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IPLV‘OUTII, iPSIL SO.
tilii;a the Beier sloop of war with dispatchei
from of Cadik.—Wiud, W.S.W.
FILLMOUTII, APRIL SS.
Armed` his day the Wahineems packet, Robarts,
with 'a Mail from Lisbon, 14 days passage. She
bas brought passengers Lord Holland and family,
who leave Falmouth this day for London. The ffrd-
siasSeas brings an account of the French squadron,
of IS sail of the line and IS frigates, from Toulon,
baring got into Cadis, where the Spaniards have
IS sail bi the line ready for sea. Sir John Orde and
minadron was off Lisbon when the Packet sailed.
The Diane packet, with Mail from England. was
life arrived out. Also arrived the Frigileoll. Nicho-
l" I).ont Swansea; and Two Brethere, Painter, from
The raceselevil packet. Dodd, with Mails for
t.ilbon, is expected to sail to-morrow.

DUBLIN, Mint. t 7.

E ISTER QUARTER ASSEMBLY, Aran. 26.

Mr. Ctr r ARO, among the Commons, prefaced
certain resointions he formed to countera& by a Pe-
tition from the Assemby, the objeccis sought to be ob-
tained hr the Roman Catholic Petition, now before
the Imperial Parliament, with very strong observa-
tions, and a retrospeaive view of the rebellion in this
country, and the massacre of Scullabougue. The
first i es.ilution tended to express their sorrow and
astonishment, that demands should at this crisis be
rna&e en the Imperial Legislature, which, if yielded
must involve the destruftion of our liberties, and
complete demolition of that Constitution, to übtah't
which, our loyal ancestors had fought and bled.
Mr. Corr hoped it was not necessary for him to ex-
patiate very minutely on the sentiments he held An
tarty and a zealous advocate for the Protestant As-
cettilen:y in Ireland, he remained inviolably at-
tad asti to the same principles still, and net only con-
curred ,n the observations so ingrniously advanced

by the learned Gentleman who sat down, hnt felt the
imperious necessity of adopting the resolution, which
he read ; a resolution he would beg leave earnestly

M seconl He walb followed by sever.d other Gen-

Omen. in expressions of the !Arne ten.iency.
Mt.: r Lys:4s contended • for the subjeas rirt.ht to
piattion the null:at:pent, and conceived that the
rnesstire brottOt forward in this assembly to coun-
teratt the Catholic Petition. wus neither founded in

common justice or good policy, and would, at a time
like the present, induce Gentlemen rather to conci-
liar than to irritate. He was against the resolution.
Mr. Horror la:uentcd that any circumstance
eon!! be W.: 11.-ild on as a pretext to cheek the grow.
ing liberality of the human mind, in a cinntry and
among men whose charafteristics are social attach.
.rent .in,l unbounded liberality; when Russia is re-
laxing the cams' hold. of mnnarchical desmitism,
and Waning projects for ameliorating the condition
ofiewe, it be said that Irishren are studious to

(urge chains to shackle their sJbjetas; when in
Cro.r,any i'totmants and Catl:o:i:s adore their &la
rti nne roof ? With the same sentiments cf

Orals hun.iiity and sordtal love towatels each other,
G.:ire:h. • only in f.ams, 0411 A se:,earati,r.i be inch's-
tric!ii..!P.sept up in I relan.ialone. and that at a period
cordial unanimity in opposing the common foe
it requisite i Treat Catholics, he sad, as men, and
you will find them men : give them that confidence
to which their tried loyalty has long since entitled
them, and good consequ-nces immediaurly fi iw
from the concession. W:s it ac•sr suggested that
an Iris.h Catholic, armed in the military ranks of his
Kinr, and sharing in the triumph of our conquests
in E'gyot, became enslaved through the influence of
his religions creed ; or when did the degrading it:o-
ptimism lie against those heroes of the Catholic per-
. suasion who man the British Nat,y, that they shrunk
from their posts in the hour of danger, and betook
thern•elve4 to the proteclion of their beads, or invo-
cations to Bt. Patrick Even the ustp:r Bonaparte,
diabolical as his schemes in general are, felt the ex-
pediency of religions toleration, and permitted his
besotted subicits to chixise that mode of worship ti -
wards the I)ieix most aiogcnial to their own npi.
ti,.ns and feelings. These being his sentiments, it
wield not be deemed inconsistent if he voted a_,,ainst
the monition. _ . .

Mr. Girt Aen felt no degree of astonishment at
hearing any Gentleman in that Assembly become
the encomiast of any policy which the Tyrant of
France might adopt to forward his sanguinary and
ambitious views ; but an affinity between certain in-
habitants of tliii devoted country and Bonaparte
might, without any of the mysteries of genealogy,
be easily traced thus t—Bonaparte slakes a Pope ;
the Pope of his making makes Popish %short ;
Popish Bishops mike Popish Priegts; and Pop:, h
Priests fabricate Lish Papists vilaile the latter, true
to a common principle of predileitinn for their kin-
dred, it is scarce to he wondered at that Bonaparte
should find friends and advocates among his spirt-.
trial conneelions and new-fangled cousins.
The resolution was read fry the Shetlff, and car-
ried with three diSsenting vices A second reso-
haion was carried in the same manner, purporting
that the time for sending the Catholic Petition was
pecullatiy ungiationg, being within the horrors of
the last ten years, and before the recolleition of
them could be effaced from the public mind. A
third resolution was also carried, with three dissent-
ing voices. vie that five of the Commons should
meet five Aldermen in Committee, to draw up pe-
tition to Parliament, supplicating them to hold a
proteaing hand over our Constitution and Liberties,
and rescue both from the inroads sought to be ,r.atle
on them by the Catholi,: Petition now pendiag be-
fore the Imperial I.igisloture.
The Recorder. Aldermen Alexander, Howisrm
and Eutaw, and Messrs. Cope, Gifford, and Powell,
were appointed to prepare a Petition to Parliament
against the Roman Catholic demands.
Alderroea James Vance was eleffed Lord Mayor
for the/ear suing from Michaelmas next.
One ballot for eight Gentlemen, out of whom to
'Glee two Sheriffs, the numbers were, foe
sow Black'. J,4s . 11?,
nweis Hasnilwn SAO I ileesagent Clsoice.
Re pt 86 1.:...ary Clue Sin it
Eimmul Nuecu. s4 Thom MiCeneer, ..... 71
l,riutelVa;4n and Benjamin Clarke Pays.
tie ,
IlilkAklthat these Gentlemen ;ilk not

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sansoft V. slats.
The Sduettoa GVIER•L sheered cum against
a ride obtained by Mr ERSK !Ns lao term, for a cri-
minal information against the IX fendant, John
Sims, for peinting.and publishing a malicious libel
against the Plaintiff.
He stated, that the Defendant was a Gentleman
of respectability, and well known in the .mercaritile
world, as well as the Plaintiff, Mr. Philip Sanson,
and both reside near Walworth. The son of the
Plaintiff, Hemy Sanson, a young gentleman about
25 years of age, was intimate in the family of the
Defendant, who had several daughters ; the eldeo
30 years old ; he also had a young lady under his
protedion, who had been sent by her friends in Ja-
maica, to England, fur her education. Henry
Sanson conceived an affedion for this young lady,
who was only sixteen years old, tut/ communicated
it to the Defendant's daughter, who told him it
would be improper for him to draw her into a cor-
respondence, and she would not suffer it to be done,
unless he applied to her father for his consent ; and
if he aded otherwise, that he should be excluded
the home ; he promised faithfully to do so ; and,
soon after, the yonag lady went .on a visit to a
friend (Lady Cockburn), where he found means of
an introdridion, and drew her into a clandestine
correspondence. She was shortly after struck with
the impropriety of her condud, and consulted her
friend Lady C. who didated a letter, which she sent
to Mr. Henry Sanson, reminding him of his pro-
mise to mention the subjed to the I).fendant,
se-
fusingall further intercourse, until he should do so,
and desiring her letters might be returned ; in ana
rover to which, he wpote, that he could not find her
first letter, and he should keep her last, for his own
justification ; at the same time, he Sent her a packet,
enclosing her other letters. The business might
have dropped here, bat Mr. Henry Sanson, some
time, after, wrote a letter -to Miss Sims, accusing
her of breach of promise ; of breaking the muter
sc. ; and. in a postscript, he proposes to meet
the young lady herself, face to face, ,but insinuates
that she is afraid of an explanation, and cans sena,
retleiitions upon her charader. Miss Sims, in en-
surer, said he might meet her father upon the sub-
let ; :t it would be flight, improper for, the young
ady herself to see Tim. Thug led to one or two
other letters, and all was supposed to have been at
an end, when, about five months after, Mr. Henry
Sensors wrote another letter to Miss Sims, whom he
tells, "he returns her hooka to her, as he would to
aa assassin ; and he considered her a charaeter more
black and desperate, than the ruffian who attempted
his life ; as the former added treachery to coward-
ice." He further charged her with " circulating
lies of him, with shameless impudence, which only
wounded the more in the recoil ;" and concluded by
telling her, " he was writing to a woman, who had
thrown away all decency belonging to character or
sex." At a loss how to ad, Miss-Simi stewed this
letter to some friends, who advised Lei to lay it be-
fore her father; and, at the same time, she drew
up a narrative of the transatliun, which the pam-
phlet complained of, contained ; the Mortification
and irritation of her father woe veyi great ; and,
under these impressions, he wrote a knee to the
Plaintiff, Mr. Pitilio.Sansan, in which he remon-
strate) upon the conduit of his son towards his ward,
and the letter he hail written No hit daughter, upon
whom he had thrown such a stigma; hinting, at
the same time, that he had reason to think it was
not unknown to him; he concluded-thus n " While
God spares me life, I will not sae my daughter in-
sulted with impunity, by any scoundrel 1 and I call
upon you and your son to give me that satisfaCtion,
for which lam ready to sacs ifice me life." Ile ,;(1.
inclosed a copy of the narrative dawn up by •
daughter, and of the letter written by Henry F
son. To this the Defendant expeded pat the
iff would at least express his disapprobation an is•
son's condad ; instead or which, he wrote a coed
answer, accusing him of ading in a claidettioe
manner, and reprehending the family for nut mak.
iag him acquainted with the business ; insinuating
that they woe privy to it ; and saying, that his son
was then in the country; but, on his learn, should
have the letter. in consequence of this, the pam-
phlet in question was published by the Defendant.
containing an account of the whole tranudion.
The Learned Counsel admitted the impropriety of
the letter beforementioned.b in trusted that the Court
would allow for human infirmity, and consider under
what impression it had been written; the charader
of his daughter had been grossly attached and vili-
fied, and he was her only defender, but it was little
more than an echo of Henry Sanson's own word..
Mr. Justice L swamies said, that the impression
npon the Court en the former occasion was, that
Sims had sent a challenge, and, being refused, he
published the Ebel.
The Soule erow Cr:mesas, answered, that it ap-
peared, from the eidavit of Mr. Eitsa, a friend of
the parry, who waited on the Plaeraiff with the let-
ter, that far from intending a challenge, the De-
fendant only wished he should express his disappro-
bation at his son's conduct. There was another let-
ter on which Mr. Eisele! relied, in which the ap-
pellation of villain, and other opprobrious expres-
sions. were made use of. He would not venture to
palliate them, but hoped the Court would recoiled.
under what an irritation they had been written.
With resped to the publication kelt; there were but
2.5 copies printed, 20 only of which were circulat-
ed, and those among his own particular friends;
and this was done to vindicate his daughter's cha-
rade' from the aspersions which were thrown upon
her, ashe considered that reflections, which had been
publicly stated, should be publicly refuted. When
the application was originally made to the Court, he
sent go the persons to whom they had been given,
end he had received all back except one, which a
friend, who was gene to the Country, had locked up
in town. He therefore trusted, that tinder all the
circumstance-, the Court would Lot think it a case
for their interference.
Messrs. TOPPiNG and Cass followed as the same
side.

Mr. EltlCl.ll W.lll ahoot to reply; when
Lord ELLEiIidROLGH SA;cll. the matter had ori-
ginated in a great degree in mistake, as the letter
trum the Defendant should have mete p:npetly been
addressed to t..e Younger Sanson, whns. crlnduel
was highly teptcheniible4 and lais Lord:Lip regretted

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he mortal before the Court ;much scurrility, Anse, 1
and very improper concluß had been praai,ed
Among the parties, and his Lordship advised them
to consider the business well before it would came
again before the Court. He admitted that some
provocation had been given by the Young"r Sanson,
but his Lordship did not think that was any justifi-
cation to the party for publishing a gross and ma-
licious libel against a private individual.
The other Judges cnncurring with his Lordship,
the rule for an information was m ,de absolute.