The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-30 00:00:00

SPORTING INTO LLIG ENCE.

BUNTINGFORD HUNT RACES, TUESDAY, MAI* 2s.
Hunters' Stakes of lOgs each. Heat.
Mr. Villehois' Sadler - - - 1 5 2 1
Capt. Ilunter's Skewball - - - 4 1 3 2
Mr. Bouverie's Rattle - - - 3 2 4 c'r
Mr. Rous's Myrtle - - - 2 3 1 3
Mr. Woodward's Doubtful - - 5 4dr
Major Benson's Juliana - - - 6 dr.
Mr. Hardaere's Teddy - - 7 dr.
Mr. Smith's Pilot - - - - fell.
After the heat, even on Sadler ; after the second heat, 6 to 4
on Myrtle; and after the third heat, Skewball was the fa-
vourite.

Sweepstakes of lOgs each, for half-bred horses.
Mr. Lake's ch. h. Graceless - - -
Mr. Houldsworth's Moonshine - .. -
Six started. A good race between the two.

PIGEON SHooTINH.—The grand match between the Ash-
ton and the Arundel Clubs, eleven from each, for a stake of
300 sovereigns, was decided on Tuesday, on Crawley Common,
and much money was pending upon the issue. The bird was
let loose at the usual distance of 21 yards from the gun, and
the boundary for bagging eighty yards. The order of shooting
was as follows, at nine birds each :
ASHTON CLUB. Killed. ARUNDEL CLUB. Killed.
Mr. Henderson - 9 Mr. Anthony - 8
Mr. Wells - - 8 Mr. Fisher - - 8
Mr. Forbes - - 7 Capt. Montague - 8
Mr. Waddington - 7 Mr. Roach - - 7
Mr. Knowlys - 6 Mr. Fielder - - 7
Mr. Nash - - 6 Mr. Hernott - - 6
Mr. Meggot - - 5 Mr. Roberts - - 6
Mr. Gee -, - 5 Mr. Lc gat - - 5
Mr. French - - 5 Mr. Montague - 5
Mr. Harrison - ' 5 Mr. Bouverie - 4
i
Mr. Mayhew - 4 Mr. Laurence - 3

67 I 67
For want of birds, it was agreed that the three first on each
side should go on to decide the match, at five birds each, and
it was won by the Ashton Club killing 12 ; the Arundel
Club 11.

SPORTING EXTRAORDINAR T.-----A novel race
took place on Monday afternoon. Precisely at five o'clock,
an eight-oared galley, containing eight picked watermen,
started from the centre arch of Vauxhall Bridge, to row to the
Red House at Battersea, against a Gentleman of sporting
celebrity, mounted on a fine blood hunter, who started
from the Pimlico side of the bridge, crossed and took the Nine
Elms road. The race was won by the horse beating the boat
one minute and a half. The tide ws.a running strong up,
and the wind blew in the opposite direction, otherwise it is sup-
posed the waterinen would have been successful. The wager
was for a considerable sum. The Gentlemen of the Funny
Club were out, and the River was covered with boats.

Green peas were very plentiful in Plymouth market last week,
and sold at Bd. per gallon.
Yesterday a female, residing in Greenhill-
rents, Smithfield, met with an accident. As she was reaching
out of the two-pair window, she overbalanced herself aad
was precipitated out. She alighted upon the roof of the
kitchen of Clement's eating-house, which gave way, and let
the greatest part of her body through, but she suspended her-
self by her arms. The cook, at that moment busily engaged
in takizT up the dinner, was not a little alarmed at this n..
ceremonious and singular intrusion. Finding, however, that
her aerial visiter remained stationary, she called for assist-
ance, and the good woman was soon extricated from her awk-
ward situation. What is remarkable, the only injury she ex-
perienced was a slight contusion on the elbow; had she but
fallen a few feet farther she must have been precipitated through
An Irish wit, who was stinted by his physi- a sky-light into a copper of boiling water.
clan to a pint of wine, being reproached with drinking four Att Egyptian mummy, forfeited for the non..
bottles of claret, and bid to stick to his allowance, replied,
`• So of duties, was sold at the Custom-house,
So I do; my pint of Madeira is my salary, and the rest is •
my perquisite." Plymouth, on Friday last) for 4351.

ONDON JOURNALS.

IFITIIIaT3 PROM Ttkr., DAILY MORNISG PArras,
Mug 30, 1322.

• [BalTis PftESS.II
'The price of tea has risen in consequence of
the • sospusiOrkkf the China trade. This may
licoount for the extvuardinary importance attached
tt.t the unfortunate of which it is the result.
ArriwAK civilised nations an accidental rencontre,
artended.with- the loss of two or three lives,
wouki not threaten :ttie destruction of their
friendly rel,ations.. -.lt would seem,. however,
that_ in the case of violent death, the Chinese
acknowledge WO distinction. The doctrines of
,manslaughter; justifiable homicide, &c. all those
niceties of the English law are unknown to
;',:*rl ; and every case of violent death by the
hands of a:foreigner is to be treated and punish-
ed as wilful murder. This was the law lately
dealt out to a poor American sailor. A pot was
thrown overboard, by the unfortunate man, by
which a Chinese woman was killed, and he expi-
ated the-offence with his life. The fate of this
poor man is as much, to be pitied- as the officer
who delivered him up a sacrifice. to his enemies is
to he detested and despised. This dastardly con-
duct of the Americans, no doubt, encouraged
the Chinese to expect a-like subserviency from
the gallant Captain of the Topaze, but we _re-
find with very different success. It
would have been
,a foul stain upon the British
navy had Captain Richardson yielded to the bar-
barous demand. It may be said, that in our com-
merce with China all due deference should be
hewn to the habits and prejudices.of the people.
'This may be a very good rule among Civilised na-
liens, but we cited a case yesterday from Anson's
Voyages, to prove that England never showed this
complaisance to the barbarous habits and prejudi-
ces of Chien. It was reserved for America to offer
up this sacrifice to commercial lucre in abandon-
ing its unfortunate seaman to Chinese arrogance
and prejudice. We regret, but are not surprised
.at it. The Americans now drive a most success-
ful trade with China. It was through the Ame-
rican Papers we first received an account of the
fracas with the Topaze ; and, we doubt not,
commercial speculation has found it as useful
there as it is felt in the London markets. It
happens however, unfortunately for American
rivalry, that our money and our manufactures
;Any be had direct from this country on more ad-
antageous terms than through the medium of
.America, and. as those monies and manufactures
- thus supplied to' China are much more valuable
to It than its tea is to• us, there is no great reason
to apprehend that the just and humane conduct
of the gallant Captain of the Topaze has pro-
&t ed a permanent rupture between the two
countries.

[NEW TIMES.]
Consols for the Account opened yesterday
morning at 801, and in the course of the day
rose to I. Towards the close of the market, the
price declined to its old standard, in consequence
of the new Loan which it is expected will shortly
come into the market. This Loan, report says,
is .for Two Millions and a Half Sterling, and it iti
raised for the service of the Russian Government.
Six.eminent Mercantile Houses in the City are
flamed as the takers. The sum is not of sufficient
magnitude to produce any very decided effect on
'"the price of our Funds : nor can any inference
be fairly raised from it as to the probability cf a
war.

[THE TIMES.]
American papers to the 4th inst. are arrived.
The first.article of importance which they con-
tain is a 'protest of the Spanish Ambassador to
the United. States of America, on account of
the President's Message to Congress, proposing
the recognition "of the independence of the
;Spanish Colonies. 'The worthy Ambassador
argues the cause of his country very well, and
very uselessly. He reproaches the American
'Government with Ingratitude for kindnesses re-
ceived from the Court of Spain. All Republics
are ungrateful, Machiavelli says. Some of the
favours, however, received by America from
SPErin, were favours which the latter could
lriot convenietrtlY withhold : one of them, also, is
thi; oblivion of injuries which Spain had not the-
'Oliver to Intnish. The American Secretary of
State replies 'very coolly, that more just views of
the keient condition of the colonies will make
tht-Ambassadpr change his tone. It is curious
that nearly a month before these discussions took
pace at. Washington, the Cortes at Madrid had,
by What it calls a dittamen, determined to listen
to the propositions of the trans-Atlantic Govern-
ments, as belonging to independent States, upon
thesimple condition which humanity enjoins—
that all the Spaniards residing in New Spain,
whether born, there or in Europe, should hav
free power to remove with their property.

[MORNING HERALD.] •
The question of peace or war is so deeply in-
teresting in its issue to all Europe, that it is im-
possibleto lose sight of it. At the same time,
the "accounts are so vague, contradictory, and
biassed by private interests, that it is scarcely
possible to reach even a faint degree of proba-
bility in judging it. The accounts in the Ger-
man Papers are but too generally dictated by
views of• private interests. The rumour of the
day serves the purpose of him who fabricates
at"circulates it, though it 'should be exposed
the "day after ; and, from the controuned state
of the German 'press, and the connection
between Ministers and capitalists, particular
parties have.-the gave wholly in their own hands
The last accounts leave the main point still un-
elueidated,—viz: whether the Turkish Govern-
ment, in its Note of the 20th of April, has con-
sented to withdraw its troops immediately from
the Provinces. This report hrst reached us from
Vienna—a very doubtful source ; and it is ve-
hernentlyContradieted, but only in private letters,
or other articles of no authority. Those who
affect to believe that the Turkish Government
iota lowered its -tone, impute it to the strong
remonstrances of -the Ambassadors , of Eng-
/and and :Austria. But these Ambassadors
be.fore in a state which must have drawn

from them as decisive language. Yet it did not
affect the conduct or tone of the Divan, even be-
fore the Divan had committed itself by the deci-
sive Note of the 28th February, which was issued
under the solemn sanction of the Chiefs of the
Turkish Empire, and was, morever, a strong ap-
peal to the fanaticism of the people. It appears
to us that, considering the obstinacy characteris-
tic of the Turks, and trie formidable sanction of na-
tional opinion and popular prejudice under which
they issued the Note of the 28th of February,
nothing but the loss of a great battle, or even of
a whole campaign, could be an adequate ground
for a change of councils in the Divan.

[MORNING POST.]
The last American Papers have brought us a
brief but interesting correspondence between the
Spanish Minister at Washington, and Mr. Adams,
the Foreign Secretary of the United States, on
the proposed recognition of South American
Independence. The letter of the former gives a
melancholy indication of the crest-fallen situation
of Spain. It calls to mind past forbearance and
kindness to the United States, and implores
justice now as a merciful act of gratitude for
that conduct. Farther than this the Spanish
Minister scarcely dares to venture. He knows
too well the disjointed condition of • his coun-
try, and the consequent impotency of its Go-
vernment, to menace any -serious alternative
when there is no power to execute It. -But still
every line which he writes is pregnani, with deep
felt injury, while his only hope seetilijo be not
in the inherent integrity of the United States it-
self, but in the cunning apprehensions lemay en-
tertain of provoking the censure of other nations.
This very general and declamatory mode of
arguing the question with Mr. Adams is, when
compared with the dry, Shylock sort of reasoning
employed by the latter, a sufficient proof of the
extreme difference of strength in the t-Aro parties.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The convoy, consisting of the John VI. and
four transports, having the Portuguese troops on
board, sailed for Lisbon at the time the Superb
was leaving the harbour of Rio Janeiro. The
troops were originally 1,600 in number, and
about 400 remained behind, chiefly by means of
desertion. The Prince Regent, in person, was seen
going about in a boat in the harbour the day the
ships were under weigh. The Commander, in the
name of the respective corps, took an oath of
obedience to the Prince Regent and his Go-
vernment ; but the prejudice against the troops
being landed, and the danger that must have en-'
sued, in case of altercations with the Brazilians,
was so great, that it was not deemed prudent for
them to land, unless in small parties and un-
armed.—The revenue of the present government
is almost confined to the resources the province
of Rio Janeiro affords, as none of the others,
with the exception of St. Paul's, have joined.
The Prince has consequently felt himself com-
pelled to curtail his expences very greatly, so that
he himself,and all the persons depending on him,are
living with the greatest economy. What will be the
determination of the other provinces was not
known, for the opinions and wishes of most of
them are at variance with each other. Two
Deputies to the Cortes in Portugal, from Minas
G ernes, were at Rio when the late changes took
place there, waiting for a conveyance to Lisbon.
They prolonged their stay, and it soon became
evident that they had no intention to proceed
on their destination. As soon as their consti-

tuents learnt this, they sent them word that unless
they proceeded on the mission for which they
had been elected, fresh Deputies would he chosen
in their stead, and this induced them to embark
for Lisbon.—M. Bonifacio Andrade, who is a
native of the province of St. Paul's, and brother
to the Deputy in the Cortes of Portugal, who
lately had a serious altercation in the Congress
respecting Brazilian affairs, enjoys the entire
confidence of the Prince ; and, indeed, it is he
who almost moves the •whole of tire political ma-
chine in Rio Janelro.,

We understand that the Managers of the Stock
Exchange, always anxious to promote the views
of Government, have determined to erect a desk
or pulpit, for the sale of the new Long An-
nuities, immediately opposite to that in which the
broker to the Commissioners for the Redemp-
tion of the National Debt now buys such Stock,
and that a clause is to be introduced into the
new Act to allow the respective brokers of the
two Commissions to deal with each other, as the
one will always be a buyer and the other always
a seller ; this will greatly simplify this simple
transaction, and, what is technically called the
turn of the market being thus saved, there will
be no new expence to the public,excepting for the
management of the machinery.—(ibid.)

MURDER OF MRS. DONATT Y.—Yesterday Mills
the constable, who was one of the first persons that entered the
house of Mrs.Donatty after the discovery of her murder,attended.
beforeMr.MlNsuuLl., and produced the sack and the case con-
taining the sheath of the instrument supposed to have perpe-
trated the horrid act, to which he affixed his seal and signed his
name upon them, all for the purpose of identifying them at
any future time. They were then handed to Taunton and
Vickery, two of the principal officers, who are assisting Mr.
Taylor, the vestry-dark, in the pursuit of the murderer.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.-011 the 6th• inst. as I
Mr. Ferguson, excise officer-In the lower district of Strathglass,
was searching for private stills in the romantic part of the pro-
perty of Struy, opposite the farm of Deannie, his foot slipped,
when looking over a precipice, and he was precipitated to the
bottom, which was very rugged. His fall was fortunately
broken by a bush, of which, being an active vigorous young
man, he had caught hold, tearing it out by the roots, when ,
passing in his flight midwaybetween earth and air; and though
he had fallen from a height of between 60 and 70 feet, he
escaped with comparatively little injury.
A caravan arrived at Perth last week, in which
was exhibited a horse, modestly advertised to be " one of the
largest horses in the world." For some cause or other, this
noble animal was the other day arrested ; and the officers
of the law, to make " assurance doubly sure" put a new
lock on the door of admission, fastened, and left it, as
they conceived, perfectly safe. It so happened, how-
ever, there was an opening in the other end of the cara-
van, which had escaped the vigilance of the officers, and
through this aperture the showman contrived, during the still-
ness of the night, to take out his noble charger, whereon he
mounted, and, like another Don Qoixote, set out in search of
farther adventures in more favourable quarters. The lengthen=
ed visages of the officers of justice may be easier conceived than
described, when, on their arrival next morning at the caravan,
they foundit. 'void of its inmate.—( Edinkirgl4 Courant-)

FOR THE SUN.

LETTER. X.
MR. EDlTOR—Although I doubt not, from the

authorities cited in my ninth Letter, having
satisfied every candid Reader that the insurrec-
tion in Ireland, in the year 1641, was not a
sudden burst, from despair, of the mere rabble
in the province of Ulster, but a long-projected,
deep-laid, well-organized rebellion, planned and
brought to maturity by Priests, Jesuits, and
Friars—that all the Romish Lords and Gentle-
men had been concerned in it, though those of
the Pal' did not at first shew themselves, from
sinister motives—and that, so far from " such
violences being contrary to the Catholic Doc-
trine," " the infallible head of the Church"
countenanced and encouraged by every means in
his power, even by granting a mittitnus to heaven,
not only the rebellion, but the massacre of the
Protestants :—Yet I shall now adduce some

further proofs, for the purpose of exposing, as
much as it is. possible, the unparalleled falsehood,
malignity, and audacity, of this sanctified libeller,
—in the hope that it may convince the British
nation, and if it be not too presumptuqus, the
Legislature also, not only from the nature of this
work, but from the indefatigable pains used to
disseminate the poison, " that the:old itomisli
superstition is as rank in Ireland as it was in the

year 1641."
The supreme (rebel) Roman Catholic Council
of Kilkenny, composed of Ecclesiastics, Lords,
and Commons, sent Sir Nicholas Plunket, and
the titular Bishop of Ferns, as Ambassadors to
the Court of Rome ; and, in the third article of
their instructions, it is stated that cc the confede-
" rate Catholics having raised arms for the free-
" dom of religion, do intend, in the first place,
" that you let his Holiness know their resolution
" to insist upon such concessions and agreements
" in matters of religion, and for the security
" thereof, as his Holiness shall approve of, and
"be satisfied with. You are to represent to his
" Holiness that the confederates think fit to
" insist upon, as security for such agreement in
" religion as his Holiness will determine, that
" the Lord Lieutenant, Lord Deputy, or other
" Chief Governor or Governors, from time to
cc time, should be Roman Catholics. In case his
" Holiness will not be pleased to descend to such
. .

" conditions as might be granted in matters of
" religion, then you are to solicit considerable
" aid, whereby to maintain war. You are to
" make application to his Holiness for his being
" protector of this kingdom, and by special
" instance to endeavour his acceptance thereof."
Lord Castlehaven,'a member of the Supreme
Roman Catholic Council of Kilkenny, and a Ge-
neral in the rebel army, of course well acquainted
with all the springs and movements of the rebels,
in his work, subsequently published, thus ex-
presses himself as to that rebellion; and, were
there no other authority to rest upon, I should
think his paramount to that of the Priest.—" It
" is true, that forty years continual and flourish-
" ing race, in all obedience to the English laws,
- - -

froni the last of Queen Elizabeth to 164

" seemed to carry a fair outside, as if all those
'4 national animosities had been utterly extin-
'' guished—but, alas ! the old leaven still fer-
" mented inwardly on one side, and among that
'4 side the fire was but covered under hot embers :
" the Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel, and the
" Councils of Spain and Rome, and the Irish
" monasteries and seminaries in so many countries
" of Europe, and very many of the Churchmen
" returning home out of them, and chiefly the
44 titular Bishops, together with the superiors of
44 regular orders, took an effectual course, under
" the specious colour of religion, to add new
" fuel to the burning coals, and prepare them for
44 a flame on the first opportunity ; which, who-
" ever did not see at the beginning of this re-
" hellion, as many did not—by observing what
" extraction, or w hat names, all the first appearers
" in it were of, and how particularly, of the
" whole hundred that were designed for seizing
" the Castle of Dublin, there was not so much as
" one person of British blood, connexion, or name,
" among them—might nevertheless, and without
" the help of a multiplying glass, most clearly see
" in it the procedure of the war."
On the assembling of Parliament, it was dis-
covered that forty-seven members, all Papists,
were actually concerned in the rebellion, on
which the seats of those rotten Members, men-
tioned by name in the Journals, were declared
to be vacated. On the 22d of June, 1641, in
the same session, the House of Commons, after
reciting, that " Forasmuch as many Members of
" this House, betraying the trust reposed in them
" by the Commonwealth, have treacherously
" shewed themselves privy conspirators and actors
" in this horrid rebellion.—Resolved, that no per-
" son now a Knight, a Citizen,or Burgess, for this
44 Parliament, and now present, shall be deemed a
" Member of this House any longer,unless he shall
" take the oath of supremacy," enacted in the
second year of Queen Elizabeth : and this was
the first attempt made to deprive Irish Roman
Catholics of political power, notwithstanding the
numerous rebellions their bigotry had occasioned.
On the Restoration, " an Act was made in the
" fourteenth and fifteenth years of King Charles
" 11. for keeping and celebrating the three-and-
" twentieth day of October, as an anniversary
4' thanksgiving in this kingdom ;" the preamble to
which states,—" Whereas many malignant and
" rebellious Papists and Jesuit Friars, summary
Priests, and other superstitious orders of the
" Popish pretended Clergy, most disloyally,
" treacherously, and wickedly, conspired to sur-
" prise his Majesty's castle of Dublin, his Ma-
" jesty's principal fort of this Kingdom of Ire-
" land, the city of Dublin, and all other cities
" and fortifications of this realm; and that all
" the Protestants and English throughout the
" whole Kingdom that would not join with them,
" should be cut off; and finally, by a general
" Rebellion, to deprive our late Sovereign Lord,
44 of ever-blessed memory, King Charles 1., of
" this his ancient and rightful Crown and Sove-
, " reignty of this Kingdom, and to possess them-
selves thereof : All which was by the said
" Conspirators plotted, and intended to be acted
4( on the threeand tw:ntieth day of October, in

cc the year of our Lord God 1641,—a Conspt-
" racy so generally inhuman, barbarous, and
46 cruel, as the like was never before heard of in
" any age or kingdom."
In excuse for " the mere rabble of the pro-
vince of Ulster," who rose in rebellion, Pastori-
ni says—" when people are driven to despair by
" excessive hardship add oppression, and even
" threatened with utter extirpation, what won-
" der if an insurrection follows ?" In opposition

to the first part of the apology, I shall quote Sir
John Temple, who says,—" Thus was the pre-
" sent Government most sweetly tempered, and
" carried on with great lenity and moderation ;
" and the Lords Justices and Council wholly,
‘C departing from the rigour of former courses,
" did gently unbend themselves into a happy and
" just compliance with the reasonable desires of
" the people."—" Moreover, the Romish Ca-
" tholics now privately enjoyed the free exer-
" cise of their Religion throughout the whole
" Kingdom, according to the doctrine of the
" Church of Rome." As for the affected dread

of 4C utter extirpation," that is a Popish trick,

which has been practised previous to every re-
bellion, for the double purpose of rousing the
passions of those who might not otherwise join
in the conspiracy, and as an excuse for those atro-
cities they had predetermined to commit. Har-
ris, in his history of the Life of King William,
" of immortal memory," informs us, that. it had
been adopted in the years 1641 and 1688: and
we learn from the third volume of State Tracts,

describing the events which had occurred in the
reigns of Charles 11. and his bigotted infatuated
brother, " that, the Irish pretended that the Pro-
" testants assembled in great numbers in the
" night-time; and to gain more credit, the vul-
" gar Irish were instructed to forsake their houses,
" and to hide every night in the bogs, pretend-
" ing a fear that the English would, in that dead
" season, cut their throats,—a practice as notori-
" ous among them as unheard of among Protest-
" ants, and for which there neither was nor could
"be the least foundation." The same device
has also been practised, at different periods, with-
in the last thirty years, by propagating reports
that Orangemen were to assemble on particular
nights, for the purpose of murdering all the Ito-
rnish inhabitants.

What might have emboldened Pastorini to pub-
lish so palpable a falsehood respecting the rebel-
lion of 1641, was, that there was no evidence,
for many years, on the Journals of the Irish House
of Commons, that such an event had occurred ;
the manuscript of the proceedings of that House,
from the year 1641 to the year 1647, having been
lost in the confusion of the times. However,

these important documents were discovered, after
a lapse of considerably more than a century, and
have been inserted in every edition of the Irish
Journals that has been printed since the year
1764, of which it is probable he was not aware.
But what opinion can we form of the loyalty to
a Protestant King, and of the " good will" to
their Protestant fellow-subjects—of the Romish
Bishops of the present day—and of those that are
called " Catholic Leaders," who have counte-
nanced the republication and dissemination of
such a farrago of bigotry, virulence, and false-
hood ? At the very moment it was issuing from
the Press in this city, with Doctor Murphy's
name at the head of the list of subscribers, he
and the rest of the'conclave were offering to their
Sovereign their " zealous devotion," with assu-
rances " earnestly to impress upon the con-
" sciences of the whole Roman Catholic commu-
" munity, the holy commandment of our Blessed
" Redeemer, of ' rendering unto Caesar the things
" which are Cesar's, and unto God the things
" which are God's ;'" and truly it must be al-
lowed that they have taken a❑ effectual method
of inculcating the duty of obedience to an here-
tical King—of submission to the laws—and of
charity to their neighbours, by recommending
Pastorini's pretended History of the Christian
Church to the perusal of "the whole Roman Ca-
ho lic community :" for, be it remembered, that
Doctor Troy has openly patronised the work at
Dublin, and, besides Doctor Murphy's respec-
table name gracing the list of subscribers in the
bookseller's shop, he has caused a notice to be
put up in the north Chapel, informing those that
may wish to purchase, that a few copies remain
unsold.—Quere, however, is there not a little
mental reservation implied in this application of
the words used by our Lord, when he was tempt-
ed by the unbelieving Jews—considering that all
othodox Believers regard the Sovereign Pontiff'
as "God on earth," (so the Bishop of Grenada
declared him to be,)—ascribe to him Divine At-
tributes—and pay to him, a fallible creature, ado-
ration, due only to the Deity ?
I shall now give another notable instance of
Popish candour, loyalty, and modesty, which
has reference, indeed, to the Rebellion of 1641,
and therefore properly introduced in this Letter.
The confederate Catholics,'yclep'd" The Supreme
Roman Catholic Council of Kilkenny," whose
treasons contributed not a little to the embar-
rassment and melancholy fate of Charles 1.,
presented two dutiful and humble addresses
to the Rump Parliament—one in 1652, and
another in the following year, in which they
declared, that—" they did really submit, and
" put their consciences, lives, and fortunes,
" as in a sanctuary, under the protection of
" this Commonwealth, having ever since walk-
" ed peaceably and in due conformity to the
" Government, without the least defection there-
" in. That, contrary to your known pious inten-
" tions, manifested in the said act for settling
" Ireland, they do apprehend that they may
" be postponed or neglected : That several of
4' the Petitioners are able to make appear their
" constant good affection and adherence to the
" Commonwealth, to whom a competent time
" may be allowed to make out the same is most
C 4 humbly supplicated." Shortly after the Resto-
ration, these very men petitioned Charles 11., to
be restored to their estates and liberties, plead.
ing their loyalty to the late King, his Father,
and how much they had suffered upon that ac-
count under Cromwell. Sir Nicholas Plunket
was appointed to. plead for himself and others
before the King and Privy Council ; when the
Earl of Orrery produced a paper, which
they could not deny to be in their hand-

writing, and which contained instructions fo 511
Nicholas Plunket 'and the Popish Bishop of
Ferns (I have already given an extract from this
curious document), to offer the kingdom of Ire-
land first to the Pope, secondly to the King of
Spain, thirdly to the King of France, fourthly to
the Duke of Lorrain, and finally, if all refused,
to any other Catholic Prince.
I am aware that faith can do much ; but as I
have no great faith in the alleged miracles within
the last eight centuries, I am at a loss to recon-
cile the apparent contradiction or mystery of
" their submitting and putting their consciences,
lives, and fortunes, as in a sanctuary, under the
Commonwealth, and walking peaceably and in
due conformity to the (Usurper's) Government"
—with " their loyalty to the late King" (Charles
the First) ; nor yet their instructions to Sir
Nicholas Plunket and the Popish Bishop of
Ferns, as proven against them, with either.---'.
They certainly kept up the farce of alic-
glance at the time they were in open rebellion
and, in the oath they framed to suit their own
circumstances, they promised " to bear faith and
allegiance to his Majesty, his heirs, and succes"
sors, as far as they may :" but these five last
words fully shew the nature and extent of their
allegiance to their Sovereign.—The modest terms
of " Emancipation," which they demanded from
him in his distress, I have reserved for another
occasion and another letter.
Cork, May 1, 1822.

SIDNEY.

IRELAND.

( From the Limerick Chronicle of Saturday.)

The Directors-General of Inland Navigation
have intimated to the Lord Bishop, that they have directed
their engineer to ascertain what works are necessary on the line
of navigation, so as to give immediate employment to the poor
of Limerick. We therefore hope that the Canal bank, which
is most desirably situated as a promenade, may be put into

thorough repair.
The officers and privates of the 39th regiment, whose head;
quarters are at present in Tralee, have generously contributed
a day's pay to the relief of the Irish poor.
Through the munificence of the resident Gentry and Lana'
holders in and about Kilmallock, 249 families, averaging fiv°
in each family, are prevented from starving by the distribution
of oatmeal, to some at a very reduced price, to others gratis. ,
In the town of Gort, oatmeal and soup are daily distributed
to the numerous poor, by liberal subscriptions entered into by
Viscount Gort, and the inhabitants of the vicinity.
Oatmeal is at present, and has been selling this week,
Broadford, county of Clare, at the reduced price of one pennY
per pottle. This has been effected by the Gentlemen of t11';
neighbourhood, who are neither numerous nor wealthy, fool,'
ing among themselves a fund sufficient for the purpose.
The Right Honourable Sir Benjamin Bloomfield has under:
taken the relief of his extensive tenantry in the neighbourhooa
of Newport in the most benevolent and judicious manner.--"
Besides purchasing a vast quantity of seed potatoes, he WI
directed a large bog to be drained, which will give incesssl.l4.,
employment to one hundred men; and has also ordered di'
ferent roads through his estates to be repaired.
On Tuesday night, Joseph Furlong, Esq., accompanied by
A
Lieut. Percy and a patrol of the 3rd Light Dragoons, proceed',
from Newcastle to the mountains, where they were met by
detachment of the Rifles, quartered in Abbeyfeale, under tb`e
command of Captain Cox ; having traversed the entire rang,
of mountains in that quarter, they succeeded in apprehenLlMl
four men, charged with divers offences, whom they lodged neit
morning in the Bridewell of Newcastle.
A pike-head, on a most murderous construction, but rudelY„
executed (as supposed from a common blacksmith's forge/ w
handed over to Godfrey Massey, Esq., by the Rev. Mr. 1 ocgh,
ford, P.P. of Rathcahill, a few days ago. • essiß
The want of employment has created the utmost distr
this town ; groups of half-starved poor tradesmen and labourer,
are continually to be seen staring each other in the face.es
six o'clock in the morning a number of most wretched spit„
may be perceived, waiting to see who may employ them; u'qv
fully appear the emblem of starvation. Many will inevitaw `,
perish ere relief is administered, and a great many poor house
keepers are famishing, unkn own to the great. of
ExNis, MAY 23.—As instances of the deplorable statediii
wretchedness to which the people are reduced in partS Of for
county, we are enabled, upon sufficient authority, to vouch
the following :—The one is., that a poor man, for the pu_rpcne,
gaol,
of procuring support, handed to the turnkey of th
own committal, contented to resign his liberty, top rocure,t! Y_
so doing, a sufficiency to preserve existence. The other is
case of a poor woman, who, driven to the last extremity,, "he
dared she would enforce food from the Gentlemen oret
county, and, within five minutes, she was brought b
Magistrate and committed for theft.

We feel gratified in communicating, that the officers, n°.lltri;
commissioned officers, and privates, of the 25th regiment; X 421•
King's Own Borderers,) now lying here, have subscribe, the .
sterling, through Messrs. Lane and Co. for the relief 0' uoi
distressed poor in the south and west of Ireland ; which
14.
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Capt. Biddulph remitted to Dublin on Tuesday last, for
above purpose—( Dublin Correspondent, May 21.)

CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday an lociueSt 00
was held at the Bull's Head, York-street, Westminster'oi-
the body of Mrs. Martha Quigley. It appeared from th
dente that the deceased, in company with a friend, had VS.'O,l.
Battersea on Monday, and had been taking a view of s
nit
mill in that neighbourhood. Indiscreetly venturing v3° The
the sails of the mill, the deceased was struck by then•
shock, though extremely violent, was not immediately fn 0,
The deceased was conveyed in a boat to the Westroinster.a
firmary, where she shortly after expired. The Jury returo`
verdict of—Accidental Death.

hojot
On Tuesday forenoon, a little girl, of am,-.1,
five years of age, belonging to Edinburgh, wihat
amusing herself with her brother on the stairepr
the end of the pier of Leith, fell into the vs;
and was on the eve of sinking, as the tide '!tr,f
running with a strong current, when
HUGHES, sawmaker at Leith Mills, with the c,
most alacrity plunged into the water, and!ithe
ceeded in bringing her safe on shore, amidst
applauses of numerous spectators.—(Edinbl'
Courant, May 27.)

COAL-MARKET, MAY 29.
Ships at Market. Ships sold price:,,
31i Newcastle - - 24 -31 s Od to ?,%s
10i Sunderland - -31 s 6d t~