Star.
London, England, 1829-01-03 00:00:00

PROTESTANT SPIRIT IN WALES.

PROM THIS NORTH WALKS CHRONICLR-
With feelings of hottest vide and exultation that out
efforts to roue the Protestant spirit of this truly Pio-
tenant country have not proved ineffectual, we have to
direct the attention of the Irish Agitators to die Con-
stitutional proceedings of the burgesses of Criccieth,
Pwllheli, &c. as further plots(' that the loyal and in.
telligent descendants of the Ancient Br'tons entertain
the same decided aversion to Popery and treason for
which their ancestors in days cf yore were famed, as
much as for their martial valour and deep-rooted affec
Lion for their native hills. In England the opt osition
to Rsman Catholic Emancipation is strong, from many
happy years' experience of the . blessings resulting
from Protestant ascendancy ; and the hi.totical know.
ledge of the people convinces them of the degradation
and fully of an implicit obedience to the commands
of a selfish, designing, and ignorant priesthood, which
have been more fully developed in the sed.tious con-
duct and language, at their instigation, of the brawling
and cowardly demagogues of the Irish Association. In
Ireland, amongst the Protestants, the opposition is it'll
stronger, because with the reasons that influence Eng-
lishmen to oppose it, they are well aware that they
would be the first sacrifice to the ascendancy of the
Pope, which would inevitably follow the destruction of
the only remaining bulwark .1 the Protestant &tab-
Ds' ment. This excites in them the greater horror,
from the daily and ['sourly scenes thy witness of
the abject state of such of the peasantry as ate pre.
vented by the Popish religion from benefitting by
the DIVINI precepts contained in the Bible, upon
which alone, Protestantism is founded. In Wales there
is an inherent dislike of any thing opposed to that di-
vine book; and religious and historic .1 education may
be said to be universal among its peasantry. Thus the
public ate fully capable of coolly and deliberately con-
sidering the subject; and their opposition to the admit'.
sion.of Roman Catholics to a greater share of political
power, Is naturally rendered doubly strong by the consi-
deration of the cruelties and ex; edicts?s resorted to by
Austin the Monk, and the other Popish emissaries,'
Inwards obtaining an ascendancy, and ultimately de-
stroying the ancient Bs ins!' Church. And this opposia
turn is by no means diminished by t' err knowing
, (whatever benefits that event may have been productive
of) that the complete conque.t ()I Wale. by Edward was
chiefly effected through the instrumentality and political
. interference of the agents of the See of Rome.
1

BRUNSWICK CLUBS.

LEEDS, JANUARY 1.

Thursday our excellent Chid NI agi .0 ate received the
following letter flout M►. Secretary 13..e1, communicat •
in his Maje.ty's must gracious reception of the Pro-
testant Addresses—

" Whitehall, Dee. 24, 1428.

" Ssa—l beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the 20th Instant, and of the address to his Majesty with which it
wu accompained.
" I have submitted the address to his Majesty, who wu pleased
to receive the same very graciously.
" I have the honour to be. Sir,
" Your must obedient humble servant,

" The Mayor of Leeds."

4. ROBERT PEEL.

The foliating letters from the Duke of Newcastle
the Earl of Winchilsea, and the Right Hon. Lord
Kenyon, were received. by the Sf.cretary of the County
tit Dublin Brunswick Constitutional CIO., in answer to
his letters announcing to thole Noblemen the seventh
resolution i f the Club—

" London, Dec. 17, 1821.

Sia—l have this day bad the pleasure of receiving your letter
announcing to me the honour dune to me, and others who are
named, by a meeting of the County of Dublin Brunswick Constitu-
tional Club.

" I am truly sensible of the value of the honour conferred upon
me. Professions must be needless, as my sentiments must be suf•
ficiently known. I will only add, that lam grateful for the kind
expression of approbation from so large a body of my countrymen,
and that I hope never to forget wh.4 I have gained, by failing to
perform my duty to the best of my power, under any circumstances,
either of difficulty or of danger.
" I remain, Sir, your very sincere and obedient servant,
" To Robert Smith, P.sq. " NEWCASTLE.
Secietaty to the County of Dublin Brunswick Club."
Eastwell Park, Dec. 20, IBM

" Sta—l am honoured with the receipt of your letter Comenual-
eating to me the thanks of the Members of the County of Dublin
Brunswick Constitutional Club. I request you will have ibe kind-
ness to offer them my sincere acknowledgments, and to assure
them that I justly appreciate the honour which they have been
pleased to confer upon me.
" I have the honour to be, Sir,
" With every respect, your most obedient humble servant,.
" WINCHILSEA AND NOTTINGHAM.
" To Robert Smith, Esq. &c."

" Portman-square, Dee. 19.1828.

" Sia—T am honoured with your letter announcing to me the
Suring notice taken of my humble endeavours to excite seal in
behalf of the Protestant cause by the County of Dublin Brunswick
Crokitutional Club.
".I beg you to return my sincere thanks to the Club for the high
kaftar they have dune me, and can assure them I shall never
swet've from thine ptinciples which they have been pleased so kindly
OD approve. I have the honour to be, Sir.

• a Your obliged and obedient servant.
0. TO Hobert Smith. F.sq. die." " KENYON.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN EVENING NAIL.

Welbect, Dec. 111,
0.10-4 have hitherto purposely deferred making this COMMIIIIII.
atilin to you, in consequence of my expectation that the Rev. Dr.
Robinson, after having at length acknowledged his error, would
himself have taken some steps publicly to retract t►e assertions be
had inade with regard to certain sentiments imputed by him to me
at a Brunswick Meeting in Armagh. But having been disappointed
in that expectation, I now feel myself called upon to take this
method of, denying, in the most unqualified manner, the truth of
all that Dr. Robinson has asserted—never having uttered the ex-
pressions, or ever entertained the sentiments he then so unwar-
rantably attributed to me.

" I Live the honour to be, Sir, your obedient bumble servant,
P H. BENTI NOVI

Last week a Gentleman in the neighbourhood of
New-quay, Cardiganshire, shoe a beautiful white woodcock.
A poultryman of this town. sent up to the Met.opolis
last week, for the Christmas markets, eight sues and four cwt. of
poultry. In this huge weight MO le than fifteen hundred turkeys
were included.—Besten Casette.
ASPLitY Housz.—His Grace the Duke of Waxman.
xon's house begins to assume an appearance proper for
the residence of its illustrious owner. The front in
Piccadilly is ornamented by a piazza entrance °latches,
surmounted by four Corinthian columns and a pedi-
ment. Pilasters of the same order give additional
grandeur to the plan. The back font has two projecting
wings, and the mansion is extended towards the Patk.
This elegant building will now be in uniformity with
the new and beautiful specimens of architecture at the
lwestern extremity of the Metropolis.

IRELA

CATIMILIC ASSOCIATION.
DUELtIIo DSC 30.—Yriterday there %Ifni a meeting
of the Association; Mr. KRADY is the Chair.

Mr. Otos:win-a. rose to give n..t ce i f motions for
three votes of thanks—one ti. Valentine Blake. of Menlo

Castle, in the county of Galway, E q. for Vie valued
assistance which he gave on the subject of the right of
the' Member for Clare to take his brat in P alias:ten, ;.
the other to Chalks Butler, Esq. and the rind to Sir
John Joseph Dillon, who had written a most ab;e
pamphlet on the question. He would go more into de-
tail when the motions came to be moved; he was the
more anxious to do so, as the discussions on those mo-
tions steroid be a mode of calling tie aitenion of the
public to the importance, the n cebsity I f &stetting in
his person the right of the Irish people; of his own
right h was perfectly convinced, and was also
aware that every species of trick and chicanery
would be resorted to for the purl use of depriving
him of his seat. Nothing but the majestic voice a f
the people, sigrified as well trim gh their mei t-
i. gs here, as by those who would attend with him
in London, would convince the Government of the
importance of settling the question. He owned he
did feel something Ike a pang of j alousy on the
question of the Mission; he ihroight there y as'a
spe-
cies if desertion in that occasion, and he did think
that as an individual he • as not well treated; however,
that was matter of small importance ; he only men-
tioned it with a siew of int'prs suing upon Gentlemen
the necessity it.f not shrinking from a great public duty
—he never was more convinced of the impo lance of
any measure than the MibUon to England; for its
failure he had nobody to blame hut himself; his cape.
.fence had taught him, that in public or pulsate, the
success of any measure depended on a man's own ex-r-
-lions ; he should have made up his mind to go to Eng-
-I.nd alone; hr did not go, lie allow ed himself to he se-
duced to remain at home; the debate to be with his fa-
mily at that particular seating of the year, and the sav-
ing of five or six hundred pounds, ales influenced him
in remaining at home; however, be had no pesbon to
blame but himself; as to his being in L .ndon, be was
termined to go ; he cared not what night be said cif
it either by his home!: or his foes, arid he would now
beforehand taunt those who would shrink fr. m doing
their duty. The Provincial Meeting at CI miner unani-
mously des rosined that he should be accompanied to
L:rnd n; the meetings at K Ikenity and Nlullitigar also
can:e to the sa i.e resolution; the Aggregate Meeting
passed a similar resolution, a Lich was adopted by the
Catholic Association. He would say it was a rattly
shin king fiom a public duty i 1 these iesolutions were riot
,carried immediately into effect. If there wre any
of jections to the measuie, they should have been made
At these meetings, or in the Con.mittee where the tete).
lotions to be submitted to t e meeting a ere agreed
upon. Other resolutions were proposed on those occa-
sions which he could not carry. There was the question
of Radical Reform ; although of.en ahu e.f, ti.ese was
nn suhj ct on which he was attacked name innocently
on his part. He avowed himself a Rad cal Reim met ;
still he could not carry it in the Associatito, and it was
with the greate.t difficulty, and after two dais debate
in the Commit,ee at Ki kenny, that h- could carry the
question of Constitutional Reform, Ile thelefore hoped
these ,esolutions would not be suffered to remain so
much waste paper. The great experiment of the Clare
Eli ction would I e only-thrown away if not followed
up, and could only reflect shame and disgrace upon
'those who would s' rink from' doing their duty ; he was
determined to do his duty fit m'y and determinedly.—
After some further roma. ks. Mr. O'Connell concluded
by moving, that the resolution el the Association rr.
pecting the accompanyiog him to London, should be
printed in the Dublin and ail the usua: C untry P•Fers.
Mr. CONWAY handed in the subsctiption of the Right
Rev. Dr. Coppinger. He sugeested that sonic means
•hould be adopted for obtaining the sub ail toms of
Gentlemen attending those to •nis, and who were in Vie
hab.t of taking a pert in their deliberations—he would
say no more on that subject for the present.
Mr. O'CONNILL said, he had a commooirati n from
Rome, from a source of undoubted author it'', dated the
81 of December. The negociations beta-c. n the Bri-
ef h Government and the Pope have been resumed.
The nature of the communication from the British Go-
vernment to the Pope was, th at they would gtal t
emancipation—abut the basis of it sh .uld be a Concor-
dat with the Pope. The reply was. that until caats( i-
pation. there would be no Concordat; so stood the
metier until lately, w' en the negotiations a ere renewed.
Mete is at It one a Protestant. who h Ids communica-
tion with the Holy See, notwithstanding t. e Acts of
Przmunire; it ap, eAta he art iced their about the Sd or
4.h of December. The Duke of Buckingham i. at
It-me; he did nit mean to say that he was the medium
of communication with the Pope, because he was not
certain of the tact; however, he believed he was. It
has been represented to the Pope, that unle.s emstict-
pation would be granted, the Irish people ...old break
out into rebellion ; on the other hand, it was also urged
upon the Pope, that if emancipation were granted with-
out the Concordat, that the Protestants wr uld rebel.
In this dilemma the Pope was called on to interfere.—
His information was from a source not likely to deceive.
hum. It was incumbent on the Catholics to hare a
communication made to Rome, detailing the real state
of the country, that the Pope shooed understand that
there was not the least danger of a rebellion in Ireland.
Mr. O'Corisizu. gave notice r f a motion for a so e
of thanks to Mr. Otway Cave, and read a I. net from
that Gentleman, pronouncing Brunswick Clubs as con.
spiracles against th. it Sovereign and the peop'e. Mr.
Cave, he (Mr. O'Connell) thought should tepees tit in
Parliament some place in beland, and that the traffick-
ing little letter-writing Hutchinson should make way
for him. He hoped that the people of Tipperary would
make arrangements for his re un. The Learned Gen-
tleman then gave notice i f a mi tion for mg, teting free.
holders. He had another mot. a to make, that the
Committee do report once a week, in writing, the pro•
gress made in procuring Petitions to Parliament. The
Session was fast approaching, and he hoped that all
Petitions would be in town by the 20th Jaisn•ry. He
meant to have a separate Petition on the subject if the
Clare Election. This should be a distinct Petition.

S me other routine bu mess was toathact.d, and
several sums fur rent *Tie paid in.

RUSSIAN Navy.—The quarttii y of shipp.ng fornisl
by the stocks of the Admiralty at St. Petersburgh ex-
ceeds 'hat supplitd by any other oral arsenal in the
Empire. It is st4ted as folios's—From 1712 t" 1725,
40 vessels; from 1725 to 1745,26; from 1745 to 1763,
40; from 1763 to 1797; 93; from 1797 to 1601, 10;
from 1801 to 1b25 44. The, number of vessel• • f 100
and cf 50 guns launched p►eciously 101801 was 72,with-
out reckoning 6,084 sail of all six-s. 'fire largest ship
produced on those Stock, was the Blagodate, of 130
gins, begun the 290 of February, 1799, and 1 unched
the 2J of August, 1800. The material used in' th•
construction of all the vessels is oak of Caucatur....l
Bulldia

I

PETTY SESSIONS.

ST. ANDREW, HOLBORN, AND ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR,
MIDDLESEX, V. THE OCCUPIER, OF CHAMBERS IN

LINCOLN'S INN.
A Petty Ses,inns was held yesterday morning at the
Workhouse, Little Gray's Inn-lane, for the purpose sit
the Magistrates giving their deci.ir.n respecting issuing
distress warrants against several professional Gentlemen.
occupiers of Chambers in Lincoln's Inn, for seven years'
arrears of poor rates. The cases of four persons were
entered into a few days since; but the Magistt ates con-
sidering it a question of such vast importance to both
parties, postponed giving their decision until yesterday.
Shortly after eleven n'clnck, Mr. Puavis, "Captain
TOMLINSON. and Mr. SECKSTT, entered the Committee
room. when Mr. Nevis sired that himself and brother
Magistrates had given the cases their most attentive
consideration, and they were unanimously of opinion
that the parish was entitled to the full amount of rates
demanded, and it not immediately paid they should
fed it their duty to issue a warrant oil distress.
Mr. BRoDRICK and Mr. SMITH attended as Counsel
for the occupiers of chambers, who it is expected will
appeal to the Quarter Sessi.dns against this decision of
the Magistrates.
Mr. Sergeant MIRIWZATHER conducted the case on
behalf of the parish, and was informed by the Magill.
Crates. that it the rates were not paid, or an appeal en-
tered into in the coutse of the day, they would sign the
necessary warrant for a levy on the goods to-morrow
(this day).
The Overseers then applied for summonses against
fourteen other Gentlemen, occuriers of ch.mhers in
Lincoln's Inn, amongst whom were the A ttorneyGeneral,
Mr. Maule, Mr. Sugden, Mr. Horne, atc. which were
stewed, and the cases ordered to be heard and deter-
mined next week.
The perish demand seven years arrears of poor rates,
amounting to nearly 12.0001. which the other side are
determined not to pay but upon compulsion. It will be
recollected the question has b. en three times tried in
the Court of King's Bench, and on each occasion a ver-
dict has been obtained in favour of the parish. The case
is one of immense importance to the parishioners, and
excites very great interest.