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London, England, 1812-03-07 00:00:00

AGGREGATE CATHOLIC MEETING.

At a very numerous Meeting of the Catholics of
Ireland,. •held at the Private Theatre, Fishamble-
street, Dublin, on Friday, the 28th of February,
1812, the Earl of FINGALL in the Chair.
• 'Pie follwaing Address to the PRINCE REGENT,
artil'thil draft rf a Petition to be presented to both
}ousel of Parliament, on behalf of the Catholics of
Ireland, were read and adopted :
Ta his Royal Highness GIOROS PRINCII of WALES, Duke of
Cornwall, Repent.of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, &c. &e. the humble Address of the Roman Ca-
tholics of Ireland, whose names are undtrsigned, on behalf of
bentstlves and of others professing the Roman Catholic Re-
ligion,
" SUEWETH—That we humbly approach your
Royal Highness as the Guardian of the honour and
interests of this Great Empire, and presume respect-
fully to submit to yi ur Royal consideration our pe-
culiar condition wider the Penal Lau s now in force

against us.
" The generous and elevated character which the
People of Ireland have long been taught to attach to
the name of your Royal Highness, )as impressed us
with the pleabing cotifidtnce that te glorious work,
of alit-wally relieving the Roman Catholics of these
Realms from their numerous sufferings, has been re-
served for your gracious and happy interposition in
our favour.

" We have publicly and solemnly taken every
Oath of Fidelity and Allegiance to the Crown which
the jealous cautit n cf the Legislature hae, from
tirrie to time, imposed as tests of our political and
moral principles. We are ready to give every fur-
ther pledge that can be required in this respect; and,
although we are still set apatt (how wounding to ,
every sentiment of honour !) as if unworthy of cre-
dit in tht se our sworn declarations, we can appeal
confidently to the sactifices which we and our fore.
fathers have lung made, and which we still make
(rather than violate consciences by taking Oaths of a
wiritual import, contrary to our belief) as decisive
proofs of our profound reverence for the sacred obli.
gation of an Gath.
" By those awful Tests we have bound ourselves,
in the presence of the All-seeing Derry, whom alit
classes of Christians adore, 44 to be faithful and bear
true allegiance to, &c. &c. &c."
(Here the lori qualification Oaths, prescribed by the Statutes
of 1792, &c. to the Catholics, are specially set forth )
" We can with perfect truth assure your Royal
Highness, that the political and moral principles,
afsetted by these Tests, are not merely in unison with
our fixed pi inciples, but expressly inculcated by the
Religion which we profess.
44 And we do most humbly trust, that the profes-
sions of Doctrines, which permit such Tests to be
taken, will appear to your Royal Highness to be en-
titled to tie full enjoyment cf Religious Freedom,
under the happy Constitution of these Realms.
" Frequently has the Legislature of Ireland Scree
testimony to the uniform peaceable demeanour of the
Irish Roman Catholics—to their acknowledged me-
rits as g& od and loyal subjects--to the wisdom and
sound policy of admitting them to all the blessings of
a free Conititution, and of thus binding together all
classes of the People by mutual interest and mutual
affection.
44 Yet may we humbly represent to your Royal
Highness, and we do so at this perilous crisis, with
sincere regret and deep solicitude, that the Roman
Catholics of It eland still remain subj. ct to severe and
humiliating Laws, rigidly enforced, universally lelr,
and inflicting upon them divers injurious and vexati-
ears disabilities, incapacities, ivat;ons and penalties,
by reason of their conscientious adherence to the Reli-
gious Doctrines of their Fen efathers.
46 For nearly the entire prrod of the last twenty
feats, the progress of Religious Freedom has been
obstructed ; and, whilst other Christian Naticns have
hastened to unbind the Fetters upon Religious Dis-
sent, the Roman Catholics of Leland have remained'
unrelieved.
4, The Laws, which unequivocally attest our
innocence ands our merits, continue to load us with !
the pains of-guilt...our own consciences, the voice cf
mankind, acquit us'of crime and offence—our Prote-
stant Felliiw-citizens press ft:it ward with generous
ardour and enlightened benevolence to testify their
cattiest wishes for our relief. Yet these Penal Laws,:
of which we humbly complain, cherish the hobtlity, •
and ia.pede the cordial union of the People, at all
times so desirable, and now so necessary.
46 These Penal Laws, Sire, operate for no useful
or meritorious purpose—affording no aid to the Con-
stituticn in Church or State; not attaching affection
to either, they are sufficient only for objects of dis-
union and disaffection.
44 They separate the Protestant from the Catholic,:
and withdraw both from the public good : they
irritate. Man against his Fellow-creature, alienate'
the Subject from the State, and leave to the Ro-
man Catholic Community but' a precarious and my-
perfect protection as the reward of fixed and un-
broken allegiance.
44 We forbear, Sire, to detail the numerous incapa-;
cities and inconveniencies inflicted by those Lases, I
directly or indirectly, upon the Roman Catholic ;
Community, or to de ell upon the humiliating and
ignominious s}-,ten: of exclusion, reproach and sus-
picion,
which they generate.and keep alive. Perhaps
no other age or Nation has ever witnessed severities
more vexatious, and inflictions more taunting than
those, which we have long endured—and of which
but too large a pertion still remains.
s, Relief from these disabilities and penalties we
have sought thrcugh every channel , that has ap-
peared to us to be legitimate and eligible. We-have
never consciously viotated or sought to violate, the
knonn Laws t f the Land ; nor have we pursued
our object in any other manner, than such as has
been usually adhered to, and apparently the best
calculated, to collect and communicate our united
sistiments accu:ately, without tumult, and to obviate
all pretext for asserting, that the Roman Catholic
Community at large were indifferent to the pursuit
of their freedom.
44 We can affirm, with perfect sincerity, that we'
have no latent views to realize—no secret or sin;ster
objects to attain. Any such imputation must be
effectually repelled, as we humbly conceive, by the
consideration of our numbers, our property, our
known principles and character.
iw Our object is avowed and direct—earnest yet

natural—it erten&s to an equal participation of the
civil rights of the Constitution of our Country, equal
and in common with our fellow-subjects of all other
religious persuasions ; it extends no further.

We would cheerfully concede the enjoyment of
Civil and Religions Liberty to all mankind—we ask
no more for ourselves.

44 We seek, not the possession of offices, but more
eligibility to office, in common with our fellow-
citizens—not power or ascendancy over any class of
people, but the bare permission to rise from our pros-
trate posture, and to stand erect in the Empire.
ig We have been taught, that, according to the
pure and practical principles of the British Constitu-
tion, propel ty is justly entitled to a proportionate
share of power—and we humbly trust, . that no rea-
sonable apprehension can arise from that power,
n hich is only to be obtained and expected through
the Constitution.

We beg leave most humbly to assure your Royal
Highness, that we estimate too highly the genuine
value of the British Constitution, to entertain any
project tending to endanger its preservation ; and,
it we perseveie with more than common earnestness
in our humble solicitations to be admitted to all its
blessings, we hope that our perseverance trill be
viewed rather as a proof of our just title to the libel ty
which we seek, and of our sincerity in its pursuit,
than as the result of any sentiment foreign to that of ,
true and constant allegiance. We woul,l not lightly
abandon this the paramount object of our wishes
and we should seriously dread, lest our silence might
be construed as an indication of despair, by a nation
of faithful, but feeling people. 'We are sensible, and
we do not regret, tint this equality of Civil Rights
(which alone we humbly sue fur) will leave a fair'
practical ascendancy wheresoever property shall pre-
dominate ; but, whilst we recognize and acknowledge
the wholesomeness of this general ptinciple, we can-
not admit the necessity of the unqualified disfran-
chisements of any part of the people, in a Constitu-
tion like that of these realms.

" We are gratified by the reflection, that the at- I
tainment of this, our constitutional object, will prove
as conducive to the welfare and security of this great
Empire, as to the complete relief of the Roman Ca-
tholic Community ; that it will secure the quiet and
concord of our country—animate all classes of the
people in the common defence, and form the most
stable protection against the dangers which so hea- '
vily menace these islands.
" For we most humbly presume to submit it to,
your Royal Highness as our firm opinion, that an
.equal degree of enthusiasm cannot reasonably be es-.
pected from men who feel themselves excluded from
a fair paitizipation of the blessings of a good Consti-'
tutien and Government, as from those who fully
partake of those advantages ; that the enemies of the
Empire, who meditate its (speedy) subjugation,
found their best hope of success upon the effects of
those Penal Laws which by depressing (nearly five
millions of) the inhabitants of Ireland, may weaken
their attachment to their country, and impair the
means of its defence ; and that the continued pressure
of those laws, in times of unexampled danger, only
spreads the general feeling of distrustful alarm, and
augments the t isk of common luin.
" To avert such evili, to preserve and promote
the welfare and security of the Empire, and to be-
come thoroughly identified with our fellow-subjects
in interest and affection, are objects as precious in
our eyes, upon every consideration of property, prin.
ciple, and moral duty, as in those of any other de-
! scription of the inhabitants of these realms.
" If, in thus humbly submitting our depressed
cendition and cur earnest hopes to the gracious con-
sideratien of your Royal Highness, we would dwell
upon the great numbers and the property of the Ro-
man Catholics of Ireland—already so considerable
r and so rapidly increasing—and to their consequent
;most important contribution to the exigencies of the
state, we would do so, not with a view of exciting
unworthy motives for concession, but in the honest
hope of suggesting legitimate and rational grounds
fur constitutional relief.

" And deeply, indeed, should we lament, if these
very reccmmendations rhould serve only to hold us
out as the objects of harsh tusp:cion at home, or of
dating attempts upon our allegiance from abroad.
" May we, •then, with heat ts deeply interested in
the fate of tl,is our humble supplication, presume to
appeal to your Royal benignity and constitutional
wisdom, en behalf of a very numerous, industrious,
affectionate, and faithful body of the people—the
Roman Catholics of Ireland.

"' And to pray, that your Royal Highness may
be graciou►ly pleased to recommend it to the Par-
liament of the United Kingdom, to take into their
favourable consideration, the whole of our condi-
tion, our numbers, our services, Our merits, and our;
sufferings.
" And as we are conscious of the purify of our
motives, and the integrity of our principles, we have
been emboldened thus to submit to your Royal;
Highness, with profound respect, the full extent oft
our wishes and our hopes. And, we therefore hum-
biy pray to be restored to the Rights and Privileges
of the Constitution of our Country—to be freed from
all Penal and di'abling Laws in force against us, on
account of our Religious Faith—and, that we may
thereby become m( re worthy, as well as more capa-
ble, of promoting the service of the Crown, and the
substantial interests of this great Empire, now com-
mitted to the unrestricted wisdom of your Royal
Highness, &c. &c. &c."

The Addiess to both Houses of Parliament is
precise counterpart cf the above Address in all the
essential topics—difir;ng only in the heading and in
same of the phrases, according to the circumstances
of the case.

A dispute arose on Saturday morning between two
men in the neighbourhood of Jantes•street, Dublin,
when horrible to :elate, one of the party thrust a red
hot poker down the throat of the other, which occa-
sioned his instant death. The savage perpetrator,
whom we understand is brother-in-law to the de-
ceased, has been committed for trial.

About six o'clock last evening, several Excise
Officers went to a house in Ness in-place, Nm-road,
where they found a Se'll at work. On their entrance
the premises weld set on &esti), the persons at work,
two of whom wete secured. The fire raged a consi•
derable time w:th great fury:

LAI' INTELLIGENCE.

In the Court of King's Bench, yesterday, Daniel
Isaac Lefton, bookseller, of Avc-Maria.lane, wits tried
for publishing a book, called"'Tice Third Part of
Paine's Age of Reason." Mr. Eaton appeared as
his own Counsel, and addressed the Court at consi•
derable length. He was found guilty, and imme-
.diately committed to Newgate.—While a special
Jury was being impmelled, fcr trying an action
brought by Miss Mary Allen, daughter of the late
Dr. Richard Allen, of the Borough, against Mr.
Charles Phillips, who succeeded him in business, for
a breach of promise of marriage, the defendant made
a proposition to compromise the suit, to which the
agitated feelings of the young lady's friends induced
them to .consent ; and a verdict was accordingly
taken for the plaintiff-0200 damages.
Thursday the Assizes commenced at Hertford,
when the following prisoners were capitally convicted,
viz. Luke Lilt-Veld, for robbing James 11,.nnett on the
highway ; Ames Barcharn, for a burglary in the house
of James Kimpton, at BaldGck ; and John Lawton, ;
for a burglary in the house of John. Rudman.

Mr. Vertu, the Clerk of one of the Police Offices,
conv'cted the Sessions before last of forgery, 'lab, w•e
unJerbtand, received the Royal Pardon.

Thu number of sudden deaths lately are alarminr. At this sea-
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with a family, to we the means which, by long experience and
prsctice, have snatched many from the jaws of death; decline,
pains in the stomach, head-acii, tits, consumption. &c. are often
attributed to wrong causes—an old adage is, nowise the cause
and the tff-ct will cease. T. accomplish this the reader need uuly
tie referred to Dr. G Aline fr. it's, 14, Lung Acre, and S. i'ihortditch
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moving cause of the above complaints. '1 he Doctor consulted
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