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London, England, 1828-10-27 00:00:00

\ barbarous as to find, or set cowardly as to ageet to fins,
consolation from reflecting that their sufferings yield in
point of severity to the•-e inflicted, by the same hand, on
others, they might find such consolation in contemplating
the treatment of their unhappy lellow-stibjeets, the C'atho- 1
lies and Dissenters in Ireland, in which part of the king_
dour all the abuses above enumerated exist in a degree ten
fold greater than in -England; that, in that oppressed
country, there are 3,403 parishes ; that the tithes and
glebes of all there are received by less than 450 Rectors
and Vicars, even the livings being only 515 in number,
and that, of course, each Parson has, on an average, the
tithes and glebes of more than nine parishes; that, of the
3,403 parishes, there are only 139 which have parsonage
houses, and that, consequently, there is but one parsonage
house to every twenty-four parishes: that in the 3,403
parishes there are only 465 Churches, so that there is but
one Church to seven parishes; that, in this state of things,
the Church of England people have become less and less
in number, until, at last, there is not more than one
person a that religion to every six who are Catholics
or bissenters ; that in many parishes there are not more
than five or six Churchmen in aparish, and that, in others, •
there are none at all ; and that, yet, the Catholics and •
Dissenters, while they build and repair their own Chapels
and support their own Ministers, are compelled to yield
tithes, exacted it; the most rigorous manner, to a Clergy '
whom they seldom see, and of whom they often know not
the names, are harassed by tithe-proctors and by processes,
issued frequently the Parsons themselves, acting as Magi-
strates, and are, by the proctors, aided by armed men, fre-
quently
stripped of every thing they possess in the world,
even to their last potatee, and their last rag of clothing, so -
that, throughout whole districts, the wretched people arc,
at times, reduced to a state of rage, produced by the crav-
ings of hunger, and by feelings of revenge; that here your
humble petitioners find the true cause of all the discontents,
all the violences, all the horrid acts of blood, which are
constantly making their appearance in that unhappy
country; here, your humble petitioners see the cause of
those laws passed of late years, for transporting Irishmen
beyond the seas (and that, too, without Judge or Jury) for
being out of their houses, for any 15 minutes at one time
between sun-set anti sun-rise; and here also your peti-
tioners see the true cause that they themselves are eons
polled to pay heavy taxes, for the support, in time of
profound peace, of a large standing army, for which they
can discover no other real use than that of keeping their
Irish fellow-subjects in this horrible state of subjection, op-
pression, and degradation.
" That your humble petitioners, reserving, for the pre-
sent, the prayer which they have to offer to yeur Honour-
able House, relative to a remedy for the enormous abuses
in the Church, proceed now to state to your Honourable
House, that it is their decided opinion that the dangere
which menace the State arise solely from a want of a Re-
form in your Honourable House; and that to this source
also they directly trace the above-mentioned conduct of the
Clergy and the gross misapplication of the temporalities of
the Church.
" That your Honourable House have now upon your
Table a petition, which you received from the hands of
Mr. Grey (now Earl Grey), in the year 1793 ; that, in
that petition, it was asserted, that Peers and other great
men, only 154 in number, returned at their own pleasure
a decided majority of your lion. House, at the Bar of
which House the petitioners were ready to prove the truth
of their assertion ; that your Hon. House received the
petition denied not the facts, but permitted not the peti-
tioners to be heard at your Bar; and that your humble
petitioners, in this County Meeting assembled, deem it to
be perfectly notorious that the state of the representation
has not improved since the time when the aforesaid petition
was presented to your Hon. House.
" That your humble petitioners would be filled with sur-
prise and wonder at finding that they have to pay taxes to
support hundreds upon hundreds of pensioned and sine-
curist Lords, Ladies, and Children, male and female, with-
out it being, in many cases, even pretended that they, or
that any one belonging to them, have ever rendered any
service to the country; that your petitioners would be sur-
prised to find, that while the nation has only fifteen Fo-
reign Ministers in employ, it has actually 'to pay fifty-seven
Foreign Ministers, •and to pay altogether a sum which
they believe to surpass that which is paid for the same pur-
pose by all the other nations in the whole world; your pe-
titioners would be surprised to find that the nation
lips to pay one Field-Marshal, or one General,
for every 163 private soldiers in the army, in-
cluding non-commissioned officers ; five Generals to
every regiment of soldiers, and one commissioned
officer to every four private men; that your petitioners
would be surprised to find that the nation has to pay two
Admirals for every one of its ships of the line ; one Admi-
ral for every 140 sailors ; and one commissioned officer,
exclusive of midshipmen, for every five sailors ; that they
would be still more, if possible, surprised to find that a mil-
lion and a half of money has been voted out of the taxes
for the relief of the poor Clergy of the Church of Eng-
land, especially when they look at the above-mentioned
monstrous pluralities, and know that many of the Bishops
have lately died, !eating from two to three and four hun-
dred thousand pounds each in personal property for
the aggrandisement of their families ; that the sur-
prise of your petitioners would surpass all power of
utterance, in finding that military and naval half-
pay had been given, out of the taxes, to men, who
were, at the same time, receiving tithes and other emolu-
ments as Clergymen of the Established Church ; that, in
short, the least incredible of these things would appear to
your humble Petitioners sufficient to astonish an indignant
world ; but, that, when your Petitioners reflect on the aver-
ments of the Petition of 1793, that a decided majority of
your Honourable House was returned by 154 persons,
partly Peers and partly great Commoners, and when they
further reflect that your Honourable House is the sole im-
poser, and the sole guardian, and the sole distributor of the
public money ; when they thus reflect, and forget not that
in the year 1808 a return laid before your Honourable
House stated that your Honourable Members yourselves re-
ceived amongst you 178,994/. sterling a year, out of the
public money ; when your bumble Petitioners thus reflect,
all ground of surprise vanishes at once, and the only ques-
tion with your anxious and humble Petitioners is, how
long they and their country are doomed yet to behold this
state of things.
" That your humble Petitioners, convinced there can be
no peaceable termination to the sufferings and disgrace of
their country, until this mighty cause of mischief be re-
moved, most humbly and most earnestly pray, that, as the
best, and indeed the only means of supporting,. for any
length of time, the Protestant Establishment in Church
and State, your Honourable House will, first, pass an Act
to make a Reform in your Honourable House, and that you
will next pass an Act totally abolishing all Clerical Tithes,
both in England and Ireland, and appropriating the rest
of the church revenne, for the relief of the poor, leaving
to the Clergy the use of the Churches, the Parsonage
Houses, and the Glebes, and if more be necessary to their
support, leaving that support to come from their own
flocks, in like manner as' it now does to the Priests and
Ministers of our Roman as;
and Dissenting fellow-
subjects.
" And your humble Petitioners will ever pray."

The ViSCOUIA. CASTLEMAIN has arrived in
town from his seat Moydruin Castle. His Lordship's
canvass for the vacancy in the Representative Peerage, pro-
ceeds as well as his nearest personal friends, and the warmest
admirers of the Constitution could desire. It is rumoured
that Lord DuNaLuc will resign. This measure would be
the most prudent.—Dublin Evening Mail.

PROTESTANT DECLARATION.—Yesterday
there was a Meeting at the Royal Exchange, of those who
signed the Protestant declaration. The Duke of LEINSTKA
in
.the Chair. They appointed a Committee to forward
the object of it, and to procure signatures. The Declara-
tion i 9 to lie for signatures until the 15th of November,
when it will be forwarded by the Chairman to the Duke
of WELLINGTON.—DubIin _Evening Post of Thursday.
PROTESTANT MEETING AT BALLINA-
PLOL—On Monday last, decidedly the most numerous
body of Protestants ever collected in the county of Galway
was assembled in the town of Ballivasloe, for the purpose
of establishing a Brunswick Constitutional Club. The
meeting was held in the great room of the Farming Society,
which was thronged to excess ; and there were at least an
equal number of persons collected around-the exterior of the
building, several of whom had travelled many miles in order
to he present.. The Earl of CLANCARTY was in the chair.
—Dublin Evening Moil.

NOLLEKENS the Sculptor appears, from the
Memoirs of his life, written by Mr. Smimr, of the British
Museum, to have been more tinctured with avarice than
the celebrated ELwits, the Miser, without possessing his
redeeming qualities of stern honesty and love of justice.

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Complete copies of the Second Series of
.. Tales of a Grandfather," by Sir WALTER Scorr, have
been seat to America. The publication of this work in
London will not take place until November.
Lord NonmANßy's Private Theatricals at
Florence will this winter lose the advantage of the Earl of
BLY.s.acroN's talents, who has taken Marshal NXY'S noble
mansion on the banks of the Seine, in Paris, where his
Lordship, the Countess, and Lady HARM KT D'Onsar,
intend to reside for a year or two.