The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-09-26 00:00:00

lAELJND.

COUNTY OF MAYO MkETING.
CAITLESAIt, TUUSSbtY, SEPT. 20.

Pursuant to Requisiton there was, on Monday
last, a most numerous and highly respectahle Meek.
In; of the Preehtilders of this County, held in the
Court.huuse, convened for the liberal purpose of
ednsideriefg the proliriety of forwarding the claims
df his Majesty's•Reinau Catholic subjects—flee
littox, Esq. lligh Sheriff in the Chair.
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After the usual formalities had been gone through,
the heftiness of tor day was opened by
The lion. AUGUSTUS DILLON,
In.s speech, remarkablefor that eandevr and Jibe.
• tality which has so deservedly attracted' the cond.
denco (if his Catholie eduititeents, and that discre.
tienr..end judgment 'which Characterise the able
Senator.. He Joecluded (resersing to himself the
right to reply) by moving a string of Resoletione,
which met the unanirinous consent of the Mooing.
Tilt/
.were drawn up in the name of the Premise*.
rot /he purpose of speaking more foecibly
to Pailiatnent and the Country, by disclaininig,
spun their ,peed •jealousies end solollll4*
appeitileissiuni the religious, tesiets of their
tkolle fellow subject'', which were NU frentitylles
eked, in Parliament, ea a maim objection to cuss.
Catlifto to their claims.* 4 • •,7
bar SA M 1,1,C L O'MALLEY., Berta full este&
. Mr. SHERI rr,—Permit ma to sta4e,•,that•
tirely cuicaide in the sentiments so luminously and
eipressed- by the Ilionnit table atl,
Inte,',olficeri who is.one of on e, Representatives in
ratflahient, and in those lionouriblei
triotic .itesoludens, moved by lainl, and which tbaee
the hunotir •seconding, and in which'l mesa cut
M del ueberi,.herti; and, permit
WO to itsprf.. NMI I trust 1 hero unlit:Stated his wishes
le a iteiftlinfin the Infemial Iltitiso of 'OenitnOtie,
which I shall have the helper Of submitting fOr
tkevemsideretion, of.tbis honeurablp•meeting. Mr.
Sheriff, with the ejeeatest pleasure do I %fatness the
petient'ljutetlntiriritie eetintyel"Mityre aisembhill
ptireese'tff eteressinitheir
ardbel 4106131tit'lho icheiliptishrkeet"Of
sure, • dieebte. thfilienniltist coat.
Sit,
Enearifeltion'Of -der esthetic NU TS iubfeets::
Sit, a
•Prutestant by educatiallinttl ptineipki I
114 in
the Rights of Subjects etehis,f9 mpire. hecause the
*terse; Jki*elitp calf for it...the li.
herty of the • iudepeinlence •ett;
this Empire..:the freedom ef-the world demand it.
The horrors of naledrsal etieelsy seem-to follow
opesibeesifidsvar ;easlapeast,- lid less ptepeded by
beiOld.4ldPlnt,4ol'll44l.4. only he the..fererunner,
?lipase ansuceessfe
l.jut. it is !rue, tlieLfirst Gene.
taT the' er
sh•COunlriei likntliired noit leads Out
Privies in the field—it is true a Steteithie, intrepid,
iietkcibele,eit preftititul, superior to all his prate.
cheers, vivo. front'. bur • earliest days, now guides'
post futeign affisirt;: 'but -voles the whole fuss of
thodlatintry can be beaten, to meet that of France,
beilliatit advantages are scarcely to be hoped ; and
until the ehole etterglis of the people are callbd
forth, theseiteebselaiube kept. Irian', oat.'bivii
shores, which could and would flee an enslaved
1,00,1„: Saier.l.tiuseet•n:sehiletieett'.(thotigh then eery
youtigh.diteilig this unkietunme ascot's of Seventeen
linedeed,and the loyalty of. the
Cathersc‘Ptiestlistiel ; -I havelthard•scathulic Priest
preach frono'his loyiley rss est ereign; at,
the se, mometitittlet the dowetry Jill Around . was.
iu elte• hands of Abatistenlitimbliima French, and..
kis•Majesty's troupe** remotest's; I have steno
at the same pieriettv` another, Catholic Priest pro..
tecting a Protestaite, ,Clergystan fruin falling
into the hands of the French, and dissuading
his flock from joining.the etendatil et *elide; and
I have seen him successful its boll*: I heettoeveel
found in Catholics lembottiser.; less
integrity, lessloyalty, than in Protestauts. tiiesct
shall, with the profoundest deference; propose that
we petition the House of Calumet's fur the repeal
the existing disabling statutes affecting our Re.
man. Catholic fellow subjects, and take the liberty
of submitting for adoption, as the Petition of the
County kilMayo, 'one in which I have avoided the
meetied, ief-eliatroMinous vrotd; so fatally intro.
ditetek whictellihall not even naine, and hope never
again to beerriat the same time I• have left in its
form to the wisdom of the Legislature to adopt
setts provisions, nut inconsistent with Catholic Te.
nets seal Catholic Principles, as may reconcile apt
conciliate contending end. hostile opinions, end
bring this great- and salutary, object into the most
practicable. feria. Mr. Shoff, I. move you that
,the following Petition be adopted. ee the Petitionof
the• County of Wye. • •••

N EACO'DON EL, Esq. spoke A length, and

warm!). in favour of -the Catholic clams, and stated
that he held in his band en Address Which should be
presented to the Lord Lieutenant, although it may
not bear half a dozen .signatures.. This Address,
which Mr. O'Donel mentioned, was the proposition
of his respected parent,. Sir• Neal O'Douul, solicited
the personal. and official interposition of his Grace
in favour of four millions of his Majesty's sub-
jects, to whom his Majesty was in a great measure
Indebted for the splendid victories of his reign ; and
concluded-by expressing. a fond hope, that his Grace
would endeavour to procure their unqualified resto-
ration to all the privileges .of the Constitution. The
Ad tress, on being read from the Chair, was up-
posed by the Right Hon. Denis Browne and seve-
ral other Gentlemen, asserting that it would.rather
%elan!, than forward the object in view. The Hun.
.Col. Dillon fait that, as a Petition to Parliament had
already passed i the Meetiiii4 in agreeing to Sir
Veal 01'00404 Ailtirc>s,,, would perform a_ work
of supererogation.; however it was subtnittel to
.the general grouse, and the Ayes..(for passing it)
wars declared to be most numerous.
, Sir NEAP. O'DOSTEL, in the most emphatic
.soillsopourable manner, Fec9itypynticd unanimity,
and earnestly entreated tlia Meeting to pull tOgether,
.osust truly asserting, that it one fouling itossesSed the
Jrisie Popalation. we, need bist.iikik.regard the
threats of INAtiapiflOJ He - wits etklyinetti
.that it
1..13 t tie cljsposition of.,eFar.rona present hertily to,
j.,in in promoting the cause (or which they were
coovessesi-41 busiocsi) therefore, was simple—it

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