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r SOLLM QUIS DICIRA FAI,SUM AUDiAT? LONDON, TURSDAY, DECP,MBER 31; 1811. lilve made Borne extraBs. / ' MAILS. An r. En. Cadiz, 2 Anholt, r Guetnsel, z lersey; 2Hi ligoland, 2 Dlthiin, r Waterford. DUE..-..t Malta, z Guernsey, c lersey, z Waterford. PRICE 01; STOCKS THIS DIY A T 'IWILVI O'CLOCK. Colts. for Opening 631:641 Red. Ann. 6211 T El E •S U N. • This morning a Lisbon Mail arrived. The Allied Army remains in Its former positions; and we re joice to find that it is daily becoming more healthy. It is slated, but not upon official authority, that Sucttr hag abandoned the siege, of Valencia. Two Artholt Mails also arrived, from which we We regret extremely that thehopes which we en tertained that the Roman Catholics of Ireland would adopt a mode of condua more constitutional, and snore likely to promote the objeas they have in view, have been frustrated. They are, it seems, determined not to petition in the mode prescribed by the lows of the country,' not to petition in the uay which they themselves have formerly, and in which all other claskes of his Majesty's sub jetis always have petilioned ; but to adopt a mode . which, even if jt were legal, is peculiarly calcu ' lated to excite dissensions and animosities. It is really laMentable to hear the Irish Roman Catho lics talk of the " exasperating intolerance" With which they are treated. Surely those who hold such language cannot receilea - , whit was the situation of that body twenty -live years ego ; they cantfot recollect the almost innume rable concessions that have bem made within that period to the Roman Catholics of Ireland, nor the very grateful language with which they were received. The. Situation' in Which the Irish Ro• man Catholics are now, is one, which, twenty years ago, they did not think of attaining: their most sanguine ft lends did not even hint at it'. Every concession which the Legislature could make (except one) has been made, and yet we hear,men complain of eriskrai 6 ing intolerance." Religious freedom they hitvelti thefull6t:apci meat 'extensive sense of the words ;. +he question is, whetbcr they are to be invested with political power. We defy any man to spew a single instance in. which the Govern ment has ever interfered with the exercise of the tlutiev 0( their religion ;, , but it is said, that their right of p'e!titiooing has been violated,- r js. that true? They would not adopt thetegular legal mode of petitionin g , the tuode in which every etherdescriptidn of persons in this Empire alWays petition, the' way'in which the Dissenters petitioned• when they conceived their rights to ,be affected by Lord Sromourn'a Bill ; they adopted et - tether mode, they assembled a Specie of Catholic Parliament in Dublin, and because the Government, armed with the , authority of an Act of Rirliament, . interfered, t i hey cemplain that their right of petitiening . is violated. 'We Still, however, retain the opinion,, that.the great bodrof the Ro- Man Catholici of Ireland do not approve of the violent and intemperate language of some of those who;atletil' to be' their :leaders, and to speak their sentiment. The KING remains in the same state, and eats his avais rrgoldrly,, . k . 4 Y6terrLiy The Duke of .Yoax staid with the u N till half-past four o'clock, aud,ttfen returned' to Oathincli. , Yesterday the Duke of Yottx.:.tratis4Eted business With the PitINCE RP:GP:NJ'. "Dl, Jactcsc,tl Gas beLU eluted to the Vae2Lit . See of a% lord. Trangporrs nre to sail in ttie.latter*id of March *lin two regitrient , , 01 - ,l9 . red to Ciut444V.to relieve eliwe highly disciplined regiments the Ott and 49tli, which have been some years in, thai country, tifid are now, under orders to . procad to Pprtygal i:1760 lank and file, the 49111, 800:, Another fleet is preparing for Lisbon, with many Officers, unde.r. convoy of the Gran! ns and Diadem, 001) ships, Arnong.other Officers, there are, Lieut. (;en. Tit.sdN, Miijor•Gen, Hove, Hort. Colonel CAT LI CA RT, Col A.::11A ;NI/ M.Rt.ASN, Mltior MultrltY, stud reinforcements for the troops,. . • Sunday afternoon, as the Mr. \Veil, of panerag-road, a fine boy, of 'tWerve.. years of age, was sliciing.on a p 00,.., in• latington-fields, With a tnart servant, who had the care of him,. the ice broke and the - Yenthdi4appeared. 'On tile servant's approachwg the edge of the ice again, to endeavour trF rc seue his young mailer, it again gave way, ford bill' were drewned, • Ntysinerg hirs returned to town from pvriwunitii igi-Shrewbbury, Chester and. Marieliryster, w.'rero met wit') ' 11.14 His benctiC3 Rrt I)4an thesfer, and, Chester greatly .exceerird an y rece i p t 4 ever, known' sin those . I.'fieatres. He will shortly ',Hit Edinburgh, Glasgaw, Newcastle, Whiteharen, felt. Vic. • . A' man of the'name of. Daley was killed ,in . ot boxing match, with .'a coachman, on . Saturday, in the neighbourhood , of Ball's-pond. Bitretll).—'l'here was no Court of .Alrierrnerf to d a y. The Lord-Mayor, after inspecting the re turn', 'ordered it W tall id. per peck. The quartom loaf lid. Pt.vr.touTit, 29. --Arrived his Majesty's ship Cossctek, of 22 guns, Capt. ?arca, from Cadiz and , GibraltArk,..bound tg.,Portsmouth : she brought a Messenger charged with dispatches for Govern ment, who landed itnmediately, and sat off for Lon don. The Cossack is under quarantine. We have not been able to learn whether she has 'brought any particular news. Arrived late last night, the St:letOi-en'zo frigate, Capt. K Nox , from Lisbon, with disparClies; which are said to be of impertance, and were forwarded to London immediately by express. Several British Officers from Lord WHGLINGTON'Sarmy came pas sengers m the St. Fioienzo, which' has also brought over sick troops, FALMOUTH, bEe. 28.—Arriveil this day the Por tuguese ship Fermina, with a Mail, from Lisbon, and a cargo of wool, bound to London ; she is put under quarantine; parted from the convoy (about 26 sail) this morning; the schooner Hobby, CUR , . HIE master, from L o nd on , w i t h a cargo of bale goods, &c. bOund to Cadiz, with loss offoremait and 'bowsprit, IA hich she, carried away yesterday morning. Also the Swallow packet, Capt. Mott- PHEW, will) a,Mail, from Cadiz, after eleven days passage; and the Eliza, SAUNDERS, from Water ford, bound to London, with provisions. Sailed the West India ship Ann, , HAMILTON, with pilchards for Jamaica ; the Wahineham, Capt. 1107 BA.RTS, with Mails of the 24th ihst. for Lisbon. The Princess Eliznbeth packet, Capt. JUDD, with Mails, for Cadiz, is detained till the 31st inst. PORTSMOUTH, Dr.C. 30.-,,Sailed the Acasta ,fri gate with a convoy for the East Indies; the Cynne and Spider that take the convoy to the West Indies . are gone down to Cowes Roads with a few of the sliips, but the principal part ormem remain at the Mother ,Bank and in Stokes Bay ; also - sailed the Diadem from Plymouth. tr, ARW DEC; 30.---Arrived the' Lady Nepean and Kiag George packets from Anholt, the latter passed about 20 sail of the convoy from the Baltic, off Lowestoft this morning. Three of the fleet are lost off the Scaw ; the American brigs put back to Gottenburgh. LEITH, DEC. es.—Arrived /the Egeria sloop of war from Wingo Sound, sailed 'lBlll inst. With a fleet under convoy of the Hero man of war, and parted in thick weather. 'DEAL, DEC.' 30,---Arrived' his Majesty's ship Poiciiets from a cruize, . and the Crosy and Fame Lfroai the 1331 tic. ',Sailed the Speculator lugger, with the following ships for Portsmouth KtiaßY, for the Mediterranean ; Asia, TY NY, for Alalta; Elizabeth, and Adventurers, JELLARD, for Lisbon; and the Royal Oak, PROCTOR, for Jamaica; Passed through the Downs the Trafalgar, for Rio Janeiro. ----- • , DEATH OF THE DOWAGER COUNTESS: STANHOPE. On the 28th inst. departed this life, at her ceuntry seat, et Ovenden, in 'Kea, :after a few days illness, 'the Countess Dowager STANHOPE, in' the ninety third year of her age. Het Ladyship was the relia of the tale Earl STAN HOLIt;• and the mother of the. present! Earl. A person more remarkable for acute ness of. understanding, and exquisite sensibility of heart„ has, perhaps, never eitisted: X r etwithstand. ing her very advanced 'age, Allt2 retained her facer lies entire ; and the., superior 4tia)ities of her mind 'Only appeared the more conspicuous, froth her pos sessing them at a peried,o "lif'eWhen the alfilits of thi4;world seldom attria'eur attention. Stich 'as her-philanthropy, that ''ste always took the most lively interest in every event that occurred, even in the remotest part oflite globe ; that could anywise atie6t humanity. Religion, and the confident ex peelation of a future and a hctterEate, were to her (what' they uniformly are to all good and virtuous chargters) a never-Tailing, source of comfort, and exalted happiness. Tlei distressed always found, in lier.f.adyship a warm-hearted friend ; and her judi cious and' vi.tensive charity re li eve d ' ma n y hun dreds' of *he' poor in her neighbnurhood. The amiablenteis. of her *aisposition was never more strikingly Observable than 'in her last Momenta and oat ofthe affeeting expressions which she used, a shout time before her death, was, that she' had ; the consolation to reflait that she had never Oared any Ifouble.to be of use. Her .Ladyship has left a will, in which she has bequeathed her property to her only son, the present Earl STANtiope', whom she has'appointed her sole executer. By ,a codicil, 'she has . lett legacies to several of her old and faithitif servants.' • ' ' Mealin, a gentleman of fortune in Somersetshire, wrio has undertaken to go thirty miles a day for eighteen successive days, and to travel in the i , ame•number of counties, the dis tance being 540 miles, started from his residence at Brockey, near the Bristol Channel, and was at Havant, Hants, on Sunday night in good health. 'much is depending on the match*, which is for '4OO guineas. He will- go through this metropolis on Thursday next, ,after having touched on Sussex and _Kent, yesterday;morning as two young men were row, ing up the river towards Richmond, fora wager of two guineas, one of the boats unfortunately ran foul' of a shoal of ice, by whi c h i t W upset, and th l . it U young twill in was drownecL I;t snotst,' bici7l6. ,,, NovaitfOrd- cif noes s held , quarters remain at Freynada, and the troops In the same positions as when the last mail sailed. Our army becomes mare healthy every day. DEC. 13. Letters from Cadiz of the 30th ult . state, that an , English squadron, - cruiiitig Off* the coast of Catalonia, had taken a French convoy which sailed from. Toulon with provisions, ammu nition,,&r. for Barcelona : it appears to have con sisted of 22 vessels, but we have no authentic par ticulars on this head. • .DEC. 9.—We have rro interesting intelligence ro - speaing the movements of the French in Spain.— The enemy, throughout' the whole Teninsnla, live in the greatest. inquietude; if they take forces into one province, Which enables them to obtain some ad vantage, in others, at the same time, they:suffcr . fatal reverses. When they weaken their garrisons to assemble this groat force, the rembinsovhich they suppose are capable of containing the inhabitants, ate sacrificed by them ; in short, the people omit no opportunity of showing their heroism and inve terate rancour to 'yards their oppressors, VALIINCA D'ALCANTARA, DF.C. 3.—Our gence by the last Mails .trancruilizes us concerning the ?are of ,Valencia. That beautiful 'city still re! , :mined free, despising the pride of the enemy. The army had been reinforced by the greater part of the 3d Army.; DURAN, and the ESIt7ECINADO, were marching to join it, and eery thing lea& us ,to form the pleasing conclusion, that the sanguinary laurels of SUCHET will remain in the hands of our valiant countrymen. It it affirmed that Marshal SUCIIET has aban Boned the design of conquering Valencia, and re , tired with _his army from before that city. iiNLIOLT 1114.1L5. NAPLES, Nay. 2 t .--The dll'erent articles which we have already publishtd on the a6lual stare of Si. .cily, and those inserted in the English Journal -4), have given an idea of the convulsions that island suffers. Thp spirit of discord which subsists be. tween the , Sicilians apd their pretended' defenders the. English, can leave no doubt respeeling the hos tile intentions of the latter ; intentions which they do not even attempt to diSgiiise.. These dissension's' appear to assume a more serious character every day,\ and thing's have arrived at that point that the English 'are, or . pretend to be,'under the necessity of attending to their safety, as if they were in an enemy's country. We have evident proof of this misunderstanding, in an order of Gene ral MAITLAND,' Cornmander of the English troops in Sicily, printed and published at Messina, which we have receive through some unfortunate fisher men, who fled from . Sicily to avoid ,the : son., tinual,vexattons they suffered, and fly from .tlie effeas of a catastrophe which every body considers immanent and unavoidAhle. This • proclamation states, that Gen. MAITLAND is forced by pariicular circumstances to interdia, for. some time, fishing during the night, upon the coast occupied by . th British Army. 41GGREG4TE Cd7WOLIC MEETING. Yesterday an Aggregate Meeting of the Culla. tics of Ireland was held in the Theatre; Fishamble. street. At twelve o'clock, the Earl of Fingal was called to tliechair. Lord Fingal addressed a few words to the assem bly You have conferred upon me, 'gentleinen, a high honour by- ca lli ng ate to oteside in thi, , meeting ; you will add toil by cOnduaing,yourselves in a moderate and peaceable manner. Tht success of your cause must in a great. measure rest upoit your own deportment ; and I hope that you will do.nothing which may in Vbe least fend to'throw a prejudice over yourselves or it. Lord . Ffrench• rose to move the Resolutions, which had .been previously agreed !upon, ..as most lii ( ely to, suit the occasion, and to meet the appro. .bation of the assembly. His Lordship cousidered the . measure.which.had.bee n now adoptqd,, as - the most proper in the circumstances io,which the'ea tholics of .Ireland , reland found themselVes after the pro iceedings of Government on the23d he was to offer to the 'consideration of the meeting a body of Resfelutions, which Bail been proposed as the most probable remedy. for tie blow which had been struck at their cause on that day—these he could say we're the resulf of - the most serious and deliberate consideration ; be had never seen the at tention of any - body of men Sp &Oily rivetted to any object as Was that of the ! twenty-one to whom` the charge of prepating these Resolutions,hid been entrusted : he himself tv, - uld not have darel to offer himself to the notice. .of the. meeting by.. introducing these , Resolutions,- had he not been Cully aware' that he' would be followed by o:hers of `high ability - and most worthy of confidence. Ile 'trusted that the ,deportment of all would-he such as became a greit'people . Who had . received a great shock. He' felt strongly that his Gli4Co of Rich mend would have . no reason to exult in the 'late proceedings of his Government in lyiving. hurt, and hurt to: the heart's core a loyal and a great, p'eopld. The 23d of December was a day of an guish that would never he forgotten lit the annals of Ireland ; ,but however severe the • wound, .it should be met with dignity and resolution - : no means should be employed to ward it off-which' utie not in the Striaest sense constitujiii,..ial„ fig LO.4l9bip was awry that na Iro the .atate ofhis health :I If ti .ie *is bbrigia lb refte Op the veer 151 . rewfill the tesolutions himself ; Ise slid dd I e un tesr the trecesSity of relying on the assistance-of ad ilvri - Friend who was near Idol. ' • The Hon. Mr: Barnewt II to . r rose read thelleso. lotions. This honour, he said,' fallen upon urn I ' in consequence of the indisficAtion of his Right Fl'a. t riend Lcird French : be did not mean' to expatiate nrtsils attention which bast-been bestosied-on - the preparation of these Resolutions it hd'd d ; a to ee been great ; but it was requisii e, anniw:ii ‘vii- Ifogiv bestowed. Nerlier could he allow hienself to give vent to his feelinr,s on the stem. , which hid been lately cti:s-,;la . yrd in ,the !Aztec in which they now vvere ; . it sunk ,too deep into ithe Heart to had an adequate expression in - words' Mr.Barlievrill tl , ' ' ' 1 - 1 .- i 4 y re.: pioceeded to read the resolu o i as f ollows :-_ . . sit - . , .. Revolved, That it aptthat I - 6 'est: to p, tat e- Com ' s . nere ) mkttte s ot s the Catholics of Ireland, ap pointed and tbsempled for rho sole and Constitutional pnroose of plepariniPeotiotars to the Legishiture on beitalf of the' C4tho:ic people, and •possessibg the confidence, esteeth, and tdverence of It ii.haien of MI % I.:nu:is:ons, lime been forcibly and illegally obitruct., e and ontroged by the orders of Charles , Doke of i tiehrord, the preient Chief Governor of Ireland, 1 ,.. n c:onivinclion with other persons exercising Po usvil "(werninent therein, and their prominent legil advisers." ~. . by Resolved TI Ad i ! '. -sat in the meisures pursued by,tlse . naimstratioo of Ireland for some years, we have borerved, with regret 'and indignation, 3 silifil of progressive. 'intemperance and exaspenniug intoleo. once, arising from the impolicy of these Ituleril,' as Well as from their ignorance of the Cul:airy which they hate undertaken to govern. -Re ' lia - e ( the measures springing from s" solvd, I IMprovidetit a spirit, call forth the loud nod wt. qualified reprobation .of his Majesty's Irish Sub. jeets, threaten to alienate' the affecti ons' of the People, and tend to extinguish their chsraarristre and well . known ardour in . pressing forward to in a p his Majesty's fleets; and ,to strengthen his armies, so.amply 'recruited' by' the Irish Ronda Clitheli":. sinking, as their are, under the heavy tun ic " 0. ' equal taxed, without equal benefits, and that soca de. unwise and illiberal measures are calculated ID _it roy the harmony and unanimity upon will`stlt, alone, can test th 6 prosperity, ' greatness an d honour of the Empire. . . . ' • . Resolved, That it befits the Catholics of Ire land, upon every prindiple of honour and pructrom's fortified as they are, by the first pr inciples lii4 b,,`' Constitution, and supported by the 'ioleina tY • of a Jury, not to submit, in silence, to this note: rioos perversiOn of law, an.. 4 unwarrantable Abu5c,4.,. tenwntaiy power, ; and that being tints Oppress! cly debarred, for a time,. from. .prering' aell 31 . ftA appeal to the Legislature, through the mediwn persons 'duly authorised, on behalf of all, for dist purpose alone; they ought, neverthelcsq, to resat to e very const i tu tional mode, ta 11l make known' I_ extent and details of their degraded conditioN their fellow sobeets and to the .tt'orld. Resolved, 'That an humble and dutiful Address to his Royal Highness' the 'Prince Rege is ot itu ,he 9r p it re- sented as Won as the restriatiowr.on hthtl shall_cesie,, upon the subject of thelate iiiyasiOnsult n i et our undoubted' right to p etition, and ofithe offered to the Catholics of Ireland., :: '' re gentntio, Resolved,.t.That the preparat ion nod p ,,, 'of, such Address be telerred too Boyd,. to consist ta.. 4 the following . [The names of the Board, in alpha. ~ beticaFbrder,. read by the'Secretatypl 4 . • ,' - 4 he 'j Aejol - Ved, That neither the Siti. Board, nor - 1 -, 1 el r ae.'ueral Committee. of .the Catholics of Iteloo , ityt's,.;or ever did,:consiSt,of .persoila 7in eny roo_n - 'Pert 'clitivit utrd or appointed-to teprelent, a ilb . , L : 11 ::(! ing,9r exercising a right to reproeut,4l4iV"P“, ,r, this lingclorn, or Any number. or desel'il w° 11 , 3 ._! 1 ' 111, - or ;: dm:, people of. ally xiisttict vi'l'''' ~,,;.,„ "too ; neither does the some- consist of 11 . 0 . j, ~,,, boos charged whit ..any furtbetoor other full('"itonaltr than that of preparing - .Catholic ,:ret/t, i ';' 4 Addresses 'to - the tenth'sdifferefit oir t" , ~..i " gislaturel . ' - ...LI ft) („ , e.` . - , t the 13,601%;e4; That - the' Geaemil CoOmittee a ti , ~r , . Catholics of Ireland, whose firtiiu dici° , l t „J i ° ) ° i. duet is entitled to our silt'lllt.6t,:itkit'4o B t l u -'O,JI is:; rations be cerptested to assemble'iry üblin, sl " of the 2,8111 of February, 1812; ',:f -',..... , /4 C o d ' Resolved;, That the. grateful Thaii - i 10 . 9 1 t '''n. o . tholics of Irelaild . tir'.e hereby , ..gileir t° our p t . o .' iestant Brethren wlib. have 'this 'day Fitonottre.d ell , a with their presence, and lairoured us with the 14 1 0. 1 ' lyliberal expressions of theiileriiitnetitii,lt Ib i ' " 1 frientaup ,crisis. • ,-, . ' i a i iildardeot) Uesolyed, That ' the sincere,' gratO. # -,- ni At; thonks•6l this Meeting, .be returnadAn we ''',. )11 ,,i . Hon.. Lord ViscoOnt Netterville, for dl's firs s l. i c iev i stitutional, and dignified deporttnet I T I I troy dispersion of • thafCatholic Corna.iittne, on P," l 4aa last, and (or his unceasing and patriotic excl . ' s°. all occasions, for the CatllollC CaOfic..% ' -. . • '''' , , - •-1 ' e[A !nog debateensued, which.we. areitlneq i ' oecessity,of postponiog till Ito-mOrrew.]:, .1. • 1 • ,~ FOR THE SUA. • Mu. EDITOR, , - n S If it fie true., as stated in a Nioruing Pf [P .I ' P° r • - • ~.., „os clay, that the Lascur , , who is e willoy .eLI ,it- 11 , Garden Theatre, to 1 )lamigt! tEe Elephant, 10 1 1 , 1,,r ,- titoweapon with - whic h lit: is a,infeci Into, tha c '''',l - '' 4 ' t i lre's , Ina"gled nick, to urges %vracited ailitlr'i'o'..... ratter, t ',at a'reauY hall-starved, for the same purP°' ,,,tl) . ' ,., i 11i, late. its - nature,. and ''f3c 4 thi, , glare Of noil9 ''''', l `f which it is confronted," ,i trust, for the tionll cr , human nature, as well as for that of tile iyil*iii? t ..,,, 1 01 v-rated, and am p . erstiadeu, th.tt-if suctr-has-re:"b'Yti peen , the 1at.1,,,,ti 1 d Al a nag t vis theinsalliel• irl °sl l , o no :.,uch horritle means' ktAlCbe 001:: ;who:ly 'ignorant that' so.. b.ir: - at ous 3 Pr a 4 ic '' art L'il.ett place., and that, the'' , will ,be,ao x:fioi to pat ich ' e , n 4 a' to it.--But, Sir, from ti;,l inwresJintl " 1 , 4 , !Dl* story has made upon ,I e.e.it 'Flail Ortlic Ittlt'', l l" .. ~i t, ii w ill' 6 e ProP t er to have it immediate!), anj ' cl .`„ --Y .seOntraditted,- for otherwise it Wilf: he iror" c Bible for a burnlnc pro ,, le to atterld fipc,.B ioc l I" • cQuid only excite. horn); and'indiguatioil- NI lb Dec, 30, is.i 1. Fr tiptvards "of 'fifty tine voting Men , ‘`,,,' alu t ; ) , iter`t - 19riVitirent• regisipmts in Scotland; W ei Tilbury • Fort, flu bogrd tba Lontiun 3rl- I L,u,tiutp-0-1 1 m sack Pi lu? , Uafit.kr,n Liu" Cl' ~ U {-. r• ~ ... 1