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-_ • _ IlnieT ALIA NG. OFFICE,- FEB.- 7. • 1829.
PINE loinmissioners - for Victualling His
.? , IL, Moja y'm Navy, &c. do hereby give notice, that on
Wentratatray, thil 18th instant, they will be ready to receive
- ' Tordeiv ha writing (sealed up), and treat for4the under-
. Mentioned article, -to be delivered into the Victualling
' ; . lStores at Deptford, viz :
One Hundred Tons of SUGAR.
..„ Fifty Tons of RAISINS.
• ~ ' One-half thereof by the-Slst day of March next, and the re-
• 'minder by tholsth day of April following.
' . Tiro Handled and Fifty Tons of BAY SALT, Stove
dried, and
• ' • , Two Hundred Tons of-WHITE SALT, Stove dried.
One-half thereof by the Ist day of July next, and the re-
' mainder by "the let day of August following.
I ' Samples of Raisins of not less than three pounds each
•' .must be produced by the party tendering, but samples of
the Sugar and Salt, such as will be required to be delivered,
.., trill he exhibited at this Office.
.The Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at this
. 011ie.

Each Tender must specify the price in words at length,
and be delivered- before One o'Clock on the day appointed,
and the Persen who makes the Tender, or some Person on
his,behalf, -must attend to answer when called for.
M. WALLER CLIFTON.

METROPOLIS ROADS.
THE CONMISSIONERS OF THE
METROPOLIS TURNPIKE-ROADS NORTH
, OF THE THAMES, will receive TENDERS for
WATERING the Several ROADS tinder their Jurisdic-
tion, from the 2fith of March to the 20th of September,
,1829, on; the conditions stipulated in the Specification for
.! the respective. Districts, copies of which may be obtained
epon_application at this Office.,
Se fled' Tenders for
.the above Seitvice, marked " Tenders
for Watering the Roads," must be sent into this office, ad-
' • dreiied, tti the ConAnissioners,• on or before FRIDAY, the
• 20th day of February instant, at Twelve o'clock.
J. L. PANTER, Secretary.
Metropolis Roads'-Office, 22, Whitehall-place,
February, 1829.

' day tits published, with Eight Plate's, 164. (M.
A TREATISE on PRACTICAL SUR.-
VEYING AND TOPOGRAPHICAL PLAN
DRAWING.

John Murray, Albemarle-street.

REGENT-STREET, NORTH of OXFORD-STREET.
Valuable Leasehold Estate, Eligible for Investment, held
under the Crown for a long Term of Years.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION.
• By JOHN ROBINS,
• (Of Warwick House, Regent-street,)
At Garraway's Coffee-house, 'Change Alley, Cornhill, on
THUR9DAT, February 12, at Twelve,
Ak- VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
ESTATE, held under the Crown . for a Term of
uirmards of Ninety
,Years, at a moderate Ground Rent,
comprising a convenient
DWELLING-HOUSE,
• Recently Erected and substantially Built, situate No. 263,
on the West side of Regent.strcct;
• Containing on the 'Upper Floor, Two Attics, Water
Closet, Sink, and Water laid on ; on the Second Floor,
NO good Bed Chambers, Walls neatly Papered, &c. First
Floor, Two Drawing Rooms, Walls elegantly Papered, Sta-
tuary Marble Chimney Piece!, communicating by Folding
Doora, &e. Ground Floor, a spacious Shop in Front, with
Folding Doors, cominunieating to a large Ware Room at the
14c/c, beyond which there is a Sitting Room and Bed
Room; Private Entrance, Light Staircase; with Water
Closet, &e. Basement, a good Kitchen, Sink, and Water laid on; Closet, 'Area in Front, with Knife Hole and
Vaults : a secondary Staircase to a Kitchen at the back of
the Ikuse ; Maid's Room, Store Closet, &e. and a small
Area.

In the Occupation of, and on Lease to, Mr. James
Fisher. hatter, for Twenty-one Years, from Midsummer-
day, 1828, who has expended a considerable sum since
the Lease was granted.
To be viewed by permission of the Tenant. Particulars
• May be had of Messrs. Vandercom and Comyn, Solicitors,
25, Bush-lava, Cannon .street ;at Garraway's, and of Mr.
'Robins No. 170, Regent-street.

.'VALUABLE AND EXTENSIVE PREMISES,
4Propriate for a Timber Merchant, Cabinet-maker, Car-
'Penter, or Joiner, and convertible to other purposes
%%where Space is reqnired. Eligible Compact Dwelling-
; bon*, in Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, and a
,:Dwelling-house in Titchfield-street.
• TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
By JOHN ROBINS,
(Of Warwick House, Regent. street),
At Gerrawy's Coffee.house, 'Change-alley, Cornhill, on
THURSDAY', February 12, at Twelve,
In One Lot.
BY Order of the Executors of Mr. John Tacker, deceased,
A. Valuable LEASEHOLD ESTATE,
held for a long Term of Years,
Comprising a de=iroble, compact, well-arranged DWEL-
LING-HOUSE, recently Built, situate
No. 65, MORTIMER-STREET, CA VENDISH-
SQUARE,
Containing an Entrance Lobby, Dining Room, and Gen-
,Aleman's Room, on the Ground Floor; Two Drawing
Rooms, coutmnnicating by Folding Doors, handsomely
fitted np, and a Bed Chamber, on the First Floor ; over
*hid there are three principal Bed Chambers, and two
goOd Attics; with numerous conveniences, and convenient
Domestic Offices, Yard, &c. ; a Show Room adjoining,
%Pith a small Residence and extensive Work Shops, with
BoW-pits, and commodious Yard, extendin from Igor-
tit:mei-street to Titchfield-street. g
At the extremity of the Yard, situate in front of Titch-
fiebl-street, tr DWELLING-HOUSE, Two Stories High,
Tw Rooms and Closets on a Floor, with Two Parlours
"'I Closet en the Ground Floor, Yard and Work Shop at
the hack, Kitchen, Cellars, &c. in the Basement, with
Areas -and Vaults.
The Hoene in Mortimer-street to be viewed by Tickets
between Eleien and Four o'Clock; the Premises by
protniips. ion of the Tenants. Particulars may be had on the
Mhes ; of Messrs. Capron, Rowley, and Weld, Solid-
Burlington-street ;. at Garraway's ; and of Mr.
flobins, No. 170, Regent-street, of whom Tickets for view..
1.&e......._May be had..

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No. 11

This day was published, the Third Edition, price 10s. 6d.
PAROCHIAL SERMONS, preached at
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INTERESTING WORKS,
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" Two Tales, both full of thought, and in the highest
degree pathetic. They are those romances of real life of
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The Author professes profound powers of thought.'
—Times.
" It is in truth the Book of Matrimony.—Atlas."

In the Debate on Friday night, the whole of the
Press. fell into a mistake, by substituting the name
of Mr. R. SMITH for that of Mr. LOMELI,: Mr
LIDDELL spoke immediately after Sir JoRN NEW-
PORT, and the following was the lion. Member's
very praiseworthy and patriotic speech :
Mr. LIDDELL said he could state it as a positive fact
to the Government, that the opposition to this measure
was not so general as some individuals seemed to imagine.
He was connected with a large and considerable connty,
and he could assure the House that many of the inbabit-
ants----men Who all their lives were opposed to Catholic
Emancipation—had expressed themselves to him as being
willing to co-operate in any measure which Government
might propose to settle this question by concessions accom_.
panied with proper securities; end they looked forward
:with an anxiety to the time when Government would' take
the business' in hand. For his own part, he thought the
satisfaction at the adjustment of this question would 'be
great and general, he would almOst say universal. It was
also to him, on another account, a matter of most hear4.:-
felt Congratulation that the aubject.Would soon be set at
rest; forif had pot -cfrfly created public disunion, and em-
barrassed the Proceedings of some of the most able men in
the country, in the administration of public affairs, but it
had made its way into private families, and created ill_
feeling and disunion even there. That question threatened
to produce an almost implacable hatred throughout the
country; but its settlement, he hoped, would banish all
feelings of that description, and create in their stead reli-
gions peace and general tranquillity. That systein which
had drained the country of its resonrces would now cease,
and the wounds which it had inflicted would be healed by
those salutary balms, religious toleration and political
equality. He thought that a great day had dawned both
on Ireland and on England—(bear)--,and be was sure
that the course which England had taken would shortly be
rewarded by increased prosperity, and by the unvarying
attachment of the sister kingdom.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S DEBATE.

IMPROMPTU
ON THE LATE WILLIAM SHIELD, ESQ.
BY DIL. BUSBY.

. ,
The homage, dear Shield, that true talent may claim,
All admirers of merit will pay to thy name;
• While a trophy more precious than e'en thine own lays,
All lovers of goodness thy virtues will praise.
As in taste,. so in manners, thou'st honounl thine age,
Adorning at once both the world and the stage:
The Musician, Philanthropist, Genius, and Friend,
Have triark'd thy career, and distinguish'd thine end.
Where the strains of thy fancy delight shall impart
To future entbusiaqs, they'll think of thy heart;
Nor know to decide, if more sweet in their kind,
The strains of thy song, or thy graces of mind ;
Whether purer the notes which from Nature you caught,
Or that Christian suavity Heaven had taught.

We regret ourinability, from want of space, to
give insertion to an account of a most important Meeting
at Leicester, on Wednesday last, where upwards of 6,000
persons assembled. We shall endeavour, however, to in-
sert the account on an early day. A series of Resolutions,
embracing most of the abuses which new call forth the in
dignation of the people, were passed singly, and, among
others, a Resolution claiming for the Catholics the rights
of citizenship. The speakers who advocated the Claims of
the Catholics were vehemently applauded. Let those who
talk of appealing to the people against the concession of the
Catholic Claims bear in mind, that this is another of the
great townsin-England which has been tried and found fa-
vourable to the Catholics. Leicester contains a popula-
tion of shout 40,000. These are indications not to be de-
spised.—Morning Chronicle.
By the death of Lieutenant-GiMeral Sir Thos.
Bradford, K.C.8., the Chief Military Command at Bom-
bay, and the Colonelcy of the 94th Regiment of Foot, have
become vaeast.

It is understood that Mr. George Bankes re-
signed, on Saturday, the office of Secretary to the Board of
Commissioners for the Affairs of India.
The East Retford Disfranchisement question
is again to be agitated. Mr. Tennyson intends, on the
17th instant, to more for leave to bring in a Bill to ex-
clude the Borough of East Retford from electing Represen-
tatives to serve in Parliainent. Mr. N. Calvert, it is un-
derstood, will pursue his former course, and more that the
franchise be extended to the neighbouring hundreds : but,
on Thursday next, he will precede such movement by ap-
plying for leave to bring in a Bill " to prevent Bribery
and Corruption in the borough of East Retford."
The vacant Cabinet office of Lard Privy Seal
still remains in abeyance. The Duke of Wellington sent
an express, late on Saturday se'nnight, to the Earl of
Westmoreland, at Brighton, offering the place to the
Noble Earl, who did not send a written answer, but came
to London from Brighton on the following day, although
he had only arrired at Brighton the previous day—Friday.
The Noble Earl had an interview witk the Duke on his
arrival in town, and had another interview on the follow-
ing day, Monday, when he declined accepting the office, on
his understanding that the Popery Question was to be
made an Aet of the Cabinet. The office was afterwards,
it is understood, offered to Lord Eldon, who declined ac-
cepting it on the same grounds as the Earl of Westmoreland.
—Morning Paper.

It is reported in the political circles that the
Duke of Buckingham has written a letter to the Duke of
Wellington, expressing his personal attachment to the
Premier, and congratulating him oa the high and honour-
able station which he at present holds ; but thinking it
his duty in candour to say, that unless some measures are
adopted immediately on the opening of Parliament for
the final relief of the Catholics, he shall think it his duty
to oppose his Grace's Administration. A letter is also
stated to have been sent to some of the Duke of Bucking-
ham's tenants, in which the Noble Duke declares his ob-
jections to the Brunswick Clubs, and requests his friends
to oppose or withdraw from them. While noticing these
reports, it may be as well to state that we have goad
authority for asserting that the Duke of Buckingham and
the Marquis of Chanilos are on the best l►ossible terms—a
fact, the reverse of which might be otherwise possibly in-
ferred.-- Windsor Express.

During the late gales of wind, several large
cod fishes, and some Conger eels, (one of which was up-
wards of six feet long, and weighed near 601b5.) were cast
by the tides upon the shores of the Humber, near Patring-
ton.—Also a fine specimen of that singular marine produc-
tion, the Sephit or Cuttle fish, an animal which is seldom
found on this roast, though the bones frequently are. The
length of its body is 15 inches, breadth eight inches, and
the head, neck, and tenacula are about the same length, to-
gether two feet six inches. It is preserved, and in the pos-
session of Mr. W. Little, of Patrington, as is likewise a
beautiful specimen of the Ampelis or Bohemian Chat-
terer, two of which were lately shot in that neighbourhood.
—Bull Advertiser.

THE SPITALFIELDS SILK WEAVERS.—
Last Saturday night the room of the Duke of Gloucester
public-house, Seabright-atrcet, was crowded to excess by
these poor distressed weavers. Mr. Isaac Duce was called
to the chair, and after some discussion Mr. Robert Nogent
moved, " That the committee be instructed to write a
respectful note to his Grace the Duke of Wellington, re-
spectfully soliciting his Grace to grant them an interview,
for the purpose of obtaining an answer to the memorial
presented by the silk-weavers of Spitaltields, on Tuesday
the 3d instant." This being seconded, was put and carried
unanimously, the meeting was then adjourned for a week.
Last week, a fine male infant was devoured by
a pig at Louglirea.— Tipperary Free Press.
A widow lady and her two daughters, resid-
ing at Ipswich, are sufferers by one of the late failures in
London to the amount of 3,0001.

BURKING.—The late atrocities which have
been perpetrated Within the precincts of our city, have
become familiar to the minds of all, and are already a by-
word in the remotest parts of the country. When an in-
nocent hare scampers from the presence of a clodpole, lie
calls lustily to his pot purveying mongrel, " to Burke her ;"
and the little urchins, gamboling on his well littered dung-
hill, frequently amuse themselves with " Burking" each
other.— Caledonian Mercury.

RUA RY 9, 1829

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ADDRESS OF MR. O'CONNELL

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS OF
THE UNITED PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN
AND IRELAND. •

Quid finim ultra fieri ad placandos Deos, miligandosque
heroines, potuit, quam quod
.110 S fecimus ? Qui tininrit diScordi-
arum? Ecquando unam urbembabere, ecquando MuneM hone
the patriam, licebit ? ♦icti nos mquiore animo quieseimusqliam
rat victores."—Lice,

Merrion-square, Dublin, Feb.
Gentlemen,--It will be readily admitted that the quo:-
lion upon my right to take my..seat and exercise 4 the'
duties of a member of the House of Commons is one of
great importance to the people of these conntries.
If the decision shall bei as I. am satisfied it ought Oa he,
in favour of that right, it will tend to tranquillize Irirland
and strengthen Great Britain, If it shall happen that I
am unjustly and illegally deprived of that right, the conse-
quences cannot but be pernicious, and may be not
tiintitrous.

lam a lawyer of SO years' standing. Experience abs
ought to have taughtme something of the law ; and
I deliberately. assert my. most sincere conviction o 4
right to sit, speak,. and rote in Parliament, without to
any oath inconsistent with the Catholic religion. I thin
I shall convince every lawyer in the country, who is: m
biassed by political or other motives, that my right to sit,
speak, and vote in the House of Commons, is perfectly
clear and incontrovertible.
I trust, too, I shall be able to carry the same conviction
home to the minds of every one of you ; but as very many
of you are not lawyers, I will use as little technical
guage as possible, and divide the.subject into separate and.
distinct propositions, in order to avoid confusion or intricacy:
My first proposition is, that it is a maxim both of con-
stitutional and judicial. law, " that • penal and restrictive
statutes are to be construed, strictly, and not to be extended
by implication beyond the words thereof."
This is an universal rule, founded on plain ,common
sense. The law would create a miserable servitude if it
were otherwise. Men should have -distinct and accurate
information of that which. the law constitutes. an offence
or defines to he a crime; and men should also have distinct
and accurate information given. by the law itself, and not
by any interpreter, of the nature, quantity, and quality of
the punishment or penalty to be incurred by the commis-
sion of such offence or crime.
This principle of common sense has been fully and une-
quivocally adopted by the British law. Our Judges in one
thousand instances on record have not only asserted the
principle that penal and restrictive laws are to he construed
most strictly, and not to be extended by implication, but
have boasted of the adoption of this principle, as one de-
cisive evidence of the peefect conformity of British law with
common sense and natural justice.
I am tempted by my forensic habits to cite authorities,
and to refer to the dicta of great and eminent Judges, as
proofs of the extent to which this principle has been
adopted, asserted, and lauded by our Judges in every cen-
tury, modern as well as remote. But I refain. lam ad-
ds-easing men who are not professional lawyers ; and it is
enough for them to know, that this maxim of common
sense is also a maxim of common law, that penal or restric-
tive statutes are to be construed strictly.
It was declared in the reign of Edward "1., " that
there is a principle in the common law, that penal statutes
should be taken strictly, and shall not be extended by
equity to the prejudice of them upon whom the penalty is
inflicted."

You can, therefore, easily comprehend that no tribunal,
nor any authority whatsoever—save the Legislature—Mn
add " words" to complete a supposed or implied intention
of the Legislature in a penal'statute.
That Ivoulddx to legislate, not to expound; that would
be to place the judicial over the legislative power, and in a
penal matter too.
The law_is_particularly stricken. this subject, as indeed
it ought to be.
4. is so strict, that even when the Legislature in a penal
statute uses words of a doubtful nature, the Judges have
laid it down as a rule, " that doubtful words shall never be
construed to the prejudice of a supposed offender."
Perhaps I shall he deemed impropetly prolix on this in-
troductory part of my case; but it is absolutely necessary
that this rule and neaxim of the law should be distinctly
understuod—" that penal laws are to be construed strictly,
and are never to be extended by implication." It is so
portant that this matter of law should be understood, that
I am induced to mention another rule laid down by the
Judges, as resulting from the maxim of construing penal
statutes strictly : it is this.—" That affirmative words in
an Act of Parliament never take away a common law
right."

-This rule may be quoted in many ancient authorities,
and is not inaptly illustrate.l by what Lord Eldon, presid-
ing in the House of Lords, is reported to have said in the
case of the corporation of Galway.
An Irish Act of Parliament bad enacted, that " the free-
men of Galway should reside in that town." Persons, not
resident, have claimed the rights of freemen of Galway.
The question on this point was, whether constant and un-
doubted non-residence disentitled them to claim these rights.
Lord Eldon is reported to have declared that it did not ;
that the statute was merely affirmative, directing the free-
men to reside in the town, and only implying that none
should be freemen but those who so resided. However,
such implication could not be allowed to destroy the rights
of the non-residents. It was a penal statute, and there-
fore would have required negative words to take away the
subject's rights.

this law, reported to have been laid down by Lord El-
don, will be admitted by every well-informed lawyer to be
perfectly accurate.

To deprive the subjects otherwise entitled to the freedom
of the corporation of Galway of that right, it would have
been absolutely necessary that the statute should have con-
tained not only an enactment "that all freemen should re—
side in Galway," but it should have added, " that no per-
sons who did not reside in Galway should enjoy the rights
of freemen of that town."

I now beg of you, in considering the case I shall lay be-
fore you on my own behalf, to carry in your minds these
truths--

1. That penal and restrictive statutes are to he con
strued strictly.

2. That penal and restrictive statutes cannot he extended
by construction or implication.

3. That no tribunal can add " words" to any penal or
rcstrictire statute.

'4. That the doubtful words of a penal or restrictive
statute are to be construed in favour of the supposed offender.
5. That affirmative words in an Act of Parliament do
not take away a common law right.

And, 6. That the right of the elected Representative of
a county to sit and vote in Parliament is a common law
right of the highest nature.
These are truisms familiar to those whose profession has
initiated them in legal details ; and I state them only
because this letter is addressed to gentlemen whose habits
and pursuits reader it necessary to rouse their attention to
the principles wkich ought to govern any legal decision in
my case.

If these principles are kept steadily is view, my case will
be found to be one which cannot create any doubt or
difficulty.

I now proceed to consider the present state of the statute
law relative to the oaths necessary to be taken by members
of the House of Commons. You will recollect that I
assert my right to sit and vote in that House, without taking
any oaths inconsistent with the Catholic religion.
I shall say nothing with respect to the oaths of allegiance
and abjuration. I have taken both these oaths frequently.
I am ready to take them as often as any justifiable occasion
requires me to swear. No man is more ready than lam
to pay due allegiance to the Sovereign, or to maintain the
title of his family to the throne of this realm. No man
more thoroughly abjures than I do any foreign Prince, Po-
tentate, Pope, or Prelate, in all temporal or civil affairs.
The oaths of allegiance and abjuration being thus out of
the question, I proceed to my second proposition. It is
this :

" That lam entitled to-go into the House of Commons,
and to take my seat without taking any oaths inconsistent
with the Catholic religion, out of the House itself."
It has been asserted, and repeated in print, that it is ne-
cessary to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy in the
Lord Steward's office, previous to entering the House of
Commons. I deny that any such obligation exists : it is
quite true that it did exist, but it exists no longer.
The obligation to take these oaths was created by the
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c. 6, sec. 8. But mark, besides other objections, both
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should be kept in view. The ''tirn-vPio'n.s- of that article
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are these :-
Ist. It regulates the number of Scotch pe, re
namely, 16.
2d. It regulates the number of Scotch members of the
House of Commons—namely, 45. ,
3d. It regulates the time and manner of meeting of the
first Parliament of Great Britain. And, . :
4th. It prescribs the oaths to be taken by all the mem-
lan of the British Parliament. Thus
It recited expressly, and by titles and dates, the 30th of
Charles IL, the Ist of William and Mary, caps. 1 and 8,
and it directed that, until the Parliament of Great Britain
should otherwise direct, all the Atembers of the British
Parliament should take the oaths and make the tleclaration
mentioned in these Acts (mark what follows), at such time
and in such planner as the Members of the English Par-
liament were, by those enumerated. Acts, directed to take
them, upon the penalties and
.disabilities in the said re-
spective Acts contained.
Thus the 30th Charles H. and the Ist. William and Mary
were embodied in the Legislative Union of Scotland ; not
in part merely, but in all their details. The ScotehtUniort
did not merely adopt the oaths mentioned in these Acts, but
it also adopted the time and manner of taking them, and
expressly enacted the penalties and disabilities fur not
taking them. It follows, therefore, that the taking of the
oaths was as necessary in the British Parliament as it was
in the English Parliament; and that the same penalties
and disabilities would be. incurred by the not taking of
these oaths. But why does it so follow? Simply because
it was expressly and in terms enacted that it should be so.

The British Parliament was thus bound 'by positive
enactments ; the 14w *as express and cleir during all the
period that intervened between the Scotch and Irish Union.
During all that period, any member who refused to take
the oaths in the House incurred a forfeiture of his seat.—
L was not (as I hare said before of the English Parlia-•
ment) that the law created a priori an eligibility, but that
a disability to retain the scat was created by the refilsal to
take the oaths.

So stood the law of Parliament until the Irish tinlint:
It being admitted that it was necessary, in ont!sr to re=
tain a seat in the British Parliament, to take the Mira
within the House, now it is idle to cite, as Lord Colchester
has done, cases that occurred daring the continuance of
that Parliament, as applicable to the present and altered
state of things.
_ .

The Irish- Union annihilated the British Parliameut, its
the Scotch Union had annihilated the English Parliament,
From the Irish. Union a new legislative. body stit!!se,-=-.
English and Scotch members became entitlt4l- to legiestc
for Ireland; Irish members became entitled to legislite for
England and Scotland. All.the business relative to Eng-
land and Scotland might be transacted in the present House
of Commons by Irish members alone.
The present Parliament, the Parliament of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,—:-a title too lohg to
he repeated—,is not bound by any act to regulate the Eng-
lish Parliament.

The 30th of Charles 11. was effectual to bind the Eng-
sh Parliament—it did not bind the British Parliament—
.. . _

it does not bind the United Kingdmn Parliament, The
30th of Charles 11. was at one time applicable to the
member for Middlesex : it is, and always was, totally in •
applicable to the member for Clare. All these allegations
are equally true of the Ist of William and Mary.
So the 22d article of the Scotch Union bound the
British Parliament—it does not bind the United Kingdom
Parliament. The 22d article of the Scotch Union was at
one time applicable to the member for Midlothiad—it is,
and always was, totally inapplicable to the member fo'
Clare.

•
This brings as to the period of the Jrish Union : until
we arrive et that Union there is nothing to require "the
Member for Clare" to take any oaths in any place in Eng-
land. By the common law no oaths are necessary id
enable a Member to sit and vote in the House of Commons/
and none could possibly have been required by the ohtti4
mon law; inconsistent with the Catholic religion, whivii
was the religion of those who framed and adopted the com-
'

mon law.
By the common law the House of Commons had no
power •to administer an oath. The House of Commons
could not, and cannot, by any act of its own, arrogate
to itself an authority to administer an oath.
Thus the ground is completely cleared to the period ni
the Irish Union. First, the common law retptitel no
oaths to be taken within or without the House. Secoßtily,
the House had no common law authority to administer an
oath. Thirdly, all the statutes which were passed in
England or Great Britain prior to the Irish Union, rela-
tive to the English or British Pediment, are of them-
ielves totally inapplicable to the United Kingdom Parlia-

men

The entire case against me must turn, therefore, on
some positive enactment in the Irish Union statute, or in
some statute of the United Kingdom Parliament. I as.
sect positively that there is nothing in the Irish Union
statute, or in any subsequent statute, which inflicts any
species of penalty, disability, or forfeiture whatsoever, on
any member of the House of Commons for refusing or
neglecting to take the obnoxious oaths.

This is my case. The penalties and disabilities for not
taking the obnoxious oaths were enacted first by statutes,
which bound the English Parliament; and secondly, by a
statute which bound the British Parliament. There is no
such statute binding the United Kingdom Parliament.
None.

Here allow me to request, that gentlemen who arc
pleased to read this letter with attention, will pause for one
moment and call to distinct recollection what is the rule
and the maxim of common sense and common law, relative
to penal statutes, and how strictly and rigidly such sta-
tutes must be construed.
The Irish Union Act does not create any penalty or dis-
ability for refusing to take these oaths—the only part of that
Act which relates to oaths is the fourth article. The
fourth article of the Irish Union is that which corresponds
with the 22d article of the Scotch union. The provisions
of that article are these :-
Ist. It regulates the number of Irish Peers—namely,
thirty-two, four spiritual and twenty-eight temporal.
2d. It regulates the number of the Irish Members of the
House of Comnsons.
3d. It regulates the rotation of Spiritual Peers, and the
creation and extinction of Irish Peerages.
4th. It regulates the qualification of Irish Members.
sth. It regulates the time and manner of the meeting of
the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, and the num-
ber to sit in that Parliament--and

6thly. With respect to oaths, it contains nothing more
than these words—" That every Member of the Muse of
Commons shall, until the Parliament of the United King-
dom shall otherwise provide, take the oaths, and make
and subscribe the declaration, and take and subscribe the
oath now by law enjoined to be taken, made, and sub-
scribed by the Lords and Commons of the Parliament of
Great Britain."

That is all. A mere temporary direction to take the
oaths, without any species of sanction to enforce the taking
of them.

For take notice, and mark it particularly, that no time is
limited for taking the oaths,—no manner of taking these
oaths is prescribed, pointed out, or alluded to,—no person
or body is authorised to administer the oaths.
Time is left at large; at least to the extent of the entire
Parliament. Manner is left at large to the utmost con-
ceivable extent of all and every the modes of oath-taking.
Ni authority is given to any body to tender or call for
these oaths; but above all, and before all, I may remark,
and let it not for a moment escape your recollection, no
penalty is mentioned or referred te--no disability is men-
tioned or referred to.
Recollect also that no statute is recited, mentioned, or
referred to, and not one word to create any penalty or dis-
ability whatsoever—not one.

I need not, surely I need not, repeat, that penalties and
disabilities are odious to our. Jaw, and that not one, even
the meanest of the King's subjects, can incur any penalty
or disability whatsoever, by or from any implication or
conjecture, or mere constructive notinn or otherwise, save
by the express words of a positive and direst enactment.
_ .

Te introduce penalties or disabilities in any other way,
be the most gross mask palpable oppression—it would
vert the very first and- most sacred principals of our ju-
iat'system.

I appeal to honour, candour, and truth to regulate the
discussion of this important question, and to decide on its
merits. This is a penal statute.. Construe it strictly:
that I ani entitled to ask, and respectfully to require.
This is a penal statute: you •cannot, the House of Com-
mons cannot, add one word to it.

This is a penal statute: you cannot extend it by any
rnplication.

This is a penal statute : if there, bea doubt upon. it,
aniventitled to a favourable construction ; but, in Iced, there
is no doubt, and I may well wave that point.
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echo had been, hilt officO and out of it, nto.:it
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votcd in his eagernes, tool niost distinguished
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his splendid and powerful el opt. -net tl.to
of that great cause, sitouldririsatifity ironted—there
luing,•.; t„Lehtfty, or disability implied.
;A \-9in if penalty or disability could he implied, which
sney lawyer must deny, yet there 15 not any kind of tic-
ilitity for any such itnplieation—not the least.
xi call upon you to observe there distinctions and diffe
ences'lntween the 22d article of the Scotch Union, and
--' the lith article of the Irish Union.

enemies of the British const

First—The Scotch article refeired to, and recited by
titheind dates, the 30th Charles 11., "ithri Ist And
Maly. The Irish Union article does not refer to, or recite
any of them.
Second—The Scotch article trre-:ted the oaths to he
taken at the time mentioned in those Statutes. The Irish
article does not say one word to re.,,illate or to limit the
time.

Third—The Scotch article directed the oaths to be taken
in the manner contained in the acts to which it expressly
refers. The Irish article does not say one wind of the
manner of taking- the oaths.
Fourth--The Scotch article de ilared that the oaths
:should be taken upon the penalties mentioned in the sta-
tutes which it recited. • The Irish article is totally silent
as to penalties.
Fifth—The Scotch article declared that the oath~ should
be taken upon the disabilities mentiomal in the statutes
which it recited. The Irish article is totally silent as to
With these marked and most important. differences, is it
possible that any person who will take the trouble to con-
sider the subject, should arrive at this preposterous conclu-
sion—" That the Scotch article and Irish article enact
and mean the same thing?" , And if that cannot he said,
the question is at once decided in my favour.
It is indeed as clear as the sun at noon-day, that the
watute law, since the Irish Union, stands thus There
is a statutory direction to every Member of the House of
Commons to take the oaths, hut there is no time limited
tOr taking them ; there is no place appointed for taking;
them in ; there is no tribunal appointed to administer
them ; there is no penalty tir not taking them j there is '
no disability incurred by refusing to take them.
As there is no time limited by the statute law for tithing
the oaths, the House of Commons, if it were to require
tile to take them before I could sit or vote, would be guilty
of a mani&sst injustice to me, and of an usurpation of
iTislative functions. It would make the vote of the House
equivalent to an Act of Parliament.
As there is no place or manner of taking the oaths pre-
scribed by the statute, the House of Commons would be in-
volved in a similar double guilt, if it were to dictate the
manner of taking these oaths; beside.s it could not, with-
out the most gross violation of the constitution, command
me to take the oaths before the House itself. The House
has no power to tender or administer these or any ether
oaths.

judgment of Catholic emancipation. It seems clear that i

was nn this account he purposely omitted to enact any
pains, penalties, disabilities, or intleiturcs for omitting to
take the obnoxious oaths.

But the other two objectionn to- the exercise by the
House of Commons of nit adverse en ntnary decision in my
case, are still mote irresistible. The statute inflicts no
penalty ; the House of Commons cannot possibly create
one. The statute inflicts no disability ; the House of
Commons eaunot possibly create a disability.
not anticipate that my rights will be trampled on
lay the House of Commons, but, without intending offence,
I may be permitted to say, that if they shall he so, then
the rights nut only of the people, but of the House of
Lords, will be equally trampled upon ; and it is not all
these rights alone, but the prerogatives of the King will
he equally trodden under foot. Because, should Ibe ex-
cluded by a vote of the House of Cemmons, then, in my in-
stance, the House of Commons will have usurped Legis-
lative authority, and by its simple vote will have enacted
penalties and disabilities of the most grievous nature.
I am of course bound not to anticipate any such result,
and to entertain the confident expectation, that as the
Legislature has not enacted any penalty or disability fur a
refusal to take the oaths, so no one branch'of that Lcgisls-
tttre will assume the functions that belong exclusively to
the entire, and create, by its vote, a disability of the most
Important nature.
It may, however, be alleged, that as the statute directs
the oaths to be taken, it is a misdemeanour and indictable.,
on ouch, to neglect taking them. To which I reply, that
even if it were so, that is no reason why I should be ex-
cluded from sitting and voting in the House of Commons.
But, in truth, no indictment could be sustained against
tne, because, in the first place, the time for taking the oaths
hot being defined or limited by the statute, I have all the
time I continue a member to take the, oath before any in-
dictment could be preferred. I must have ceased to be a
member before any indictment can be framed, and even
then the annual indemnity act would protect me.
But, in the second place, no particular manner of taking
the path" is pointed out by the Irish Union statute; and
if the indictment were for not taking the oaths within the
House of Commons, the indictment would be liable to a
demurrer, and could never be sustained in point of law.
On the contrary, so far from any Member of the House of
Commons being indictable, since the Irish Union, for not
taking the oaths at the table in the House, it may, perhaps,
he said, that the officer who administers these oaths is not
quite free from legal responsibility for doing so without any
legal authority.
This, then, is the short history of the law respecting
these oaths. None of these oaths were, or could have
been, taken in the House of Commons until the 30th of
Charles IL From that period, until the Scotch Union any
Member of the English House of Commons who refused or
neglected to take these oaths, incurred, by a positive Sta-
tute, a disability to sit or vote in the English Legislature.
From the Scotch to the Irish Union, any Member of the
British House of Commons who refused or neglected to
take these oaths in the House, incurred, by positive Sta-
tute, a disability to sit or vote in the British House of
Commons.

This advantage we have gained by the Union, as a mi..
scrahle consolation fin• the destitution or our national insti-

tutions, and the desolation of our country. Is this solitary
advantage to be taken away from us, and the Union only
to he observed where it presses upon Catholic Ireland, and
to he violated with impunity where it proves beneficial?
The law, and the intention of the framers of the law, are
both with me. It is difficult, if not impossible, to imagine
that Mr. Pitt and Lord Castlereagh could have accidentally
omitted in the Irish Union Act all reference to penalties or
disabilities. This accident would have been still m-re
strange when it is recollected that the fourth article of the

Irish Union is manifestly a transcript of the greater part of
the 22d artie!e of the Scotch Union. - The latter must have
been before the eyes of those who drew nut the former. The
inference of design and intention in the omission semis,
therefore, irresistil,le.

I call upon you, respectfully and earnestly, to give yolll'
p !tient and deliberate attention to this subject. It requires
an honest and an earnest attention from men who are net
professional lawyers, to unravel the jargon of our statute law,
and to get rid of the prejudices arising from preconceived
opinion.

I am not at all surprised that such prejudice should exist
and that when first I asserted the right of a Catholic to sit
and vote in Parliament, I should have been met by an al-
most universal disbelief. I acknowledge that I myself en •
tertained similar prejudices until the events connected with

the electii•n for Citre compelled me to examine deliberately
the statute law in this respect, and enabled me to perceive,
as others had done before me, that Mr. Pitt was perfectly
sincere in the determination which he avowed, to consum-
mate the Irish Union by admitting the Catholics to all the
benefits of the British Constitution, and that he had pre-
pared the articles of the Irish Union with perfect good
filth to achieve our emancipation.
What a multitude of turmoils, dissensi ins, crimes, and
Miseries, would Ileland have escaped, and what an im-
mense saving of expenditure, and increase of consumption
of her manufactures, would have accrued to England for
the last 28 years, had Mr. Pitt been permitted to carry his
plan into full execution, and to emancipate the Catholics of
every rank and station, as he promised at the Union.
You will have perceived that my right to sit and vote in
Parliament is established by this short summary—
__

First—That there is flaking in the common law to
;akc away or infringe on that right.

Second—That the statutes of sth Elizabeth and 7th
James, whit 11 required oaths of allegiance and supremacy to
he taken in the Lord Steward's office, are, in that respect,
repealed by the statute Ist William and Mary.
Third—That penalties and disabilities created by the
statutes :30th Charles H., and Ist William and Mary, were
applicable to the English Parliament only.
Fourth—That the penalties and disabilities in these
statutes were expressly applied, and continued to be appli-
cable to the British Parliament, by the 22d article of the
Union with Scotland,
Fifth—That none of the penalties or disabilities in

From the Irish Union to the present period no Member
of the United Parliament incurs, by refusing or neglecting
to take these oaths, any disability whatever; there being,
since the Irish Union, no statute of force creating any dis-
ability on that account in any Member of Parliament.
I conclude my observations on this point by again im-
ploring the Members of the House of Commons to bear in
mind, that penal and disabling Statute are to be construed
strictly—that they cannot be extended by construction or
implication—that " words" cannot be added to them—
that doubtful words in them are to be construed favourably
—and that no affirmative words take away a vested right.
I desire and expect to get the benefit of the law.
I should here close this letter if I had not been informed
by a gentleman of much respectability, that some influen-
tial persons in the House, in discussing the questions re-
specting my rights, had distinctly admitted, and I believe
the Speaker himself was present at the tine, that my right
to sit and vote was quite clear upon the Irish Union Act,
and could not be disputed, if there had not been t subse-
quent statute on the sithject,
That statute was said to be the 41st Geo. 111. cap. 52,
and the section alleged to be applied to my case is the
second section.
I deem it to be of the easiest imaginable proof to demon-
strate that the 41st Geo. 111. cap. 52, does not, and cannot,
affect this question.
There is not one word in this statute relative to oaths ur
declarations—not one word. It is expressly an Act to •
carry into effect another and a different part of the fourth
section of the Irish Union Act. It is in its nature a penal
and disabling Act, to be construed by the rules already,
perhaps, too often laid down.
Tl,•e statute 41st George 111. cap. 52 does not, touch
this case at all—it relates to incapacities created by certain
employments and offices, rendering the party incapable of
being elected if the employments or effices were held prior
to the election, and creating a forfeiture of the scat if they
were obtained after the election. This is so plain to any
man who reads the statute dispassionately, that it would be
a waste of words to dilate on it.
But the matter will be put beyon,l a doubt by one simple
view of the subject ; it is this—attend to it, I pray. The
second section enacts, " That all persons disabled from, or
incapable of, being elected, or sitting and voting in the
Rouge of Commons of Ireland, should be disabled from,
and incapable of, being elected or sitting and voting in the
Houle of Commons of the Parliament of the United

these statutes were applied tn, nr continued for, the United
Kingdom Parliament, by the fourth article of the Irish
Union.

Sixth—That neither the time nor manner of taking the
oaths in the English statutes is enacted by the Irish Union
statutes, or is now any portion of the law of the United
Kingdom Parliament.
Seventh—That the statute of the 41st of George III„
cap. 52, does not and cannot apply to the oaths and decla-
rations, because (amongst many other reasons) if it did
so apply, it woubl now be utterly impossible for any Irish
Member to avoid being disabled to sit and vote.
I conclude this abstract with repeating this one intik-
putzble maxim of constitutional law—that to create pe-
nalties or di,abiliti,s there must. be a positive and express
law. They cannot be created by conjecture, guess, or
implication.
Recollect, gentlemen, that I incur a fearful reaponsibi-

lity if I take my scat under an erroneous opinion ot• right.
I forfeit 500/. every day—l become an outlaw, incapable
of toiltling any office of power or trust—of suing at law
or in equity—of accepting any legacy or gift—of being exe-
cutor or administrator, or of being guardian ever. to my
own children.

With the numlier of malignant enemies which have been
created for me by my career of honest, fearless, disinte-
rested, and indefatigable exertions in the sacred cause of
liberty of conscienee—with such a host of enemies, I niust
be deeply impres,,ed by the conviction that I am right in
point of law, else I should be mad, or worse than mad, to
►un the risk of taking my seat.
If it be intended to try the question fairly, let an action
be brought against me for a penalty of 500/. I will plead
at once to issue either in law or in fact. The opinion of
the Court of King's Bench, and, if desirable, of the House
of Loris, can thus be had on the Irish Union Act; if,

iode,d, a serious doubt can exist on that subject in the mine
of any lawyer, who knows that, without express enact-
nrzut, penalties or disabilities cannot be created.
1 have been fairly and freely elected, and chosen by the
trveholders of the county of Clare. No Member of the
Ilcuse of Commons has, or indeed can have, a better title

than I have, to insist on the validity of his election as a
representative of the people. I ;Am a representative of the
Irish people calling for the observance of the treaty of the
Union, and the benefit of the existing law.
'there is, I know, enough of strength and of power to
deprive me of the stipulations of the one, and the advan-
tage of the other. But the eye of the nations of Europe
and of the world is on this contest.
What do I contend for?- It is to free Protestant and
Catholic front the burden of abominable oaths. You swear

Kingdom."
You will remark at the first view of this clause, that the
disability and. incapacity to he elected can have-nothing to
do with a disability created after due election, by a refusal
to take certain oaths.
This affords a clue to the right construction of the
statute in that strict and limited sense
.in which it must,
in point of law, be construed. But I "wave every thing
else to come to a single, and jou will see, conclusive point.-
It is this :

that the Pope has not, and ought not, to have any spirituul.
authority inthis country.
How can you swear so? That you should swear the
Pope ought not to have spiritual authority in this realm is
quite consistent with your opinions.
You deny the right, and you swear to the denial of the
right. • But then you also deny the fact, and yet you know
that the fact exists. The existence of the fart is as clear as
the sun rt noon day—nay more. You make an annu
grant of money to educate clergymen for the maintenance
and support of that very spiritual authority which you, on
your oaths, deny to exist at all.
We, the Catholics, have been most falsely calumniated
when a disregard to the sacred obligations of an oath has
been attributed to us.

Conceding, for the sake of argument, that the disability
mentioned in this -section is a disability created by a ne-
glect to take the qualification oaths ; then this comfortable
conclusion inevitably follows,—that every single member'
from Ireland is disabled to sit or vote in the present Par-
liament. Because, before the Union, every member of the
Irish House of Commons incurred a disability to speak or
vote, and forfeited his teat,. unless he took the oaths in
the Irish House of Commons in the presence of the lrisli•
Speaker and of at leas; 40 members sitting in the Irish
House of Commons.
The taking the oaths alone would not do ; the taking
them in the presence of the Speaker of the English or of
the British House of Commons would not suffice to pre-

We are, and have been, excluded from the full enjoyment
of the Constitution by no other means than by our conscien-
tion, respect for that sacred obligation. But may Ibe per-
mitted to exclaim, great and good God l how inscrutable

)OW( 'f tly{' c6"ntrY4o. of Commons from
LVre rr :;till consiqe,turciture of his seat.
An Irish member might have taken the oaths one bun-
died times before all the judges and magistrates in both
countries : he might have taken them one hundred times
before the Speaker of the British House of Gommens, and
in a full British Parliament. All was quite unavailing.
Ile must have taken them in the presence of the Speaker
of the Irish House of eurnmon4 in a full House : other-
wise he wait disabled to sit or vote. •
If this section, therefore, applies to the oaths, then
ever}- Irish Member most revive the It ish House of Com-
mons, cril up the Irish Speaker, and 40 Irish Members,
and take the oaths in their presence; otherwise he is ine-
vitalily disabled from sitting or voting in the Parbatumt
of the United Kingdom.
See whit a glaring absurdity would follow from con-
struing the llat of George 111. to apply to the pialifica-
tian. If that be so, every Irish Member returned to the
House of Commons since 1801, has been a stranger in the
House without tight to sit or vote! ! !
I need not. dwell on this topic. It proves, beyond a
posaihility of doubt, that the 41st George 111. cap. 52,
cannot apply to this species of disability, and that the
statute relates only to those incapacities which are personal
to the intlividnaN come within their range, and
render them ineligible if existing prior to election.
I also wave, for the present, the objection which has
tern powerfully urged to the validity of the statute of the
3d William and Mary, cap. 2, as a law binding the Irish
nation. I reserve to myself the power hereafter of insist-
ing on that very powerful and interesting objection. I
confine myself for the present, to this—that if every Irish
Member who With diSailled to sit and vote in the Irish
House of Commons be di-abled to sit and vote in the pre-
sent Pat liament, then there is not one single Irish Member
capable of sitting and voting.
Not one of them could sit or vote in tie Irish House,
because not one of them has taken the oaths or made the
declaration in a fill House of the Irish Patliament, with
the Speaker in the Chair, aceording to the terms of the
3d William and Mary, cap.
You must, therefore, totally disembarrass the case of
the 41st George 111., cap. b 2, and take it upon the
Union Act.
The Union Act was one now admitted universally in
Ireland to have been most pernicious to that country. It
ivls intended by its framers to have been thp, harbinger
religions peace.
Mr. Pitt was quite sincere in his intention of crin-'
summating the measure by an equalization of civil rights
to all his Majesty's subjects in Ireland. He framed the
Articles of the Union candidly and sincerely with that
view, nod to facilitate the future, and, as he thought, the
then approaching- definitive arrangements for the final ad-

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1829.

We have received the following extraoidioary
communication from our Hamburgh Correspondent:

ST. PETERSBURCH.

HAMBURGII, FEB. 3.-An event of no extraordinary
importance is at present occupying the attention of the poli-
tical and mercantile world in St. Petersburgh, but which
has as yet not been mentioned by any of the continental
papers. The first paper that will venture to notice it will
probably be the Allgemeine Zeitung, or, as the French
call it, the Gnzette d'Angsburgh ; this paper ventures to
say more than any of the other German papers, though
manyhave encreased amazingly in the boldness with which
they speak of the Russian government since the brilliant
achievements of the lite campaign.
But to the point. You must know that the St. Pe-
tereburgh Commercial Bank, a government establish-
ment, placed under the immediate influence of the Mi-
nister of Finance, has of Lite liMited its discounts to
such an went, that the quantity of paper now taken,
scarcely amounts to the third of what it formerly was.
It has been also observed that since this alteration in the
system. of carrying on business has taken place, the Bank
shows a decided preference to native over foreign mer-
chants. The consequence, as you may well imagine, has
been, that many merchants arc considerably embarrassed
how to get their bills cashed ; and though first-rate houses
.will be but little affected by it, many that have hitherto
borne a very respectable character, will probably become
embarrassed. Discount has already risen to from nine to
ten per cent. for first-rate bills ; those of a secondary cha-
racter Icing unnegociable.
The cause of all this, it is whispered about (for let him
beware of the st.retereburgh police, who should venture

= -
to speak it out aloud), is, that the Bank of St...,pctera-tdiffergt,parts orSt\oh a;t ; as also Tor -a naore extensive
burgh has found out another way of employing'its *nd mote respectable fortifica ion of }Tango-il'ilde, a pro-
or in othir'words that the Russian Government have been montory situated between the .Baltic and the Bay of Both-
Siephensonizing it, by Applying the funds confided to
them to their own immediate wants, so that the sudden
liMitation of the commercial transactions of the Bank
would be owing to their temporary want of capital.

It is impossible to have positive proof that the Russian
Government have really been guilty of so frauduhmt a pro-
ceeding, and the fact will therefore be stoutly denied, but
here the truth of tie report is most firmly believed.
The people who have deposited their money in the St.
Petersburgh Bank, are not, however, the only part of the
Emperor's subjects that are at present dissatisfied. The
province of Finland is in a state of great ferment, and it
has in consequence been thought advisable that the Em-
peror should visit that part of his dominions in person, in
the hope that the light of his Majesty's gracious countenance
mill dispel' erety cloud from the angry brows of the Fin-
landers.

When Finland was united to Russia, certain privileges
were conceded to the province, which, if loyally executed,
would secure to the province many of the characters of a
constitutional Government. One of these privileges is,
that Fin!and shall not be called on to support, either with
money or nice, any of the wars into which the mad ambi-
tion of her Govet nment may chance to plunge the Russian
empire. Since, however, the war with Turkey has turned
out so much more arduous a struggle than was at first ex-
pected, Gel-aliment have determinod to do their utmost
to make every part of the empire bear the burthen, and
Finland among the rest, which province has been ordered
to furnish and maintain 20.000 men fur the next campaign.
The discussion is at its height at the present moment; the
meeting of a Finnish Diet is spoken of, and the Emperor,
it is expected, will go to open it in person.
You inserted some time ago in your paper a letter from
Stockholm, in which the debate occasioned by a proposal
to render public the discussions of the Order of Nobles
was alluded to. The motion seems likely to be attended
with a beneficial result, for the Committee appointed to
consider the question have returned a favourable report,
recommending that eighty places he arranged for the ac-
commodation of strangers, and that distinct places be set
amble for the reporteni to the public press. The Order'of
Peasants have already thrown open their doors to the
public.

Dutch Papers, of the 7th inst., received this
morning, are perfectly destitute of any news to inte-
rest an English reader.

German Papers, of the 2d February, have been
received, but they contain no news.

- The only thing in the French Papers, worthy of
!twice is the disappearance of a Mr. C., an Ex--
change Broker, almost all whose employers are said
to reside in the noble suburb, where he had even
met with a young and rich wife, whose marriage
portion is said to be in great danger. Among his
debtors, are mentioned a Duke, a Marquis, a Vis-
count, and a Countess, for sums of four, six, eight,
and fifteen hundred thousand franca; and among his
creditors a Mr. M., for eleven hundred thousand
francs, if we may believe reports. Mr. C. met with
no difficulty in settling his monthly accounts, so
long as he had only to pay to his employers the pro-
fits of his operations, but his noble friends are said
to have turned a (leaf ear when they were called
upon to pay the differences, and Mr. C. is reported
to leave a deficit of five millions. It is affirmed,
that at the close of the Exchange Mr. C. had not
withdrawn himself, and'that assurances had already
been given that the creditors might reckon upon 40
per cent.

FRENCH Trumns.—Fire per Cents., 1091. 50c. 75c- ;
Three per Cents., 761. 25c. 50c. ; Royal Bonds, 3i ;
Bank Actions, 1807 f. 50c.
FOREIGN Furrns.—Neapolitan Rentes, Cert. Falc.,Bof.
25c. 35c. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 773 ff. ; Interminable
Spanish Annuities, 471 V. ; Haytian Loan, 4801. 490 f.

New York Papers, to the 9th of January, have
been received, but they are destitute of any news of
importance. The wife of General JACKSON died on
the 22d of December, ut Northville : so that the
General's joy on his accession to the Presidency
will be much damped by his domestic calamity.

Dia.

The formation of several additional regiments of marines,
and the early convocation of a diet, are also spoken of in
those letters.

STOCKHOLM, JAN. 23.

During the night between the 20th and 21st her Rnyal
Highness the Crown Princess was happily delivered of a
son, who is to be baptised by the name of Oscar.

St. Pctcrsburgh Journals of the 24th January,
contain some accounts from the Caucasus of the
operations of General EMMANUEL, in reducing the
refractory tribes in that quarter.

His Iklajesty, the Emperor NICHOLAS, has ap-
proved a decision of the Council of die Empire, by
which the silver ruble is to be valued, during the
year 1829, at three rubles 60 copecs bank assignats,
in levying the duties of customs,'.as well in the
commerce of Europe as of Asia.

Brussels Papers to the 7th inst. state that an
exchange of prisoners is about to take place between
the Russians and Turks. The Russians have 10,000
prisoners, while the Turks haVe only 6,000. It. is re-
ported that the POPE intends to visit Germany, for
the recovery of his health, at the end of April, and
that his physicians hare advised the waters of Carls-
bad or Bohemia.

According to accounts from the Danube, under
date of January 26, the troops in Bessarabia are
already in motion, and prepared, at least part of
them, to pass the Froth, and even the Danube,
at the first notice, if the Turks shoritd: attempt.
either to invade the Pi incipalities or toattack the Rus-
sians in Bulgaria, which seems to be quite out of the
question. For the next two months the navigation of the
Black Sea not be so safe as to ensure a supply
of provisions to Varna and the other places held by
the Russians, but lit may be presumed that they
have provisions enough to support the garrisons till
April. Should it be necessary to send reinforce-
ments, supplies may be sent by land, as the ground
being hard frozen in January and February, will
bear the heaviest burden.:. The magazines in Bes-
sarabia are completely stored, so that they could
subsist an army of 200,000 men for eight months.

THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.)

CITY, Tirßtri? o' CLoer.

Little speculation seems to be going on in the, Stock
Exchange, and Consols, which opened at 874 !, remained,
for the two first hours of business, without the slightest
alteration, but within these few minutes the market has
taken a turn for the worse, and they are now 874 4., loth
for money and time. India Bonds are 63 5 pm. ; and
Exchequer Bills, 65 6 pm.
Scarcely- any business has taken place in the Foreign
Funds. The intelligence of a revolution in Buenos Ayres,
although not attended with any disastrous result, but in
the mind of many persons may be beneficial, bringing for-
ward men of influence in that State, has for a moment
depressed the stock from 41 to 38 40 ; Brazilian, 62! 3 ;
Portuguese, 504 1 ; Peruvian Bonds seem to be going
down, and are 12 14, ; Russian, 974 8.
Shares are almost a dead letter; Imperial Brazilian
Mines are, however, quoted at 36 S pm.
Three per Cent. Consols, 874. 4, Ditto, for Account,
87i 4 ; India Stock, 236 8 ; Bank Stock, 211 12 ;
India Bonds, 63 5 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 65 6 pm. •
Iroaxfox.—Brazilian, 624 3 ; Buenos Ayres, 38 40 ;
Chilian, 22 ; Colombian, 19 4 ; Danish, 614 4 ;
French. Five per Cent., 1094 104; Three per Cent.,
764 ; Greek, 144 154; Mexican, Five per Cent., 22 3 ;
Ditto, Six per Cent., 284 9 ; Peruvian, 12 14 ; Portuguese,
504 1 ; Russian, 974 8 ; Spanish, 9 4.
Alitsrs.—Auelo Mexican, 824 dto dis. ; Brazilian, 36 8
Bolanos, 60 70 pm. ; Colombian, 19 18 dis. ; Real Del
Monte, 140 per share ; United Alexican, 294 84 dia.

Accounts from Buenos Ayres of the sth De-
cember state a revolution in the Government of that
Republic took place on the ht. The old Governor
RIVADAVIA was reinstated in his power. The affair
was managed by the troops from the Banda Oriental,
and quietly effected without any bloodshed. Public
opinion was in favour of the change.

TW 0 O'CLOCK.
Consols are 87a, 1- for money, and 87i the price for ac-
count, with few transactions.
THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols. 87i1

THE SUN NEWSPAPER EXPRESS.

(From the Leeds lutelligencer Extraordinary !! !)
" EXPRESS FROM LONDON.

It is said that M. de MORTEMART i 3 about to set
out for St. Petersburgh, and that Prince POLIGNAC
will return to London in a few days.

" Leeds Intelligencer Office, Friday night, Nine o'clock.

" We have been enabled to accomplish an important
ob-
ject on the present occasion—such an object as is without
parallel in the history of Provincial Newspapers. We pub-
lish to-night the whole of the debate in both Homes of
Parliament last night; and we give it as fully and as per-
fect as would have been in our power to do under circum-
stances of the greatest leisure. Our subscribers and agents,
therefore, in Bradford, Halifax, Keighley, Hutiders6eld,
Wake6eld, Barnsley, Dewsbury, in short in all places in
this county and Lancashire, will receive, by the Post,
twenty .four hours after the Houses of Parliament closed
last night, every tittle of the proceedings. We need not
point out the vital importance of the Intelligence, which
we thus lay before the public with such extraordinary de-
spatch. There never has occurred an event in the memory
of any livin man so worthy of exertion as the one which
we exclusively have thus succeeded in diffusing ever a •
large portion of the North of England.

At a time when all should be anxious that the
question of Catholic Emancipation should be brought
before the minds of those who conscientiously are
inimical to it, in the calm, temperate, and dispas-
sionate manner, recommended in the KING'S Speech,
we know not how we can more advantageously ad-
vance this great end, than by recommending to the
attention of our readers, a Letter, addressed to the
Clergy of the United Church of England and Ire-
land, by the Rev. R. Q. SHANNON. To those who,
like ourselves,have been in thehabit ofregretting that
Divines who have entered into the field of political
controversy have, for the most part, been distin-
guished among the disputants of the party they
espoused, for an extraordinary share of passion, pre-
judice, and invective, it will prove extremely grati-
fying that an eminent example should appear in the
present Reverend Author, of one zealously attempt-
ing to remove from the discussion of the question
all that tends to irritate or intimidate--" to kindle
the flame of charity and brotherly love, and to allay
the spirit of turbulence and hatred among•men."
Mr. SHANNON is the author of an Answer to-Dr.
PumPoTTs, which was published last year, written in
the same quiet unassuming manner, which we took
the liberty of bringing before the notice of our readers
at the time. The public has since justified our en-
comiums of it. And we feel convinced that, among

But our merit is small and secondary. For this
traordinary effort we feel toward 4 the Eilitor of The Sun
Evening Paper, a degree of gratitude which language can-
not convey. The public, however, owe obligations to
The Sun for its wonderful exertions on this occasion,
which they only possess the means, and we hope the incli-
nation to substantially return. The third or express Edition
of that Journal, which we received, moat have been dc-
Ipatched from London nearly two hours after the departure
of the mail. The expense thus incurred must have been
prodigious; but besides, we have to consikr_the number.
of reporters, priniqs, &c. &c. who were necessarily em-
ployed in preparing many columns-of matter for publi-
cation, in'order that th .proceedings might be placed before

the many gifted individuals who have laboured to
bring this great question of truth and justice before
a dispassionate tribunal, he will be found not the
least enlightened advocate and useful coadjutor.

the country almost as fast as they took place. To 7'he
Sun itself, the testt!t must be most gratifying. At this
distince,• nearly 200 miles, from London, the debates in
both Houses of Parliament to fileir conclusion, are pub-
lished in full, at a quarter before,-five o'clock this after-
noon ! That is, nineteen hours and three quarters after
the two Houses had adjourned, and \eighteen hours and
three quarters after the Express left Lo‘balon! Verily this
is the ' March of Intellect."'

We have received, this morning, the Hamburgh
Reporter to the 3d instant inclusive, from which
we make the following extracts:—

HAMBURG/I, JAN. 31.
The English mails from the 24 to the 24th of January
(both inclusive) bare arrived here to-day, by express, from
Helvoetsluys. They were brought. by Mr. Cullen, Master
of tie Earl of Leicester packet.
Fes. 3.—The Journal de St. Petersburgh of the 24th
nit. contains the following :—" We learn from Tiflis,
under the date of the 10th (31st) December, that a con-
voy of 350,900 tomauns of the Persian contribution haul
just arrived at the porrantine of Ghcrgher, escorted by two
companies of the 41st Regiment of Chasseurs."

The King's Speech, delivered on the opening
of Fa lia !tent, arrived yesterday, by Specia Express, at
Mr. Willrner's, 25, Lord-street, at twenty minutes before
five o'clucL, and was forwarded, through the politeness of
Mr. Richardson, by the Dolphin, Post.offire Packet.,
to Dublin, that evening. The mail arrived at fifteen
minutes past six, being one hour and thirtmfive minutes
after Mr. Willmer's express.—Liverpool Advertiser.
B 1 RTIL—On Friday, the 30th tilt., at Newn-
ham Paddox, in this county, the Countess of Denbigh, of
•
a daughter.—Leomington Courier.

Boast,. tt[MLLE, FOUL O'CLOCK.
BUSITICKS in the Funds has been tolerably brisk to-day,
the rise in London and Amsterdam led to an improvement
in English securities ; Austrian were not in dem Ind, the
Courses coming less favourable from Vienna ; money con-
tinues abundant at 2} per cent. ; Rills on London are
sought for.
A nglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent.
Anglo-Russian Loan 91%
Ha.nburgh-Ruseinn Loan
Anglo-Prussian Loan of 10ii8 99%
Austrian Rank Shares 1101.
A usti inn Metall iques 11651.
Excluoige upon London, at two months, 13 634
at sight.... I3S
According to letters from Finland, the arrival of the
Emperor of Russia, at Helsingfors, was supposed to be de-
fet red till the 20th of January. A degree of activity con-
tinued to reign in the military administration of the Pro-
vince. Orders had been given for the construction of a
number of gun-boats, and for the erection of batteries on

We mentioned repeatedly, in the course of.
last year, the increase in the distillation of spirits. It
now appears that the excise duties paid in Glasgow la 4
year, amounted to the unprecedented sum. of 711,930 t.
Is. !lid. sterling, showing an increase over the year 1827'
of 78,613/. Os. 10th. sterling.— Glasgow

The mails for Hamburgh for the to the
ultimo, which were forwarded through Holland,
arrived in safety at Bremen on the 30th. _

The public will learn with satisfaction that the
individual who was lately apprWhended in •Trailrn,
charged with decoying children off the street, has been
fully committed for trial at the ensuing Circuit cowl,
when the merits of the mysterious proceeding will be fully
developed to the public.— Glasgow Free Press.

;, .

SHIPPING INTELLIGEN/CE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'

Drat, Fin. 7 and S.—Wind W:N.W..—Ariived the
'N'yoalph, Champs, from St. Michael's.. .Arriverl froth
London, the Catherina, Stockforth, for Brazil-; Malvin*
Norfor, for Buenos Ayres;
,Colunbine, BrOwn, for the
Cape; and Hector, for the Afediterraoan.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 7.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the
Anna Christina, Waring, from Gallipoli. Sailed the
Euterpe, Donkin, for Jamaica; and Southworth.transportt
for Swan River.

FA LMOUTH, FEB. 7.---Wind N. N.W. —Sailed the Lady
Mary Prllitun packet, for the Mediterranean ; Sandwich
packet, for Lisbon; and Mutine packet, for America.

MARGATE, Fin. B.—Arrived the. Hope, Stroud, from

111aloga.

liAIIsCATE, FEB. S.—Arrived the Revolution, Pagharn
from St. Michael's; and Agenoria, Raily, from Cork.
Conk►, FEE. B.—Arrived the Louisa, Smith, from
Batavia; sailed the 1 J. th of October.

SOUTH All ETON, FEB. S.—Arrived the Thcrnas, Nichols,
from Naples; and Prince Regent, from Leghorn.
PtsiZ A NCE, FEB. 6.—Arrived the De Coy, Duyts, from
Batavia; and Molly, Harms, from Rio Janeiro.

Arrived off the start, the St. Catharine, Nichols, from
Whoa ; and Britannia, Baily, from Gijon.
Arrived off Dover, the Thorne, Johnstone, from Bombay'
sailed the I Ith of October.

The John, Brown, from Liverpool to Newcastle, wag
lost the 27th ult. on the North West Coast of Ireland.
The William, Parke, from Liverpool to Jamaica, is
wrecked on a reef near Barbuda.

The Delight, Wise, of St. John, N. 8., drifted on
shore about the 3d inst., near Bilmullet, county of Mayo.

LEICESTER CHORAL SOCIETY.

On Tuesday morning last the Leicester. Choral Society
under the able direction of Mr. Gardener, anther of ""'Fite
Sacred Melodies," and other compositions, gave a grand
selection of Sacred Musiti at St. Margaret's church, to e.
numerous and respectable auditory, among whom were
the county and city Members. The band was powerful
and complete, and consisted of more than' 100 hundred
performers. The principal airs were sung by Miss LlOyd,
late pupil of the Royal Academy of Music, who has heel
recently engaged at the Foundling Hospital in Londeri.--•
Thii young lady's voice very much resembles Ma. Billing-.
ton's, being in its tones very clear, sweet, and silvery.---•
Her executiun and style are of the highest order. PI
compass, her voice extewls to three octaves. In *. Angel§
ever bright and fair" she displayed excellent-taste,. by ;the
sweet and simple manner in which she treated it. The grand
bravura, " Cie that Ruleth. Israel," was • given by, bet'
with surprising power and spirit, splendidly. e,nztplet'
ing with the gentleness and simplicity manifested in she
preceding favourite air by Handel. The composition its I+Y
Mr. Gardener, and it is of a magnificent description, the
accompaniment being of no ordinary diffietilty, ssbich Cho
orchestra executed in a manner highly creditable. Aware
the choruses, perhaps, the most striking piece was,.!‘ The
calm of the sea," by Beethoven, which was achnitabiy pr.
formed. There were other novelties in the eharn:ses, fre,
Haydn and Nlozart. In April another perfornatioce.,lo°
take place, whiclt is likely to prove very attractive.

TO THE EDITOR OF TPIE SUN.

SIR,— Many thanks to you for giving such prooßt at-
tention to my last letter, and I.feel very proud aOto at
pealing in the same number of your paper, that contains the
most glorious Speech which ever issued from the tbroneOf
these kingdoms. The concessions of his Majesty's Goren!'
ment to the claims of our Roman Catholic brethren, are
l
by a worthy Baronet to be the result of intimidation.
,Tl:
comes with a bad grace from a Brunawieker, for *WO
al.:, have sought to intimidate the Government ad-
',wet-, decidedly the Brunswick Clubs. Btit allow miff
Sir, in the vanity of my heart, to refer to the letter 01
" Surriensis," which appeared in your Journal- In' WI
ago as the 22d of November. Speaking of the CAtholis
Association and the Brunswick Clubs, Snriiettsitt g_ 144
on to say, " if 1 appreciate aright the finn, gallant, •giftr,,
personage who now steers the vessel of the State, he Iv"'
declare equally to both ' non tali auxilio tempue eget; not
will he be diverted from his right onward course by Off
• presumptuous dictation, or short. lived popularity of ea..*t
faction." And thus, Sir, has one Prime Miniiter (Prime
in every sense of the word, or rather the Alpha and Omega
of Ministers, the first who has dared to make Catholic
Emancipation a Cabinet measure, and who will give zha
last finish to a question which has. SO long disturbed the.
peace both of England and Ireland) fulfilled the ptophetic
vision of
Fel,. 7. SURRIENSIS.

THE KING.—The Duchess of Gloucester
paid a morning visit to the King this day. There ie
intention at present of the King's ternoving to Londoo,
We are happy to announce that his Majesty continues to
enjoy excellent health. We have great pleasure in ststig
that Dr. Clarke is reoevering, though slowly, from his late
affliction.— Windsor Expresi.

. ,
A Cabinet Council was held, at half--past
three o',:lock yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign Office,
Downing-street, which was attended by the Lord Mani.
cellar, the Duke of Weaington, Earls Bathurat and •Aber'
Been, Viscount Melville, Lord Ellenborough, Mr. Seeretal
Peel, Air George Murray, the Chancellorof the Exchegtiel'
Mr. Herries, and Mr. Vesey Filagerald. .

The Attorney-GOeral, the Solicitor-Generah
and Mr. Dogherty, tbe-Snlicitor-General for Ireland, Were
in attendance on the Ministers during the sitting of the
Council. The Ministers retnaine4 in deliberation till Ili/
o'clock. The summonses for the assembling of the Cabilien
were not issued till yesterday morning.
The Martiois of Chandos had a conference(
with the Duke of Wellington yesterday, at the residence
his Grace in Downing-street. The Earl of Clarendon'
Viscount Beresford. and ;Lord Ellenboreugh, had also ill'
terviews with the Noble Duke yesterday..

A deputation of the East India Directors at'
tended at the Treasury on Saturtjny, and had a long Cow
krence with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. •
`-.The Duke of Wellington paid a visit to the
Earf,of Eldon on Tuesday, at his Lordship's residence id
Hamilton-place. His Grace had a long conference with
the Noble Earl.

The Marquis de Barbacena arrived in town Oil
Saturday morning from the residence of the Young. Que
of Portugal, at Laleliam. The Marquis bad a len& et
ference with the Earl of Aberdeen at the Office of
~t`""
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in Downing-str"'
and had also an interview with the Brazilian Minister.

The Archbishop of Dublin visited the Clow
cellos of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his residence
Do►vning-street.

Lord Ellenborough, Mr. Secretary Peel, and
Mr. Herries, had interviews with the Duke of %Hine°
on Saturday, at the Treasury.

The Marquis of Chaiidos visited Sir GeOrge
Murray yegtelflay.

The French Charge d'Affaires transacted btWH.!
netts with the Earl of Aberdeen on Saturday at the Foreir
Office in Downing ,itrect.

The Brazilian Minister had an interview wit!'
the Count d'Aglie, the Sardinian Minister, at his E4Cer.
lency's residence in Hill-street, on Sdturday.

Despatches were received by his Majesty at
late hour on Saturday night, at his P4lace at Windsor,
from the Duke of Wellington.

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We are requested to state, that the paragrq
in the Court circular respecting; the serious indisposition 01
Earl Spencer is incorrect ; his I:;prriship has been alive"'
but we have great pleasure in atatfrig that he is Trite. re'
covered, and at the present tinadii gisrid health. "
Viscount Melbourne has becit,,confined fof
enure days past by indisposition'to his residence at White'
halt Sir I fenry lialford had attended the NAM' Viscountf
-''-Tile Duchess of Northumberland did ticit.,.ar
rive in 41v on Friday till some hours after the Doltgt_
her bushandNE Grace having ealled on one of herfriendo
in her route fsPflike leave, previous to her departure fO,l,
Ireland : het'arriVal, eras further delayed, ovvi9g.t, one o'
the wheels of the carilaits4n which the Duebess travelled'
taking fire on the road.
A WIXE tiAN.—Our tliJiersfieldcorrevon-
dent say,s,lliat, there is at previl:„in 4)oA...street, in that.
town,. a winertan, who pr*aiess'.to cure young women dial':
are budichcq 1 with that secrets are only to
be revealed ofterAturAft...4itt:ls Mercury. •'

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