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London, England, 1810-05-30 00:00:00

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A dashing Publican. teed We Mesa, • livery otabk
sesiiling in tha treighbollriwersef d Tmi•lock `h.".
and well knuvo to allthe limiters of the Four•ial lased
Club, were brought hefarre the 3faniwrit a vss at IL..
Otiat, diet gad eels werselt mg Win.'Webb, a Collector d
Tolls mg the etra delete, and refusing to produce deer
lit let, or Pay the coli, whet detuand:•.l.
Collingh..nrio suit Goff, (hikers of 1 :nine •Hall, being sear
the spot, and seciug the awash counaitttrtl, t wit thr De-
' foldouts inlo custody; who bring, in their ono optitio
adepts is the-pustlndie all, intro..ledely set to with the olii-
ten ; after a Apart bit severe coolest, howeVer, they were
obliged to subunit to the superior skill and tartest,' .4 them
' opponents, mid were eusive)ed to the ()Pte. whet: • litoz,
havestigation took I.laer; when Ilse friends of the Del. admits,
beteg advised sot to salter a ease of thls sort to go to a
Jury, wisely adopted their advice, and settled at nab tire
Presecuter.

•
19;0. n. could usittbet refer with great pain to a
ilisentreepronouneed in the cathedral church of Stu
Paul, byd sow Right Rev. Prelate, and pub;iiherld
.• Ju..11 Revereolueltni." It is entitled: CHttClO
APUIa n'aTelfIDYM LlVTUAletSitlarAfo Itng IPAULIai t
H tetra.-41. dt.. .sti am 317. iu which is fuuud
puas'ite : •
.I"e,6.is detail'i noshes gal extra sass teclisir terminus
taailUalle hatretieoes, Ya,,pnelisyre deditob senipmurnis
habeitat; deal I.llllVerell/D sib. Wel iu Ipsus Repro iuyelista
ariggent ; dam palatal rollteaotor Holism asksa ewe
11e.shei. re, flambee ev.e.; dusts l•acr itniu•at' taint vete/Ito
aL ifto Anticlutto et protinisuse, et oulhtic prolluerc Tido:roes, •
grata perients is nue ingracee a tlitrnmiai, Si in imperil
TO ME EDITCg •OF-TfIR DRITPIII PRESS. ult.* asesogrrespor tateta,rits.iima ill, gra
notj,res *oath porpessi. aunt. hie ipsl switiste coatis, Writ*
St a—Anhui:a lb. 'striae sod loothsous,opeettes'Ulti'rh saint.. nos,. is barest iyt.Gia quSy ant alto trnipueo niters...LW
have :gip, Area .4 either side attic llosiareiastho Debate% pal+Tee di nrae eut:urid ego bola, jogyuisa,
ti..- ilaporiaott Q.:return of Catholic Einancipaitpu,l calwanurea; tioulsolreat, goalie an (Huse onion meow-
sainniruilt regret OW Ilse eloomititto.orial proorople• se:it tusesspois calm Tritlentins4illa lovalescat coidevsto,
you so cleurly sod Ipottotiolly set. 'Mlles id you; instrusali g u.„„ww, nenyiendique ,woe, -ad rriani amnia
Paper of the lath %suit. were' mot Mime - cloreallYm stilted lo
lowellorou aloe jasqoasi *alms hamlet
both by the advoroitts and OflreSefli brut iikellOre;• lifer po.,t4r- Joe lipeien, c; 4 Mid eJ
is reclaim that LaK tld_Coostitution, vflolireer -HO notriiderri,relowcior eci!!!4
feelings or In...indicts of.studteidsialt, vast ottragotely
twilit the pion. - Till the 'lase agfiltg, oult:dPhs: ta• •
'Li ;nits iiherrepasa" age. osir- Catholic fellow-sub.
awelflatitfttlr ^timed with entertataing Coot.
sow difficult, or to •peak mairproperly; Mopoo le,: room
shoo hid hero utterril on the liluefilida derilottlit yereoseit 'o,lo96.9lllcililliiey have streneritt cEd open' their
S. ssiuti of Parliatuent,.l., deter/nos *lin 1,1 (needs, 06.: that of which the hrgo..
a" 4" to Mel%cettallelktok4ktheett!.oolloB. titeofeitswitilVpvrt of titeiloath:.-for the legislature
which he lavisht•s on the loyalty. and ("1"01,-.44"5.C.a.":1‘'. sykonteh titit The tuight have as
tura, shiclOues Heil every grant, every coucejrub, .e.e. • . - • .
Legislature. I. ayes the poilit whetlie• he sueoieto voite thew w!" .e 8411•246 ag"l"et the E"l•blielrd Caulleh,
any .sal reilel, sr Wide\ IdroOLS toad" rent Blitedat tor -tu • reirtateeene'lltlites.kaittlaiiin df all *up ,re not rg.
Lord I siogall doer lois Imailaloapil sv9loinibetayolilleveellae • ceifell'ilifto It bj; 'beptrsns. and iiscule4ecl bi the
hem': that the ellaistlo.yhirhfi.'CiLlfte:." 181100sattek of the Estitblish.eil Chtircli. ats wel) as
'wrist(' at Mr. GralLoo • live!, WM idly t
`'e Yilnee"r- eba rhtwAthanakast Creed. The charges sit music
end unnecessary, tool sersit nu Jteiiriiass.hdeptiipose fSlui
to ruliVileCe the woe Id of thestsleishanietriArial aulalMn oNtlehrice'this -class •iir his fellow subject', ainoitat..
of thine learned Crialewato to plumy slow propositiosr(hat j jog to a foditll'Of 'the whole risonlation of the rut.
eau tend Even indirectly Li enttawyti- tho.omt .pf swat sad .1 -pre. 'af enanties.ef alt taws, dicine anti human, ivoll
P'ecke""`l4 ha` e a"11.04•6'1,".an1i • tea ~..11.11 beifriren from oar roar!: and oar
uu Rasa.. Catholow ! tt w hbp.4l,'Luweei.r, that suoir.
of ',her.' aod erni•litutionattoo wk.* itholia.thltte.otoeMM efeatiri!! ! clads of which, probably, the greater
)"°' Paper, may qr ^llo*.d leewelecteielodi pethoPM Ott 1 privortiun u( our 'diets and armies are computes{
trot., "1"Id°11""tlial aaald rePti""o.l. olhatmk. IIV at cue atrageoueut !`-‘61.1t. opt tilt. head a few
it a6^ "h.", PU5".0e1e5ted...044114.01.1 464.164 eS‘ CUltS1(11:11.11dile will tie offered hereafter.
for nothing but shot the Ms dad owirt;linn aru entitled, . Vi'ith not lees regret snout we taro to the wetti.
14.50 t b.,0,,,t to it, and theta; and, ifito. i• hoped (toil even •
% Grunion,* of °shad sillsot opposethrir eluiwtoo. Ttletite-ltf ajo.ll..hdriralsle and Right Reverend l're.
The too-it nowt proposed*. your paper Air ilia sib lust see ante, long tioattuot ttialled fiy' utmost a boundless
inol'h" 1.01010 of tar, ehleh 0. C.lol* itwlwausse ua tho its 44444 fiCelbei, Mkt ii.ttlise for a hire natty oh opittien
lionaoluto have Litharie satisfactorily 4.1(1-olio...A. The tk.s. sod nc: jam. is, blifor rcopeeti, which dust the
tlent.*, vii. of the gar a, are hi ellriallee %dhow soothes us • •
or. • grolitstee off hite•tellow-co:irant, Ilearth. fees, he
the tlift..... As W Saar ale for, ho re
tier of 24.00,10UC1 11.5soia eathokris • gyro Ilendlurs of the unfortunately think% r. rbete-iu sumo &tiger, lest,
ElfeCilleVe liouvrroinieut compel Houlaas4.:a4lsolics to serve, writer a niiseonstrued turfillgetWe to-the l'e.
°Owe& exewito tht!"6oas it q whilst bit c.ocar araleiglaita• tit nuts, we should, by its sittsearauee Of -intl.,. ereneit
lag, that they h.iie ou right in clans the reward of pidtP•k to our Church, give rontstettaneeto ductrities end
tau,!Lew- rirs•tiousi mitres, !Inot it areesaury,4blu at a e pow ynati .w
"b"ls ""litleY "en jet* tele" dem'l
1'1°..,0t under which, as sincere Protestauti Ind net, !terls
sh,asat be aelestouusa by the Lastaintive Itudy dace; helm,: of our Sable, we must cur hold to he kfofefrolte
its ihssoitosnu ? othersioe, so nosy millions of British ant+. bittepheatodS, dud Is this opititou,
je•o, arealiambased I, Ire goverstd by the caprishows (many of however; the learned Prelive is at' tie with thy'
creey I lauprac in the Esecative Branches ut Goverealesit, drclatatiows of the Leialft:irel Teite '..Lojilredlra
hem t"e esoesuid by she bur ; as•the Coitstihitiwai and Aol• •
particoloirly the oath which Ills Majesty takes at bibturista these'who practise 'tick, tirleet,t, Ctuw.fl oar be reel,
tau, require that tiny EN4II.II6IIIIIIAIIL t • Silitati as " goad stbleeteiP' fur, every thluer 'of their
•• • we: wonbl'be -epee blob to- plbsircution tit
LIVERPOOL •
..„,.,\ c,,ruinan ittw'stfel Alit the icatutr vdtet ter Nit
their. whereby,. sindefuttoll • fey law--;:htie eta n.
testate ho 'art to perform the rites ocaltheir rAigtott
....;urrrsltialt,iftnett =to* interrtepti.tithoue ntet—:•
• t. - supported
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innocent

In our paper we ,gitee a succinct etarriillie 1114
the eat raorJihary conte3t which hiortistreeserieri bn
in the Theatre ever s:hre its aipeirintri W lade--
that can bet called a etakteat, suture

attack are attoo one ►i,:e4 Ot her' ode
we... us aJ.yuate invoifel VS'

party. ssthe'y hare drought

Hues, fain persevere en their
• very .amble decleurvii, '
The whole of the

fit:Wanly hewed. mud the ttt,
e 4 till the (beginning of AN
the 'aittive iiitetrererwe ef•:tbe
.erious Liu been,
don of Use liiiiit;'*.Benclo, to,

itskutn-4 rum:brims or the NI

its speed? extiartiriti is saw
%Vs observed, last week; t
wits t a siogle

candour, ;ho di 1 tint

ought to be Keisereilt disiAts,

.rrtiong Ise have liven lOW,

fact, and. twi.ig unsupported
• ,•.• . .

21_
l'he ohorrration in (insist
so much respect the queer ,42
11 itself, .1 the mole in wi "N
No claim of that 'nature, et. tit 4
aught to be carried lie cit.__ Anti et
For if such a chnionia, so enfetted4 is nue ekg:
witted to, you at °lice admit the printlifellristlhe
' oodience have a right to frirue pawl for 'hi/ goveril.;
naent of the thtatre: that the directiim"iney
'liken out of the handsel the Proprietors and' Mabel-
gels, and placed in those of a democracy of all thd.
pablie. We Must then ripest that it will be eels;
ducted with all the caprice, violence, tad iojustiCe..
'Whiny incident to that sort of government%-.
will perhaps be to ordered, for the convemettice
of the Ii P. party. that the doors of the'theatk
shall not be opened till nine o'clock, the hoar at
which the mail departs; a proposal which we are
told hos been actually hinted at. To this it will,
nn doubt. be replied. u The insinuation is inicandid.
We do not now demand, cad we nevei shall de-
mead, any thing hot what it fair and reasonable,"
But who are to decide on this fairness and reason-
iyl/metal ? Not sorely the very persons who'sns to'
profit by their own decisio.i. They are not to be
ylidyes in their own cause. According to the pre-
tences now pet op: they who make the regulations,
they who thforce them, and they who profit by
diem, are to he the same persons. One set of men
are to provide the entertahonent. to pay the ex-
penses, and to sustaiii.the responsibility: and ano-
ther set are to make the regulation!. soil fix the
niensure of remuneration. If this monstrous pre-
teuition is not directly its the teeth of every maxim
of natural law and equity: if it is not directly
at war with every principle of British jorisprudence,
we coolant to yield the point to out opponents
without further di,tiossion.

_.intirterkit „ there
•Iftsi an pirt.oligkiisisiplide Att*Seinen Catholic
Church:dist was iso rfenlll misrepresented ;
•the ordir.ildrereirce.iff piriot if discipline, is, thcit.
eloe Ceiholii is eniiiintde by' the Council of Trent,
lircotifru, st least, onee Ilf year, lea print; and
'the form ofalemlution ibirariably made use of he the
priestsaif the Church of Itoine, is that sthii:b is
Only enjoined by the itubtSe of our Church. to he
sised in " The Visitsficittrofthr Sick ;" and also in
the Irish Ritual of the Estidinshed Chiireh, iu
a The Visitation of Prisoners." • The Priest is,
by the.lisibric of the Established Church, enjoined
to move the sick to a cpeclal sarigosion. The sr:
ofthe communion of KineEderard VI. also tlia4
quirts. that "istichas shill be led with a ke.s
seral.confetainn, nor toils etihm Ilern that
do nse far-their fertliert _
bir the asoicidar, or
-Vern i.,AvetentoilsPpriktty 'net obcte:atace which
thick needlnt for tioir elistetw* of MR. 'toe kyin-
OFterleee, pereniiitittb <reels OPitt the prltst.
to 1k offtialed nrilhlirhin which ire dat ed •ith
their bumble eeerifeieion and the gestiral
confession of the Chtinth." • • •

--...—_. .....
The words of the litobrie • sir the Esteblidied
Church arc these: "Orirlirrifietes Cirrivt, who
lies left !knees t• his Vihock to absolve all sinners
who truly repent soil believe in libm" of his greit
mercy, forgove thee thy offences: entil by his with,.
riry consonitted to me, I alssnlie thee frons all thy
Am, is the name of the'Fathet, ate."` Such also
ore the words of the Roman Ritual.
The same wotilstire used by Archdeacon Peley,
and Ur. Mont, in their " Companions for the
tatioo of the Sick." fouode.l on the power unparttd
by the imposition a hands, at the ordinabon of
priests, " Those whose sins thou shaltfergice, stc."
lo both churches the condition of absolution 111 the
same, 'timely, contrition for past sips, jellied to
a Arm purpose of amendment; and otherwise the
abeolutiou is nugatory.
It is, nevertheb as, a prevalent opinion, that, in
the Catholic ChJrch, absolution is uocritiditicioal,
or, at Icor, th it its effect is taught to he snore de-
' pen.iiint eh the performance of works of insp,Med

We have just learnt. with mach satisfaction. that
one or the most active heads of the party, whose
printed statement has excited mach compassion
and indignation, has written s most penitential let-
ter to the Mau irrs, as well as to the Magistrates,
rodeising his error. and prouseing to logy
from the Thrtatrr, till order is restortd.-.-(Lietr-
peel l'uper.)

The Duke of quaamsisattey benevolently allott-
ed the Clieselier DEssis eu annuity 01 :;J:. lu the
Joy of his

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. -penance, than upon ft truly contrite state of the
mind, and finn resolution of amendment ; the best
answer to give to those who mention such an opi.
nion is. in the words of the compiler of" The Book
of Prayers, recommended to the use of Catholics,
Peeving in the Fleets and Armies of Great Britsin."
linker the head of a Preparation for Death, are
these words Von know, from the catechism
you have learnt, and the books of Catholic instrue.
non% you have read, 'that the absolution of a priest
can he of 110 benefit to you, unless you ''e duly dis-
posed to a reconciliation with your offended God,
by true faith. by a sincere sorrow for aft your sins,
iitr a firm resolution never to commit them *gain,
and by a wiHingness to satisfy God, sad your
-neighbour also, as fee as jastice requires. Without
••doeue dispositions. .on your part. the. act of the
.1 'priest would not be ratified iu Heaven, you would
• be guilty of the profanation of the sacrament of
:penance, and provoke the isdignatiert of the Al.
mighty, instead of obtaining his mercy. It is
only when hr twes you thus duly .disposed. that
God looses it. Heaven, what, hr lilt authority, and
according to the eastatitions of his' imitations, his
minister looses on earth."
On the subject of secret, at milieu* ceafeesioo,
the obligation imposed by the Chuerli 'Upon. the
Priest or Minister receiving it. we may, over ijordr.,;
motion from the 113th intit, "%weld
notoris Ihnistris ,us at dentincium, •pitioatian con.
fears retitere riefor. " ProvidaLsalways, that if
any mail coot as his secret and hidden teas, to the
minister. for the unburdening of his *conscience,
and to receive spiritual consolation and met of
mind from him ; we do not oily way Inscribe said '
minister. by this our constitution. but do strictly
charge and admonish him, that he'd* wet, at Amy
time. meal and make known to nay person what.
weever, say crime or offence so committed to his
'tad sad secrecy (except they be such crimes as by
the lasts of this realm his own life may be 'called
into question for concealing the sane). ander pain
of irregularity."
[Mr. Wilberforce here interrupted Air J. H. with
the observation " That is a Conon of the Chards of

Rortie."l sir J. H. replied---No; it is a Citroen ;1
the &tabhalted Church, and as late as the year
1603, which constitutes the principal Ecclesias-
tical Code for the government of our Church. The
King's rstificatioo gives (1-1 authority, which is
considered as binding on all those who are subject
to him in ecclesiastical mettert. Such is the cote
struction put upoti them by ecclesiastical writers;
but it is of more importance to examine the opi-
bian in Westminster Hall. In the case
of Du Barre v. Leville, 31 Geo. 111. on a question
raised relative to the examii.ation of an interpreter.
Mr. Garrow cited a case determined by Mr. Jo.-
tice Buller ; it was a case in whir!' ihr life at a
prisoner was at stake: the King and Sparkea. The
petitioner being a Roman Catholic, made a confeit-
moo before a Protestant Clergyman. of the crime
for which be was indicted, and that confesses* was
permitted to be given is era:knee, upon which be
was convicted awl executed. Lard Kenyon ob-
served. " i ehould hive reused before I admitted
the evidence there admitted." Lord Coke also says,
in his 11 Inatitate, .‘ If higls treason is disclosed
to a clergyman in conferaion, he ought to reveal it,
hut sot in a case of felony." By the law, es it
now stande, there is no crime, not even high triremit.
the concealment of which can tall is gamtion the
life of the person coucealitia it. This head of Com-
plaint m gy he concluded with refining to a wen.
known fact, namely, that Homy IV. of Framer.
wished to mibe a law, by which cenfessors should
be bound to reveal cnospiricies against theXing,
which might come to their knowledge. even under
the secret of onufesaien. Bet Father Cellos con-
yinewl Henry IV. that it is contrary-to the &wine
and natural law, to disclose what is known only by
confession—that it would set be mandarin to the
public good ; for, in that ens-. an persist engaged
in a conspiracy would mention this crime In eon.
fession, if he knew that his confessor was at liberty
to denounce him; whereas, in the atreolnte confi-
dence in the inviolable secrecy that is, and must
be. obaemed, a en...pirate, may disclose his guilt
to his confessot without fear, and the coarsen may
employ the meet powerful motives to empire him
to reamotee Alt erieri -I designs, sad this preemie
oeilitA mould loot otherwise Mee beets Lemma.
Henry was perfectly gistisfied that his intruded law
,would have thirsted its own purposes.
With respect to the situation of the Catholic
military, under the existing laws, it ought in jus-
tice, and, indeed, in common decency, to he enough
to state it, to Manor redress; nevertheless the coin-
plaint has been necessarily. re-timed, as often as
this subject has been reneged in Parliament : re-
peated applications have been made to Nliiiisters,
to every Administration in succession. it may he
said, since the year 1703, when the Irish Act opened
the army to Ortholics, but no adequate redress has
been obtained.
At Chatham, it is true, a spot of groom! was
ranted by Government, to erect • chapel fir the
use of the Catholic military, and. guider successive
commanding officers, the Catholics were separated
front others. on the Sunday parade, and marched
to their own place of worship. In other plays, the
Catholic military have experienced • very capricious
fate; sometimes. though rarely, allowed to attegid
their own pastors exclusively; at other times, Airlift-
ed to attend the service of the Established Church,
previously, or subsequently, to their own service.
hut oftener marched indiscriminately to the Esta-
blished Church, without petmrsainn to uttend their
own. The Catholic Prelates of Ireland have fre-
quently addressed Government moos this subject,
particularly on the exth of May. teen, which letter.
Sir J. H. a'.-erred, was transmitted to the Duke of
Portland by himself; it stated that. nmwith-
otaardiag the assurances given to the (7111}10111:4 upon
takings. service in Ireland, no sooner was a tvitiment.
thaa;; chiefly composed of Catholics, arrived in
England, or in any ether part of the empire. than
they were forced to conform to the Established
Church. sod often restrained, even in their dying
moments, ferias the exercise of their religious du
ties." The address procieetle:i to pray. Ihat some
liarliameigtary regulation might take place, to Re..
illtre to the Catholic soldier, liberty of g.ggiegg tenet
in this respect. It had been stated by an Honour-
stile General. rm the motion of thanks to Sir S.
Auclimin v. tr That the 7tb regiment. s' h had ao
usllaotis fought at Monte Video, under the CORS.
wand of Sir /An. Butler, was composed altogether

of Catholics, and that, in point of Get, he knew,
that, of the 4000 men who had attacked that garri-
soii, no less than 3000 cous.ated of Catholics." Sir
J. H. observed, that it was consistent with Ins own
knowledge, that, of three levies of 1000 men each,
marched into the Isle of Wight a few years since. in
two of those levies 160 only were not Catholics;
and of another regiment, then in the south of Eng-
land, consisting of about 900 men, 860 were Ceiba-
' tics; it is also well eatablislual, that the propornon
of Catholic recruits, at present, greatly exceeds that
of Protestants. In Austria, it is well known, that
the army is open to sews, and so unuoh site ition is
paid to the rights of couscience, that a military order
regularly issues every year, to exempt the Jews, for
a certain time, from •tuty, in order to allow them
undisturbed attendouce 011 their sal festivals.
It hart, in * former ileb.t.., been stated iii the
House. by Sir J. H. that Ills Majtsty had granted
cnmiwiuious of chaplains to adman Catholic prie-ts
in the seyetal regiments of du. Irish brigade, sad
4160 in the regiment of Gleogiin• Fenciblea, which
had been raised ou the British iidablishment : this
fact is now stated in answer to some gentlemen,
who had expressed an-sapiniun, that those who ad-
vised such • measlie4 had advised a breach of the
commotion oath; *let it be renninhered, however,
that Dr. Milner's refotution of the restrictive ope-
ration of that oath, as affecting the question now
hetore the House. had been declared, even by the
late Mr. Chancellor Sturges, to be weratde.
i* the naval service, Catholics were not less nu-
merous; Sir J. H. held in his hand a list of 46
ships of the hoe, which, at two different iwriods,
had belonged to the Plymouth division, and in the
majority of which, the Catholics greatly esce.ded
the Protestants. In some of the first and second
fetes, antounting even to two-thirds; 11l one or two
brat-rates, nearly the whole; and in the naval hos-
pital, *hum four years Since, of 470 rick, 363 were
Catholics. The proportion at present in the nasal
hospital at Plymouth, is less than almost at any an-
tecedetit period, scarcely amounting to a fourth.
As the difficulties opposed to Catholics, with re-
speet to no attendance upon their own pastors,
moat, necessarily, he greater in the navy than in the
army; tie lithe Manual of Devotions, which has
been tueutioned as more particularly applicable to
their situation, it is to lw hoped. will receive that
countenaucc which is prayed fur, and to which it is
so justly entitled.
The memorable bill introduced some years since,
by a Noble Lord,aince removed to the other House
of Parliament, would have applied an effectual
remedy for the grievance complained of, and not
only have assured to the Catholics a full protection
of the rights of conscience. but have held out the
!newts of inviting yoeng men of condition to those
rank), in which they might distinguish themselves
in the service of their country—they must now seek
them, if at all, by stealth, mud under every divot.
vantage; nevertheless those who are so prone to
withhold those advantages from them, do slot
sera* to invite them, in the last resource, to the
peg of danger. Even the Catholic Vilest is wen-
mostly selected to acquit arduous and high confi-
dential emarnissions—involvtng great personal risk
and delicacy of umnagensent. The def. ction of the
Marquis de Roman* from the cause of the enemy,
it is known. was produced by such a resort. A
Catholic Priest ois• sent $y (Jose. ..... rot t..
appease the mutineers at the Nore; their services
wee very properly recrigniwil, as the will-known
Father CrLeary's had been at an antecedent period
in Ireland. The eulogies pronounced upon the
latter by Members of that house, are Upon re-
cord; and ems man had rendered more substantial
mamas to his country in the hour of danger. The
Cootinent for many years hail tiptoed a great field
for the exertions of this class of our proscribed
fellow-ruhirets ; and George the Second is said to
how exclaimed, at the battle of Dettingen, where
he hail otainsion to witness their valour—" Curse on
the lump that deprive me of the aid of such sub-
jects." With 111 the resentment, however, which
we. may suppose to he inseparable from a high spi, it
of honour. when sorely oppressed, it is well knoan,
that, in the year 1743. not a single domicilisted
Irishman joined the standard of rebellion. Lora
Chesterfield (then Lord Lieutenant) was mono:reit
to swim 4,000 additional troops, for the defence or
Ireland. He took it upon himself not to raise
single man ; but. on the cositrary, he sent four re-
gime-tits from Ireland, to join the Duke of Cron-
bedew'. Upon his return, being asked by the
King, whether there were many dangerous Plying
in Ireland ? he replied, " that he had only dis-
covered two, in the persons of two 4aNdsome young
ladies of the name of Deoereax, who had danced at
the Castle, on His Majesty's birth-uight."—Thies
head mar lie closed with an observation made by •
Noble Friend, many years since, iu reference to
time condition of some of his own countrymen,
" that, hoeing. served their country with fidelity
and honour, end miter having bled to her ramie,
they were hirable to he rained by lilies, and subject
to punishments fit only for felons!'"
A LearinalCscii 'lemon. to an interesting collection
of Memoirs recently published, addressed to the
University of Oxford, has asserted, that " the pro-
, visions of the Marriage Act have been 4'o,llllllrd
with, by the Catholics. without objection." Sir .1.
U. could not agree with hint in thiliamertine, hav-
iug considered it ass welbestalibshed fart, that the
provisMii of the Act, by which Catholics are ob-
liged to submit to the marriage Pell.111011) m the
i Protestant Church, has, for half a eriitury. lwen a
subject of complaint amongst Catholics, and par-
tieularly of their clergy. On the principle that it is
atilewful for Catholics to join its sits of religion, or
in any sacred rite with others of a different coin-
/Donlon, the lee Catholic Bishop Chat loiter. cons,-
dared himself bound to consult Home 011 the nib'
pet, and, in his pastoral instruction, addressed
to his clergy .n the London &stew'. in 1759, charged
them to emotion Catholics, as mooch ss possible,
against going to the Prottatant Church to obtain
the sanction of the marriage ceremony. In 1791.
the Catholic Clergy certainly expreserd a wish to
obtain redress of this grievance ; they have no ob-
jection to he placed under restrictions *jingler to
throe of our marriage act. In speaking upon the
sulneic some nears wore* Sir J. H. eb-erved that
they contended ally that the sacramental essence
should he reserved to the Spiritual Primacy, and
that the civil effect, should wholly be regulated by
the civil put...fiction. Both in Ireland one in Eng.
land, it is of great importance that this solemn

contract should be established snd legalised by the
certainty of some unequivocal men sir J. H. emu
venture to assert. that alt thu.e Catholic Prelates in
England. with whom he has eveveiraiiiiii uuracated
wound be (wield that a registry Was estatiii.lied
by the civil iiracvstrraste. which might be certified
and registered at the General Courts Ur Quarter
SCaIIIOIIS. Some writers have contended, as it
has been observed, that the disciplme of the Coun-
cil of Trent is universally paramount in Ireland.
The fact is, that, su the'Arch-diocese of Dublin, and
in the Dioceses of Meath. 'Cadmic, Dewy, Fermiers,
and in the Wardinide of Galway, cotslsuung a vast
1n... of Catholic population, the discipline of the
Council of 'front has never beets received, and of
rullnie hoe un i ;plumed operation upon chunk4nm
mart iag-s. The regolations of the Council of
Trent exact the presence of the palish 'ranee, two
witnesses, and the cousent of parents and guardians
so the case of minority, as are also required by the
statute of 26 Geo. 11. The consequeoce Is, that
marriages, which, under certain circumstances, are
deemed valid, in each of the dincetes that have
been meistiotwd, are 4:wondered as null and void, in
all those districts where the discipline of the Coins.
ail of Trent has been received :—The whole of
Great Britain. u. well as France, stands in the pre-
dicament of those s-x dioceses. Nothing more nerd
be said to urge the propriety of some state pro-
vision, in concurrence with the wish of the Itomun
Catholic Clergy on this point, to remedy what can-
not but he considered as a serious evil, particularly
as affecting the descent of property and honours
which cannot be secured, as the law now stands,
without a violation of the liberty of conscience. It
should indeed have beau stated, that, within cer-
tain prohibited degrees, a dispensation of the Pope
is absolutely necessary ; but, by the statute of the
I:tilt of Eliz. such dispensation exposes, its Eisg-
I mod, the parties receiving it, to the penalties of
high treason.
In attempting to rescue that vast class of the
community from the operation produced on the
public mind, from ignorance, or wilful inisrepre-
sentatioo, it may be proper to advert again to the
charges brought against them ; and those seem to
have been collected, with great industry, by the
Learned Civilian, not at ',mica in his place :—but
who, it has been observed, has not only stated
them in this House. hut, from time to time, ha* laid
them before the public, in leis writings. [Mir J. H.
here read passages from several of Dr. Duigeuan's
publications.)
Nearly the whole substance of assertion in those
passages might he justly answered, without titelna.
ing any personal offence to the learned-author, by
the simple vouuter-assertion, .* /t is ant trate." But
as these charges have not tided to excite very un-
favourable impressions, and have often beets cited
by those who naturally intaglioe that the author
must have had great ailrintagem of isiforinetion, it
becomes a duty to this House, now sitting upon a
Petition affecting the civil right. of so inane mil-
lions of our fellow-subjects, that those who liave
the means, should resort to them, so order to dis-
abuse the minds of those who have given credit to
such calumnies.

It is painful to press upon the attention of the
House. such a frequent recurrence to three anti-
quated Councils, but as they constitute the great
engines of stuck in the hands of the opponents, of
Catholic Chun% we cantinsbut csamme them with
some attention, especially on the points so often
resorted to in the speeches and writings of the
Learned and Right Hots. Gentleman. It is of
portance here to consider what construction is given
to these Canons, and to the offensive Peeretsls of
certain Roman Pontiff,. by those states and indi.
viduals which are in known communion with tile
See of Rome, and, above all. to ascertain whether
the Sae of Rome herself holds those ductriaes
which are imputed to her.
(To be cootisobl.)

NAVAL INTELLIGHNCE.

PORTSMOUTH. 11AT 28.

Arrived the ',inset gun brig, tr,int Frl th ;
Acriae, BMW", trona St. Domingo ; Gannet, Is
gum.% Captain Str.rnbon ; and Hardy suu-brig,
S. lordon, from a cruise.

Sailed the Jamaica, 24 minis, Captain Lraght.
lawn, .36 guns, Hon. Captain King, and Recruit.
IM gulls. Capt. Senhouse, to Newfoundland; Ant
schooner. I.ieut. Young, with COMM, to Plymouth;
mud Sarah Ana, for Guernsey.
The Limon takes convoy for Guernsey and
Jersey.

BAIMICH, MAY 2g.
This anornitur arrived the Bl•ufuy packet. with
mails frusu Gottenburgh; also, the Lady Nepeas
packet. with mails from the acme place. mod •
Lieutenant, charged with dispatches from Sir James
Sue rez.

Sir o'Clock p. •s.—Thi% moment arrived the
Mac George p.mcket, with a mash and passengers
front Hrimgolemol.
Remain time Aggressor Run-brig, with the con-
voy for I Irligolaud; also. the Lady Frances parkm.
with 'smalls, for the same place; and the 1.41 rel
Netswi picket, with mails. for tiottenbargh, of
time 35th mmostammt.—Wind N.E. blows hard.

DRAL. MAT 2s.

Arrived the °berms sloop of war. from Itivrr ;
■nd Sissannuh, Collin:pion. from Cadiz. The So-
sam.,,A imile.l for Purtainuoth. under convoy of
die Locust gun-brig.