Star.
London, England, 1807-08-26 00:00:00

iRDH P TI 110 N.

A Pamphlet has bcen publiflied at Dublin, con•
taining the Petition intended tc have been prefented
to the tali Parliament by the CatlinLica of Ireland,
and Itrietures upon its objea. The Petition is as

follows :

TO THE RIGHT NON. AND HON. THE COMMONS DI THE UNITED
KINCDoM or GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARMA
MENT ASSEMBLi D.
The humble petition of the Reman Catholics of Inland, whore
names are hereunto fuSferibed, on behalf of thenlfelves, and
of others, his Majeity's fubjeds profeifing the Ronian,Satho-
lie litclizion,
" SHFwarm—That your petitioners' as is fet fora
in their humble petition prcfented so this Honoural
Houle, on the 25th of March, tBos, are, by divers
(latutes, pill of force within this realm, rendered
liable to many incapacities and refitiftions, not im-
poled upon any other clefcription of his Majefly's
fobjefts.
" That your petitioners with confidence afTerr,
that they are fuppor tied by the tellimony of many of
the abler Senators and wifsfl Statefmen which the
empire could ever boati, that them is nothing in their
conduct as fubjefts, or tenets as Chtiltians, which
ought to dilqualify them from enjoying equal privi.
leges wish his Majeliy's other fuhjeas ; and they beg
Leave to Rate, that they do not yield to any clafs of
ptrftrts, in affdlionate attachment to Li, facred per-
-1-.n and family, in due obedience to the laws, and in
jolt preditalion for the Britifh Conflitution.
6$ That at the ptefent period, which requires all
the energies of the Rate, and the exertions of an
united people ; your petitioners conceive that they
cannot t ffer a (imager proof cf their loyalty, than by
humbly reprefen;ing to this Honourable Houfe,
their eatt.ell Von, to be altogether committed with
their country, and seinliated in a full and complete
enjoy meet of the Englifh Government and Laws.
•' For your petitioners beg leave refpeefully to
fubmit to this Honourable Houfe, that the Contli-
tution of England is the great charter of this land,
and the inheritance of the dutiful and faithful tub-
jeas of his Majelty ; the condition which the ancef
tors of Conte of us accepted, when they fubmitted to
the Crown, and on the faith of which, the ancellors
of others paffed over and effete their fettlernent in
Ireland— was, that they fbould participate in she laws
and liberties et England ; many concalions of his
Majetly's royal progenitors, and repeated Aets of
Parliament, cools med the invaluable blaring ; it has
had the fanftion of an eflablifhment of fix hundred
years ; whillt the privations, of which we complain,
are but the iunovati.in of a century ; from that inn.,
vation we appeal in tiois eilightened age, to the wif
door and jutlice of thole august bodies, in whole hands
ate the fare and fo:tunes of the Empire ; we appeal
againll Afis, repugnant to the fenfe and habits of
Englifhrnen, and to the genius of the Englifh Conti i
lotion ; ag.tinli precedents, not entitled from the.cir-
comflances in which they were formed, to be im-
mortal. We were excluded from our fran:biles,
s hen the tumult of civil wars had Icarcely been ap-

pe:ifed ; wi:ita the animofities they produced were
'emu ; and at the clofe of the convulfion incidental
to a widely extended revt•littion of property. We
were excluded at a moment, when the fettlement was
precalicus and new, np,n wl ieli time and habit, the
erinaion of all other claims, common principles of
obedience, and common inter ens, have now conferred
all the flidity of unquetlioned and immutatle
eQa-
bli{hmcnt.
" Your peti.ioners fin ther he leave ti recal to the
attention of this Honourable Houle, that we do not
pay the penalty, neither is the blame imputed to us,
of an inm.vating or capricious temper. We have
not reveled from any inflitutions which challenged
our obedience. We have inTheted to the Tradition
of our Fathers, the iminemotial ulage of the land.—
We profefs a teligien, compatible with the form of
Government under which we are placed ; accommo-
dated to the fpirit, and dear to the feelings of the
great and growing maj ,rity of our country ; a reli-
gicn wl.ich the exitting incapacities do not kern cal-
culateil, and are probably not expeeed to (tippets ;
tot it hes been deemed, in a confideralle degtee, to
rritii, public ercooragtment arid protaiinn.
\ our .Petitioners do then mat humbly Rate,
that they are excluded him many of the moll inn.
portent offices of 'tuft, power, and emolument in
their Cowin)? ; whereby they are degraded below
the condition of their fellowlidj!ets, even of the
meaneil dal's, and fligmatifed as aliens and Itrangers
in their native Nod.

" That in the immediate aces of this exclaion, !
not lefs than four•fifths of the inhabitants of Ireland j
arr invr,lved, farmed into a difline people, and de
reffrei in ail their clafres and gradations c.f rank, of
epti!ence, amt indult! y ; in every Irritation of life
c't e• this .iegiadii:g exill, and its influence
reaching to every pr, feflion, to even the peaceable
rurttiit• ~f indufiry and commerce.
That the remote but tint leis fenfible conic-
quencer, extend to the remaining population of the
1ai..1, dint:it:illy his Majeii y's people with dilquietude
and jeal.oily ; and futraitliting an infidious fytiem of
ly r•ri the one hand, and privation on the
other, for the I/ itd and eflablifhed orders of fociety,
and for the faltitary praflice and found principles of
the Erglith Con:littaion.
1, And your Petitioners further humbly ftibmit,
that from the pi ejudice generated and fotlered by
this difetiminating fy item, the Spirit oE the Laws
out iirigpii,g the Letter, no degree of rank, virtue, or
merit, can exempt an Irifb Catholic from being con-
fidered an object of fufpicion ; and feveral of the
mull etlimable pi iaeges and advantages of a free
Covernrnent, to which they ought to confider them-
laves entitled, are rendered, st ith refpeft to them,
ii o;:erative.
4, In calling yr.nr attention to their fitnation, your
Petitioners beg leave to allure this HonourableHoule,
that they are affirmed mole as Iri(hmen than as Ca-
-1 ; and lefs influenced by a partial interell, as
religious defcription, than by an intera truly
rublic and national, intimately cor.nettled with the
elfore of this Country, and the profperity of the
v hole Empire, your Petitioners being fully convin-
.ced, both from hiftory and experience, that however
us ditlinaions may have fupplied a pretext, a
tririt.ot political mrnopoly has been the aflitating
iirciple of civil diffention, and of that unhappy
tuitional mit-under (landing, which has In long injured
. tl.e charafter, and lelTened the value of this ifland.
" For your Petitioners are Itrongly imprefled with

the conviClion, that the coatittuanee of the difquali.
tying laws is not only incompatible with the freedom
and happinefs of the great body of the Irith people,
and detrimental to the refources cf the State; but,
as it is calculated to damp the ardour and divert the
attention of the nation to partial interelts and party
difrentions, from meafutes of general fecurity, may
eventually pr ve injurious to the iltength and liabi-
lity of the Empire.
s, Your Petitioners, with a deep fenfe of gratitude,
acknowledge that they are indebted to the wifdom
and liberalil of the Parliament of Ireland, and to
the paternal interpcfition of his Majelly, for the re.
moval of many of the difabilitics and incapacities
under which they laboured ; and they refer, with
confidence in the juflice of tf.eir caufe, to the foletun
and memorable Declaration of the bah Legiflature:
4, That from the unifcrm and peaceable behaviour
of the Roman Catholics of Ireland for a long fel ies
of years, it appeared reafonable and expedient to relax
the ditabilities and incapacitics under which they la-
, bour, and that it muff tend not-only to the cultiva-
tion and improvement of this kingdom, hot to the
profperity and Qrength of all his Majefly's dominions,
that his Majefly'a fubjelis of all denominations,
avoid enjoy the bleffings of a free Contlitution, and
Mould be bound to each other by mutual inter eft and
mutual affeCtion."
" And your Petitioners moll folemnly declare,
that they do not leek, or with in any way to injure
or encroach upon the rights, privileges, poffeffions,
or revenues, appertaining to the Bifhops and Clergy
of the Protefiant Religion as by law eitabliffied, or to
the Churches committed to their charge, or to any
of them ; the extent of their humble fupplication being,
that they may be governed by the fame laws, argil
rendered capable of the fame civil offices, franchifo,,
rewards, and honours, as their fellow-fubjeCts of
every other religious denominaticn.
" May it therefore please this Honourable Houk
to take into its confideratka the Statutes, penal ar.cl
rettriaive, now affeCting the Catholics of Ireland,
and to admit them to c full enjoyment of thole
privileges, which every Briton regards as his bell in-
heritance ; and which your Petiti .ners moll humbly
prefnme to feek, as the brethren of Englishmen, and
ec-heirs of the Conflitution.
a' And your Pcti ioners will ever pray, &c."

MANSION HoUSE.—Ydlerday Doha CoLint under-
wc.nt his final examination before the Lord Mayer,
charged with attempting to utter a forged draft upon
the hoar of P•efcntt ar,d Co. bankers, in Thread-
needle fireet, for forty nine pounds. Mr. Grace, a
Clerk in the Banking Houle, gave evidence of the
prifonet's prefenting the .check, at their hotife, for
payment. Mr. Go iffiths, whore name was forged,
attended and fwore that the fignature was not his
hand writing. A Mr. Ridley proved that the prifoner
lived fervant with him ;that he kept calh at the abrve
BanktogHoufe, and fuppofed the prifoner might have
got pr &Mon of one of his blank checks.
The prifoner merely Paid, that he received the
check from a perfnn whom he did r.ot know.
The Lord Mayor told him he muff find that per-
fon, or abide the confequence as the forger of the
check ; and fully committed him to It i 41. Ile is a
young man, and feems not more than twenty years
of age.
Bea rrar rr.—Yeßerday Evan Even: was brought
before John Nares, Efq. for re examination, charged
with Ilealing gold feats, to the value of nine guineas,
from Mr. Rogers, a goldfmith, of Charing-crofs,
under pretence that he.was a metrznger belonging to
the Secretary of State's Office, and that he was fent
by Mr. Nepean, the fon of Sit Evan Nepeaa.
Molyneux Hyde Nepean, Efq. of the Temple, at-
tended, and laid he was Sir Evan Neptan's fon, and
he knew the prifoner ; be pofitively fwore he never
feat the prifoner to -die fhop of. Mr. Rogers, for any
lea's, or direeted him to come to the Secretary of
State's Office with any, from Roges s or any other
perfon ; and further laid, that he had not fcen the
priforter for five ur lix years pail.
The prifoner was committed for further examina-
tion, when it is expeeted feveral.other charges will
be r referred againti
It turns out that fince his difiniff4l from the Ad-
miralty as a Meffenger, he has wore his medal, and
palled for a Mcfferger in London, and various patty
of the country, and obtained goods by this means.—
He travelled in a port chaife without paying, borrow.
ing peat coats, &e. frequently ail-Ming the name
of Mr. Shaw, and other refpeesble Meffengers.
g?fenh Stanley, a boy aboot eleven years of age,
was charged with feloniuufly Healing a watch, the
property cf James Cronin, of Ltin.ber.court, Seven
Dials, fiihmonger ; and 'oha Stanley, the father of
the boy, was charged with receiving the fame, know-
ing it to be liolen. The boy and his father were both
committed for trial.
7 barna:Wl/len, a the w Rage Coachman, was brought
up for re examination, charged with !leafing Bank
Notes to the amount of 601. the property William
Lingard, of the Roebuck Inn,'l'urnham Green, from
a box in a drawer in the bar. He was fully com-
mitted for trial.

On Tuefday a melancholy accident happened at
the buildings at Clifton, creeed by Mr. Watts ; the
fcaffolding, upon which feven men were at work,
gave way, and they were precipitated from an km
menfe height. Three were killed on the fpot ; one
taken to the Infirmary, without hopes of recovery ;
the other three fultained themfelves on a projecting
point of the building, till refcued from their perilous
&oat ion.
Wednefday morning, between four and five o'clock,
Mr. Richard Hamfhar, a rcfpea able yeoman of Pat-
cham, near Brighton, dropped down in a fit, as he
was walking to the liable, arid expired almoll imme-
diately: he had fot Come time complained of a pain
in the cheli, but was in as good health as he had
been for fume years pan.
Lan week a large party of difabled foldiers were
conveyed through Winchelier on their way to Cha-
tham. They had-been difabled in the battle of Maida.
As a labouring man, fervant to Mr. Boycott, mil-
ler, of Lillefhall, near Newport, was !ail week driving
a water eau, the horfe fuddenly took fright, reared
up, and !hiking the man on the head, fell him to the
ground, when the wheel going over his body, killed
' him on the fpot.
In the fame neighbourhood, a large quantity rf
hay, belonging to Mr. Duncough, took fire, and
confumed.

LAW LVTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY.
OSBORNE V. THE DUKE DT BUCCLEUCH.
This great cattle came before the Court upon fur-
ther dirdlions to the Mailer, relpe6ting a finer
claufe in the will Lord Beauley, and a codici
to the fame. refpating his•houle, ph.te, and fur-
niture, in Daver.ilteet, deviled to the Duchef.
of Buceleugh for life, with remainder to ht.r fon,
Lotd Sidney °thorn:. The will dice ted that the
furnitute and plate (liquid go as heir looms with the
honk, which is a freehold, computed to he worth
17,0001. and that none of his heirs or fuccefrors fhould
take mote than an dlate for hi: in the plate and fur,
niture ; but by a codicil made after his will, he di-
refled that Mr. Thomas Coventry and his Son fhould
have the ufe of the plate. lire Ditchers of Buc
cleugb having, after an Me tried of devifrmit yet non,
ellablifhed her right of elation to the laid hook, and
60001. bequeathed to her under Lord Beauley's will,
or of a fpecitic legacy to he; Grace in the fame will
of toc,oool. preferred the legacy of too,ocol. and
offered to join in any conveyance the Court fhould
dirdt. All the other great Oates of Ltd neauley
in England, Scotland, and Iceland, were deviled to
his relations—to one 20,0001. per annum, and to
another ts,oool. per annum, &c.; but no litigation
had taken place as to any other part of the property
or eflate.—Mr. Coventry wanted to feparate the
plate under the codicil from the furniture coupled
with it under the will, and wifhed a declaration from
the Court as to the law on that fubjeft ; as by the
feparation it would no longer remain heir looms with
the furniture, del-cent:l6l)k with the freehold. His
Honour, the Mailer of the Rolls, Rated the law to
be, that where a fubfcquent intlrument deflroys
prior inflrument, the property molt go to the heir
and next of kin,. which in this cafe was Mr. Lilfzx ;
on which Mr. Coventry now preferred his expec-
tancy in remainder to the houfe, furniture, plate, &c.
to any part of than by fcp :ration, and prayed
the Court not to fix him with the coils of the
proceedings, but his Hcnour being informed that
there was no fund from which to pay cons, except
the purchafe money of the houfe in Duver-fireet, di-
idled Mr. Coventry to pay the cons of all parties,
laying there was no alternative, but his paying the
other parties to the fait, or they him, and it was his
fault in applying for an itlue v.-hich he failed in: The
law of the cafe being quite clear, the Conde' of the
Duchefs, Mr. RICHARDS, faid, he was Pure fhe would
take no coils fi out her fon. A talc of the houfe, and
all other necelfary dirdlions, were given by his 1-1')•
nom, as prayed ter.

M.V.xt:.n.

On the 74th inft. at Tavir_iel:, William Salufbury, Efq. a Cap-
tain in the 14.'121 hiiner4 Wali•ia, and fecond fun of the kev Sir
Henry Trelawney. Bart. to Mifs Pativoce Carpenttronly daugh-
ter ot John I'liiiiipps Carpenter, ot Mount "Favy, near (list town.
On the Isth intl. at Tenterden, Mr. James Wilmott, whokr.de
ftatiancr, of the Borough of Southwark, to Mira rigram, of Ten-
terdet.. in lent._ . _ _ . _ •__ _ _

Tucfday k'nnight, at Brighton, Edmund Darby, Efq. of Afton
Haute, Herts, to Mils Wells, daughter of the late James Wells,
Efq. of Blackheath.
saturday lift, Mr LacocE, Folleitor, of Devizes, to Mifs Kidd,
of Bath. _ _ _

Thurfday, William Ofwell, Jifq of i.eyton. in EiTex, to Amelia,
id daughter of lifeph Cctton, nue a the Direetors of the
Eaft India Ccmpany, and Dr ray MAN. of the trinity, Ste.
Wedncfday fennight, at Vi'reck war dine, I,Vni. Lacan
Ffq. to IV:ifs Harriet Cludde, yourvett daughter of Wm. Clus:cle,
Efq of Oriaots, in tlw county of baiop.
Tuefday, the alith ult. T. J. I.avcsitcr, Efq. of the Old Jewry,
to Mifs Mitchell, daughter of tin. Inc A. Mitchell, Ffq of Bella it.
Lately, st \Vol:Word, in LIR James W. S Gar diner, Hart.
of Roche-court, near Eareham, to M ifs Moiety, filter 61 Sir Ofwald
Mofe:y, Bart.
*1 hurl:lay Unnight, at St. James's Church, Bath, John Mervin
Nooth, Ely. to Mrs. Wilford.