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London, England, 1829-02-13 00:00:00

admita'•le than this, the result of manly and upright feel-
in!! The Orange Associations are henceforth the only
one on which the new liw can operate. The Catholic,
have lightened the ditteultie% of the Kine's Government,
and Ave have no d uht that their virtue will in the end 1*
rewarded. Times.

If, co the one side, as we hinted yesterilety, the Duke
ofsWrllinzton aml his coadjutors in the grand measure now
in contemP'ation are exposed to private treachery and utas
'f.eserved hostility ; on the other, they are indulged

with a clear stage, and true English fair pity. The Whigs
might non' have been claiming no inconsiderable merit as
the authors or first recomnienclers of that system for•the ad-

miniAttation of Irish affairs, the necessity of which is at
least felt and acknowledged. But the Whigs are silent on
this pGint : they rejoice in the good, come from whatever
hand it may, and cast no reflections. They have abstained

An from any attempt to perplex Government or occupy
ita time by the introduction of other topics mentioned in
the King's Speech. The aff.►irs of Portugal, of Brazil, of
the Greeks, and Russians,—all are postponed to the im-
portant acts now in progress or preparation for the assur-

ing of internal nanquillity. We have no doubt but that
Government are sensible of the forbearance, and will avail

themselves of it to proceed with the utmost diligence in the
conviction of the main enterprise.—llrid.

The Catholic Claims will, for some time to come, en-

gross the attention of both Houses. Last night one of the
He;o!s of the nrw Opposition, the earl of Falmouth, wished
to fasten a controver4y on the Duke of Wellington, by (dial-
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lending an expression, which had been put in the mouth of
his Grace in a published Report. "He wished to ask the
Noble Duke—but he repeated, he wished to ask him, with
all that courtesy and respect which were due to him—
whether the Noble Duke had declared that the majority of

the people of England were in favour of settling the qttes-
titn, and if he tocant by the phrase 'settling the question,'
granting Catholic Emancipation?" The Duke of Wel-
lington objected to the irregulaiity of referring to a former
&bate, but stated, that though he did not exactly re-
collect what expression he had used, he thought he had
said On: a great portion of the people were desirous of
seeing; the question brought to a favourable issue. How
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[ppen‘ it that Noble Lords, all of a sudden, attach so
iuc•h importance to a numerical majority of the people ?
row often have we been told by them that the opinion of

:he people was only to be ascertained in Parliament ! Lord
Holland sarcastically observed, " that the proper manner
or the Noble Lnrd to obtain the information he wishes, is
F.ir him to ask it of the House of Commons." What !

and is virtual representation quite out of favour now?
Lord Falmouth, in his novel admiration of the plan of de-

tiding by counting heads, observed, " he Phollid expect that
the NoLie Duke would take an effectual means of asceit iin-

ing the opinions of the people of England, by advising his
Majesty to dissolve the Parliament. Be hoped the Noble
Duke would take the usual mode of appealing to the country.

Why, good Lord Fa!math, should the Noble Duke advise
the King to dissolve the Parliament? When a Parliament
proves refractory, and the Ministers of the Crown think ano-
ther Parliament might be more favourable, they recommend

a dissolution ; but it was reserved for such pvofonnd
politicians as your Lordship- and Lord Winchilsea to
discover the wisdom of a King dissolving a 'Parliament
because it is disposed to agree to the :neasmes proposed
by the King. To dissolve a Parliament prematurely is
to punish a Parliament ; and the purchaser of a Bo-
rough from :gym• Noble Lord who deals in that commo-

dity called Virtual Representation, would think it a very
odd return for him complaisance in voting for the Ali-

nistry, to be tricked by them out of three or four years
of his seat, and forced to fork out, to use a slang•ex-

pressinn, his thousands twice over for his seat duripg the
time for which he counted on plying only once. We
are sorry to hear from the Noble Earl such a wretched

e,count of the people of Devon and Cornwall, as that

tot one in a hundred are in favour of Catholic Einapvi.

pttion. As it is notorious that year after year the Claims
of the Catholics bare been view ,d more and more favour-

ally by the enlightened part VA' the community—that the
Bar, the mercantile body of the city of London, the great
towns, are in favour of concession—that in all those places
where access to information is most easy, and the circula-

tion of intelligence most rapid, the public feeling is pro-
nounced most decidedly in favour of that course which
Ministers have deemed it advisable to adopt—there is a
very strong presumption, that any plays., in which opinion
is a hundred to one the other way, ;, very much in want
of the schoolmaster. But we must be excused for entcr-
tain;og a doubt whether so many of the people of Devon
and Cornwall are so ignorant as to sbare opinions, which
cannot now find ere advocate of respectability (now that
Mr. Peel has aban.ioned them) in either House of P.u•-
l'ament. We know :kt at Penzance, one of the most populous
places in Cornwall, an attempt to carry an anti-Catholic
petitinn at a put;lie meeting was signally defeated, and the
Brunswickers were covered with ridicule by Mr. Thomas

Coulson, to the great satisfaction of the most of those pre-
sent. The Noble Eirl is ni.t probably aware of the degree
in which be libels of the people of Devon and Cornwall in
astrihnticz to them his own opinions. Lord Carnarvon
alluded to the so ange letter to which .1•;., name of Lord
Wiochilsea is affixed. " While he wos speaking on this
question (he said) he could not help referring to the scan-
ner in which a Noble Earl's name had been made use of in
,n absurd wrer which ha:i nroposeil so disown the King.
He had no doubt that the use made of the Noble Lord's

muse- was a forgery, lot the st,:ten:_nt to which it was
offixrdcalled their Lordships deceni,rate *emators, who
.vere prypareil to sacrifiee, at the shrine of treason .rod
re-
I:ion, that Consti'utinn for u hick their ancestor.so nobly
t died ' T: e me h4l '.een when the author of

suo,': astitemi.lit would bavebeer calleTto theirLordships' bar
:tad committed trr pri•on. Rut their Lordships wen-disposed
to act wiser than r hi., and trill;: surh a publication ag un-

,eau of their ^ ,:ice, as only expressing the ravings of a
distempered fancy, and as beneai h any such proceeding."
'N at ! and is vas the way the heli's of the New Oppo-
sition are to be dealt with ? These strains, which, like the
fiery cross that surnmaned the Highland clans to the field,
were to he rap'dly I,orne over bill aid vale, to rally the
indignant Protestants of Enelanil round hi. Lordship,
treated as the ravings of a distempered finch, as calculated
to provoke pity rather than anger ! The Duke of Newcastle
incoherent, and the Earl of Winchelsea distempered Who
would not feel confident under such leaders ? The presen-
tation of the Petition and counter Petition from the county
of Kent, by Sir Edward Knatchbull and Lord Clifton,
gave rise to some warmth of discussion on the subject of the
part acted by Mr. Peel. Young men of parts in this country
are in general more anxious for an opportunity of distinguish--
leg themselves than fastidious as to the side they shall take.
They often live to regret the injudicious choice they have
made, when they find themselves beset with difficulties—on
the ope band, the prospect of incurring the bitter reproaches
of associates on a change of opinion ; and on the other, the
injury to their reputation for urderstanding (tospeak of no
higher consideration) in persisting to support a ruinous
policy. Mr. Peel, perhaps sincerely at first, from insuffi-
cient knowledge, embraced the intolerant doctrines then in
vogue in Oxford ; and having once embraced them, he
could not prevail on himself to risk the consequences of
abandoning them. We are unwilling to think so poorly of
his understanding as that his eyes were only opened to the
f illy of resisting the Catholic Claims, and retaining Ireland
in a state of incurable anarchy, so late as last August. But
he had not been able to make up his mind to renounce
his political errors formally till then. He saw hintself
elevated to the situation of head of a party, of which he
was indeed the only man of any reputation for talent;
and this very circumstance must have added to hi.s per-
e'exity, preparing him, as it did, for a more than ordinary
stare of vituperation. This ought to be a lesson to young
men of ambition to weigh well the course they are about to
adopt, and, however tempting the opportunity for display,
t i withstand the temptation, if the policy cannot bear the
strictest scrutiny. Mr. Peel's is by no means a solitary
instance. We are persuaded that, of the scores of Mem-
bers of both Houses who have, within this year or two,
gone over to the side of Concession, there is hardly one
• who had not been convinced a considerable time before be
mild prevail on himself to separate himself from his con-
nections. Mr. Peel deserves credit for having, when the
affairs of Ireland had assumed an aspect of danger of the
• most threatening kind, renounced his party for the welfare
• of his country. He would have deserved more, no doubt,
I had he taken the determination earlier. —Morning Chron.

A Messenger arrived at a late hour on Satur-
d:y night fiom Ancona, with despatches from Sir F.
Adam, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Isles,
for Sir G. Murray: also from Sir Pulteney Nlaleohn, the
Commander of the notal force in the Mediterranean, for
Viscount Melville.

Ea►l Bathurst was prevented from attending
the King's Court, at Windsor, on Wc•!nesdity, by indisposi-
tion. His Lordship was, however, much better yesterday.
MEETING AT BRISTOL AGAINST THE CA-
THOLICS --A noisy Meeting took place in this city yester-
day, at which were assembled ao less than from 10 to
15,000 persons. The parties were nearly equally matched,
although sonic sagacious 13runswickers ventured to observe,
that their party were full five to one against the Liberals.
The question was carried in favour of the Brunstvickers,
whose forces were marshalled with as much tart and adroit-
ness as at the Exeter or Penenden Heath Meeting.