicati ons w i t h t h e C our t o f Lisbon,' the result of. which was, the deter mination of the Royal Family to emigrate. That we may not appear to do his Lordship any injustice, we shall quote the passage to which we allude from the despatch itself:— ' I took upon myself the responsibility in renew ing negotiatiens after my public functions had actu ally ceased, convinced that, although it was the fixe d d determination of his Majesty not to sufferdin fleet elf Portugal to fall into the possession of his enernleil f still his Majesty's first object continued to be the application of that fleet to the original pur pose of saving the Royal Family of Braganza from the tyranny of FranCe , I accordingly requested an audience of the Prince 2. ~ •ent, together with due assurances of protection and security; and upon re ceiving his Royal Highness's answer, I proceeded to Lisbon on the 27th, in his Majesty's ship Con . flance . , bearing a flag of trace. I had immediately most in teresting communications with the Court qj Lisbon, the particulars of which shall be detailed in a futura despatch. It suffices to mention in this place; that the Prince Regent wisely directed all his apprehen sions to a French army, and all his hopes to an Eng lish fleet ; and that he received the most explicit as surances from me that his Majesty would generously overlook those acts of unwilling and momentary hosti lity to which his Royal Highness's consent had been extorted ;and that I promised to his Royal Highness, on the faith of my Sovereign, that the British squad ron before the Tagus should be employed to protect his retreat from Lisbon, and his voyage to the Brazils." -Non we would ask any man of common sense and common honesty, whether, on reading the above paragraph, he would not necessarily draw from it the two following inferences That Lord Strangford, after having left Lisbon ‘ because the Government of Portugal refused to comply with the recommendations of the British Alinistry, had returned to his former post on as surances being given of protection and security, had arrived before the Royal Family embarked, and had an interview with the Prince Regent previous to his embarkation ; and 2dly, that his efforts at that interview, in directing the Regent' , .,: (‘ a pprehension to a French army, and his hopes. to a Briti3h fleet," had some influence in inducing his Royal Highness to adopt the resolution to emigrate ? 'flint this is the impression intend ed to be conveyed, scarcely a»y body but his: ' Lordship will now have the assurance to deny and that his Lordship would have been sorry at any other interpretation of his language before it procured his red riband, we may be equally as sured. But what an opposition between this plain meaning of his words and his present ad.- missioms 1 . He now allows-Ist, that he did not see the Prince Regent till the 28th; 2dly, that his Royal Highness, instead of requiring the in fluence of diplomatic rhetoric to emigrate, had already embarked ; and 3dly, that his inter fey ence had no influence whatever on the Royal re solution. That we may not appear to take ad vantage of his Lordship by alluding to art amend ment of his erroneous statements after 20 years' of recollection, we shall again quote his own words from his first pamphlet. " I arrived at Lisbon on the night of the 28th instant, and almost immediately saw Mr. A'Aranio, who was already on board ship. I then proceeded to the vessel in which the Prince Regent was em barked, and notwithstanding the assertion to the contrary in Colonel Napier's note, I had a long and most confidential interview with his Royal High ness. I had then, as Colonel Napier truly states, no power either to advance or retard the emigra ttaioktel;anbyu t credit when t o d i m d 3 1 ,se e l v f e f r o r ais a s a u y rn t e h t n h g a t that h, take at that interview with his Royal Highness ?" It is needless, in a question like the present, which concerns his Lordship's regard to matters of fact, and in which Lord Strangford, the diplo matist, is so unceremoniously contradicted by Lord Strangford the . pampLleteer, to bring into the account the services or the merits of others. His Lordship has now as formally denied those of Sir Sidney Smith, as he had before unac countably omitted them, yet the.gallant Admiral seems to have ne hesitation in asserting his own claims; and, in weighing opposing testimonies in this case, we need scarcely say on which side the balance The ena yoquestion inclines, e s tion of the departure of the R; says h e , " er their remaining pri soners to Juno r," turned on my opening the door again on My singlejudgment, after it had been shut by the expulsion of Lord Strangford from Lisbon, and the consequent beginning of a state of war, and my exercising my single discretion in not alloving that state to continue." It would really be an insult to the understand ing of the reader to waste more words in proving the perfect innocence of his Lordship in pro moting the flight of the i Re shall oyal sp spare Family e himof P a o y respecting them, services, rtt t joe ll oa g nwd a s l hb ; i yea a hnt n dhoh d eret hw belonged, the et latel l 0, sn merits r g e ige s r enp. general r aa t oi t f o l ndhhgei order" other o t Turkishhdiplomaticely: onnegotia tions, corps rpa further allusion.—lbid. i c 1 1 1 0l I n v ; h kingdoms will not toler ate t his or that, with re gard The idle cant that the Protes tant; of the two word of com man d is issued to the to Ireland , is not ent itled to a moment . ,; consideration. Reli g io n has nothing to do with the ma tter peoitrfaletiroknsin,g i c a h nd ti i i i e t E n a n i g n l e a n ( o f :. is re ligion was used as a conven i ent handle, to ab stain from any f urt h er manifestation of Protes tant zeal, as it • no longer required, it will experience a n instantaneous dissolution. There will be, h owever, somewhat ~ici,hfrecirieit ,it,c c in o r more difficulty in the case of of d Ire]an. are more sincerely attached to their L di ctio b n than the Protestants of England. But a large c lass of men in Ireland feel their impor tance to depend on their belonging to a different religion from that of the body of the people.— No matter whether the body of the people be long to the Catholic or Greek Church, or be followers of the Dalai Lama, if they continue to labour under disabilities from which the Protes tants arc freed. From this class opposition must he expected, because the removal of disabili ties annihilates their privilege. And here is the difference between the higher and the lower orders, anti the secret of the greater obstinacy of the latter. The nobility and gen try of Ireland not only cannot lobe any thing