The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-01-06 00:00:00

"Lissil :Paella Frirsitaand, and theater Yeenneß,

“Althumgls 1 hare had the honour of addressing yon in pub-
lic on many occasions, I certainly never attempted it tinder
eiremostaoces so embarrassing as the present. Words are in-
adermate to do justice to my feelings, or to tottery to you the
sewtiment• 1 entertaiu on this day. •YWI have deputed your
Lient.-Colutiel to present me with this Sabre, most *Moab!:
is itself, sad the noblest gift a British Soldier rio jt
eeive. Yet, these considerations are but secondary, when
redact that it has been presented to ore by a Regiment, most
of whom bare boom* use final my birth, as a proof of their
approbation of my modurt as no 011ieer, and a tribute of
their regard and sitarkinent to toy .swan. These are feel-
ings, Brother Yeomen, whirls glow in my Peewit, sod lite
tewollectints of the entilial support mad co-operaitiuu which
have invariably received front every iudividnut iu this Re-
giment, am cease only rutin- Limb. I once More Brother
Yeomen, thank you for this Noble proof of your retard.
receive it with the oar/wind feelings of gratitude. 1 idiot*
it to my person, from *Motes so renal baud shall wrest it;
and if fissure events should rail upon us for nor seri/ire',
here will you lad me ready to lend you on, and drew the
Made I. defence of my King, toy nuointry, sod its lasrs.”
On the conclusion of this splech, the air resound-
ed with three times three British cheers, awl the
regiment dispersed, to partake of a repiist prepared
for them in the Town 11311, whi-e the. eve g was
spent in merriment arid happoiess, end where bum-
pers were poured oat to loyal and patriotic least,.

Another tuclanrboly
.instanee of .rif•dntisetios iteeurred
*bout eight O'clock, on aluuday muruilig :—A Mr. Um*.
Orbs, • hurler, in mpeelable eireusistatiers, threw hisailelf
AIM s diltor/ of his bailie, las Granthalt plies, Park-lane,
Piet:sillily. said wirs sa dreadfully injured is the fill, that he
espirrd aliuttly after. The tutfurtuurte vase had trendy
bees sulti(et Ito its of tespurary 'arum diravir.est.

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blieCilEDA tilTiTaLiC int 8 TING.

At *a moat numerous Ind respectable Iffectiot of the
tholte botodotatio• of the County of dot TOWN of Droul.ed.s.
cuoventol ur public notice at she Linen Hell of sail wool,
on Moooday, flw lib of Ileciatteer, fur the pnrpuse of takilc e
into consido ration the propriety of en Addrepe to the Itti;let
foil. Charles Giraut, fool his oppoiiiinarosi to at 61111411,m od
Chief Secretary so hi. Excellency time Lord Licatenatit of
1 eland.

The Meeting had beery convened by a Regaisitinw, sicrted
by the ;woo. wealthy and leapeelable Cttliwlica of the lure,
previously ills stetwerutisly attended at :111
early hoar.

At twelve, h ii,, GERNON, •aa called to the Cha,-,
who, Otte havioa esuae4l the Iltrefutaitior, to he read.
't shed the alteutino of the Meetioz to the object fur whg. •
They had hero

JuttN HAIM, Esq. then rose and said—" Mr. Chairman,
I have solietted the Minstar of moving she Addriss, for the
consideration of %bids we are assembled here to day, that L
toight have the ein best possilde opportionty of rectifying a
mistake, originating with, and dasseminnted by, myna. This
mistake, arising from a variety of coincidences, amounted to
no leis Man Ilse persuasion that that Stittesti!ast who had at.
nobly enlisted his powerful support in our Wolf in 1813,
(Mr. Grant) did, at a sulesettuesol perio l, so far retract that
support, as to Rove a silent vote af,tiliSt our Claims. Had I,
at the time I expressed this bu!itt, perused attentively the
celebrated appeal, made in the year I ha►e mentiouccl, it
would have required somettraig stronger than almost the
evidence of the 'notes themselves, to convince tne that suet%
could have been the case. As it was, my error, supported by
a similarity of name, of country, awl of ger:real politics,
being eommunicatrd, and in some instaot es II !opted,
perhaps, more or less infliteuee is preventing the design we
are How upon from being carried into ea. cutiou, wheu
Weil at an earlier period. It is, unoltooobtroily, to be 1,.
;wetted, ►hat we did not bilng this saltitaty Measure to he: r
at that time. It is nufortunaleitat we were nut lbw pro...is
.1.0 leis:: the lead, as was originally priipmt 4, in a measiir,
luunmpt►d alike by good sense sod• !Mill fuelling. PO it is
not yet too late. If we are tint the firs?, we way he arrionf,
the first ; and to reAnove, at I.'lo, one nt the 1111bl:oil:es
whit It formerly obstructed oar procTedings, let it be voice for
all distinctly understood, 29 it can he tit. fi sgibly VILA
tl•at Mr. Greta new r actually or en toally, ■low:lon ll.e
grosialk be first took **llls respect t,O Catholic r taints, e%Uo. r
by cuing a contrary vote, 111* by absenting himself float tl.e
on that

" The Address which I am 31)0111 Ili 1011.V.Se to the cone*,
eleiot ion of this Meiling, owl u loch consilleai d by
many of the most respectable ticuticiien who are now pre.
sent, commence! With the expression of r gratitude to Mi..
Grant for Inc past important service", HA of the hope,
which his appoiatinesit to so exalted a situation in this
country hue given birth to in us We then Ir•uceed to de.
plurr, that his powei t sr' lions in teOr lit li.ilfhave not yet
hero attended with c g.l. le bocci sit —is. d. scribe the teeth-
Ilea! disabilities Udall' whir, wr still continue to labour, in
expressioute taken vntafict from bit own inatniliceut ura.
tins ; passages selected, not for the peculiar wisdom ur
beauty they contain—because where all is equally wise and
equally betintiful,such a selection would be impossible—.but
for their application to our parliculnr sit:tation, or fur the
appruprialeueu with which they war) capable of being intro-
duced into a composition •f this drocriptiuti.
Let it not he supposed we incur ally ride of diepleasittz
or emban•assing Mr. Chant, by suggesting the recoil. clioo•
of expressions be would wish either canc.-I!. or forgone 1..
No, Sir ; that Mr. Grata must be incapable of such polive
upostach the sentimeids cuoceyrd by those very e arm s-
lums are our bast securily--sentiments founded on the all r-
utty and immutability of ti oh mot uieedoin t any
wee carefully examine this masterpiece of eloquent reason-
ing, and be will that no more can Mr. Grant invali.
dateor deny the truth of any of the arEa.nruts therein rout•
gained, tbau the mathematician could iti'valielate or deny the
truth of a problem, of which he himself had discovered the
must clear and must Helmut solutien. If further arcutnent
un this subject were oeceassry, the humble individual who
now addresses you did accidciii.illy meet *ills a !nod, by

which it is ascertabied that Mr.th ant des ulichanged
and unshaken in those sentiments of libernlily and wisdom,
for which we ars sow about to offer nine the tribal*. of uur
gratitude, and that therefore tie cannot Lot seceive such tes-
timony of our feeling as we me a!kiiut to rotifer us him, with
real cumplactocy--with unaf ectenratisfsction.
" It will he recollected, Sir, nun the Right Hon. Seere.
lacy, in expesiug Itw injustice awl imptil.ey eef the l'eoal
Laws affecting Catholics, still in existence, deduces from
their exisleuce the inefficiency of tho.e inclultrsocea which
the iegialsture leave aireedy concealed to eta It is true, lee
says, in substance, you sanction the re-admission of the Co.
tholic into Corporitiuna—you gave tout a qualified Eleetive
Franchise ; but by denying him au. the adiamages pant-
seamed by his fellow-subjecia, you streieztlien the spirlt et
Carporate monopoly, so as to enable it effectually to coun-
teract these two salutary indulgences. We Arceribe our.
selves as we are, peculiarly °linos ous to the grossness ass.
big from this spirit of Corpoi ate aiiminpols —excluded, in
almost every instance, front Corporate advantetre, anti (le"
pe feed by CUlllolate Faction of any thing like a fair ext.' tire
of that inestimable right—the Eleciite kranchlse. How-
ever more atendroin we May lie—however tome respecialee
—however nude useful members of society, we are to have
eo elelegfted voice in the Senate; or, is the language of Mr.
(lists', • the laws are, is no i..tsnee, to cloaiem form our.
pelvi Strangers to us, and aliens to our tower, are, at
we complain in the Address (and in direct violatios of the
spirit to which all Corporatism (•hesters were origivalis
granted), anointed to those privileges denied to us. Stran-
gers, eel whom we hear or see nothing but when they pay us
their sexennial visits, to crush, by their 'somber*, our exer-
tions foe independence. In this part of our Address, it will
be found that we have again echoed the language of the
night Hon. Secretary, and applied it forcibly and unanswer-
ably to our own case.
" The Address concludes with the reiterated expression of
our saimunie hopes from the appontlatent of a twist of Mr.
Grant's political principles, to elle simonise lie holds in Ire-
land ; at the tame time that we disclaim all ides of dicta.
lion at to the lime wad mode In which he may please to re -
some the advocacy of our cause. Policy. generosity, asil
these were not touugh, experience imolai its tier necessity
of tits. I repeat, So, policy, as well as good serve mcd good
feelisig, dentauds a deterenhal line of cuoiduri frurn
so long as we have a boon to ask, or the Gowernrueot rn
tie ministry in which we live has a boon that it may give 1..'
withhold at pleasure, it becomes us to ask this boot, as a
homer, lad Ilse the language becoming our sit wit iaua, Ga.
'Ferocity, too, requires it sins so obviously, that I shalt not
attempt any argsimasts to she* how—sad to prove th it past
experience suggests the necessity of it. I shall only
you of the opposite mediae pursued by others, who, lion.
ever good may hone bees their ieteetion, certainty do nut
approver to have acted • very discreet, because, iperliatia, not o
very letnpernew part. The pernicious ctioseipiencil- node esl
of Il dictatorial conduct in every department of life sr,
obvious—in the jut-seal inetiore it omelet be notorious.
the this subject ire must abandon all dictation, en the pri-
mal instance more .epecially, •lieu ue are ailderssicig
wan who has conic forward gratuitously, and gecensusly,
mid zealously, to demand for us the full concession of a.l
our rights.
" Sock Sir, is the outline of the Address we are this day
to take into ceusidenttitio, sud,bacring thus endeavoured tee
explain its 'mature aid object, I might, perhape wow to
eyed to the reeding the Address 'itself. But & WWI rtsi.t
this opportunity of 'congratulating my Catholic cusiotrynieni
and indeed the right-feeling part of ray coast risotto of stet y
religious persuasion, upon the asapicioeselswo "ASA smut
opening to esthetic pleapects. At leapt di *e appear, lit
WSW degree, acknowledged nod adopted children—at lentil
do we begin to remits. marks of affection and confidence
Cum the bithene esiranged bosons of err cesstry..-.orbs
of affection and coolldetice the mere delightful te sae, Oen
more we feel they boss bees purchased by our 'lse pares'.
rules( etbd Meissner . t towards a Calietitatios
goblets Ens been id Itti ablest rather of sail Oslo enjoy.
meet to se. • Wiese begat inlets, watts! :spoor lifter the
'Maggie sr glotiestly lisseississl sbroed,bersd she atoll
more victor's. to gais".stesise sueseise eiiit to subdes
turbot's's spirit, easspsysled by distress, ever to the sitemps
if pandlios tsa* bet Ayes laweis with ..kcb 4%%•..c

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