The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-07 00:00:00

ADDRESS TO TIl!. PEOPLE OF IRELAND.

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On the other hand, you retold nor do any thing fl could MOM
atlltet your aiheere friends—you amid do nothing that could give
greater grief to the Cad: the Association. that row afFictionasely
and antiously Mitres' rm. We ate strugglirg to obtain your
rights by constitutional and legal mentos. We are endeavouring to
obtain reflects through the proper and legal channel for the copies.
*ions which aggrieve you. d e ars anxsously desirous to obtain
from Paths., eet a great dimintitinn of Tithes_ a total abolition of
the Church Itates--a great reduction of the Greed Jury tess__
the abolition of the odious oppresitions and heavy Tolls, itisevl by
bigoted and narrow.niiinied Ctirporators—a more pure Atimini.
ll:ration of Justice, more especially as it afl'cts the lower and poorer
cheeses of the community ; and above all, the extension of re,tval
laws and equal eights to all chaste of his 314vjesty's subjects.
Etigozed in these sacred duties. our success fur the pe pie is
highly p:obahle, unless we are thwarted by the prop!. them Owes.
We have ro idea of toning few persons who word be 113 tiolish as
33 to put themselves in the power of their enrol ; end we roe.
and for ever. disclaim any kid of alliance web penmen who could
be so wicked as to commit crimes—besides, our power to do good
is necessarily weakened by any disturbance on the part of the
Tle, whilst the strength of their anemias is the eby augmented
hail reinforced. _

Thus, fel!ot-emustrytnen, we have submitted to year judgment
and reason these topics :
ht. That no Bond has ever been the reou!t of Wbiteboy distrtb.
liners and Secret Srwieder.

2J. That the penrint melted Atreus are liable to idle as,
effete punishment—to imprtrot.thent, whipping, treasportatiou,
and dealt.

M. We have shown you that your religion distinctly and loudly
pronibiis and condemns *II the outrages and crimes which are pro.
lured by 11'llitebnykm and Secret societies.
4th. That it would be quite foolish and absurd to expect any
kind of aticeess from Whitebeyism of Secret Socistim.
beh. That such disturbances give great pleasure and many ad-
111111MgC1 to the Orange faction, and are, 10 general, secretly insti-
gated by that foul faction.
6th. That these disturbances and Secret Societies ate reprobated
and condemned by your excellent and matchless Clergy—a Clergy
whom you ought not only to esteem and to love, but whose advice
you are hound to respect and obey.
lib. That thew disturbance, and Secret ee,ocietics arc most div.
Smelly and emphatically condemned by your most sincere friends
the Catholic Association of Ireland.

ff. That the neeessary consequences of such disturbance and
Whiteboy Societies, is to hurdle our legal and constitutional exer-
tions in our ',ingress to put down the ()range faction, to obtain re-
drew for many of the opprewtione and grievances under which you
labour; and, in fine, to achieve Catholic Emancipation.
There remains one topic more, and that is peculiar to the present
times. We have, at length, an Ationey-General who exposes fac-
tion, and is anxious to do Iris duty impartially to all the King's
subjects. We have for Lord larutenar.t, an lush Nobleman, who
Sous the NMI of Lis birth, of 'bleb be is. blight eensumuk ;veal.
who is sincerely solicitous to give her ix see, quiet, liberty, and
hippioss, but rise all, and greatest of all. we linve now opus
the throne a Monarch, to whom the people of Ireland ought
to look with affectionate hope; a Monarch who has the good sense
cml the manliness to commence his reign by that noble declaration,
•• That power was a ltlibt for the good of the peorie;" the feat
British \lca:arch who ever reached the shores of Ireland in the sweet
garb of peace. and for Otero :oses of benevolence and kindness; a
Mimarco who has often declared his warns aflcctius, for bialrish sub-
ject'', and of whom we here retry wastrel to believe that, the leadhig
wish of his patriotic and cultivated mind is to are dissension cease.
• ctirdial nranistity of yentiment pteveil in Inland.
In the name then of common sense, which forbids you to leek
foolish courses; by the hate you bear to the Onubgemon, who are
your natural enemies ; by tlw an.liderce you iti.4l,t in the l'atholic
Association, who are your natural and realms friends; by there%
pect and affection you entertain Sew your Clergy, who alone visit
with coltfort your beds of sickness and deaolaiion ; by all these
powertul motives. and still more by the affectionate reverence you
hear for the gracious 31orsre1i who deigns to think of your ruff.%
logs with a inew to your eclief—and, above all, and infinitely be-
rind all, in the nsti.e of tiltgion, and of the living Gou . we con.
Jute you to abstain farm all secret sad illegal Societies and W bite-
boy disturbance* and outrages.
M Fall you permit us to seek, by peaceful, legal, and constitu-
tional means, for redress of your grievance* and oppres*ions; and
so shall you enable us to obtain for our beloved Country thaw, con-
uitutioral privileges and Messing* which can ;ileac make her that
ele ought to be-
- Grew. ;clerking, and free,
" First Sower of the earth. and first gem of the on."

Ily the late census it appears, that in the city of Dublin
there are 19,171 females more than males ; iu Cork City
there are 7,ds ; in Limerick City, I,S I ; in Waterford
City, 2,661 ; in Belfaat, Y 33; ; in Galway Town, 1,063;
anal in Ireland altogether, there are 117,975 ovine!' more
than men. The only counties in Ireland in which the
males outnumber the females are, Kildare, King's County,
Wadi, Kerry, Galway, and Itoscommon.—Soethrrn Rep.
INC LitY, Dt:c. 3.-09 Monday evening a most un-
fortunate:ill:dr °rearm' at Hinckley. Two youths, named
l'inehbach and John Warner, having got into a dispute.
agreed to go into a fiel I and settle it by b'owa. After
fighting fur nearly an hour, Warner btcame eck, and fell
'awkward*, to ris • no snore, as he continued in quite a
s•Atre'..ss state till Wednesday evening, whets be expired.—
Leirester (Irani:4e.

On Thursday night last, Mrs. Jane Allison, a moat re-
spectable and industrious widow, (noted as an excellent
maker of clw;se,) who occupies a considerable fame, called
Ilterrowdale, situate:l on Stith:mom, two or three miles front
Drongh, having retired to rest at eleven o'clock, was, as
well 24 her servant maid mill boy, runs. el from d, by a
pt son at the window loudly calling on her " to get up im-
mediately, as the byre (about one hundred yards from the
dwelling, and in which there we re four calves,) was en
fire." Mrs. A., at first. snpposed the alarm to be only
some idle frolic, and did net instantly rine.: she made smite
inquiries of her nocturnal visitor res!weting his calamitous
ammo' cement, and asked hint who it was dint called
when he replies! in a voice she cutil.l not recognive, " James
Alderson." The reflection of however, soon con-
vinced her that there was cans for alarm, and puttittg
on a small part of her dress, she hurried cut, end was fol-
low. el by her s-rvants, having a light, el candle upon the
table. II its thegreatest difficulty and ps raonal dao':,er to
herself, sliebberate el the poor scorch, el animals its the
byre, while the i lazing thatch was falling upon her. On
returning to her instead of having had the assist-
mice of lire pretended friend who gave the alarm. to put a
stop to the devotering element, she discovered that her
drawer in the parlour, where she generally kept her mentos,
had been fore. el open. and all that was valuable, conaisting
of a 41. Hank of linglanel note, and several memorandums
of importance, taken away. Fortunately, Irowever, she
had a tow slays h-fore remitted to her landlord a considerable
atom as TOW, which, it is supposed, had been the
inducement to rounnit so diabolical a burglary, expecting,
no doubt, to:Intl a larger ruin. The byre was totally COD..
sullitsi, and had the wind blown in a eentrary direesion, a
valuable hay-stark woold have hem destroyed. It appears
that hay had been pulled front the slack. laid up in a cor-
ner of the building. end set fire to, which toots eutntnuni-
retell to the thateli. A little more delay iu getting the
cattle out, would have proved fatal to them. No discovery
has yet Leone made of the perpetrator of so horrid a crime;
but exert'ons arc making, and will be persevered in, by the
respectable people of the neighbourhood, for that purpose.—
Curade Putr:vt.