The Sun.
London, England, 1822-02-09 00:00:00

PUPIL.

Ili A MARRIED CLERGYMAN of the Esta-
blished Church, residing within a Morning's ride of
London, receives into his House a FEW PUPILS, whom he
prepares for the Universities,and has at present a VACANCY.
Letters to be addressed to the Rev. G. It. Mr..leffery's,
Bookseller, Opera House Colonnade, Pall Mall, London.

NEW ARGYLL ROOMS.
THE LATE ANDREAS ROMBERG.

ARESPECTFUL Appeal is made by a So-
ciety of Gentlemen to the Amateurs of the Science of
Music, and to the British Public in general, on behalf of the
WIDOW and TEN CHILDREN of the above celebrated
COMPOSER, whose death has lift them in a state of entire
Destitution,

The circumstance of the Amateurs of the City of Ham-
burgh having given a Concert for the Benefit of this unhappy
Family; has suggested an idea of a similar nature to several
Amateurs in London; this has been communicated to some
of the first Professors, who, with the greatest kindness and
zeal, have offered their aid in promoting the object in view.
Should the feelings of a generous Public coincide with the
endeavours of those who have undertaken the Management
of this affair, a BENEFIT CONCERT, at the ARGYLL
ROOMS, will be ventured uponori MONDAY, Feb. I I, 1822,
of which Particulars will he issued in due time.
The fullowingeminent Vocal and Instrumental Per formers
have kindly promised their gratnitous Services on that occa-
sion ; and there is no doubt that further important Additions
will be made to the List . •
PRINCIPAL VOCAL 'PERFORMERS.
Madame Camporese., I Signor Curioni,.
Madame Itonzi deßegnis, Signor Carton;,
Miss M. Ti:ee, and
Miss Goodall, Signor De Begnis.
Miss Mori, and
Miss Stephens.
PRINCIPAL INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMERS.
Messrs. Ries, Lindley, Puzzi, and Dragonetti.
Leader Mr. MORI.

At the Piano Forte Sir GEORGE SMART.
Tickets, 10s Gd each, may he had of Mr. Ries, 57, Upper
Norton-street; and at the Music Warehouses of the Royal
Harmonic Institution, Rxgent-street ; Birchall and Co. and
Chappell and Co. New Bond-street; Clemeuti and Co. Cheap-
side; and at Bette, Royal Exchange.

AGRICULTURE.

[FROM TIIE KENTISH GAZETTE.]

•
GENTLEMEN—I have heard and read a great manyopinions
about Agricultural Distress, but I can scarcely find two persons
who agree in their opinion as to the cause of the distress. Pe-
titions are to be presented to Parliament, and almost every one
differs in its language. Now what has Parliament to do, they
cannot please us all—we all know we are in great distress, and
the Poor Rates are very high ; but what occasions them ? why,
one man holding so many farms. In my small parish there for-
merly were ten or twelve small farms, where a man could keep
a cow or two, and upon which he could bring up his family, if
not in affluence, certainly in comfort, with but little extra la -
bour, and all regulaly attended their Church, consequently
their children turned out much better servants than we can get
now; but these small farms are all become extinct,; for one
man holds five or' six farms now, and does not employ more la-
bourers than were formerly required for two or three farms only.
Now ifthe landlords were to divide their farms, and let them
at a fair.rent, and the farmers to put down their thrashing ma-
chines, we.should not hear of half this distress". ' if a small farm
were to be disposed of to-morrow, it world be let most likely to
the greatest landholder. in the parish • and even if there were
one acre only belonging to the parish, that would be let in
the same way rather than employ the poor upon it. Instead of
which, in many parishes, the labourers are paid in money and
run about and do nothing; this. I know to be true, and yet we
complain of Ministers 'and bad management, we can see other
people's fat}lts but cannot sec our Own ; it .is easter-to govern
than to.be governed • first let us cast oilt the mote that is in our
own eye, then we shall' see clearly the beam that is in our bro-
ther's eye. EAST KENT.

• LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELIGENCE.
[FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.]
(NO. XXXI.)
HyDROGAFIIY.—Captain Gautier, a French
Officer,hascompleted his Hydrographical labours.
His chart of the Mediterranean has already been
published by the French Minister of the Marine,
and the chart of the Black Sea is nearly ready
for publication. This Officer was assisted in his
labours by the officers of the Chevreite; and
they completed, after long labour, the coasts of
the Mediterranean and the isles of the A rchipe-
lago and the Black Sea, all points of which, es;•
sential to be laid down, have been exactly deter-
mined. A number of errors have been disco-
vered in existing charts, some of them of great
magnitude. The Summits of many of the G re-
cian'mountains were also taken by barometrical
measurement. Thus MoUnt, Atb,os was found to
be 2,063 metres in height ; Mount Olympus in
Mitylene 988 ; Mount Delphi in Scopolos 690 ;
Mount Jupiter in Naxia 1,009, &c. &c.
Russta.—Mittau, the capital of the province
of Courland, is distinguishing itself by the pro-
grass it is making both in Literature and the
Arts. There are there, now several important
private collections of paintings ; and the Lite-
rary Society and Museum, established about
four years ago, are at present in a very flourish-
ing condition. The members of the. former have
produced several interesting scientific papers ;
while the latter nos] contains a valuable collec-
tion of curiosities in natural history, antiquities,
paintings, &c. Much too has of late been done,
and is now doing, for the general embellishment
F of the city ; the Emperor Alexander has as-
signed the sum of 80,000 roubles to be expended
. on the market, where all the old and mean shops
which choked up and disfigured the area are
pulled down, and a large basin is constructed in
the centre, into which a subterraneous canal dis-
charges itself. In consequence of a regulation,
which in England would be considered some-
what arbitrary, aitho' it prudently restrains the
bad taste of individuals, the facade of every new
building throughout the province must be erected
according to design, which the proprietor is per-
mitted to select from an extensive collection, de-
posited for that purpose with the Magistrates of
each place. Owing to this, Mittau now exhibits
a variety of elegant buildings, which have been
erected within the last three years : some of
these have the appearance of palaces. Indeed,
this city promises to become one of the finest in
the North of Europe. In other parts of the pro-
vince, also, many very fine palaces and seats, be-
longing to the nobility, have been erected.
ANCIENT STATUES.—The workmen, who be-
gan last August to build a private house on the
site of the library of Zaluski at Warsaw, have
found, on removing some ancient foundations at
the depth of about six feet, a stone pavement in
perfect preservation, and a floor of bricks in
compartments. But a more remarkable disco-
very is that of about forty busts of stone of seve-
ral Dukes and Kings of Poland, and also of
Dukes of Lithuania. Some of them are in very
good preservation, except the nose, which is
wanting in all. One of these busts, if 'we may
judge by the costume and order of 'the Golden
Fleece, must represent Sigismund 111., who
lived in 1632. Besides many architectural orna-
ments of very good workmanship, there have
been found about fifteen Colossal Statues repre-
senting mythological personages, some of which
are not, at all damaged. It is probable that
more remains of this kind will be found. It has
not yet been discovered to what edifice these
works of art belonged. The family of Dani-
lowiez had a palace in this street. We cannot
imagine how it could happen that when the
library was built they did not discover and make
use of the Statues. It is very evident that this
spot was in former ages the theatre of grandeur
and' magnificence, of which these faint vestiges
preserve but a mournful recollection.
THE DYING GLADIATOR.—NO doubts were
entertained as to the character of the statue thus
designated, until the time of Winckelmann, who
rejected that appellation as erroneous, although
without bestowing on it any other. Nibliv, the
Roman antiquary, and translator of Pausanius,
has published an Essay, in which he attempts to
prove from a passage in the 10th Book of Pan-
sanius, that this celebrated figure, which corres-
ponds neither with any other representations ofl
gladiators, nor with the descriptions of Juvenall
and Livy, originally belonged to the Temple of
Apollo, at Delphos, where it formed a part of
the sculpture decorating the tympanum of the
pediment, being placed in one of the angles. And
from the torgues, or chain of gold, hitherto mistaken
for a rope, the horn, the form of the shield, the
fashion of the hair, &c. (all which circumstances he
elucidates by numerous passages from ancient
authors), he conjectures that it represents one of
the Gauls who were slain in their attack upon
the Temple. This statue is at present in the
Capitol, where it was placed in 1815, on being
restored from Paris ; it is of a very fine grained
marble, dissimilar from that of any other new
antiques, yet most resembling that of the La-
ocoon. It belongs to the best era of Grecian
sculpture, and expresses, with wonderful skill
and beauty, the agonies of death suppressed by
a determined effort not to manifest them.

M ANSI ON-HousE.—The charge of Wadding-
ton against a Bow-street officer, noticed in our
Paper of Thursday, was further investigated
yesterday, \Oren it appeared that the officer only
acted in conformity with an Act of Parliament,
by seizing printed papers exposed to public view,
without the Printer's name. The complaint was
dismissed.

TILE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS.

February 9, 1822.

[MORNING CIIRONICLI.]
We learn from good authority that there is no
foundation for the hgpes which have been held
out of a disposition to peace in the Cabinet of St.
Petersburgh. Nothing whatever is known re-
specting the sentiments of that Court. It is
true strong remonstrances have been made by
England and Austria ; and these two countries
may conceive that they have intimidated Russia
into an acquiescence with their demands. When
the proper time for action comes, Russia may not
improbably undeceive them in this respect. The
Porte has Only shewn a willingness to agree in
part to the demands in the Russian Ultimatunt.

The House of Commons was again occupied
last night with the Irish measures. Lord Lon-
donderry, from a consciousness, no doubt, of the
good for which Ireland is indebted to him
and his Colleagues, and of their perfect innocency
with respect to the proceedings there, has been
more than ordinarily jocose, during the two
nights of this discussion, which has even stimu-
lated him to what his friends deem very felici-
tous sallies. It is a great subject of triumph
with his Lordship, that " the present rebellion
in Ireland contains none of those theoretical
principles of rebellion that at present pervade
the world,"—that is, that the people of the
South of Ireland are so sunk in ignorance, that,
though goaded on to insurrection by intolerable
sufferings, they have not a thought beyond these
sufferings themselves, and are incapable of form-
ing a wish which has for object to effect a re-
moval of the causes of their misery. A pretty
subject of triumph this indeed ! But here we have
the true spirit of the Holy Alliance! Though
that state of approximation to the condition
of the 'beasts of the field, in which they wish
to place mankind, is necessarily productive of
crimes and vices of the worst and most disgust-
ing description, they hail that state, accompanied
as it is with these evils, because they think they will
be thereby allowed to enjoy their bad pre-emi-
nence. The Neapolitan Revolutionists exerted
themselves to elevate the tone of national morals,
and to introdute a purer religion, and crimes of all
sorts had greatly diminished during the period of
their power; but national improvement did not
suit the views of the Holy Alliance ; and arbi-
trary power, assassination and robbery were re-
stored in all their vigour, and the miracles of St.
Januarius were substituted for lessons of useful
knowledge. The Emperor of Austria is no doubt
proud of the gross ignorance of the mass of his
subjects ; and the Emperor of Russia that he
rules over a people still more grossly ignorant,
though demoralised to a degree of which an in-
habitant of civilized Europe can hardly form a
conception. The absence of theories, of a dis-
position to criticise the conduct of those who go-
vern, is. a good which they think can never be
purchased at too high a price.—(/bid.)
[NEW TIMES.)
We rejoice to announce the complete and de-
cisive triumph of Constitutional Royalism in
France.—Our Express yesterday brought us ad-
vices from Paris, dated on Wednesday Evening,
at eight o'clock. At about six o'clock on that
day, the Chamber divided on the Law of the
Press, when there appeared—
For Ministers - 234
Against them - 93
Majority - - -141
Upon this division all Comment is superfluous.—
It remains, however, to be stated, that 35 indi-
viduals chose to express their disapprobation of
the law by not voting at all. The idle preten-
sion of these people to decline voting, as if their
doing so' or not were of the slightest consequence,
is perfectly absurd. 'We are glad, however, to
be enabled to publish their names -; for it must be
a satisfaction to France and to Europe in general
to know what is the character of the Opposition
to the present Ministers ; and we have reason to
believe that no persons are more desirous that
this should be known than the Ministers them-
selves.

[Tilt; TIMES.]
Lord Folkestone, last night, somewhat rudely
broke through the conventional language in which
Lord Wellesley has been recently spoken of by
Ministers and Opposition. We suspect the at-
tack gave no pain to either party. Lord Lon-
donderry could not have liked to hear the ro,
mantic praises of one who had expressed no very
high idea of his Lordship's ministerial powers.—
The Opposition, whatever " lip-service " they
might render, could not, in their hearts, like one
who may be said to have deserted them. So
Lord Folkestone put both sides on a right honest
footing : there twill probably be no more co-
quetting and insincerity between them on this
subject.

We understand that Mr.llarriilton sets sail for
Naples about the middle of next week, on board
the Euryalus, Captain Clifford. It is unneces-
sary to speak of a gentleman who has already
ohtained so much distinction in the literary
world ; but we believe-Mr. Hamilton to be no
less competent by his political knowledge and
habits of business to conduct the•affAirs of an
embassy which may soon become very critical.
than he is calculated by his taste, talents, and
the pursuits of his leisure hours, to gain the
esteem of the more intelligent and cultivated
part of that community among which he is going
to reside.—(/bid.)

[3IOIINING HERALD..I
It appears from the Paris Papers, received
yesterday, that the Censorship had expired on

the night of Monday last. The Journals
fest scarcely any signs of. their emancipation--....
if we except the Constitutionnel (the organ of.the
Liberals), which has put forth its confession of
faith, political and literary, with frankness 'and'
mode ration. .It is well known, however, that
formulas of faith admit a wide license of practise
and interpretation. The literary part of -the
confession is in the edifying manner of Lord
Byron's poetical decalogue in Don Juan, upon
some remarkable living poets ;—fir instance, the
Constitutionnql professes and enjoins the worship,
of Fenelon in preference to La 'Vienna's (one •
of the missionary priests), the sacred Odes
of Jean-Baptiste-Rousseau to the Parliamentary
Canticles of M: de Marcellus (an Ultra Def
puty), the prose of Jean' Jacques to that
of Monsieur de Chateaubriand, and Montes.
quieu's Spirit of Laws to the pamphlets •
of M. de Bonald. There is another article in
the same Journal, which probably would not
have escaped the inexorable scissars. It states,.
under the date of Frankfort, Jan. 29, that the
Emperor of Austria had addressed a confidential
Circular to all the Members of the Germanic
Confederation, insisting on the adoption of an
64 armed neutrality" throughout all 'Germany—
in order to secure its internal tranquillity against
the troubles which " the intrigues of demagogues
are causing in other countries of Europe." The
use of the. word " neutrality" here seems ra-•
ther wanting in precision--for neutrality means.
an abstinence of joining with either of two
contending parties. The whole story is, per.:
haps, as unfounded as it is obscure.

[BRITISH PRESS.] •
In the discussion in the House of Commong
tipim the prOpOsed measures, the Marquis of Lon-
donderry, deeply sensible of the value of the au--
thority, freely urged the suggestions of the Mar-
quis Wellesley, in justification of his propositions;
The concession made last night by Sir John.
Newport, in deference 'to this authority, proved.
that the Minister had not calculated erroneously-
upon the extent of its influence. It has been_
remarked in the House that there appears not
in the Papers laid before Parliament any inti-
mation that the Insurrection Act, and the sus-
pension of the Act of habeas Corpus (as the
measure is familiarly though erroneously called)
have been required by the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland,, but we do not doubt that such a sug,-
gestiOn has been made by the Noble Marquis.--
The. motives that led to the request must, how-
ever, have for Med the most interesting portion of.
the communication, and- with these the. country
still rests unacquainted. It is not difficult to.
perceive the object of the Insurrection Act. The.
offences it contemplates are those nocturnal out-
rages which now, for the most pttrt, disgrace the'
peasantry of the south of Ireland, and the Insur-
rection Act may be very well suited to correct -
these evils ; but the power of arbitrary imprison-
ment upon suspicion seems to be intended to
meet an evil of even more serious magnitude,'and
contemplates a danger different from 'a commo-
tion among the lowest orders of the people.—
The Marquis of Londonderry darkly insinuated
that emissaries were sent 'from the discontente7d
parts of the counties into those which were still
sound for the purpose of propagating the inlet,-
Lion, and that it was proper to guard against the
danger of an extensive conspiracy, the objects
of 'which might soar beyond the commutation of,
tithes and the
.diminution of taxes. A hint thus,
darkly' thrown out ever produces a great' in.
fluence over the decisions of a popular dssenibly,
and it was not lost upon the present occasion. •

[MORNING POST.] • ,
The Bills for the Renewal of the Insurrection
Act and' the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus iii.
Ireland, passed the House of Commons last-
night, and are expected to go through all their
stages in the House of Lords this day. • These
important measures it is therefore probable Iva).
become immediately operative laws ; that they
may be proMptly effective must he the sincere •
wish of every true British and Irish heart. Tire•
present state.of Ireland, from whatever cause it
may have arisen, obviously demands the most vis-
gorous exertions of the Executive ; and 'it must
be acknowledged• that there are few._ indi-
viduals in whom extensive power could be
vested with greater safety than in the hods.
of the present noble and enlightened ,Chief
Governor of Ireland. It is true 'that under
the insurrection Act the Magistrates, many.
,of
whom are prejudiced and ignorant men, will be
vested with the most fearful authority. They
will have a right, at their own pleasure and dis-
cretion, to enter into the most retired and deli.-
cate part of any dwellinrr-houSe, and if refused ad:-
mittance; to force the chambers even of females;
—any man found out of his house between sun
set and sun-rise, any person found in a public
house in the same period, whether a traveller or
neighbour, any occupier Of a house absent from
home, any person in whose possession either
arms or ammunition are found—all these• are
liable to transportatiOn for seven years : I.llnl
this too without the interference of a Clritid
Jury by Bill, without the Petty Jury, by their
verdict, and without allowingjhe aggrieved party
any satisfactory aweal. This powes), infinitely
greater than any ..,;-.‘5L-ed in the Sovereign hitnself,
is given to a set ,-,..f.rnen, many of. them, We re-
peat, alike prejudiced, ignorant, and tyrannical;
for the purpose of subduing a feiv ban:lS: of
wretched half-starved peasants, who have tie'-.
come formidable only froth, impunity, and whose
outrages, however daring, the.: most ordinary ex-
ercise of legal power, if .judiciously directed,
might in the first instance 'havd-prornptly..and
effectually quelled.. .. • .
•• •

REPLY OF MADEMOISELLE REBOIJL
70 THE IMPUTATIONS DIRECTED AGAINST HER IN

THE PETITION PRESENTED TO THE TWO CII.AM-

BEILS, BY MR. LOVEDAY.

1 do not deny the authority of the head of a
faraily who calls for an account of his children.
I was even aware that in this sad dispute the contest would
be at first unequal. Mr. LoVEDAY is a father. lam a school-
mistress. Confidence ought by preference to be given to him ;
it is an homage acquired by the most sacred of titles. But there
is Something more imposing and respectable still; that is truth.
The success of taking opinion by surprise cannot in France be
along duration.
I shall recall, therefore, to. the recollection of Mr. Loveday,
eirzarnstances which cannot be effaced from his memory, and
his own correspondence I shall find 'my justification., Two
'lawyers have sided me in my defenie. With them I have con-
sidered the answer which,you are going to read, and which they
subscribe along with me.
On the 12th of Jdly, 1819, Mrs. Loveday paid a visit to my
es tablishinen t.
Three days afterwards her two daughters, Emily and Mas
tilda, entered into my house.
On the 28th of July, or the ?d of August, Mrs. Loveday
took possession of a small pavilion, 'situated in my garden,
which I sublet to her; in a short time Mary Loveday, her niece,,
was received among my pupils.
litre I must point out a great difference in respect of instruc-
tion, between the situation of young Mary and that of her two
cousins. .liliss Emily was then about 20 years of age; 'Miss
Matilda nearly 18.
'I education of the two sitters had been concluded : they
were to reside in my .hinere not as scholars, but as young per-
sf,ns whom their patents wished to place in a suitable dwelling.
it'was not so with Mary.
N! ary was required to complete, or, 'to speak more properly,
to begin her studies.
_ _

It was agreed that she should join in all our exercises ; that
•sne should accompany us to church, and to divine service, and
tnat, in a word, she should partake in all the. tasks of her com-
panions. This was a condition without which it was impossible
for me to undertake the education-of this child. MrS. Loveday,

undo-standing very well that I could not establish a particuliti
mode of instruction. for one pupil, made not the slightest objec-
t= to it. I did not disguise from Mrs. Loveday toe principles
on which I conducted my establishment. She had read my pro-
spectus, in which will be found the following passage :—" Reli-
gion, without which there cannot exist good education, is the
basis of instruction, and patents will find in the manner the love
and practice of it are inculcated on the pupils, the surest guaran-
tees for the accomplishment of the duties which they wilthave
to fulfil in the world." Mrs. Loveday hid' traversed the whole
of ray house : she found every where the august signs of our re-
lieietn. 1 made no mystery to her of the books adopted for being
taught. Mrs: Loveday could perceive how easy it was" to per-
so:A residing in my house to procure to read and to examine
-looks of edification and piety. Yet, in the midst of these daily
habits of instruction and religious observances, Mrs. Loveday
placed her two daughters and her niece. Moreover, she saw
our agreement put in practice, as 1 have previously mentioned,
she came to-reside in my house, and Mr. Loveday,• in a letter
dated London, September 3, 1819, wrotd to me that Mrs. Love-
day " never spoke of my conduct but in terms of admiration."
only quote his words. - .
Mr. Loveday returned from England about the end of Oct.
or the beginning of November. 1 repeated to him our agree-
ment, of which he expressed no disapprobation. At the same
he questioned Mary on two points; he asked her if she prayed
to the Virgin ? Mary replied in the affionative. He then ask-
ed her, if in church she made use of Catholic boOks. The child
declared, that in the solemn festival she took a great pleasure
in billowing the service along-with her companions. Mrs.
Loveday animadverted on the dispositions of the child, and
wished to know how it was possible to place obstacles in her
way. I replied that it was neither in my power nor in my in-
clination to oppose sentiments which God alone can know, and
that Mary would in this respect receive no prohibition from me.
Why did not Mr. Loveday take away his niece then ? "lie could, •
and doubtless he ought, if he had had as much zeal for the Eng-
lish church as he now tells,us he has. .
The two sisters, Emily and Matilda, retired in their apart-
ments, could indulge themselves at full liberty in the exercises
of their religion. It was only on the great festivals of the year
that these young lathes, whom their father never led to his own
church, accompanied us to divine service, and offered up their
prayers to God along with us during a part of the day. I shall
say further, and Mr. Loveday cannot have forgotten it, that in
cerrespondence he requested me, while speakir% of his
daughter Emily, who was indisposed and dejected, to give her all
Christian consolations. These are the terms of his letter : and

if the examples of virtue and piety which the three young per-
sons had unceasingly before their eyes; if the imposing cere-
mothcs of the church, especially on days of solemnity; if the
language which they then heard -from the seat of truth (the
prlpit); in tine, if the consolations which, to obey a father's
wish, I thought my duty to offer them, led them to the neces-
sity of informing their minds, what right have Mr..and Mrs.
1/Jvcday, who must have seen these results, and who, even in
Inp:e respects than one, were the cause, them, to be surprised
or tc complain ?
Mary gave me in the progress of her studies the greatest sa-
tisfaction. I beg here that I may be allowed, as the directress
of en establishment for education, to enter into some details

which I am sure fathers and mothers of families will forgive
. are for stating.
It was then a practice in my house, that at the end of every
mctth I took the suffrages of my pupils. My vote only count-
ed for one. Three priees were thus awarded, one for piety, one
for work, and one for good character., In the months of De-
cember, 1819, and February, 1829, the prize of piety was con-
ferred on Mary by an almost unanimous suffrage. Her cousins
being witnesses of this—her cousins who were her habitual cow--
Rem:oils in my house—her uncle and her aunt. could not have
remained in ignorance of it. Admitted to the examinations of
Saint Sulpice with her companions, whom she never left, Mary
obtained the grand seal of honour, that is, she was the first
strceof- four or five hundred children with whom she entered into
competition. I can prove, by documents in my possession,to what
extent her knowledge was carried not only in a religious view,
but relative to all parts of education At the examination which
preceded the distribution of the prizes in my house, she astonish-
ed distinguished "professors by the correctness of her answers on.
grammar, history, and geography ; she obtained three first, and
two second prizes. But what I have particularly to state was
her disposition—her leaning towards the Catholic religion ; and
the leaning towards Catholicism—it has been already stated, •
'axed cannot be too often repeated—Mr. Loveday could not be
iarnerant of.
early as 1819 Mary besought me to permit her to partici-
pate in the of penitence with her companions, and
during two years I found it necessary to employ all thcerneans
which my authority, and, above all, her extreme confidence in
rne, gave me over.her to restrain her fromdeceiving my vigilanCe
on this point.
?ors little am I able to recal here all the sentiments which
lier noul, so fervent and so full of candour, expressed. How
littic am I able to state the number of times that I found it
necessary to encourage and console this poor child, overwhelmed
with sorrow at my refusal. Suffice it to declare, that during
two years she was,according to the title which her companions
were pleased to give her, the angel of the house.' And why
should I not render this public homage to, my dear Mary?--
Her example, her piety, have perhaps powerfully contributed to
form my pupils to that piety which constitutes their.happiness
and my consolation. I shall only cite one fact. •
i was preparing three.pupili to the first communion. They
deciared to me,- with their accestorned frankness, that they had
badly performed the duties imposed On those who are going
soon to approach the holy .table. They begged me -to forgive
this failure, and to point out the means of repairirg it. I gave
them ray advice. Mary, who was present,could net restrain the
transports of her zeal, and the following are her expressions,
which can never be effaced from my memory or from that of
her companions :—" Ah," said she, " how little do we feel
the value of a blessing till we are deprived of it. What Why
do you not show more ardour in preparing yourselves for so
great a happiness.? If, like me, you were deprived of that in.
eetimable blessing, how much would you desire it Oh, that
I were, allowed a first communion I" She then fell sobbing into
my. arms. I shall not attempt to describe the effect produced
on us all by this touching scene. By this trait, which I select
from a thousand others, it will be seen what were the disposi-
tionecenithis.amiable and interesting child.
itfigious instruction was given in my house, and here I must
answer to one of the most odious imputations of the petition.
One of my pupils had been conducted by her parents to the
ceremony which the Church of St. Jean-en-Greve celebrates an-
nuelly to expiate the profanation of a host. I told on that oc-
casion what was contained in the ritual of the Church of St.
John. I seized the circumstance to. point out to my young au-
ditor - that the miracles on which repose the Catholic faith,
ought not to be confounded with those prodigies often credited
by persons snore pious than enlightened. I told ink. children,
that in matters of this kind it was not proper to reject every
thing, because the power of (god is unlimited ; but neither was
it proper to admit every thing, because there exists a great dis-
tance between the possibility and the proof of a miracle. Such
are the instructions which my children received from me. Such
is the fact which has been perverted to enjoy the easy pleasure
of declamation.
in the month of January, 1820, I left rue Montaigne, where
coieatablishment had-existed till then, and I transferred it to i
rue :titre-des-Chsunps. I gave greater importance and extent
ie rani 'school. I requested and obtained from the Archbishop

ptrudssion to celebrate mass in my house. I inserted in my
prospectus the following passage:—" Thera is in the house
a chapel, the service of which is performed by a respectable ec-
clesiastic, intrusted with the religious instruction and direction
of the pupilst."
Mr. Loveday was not ignorant of these dispositions, intended
to render more easy to my pupils the practice of all religious
sentiments ; andtx could not disguise from himself theimpret-
sion which this state of things must have on the heart of his
niece, whose sentiments he knew, since she had declared to-him
her devotion for the Vir in, and the pleasure which she en-
joyed in folloWing during the service our prayers and religious
chants.

Two years had thus passed, when, in the month of July,
1821, Mr. Loveday wrote to me, "that it was possible the re-
turn of his daughters to, England might soon become indispen-
sable, and that 1 was to Make known to them that possibility,
in order to induce them to turn .to advantage the tape which.
they had w remain .with me." fulfilled the intentions of Mr.

(.Loveday; and it was then that my sister wrote the letter of the
7th 'Of August, the only one which is quoted in, the petition.
lUy sister in saying that we were incapable of abusing the con=
fidence of Air. Loveday on the subject of religion, said what
was perfectly true. We .did not then suspect on the 7th of
August) the secret sentiments with which the two sisters were
penetrated ; and, relatively to Mary„llr. Loveday knew the
notorious inclination of his niece for the Catholic worship—an
inclination which-, apparently, I ought not to have opposed. Mr.
Loveday answered my sister (on the 21st of August) that he
was the slaye of circumstances, and that he would probably be
under the necessity of.leaving.France with his daughters.- We
were obliged to be resigned.
I repeat it, I knew not the secret intentions of the two sisters ;
but'now I understand Well enough the inipression which the
last letter of their father mast have produced upon thein.l—
to England, from that. time. inevitable, was about
to oppose one ittsnrinonntable obstacle to the execution of their
project. It was evident that, in a country where the Catholic
religion is scarcely tolerated, abjuration would be dill-knit ; and
hence' the desire 'of abjuring in France, and hence likewise the
necessity of disclosing it to me. It was .thus that, on the 6th
Of September only, I was informed by Emily and Matilda of
their desire to embraCe the Catholic faith. I was immovable.

I should be in the wrong to say that I saw with pain my young
and interesting iriencts disposed to leave the paths of error; but
I thought that it teas not sufficient to do.good, but to do it in a
good way, and therefore that- before any thing was done, their
father should be informed.

Loveday, who was then in England, returned to France,
and on the 23d. of October, 1821, I communicated to.him the
intentions of his two daughters, who, on the following day, ad-
dressed him each in a letter begging his consent. On the 2fith
of October he wrote to me " that he sent me the answer to the
letters of his daughters." .He begged me not to present it to
them till I had the assurance that they would read itithrough.
He complained of what he called the duplicity of his daughters,
and thus concluded—" I shall have the honour of communi-
cating to you my intentions regarding Mary by another letter."
The correspondence continuetibetween the father and his daugh-
ters. I was always the person through whom it passed. At
last, on the 3d of, November, the Misses'-Loveday, having re-
ceived an order from their father to repair to the house of their
mother, at' noon, I conducted them to Rue Godot,, No. I. Our
adieus, our tears, our sorrow at the moment of separation,
would be difficult to express.
At three o'clock 1 received a letter from Mr. Loveday, en-
closing one which his daughters had written under his eye.
Emily commissioned me to hand to an ecclesiastic nearly sixty
years of age, a small church ornament, called a pale, which is
placed on the chalice during the celebration of mass. Emily
begged me to offer her present with her heart ; and when it is
considered that she wrote in the presence of her father—when we
reflect upon the nature of the present, upon the character and
age of the person for whom it was intended, we must lament
that excess of passion which could elaborately discover in this
passage a criminal thought ! Doubtless the expression might
have been better chosen, but it ought net to be forgotten that
Emily is English, and then nothing will be seen in the letter
but a desire of expressing strongly sentiments of almost filial
respect for a venerable ecclesiastic, whom all my pupils were
accustomed to look upon as a second father.
Here I am much embarrassed between two assertions of Mr.
Loveday. lie says, in page 7of the petition addressed to the
Chamber of Deputies, " I learned that my daughter had made
bins a present, which the mistress placed in her account ;" and
in the petition to the Chamber of Peers—" I learnt that my
daughter had made him a present, which the mistress did not
place in her account." One must choose between. The truth
is, this small ornament in question remains in my chapel ; I
declined to accept front Mr. Loveday the 7 francs 10 sous which
it had cost.

Such is the mystery of this passage, become famous by so
many perfidious insinuations. flow unfortunate is it that Air.
Loveday should have subscribed with his name a writing, in
which things the most innocent and simple are perverted to the
great peril of the honour of his daughter.
The departure of the fi'fisses Loveday, the confidence which►
they had reposed in me, the dangers which they ran in respect
to their salvation, had become with me the subject of the
most melancholy reflections. I had invariably resisted the sup-
plications, the prayers of these poor children. They had fore-
seen all that happened. They had often repeated to me, not
in a tone of reproach, but of pain—l might almost say of
despair, that in refusing to take in secret their abjuration, and
in apprising their father of it, I exposed them to the greatest
misfortunes. These sad predictions have been realiz.A—me-
lancholy thoughts beset . me—but my conscience was tran-
quil. It was my duty to apprize Mr. Loveday. I had done
it—the social duty was fulfilled. But after all, lam a Chris-
tian and a Catholic. Two young persons whom 1 loved were
going to be for ever separated from the church. My regrets
and my grief may easily be conceived and patdoned.
But what were my anxieties when Mary, whom Mr. Love-
day
had left with me, although he had for a long time known
her sentiments, represented to me the danger which awaited her,
if I did not permit her to take advantage of the time which Pro-
vidence still left her. For two yeeirs Mary, under the eyes
of her Uncle and her aunt, had given proofs, I shall not say of
respect, but of her love for the Catholic religion. She added, '
that her mother, an Irish lady, was perhaps born a Catholic ;
and if Alatilda was not bound to silence, she would say that
she had made the same observation regarding the mother of
:glary.
This thought forcibly struos me. If the mother of Mary
was a Catholi;;, the daughter might be educated in the religion
of her mother. To the pressing entreaties of Mary was joined
a reflection which the eonduct of Mr. Loveday, relative to his
niece, had produced in my mind. What right had Mr. Loveday,
after being apprised by me, to leave me in the most cruel
of situations ? By what right could he pretend to charge me
to resist indefinitely the will of God himself ? I had informed
him of what was going on as head of the family ; I had 're-
stored the two boarders whom he had demanded ; if he was so
true a son to the English church, had not his duties already
Zommenced ?

In these difficult circumstances—placed between my social
and religions duties—wishing to fulfil both,and being,unable,
without rashness, to decide between the rights of an uncle
representing a father, and the no less sacred rights of a
young Christian. who demanded with so much ardoirr, and
with such pressing entreaties, the pledge of her salvation, I
felt anxious to inform myself. I therefore addressed myself
to that illustrious defender of the truth, whom his apostolic
labours have encircled with so high a reputation for know-

ledge, reason, and wisdom. Who could better than him
point out the duties which I owed to God, and those which I
owed to the wot Id ? I consulted Prelate., whom the sanctity
of their lives has placed too high to be reached by the enve-
nomed shafts of calumny. These men, whom the glory of
their name, and the dignity of their character, have invested
with so imposing an authority, recognized in the conduct of
Mr. Loveday a mysterious decree of Providence, which be was
not permitted to -elude; -and in the-long perseverance of
Mary, the irrefragahle proof of the' dispositions required by
the church in those whom she permits to approach the
sacraments. When these ecclesiastics'had declared their
opinions, I could no longer hesitate.
On the sth of November, Mary made her abjuration.
The church, in recognizing the.efficacyof the haptisin
rt-
ceived in the bosom of the Anglican church, reckon 4 it a
duty, however, to confer it conditionally on the disciples of

hat church who wish to embrace the Catholic faith'.

I'h e

fear that baptism has not beers administered, or that the so-
lemnities of the sacrament have not been regularly observ-
ed, has introduced this usage, which was not on the present
occasion neglected. Marc was conditionally baptized.
Mr. Loveday, a• member of the English church, is not
obliged to know, that in the state of innocence to which the
waters of baptism restore, the neophyte can approach with-
Out fear the communion table, and receive the imposition of
hands in confirmation.
Mary left my house on the 110 of November; and it will
easily he perceived that I was no longer accountable for the
Misses Loeeday the moment they ceased to reside With me.
The whole of my conduct is now before the public, and I
ask Mr. Lovedav what portion of the narrative which has been
here given can be contested
It is a fact that Mary joined in all our religious exercises;
and this fact happened under the eye of Mrs. Loveday, who
inhabited that pavilion of which Mr. Loveday has carefully
abstained from speaking; and afterwards the uncle and the
aunt saw their niece accompanying us to church, attending
religious instructions, and gaining the prize for proficiency
in religious knowledge. If, then, they permitted this state of
things, which they might have prevented, tliey acknowledged
in it the literal and positive execution of the agreement be-
tween us. Mr. Loveday will nut say that ever since the en-
trance of his Alanghters into my house, that is, since 1819, 1 •

hare been continually endeavouring to wean them from the
religion of the English church; that would he a charge incon-
sistent with the accusation of a sudden conversion: but what
is improbable, he pretends that in the last 15 days I had Vio-
lently snatched from the religion of_their family, three young
ladies, the youngest of whom was 14 years of age, and who
are all of them endned• with great understanding. Vlore
worthy is the inteiesting Emily of belief, when she states, with
.
as much candour as stmplicity, the following facts in her
printed answer •

"-Previously to entering Mademoiselle Ilcbonl's school, in
1819, Miss Loveday was decidetßy prepossrssed against the
Catholic religion. But the examples of piny which her com-
panions daily presented to her eyes gradually dimtnisbell this
prejudice. Faithful to the instructions which she had re-
ceived front Mr. Loveday, Mademoiselle Reliant made no at-
tempt to change Miss Emily's religion. But the soul of this
young Protestant began to be moYed, The examples of a
sincere devotion—the impressive pomp of the ceremonies at
which she entreated Mademoisell-e Reboul to permit her to
attend—the bylllfts of her voting companion-, with whom her
heart iuvoluntarily united her—all served to prepare her
imagination for the change which her reason was to operate.
At length the eloquent Bossuct fell .into the hands of the
young Englishwoman. She perused and re-perused his work
with avidity; and the powerful reasoning of that sublime
writer, who could triumph over the strong mind of Tur,n;te,

c in convinced a young and flexible soul, which expanded
with delight at the approach of truth, and which was not yet
hardened by the delusions of religious habits. But Miss
Lovedav was nut content 'with reading. Ilossuet. She in-
structed herself more and more by the study of tl►e• Catholic

faith. She compare:l the cateebistt..s of t two religions be•

tween which she had to choose, and it was after this compa-
rison (to compare is to reason) th:‘; her understanding con-
vinced her of the superiority of the Catholic faith to Proles-
tantkm, and that she irrevocable determined to embrace the
religion of Alfred the Great and 'Edward the Confessor."
Such is the order of grace. The abjuration of the preju-
dices of infancy.is not produced in a few days: it is the slow
work of example and of time.
Let not Air. Loveday say•that he was not warned of it, for
he would be confounded by his own letter of the Vith of Oc
tuber: let hint not say that his daughters ,were made Catho•
tics in my house, for it is known that the younger has never
been one, and that the elder became one under the paternal
roof. Let him not complain of the conversion of his niece,
who has been since made by him to apostatize ; for in leas--
. ing her in my establishment, instead of carrying her away
with his daughters, he placed me in the situatio, not to
resist. Did be not know, anti that for a long time hefore,
the thoughts and the
.devotions of Mary? To resist—Why?
a 1 a. Christian and Roman Catholic, after having, in ap-
prising. the family, performed my duty as a schoolmistress,
cook' I become an eternal obstacle to the salvation of the
child so worthy of tenderness, whom Providence had placed
in my hands? Should I have resisted the prayers of Mary,
and, the de'cisions of prudent and crib,. Veiled men? No;
Air. Loveday could not expect it, and the English them-
sel VC9,. t laming their countryman, will have the justice to
acknowledge that the instructress would have rendered
herself guilty ty a further resistance, which nothing could
justify.
The moment is arrived for me call Mr. Lovreay to account

for all the mischief he has done fyy his pamphlet,—Carehtlir
collecting, in the title of his pnblication, all the odious traits
which be wished to give toe, Mr. Loveday has said, that he
complained of the rapt do seduction (enticing away) of his
two daughters and his niece, in a.semimary a education in
which he had placed them at Paris; and in which the credu-
lity of these young persons was abused, by means of supersti-
tious terrors, besettings, and false miracles, fur the purpose
of suddenly converting them to Catholicism, in the absence,
withotit the knowledge, and contrary to'the wish of their pa-
rents !

It is not to men who will read the whole of this petition,
and who call judge of its contents, that this title is addressed,
—it is'intended fur the people ; its the midst of the people
it endeavours to throw heat, indignation, and new seeds Qf
trouble and disorder. Well, what are the terrors of which
Mr. Luveday wishes to speak ? Doubtless he does not mean,
by his words, the doctrines df the Catholic chord) ; he in-
tends to designate practices, ideas, and words, hearing the
impress of superstition, and condemned by the church.—
It is apparently to justify these odious imputations that
the author of the petition has recalled the memory of that
profanation, which one of the churches of the capital annu-
ally deplore's, in a solemn ceremony, respecting which oue of
my pupils had questioned me. It is a Jew whom tradition
accuses—it is 'a female beggar whom tradition marks out as
his accomplice. This at least is all my knowledge of the sub-
ject. And how could the author of the petition 'refrain from
blushing at the bare supposition that I,an instructress, should
hare revealed to my pupils the existence of those abandoned
women whom the petitioner, Mr.Loveday, wit h a revolting in-
delicacy describes ?, Mr. Loveday, whatever may be the power
and influence of his title as father, must have been met with
a sentiment of disbelief, mixed with indignation ; and impar-
tial readers, without having heard my defence, must hare
allowed that I was calumniated. How strong am lin the con-
sciousness of my rectitude, when Lrecollect that this conver-
sation, entirely acciden at, gave me an opportunity of putting
all those who listen to me on their guard against those miracles
of which the church does not demand the belief.

The Misses Loveday heard nothing in my hohse that
religion does not inculcate and avow ; doubtlessly super-
stitious terrors and false miracles were not necessary to
lead them to the Catholic faith. The clearness, the evi-
dence of the words prononnced by the Saviour of the
world,. instituting the most august of . the sacraments—the
tradition preserved and respected throughout the universe
since the first celebration of the holy supper, to the appear-
ance of Luther—the powerful reasons whiCh triumphed over
the objections and the constancy of the great Turenne—the
fervour which a participation in the sacraments inspires and
supports—the consolations of which the Catholic religion is
lavish—the beauty of its chants—the majesty of its ceremo-
nies—the efficacy of its examples, these are the:artifices of the
Catholic religion, these are what must have touched the hearts
of the three young English ladit s, and which now support,the
unhappy Emily in the midst of the tribulations with which
she is surrounded, and which render tier the object of uni-
versal respect and interest.
LaAly, the author of the•petition concludes by accusing me
of having suddenly converted my three pupils to the Catholic
faith—a conversion effected in the absence, without the know-
edge, and counary to the wishes, of their parents.
Doubtless it is not of his daughter Emily, it is not of his
daughter Matilda, that Mr. Loveday wishes to speak. Both
of them entered ►av house non-Catholics both of them left
it non-Catholics. It is since I delivered them into the hands
of their father that Emily has made her abjuration; and if
the truth, which Emily pursues with perseverance, presented
itself to their eyes during I he time of their stay with me, as at
all events Mr. Loveday ought to have foreseen, I know not the
moment when God touched their hearts. It was on the 6th
of Sept. 1521, that I first became acquainted with those in-
tentions which they would perhaps have still longer concealed,
had it not been fort he assurance that they wereto ret urn toEng-
land. Is it, then, of Mary that Mr. Loveday would speak? But
how could he forget the inclination of this young •pet son for
the Catholic religion ? How is this! Mr. and Mrs. Loveday
know that their niece is about to live in the midst of all tits
usages, of all the practices, of Catholicism; Mrs. Loveday, ►tho
at first lives with me, who sees her every day, who has the op-
portunity of observing her connexions, her habits—who
knows the fact of her daily frequenting a Catholic church,
and that of her participation in the instructions which pupils
receive there, and that also of the impression which conversa-
tion anti example ►were making oft this young scholar—Mrs.
Loveday.says not a word; Mrs,-Loveday offers not the slightest
obstacle !

The young girl avows to her relations her confidence and
her prayers to the Holy Virgin ; she makes them acquainted
with her mode of weiship; and yet Mr. and Mrs. Loveday
make no endeavour to put a stop to the constantly increas-
ing progress of our religion in the soul of their niece; and it is
a,fter a silence of nearly three years that they talk of a sudden
conversion and of seduction!
Is it necessary now to go through the twentv-one passages
of this petition, circulated with such scandalous profusion,
and so justly decorated with a,motto borrowed from the poet
of Atheism ?
" On•tlee Chi of October," says Mr. Loveday, page 4, " ruy
two daughteri avowed to me that they were Roman Catholics,
and that nothing could shake their constancy and faith."
No, Mr. Loveday, your daughters di.l not tell you on the i'3,l
of October that they were Roman Catholics, for on the 2.3 d
of October neither of them had abjured. Your daughters,
and myself in the firstinstanee, had informed you of an in-
tention of abjuration, which I had not permitted to be exe-
cuted, because I wished to have your consent.
Such is the truth, which must always be respected.
You go on to say, page 4," Let it he imagined what I must
have felt at this terrible news! confidence had been
abused, my family seduced, and those rights which religion,
nature, and the laws give toe, had been usurped."
No, Mr. Loveday," 1 have not abused your confidence, I
bate not sedaced your family. To the sacred rights belong-
ing to you by religion and by nature., I rendered a solemn
and painful homage, by resisting for two months, in the case
of your daughters, and for two years in the case of your niece,
those ardent prayers which most so naturally have found a
way to my heart.
Mr. Loveday complains, in page 5, that there had been im-
printed on the memory of his daughters passages of Scripture,
perterted by the Catholic church.—He asserts, that he hg.

We received this morning the French Papers
of Wednesday, which contain news of a pacific
nature from Odessa, of the 11th, and from Vi-
enna of the 25th ultimo. This intelligence is
contradicted, however, by an article from Frank-
fort on the Oder, which states, that at Vienna,
and the other capitals of Europe, they are far
from being well informed on the real state of
affairs relative to Turkey; and that letters from
the Russian frontiers, coming from good autho-
rity, assert positively there is no hope of ad-
justing the differences between the Porte and

Russia, by means of negociation. IVar is con-
sidered as determined on by Russia ; and the
Manifesto of the Cabinet of Petersburg is daily
expected to appear, upon which the Russian
army will enter the Ottoman territory.
According to accounts from Trieste, it ap-
pears that ALI-PACIIA has quitted his impregna-
ble fortress, and had advanced as far as Suzang,
five leagues from Janina, since CIIOURSCHILD-
Paciu had retreated. The Turkish troops were
much harassed by the Greeks in their retrograde
movements.

The Censhorship of the Press in France ex-
pT:red on Sunday night, and, until the new Law
for its regulation shall be carried, .the French
will enjoy as unrestricted It freedom of the Press

AS exists in this tauntry. The Journals 010
now freely discuss the provisions of the propose
Law, and point out many of its severities, 101°
it is expected will receive some salutary mod*
cations before the Law passes through the nouse
of Peers and is sanctioned by the King. In the
Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday the discussieli
on the 14th article of the Law for the regulatien
of the Press (the 17th, as amended by the Cot"
mittee) was renewed and carried, after a 10'1
violent opposition ; several members of the heft
side declaring their intention not to vote, and t°
co-operate in passing a Law which was the
death-blow to all their liberties. The 11°115e
adjourned at half past six, and the debate "fa;
to be resumed on the following day. Our private
advices from Paris dated on Wednesday evening
at a late hour inform us that the lalst article was
discussed on that day, and carried after a strong
resistance. rlhe House then divided on the no-
tion that the Law do pass, which was carried by
a majority of 141, there being 231 voters for, all
93 against it.

The French Five per Cents. opened on Wed"
nesday at 39f. 30c.; they soon rose to 891.450.'
but afterwards declined to SSf. 901. Bank St°c/‘
on Tuesday closed at 1555 f.

There can be but one opinion as to the neces-
sity of applying instant and vigorous remedies
to the present disorders of Ireland, both for the
purpose of arresting present mischief, and of
preventing evils greater in their extent and more
formidable in their character. The measures
which, have been proposed with that view are
such as cannot, in themselves, be contempirtte‘l
without pain, but they are precisely adapted t 0
the situation of a country just passing freen sedi-
tion to civil war, from riot to organized rebellion"
On such emergencies, legislation assumes a olio
raster of hostility, and the liberties of men 81.°
sacrificed for a time, upon the same plea as their
lives are taken in the field of battle. We on-
ceive tire present Bills to be justified on twa
grounds ; the urgency of the occasion, and the
state of the disturbed districts in Ireland. It i 5
extremely fortunate, that as yet no attempt /134
been made to strengthen or concentrate the sPirit
of disaffection by proposiig to it any religions °r
political object. The " theoretical principles of
rebellion," so fashionable elsewhere, have n
ot
hitherto Mingled themselves in this quarrel, nor
has emancipation itself been so mush as mentioned'
But 'the events of one day, the malignity of
a single traitor, might convey into the wounds °
Ireland a fanatical or revolutionary poison, Lich
would perhaps defy all remedies, till it haj
tainted the entire body. Great, therefore, anti
fearfully urgent is the necessity of resorting t)
such active courses of cure and of precautionat
may prevent an enemy from aggravating pres`pn
discords to the irreparable injury of Ireland, and
the peril of the whole empire. Agreeing, "lc'
ever, in the expediency of adopting vigorous
measures, the several parties in Paeliament 110 e
differed much in opinion as to the particular thle
to be pursued. An overwhelming increase of th°
military force has been recommended in prefe'r'
ence to the ministerial plan, even by those w"
are usually most jealous of power entrusted 0.: 014
Aeti
the soldiery ; and same, in their unbanu-

good opinion of the present LORD LiEtyrrs'A
have thought that a dictatorial authoriti,
committed into his hands, would be less (1311'
0:11
gerous than the passing- of the proposed 17" Ct,
—lt is highly gratifying in the prey''''
emergency, that his MAJESTY'S Representative
in Ireland should stand thus high in the estio;lr
mation of all parties, and we hope the conktletleet
so forciblyexpressed will be accepted through°
the country as a reason, not for desiring Mg°
him invested with extraordinary powers, but f°r
cheerfully granting him those which he himself
has requested and declared to be essential to the
pacification of the disturbed provinces.
grand objection to the Act which subjects eer#
lain offenders to transportation without recur'
rence to a Jury, is made not merely in disregardf
but in the very face of circumstances existi.
where the law is intended to operate. It is verb
•
true, that in Buckinghamshire or Berkshire
a Statute inflicting this punishment for the
offence of being abroad at an unseasonable hot I
upop the authority of Magistrates, however le:
spectable, would be in the,highest degree odi°usci
but it is not recollected that in the disturbed
parts of Ireland this enactment has become ne-
cessary because Juries cannot be assemble", °r
if assembled cannot be expected to !let inaed
erms
pendently and without fear, or if they, do P,e
form their
_duty conscientiously, are hiabli:
sooner or later, to expiate their integrity srl,s
their lives and those of their families. It
easy for Gentlemen who are comfortabli
lodged in London to talk of keeping., '„-
vio°
late the Institution of Trial by Jury, but can they