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Learned Deatori Disrespect t never e'iuld have,
as from what I know alias in private life, I have
ever toosidered 111:u a cheerful, frank, and unre-
eared character. Sat there is no one in this
House who can deny that the life of the Learned
Doctor has been spent in religions contentious;
that he has been only known in the political world
iis a decided enriny to 'the Catholics of Ire-
land; and, therefore, I contend, that to whatever
',veils he. in his private °pi:amis, might be
allowed to go, still no into, who, aware of the
danger of acting ou sack opinions, lea deprecated
their tendency, would perform his duty to the
public, unless he prot.aited against his appoint-
welt to uuy place in the Councils of Irelatd. Sir,
such a mode of conduct ought at least to be ex- '
pected from those who are called in this House the
serywitts of the Crown. It was to be expected us
tolinwing up the hopes entertained by His Ma-
jesty at the diasolntion of the late Parliameirt, and
exiirersed in tits Majesty's gracious speech at that
period. In that speech, Ili* Majesty, after advert-
ise, to the agitation of a certain tparetion, con-
cluded with the earnest hope that all prejudices ?
aniongst his people will shortly 1.6:s away. I
would-be evil to learn from his• confidential ser-
vautt opposite, whether the appointment of Doctor
Ding-cams is calenlated to realise the hope of their
Royal 'Matter ? air whether the man who could re-.

cnin.sucwa such an appointment, were not more
solicitous to prop.ignte dissension, than to pre.vent
it; to extend religions animosity, rather thbit
strict the influence of such lamenrable projidices ?
This House cannot be imposed upon by the"
shallow defence which has been art up in sup-
port of this appeintinent. It is impossible that
It run consider it in any other light hut as a
dangerous cxredient to gratify the prejudices of
a party in Irets,,l, by outraging the feeliugs of far
the greatest pillion of its population. Is this the
wide by which the King's Ministers fulfil the
words placed by them in the month- of their So-
vereign, even ac the assembling of the present Par-
lia.nent, wherein the love of onion and harmony was

most strongly inculcated ? Or rather, is it not
g:ving the insect lie to the Royal hopes. and defeat-
ing, by the act and instrumentality of its servants,
those very measures, which their graciotts Master
recommended to the adoption of-his people ?
" But," says the gallant Secretary for Ireland, " it
L by no means intruded that the Learned Doctor
shall us coastilt4 d on any other subject but eccle-
siastical concerns." This assurance, by the bye,
is no great compliment to the Doctor, from his of-
ficial patrisn•. But were it even so, I ask the
Eluir e what atiftilraaser ur security have we that the
Learned Civil ran will himself abstain from intrud-
ing his advice and opinion upon the Irish Execu-
tive ? Indeed I apprehend we will thee have every
Proclanuitian Kceeedieg from the Irish Privy
Council, signed by that i,earned Gentleinau ; and
what is luore mllaiicholy and dangerous, we will
*rid every Proclamation r f that Government, from
that circumstance, considered as an eye-isore.by

the Catholics of Ireland. (Hear ! hear !) Lit
me then most seriously recommend to the King's
Ministers the influence of a little salutary caution,
and wall-timed foehearance. Let me advise them
to beware how they pails the passions amid irritated
feelings of four mioloons of suttieete to the extra.,
mity of endurance. ( Hear r hear! hear If they
obstinately anti faiaoy persevere, let them not
look to this side of the House for either ',ethanol%
of their conduit or their motives. Every measure
has hecu of their selection. •They appear to have
coveted a quarrel, and semi to have gone out of
the ordinary truck to find an opportunity to feed
religious feuds and uncharitable animosities.—
(Mae! hear! hear!) 'Ley have proved it
the case of Gitfard ; for whom, unless such was
their object, they might asa political partisan have
provi.led in a manner equally serviceable to the indi-
vidual, avid iu ow degree so detrimental to the tran-
quillity of the empire. They have proved it in the
ease of the lilaynooth grant, au occurrence upon
which even some of theneelres were not, a short
time previous to its discussion, fully satisfied 's+, to the
hoe of conduct which they should follow. However,
it was decided by some other mysterious authority,
(Kerr! heir!) atoll the compliance even of these
reluctant freeservants of the Crown soon followed
as a necessary consequence—(Hear ! hear .1.-
1.1-ion this Vital steo the country can have but one
opinion. In this House, nine oat of ten of them
who hear me know and feel it to be s nowt wallies
and dangerous expedient. The very friends of Mi-
nisters coma:lly palliate the act, by ascribing it to in-
sanity. and plead iii their extenuation the o i-station
of (loci—f,/ lassgh! aid cries of hear: hear
Bat an such excuses can hide from the country the
true and only motive. Noth;n; can conceal the
base, narrow, and pitiful system of bigotry, from
whence thisand every other act of iniuisterial policy
towards Ireland has originated. The hope of
ruling by dissension is the object ; the disturbance
of Irish tranquillity will perhaps be the melancholy
consequence. The Learned Doctor has certainly
a great right to complain of the assistance he has
this night received from his friends. lie must see
through the dextrous tounicrovre to reconcile a
seeming support with the claims of friend-
ship.—We have all witnessed the draggle in
the gallant Secretary's (Sir A. Wellesley) miad,
and how at length, in order to keep the better
above water, the Learned Doctor has been
thrown overboard. (.4 laugh, and cries of hear !
hear !) The propriety of this motion cannot be dis-
puted. It calls for an interposition, which this
House, even on mere rumour, has the right and
power to exercise. But in. this ease, we have the
fiocbwhich prove the impropriety of the appoint-
merit, from the mouth of the Doctor himself. We
still want to see the correspondence which has
taken place, for the purpose of currying that ap-
pointment into effect. Why not then produce it ?
Are they ashamed of it? It has been stated, that
it has had the recommendation of the Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland, whereas I, in my conscience,
i.elieve it has proceeded totally from a certnin
at at this side of the water, however the forms
of the appointment might have originated ant
the Castle of Dublin. This question must
le sifted to the utmost. It affects most serious
iiderests, nod may probably lead to moat mo-
mentous consequences. In this House every !girt
of at, and of the system connected, must undergo
the deepest iuyeetogation. For to whotu else but
the Parliament of the empire have the Catholics of

frelmul !I, look for protection frond i versecutiug
? liege . hcsr In my opinion WP
iatnuld not relax Our endeavours until we hove al-

dread our Sover:ig a:4, in the language of true
and yiurere attaclinpnit, cautioned him aglimst

.uiu' to the 4u.,..vNtions of petty, not row-uoadva,
end lagetted ashirer,. Oa the oec-Abion of the
314y000th gr.aut there were then abteut two of

Hi; Alarsty's conitkiitial servants. (Lord Cost'e-
reagh and Mr. Secretary Canning). Wbeii 1 pro-
pos:o,i a lio.tputieuieut of that ineasure, in order to
give thew au opporsunity of being is their daces,
was told In. the Chancellor of the Lxclie-

quer, thrt the Noble Lord had arrived to vote
ea tie .evatid diviaiow and that if the Ni,ble Sc.

cretary was iu his place he would have added to the
Ministerial Auti-Catholic majority. It was true
that the Noble Lout dill thou give a silent vote;

and it was iurporrribie during that period not to
hare reruarked the dalefol counter:lattice which be-

trayed the secret eouvulsions of his disturbed
But I uow wish to hear from them their

expresse.l apiaiaa ou this question. I want to see
how they feel on thisappointinant. Let them re-
cone. t that the it opinions with respect to the Ca-
tholics' are within pr00f...--(Hear/ Hear !)—Let
the Noble Lord recollect that he rolunte-ered
himself as the Agent fur the Irish Catholics ;
thst he it was who told them to allay their fears, to

be quiet, arid to place their confidence in him.
—(Henn Alsowt•ilior /)—They bare been tnm-
qui°, Uiey did hearken to his admonition. How
ha, he rewarded their confidence, and redeemed

Inf pledge ?—(ifrar ! Hear!)—He, too, who
professes to be the admirer and disciple of Mr.
Pitt ! Will any man tell me that that great cha-
racter would, even when he hesitated on the tetn-

pony). policy of oxecdio* to the general principle
of Catholic Einsticiitation, hare lent his name and

support to such a detail of irritution, as the present
inistenr seem alone intent on pose:cut iug ?
Dif-
feting as I did from that distinguished iudividual
al MOM onevery great question of policy, I still enter-
tain too high as opinion of his virtues and his Wean
to admit a position which, in the eyes of the
world and posterity. would be considered a griev-
ous disparagement to his memory. Yet a majo-
rity in the Cabinet profess to be of the school of
Mr. Pitt ; they are pledged advocates of the Ca-
tholic cause, soil still tins system of irritatijo is to
he pursued. The Lea: ted Doctor certainly can
p.idc hiontwlf in the consistency of his religious
acrimony, and the uniform teller of his Anti-
Catholic opposibore it has been the current of
his life, and. perhaps, has answered its ob-
ject ((fear, 'fear). t'snt the present men, so
pledged, and so contenitte-1, are bound, by
the tenure of their very akinl existence, to
defeat their own principles, and to fidsify their
own promisee. It remains for this liouse to per-
form a sacred and commanding duty; to interfere
oetween the hostile trarjects of Ministem acid the
irritated feelings of four millions of birch subjects.
We ought to set our face against • measure calcu-
lated to drive them into blarkelespair. The flues-
tion is plaint), this : is the alemiat mem of Doctor
Daigenaa to he a Pri•y Counsellor .-1 this moment
of natirmal difficulty and public alit m, preferable
to the loyalty and attachment of natlions of the
• lifaspraettelliacts ? thatAlpusa of Comtism* en-
tertain a doubt, or egu it hmitats t tell Ministers
to beware P"
A loud cry far the Question p•-rweetled from the
Telesailary and Ministerial Bencites, mid straugers
were ordered to withdraw.
Lord HENRY PIITTY Welt rose and observed,
that he could not give a silent vote on this plea.
tion. He denied that the motion was directed
against the Learned Doctor for any temptpary
diecretloo, bat was founded wpm' the uniform and
acknowledged tenor of his life. He urezt adverted
to the manlier in which he was defended lit the ad-
wrote' of religious bigotry, who now tilled the
offices of state. The r enemies could sot but pity
the miserable exhibition of that night. They sat,
quite confottoded, illustrating, as he, should call
it, the silence .of gttih. Was this the duty of inch
who had the least dal* to the character of Staters-
men, at a period when. in the great questions of
national policy, Iretaud was the great feature ?
In one sentiment of the gallant Secretary for Ire-
land, ha Silly coincided, mutely, that it was the
true policy to employ the Wants and 'writers of
the mantes. in our defence. without refereuee to
religion differencen. World de God that was the
opmio i of his.. employers ! Would to God the
principle was to be acted upon in restoring the
people of Ireland to the full enjoyment of the pri-
vileges and blessings of our Constitution ! Del
not that gallant Member know that the people of
Ireland were deprived of the benefit of that princi-
ple by the instrumentality of p•trsons now in the
councils of this kingdom ? Were they alone con-
tent with the policy of exclusion tavern& the Catho-
lics ? No, they
.outraged their feelings. insulted
and defeated their hopes, and in order to complete
and rota rifest their hostile diepossition„ they wantonly
appoint to the Council of the Irish Governainevt
their most virulent, ncrimonious, and decided rum-
my. Fersooth that appointment was to take ',lace
for the interest of the Church. Have the Bishops
of Ireland overlooked its interests? Has the ye-
neenble Prelate, the Primate, been consulted as to
the propriety 6; this appointment Without know-
ing the fact by authority, he took upon himself to
say, that that ornament to learning, Cllietiasiity,
and public virtne, neither was coosulteal, much less
that he recomuseixled the grant.
Mr. CURKIN eenseirotiourly declared, that the die.
graceful comfort of the Minit.tcre on that night must cos.
steer this reentry, sad proclaim, to the world, the isittacility
awn public Commits. It was emiluess et this menieut
wantonly by this measure to aliesate our dello* isubjeata,
and to risers the dismemberment of the empire.
Sir It. WILL: tn• declared himself nut friendly to what
was railed the: ema..l,i patios of Rousso Catholics; however lie
eoul.l net rote williont depreratieg the contemptible policy
which would had • British Ministry want.mly to outrage the
feelings of the great proportion of the people. Serb an
elect beAtought this meager* would }Wee.
Mr. Ws. SMITH enn3itlered thr Ministers es elated is
this diktetua, that their deleure of the appointmeut would
be criminal, arid their silence link Iw w. He still warned
them Omit the country would nut he ustioyed epos by their
siblice, or that the people would belatoe they were tante
from any oilier reason bet the inspotsibtlity of defending
themselves. (A load cry to Qaeolle fioar the Tneepaire Been 4.)
Mr. WINDIIAII asked the Kis;'s Servants whether they
weir au gull-bound and saute, that is tempt:eh, however
galling, no orally, however 'plaudit!, no argument, however
ronclaisive, coda arouse (bets into ite ? Was se sense er
paddle duty gosh: with them? as regard to the opinivii

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
THURSDAY. Mat H.

Ten thousand pounds s year is the annuity pro-
pared to be granted to the Duch(le. of 131:1Nsw

The House of Commons, last night, presented •
new Wad extraordinary appearance. Mr. &animal
brought forward his motion respecting the:appoint-
ment of Doctor I)utarnsu to the rank of a Privy
Counsellor; and although the Miuistent were all
in their places, they did not make a single objec-
tion. They relied upon their majority, and the
motion was negatived by 174 against 107. There
are motions, we admit, winch are best an• vered by
silence, if we may be allowed the cave a.m. A
motion, howtver, supported such a tihmidable

=loon* is not of that demiption. We will lake
an early cip;ortiinity to mike sons! observatioas
upon this dubject.

The town abounds with accounts of the state of
Affairs in Spain, but they are vague and uncertain,
and in many points totally un*orthy of credit.—
Stone of tho,e must deserting n if.ce suer, that
upon the arrival of tbs nevi King at Bayonne, Bo•
NAPARTE refused to receiva hint by that title ; hat,
it is supposed, that be ts to be married to the
(laughter 6f Looting Bos•vitazz, and that they
he will be recognized by the Faurrcu RULIIR as
King of drat's. The several provinces of that
country do not appear likely to act in concert at
this momentous crisis of their fate, Some are die-
mid to crook tho e to BOILIFARTVI
adhere to the Old, and some to the New King.—
Whim such diversity of opinion prevails, we may
soon expect to are the whole kingdom rent and tom
to pieces. Indeed the work of destruction has al -
ready commenced. and the revoktionery (inanok
bare first exploded iu the capital. Report states,

that a plan of insurrection vms laid against
French, in Madrid, bat,tbe secret haring tramp-
pired, the French assembled 4000 troop on the
Plea Maya, with artillery mounted, and every tithe
demonstration of hostility against the inhabitants.
It is stated, that this force was succeisfully resisted
by the populace, and that all ranks of persons
uaited in publicly proclaiming their indignation at
the conduct of these intruders. We do not, how
ever, think this defeat of the French troops by the
populace of Madrid, a very probable story. The
private letters are to the eith last, and contain copies
of two Proclamations of King FERDINAND VII.
dated Victoria (on the road to Bayonne) th,
IStb and 19th of April, and a copy of the decision
of the Court of Cattle. on the trial of the Duke,
del INriorrami, and the other* implicated in the
supposed attempt on the life of King Cnantrs.—
The sentence acquit* entirely all the accused&
The Proclamations are drawn up for quieting the
people, who had eh ew n themselves much against
their Monarch's proceeding further on bin journey
to meet BON APARTF at Bayonne.

Yesterday. Her Ml.ir.ery 'and the Peteeesere
dined with the Prineea, of V% Au& and Dechess of
Bee ssii ice, at Blackhgeth, and in the eveaeug
rethrued to the QUI:IO4'S Palace. •
On Timidity. the Prince of WALES. the Duke*
of Yeas, CLARENCE, mid the other Haul.
suited Their MAJESTIC* and the PRIN..
CEsSES, soon after their arrival from ‘Viadour. la
the eveiiiitg Their AAA./ ESTICII4:44/ a select part) to
tea and curds.
Her Ma.ssitme will bold a 4,44A:1g-roues,
day, at Si. Jamois Palace.
'The Exneslition willed, on Thueday. from Yu-
month with a fair wind.
The tate Admi-al RAINIER has icft p-ope.ty to
the inlet at of nearly ..t.:•150,0)U; is .d titter providiug
amply fir his near relatious, has niadc the Htllowrn
bsiteeit:
" 1 toessesth our tenth part of my pc,boaal property 6D
tea Chaurclloi of the Lacheywr, rut the time being, toe ants
thereduciion of the Natitm,l Llebt, in Acloiiiiikalioneut of
the Detteross bounty of the ustamal tstsbhslaneni of the
Royal Na,;, in whit:;, I have acquired the principal pat ut
the fortune I err wave, whith Las caeseded sty 'merit sod
Lariat... Sass."
Yesterday a Count of Ditectore was held at the
East Bathe Hosier, when Captain Cota.tes, of the
ship Tracers, took his sliest Imre of the Court pre-
vious to departing for Marina, Madras, and Ben-
gal. Mr.A.Cenettstat•st was aespotuted the COR.
pany's Agent at Rio de Janeiro. The Court ad..
lonmeil at 6 o'clock till Wednesday next.
On Thursday last died, at the Deanery, Rocking,
Sudilk. the Right Hon. end very. Reverend Ltd
CM•SLCII MINIILSY, only brother of his Grace the
Uuke of ATHOL. His Lordship was in his thirty-
seventh year, and by His MAJCIPTCS peruaissiou
took the mime of ATII4II.CT, no his marriage with
Miss A v xst.xv, of Littleharle Tower, in '4,N ortbu in-
herland. by whom he has left a son and tau laugh.
tens.
By the Orestes, which is arrived et Plymouth,
from otf Lisbon, we are sorry to learn. that the
gallant Captain SIMILST, of l.a .N'9,aphe, iu
a boarding busing*s on the coa-t of l'ortugal, was
uMiartiniately killed, as he ties heading his brave
boarders in an attempt to cut out an toetny's ye..
gel no that station.
The !.'errs, bieentrr, from London, was cap-
tured in the Bay of Biscay on the 17th °vein-
ber, by the Marche French frigate.
An alarming lire broke out, on Tuesday, at four
o'clock, at Dover, in a turpentine cellar belonging
to Mr. FECTOR. the hanker, in that town. The
cellar is part of a square called the Buildings,
consisting of warelionses, on the opposite aide
of which from the lire is Amherst Battery.
which always mutants a large depot of gun-powder,
and other stores, ready for shippitig off, and is only
separated from the buildings by the road that
mimes between. ll'hen the post came away a great
explosion had just taken place, and the people were
all flying to the hills
His Excellency the POIITUGOESZ Atuussanot's
house, in South Auilleysetreet, was splendidly illu-
initiated last night, in honour of the safe arrival
the 'loyal Family of Portugal at the Breed*.
front the top to the bottom, with festomis of va-
riegated litiNn. It will be lighted agaiii this even-
ing. Several transparencies are prepariOß for it.—
His Excellency's Seeretary and Chaplain,
SHITH. 14140 munifested his loyalty to the BRA'.
CLIAZA family. His house in John-street, Berk..•
ley-square, was a complete blase of light. A large
transparency, with the arms of Portugal, covered
nearly the whole of the front of the boast wet
encircled with festonos of variegated lamps. mad
the following inscription Job Priam of Por-
tugal, safely arrived et tAt firazds."

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