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London, England, 1825-11-25 00:00:00

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LONDON.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1825.
STOCK EXCHAKGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The chief business doing this morning at the Stock Exchange, is
paying and receiving their Accounts.

Consols opened at 85 to i, and were done at 85i for next Ac-
count. At present they are 85 Buyers, and fur Money 844 I.
The great consternation which prevailed for these few days past,
Is gradually subsiding.

In the Foreign Market. all Securities still remain in a state of
uncertainty. and little is doing.

Current Prices: Austrian 92 93, Brazilian Scrip 121 * disc.
Colombian New 65 sellers, Danish, 1825, 6l* 62, Greek 22 23,
Mexican Six per Cents. 681691, reruvian 48 50, Russian 881,
Old Spanish 151.

PR I(7F, OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Red. 83%8 %
$ per Cent. Cons. 84% % 1/4
31, per Cent. 9178
3i per Cent. Red. 921/8 91%
4 per Cent. New 102 101% % 1,4
Lgag Ann. 20%.
£l,OOO Fachey. Rills 3 1 dis.
£sqo ditto 3 1 dis.
4:10;) and two ditto 3 dis. par.
Cons. for Opening 851/4 Eft%
FOREIGN ,11; UV 1)S, TWO O'CLOCK.
Austrian lids 5 p Cr. 3lex.Scrip.lll2s,
1 rasilian Road.. 691 Neapolitan Bonds,
Ditto Acct. 69k Peruvilds, 6 pC. 49 SO
Du. Sctip,sl'C.lBes, Ditto Acct. 49
Ditto Acct. 121 dis. I)lttoScrip,lB2s, 6 pC.
Buenos Ayres Boni:. 78 Portuguese Bonds
Chilian Bonds, 6 p Ct. 62 1 Truss. Ills. S p C.
Colombian lids, 6pC. 63 Do. Bonds. 1322, 971
1)0.113.15 1824, 65 641 1 Ruislids,lB22,6 p C. 881 1 88
De. Acc. 641 651 64165 641 64 Ditto Acct.
Danish Bonds, 5 p Ct. Span. 5 pCt.C. 151
Du. Marks Banco Ditto fur Ace. 151
Ditto Bends, 1825, Ditto 510 151
Greek lion& Span.s p. Cr. C. 1823,
Do.llds,t /25 Sp C. French Reines, Sp C. 97c.
Ditto Acct. French Rentes.3p C.
Nett. Borids,sp.Ct F.xchange, 25f. 10c.
Ditto Acct. 63 Guatemala Scrip,
Ditto Acct.
Do. Acct. 681 691 681 69 68 Russian Inscript. 6 p Ct.
BRITISI ANt) FOREIGN SIIARFS, TWO O'CLOCK.
SHAUL rale.
Anglo Chitian 100 5
Foliwr 50 3
Castello & Espirito Santo 100 5
Potosi, I.a Paz, & Pertiv. 50 5
Royal Irish 25 1 9-16
Protector Fire 2.0 2
l;ritisli Rock & Patent S.& 10 6
liritish and Foreign Paper 50 3
Rio de Li Plat* Agricul. Corn. 100 5

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The Roman Catholic affairs are beginning to assume
an aspect so remarkably novel, that while we can te•
member nothing to parallel the conduct of the chosen
leaders of that cause, still less can we comprehend how
the object they expect to accomplish is to be at•
rived at by the devious paths they are pursuing.—
The worthy Socie y of New York, headed by the
loyal and learned Dr. 24,1,Na.vrtr, have published an
address fal the express purpose of revolutionizing
Ireland, and abolishing the Protestant Church, while
the New Catholic Association, headed by Mr. O'CoN•
SELL, has appointed a committee to prepare an Address,
the probable tendency of which (we do not say its pro-
fessed purpose) will be, to effect the same object in the
Netherlands. What have the Americans to do with
Ireland ? and what have the Irish to do with the Ne-
therlands? we cannot conceive, unless it be, that
the sheet-anchor of. Emancipation is now to be the
44 sympathy" of Foreigners—unless, indeed, it is in-
tended to preach up to Europe and America, a new
crusade against the civil and religious liberties of these
realms. But these miserable efforts of misguided men
will only rouse the spirit, and even the national
honour of the people of England to effectual re.
si•tance, and throw back the temperate discussion
of the Roman Catholic claims for half a century
to come. It will be well if the evil should end
there. Some of our cotemporaries have hinted chat a
sense of self-preservation may, in certain circumstances,
by possibility, compel the Legislature to revive a part
of the Penal Code.

In reference to which, Mr. Smer. is reported to have
delivered sentiments in presence of the New Associa-
tion, who all spontaneously stood up to mark their
lemn concurrence in the orator's threats, of so dar-
ing a character that we cannot venture to quote them,
but merely intimate that they imply that the conse-
quence of such revival would be an immediate re.
sort to bloodshed and rebellion on the part of the Irish
population. We sit.cerely despise this threat, and be-
lieve that the people of Ireland, maddened as they are
by the mischievous exaggerations of restless dema-
gogues and ambitious agitators, would pause before they
entered into so unnatural and hopelesi a contest, even
were the alleged intention entertained, which, however,
was never thought of in any quarter.

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One part of 'he Penal Code, •to which the Catholic,
in forroia 'times were suhkct, b#s Wen parti..ulaily
•dwelt upon; the gross tyranny of tempting the sodi of
Roman Catholic proprietors to become Protestants, by
holding out the inheritance of their fathers as the re-
ward; and it WAS certainly- an abominable proceeding.
But who taught the Protestants this mode of religions
conversion? Let the Reader refer to the Diary of the
Marquis de DANOICAtIe in the year 1685, at the
Court of Louts the Fourteenth, and he will find many
pass-ges, at the time of revoking the Efict of Nantz,
which spew that Protestants of whole districts were
converted to Popery by the sword ; those who resisted
were expelled the kingdom, their estates either confis-
cated or held in trust for their children, which children
were torn from their arms, and by force educated in the
Popish faith.

Those things are matters of recent history, too well
authenticated to be questioned. But they existed a
short time before the landing of King WILLIAM, and
before the far milder penal enactments against the
Roman Catholics of Ireland.

They are glossed over, however, and even impudently
suppressed, because they were the works of a priesthood
which rever yet granted to others, the toleration it re-
quiieb for itself.

If any person seriously believed that the self-constituted
leaders of the Irish Catholics have no other object in
view than what is termed and understood by the term
emancipation, he must now, we think, be convinced of
his error. The last meeting of the New Catholic As.
sociation in Dublin, the attempt to interfere with foreign
States, and the proceedings of those IrLkmen in the
United States who fled their country for their real or
suspected share in the rebellion of 1798, all prove that
it is not merely an equal participation in political rights
they seek, but it is a separation of Ireland from Great
Britain. si If," said Mr. O'CoNtrELL, in one of his ha-
rangues, on Saturday,

" Irishmen had Ireland to themselves, they could manage well
enough without any foreigners amongst them. It was such istier-
fere= that turned his native country, which Goo his marked with
every blessing, into a pig/is:province."

It is not, however, the interference of foreigners, as
Mr. O'CONNELL chooses to denominate the English
Government, but it is the mischievous spirit engen-
dered and fostered by persons like Mr. O'CoNwaLL, and
the bigotteJ conduct of the members of his church,
that prevents Ireland from advancing in civilization
like other pasts of the Union, and which renders so
many attempts to ameliorate the condition of the
Irish abortive.

The views of Mr. O'CONNELL ate not even limited to
obtaining Ireland for Irishmen; he is like ANACHARSIS
CLoorz, become the orator of the human race, the CA.
tholic part of it ist least, and assumes the right to inter-
fere in any disputes that may arise in foreign countries
where Catholics live under a Protestant King. He
seems anxious to create a new warfare, in which the
people of every State shall be at war among themselves,
and Catholic and Protestant Europe shall measure
swords for the ascendancy.

The Catholics in the Netherlands, it is well known,
are satisfied with the liberal and tolerant conduct of
their KING, even although he does Dispose the intrigues
of the Jesuits, who are so active in a neighbouring
country ; yet, Mr. O'CONNELL, a political Pod P,y,
or lather Marp!ot, conjures up grievances among the
Belgians, and induces the Catholic Association to de-
pute himself and six others to make the most of them
in print. Only one, we believe, of the persons
who attended the Meeting on Saturday, had the
courage or good sense to oppose so mischievous a
project. We allude to Mr. LUKE PLuNuarr, who
contended, that, although the st rte of the Netherlands
might be very deplorable, he conceived that any inter-
feience in neir affairs must be prejudicial to the in-
terests of the Catholics of Ireland—that it did not come
within the spirit of the constitution of the Catholic As•
sociation. He said, for his part, "he did not see how
it could serve the people of that country ; nor did he
think they had a right to cross the seas acd go to the
Hague and Brussels, to seek for objects of discussion,
when they bad abundant matter in Ireland."
Mr. PLUNKETT concluded by entering his :A •mn
protest against the motion for appointing a Committee,
and expressed a hope that eye; y honest Irishman would
assist him in his i‘pposition—that hope, however, was
not realized, and his was the only dissentient voice.
If the Irish Catholic Association wished to set •rd by
every po•sible means, the granting their claims to
Emancipation ; it they wished to mite every honest
journalist against them ; and if they sought to alarm,
not only England, but every country where there is
a mixed population of Catholics arid Protestants, they
could not take more effectual means than they are now
pursuing to ensure such objects. It remains now to be
seen, how far the leaders of this Association will be
supported by Catholic Ireland, by the British Catho-
lics, and by those Protestants in both countries, who, li
trom honest and conscientious motives, have advocated
the cause of Catholic Emancipation ; a cause which
has lost more by the intemperate conduct of Mr.
O'CONNELL and his associates within the last few
months, than it had gained (and much indeed it had
gained) in the course of as many years.

This forenoon we received Frankfort Papers to the
19th instint. They contain a long account of the ho.
nouts paid to the celebrated German writer, GOETHE,
on the very extraordinary occasion of the fiftieth anni-
versary of his entering the service of the Gland Duke of
Saxe WEIMAR. Political integrity, and literary talent,
bas seldom been thus complimented ; it will be seen, by
an account of the ceremonies in another column, that
the Grand Duke wrote Goirrus a very flattering letter
in his own hand, in which he acknowledged how much
he was indebted to his services, and accompanied it by
a medal struck for the occasion, on which were busts of
the Duke, his Consort, and his faithful Minister.—

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0 tiler linnontc weie slah•vekl ntt.r.be venerable h aka
Guernc, the Iltinicipallty have conferred on him,
his grandchildren, and their heirs for ever, the freedom,
of every city and town in the Grand Duchy. •
These paperi contain no political intelligence. The
following is an extract :

MUNICH, NOVI:Maga 35.

It appeals certain that our army will be considerably
reduced, in con,equence of an order from his Majesty
to reduce, as much as possible, the number of sentinels
stationed at various posts; fourteen of these posts had
been withdrawn at Wurtzburgh, and at Augsbirrgh
even the sentinels at the Royal P 'lace, in which the
Government of the Circle has its offices.