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London, England, 1816-05-14 00:00:00

DUBLIN. MAT 9.

In the King's Bench on Fr►day, s young Barris-
ter moved for sits attachment against two farmers of
the County of Sligo. for a►► outrageous contempt of
the process of the Court.
It AppesireTl by the affidavit of the process server,
that upon his serving the writ► they laid hold of him.
dragged hid► into a►► out-house, and there, by
thr.alw and iinprecatious, actually cou►petled him to
eat a►al swallows the prbcess.
Their Lordships granted the ettrchu►eut and an
older to substantiate the service.

Extract of a letter from Fuchsberg, 4th May,
18161—" On Thursday, the 4gl of May, the clay
fixed for the Pri!ice I.Foent.o of SAXIC
C Couou ar; with the. I'rincccll Cut RLOTTE of WA
sixteen bolls of thitineul were ordered to Ire distri-
buted arming the limn. of this !with, by his Greer
the Duke of Goaues, as a sessoisiiole relief to
many imlustiious families in indigent circumstance*,
as well as to the aged Rad infirm, who subsist 4,11
charity, and are reduced to the necessity in general
of begging their daily bread. And that there might
a general rejoicing iii the place on an event
desirable, a bonfire was made on the square, and
porter and whisky were sent to be distributed to
the populace in the street—all the labouring g•kisses,
as they returned home f their toil, being in-
vited to partake of the festivity of the Jay in tuo-
denition."

In honour of the Royal Nuptials, the Mayor
and Corporation of Carlisle. and a large party of
freitilii, met in the Town Hall, on Thursday after-
noon, many loyal toasts, iu acconlatice with
the occasion, were given. When the WWII arrived
un Suaday with the owns and interesting particulars
of the marriage, the flag was immediately hoisted
on the Queeis's Tower, that twilig the only privi-
lege the venerable Castle of Carlisle vino now Insist
of, the gnus loving bees some years since tbs.
suwatatesl.

ASSOCIATED cAritocre CHARITIES.

Yesterday the Anniversary of this valuable In-
►titutiuu, which confers the inekimable benefits of
education upon a most important part or the desti-
tute children of the metropolis, was held at the
reermaseits' Tavern ;

tbe Right Hon. Lord CLIFFORD in the Chair,
supported by the. Earl att tiitews st aur, ilord
DORMER, the Right Rev. Dr. ['or term', and se-
veral other distingui,hed members of the Catholic
community.
After Afoot NObill DOlllilte was sting by Mr. Dia-
Num, and several other inutess. I Gentlemen of
celebrity, the usual twists were drunk front the
Chair. The healths of toe Dukes of Sussex and
KENT were particularly applauded by the Meet-
ing, for their universal att.ichinent to public cha-
rity. The healths of her lt.o al 'highness the Prin-
cess Charlotte of Wales, and her Illustrious Con-
sort, were also drunk with acclamations.
Lord Ci.trroaD then proceeded to open the
business of the Meeting, and to explain the peal-
enter ionrionow for which they had assettilded. The
Noble Lord took occasion to pay a handsome com-
pliment to the Lord Mayor and Corporati 4444 or the
City of Loud ttttt for the simmer is. which they had
received an application from this Institution, for
pecuniary relief.
Mr AltlermAn ATKINS thanked the Meeting for
the high opinion the Noble Chairman, with their
concurrence, was pleased to express of the Corp°►
rat' of London. .

Mr. Dixon -1-w-ggeil also to repress hi 4 acknow-
ledgments, and to ensure the Meeting that he had
every re3AOll to think the Corporation of London
would extend their mid to mi useful and noble en
Institution—Ali lust.tution. the co-operation fur the
retention of which reflected more honour on the
Noble Chairman tool Ina (((( A compeer., than
even the circumstance of hirtli, of which they had
e right to he prima.— (Loud applamses.)
The chilihen of the ENtablitionent were then in-
troduced. 'fury were snore thin 709 in number,
of both sweet'. Several of them who liwl paired
through their apprenticeship, and were entitled to
premium* for their good conduct, received theist
from the Noble Chair ttttttt with a imitable coimuen-
dation for the propriety of their conduct.
Dorisig this totere4ting procession, pint while the
preiwure of the children created a cam' late stoppage
in the Room-- . .

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Mr. CHARLES BUTLER rose, #11(1 addressed the
Meeting as follows:—" 1 have to request or lily
numerous acid respectable hemers, that they will
favour me with their attention Ihr a few 11l i ll utes,
while I shortly state the object and circumstances
of the Ise 'Winn, which thee are this dal• solicited
to patronise. It was established in 1764. Early
iu that year some charitable persons, who com-
eassionated the lamentable comlition of the poor
Roman Catholic children in this Metropolis, form-
ed themselves into a Society fur their relief, and
called it 7'he Charitohk Swill!, for the Support eff
Poor ( httlreti. Another established for
a corresponding purpose, under the appellation of
The Provitkat Society, was afterwards incorpo-
rated into it. From that time the two Societies
have been styled The Associated Catholic. Charities.
The beginuitig of them was small. At the end of
the year 1764, the whole receipt amounted to
51. 165.: but Providence has blessed the undertak-
ing. It has ever prospered ; and upwards of
two thousand pounds was collected for the As.
sociated Catholic Charities during the last year.
From the annual subscriptions to them, about 700
children receive daily instruction. Of these, more
than s.7ilts are boric of Irish parents ; 250 of the
hove, and 150 of the girls (besides ►rceaviug their
daily instruction) are provided with clothing; 20 or-
phan boys are lodged, clothed, and fed; and, upon
an average, 20 of the children are annually appreu-
heed. Thus, every subscriber to the charities, has
the satisfaction of knowing, that lie contribute,.
daily to the eilucetion and ciiinfott of 700 children,
to whom, otherwise, these Lamaism, would be wholly
unknown. It must add to the pleasure of the sub-
scribers to be informed, that, among the objects
of their bounty, there are several, whose fathers,
bravely fightiog for their King and country, fell at
IVaterloo. The dying moments of these invuluable
men were, palm" inibittered by reflecting on the
destitute condition. hi which they would leave their
children. How it would have cheered their part.
Mg spirits to have foreseen, that hinny months
would not elapse, before their children would
be received into the iiitefesting lilies which you
now behold, in the midst of a numerous meet-
ing, where every eye would survey them with
generous compup,iol.—where every hand would be
ready to contribute to their relief—where the mo►t
exalted of their brethren in faith would be active
in their cause, and it mould he openly and mainly
patronised by sues of their King. I am aware that
the Royal Dukee, to whom particularly 1 allude,
do not, this day, honour us with their C01111.1411y ;
but their hearts., I know, are with ns and with our
charity. To use the word► of the Doke of Kent,
in a letter which I hold in say hands, and winch I
have time permission of his Royal Highness to marl,
' the subject uppermost in his heart, is to give
public proofs of his attachment to religious tolera-
tion, and of the pleasure it affords I • to eueou-
raw the education 411. Alin poor. whetever Ile thei►
relt‘ious creed.' May this noble sentiment be-
come !—May it pubilate his 14 thousand
iiistitutions like the resent !—lii every part of the
globe. may every child of every• creed receive a use-
ful .51141 a virtuous eche:ante' !--And lever, Dever
let it be forgotten, how early and how powerfully
they were supported by the Illustrious Persmiages
I have mentioned. Now let use request you to
cousi.ler, for a hew moweots, what in all probability
would have been the situation of the poor children,
whose cause I now advocate, if they had nut heels
relieved by this Society. Of all the afflicting spec-
tacles which millering humanity presents, none
calls for compassion more than a destitute child in
a corrupt and luxurious metropolis. He sees no-
thing, and hems nothing that is good. or which he.
chits I • to good ; but touch he sees and hears
whirl) forcibly drags him to vice and misery. He
is brought up in ignorance—grovels in the lowest
haunts of idleurw--asew•iates with the vilest of !lu-
men beings—learns nothing but inischievoueness used
litelessuess—and at the elmd of a few years, has such
confi►med habits of evil, that it becomes almost im-
possible to guide hint into the paths of virtue. ' It
Is as easy,' says one of the inspired writers,

6 for the Ethiopian to change his skin, as fur those
to do good who have been acrostomed to tf:, evil.'
That this picture is ant exaggerated, is too clear,
from the result of the late iu•puiries into the state of
the infant poor in this metropolis. lo the !louse of
C moos it has hero as.erted, by one of its most
respectable Members, (N 01.11611.4 not
fewer than 9,000 poor children, wider the age of
liftero years, who have no lawfill
have no menus whatever of subsistence but thiev-
ing lima Inhering, and iivvivtilig thieves ;mil iiille.ers
—Anil who are in regular training under old and
hardened offender*, for comesstill more atrocious.
hose• soul is not appalled at this afflicting awl for-
midable representation ! Surely et ery motive 'of re-
ligion—every feeling of self-preservatium Suggests
to 11. the iweessity of making the greatext exertions
to subdue 11114 111111111.111.4 evil, find prevent its future
rise. Now the only effectual !Maui* Of doing it is
1'11411111%11111g school. like the prrieut. I have pre-
to your cousi.leratiou the distressing suite of
the destitute and isegb tied children in the metro-
polis—pe iiii it me now to contrast with it the con-
dition of the children ethic:Med by thb Associated
Charities, which you at•e this day solicited to pa-
troisise. They are instructed in the religion of their
parents ; they are taught their duty to God and
their neighbour ; they receive as much learning as
is likely to be useful to them, and acgni►e habits
of 'obedience and regularity. Thus they are made
sensible of the value of virtue in this life, autl of its
rewards iii the next. They are enabled to gain
livelihood in comfort and dec_eu(•y ; they are fitted
for creditable employstieuts;' and, if Providence
should please to place greater advantages *Mon
their reach, they are qualified to avail themselves of
them. Perhaps, among these visor little ones,
there is hd/Ille heart pregnant with celestial tire,
and whit only wants early coltivatimi to be lom-elf
elevated into eminence, and to bronco!, in his turn,
an instructor of others. How greatly will the sisb-
scriliers to this Society deserve of virtue mid reli-
gion, if, by their mom., ii single child of this de-
st•ription should 1w saved from loss, awl his Weida
brought into activity. This ci re iiiii stance, however
(though by olu means ahlOgeiller 111110106Alle, for
siowe, for Fergus iiiii for Ludwig. were one day
labourers), ought not, perhaps, to be taro into
general calculation ; but the good domestic, the
obedient apprentice, the laborious journeyinaii, the
attentive clerk, the active agent, and the trusty
steward of has master's property, fluty be reasonably
exprettal flout this onstitiition. %Ve may reasonably
expect henna it, a virtuous and honest ges,eraiiim,
comfortable in themselves, useful to their employ-
ees, creditable in this life, and happy in the next.
Of their hetiefactors such persons are never
forg'tful. awn will the voice of souse or other
of them be heard at the throne of 1-leavcii, in
prayer for those to whose subscriptions to this
Society lw owes his early instruction, hi• decent
end religissm. habits, Isis comfortable subsistence,
the uncle and encouragemeot of his employer, the
favour of !leaven.

And, what a moment will it he for us, if, in the
tremendous day of ;general retribiltion, we shall
',timid some of those tittle fines, then themselves
in possession of the bliss of (leaven, in effuse.
forum of the good education aftwded them by
this Snci. ty, advance to I • who conies to judge
us, fling before him the crown* of their own glory,
in acknowledgment of their owing them to us, and
clinming from loin the performance of the pro-
mises whieh lisfs made to those, who have been
kind to little ciiiiilren in his name! 'Men we shall
know the importance of these little ones--the
incalculable value of charity to them—and whom
we fed, and wliiiin we clothed, and whom we
instructed, when we fed, or clothed, or instructed
these little ones! But I must retail their cause
into their own hands: I must again present their
little orator to yon.—You have seen him humbly
stand before you ! You have heard his little
blameless voice, telling you the distresses of
himself and his companions ; thanking you for
your past kindiless, and beseeching its c 0..-
tinuance. You have welt his little harmless
hands raised to Heaven, to implore its blessings
upon you. You see all their sileut and unpretend-
ing looks. They leave kJ() the Ministers of God—
and to whom can they trust their interests better
theii to the exemplary Catholic Clergy who this
day, with their must respectable and most respected
Pastor at their head, honour us with their company—
whose merits, particulaiiy iu their admirable atten-
tion to the poor child and the poor parent, no
tongue can adequately erlebrute—They leave it, I
say, to these Ministers of Goal, to discourse on
the precepts of charity, and to denounce the woes,
which, both in this life and the lien, await tl e
laird-hearted and uncharitable. Such serious words
as these, 'lever pass the lips of my little clients.
All they venture to say is, we are poor, we are very
poor It is nut our fault that we are so. It was
the holy will of God that we should he born •
poor. It is his holy will that you should have
the means of relieving us. Ile has placed you
between himself and us. Ile bath put into your
hands, the food, the riiiinent, the words of eternal
life, which he 'mends for us. You must not, con-
tiot, will not withhold them from us. lii return fur
your kindness to us, we can only offer you our
prayers. These you shall ever have. And permit
Gentlemen, to suggest (and with the sugges-
tion I shall close my address to you), that the
prayers of poor children are of some value. %%Then
Jules Gensoll, the Chancellor of the Church
mid University of Paris, was on his death-bed,
Isis soul appeared to hr agonized at the thoughts
of his impending dissolution, and the judgments
of God. Astonished and uffnglited by his terrors,
his friends strove to comfort him. They brought
to Isis recollection the great and virtuous actions of
his public life—the services which he had rendered
to the church, of which, during mammy years, lie had
been one of the brightest ornaments—the learned
mid pious works lie had written—his long-protract-
ed old age, spent iu payer and penance. But all
in vain. Ilia terrors continued, and he appeared
to sink under them. At length one of his
friends quitted the room. In about half an hour
be returned. followed by three hundred children, who
were supported and educated by the charity of the
dying man. The little creatures spread themselves
from the threshold of his house to his bed-chamber,
sod there falling oa their kness, raised their hoods
to Heaven, mid cried, •• God bless the soul of
John Gerson." Hope, peace, and confidence re-
turned to Julia Gerson. Now, 0 God !' he et-

cliiimed„in a transport ui hole julnii,ition, Thou
'dust let thy servant depart 'ln peace! The soul
that is aectimpaitteil to eletbity I,y tile prayers of
500 children, may advance talk hulnl,lr conildenee
into the presence of their Father and their God r—
have dime. To your own viit ttttt is and honour-
able helots I Isow tuti.l g I hide charge. Pro-
pitious to them, tit this low' Importaid moment of
their lives:, all • t'aiegtit: Dull frrliu~~."
This Addles. ii as irceivol with great applause.
Lotil t.:l.ll•coutr after pat Mg a hand.. ttttt e com-
pliment to N 1,.. for ids impressive address.
1,10110,441 the hraithof the !owned getttleituto, which
tta+ received with great applause.
The liealtlis t)r. Poynter, and several other
distinguishril were then Kiven from the
Chair, imil received with rapturous approbation.
lire feel the greatest 'pleasure iu stating, that the
rilkry at la-foil:emirs' Hall was crowded by Ladies
of the flea tlistimtion. Ammer them we noticed
ttk .etotiitemi of Slirewsloirc, 1.-atle Clifford, and
%eyelid other I.4tlles, who take an *cure part iu the
promotion clavity and betievoleitce.
to the billet,' gallery, daring the collection, no
Iris than 411 guineas was
and a very considerable sane wits collected iu the
room.

LAW INI'ELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, WESTMINSTER, MAT i 3.

Before his Honour the VICE-CuANCELLOIL

JU DC; AI ENT.

sTI:WA RD, in the Mauer of iTEWAID, a Banktipt.

'lle V ict:-Cit A Pi crt.t.oa observed, that this case
came into av 4 ry narrow compass. It was merely
to say, whether Is bankrupt hail iiii itted an act
of bank roptry. or whetlwr there was a petitioning
creditm'a skid ? The bankrupt lived at Bramp-
ton, and in his tr►de got involved in debt , lie went
to Illusion to advise with a relation how lie should
act ; that friend a based him to call his creditors'
together, and lay Iwfo►e them the state of his al.
fairs; lie did so, and they agreed to compound their
debts. and take ten shillings in the pound, but
afterwards one of them took out a conimission of
bankruptcy, and the Act or Iniolvetwy alleged to
he col iiii itted, wa% the proposal of tell shillings in
the piano]. Ilia II tttttt ur said, it was certainly an
act of bankruptcy in the first bounce, but, after
the proforma' had been accepted, the question was,
alitther it dill not change its nature ? Ile was of
opinion, that it was is question to gO to a Jury, lie
would, therifore, direct an issue to be tried in one
of the Courts of Law to try the farts. this pa►ti-
cular remain fur doing so was, that there bud been
u►uch ems. sweariiig, and it would be improper in
Hil indavadual, even sitting where lie dill, to pro-
-110U111:C that either party had committed petjury.—
Issue directed.