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London, England, 1816-07-26 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE QUARTER SESSIONS.

At the Quarter Sessions for the County of Cam.,
bridge, on Micky list, /PiWood Ullyor, Jaina
Thompson, john Stickwood, Joseph Flack, John
rotdham, and inWorn Clements, were indicted for
riotously • assembling at Swanem Bulbeck, in
May last, and -also for assaulting William Man-
ning. It appeared that „about. fifty labouring
men, amongst whom Were the prisoners, as.
Semi?led together for the pupae of demand-
ing an increase of wages, and that they endea-
voured to pet suede Manning to accompany them;
on his refusal, they assaulted him, and treated him.
very ill: The evidence of the riotous conduct
of the prisoners was not, sufficient for convle.
tion, but they were all found guilty of the
assault, and the three former sentenced to be
imprisoned 6 months, and the latter three months
in the county gaol.
Before the rising of the Court, the Chairman
(GRORGE MILNER, Big ) in en appropriate Ad.
dress, delivered the thanks of the Bench of Ma.
gistrates, that had been npaaiwonsly voted to the.
Rev. Sir H. B. Dudley, Bart. for his judicious
and spirited! conduct during the late riots in the
Isle of Ely.
The poachers who were committed Swaffhim
gaol.ahout six mouths ago, from Dowoham, and
were afterwards sentenced to be kept to hard la.
errho uilrafvoyr. reeree moon ultvtitilensdd
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'OBSERVATIONS
0 N' TTI lS

&ATE Vi.NO.I3I,FFICTS' 01 I n ELECTIVE FRAN
CIiNE IN. IRELAND.

Stith States as *ere fortunate enough to re-
'bounce tbc Superstitions,erforS•of ,Popery, and to
emancipate themselves from the tyranny and rapa-
city of the Holy Sirs in the 16th century,, • found
it•necessary to 'exclude its votaries front the en-
joyment of. political•poiver, 'and' from the high
and confidential offices of government, because
they were hound by the leading tenets of their
religion to'snbvert it. For'this reason, Lor,RE,
in his Essay.on Toleration', and ATIL,Totz on the
best Mewl to Prevent the groVoth of Popery,
argue strongly against even allowing Popish
worship in a Protestant State: Though Popery
was a fruitful source of treasonable cons.piracies,
insurrections, massacres, and rebellions in Ireland,
for. neatly 200 years previous to the Revolotion,
its votaries were not excluded from sitting in Par-
liament, or front voting for Members thereof, till
after that event. The first Parliament inilreland,
tp which all the Counties and flotonglo-, rettwned
Representatives, was convened by .1 A ti I. in the'
year. 1613. Sir ARTHUR CT.IICIIRSTFaii the Lord
Depnty, observed on that general election, '' they
were all (meaning the Popish Members) elated
by a general combination of Jesuits and Priots,
who charged all the people, upon pain of exeunt-
-
mtmication, not to vote for any persons of 'the

Ling's religion ;„ and that many of thent who were
returned in this manner, had been leaders of 're-
bellion in Inc former wars."—DcsiderataCuriosa.
Iliberniea, p. 280; in his history,,book
4, chap 7. observes, that promises, threats, oath*
of association, and all the devices of policy and
faction w.re employed by the Popish party to,
min an infinence in the elections ; and that they
had snch success, that most of the Privy Counsel-
lors who stood for comities, were rejected for
pi,sh anti factious torbuleot Lawyers, their Compe-
titors." The unbounded inflttence of the Popish
Clergy was used in the stone manner in (he gene-,
tab electidn held in the year 1639 ; for the Vice-
toy; Lord STAFFORD, tells us in his State Letters,
that,tbe utmost pains were taken by Popish Priests
and Jesuits, to Ott:Vent any of their flocks front
voting for Protestants ; that they administered.
extrajudience oaths to them on the altars for that
purpose, threatened them with the terror's of ex.-
Commitnication , find even denied the sacraments
to those who would not comply.—Letter 6.
2'r7, 270.
liaVing at that time the dreadful rebellion of
1641 in contemplation, they were solieitous to
strengthen their patty in Parliament. It appears
thu Popish members of, that assembly dis-
played 'in, strong 4 spirit of disaffection as' their
constituents ; for on the 224 of June, 1(312, the
Parliament expelled 41 Popish members thereof,
fOrbeing deeply concerned as conspirators and
actors in that horrid rchellion.---Trisli Conimons'
Journals, vol. i. p. 298,299.
The Irish papists were not subject to any penal
I..itrictions at that time; for Lord ChiefJnstice
LO.wther truly 'observed, on the trial:ot Sir reilim
O'Neal, a leader in that rebellion " They had
Peers and Commoners in Parliament, justices of
the Peace, SheriffS, Lawers, .and Attornies,
who were not required to take the oaths of alle-
giance arid snprenutey, from which Protestaws
were not exempt. They had also the free and tto-
restritined exercise of their religion, and exercised.
Papal jurisdiction in their Metropolitan and Cdtt-
si4torial COurt.s."---Boriase, p. 375.
hat great Statestmtn, Lord Orrery, observes
in hi,State Letters, vol.. ii. p„.40.2, that though"

an envenomed hatred had ever existed between

the Popish Lot& and Gentlemen, of English and
blood, disaffection to a Protestant State had
~,mpletely at cordially milted them, which the
P,pe had loot, but iu v.lin endeavoured to effect."

op.! lemler in the constiracy
(4' 164 t 4ciottssed upon oath, that all the Popish
Lords, Anti tit litleMell hi Ireland Viren: engaited in
it : anti that measures were taten to murder all
ttl, VrOtest ants hi the of the 23d of Octo-
ber. Ilk confe4sion' i.vas 'confirmed by.the con-
cm-rent testimony tit same of his accomplices;
which :time rcader will find in Temple, 'florlase,
Naltonottoil Witt ner.
'l'he confederate Catholies of Kilkenny, who
osurped all :the powers of the Legislature anti the
ExecutireGoverntneut,raisedtroOps, levied motley,
and -waged wur against the King's Viceroy, offer-
ed Ireland, in the, enur;te of that destructive re-
. belliou• to the Pope, the Kings of Franre and
Spain, and finat!y invested the Doke of Lorrain
wlth regahr 'llorlase, 128,129,
130. Again in 1689, -t be popish assembly con
vented by 'Limes 11. ‘vitieb asitimed the temhlance
and the - fanetions of Parliament*, as the eonfede
r ite Gatholitc of y had prcvionily done;
entleavoureil to eitertninatellie-whole of the Pro-
testants by a most grievous persecution, and by
rt hill of attainder, and'to make IrOand independ-
.
wit. England. Ail thitt•the'reader w 11 find in
Archbishop King's state of- the Irish Protestants,
and to Harris's • life- of the grcat and Immortal
Klotz IV.illiant. It is not less singular that true,
that the icish Papiits, forfeited the whole of the
lauded pr,opert-y,ot: trelan,t, in a little inure tlon

80 years for rcbellio'h j
,aad that, before titev tvcii
subject to any pear restrictionsf wh;ci!
lUl\ jag statenrent 'taken from authentic .1 ecoas
Skin piece

There were eonfisetedin the reign of Jamey I. 2,886,837
in the Provmee of Uloe'r - - -
Let out by the Court of Claim.% as forfeited in 806000'
the great ROOline, 'or 16,41 - f
Forfeited in the Ittbetlion of 16i.;) .I,fifio,•7P2

11.697,620

. .
At length, the l'rotestant State fottnd itself
under a necessity of imposing penal disabilities,on
the Irish Papists ; and that great Statesman Lord
Clare observed, in his speech delivered in the
House of Lords, the 13th of Maretu, 1";'03, that
it was done " to abridge the power and influence
of the old Irish Catholics, and that it %yds a code
forced upon the Protestant Parliament of Ireland,
by hard necessity-s-a code which was dictated by
self-defence and self-preServation, and has been
flout time to time relaxed with an open and un-
suspecting liberality, which has beeti but ill re-
quited by that body of men who have profited
ltit •;" anti he fart her observed, '' they must ac-
ktiOWleslge the vt istiom anti 'necessity of the old
popery laws, to which 1 do not scruple to say, Ire-
land stands indebted, in a great measure, for her
internal tramptillity." . 1
The temp,nary t ranqeillity. which these penal
restrictions produced, in compelling the Irish
nOmanists to yiela, though- relnctantiy, obedience
to the laws, led Government erroneoesly to hes.
lieve, thal in this enlightened age they had re-
nounced or forgone!' the pernicious pi inciplesof
their religion, which for 200 years had been, coy,
stantly productive of anarchy and bioodshe'd,---
They therefoee gradually repealed the penal
statutes; and in the year 1793 laud a. law passed,
by which they' obtained the elective franchise and
tomiy other'privileges. When that law was iii
progress through the House of Lords the Ea!
of Clare, well knowing the danger of granting ally
share of political power to 'Papists under a Pro-
lestant State, observed, if this.bill.do pass, FA-lg.-
:had will again have to win Ireland with the
sword ; and the dreadful rebellion of 1798, and
the scenes of 'robbery and asiassinal ion which-
for five years preceded; it, proved the truth of his
prediction. On obtaining' these privileges, the
General Committee of the Roitran Catholics of
Ireland assembled in Dubliii the 25th of April,
1793, .passed a vote of thanks tO the ,King,. tlie
Viceroy, the Parliament, and the Protestants Of
Ireland, and declared that in future they would be
regardless of all religious distinctions. , They also
'resolved, " that the stun of two thousand pounds
be applied' to the erecting •a statue to our most
.gracious sovereign George 111. as a autonomic
of our gratitude for the important privileges
which we have obtained front Parliament,
thiough his parental recommendation." An a
few months it was discovered, that this Cont.
mittet, notwithstanding these fervent professiOns
of loyalty and fidelity to our gracious Sovereign,
had begun, through their agent, Theo&ald Wolfe
Lone, a negociatioa with the French Republican
Government, for assistance to -separate Ireland
from Great P,ritaio ; which they equalities! till the
essplasion of the rebellion in 1798., luttuag in the
year 1794 sent an envoy to Paris for that puts.
posc, wheru tie constantly resided, lit the he-
ginning-f- the year 1793, soon after the elective
trauctibe was conceded to the Roman Catholics,
a popish biteditti, called defenders, in most parts
of Ireland, began to plunder Protestants of their
rerms.in, the night, and tO commit barbarous out-
rages on their persons and property ; insomuch
that they were under a necessity of- seeking an
asylont itrthe Metropolis; 'or in garrison towns.
It ,vas proved by the Report of the Secret Com-
mitt et! of the blouse of Lords of 1793, that this
banditti were encouraged and proteeted by the
General Committee tit the Catholics, who acted!
with so much dissimulation. This, system of
terror ' created by the defenders was for the pia-, '
pie4e of expelling Prstestanti, front the country,.•
and of preventing any persons. but, Papists from
being renters of the land, and consequently free.
holders ; by which they would make. Protestant
Representatives in Parliament dependent.' on them,
and subservient' to their design, of acquiring an
aacendancy ore the subversion of the. Prorestant
establishment'. Another cousequence of this con-
cession Wits, that not only Roman Catholic gen-.
denten, but even petty farmers, Who had a lease
for life of a few •acres, proceeded to anuntlacture
freeholds in the following manner : ' They built
wretched cabins with mud walls, covered with rushes
or straw, with a hole in the middle to let out the
smoke Land they annexed to each three or four
perches of grOtind, to make cabbage garden.
The wretched oecupier thereof is persuaded,by
his Priest to swear, that. his tenement is Worth
40S. asyears over and 'above the rent. He in-
cludes in this calculation his wages its. a daily ht..
bottrer ; and with eqnal propriety, a beggar, who
occupies a hovel byt he road side, not better than'
a pig's sty, may take that oath., bectufse his col..
lectioni as a Mendicant exceed slOss per amtinn.
By such infamous means eight or ten freeholds
ate carved out of an acre of grown'. It will he
found on extunining the-registry,' that nine teutirs'
of the freeholds in 'many parts .Of Ireland are,of
this description; for when .the Roman Catholica
hcgan to fabricate freeholds in this Manuel*, the
Protestant Nobility and Gentry fotoni. themselves
under to neeiSsity of adopting the same praetice,
to. maintain their interest ; and they possess 99
parts of 100 of the fee simple and freehold estates
in Ireland, In Consequence of this, the Popish
multit fide vote almost, to a man ; and as 'they are
,
completely' under the dominion of their 'clergy', it
candidate for a county or a large popular hor,moi
• has no chance of success, unless he pledges him-
self to support t4e Popish e claims in the most on-
qttalified manner.
Trtts • - has ..occasioned a most material obstruction
to the administration •of justice, by creating.► ii
subierviency to the 1100kb:clergy and their tlocks,
in Protestant
;Noblemen and Gentlemen, nho are
• ambitions of popular tstvour, Llnd in their retainers
and dependents also. In consequetice of this, they
as Magististtes are guilty of the:_grosseat pester-
..

sign of
.justice, iu .screening inaietactot s of the
Popish persnasion from the vengeance of the IHW
end their inferior ar,ents follow their example.
Hence it has arisen, that in sonic counties in Ire-
land the' e are two partici, one of whom, actuated

*by false tints sinister airshitlnn, e.,'Pous'cs the canSe
of pottery and anarchy ; the others consisting of
, .
conscientious ind .
ependent ...tentlett:en, 're often -
deterred from doing their duty as Maitgistrates, lest
they shoold be assassinated, "theirlqmsei shotdd
be burnt, or their cattle !toughed, by a Popish
banditti, who, for many years, have 'tfiadt a prac-
tice of roaming the 'country In ttte `night, tinde'r
the denomination of defenders, white -buys,
thrashers, carders, curavats', or shitnavUti,
ilicting-yeng,ettnee ott such persons as take an active
and determined part in the administration Of
justice, or refuse to obey their mandates,tW votiog
at elee.tions, or
,on any other occasion, which
they oost ttp in the night tin their chapels, or even
on the Poit-otlice. in country towns. In short,
-party spirit, when inflamed anti inveuomed by re-
ligious fanaticism, assumes an extraordinary de-
gree of
Mr. home very justly observes in his history,
eh Ap. 47, vol. vi.'' That the nligions spirit when.
it mingles with factions, contains in it something
supernatural and unaccountable ; and that in its
operations on society; effects correspond leis to
their known causes, titan iS found in any Other'
circionstances of society.".--Titht great Scats's-
Man, the Earl of Clare, made nitteh the sante oh-
tervation in the year 1793, he shewcd the danger
of valuing politicai power to Papists under a Pro-
testant State, and foretold all the evils which
Woubi arise from granting them the elective
frfinc6ise.
• sitiee the Union, Poitish priests in many parts
of Ireland have tutkoifested the same intrigo-
big • srstrit and inteMperate zeal, at elections,
'ts,ilicir they did in 'the years 1613 and 1G39, In
cobseqttenee• of which 'they have.been attended
with dreadful scenes of strife anilterbelence. This
has beets the case in the county of Tipperary. in
a most alarming' degree. On the eketiOn Of the •
municipality at .INi.smes,, in the South of France,
in the year 1791, party spirit awakened and in-
flamed that intolerant and sanguinary Spitit
wards -.Protestants, which is LiSeparable front
„Popery ; many Of them were butchered jtt that
town, and at. Montauban, and the
,pries were
assidtionsly'empioyed in sweariug the pi. pie not
to vote for Protestants, whom thil marked by the
appellation of blocks.--4-Annual Register of 1791,,
p. 84. in the month of September 1815, on the'
eve of the election of tiepin ies at Potty -two
'Protestants • were butchered, for the purpose of
deterring the electots from nominating as eandi-
dates any persons•of that persuasion.
The leading Canons-of the Runtish Church in-
! Culcate as a religioni duty, the extirpation of he-
relics ond•the subversion of heretical states. The
:Pope is". not only empowered, ,but cowl-sanded
'and sworn to enforce mem ; a Bishop is hound
by oath, to obey his orders ,and 'mandates, 'and so
is aTolsish 'Priest; who is also required' by, his
canonical' oath, ,not only to Maintaits'and
these canons, but to inculcate them- into his
flocc..l proved all this itrthe most utuptestionAbk
manner in my first letter. l'rofessing such di.rc-
tritscs, and tinder the influence of such a Itierar-
' city, it cosmos be a tuttttcr of snrprize, that the
Irish Romaoists, duties; the last 300 years, have
etithraCed every opportunity that afforded them any
prospect of seeeets to overturn the ConStitAtion,
to massacre their Protestant fellow-subjects, and to
separate their native colons' rfrons England; or that
some of the most fertile ,and populous parts of
it
should at this tittle be agitated and disgraced by noc-
turnal tobbery anti assas,ination. For the constant
perpetration cif such crimes, during'2oo years we
-
vim's to the lievolotitart, they were ,laid under
penal disabilities, ,4“,41 excluded from all political
power. at that period which made them its some
degree peaceable amid obedient ; but ever sinee
the rernoval of these clisablltties, and the conces-
sion of the elective
.6-ant:hist to (bent, they have
returned to their 19rmer practiCes. Whoever re-
fleets on the doctrines, and the hierarchy of tile
Rotnish alit on their practical effects in
every Protestant in Europe, trona be convinced,
I that peace and .iocial of can ma he maintained in
stud that it. never Cua attain any degree.of
prosperity, ‘vitilf.. its Roinish, in4abiwnts enjoy
any share of political pOwer.

cRAMIEft.

LAW INTELLU,3ENCE.

coma OF KING'S BENCH, Jots 25.
' • ' . BAIIINC; V. collate. - ..•
'TWA as an acti•in to recover the price of 50
v
hogsbe Is . of . ingar, - sold to the defendants by
Messrs! Cole's,' Brothers, brokers, op account of
the plaintiff;,'Oessts. .Baring'and Co.
This evrts A second 'trial of the' same cause; and,
it will be,reOollected that the rpiestion was, whe
ther the vender' of goods - had a right to set off
the debt of the broker. against the price, so as
to defeat the 'Chita of the principal, 'in a case
where he name of elm principal was not disclosed
to' the purchaser' by they broker. At the last
trial ' the. Jury- found- ti. Verdict for the plAintitf,
directly in the teeth of Lord Ellenborough's di=
reetion in point of lavr.,.upon-'the authority of
-George e., Ci7.l!_r,vitti in the Term Et.ports ; but-
the Court of King'.l-terCh set aside their verdict,,
and the case-now came down for a second triai;
for the purpose ot-tendering a bill of exCeptions
to Lord Ellenboroitgl, direction, with a Yiewsto
a writ of errors, ht the IJouse of: bOrds, Some.
additionlil eyidente was ,'exatnined, and it was
agreed that a -v«rdiCt shriltld be' taken 'for the
pi4itiiiff, for 14231. 3s. CA bjcetjo a case,- and
with liberty to either party to turn it into a Site-
cial Verdict.: '. ,