The Sun. — London, England, 1822-01-24 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS, JANI..23. 7 —The King held a Court yesterday, at which were present the Chancellor, the different Ministers, the Neapolitan Ambassa dor, the Prince de Talleyrand, the Duke de ftichelien, the Duke of Ragusa, the Duke of Tarenturn, the Marquess de Latour-Maubourg, the Duke of Albufera, the Marquess de Viome. nil, and a great number of Peers, Deputies, and C erierals. , We learn by a letter from Marseilles, dated the 14th, that a ship has just sailed from that port for the Morea with 60 Officers, French, -Italians, and Germans. About 150 more Offi -cera are waiting there to embark with a General on board a Neapolitan vessel, which has been 'taken up for the same destination, and will be ready in a few days. - • The same let!er states, that the brave Samians, uho have rendered themselves forMidable by their union and prudence, have made a fifth de s,zeut into Asia. Minor, and carried off much rich loot v. The Greek Prince, Cantacuzena, who has per -formed such a distinguished part in the affairs of the Moron, arrived at Lausanne on the 12th inst. from Italy, on his way to Germany. The Greek, Marcati, a native of Zante, who served formerly as an officer in the French armies, has been appointed by the Greeks Com mandant of Navarino. .FRANNFORT, JAN-. 16.—M. Persian', a Greek - bvbirth, - and Secretary of Legation to the Russian Embassy at Frankfort, has just been invested with the Order of St. 'Vladimir by the Emperor AleN:inder. . • NUREMBERG, JAN. 14.--Letters from Peters burg, received yesterday at Berlin, announce that 'a 3,vmt has just been published there, entitled •" Campaigns of Suwarrow against the Turks." The Vignettes of this work have been ordered at Berlin ; and their designs are such as to leave no doubt of the opinion of the-Russian •nation relative to a war with Turkey. The Editor of the above mentioned work is a well known Statesman of Russia. • Aix LA-CHApELLE, JAN. 17.--(Extract of a Private .Letter.)--News from Warsaw, received at Berlin, are still warlike. The Russians are now concentrating considerable forces in the en 'l/irons of Tomarrow, at the mouth of the Pruth. - .Hence, it is concluded, .that the Russians intend to. penetrate -along the coasts of the Black sen. It . is . .certain that the Turkish artillery, which was at Jassy, has been transported to -Brailow, notwithstifnding the opposition of the Janissaries. Although the Ottoman troops stationed in the former of these towns bave lately received reinforcern , nts, it.is confidently statetl that they have orders. to evacuate Moldavia im mediatelY upon the commencement of boStilities. It seems that the Court of Austria has com pletely failed in the part of conciliator which it has played at Constantinople, in endeavouring to reconcile the differences existing between the Porte and Russia. SPAIN. MAntit0,....L0i . . , 10.- - --Tire King has. : yielded, itnd'aCcepted the resignation of the Minister for Foreign Bardaxl; the Minister of the Interior,-Felice ; the Minister of War, Salvador; end Vallejo,, the . ..Minister of Finance. The ,three remaining Ministers, Pelegini,Cann Ma nuel, and Escudero, continue in . otlice,. and are charged ad ink rim, in addition to their own porteleuilles r —the first with that of Foreign Af fairs, the second wiJi that of the Interior, and the third with thatof War. Imaz, who was for merly Minister of finance, has been charged pro visionally with that department, which he posi tively refuses to retain. It is generally sup posed that as soon as the Session of the Extra ordinary Cortes shall have ended, the pork feuilles will be. given to some of the members of that fegislatbre Eind.arilong the fUture Ministers appear the names of Martinez de la Rosa, Tor reno, It is,' however, believed that this partial change of Ministry will not calm the dis contents.San' Martin . and Morino retain their situation. The principal towns of Murcia have sent an address to the Government, declaring their deter !vitiation not to acknowledge their new political chief, La Piguerd, because his nomination was anti -constitutional. The attempts of the enemies of the Constitution tend only to excite, in a greater degree, the patriotism of the true friends of the laws and the Constitution. The famous champions of the Faith are driven from village to village, and mountain to mountain. It is but too true that Barcelona has followed the (-;ample of Seville, Cadiz, &c. in refusing to obey the- Ministry, who have, according to the declaration of the Cortes, lost the confidence of the nation. (Another Private Letter.)—The Ministry fins at length fallen.; and although some of the Mi nisters still keep their places, it is only provi sionally, and until their successors are appointed. Meanwhile the situation of the King is extremely painful, for, to whatever side he turns, he is cer tain to find a faction and to excite discontent. A Journal of Cadiz, received this day, an nounces that the people there were determined to commence hostilities, and, that General Velasco was about to put himself at the bead of the troops. The first day of the year the Political Chief, •Jauregui, assembled the commanding officers of the troops in the gar rison, and asked them if it was their intention to second the inhabitants of Cadiz and All, with the exception of the' Colonel of the. Princess's regiment, declared that they would shed the last drop of their blood in combating the Ministry. The plan of the campaign has, in consequence, been marked out, the first ope ration of which will be to possesi themselves of the defile of Despennaperos, situated in the mountains of the Sierra-Cuorena, and there firmly to wait the approach, of the enemy. —However, the major part of the inhabi tants of Cadiz were of opinion that the army of Andalusia should march before, and go to Madrid, in order to re-establish the constitutional throne. In the same Jotirnal is. to be found the plan of a fresh Joan; which is to be opened for the purpose: of providing for - the expenses of the army., 11146 y . young men of the first families in the City have enrolled — thernselves'as•volunteers to serve in this campaign. 'The' troops which the Ministry is assembling at Grenada, to oppose the Andalusian army, were to have been com manded by General Campo Verde; but as he has refused this command, they will be provisionally under the orders of General Peurriel.. The spirit of these troops, as I have before told you, is not at all favourable to the cause which they are call ed to defend. • Several Colonels have written to Cadiz and to Seville, that they may rely on them, and that should they be obliged to act, it would be against Generals who ought to com mand them : it may be presumed that this army will not put itself in movement. CORTES EXTRAORDINARY. In the Sitting of the Bth, the Representation of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Authorities of Mula (Murcia), thanking the Congress for their second answer to the King's Message, and stating that they had renewed their oaths to the Constitution, and had addressed a Representa tion to his Majesty, intreating him to com ply with the suggestion of the Cortes. In the Sitting of the 9th, the Colonial Minister, by order of the . King, informed the Cortes of the changes his Majesty had made in the Ministry, and expressed to the retired Ministers, Bardaxi, Felice, Salvador, and Vallejo, his Ma jesty's approbation of their firm support of the Constitution, and their unalterable loyalty towards his person. PORTUGAL. LISBON, JAN. 2.—The decive of the Cortes, for the establishment of the Bank of Lisbon, having received the Royal assent, is promulgated in the usual form as a law of the kingdom, and appears in the Dianie do Governo of to-clay. The charter is granted for twenty years. There are to be 10,000 shares, each of the value of 500,000 rees, to be paid half in paper currency Ind half in coin. The subscription to be opened on the Ist January 1822, under the inspection of the persons named by the President of the Cortes; and as-soon as '2,500,000 rees are sub scribed, 150 subscribers, who have the largest number of shares, are to form a general assem bly, and choose, by a majority of votes, a Pre sident and sixteen Directors, each of whom must be a Proprietor of at least twelve shares. The Cortes continue to discuss the articles of the Constitu tion, and have now arrived- at title 5 which treats of the judi cial power. In the Sitting of to 2d, Mr. Pesanha rose and said he could not approve of that chapter of the project which treated of the judicial power, either on the whole or in part ; that the Portu guese were in very different circumstances from other nations, having resumed their liberty in a manner so extraordinary, that it resembled a festival rather than a revolution, and having the good fortune to possess a Piing who embraced with perfect good-will the new system, they ought not to be sparing in the salutary reforms to be made in the judicial power ; he therefore proposed and presented a counter project as an amendment to the chapter in question, and begged permission to read it. This request caused a great debate, to know whether it would be permitted to read a new project entirely opposed to that under discussion, and it being resolved that it should be read, Mr. PeSanhA requested that Mr.. Bastos might read it for him, ' which was granted. The latter powerfully supported the new project, and it was resolved that the following question should be discussed : If there shall be or not' judges of the fact (Juries) as well in civil as in criminal eases? This important subject was discussed in succeeding sittings ; many Members, who approved of the introduction of Juries in criminal causes, being adverse to them in civil causes. At length, in the sitting of the 9th, the matter being judged to have been sufficiently discussed, the President put the two follow ing questions, and that the votes on the second should be taken I. Has the Constitution to determine that from the time of its publication there shall be Juries in civil and criminal causes ?—Decided in the negative. 11. Has the Constitution to declare that there 'are to be Juries in civil and criminal causes in the cases and in the man ner which the law shall determine ? The Assembly now proceeded to the vote individually (ap pel nominal), and when any Deputy voted that there should not be Juries in civil causes, there was a great noise in the galleries. Mr. Petro di Magalhaes rose and said, that he had resolved, from the commencement of the debate, to vote that there should be juries in civil and criminal causes; but that he thought fit to declare, in the presence of the whole ' nation, that it was not meanness or fear which induced him to vote thirs, but solely his conscientious conviction : he showed the enormous dangers that attended such noisy interruptions, how fatal they had been in some assemblies, how the favourers of despotism took ad vantage of them, and afterwards asserted that the votes of the Deputies were influenced by them ; he made other observations, and desired the articles of the ,internal regulations of the Cor- tes, relative to this subject, to be read, which being done by the Secretary, Freire and several of the Deputies having made some reflections on the subject, the President recommend ed order, and said he had so much confidence in the spectators in the galleries, that he ventured to assert they would not give any farther reason for enforcing the articles of the regu- lation : The voting then proceeded, and the following was the result. esolved unanimously—That there shall be Juries in crimi- nal causes. Resolved by Cl votes to 25, that there shall be Juries in civil causes in the manner expressed in the second proposition. In the Sitting of the Cortes on the Bth it was resolved to appoint a special Conimittee to draw up a plan to regulate the Commercial relations between Portugal and Brazil. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT has been laid up three weeks, in consequence of a kick from his horse, whilst mounting it at the Leicester• Hunt, about a month ago. The blow was received in the right knee. Happily no evil results are now ap prehended. The Baronet is gone to Bath to take the waters. The REPLY 6? Miss EMILY LON . gro AY TO TIRE PETITION PRESENTED IN TIIE NAME OF UER FATHER TO THE CHAMBER OF PEERS. Divided between two sacral obligations, the free exercise of the religion which an intimate conviction has compelled her to adopt, and the respect due to the will of a father, Miss LOVE DIY would have wished to have remained .silent, and to have concealed her affliction. She would have wished to haVe dispensed with the necessity of appealing to public opinion, and to have con tented herself with seeking consolation at the foot of the altar, and alleviating the weight of paternal wrath, by offering - up incessant prayers for the author of her days : but she has discovered in the petition presented by her father to the Chamber of Peers, views which cannot' emanate alone from the aggrieved paternal love. She is persuaded that her father, a stranger to France, has been deceived with respect to the meaning of the petition drawn up for him ; that perfidious advisers have sought to convert into a party•invective, an expression of pa rental grief. She saw, in common with sen sible. persons, that that petition, of which her fa ther is absolved, was a libel tending to raise sus . • picion in the most irreproachable varter, and to turn to ridicule .and contempt the - --accred reli gion which she has embraced : she then deter.: mined on replying Replying—to whom ?—to her father? her father! Ali !it is not to her father that she replies ! If those who have furnished Mr. Loveday with their officious eloquence had confined their attacks to his daughter alone, she would have respected his pa ternal anger, and the blind though sacred weapon with which she had been assailed ; the silence of filial piety would have been her only answer; she would have endeavoured to mitigate her father's anger by her tears and irreproachable conduct alone. No ; it is not to her father that site replies, it is for her religion that she speaks. Her object is to re-establish in his esteem those pers,)ns whom her father honoured with his confidence.— Bee desire is to fulfil the first,. the most sacred of duties—to avenge calumniated innocence and virtue. Those persons who know, whoconsole Miss Loveday, in vain assure her that her father is wrong in appealing to the law of nations, and the French laws, in the circumstances in which he is placed ; that those laws, on the contrary, condemn him ; that religion is a - natural right, which no law, no power, can affect ; which all nations at all enlightened respect ; and before which the paternal authority, all-powerful as it is. from the na tural sanction with which God has endowed it, must give..way ; since the right of choosing and acknowledging God is impre scriptible, and results from the divine essence of the soul, and its immortality ; that the only real fanaticism is that which I tends to enslave the conscience,. and to prevent a heart, con ' vinced of the excellence of any religion, from believin g an d ob serving it. Ignorant of l aws , Miss Loveday rejects these dis cussions of right, which alarm her filial piety, and contents her self with seeking to re-establish the truth of the facts which are disfigured in her father's petition. Previously to entering Mademoiselle Reboul's school, in 1819, Miss Loveday was decidedly prepossessed against the Catholic religion. But the examples of piety which her com panions daily presented to her eyes gradually diminished this prejudice. Faithful to the instructions which she had received from Mr. Loveday, Mademoiselle .Reboul made no attempt to. change Miss Emily's religion. 'But the soul of this young Protestant began to he moved. The examples of a sincere de votion, the impressive pomp of the ceremonies at which she en treated Mademoiselle Reboul to permit her to attend, the hymns of her young companions, with whom h er h ear t i nvo l untar il y united her, all served to. prepare her imagination for the change which her reason was to operate. At length the eloquent Bus suet fell into the hands of the young Englishwoman. She perused and re-perused his work with avidity; and the power ful reasoning of the sublime writer, who could triumph over . the strong mind of Turenne, soon convinced a young and in flexible soul, which expanded with delight at the approach of truth, and which was not yet hardened by the delusions of re ligious habits. But Miss Loveday was not content with read- j ing Bossuet. She instructed herself more and more by the study of the Catholic faith. Slit compared the catechisms of the two religions between which she had . to choose, and it was after this comparison (to compare is to reason) that her un - - I derstanding convinced -her of the superiority of the Catholic' faith to Protestantism, and that she irrevocably determined to j embrace the religion of Alfred the Great and Edward the - Con-I fessor. Miss Loveday here feirmally declares, that nobody has se duced her, nor prevailed on her to embrace the Catholic Reli gion. By her own will she has been decided. After compar ing anti judging the merits of both religions, she has chosen that which appeared to her pest. As to her younger sister and her cousin, Miss Loveday is not Called upon to canvass their motives ; but she is nevertheless of opinion, that they were no more seduced than she was herself ; that their momentary zeal for the Catholic faith resulted froM their own free will, frequently manifested; but that the will which thus emanated from persons younger than herself was also less firm than hers. If her .cousin received three sacra ments within a few days, those who know the principles of the Catholic religion will not be surprised; seeing that an adult, before being baptized, must necessarily be instructed ; that baptism sanctifies ; that those who receive it are worthy of be ing admitted to comm u ni on ; an d t h at con fi rmation is a sacra ment that may be received at any time. After this declaration, which. - completely destroys all that could possibly be said on the pretended seduction, Miss Love day has to reply ina precise manner to the principal facts stated in the petition. It certainly appears that on the 7th of August, 1821, Made moiselle Behold's - sister wrote to Mr, Loveday " that he need have no fear on the subject of religion." It has been seen that Mademoiselle Reboul took no part, direct or indirect, in Miss Loveday's change of religion ; but that the young lady studiec the Catholic Religion, as it were, in stealth from her gover ness. On the return of their father to France, the Misses Loveday did, indeed, on the 23d of October, 1821, avow to him their in tention to become Roman Catholics, but not that they were Ro man Catholics ; for they 'could not so be until after their abju ration, which they had not then made. From that day to the 19th of November, Mr. Loveday en deavoured to oppose the new faith of his daughters. After din ner, he was every day shut up with them until one in the morn ing, during which time he unceasingly urged new arguments -against the Catholic religion, and new reasons in favour of the Protestant. lie succeeded with his younger danghter. But Miss Emily, whose faith-was better grounded, and whose un derstanding was more advanced, remained unshaken. She, therefore, was not seduced, since her father had full time to unmask and to combat what- he. calls seduction. Mr. Loveday. then dictated a letter which he made his daughter write to Ma demoiselle Reboul, with the design of inducing that lady to be lieve that Miss Emily-had reverted to the religion of her father, and that she was going to leave Paris with hi m on a j oarney.— This made Miss Loveday apprehend that her father meant to carry her to England, where the Catholics are not treated as the Protestants arein France, and where she would perhaps be compelled to adhere- to Brotestantkon. She consequently re solved to attach h.—self to the Catholic religion by a bond more difficult to be breT,,n, and on the 10th of November she left her father's house and solemnly made her abjuration. She appointed a meeting with her father at the house of Ma demoiselle Reboul, by a letter full of the most airectionate and submissive expressions; but fearing to cause uneasiness to that lady, she chose another place. That was the convent des Enfans Trouves (the Foundlings), kept by holy nuns, whither she repaired, and not to the hospi tal of la illaternite, as, by an infamous trick, had been reported, but in which she never set her foot. Wishing to give some account of herself to her father, and to save him from anxiety respecting her situati(N... she wrote to him ; but as she did not wish to go near him until time and the attention of his friends had - soothed his anger, she caused her letters to he stamped with the post=mark in the country, in order That her residence in Paris might for some time remain unknown. She afterwards repaired to the house of Mr. Jerningham, that her father, who esteemed that gentleman, might not be un ' easy respecting the residence she had chosen. There her father found her. It he stopped under the gateway till two o'clock in the morning, that was contrary to the pressing solicitations of his daughter, who requested him to come into the house. She did not make her escape next morning, before Mr. Jer nirigliani's family arose: She went out late in the day, with Mr. Jerningham's permission, and returned of her own accord to her father's house, being determined to remain there, if he changed his conduct towards her.. But he behavrd always in the same manner ; and she obServed appearantes in the house * Miss Loveday took no part in the pretended letter f:orn Major Loveday, her brother, and acknowledges only the p:e. sell t reply. Which made net Conclude that it was intended to remove tier, and carry her out of France. .The fear of being conveyed to England made Miss . Loveday alter her plan, and she once more resolved to • seek an irre proachable asylum, in which she might beat liberty to practice her religion.. She consequently repaired to the convent of Notre Dame, in Rue do. Sevref. , The Superior, on the recommendation of Madame M--, a lady distinguished for her piety and her rank, afforded the hos pitality required, and applied to that lady to know what the pa rents of the young person wished 'to be clone with her. Here Miss Loveday cannot refrain from remarking the in justice of the charges made against the Superior of the convent of Notre Dame. What has Madame the Superior done ? A young girl, a foreigner, claims her hospitality, and . she grants it. She endeavoured several times to reconcile Mr. and Miss Loveday, and it was; not until after she was. convinced that the father persisted in his obstinacy, and the daughter in her fidelity to the Catholic religion, that this lady determined to retain the latter in her house. She was persuaded that if she refused Miss Loveday an asylum in her house, the fear and solitary situation o f that y oung lady might, perhaps, lead her into inevit a bl e Mi s f or t unes .* What, then, was done by the Superior of the convent of Notre-Dame, which reason and hu manity do not approve ? In what country would not such a noble spirit of hospitality be admired ? Doubtless it is because it proceeds from a nun, that the praises which it deserves are withheld from it. Miss Loveday was of age, and she wished to remain in the convent. The Superior could not, without inhumanity, refuse her an asylum. But it then became necessary to conform to the customs or religious houses, and not to see her fhther ex cept at fixed hours. The Superior infornied Mr. Loveday of this; but le would not submit to the rules which were observed by all other parents who had children in the convent. He de- • sired to be long in company with his daughter, and would see her every hour as fin h is own house. He threatened several times to spend the night in the vestibule of the convent. ThiS indecorum could not b e a llo we d i n a n a s y l um o f peace and Madame the Superior employed at first gentle means. The Official of the house endeavoured to calm Mr. Loveday the Commissary of Police made the same attempt. At last, that which would have been done'to defend the house of a most obscure citizen was adopted—gendarmes were employed to pro tect a dwelling of peace against the violence of Mr. Loveday. He was not held a prisoner. He was only requested to wait until the Commissary of Police should arrive. He was not guarded by soldiers; but the armed force was .called measure which, from the threats of Mr. Loveday, appeared to be necessary, and which the officer of Police has always the right to require. He was not made to Contract a compulsory obligation under four bayonets; but he very willingly signed, a promise not to return to the convent, the order' and peace of which his presence disturbed, and not to grant a pension. Notwithstanding the well-known truth of the facts which it has been endeavoured to distort, the Superior of the Convent of Notre Dame has been unblushingly represented as an inhuman jailer ; her house, the asylum of beneficence and religion, has heen called a haunt ; prudent measures of the Commissary of Police have been pronounced illegal ; and, finally, a timid and submissive girl has been painted as a fury who felt a barbarous pleasure in tormenting her father. Miss Loveday here calls upon the Author of her days to say whether the portrait which has been drawn of her is true ? At the painful moment when her father's rage made her withdraw from him, (for the scene of the persecutions and the bayonets is all imaginary), did an insulting smile really appear on her lips ? Aa ! how is that smile to be reconciled with the tears which Miss Loveday shed when terrified by her father's im precations—her limbs ceased to support her, and she sunk se veral times senseless to the ground ! Miss Loveday must also remark, that in the petition the vio lence and inhumanity appear .to be ascribed altogether to those who gave her an asylum, while Mr. Loveday is represented as a model of gentleness and patience. But how ought the scene of the Ist of January, of which his daughter was almost the victim, to be characterized ? She was going to the Superior o f the Convent of the Phalan& Tlouves, when her father met her on the Boulevard du Mont-Parnasse, and endeavoured to carry her off by force. This uncommon violence attracted a crowd ; the father and the terrified daughter were carried to the Com missary of Police, whose proces-verbal leaves no doubt of Mr. Loveday's intention. Such is the picture of this conversion —effected, it is said, •by converters ! Such are the crimes of the seducers of the \lisses• Loveday, and those of the obj ec t o f th e i r se d uct i on ! The se ducers ! Who arc they ? Why have they not been named ? If there be no harm in naming those who are accused, there is very great harm in allowing suspicion to hover over a whole class of virtuous and respeCtable persons. Why these conceal ments, which are more criminal than direct Accusations ? Why not clearly designate those who are accused ? Ah ! those ima ginary criminals are, no doubt, some of those men whose spot less names defy calumny and suspicion, and excite only ideas of morality and virtue. It is wished to stigmatize the voluntary conversion of Miss Loveday with the name of rapt do seduction! (inveigling or en ticing away.) What a strange abuse of terms ! What kind of inveigling could induce a young female to subject herself to a religion demanding the exercise of the most austere virtues ? Miss Loveday, it is said, was, it is true, of age,,when she was converted ; but then th e se d uct i on which brought about her conversion 'commenced when she was a minor—when her fa ther left her at the house of Mademoiselle Reboul ; it is, there fore, alleged that, that unworthy governess seduced a young in experienced girl in the absence of her father. In the first place, Miss Loveday has exonerated Mademoi selle Reboul froin'the false charges made against her.. Miss Loveday has declared, .that her Governess, 'far from working upon her conscience, never endeavoured to prevail on her to quit the religion of her father; and the real author of her con version is her father himself, who, though he wished her to continue faithful to Protestantism, imprudently placed her in a house, where, for several years, she necessarily beheld the prac tice of a religion whiCh appealed more powerfully to her heart. .Besides, the act which could alone form the ground of the charge of rapt de seduction, in a word, the. conversion of Miss Loveday, was not accomplished until she came of age, when the law declares her capable of ratifying as well as of annulling, promises, which artifi ce or seduction might have wrung from her during her minority. This conversion did not take place ' until the age at which Miss Loveday's understanding had at- • tained its full maturity, when she could. freely judge-of her own • actions ; and even after her father had employed every possible argument to induce her to change her resolution. Tlius the charge of rapt de seduction falls of itself. Miss Loveday, therefiare, was, not seduced by her virtuous governess. She has been guided by her own inclinations, of which she has to render an account to GOD alone. 'Neither did her mind receive impressions of terror from ridiculous fables, • absurd miracles, and vulgar superstitions. It was the flame of the thunderbolts, with which the Eagl e o f M eaux crus h e d all the doctors of Protestantism, thatinduced her to embrace the primitive religion of 'her country. That religion will not cause her to disavow the social virtues and her duty to her family, for those duties are one of the first commandments of the faith she has adopted. Miss Loveday will always respect and love her father. She- ie indebted to him for life; she is willing to make a sacrifice of' hers ; but she received her soul' from the Divinity, and her father should not wish to tyrannize over that, and to load her with his maledictiOn, because .she exercises the reason which he himself took pains to form. . France will not be astonished at the voluntary conversion of Miss Loveday, nor at the resistance which she, has shewn to her father on the subject of her religion • since they are the effects of that liberty of c on sc i ence established in this noble country. Strangers will always flock hither, because they will find themselves more free than in countries where the Catholic religion is marked with the seal of reprobation. -The petition which would establish rapt de seduction in the voluntary conversion of Miss Loveday, cannot, therefore,, he lis tened to ; it belongs to Miss Loveday alone to satisfy and ap pease her father. - Imprudent father !-Listed to the voice of your daughter who supplicates you! Consider, she beseeches you, the abyss into which perfidious counsels are Obliging you. You did not dictate the words which your hand has signed. No ! it is not you who wished it to be suspected that an indecent mystery existed in the language of your daughter, and who desired to cover her with opprohrium t liy pretending to attach an odious sense to the artfully exhibited words tics Enfan.s Trou ,, es, de illatermite. It is not that these calumnies can wound Miss Loveday. It is for your sake, it is for her father, that she be seeches you to reflect upon thefr danger. Do you not see that in endeavouring to cast a veil of doubt over the conduct of your daughter, yourself, and all yoUr family are insulted ? Dis avow, then, this writing, which has proceeded from the zeal of an imprudent defender; or rather allow your daughter, uniting herself to you, since it belongs to the sentiments of ture, here to speak, to disavow it for you, and to say—" No, my father could not subscribe a libel against the honour of his dau ;h ter." Why accuse your daughter of having been seduced, when you know that her conversion resulted only from the free exer cise of her reason and her will? Why, then, this obstinacy without cause? Whv this bitterness against a religion that your daughter has hailfi n the happiness to d good ? Ah 1 if the first of your ancestors who embraced the Protestant religion had experienced from his father the same resistance which you now oppose to your daughter, perhaps you would not yourself be of that religion which you want to coutpel her to follow! Why, then, do you refuse to your daughter the same right by which you hold your modern system of faith ? Pardon her, then, pardon your d aug ht er ! L et h er no longer be the object of your wrath. Receive her in your bosom : but leave to her her new faith.- Do not be offended by the words she addresses to you ; lave her to adore in peace the ow of her adoption. If she importunes him with her prayers, if she bathes with teas .niarhic of his holy altars, it is for you —it is for her father; e is to pray that may grant you that h a ppi n e ss whichilei cannot enjoy . without the free exercise of the_re.ligion W L JILT reason and inti mate conviction" have induced her to adopt' e(' `The schoolmistress, REitour., has also vento. r - to place herself before the public : she has e sti ' • dently so much wisdom (and it is no small qua" tity) as leads her to take advice of able " tip ; sellors. licsNEouiN is perhaps the in °s sensible and respectable man at the French bar' " TO THE EDITOR OF THE CONsTITUTIoNN“- „ " Paris, Jan. 1. " petition, signed 4 D oug l as Loveday,' and hvhicg it is announced will be made a subject of debate in the OW II , bet of Deputie s , h as b een pro f usely circulated in Paris for sofl days past. Thi s p e titi on conta in s allegations of the most s;rl , ous nature again s t me , , as t h e h ea d of the institutign, and 1 am held out to the public in the most odious light. In order to lighten the public minders to the erroneous opinion into which the! have been hurried, 1 must await the moment w h en t h at viole nce shall h ave begun to subside, which has astonished Loveday himself, if we may believe his recent declarati on, through the medium of your journal, that it was contrari his express intention that the sale of his petition had taken ptlf; and that he had even caused a whole edition to be seized at t houSe Of a-bookseller in the Palms Royal, on the morning of t he 10th of January.' . But I must also exert myself in the cot . '", of this very painful interval, to collect the materials for a P er , sonal defence, which society, in my opinion, has -•a right to re , quire from nie, and which in justice to.mysell Imust antle r take. "Though conscious that I was not liable to reproach, never forgotten that I could not be an impartial judge of own conduct. 1 have been desirous of s t a ti ng t h e ' case wi th . Pe t ; feet sincerity to men whose professioM, exp er i ence ; an d kit° moderation pointed them out as just and even rigorous jadg es io, " MM. Ilillecoq and Ilennequin were pleased .to me. I laid before them all the circumstances of m con nection with M. Do ug l as L ove d a Y— our agreement relative to his daughters and niece—the formal declaration which he niatlere latively to education, i n a religious point of view — ou r co'''' ,, ; spondence—finally, I stated what my own cond uc t h a d bve': These lawyers came to th e conc l us i on t h a t I was entitl e d to t heir support. They have given it to me ; andlhe 'public will 5 0 . 3 be enabled to f orm a ju d gment With respect to this affair, 2,, 3 which,' with wh atever sever i ty I may have been treated, it is - I ready too evid ent th at t h e f acts art become less an object of 0 1 ; plaint than the m eans o f scandal. - ass confident that wh° • the truth shall have been made known,'theparents of familie s " , to whom I am particularly anxiou s to. justify myself, will be,o opinion that I have p ursue d t h e str i ct lin e of my duty. }or • the rest,. Sir I am perfectly un move d by any thing which:ll have been hitherto published r e l a ti ve l y to the petition of , Douglas Loveday, eithe r i n th e per i o di ca l papers, or any Ot work. My defence, which is being prepared, will be sign' by the. • " I hope, Sir, that for the sake of a person who is already posed to all the severity of public opinion, without having heard, you will have the, goodness to give this letter a pbee ; your Journal. " I have the honour to be, &c. " REnovU" IRELAND, FATAL AFFRAY. (FROM THE CORK SOUTHERN REPORTER.) A dreadfUl occurrence took place yesterdaP ' seven miles east of Bandon, between the Cloo kilty Yeomanry, under the command of Captain Hungerford, and abOut 500 of the peasantry' r The revenue Officers in Clonakilty h av i ng ha' private information of an illicit distillery, Pt' ceeded to the spot with the Yeomanry, made th e ; Seizure, and took the owner of the still, na°' Buckley, and anot h er man w h om they found at work, priSonerS. As 'soon as the circumstance was. known the country people assembled to th e number of at least 500, and manifested every la dication of a hostile spirit by. immediately cern' mencing throwing stones, and were about to resi the prison ers an d th e st ill , w h en Capt. flunger f or t remonstrated with, and cautioned them at thei r to th e d p es ri i s S o t , n o e t r l s i . e r ts:i se Thishe n j ,, u r f o l c u t l i d o 1 , 1 a a d t t n a o c t h t 7; peril sh"Oot. desired efkct; the country people continued .tO. hear on hint, and shower the stones on the partY on which, we are sorry to say, the threat 0.39 put in execution, and Buckley was killed on the spot. As he was tied to the other man, bot h fell together, on which it was supposed that they met the same fate. A general attack then tonic place, when the yeomanry fired upwards Of sixty rounds ; and drove the country people in all directions. They th?n proceeded their charge to. Clonakilty, and lodged the stilt in the King's.stores, and secured their prisoner without further molestation. Th e • G entlema n who furnished us with this information, left CU?' nakilty at three o'clock, and was overtaken on the road by two Gentlemen, who'did not leave it for some time afterwards, and then informed him/ that horns were sounding on the different hill, and that the people were congregated together , in great numbers, with the evident intention Of making another attack. We'llave not heard DI the number of the country people who have sof,' fered, but fro m th e shots fired, it is st i pposc° many must have been killed , and wounded,. 0 0 the 17th inst. Arthur Beamish Bernard, Esci• commanding the East Carbery Yeomanry, pro" ceeded through the:, intricate and mountaiood s country leading to Sleevowen, near, Incheegeela , and there succeeded in apprehending' John Do' novan, one of the men wounded on the•mornio4 ' of the 7th instant, in the affair which took place. . in the village of Newcestown. Captain IL also made prisoner Edward Cottor, in „whose house Donovan had been secreted. Donovan is in a very dangerous state, having- received four bul lets—one in the breast, one a little above the hips, one above and one below the knees. [FROM THE LIMERICK CHRONICLE OF SATURDAY:I A most barbarous and inhuman murder was committed on a man named Foley, on the night of Thursday last, on the lands - or Movidy, near Newcastle, in this county, and the body after^ wards thrown into the river. William•and John Cagnay (brothers) were brought into town yes.. terday morning, by a party of Major WitcoCVS Police, charged with the murder. • The house of John Sullivan, Esq.; of Camas, was entered, a few &gilts since, by an armed party, who plundered it of 521. in Batik Note. and cash. Two policemen were deprived of their arms, , on Tuesday evening, between Ballingarry and Rathkeale. Captain Rock, of the barony of Corkaginny, who was taken at the head of a detachment of Whiteboy cavalry, on Sunday night, by Francis Eagar, Esq., of Minard, was escorted to Traled, on. Tuesday, by a party of the 39th Regiment, from Dingle. This deluded man, named Denis Cleuvene, was brought forward bare-footed and bare-legged. He excused himself to the Magis trate on the occasion of being taken, by saying, that he was'only proceeding with his squadron on the above night, with the intention of depriV ing a man who had served him with a process, 9f the original. 1 Monda i Tuesd a Wedn e: Thursd, rrid a . y , Satu r d a Pr s , VAS T* a nd We n umber, "aified Po r , l fo r surnc I "gs un, tli e ausr r eason t, for the number 1 ,,, *::,; taril; St Per to. t el Pet Cer 1 1 : 1 1 0 ( r ; n 1 i 1 1 1 1g ) Tr -_,......_:„..,__ The 41ornin 4 ccepta I 'llich of Priv . th -- art; tin ues as lite\ Ille ntioi tak en 1 ti ler pa G IBE are Pia( Si r p. Ipi t h at 4.4 s thl 11 1, 441 ber bu