The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-07-21 00:00:00

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CATIIOLIC MEETING. .• t
Yesterday there was an adjourned 'Devlin* of
Catholic Gentlemen at &Amy's . Greab:Kisoundt
Curie Exchange Tavern. •, v, !oyvaa-.4 sa
At hilt-post three o'clock Ike ILmLoCfallohnied •
woe called to the Chair. na it me t. d.! P-7on#
Mr. • nee shortly addisomplar re Ciao. lie,
thought theist. ou rapes**, Intblie holing laid.
the fuwelsoion for the Cosiselinetand' Proteins'''. of
. bedded to join in a -Ptolemy lee the putting dmen•
an illegal Assoeistinit. He (Mr. Fans) might well
call the Orange Associotiont•illegal, when they
Iliad been termed so -by 'tite• Bench, acd before
the Porlianient of time United Kingdom. die
i believed tier Lord 'Mayor was. perfectly vinare
fin his widi for she conciliation..—/Retie.
lie hid heard that an. address be the Lord Lieute-
!nant would hr peopeweell his opinion- however was.
that nothing should lie done. in this respect. There
was a prospect of better times; unfortunately, the
the Cehohes and the Corporation could not sweet
at the present moment. The idea of Jinn* with
the Lord Mayor, he eoaceired. was totally ahem-
doned....(('ries Yrieyes.").-Ao appeoach .to
conciliation had • twee ra'i'd.; and at no- dottiest
period we might be more seitessful.
Mr. Shoos. said, that.ander the peculiar circling.
/stances in which the Koltun Catisolice stood, siker
fat's which ,had. bees :011tI000d.irebitOw tie the.
decoration of the status io Collegregvere, which
had been disclaimed and ceueored by the Lord
Mayor and Mirgistrates of the City ; ofteethe
eio-
lation of the assurance which lind been givertb lay the
Municipal Authorities, that all syniltale of party
should he discontinued, it was matter fur the serious
contederation of the Meeting, whether useiriores
should not he adopted for the purpose not• only of
preventing the recurrence of the evil, but in order
to put a stop to that system of factious domination
front which so much pablic•cletriatent hid already
flowed. He was not inClini"d to lay any blame to
the Lord Mayor or to the•Magistretes of Dithlin ;
on the contrary, he' believed that this insiolt -had
been ,offered, not only :without their appiishiCums,
hut agoinaetheir express desire. It had originated
from the ferocious spirit of a set of men, leagued
by illegal -bon& in a barbarous and truculent offi.
batten. lie had • confidence in the g6ecf Witco.
boils of Government at this auspicious •.ntersent,
and he felt-convinced that an appeal fur profs-Retort
awl redress would not be addressed to theta no vino.
—(Here Mr.
sSlseil read sit address to the Lent
I.tentenitimel-.111 submitting this address it wow
far from his intentiou to disturb the pubis; • Isar..
mousy which happily prevailed on the occasion;
and if it was considered likely that such an address
would produce the leastieterreptioo to the mutual
good will which he was anxious to eueonrage, be
would not press the address; yet :is it did not fix
any blame on the Municipal Authorities, nor attn.
burr any of the excesses which had been committed
to the sanction of the higher departments • of the
State, such an addrr ss could net be unfavour-
ably regarded by the Administration. Toe feet
was, that from the spirit which pervaded the theta.
rattans made by. Government, eel from the inns
of time King!" Speech, it was almost certain that
the ululation of the public peace war loolted.wpou
with "irony colidemilitioa by the persons iu power
in this country. The decohition of the statue wet
in itrelf en evil. but whxis it was viewed in relity
lion to the'ocrtent by which it bad been prodoced,
it became a still snore important grietauce. h (v.-
ginated front the same *since as the coterie-if t
Bandon and elsewhere, sad if it had been :even,♦
pitied by less eanguttiory results, that fact 'violas(
to be etteibuted to any waist of provocation newt .
the part of those by whom this obnoxious istselord
been celebrated, 111 addreseing Government orison
this occasion, we culled for its pretertion net•only
on our own behalf. •but at that of those who were
the animal victims of those scaudalo•ta and outrage.
our violations of the law. 'fhe Governitent,%he
was sure, was not anxious to shield the perpeinnors
of these crimes. They belonged to the Lorre t4oss
of the Protestant continuant ; they derived cosigns
from their organization. aid iuktionis d
by the most violent of all the leissidnee.ieligieas
zeal. They were in tui bul-at times emplay.4_ far
purposes whicli copld,no longer he neeilini"ntrid
their,Outrages it re Ape chsracterioed by a tenbi.
rout inutility. the Govei ',tarot mug be weary of
their pat/Aloe agetiey, ued,woujil at last iiiterfere
to! tlic protection of his Mojeety's peaceable sub.
, Even the respectable pe.rions who wereAlun•
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