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This Gentleman was proceeding in his argument, when he was tailed to .order by sereral•Gentle men, who observed,.that not being an Inhalatant,'lre hail no right to interfere, and, by so doing;disforb the unanimity of the Meeting. Mer 13, replied, wit li•srime warmth, thatlM- ing visitor, and lii*family haviog •residedsfveral weeks iii the Town, he was fully entitled to give lusopinion on any National' QUestion ; this produCed a short discussion, and terminated by the Rev. Dr. DUPRE% moving, that the Speaker may be heard, as it would otherwise app . ear that his sentiments could nut be combated.—Mr., B. then eotered into a long defence of the: Claiais that Were‘urged by the Ro man Catholics, •and : quoted various occurrempes that touk place in their favour du.singt the reige ctf several Kings, doWn to the period of the Revolution in uiss i inbrdcr to sliew,tluit danger was likely to enstiefroin'their possessing Seats in iihh Houses of parliament; and maintained, that asthey shared in the burdens of the Country, they were justly entitled to par ticipate in its political privileges in common with their fel low Protestant Subjects. The Rev. W. WORTH immediately rase-and said nearly as follows :—I heartily concur with the Learned Doctor, in wtshing . Mr. Bowles may he allowed to deliver his sentiments most fully. I should deeply regret, if any one person in this Meeting should suppose that we ate afraid to hear the strong est arguments that can be used, against tho.measure we pro pose. l for one, -Sir, am decidedly opposed to , what is called Cgthoiec Effignetpation. The term is calculated to deceive and mislead the t , nhlie ; it implies that they are enslaved, and want to he iielivered freou -.this slavery ; but, Sir, they aic.nui•enslavi the . . are :lot ,ted, they are eren tree from some taose real rainti which :Are laid on the Methodists aild - Dissenters ; the'l a. ta not reqUired to procure a licence fat their. Nlinicers, or to. have I heir places of worship regis tered. They enjoy coinilete Wirral ion; and I rejoice in it. But they want to he ~,ratted to power and :Mal. it y ; and serious l'eastins, ► onstt h it as d, Age"' ous to grant them what they desire. I haVe Lead 11111C11 on the subject, and have not found one ease in which they had power mill did no i tahu e it. 1 have. 11,1 one ea:e in which they granted tigration to any ot,er ilenomniation of Christians, if it were in their power to willniold it. It is not known perhaps to all present, that a • years 411ee, a propo,al was mane to grant toleration to - Piotestants in the.' Brazils; it was argued' Oar the Catholics: Were ,tolerated •in England; arid other Prertestant States, and why should not-the Protestants he tolerated. there. The _Fathers. of the church were-.alarmed, -and succeeded in getting rid of the dangerous question by this argument : It other States tolerate the trite Religion, that is no rea son why, we should tolerate a false Iteli;ion." Now this is the true sirit of the ancient - Papists that deluged this Coun try woti blood : this confirms what has been asserted by se veral, Oignital ies that Church, that t lie Roma ligion is the same as it ever 14:11 , 1., atomic it must ever re. main ; they Wio assert. that it is, changed, deceive thous,' cds, or WI, -to pleeeive at consider it as datigerunS to grant thew what they desire, beeituie it appears to nie that every conscientious catholi,,, who .possesses power, :must employ it to the injury of the protestant Religion ; I heir Bishops, it is weli known, are hound k's' oath to do every thing,in their power to suppress Heresy, and to exietid the Papal Audio tit). . . To the Reformation, under God, - we .are indebted for all our privileges, both, civil mid.rdigiuus. I rejoice that lam a triton, but I tin persuaded that every thing which has-coa tributed,to -promote-our • Isappiness as individuals, 'and to us as a Nation to our present exalted raiih, must be ascribed And - shall we lose, through supineness, .those inest iambic advatita t 4cs which were secured to us by the blood of our Ancestors ? Shall we submit to a yoke more 'grievons. than:tbatof poses,' which to every Nation that is tinder it, is . found destructive to every thing noble and enter, prizing—every thing that 'can'faise the-ir character as itidi viduais, or as a people ? • And if that restless, intriguing, and tunnoencring Sect rs ftdmitted to power in this Country, it appears to me,. we : have •no security whatever that we shall not lose all the advantages we have gained, and he subjected.to all the'evils from which we have been so happily' delirered. I : must apologize to you, Sir, and to the Gentlemen pre sent. for making a few additional remarks. I certainly feel obliged to the Gentleman who has just sat -down, for re . ferring- to, several - facts in the history of this Country, for 1 confess they have produced on my mind an effect quite• contrary to what they produced on his. You will recollect, Sir, that all the Sovereigns he has .referred to, reigiled before the - ever-meindrable period of the llevolution ; and in say 'opinion, it was not till then thought dangerous to' adinit Catholics into our Senate, and to Others of. trust; and let us observe • the' consequences. Is thit Gentlenian, or is there any inie in this Meeting, willing to risk the re-hiniiiing of the fives in Smithfield, and all the evils which tlie re-esta blisliment of Popery produced in the days of. Queen Mary ? or of being driven to the dreadful alter native of expelling the natural Sovereign of these Realms - from his Dominions, or sulinaittiog to all the abominations and cruelties of Popery? What a narrow escape had • this Country at that eventful period ; does any one wish to see it placed again in a situa tion of such imminent peril ? I ant free to confess there is some weight in Mr. Bowles'. argument, as a general principle ; it is right that all who equally hear the burdens of the State should equally enjoy its - benefits; hut v. - firre is the man who is not prepared to make such a sacrifice; rattier than expose his Country to suoil dreadful evils, when there is so l ittie to gain, and every thin:; to lose ? I can answer formyself, Sir, and I think I can an swer fir that numerous body of Cl rigians to which 1 belong. (hat forbidl that ever the dreadful experiment should be made. If once the Papihts are. admitted to power and Au that ity in this Country (which is what they are must anxious to then to inc it appears highly probable,•thatevety deihimination of Christians will be crushed beneath their polo: aims we.igbt. Mr. E. HENNING, V.r. JOS. noltsror,D, and the Rev. Dr. DUPRE, also de,ivered their "entieuesits,' and strinigiy urged .the neces s ity of petitinuisug Parliainent on the present Akcasion, which we are sorry we have nut room to do justice to. The Er:tiled. 1)u: tog conelmfed' by reading the Petition' _with which he came prepared, and it was adopted with only one dissentient. ' the Emancipation, as it is CaWad, of the Roman Catholics of Great Britain wit! Ireland, may not pass into at Law. The objecti6fts which we, in common with every true Protestant in the Realm, eatertain -against such a ipeasure, are, io our opinion, founded noon - the Mast solid reasons of Civil and Religions polity. The genius and spirit- of the Papal Hie rarchy we consider to Ile the sante at this dirt/ as it was at the very beginning. That it remains .uii - changed through all the revolutions of Inn itan affairs. is tfre - Ition and constant boast of this aspiring and despotic Chinch. We are fully convinced that she is still at deadly issue with emery GoVetaiminit which stands in 'opposition to her corru pt doctrineS, and universal sovereignty. The Protestant'Religion, av it•is. established in this happy Nation, is the particular object of her hatred; and, whenever the power is placed in her hands, she *ill not be backward in exertin, that zeal and those arts and that violence,, of which , 'the flakes are so deeply marked in History, to crush our primitive and evangelical faitlia We reflect with. gratitude and veo neration wain the memory - of thoSe acute and judicious Statesmen, who erected those Barriers iv hieb - Must for ever secure the.lteformation, if the spot loos liberality of the pre sent age does not. overthrow them in a fatal mouton. 1 We b r g-i,actire your Honourable House, that we do not easily suffer our minds to Ale alarmed with visionary fears; 14)4 1 )4 the real state of things, and we draw our condo .sions from the, experience of _the past. The tem per of the Romatrelforctaawe have seen, is 'ever - restless and encroach.. lug; never sartsfied with a granted Moo, but still aiming at, more, till she ,pas gained her tilaiiitate object, till she becuma the Mimi:mot RelLgion. The plans of the Rumanists a formed' bV rile maciiinattionVV'sitasnaimimate pOlicy, are progressive all the way; 1 tire 'env) of nor mild and gracious Sove reign, watching theiticreasing liberality of the times, and in too mail cases. perhaps, the indafereoce to any or no reli gion, they applied to Parliament for a relaxatiott of the Penal Statutes. Their Petition was granted; and they . nisiv possess the fullest immunities, as to pains and questions, itt the en joyment of their property, and in the toleration of their reli !glans worship. We must recall to your Honourable Hou s e their soietnn protestations at the time, that it the Laws which affected their persous and property were repealed, and all. restrictions remored front the free exercise of their religion, they would require no more—they would remain fully satis fied with this ample indulgence. But, - after a very short •in terval, they came again to Parliament, and insisted oil their right of admission to z n unlimited share in the Govertimeot attic United Kingdoms. They have agitated, and harassed, the two Houses of Legislature, Session a f ter Session, with their Petitions, or rather with their stortlyclaitus. Not discouraged by reiterated repulses, they have returned to the charge with undiminished obstinacy, with a view of extorting at last the important, concession from the Representatives of -this Protestant Nation. They did not come iii the style and pos- tureof humble suitors but in the attitude aniel language of Claimants to au timinestionable -.right. They rejected with disdain the very idea of }Restrictions; and, lii their body of Irish) Deli-gate's, menaces, of a nature not equivocal, were de- nouneed, if their introduction to Political Power were not con ceded without conditions, and without limits. a . W e sobi n it. with the profoundest respect, to your Honour- able Hansa, that, if this Bill _pass into a Law, and the Ro nmoists -be admissible ter a part in the 4dininistrat ion of the Government, we cannot discover how our Constitution in Church and State can long be secure. We are not able to see how the Act of Settlement, which fixed. the Succes slot, to the. Thrope in the present Royal FAIHiIy, can remain on the Statute 'Book unrepealed. We do not com prehend, if a Roman Catholic may be Prime Minister, or Se- - cretary of State, or Lind Chancellor, or Lord Chief Justice of England, or 'Memlier of Parliament, or of the Cabinet and PriVy Council, by what equitable. exception . the Sceptre of these realms may not, in future, be swayed by a person edu cated in the principles of Popery, or converted to its duct runes. Friends as we are. to Toleration, properly understood and qualified, we would gladly forbear to touch upon their tenets, it those tenets did not in many instances strike at the root of our :and Religions iiistitations. 'They are, indeed, in point of fact, otteely iitcompatililewitlatheir existence. We are aware this? a distinction has beedinade between the religions and political opinions of the Irish Rowanists. But twitting - can be more unfounded and visionary than such a distinction. The sentiments, dangerous to all civil liberty, and to all civil authority, which 'they are taught to maintain, are' to them religions opinions in the must hut erud sense, and of" the niosi sacred obligatiein.•'•They are as bind ing. on . their 'consciences as the most fundamental ar ticles of iheir faith. They are enforced by an authority which they assert to he equal, if not superior, to the authority: of the Gospel—that their - Church, -The pre sent Pope has solemnly declared, that .all .oaths taken to the pi I:jot:lice of that Church are . troll and uof 1. , So the, Franciscani,' the Dominicans, and so the Jesuits have taught. Their faith, at this day, agivei in every tittle with all • the Articles and Decrees made and Confirmed by the Coolie's! of Trent. The Creed of Pope Pitts the Fourth is fin f iad a it iyo ki these Articles and Decrees. This Creed 'condemns, rejects, and anatheniatizes. all Heresies and - Heretics, and athrats t that tio matt, consequently no. Protestant, • can be saved, who is not its the pale of " this true Catholic Church." We think, also, that Political Power in the hands of those Religionists who will net acknowledge the Ecclesiastical Stt pi (limey of the King on the Tnnae, but swear allegiande to, 'a foreign Potentate, not only to his spiritual jurisdicium, but to the Royilltiew of St. Peter, would lie fraught with the moat tenant dangers to the Constitution anti Government of this kingdom, which have so close an alliauce with Protest .antism, that if one-he destroyed, the other moat inevitably sharells fate. \t e know that it may lie asked—Can sach an event be expected? Is it to lie iMagined, that a people, so eolightened as the English, . will embrace again the -doctrine of Popery ? We cordially wish that it were not in our power to answer these questions: but We have a'Snbstantial FACT be fore our eyes. There is now a College tit Jesut rs at Slimy; horst, near Preston, in fall rogour and activity. This Order, the most pernicious to society of all other Orders in the Ito mish Church, has been suffered, 'at a time when it was ex pelled fromovery Popish Kingdom in Europe, to grow up -silently in this Protestant country !!! Such has been the ex traordinary success of their efforts to make proselytes of the Population around than, that, although at first they could not assemble more than a dOZelt hCCUTTS they have now erected two spacious chapels, each containing a congregation of anore TWO Iwo thoU,Vadd converts. This extensive Cattle- . .giate . Establishment - is supported byan estate of more than eleven litindretfacees of land ; and nearly the whole of the neighbourhood are now turned to Popery. It a pool be re quited of us for our alarms at this Bill, here it is, written in the most legible characters. This fact speaks, more forcibly than it volome of arguments, - the -necessity of repelling im mediately their pretensions to civil soil political influence.— The Protestant Church, in our humble opinion, has a right, from the Law of Nature, to protect the fences of her serum its', and nut consent, through a misguided no tion of liberality. to throw tht in down, and let in her un appeasable enemies, who would infaillibly compass her utter destruction. From these consirkrations, which fill us with the mo't just and awful-appreltensions, we dutifully, but. earnestly, i rn; , lore 'our Honourable House to arrestAfie evil, before it grows too strong to 6e controuter7, by rejecting the Claims of the Ho man Catholics to Political Power. Thus shall our minds, and those of our Protestant Fellow-Subjects, be al rest from tneir uneasiness for the sattly of our pure and holy Re ligion,which is far dearer to us than our.temporal estates and property, or even 'than our lives. And, as in duty bound, we shall - ever pray. Resolved—That the smile be fiLirly engrossed, and be laid at the Towri,llalL for signatures, until Wednesday next, the 28th of Avid instant. - ii.vpoleud—rhat the Bight Honourable the Ear! of Digby, Lord Lieutenant of the County, be request:it to present the Petition to the House of Lords; and that Nlasierton Ure, Esq. our 016 st Member,.be also requested to present the. Petition to the House of Commons, and that he and the Right Hon. T. Wallace, Willi:tar With:Jars, - and T. F. Box ton, Esqrs. Members for this Borough, be requested to sup port the saute. 3. BOWER, Chairman. Mr. Bower haring left the Chair, it was resolved unani mously, that the Thanks ot this Nlecting be given hi the Chairman tour presiding ►►t this Meeting, and tor his conduct i►► the Chair. • Both' Petitions were this morning . forwarded •as voted, .i t zhefi by tip - winds of SOU inhabitants' in the course of two d,Lys. - . ' kvEYMoUTN AND MEL,COS4II At a nuincriu:s meeting of the Inhabitants of this Borough atid ToWti, held at the Guildhall, on Saturday, the - 44th day of oral 1319, frrr the - pnrpase (It considering the propriety of portioning Parliament, trot to grant :ioy further indulgences t:o t 4,atholios, JAII ES Liowsbc,'Esq. Isrlayor Chair hia n, It was resolved, with only one.discentiog voice, that the fa owing Petition be presented to both Houses of Parlia racrit ! . . , fu the F - I , nionrable the Commons of the United Kingdom of ilritaio'hurr l'itriiauttit VV,•, ti t , Ut t ilerNigoetl inhal.itaots of the Town and 80-141 141 , e:11 ut Ice-111(111i 0(1 NI eleomhe most respectfully ,iittpioce tgat a Bill, uuw before ,your Hououratile fiouse, for [PRICE SEVENPENC F. I'ION. [FaOM A CORREsPoNDENT.] This subject is now become so interesting to the Politician, the Philanthropist, and the in tended Emigrant, that, however anxious to di rect the tide of 'Emigration to our own settle- Merits, we feel that the cause of our country will be best served. by a fair and iinpartial exposé of the true state of the ease. Many will go ; it is, therefore, ati act of benevolence to point our to our uninformed fellow-citiiens thetie' w!) , o ought nut to go, it they have any regard . for themselves . or folmilieS. With this feeling we give the tot- , lowing fetter from an Irish Paper, written by a highly respectable and intelligent Irishman. who . lies resided'for more than tivo idaiiin New York, dated New York, Bth Feb. 1819: " I.wenld; rdnder all circumstances, recommend my coun trymen to stay at borne; except such' as possess money suffi cient to buy a tarm, or have some good trade, such as car penters, enaCh-make,s, black-smiths, and a few others. A-, ; common labourer can du better in any part of this country , than in England or Ireland ; persons brought up about ma t ufactorieS will not get employment here„ as articles of dress are generally imported ; I hate seen a few poor weavers from Dublin, trying to make out an existence by the business of, begging, and genteel young men, who bad either failed in business cr got out of employment at home, working corn-, mon labouring work; persons of such descriptions coming here with a view of employment as clerks, may be certain of disappointment. Farmers who have - failed at home, and think • of coining here, should hare the price of a horse and cart, to take up the business of cartthari, by which a-hard working honest man may support a family'—if they have not this they bad better stay at home; such persons need not flatter them selves with the expectation of getting easy employment in this country. Portrait-painting is an excel:ent business here, anti that -of landscape is almpst as ,good as- a weaver! I would - strongly recommend every man in England and Ireland. in a declining 'business, (such as shopkeepers, &c. ) to wind up their affairs and come to this country, if they can bring 5001. or upwaids, to purchaSe land and heCeme farmers. Such per sons will be always certain of a competency, and the means' of making their children comfiirtahle. Editors of News papers or Periodical Publications must be mad to conic here. Nothing can he done in a foreign, political, or literary way. There are three Papers here supp orted as well as any in Eu- ' rope, principally by advertisements. The celelrrated'Cobbett and Cox, you are aware, are both here some time, and, like many -others before them, in a similar line, have been ob liged to give up publishing - Papers, the former has become an experimental faemer, and the latter an importer of Irish , whiskey, halos, &c. 'Touching the American character, L. must do there-the justice to say, as welt in condition and ' manners. talents, and moral character, from the President to the humblest mechanic, there is - a great similarity—) on will - not see that description of low 'ruffians to be found in one country, and th . ere is nu matt more the Gentleman than the educated American; modest and unassuming in his manners, be feels 'himself the equal of any mao, mid superior to no one; some tra yellers . and ivrii ers. have given them a lid ' name, which, I. do believe, originated either from ignorance .of their real character, or from prejudice or interest." As a fair counterdoise to this, however, we may• with propriety add the fon,,Wing tern a k s , front a. recent nunzber of the Edinburgh Review . " As for einigration, every man, of course,' must 'determine for hintself. A carpenter under • 30 years of age, who finds .himselt a Cincinnati • -with an axe over his shoulder, and ten pounds in his rocket, will "get 'WI in America, if time change of climate does not kill !din: So will a farmer who emigrates early with some capital. 13ut any person with tolerable prosperity hem e, had better . remain where he is. There are considerable evils, no doubt, in England but it would be madness • not to admit, that .it is, upon the whole, a very happy country, and ve t , are snitch mistaken if the next 20 years will not brink with it a • great deal of internal improvement. The country has long. been groaning. udder the evils of.the greatest fo— - reign war we were ever engaged in ;, and see ate just beginning to look again into our home atrairs. " It is oat pleasant to emigrate into a corm try'ot changes and revolution, the size and inte grity of whose empire no man can predict. The American.; are a very sensible, reflecting people, and have conducted their affairs extremely well ; but it. is scarcely possible, to conceive that such an empire bhould very long remain undivided, or that the dwellers on the Colninbia should have common interest with 'the navigation of the Ilud• son and the Delaware. ". England is, to be sure, a very expensive conntry-; hot a million of millions have been ex pended in linking it habitable and comfortable ; and this is a constant source of revenue, or, what is the same thing, a constant diminution of ex pence to every man living in it. Thesprice an. Englishman pays for a turnpike road is not equal. to the tenth part of what the delay would cost him without - a - thrnpike. The New River Com pany brings water to every inhabitant of Londort at an infinitely less price than he could dip for it out of the Thames. No country, .in fact, is so expensive as one which human beings are just be ginning 'to inhabit ; where. there are no roads, no bridges, no skill, no help, no combination of powers, and no totce of capital. " How, too, can any than take upon himself to Say, that he is so indifferent to his country that he will not begin to - love it intensely, when he is 5000 or 6000 miles from it ? And what a•dread tul disease Nostalgia !limit be on the banks of the Misouri I Severe and painful poverty will drive us all any where ; but a wise man should be quite sure he has so irresistible before he ventures on the Great or the Little \V hash. should he quite sure that he dues • Hot go tittle from • ill temper—car to be pitied—or to be re gretted—or grom ignorance of what is to happen to him—or because i.e is a poet—but because ise has not enottgit to cat here, and is sure of abun dance where he is going." lOC VO rev ich , be• fje lOC '.teC OP 3clo Ü be fo rit ----' OS' Of 11, 01 dY Off 0 0. , ce 10 ~li o ' s ~ lir fill I,oder, i:be llf hin t' car" VI I