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concession upon the groUnds we are now con-
sidering, I am itsVare that some have gone so
far as to assert that a disthwt pledge was given
to the Roman Catholics at the time the Union
was projected, that their Claims should be grant-
ed ; but this assertion has been met by a direct
contrary one on 04, part of a Ntiblit Lord
(Castlereagh) wtr inok'a;very active and lead-
ing part in that Metnorable-question; and it has
been clearly shewn that a pledge of mere con-
sideration and discussion, trot of concessiott„ was
givert.t One or
.the great objects &IticliMr.
Pitt had-in viewten he projected the union of
the two countries, was a fair, temperate, and
Statesman-like dikussion of the Roman Catholic
Claims. llis v4e would have been given for
their consideration,: but hy'no means for their
unlimited concession: That c'rAstinguished indi-
vidual wished to feel the pulse of the English
people, en the subject ; and had he lived to have
done so effectually,'to have seen the almost uni-
versal disinclinatint which evinced itself to the
measure, and the circumstances which attended
the General` Election of 1807, he never would
have sanctioned a proceeding to which he per-
ceived the English. 'Nation were so averse, and
which was so little likely to be attended with
benefit to the country. Mr. Pitt would never
haye supported the Measure of concession with-
out most adequate securities being given ;
and had he been spared to have witnessed
the temper and disposition which were evinced,
when securities much inferior to those which he
would have probably required, Were proposed by
the professed Parliamentary Advocate of the'
Claims—to have seen them represented as indis-
pensable within the House of Commons,- and
reprobated as unnecessary, degrading, and insult-
ing without, I think there can be little doubt as
to the vote which. the Right Hon. Gentleman
would have Nivel'. Ilk support to the'measnre
would have been given under an 'idea of its forming
a means of strength and alliance ; to do which, it
must necessarily have been supported by the un-
animous assent of the nation at large. When,
however, that lamented personage had found that
this was not likely to; be the case, and that it
would neither satisfy the Protestants on the one
hand, nor the Roman Catholics on the other, he
would never have opened a source of broils and
dissensions, which would in all probability have
concentrated themselves into a focus, from which
nothing but angry pasSions, mutual criminations,
and harassing recollections would haveissued."
♦ Vid. Printed Report Of Lord Castlereagh's Speech in the
Honse of Conwons, '2sth May, 1810.
W. Mee: Pitt's Speech iv the House of commons, asst
Jaunary, 1 iP9. On introducing' the Proposition of th, VoioU
between Great Britain and Ireland, and Gitiord's Life of Pitt,
Tot, a, p. 545.

Tonilin,•'s Speech, delivered in Trinity Col-
lege Chapel, Cambriible, December title. 1806

THE CLERGY.----The Meeting of the District
Committee for the Deanery of Droxford, in aid of
the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,
held last Wednesday at Fareham, was numerous-
ly and respectably attended. Several important
regulations were adopted, and a new Branch of
the Committee was instituted at Droxford, where
a depository of Bibles and Prayer Books will be
immediately established. The Rev. Roberl
Grant, Fellow of New College, and. Curate of
Droxford, was appointed an additional Secretary
for that part of the Deanery. The names of se-
veral new Subscribers were 'added to the list.
One hundred guineas were transmitted to the
Parent Society for the purchase of books; and we
are happy to be able to report that 1-10 Bibles,
1100 Prayer 'Books, 200 Testaments, 100 Psal-
ters, and about 2000 Religious Tracts were cir-
culated last year by this Committee.
OBSERVATORY, GOSPORT, FEB. 21.—(The New
Coact.)—A Cornet made its,appearance here last
evening, at 35 minutes past six o'clock, within
two or three degrees of A ige'nit?, the last star in
the wing of Pegasus. It is 32° to the East of
the Sun, and sets • with Saturn soots after eight
o'clock, about W. N.W. but is 1819 to .the
North of that planet. Its small light tutc/cus was
surrounded by a diffused Cana three-fourths of
degree in diameter by the sextant, and its per-
pendicular tail was nearly 49 in length when the
coruscations were most vivid, through the upper
part of which a small star of the sixth magnitude
was perceived by the help of a telescope. `This
is unquestionably the same Comet that Seigneur
Pons, Astronomer of the Duchess of Lucca, dis-
covered in the constellation Pegasus, in the
evening of the 21st ult. but which, to our kArilv-
edge, has not yet been seen by the English
Astronomers.

On Saturday a meeting date Inhabitants of
Shoreham took place at the Star Inn, to consider
of the propriety of making a new road from
that place to Brighton. '1 he opinion or its im-
portance was unanimous; they. entered ' into a
liberal subscription for .the necessary estimates
and surveys.
The Lottery AdvertiSments of Friday or Sa-
turday may be expected to contain curious infor-
mation, as it is well known, that previous to Va-
lentine's Day, every Ticket 'and Share was,sold,
consequently the Public then had all the Capitals
in their possession ; however, a few 'have been
returned to the Office-keepers, .which are now
selling to those who were before disappointed,
and it may probably prove that all, or a part Of
the Six 21,0001. are among them ; if so,',the Ad-
vertisments will perhaps -mention where they
first went to, when returned, and to what places
they were ultimately sold, as there is not a
doubt they will all again fall to the Public.-;--
So popular is the Scheme, and the Wheel so un-
commonly rich, added. to the. certainty that at
least Three of the 21,0001. Prizes must be drawn
Next Thursday.