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A fob% meeting will he held this day at the •
orti#change. on the subject of erecting a
statue our late intermits! Patriot, the late Right
Hon. Wary Grattan, in some open and public
sitnatimida . this city.
Mr. Serjeant Vaudeleur, we now understand, is
the person appointed to fill the vacancy created in
the Court of King's Bench, by t 1.1; retirement of
Mr. Justice Daly.
Mr. Plunkett will be sworn into office to.morrow.
Mr. Kennedy has been appointed by the Lord
Chancellor to the vacant Commission of Bankrtipts.
On Friday last the Lord Chancellor and Lady
Manners entertained at diluter his Excellency the
Lord Lieuteuaut and a large party of distinction.
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lILZSPI/IT, .1•1111ARY 19.
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PUBLIC MEETING.
Friday last the meeting of the Nobility, Clergy,
Gentry, and Freeholders, conveneJ by the High
Sheriff, pursuant to Requisition, was held at the
County Court House. The meeting was nume-
rously and respectably attended. About two o'clock
the High Sheriff took the Chair, and read the Re-
quisition.
The Hon. fierce Butler then proposed the fol-
lowing Resolutions;—
Resolved—That it is the deliberate opiates of this meet.
illff, that as Wag as tie Penal Laws affecting the Roman
Catholics of this country remain in force, so long mint In.
laud, when considered m a malice, costume in a 111141,11 of
political disunion and degradation; and that, in the, aaarni-
hulas! to petition Parliansest fur a repeal of those Anoxia*,
Sialetes, we set is liaison with the wish.. of our gracious
and beloved Sovereign.
Resolved, therefore—That we consider it a sacred ditty
which we owe to our King and our country, to have a Peti-
tion preferred to both Houses of Parliament, in whoa, lam.
rality wid wisdom we place the greatest cuolldence' praying
for a repeat of all disabilities affecting the Roman Catholics
of this kingdom.
Thomas Barnes, Esq. then addressed the Chair.
Fle stated, that, as his signature appeared to the
Requisition, he wished to assign his reason for
having affixed it. His Majesty's gracious visit in
Ireland, and his subsequent appointment of a Vice-
roy of the same sentiment*, for the purpose of pro-
looting the conciliation between the Catholics and
Protestant, which he had himself recommended,

according entirely with his own sentiments, were
his reasons fur signing the Requisition. It was
the wish of his Majesty's Ministers to have a
general expression of public sentiment on the
subject, and he hoped to see public meetings take
place iu every county and city in Ireland in favour
of Catholic Emancipation. All the great states-
men who had passed away, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, Mr.
Burke, Mr. Sheridan, as well as the great meq of
the present day who are most respected for virtue
and talents, are advocates of the measure. Fur
these reasons he begged leave to second Mr. But-
lees Resolutions. 'I he Resolutions were then read
by the Sheriff; put 'crania:a, and carried unani-
mously.
The Hon. Pierce Butler then read the following
Petition to both Houses of Parliament :
We, the Nobility, Clergy, Gentry, avid Freeholders of the
County of Kilkenny, of all religious persuasions, sincerely
and zealosaly attached to the perms of our must gracious
Sovereign, and to the unrivalled Ooestitetioe bequeathed ea
by ear aseeitors, beg leave so approach your Homierahis
House, and to supplicate the removal of this.e unoeeemary
restrictions and invidious iliminctionio which have so bog
and so iujuriously separated Protestaut. and Catholics.
Firmly coovinced that the Roman Catholics of tide
country have, Oa all occasions, equally evieced their loyalty
to the Bettis!' throne with the rest of hie Majesty's subjects,
and that no jest valise exists for coutimuieg to deprive thee;
of the benefits of the Constitution, we look forward with
confidence to a removal of all disqoalillcatioas affecting them
ou moment of religious opieloos, as the best mans to
strengthen the empire, and to secure the prosperity of
Ireland.
Your Petitioners, therefore, Implore your Honourable
House, is the name of that Deity to whom, in common) we
offer up oar adoration., and of the Redeemer in wboas we
Dust, to epee the portals of the Constitution to five millions
of a long-oppressed race; and thus cooler immortal glory on
the present age, by repealing those partial and Ww:joss
statutes, which are alike repugnant to liberality sod justice.
(Signed, obeli adopted, by)
WILLIAM WARING, High Sheriff.
The Hon. Pierce Butler then proposed the fol-
lowing Resolution :
Resolved—That the Petition sew read be adopted as the
Petition of the Nobility, Clergy, Gentry, and Freeholders of
the county of Kilkenny, to both Houses of Parliament.
Thu Resolution being seconded by Mr. Barnes,
was carried unanimously.
I'eter Ryan, Esq. then proposed the following
Resolutions, which were seconded by Mr. Butler,
end carried unanimously:
Resolved—That the Lord Viscount Clain be requested to
present oar Petition to the House of Lords, and that the
Earl of Drool:lode, the Earl of Beaton/ugh, the Most Noble
the Marquess of Dowashire and Laasdown, and the Earl of
Domouglimore, be requested to support the same.
Resolved—That the Hon. Frederick Ponsoaby be request-
ed to pieseut our Petition to the House of Commons, and
that the Hon. Charles Butler Clarke, the other County Mem-
ber, the Hoe. George Agar Ellis, the Right lion. Lord Deo-
cannon, the Right Hon. William Conyugliam Plunkett, mad
Sir Henry Parnell, Bart. be requested to support the same.
CORK, JANUARY 19.