The National Register.
London, England, 1812-06-07 00:00:00

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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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pressed the great body of her people ; with your Roval Highness, they
are convinced of our loyalty and truth be the sacrifices we have made.
Your Royal Highness will, therefore, lie pleased to tier, pt the thanks
of the Irish Catholics—they are the offpling of a generous enthusiasm—
they were the hurrhe offair7 which Ireland presented to her fairest
hope—that lope which once so flattered her with pronti.es of freedom.
They were presented to him when lie stood at the door of the Consti—
tution, supprirted hy the beloved and admired companions of his youth;
whose wisdom and who,e truth commandt d the esteem and love of
their fellow•suhjects. They werc prevnted to that Personage for
whom Ireland wuld have laid L!own her life, in all the pro ligality of a
generous confidenre, and whom even recent events will not ebliterate
from her recollection, when she hears your Royal Highness re-echoing
those sentiments that distinguish her Prince, and professing those prin-
ciples which truly constitute the character of a Patriotic King.
" To his Royal Hizhness the Duke of Sussex,"

ANSWER
OF HIS ROYAL lI:GHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX, TOSENTED
THE
ADDRESS OF THE CATHOLICS OF IRELAND, PRE
BY THE F ‘RI, OF KENMARE, SIR FRANCIS GOOLD, MESSRS.
BURKE, WDONALD, AND SECRETARY HAY, ON THE STH
OF JUNE, 1812.
44 0 ENTLEM EN—To have deserved the approbation of so respectable
a body of his Majesty's subject. must ever afford me the gkest glory,
and the warmest satisfacti in. The continuance of their confidence will
be my duty and steely to preserve. For my part, I can only say, that,
tort in a free country, the sentiments of a liritish subject, the love of
true liberty which consist in the distribution of equal rights. and a fair
participation of the blessings of our Constitution, prompted me to claim
for my fellow-subjects what I considered 'as their due; and which, to
my feelings, must increase in proportion to the numbers with whom I
may share that happint :5. The loyal. respectful, firm, and constitu-
tional manner in which the Ca•boiics laid their representations at the
foot of the Throne. as veil as b. fore the two Houses of Parliament,
called forth my admin,tion. and demon td my exertions in their behalf.
Continue tie same system. Gentlemen, and your cause must ultimately
t' it as long as reaso" can dispel ignorance, and that justice dwels
in tl‘es countrN:. Able Attli an approach to the Throne is newer denied
to a British subject who supOicate- for a redress of grievances, still we
cannot immeditely leiJ.n ti r causes. em from thence. Ca-
tolic; mu st nota, theref,re, ha-tily conch inentn'e that becat:se theirTh Pee ti i'ni
h
L:ti ' of been instantly acquiesced in, their claim has cousequently met
with a positive refusal Pt rhaps even this delay, which, as an inelivi-
dual I most deeply deplore, increa•e the favour when gri.nted.
121 C for its final success, I revel- can despa-r while one of the family to
whi la I l ave the ho• our of bel.:eging sit's on the Throne of these United
Ft. gdoms. Most happily do I feel in reflecting., that it has 1)f-en most
fortunately reseried fur one of the House of fianoyer to accomplish
what aPr nee of Yassay w:., rot permitted to t ffeet. If the Irish Ca-
tholit s terese- ye this moderate. calm. and steady, but manly urse,
their ,x, I eta iot.s must be flea' ly c-owred with the complete att:liiiment
of their wishes "I'n hav' cent:taint& d towards such a welcome event,
.viii ever be my pride and g,l,:ry ; and if my words can have any weight
with ti em, allow me to 301, a similar conduct on their part will unite
us closer tociether, arcs wi:l increase still more my never ceasing t mica-
Vuurs fur su desiri:ble an ol)ject.
(Stgred) (4 AUGUSTUS FREDERICK.
-ington Palace, June 5, 1812."

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JUNE 7.

inhabitants sustainer' considerable damage from the violence of Ifs- eur•
rent, which carried every thing be tore it, pigs, fowl, duck., corr , fet ;
every heuse, not on an elevated shuation, was three 4)/' tour feet ;eel, r
water; most of the timber belonging to Mr. 'Bush, the principal timber-
' merchant, was washed down the stream three iriiee towards Mattudt :..
, "l'he greatest sufferer was Dr. Brooks, who had most of the stock or his
• shop entirely carried away ; but the chief cause of regret is the liss ei
the handsome bridge, erected at a great expense about four years since'
• in the centre of the town, which was a great ornament to the place.
I The waters are now subsided in a great measure. No lives were loet,
except those of cattle and poultry.
The University of Cambridge was thrown into great consternation on
yesterday weak, by the apearance of fire In one of the epartments (.f
Trinity College, at nine o clock in the evening ; it was, however, extin
had
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guished without damaging any other part of the building. There
been no fire or light in the apartment tar the previous twenty-ft,ur
hours ; and this is the third or fourth instance of fire breaking eel in
, different Colleges of this University, wit hout any di.scoverbla
Much serious investigation has consequently taken place, but hitheito
without effect.
Friday week, during a severe thunder storm, three boys, two of theta
twelve, the other eleven years of age, who had been tending gee.- in a
field a few miles from Lincoln, were unfortunately killed by the ;light-
ning, while seated together in a hovel, to which they had retired on the
storm approaching. Another lad, who was with them, was scorched on
the arm and thigh ; on running home and intormine leis mother, the
neighbours returned to the spot, w here they found them all lying dead.
The lightning fell on their heads, and ran down their bodies, burning
1 their necks, shoulders, and breasts, in a dreadful manner, causing many
large brown sores.
DREADFUL CATASTROPHE.—On Monday, the iSSith ult. at clever' r.
the forenoon, one of the most terrible accidents on r, cord in tl I
tory of the carries, took place at Felling, near Gat( sheati, in ti,s
County of Durham, in a mine- belonging to Mr. Brandlieg, \t.
which before was the admiration of the district or the ex celleoce 01 tit
air and arrangements. Neatly the whole Of tne•Worknien were belt c:,
the second set having gone down before the first had come up, when a
double blast of hydrogen gas took place, and set the mine on tire, forc-
ing up such a volume of smoke, as darkened the' air to a consideraole
I distance, and nattered an immense quantity of small coal from the sis
cast shaft. In this calamity, ninety-three men and' boynaps perislosl, cf
which eighty-six are still in the mink. which tont itmem upreachaltle.
The few men who were saved happened to be Working in a•dist aut. part
1\ of the colliery, to which the fury of the explosion diet not reach.
CHILD S rt.% LING.—A most atrocious inststice of depravity ()MIA
I a few days since, in the neighbourhood of l'aunton, Somerset:l,n( ia
; the deprivation of a child, from its' miserable parents, through the ;ea
1 fice of an Old woman. She applied to the poor people, wh ) live la it
i! cottage near Taunton, fur liberty to warm and rest herself. r-; ta;
i granted, and the next day she came again, and stole away a fine ialia,t,
i iabout three years old. The diem:vied fattier, riding all night, over tltc
1 cuuntry,in quest of his child, luckily met • the old hag coming into:he
town of Chard. They had staid in the fields all night, and the poor ea
fant had been beaten severely for not calling the wretch, mother. Its
clothes and shoes had been taken away, and the committed of te auniaii
•I t monster was to go a begging with the child. She is to Leila-

fail.