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London, England, 1812-03-18 00:00:00

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: ary of Ai. .day-41 clii ativeys tele• 1
rciarts-in 'die estieratioe 'of an Irislman; wai celebia-
•ted yesterdat et. the Free Maseir's Tavdra; by I mr-
. Merrius and highly respectable.assemblaage of inslivi.
ibtais. The Marquis of Laysnows presideJ at the
Meetint, ripptvrted by th., Marquis of Dowssittet,
the Earl of Molina, Mr. SIMIDAN, the LORD MAY0.3).1
Mr. Sheriff HEYOATE,TI.e company sat 1
down about setten o'clock to. dinnei.. The Duke of
Kent's band attended. When the !loth was removed;" Non nob's, Darnine" was sung, after which the
Marquis of LANSdOWN, premising-that the Meeting
was assembledlew purposes of charity rather than of
party or political feeling, gave the health of the Klee,
which was drank with enthusiastic and rapturous ap-
plauses. This was followed by ~ Gon save the King,"
1 and then the Noble Marquis give " The health of the
• Paws REGRNT." This was received with a mixed
feeling : hisses were at first distinctly audible, but I
Were at length overpowered by the approbation of the '
majority.—The following Toasts were then given :
" The Queen and Royal Family," three times three—a Glee.
" The Navy and Army," three times three. Loud and pro- 1,
tracted applause.---Song, Rule Britannia, Mr. Taylor.
4 The Benevolent Society or St. Patrick."—Tune, St. Pa-
triers Day.
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Tie company were now gratified by a •spectacle
the most interesting which the imagination can con-
ceive : this was the procession of the children of the
school through the room. It will not be necessary to ,
dilate upon that feeling whiCh such a sight must in-
spire in every bosom, or that emotion which every
mind must acknowledge as it contemplates so many
helpless and innocent beings rescued from misery and
vice, and trained in the paths which may lead them
to be useful and deserving members of society. This
gratification, however, great as it was, was heightened
by the circumstance of one of the scholars, John Boyle,
j receiving a medal from Lnrd Noma, as an honorary
. testimony of his merits. The youth, decorated with
the insignia of honour, walked modestly along in the
procession, cheered by the smiles and approbation of
every person present.
'fowler —" . Übe Mother of St Patrick."—Tune, Tile Black Me.
i Alter which an Irish Song wasgiven by Mr. Taylor.
I Ton rr—Lord Wellington, and the Army serving under Irina
in the Peninsula, and success to them and our Allies."--:Fune,
Ste Ma Coopering Hero Coaset.—Britotu,etri4e Isosee.—(Losed 41.
Armee.)
Lord MOIRA then proposed the health of
" The Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, and Corporation of the City of
London,"—wi.ich was drank with three times three.
1 The LORD MAYOR expressed his grateful sense of
the honour they had done him. He stated that he
i was halt Irish—that half the blood which flowed in
his veins was It ish, and he felt a sincere anl zealous
interest in all that concerned the interest of that country.
Mr. Sheriff HEIGATE flso returned his thanks to
the Nieeting, stating, that he had come that night to
the Meeting, almost without knowing its specific ob.!
ject ; but that he should depart front it with a high
sense of that disinterested liberality which he had
witnessed in its conduct.
Mr. TAYLOR then sung—" Oh Love is die soul of a neat
Irishman."

Lord Monta then proposed as a toast—
“ 1 he Scots Corporation, a Society, the object of which was
to enlighten the ignorant, and to succour the helpless."-.Song—
Master Bo*, " Duke Domum."
" The health. of the Marchioness of Downahlre j • the Coun-
tess of Loudon and Moira ; and the Mothers, Waves,andDaugh-
ters of Irishmen," being drank,
The Marquis of DOWNSIDE! returned thanks in a •
brief speech, on the part of his mother, the chief
gratification of whose life, he said, was to promote
the interests of Irishmen, whether in this country or
her own.
The Treasurer then read to the company a state-
ment of the funds of the charity, by which it appeared
that the aggregate amount of the donations received
that lay, including those which were sent previously
to the dinner, amounted to £1751 13s. 6d.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE rose. He congra-
tulated the Society on the success which. it appeared
from the foregoing statement, had attended their
labours. He said it would be a task too arduous for
him at present to undertake to distinguish every indi-
vidu il who had contzibused to the funds of the society,
and shew how much their zeal had always outstrip-
ped their means ; but there was one splendid excep-
tion, which no one there would forgive him if he omit-
ted, and he would accordingly propose the health of
" The Earl of Moira."—Givou with three times three, and
loud and reiterated cheering.
Lord MOIUA rose and said, that though he had
often sighed over the insufficiency of his own powers,
yet he bad never felt that insufficiency so much as on
the present occasion. The testimonies of regard
which had been shewn him would have been suffici-
ently flattering in any meeting, but that testimony
being given on St. Patrick's day, was something be-
yond what he could express ! The influence of the
Patron Saint of Ireland called forth a species of feel-
ing not excited on every occasion. He telt their ap-
probation in the most cordial manner, and it was the
pride of his soul, the pride of his heart, to receive that
approbation from such persons, and on such a day.—
He approved of such meetings as the present. They
called forth public men at particular seasons, to re-
ceive a public verdict on their conduct. This was
an advantage not to Ireland alone, but to the whole
country. A society like that which he had the honour
of addressing, served to keep up a spirit of emulation
Which no other society could. He had often, in that
,hall, commended those meetings which tended to dis-
criminate the several kingdoms if which Great Bri-
tain was composed. They nourished the nobler feel-
ings of patriotic virtues and there was an indefinable
something that bound us to our native soil, which no
cold-blooded reasoning could explain or arrive at.—
They, indeed, who would assimilate all the different
features which constituted the British empire into one
mass, would reduce the people of each kingdom to
the guise of a worn shilling, in which all the mintage,
all that gave a stamp and entreaty, all that was to
distinguish between sterling bullion and base coini
was smoothed away. In offering these brief opiniolN
he did not with to be considered as overlooking the
immediate object of the meeting : far from it : and
it was impossible every Gentlrinan present must not
feel with him the gratifying result of their assembling
that evening. The total amount of their funds had
been stated at 23,400 and odd pounfls. In ISO% the
whole amount was only 19.000 and odd pounds : su
that-there was an increase of £4OOO during that pe-
riod. That fact alone might be allowed to prove the
I dove:Wog state of the Society ; of its beneficence and

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s *sensed saymothing. He. should iteretiodea.
therefore; With declaring, its- language extraordinarily
initdequife, for no fanittra4e that was ever framed by
the art of rian could truly expros his fetlings• the
most cordial ack-.owledgments hii hew fir the
I:Onatir they hat t!orie him ; and he 'could only wiih
that every person might enjoy as gratilirog s masa-
lion as that which their approbation hikl excited in
him. His Lordship then said, that the toast which
he was about to give was one which rendered all in-
troductory commentary unnecessary, The health of
their Noble President the Marquis of Lansdown."---
(ANilaiut,;)—The toast was then drank with three
times three. . - -• •

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Lord LANSDOWN said, that from any iiiendily so
numerous and respectable, such .a tribute Must be
most gratefel; bu: much more deeply sen..ible must.
he be of such an honour coming from men whose na..
tional characteristic it was to be generously warm in
their praise, but clever more generously warm than
faithfully sincere—(entlarissr). He thanked them
most cordially for the manner in which they had
drank his health, and for the good humo.ir and mo-
deration with which they had throughout the evening
preserved the conviviality of the meeting from any
unpleasant intermixture of politics. He walla be
the last man to under.rate politics, but he thought
that they might be allowed to give stay so chanty,
and charity to the poor children of their common
country, Ireland--(ajolarocr). He should not offend
them by making any allusions to himself, further titan
by saying, that he yielded to no man in that room in
love fur Ireland, and that he was indifferent to the
approbation of any man who did not believe bim
when he said so—(ajorairres).
6, The heaths of the Vice Presidents were then given."
Lord MooxzJoe, in a short speech, returned thanks
in behalf of the Vice Pret He professed the
strongest attachment to Ire and, but as there *as then
present a Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. She&
dan) one of the Vice Presidents, who was pettedly
competent to do all die jdstice that eloquence could
do to their feelings, he should leave it to that Cende-
man to tell the company their gratitude. (Amilsige.)
Here, after a pause of two or three minutes, it cry
arose of Mr. Sheridan's health, Mr. Sheridan's
health"—the cry becoming very general,
Mr. SHERIDAN rose, and in a low tone of voke re=
turned his thanks fcr the honourable notice by which
so large a meeting cf his countrymen thought proper
to distinguish him —(ilitplauser.) He had ever been
proud of Ireland, and hoped that his country might
never have cause to be ashamed ofhim— (4/sp/asors.)
Ireland never forgot those who did all they could do,
however little that might be, in behalf of her best in-
terests. All allusion to politics had been industriously
deprecated by their Noble Chairman. He was aware
that charity was the immediate object of their meet-
ing; but standing as he did bcfore an assembly of his
countrymen, he could not affect to disguise his convie-
thin, that at the present crisis Ireland involved in it-
self every consideration dear to the best interests of the
empire—(llear, beer.) It was therefore that he
was most anxious that nothing should transpire in
that meeting calculeted to injure those great objects,„
or to visit with undeserved censure the conduct of-
persons whose love to Ireland was as cordial and zea-
lous as it ever had been. He confessed frankly that
knowing as he did the Unaltered and usulterable ten•
timents of an Illustrious Personage towards Ireland!
he could not-conceal from the meeting that he had
felt considerably shocked at the sulky coldness and
surly discontent with which they had on that evening
'drank the health of the Prince Regent.—(Mere Mr.
S. was interrupted by symptoms of dis.ipprobation
when silence was somewhat restored, Mr. Sheridan
said)—that he knew the Prince Regent well—(ltirra)
I _be knew his principles—(hisra);—they would, at
least, he hoped, give him credit fur believing that be
knew them, when he said he did —(aittleure.) He
repeated, that he knew well the principles of the
Prince Regent, and that so well sausfied was he that
they were all that Ireland could wish, that he (Mr.
Sheridan) hoped, that as he had lived top to th :my
so he might die in the principles of the Prince IL-
gent—(hurer and amlortra.)-a-He should be sorry
personally to have merited their disapprobation (go v..
ral aittilasue. with cries of “ Chang* the subject a
speak out.")—He could only assure them, that the
Prince Regent remained uachangeibly true to th4so
principles.
“ The health of the Duke of Devonshire," was di is oven
with three times three.

"4 The Stewards" foamed. and one of than fetufsed tank%
" The heads of the Marquis Wellesley" was then elves wet,
and drunk with geweral and unbounded applause.
Mr. RICHARD %Vitamin-, in the absence of tha
Marquis, returned thanks for the honour th at. had
been .lone him, and assured the Assembly of tint
Noble Lord's warm wishes for the interest of ihe
institution.
" The health of the tight Hesseurable Cvaislagitatt litualtett.
tate Att.:woe, aisdral far bit" was seat ewe with pleu
applausr.
For which distinguished mark of the sompenes
approbation, Kr. PLONICITT returned thanks.
The Meeting, though crowded in all farts of the
room, was not characterised by the gaiety and ens
vivialiry that usually distinguished the Festival of Bt.
Patrick.
The Noble President withdrrW at twill o'clock,
and the company immediately after separatad,

Extarrion.—This nionsing More
Ms-
Chief Clerk at the Queen-square Police °See, coo.
' victed of fotgery at the Old Bliley Sesssions in .14111 to
ary last, was executed opposite the Dcbtor's-done is
tiewtate. agteeably to his sentence.
CORN MAIIIIIMT, MARa-LANIt, MARCH
we have few fresh arrivals of Wheat, and the quan-
tities on hand but inconsiderable, sales thereof &Air
support Monday's advance—Barley in tolerable sup-
ply, and dearly at last prices—Malt at the late ad-
vance—ln White Peas there is little fluctuation, and
The same maybe noted in Beans of each
The supplies of Oats are again inconsiderable and is
this Grade rather higher prices are asked...Plcor this
week at a further advance of ss. per sack.
evitaasyr Cans) at malt;
Wheat,. Sas. 3225. 1101 e.
Fine Ciao, I ihn, iSie. Tick 4.00 (ism) XV. 2/2.
Rye 5St. 60e. Ding /11n• 91d1 50;.alre.
Rarity, 124‘621.114. * 0114 !.
Mak, see. 93e. PVlOlh4 ti s. 4ta. •
Wlute Ps% (goilest).26s. N Patios &to. 45c 446. ado.
Grey ditto, Sts. 621. Rimseed.
flaspeur. teis. Ltary-4essiels, Hos. t.

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;iolitrmEN‘rs:

Lieutenant Janney?, commanding the Craeket gun-bring, to
th 6 rank of Commander.
Lieutenant G. Fitxmantice, to the rank of Conunander.- •
11r. W. Matthews, Midshipman, of the Ntobe, to the rank of
• • Lieut:Lant.
•Mr. 11101 MS Holloway, Midshipman, of tkt Cumberland, to
btleaal:tuttnant in the Fame.
ain J. Brenton, is appointed to the Stirling Castle,
• -Cancan George Price, acting in the Hotspur, vice Captain the
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Han. Joseline Percy, attending Parliament.
• .Lientetatit Walter Windeyer, to command the Olympia.
-Lieutenant R. W. Sinunontia, to command the Attack gun brig.
Litiutettant Thos. England, to command the Flamer gun-brig.
Lieu:maw John Mitchell, to command the Charles schooner.
Lifutenant W. E. King, to command the' Centinel gun.brig. -
Lfetftenant C. Leaver, to command the Cut" stop ship
lieutenant M. Fitton, to command the Cracker gun.hrie.
I.ieutettant Charles Woodger, to the Signal Station at Yar-
mouth Dean.
Lietrenant Jodrell Lea, to the Marv.
Lieutenant West, to the Devastation.
Lieutenant John Hawkins, to the Electra.
Lieutenant Robert Brereton, to the Asia.
Lieutenant John Wardell, to the Magnificent.
Lieutenant Edward Roveley, to the Argo.
lieutenant George Crichton, to the Rhin,
Lieutenaut Thomas Crauford, to the Pylades. •
Lieutenant John 'Emcee, to the Magnificent.
Lieutenant Rokehy, to the RIIY.II
lieutenant 4anarson Spargo, to the Ocean.
Lieutenant G. W. Atttes, tothe l'unnant.
Lieutenant A. 1). G. Arbuthnot, to the Christian VII.
• Lieutenant I. C. Symonds, to the Impregnable.
Lliutenant G. Anderson, to the Defiance.
lieutenant lienjatnin Kelly, to the P. Mimic.
Lkattenatit Richard Brereton, to the Impregnable.
: Lieutenant R. B. Borougb, to the Royal Oak. .
Lieutenant T. B. Bell, to the Woodlark.
Lieutenant I. T. Young, to the Barham.
Lieutenant Roberts, to the Brune. •
Lieutenant Godeneh, to the Acteon. •
Lieutenant trarke, to the Queen.
Lieutenant Nixon, to the Hannibal.
Mr Campbell, to be Master of the Gorgon.
Mr. Patterson, to be Master-of the Freya.
Mr. Lovit to be Master of the Volags.
toite Master of the Latona..
Mr.W. Thcnian, Purser of the tornwall,'to the Hercules.
• Mr. John Ferrh-r, to he Purser of the Cornwallis.
• Mr. James Balk te, to be Purser of the lump&
_ y. v . N. Morgan, to the Argo. •
Dr. Darnark,,Surgeon to the late Commander-imCjitief in the
MmOterranean and Channel Station, to be Surgeon of the Roya
William.

The list of Officers of the Navy, corrected to the
'lst of January last, enumerates 187 Admirals, Vice-
Admirals, and Rear-Admirals; 31 superannuated
• Rear-Adinirilai 91 retired Captains; 777 Post-Capts.
586 Commanders ; SO retired Lieutenants ;—an d
8157 Lieutenants ; of which number 219 are unable
•
to serve at sea.
An alteration, it appears, is about to take place in
•the uniforms of the Officers of the Navy. The Ad-
mirals are to have white lappets to their coats, bound
Tumid with bread gold lace, and the buttons to be
nearly similar to thoSe warn by Field Marshals.—
The dress in which the Duke of Ceititeace appeared
at the recent levee of the PRINCE REGENT was of this
• description, and was decorated with a profusion of
geld lace. It is supposed the alteration will take
place on the atli of June. The present dress wascr-
dered 17 years ago.
Captain PETERSON, his sort, and the Chief Alan, of
the North Star American ship, which was taken by
to French 'privateer (afterwards recaptured by the
Saxes-Ica) afe inittea at Portsmouth from Dieppe.
Thy did not being any news from thence. The
- treatment they received from the First Lieutenant of
the privateer wis brutal in the extreme. An English
brig, from London, hound to Lisbon, had been taken
intri Dieppe by a privateer ; the Cavil's was killed
lit the skiiinish.
• . Coeesige Dontste.—lt will be gratifying to the
Mends of Colonel Dowsie to know that by the late
accounts from Estremadura, this officer was fast reco-1
• veting the effects of repeated attacks of the same.;
Fever and ague which was so fatal to our troops on I
the banks of the Guadiana, in the autumn of 1809—
and it will be still more gratifying not only to the
• friends of Colonel Dtteme, but to the public, to know
• that the }dung Spatial corps raised by this officer,
the Legion-of Tstremidura, in six months, received
eleven. times' in the General Orders of the Spanish
armies the thanks of the Commander in Chief, and !
twice the- thanks of the Supreme Spanish Govern-
men?, for their Conduct against the enemy, and this
in very flattering terms. This is encouragement to
othet British Officers, and we soon hope a few corpk
raised in Spain, with a proportion of British Officers,
as weliave ever seen, that when the Spanish soldiers
. have been well Led they, have done their ditty.
• General-Adjutant TinELL, Aid-de-camp toßenNA-
tort.; has been dismissed his service ; a circumstance
from Which the Swedes infer much good.- Sevtral
Svredish transports, which had been sent to Pernerania
and the island of Rugen, to bring home the .wedish...l
troops, as no longer necessary there, have returnotl
Without them.
The acceracy *of a statement made some time ago,
relative to the disqualification of French prisoners to
retraCtiniirriAges with British subjects, having been
,
cattail in oluestion, one of theclergymen at
Dum-
fries was induced to 'apply to the Transport Board
for accurate information on the subject, and last.Si-
tarday received a reply, froth which the following is
an extract I am directed by the Commissioners
for the Transport Service, &c. to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your lend of the Ist instant ; and in return
to inform you, that by the laws of France, any mar-
tiaje catered into leer,: by a Fronds prisoner is null and void.
lam directed to add, tliat it is highly desirable that
such connections should be prevented as muckas pos-
sibla.'-
The discount on Bank-notes, in Ireland, is now
about three shillings aad nine-penac halfpenny per
guinea : the exchange on London has latterly risen'
• from seven and three quarters to eight and a quarter
and eight and a half per cent.
On the mornng of the 4th instant, a fire broke
out in the house of John Hopper, at Overdale,
Whitby, which consumed the sane, with the house.
' hnld furniture, and a quantity of Wheat in a chamber:'
His wile, in her exertions to. save her four children,
was much burnt.
A reward of two hundred guineas is offered in last
• night's Gazette, for the discovery of the persons con-,
cerned in the late outrages at Huddersfield.
A rat, of astonishing size, wes•latety killed at a
public-house in East Clardon, near Guildford; it.
;measured, from the tip of the nose to the end of the'
atil, two feet three inches, and of proportionate bulk.