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THE BRITISH

LON DON,
MONDAY, MaxCs 11.

The Irish Delegates are now all in town, with tie
exceptiori of Sir THOMAS FRENCH, who is detained
in Ireland by severe indisposition. We understand
they have been :astructed, in the first instance, to
present the petition to Mr. PITT, trusting that he
will perform his promise of furthering it through'
the House. They are authorised to say, if as,
should not be thought the fittest time to grant
complete emancipation to the Catholics, Mr. Fir.;
will please to state its but they will, at least, inn.:
upon some preliminary vote, recognising the justice
of their claims. Should Mr. Pi rr relate to act, they
are then at liberty to apply to any member whom
they may think fit, and who may be disposed ro
undertake the business. This is the substance
their instructions ; and as it is supposed Sir 'rnomaa
FRENCH will not be able to attend, the lklegates
have accordingly entered upon the business of their
mission without him, and have written a letter :0
Mr. Prrr, requesting an interviow. To this
portant stage has this business proceeded, with
perhaps less public notice than ever accompu,.ei
any great measure in its progress. This re-
sult, however, has been produced by the spirt
and feeling of the Catholic body. Faction tel
party have never failed to avail themselves of
the wrongs of Ireland, and to make that country
the ladder of their ambition and siggraniise-
ment. Aware of this, the Catholics, in the prose.
cution of their claims, have, upon the present occa-
sion, studiously shunned publicity. They have de-
precated the interference of the public Press, fearful
that it might give a tinge of party to a cause that
rests upon great public grounds, and stands in need
of no such assistance. The conduaors of the party
prints have yielded to the delicacy and discretion
which distinguish the proceedings of the Ca-
tholic Body, and, with a liberality that rdleas
upon them the highest honour, have carefully
abstained from agitating the subjea. If we
now presume to approach this great (potion, it
is because we presume upon our charatier for hn-
partiality and independence. Seeking truth in tine
spirit of truth, with all our views directed to oft
only objea, the good of the country; and standirg
at an equal distance from frettul Opposition. and
Ministerial servility, we trust that no good cause
can ever receive blight or taint from any noticeni
it, in this paper. Far he it from us. with an unlial.
lowed hand, to tear away the veil from the secrn
and sacred truth t if, thus exposed, it could lose
one particle of its grace and beauty. The Catholic
claims are of the most constirutinnal growth, and
breath a spirit of the purest loyalty. .1 bure re-
cital of their birth and progress will be perhaps
their most splendid eulogy. When the great
measure of the Union was proposal, Mr. PIT r,
as a great advocate, parent, and frieos cotstead.:3
that it would remove every possible ohjeetion to the
entire repeal of all the disqualifications affel4
the Catholic Body. This was the common and pro-
'vainest argument of all the eapposters of that sees-
sure. It was even the language of Decor DUG:-
WAN, and of men, who, like hies, seemed to be
possessed with a sort of anti-catholic MINIM, an hi-
st:fr:live hostility to Catholic Rights, that disdaine:
reason and discretion. But it was peculiarly tiie lan-
guage of Mr. PITT, who had, at the Orre, pawn
and influence, to an extent that alarmed the cos.•..
tutiunaljealousy of the country. With this cedar%
and understanding, the Union was obtained, ad
Mr. PITT shortly after resigned his offi.:e. biiajssg
with him many of his friends, because he was un-
able to redeem his pledge to the Catholics. Mr. Ao-
ni No rots succeeded to him, with reclines avowedly
hostile to Catholic Emancipation. Is was a SedSiNl
of great peril, and England was contending I r
etimence with the overwhelming power of France.
The forbearance of tke Catholics to press their claims
at this critical period bore honour:6l.: testimony to
their loyalty. Theirtemper and mode•ation deserved
some other return than contempt or aeglea.
PITT has :it length returned to office. He is sup-
posed to retain that high sense of honour, that see
bending rertitude of mind, which yield to no ob-
stacle in their range of artinn. The Catholics might
well hail his resumption of office, as the sigeal
to their emancipation, and speculate upon im-
mediate redress. A great part, however, of the
last session passed away, and their claims re-
ermined without notice. Under these circumstances.
they imagined that a petition to Parliament
would be the most manly and open mode d
proceeding—and, after a deliberation of near fire
months, upon the time, nature, and form of the Pe•
thion, they chose Delegates of high respeetability tad

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Officer, are (mar*.
PRESS.
11.
in town, with tie
s, who is detained
We understand
first instance, to
, trusting that he
hering it through
id to say, if al:
st time to vault
:holies, Mr. Fir..
rill, at least, infl.•
Knising the justice
refine to act, they
ny member whom
4y be disposed to
the Eibstance
mscd Sir 'rnomAs
id, the I)elegates
business of their
mitten a letter za
As. To this ids-
proceeded, with
ver aecnrnpm;ei
gross. This re-
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undoubied heel 7.r and loyalty to carry it to this
country, eel ate dear claims in the Imperial
Parliament. i . azitation of this question in Ire- I
land, the C ;the.e::; h ei to combat every effort short
of force, titAL cosild be devised, to smother it in its
birth ; but they have to far succeeded, in spite of
every obstacle, and for this result they are indebted
to their unexampled temper, candour, and modes-
t; et. Unless the same obstacle remains in a certain
quarter, which delicacy forbids us to mention, we
are not aware of any ground upon which the Ca-
tholic claims can be now resisted. Were the public
mind unsettled, and men's opinions ificiat, moderate
seen might dread the heat and violence which might
arise from the discussion of the question; bur, in the
present state of Ireland, no such consequence can
be apprehended. There have been times, too, when
lemon I; lc assumed the mask of reform ; but none
!".1: 1/4114Ve or a fool could entertain any such
ei the present measure. The men
who :lave undertaken it, the manner in which
It has been conduced, and the time when it is
brought forth, all distinaly shew, that it has no
object in view but that which it professes; and
peso- vi ;I an objet more loyal, constitutional, and
wise. 1. was intended by the Union to conso-
lidate the two countries in heart, spirit, and force ;
to reduce their population into one uniform mass
of loyalty and brotherhood.. Without Catholic
ernancipatinn this end cannot be obtained, and
the Union must ever remain Impede& and in-
complete. It may be urged, no doubt, that in
the whole of the present proceedings, there has been
no public elation by the Catholic Body at large,
by resolutions. or aelual delegation; but this ob-
jedtion can hare no weight. The state of the press,
in Ir 4and, and the Convention win, rendered both
imprakeicable. The spirit of the country, and the
perfect unanimity of the proceedings, amount to a
virtual sanaion. Catholics of the highest respeaa-
bility, from all parts of the country; attended the
meetings, and form the Sub-Committee of 40, now
sitting at Dublin. The form may be alesent, but
they have the spirit, the life, and the substance.
There are ito:four millions of Catholic names to tke
pet'tion, but there are four trillions of Catholic
!...eti ei the cause.

r-e 7 long dearth of foreign news, we have at
• a supply, b 7 the arrival of Paris
: • •.- the 3d, and Dutch Journals to the 7th in-
• ; -v cun:irra the report of tl:e capture
i • • J slo'Jfi c I war, and the flat
u. • . he: in the Mediterranean. —la
the unmher of vo- which have thus fallen
into the enemy's hands, as well as in the de-
scription of the ships by which they were con•
voyed, the l!onireer is guilty of exaggeration and
incorreßness. The numher of the fleet could not
have exceeded thirty, and their convoy were the
Arrow sloop of war, as we on Saturday stated,
and a bomb. The resirtance riade by the Arc It•
is honourable to the Officers and men of
that vessel. 'Sante details of the attion are iven
in the Mitettrur of the Ist. and the minor Paris
Journals of the 2d instant, in which it is admitted
that she behaved with the greatest gallant; y. The
engagement lasted an hoot- and a qttarter, wh-n,
after losing near fifty men, thirty of whom were
wounded, she was compelled to strike to L' n, emip-
irL,r. The bomb, after an anii.)2which lasted
quarter of an hour, struck to the other frigate,
L'lrores4e. The French frigates that made this
capture, were part of cue Toulon Fleet, which, ac-
cording to the Ildimagar, sailed from that port on 'he
19th cf January; and, after having been four days at
sea, was compelled to return to Toulon by a violent
storm It consisted of eleven or twelve sail of the
line, with a number of frigates, and light vessels,
having a body of troops on board, under the com-
mand of General L•VILISTON, and was probably
destined for Egypt. Lord Net.srmi, who was with an
equal force off the South Western Coast of Sicily,
appears to have beer well apprised of the move-
ments of the enemy, and probably the dread of
him, mate than the storm, induced them to return
to port.

Upon the 11 Lb of last month, a Deputation from
the Legislative Body presented their address to Bo-
n ‘r A ere, upon the suhjetct of his late pacific over-
ture to England. His answer is conceived in his
.ual style of hypocritical cant, and affeetation of
btosanity. The " Western Family" cf Europe
still continues his favourite theme. d Place him only
at the head of it, and be will treat all the other
Kings and Priaces, as his poor relations, and kindly
leave them their "mu of pottage ; but let them
stand in the way of his ambition, and this philan-
thropic and benevolent family man will murder a
Duke of Etrontaia in every ditch in Europe. The
Farce of the Coronation at Paris having had its
run in that city, 'Botta►sars means to bring it out
at Milan, with new scenery, dresses, and decima-
tions, under the title of " The Kingdom of Lom-
bar4ll." The Itsilian Repoblic is to assume that
name—and brother Jesse's has been offered the

Ent part I but we understand he has refused,l
and that NaroLzow will be obliged to enaO
the hero of the piece himself. The Poet, who is
also to perform 'a principal chara&er, Wa% ex-
paled with the rest of the theatrical company at
Milan, in the course of last month.

It was expeted that the Committee of the I-louse
of Lords would have agreed, on Saturday, to semi•
Resolutions upon the four first articles of charge
against Mr. Justice Fox; but they were prevented
from sitting, in consequence of the length of the
debate on Friday. They will probably come to a
determination this day. It would not become us to
anticipate the final result. • At present, the parties
who are come from Ireland to substantiate the
charges, are in high spirits. Should Mr. Justice
Fox be required to answer them, we understand he
means to condua his own' defence in person. It is an
old saying, that the Lawyer who pleads his own cause
has a fool for his client; but that will not be his case
Mr. Justice Fox is one of the ablest and manliest
advocates tlrat the Irish Bar has produced for many
years. It is also impossible that any English ad-
vocate, be his talents ever so superior, could so well
Understand and enforce that equity arising from the
state of the country, which must govern and direct
the discretion of a Judge upon his circuit, in the
exercise of his painful, and, we are sorry to add,
from the late convulsions in Ireland, his dangerous
duty.

Admiral CoaisivA [A.'s has sailed with his fleet,
from Torbay, to resume his station off Brest.
The Eliza/elk, SPARK% from Dunbar, for Lon-
don, has been taken by a French privateer, since
retaken by three Berwick smacks, ai,d is Arrived
in the River.

All the Spanish ships taken previous to the decla-
ration of war with Spain, anti claimed as droits to
the Admiralty, are now on tl%eir way to the rivci
Among the political specuiations of the day, it is
said, that Lot if M E will he remov. l from
the Admiralty to the Board of Coatro.d. and that
Lord CAST 1.11111111103111 Will be appointed Secretary fcr
Irish Affairs.
Lord RADILIDEIA La sent a circuiar Letter to til the
Irish Judges, requesting their o:ini and advice,
wheth,:r, under the existing circu ast..i. -s,he should
issue a commission to Mr. .lu,tice J ion, to go
circuit, and that they were all ct opinion he ougtit
not.

The Lotto CHI tr. Jas rick: t.f the Irish Court of
King's Beiteh is arrived in town. lie is come upon
private busi. as.
There are accritiats in 'own from India of a re-
cent date, attiounci-ig same fresh success obtained
by the it itish troops en the Jumna, under the
ordstb t SRL? a IRO, ar,.tinst a LTC body
of EIOL K. army, commanded by the reheliious
ZE /IA a A!)v.A ist. The sunny had colleaed
immense and crossed the Jumna, when
Col .ncl ‘,l ..sit • o came np with them, killed
about t' • ....red, and recovered the g;eate.t
pat ot te- um. Acta suss retired to the woods,
111 the . -biased of Bundeleund, where he has
bre.. • . l'azita., who had likewise been
;. • t by the. British fore, s.
S Fretwir o..bcers feom the Mauritius have
s ...Jed in joining the standard of agita it. It
by letters from Cambay, that they landed
in .1 sin . ve,sel on the coast of Cinch, in the Red
Sea, an aversed the borders of the desert as ft:
as Jeloto , then taking an eastern direetion, they
trio the Mahratta territories above Dander-
, .or, and continued their route towards Bundelcnntl,
in the disguise of private traders.
The encampment about to he formed on Cotheath
is to comprise seventeen battalions. Two additional
ovens are ordered to he built there, and w he ready
on the April next, about which time the troops
are expe"e Ito leave their winter quarters.
A Il officers. privates. die. on leave of absence, are
under ee-lers to 'pot their several corps this day.
The liindottam, of 5 i runs. as convoy to the East
ladies, got under weigh on Friday morning from
Vortsrrwath, with I I Indiamen, and three whalers.

The Satre, I vorPa, laden with sugar, St,. and
14,,;10d..1iar5, captured 1,3, the Pado* frigate, has
arrived at Plyvinuc',. Pallas has also captured
the Kiquit,:e, from V era Cretz, with 43,200 dollars,
but the latter is nor. ye: arrived.

The Ge:eir, of Saturday night contains the ap-
pointment of BA n.ir it tau, of-Penyrhillan, Esq. to
zihefiff f *.linitgumery.hire, instead of Wi
LI sin Owes, tl. ; aid EnvfAin LLOYD LLOYD.
Vsq. to 6.: Sherd of Flintsliire, instead of Tao 4AS
Ftit'LlLLi; Esq.
The e•llklit also contains an Order of Council,
commanding Freesia Gi :11.I! in fisherman; George
Btarimorit, yeumin ; Joni' Buarell, labourer ; :ill of
the parish Of Lennen,Cornwall, and divers other per-
sons aot named, to surrender themselves, within 40
days after the publication of the order, to the Loll°
Cater JUSTICS, OT other JthITICR of the COURT Of
KiNo's 'Semen, or to one of His MAJISTY'S Justices
of the Peace ; the said persons having been guilty
of aiding and assisting to rescue a quantity of
liquors and other goods, after they had been sei tied
by W. PARRY, an Officer of His MaJesiy's Reve-
nue of Excise.
The Gazette also contains an offer of pardon (on
the usual conditions and exceptions) to the persons
who set fire to the premises of Mr. Cm A s Les New-
sr AN, of Long Sutton, Hants, on which two wheat
ricks and a shed were entirely consumed; to which
is also added. a reward of fifty guineas by the par-
ties for the discovery of the offenders.
A meeting of Lord Lieutenants.of Counties, and
Officers of Militia, was held on Thursday last.
when a resolution against the enlistment of men
from the militia into ike regulars was entered into.
To obviate the objection, it has been proposed to Mr.
Pitt. by Lord Rosters', that the English Militia
be reduced to 40.000 men, and the Scotch to 11.000,
for tl.e purpose of affording an opportunity to the
men discharged to sneer into the regulars--a prepo-
sition of wbtch the rimming eseat.i sa some lupe.%
to arprove.