The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-30 00:00:00

PUBLIC MEETING AT GALWAY.

A general meeting of the inhabite.nts of this town took piece,
ritsuant to requisition, e't Thursday last. at the large room.
Conc.lly's Hotel. At ium: o'.:4lek, Mr. IlnowNE, MO Sherd%
wok the Chair, and statA to the oirictiii:t, which was very numer-
ous, and highly respectabW. the purport of the requisition.
The lion. Mawr t N l''ptrs, II Tait: AM said, that as the object
of the meeting was to attest tie peace, good conduct, mid lora:iy of
the town, anti defend it against calumny, he felt himself hound. as
a Magistrate, to coin t forward, anti thus publicly state that the best
order and he believe:l a more peaceable. loyal pt-,)),«,
were hot to be found in his Msicsty's dominions. Ile beggtd alma
to read a letter from Colonel Ross, the very rtspectable utfii:a at
present commanding the gamson, stating, that ••• no extraordinary
precautions weredeemed necessary in consequence of the law alarms,
but that the garrison was regulated solely according to the ordinary
military rules."

Mr. Extecrt said, that he was happy to hear Mr. French bear
so ample testimony to the peace, good order, and loyalty of the
town. It was for the purpuee of upholding this character seeino
the many idildiollll report's lately eirettlated, that they were row
assembled. The elentlemen most active in convening the meeting,
had prepared certaie rest:l4l6one, which he was requestee to pro.
pave, and *hid.; he did with great pleasure, fully coincelire in
their tenor. Ile would take the liberty of reading then:. The re-
solute:es were rout, when Mr. Lynch observed, that here such
eaten:l:Mos reports could not obtain credit; but they might injure
the character of this country in England and elsewhere. are, it'
not put down, denim,' that cenfidencee which is the foutidatlon of
all social and commercial prosperity. (Great applause.)
Doctor Vet Tell mid, I feel happy in seconding the Reeelittinne
just read. I hare, team iiir re4e,sion, an opportunity of kr.owing
w.ll the sentiments and conversation of ali classes, from the him:tent
to the lowest, and Ain convicted of the absolute neceseity of this
meeting ; for, Sir, reports or the wore tendency have beim given
out respecting our tranquil, peaceable, and loyal people at de-
affected; and attemprinee to wise disontet between pereets of
diflacet religions, Sir, they leave actually g..ne PO far as to any
that a messacre of Pnnestiotte wee intended • as foul and as hellish
a calumny as ever dings' ed the tongue of eland, r itself. Si?, I
will answer for it, that she Ceetolics of this meeting and of this
county would be the first to rally mend their l'oneidato fellow-
countrymen if there was the slightete danger, which there fee nee,
and form a guard of honour in clef .rd them at the expense of their
properties and their lives. (Loud cheers.) After some further
minder ob.errations, he observed emphatically, that Cbriettan
charity and love for all mankind formed the basis of the I atholic
Reli;,•ion ; and the Roman Catholic t 'at:china, put into the Melee.
of children, distiectly stated, " we are most strictly bound to love
oar neighbours as our selves." elle text question of the Car,
&ism was, Who is our neighbour? The anima is, " All mall.
kind, of whatever climate, creed or profession, even our enemies."
Sir, it is monstrous that attempts should be made to misrepresent
oar principles and loyalty ; and I ant sure all Catholics and libretti
Protestants will join in putting down such attempts.
Illr. MACLEAN—I address you, Mr. Cha;tmen, for the purpose
of also seconding the resolutions which have been propeeed to
his meeting by Mr. Lynch—l do so at the request of ninny
valued friends, whom I would not refuse, but with feeling', of
unaffected diffidence, which I caenot conquer; for it is not my
habit—it does not consist with my inclination or any ability,
to press myself forward on public occasions, when I know
there are others so much better qualified to command public
attention. There is, therefore, abundant need that I should
bespeak your indulgence; but I shall hest deserve it by ee.
mining you for as short a time as possible. (Much cheering.)
I had fondly hoped that the tongue of detraction would have
tired of its office, where there was so little to feed upon ; that
the humiliations it had received on former occasions would have
taught at least a lesson of prudence, if they could not excite a
feehog of remorse, and that it would have Bought the indul.
genet of its depraved appetite and malignity in some noire pro.
muting soil—ln some ground more associated with the recollections
of disturbance and disaffection—where it would have found the
aid of put events, on which to build present suspicions. Hut
it would appear that slander could nut rest satisfied, unless she
assailed the fair fame of Galway—the proud it.habluuits of
ages of
_loyalty—a loyalty undiminished by the severity of the
Penal Code, and unseduced by the machinations and allure-
ments of disorders gone by—Galway stead firm to her charne-
tee for quietness and peace la the worst of timee—ahen danger
end contagion of evil example raged without—equally as when mi-
say and contagion of disease raged within her walls. (Loud ap-
plause). As a Protestant and a Proprietor--as one deeply in-
terested in the subject-einterested, were the reports true, to the
extent of no less than life itself, I teel no hesitation, cot the
slightest, in declaring—and I consider the declaration to be a
duty and an act of justice to my Catholic fellow.eiezens, and to
those of every persuasion—my strung and free conviction, that
the town he threatened with no danger--thit our lives and
properties are perfectly secure—that the reports arc equally
groundless and injurious--and that it is most wise to fling from us
a stigma so undeserved, to which, until of late, we were happily
strangers, and which, fur the time to come, I fervently trust
we may know, as we know the dangers which have this day
caused us to assemble—only by report. (Groat applause).
On the resolutions being put,
Mr. el ILITIX said—Sir, an address has been framed embracing
the spirit of the resolutions, which I will beg leave to read to the
meeting, and am happy to see so great unanimity prevail. I have
listere I with great satisfaction to the gentlemen who preceded me;
in particular I have listened with pleasure to the remarks of the
liberal Protestant Gentleman (Mr. elacleatta which were so ho
no to himself and so gratifying to the Meeting. These gen-
tlemen have adverted to a more recent ;eriod ; but I will go further '
back, and remind you, that when a French Invasion threatened this
island, and the enemy were at our gates, it is in the recollection of
many who hear me, that the inhabitants of Galway formed them-
selves into a volunteer guard, to repel aggression and domestic
tumult, to maintain the cause of' their King and country its the
hour of doubt and danger, for which they received the nierkee ap.
probation of the Government, and of the able, judicious, and pa.
triotic General (now Lord) Hutchinson, who contended here. from
that period to the present moment, the same uniform loyalty has
marked the people of Galway. Surely the authors of these its.
&minatory rumours, which have this day assembled us, caenot be
aware of those facts. They cannot know the real character of that
people whom they attempt to agitate and malign. else they would
be convinced that their futile efforts would not merely peeve 'Moe-
five, but exhibit that character to public view in the tenewed ear-
else of the same constitutional loyalty and patriotism. and cover
their own guilty heads with proporUonate co:elusion. (Cheers.) Sir,
it appears that reports have born spread of a malignant nature,
with art, industry, and system. Religious frenzy. that east of all
political monsters, which, under the guise of charity itself, and in
the sacred name of religion, engenders the most ur.cluistiau feel-
ings, and causes the must accursed deeds amongst mankind—that
feeling of folly mixed with mischief, the very opposite of the great
chriatian principle, which teaches us to love Slid to do gcoe to all
mankind, the baleful feeling, heretofore unknown here, and iney
it long continue ao,has been attempted to be introduced. and' accoun:e
of the most calumnious and meat frightful description have been
forwarded to prejudice the Government—to abuse the craluley
the English people ; to scatter discord among the various classes
of society—and, in the general confusion, to establish a narrow,
arbitrary monopoly, and defeat the just hopes of the Catholics of
Ireland, now peaceably and constitutionally seeking redress for
their grievances from the Legislatureand the Throne. (Applause.) I
Sir, this plan has been generally and systematically acted upon.
We have been misrepresented to Government itself. le c cannot,
indeed, set our enemies—we call for them in vain—." they fly at
that light which they hate"—but, in the bosom of a must peaceable,
unoffending. people they are hatching their dark plots of calumny,
and scattering their envenomed arrow with unwearied assiduity.
Hut. Sir, though we cannot trace every diverging stream into its
dark unhallowed retreat, the fountain of those evils may plainly he
discerned. In the public press, in the speechee, iszet and
exclusive policy of the enemies of the Catholic. of Ireland. and, I
should add, the enemies of all the liberal Protestants also, we have
a chain of evidence and facts which leave no doubt that the tame'
intolerant spirit which divides ties tat, island Into contending sects
anti parties, essentially favours that distrust which the author of
those vile reports seek to encourage and promote. In
truth, Sir, the people of Ireland, and particularly of (lawny,
are in the minds of such persons provokingly loyal and ordeily.—
(A laugh.) The disturbances in the Smith are happily at an end,
or nearly so.—the Orange press may calumniate, but cannot stir up
the people to rebellion—the Catholic Clergy (that most meritorious
and abused body of awn) continue to preach peace anti loyalty to
the people—the Catholic Association has baited an address, teal-
eating the same sentinitntr--and hers, in Galway, and after three
months of misrepresentation and influsonatery reports, the result is
a general meeting of the Catholics and Prot: scants this day, to
brand the authors with shatne-.-to vindicate our loyal cmuniniated
population—to disabuse the leoverninem, Legislature, English
people, and, in a word, every littoral mere arid to renew and ce-
meet those ancient bonds °fatuity amt coliedence, and peel fellow.
ship, which will ever bind together liberal teen, of every creed, in
optinein» the introduction of di.serdion into the town of tialwac.
I —(Cheers.) Truly, Sir, these arc re•tilet gratifying to every
mate end proportionsbly aliiictiug to every seeeeeief level die.
turbee of the peace. From the tittle our revered Sovereign )::t our
ANOVA Uldlislllolllrlt. calumny hew not cea ed. Ile was not yet mew,
when the spirit of party was at work, to defeat hi. henign invita.
none, and his admire:departing admonition, which will ge deem to
posterity ass se inertial of his wisdom and goe.latea. It w es not the
Catholic. nor the liberal Protestants who did this. No; loot froat that
hour the spirit of pany has not rea‘ril to put forth the most
nines abuse on the great body of th • mottle tit frelene, on their re-
lieious and political principles, ley pee:caws, pun: alas, and, most
of all, by the Peas—
" Which all around its fell contagion flings,
Till every breeze bears slander on its wing.."
(Much applause). I call upon all liberal Protestants and Ca.
teolic., a. they value the peace of the etetnere, their progeny, their
ditty to !leaven, to truth and justice, to the twice of charity, and
religian itself, to combine in rebutting and putting down such
slanders ; to units in aupportirot the gracion% mandate of our
man! King, • name dear to every Iridium,. ((le:Tr.) I saw hini
in Ireland, without a soldier, us a coatieing tether, :n the midst of
his people. Is it sue.) people, Sir. glut is inelignal, and to such a
Sewerage that we are accused of being disloyal ? To tie feet sect:
calumnies, to justify our principles before the world, we have tees
day met ; and I have the honour to propose the Address for the
approhetion and adoption of this meeting.

After Mr. 31artirt ronclutki. Capta'.n 31ea►Ta. P.
31. IturLe., an. tidily. Isa:T. and 31•11, ruiott, sevc-
rally Aditr?:,.l the ttlectiil,l.

SUPREMP COURT, AMU/MY.

IJErT. FENWICK'S CAFE.

The points reserved by the Court during the trial of Lieut. G.
R. S. F r,a irk. and movie! on Monday last on a. rest of juticinenti,
werti—lst, 'Wollner the ju-:.diction Willa proved as hod in the in..
diet:tient, i. r. whether the sorrel iler hint cc:omitted within
the tsrsitorr of a native Priori; in PAO', in ath!::.e,
scrim:ea: of Itoouliny. %Vitt-titer than evideneii to prove
Livid Fenwiiik a stihji•ct. 11, It holier. sto Mdict-
nwitt the Court had ion unthr2C (.co. It!. Ce 1.. ..nd 29,
whiell makes the servants of the Company, a'.l oti, ot. his :Us-
testy's resident in India, a:minable te th,•l, •..f Oyer
and Terminer, aid (ion! Deli ve-y. in the Iltitiill with Itni:t in In.
dirt. for worth-Ts. ft.lnric<, hc. done by ti ci. ill any f :he countries
or pats of Axis, America, beyond Oa Car of Good
!lore, to the Siraitstif Mag'l'.an, within Cie limits e: the CNC;Uaiai
ifelie of the niid Muted C011i•ally. •
As to the first point the I ;nurt held that there was n t legal and
mlatissible evithiecc that the inerliLr •-•I within
':IC territories of a native l'rin n in alli'V.re Wi•il ii"ss.-rvent
of Ihttbay. The toi.ity of nrii.imso with the Giticion or eiis said to
he in writing, and th%t there could be no other of shitlre .tr admitted, t-reitt the treaty tise'f, which had rot`:.:: ti pro-
Mir, it. and the eviihntre was not •titticientto the Rajah
of Lonawarra was in alliance at all with tot tiovLrt,tlt-, t —.Vs to
the seentul rebut, Cie Court not think it tiee,ii..ary eive any
formal do-nom,, but ininuste,l en opinion thitt co• s
commissioned others, cr the Company as c
nail therefre as his !.T:•.it,!v.:l io i`-a third
point, the tote:loin", averments We7e tint in the in.;to, I The
Court theiaftire the, i'ded that I.,eit.etiant Fenivii;'; ..,I.•dit dis.
e ar;ett, but stone tia:C to consiltr the :node .n whic4 tau should
bs done.

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MARRIAGE OF CATllritres AND I'IIOTFFTANT.V.

At the last meeting of the C .tholie At.sortation. 31e. ritc,imitiv
repined from the t:ooimittee appointed to ic.itiire of at
the Bev. Mr. 0' / It appeared that two Calleihe tr.elestnen,
industrious and pore; sous in rensee: ive 1.: I beer
married in the WWII of Derry I tat. Preshrtetians. .1* ! !.ct the
parties, dreading f.,e penal tie. of an obsolete law, n ert t to
imply to a maple-i,cey;ar, hut on r..tle.l.:ion they ea:ne t Rev.
3lr. who te-ItOrtoed the tin:the-gr.. etre . •..
011ogan, Couts:, thou!:t acted tin:or right in a ''ng to
the wishes of the parti,s, Al the y1441i1:,' V/1.1111..11 a. 'IT ;, Pro.
testants of th- Lstal.l.shed Choler., but Prer'oy lie
(Mi. OT.W.E.C!:) nes not cleanly corvine d dt.t Mr. 4 in,Tan
WWI not right in the vine he tun: of the settee. Ii nearer,
a !tench of Northern Malis:-atet e.-re elevrir of a ,-...teary
opinion, and after the parties had lived six weeks of. !her,
the sight of God at least, as man and wife, it was r.•:e.npteit
on the part of
pleat' Northern Magistratew, to Wore, throe young
romen to the Li:graded cuttition of prostitutes, acrd their has.
bands to the light of mere keepers. These worthy Magill.
trates were Messrs. Beresford, John Itrare, M•lfsiislaud, Lyle,
and Coniilly Gage. The yomig men atid women were re-
ciontriereled, hclorc then • priwn,s, to give evidence the
Priest, bat to their honour they uosnimoosly ft,- I. (Loud
and continued cheers.) A luard ul ers.;o:nis wis then de-
spatched from Newtown.Limavady t t Osery. an•l tie: whops
party were sent und-r escort to tit.: I ,te.:r place. Theo
yowl: women were eimmittril to gap', under a win mt. and
separated from their litishands. erode tlwy were cumin I:ett to lodge
information aglisist the Rev. Mr. O'llotan, a irost wintry and
exemplary tilen was ol,ligeti to fly to France to map*
arrest on n capital felony. This was a stein 'mantled by the mtg.
gmions of rianninn prudence on the part of the ( lergyntan, for the
..inidoeth Jourva!, Wi4ll s savage hail g!iriteil ever his
anticipated txecntion. (I ies of shame). Coder these circum-
stances the case came before the Law Cm:id:tee, aial they had
felt therisrlresjustificil in giving a tee of three guineas to Mr.
Perrin, fir his opinion in this case. Law Committee earns
to the conclusion, that the comm;ital vas totally an illegal tom:
mittaL The Statute of 1;93 bed repriltil the Lin as :t turmerly
existed, and hail transmuted the ori.mell punishment iPto 6901.
penalty. Ile was aware that Lortl Fillsorilen hail given an opinion
contrary to this. Ilia Lerilship had deck!, that the priest should
be hanged first and fined afterwards, but this was too bad even for
la Popish Priest. (Laughter). It was en'. that no deteace could
be made in this, unless the Protestant Clerireintin chose to give a
certificate ; but notwithstanding this, the Law Committee had de-
termined to try the question in the way of an action for false im-
prisoninent. fie knew it was the object of some most influential
politicians to divide the Clergy from the Laity of this country.
He had seem letters from some of the highest characters, attempting
to persuade the Clergy to separate their interests from the interests
of the Association ; but he was happy to have it in his power to
state, that these offers were unanimously rejected, that the Clergy
and the Laity were animated but with one mind, and that, united as
they were in heart and spirit. their endeavours, honestly arid power.
fully directed, must bend to the advancement of the Emancipation
of their countrymen.
The follorier is a copy or the Committal:—
" City and Ceitilty of) By the llagiatrates assembled at a
Londonoerry. ; Petty Sessions, held at Newtown-Lima-
ratty, in the said County, on the 22,1 day of
November instant. Be it remembered that Laurence Loudin,
mbeth Loudin, otherwir.e. Moody, also Jido. Canning, en the part
of the said Moody, complained of illegal marriages ce-
lebrated Mown n Quigly and Martha Loudin, and John
Kyle and Anne Loudin, ell of Nesintosen-Liniavady, in the said
county. And whereas summonses were duly served upon the tut-
lowirg persons. namely, Win. Quigly, John Kyle, Frederick
()'Kane, Anne Loudin,, and Martha Lutidin, and they having ape
petted to rive evilence to said unlawful marriages, and having
Men severally celled upon ro give their SCITMI respective evidence
tmtehing the matter &fon said, they, and each of them respectively.
refused to give nisch evidence as the statute in such cases require;
whereby the said Quigly. John Kyle. Frederick O'Karte.
Anne Loudin, and Martha Loudin, are liable by the statutes to
three years' imprisonment in the common g.ul of said county.
" These me, therefore, in his Majesty's name. commanding Comm.
and every of one of you, on ingot lured', to take, receive, and in
close custody keep, the bodice of the said AVillistn Quigly, John
Kyle, Frederick ()'Kane, Anne Loudin, and 3lartlia Loudin, let
the gaol of the said City and County of Londonderry, for the spacto
of three years, without bail or maiteprise.
" Given nailer our hands and scale, this lnd Nov. 1024.

(Signed) • H. 111:1i1;40M), (Seal)
"JOHN CROMIE. t Seal)
" MARCUS 31•CALSLAND (Ssai)
" To the Sheriffs of the City and County
of Londonderry, their Haulers, and
ill others curcerned."

The rea titer °f' thin Joeument exiled forth strong marks of din.
approbation.-31r. O'Connell condoled by saying, %!r. Chairman,
I Will not longer detain you or the meeting, but conclude with
moving that the Committee be directed to bring the action as re-
commended. The motion was amionded by lily. O'Connell..mn.
and it passed unanimously.