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London, England, 1819-01-23 00:00:00

NATIONAL 1% lONUM ENT.

At the Anniversary Meeting of the Highland
..3ociety, which took place on' the 12th instiint,
one of its Members stated, that, as the propo-
sal for obtaining a National Monument for the
metropolis of Scotland, in commemoration of
flie glorious naval and military achievements of
the late war, had originated in that highly
respectable and useful society,- and had re-
ceived from it every degree of support eon,
sisdent with the nature Of the institution,- it
might perhaps be gratifying .to its members
to learn, that an'object 's6 much !desired and de-
served had not been abandone'd by the country,
but is in a fair train of being accomplished) under
the auspices of a Committee of Nobletnen and
entkmen of the very first. rank and considera-
tion in the kingdom; and who are taking such
Measures as are likely to give a most efficient
im-
pulse to the movement that had already been so
auspiciously made.

That it was proposed that this intended memo-
rial (to be in point of splendour and magnifi-
cence worthy of Scotland, and of the occasion),
should consist of a Monumental Church of orna-
mental architecture, so designed as to bespeak its
triumphal purposes, and that it should he comme-
morative, and serve as an hallowed place of re-
cord of the whole naval and military achievements
of the late eventful war, in which the Hewes of
Scotia 's° eminently distinguished themselves in
every quarter of the globe.
That such a tribute, while justly due to the
dead,- could not fail to conduce most essentially
to _the religious, moral, and political interests of
the living ; and must necessarily obtain the good
wishes and support, not only of thitt- great national
institution, but of every true and patriotic Scots-
man at home and abroad.—(Ecli,tburgh Courant,
Jan. 14.)

CttiLD STEALING.—On Thursday afternoon t?+e
cliliqren of a man named Colville, %di° is in

the employ of Mr. Pollard, butcher, of Tylvr-
street, Carnaby-market, the eldest a boy about
ten years old, and the other between two and
three,, went out to take a walk in the neighboor-
hood ; but before they had got many, yards from
home, two female§ came up to the eldest, aid
after asking him some questions, endeavoured to
send him on an errand, but he' refused to leave
the child with them on any consicteratiori. One
of the women then beat him most dreadfully,
took the child, and they both ran away front hint.
The boy ran home crying to inform his parents ;
his mother was at home, and he related 'all that
had happened ; site appeared like one distracted,
and instantly pursued t, e` woman, but On the
way she fainted, and was borne back lifeless. The
same evening the poor child was., found -in a
court in Nassau=street, Rear the FountiTing Hos-
pital, stripped of his clothes, and nearly perished.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

ROJI4N CATHOLICS—PROTESTANT PETITION.
Toolrt EDJTOR OF VIE BELFAST NEWS-LETTER.

" In the honest conflict of opinion's truth is elicited."
Lord CASTLEREAGH, July 3, 1818

I am sorry I cannot remove the feat's your Car-
tespondent has of a Catholic Pretender mounting
the throne. By a confusion of terms, he mistook
Protestant Petition for a Catholic Petition, and, as
I humbly conceive, by a confusion of ideas, he
infers the accession of the Pretender from a repeal
of the penal laws. , The motes that swim before
the intellectual eye are as littlesubstantial as those
that affect the visual organ.
The state of the matter is this. With a popu-
lation of the United Kingdoms, equal to 15 or
16 millions, of which the Protestants form 12 ;
with the House of Commons Protestant, except-
ing, at the most, about a dozen Catholics ;• with
the House of Lords Protestant ; with the King or
Regent Protestant, and bound to the Communion
of the Church of England by his coronation oath;
with the Acts of Settlement and Succession limit-
ing the Crown to the Protestant Line; with the
Acts of Union with Scotland, and with Ireland,
bottomed on the Protestant Succession ; with the
Catholics of Ireland sworn to the State, and the
security of the Protestant Church Establishment,
and to the present state of Protestant property,
an oath universally taken, "which concludes both
parties, the Catholic from resorting to the abkired
doctrines, the Protestant from resorting to the
abjured change; and, therefore, in imputing to
the Catholics the principles hereby abjured, it is
not the Catholic who breaks faith with us, but
we break faith with the Catholic."--qGRATTAN.)
Now, with all these fences, and bulwarks, and
oaths, and securities,,successive Acts Parlia•
ment, limitations of the Crown, oaths of the
King, oaths of.the people, unequivocal majorities
of both Houses, still the pOssibility of a•Catholic
King is a pillow of doubt to your Correspondent ;
still does this flea of a fear skip about and inter-
rupt his repose.
It was the lineal progenitor of this self-same
flea which tormented that Mammoth of Protestant
Ascendancy, Dr. Daigenan, which used to
awake him in the dead of night, swearing :that
the Grand Inquisitor was applying red-hot pincers
to his hip.
I Again repeat, that the total repeal of the penal
code has nothing .to do with the limitations of the
CrOwn to the Protestant line, which must remain,
as they now are, the law of the land, notwith
standing such repeal-; and, as for the new infer-
ence your Correspondent makes, that the Admi-
nistration or Ministry should be wholly Protestant,
as well as the head of Government, I candidly tell
him, I do not see either its legal or constitutional
necessity. Sully made a good Minister (though a
Protestant), to. Henry IV. when a Catholic; as
Necker,' also Ei Protestant, was not aless excellent
financier to Louis XVI.—" Why not Catholic
and Protestant an the same bench, in the same
Couticil ?--(PaecY.)
If Presbyterian Scotland be, slaced on a level of
political privileges with England, without apprel-
heosion of a Presbyterian becoming King ; why
should not the same parity of princiFles be ex-
tended to :Catholic Ireland, with as little fear of a
Catholic mounting the throne ? The limitations
of the Act of Succession and Settlement are alike
bars both to 'lll'dtcm and Patrick, and if relied on
as to time former, why,not as to the latter ?
Restrictions,, accidental in origin, temporary
in duration, ought not to last a day longer, when
Dente, the
howalg danger
manyd es
years,ri ot.
ehxaivset.laApsleatsl sinceh o
thew manyobject
iie cclays,t
of
ground of the. Protestant Petition. It has n view
the penal code is over and gone. Henc
only the infliction of penalties, the iroPa°siirtl°ot
of
political restraints andincapaeities, on account
religious distinctions, anti,
in short, that stupen-
donsanal exclusion from all places of
profit anal emo-
!worm,' illustrated in the Almanack , where, in
above 1000 names, scarcely a Catholic appears,
scarcely one of the great majority of the Irish's the object of the petition.
That, with due respect to the security of the
people ! This, then,
established religion, and succession of the.,crown
in the Protestant line, the laws should only have
respect to the faith of the nation, and that the
tenet of transubstantiation, or in the belief of
seven sacraments, should not operate as a bar of
incapacitation from the service 'of the State, or
offices of trust under that State, more than a be
lief in the creed of Arius, Athanasius, or Socinius
Let not religious tenets be made the tests.ofeivi
incapaCities.

Let not three millions of our fellow-country-
men be kept from their civil rights, by the opera•
lion of a proscriptive code, on the bare possitiity
of its opening a way to a Catholic mounting the
throne. Let us humbly say. to the Regent, who
acts for his Protestant Father, himself a Prates-
cant---" RELIGION 15 OF GOD TO MAN. TUE CI-
VIL LAW IS OF YOU TO YOUR PEOPLE !"

GREAT EQUESTRIAN UNDERTAKING.--The
' match to go 100 miles in twelve hours, with a
horse under 15 hands, undertaken six weeks since
by Mr. Isaac Underwood, of Tottenham, the
animal to be bona fide his property, came on yes-
terday. The match was for 200 guineas, but the
owner had backed the horse heavily. The start
took place two miles from Ball's Pond Gate, yes-
terday, down the I-Inntingdon-road, and finished
on the level bet ween that place and Cambridge, the
agreement being to go over sixty miles of ground
out. The following is the time :--the first thirty
miles.occupied three haws, and the horse halted
half an hour, and was fed. The next twenty
miles, making half the distance, was done in two
hours and 10 minutes, 20 minutes under half the
time, when a fresh 7-stoup youth relieved the
first rider. The 75 miles, after feeding a second
time, was gone in eight hours and 35 minutes.
The horse was kept steady at nine miles an hour
the next two hours, sand after feeding. again,
seven miles were left for the last hour, which was,
done cleverly.

SUDDEN WA-cu.—Thursday night an elderly
Lady, named BENNETT, residing at No. 151,
Drury-lane, after eating a hearty slipper, went to
bed in apparent good health, and next morning
was found speechless. Assistance was procured,
but without effect—she died within an hour.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, JAN. 21'

d
A DANCING THIEF.— William AP Lach‘a- rtitv.Pl
indicted for stealing a time-piece, the pr?Pe7esi‘
Tho Mas Davis. He was ,also charged with 6 001
ing 40s. in money, which sum, howeverOvasi tbe
in the indictment.. The brief circumstances .°tie
case were these :-,The priSoner ita.d been In c 5
habit of going. to the prosecutor's house to
eel
bte°
his children to dance, and property had often otiet
rt 3f,010
.
missed, but suspiCion did not fall upon Ihe p
until it was ascertained that be sent Some Otheri
children to the top of the house, a"d °;or
into different apartments, from the cotill"co
ef
house, under pretence of showing 'then troil
with cards ; his 'lodgings • were in consetl°,4,ll
searched, and in them were found Ws
would open the prosecutor's con wing-101, or
also a duplicate of the time-piece. The Prof°o
entered into a long defence; descriptive -par,
joirirhyvfeopuenrisiotli,se
distresses, and said he found the duplicate. oe
goodlg)raisvoenehrimGuailty. • g $
Clara Tinckner was found Guilty of stew
and 0
silver watch, gold chain, three gold sests,:ilett
gold breast pin, from the person of
Fletcher, his property, d for
Isabella Seaton, alias Clark, was Indicnitiel
character.
stealing 465. in silver, the property of
James, a soldier.—Guilty. h at)
The trial of George Page,. silk-mercus-A
bankrupt, upon a charge of having defraude"
creditors, was put off till next Session.

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BIRTHS. ; bero
At Bridge-Town, Barhadoes, on the 24th of Nave°
Lady Com hermere, of a son. •
At Leyton, Essex, Mrs. John Gore, of a daughter*

Beazley, Esq. of Whitehall,
AfARRTED. ,t,0140!
On the 22d inst. at Saint Martin's-in-the-Fields, ""„osX
Wethly, of Walmer, Kent. Joglell,d
On Wednesday, the QOtti instant, at Saint Helen's, htetw-,
Flo"k, Esq. of London,- to Eliza Frances; second claug.-
Adam Clarke; LL.D. of Millbrook, Lancashire. -."
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Westminster, to Mrs. 5453--•

DIED. 6evg:i
On Tuesday, the I2th inst. after a long and verY .e s
affliction, which• she bore wall great ch;istian patieltafici;
fortitude, Mrs. Jenne Neill, of Sorrep•street, in the
14‘r.
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aged 63 year.
On Fridays morning, at Islington, of a fit of aptl e • ~.
William Mathew, formerly of Newgate-street. far
On the list, in Gloucester-place, '.
Portman-square' „•
Maria, widow of the late G. F. Cherry, Esq. of Bea`-,004-
Yesterday morning, in York-place, Portman-scrl3re'
Kyd, the wife of General Kyd.' --.

PROVINCIAL BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DE 114;4
BIRTS. t
On the 12th inst. at Aririatt,H
the Lady of Lieu •"C°19114
Foulkes, of a son. d
On the 24th ult. at Conway, the Lady of J. Godao '
Collector of his Majesty's Customs, of a daughter. ebilet
Lately, the wife of J. Scofield, of Winters, Dear
Bridge, Northumberland, was brought to bed of thre,-,
children, who, with their mother, are all doing well' e.,
woulan has nuwfi tif ce-children, all under two years "

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3.r..% nitr ED. %
Lately, in College-green, Dublin, Joshua Fran 1 v.-
to Mrs. Mills, relict of the late Reverend Richard N---- .
the courtly of rmah. tOP
Lately, at St A.
Oswagld's, Chester, Mr. Dodd, of litintilig
to Miss Mar Griffitt. at hs,
Ti0..10
On the 4yth ul St. Oswald's Chester, Alr• . lAc''
Clarke, of Tiverton, to Miss Atm Nielson, of the sainefooess
On the 12th inst. at Ruthin, Cheshire, Mr. Rub° t f 0
of Iluarthe, to Harriet, eldest daughter of Mr. JoIW' - d
former place. t &At'
On the 7th inst. at Coddington, Mr. Richard vv..-
Littleton, to Miss Moore, of the Beachin, Cheshire.

DIED. li
On the 14th inst. Mrs. Mary Semill ds";
, Castle-street, C e
On the 6th inst. Mr. Thomas Moorcroft, of the 131°
Tavern, Chester. Roher!
On the 12th inst. Mrs. Whitehead, wife of Mr.-
Whitehead, of Nestor), Cheshire. ' Prr!
On the 9th inst. the Rev. Edward Whitley, of Bars-
lincourt, near Wrexham. •
On the 24th ult. at Maesnewydd, near AberYs e 11°4
Richard Morgan, Vicar of Llanfawr, Bala MerionettishYtoti
At Edinburgh, on the 13th inst. Mrs. Charlotte "
wife of Mr. Allim Grant, messenger at arms. f tilde°
Sunday week, at Throck!ey, Northumberland,, IV-r',Car
Penman, formerly a farmer, who completed his 100th
Christmas Day, and walked about until within two moo"
his death.
with, th, e,

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