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THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1812.

We. this morning received the following Letter

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FALMOUTH, • APR it. 13.--Arrived this day the
ship Flora, Captain STODDART, from Jamaica in b 5
days, bound to London ; she brings an account of
the capture of the dmethyst frigate, of 40 guns, be-
longing to Crirt I STOP II 53 ; having on board 400 men
(her crew) and 300 troops, going against PETioNo
by his Maiesty's ship Southampton, 32 guns, Cap-
tOin S r J. YE 0 ; she was commanded by a French.

man.

It appears Ih..t Captain Yeo bailed, to know
to at nation she belonged, but could get no satis-
fatiory reply ; on firing a shot, it was instantly re-
turned. an action commenced, which lasted two
Lours, xvt:en she struck, having all her masts carried
away the flineihyst had 350 men killed and
wounded, among the former is the French Captain.
The Southampton had 12 men killed and wounded.
After the capture, Captain YEO landed all the crew
And troops of the Amethyst at San Domingo, and
arrived at Morant Bay in Jamaica, with the frigate.
A corvette and brig were in sight at the commence-
ment'of the a6lion ; the Manchester packet, Cap-
tain ELPHINSTONE, had arrived at Jamaica. Also
arrived this day the ship Success, RICHARDSON, from
Liverpool, bound to London ; and the Linnet cutter
brig, Lieutenant TRACEY.

The Petition from the Roman Catholics of Ire-
land is this day to be presented to the PRINCE RE...
ostirnt the -Levee. The Petition is so long that
we are unable to insert the whole of it : in sub-
stance it differs very little from those which have
heretofore hen presented to the Legislature. It
states, the Petitioners have taken every oath of fide-
lity and allegiance which had been prescribed by the
Legislature, that they reje& as impious and un-
chr—ri,,n the• dete.table doctrine that it is law-

ful in any ways to injure any person or per-
sons whomsoever, on the wound of t'.els be-
ing heretics, and &so that unchristian and im-
pious doctrine, that no faith is to be kept with
heretics ; the Petition then procee Is to recite the
Various tests to which they Lave subscribed. It ad-
verts to the testimony which the Irish Legislature
has, at various times, borne to the peaceable de-
meanour of the Irish Catholics, and then proceeds
to make an assertion which we are almost inclined to
believe must i awe been inserted by mistake; it states,
that " for nearly the entire period of the last twenty
years, the progress of religious freedom has been
obstructed : whilst other Christian nations have
hastened to unbind the fetters imposed upon religi-
ous dissent, the Roman Catholics of Ireland have
remained unrehev,-d."

Whatever claims the Roman Catholics may think
they possess to 3 liii compFance with the remainder
of their demands, they surely cannot forget, and
ought not to deny, the almost innumerable conces-
sions that have been made in their favour ; they
ought not to assert that the progress of religious
freedom has been obstruEted, or that they have re-
mained unrelieved. Those who profess themselves
to be ungra:eful for, or insensible of, past conces-
sions, surely do not come with a good grace to de-
mand new ones.

The following is the concluding prayer of the

Petition :

" May we then, with hearts deeply interested in,
the fate of this our humble supplication, presume to
appeal to the wisdom and benignity of your Royal
Highness on bell of a very numerous, industrious,
affectionate, and faithful body of people—the Ro-
wan Catholics of Ireland.

And to pray, that your Royal Highness may be
pleased to take into your favourable consideration tl,e
whole of our condition—our numbers, our services,

our merits, ;Ind cur sufferings.

" And, as we are conscious of the purity of our
motives and the integrity of our principles, we there.
fore humbly [ray to be restored to the rights and
privileges of the Constitt.vion of our Country ; to
.be freed from all petrol and disabling Laws in force
nvinst us on account of our Religious Faith ; and
that we miy thereby become more worthy, as well
as more capable. of promoting- the service of the
Clown, and the substantial interests-of this great
Empire, now committed to the unrest rifled wisdom
of }'our Royal I.lihness."

Yesterday, the PRINCE REGENT took an airing on
}horseback.
Tuesday the Duke of Yoiu held a Military Le-
vee at Office in the Horse Guards, previous to
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