Star.
London, England, 1829-01-28 00:00:00

GIBBALTAR.

Extract of a letter dated Gibraltar. Jan. B:—w The
weather has set in extremely cold f..r the last few days,
and the people without the walls now come into town
freely in the day time, and go out at nigl t. The troops
in camp will commence to-morrow returning to their
barracks, by two regiments a day, so that the place
may be considered quite healthy, and clean bills of
health will be soon issued. The Spanish General com-
manding at Algesiras has submitted to the Supreme
Board of Health at Madrid to open the communication
at the end of forty days, to date Isom the 2d instant,
when he considered the last case of the convalescent
state ended.

Great praise is due to our principal medical office?,
Dr. Pym, for the seal he has shown, and for the order,
method, and wisdom he has introduced in this very
distressing calamity.. Sqme very important evidence
has been obtained, which will probably establish the
importation of this cruel fever by the Swedish ship
Dygds..n, arrived here on the 28th of June from Haven-
nab. A Board is officislly spoken of as named by the
Lieutenant Governor, to investigate the matter."

A serious accident occurred to the Duke of Luxem-
bourg on Monday, whilst on a shooting excursion with
the King and the Dauphin in the Forest of &Germain.
The Duke's gun burst, and occasioned so much injury
to his hand, that it was fogad necessary to cut rift the
thumb. The Duke de Mouthy his taken the place of
the. Doke of Luxembourg no Impose, as Captain. of
the Body Guatdst—Galigisant's Mummer.

MADRID. Jaw 15.
The Queen has been confined to her bed since the
Bth. Het complaint is inflammation of tae d►toar, ac-
companied pith fever. The Bulletin Publisherl .i its
day is,uf. a satisfactory flamer. .
PROM TUE MRSSAGIR DRS CNA MIRRIB.
CADIZ, Jan. •.
PROM A PRI VATR I.ILTTRR.
You knout that three Fiend' werch.sotrotn, captured
by Algerine pirates. have been taken into the ports of
the Empire of Morocco.
I learn by a letter from Tangier, dated the 21st of
December, that in consequence of strict orders given by
the Emperor, none of the goods belonging t.r these
ships is to be sold ; that pet sons who had bought a part
of then been put iu prison ; and last) , that the
Algerine Consul has ueen obliged to give security toe
the value of the prizes. These measures will reilraps
..blige the captors to 'leave the p its if Morocco, and
proceed to Algiers, and the vessels nr.y thus tie retaken
by the French ships of war cruising on that coast.
PARIS, Jar. £4.
The Deputir a met yrwerday to the rtimb.r of about
200, in It e ball *bete they usually hold their siting.,
in contequerree of an invitation which had been sent to
their residences. The obi cc of this convocation was to
be present at the reading of the Or.!inance for the open-
ing of the Chambers on the 27th of the present condi,
to nominate the Grand Deputation which on that day
is to go and melee the King. to hear the letter read
by which the Matsinis de these invites them is be pre-
sent at the Mass of the 11..1y Ghost, which will be cele-
brated the Jay before at Notre AIM! and lastly, to
distribute among themselves the 98 tickets a loch admit
their families to be present at the solemnity of the open-
ing of ti e Chambers.
M. Labbey de Pompieres, as the see for Meorber pre- ,
sent, acted as President, and drew by lot the names of
the 24 Members who are to compose the De,.utAt.c.n.

COUNTY ARMAGH NIEEFING. .

ApRIDGILD ff.l; U TUX STAR Ir BRUNSWICK
The calmly dignified by having v.ithin its t recincts
the chief seat of the EstAtished Chinch in On, king-
dom, has come forward is defence of the
and liberties i f Great lirit.tin. in a tnannes every way
worthy id it.

There are some very peculiar circumstances con; ected
with the meeting of tto Piotesta- t of the county of
Armagh, which took place in the city of th.tt n tine, 00
Inui Way, ultich justify and call his the ,!vtait into
which we ate about to enter. Flom causes which ate
no doubt familiar to the geneiatity of our is d-'s. this
essentially and almo t exclusively P.otestsi t c, only is
represented by two pim Poises y Member cue a bias.,
,i 1 a Noble and. liberal family, the col.ef ths. apostate
from a cause (that of the Protestants) *loci' it *a, once
anticipated he would have adorned. The Governor r f
the coutty too is anti Protestant in his pole:tea:
ides. and to clown all, the High Shetiff fir lilt Arum
being is kn-wn to be strongly tinctured wita what .ate
called iiGeral teeling..
Under these cicurnicances a reqi.isition, calling on
the last named Officer to c..nsicue the notestants of his
Bailiwick give expression to their opinions on the
11,-man Catholi. Question, was f rwarded to that Officer.
To it were attached the names of upwards of twenty
blagiurates of the county, t gether with a ?toy consi-
derable potion of its landed proprietors and resident
Gentry. That dignitary, whose name is Barry F a. Esq.
cosi trously :closest to conveiie the Meeting for the
purpose which the Reqoisitionists d. sired s and thus, as
far as his authority went, untold have suppressed the
expression cf Protestant feeling in thi4, as the event
proved, one or the most Prote,tant counties sif the
North of Ireland. But not so easily could that SUpplrell.
sion he effected. The same Gentlemen who bad signed
the requisition, published notices, canine on the county
to assemble, and affized thereto their names. The result
was such as might have been anticipated from As max h.
At so early an hour as six o'clock bodies of Protestants
began to assemble in all the towns and villaAes of the
county, with the intention of coining into the city in
bodies. This was mole particularly the case on the
Portadown and Loughgall ro.ds, from which, about
half-past eleven, there came into the town one of the
most admirably arrayed processions of imainied men
that we have ever
.beheld. The different bodies of men
coming from these quarters had united at a short dis-
tance hom the entrance to Armagh. and headed by
Joseph Atkinson, J. P. and Conran Woodhouse, Esq.
J.Zcann into the city in the most admirable and peace-
able order.
First came a body of farmers awl persons of the
better description of yeomanry, a body only to be found
in the Protestant counties in the north of Ireland,
mounted on horseback, two and two, without lags, or
any other distinguishing insignia, with the excei.tion of
an occasional exhibition of an orange ribbon; it being
the inception on this occasion to have a inertia" of
Protestants simply as such, and not thangemen. This
body, sell mounted and capitally dressed. consisted nt
about *Wee': hunched, Wh`o rode into vitro with tte
utmost regularity, and were greeted as they entered
from all (patters with food shouts of applause.
To these succeeded a body of men, srolkrog two and
two, at the head of whicl4aati occult:4lly mingled in
the general mass, were-bands of music; some flags
were borne in thus part Isf the assemblage, and numbers
of the individuals of which it was composed' wore mill
knots uf.orange and purple.sibbon, which contributed
to the gay-appearance of the scene. Jihia line of linked
pedebtitans extended about a mile and a lull in length,

and took full forty minutes in passing by the writer of
this report. There were in this body (and here we can
assert there is not the slight.st exaggeration) upwards
of five thousand well-dressedrespectable-looking young
men—none of those frieze-coated creatures that shouted
• Lord A.oglesey out of tafrn on
_Monday. . .
This was but one quarter of the county: from Tan-
deragee, a similar body of mounted yeomanry, and
another of dismounted peasantry and tradesmen, reached
the town almost at the settle time and in the same order.
Ac their head we noticed—the Very Rev. Dr. Carter,
Dean of tom; William Leslie,sEsq, M.P. and Robert
. Harden, Esq. of Clare. These bodies united on their
arrival in Armagh, and walked through the principal
streets; after which they proceeded. to the place of
meeting, opposite the Court HOLYSe.
MAXWELL Cyua, Esq. was called to the Chair amid
great and fp neral cheering, accompanied with tremen-
dous cries of " No surrender," which lasted full five
minutes.
Many excellent speeches were then delivered, and we
regret that we are obliged to confine ourselves to the
following extracts:
The Reverend HALE WARING—Since the period of
the Revolution the Protestant cause never stood on such
high grounds as it does at present. From North to
South one general cry is raised of " No Surrender"
—(Loud cheering, accompanied with shouts of " No
Surrender")—which echoes, as well through the fertile
and peaceful plains of Great Britain, as in the agitated,
but beautiful fields of Ireland. That cry is the death-
. soil of Popish hopes and intolerance. Only let us
• pursue the advantages we have thus• gained by one
unanimous and powerful expression of our sentiments,
and have them conveyed to the Legislature in our
petitions to both Houses, and to convey. also these
sentiments t', our generous Monarch. I call on you
all, and if my voice could reach all Ireland, would
invoke all Ireland to petition unanimously with a
prayer—(Applause). This county has been, by a paltry
• mar ceirvre, prevented from being one of the first to come
forward in support of the Constitution—in defence of
that holy and just cause, in which we are all engaged.
The Committee were thin nominated, and retired for
some time-into the Court House; on their return,
The Rev. ReiIINRY ROBINSON reported that the
Cronniittee had agreed to a Petition which he then
real, and which enshodied the prayer of the county
ag *lust further c. ncessions, &c.
The Rev ROMNEY Roatnaom—Your presence here
is as free and independet.t as yourselves; no power or
influence has brought you here, neither the power of
the Danagogue, nor the Priest—(Cheers). You have
come at the command of duty alone; you enjoy all the
smirces of true happiness, which dignity and ennoble
human n.•ture—the bhisings of equal laws--the right
of adoring, according to your own consciences, the
Goo of alt. De igning men among your opponents
may tell you that their objects are not what they really
. are; hut your are not to be deceived, for you can
draw front the lessons of the past a warning for the
future—(lw, hear). Y.su are men in the noblest
term of the word; your conduct is not excited by pas•
' lion, but the re ult of conviction; steady and deter-
mine I, not w timing like the weathercock with every
. b ao. Gentlemen. the enjoymeot rf these our peculiar
gessiali are endangered; we feel that the Protestant
_religion is persecuted in Ireland, as far as the Roman
Catholics can do it—(Ch•ers). We know that the Go-
vernment of the con *try 4,ltoweil them too long to pro-
ceed, in the vain h •pe of conciliating them; and, until
lately, looked w ith indifference at their conCuct. Fri
• example. let any man atti mpt to diffuse among his
tenantry the Word of Goo, in its most unmixed form;
let him endeavour to impress u,:on them a know-
ledge of religion at all, iirstatiiky they are all in arms; he
is immediately denounced by the Association, and he is
as.arled on all sides by the liberal. of his own party. But
on the othe rhanif,let a priest burn copies of theliible which
are riot his ow n property ; let him prevent the chador the
Protestant from being eJocated in Ms own communion ;
let hint arrOint by force the rapt' ing Protestant; all this
is a matter of course, his religion requires it, and we
are denounced as bights—(Applause): Turbulent and
lawless as the lower order of the Roman Catholics are ,
known and acknowledged to be—thoughtless and now-
Arms to a proverb—yet the strange anomaly was pre-
:enter', of the Magistrates dealing towards them with a
great deal more of tenderness than towards the PrO•
truants, while they had the Association ever ready t,
save them from the justice of the land; nor did they
refuse to spread Viejo shield over any perpetrator • hat-
'never —(Cheers). If such, Sir; be the state of Popery as
it is at present, st hat influence would it derive from the
occupation by members professing its doctrines of one
hundred seats in Parliament ? What if to these be added
the possession of ilfice under the CIO xn, and the 'mar-
potion of the Magistrac)—w hat was to be apprehended?
I need not tell you, for you know it too well, and it is
that knowledge which has brr ught you all together
her.. Three times since the period if the Retro MM."'
has Popery had an opportunity e f di-playing 111 lieland
its teal nature arid spirit, and three times liassit 'given
fatal and Woody evidence that its sp•rit remarns on
changed—(Loud cheers). I r all other parts Of Europe
.has she been the sworn enemy of iiitellect;reations and
light; the encourager if every enormity. 'lt i: evident
V at the same sport which lived in the b.ssOrn of all ni-
ner and a Gardner still rages in 'those who profess the
same dittrines. And what do they • tier in Warn lot vie
nnvaried experience of a thnnsand years? fitri Whit do
they call on us to resign the f uits of &et ere erience,?
Is it for the folly and fatuity of. those who fibie. kissed
together Popery and civil and religious things
which were never bet to artiocill• ed? is it'for tits }fleeted
liberality of O'Connell and his gang? Is it for ibe
heartlessness of a few nominal Proteslants, who, know-
ing that sheythemselves care nothing fur religious truth
—ltkOwingthat religion has for themselves no influence
of Popery equally inefficatious on its followers ?—(Ap-
plause). But, my friends, even in those countries,which
are n soled by the supporters of Roman Catholic EaIIASS.
cipation as evidences of the mild and tolerant 'visit in
their creed, how stand the seal facts of the case ?••••
(Hear, hear)—are they nut dyed red with the blood of
the Protestant martyrs, whom Popery has sacrificed?—
(Loud cheers). Even in France, that land where Popery
prevailed- in its least guilty form. that spirit was the
same till the Revolution poured forth irreligion and
demoralization on the land, ueiil it swept away all re-
!igloo before its devastating darter ; even here,alrhough
it has not yet returned toot' ts former reign. the spirit
which animates that degreding creed is still the same.
Even here, if we have to refer to France for evidence,
what do we find? Does notthe Massacre of St. Bar-
tholomew furnish us with, conclusive evidence of the
tender mercies of the Roman Catholics to the Prows-
. sante ?—(Louti cheers). For further evidence we shall
refer to the revocation of the •Edict of Nants, by which
the Protestants had been guaranteed in the free exercise
of then religion, and which was so speedily alter Wards
most scandalously broken—do • e not here find evidence
that nb faith is to be kept with heretici ? (Cheers). We
shall also refer to the other day, within our own memo-