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PLACIEFORD r. I A TOIIIIIII.

On Manley a Coen f liviiry is this ease was
held at Newton-MounteKvo.iedy, comity of VlTiek-
-164i, before the High Sherd( wed a Special
Aber invesiigattea he several etreumst4nees, the
Jury stwarded 3,0001. drunages, anti costs.

Lord Glentworth, eldest arra of the Errl of Lime-
rtck, ;•Mmuag.t thee ruri .14tell for tne rep' esents-
tr.'s of that county In P went upon the ensuing
eli-ctioo. The ottirr deel.red
besides the presto Merutt.trs, are %IL N101%1141. ad
Ttrrne, end the Ilan. John Massey, of Cithireor-
lish. Pia ....may has been torpid t..r twenty
but will pr.thitlity prwloce as dettperate a strtivle
ittsbn the ti st go.ol opportunity as has (Ara exhi-
bited ineirTtionterint: annsir.

The posrushire lit;tly will. it Is sxid, start t can.
didate for the eoutit of Waterford. the hhnal
interest; and Mr. J. C. liertsford will probably
retire'.

We hear of no new eanclidites for the (-nullity or
city of Dublin, though the opportuaity is not on-
ins ouroble.

_Colonel Bagwell will positively again contest the
repr.sentation of the county Tipperary with Mr.
Prittie and 0-tieral Mathew. He professes to st.i.d
upne the independent ioterest, and to check nit•
co.lities of noble hoorah iu ,bat county; lie has
liven for the last three years indefatigable in regis-
tering freeholders; end his son continues to vote
against Catholic petitssioa.
Mr. Thomas Grady, of Belmont, near Lime-
rick. is shoot to be raised to the houoiar of a 8.-
roortagst of the Unite,i Kingdom, and will thus
be placed at the herd of the Grady family. This
gentleman is related, though distantly, to the
Lord Chief Baron ; and had the honour. so part-
nership with Mr. Bruce. of entertaining the
Duke sod Duchess of Richmond at a doom near
Cato Cooper.
The Earle( Donouglimore and Lord Hutchin-
son have set out from Koocklofty for Lomb.. as.
• Waterford.

The Earl of Fingal has left Killeen for Louth-
Hall. bis return to Edinbargh. to rejoin Lady
Inapt and Lord Killeen.
The eldest son of Mr. Mabel (the Ex-Attor-
ney-Gersersl) has lately been entered a Fellow
Commoner of St. John's College. Cambridge.
His second son is a student of Dublin University.

In the Court of King's Bench. the Chief Justice
Downes ha. been absent. through indisposition,
throughout the lest Term. and juiced be has not
appeared there since July last. The coussouelit
public ioconvenience is so inauifest end set 1,111.1% that
his Lordships resignation is hourly expected.
h soy not be aorsaa, here. to notice a freat lien
oat of Lord Norbury :—ln an action tried hefore
him the last week but one. after the Ptaiutiff had
cloud his evidence. Column°, Wallace. for the
Defendant. argued that the Plaintill had faded in
the necessary proofs and most be called. Lord
Ncrbury hesitated, awd 91r. Wallace seriously mes-
sing his argunseat, adder', ti at he trusted his L-rois
ship would thew to the (.114.0.ite Compel. that be
possessed morays :silkier, to oonswit thew Mr.
Wallace (good hit Lordship. with an expressos of
iofinite humour). ther ar- t sorts of courage;
there is courage to vim/ and courage to non-suit."
It is needless to say. 13st thlo happy jet if esprit
cor.rulted the smile-ace uth .aughter.
Be', of taeiity to sue are offered. tbet there will
be a 4eteerol Election in before the Ist of
Jesuitry 1812.
Sir Frederick Flood and Mr. Carew are announc-
ed as candidates for the minty of IVeaford. upon
the ii.depentient interest; and frown .bat appears
at present. wits most probably emcees J.
A gelitleinso of fortune and spirit is about to
offer 1111111/Mi for the city of Limerick as a candidate
upon the indeo: nient interest. in oppositiem to
Col. Vereker awl the Corporation.
The Earl and Countess of Llandaff sailed for
Holyhead on Wedmaday lest. Ilia Lordship re-
turns in March. to complete his saperb miasma-
house of Tliotutstowe. which ha. been for some time
rebuilding. at itainiense expense. ou a reduced
model of the ltlarqua of Exeter's magnificent Go-
thic Pelee. of Burieigh.
The Earl of Ir.iiiitcashel sailed last week for
Hothead. His Lordeliip has purchased the men-
siva-house of his brother-in-law, the Earl of
sten. in Stratford-place, London, "there be will re-
side daring the ensuing winter. His eldest sou,
Lord Kilourtb, has lately beets entered as a Noble-
man of St. John's College. Cambridge.

X. Y. Z.—From the 'minimum obtained against
this Farce. the bet t, twren the Hon. T. ---.
anJ Cour Gentlemen of sport,ng celebrity, mud he
submitted to arbitirai 1411 ; fur how eau it be deter-
mined that the Piece would licee • raneoffeety-foor
bights before cie 15th of February, inulltre wit-
newt' b% iOO.OOO nerving, no"). they rest the bet
no 'be New State Lottery. e.f.ica eontatnr furs).
Caps el Pets- s. and 2uo.lrote. rn usolw.. ail of
which ad: be down 061 the seise day. WU cf Fe-
bruary.

rest the bet • genecou• s•d hhetal natit.t. word ►et heee
tt4r.eu.".... hieeh !) enntoinl furl). ea:d, that in the innnirut of the K•ne'm Olney,. they rc,-...„Piit.„.„„td. the
200.900'. woo., , nil of he,' been v. very reoromieal. that thew weehi mot moist mosiow—that npver d'•% It ch-
i the saute dale iStia cf Fe- beat the e> prime of sopirntont ti I tie Form/ rawly eivaidexe4l %bat
.oi,,ffeen.,. t•tat re 5..... a
thole ts_cto ono brubod pen of Nis Mointy • of ispofi4 power, evilest *Nub the Ceert:ehee

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bed so wisely sud cautiously guarded. The pre.
logatirerof the Croeo, lie argued, were trusts for
the public, and coleiequently slot one of them could
erase without public injury. They were also sup-
posed to be necessary lur the support of the esta-
blished Government, and therefore the more tie.
crusty to a Regency, which was naturally and una-
voidably weaker than the government of a King.
Having argued three general topics with great
iagenuity, he proceeded to consider the limitations
themselves. With respect to the power of creating
Peers, he observed, that the House ought to be
very cautious how they suffered • Bill suspending
for an unlimited time this branch of the Royal au-
thurity to pass their hands. It had bees said that
a time might come when it would be proper to re-
consider the whole business, and then, if His Ma-
jeroy's recovery should appear less probable, they
might lessen or entirely remove the restrictious now
imposed on the Regent. But were they sure that
they should be able to take off the reatrictiou then
ender consideration ?—it could not he done with-
out the concurrence of the Lords. Limitations of the
peerage had been always, and with reason, consider.
ed as tending to aggrandize individually the Mem-
bers of that body, and therefore !it was not likely
they would be very ready to consent to the removal
of it. A circumstance happened it the close of
the reign of George 1., which viauld throw some
light upon this. The King, at that time, it was
thought could not live long; and his Ministers
were known not to stand very high in the opinion of
the Prince of Wales ; they were known to have a
strong and predominant portly in the House of
Lords; for the purpose, therefore, of securing
themselves from the mortification of being removed
from their places. they caused • Bill to' be intro-
duced into the House of Lords, for limiting the
number of Peteagei to that which at the time
existed : the Lords saw that such • limitation would
neceueanly raise Oat individual consequence ; and
therefore both sides of their House joined in carry-
jog it through. it was sent down to the Coalmen%
and there it was received with the indignation it
deserved. and was rejected by a majority of 2U5.
This arcuni.tadee should make Gentlemen see the
necessity, if a reetriction upon this breech of the
Prerogative sheet/ be thought proper, that the
term of its aeration should be ascertained ; and
that, unless repealed, the restriction should, at the
expiration of thus ItT01; he of itself dissolved ;
otherwise they might possibly net Bad the Lord as
ready to give it sip as they might be to consent
to it. .
The meridiem Nipseting the norniniiiion of the
Lord. of the 11.41-elvanehere and other officers of the
household.. he viewed is a very serious light. A
person with the eoundieed Of so tea it fund ei the
Aril list, must eeteenity have dri infltience, which;
exercised by erine-whe not reapoilaible, nilklit be
• great prejudice to the Goverismiet- The
Patrouage of the -Flodstereld wits inimeilie, and
could not. with safety- the Stitt be eepiireted
from the Ezecotive Officers of the Crown. %he
were responsible Air lel their acts.
The Peps end iGiehiett of the Chamber might
be left under the Anita of the Quash, but the
Lords of the fied:Ctliftehi!i who were part of the
Wings public etre,- Gild wbri neier to waiting but
en public ticehelehi:6lefhb were in reitity political
weenie Of Hr. litejlettjt; end who had proved to
he so Ana recent dl as un, otiOst undoubtedly to
bot ander the centred df the Ezetuti've bovero-
meat.

The Right Mu. GentlCtlitin had assured them,
that the patronage to be withholden froisitheß'ilent
under this Resolution weirld net Ise 14fa.ed, Ud.
had desired that Ala rptoftsition, that he WOufd floc
take past in any flattiofis vippoatilon to Ate Goveim:
meat of that Regalia'', thkght be consiaribd a
*efficient security that the orbited Oceseo-
age, in whose hen& his etinerntius jSatrddfige
was to be provneonally lotiged, 11061 d not Jodie it,
Lord North &eared thit hi will iillidg to lietreve ;
but, when be consSdeittl that thee, wait to fie •
Coeuril to advise Fite ht wits not quite
lure that the advice girth *6014 'aliceir lie pore and
free from the influence of a 'spirit of factious op.
position. At all events it was not Pkriihnientiory to
rely ea the pinTesetene of ab
• ..iodivrdttlil.. .
When a ;vitt public intimate vvea under 'consi-
deration, they were to govern themselves ItypulAic
priuciple. iota not b personal c.ocairrtoce. le
eoncluded by deeliaein that he should treinble for
his country if the "Drsolutions Were atfipted ; dint
if the Muse thought that Any advantage could re-
pay the violation a (hi Coitstitatloo, anil acted
Upou that principle, that principle would prove its
ruin. Ile wish& dit not t.) het s.irl, Ib•t for rear the
Ravitit allOold cheat& the Ministry. they were
willing to change the Ciinstitution. he probably
should not hare to pee the fatal elrecto which might
follow, but there .were Gentlemeo sitting. there,
who might one day repeut that by their rote that
night they had brought ou the ruse of the Consti-
tution.

Mr. SlitilDAll followed on the 'same side with
Lord North ; and after reeelling some insinuations'
which had been thrown out against the party sup-.
prised to Oise** the good opinions of the Prince.'
he attacked with successful ridicule that pert or,
Mr. Pitt's plan, which put the patronage of tile,'
King's lions-hold into the hands of the (Inters
or iu other words, hi said, Into his own. He seltitt.:
if Gentlemen were aware that by so doing, 'tbei.
were about togive nearly the third part of the patro-
nage of the Crown into the'llinds Of the:Ojrpe4'.
lion ; for, notwithstanding 'the DFelaear
:.,
the Right Honourable Kit feinau, was.;
inclined to invert one, 'Gin the recolleCiisM:
of his hewing made precisely the lime proles.
sinus of moderation, when hr stood in ie **me
predicninent a few years hick. it would he, he
oh-erred, a novel sight to see a miller reader'
of Oppositteri with a xiiird of Court widlior. and
the surly Patriot attended by the laced /lorries
of the Royal Paver. He represented 'the ' Et-
Mousier as centime down to ttieHnuse in state.
with rt. Cit.) nfl.sberly on the end ofwhite
VI 4111 i. of blach and white Sticks Astrid-
ioti 1.101, soul is of lietf-eaten, ntirraliailavi by
Lid I Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, anti the
Masi, r of the I 1a..", ClCarlag his way through the
)01•1.v. Trucy had heat told *at the removal of
she Household would hurt His Ziajesty's
f. elm ; hut would they not give 111F0 credit for
si.,....l*.elings which dignified even hie station ?
The lie6-at and his Ministers were allowed to

exercise the most important privileges of Royalty ;
and was it to be supposed that the King would be
more shocked to find his houiehold servants chang-
ed, than that, perhaps, the Constitution of his coun-
try was altered, or part of his dominions ceded to fo-
tog', potentates, or any other essential calamity and
disgrace entailed upon hisEuipire? Wheo,therefore,
it should please God to restore our Sovereign to the
use of his faculties, cud he should inquire as a pa-
rent how those Ministers in whom he trusted had
treated his Son, was lie to be satisfied a ith hear-
ing that his Master of the Horse was sire ? Should
he, as a Sovereign, ask who headed our armies, or
conducted our fleets, was he to be informed that
his scullicus were luarshelled by the same chiefs as
formerly ? Or, if lie was anxious of the state of his
Civil List Revenue, was he to be made easy with
being assured that the state of his Court Calendar
had been preserved entire ? He concluded with de-
elating thalphe had no doubt but wises it should he
known by &e public, that the motive fur imposing
such restrictions was no other than because the
Prince was goingto take into his service a different
set of men from those now in office, they would de-
Noise and detest the cunning and the craft from
whence so wretched a proceeding had originated.
Colonel FuI,LAIITOrt concluded the debate with '
an able and animated speech. He first adverted to
a position on which much stress had been laid,
namely, that in contemplation of law, the political
capacity of the King continued perfect, and could
neither surfer diminution nor defect: If by this
technical phraseology was meant, that all the pow-
ers and authorities of the Executive Government
remained entire in the person of the King during
his incapacity, in such a way that he should of
right exercise the same as soon and as long as
he was capable of exercising them personally ; and
that, white he should not be capable of exercising
them personally, they should be exercise,) in trust
for hint ; if that was the meaning of the Right Hon.
Gentleman's expressions, no person could be more
ready to admit that doctrine than be was. Rut if
it was meant, that the powers and autlo-rities of
Executive Government might remain dormant.
enimployed, unproductive to the public service, as
1 long as the King was incapaciated from the perso-
nal exercise of them, it was a monstrous end
absurd doctrine. Would any man who pretended
to the 'lighten respect for the Constitution, venture
to declare that the Powers and Authorities of Go.
verntdent were to be considered as the mere pro-
perty of the Sovereign ; that they were to be
considered like the store or the wardrobe, or the
privy "time, as things meant, for the personal use.
pleasure end convenience of the Sovereign ; and
that when he is incapable of using them per.
kinally. they need not be used at all ? Did Gentle-
men recollect, that the powers of the Crown
were relied in the King, but for the benefit of the
state—that there were duties and obligations mu-
tually to be Performed between the Sovereign and
the 10).feet—duties of an awful tnigustude.
iolving the .ilfare and happiness of the people ?
How then could the tt ght Honourable Gentle-
Mao tnairittin that these duties and obligations,
in clihtribplation of law. could possibly remain
entire hi the person of the King, during his in-
empathy, any tither:vise than this. tlmt when the
Kihe shat inesilacttated from the personal exercise
if Stein., the,. must be performed in trust for him ;
that %Mee tietritfts or rrsons, Wier by devolution or
tptiointitArt, Mutt perform the duties of the Royal
fratioti, and exercise the etinctiona of autharity, in
thirst Mt the Kin;; daring his incapacity ; milers
fhb .CiAmiittee were prepared to declare the
Kinefr Pettier either totally of in part weirs,' 1—
1./Olds argued for soma time on these and other
topics Fullartou concluded with reciting
a part of the history of France, which bore
lie at a similitude in some of its circuits.
*true b% thesitoatioo they were in, that some of the
Afernffierrwere in doubt whether it was a real-story or
invented far the purpitie.-lit the reign of Charles
she Stith, the Govkimment of that country being
intit►pplfid bytek hicapicity of the Monarch,
the t7ten Prime Moister, countenanced by the
Queen babies de &vier; aced on pported by 'strong
faction, laid a plot for the purpose of affrontiog the
the Heir Appprent, (afterwards Charles the Vert°.
nook) and continuing thicnselve in power. This
Minister's obese Wag Mervilliers, he had conusenced
his career in the profession of the law, but quickly •
fatted a wearer road to advatitieuient in the intrigues
of polities. The project ebove-stated was atom. •
lately accomplished by means of a corrupt majority
nf the Parliament of Paris ; nay, they herd even
the chrthittit to procure an 'darns 'of thanks from
the Mayor, Aldermen, and Corporation pf that city.
%%that wits the ctiosequence of this measure ? The
nation was involved 111 all the mh.erie. or a weak
and disunited Government,
.slespired and &amen-
bared by its enemies, till the iplrit and virtue of .
Charles the Victorious, by first conquering his
domestic foes, enabled him to defeat his leis
dangerous enemies, and restore 'the Crean of
Iran& to its wonted iplentlotir and
And now," wild Mr. Fullarten, " defy the
Right'Honourahle Gentleman to prifilute
instance in the history of Engrarid, in the 'tattier
of France, in the history of Spain,, or in the Whore
of any other country with iihich we are neqqaiuted!
at all, where the established legal powers or Fotreti.'
Attie Government were maimed, mittilsted, and re-'
strained, without producing inefficiency. counter.
station,. calamity and disgrace."
Mr. Geeeramdt, the then Speiksr, in a speech
which arrested the attention of the Committee for
three hours, supported the Resolutions.
The Committee divided. when there appeared--
For the Ataradarat
Acsiest it
The Resolution relative to the Creation of Peers
was then put and carried by et 6 to IL9; as were •
the two following, without a division; and the fifth
was poitponed to the Monday following.

-
At :atsDill CAHILL. Soigeon in the ttAth regi-
meat af foot, is indicted t• shoal friol before the
Iligh Coon of Justiciary, Erlistburgft, for shooting
Giptoto ItIIIIISiIPOAD, of the alma regiment, in a
duel. 'ihr trial is to take place the second week of
Jouusry.

Man ustar --It seems to be acknowledged. that
in all strong clays or heavy, soil; where lime is par-
ticularly useful, that *three chalk-stone that is re-
duced to small size, is equally gond without burn-
ing, end the whole expretsc of coals sawed.