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London, England, 1820-01-20 00:00:00

PERTH WEAVERS.

The subjoined Let ter, addressed to his Grace the
Duke of ATHOL!, by the Operative Weivers be-
longing to Perth, now employed in trenching and
improving waste lands, will be read with consi-
derable interest :

TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OP ATHOLL, LORD LIEU-

TIINANT OF PERTHSEIIRE.

" MAY IT 'PLEASE YOUR GRACE—We, the un-
dersigned Operative Weavers, belonging to the
city of Perth, now employed in trenching and
improving waste lands, beg leave to approach
your Grace with sentiments of the profoundest
gratitude and respect, for the purpose of ex-
pressing our sincere acknowledgments to your
Grace, and to the other Noblemen and Gentlemen
of this County, who, at a time when we are ex-
posed to the most severe and unexampled priva-
tions, have so generously come forward to alleviate
our sufferings and contribute to our relief. While
we cannot but deeply lament the present depressed
state of trade, and the long train of domestic hard-
ships it has occasioned in our condition, it is to
us a source of much consolation that our distresses
ha,* excited the compassion of the more opulent
-classes in the community ; and that though they
have by no means been entirely removed by their
humane exertions, they have at least been so tar
mitigated, as to be rendered less pressing and in-
supportable.
" Persuaded that murmuring and discontent,
accompanied by riotous and disorderly proceed-
ings, could only aggravate the evils we deplore,
we have all along endeavoured to bear our mis-
fortunes with the submissive patience that be-
comes us as men and as Christians : abstaining
from all political discussions, and resting in the
hope that the Government of our country would
devise such measures as in its wisdom might seem
best calculated to revive the national industry,
open up new channels of commerce, and restore
to a suffering people those blessings which are the
fruits of honest labour and regular employment.
Above all, we consider it to be our duty, on the
present occasion, to express our titter abhorrence
at the dissemination of profane and blasphemous
publications, the obvious tendency awl design of
which is to subvert the influence of our Holy Re-
ligion, and, by 'weakening the obligations of
morality, to dissolve those sacred bonds, without
which human society could neither exist nor be
an object of desire.

" e conclude, may it please your Grace, by
expressing our unfeigned gratitude for your good-
ness, requesting, at the same time, that your
Grace would he pleased to convey to the other
Noblemen and Gentlemen of this County, who
have contributed to our relief, our sincere and
heartfelt thanks for their generosity and attention.
Indeed, we find it impossible to express, in ade-
quate language, our feelings ; but we trust your
Grace will not be the less disposed to believe,
that while we have the sense to appreciate the
value of all that your Grace and the other Noble-
men and Gentlemen of the County have done for
us, we have hearts that will remember, and prin-
ciples that will not suffer us to abuse your Grace's
confidence. And we further beg leave to assure
your Grace, that whatever may be the i,sue of
existing circumstances, nothing shall ever efface
from our recollection the grateful remembrance
of your kindness, and of the paternal concern
which your Grace has at all times manifested for
our suffering condition.

" We have the booot►r to he,
" May it please your Grace,
" Your Grace's very obedient and greatly obliged Seriants,
(Signed) GEORGE PENNY, Pccses.
ALEX. ROBERTSON, Secretary.
DAVID TAYLOR,
JOHN RAMSAY,
JOHN murcHELL, Committee."
JOHN WIIYTOCK,
Then Wow the oilier signatures, amounting
to about 450.—(Perth Courier.)

On Monday last came on the election of an
Alderman for the Great Wymer Ward, Norwich,
in the room of the late RoEERT HARVEY, E“1...
when Mr. IVILLIANI FOSTER was elected. 'Die
firing of St. Peter's hells announced the event, and
parties of freemen paraded the streets, preceded
by bands of music. Durii.g the election for the
above Ward, Lord CASTLEREAGH passed through
the 'city on his way try Blickling-hall, on a visit
to Lord SUFFIELD ; whilst changing horses at the
Inn, the populace greeted him with a mixture of
LL:roans and applauses, whi,h continued till his
d part u re.— (Nen wie/4 Paper.)

POPERY.

TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY AND LAITY
OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF TUAM.
". Dearly beloved Brethren and 'Children in
Jesus Christ—To guard the Sacred Deposit of
Religion, and to promote the happiness of the
Flock committed to my care, are important duties
imposed upon me, and the dearest object of my
Pastoral Solicitude. To these, my thoughts and
labours are at all times directed. With this view
have Infrequently visited the Parishes of this ex-
tensive Archdiocese ; exhorting every man, and
teaching every man in all.wisdom, that we may
present every man perfect in Jesus Christ—,-Col.
Ist. eh. 28 v.
" That I might be-directed and strengthened
to perform my duty to Christ, the supreme Pastor
ut Souls, and to you my beloved flock, I have im-
plored the light and grace, of Heaven by humble
prayer, and I have sought the advice of my Bre-
thren, Fellow Ministers in the Church of God, in
whom I have tound faithful co-operators in culti-
vating the Vineyard of the Lord. I glorify God
and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for the
abundant consolations that I feel, when I con-
sider your progressive improvement in virtue and
morality, your firm adherence to the Religion of
your ancestors, your fidelity and loyalty to your
King, and your attachment to the civil Constitu-
tion of your Country.
" I cannot conceal the consolation that I ex-
perience when I reflect on your temperate, peace-
ful, and consistent demeanour under trials and
temptations. Drunkenness, so incompatible. with
your temporal and eternal welfare, is not now
so prevalent amongst you. Morning and liven- '
ing prayer, that most .essential duty of Christian
piety, is universally enforced, and very generally
observed. The Sabbath is no longer profaned by
servile work, or by vain, unprofitable, or criminal
amusements. Perjury, into which the ignorant in
many districts have been too successfully seduced,
by the machinations of wicked and interested men,
is now, and 1 trust for ever, at tin end. 1 rejoice
to see that you have thus rendered- yourselves
worthy of the approbation of your Pastor, and
that your virtuous, loyal, and peaceable conduct is
conformable to your religious principles, and to
the instructions you have received.
" The spiritual powers with which the Minis-
ters of your Religion are invested, are held by
them for the benefit of the Flock.—The faith, the
discipline, the sacraments of our Church, are the
sacred deposits we are ro guard, and the treasures
of the mysteries of God, that we dispense for the
sanctification of the People. It must be there-
fore with us an object of primary solicitude to con-
firm and nourish in our hearts the spirit of obe-
dience to the laws of God and of his Church, which
he has- commanded us to hear.-1 If thou wilt
enter into Life, said our Divine Lord, keep the
Commandments,' Mat. xix. c. 17. v. And of his
Church lie said, He that heareth you heareth me,
and he that despiseth you despised) me, and de-
spiseth him that sent me.' Luke, x. c. 16. v.
" If then we are anxious for the unrestrained ex-
ercise of our Spiritual Powers, it is not from
spirit of domination or self-interest, .but that we
may be free to administer to our people the trea-
sures and blessings of Religion. We inculcate
obedience to the laws of the Roman Catholic
Church in spiritual matters, from the same high
motive that we inculcate obedience to the laws of
the State in civil matters. We as Pastors of the
Church, requite respect and submission from you,
on the same principle on which, as loyal subjects,
we respect our King in temporals. For the same
divine autnority.which commands, that you be
subject to the King as excelling, or the Governors
as sent by him.' Pet. 2. c.. 13. v. And that
you pay tribute to whom tribute is due, custom
to whom custom, fear to whom fear, honour to
whom honour.' Rom. 13. c. 7. v. also com-
mands, that you obey your Prelates and besubject
to them.' Heb. 13. c. 17. v. and menaces, that
he who hears not the Church shall be accounted
as a Heathen and a Publican. Thus we act on
one common principle of a conscientious
For so is the will of God.' 1. Pet. 2. c.
16. v.
" Having said thus much concerning the prin-
ciples of obedience and subordination which are
the firmest support of the Altar and the Throne,
deem it my duty to call the attention of each Pas-
tor to the moral and religious education of the
youth committed to his care, and 1 will not hesi-
tate to declare, that at no period of our existence
did circumstances more unite to call forth out
zeal anti exertions in this particular, than the pre-
sent moment,--a period when, under the semblance
of a Christian education, every art and insinuation
is resorted to in order to make proselytes amongst
the innocent and unsuspecting youth:Al our Com-
' monion.
" If the design of extirpating the Catholic Re-
ligion by violence and persecution, has been in
some degree abandoned ; to it has succeeded one
more likely to effect its purpose, because less ap-
parent. Recourse is had to seduction and insi-
nuation. An attempt is made to strip of its na-
tural deformity and turpitude the crime of tam-
pering with the religious principles of the poor.—
The schools that are established, are embellished
with a thousand specious names, but at the bottom
the evil lies concealed. Proselytism is become
the Order of the Day, and the enemies of our
faith, like the serpent, creep and give death under
flowers.
4, What is the consequence Why, unless we
establish and support Schools for the Education
of Distressed Children of our l'isuasion, the

[PRICE SEVENPENCE.

teinmpb will'bd'eventually complete,- the-_Alystery
of Iniquity will have absorbed the Mystrry of Ho.
liness, and What the o,9eliy of Tyfants could not
have completed in this Island of Saints, will be
speedily accomplished by sotter means.

" In the mean time, until Catholic Schools
can be established in each Parish, the following
Regulations are to be impressed on the minds of
the People, and the observance of them strictly
enforced by the Catholic Clergy
Ist.---As Pastors of the Roman Catholic
Church, you must have viewed with indignation
and disgust eel lain peorile and ignoble efforts
that have been lett"), made to diminish wig in-
fluence, and mar our bile, Terence, 'in the religions
and moral education and instruction of the youth
of our Communion, and though we fieprecat r AS
sincerely as any other body of men, any ettempt
to excite disrention, or to make odious distitic.„
lions on account of Religion, and have contri-
buted most effectually to preserve the Peace of
the country, yet, it is a duty incumbent on us,
and front which we will miter shrink, to oppose,
collectively and every Ht irrupt, how-
ever insidious, or from wh,iterer source it may etn,.-
nate, to tattsper with the refig.toos princylk's of
the faithful committed to oor care.

" 2d.—lmpressedwith the sileredness and impor-
tance of the obligation inctohbetit On us, to be
vigilant and attentive to the religious of moral
education of the People, the attention of the
Roman Ca'holic Clergy is to be narti(ularly di-
rected to the Schools established in their respec-
tive Parishes, and they ate to exercise their spiri-
tual authority in its toll extent, in order to pee-
vent Roman Catholic Children from tr,quenting
Schools where the Catholic Catechism is not taught,
where Protestant Tracts are introduced, or where
the moral conduct or religious principles of the
master are exceptionable.
"3d.—Aithough the Catholic Church has never
forbidden the reading of the Scriptures, yet the
Bible cannot be allowed as a proper iniliatoiy
book of instruction among the illiterate persons of
your respective Congregations. For in the Scrip.
tures there are many things hard to be understood
Which the illiterate and unstable wrest to their
own perdition, 2 Pet. iii. c. 16 v.
" 4i b.—As the diffusion of knowledge, unac-
companied by Religious Instruction, cannot be
encouraged by us, so neither can we counten-
ance or encourage a system which would ex-
clude us from the right to superintend the edu-
cation of our people, a system, the abettors of
which unblushingly declare that they will oppose,
slicruld we directly or interfere in even
the religious instruction of Catholic Children ;
and as We deem such a system of exclusion tanta-
mount to religions peisecution, we protest
against its injustice, and shall never submit to it.
" sth—ln conclusion, then, my dear and be-
loved brethren, 1 ant confident you will not en-
courace or countenance Anti-Catholic Schools, or
the distribution of Bibles among the very illiterate
persons of your communion. Rather procure for
them a sufficient number of copies of the Cute.
chism of the Four Archbishops, Klrwan's Irish Ma-
nuscript Catcchism, the Catholic Christian In-
structed, 'Reeve's History of the Bible. Front
these abundant sw,cces, Catholics will draw a
purity of morAls and doctrine, a eOnht tTlat ion Of
their Holy Faith, aod the means of dA, riding it
in all meekness and toodes•y from the misrepre-
sentation of malice and You, ti.tre-
fore, my brethren, knowing these things, beware
lest being led away by the error of the no,vise,
you fall from your stedfastness, but increase in
grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus
Christ, to whom be gl9ty now and to the.day of
eternity. _'men. 2d Pet. 3. c. 16. v.
" OLIVER KELLY, R. C. Archbishop."

A YOUNG BRIDE BURNT WITH HER BeTROTH..
ED HUSBAND.SCVCraIIOIIOI3 ago; in the vici-
nity of Chandeunagore, a female victim .was im-
molated on the funeral pile, kinder circumstances
peenliarly affecting. She was a young woman
who had beets recently bethrothed to a young
man of the same town. Every thing was prepared
for the celebration of the nuptials, which had
been fixed for the next day ; the relatives of both
parties had arrived from a distance to honour the
man isge with their presence; and the circle of
their triends already enjoyed in anticipation the
festivities which the approaching day would (idler
in. The preceding evening, however, the bride-
groom was taken ill of (lie cholera morbus, and in a
few hours was a lifeless corpse. Information be-
ing conveyed of the melancholy event to the
bride, site instantly declared her determination to
ascend the funeral pile of her betrothed Lord.
A long debate was hence held between the rtla-
tioni of the bride and the priests respecting the
legality of the act ; the result of which %V 2,,
that in such cases the Shasturs consideting the
bride as bound to her husband by the vow site bad
taken, permitted a voluntary. immolation on the
funeral pile. The next day, therefore, ks'ead of
the music and joy which had been anticipated,
the bride was led to the banks of the G.nees,
amid the silent grief of her .frientls and rela•ive4,
and burnt with the dead body of her intended hus-
band.—(Bombay Paper )

PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—A few days since, R 9
smile woikmen were employed on the roof of the
house of Mr, in the Kent-road, they
accidentally let fall a roll of sheet lead between
the rafters. The immense weight of the lead
forced a passage through the. ceiling of a room
beneath, and it fell on a dolt at which Mr. Wil-
liams was seated writing ; in its fall it knocked
off his bat, but without doing any injury.—
The desk was entirely demolithcd.

RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES.

TO johr,V BULL, ESQ.

LETTER IV.

ITlortzsT Join —Before I rake a final leave of
that period of our History during which only
could any thing like mere national right have ex-
ibted, I cannot help noticing the loud complaints,
of would-be sentimental moralists, and of self-
called Economists, that the wealth of
Britain is unequally and unjustly diuided, by which
means the rich hare robbed the poor.
Nov, JOHNNY, I need not tell you, that there

are only two ways in which a man can be rohbrd
—that is either by taking from him that which
be already possesses lawfully, or of which he
would have had legal and exelosive possession,
had ni;t the robber prevented him by a previous
So much for the :node of robbini; let

and you must also have a set of surveyors in con
slant employ to ascertain the exact value of every
acre, as it would be nojust to give one atm) a
small slice tiff Dart tnoor Forest, whilst to another
.
you gave an equal quantity of cabbage•garden at
Battersea. Add to this, that you must diminish
every body's share in equal proportions, in order
to supply every surplus new coiner ; and who will
pay for the improvements, or who will improve
the out,kirts of his four acres if he is to lose a slice

of them once a year, or ofiener as justice may re-
quire Why, JOHNNY, you and your little ones
would no more con4ent to this, than you would
let 'every lazy fellow di ink out of your mug, or
they WOidd lei him bite the corners off their bread

and 13,it ter.

But thAt is just whit the indicals ask ; nay,
they ask more, for they demand as a natural right
Hn cd+►,l share of land improved tenfold in value
by the I shout and wealth of social order !

11, then, there exists no robbery of the land
which the Poor never did and never could pos.:
sess upon any justifiable plan, bow can they be
robbed of any share in tha► chattel properly
which individuals possess in consequence of their
own industry and economy, or in consequence of
the industry and economy of their ancestors and
relatives ? has the rich man who subscribes to
the London Wall Charity taken his wealth out of
the pocke:s of the objects of that Charity ? Let
us suppose a journeyman hatter to be there, Who
may have formerly:worked for, and thus been sup-
ported by that benevolent and most praiseworthy
individual who first instituted the plan, will it be
said that any portion of Mr. HICK'S honourably
acquired competence is a robbery of the unfortu-
nate journeyman ? Or, suppose any of Mr.
OtVIIN'S work-people at Lanark were to fall into
disttess and poverty, Can it be maintained for a
moment that Mr. OweN's wealth is a robbery of
the Poor whom be has nurtured into industry
and good morals ? Really, JOHNNY, I almost
think that even COBBETT .himself would hardly

dare to offer such an insult to your common sense;
t least, if he did, you would spurn him from you

as lie deserves.

But Modern Reformers will, perhaps, tell you
that if A. had not realized 10,0001. then B. C. 1).
E., &c. would have possessed 10001. each ! Don't
believe them JOHNNY ; you know that Taney
makes money, and that whilst one man is making
a fortune, he is giving emp!oymcnt, food, and
raiment to hundreds who, without him, might

have starved in idleness ; nay, might never have
had existence. But I have over-stepped my li-
mits, and the Chapter of Romans shall speedily be
opened to you by

IGNOTUS.