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nal causes.

Resolved by Cl votes to 25, that there shall be Juries in civil
causes in the manner expressed in the second proposition.
In the Sitting of the Cortes on the Bth it was resolved to
appoint a special Conimittee to draw up a plan to regulate the
Commercial relations between Portugal and Brazil.

Sir FRANCIS BURDETT has been laid up three
weeks, in consequence of a kick from his horse,
whilst mounting it at the Leicester• Hunt, about
a month ago. The blow was received in the
right knee. Happily no evil results are now ap-
prehended. The Baronet is gone to Bath to
take the waters.

The REPLY 6? Miss EMILY LON. gro AY
TO TIRE PETITION PRESENTED IN TIIE NAME OF

UER FATHER TO THE CHAMBER OF PEERS.

Divided between two sacral obligations, the
free exercise of the religion which an intimate
conviction has compelled her to adopt, and the
respect due to the will of a father, Miss LOVE-
DIY would have wished to have remained .silent,
and to have concealed her affliction. She would
have wished to haVe dispensed with the necessity
of appealing to public opinion, and to have con-
tented herself with seeking consolation at the
foot of the altar, and alleviating the weight
of paternal wrath, by offering- up incessant
prayers for the author of her days : but
she has discovered in the petition presented
by her father to the Chamber of Peers, views
which cannot' emanate alone from the aggrieved
paternal love. She is persuaded that her father,
a stranger to France, has been deceived with
respect to the meaning of the petition drawn up
for him ; that perfidious advisers have sought to
convert into a party•invective, an expression of pa-
rental grief. She saw, in common with sen-
sible. persons, that that petition, of which her fa-
ther is absolved, was a libel tending to raise sus-
. •
picion in the most irreproachable varter, and to
turn to ridicule .and contempt the---accred reli-
gion which she has embraced : she then deter.:
mined on replying
Replying—to whom ?—to her father? her father! Ali !it is
not to her father that she replies ! If those who have furnished
Mr. Loveday with their officious eloquence had confined their
attacks to his daughter alone, she would have respected his pa-
ternal anger, and the blind though sacred weapon with which
she had been assailed ; the silence of filial piety would have
been her only answer; she would have endeavoured to mitigate
her father's anger by her tears and irreproachable conduct alone.
No ; it is not to her father that site replies, it is for her religion
that she speaks. Her object is to re-establish in his esteem
those pers,)ns whom her father honoured with his confidence.—
Bee desire is to fulfil the first,. the most sacred of duties—to
avenge calumniated innocence and virtue.
Those persons who know, whoconsole Miss Loveday, in vain
assure her that her father is wrong in appealing to the law of
nations, and the French laws, in the circumstances in which he
is placed ; that those laws, on the contrary, condemn him ;
that religion is a -natural right, which no law, no power, can
affect ; which all nations at all enlightened respect ; and before
which the paternal authority, all-powerful as it is. from the na-
tural sanction with which God has endowed it, must give..way ;
since the right of choosing and acknowledging God is impre-
scriptible, and results from the divine essence of the soul, and
its immortality ; that the only real fanaticism is that which
I tends to enslave the conscience,. and to prevent a heart, con-
' vinced of the excellence of any religion, from believing and ob-
serving it. Ignorant of laws, Miss Loveday rejects these dis-
cussions of right, which alarm her filial piety, and contents her-
self with seeking to re-establish the truth of the facts which are
disfigured in her father's petition.
Previously to entering Mademoiselle Reboul's school, in
1819, Miss Loveday was decidedly prepossessed against the
Catholic religion. But the examples of piety which her com-
panions daily presented to her eyes gradually diminished this
prejudice. Faithful to the instructions which she had received
from Mr. Loveday, Mademoiselle .Reboul made no attempt to.
change Miss Emily's religion. 'But the soul of this young
Protestant began to he moved. The examples of a sincere de-
votion, the impressive pomp of the ceremonies at which she en-
treated Mademoiselle Reboul to permit her to attend, the hymns
of her young companions, with whom her heart involuntarily
united her, all served to. prepare her imagination for the change
which her reason was to operate. At length the eloquent Bus-
suet fell into the hands of the young Englishwoman. She
perused and re-perused his work with avidity; and the power-
ful reasoning of the sublime writer, who could triumph over .
the strong mind of Turenne, soon convinced a young and in-
flexible soul, which expanded with delight at the approach of
truth, and which was not yet hardened by the delusions of re-
ligious habits. But Miss Loveday was not content with read- j
ing Bossuet. She instructed herself more and more by the
study of the Catholic faith. Slit compared the catechisms of the
two religions between which she had . to choose, and it was
after this comparison (to compare is to reason) that her un-- I
derstanding convinced -her of the superiority of the Catholic'
faith to Protestantism, and that she irrevocably determined to j
embrace the religion of Alfred the Great and Edward the-Con-I
fessor.
Miss Loveday here feirmally declares, that nobody has se-
duced her, nor prevailed on her to embrace the Catholic Reli-
gion. By her own will she has been decided. After compar-
ing anti judging the merits of both religions, she has chosen that
which appeared to her pest.
As to her younger sister and her cousin, Miss Loveday is not
Called upon to canvass their motives ; but she is nevertheless of
opinion, that they were no more seduced than she was herself ;
that their momentary zeal for the Catholic faith resulted froM
their own free will, frequently manifested; but that the will
which thus emanated from persons younger than herself was
also less firm than hers. If her .cousin received three sacra-
ments within a few days, those who know the principles of the
Catholic religion will not be surprised; seeing that an adult,
before being baptized, must necessarily be instructed ; that
baptism sanctifies ; that those who receive it are worthy of be-
ing admitted to communion ; and that confirmation is a sacra-
ment that may be received at any time.
After this declaration, which.- completely destroys all that
could possibly be said on the pretended seduction, Miss Love-
day has to reply ina precise manner to the principal facts stated
in the petition.
It certainly appears that on the 7th of August, 1821, Made-
moiselle Behold's -sister wrote to Mr, Loveday " that he need
have no fear on the subject of religion." It has been seen that
Mademoiselle Reboul took no part, direct or indirect, in Miss
Loveday's change of religion ; but that the young lady studiec
the Catholic Religion, as it were, in stealth from her gover
ness.

On the return of their father to France, the Misses Loveday
did, indeed, on the 23d of October, 1821, avow to him their in-
tention to become Roman Catholics, but not that they were Ro-
man Catholics ; for they 'could not so be until after their abju-
ration, which they had not then made.
From that day to the 19th of November, Mr. Loveday en-
deavoured to oppose the new faith of his daughters. After din-
ner, he was every day shut up with them until one in the morn-
ing, during which time he unceasingly urged new arguments
-against the Catholic religion, and new reasons in favour of the
Protestant. lie succeeded with his younger danghter. But
Miss Emily, whose faith-was better grounded, and whose un-
derstanding was more advanced, remained unshaken. She,
therefore, was not seduced, since her father had full time to
unmask and to combat what- he. calls seduction. Mr. Loveday.
then dictated a letter which he made his daughter write to Ma-
demoiselle Reboul, with the design of inducing that lady to be-
lieve that Miss Emily-had reverted to the religion of her father,
and that she was going to leave Paris with him on a joarney.—
This made Miss Loveday apprehend that her father meant to
carry her to England, where the Catholics are not treated as
the Protestants arein France, and where she would perhaps be
compelled to adhere- to Brotestantkon. She consequently re-
solved to attach h.—self to the Catholic religion by a bond more
difficult to be breT,,n, and on the 10th of November she left her
father's house and solemnly made her abjuration.
She appointed a meeting with her father at the house of Ma-
demoiselle Reboul, by a letter full of the most airectionate and
submissive expressions; but fearing to cause uneasiness to that
lady, she chose another place.
That was the convent des Enfans Trouves (the Foundlings),
kept by holy nuns, whither she repaired, and not to the hospi-
tal of la illaternite, as, by an infamous trick, had been reported,
but in which she never set her foot.

Wishing to give some account of herself to her father, and to
save him from anxiety respecting her situati(N... she wrote to
him ; but as she did not wish to go near him until time and
the attention of his friends had-soothed his anger, she caused
her letters to he stamped with the post=mark in the country,
in order That her residence in Paris might for some time remain
unknown.

She afterwards repaired to the house of Mr. Jerningham, that
her father, who esteemed that gentleman, might not be un-
' easy respecting the residence she had chosen. There her father
found her. It he stopped under the gateway till two o'clock in
the morning, that was contrary to the pressing solicitations of
his daughter, who requested him to come into the house.
She did not make her escape next morning, before Mr. Jer-
nirigliani's family arose: She went out late in the day, with
Mr. Jerningham's permission, and returned of her own accord
to her father's house, being determined to remain there, if he
changed his conduct towards her.. But he behavrd always in
the same manner ; and she obServed appearantes in the house

* Miss Loveday took no part in the pretended letter f:orn
Major Loveday, her brother, and acknowledges only the p:e.
sell t reply.

Which made net Conclude that it was intended to remove tier,
and carry her out of France.
.The fear of being conveyed to England made Miss. Loveday
alter her plan, and she once more resolved to • seek an irre-
proachable asylum, in which she might beat liberty to practice
her religion..
She consequently repaired to the convent of Notre Dame, in
Rue do. Sevref. ,
The Superior, on the recommendation of Madame M--, a
lady distinguished for her piety and her rank, afforded the hos-
pitality required, and applied to that lady to know what the pa-
rents of the young person wished 'to be clone with her.
Here Miss Loveday cannot refrain from remarking the in-
justice of the charges made against the Superior of the convent
of Notre Dame. What has Madame the Superior done ? A
young girl, a foreigner, claims her hospitality, and
.she grants
it. She endeavoured several times to reconcile Mr. and Miss
Loveday, and it was; not until after she was. convinced that the
father persisted in his obstinacy, and the daughter in her
fidelity to the Catholic religion, that this lady determined to
retain the latter in her house. She was persuaded that if
she refused Miss Loveday an asylum in her house, the fear
and solitary situation of that young lady might, perhaps, lead
her into inevitable Misfortunes.* What, then, was done by the
Superior of the convent of Notre-Dame, which reason and hu-
manity do not approve ? In what country would not such a
noble spirit of hospitality be admired ? Doubtless it is because
it proceeds from a nun, that the praises which it deserves are
withheld from it.
Miss Loveday was of age, and she wished to remain in the
convent. The Superior could not, without inhumanity, refuse
her an asylum. But it then became necessary to conform to
the customs or religious houses, and not to see her fhther ex-
cept at fixed hours. The Superior infornied Mr. Loveday of
this; but le would not submit to the rules which were observed
by all other parents who had children in the convent. He de- •
sired to be long in company with his daughter, and would see
her every hour as fin his own house. He threatened several
times to spend the night in the vestibule of the convent. ThiS
indecorum could not be allowed in an asylum of peace and
Madame the Superior employed at first gentle means.
The Official of the house endeavoured to calm Mr. Loveday
the Commissary of Police made the same attempt. At last,
that which would have been done'to defend the house of a most
obscure citizen was adopted—gendarmes were employed to pro-
tect a dwelling of peace against the violence of Mr. Loveday.
He was not held a prisoner. He was only requested to wait
until the Commissary of Police should arrive. He was not
guarded by soldiers; but the armed force was .called
measure which, from the threats of Mr. Loveday, appeared to
be necessary, and which the officer of Police has always the
right to require. He was not made to Contract a compulsory
obligation under four bayonets; but he very willingly signed, a
promise not to return to the convent, the order' and peace of
which his presence disturbed, and not to grant a pension.
Notwithstanding the well-known truth of the facts which it
has been endeavoured to distort, the Superior of the Convent of
Notre Dame has been unblushingly represented as an inhuman
jailer ; her house, the asylum of beneficence and religion, has
heen called a haunt ; prudent measures of the Commissary of
Police have been pronounced illegal ; and, finally, a timid and
submissive girl has been painted as a fury who felt a barbarous
pleasure in tormenting her father.
Miss Loveday here calls upon the Author of her days to say
whether the portrait which has been drawn of her is true ? At
the painful moment when her father's rage made her withdraw
from him, (for the scene of the persecutions and the bayonets is
all imaginary), did an insulting smile really appear on her
lips ? Aa ! how is that smile to be reconciled with the tears
which Miss Loveday shed when terrified by her father's im-
precations—her limbs ceased to support her, and she sunk se-
veral times senseless to the ground !
Miss Loveday must also remark, that in the petition the vio-
lence and inhumanity appear .to be ascribed altogether to those
who gave her an asylum, while Mr. Loveday is represented as
a model of gentleness and patience. But how ought the scene
of the Ist of January, of which his daughter was almost the
victim, to be characterized ? She was going to the Superior of
the Convent of the Phalan& Tlouves, when her father met her
on the Boulevard du Mont-Parnasse, and endeavoured to carry
her off by force. This uncommon violence attracted a crowd ;
the father and the terrified daughter were carried to the Com-
missary of Police, whose proces-verbal leaves no doubt of Mr.
Loveday's intention.
Such is the picture of this conversion—effected, it is said, •by
converters ! Such are the crimes of the seducers of the \lisses•
Loveday, and those of the object of their seduction ! The se-
ducers ! Who arc they ? Why have they not been named ? If
there be no harm in naming those who are accused, there is
very great harm in allowing suspicion to hover over a whole
class of virtuous and respeCtable persons. Why these conceal-
ments, which are more criminal than direct Accusations ? Why
not clearly designate those who are accused ? Ah ! those ima-
ginary criminals are, no doubt, some of those men whose spot-
less names defy calumny and suspicion, and excite only ideas
of morality and virtue.
It is wished to stigmatize the voluntary conversion of Miss
Loveday with the name of rapt do seduction! (inveigling or en-
ticing away.) What a strange abuse of terms ! What kind of
inveigling could induce a young female to subject herself to a
religion demanding the exercise of the most austere virtues ?
Miss Loveday, it is said, was, it is true, of age,,when she was
converted ; but then the seduction which brought about her
conversion 'commenced when she was a minor—when her fa-
ther left her at the house of Mademoiselle Reboul ; it is, there-
fore, alleged that, that unworthy governess seduced a young in-
experienced girl in the absence of her father.
In the first place, Miss Loveday has exonerated Mademoi-
selle Reboul froin'the false charges made against her.. Miss
Loveday has declared, .that her Governess, 'far from working
upon her conscience, never endeavoured to prevail on her to
quit the religion of her father; and the real author of her con-
version is her father himself, who, though he wished her to
continue faithful to Protestantism, imprudently placed her in a
house, where, for several years, she necessarily beheld the prac-
tice of a religion whiCh appealed more powerfully to her heart.
.Besides, the act which could alone form the ground of the
charge of rapt de seduction, in a word, the. conversion of Miss
Loveday, was not accomplished until she came of age, when
the law declares her capable of ratifying as well as of annulling,
promises, which artifice or seduction might have wrung from
her during her minority. This conversion did not take place '
until the age at which Miss Loveday's understanding had at- •
tained its full maturity, when she could. freely judge-of her own •
actions ; and even after her father had employed every possible
argument to induce her to change her resolution. Tlius the
charge of rapt de seduction falls of itself.
Miss Loveday, therefiare, was, not seduced by her virtuous
governess. She has been guided by her own inclinations, of
which she has to render an account to GOD alone. 'Neither did
her mind receive impressions of terror from ridiculous fables, •
absurd miracles, and vulgar superstitions. It was the flame
of the thunderbolts, with which the Eagle of Meaux crushed
all the doctors of Protestantism, thatinduced her to embrace
the primitive religion of 'her country. That religion will not
cause her to disavow the social virtues and her duty to her
family, for those duties are one of the first commandments of
the faith she has adopted. Miss Loveday will always respect
and love her father. She- ie indebted to him for life; she is
willing to make a sacrifice of' hers ; but she received her soul'
from the Divinity, and her father should not wish to tyrannize
over that, and to load her with his maledictiOn, because .she
exercises the reason which he himself took pains to form. .
France will not be astonished at the voluntary conversion of
Miss Loveday, nor at the resistance which she, has shewn to
her father on the subject of her religion • since they are the
effects of that liberty of conscience established in this noble
country. Strangers will always flock hither, because they will
find themselves more free than in countries where the Catholic
religion is marked with the seal of reprobation.
-The petition which would establish rapt de seduction in the
voluntary conversion of Miss Loveday, cannot, therefore,, he lis-
tened to ; it belongs to Miss Loveday alone to satisfy and ap-
pease her father. -

Imprudent father !-Listed to the voice of your daughter
who supplicates you! Consider, she beseeches you, the abyss
into which perfidious counsels are Obliging you. You did not
dictate the words which your hand has signed. No ! it is not
you who wished it to be suspected that an indecent mystery
existed in the language of your daughter, and who desired to
cover her with opprohriumtliy pretending to attach an odious
sense to the artfully exhibited words tics Enfan.s Trou,,es, de
illatermite. It is not that these calumnies can wound Miss
Loveday. It is for your sake, it is for her father, that she be-
seeches you to reflect upon thefr danger. Do you not see that
in endeavouring to cast a veil of doubt over the conduct of your
daughter, yourself, and all yoUr family are insulted ? Dis-
avow, then, this writing, which has proceeded from the
zeal of an imprudent defender; or rather allow your daughter,
uniting herself to you, since it belongs to the sentiments of
ture, here to speak, to disavow it for you, and to say—" No,
my father could not subscribe a libel against the honour of his
dau ;h ter."
Why accuse your daughter of having been seduced, when
you know that her conversion resulted only from the free exer-
cise of her reason and her will? Why, then, this obstinacy
without cause? Whv this bitterness against a religion that
your daughter has hailfi n the happiness to d good ? Ah 1 if the
first of your ancestors who embraced the Protestant religion
had experienced from his father the same resistance which you
now oppose to your daughter, perhaps you would not yourself
be of that religion which you want to coutpel her to follow!
Why, then, do you refuse to your daughter the same right by
which you hold your modern system of faith ? Pardon her, then,
pardon your daughter ! Let her no longer be the object of your
wrath. Receive her in your bosom : but leave to her her new
faith.- Do not be offended by the words she addresses to you ;
lave her to adore in peace the ow of her adoption. If she

importunes him with her prayers, if she bathes with teas
.niarhic of his holy altars, it is for you—it is for her father; e
is to pray that may grant you that happiness whichilei
cannot enjoy. without the free exercise of the_re.ligion WL
JILT reason and intimate conviction" have induced her to adopt'

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`The schoolmistress, REitour., has also vento.r
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to place herself before the public : she has esti'
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dently so much wisdom (and it is no small qua"
tity) as leads her to take advice of able "tip;
sellors. licsNEouiN is perhaps the in°s
sensible and respectable man at the French bar'
" TO THE EDITOR OF THE CONsTITUTIoNN“- „
" Paris, Jan. 1.
" petition, signed 4 Douglas Loveday,' and hvhicg
it is announced will be made a subject of debate in the OWII,
bet of Deputies, has been profusely circulated in Paris for sofl
days past. This petition contains allegations of the most s;rl,
ous nature against me,, as the head of the institutign, and 1 am
held out to the public in the most odious light. In order to
lighten the public minders to the erroneous opinion into which the!
have been hurried, 1 must await the moment when that violenceshall have begun to subside, which has astonished
Loveday himself, if we may believe his recent declaration,
through the medium of your journal, that it was contrari
his express intention that the sale of his petition had taken ptlf;
and that he had even caused a whole edition to be seized at t
houSe Of a-bookseller in the Palms Royal, on the morning of the
10th of January.' . But I must also exert myself in the cot.'",
of this very painful interval, to collect the materials for a Per,
sonal defence, which society, in my opinion, has -•a right to re,
quire from nie, and which in justice to.mysell Imust antler
take.
"Though conscious that I was not liable to reproach,
never forgotten that I could not be an impartial judge of
own conduct. 1 have been desirous of stating the'case with. Pet;
feet sincerity to men whose professioM, experience; and kit°
moderation pointed them out as just and even rigorous jadgesio,
" MM. Ilillecoq and Ilennequin were pleased .to-
me. I laid before them all the circumstances of m connection
with M. Douglas LovedaY—our agreement relative to his
daughters and niece—the formal declaration which he niatlere-
latively to education, in a religious point of view—our co'''',,;
spondence—finally, I stated what my own conduct had bve':
These lawyers came to the conclusion that I was entitled to their
support. They have given it to me ; andlhe 'public will 50.3
be enabled to form a judgment With respect to this affair, 2,,
3
which,' with whatever severity I may have been treated, it is -I
ready too evident that the facts art become less an object of 01;
plaint than the means of scandal. - ass confident that wh° •
the truth shall have been made known,'theparents of families",
to whom I am particularly anxious to. justify myself, will be,o
opinion that I have pursued the strict line of my duty. }or •
the rest,. Sir I am perfectly unmoved by any thing which:ll
have been hitherto published relatively to the petition of,
Douglas Loveday, either in the periodical papers, or any Ot
work. My defence, which is being prepared, will be sign'
by the.

• " I hope, Sir, that for the sake of a person who is already
posed to all the severity of public opinion, without having
heard, you will have the, goodness to give this letter a pbee;
your Journal.

" I have the honour to be, &c.
" REnovU"

IRELAND,

FATAL AFFRAY.

(FROM THE CORK SOUTHERN REPORTER.)
A dreadfUl occurrence took place yesterdaP
' seven miles east of Bandon, between the Cloo
kilty Yeomanry, under the command of Captain
Hungerford, and abOut 500 of the peasantry'
r
The revenue Officers in Clonakilty having ha'
private information of an illicit distillery, Pt'
ceeded to the spot with the Yeomanry, made the;
Seizure, and took the owner of the still, na°'
Buckley, and another man whom they found at
work, priSonerS. As 'soon as the circumstance
was. known the country people assembled to the
number of at least 500, and manifested every la-
dication of a hostile spirit by. immediately cern'
mencing throwing stones, and were about to resi
the prisoners and the still, when Capt. flungerfort
remonstrated with, and cautioned them at their
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hear on hint, and shower the stones on the partY
on which, we are sorry to say, the threat 0.39
put in execution, and Buckley was killed on the
spot. As he was tied to the other man, both
fell together, on which it was supposed that they
met the same fate. A general attack then tonic
place, when the yeomanry fired upwards Of
sixty rounds; and drove the country people
in all directions. They th?n proceeded
their charge to. Clonakilty, and lodged the stilt
in the King's.stores, and secured their prisoner
without further molestation. The • Gentleman
who furnished us with this information, left CU?'
nakilty at three o'clock, and was overtaken on
the road by two Gentlemen, who'did not leave it
for some time afterwards, and then informed him/
that horns were sounding on the different hill,
and that the people were congregated together,
in great numbers, with the evident intention Of
making another attack. We'llave not heard DI
the number of the country people who have sof,'
fered, but from the shots fired, it is stipposc°
many must have been killed, and wounded,. 00
the 17th inst. Arthur Beamish Bernard, Esci•
commanding the East Carbery Yeomanry, pro"
ceeded through the:, intricate and mountaioods
country leading to Sleevowen, near, Incheegeela,
and there succeeded in apprehending' John Do'
novan, one of the men wounded on the•mornio4 '
of the 7th instant, in the affair which took place. .
in the village of Newcestown. Captain IL also
made prisoner Edward Cottor, in „whose house
Donovan had been secreted. Donovan is in a
very dangerous state, having- received four bul-
lets—one in the breast, one a little above the
hips, one above and one below the knees.
[FROM THE LIMERICK CHRONICLE OF SATURDAY:I
A most barbarous and inhuman murder was
committed on a man named Foley, on the night
of Thursday last, on the lands-or Movidy, near
Newcastle, in this county, and the body after^
wards thrown into the river. William•and John
Cagnay (brothers) were brought into town yes..
terday morning, by a party of Major WitcoCVS
Police, charged with the murder. •
The house of John Sullivan, Esq.; of Camas,
was entered, a few &gilts since, by an armed
party, who plundered it of 521. in Batik Note.
and cash.
Two policemen were deprived of their arms, ,
on Tuesday evening, between Ballingarry and
Rathkeale.
Captain Rock, of the barony of Corkaginny,
who was taken at the head of a detachment of
Whiteboy cavalry, on Sunday night, by Francis
Eagar, Esq., of Minard, was escorted to Traled,
on. Tuesday, by a party of the 39th Regiment,
from Dingle. This deluded man, named Denis
Cleuvene, was brought forward bare-footed and
bare-legged. He excused himself to the Magis-
trate on the occasion of being taken, by saying,
that he was'only proceeding with his squadron
on the above night, with the intention of depriV
ing a man who had served him with a process, 9f
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3IASONIC NOTICES FOR NEXT WEEK.
Alonda ENGLAND.
Y, January 98, LONDON. Nos. 4, 46, 71, 104, 305,
321, 407, 458.
COUNTRY. Nos. 227, 246. 320, 490,
546, 578, 797.
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COUNTRY. s. 68, 268.
Wednesday, No-- 30, LONDON. No. 296. Lodge of Bene.
volence.

COUNTRY. NOSA1:1, 126, 468, 549,
705.
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Thursday-, 31, LONDON. NOS. 7 86 n 22 327. Gen,

Con-i. Fern. S:h. at 12.

COUNTRY, Nos. 70, 110, 176, 214.
453, 513, 560, 642, 679.
Frig February 1, LONDON. Nos. 10, 210, 399, 409.
COUNTRY. Nos. 13, 28, 30, 55, 58.
470, 538, 550, 655, 709.
No. 173.
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DOT.
FESTIVAL OFLO
TNHE BIRTHR-DAYIC
OF THE GRAND
14'141..1M-0n Monday next this Festival will be celebrated,
d We believe that it will be unequalled by any Mason!: Meet-
14g Which has taken place of late years, both for splendour and
11411-lbers, and the high respectability of the parties who have
ligtdfied their intention of being present.

.
HANTS.
t POisTsEA.-..--Th6MOtige of Antiquity, No. 23, which had
or some time been in a state of abeyance, has resumed its meet-
ings under the sanction of the M. W. GRAND MASTER, and
the
auspicesof the PRov. GRAND MASTER, and there is every
reason to expect that it will soon regain its former reputation
!°z• the correctness and regularity of its proceedings, and the
number and respectability of its members.

:ro.. We have received several other Communications, which,tt........_2cver we are obliged to postpone till next Thursday.

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For A -PERTUS, Letter IX. see the Fourth Rtge.

PRICK OF STOCKS
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/lank Stock
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Per Cent. Red
,Per Cent. Cons 7611 India Bonds 31s.
4
75it Excheq. Bills 5 6 pr.
~.. per Cent • 96i Cons. for February 76i 76 76
Act Cent. Navy Ann.... 10731

BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
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soLEir (2UIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT g

LONDON,
TEURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1822

The French Papers of Monday arrived this
rao.• •
1..; and bring no intelligence respecting-the
aeeePtance of the Russian ultimatum by Turkey,
M'hich was announced yesterday on the authority
°f Private letters from Odessa. The tenor of
the
art!cles trom Germany, on the contrary, con-
tit)
Iles to be warlike, and hostilities are regarded
as •
Inevitable. The change of Spanish Ministry
41 •
"Ilened in our-Paper of Tuesday, has actually
tal-en place, and our extracts will furnish fur-
tiler particulars of this event.

.1111 ALTAR, Drc. 21.—The lonian Islands
4sre Placed under martial law, and all disarmed.
I" P. ADAM strung up five Albanians found
wit" arms in their hands, and the consequence
144 that bundles of firelocks to an immtnse
number were eagerly brought in. They had
be
en buried in contemplation of a rising.

The new law for regulating the periodical
press in France is likely to undergo a fierce and
Protracted discussion, involving as it does a se-
t‘;es of propositions, the very lightest of which is
'asPeakably important both in principle and in
practical effect. By a single article of this law
it
is enacted, that periodical writings may be
that
ceffences committed in such publications shall
tit 'tied by Judges and not by Juries; and that
t e Punishment may be a suspension, and, in ag-
bt4ated cases, a total suppression of the ob-
p:kkus print. This last provision, and another
vehibiting the establishment of a new journal
ot4llout the Royal sanction, form the two limbs
la a forceps intended to hold fast, and, if neces-
tilrYs to crush the most inveterate literary dis-
Itbers of public peace and unanimity. Without
beekling how far the passing of such a law may
of France,
or justifiable in the present state
l'x'ance, we may safely pronounce it to be a
iteastlre wholly irreconcileable with a legitimate
14440 M of the Press, and unfavc-irable to liberty
general. The law of libel, even as adminis-
-1: 4 this country, has been objected to
.IPh snille persons as dangerously indefinite ;
47 then shall be said of enactments which
o'ain) that punishment shall he inflicted,
41t I.°l' expressions or for the promulgation of
latltiolents falling within a certain rule, however
Iptge or indistinct, but for the spirit of a work,
ill eh spirit, moreover, is to be collected from a
haeeession of articles! It will require no ordi_
ta:? Mixture of critical and legal sagacity to
liale.e back the motives and intentions of a Jour-
thist throug
e h an endless series of papers, (for
law cannot limit the extent to which investi-
tatit °II shall be pushed in each particular case),
hunt down disaffection through a long course
nt itz
up'ations, where the scent may be perpe-

tally cooled by temporary caution or hypocrisy,
and crossed by variety of writers. But suppos-
ing this to be a trifling objection, it does not
seem to have been remembered, that a libeller is
punished not merely for his intentions, but for the
effect which his libel is presumed to have upon so-
ciety; and that in chastising him upbn this prin-
ciple for the mischief produced, by a spirit of dis-
affection or impiety diffused over many succes-
sive publications, it becomes necessary to suppose
that the public, or some certain portion of it, has
regularly perused the series in question, so as to
become exposed to that destructive influence
which is not sufficiently concentrated to have a
perceptible effect in any single paper. And
this, we think, is much too large an assumption
to be justifiably acted upon, when the conse-
quence may be a ruinous punishment. In trying
offences of so impalpable and evanescent a cha-
racter, it is not surprising that the usual func-
tions of a Jury should be transferred •to the
Judges, who are thought better qualified for the
task by their superior information and the skill
hich habit has given them in penetrating the
true sense of authors. But are these the proper
representatives of that class of men whose prin-
ciples are most endangered by the publication of
libellous periodical papers ? The evil produced
by writings of this kind, which gives them their
peculiar malignity of character, and renders them
fit objects of public prosecution, is the effect
which they unhappily produce on men of simple
and unrefined apprehensions ; and it therefore
appears to us peculiarly just and fit that such
publications should be referred.to the deliberate
and awakened judgment of persons selected from
this class, rather than to the sagacity of highly
educated men, whose over-curious acuteness,
whose secret prejudices, and whose subtle asso-
ciation of ideas, might frequently be found more
hurtful to the interests of justice than the
homely plainness of their inferiors. It is pro-
vided by the new law, that libels circulated in
periodical works, against the public peace, the

Catholic religion, or others recognized in France,
the King's authority and the stability of the, con-
stitutional establishments, may be punished by
suspension of the offending print for a period not
exceeding one month upon a first conviction, and
three on a second. For a third offence the paper
may be suppressed ; the legislators imitating in
this respect the policy of that illustrious Bashaw,
who, in his domestic quarrels, used to

" Cut the woman as well as the argument short."
'Fine and imprisonment may, we believe, be
added to these punishments, according, to the
magnitude of the crime, and the frequency with
which it has occurred.—The suspension, or even
suppression of Journals in aggravated cases,
though a mode of chastisement repugnant to our
nations of freedom, particularly where other
penalties are added, might still not be deemed
an extravagant severity ifdit were only inflicted
under the sanction of a verdict ; but when
placed in the discretion of Judges, it becomes
so ready and obvious a resource of political
animosity or apprehension, that, where it exists,
the administration of justice can scarcely con-
tinue unsuspected in any hands. The cla-
mour against confiscation was, however, most
absurdly and perversely raised by the op_
posers of the law, who might just as seasonably
have inveighed on this occasion against usury or
smuggling. Confiscation has always hitherto
signified a seizing on property to the use of the
Government ; and the word is, therefore, as much
misplaced in speaking of the sentence which pro-
hibits a Journalist from continuing his labours,
as if an English publican were to complain of
confiscation when the Magistrates have taken
away his license. We are the more induced to
make this observation, as the word is sometimes
employed with very little regard to its true
meaning, by politicians of our own- country.—
BUONAPARTE'S will, which has appeared in most
of our papers this week, and in which the Ex-
Emperor so laudably " remembers" a great num-
ber of people, presenting them with good advice,
and still better legacies, is now proclaimed by

►e Count DE MoNTlloLox an incorrect fabrica-

tion and full of errors; while an English pape,r,
on the other band, declares it to be " essentially
correct." Whether or not the Count means by
his declaration to set aside the will, entirely,
and whether his affirmation or that of our con-
temporary be the more authentic, we do not
presume to determine ; but it seems that the
legatees will do well not to spend any of the
money by anticipation, nor to act upon the advice
till they obtain better intelligence. For the
present, therefore, the Abbe VISNALE will use
his own pleasure about building his house near
" Ponte-Novo de Rossino ;" Baron BIGNON will
not hurry himself to begin " the History of
French Diplomacy from 1792 to 1S15;" Col.
I\LtREOT, if he " continue to write for the cIC-

fence and the glory of the French armies, and to
confound the calumniators and the apostates,"
will do so upon his own responsibility ; and MAR..
CHANT), the " first valet de chambre," witl not,
it is to be hoped, prematurely engage his affec-
tions to the " widow, sister, or daughter of an
ofacer or soldier of the old guard."

A file of regular sets of American Papers liave
been received this morning to the 31st Dec.,
from which we copy the following :-
4 KINGSTON (CANADA), DEC. 2.—Our readers
may recollect that in the abstract we lately gave of the evidence
taken before the British Parliament last winter relative to the
timber trade, it was.stated that certificates of origin would he
required on shipments from the Colonies; and that all timber
thus shipped, if not proved to •be the growth of his Majesty's
Colonies, would be subject to the duties exacted on timber im-
ported directly from a foreign State. Though this regula-
tion has been in force only during the present season, we
understand that • schemes have been already devised to in-
troduce thither ,front the United States into
.the markets
of the. Lower Province, and to export it from thence to
England, with certificates declaring it to be of the proper
growth of Canada. To check this species of fraud, winch
it unmolested would rapidly increase, it is in contemplation
to form an association for the purpose of employing several
trusty individuals along the frontier and elsewhere, whose busi-
ness it will be to watch the introduction. of American timber
into the Province, and to detect and punish every person who
may endeavour, by perjunror other fraudulent means, to pro-
cure certificateS that it_is OfA.!anadian origin. This association
is, we are assured,. already numerous and respectable, and it
will doubtless prove beneficial, not only in guarding the British
revenue, but (what is more immediately interesting to us) in
protecting the Canadian timber merchant against the injurious
and unfair competition of foreigners -in our own markets.—
(Chronicle.)

" Il.tvANNAH.—NoVolk, Dec. 1.--When the
Alonzo left Havannab on the 10th instant there
was no political news. The Castle of San Juan,
at Vera Cruz, was still in possession of the
Royalists, and 500 troops had sailed from Ha-
vannah to relieve it."

Amongst our Irish news, we regret that we
should have to record an instance in which the
officer commanding a party of yeomanry thought
it necessary to shoot one of his prisoners, in order
to deter a mob from continuing to assail himself
and his men with stones. The party had two
prisoners in charge, whom they had taken, not in
insurrection, but in the act of working an illicit
still, and were conveying the offenders to a place
of security, when a numerous body of country
people attacked the Yeomanry with stones, in
order to effect a •rescue. The officer threatened
to shoot his prisoners if the assailants did
not desist ; and unhappily carried the threat into
execution, by killing one of the unhappy men
on the spot ! Even this severe and desperate
expedient, however, had not the desired effect.
The mob pressed still •more closely upon the
Yeomanry, who in their turn fired upon the
people, and after discharging about sixty rounds,
succeeded in dispersing them. We are not disposed
to condemn hastily the conduct of persons placed
in trying and difficult circumstances ; nor have we
yet, perhaps, accurate information of this un-

happy affair. We, however, hope that it will be
strictly investigated. The Yeomanry, it appears,
were strong enough to repel (for they did repel),
the lawless baud by whom they were assaulted.
If they had not been sufficiently strong, was Ole
rashac.Lof theirOfficel' -Calculated to overawe or
to exasperate the people ? We think the latter.
—Could any circumstances justify the infliction
of death upon a man who was in custody for an
offence entirely unconnected with that of' the
misguided multitude who attempted to frustrate
the due execution of the laws ?

VICTUALLING OFFICE.--We are informed that
our statement of yesterday respecting some irre-
gularities at the Victualling Office was correct
only as regards the business of Pursers accounts,
for which the Board had discharged Mr. OWEN
before the Admiralty interfered. The Chairman
and Secretaries are by no means implicated in
this - transaction, but having discounted Bills
(which every other person unconnected with the
Office may do)con trary to existing regulations, they
have been visited with the high displeasure of
the Admiralty. We are therefore inclined to hope
that we may hereafter be enabled to state that
some new arrangements at that Board, and
throughout the office establishment, contemplated
by the Admiralty, may have led to their removal ;
for it is obvious that the transaction to which we
have alluded cannot throw the least imputation
upon the integrity and high character of these
gentlemen, though their conduct may not have
been strictly conformable to official regulations.
Mr. CLIFTON has succeeded to the Secretaryship,
as we stated yesterday.

We have this day inserted the Reply of Miss
LOVEDAY to her father, which evidently does
not result from herself, but is the fabrication of
those who have seduced her from filial duty, and
consider it as a meritorious act of religious faith
to prevent her from relinquishing the religion
into which they have ensnared her. Besides
other obvious internal marks that this composi-
tion has been prepared for her, the panegyrics
which it bestows on the Catholic faith, and on
all that relate's to the freedom and happiness of
France, fully demonstrate her total subserviency
to those delusions to which she has unhappily
fallen a victim.

Extract of a letter; dated St. Thomas's, De-
cember 20, 1821 :—" Trade is exceedingly lan-
guid, and so far feorn feeling the benefit of the
independence of that part of South America,
which we are connected with, we anticipate
losing the trade entirely from the direct ship-
ments made from Great Britain and other coun-
tries, and our poor island will in time become
what Malta is now, reduced to its own miserable
consumption. I have long dreaded the inde-
pendence of the Spaniards in a commercial point
of view, as far as we are concerned. Of the Co-
lumbian Loan, contracted in your country, and
of which the interest has not been paid until now,
we have but a very bad opinion, and it will be
very long before Columbia can make good its en-
gagements in this part of the world and your's.
The privateering continues to an alarming degree
in our waters, and St. l3arthelemi continues to be,
as it always has been, the nest where the spoil is
readily disposed of."

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.
The Diike of Devonshire, at Devonshire House, from Hard-
wicke ; Viicount Morpeth, in Park-street, Park-lane, from
Castle Iloward ;. Mr. J. C.-Hobhouse, in Clarges-street, from
the Hunt, at Reading ; Lady E. Palk, in Bruton-street, from
Ehfield ; Lord and Lady Henniker, in Grosvenor-square, from
Stratford House, Essex ; the Earl and Countess Cowper, in
George-street, Hanover-square, from Pansenger, Herts ; the
Countess of Aylesford, in Audley.square, from Staninore ; the
Right Hon. Sir John Nicholl, M.P. and family, in Bruton-
street, from Wales ; Colonel Lowther, in Bruton-street, from
Cumberland ; J. Hume, Esq. M.P. in York-place, Portman-
sqUarei from a tour ; the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville, in
Cleveland-square ; Anthony Bacon, Esq. at the St. James's
Hotel, from Benham Park, Berks ; Sir D. and Lady Ogilby,
and family, in Charles-street, Manchestir-square, from a tour;
Sir George Jemingham, Bart. at Jordan's Hotel, from Nor-
folk.

DEPAjITITEE:—The Marquis of Ailesbury, for Viscount
Sydney's, Frognall, Dent ; Sir John Newport, Bars. for
Huntingdonshire; George Byng, Esq., 1%1.P., for Wrotham
'Park ; the Honourable Messrs. Calthorp, from the PrinCe
Saxe Coburg Hotel, for Suffolk ; Sir John Shelley, Bart. for
his seat in Sussex ; the Hon. J. Vernon, from Tylney-street,
for Higham, pear Canterbury.
Cirawcus.—Sir Francis Burdett, Bart.. from Bamsbury
Manor, in Wiltshire, for Bath ; Lord Birthing, from Lyning-
harn, to Worthing ; Sir Thomas and Lady Campbell, from
Cheltenham, for Bath ; Hon. F. Calthorpe.,, from Brighton, to
Bury St. Edmund's; Lord Edward Somerset, froth Chipping.
Norton, to Stoke Bristol; Lord Geo. Somerset, from Ulot,
cester, to Bristol.

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester are this week on a
visit at Gorhambury, the seat of the Earl anti Couiitess of
Verulam.

The Earl of Liverpool has issued cards of invitation for a
grand dinner, to be given at Fite House on the 4th of next
month.

Countess M unster entertained a distinguished party of fashion-
ables on Tuesday evening, at her house in Grosvenor-place.
The Duke of Montrose entertained a select party yesterday,
to dinner, in Grosvenor-square.
Viscount Melbourne had a select party to dinner yesterday,
at his house, Whitehall.

Earl Rivers had a distinguished party to dinner yesterday, in
' Grosvenor place.
Viscount Carleton gave an elegant entertainment yesterday,
in George-street, llanover-square.
The Earl of Harrowby will give what is termed the Sheriffs'
Dinner, on Friday, the .Ist of the ensuing month, at his house
in Grrosvenor-square, which will be attended by all the Cabinet
Ministers, the Lord Chamberlain, and other Officers of State,
when they will prick for the Sheriff's to serve for the ensuing
yews.
_

The second meeting of the Catch Club took place on Tuesday,
at the Thatched Douse Tavern.—Amons; the clistinguishei
persons present, were observed the following :—The Duke oi
Argyle, the Earl of Blesinton, Sir G. Clark, Bart. M P..
Sir %%Maui De Crespigny, J. Dent, Esq. M.P., Hon. A.
Macdonald, and J. Heaviside, Esq.

POETRY.

TEN YEARS AGO.
" Ten years ago," the world was then
A pleasant and a lovely dream ;
Lite was a river banked by flowers,
With sunshine glancing o'er the stream ;
The path was new, and thero was thrown
A sweet veil over pleasure's ray ;
But ignorance is happiness,
When young Hope is to skew the way ;
And fair the scenes that hope would spew
When youth was bright " tenyears ago."
Ten years are past,L-life is no more
The fairy land that once I knew—
Pleasures have proved but falling stars,
And many a sweetest spell untrue :
13ut may I look on these dear ones,
Feel their soft smile, their rosy kiss ;
Or may I turn, Beloved, to thee,
3ly own home-star of truth and bliss !
While love's sweet lights thus round me glow,
Can I regret " ten years ago ?"

--------
COURT OF KING'S BENCH—anis DAY.

CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATION.

THE KING v. CLARKE.—This diefentlant was

indicted for publishing a blasphemous libel, called
" Queen Mub." Mr. MARRYATT this day moved
that the indictment should be quashed, in order
that another might be preferred. Mr. Justice
BEST inquired if any costs had been incurred.
Mr. MARRYATT not answering this, Mr. DE
TRY informed his Lordship, that such motions
were generally upon payment of costs. The
Learned Judge said, then let it be so in this
case.—Motion granted on payment of costs.

The anniversary of his MAJESTY'S accession,
on Tuesday the 29th inst., is to be celebrated in
Edinburgh by an Assembly in 'the Rooms in
George-street.

Yesterday afternoon an Inquisition was taken
before THOMAS SHELTON, Esq. Coroner, at' the
Blue Coat Boy, Lant-street, Borough, ou the
body of George Glasspool, Esq. aged 4S, who
put an end to his existence in the manner we
stated yesterday. A Gentleman from the Vic-
tualling Office attended by desire of the Com-
missioners, from whose statement it appeared
that a number of clerks had, and were about to
be, dismissed from the Victualling Office. The
examination of the deceased had been taken pre-
vious to his dismissal ; when the deceased signed
the same, he said, I have now signed my death
warrant. Ile had no doubt the deceased was' in
a deranged state. The Jury consulted for a few
moments, and returned a verdict, that the de-
ceased had shot himself, being at the time in a
state of temporary derangement..—(Morning
Chronicle.)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—A young woman,
maid-servant to HARVEY, Esq. of Cliffe,
near Strood, was found hanging in her bed room
on Monday morning last, and when discovered
was quite lifeless. No cause can be assigned for
her committing the rash act : it appears she was
in excellent spirits on the preceding evening, and
cheerfully bade her fellow servants good night,
saying that she was going to be' married on the
following morning, which was actually to have
been the case, to a young man who had for some
time paid his addresses to her.
DaEADFUL FHtE.—A most distressing accident
happened at the bridge of Carr, on the night
of Thursday last. The house of ',TAMES SHAW,
blacksmith, caught fire after the family had re-
tired and were all asleep ; and melancholy to tell,
his son, a boy about seven years of age, and his
maid-servant, a young woman aged seventeen,
were burnt to death before the fire was ob-
served. The alarm was given by a shoemaker
in the neighbourhood, and the poor man, his
wife, and sister, were providentially saved. Podr
Shaw's loss, in house, furniture, &c. is estimated
at several hundred pounds.—(Abcolcen Chro-
nicle.)

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