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ing with his colleagues, or regarding the repeal er
refusal as a measure of Government." This corn.
munication, as we have said, was made on Saturday,
and Mr. SHERIDAN, we understand, was appointed
to be the bearer of the message to Mr. Poxsoxay.
Bat, says a Morning Paper, the former Gentleman,
" with that good sense, discernment, and know.
ledge of mankind which uniformly guide his con.
duct in matters of such delicacy and import.
ance, requested that a third person might be
present, when he was charged by his Royal nigh.
1 :less with the message, and while ' te; delivered
it to Mr. Powsorme. The request was acquiesced
in, and Mr. Apical was the'tbird person selected.".L.
It thus appears that the course which Mr. PITT per.
sued bn the question of the Slave Trade is to ii,,
the course to be taken on this, though they arc so
materially different in their character. The Slave
Trade was a question of National morality, and
of Christian feeling ; but it was not a matter er
vital importance either to the heciiiity of the Sta!e,
or to the existence of the Established Church. The
[ repeal of the disabilities on the Roman Catholics
of Ireland is on both sides declared to be of vital
importance. And both Lords Gilt v and Gres.
vir.r.r. on one side, and Mr. Pencevm. on the other,
have made solemn declarations to that effect. It was
I the sine qua non in the formation of a new Ministry ;
I but the moment that that job is served, it ceases to he
of any importance, as a ministerial question. Mr.
Pxactivsz.gives up the high church party as a Ali.
awe. end promises them his support only as a man!
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Whether it is, .that it is found to be impossible to
forte an Aasinistration on the intolerant basis pro.

posed to the two noble Lords,and that the high ground
is abandoned in hopes of qualifying the matter to tlin,e
who wl3h for a pretext, such as the noble Lord who

desires always to have two strings to his bow, we
know not—but we rejoice that the question is thus
in truth and in fact CONCEDED. The Roman Catho-
lics may with confidence look to their complete emau.
cipation when the matter is to be left to the freejudf.
ment of Parliament, and it is a concession in fact
thus far openly made since the carting of the famous
letter, in which it is more than insinuated that the af.
fairs of Ireland having undergone the unbiassed deci.
sion of Parlament, were not to be taken up again.—
It puts an end to the cry of No Popery. It shuts
the mouths of all Mr. PERCEVAL'S partizans, for he
agrees to be placable upon a point upon which ho
most solemnly declared, that no time, no circum-
stances, should ever make him bend. It is now to
rbe a matter of course. It may be carried—or not—
but it shall give rise to no contention between him
and his colleagoes ; and, therefore, if any body will
be good enough to enlist, No Popery sl all be obliter.
ated from his standard! The PRINCE RtGTN! wtit
be, by these means, free to declare, that he has al.
ways been friendly to the Emancipation of the Ca.
tholics ; and that his only wish is, that their C'alms
should be freely discussed and decided on by Perna.
ment; that in case of his Majesty's providential re.
covery, it might not be said that the repeal was a
measure of hilGovernment, but was the uninfluenced
act of the Legislature.
We have received Cadiz papers to the ed instant,
I brought to Portsmouth by the Dispatch packet, from
which we extract the following
orricsar. DISPATCH FROM LORD WELLINGTON TO HIS

EXCELLENCY DENBY WELLEsLEY, DIS BRITANNIC
mAJLsTE's AMBASSADOR AT CADIZ.
~ GALLEGOS, Sax. 21, 181?.
" SIR,—I have the honour to transmit, by Bri.
gunner At.14A,11 copy of my dispatch to the Secre-
tary liit;.Bllate, giving an account of the taking of Ciu,
du/ Rodrigo. Brigadier ALAVA, who was with me
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daring-these operations, will be able to add any de-
tails which I may have omitted. I entreat your Ex-
cellency' to iathrm the Spanish Government how
much I am indehted to this Officer, Marshal C. DC
&PARA, 11141$1 J. SANCIIES, for the fortunate re.
suit of this operation. The inhabitants of Castile In
'this, and all other occasions, when I have had any
communication with them, have shewn their detest-
' ation of the French yoke, and their wish to contd.
bute, by all the means iu their petrer, to the rout of.
I the enemy. I have delivered up the place, with all it
I contains, to Captain-General Casraxos, who is in
1 this part of the country.
" P. S. I likewise inclose copies of my dispatches,
of the 15th inst. and this date, to. the Secretary of
State."—( Regency Gazette, Feb. 1.)
The Dispatch packet brought us the following let.
ter from Cadiz, daterl Feb. 2 :
" The Ganyntedc, Captain Putty's, is arrived
from Gibraltar, to receive Count FERNANDEZ MI.
NEz, who proceeds to England, to 1111 the situation
at present held by the Duke Del bra NTADO, at the
Court of St. James, the latter character being about
to return to this country, to take his seat at the head
of the New Regency. The Members who now form
that political body are such as best favour the cause
of Spain, and will second the views of the British
Government in helping to extirpate the common
enemy. Don Ecsu.to in 13 tun Asa w AGVEGA,
Secretary to the General and Extraordinary Cortes,
has transmitted, by order of the Itegeney,.to Mr.
Ilemay Wst.LEsLET, his Britannic Majesty's Am-
bessidor to the Court of FERDINAND VII. a letter,
,in which is declared the high sense the Spanish Go-
ittirninent entertains of the services of the Liri+h
wanl force that was employed for the defence of T.
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