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London, England, 1824-04-17 00:00:00

IRISH BURIALS.

The following is the letter of the Archbishop
of DUBLIN read in the House of Lords on Thurs-
day by the Bishop of lA.:4lEnlct :
‘4 DUBLIW, APRIL 7.
"Mr DEAR LORD—I perceive that in a petition against
the Burial Bill, signed by two Roman Catholics, which has
been presented to the House of Commons, and which, of course,
will also be presented to the House of Lords, there occurs the
following passage :—That no inconveinence had resulted from
the practice of free burial, as it existed in that city (meaning
Dublin) prior to the appointment of the most Rev. Dr. Magee,
as Archbishop of the Diocese.'
" The moaning of this is obvious. A charge is brought
against the present Archbishop of Dublin, as having, by some
means or other, introduced a change of practice respecting the
interment of Roman Catholics in the church-yards of the city
of Dublin since his appointment to the Archiepiscopal See.
"By the words free burial,' though not defined in their
application, the petitiones must be supposed, in reference to
those of their own communion, to intend to express the undis-
turbed privilege of the Roman Catholic Priesthood to officiate
in the church-yards of the Clergy of the Established Church.
An innovation on this supposed privilege has been loudly and
repeatedly charged against the Archbishop, for some order al-
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ledged to have been given by him, in the, instance of the in-
terment of a person of the name of Arcy, in St. Kevin's
church-yard, on the. I"i he last year ;of and,
although, the most decisive proofs of the total falsehood of the
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blished.

"So long as this charge had been confined to hand-bills,
newspapers, and pamphlets, and employed merely as a topic of
vulgar abuse, I did not deem it suitable to the station in which
I am placed to offer any public contradiction, although I was
fully aware of the personal danger to which I was exposed by
leaving it uncontradicted. I contented myself, at the time of
its first announcement, with a written assurance to the head of
the Government in Ireland, that it was, in all its fmrts and
bearings, utterly untrue. I was at that time, and had been for
several days before, residing at Leamington, in England, being
obliged to visit that place by the indisposition of a member of
my family. From that place I addressed myself by letter to
the distinguished Personage already alluded to, stating, that
respecting the transactions of the interment which had ren-
dered me the subject of the existing violent outcry, and which
had freer. madege a theen nly occasion
only of
denouncing me as an object of
popular
knowledge of them had been y
de-
rived from the public Papers; and declaring most unqualifi-
edly, that ' the allegation that any order had been issued by me
uaztrue, but destitute of allfoun-
l"
This declaration, which I felt myself called upon at that
foun-
dation tliTit truth.'
subject,u,, was nut only
time to make, in such a manner as could not derogate from
my station, I feel myself called upon to repeat in a more pub-
lic manner, now that the formal announcement of this charge,
in the two Houses of Parliament, not only affords me a suit-
able opportunity for doing so, but, at the same time, imposes
such a proceeding as a duty, founded upon the respect which
I entertain for the opinion of the Members of both Houses,
and for the judgment of the reflecting and reasonable part of
the community in both countries.
" This not being my year of parliamentary attendance, I
am, of course, prevented from offering this declaration in my,
own person in the House of Lords ; I have, therefore, to re-
quest that your Lordship will offer it for me; or rather, that
you will take the proper opportunity of bringing the entire con-
tents of this letter before the House. Have the goodness, at
the same time, to add, that as to the transaction in St. Kevin's
Church-yard, which has been pronounced a change in the prac-
tice of free burial as it existed in the City of Dublin, befbre
my appointment to the Archiepiscopal See, I not only issued
no order of any kind, general, or particular, public, or private,
and had no previous communication with any person what-
soever upon the subject; but that although nearly forty years
a resident of the City of Dublin, and not acquainted with the
occurrences of an Ecclesiastical character within that period, I
had never heard of a Roman Catholic Priest officiating, or at-
tempting to officiate, at any interment within the Church-yard
of any of the parishes of the metropolis, until I read the report
given by the public papers of the proceeding at St. Kevins'.
" It may not be amiss also to state, that when, subsequent-
ly, I was (on my return to Dublin). consulted on one or two
occasions by some of the parish ministers as to what they ought
to do in this new and alarming state of things, should a Ho-
man Catholic Priest insist on exercising his functions at an in-
terment in their Church-yards my advice to them was, that
they should be ready at their posts to officiate according to the
rites of the Established Church ; and that, if not permitted,
and that the Priest still persevered in his invasion of their
rights, they should employ no force, and oppose no resistance,
further than to protest formally and solemnly against the un-
lawfulness of the act, with a view to ulterior proceedings be-
fore the proper Tribunal.
1 have the honour to be, my dear Lord,
" Your faithful Friend and Brother,
" W. DUBLIN.

To the Lord Bishop of Limerick."
Ilis Lordship added, that he had received another letter also
from the Archbishop, stating, that " the Parochial Clergy of
Dublin havcsigned a declaration, that, to their knowledge, no
Roman Catholic Priest has ever officiated, or attempted to
officiate, in their church-yards respectively, with the exception
of the St. Kevin's business, and a similar attempt since that in
St. Mary's."

SUDDP:N DEATIL—A melancholy instance of
sudden death tookplace on Thursday, and which created a consi-
derable sensation in the City. -Mr. MAcxrivro4ll, a Mem-
ber of the Stock Exchange, and in the full vigour of manhood,
suddenly fell down and expired in ars apoplectic fit, whilst ad-
justing an account in his Counting-house.
CompuNcTioN.—One of the prisoners in the
Ifjgh Gaol, Exeter, against whom sentence of
death was recorded, has, since the Assizes, made
over the, property of a house to a. person of the
name of Davenport, whose house he had robbed
of WI. eleven years ago.

DEMERARA.

The following is the Affidavit of Mrs. JANE
SMITH, wife of the Rev. J. SMITH, Missionary at
Demerara •--

" Jane, the wife of John Smith, Missionary, late of Le Res-
souvenir, on the East coast of the Colony of Demerara, at pre-
sent in George Town with her said husband, John Smith, a
prisoner under trial ; which deponent being sworn on the Holy
Evangelists of Almighty God, deposeth as follows, that is to
say :—That on Sunday the 17th of August of this present year
1823, about the hour of four o'clock, or rather later, Bristol, a
Negro belonging to plantation Chateau Margo, the said Bristol
being a Deacon of Bethel chapel, of which chapel her said hus-
band, John Smith, was then the Minister, was conversing with
her, the said Jane Smith, concerning a little negro girl, the
daughter of the said Bristol. That the said Bristol was desirous
of placing the said Negro girl under her the said Jane Smith,
to be taught needle work and reading, and to be instructed in
any other way she, the said Jane Smith, might think fit. That
whilst she was so engaged in conversation with the said Bristol,
the said John Smith, who had been, as this deponent verily be-
-1 ieves, engaged till that hour in and about his duties as a Minister
in the said chapel, came in and found her and the said Bristol en-
gaged in the conversation aforesaid. That the said John Smith,
upon entering the house, came up to this deponent and the said
John Bristol, and joined in their conversation. That the conver-
sation concerning the said Negro girl was continued until the
said John Smith learned from the said Bristol, that the said girl
had had the measles, from which she was not at that time perfect-
ly recovered, when the said J. Smith objected to this deponent's
receiving the said girl for the purpose aforesaid, until she was
perfectly cured. That whilst they (this deponent, the said Bris.
tol, and the said John Smith) were still continuing to converse
about the said girl, four Negroes (Quamina of Success, Seaton
of Success, and Peter and Shute of Le Ressouvenir) came into
the back gallery of the house, and accosted this deponent
and the said John Smith with the usual salutation of " How
are you, master ? How are you, misses ?" That the said John
Smith then went into the hall for the purpose of taking a glass
of wine, his usual custom after coming into the house after a
fatiguing day's ministry. That this deponent was then stand-
ing upon the step leading from the gallery to the hall ; that her
attention was then called to the servant Charlotte, whose duty
it was to bring in dinner, which was then ready, and which
had been waiting for her said husband. That this deponent then
heard her said husband speak to the said Quamina, whose reply
this deponent well remembers: the said Quamina laughed and
said, " 0 nothing, Sir, we were only saying it would be good to
send and tell the managers to go to town and get the new law ;"
that thereupon this deponent's husband reproved the said Qua-
mina for so talking. The said Negroes were in the gallery, to the
best of this deponent's knowledge, not more than two or three
minutes; that the said Negroes Quamina, Bristol, Seaton, Peter,
and Shute, then all went away together, each bidding this depo-
nent and her said husband good-bye. That this deponent did not
remark any thing unusual in the manner or behaviour of
the said last mentioned Negroes, especially as it was customary
for some of the Negroes attending the said Chapel to call,in,
every Sundayin a similar way, to bid this deponent and her said
husband good bye. That after dinner on that same day, to wit,
the said 17th of August, this deponent and her said husband went
to take a rather long walk, being out about an hour, and on their
returning home from the same, about fifteen.minutes after sun-
set, met Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Van Ness, a young gentleman
lately gone to America, as this deponent has heard and verily
believes. That deponent invited them to go home and take tea
with her said husband and herself, which the said two last men-
tioned persons thereupon did. That this deponent heard nothing
from her said husband touching or concerning the aforesaid con-
versation with Quamina on the said 17th, until the following
Monday the 18th of the same month of August, when after
dinner, about six o'clock in the evening, this deponent and
her said husband were on the point of setting out to take a
walk, a Negroman of the name of Guildford, belonging to
Dochfour, made his appearance, and handed to deponent's
said husband a note or letter; that her said husband read the
said note or letter, and asked several questions concerning the
said note and its contents, and who had carried a certain in-
closure therein to Jackey Reed, of Dochfour. That the said
Guildford returned evasive and unsatisfactory answers, which
this deponent attributed rather to stupidity than design.—
That thereupon her said husband desired the said Guildford
to make haste back and tell Jackey, meaning the said Jackey
Reed, of Dochfour, that he this deponent's husband knew no-
thing of the matter to which the contents of the note referred ;
that it was too late to call any people to inquire then, none
of them being then accessible to him ; but if there was any
thing going to happen, he begged that he (Jackey) would
not have anything to do with it. That after delivering this
message, the deponent's said husband said, Wait a little ; and
thereupon wrote a note, the contents of which this deponent did
not see, and gave the same to the said Guildford, telling him at
the same time to make haste back and run all the way. That
this sleponent's said husband then addressing her, said, Come,
let us go a little way ; and that thereupon she and her said hus-
band proceeded to take a short walk, where he declared, that
from the words and manner in which the said Quamina had
answered him, he, the said deponent's husband, had not, until
the receipt of the said notes on that evening, attached any im-
portance to what the said Quamina had said on the Sunday;
that this deponent's said husband appeared very much dis-
tressed and uneasy, and did in fact express himself to be so.
That whilst this deponent and her said husband were continu-
ing
to walk on their way up the front middle walk of Le Res-
souvenir, going towards the sea shore, and consulting as to what
were the best steps to be taken hey the deponent's said husband, I
they heard a great noise at the buildings of Le Ressouvenir,
and thereupon immediately returned, with an intention, as this
deponent verily believed at the time, of going directly
home to their own house. That they however did not pro-
ceed many yards on their return, when John Hamilton call-
ed aloud to this deponent's husband to come and help him.
That both this deponent and her husband thereupon went to
the spot where the Negroes had assembled in front of the said
dwelling-house ; when, observing their conduct to be outra-
geous, and by no means what this deponent ever witnessed
from any Negroes before, she became exceedingly alarmed.
That her said husband then went forward to speak to the said
Negroes, who thereupon began to brandish their cutlasses, and
make many threatening gesticulations, which terrified this de- I
ponent, and she ran home to her own house; that upon arriving
there she went direct to the yard to look for some one to call her
said husband away. That she fbund the servant Charlotte in
the yard, whom this deponent requested to go and call her hus-
band, which the said servant refused to do, declaring that she
was too much afraid to do so. That thereupon this deponent
repaired to the spot where she had left her said husband, and
there found him standing at a little distance from the said Ne-
groes, there being near him the manager and the two overseers
of the estate, and that she, this deponent, besought her said
husband to go home, which he did. That this deponent saw
nothing more of the revolted Negroes, or any of them, on that
day, or the day following. That on the day following, how-
ever, all the Negromen of the estate Le Ressouvenir, having left
the same, and this deponent being exceedingly uneasy. and al.
armed at all that had occurred, was walking anxious and
alone up and down the front gallery of her house, when it oc-
curred to her, that probably Anchey, a woman of colour, liv-
ing on he Ressouvenir, might be enabled to give her some
information as to passing events. That previously to this, not
a creature from whom she could obtain any information had
called at the house of her this deponent. That she, this depo-
nent, sent for the said Anchey, and inquired of her if she knew
what the people were doing—if she, Anchey, thought they were
going to return home. That the said Anchey appeared to be
quite as ignorant as this deponent, whereuFon this deponent
expressed a wish that she should see Quamina or Bristol.—
That at the time this wish was expressed, she, this deponent,
was not aware that either the said Quamina or Bristol were re-
puted rebels; and that this deponent did not know this fact
until after her said husband was arrested and on his trial. That
the only reason this deponent had for wishing to see either the
said Quamina or Bristol was, that they were deacons of her said
husband's Chapel, and on that account she knew them better
than she did the Negroes in general. That this deponent then
went to lie down, not having slept any part of the preceding
night. That this deponent did not communicate to her said hus_
band a single syllable of the conversation that passed between
her and the said Anchey ; and that she, this deponent, had not
been, directly or indirectly, induced to wish to see either the said
Quamina or Bristol by her said husband, or byany other person,
but that such wish was expressed by her as it arose at the moment.
That on Wednesday, the 29th of the same August, between seven
and eight of the cluck in the evening, whilst this deponent was
in the front gallery of her house, her said husband was in the
hall, the said Anchey came to this deponent, and told her,
this deponent, that Quamina had conic if she wanted to see
him. That at that time a free woman, named Kitty Stewart,
was sitting on the steps at the back door of her said house.
That it is true this deponent did request the said Anchey to
invite the said Kitty Stewart to go home with her, and did tell
the said Kitty Stewart to go with the said Anchey ; but that this
arose entirely from the circumstance of the said kitty Stewart sit-
ting alone on the said steps, apparently thoughtful. That the said
Kitty Stewart and Anchey then went away, and shortly after
the said Quamina came to the back door. That this deponent
most perfectly remembers that she did not shut the back door.
That the said Quamina accosted this deponent m his usual
manner, and, before entering into any conversation with her,
this deponent, he, the said Quentin. seeing this deponent's
husband sitting in the hall, said he would go and speak to him.
That the said Quamina had crossed the back gallery and entered
the hall, where deponent's said husband was sitting. That this
deponent followed him. That the conversation that passed on
that occasion consisted merely of inquiries respecting the health

of him, the said Quamina, except that Mr. Smith observed, that
he was sorry and grieved to find that the people had been so fool-
ish and wicked and mad as to be guilty of revolting, and hoped
that he was not concerned in it ; to which the said Quorum
made no reply. That this deponent's husband then asked him
where he had been all the time, and where he had then come
from ; upon which the said Quamina appeared confounded
and abashed, and without answering a single syllable suddenly
turned round and went away, having remained not more than
two or three minutes. That upon the departure of the said
Quamina, the deponent's husband said, I wonder what brought
Quamina here this evening ; and then for the first time this de-
ponent informed her said husband, that she had expressed a
wish to Anchey to see either him or Bristol. That her said _
husband told her she was very foolish for so doin,
from the manner in which the said Quamina had suddenly
gone away, there was no saying but that he might be also en-
gaged in the revolt ; and that if that was the case, lie never
wished to see him. That this deponent then became alarmed,
and might have told the little girl, Elizabeth, who this depo-
nent knew had seen the said Quamina in her house that even-
ing that ,she was not to mention the circumstance, and
that if she did, she certainly would whip her. That if this
threat was made to the said Elizabeth by her, this deponent.
it was without the privity, consent, or knowledge of her said
husband. That this deponent was conveyed to town the fol-
lowing day with her said husband, with whom she has remain-
ed ever since. for that

,(Signed) JANE SMITH.
(Signed) JOHN MURRAY, Gov. Sec-

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.--Mrs. H., a very smartly dressed woman-,
was brought before the Magistrates on a peace warrant, char td
with threatening to inflict bodily injury upon Miss Eliza H. h.,-
her reputed daughter-in-law.
.It was stated by Miss K., who appeared to be a highly se-,
complished young lady, that she had resided with Mr. H. from
infancy, and until lately she always supposed him to be bet'
father; but circumstances had occurred which induced her
now to doubt upon the subject. She was educated in France,
and until she came to reside in this country she knew but vet/
little of the English language ; but the knowledge which she had
since acquired had led to a discovery to which the present com-
plaint was in her opinion to be attributed. Mr. H. some time
ago married the defendant, and from that time her (Miss K.'e)
home was no longer supportable. They were quarrelling in-.
cessantly, and at length Mr. H. placed her in lodgings at the
house of a Mr. Ritter, a German tailor, undertaking to pay
for her board and lodging. A few days ago Mr. Ritter
presented a bill to Mr. H. for certain extras that she bad
been furnished with, and very shortly after Mrs. H. went CO
her lodgings, and conducted herself with great violence,
threatening to " tear her liver out," and making use of other
declarations of such a nature as to excite serious apprehen-
sions in complainant's mind. The discovery to which, she had
alluded was this : she once saw a document which she under,
stood enough of to know that it was a will of her late mother,
(who died when complainant was very young), in which pro-
perty was bequeathed to her, and Mr. H. was nominated
trustee. She, of course, made no secret of this, and she attri-
buted the conduct of Mrs. H. to this circumstance. Mr. n•
had repeatedly urged her to retire to a Covent in France, but
she refused. Miss K. was entering further into this part a
the subject, but she was stopped by the Magistrate, who 15;
formed her that he had nothing to do with private matters of
that kind—he could only take cognizance of the threats which
she alleged that Mrs. H. had made use of.
On the part of the defendant, it was declared that Miss K.
was totally mistaken as to the Will of which she had spoken.
—She was actually daughter of Mr. H. by a former marriage,
and there was not the least foundation for the supposition which
somehow or other had entered the mind of the complainant
with respect to the supposed will.
The Magistrate repeated that he had nothing to do with that
part of the case, and, after some conversation, Mrs. H. was'
held to bail to keep the peace.

EXTRAORDIVARY PROCEEDING.-(Cork, April
90—During the proceedings in Court, this day,
Mr. O'Connell came in, apparently much asto-
nished and irritated, and made his way through
the gentlemen of the bar, up to the Judge, and
in a hurried manner addressed his Lordship thus
My Lord, I have to request your Lordship's
attention--the unfortunate man who is to be ex-
ecuted to-sorrow is a Catholic, and.—." His
Lordship said, "If your application, Mr-
O'Connell, relates to that subject, I would
suggest the propriety of having it private." Mr.
O'Connell and his Lordship then conferred toge-
ther, and the Learned Gentleman soon Left the
Court. We heard something relative to this
matter whispered abroad, but we could not
bring ourselves to believe what we heard ; we
doubted that any one could seek to embitter
the last moments of life. On inquiry, we
have been assured that an order, issued by the
High Sheriff, had been directed to the Governor
of the gaol, directing him not to admit any clergy-
man to the criminal but the chaplain of the gaol.
It is unnecessary for us to enter into a detail of
the causes—we will merely say that the county'
Chaplain appointed to that station is not ap-
proved of by him in whom the exclusive right of
appointment ought to be vested—the Catholic
Bishop of this diocese. We understand that the
Judge, with a humanity becoming him, imme-
diately rescinded the order. We merely men-
tion this matter, to allay the very great excite-
ment raised in this city by this reported occur-
rence ; and if we have been in any way misin-
formed, it would give us infinite pleasure to be
enabled to correct our statement.—(cork Mer-
cantile Advertiser.)

EXPLOSION OF CAS.—Monday moring, (11th
inst.) about ten o'clock, the family of Mr. CARROT., of capel-
street, was thrown into considerable alarm by a quantity of
gas being ignited. The smell, during the morning, had been
so great as to cause an inspection of the pipes on the pre-
mises. A gentleman lodging in the House proceeded to the
lower part to examine, and having unlocked the door of a
cellar, the confined gas became ignited by means of a lighted
candle which he carried in his hand. The flames burst
through the top of the partition into an adjoining kitchen,
tore away the ceiling, and forced off the door of a press. The
gentleman who first discovered the origin of the mischief, has
been severely burned. He acted most incautiously in bringing
a light to the cellar before he allowed the gas to escape. It is
to be hoped this accident will serve as a warning to others to
be more careful. We are happy to say no other member of
the family was injured.—( Dublin Frecman's Journal.)

MARRIED.
On the 10th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, William
Turner, Esq., Secretary of Embassy to the Ottoman Porte, to
Mary Anne, eldest daughter of John Mansfield, Esq., M.P.,
for Leicester.

On Thursday, the 15th inst., at St. Margaret's Westminster
Samuel Harper, jun. Lincoln's-inn, to Miss Fugion, of Pimlis:o,

DIED.

On the 27th ult., at Copenhagen, the 13th day after her
accouchement, the Lady of Baron Nicotai, the Russian Mi-'
nister at the Danish Court. The premature demise of this
truly amiable and accomplished Lady (say the Copenhagen'
papers) has caused a deep sensation of grief throughout the
Danish capital.
On the 12th inst. at his residence, Pardon-house, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, John Stead, Esq. aged 67. He was a kindhearted
man, and by great industry and attention to commercial pur-
suits had acquired a considerable fortune. For many years he
was the chief director in the extensive board and crown-glass
works at the Ouseburn, (of which he was a partner) carried on
under the firm of Sir Matthew white Ridley, Bart. and Co.
Oh the 15th inst. Mr. Hilton, formerly of Rutland-place,
Upper Thames-street, aged 85 years.
On the 14th inst. Mrs. Sarah Simpson, relict of the late Rev.
Robert Simpson, D.D. many years Theological and Resident
Tutor of the Hoxton Academy.
On the 14th inst. at Earl's Coble Priory, Essex, inthe 90th
year of his age, the Rer. Thomas Carwardine, A.M.. Preben-
dary of St. Paul's, and Vicar of Earl's Colne.

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