Star.
London, England, 1829-01-08 00:00:00

DEVONgIIrt E NI E ETI NG .

The Western Luminary .contains the following ex-
hort:Woo uput the suhjrct of the approaching Meeting
of t' e county of Devon : . •
" P•turres eat fir Matt 07 DEVON er Oat on
,Ftiday, the 16th .1 the present motalv,lou are to as
seruble at the C•tstle• yard at Ezeter, to exercise one o!
the most important privileges you passes: as Eoglish-
rtien—ihe right I f presenting to the Legislature of the
land. your Petition, that no lutther concessions of p
li-
ttcal power be granted to the Roman Catholics of these
.Reatms. Remember that many a good cause has been
lost by too much co.ifidence in success ; it is therefore
you, bounden duty ti use every ex: rtion to bring; the
true friends of the cause to the place of meeting, for we
are welt Assured that the enemies of yoUr religion. Ate
at work; and that no labour, no expense, no interest
no influence, have been spared to paralyse the effort
made by the supporters of the Pt otcstant Cause, and to
render void the 'endeavours of your truest friends to
pteserie to you inviolate the inestimable blessings t.l
civil and religi us lihetty.
44 Once for all, you are called upon, in the face of
open day, to make your appearance, and to suppm t as
mush as in you lies the means ptoposed to secure to
yourselves, and to your posterity, that divity r f na-
tional chatacter and that standing i t the scale tin nations
which have been alone ['induced ivy the tolerancy of 0 e
Episcopal Protestant religion estab.ished at the glorious
Reformation.

g• Let not the subtleties of argumentation. which in
the present quetki,n is the mete opposing rf assettions
to facts, cause y6u to swerve horn your purpose. Let
hire that is firm become firmer still, and let him who
hesitates either motives of private feelings or who
may think that his tervices ti ill not be reqtrired, be
made assured that. the imperative cails of true pa-
, tt tonsils demand tram him the assistance.and.co-operA-.
trim at this iirolsentous crisis, and let itim,ren.embee,
t. 0, hat na personal interest can be put in competition.
al h the dischare.e of such an ovetwhelming duej."
The Corntsull Journai has also an excellent Adsfiews
upon the moment us subject, of said) the followjfig is
the co..clueling p.ssage:-
4. The Ca.holic chestion may be v7e. ed differently
by diffetent people.; some excellent nelsons may ',el,
siesire.us to avoid a cause of excitement, but wi.en tee,
fear that the Constitution is in danger. we must not be
supine: no private, no local considerations should in-
:tice us to hold our peace upon this vital subject of
national importance, for Anti-Catholics oho are t.-
strained by such motives are mote datigetous than
those supporters of the Catholics whO deckle then
sentiments.

" The bt r uggle is not for toleration, but for supre-
macy."

It i 3 now become notorious that the trade in stolen
horses between this cuss ars and France, has become as
regular and organised a taffic as the most legitimate
object (f trade.
F,iday night, as Mr. Young, dell( to Mr. Lowrey,
solicitor, at Nouth &Adds, was ascending the stets
leading to his h-use, supposing his d•,g was watching
his return,- he beg in to pat the supposed Animal's head,
when his hand came in contact with a human face, as
cold as death. On a light being procured, a female
child, apparently svout 15 tbonths old, was found
nearly liteess with told; it was removed from its hard
bed, *bete its ea, illy career would so .n have ended.
to a warm room, where every esertion to re tsre it to
Isle that bumanity could suggest was used, and Mrs.
Yung had the satisfaction to see her endeavc urs crowned
with success. The p',or litee suffeter, on examidati-11.
appeased to have been most cruelly chastised ; one 'Ol
it: eyes was black from blow or fall. and almost every
pert of its body bore evident marks of most cruel chart-
t•seir.ent from some unfeeling wretch; for it can hardly
Nave teen supposed to have been done by • a-mother.--:
Toe child is now lodged in the poor-house.
A tamily of the name of Wilson, consisting of two
aged brothers. and two sisters, also advanced in years,
reside in a lonely place in the parish of Huntly. The
.brothers had 20W. in tie hands of the late Duke' of
Pordoo.„and were to receive payment at the by
term. , The broth rs sleep in an out house; and the
sisters in a dwelling, house. In the dead of the night
the don: of the (lit house was forced open by two men
armed with large sticks, who demanded from its in-
mates their money of their life. .l be brothers resisted
to the utmost of their power, and s' desperate struggle
enstred;in which (mint the brotheri Wad two of his ribs
fractured, and the other was also much wounded and
bruised. The sisters in the dwelling house heard the
noise of struggle, and rose to go out to their bro-
thers assistance,. but were unable to get out for some
times aping to the assailants having seemed the door
by a stick and piece of rope outside. At last they over-
eamethatObstacle ; and one of the sisters having got
'hold of a barn fork, made an attack with it on the two
.men, and drove them from the door of therm house,
and thus allowed her brothers to get out of it. One of
the two brothers then got possession of a scythe; and
the two' villaini, seeing the brother and sister thus
armed, then fled without getting hold of the money,
which was the object' of their attack. The other sister
last One of her legi spitie. years ago, and was unable to
render any assistance to:her. brothers. Oneof the two
men who made Ai itaini bad a mount in his Speech ;
and from that Is ad Orbereircnoutances, two young uses
from that quartet of the country have been lodged it
gaol, and the case is noW undergoing investigattoulus,
Awl thilaistiff.;-46.erdoeiichnnticle.

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