The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-23 00:00:00

PROJECTED g!viiGRATION MEETING IN

TH E CITY

Several merchants, bankers, and others have sent a requi.
sition to the Lord Mayor to call a public meeting, to take
into consideration national emigration on a large scale ; to
petition the Queen and the Parliament on the subject ; or to
take such other measures as the meeting may deem proper.
The following are the resolutions which it is proposed to
submit to the meeting :
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" That by official despatches, and other authentic state-
ments, it is established that .in most, if not in every one of
the British colonies, there is a most urgent and pressing de-
mand for the services of labouring men ; while in this coun-
try, in our manufacturing towns, and in various parts of the
kingdom, there are thousands of able-bodied, honest, and
industrious working men, who cannot find employment, and
who, with their wives and children, are reduced, in conse-
quence, to a state of absolute pauperism, and are suffering
the greatest privations and misery.

"That the natural and efficient remedy for this state of
things, as respects the evil of a deficiency of labour in the
colonies, and the evil of a redundancy of labour and conse-
quent pauperism at home, is the adoption of such an ex-
tended system of national emigration as shall afford every
facility to our unemployed fellow-countrymen to transfer
their labour to our colonial possessions, where their services
are in demand, and where they will be enabled to earn, by
their own industry, an honest and independent subsistence
for themselves and families, instead of pining in idleness,
misery, and starvation at home ; while, at the same time,
such a measure would relieve the labour-market, lessen the
burden of the poor-rate, create new markets for our goods,
give employment to our shipping, and be beneficial in various
other ways.

" That the principle of employing our extensive, fertile,
and unappropriated waste lands in the British colonies, in
the creation of a fund to be applied to the purposes of emi-
gration, br means of which alone, in proportion as British
capital, skill, and labour are directed to their cultivation and
the development of their resources, they derive any value—.
and more especially as there is abundance of capital in this
country requiring investment—suggests obvious means by
which such a system of emigration may be carried into effect ;
and it is the opinion of this meeting that Her Majesty's Go-
vernment need not apprehend any difficulty in raising the
necessary ways and means for the accomplishment of this
great national object.

" That there are great numbers of working men who are
willing to emigrate with their wives and children, and who
are highly eligible emigrants, but who cannot avail them-
selves of the offer of free passages on account of their inabi-
lity to provide the necessary clothing and outfit for the voy-
age, or to defray the necessary expense of travelling to the
port of embarcation ; and, as there could not be a worthier
object for the exercise of true Christian charity and benevo-
lence on the part of their wealthy and more favoured fellow-
countrymen than to assist such parties in their laudable ob-
ject, that, with a view of preparing for emigration in the
ensuing spring, a general fund for assisting poor emigrants of
good character be forthwith raised by public subscription ;
and that it be under the management of the committee after-
named.

" That the said committee be and are hereby authorized to
prepare petitions to her Majesty and both houses of parlia-
ment, founded on the foregoinr, resolutions ; and also to
adopt any other steps which may be necessary ta insure the
best and most effectual practical result to the proceedings of
this meeting."
The following data will show the number of emigrants from
the united kingdom, with their destination, during the year
1810, derived from official sources :
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To the North American colonies
To the United States 38,493
To the West Indies 1,938
To the Cape of Good Hope. 513
To Sydney 7,811
To Van Dieman's Land 2Bl
To Western Australia 233
To Port Philip
To South Australia
To New Zealand 1,338

83,746

SIR HARCOURT LEES AND THE BURNING' OF

THE TOWER

(From the Birmingham Advertiser.)

We stated in our last, from memory alone, that the Rev.
Sir Harcourt Lees had, years ago, pridicted (as from secret
information of the treasonable designs of the Jesuits) the
burning of several of the public buildings of London, as well
as various revolutionary inovements for crippling the energies
of England. Not wishing to rest the fact upon our ow❑ re-
collection, we sent one of our papers to the rev. baronet on
Thursday week, requesting vouchers for these facts if we
were right, or information of our error if we were wrong. On
Monday week we received a copy of the Dublin Evening
Packet, containing the following letter from Sir Harcourt,
accompanied by lengthy extracts from letters of former dates.
We have not room for all, and as this contains the substance
of the others, publish it only.

" TO 'I HE EDITOR OF THE EVENING PACKET.
" Blackrock House, sth Nov., 1841.
" (Gunpowder Plot.)
" Sir,—l have received a letter this morning from a gen-
tleman in London, who writes that, although a stranger to
me, he ventures to suggest that I would re-publish, in order
to render a great public service, (with the dates when they
were written,) certain letters which I wrote some years ago
on the kibject of the burning of the Houses of Parliament
and the then contemplated firing of the Tower and other
public buildings in England, as fit opportunities should pre-
sent themselves. 1 recollect several letters that I addressed
to the nation and to yourselves also, one important commu-
nication to the Right Hon. Lord Duncannon at that awful
crisis; but in a long search this morning I can only at pre-
sent lay my hands on a few.of them, which I have the honour
to enclose you ; and I have marked the extracts which I
think will throw some light on the awful calamitf which
has within these few days befallen this long-deluded nation.
The vile incendiary is a foreigner, whose name 1 know, who
invented the chemical preparation which burned down the
Parliament Houses, the Exchange, and other buildings ; and
the flues were overheated to set fire to his combustibles.
The Tower, my informer told me, was the grand object con-
templated in order to destroy the fire-arms, to cripple Eng-
land in case of insurrection or invasion. And this awful de-
struction forms only a part of that wicked and general con-
spiracy which I have been unceasingly proclaiming to the
empire and parliament for many successive years.
" Believe me, sir, your faithful
" HARCOURT LEES.
" I hope that every precaution will be taken to secure the
royal palaces." _

It ii a fact, deserving of the most serious consideration,
" that the same deficiency of water, and a similar state of the
tide in the river, were experienced at the late conflagration
at the Tower as appears to have been provided for by the
Jesuits in 1666."

We are quite aware of the ridicule which the Papist and
Radical press has constantly attempted to throw upon Sir
Ilarcourt's letters and those who publish them, but when
public duty calls us on, ridicule has as little effect upon us as
abuse and slander. We acknowledge that the Rev. Baro-
net's statements seemed at the time they were first made
utterly incredible. But when nearly all the events which he
then stated were contemplated by Jesuitical traitors have
really taken place, there appears more reason for calm con-
templative inquiry than ridicule or railing. What the world
calls " fortuitous circumstances" will happen sometimes, but
it is rather extraordinary "fortuity" when a man declares
in plain English (not in ambiguous or Sibylline language)
that certain treasonable and destructive events are contem-
plated, and these events, one after another, actually take
place. We know not, indeed, whether it does not require
more credulity to believe that there is no connection between
the means spoken of and the ends accomplished, than is re-
quired to believe there is such connection.

- But we will make no further observations, having to in-
troduce to our readers a letter from the rev. baronet himself,
which reached us by post on Tuesday night week. It com-
mences with compliments to ourselves for our zeal in the
Protestant cause, and sundry pieces of advice, but we will
omit the portion, and commence where the writer begins
with the business in hand :

" Blackrock House, Nov. 7, 1841.
"MY DEAR SIR,—I had received from different journals
in England, and from private individuals, similar requests to
yours, and, as I could not reply to all, I endeavoured to
search out among the thousands (I believe) of papers I have
published my letters in for twenty years past, some of those
connected with the burning of the Houses of Parliament in
1834. You will find two of them in the Evening Packet of
Saturday, which I sent you yesterday. I had previously to
the receipt of your favour forwarded, on that evening, to the
editor of the Salopian Journal, an Evening Packet, along
with the one of last Saturday, containing that important pe-
tition of mine, presented to the House of Commons in July,
1840, against the Jesuits, in which I stated that 1 had writ-
ten to the Lord Chancellor of England on the 4th of June,
respecting the intended attempt to assassinate our innocent
and magnanimous young queen. You recollect her majesty
was fired at by the miscreant Oxford on the 10th of that
month. This villain, who was stimulated to the act by a
Jesuit emissary, was anything but insane, as was pretended.
I hope the editor will publish the extract, and the letter pre-
ceding it, which I sent him. It must make a powerful sen-
sation, and will prove to the most prejudiced Protestant Li-
beral what these demons are accomplishing in once exalted
England. If you can get that journal it will furnish you
with one of the best weapons I could arm you with. * * *
I wrote a short, but strong letter, to the editor of the Times
on Wednesday night, giving him the name of the incendiary
who had fired, by a chemical preparation, (which my secret
informant saw tried, in a committee of twenty-one traitors,
sitting in an executive directory in London,) the Houses of
Parliament, Exchange, and other buildings. I told him the
Tower was fired by the same means (perhaps by some sworn
operative), and I charged him to publish my letter. I see,
by this paper of Saturday, that he has taken no notice. 1
wish you would mention this. The two royal palaces, Buck-
ingham and Windsor, are contemplated for destruction when
a proper opportunity can be got. You are quite right when
you state I gave warning as to the Canadas. I was ten years
proclaiming the maturing of that rebellion ; I also said New-
foundland would he the next, which it will, if not averted by
firm and decided measures immediately. Seven or eight
years ago I proclaimed the two Irish priests, Fleming and
Troy, as principals in organising the Romanists in that im-
portant island, which was to be the bribe with our North
American possessions altogether including the Canadas, for
aid in separating Ireland from Great Britain ; whilst a deeper
plan was laid for betraying Gibraltar to France for her assist-
ance, had the vile jacobin, Thiers, continued minister. An
Irish priest, last from Maynooth, was sent there to be a
bishop, in order to corrupt the Roman Catholic soldiers and
inhabitants. No one seemed to be aware of these treasons
but myself. However, I trust that, every event that I pre-
dicted having proved true, up to the burning of the Tower,
the sensible part of the nation will take warning in time. I
see by your observation as to my being an enthusiast, that
you do not know this report of twenty years ago emanated
from the Church of Rome, in order to prevent their priests
and flocks from reading my early works against Popery. A
liornish priest, a convert of mine, assured me that he was in-
structed to tell his congregation that I was affected with de-
rangement by Prince Hohenlohe; and another report was
placarded in the streets of Dublin, that my arm was paralysed
by the same impostor. However, thank God, I possess a
mind impregnable to fear, and a spirit that rises above all
difficulties and danger.—Believe me, faithfully yours,
HARCOURT LEns."

CALCULATING PRODIGY.—There is a man living in the
parish of Aghagallon, county of Antrim, named David M'Ca-
vanagh, who was born wi!hout arms, and almost without
legs ; Nature having left in lieu of. the latter two small stumps,
only a few inches in length, having a small shapeless foot at-
tached, without any joint intervening. The extraordinary
things which this person can perform, mentally and bodily,
would be too tedious to enumerate.—H owever, we shall sub-
mit the following curious specimens of his powers of mental
calculation. M'Cavanagn solved all the subjoined questions
with civility—and, of course, without the use of pen or ink :
1. Supposing Ireland to be 300 miles in length, and 150 miles
in breadth, it is required to determine how many square in-
ches are in the entire kingdom, takingit as a parallelogram.
—Answer-292,626,432,000,000. 2. Supposing the Atlantic
Ocean to be 3,000 miles long, and 1,500 miles broad, arid 100
yards deep, allowing every cubic inch of water to be an ounce
in weight, it is required to find how many. tons weight of
of water it contains, taking it as a parallelopiped. Answer--
2,939,328,000,000,000. 3. If the earth's diameter be 7,970
miles, it is required to find how many square inches are on
its surface, taking it as a regular sphere. Answer--
1,298,202,143,293;440,000,•—N0rthern Whig.