Star.
London, England, 1828-01-23 00:00:00

BRITISH CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.

Yesterday the usual open Quarterly Meeting of the
which was numerously attended,was
above A•sociat ion,
heW at their Rooms, Thorney-street, Bloomsbury. The
chair Iv" taken at half past one o'clock, by JAMBS
Wpicacas. Est.
BLouNr, as Secretary, read the minutes of the
last meeting and a financial statement, from which it
appeared that the accounts of the Association stood as
foilows:
Amount of subscriptions up to the 24th Oct. 1627
galAnce in the hands of the Treasurer

Disbursements .. .

,ClO4 7 S
118 7 0

.€252 14 5
104 14 10

36127 19 7
As a set-off to this balance there was a disputed bill of £l2O.
Th. ltossoN rose to propose a draft of a petition to
Parliament in favour of the Dissenters, which being
read, was put frosn'the Chair and carried unanimously.
Mr. WITHAM rose to propose the draft of another
Petition to Parliament. It was one praying for Eman-
cipation from the disabilities under which they them-
selves laboured. He was of opinion that they ought
never to cease petitioning Parliament, for by keeping
the ball alive, they might one day or other catch it.—
me. Witham then read a draft of a Petition, calling
upon the Legislature to remove the disabilities under
which they laboured.
After it had been seconded by Mr. Fitzgerald,
The Reverend Mr. *DONNELL of Birmingham,
!me. It was, he said, an enactment of the Athenian
Los-giver, that any party in a common cause,
who should remain neutral, would be for ever deem-
ed infamous. Yes, it was certainly incumbent on
men seeking for freedom to come forward fearlessly. If
ever there was a time for unanimity of sentiment and
a concentration of purpose, it was upon that occasion.
I heir enemies were in power—(Some cries of " No,
em.")—Yes, men whose oaths had been registered
against them. It was a frightful thing to see such men
allowed to rule the destinies of this great empire. The
Reverend Gentleman alluded to the simultaneous meet-
ings which took place lately in Ireland ; and con-
trasted them with the Orange Meetings that frequently
°mitred there—meetings that were generally followed
by some tile murder. The simultaneous meeting of
the Roman Catholics would teach the Ministers -this,
that the same cause which made them endure sufferings
and privations was_ capable of making them rise en
roue at the stamp of one man's foot. On the friends
of liberty in Parliament they should still depend; and
never at any time had those men a more noble task to,
perform. But although he had great hopes from the
assistance of friend!, still he must say that the Catholics
must mainly depend upon their own resources and their
own energies for the success of their cause. The Rev.
Gentleman concluded by giving the Petition his hearty
support.
The Petition being put from the Chair, was adopted
unanimously, and ordered to b(entrusted for presenta-
tionto Loi d Nugent in the House of Commons, and
Earl Grey in the House of Lords.
Mr. BLOUNT proposed the thanks of the Meeting to',
Lord Rossmore, for his appearance here that day.
The motion being put from the Chair, was carried
unanimously.
LORI ROSSMORE returned his sincere thanks for the
kindness they had displayed towards him. Why was he
there that day ? Because the voice of a Protestant Bri-
tish Peer, when raised in Ireland,was unheeded in Eng-
land—(Hear, hear) He came amongst them to give
them a short description of that country to which he
belonged. He wished to throw aside the notion that
he came to catch their smiles, or please the Catholics
as a body. He came to Protestant EnglaWiss cat(
upon it to- save every thing Protestant in Mead,
There were many propositions suggested for the trans
quillizition of Ireland. One was, emigration. Al-
though he was opposed to the measute, he could not
bear to see shoals of his countrymen shipped off from
their native country to a perhaps less happy land ; and
for what ?—Merely because they spoke as well as eat
with their mouths—(Hear, hear, and laughter). This
system would not do. Emancipation was much cheaper
than emigration—England would have to tranquillize
Ireland. How?—By finding employment for her poor.
How was employment to be found ?—By capital. Could
that capital be introduced into Ireland with advantage?
It could. Ireland had been deceived. There had
been broken vows on one side, broken hearts on the
other. His Lordship, after alluding to this system
of packing Juries, and pointing out other judicial im-
proprieties which he stated to be common in Leland,
asked if they would suffer. such conduct to be pursued
in England?—(No, no!) No, you would not. It was
only in the land of the degraded that such acts could
be acted upon with impunity. He thought that the
evil genius of Ireland had fled with its Parliament—
that the book of persecution was then shut for ever ; bet
he was deceived. It was denied that any pledge had
been given to the Catholics at the time of the Union.
Now he (L-trd Rossmore), had letters horn a Catholic
Clergyman, named /hoeing, and a Mr. Bidwell,
which noald spew to the Meeting that Catholic
Emancipation was generally considered to be a conse-
quence of tke Union, and that the impression originated
not from any speculative opinions of the Catholics
themselves, but was the result of communications made
to them on the part of Government by its agents Lord
Donoughmore, Lord Landaff, Ste.
Here his Lordship read the following letters:
" Saturday, November, 1827.
" My DnAR LORD—Notwithstanding the delay that
has occurred in my replying to your letter, yet, believe
me when I say, it did not proceed from any hesitation
to give you every information in my power. to forward
that great measure you've so earnestly and so laudably
struggling to accomplish—the embodying the Catholics
of the empire in the British Constitution, by giving to
th.tt body the full enjoyment of civil and religious li-
berty,which those opposing them, as falsely as absurdly,
they fully possess at present.
" Paradoxical as it may appear, yet the fact is so, that,
the great difficulty in now proving that Lord Corn-
wallis employed Protestant agents to procure the sup-
port of the Catholics to effect the measure of Union,
and that he authorised these Protestants to hold out to
them their admission, at an early period subsequent to
the accomplishment of that measure, to all the rights
of the British Constitution.—l say the difficulty to
prove this now lies in the fact, that at that period, the
certainty that those agents did bold out, and were so
authorised to hold out such promises, was undoubted
and unquestioned. Had it been otherwise, in the dis-
putes which such a circumstance would have pro-
duced, so many facts to establish it would have
been placed upon record, that you would not be ne-
cessitated to apply to sae, or to any other person,
ier that information, which would be found mote copi-
ously given, and better authenticated in booksellers'
shops, and in the libraries of every man who collected
, the productions respecting that measure, and that pe-
iriod. But the notoriety of the fact, and the co-operation
01 the Catholics witb the Government to accomplish

the Union, peevented any literary collision on this
head ; and the points on which the Government was
assailed were, the shameful distribution of offices, the
legal promotions, the promises of honours, reversion-
ary grants, episcopal and other ecclesiastical dignities.
If it was necessary to establish any fact connected with
any proceeding of Government on these points, from
my own library alone I could cover yotir table with
printed proofs. The Catholics, so often indignantly
repulsed from her own Parliament, and (that by the
most strenuous of the opponents of Union, who then
saw the want of wisdom of their .former conduct),
blamed too, and oppressed for the 115 Rebellion, which
originated with Protestants, were scarcely censured for
yielding to the advantages held out to them by Lord
Cornwallis, through the agency he employed at that
period ; nor was it until faith was hroken with the Ca-
tholics that doubts were insinuated of Lord Cornwallis's
so acting, and so promising, Yet if it could be expected
that men would come forward to divulge transactions
affecting the characters of themselves and their families,
how many written proofs from the pen of Lord Corn-
wallis and his secretaries could be produced from the
seam archives of the most exalted houses, who in dif
ferent parts of the kingdom assisted to forward that
most fatal measure! But there are yet living many,
who, though not concerned themselves in such an
agency, are competent to prove its existence in others.
It fell to my own lot to have heard from the late Lords
Castle Coote and Llandaff, that they were so authorised
by Lord Cornwallis to negotiate with the Catholics.
I had a more decisive proof than assertion, for I held
in my possession, from the March Assizes of Clonmel,
in 1800, until the Summer Assizes of the same year,
an autograph letter from Lord Cornwallis to Lord
eLlandaff, in which he distinctly stated he was autho-
rized by Mr. Pitt to state to the Catholics of Ireland,
that, after the accomplishment of the Union, as soon as
tilt proper period arrived, himself would bring their
question before the Imperial Parliament, and he enter-
tained no doubt of ultimate success. This assertion
may startle, and excite surprise, that such a letter
should be left in my hands, who was at the same mo-
ment giving all the opposition in my power to tht
Union in the county I resided in (Tipperary); but if,
after the facts I shall state in this letter—facts, most of
them to be found in the journals of the House of Com-
mons of Ireland, in the Courts of Justice here, and well
remembered by many now living in the counties of
Tipperary and the Queen's county, I empower your,
Lordship to undertake for me that I will prove the truth
of every fact I state in this letter, at the bar of either
House of Parliament, by re-asserting them upon my
oath; when it will appear, it was to promote their own
objects, and not in the way of unnecessary confidential
communication, that these Noblemen,whorn I shall men-
tion, approached me; and also taking into consideration
the terms I lived on with theist and their families, the
many opportunities I previously had of conferring some
obligations, without ever seeking or receiving one in re-
turn, it will not excite mnch surprise, at all events, in the
districts they lived in, that little reserve should be ob-
served with mei where their own interests and honour
were concerned.
4, To begin with Lord Castle Coote. In the summer
of the year 1799 he wrote to me from Dublin, in very
urgent terms, to meet him in Maryborough early on
the commission day of the ensuing assizes, if I could not
do so the evening before. When I saw him there, he
explained to me, that he could not get an independent
man to act as High Sheriff for the ensuing year who
was favourable to the measure of Union, and that it
occurred to him, that as Lord Ormonde (with whom he
knew 1 was nearly connected) was most anxious to
promote that measure, I would have no objection to
terve the office of Sheriff for the ensuing year ; and that
as a preparatory step, he had my name put on the
Grand Jury panel, to be tailed that day. On my re-
plying, with some warmth, that I neither would serve
as 'Sheriff, nor answer as a Grand Juror, assigning as
my reasons, that I had but a small estate in the.
Queen's County, that I did not reside in it, but above
all others, I was most adverse to the measure of Union,
and was giving to it all the opposition in my power
in the county in which I resided, he expressed
much surprise at this, as two measures, for the suc-
cess of which he had often heard me express myself most
anxious, weie to follow the Union, namely, the eman-
cipation of the Catholics, and the commutation of tithes,
or some ameliorating change in that system ; (by the
way of parenthesis, until that very day, his Lordship
had always expressed himself to me as very adverse to
both these measures: however, then lie avowed he was
1 authorized by Lord Cornwallis to hold out theselnea-
sures to the Catholics of the Queen's County, when the
Act o‘Union should pass, in order to secure their support
to forward it in their respective districts. I parted
with him, expressing my hope that he might fail in
all his efforts on the occasion, and, to the honour of
the Queen's County let it be told, that he could not,l
with all the aid that Government gave him, prevail
upon one independent Gentleman to serve the office
of Sheriff, who would support the measure of Union,
and the late Sir Erasmus Borroughs, a zealous anti-,
Unionist, served that office for the year 1800. Pending
these transactions, I had the misfortune to be involved
in a personal quarrel with Colonel Deering, who com-1
manded the Romney Cavalry, then in Ireland; and
Lord Cornwallis thought proper to make the Govern-1
ment of this country a party in that quarrel, by first
sending down a King's messenger to bring me up in cus-
tody from the county of Tipperary, merely to give
bail to appear the ensuing term to an ex officio infor-
mation, which he ordeted to be filed against me is the
King's Bench by the Attorney General ; and, subse-
quently, he had my house in the same county surrounded
by the Louth Regiment of Militia, and I was again
brought to town merely to enter into a recognizance to
keep the peace with the said Colonel Deering. While in
town on this occasion, Lord Castle-Coote again urged
me not to sacrifice my liberty or my interests to my feel-
ing:; and, that if I would authorise him to say I would
support the Union, he would undertake that a vacancy
should be made in one of Lord Ely's boroughs,for which
I should be returned, that the prosecution should be drop•
ped, and if I would exert myself in Parliament to promote
the Union, some respectable office should be given me, the
moment one should be at the disposal of Government s
he did not say he had authority for this, nor did I
ask him, as I had not even a momentary thought of
acceding to his wish, but he made the offer, and I refused.
I was tried and convicted, but I was never brought up
for sentence, as my friend, who was also convicted, had
previous to the trial got a seat in Parliament to support
the Union, and part of the terms which he made on that
occasion was, that he should not be brought up for sen-
tence under that conviction, if it should take place; and
bad as the Government of that day was, it would not
act so glaringly partial as to punish me and suffer him
to escape. So much for the Queen's County and Lord
Castle Coote, who, pending the Parliamentary proceed-
ings on the Union question, got the Queen's County
Regiment of Militia, a Commissioners seat at the Re-
venue Board, and a promise of a Peerage, which he
also got subsequent to the passing of the Act of Union.

In the panty of Tipperary where I watched with
attention all the proceedings respecting the Union, and
where 1 saw a document of unquestionable proof, that
Lord Cornwallis not only employed Protestant agents to
negotiate with the Catholics, but also authorised them
to promise the aid of the existing Government of Eng-
land to obtain those rights they were seeking, the No-
blemen who assisted to forward this measure were Lords

Ormonde, Llandaff, and Dorchester, who then was sta•
tinned with his regiment in that county, and possessed of
considerable estates in it. But by far the most able sup-
porter of the measure was the late Lord Donoughmore,
from the energy of his mind, his competency as a am
of business, but beyond all other reasons, for his great
influence over the Catholics of Ireland generally, and
particularly of that county, where they were wealthy
and numerous. It was chiefly through his Lordship
that Government negotiated with the Catholics, and as
heat all times so identified himself with every measure
hekvas anxious about, that he considered every man

strongly opposed to it as if he was acting hostilely to
himself, I did not at that period hear from himself. that
nhe was authorized to hold out to the Catholics Lord Cor-

wallies engagement of Government support in Parlia-
ment upon their question, after the Union should be
carried, though every leading Catholic in the county
then told_ me it was upon such assurance from Lord
Donoughmore they assisted, contrary to their own feel-
ings and opinions, to aid by their signatures a Petition
for that measure. But subsequently I heard Lord
Donoughmore say over and over again (fpr from the
year 1802 until 1818 1 lived with his Lordship on terms
of the most unreserved intimacy) that Lord Cornwallis
was sincere when he gave such pledges, and authorized
by the English Government so to do; but that faith
was broken with him as Lord Lieutenant, and that so
Lord Cornwallis felt to the last moment of his life.
" Lord Llantiaff had both his sons at that period in Parliament;
Lord Mathew (the present Lord Llandaff ) sat for the county ; the

other (the late General Mathew) for Ballynahinch,a purchased

seat. He engaged to give Government the support of both his sons

in the Commons, and his own in the Lords, to carry the questio

of Union; for which he was to be made a Marquis, and also
returned as a representative Peer, no member of that family ever
thinking of office. But no influence he could use over his sons
could prevail upon either to support the Union. Lord Cornwallis
feeling fot his situation, promised If the seat for the borough
should be vacated, and subsequently filled by an able supporter
of that measure, his Lordship should still have the same terms,
though the support of Lord Mathew thrown into the opposite

scale was a serious loss to the Government on that que.tiort.
On this assurance Lord Llandaf prevailed upon the late Mr.
David Waishe, a man possessed of great legal knowledr and acute

talents, long a member of Parliament, and well remembered them
on many occasions, but more particularly as the man who first
expressed a doubt of the sufficiency of the simple :veal of
Poyniog's Act, which doubt the late Mr. Flood followed up,
twill he raised a flame in the country by his stupendous eloquence,
and which led to the memorable quarrel between Idr.,Grattan
and himself. This Gentleman had retired from Parliament for
many years, and though living in close retirement, WAS sought for
by every intelligent man who visited Clonmel, where he resided.
He was returned, at the instance of Lord Llandaff, for Ballyna-
hinch ; but it so happened, when the measure of ' Union' was
to be discussed, he was so ill he ce,id not go to town to take his seat,
though pressed repeatedly by King\ messengers to do so. It was
by one of these messengers Lard Llandaff enclosed within one of
his own, that autograph letter I before alluded to from Lord Corn-
wallis to himself, in order to urge him to come up and take his seat,
by showing to him (Walshe) how anxious the Lord Lieutenant was
he should do sow-bow much he expected from his advocacy—and ae
an inducement, (Mr. Walthe's family all Catholic but himself), an
allusion to ;he political measures which were to follow the Union
if it should pass. To understand one allusion in this letter of Lord
eornwallis, it will be necessary, after suck a lapse of time, to men-
tion one feature in the character of Mr. Walshe—he was a man of
violent temper, which often obscured his great natural talents, legal
knowledge, and very considerable information which he acquired
by early application, and this failing often led hint to answer the
adversary in Parliament, and at the Bar, by sarcasm and insult,
whom be could put down by argUment and intellectual power.—
' With this explanation, you will understand the use L9rd Cornwallis
intended to make of fdr. Walshe in Parliament; and it was front
the reports then very much in circulation that Lord Cornwallis re-
commended very strong measures to his private friends in forward.
ing the Union—reports that seised general credit from Corry's
attack on Mr. Grattan. I say it was front this, I was so forcibly
struck by the passage in Lord Cornwallis's letter, which I shall
now give you as taken from amongst some memoranda I then made
respecting the proceedings adopted to carry the Union.
" The passage was as follows—Mr. Walshe-was exactly the man
he now wished to have in Parliament, front the character be bad
established while he had before been a member of it: that ardency
of mind, the firmness of his character, universally admitted. ren.
dered bim peculiarly fitted fur the present crisis; and his advocacy
of the measure of Union would be highly beneficial to the Govern-
ment,
and to the country, and would be most gratefully remembered
by me. Do, my dear Lord, urge hint to come up with as little
delay as possible. From what I have leatned of his political feelings,
I am led to think, he must be anxious to forward the measure of
Union, when be will be informed that I am authorised by Mr.
Pitt to say, that the accomplishment of that measure will be fol-
lowed up by imparting to the Catholics the benefits of the British
Constitutions and lead to a beneficial alteration in the tithing system
in Ireland.
" The rest of the letter was nearly a repetition of this passage
in more general terms. But neither the letter of Lord Cornwallis,
nor that of Lord Llandaff, holding out great private advantages,
could enable Walshe to quit his house. Therefore, upon an under.
standing that he should be again returned, when his health admitted
of it, a great object to Mr. Walsh., to settle his affairs, very much
embarrassed, he vacated his seat for Ballynahinch, which was again
filled by some friend of Lord Llandaff's. The principle of union
then admitted in Parliament, its advocates increasing in number,
the peculiar advocacy of Mr. Walshe was not found to be
so necessary, and I.ord Llandaff was unable, and I know he
anxiously endeavoured to do so, to procure a return for Mr.
Walsh', who was pressing it with great urgency. It was
after many communications by letter and otherwise, that I
was applied to by both, as a mutual friend, to prevent the publics-
don, by Walshe, of Lord Cornwallis's letter to Lord Uandaff,
which his Lordship acknowledged he was authorised to oho* hint,
but which he incautiously sent to, and left in his possession. By
great efforts, and with much difficulty, I prevailed upon Walshe to
leave the letter in my bands until the assizes following, then to be
given to Mr. Walshe, and that Lord Landaff would in the interim
use all means to satisfy Mr. Walshe which he did in some manner
not here necessary to mention, and I at the time appointed gave
the letter to Mr. Walshe, at that time clangorously ill. In the
county of Tipperary, it will not occur to any one to ask why Lord
Llandaff applied to me, and not to his son, on such an emergency ?
but it is well known there that his son and his Lordship were scarcely
on speaking terms respecting the Union; that f was perhaps
more intimate with Mr. Wal.be than any other person, and that I
would feel nearly for the Mathews' family at the time as I would
for my own.'
" I have been obliged to run this letter to great length indeed :
but the facts introduced are so uncommon, that I found is ne-
cessary to give all the details, to establish them as much as I could.
I have also been obliged to introduce myself in every line, but
annoying as this is, the great object you are engaged in, and the
use you say those facts will be to establish the position you have
taken, would be but faintly felt by me, if such trdies were to
deter me; and you know at this moment my mind is too ill at ease
to indulge in any idle vanity. I shall ask you, who know Ireland
so well, and in the midst of all your other pursuits: have been a
close observer, do you believe there is one intelligent man la this
kingdom who was 21 years old in 1500, that has a particle of doubt
upon his mind that Lord Cornwallis employed Protestant agents,
and he se authorized them to negociats with the Catholics? Does
not the universal support the Catholics give him In their respective
districts prove the fact? Was there any opposition from the
Catholics anywhere, except a partial one in Dublin? There the
reasons and motive for hostility were obvious.; the injury which
the Union would bring on their property and business overpowered
their feeling to-public rights. The same feeling acting on the Cattio-
lies and Protestants of Cork in an opposite way, made them enthu-
siastic supporters of the Union, for they believed that the Union
would not be in operation for one year, when the trade of Dublin
would be transferred to auk; the citizens of Limerick bad some such
idea also. In short, it was by the Catholics the Union was carried ;
notwithstanding all the corruption which prevailed gt that day, in
despite of the influence of so many leading fanailieslato supported,
that measure, yet the Protestants through Ireland were adverse to
the Union.at least as seven to three.
" I must stop, and if this little memoir of the UtlistP, for such it

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is in fact, shall in any degree, itawever little, answer your object I
will have all the return I desire _

N My dear Lord, yours truly,
" GEO. LIDWELL"
a Clonmel,
" Lono—l was honoured with your Lordship's
ll
ip,sivgscm;
Mid kist. In reply : the High Sheriff convened a meeting of this
woozy, to take the sense of the people on the momentous question
of the Uniod. The lite Lord Dononkmore took the lead in the dis-
cussion, and spoke at some length in favour of the measure; and
concluded by saying,that the Homan Catholics were much interested
in having It passed,as their emaacipation would be granted, and that
speedily. A resolution to petition Parliament in favour of the
sure being put from the Chair, passed in a crowded court—two di,.
sensing voices against it, viz. the present Lord Ligmore and Henry
(Moro, Eiq. Lord Domnighmore called on me the neat day,
Investing I would (from the altar) impress on the feelings of the
Roman Catholics to forward that measure, by affixing their names
to the petition in favour of it. I complied with his Lordship's
request, and the petition was numerously signed by us. I have
no further information on this subject. Your Lordship's speech,
and answer to the address I like, as emanating from a good feeling
heart. Your Lordship's most respectful servant,
". Lord Rossmore. TB0)1AS FLAN NERT.“
After the readiag of this letter, Lord ROSSNORE said,
"Ate we, then, to be satisfied with the sophistry of n
Minister, that because the specific article was not writ.
ten in so many words in the bond, that therefore it is
not binding, when one party has received every advan•
tage and keeps the other without an equivalent? Gen.
amen, I hope it will be admitted that I have satisfac-
torily proved, that Catholic emancipation was not only
the secret, but the vital article of the Union on the
part of the Catholics, and that the Government of
England has broken her engagements with our <soon.
try. I hope, also, that I have accounted for the pre-
judices of Mr. Peel—that his speeches on her case
contain no statesmanlike argument, are replete with
sophistry, and cannot be admitted to proceed from
ingenuous motives ; for where prejudice exists in-
genuous motive cannot prevail. Gentlemen, I hope
you now feel with me, that a legitimate union has never
been in existence, and that therefore the apt ing in 0 e
eyes of Europe, the guardian of treaties and of equili.
brium, acc. must be henceforth regarded as an outcast,
and not entitled to hereditary succession,—that vows
and compacts were exchanged on the altars of our coun-
try—were recorded in Heaven, but have been broken by
man. Is Punica fides, then, to be buried in oblivion, and
to be transferred to Britain, the queen of liberty, at the
moment that the nations of the unlberse are bowing
before the tomb of her Minister, who had established
a home and a foreign poliCy that had made her feared,
honoured, and admired by the world? That Gomm-
mot finds it necessaly to govern India by the law
of opinion—by *the opinion hindostan entertains of
the justice of England. In the case of Portugal,
faith must be kept, "conic qui cowls;" but where Ire.
land is concerned—where the western island heaves in
sight—the land of the proscribed race—of the degraded
caste—neither oath nor compacts need be kept with
her. Consign her to the bigot, for his residence—to the
monopolist, for his prey. Gentlemen, I have done. I
have nothing mote to advance befog e you. I cane here.
that what I had to say should be proclaimed on the soil
of Bli sin—should meet the eye of every B icon, where
philanthropy and universal benevolence has chosen
her abode.
Mr. Qum after pwnonnting a high eulogy upon the
eloquence of the stech which had been addressed to
the meeting by Lord Rossmore, moved " that the most
cordial and respectful thanks of the Association be pre-
sented to the Noble Lord for his valuable communica-
tions, and that his Lordship be requested to ct,mmunio
cote to the British Catholic Association a copy of his
speech, and of the other documents which he had read
' at the meetinr, that the same may be entered upon the
minutes." 'ihe motion was carried unanimously, and
with loud applause.
Mr. M'llontaLt. rose again to complain of certain
aspersions which had been east upon the most elevated
and influential members of the CathOic body, in a pub-
lication called the Truthteller. Mr. M.D.tnnell then
read an extract from that paper, in which it was stated
that a Sub-Committes had been selected out of the
General Committee of the British Catholic Association,
and were in the habit of holding secret sittings at Nor-
folk House, where they were negotiating a Concordat
with the Court of Rome. Mr. M.Donnell appealed to
Mr. Blount, to say if there weretanj foundation for such
a report.
Mr. BLOUNT indignantly, and at great length denied
the truth of the assertion, and said that ht did not believe
that any member of the committee, except himself, had
been inside Norfolk house for 'the last six mouths, and
that the conversation there was alssays upon indifferent
topics. •
A long' desultory conversation ensued, which em-
braced a vast variety of topics which had relation to
personal differences betueen the members, and were
not politically or generally interesting.
About seven o'clock Mr, CHARLES BUTLER moved
that Mr. Wheble do leave the Chair, and that Lord
Rotsmore do take it, when the thanks of the Meeting
were given, by acclamation, to Mr. Wheble, and the
union 'Meeting separated.

" Lord Namoore.

Letters and papers from the South Western Coast
all agree in describing the storm which took place on
Sunday se'nnight as most frightful and appalling ; and
OA damage it has occasioned, both at sea and on shore,
as most ruinous and extensive.

Friday night, a young man, the son of -a miler in
the coontry, very imprudently stopped at the Cock and
Crown public house, on the Mayland Road, Colchester,
and got into company with two women and two meat
(trampers), who were regaling themselves, when one of
the ladies connived to ease the miller of his pocket
book, containing 451. in notes, and a cheque for 601.
The miller, after getting about a mile on the road to-
-1 wards home, discovered his loss, but too late to meet
with his fair companion, who, prat her paramour, had
decamped; the other pair have beeti taken into custo-
dy. The pocket book, containing the cheque, was
found a short distance from the public house.—Essra
Herald.
The following is a correct copy of a letter addressed
by TALAIA to JOHN NIMBLE :
" Paris, 28th May, 1814.
" Permettez mot, dear Remble, jue je you. adrese Monsieur
Dublin, allanta Loodres pour des if ' de commerce ; mon in-
tention avast Eta aunt de partir pour Londres ; mars des afraires et
.me prudence de conduite darts les circonstances actuate :wont fait
suspendre mon projet jusqu' a motive! ordre. Vespolr mini de
vows voir rut etre bientAt a Paris, a un pen contribut a dillerer
mon voyage, fakes mol done mods names amen id. Que d'evene-
mens, mon cher, depuis que nous ne onus Nome' vus ! 'routes
les royautes de ce monde soot deg royautes de theatre, ors plutot la
noire est encore la plus solide! Dieu muille qu'avec le temps nous
nous tirions du bourbier au I'on nous a mi.. Le Rot a d'excel-
lentes intentions, des lumilres et ua caractere feriae, mai. que nous
sommes poor et miserables ! Adieu, own cher Kemble, mon plus
grand desir est de You Tar et de shake hands witk you. Adieu,
a roue de caur " TA LM 4.
" My best respects to Mrs. Siddons."

CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, JANUARY 513.

We fad but few fresh arrivals of any description of Grain since
Monday, still quite sufficient for the demand ; but superfine sairipk a
of Wheat fully maintain Monday's currency. Barley continues ra-
ther slack, although the quantity at market was very limited.—
' Oats sell only to needy purchasers, in same quaatitles and as nearly
as possible at Monday s prices. In Beans and Peru the* is no
alteration.

r-"

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

WOOD V. WOOD.

THE BAVARIAN GIRL'S SONG.

•By D. A. O'MEARA, ESQ. AND SUNG NT MADA)U VISTRII.

From Frietschland I come, with my light wares all laden,
To dear happy England, in Summer's gay bloom ;
Then listen, fair Lady, and young pretty maiden,
Oh buy of the wand'ring Bavarian a broom,
Buy a broom, buy a broom,
Oh buy of the wand'ring Bavarian a broom!
To brush away insects that sometimes annoy you,
You'll find it quite handy to use night and day;
And what better exercise pray can employ you
Than to sweep all vexatious intruders away?
Buy a broom, buy a broom,
And sweep all vexatious intruders away !
Are Winter comes on, for sweet Home soon departing,
My toils for your favour again TA resume;
And, while gratitude's tear no my eye-lid is starting,
Bless the time that in England I cried buy a broom t
Buy a broom, buy a broom,
Bless the time that in England I cried buy a broom!
spoKlN—yea ; I shall go back to my own country, and tell
them there I sold all my wares—singing,
O'mein Heber Agustin, Agustin, Agustin,
O'mein lieber Agustin alles ist weg
Bock is weg, stock Ist such ick bin in dem Dreck
O'mein lieber Agustin Al-les is wee

COURT OF CHANCERY, JAW. U.
IN RE QUEEN'S COLLEGE; CAMBRIDGE.

On the sitting of the Court this day, Mr. KING, for
the Fellows, replied.—Judgment postponed.

In this cause the bill was filed in 1799. In 1800 (as
was alleged) a decree was obtained. In 1803 another
decree was undoubtedly pronounced. In 1817 the cause
was fully heard before Lord Eldon, and it now came
on to be heard again on petition. The facts of the case
possess no public interest.
Mr. BICKERSTETH and Mr. WRAY were heard for
the petition, and Mr. AGAR rose for the opposite party,
but the LORD CHANCELLOR deferred the further hearing
of arguments, his Lordship being obliged to proceed
to the House of Lords.
VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JA,WA&Y 22.
BANKRUPT PETITIONS. _

In answer to a question from Mr. MONTAGU, his
HONOUR said. that as it was the intention of the Lord
Chancellor to sit in the House of Lords to hear Appeals,
on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during Term, he would
appoint those days for taking Bankrupt Petitions.