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London, England, 1811-03-05 00:00:00

LUSH CATHOLICS.

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We have received I)uhlin Papers this morning, to
A, Sd instant. The Catholic Committee still conti-
nate to engross the attention of the Irish public by
their debates. Alderman DARLEY &it'd Mr. BA._
moorom, the Mag:strates, who communicated Mr. •
Pot-E's instructions to the Catholic Commit-tea, hav'e
published an authenticated statement of what passed
on that occasion—on the other har.,f, Lard FFRIENLX
and some other Members of the Committee, have'
publicly contradicted this statement, declaring it Id
be a tissue of falsehoods. '['he length of our I'arlik..
rnentary report obliges us to be select in our extracts
from the Dublin Papers :
trront the Dublin Evening Post of March S, reeeivedin Loodoo
this morning.)
CATHOLIC COMMITTEE.
The' Committee met, aecerdieg to adjournment, at.
Mr. FITZPATRICX'S, bookseller, Capel-sreeet:
Major GEORGE !RYAN, in the Chair. •
The Secretary toad the Minutes of the last Meeting.
Major Bevati then addressed the Committee— •
Gentlemen— On the last day of meeting I gave,:
notice of a Resolution which I had intended to molly
on this day : it was to this effect--" Resolved, That.
a dutiful Address be present .:d to the Prince of Wafer,
praying his Royal Highness to remove his Gear
Charles Duke of Richmond front the Government of.
Ireland; as he had endeavoured -to impede the ono
doubted right of the Catholics to petition the Legisla-
ture for a redress. of 'their grievances."—Since Sa-
,turday, I have consulted with several of my friends,:
who are of opipion that such a Resolution caonoti
originate in this• Committee. , I have yielded to their
I opinion, but pledge myself to my countrymen tet-
bring it forward at an Aggregate Meeting.
'rite Committee can: to the following Resoltitions I,
Resolved,.7hat the Petidons he entroasvil, and transmitted to
the Earl of Fingal; to bt by him handed to the Earl of p(stonsbin..
more and the Right Eon. Hairy Grattan.
That a Meeting of the Catholics of Ireland he called at the
Farming itetolltoty, in•Steliitee's-green, -on Friday near, at tlfo
hour of eleven o'clock in the forenoon, to takeinto consideration' •
a dutiful MIA loyal Address to his Royal Highness the Prince ol
Wales, and that such Meeting do request the gatholles in thtit
respective Counties to concur in suali Address. •
That the arrangeMent for cantering the signatures to-the Cae
tlsolie Petition be entrusted to the cafoofOUßSteretary,Mr.Hare
That this Committee do adjourn to the third Tuesday in Apr*
Gsoitot Prirseu, Chairman.
• The Visiount SOCITSWELL in the Ci.iir.
Resolved, Thin the thanks cf this Cointnittee me ten:reed to
• George Bryan, E.g. for loos eefy proper, spirited, anNdignfiliall
conduct in the Chair. iLDWARD tier, litommy• *
Major BRYAN declared that he wool,' iprbtft beta
ward his Resolution for the removal ...f the Duke 4 '
Riclonondat thicAggregate Meeting. -• • : bra . • a ,
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THE ARMY: - "-. 21--- *
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The Torbay division of transporeffeaaiblia silt
remain wind bound at that place. '7l "
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The 2d battalion of the 69th regimenthiiiii Ihe re st
f-om Lincoln garrison to 'Sleeford, where they wilt'
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remain during the Assizes. • .
We have seen several letters from Officers on the .
Expedition against the Mauritius, all of'which agree
in stating the extreme ill treatment given by the
French to our prisoners in that quarter. One of them
gives the following dismal account, which we believe,
to be perfectly correct:
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" The brutality and disgusting ill treatment recei-
' ved by both the males and females who were unfortu;
nate enough by the fate of war to fall into the easels
of the French, equals any thing except the very st.
excesses committed in the commencement of the Re.
volution in France; and this has affi.rded to.our fine
fellows a noble opportunity of displaying the generos.•
city and liberal principles peculiar to English sailors
and soldiers. iln one instance, the Frenchmen crowded
nine gentlemen and four ladies (three of them married
ones) into one room, and without a bed or any thing
but straw, and a bucket of water in a corner—without
plate, knife, or fork, and with only two ounces of salt •
meat in twenty-four hours, and a pound of bread to
each—kept under so close and strict confinement, as
not even for a moment, on the most pressing wants,
to be suffered to quit theiroom during four succeed-
ing days and nights.
" In another instance, where our soldiers were made
prisoners, they were handcuffed two and two together,
the hatches battened down, and all Scotelimen and
Irishmen (called foreigners by them) separated from
the English,• and allowed only one-fourth of the salt-
meat already specified, and thus by famine forcing
them to volunteer into the service of his Imperial Ma.
testy NAPOLEOIt."
The CutthwALLlS, Captain TUCKNR, SAHARAN%
Captain SPENCER, and RAUSANG Dutch brig, front
Amboyna, arrived at Prince• of Wales's Island oy,cl
June, having called at Batavia, and landed the Dutch
prisoners. By that opportunity the Dutch Govern-
ment received the first ineelligence of the capture of
the Moluccas ; and great was their astonishment,
on being informed of the force that had attacked Am-
boyna. The CORNWALLIS and SAMA RANG were deeply
laden with spice ; and the RAHRAhc; had cloves stowed
in bulk.

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The following is an Extract of a Letter lately re.
ceived from. France by a Catholic of dist itiction: 4‘ De-
crees, oppressive of the Church, constantly issue &oft
the Thuilleries. The Sulpicians, latterly the.bnlwark.
of orthodoxy and discipline in France, are suppressed.
Seven hundred priests, taken in the different pArts of
Spain, have been banished to the mountains inValais„
and allowed only three sols per day for their support.
The Cardinals, natives of the Ecclesiastical States,
are in separate prisons in France; and prohibited, to
appear in any part of their costume dress. for refusing,
to swear allegiance to BONAPARTE., al their rightful , _
sovereign. Twenty-thus Bishops are, in like sofa%
seri imprisoned."
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