The Sun. — London, England, 1828-10-21 00:00:00

BRUNSWICK CLUBS. s DAY') isEA frols Ittti t pt;ctrßo3l I.OBT , NUGENT TO HIS CONlttrk/Y.NTS, THE " °RS or Ay LEsßully , ON TA k'oF. UATIoN OF THE 'UN,S,VH2X CLUBS. Lillies, Oct. 17. -rived the qentlemen—l bave not been in the habit of Wir' l64 obtattding upon you any opinions of my , e s „ r "Pi , -tting the co n d uct o f o th e rs on either keel e deJ Y W l cral p o li t i es. My duty i s lim i ted to t h e l aying te e ~„ eel( public principles before you, and to the , ‘s' t-n fe e orion them to the heel of my power in Perna spiral e, !lt trs which you have sent me ;it is yours to form with ail' t(t,, u ti t own concl us i ons on t h e events t h at are pass i ng ( you, fund to give effect to those conclusions by ie,:pealls which the Constitution has placed in your e front ti lt ; You will a l so d o me the justice to feel, that ritele,„ e anyn ce act of tonic that I am now forced to tee- that sile which many consideiations live m ade a consp ired to impose up s til on inc. Sussol" e ° my return, a f ter a short aleseeeee from my ire tt t Y tit ,,and from England, I find that, during that ettletit new and extraerdin a ry a pp ea l h as b een t it DO ) 'NI, you by the formation of a pri va t e sot i e ty In f wi ts of tt sort which, for some reasons, I should s XPected to see made at this time in leis sls"oltighaershire. It is an appeal } not only against tit to wn opinions on the subject of religious liberty, , who be iti l'n against that political *tranquillity and neigh her._,,)n_o.st of us, iol e te 41 Y tspirit which I believe it to be the dispositioN alklys and I know it to be the duty of all, w eer' I,4flitdeavour to preserve throughout the utmost op :eiy in 1, do ot opinions on public matters. lam happy tw off t„ t r, wbat I might well have expected from the kly, te the desien, n that the execution of it is in a test of t ot 414,i t e N itse of failure, But the attempt having been lames, "9 lot (With, howev e r, little success or applause), an d co i f 1 11 4 7 to decline the earliest opportunity of meet- Atter, eti!' \rould be to shrink hem the duty I owe you, 'ix) in , t he r nin the duty I OWe to the peace of this part of 11l het P 0 l e t ° ll ntry i n w hi c h I b ear so d e ep an interest. la not my i ntent i on at t hi s ti me to trouble you h u lkly (r , e ,; tel e ,l'hY argum ent on- the right or wrong of what is 9 n in s eolt the ssatnonc question. I have done so often rt e gn already, and by all those public means which y were it tie t pen to us. t's soy opinions on that question arc , I,4nanged ; but, as far as they could be strength re &fel l e ke t ,,t l )ey are strengthened. That question must lame , or- pro ine left to work its own way with the English et vets° iS i)e ) wills are given to reflection, and fond of jue hat i sti wherever they do not a ll ow p re j u di ce a nd pas )itilt° gatard t h e avenues o f t h e pu bli c . mind I the l'i e d '7 reflection and justice. I would wily irge, l; tee °e 'nr'e you fairly the alternative in which the retie er: Ltttyment and people of this empire have been wintle‘°: e ti `t t) o with reference to that question, by the ope the je t , a ft °of that very system of club law, which it is the wh ° ' I)ol.°lited, pow for the first time here, to graft he 4 1 , 1 tile good old stock of public opinion. duced short visit to Ireland, in the course of which I le y ther e ' te: to deavoured, with as much impartiality as is Te rt rible with strong preconceived opinions, to h t by observation any inaccurate notions into 1 1 4 e I may have fallen, gives me more right than 'fectquid otherwise have had to state to you the ef betsbwbiele have been produced and matured there lest - ,; : 4t system. The body called the Catholic As- N - ` 4 ", but, in fact, containing a great number of ft)i !estant members, derived its or i g i n from the club e tt r !t which h a d b een cu l t i vate d b y t h e O range I,,e t t i ° n• Th e O range faction was th e cause o f t h e Ih' ° !it Asso c i a tion, which, though late, caught spirit, and the result is, that four - fifths of Ire e th ll- 1 1 °W look to no other Government but that of 1: Association. It now governs four-fifths of Ire htt the power of reward ro m p unt d 11 b •im ness It has not Irnp.y an so e y y t i i ,Y th e p ower o f exc i tement an d orga nization ; fair e g is easily obtained with a people labouring, under Rise of injury. It has not only the power, if its ' - ` le wicked now to exert ors were wild and enough s t l 9fraisin g f our -fif t h s o f I re land in 48 hours to any lion combined combined violence; but it has shown that it , it ,'esses also th e muc h greater p owe r of controlling, and dissolving meetings of thousands by' a s e l 4 of advice. Is this a state of things that should t t ;nue ? Is thi s a fit power to subsist under any well e.inated government ? Certainly quite the reverse. i t. t the Government of Ireland is not a well-regu iiite4 governm ent ; f or i t h as f or man y y ears b ee n in I s h , ei nds of club s . The Osaugemen had long rtio er'litd all that the Government could give to cor o;tti" to enjoy, or could permit to violence to ex ; N et . Of 'lat e th e G overn ment has been in wise Nitester hands ; never, I think, as far as one may th,_ those ofie fro m a very s h ort exper i en ce ' in wiser or juster te Lord Ang 1 the se But this abridgment !ti or tolerated r power is n o t by the Orange clubs. I ,'" Ways, anti in all places, and, I lament to say, lql to m under every garb, even the sacred sad peace ()" of the Christian Ministry, the Orangemen I ,t '"%v cryi ng o ut for blood, and avowing their wish l' ilt leer g to e it flow: The Association has been successful itotvi ti the Catholics that to do acts of vio would be to play the game of their ad tl;ei"s. It has succeeded in putting the Ca t • le s , o I• • guard against the Orange iq As s e n t 'ell allof Ireland the w "o are over the south le • friends led Catholics, endea sse guFse of Jti s C ri g to excite them to acts which would i t i f t; Y the calling in the troops. The triumph will 11e be g iv en by the Catholics to the Orangemen. whi t ings . of a very dangerous sort (if not illegal, lieu", I am not lawyer enough to determine), but ings of many thousands of Catholics were held, (Drew week s ago, it, different parts of the south,—not ' eienrpos es o f v i o l ence, b ut f or purposes ou t o f 4 c li, ho • s fs however ptatea e, blviolence might, by the e ij ot the O rangemen, at any moment h ave b een y `e to arise. The Association saw this, and in (r l oo urs, by a mere witn ess , ever y assem bly of this ' o f t io Ireland was dispersed, and its recurrence pre'rented, A week after followed the proclamation k ip t . l te Gov ernm ent. A mild a n d w i se one , to t h e qo effect as that of the Association by which the I\4; 4 ' of tranquillisation bad been already done. Then te l l Must I conclude? Do I approve of every act t he No. Do I think it a fit form Association thi , k°VernMent for Ireland ? Far from it. But I that it has arisen out of the club spirit of its il l 'ersaries. I think that it is now maintaining the fe. khl ie peace in Ireland, which no other power seild do.think that, justiceshall le effectually ien .e e been done Ireland, it should frr4olved instantly; but that, till then, it neither can le tually, nor ought. 'toml the remotest times of our occupation of \ t 1 1(1 to the present, we have not - discovered the is tat of governing that island ; nor have we tips % e geh e d , nearer to t h at d es irable discovery by q i Ying the club system. We have laboured to Hy t t bli lied faith; we have not et, Ireland to our es a - ykedour mea ns we ll to that end. We began ' lisrnantancient churches. The copse- l et t their li ee is, that Ireland is beset with monuments of el v i ineient religion, which form an appeal as me an -IYand • as can be imagined. Small °P t as exciting 6, 1 ruins, some with the marks of violence still on walls, and all bearing tokens of systematic 'ie-7triution, surrounded by burying grounds also in e- % overgrown with I.:lnk grass, and open to the .ouIR 'Y. Yet these contain the tombs of some of the hoble st names of Ireland—of men who have un k, and sons are still clinging, to the desire tri a ,, whose insulted and v'ts t„,,,,lng their remains close by the e '" graves of their forefathers. Recordst of a i ; ar te error in a proselyting government . But to e m Plete t h e p i cture, t h e eye o f the Catholic, whil e tn these s a d memorials of what his faith and latnily have suffered from the Protestant, is met, alrnost the same glance, by the neighbouring ne w t , P rotestant spire, every where rendering them f ,';.ore striking by the contrast. And this is one o s ubjects o f f ee li ng w hi c h it i s p r oposed to subdue the generalising of Orange Clubs. The tithes, very unequal and e. evere as they arc, e generally co ll ecte d , i n C at h o li c parishes, by pros:- to be transmitted to the Protestant clergyman, J ett residin g in London or Bath : and non-residence il t ofte n the better ministry of the two, in this re , that at l east t h e C at h o li c i s not f urt h er irri t"ti by the vie w of a n incumbent having no duties k, ' 1 'eel to h but th receiving his s wages Personsim, who have already contributed largely, r v a to z 3 0 , 5 6 9, 3 - I st quotes" 0 to XS I 0 4 10 3 3 2 5 1. c n and tra ir ) gnat ) irtn Pr 'reely fr°' w deeC'V brisk si l3 ',' been takv" St. Dr m 'old 10 63 c", '.eels ablic IS -s Nola 7 at tbs a sold [1 Tar iMf '''' ' : d at 6 5s i, r 25 dr g new it SI acb „ per on. I Ithd s. 68 bbag effectoi ll A Y tide, per with 3°1 ., r lb. acloon, ous .to prooseee ;l4 . le pric et '; le. lon ng pri.-56, 9 W ' 111 l Stv' i d, e , orne larP G 1 304 ; ved yr' d le 0 tun. ice Out pr t. rkets P h c lic the P u " si r root* from to I off or dr , it the ?,'" but P r od. ), 36° ' A last ‘ (e rr . y r . Pete' some 63 )f Prg e s ' eW S J V f e PO ° .p.gsr °Av ' the Puke town of Ewrfol" -On tV. ecution , at 13; , 1 11 ' /Fair sun- 6' 1 : 6 from fibs ie tail o, lj i , :dam rtllo- litr i ' so 110 0 '.6 I , &C. f ie z pot vr,irig e bulido nee. ob sel ; fling "i're e out of their poverty, to support their own pastor in the duties of their religion. Ido not say this in disparagement of the persons of the Itilh Pretestant clergy, but of the system ttlidel• Which they_ re Tided for f taro this is anothel.- of the subjects which it is 'Orofi'ased t 6 by inviting this very clergy to b . e. iiiiiiners in Orange Clubs! T6rt are two classes of opinions which I have heard offered as to the state of public feeling in Ire land. One, that the lower orders of Irish feel no interest in what is called emancipation: no other, that they are led blindly by their priests. Now of these propositions the first is quite untrue ; and the second is not true in the sense or the e:atent in which it is generally stated, to the first of these notions the result of 50111 C of the late elections surely seems sofkient answer. That many an Irish Ca tholits who shouts for emancipation knows as little what the term means as does many an English Pro testant who shouts against it, is quite true; but they all understand that it is to relieve them from the intolerable usurpation of Orange ascendancy.— They understand that it is something that will pre vent their being hereafter daily told, in ways that make their blood boil, that they are a subordinate caste ; and they understand that it is something that will limit the Orangeman in the enjoyment of his an cient monopoly of personal insolence. Will the lower orders, it is asked, gain any solid advantage by Ca tholle emancipation ? :None that I know of, but this. But this I should feel, if I were a Catholic, to be a very solid advantage. Are the lower orders substantially sufferers under the Catholic disabilities The infliction by regimen of a kick per diem would not, I dare say, be productive of any serious bodily injury ; and yet these is an opinion prevalent among gentlemen, that it is a regimen which one ought rather to risk one's life than submit to the first dose of. I think some gentleman, not long ago, said, in some public assemble, that he believed that, if you were to go through Ireland with a pound sterling in one hand, and emancipation in the other, the Catho lic would prefer the pound. Surely this was tried by the landlords at the late election, who offered, not a pound only, but all that could keep the poor 40s. freeholder from beggary for the rest of his life, if he would but abstain fro* supporting the candi date who supported Catholic emancipation. And the choice was made by the Catholic voter, instantly, and almost universally, for emancipation. This was a great triumph over corruption. Enthusiasm, if you will ; fanaticism, if you will ; but it was too strong for corruption. But it is said they are led blindly by their priests. Not quite so blindly as some imagine. I grant that the power of the priests, through auricular confes sion, and through many of what we Protestants hold to be the abuses of their church, is very great. But I am convinced that the priests are now, politically, only instruments in the hands of the Association, and subordinate to their power. Powerful instru ments themselves, but instruments still. And here is the proof of it. At the great contested elections of Waterford and Clare, there were several instances of priests who canvassed their flocks for the landlords and against the popular candidates. The parishio ners, in spite of the spiritual influence, stood fast for the political question. They told their priests to begone with their advice, and in some instances the influence of those priests has, in consequence, so de creased, thqt they have been obliged to abandon their cures. If any thing could bring the priests and the Association generally into conflict with each other, while this great question is pending, I am convinced that the Association would prevail. Now they are united, and the Association works generally through the influence of the priests. What then confirms the power of the priests, of which we are complaining? The Orange-club sys tem, which has given power to the Association, and identifies its interests with those of the priests. Now, it is most important to look soberly at the following question, and not to deceive ourselves. What is the price at which we are content to pur chase die delaying for it few years longer to give to the Catholics of Ireland, not political power, as is falsely represented, (for that they already have en tire, in the elective franchise,) but the incitement to use their political power in friendship, instead of in conflict, with the mother state ? I wish, as I said at the begiening, to avoid arguing the Catholic question. I wish merely to put before you the terms of the alternative. It will not be a struggle of a day or a year, in which a great national eflbrt will be made against the Pope and all his works,and after Mr. Lawless shall have been sabred, and Mr. O'Connell gagged, and Dr. Doyle converted, the work will be done, and our heroes return with all the glory that will belong to such an achievement. Oh, no;—it will be a dogged, endless, hopeless disaffection in Ireland, and an agreeable garrison duty for England, during the joint lives of the to u parties ; through out which period Irish property will not be very se em e, and the rents of Irish landlords, and the tithes of the Church of Ireland, will have less of regularity and more of adventure in the collection than will be pleasant to the collectors. It is said here by sundry members of Brunswick Associations (as far as one may collect of their lucubrations front what is allowed to meet the public ear), " We will not be bullied." Who bullies them ? ksk yourselves fairly what de mand would be made on their personal valour if all Ireland were to be in flames to-morrow. None. It requires no effort of courage to read at one's break fast table of the progress of a massacre in another island. And therefore, though the talking here of wading up to our owe proper knees in blood be to some tastes a very affecting figure of speech, it is, nevertheless one which, when well considered, is neither evidence of accurate calculation nor of heroic self-devotion. Nothing is more certain than this, that there is a salutary fear of states, which it is a vulgar fallacy to confound with personal pusillanimity, as there is a thirst for requiring martial renown by proxy which does not necessarily argue an over flowing of personal courage. No man ought to fear danger for himself, but every man ought to fear danger for his country. The inconvenience w hi c h we shall all suffer till the great question shall be set at rest is simply this—we shall have to bleed in a very different and more metaphorical way. So long as we are at peace with all foreign states, andsayish to torment Ireland, we must be content to pay the tax-gatherer pretty highly twice a year for that gra tification. We shall find Orange Ascendancy a lux ury charged high to us all in the schedule; and, in return for these regular payments, we shall hear of thousands of additional hoops being sent to keep our victims quiet under an operation performed for the recreation of others, which we shall not even have the amusement of witnessing. We must also make up our minds to be at peace for the time to come with all the rest of the world ; and to be bullied with impunity by second and third-rate powers, who, when they look at Ireland, do not fail to see why it is that we dare not hold to them the tone which we once held, and which we ought to hold now. The first shot th a t i s fired between us and any foreign power, in good serious warfare, will be the signal for the emancipation of many millions of our subjects either by an act of our own, which will be then thankless, or by an act of theirs, which will be their final separation from our empire. Meanwhile we must continue to resemble the man, as I saw it somewhere well described, who is bullied and laughed at by all his neighbours, but comforts him self at home by beating his wife. I will say no more of Catholic emancipationd if itthola)inee beforetis— a a s m l a a s m st t i h re at th l t i t e t li t i h n e d thing not done. I am at the same time front my soul con vinced, that whatever difficulty there may be of tranquillizin g Ireland now, it will be multiplied in compound proportion every year that the Act is de. layed. At the Union the Act would have been easy, and its tranquillizing effects complete. In 1907 less so, but more than now. In 1825, less so still, but more than now by the " wings," the loss of which the very Orangemen now bewail. Year after year, as the difficulties increase and the imme diate advantages diminish, the necessity will become more and more urgent and indispensable. I will leave this part of the subject, only entreating gen tlemen who still have opinion; against panting the political relief ) (altd I resrct constientiont opin:t; of every sott;) alnsider it deeply. tlil slil n of argument; all tIiQ it'CW edikc;ssiim, tiitiy the time not arrive when it will become a mere choice between two dangers, which may not only justify, but call upon, a prudent man to embrace the lesser in order to avoid a much greater and a much more immittent Imploring gentlemen to lay this question to their hearts, and to ponder it well before it be too late; let file asi( in concliition by what • has 'Maud 'Men brought into the peril and distraction in which we all agree that she is now placed ? Why, by this odious and tut-English system of endeavouring to govern by clubs. The Irish Brunswick Clubs, which are formed for a practical purpose—that of exciting civil \var in order to restore the w'uning ascendancy of an illegal faction ) I view with alarm and detestation. Those of Eng land, which ate formed for no purpose at all, but that of inciting people to address to each other speeches and letters of (lull detraction, and to mix up a little of their own acid humour in the compo sition of every society within their influence, I can only view with another feeling not less deep, but of a much less ardent sort, to which I will not give a name. These are they who talk, in their weakness, of fettering the Government ; who, by dint of the proffer of some rotten borough influence, which a Government fit to rule this country ought sufficiently to feel its own popularity to be able to toss back to the profferers with disdain, think themselves strong enough to proclaim to the Duke of Wellington that he, whom they lately setup as their idol, must now be content to he moved as their puppet. These are they who, at the very moment when a lucky ex perience is demonstrating to them their own inabi lity to stand up as a party in the State, would throw the shield of their impotence before the in sulted majesty of the English Constitution and the Protestant faith. " Non tali auxilio," indeed " nee defenvoribus istis." I would only ask my constituents to recollect that this very party is the same who unsuccessfully re sisted the repeal of the disabilities of the Protestant Dissenters, and who are row claiming that glorious triumph of policy, justice, and Christian charity, to have been a " fatal stab" to the Constitution of our country. _ _ _ For certain of the members of this strange so ciety, just formed, I have sincere personal regard and respect which nothing is ever likely to dimi nish. I know them to be men of honour and huma nity. I would appeal to them, as individuals, by every feeling of their own hearts, against the flagi tious passions and the bloody acts which they are now banding themselves unknowingly to counte nance. On this point, when the excitement which now rages shall have been cooled, I am as sure that we shall hereafter and at no very distant period agree, as I am that they are at this moment innocent of all conception of the mischief of the work to which they are lending themselves. It has been proposed to me to assist in rais•ng the standard of an opposite association here, to rally the friends of religious liberty. My answer is, that I will not pro pose, and will consider well before I join in, any such project ; bring quite content to leave the Brunswickers to profit, unopposed, by the mortify ing lesson which I am persuaded they will receive.— Should they ever face the public, in public I will meet them. But in the meanwhile it appears to me that I should ill perform my duties as a citizen, and still worse those of a magistrate, with which the King's commission has invested me, if, without strong necessity, I were to assist in any way in di viding this county into two fictions, such as have distracted the unhappy country from which I have lately returned. I am, Gentlemen, ever your faithful friend and servant, KENT MEETING. This Meeting has called forth the following Squib, which are in circulation at the scene of action : BLUE BANNERS WITH A GREEN BORDER ! A NEW BALLAD. Air—" All the blue Bonoets are over the Border." March, march, Brydges and Winchelsea! Why don't ye, Brunswickers, march in good order March, march, Wells "of the bloody knee !" All the Blue Banners have got a Green Border'. Many a logger-head Thinks o' the day with dread, Crazed and amazed at his own undertaking ;. But having rous'd the game, On they must go for shame, Flogg'd by a red of their own clever making ! March, march, Brydges and Winchelsea! Why don't ye, Brunswickers, march iu good order ? March, march, Wells " of the bloody knee !" All the Blue Banners have got a Green Border ! Conte from Eastwell, where the rabbits were smother'd ! Come too from Howlett's cold griping domain ! Conic from the Hatch of the Culholic•Molher'rl Come from the Berestbrd bog of Coleraine Conic from each lurking den, All " Hole and Corner" men, Soon you'll run back in disgrace and disorder : Kent shall exulting say, That was her proudest day When the Blue Banners put on the Green Border'. March, march, Hammond and Winchelsea, Why don't ye, Brunswickers, march in good order ? March, march, Wells " of the bloody knee," All the Blue Banners have got the Green Border Canterbury.—(Wood. Printer, Canterbury) I'D BE A BRUNSWICKER A New ballad to be sung at the Brunswick Anniversary Dinner, October 24, 1828. Air—" I'd be a Butterfly." I'd be a Brunswicker, famed as a fool, First in the throng where the silly ones meet ; Listening to every contemptible to'd, And ready to run where thy bell-wethers bleat ! I'd never enter the Liberal School, I'd trample Freedom under my feet ; I'd be a Brunswicker, famed as a fool, But first in the field where the Bigotted meet : I'd he a Brunswicker, I'd he a Brunswicker, First in the field where the Bigotted meet! Oh could I handle the arms of a Yeoman, Carbine and blunderbuss, bullets, and all, Stoutly I'd fight, if I had for a foeman A Papist who'd got neither powder nor ball ! fd make my broth ci the blood of a " Roman," I'd grind, for bread, his bones great and small; I'd be a Brunswicker, armed as a Yeoman, With gore-dropping sabre and death-striking ball. I'd be a Brunswicker, I'd be a Brunswicker, Proud of my sabre and death-striking ball! What though you tell me a Christian should ever Shrink from imbruing his hands so in blood; Surely in this Anti-Popish endeavour, A Churchman of England should shed a whole flood ; Some wily Infidels strive to dissever Church front the State—tumbling both in the mud!-- But FA be a Brunswicker toasting for ever Tithes, Church, and King, in a bowl full of blood! I'd be a Brunswicker, I'd be a Brunswicker, Toasting the Tithes, even " knee-deep" in blood! canterhury.—(W , ad, Printer, Canterbury.) The lion. Colonel GRANT of Grant, has re cently constructed a very handsome shooting lodge con tiguous to •Lochindorb Castle, the approach to which branches off from the Military road at the Inn of Dava, and, after going about two miles up the banks of the Dor bach, winds along the southern margin of the Lake, nearly to its furthest extremity. The lodge is situated on a small promontory extending into the Lake and surroun d e d w ith a beautiful plantation, which will in a short time render this a peculiarly delightful summer residence. The Lake being supplied with immense quantities of t rou t affords admirable sport to the lovers of angling. It is much re sorted to in the summer time, by visitors from Castle Grant (whence it is distant about ten miles), who here have in perfection, as suits their fancy, the amusements of shoot ing, sailing, or tishing._E/gin Courier. GENERAL MOURNING. i Eli; gbiToti b i'HE sigq, , your leading article of SatUrday last I rethi Obserations On the serious inconvenience inconvenience of the present gen th l e on the trading part of the community, and closing with a g Edi extractEditor recommends trm a Coventry i ssufferi ng rea d ers t o newspaper, in which apply iMmodiately by petition to the proper quarter, to hare it shOrtened to one month, which, he adds, ii ill cause it to terriiitiate iii the Middle of November. If this he the only object fit Mich a petition ; thie podr Coventry weavers may save themselves the trouble, as all public nzourninrs ale now limit e d t o s i x weeks from the day of the "death of the Royal individuals for whom they ore ordered. As the Queen of Wir temburg died on Monday the 6th of this month, the f?,_:sent MoUrniug Oil cease on Mondabi the 17th of Novaiber, which 13; abdtit the period contemplated in the proposed petition. The real timulliing, however, I lament to say, is likely to last for some months longer, for already the manufacturers of those goods, the sale of which more immediately depends upon fashion, have found it necessary to discharge the great e r part of their hands. 't'hia obtains more particularly in the glove and silk trades, which have long been in a most depressed state, but are now by this unexpected calamity nearly ruined. I enclose a copy of the order issued on the occa. sion of th e D u k e o f York's death,‘v.r.va 1 I corroborates what I have above stated as to the duraticin of all general mournings.—l am, Sir, Your obedient servant and constant reader, Oct. 20, 1828. T. W. Lord Chamberlain's Office, Feb. 20, 1E421. It is the intention of his Majesty, and that of the Royal Family, to continue their mourning, for his late Royal Highness the Duke of York and Albany. during the apace of six months ; but it is not expected or desired that other persons should appear in mourning, except at Court, after the expiration of six weeks from the day of his late Royal Highness's demise. THE ARMY. The 36th, or Royal Essex Regiment of Infantry, arrived or► the 13th instant at Newry, from Lon donderry. The 111 st, or Royal North lJritish Regiment of Fusileers, arrived on the pith instant ) at Fenno) , from Waterford. A Detachment of the 32d, or Cornwall Regiment of Infantry, marched from Ttilla for Kilkenny on the 15th instant. The depot of the 79th, or Cameron nighlanders, arrived at 13irr on the I tith instant, from Dublin. The depot of the 88th Regiment, or Connaught Rangers, marched on the 17th instant from Mullin gar for Tralee. The depot of the 38th Regiment, or ltutlandshirc Infantry, arrived at Wicklow on the 13th instant, from Naas. The 36th, or Herefordshire Regiment of Infantry, is on the march from Maryborough for Limerick, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. The Room yesterday was respectably attended, and the betting tolerably brisk. The Oaks is likely to he a good betting race, the field being already larger than usual, and the fillies supposed to be the finest Oaks lot seen at New market for many years. Lord Exeter's two keep at the head of the list; and being strong, fast mares, and good public runners, they are likely to continue so. The King's Electives colt and Mr. Hunter's Canvas colt were in re quest for the Derby, the betting for which generally wan rather dull. The odds closed thus : DERBY. I I to 1 figgt Lord Sligo's Cant 14 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Will-o'-the-wisp 15 to 1 agst His Majesty's Electress colt 15 to 1 aget Mr. Hunter's Canvas colt 18 to 1 agat Lord Kennedy's Prince Eugene. IS to 1 agst Lord G. Cavendish's Espagnolle c. 20 to 1 agst Lord G. Cavendish's Brother to Sontag 25 to I agat Duke of Rutland's Brother to Moses 25 to 1 agst Mr. 'Wilson's Brother to Reformer 30 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Mona colt OAKS. 6 to I agst Lord Exeter's Green Mantle 9 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Varna 10 to 1 agst Mr. Ridmiale's Clotilde 14 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Fancy 16 to 1 agst Sir J. Shelley's Maresfield hlly 16 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Sorcery filly IS to I agst Mr. •Pay'ne's Quadrille filly '2O to I agst Mr. Dilly's Canary ST. LEGER. t•? to 1 ngst Lord Sligo's Cant 13 to 1 ag,st Mr. Stephenson's Voltaire. HUNTING INTELLIGENCE *-• HUNTING.—We rcque.it our Sp - rting Friends to forward to us early account' the FIXTURES OF THE HOUNDS" durirg the approaching Hunting Season, and of sit the 4 4 'Scopes by flood and field," that may occur in the Ch,,se during the en - uing six months. AFTOINTMENTS FOR. THIS WEEK. The Brighton Harriers, on Wednesday, near the Race Course ; and Friday, at the Dyke. The Brookside Harriers, on Wednesday, at the Kennel, Ilford ; and Friday, at Telecambe Tye; at half-past ten. Mr. ainsey's Hounds, on Wednesday, at Westhide \ i!- lage ; Friday, the Callow Turnpike ; at ten. The Anglesea Hounds, on Wednesday, at Gaerwn Mill ; at half•past ten. The Cheshire Hounds, on Wednesday, at Tattoo Park ; Friday, at Sandie Bridge ; and Saturday, at Dutton. Lord Harewood's Hounds, on Wednesday, at Kippax Park ; and Friday, at Scarcroft ; each day at ten. Mr. Meynell's Hounds, on Thursday, at Caton ; and Saturday, at Stone's Gorse ; at half-past ten. His Majesty's Stag-hounds, on Friday, at the Red Lion, Shrub's Hill, at half-past ten. MILLING IN THE NORTH. We learn from the Glasgow (Jlzronicic, that Alexander M'Kay, a Glasgow man, and Paul Spenser, of " Dublin's sweet town," and " the London Ring," settled their dis pute and the possession of 100 sovereigns on Tuesday last, a few miles front Glasgow. Paul, however, went off minus his senses and his sovereigns. lie was obliged to knock under after being hammered for thirty minutes, in which he appears to have fought up hill nearly all the time, M'Kay having shewn his Ilighland education by genteelly throwing him every round till the 25th and last, when he just changed the method by flooring him. Our friend Sawney seems to exhibit an improvement of taste lately, and the genial influence of " fair stand-up fighting" is likely to supersede the " roll and tumble" style in which they formerly performed this business. We are told that " they were frequently sponged, were supplied with cordials, while reclining on their seconds' knees, and received all the attention that could be bestowed under such circumstances." By some unaccountable oversight, the visit of the young Queen of PORTUGAL to Mr. BECK FORD'S splen did mansion in Lansdowne-crescent, and to the elegant structure on the hill, during her Ma3Kivry's short abode in this city, was omitted to be noticed, and many of our readers who were aware of that gentleman's courteous at tentions on the occasion, have expressezl their extreme sur prise at the omission. On being apprized that it was her MA JKsrv's intention to devote a portion Of her time to the in spection of the public establishments and notabilia of this city, Mr. BncKronn, with the promptest courtesy, sent an intimation to the Royal party that his house and grounds would be open to them, and at the same time issued instructions to his household that every preparation should be made to receive her MaaKyry with the respect due to her exalted rank. On Saturday se'nnight her MA JESTY and suite availed themselves of the polite offer, and i ns pected the supei b residence of this gentleman, his match less collection of the chef d'xurres of art, that unique and splendid edifice the tower, with all its tasteful and costly decorations, the grounds, &c., and, on retiring, expressed themselves in terms of the highest admiration and delight at the union of taste and splendour exhibited in every part of this elegant property.—Bath Herald. Mrs. LITCHFIELD, who acted at Covent Garden Theatre, for several seasons, the opposite characters of Lady Macbeth, Lady Randolph, Alicia in Jane Shore, Emilia in Othello, and Betty Blackberry in The Farmer, together with most of the characters sus tsined by the late Mrs. MarrocKs, with great success, and who from family causes retired from the stage in the meri dian of her fame, is, we understand, likely to return to the profession. Mrs. LITCIMELD is said to he still in the full possession of her talents. THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER, &c. MEMORANDUNI, A? Veen said itat irr "The Vision of Hop , I have draWn firr prirtraitt of some individuals recently dead, 1 take the earliest opportunity Nf giving thls assertion an eitiMialified Ido dal fidlir that an mortal is warealit.._ . 'd in deter. mining the final state cf goy feito-creature, nor clan I presumed to do so. But my pirprite ,A , as .; both for the moral and the poetical effect, to ske tch imagitialypiettires of tttos closes of human characters, whose actions or arntlat May be supposed to' fdtTc been pernicious to mankind, and Who therefore nrighf be rot - Ado - 0 P 5 having by their rids eofidtict subjected themselves fo be. fethledtt in the future kingdoril ut the Evil add of the Unhappy. Writing in modern times, it was fitt:esnty to invest these in modern drapery. On these principles, my P.a.! sketch was drawn as that of a great ambitious Conqueror, dnulating the world for his own gratification. I had not Napoleon Mote in my intention than Alexander, Cesar, or Gliengis Khan ; but at it ttas necessary to dress the iinaginary being in trio detn tosforne, in Sortie features lit may apptar to resemble the late French Bmperoti hecarrse my visionary portrait is represented in modern imagery. The Parte remark is ap-- plicable to all the rest, and especially to my tttottei, which has also received a specific application, though Liu:retitle, Lord Rochester, and some French Atheists, may with equal consistency be applied. The reader will therefore be pleased to consider all the portraits as imaginary cliaracterl, presetitinx only a col lective assemblage of features, which, if applicable to any one person that tuts lived, are also applicable to many othett —and are exhibited by me as yeneral pictures of tkuse classes and characters of mind and conduct, which, having been detrimental to human welfare, might be allowably placed in the region to which the " Vision" consigns them, R. M. are glad to find that Mr. Montgomery has pub lished this disclaimer of an . ) illiberal intention in what he terms his Vision," thoUgfi oven now wt feel inclined to object to the spirit of the phrase, " Clams and charac ters of mind and conduct Which have been detrimental to human welfare tnal• be allowably p iked in the region to which the ' Vision consigns them," It is redlly sn much a matter of opinion what is or has been detritliental to human welfare—so much party spirit and conventional prejudice are mixed up with the question, that the safest way, perhaps, *Mild hate been to have avoided the subject altogether. The Pope and lienry VIII., Charles I. and Cromwell; Milton and Johnson, and in our own times Lord Eldon and Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Brougham and Sir Thomas Lethbridge, hate mach had their own partiL tillar notions on the point at issue, and even now it is un decided. While on the subject of Mr. Montgomery's poem (which so far as versification goes is very good), of which we subjoin a specimen, We may take this Opportunity of informing our StAffordshirO ctirrospondont that he has thtirely iiiisoiweived the spirit of our reVieW.---,E5.1 Thousands of years beneath thy sway have groan'd, Unwearied Death ! how many more shall bear The burden of the curse, no human tongue Can tell, for they are eltronitled in heaven Though ofttimes numbeed by a guilty mind, When thunders, like dread oracles awake The world. Yet, come it will, however late, That glorious day, when Death himself shall die! When the far sounds of Inn-sting toltibs will awe The reeling earth,—when with an angel shout The bless'd will spring into a second birth And yet, though life enchant, and Death appal, How gently do the weaning years unloose The many links that chain us to the world The passions which inspirit youthful hearts, And spread a beauty o'er the spring of life, And bid the hopes of young Ambition bound, Decay and cool, as further down the vale Of darkling years we wend, until at length, The time-worn spirit muses on the tomb With elevating sadness, and the shades Of death dissolve amid those cheering rays Which revelation sheds front heaven. How pure, 'the grace, the gentleness of virtuous age! Though solemn, not austere; though dead To passion, and the wildering dreams of hope, Not unalive to tenderness and truth,— The good old man is implied and fevered, And breathes upon the young-limb'd race stound, The gray and venerab'e charm of years Nor,—glory to the Power that tune tthe heart Unto the spirit of the time ! are all The fancy and the flush of youth forgot : The meditative walk by wood or mead, The lull of streams, and language of the stars, Heard in the heart alone,—the bosom-life Of all that beautified or graced his youth, Is still to be enjoy'd, and liallow'd with The feelings flowing from a better world. I sing of Death ; yet soon, perchance, may be A dweller in the tomb. But twenty years Have wither'd, since my pilgrimage began, And I look back upon my boyish days With mournful joy ; as musing wand'rets do, With eye reverted, from some lofty hill, Upon the bright and peaceful vale below.— Oh ! let me live, until the fires that feed My soul, have work'd themselves away, and then, Eternal Spirit, take me to Thy home ! For when a child, I shaped inspiring dreams, And nourish'd aspirations that awoke Beautiful feelings flowing from the face Of Nature ; from a child I learn'd to reap A harvest of sweet thoughts, for future years. How oft,—be witness, Guardian of our days' In nouns of young delight, while o'er the down Humming like bees my happy playmates roam'd, I loved en high and hoary crag to muse, And round the landscape with delighted eye : The sky besprinkled o'er with rainbow hues, As if angelic wings had wanton'd there; The distant city capp'd with hazy towers, And river, shyly roaming by its banks Of green repose,—together with the play Of elfin music on the fresh-wing'd air,— Entranced with these, how often have 1 glow'd With thoughts that panted to be eloquent, Yet only ventured forth in tears ! And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven ! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's inure imposing cares. Nor titled pomp, nor princely mansions swell The cloud of envy o'er my heart; for these Are oft delusive, though 'adored. But when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll, Or thunder sound,—the champion of the storm,._. Then feel 1 envy for immortal words, The rush of living thought; oh ! then I long To dash my feelings into deathless verse, That may administer to unborn time, And tell some lofty soul how I have lived A worshipper of Nature and of Thee ! HAYMARKET TILEATRE.-A series of en tertainments, entitled Soirees Francuises, was introduced here last night by a Monsieur Jul,Es DE RovehE. They consisted for the most part of slight-of-hand tricks, some of which were executed with considerable ability and neat ness. The trick called Fortunatus's Cap, was inimitably done. FRENCH NAVY. (ftoth the Journal du Cononcite ) We mentioned yesterday the works going off at Brest. The following are some particulars of the preparations at lechefort and Cherbourg : A new levy of five hundred workmen has hey n ordered at Ilochefoit to complete the vessels the' e ho ldinr. The Comte d'Artois, of 120 guns, has been nine teen years building; the Tonnant, of 120 guns, has ?peen eleven years building ; the Lis, of 100 guns, has been five years; the Turenne, of 100 gine4, about eighteen months; the Durfuesculin, of 90 years ; the Inflexible, of' 90 guns, eigh teen lrn tle oirntehs. FRIGATES. Renommee or 61 guns Niobe .. 'hire Thisbe Assas (Brig) 26 Sphinx (steam-vessel) - 3 ____ This steam-vessel has the strength of a fifty-guts frigate. Orders have been sent to finish her with omt, delay for service. The vessels hove down to be repaired and have their bottoms eleutpil are the Ponton, Flibustier, the Bonito, and the Rapide steamer. At Cherbourg the work,* of the New Basin ale proceeding with great rapidity. Pour fine docks surround the Suifren, the upitei, the Generous, and the Duke of Boitleau. The latter is pierced for 130 guns, and only %volts for orders to prepare for sea, The Melpomene, a frigate of sixty guns, lately launched, and commanded by M. de Videgonan, is placed in the Dock to be pitched, painted, and pre pared for her masts. The Belle Poule frigate, mid two corvette!, the Ariane and Creole, one of which has a masked bat tery, tire finishing in other docks. In short the steam-vessel, the Commerce of Davre, putcbesed by the Government, will sail without delay I - 03 the Morita, under the command of Captain Dcrube, who is to take in at Toulon six twelve pound caronnades. This will be the first steam.. vessel armed for war that the French Navy has seen leave our Ports. SINCE LAID Do)', N. DUBLIN QUARTERLY ASSEMBLY. y. (From the Dublin Evening Po:q of Saturd Yesterday the Common Council held their usual Quaterly Assembly, the HIGH SIIRKIFfs in the The Freedom of the Corporation was granted to Gerald Callaghan, of Cork ; Mr. C. S. Coney, or the county Monaghan, and Mr. Darcy Irvine, of Pertbeige: Mr. STOKER, Pod Latireat to the Corporation, in proposing the Freedom of the Corporation to Mt. Samuel Gray, of Ballybay, said, he could only des cribe the Milt of Jack Lawless in a few lints of poetry of his own compnaltion, When Mr. Lawless returned from his mission he exclaimed-- Mere I am, your great champion of mighty renown, The leader of mobs in each parish and town, The patron of Priestcraft, the idol of faction, The undisguised agent of public distraction ; Hibernia's own Hero, all thunder and blood, Have I travelled so far, thus to stick in the mud. Now, said the " Pod," in proposing my resolu tion, and while my muse is in humour, I inform you that— Mr. Sheriffs and Gentlemen I mean to say, That it's my intention this very day, To propose the freedom of the City to Orange Grey. Who drove Lawless Jack from Ballybay. Which being seconded, was passed unanimously. DAVY M'CLEARY then rose to oppose the admis sion to the Corporation of Mr. Richard Barrett.— Mr, McCleary concluded by moving the following resolution :-- " That, as it appears to us that Richard Barrett, who is a Popish agitator, and a renegade Protest ant, has been surreptitiously admitted into the Cor poration of Brewers, we call upon the Board of .A►l dermen to refuse his petition, and not to send down to the Hon. House so foul an excrescence on the Protestant faith." JUDKU4 BUTLER seconded the motion upon public grounds. After a short discussion Davy's motion was car ried. _ . . Mr. KING, (brother of the King's stationer), moved the appointment of a committee to prepare petitions to the King and to Parliament against granting any further concessions to the Catholics; and also for the d4ranchisement of the Catholic 40s. freeholders. Mr. DAVID M'CLEARV, ill a speech of an lour and a half, supported this resolution. In the course of his observations he called Mi. Peel a rat, and the Duke of Wellington a mouse. ,His Grace at least was mousing when he was taken by surprise at the battle of Waterloo, which he would have lost but for tli n °fil: e rn n o s f t t t li e t d upon this vote, Blucher. He said there was a mutual compact be- , tween the King and the people; and that the King was as much bound to thein as they to him; and the Protestant Constitution. was handed down to their, as their birth-right, and if the King put down the me A n t message h a vote came tdi oes fe d sua o sn v ci. thanks to the late Lord Mayor, wasru t b i s r N o v k i c e k n e . r s amid t e noo c fl o iA m s .i p d a e c Au t . ultimately rejected by a majority of three ; the motion 38, and against it, 41. a lt,ovh n hie d lrwe r h e ab q n,ev u di anesgs angrytifnogr Mr. M'CLEARY entered into a detailed history of the peculations of a person connected with the ma nagement of the Corporation funds. In one item he stated that peculation and plunder existed to the amount of 30,0004 !!! LORD ATASSEY—MR.O'GoRMAN MAI-ION. —An interview has taken place between Lard Alasser and Mr. O'GORMAN MAHON, touching the recent Bruns wick outrage upon Mr. STEELE in Limerick, in which Lord MAsszv, we understand, disavowed all participation short lt e a v p e e n r t i l o e d i t 'u o r a t i r a o s ie t i in the transaction, and declared that he did not in any our Revenue. 'flic manner sanction this outrage on Mr. STEELE, which Mej MAitox designated as "Dastardly awl atroviotm."—Dub. lilt Evening Post. The accounts public t o l.i f tlt t it l ihe le iiengsto of year have been published, and the result is, an increase for the year just ended, as compared with the former year, p a i s ea i s t in is g a it s n ig ti n ei o p t a . of 786,4201. We do not care for g e e n n te e r r i a n i ginto any en" ; aip)nar(;:id9osuucnieeooiffnttql.eiureeaturatXe'eer‘sa' for the year just ended is 47,6 I 9, I 0 I /. —that for the year before 46,832,681/. This, We must ,ay, is highly satisfactory. We rejoice to see the Revi nUL future. It the surplus Revenue that remains - -iditure i i i i s n i P t r gteo ng' als b o otah anticipation of the prosperity, an, that c onstitutes the real sinking fund, either H efxoit).entldieit're demption of debt or for the remission of taxes. This is: , low admitted on all hand,. fb We have done with the absurd n te a i t og ( n community is andi abncere.eirnealkoiingg SURREY THEATRE ,—A Dew drama, full ;as an egg of horrors, and entitled the Pestilence of Mar a such a trick could -trY ha o ve been so long if •n -seines, from the pen—so we were led to understand— cf i l iocus-poems jugglery borrowing money to pay debt. How Mr. Motacatterr, was produced for the first time, last night, at this theatre. To the amateurs of horror this piece wi , . ~, e t. played o on an , surprising. But certain it is the he attractive ; but those who are severe in their tastes will , applauded. p;r ro su g a r d es e s d ive tha a t dv t a h n ey e„s ha i d n a th si e nk ii i g n u g id i at li: )t ; . of the debt, while we were all the while standing still, we fear, be disappointed. The piece, however, was much THE LATE DUKE OF SAXE GOTHA.—A like many other people, doing nothing, under an appear - cDausekeofof siAeotsixta oTil pected to come on in the King's Ben ch to-da y . The late making no way in advance. This cobble!). is now at si t see ms, insured his life with a en d ; and we see that we have not hi ng , e xcept wh a t ie . London office for a large sum , which the y refused t o pay, inni; ng after paying our expend—and this is not muc h . because, as was alleged , the Duke was not, when the insur- We have a very small surplus of revenue ; nothing that considerable importance itortanee and some curiosity is ex_ ante of mu c h b ust l e — go i ng b ac k war ds and tOrwards, but „fie, was e ff ec t e d, in so sound a state of health as he repre. w ill ever, unless i t i ncre ase, which, however, is pr o b a bl e , ' tented himself to be. Various reports have been obtained make any decided impression on our heavy debt. One in corroboration of this assertion, nor have the heirs of the great advantage of a surplus revenue, to the amount even Duke been idle. The mode by which the allegations of iof 1,000,000/. per annum, would be, that it would enable t h e insurers are met is cutiou , - The head of th e D u k e Mi n i sters to diminish some of the taxes which h ave b e n n has been dissected , and/ fl o in the soundness of the brain, pushes too far, and which, on this account, are not so it is proposed to infer the soundness of the body, or, at productive as lower taxes. It is a singular fact, that some least, to disprove what ha s b e en asserted of its unsoundness. I of the taxes on consumable articles, which have been iii - The phrenologists are said to be much interested in the creased since the year 1793 in the proportion of 20 or SO f a cts sad deductions on this remarkable case. Sir J A „,,, pe r cent., have yielded as much in proportion as the, SemarTr, we hear, is engaged on the on e s id e, a l ong w i t h I w hich have been increased by 100 per cent. The high Mr. FREDERICK Poe Loci: ; and Mr. 13noucatnsi on the duty diminishes consumption to such a degree, that it pro other. Prints and drawings of the Duke's head, which duces no more than the lower duty. This is an important certainly exhibits brains,:thmigh of what quali'y we do not principle in taxation ; and we arc convinced that, if nur pretend to judge, have been put into the hands of the Va- whole system of taxation were anxiously revised, an equal rious Counsel, and will be exhibit e d i n c o urt,— Morning revenue might be drawn from the people by means of loss Cr Paper. . taxes.-41berdeen Chronicle.