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delivered up within twenty-four bolus, the people .01♦
send appeared well inclined to comply. Orden; were is-
sued by the Commanding Officers, that no patrol, or lei-
Mary body. or person in military clothes, should spotlit
on any road leading to Doneraile until ten o'clock at
night, that the people should have an opportanitr
of bringing in the arms without fear or interruption. In
the course of Sunday, the 22d ult. many applications were
„Made to Dr. O'Brien and to his Curates, to discover from
them where the inns were to be left, at what hour to be
brought in, &c. &c.
' Every thing now promised a happy issue to the too
• long protracted evils of this unfortunate country. But
So a few boors the scene was changed. Some incen-
diaries amongst the crowd resolved net to give up their
arms, and tbreateled the lives of those who may be in-
duced by the Clergy to surrender them. Thus had all
tope of saving the life of Hickey, or of restoring peace
to the distracted neighbourhood of Donorslle, been blast-
ed by the interference of bad men, who on this occasion
bartered the life of their leader and the peace of their
•, country, for the precarious possession of the arms which
They had plundered.
It is too mush to expect that the exertions of the Cler-
• &nen will, notwithstanding this temporary disappoint-
. went, UP successful in rescuing their neighbourbood, and
-by that means the County at large, from the evils and
. , 'tenors 4Wch a deluded and rabble peasantry bare
• 'brought on the country. Yours, Ste
VtIITAS.

LORE) HOLLAND'S PROTEST.
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After the debate and dtvimon in the House of Lotds on
iltnrsalay last, I Peers who had voted in the mi-
nority sill a diasentivet, and Lord Holland entered
she followleg#4l protest to the rejection of Lord Ellen-
itorsirs's illation :--
. 1111 Because it appears that we have been balled in
*.• all one endeavonrs, deceived by some and disregarded by
!ether of our Allies, and t the influence of Great Bei.
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-.• t• . 4aiis on the Continent ha fined to a degree inconsist-
I. ent tort the vaunted, a y of our Councils at the
'revers' pacification of Enror, as well as hnmiliating to
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he feelings and injurious ,c) the interests of the country.
2dly. Weenie the Ware of our endeavours to pre.
,vent a contitrntal war, is to be traced to error in judg-
, wont and want of firnitiess iu the negotiation. Those
k. objections to the 'designs of France, which a friendly
anxiety for the independence of Portugal should have
suggested, and which aloe regard for our own welfare
iota even safety should have excited, were either stndi-
• oasly concealed or pusillanimously softened don n during
• the whole discussion. Our negoliators were tender to
tile aggressors, ilist4nt, cold, and even unjust w the ag.
grieved, feeble in their remonstrances against the ini•
(pity, earnest in their representations of the inexpedi-
. ksq and danger of the meditated war, as if the bonceir
•'.' .A4,*.k We of Bourbon, and the prosperity of France,
objects of an English Minister's soli.
I power, the protection of Al-
-. ..•
e Great Britain herself, were

inconsistent with our professed
derogatory to the cbarac-
unfriendly to Spain, to
inttrnsl government, with
or saving the honour of
igestions, highly objection-
certain prospect of advan-
ippear that we were ever au-
b the adoption of the nto-
France would desist from
. the army on her frontiers:
not prepared to enter into
protection of Spain, if her con-
her Constitution so sagirested
• to avert the hostility of

bad been inclined to adopt
improvements, in her Con-
e done so with honour after
language and conduct of foreign Powers
On that subject, yet it was notorioes that other and se-
rious obstacles stood in the way of any such adjustment.
Her laws forbade act- proposal of innovation on the Con-
stituter' of 1812 for a period of time which has not yet
elapsed ; and the members of her Government bad taken
an oath to abide hr that injunction. Prudence, there-
fire, as well as religion and principle, deterred them
from complying with our ill-timed and officious advice.
A Government engaged in the great work of restoring
and is rsolidating the ancient liberties of its people,'
could not violate a recent and fundam.otat law with-
out staking the confidence of mankind in the stability of
its inatitnii ans, and without furnishing, at a moment of
much irritation and route civil distnrbances, new grounds
for di.trost and suspicion, and fresh motives for division
and disunion.
fithly. Because a firm determination on the part of his
Majtaty's °averment to resist all hostile aggression
against Spain, and an early and manly avowal of such
determination, would,in all probability, have counteract-
ed that odious defiance of public law which a great
Northern Power is so forward to profess, and so anxious
• to inculcate, and might have diverted the French King
from those iniquitous and ambitions projects which the
course pursued by our Ministers has not prevailed upon
him to abanden.
Gthly, and lastly. Because the neutrality of England
during a contest between France and Spain must be ex-
tremely precarious. Should France prove successful,
events would ensue which would either involve us in im-
mediate hostilities, or materially impair the sources of
our posterity in peace. The revival of the family com-
pact ; the exclusion of our commerce from all the posses-
sions of toth the branches of the House of Bourbon ; the
expesure of Portugal to menace, invasion, and subjuga-
tion ; the expedition of combined, armaments for the re-
covery of South America, and the military ascendancy
of France, on those very coasts from which the most
vulnerable puts of our empire are accessible.
on the other fiend, should Spain. by the nature of the
war, be provoked to commit acts of violence and outrage
within her own territories, and to engage in a species of
warfare fully sothorized by the law of self-preservation, hut
peculiarly obnoxious at this moment to the other Powers of
the continent—viz. the encoumgement of insurrections and
YefOlillied in France—we are not so blind to the lessons of
experience, as not to apprehend that compassion for indi-
viduals, and participation in the fears of other States, may
' again, lii spite of our intended neutrality, involve us (as it
has done before) in an extensive war of opinion. alike re-
the principles of our constitutional Government
' if ancient English policy.
;ers be avoided, a protracted warfare
e Powers. possessing such an extent of
Spain, will expose our merchants to
and Injuries, which in ell probability
embroil us with one of the Benito-

tembers, who intended to vote in fa-
Russell's motion for Reform, on
shut oat. most of them being in the
the time of the division, and all bring
• after the doors were closed :—Lord
tzgerald, Colonel Johnstoo, M. A.
,s Taylor, Esq. James Macdonald,
er, Esq. Spring Rice, Esq.—Noni.
Shut out, B—Total 177.
last, the 22d instant, at his House in
Grenville, in the 80th rear of his age.
to the Duke of BUckingham and
only brother to Lord Glastonbury, to
have succeeded after his Lordship's
end in the list of Oseerels, and came
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NATURALISTS' CALENDAR.—To enable OUT readers to
judge of the season, we select from the caleadarsof the Rev.
Mr. White of Selborne, and Mr. Markwick, of the neigh-
bourhood of Rattle, the dates of the following familiar oc-
currences, which have beep observed during a eourse of
years, and which may usually be expected about the present
period :
(Where two dates are given, they denote the earliest and
the latest times at which the occurrence was observed. The
letters W. and M. are the initials of the names of the ob-
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Butter) fly (Cabbage) appeared.—W. April 28, May PI—
M. April 29, June 13.
GlOtr•VOrni sp.--W. May 1, June 11.—M. June 19, Ber 1
tember 28. •
Chaffer or May buy op.— W. May 2-20.—M. May 2,
July 7.
Ilemeyeuekle flowered.— W. May 3-30.
Oak 2.—W. May 13-13.—M. April irj. June 4.
Beeekl.—W. May 13-28.—M. April 23, May 28.
Common maple fl.—W. May le.—M. April 24. May 27.
Walnut begun to be in leat.—W. May 18.-31. April 10,
June I. (To be continued.)

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PR ICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stook . . ... 414; I India Stock 2431
per Ct.Red....7.81 .... 1 Ditto Bonds —s. 395. 40sput.
3 p.Ct.Cons 773013 i I Ex1.08081111..2d. (-1 131 17s pm.
Se per Cent 8
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New Fours ... ..srn 99 971 --Small —lss Ms pm.
Long Ann • 19 Lottery Tickets ..... 27/. 191.
Intp. 3 per Ct Con.forAect.. . . 174

Ott Sttateontan.

MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1923.
BOURBON WAR.
The French are getting on very fast in Spain, and
seem to mast, as yet; with very little resistance. They
have a large Beet in the %Vest Indies, and another in the
Mediterranean; if any dispute arise between them and
us relative to the possession of West India Islands, THE
UNITED STATES WILL TAKE PART WITH
THE FRENCH. We beg the Jenkinsons and the
Ryders to remember that we say this. The Americans
will man a part, at least;of the French ships. American
commanders and assistants will be put on board all the
ships ; and then we shall see what is the result of con-
quering France, and of deposing James Madison. The
Americans suffered too much from our searching', our
seizings, and our impressments, not to be resolved to
prevent that Power from ever growing up again. In
short, let the Lord Charleses only go on for anther five
or six years; let them and the Lord Johns and the Lord
Henrys only sit where they are now sitting for
a few years longer, and the English nation, instead of
being saucy and bullying, will be one of the best behaved
little nations that ever has been known in the world ; a
true shop-keeping nation ; " meek and much a liar."—
Much a liar it already is, through the means of the stock.]
jobbing press. Meek it is already becoming. One com..,
pares it to a person coming out of a tit of sickness;—
another says it wants time to recruit its energies. At
any rate, the majority agree that it cannot go to war,
and we see that the French can. Lord Harrowby,
thtl
other night, went this dismal length. He said, if Eng-
land were to menace France, France, sure as she was
of the co operation of the other great Powers of Europe,
" a temptation would have been afforded to her, which
" flesh and blood could scarcely be able to resist.
" Every party in France, even that party which was
" most opposed to the general views of Government,
" world have wilted in the idea of a war against Eng-
" land—a war formidable to this country•, supported by
" the Powers of the Continent. It was but natural that
" every party in France, however they might differ
" amongst themselves,would cordially joimin applauding
a war against England. France had undergone f/se
humiliation of seeing her capital occupied by the at-
" mice of the Powers of Europe, of whom England
" was the chief France, after having been twice oils-
" deed by England in conjunction with the other Powers
" of Europe, would certainly be exposed to a great
" temptation to go to war—if she found herself at the
" head of a powerful coalition, instead of being marked
" at as the object of its vengeance."
These are pretty confessions to make. They amount to
neither more nor less than this, that we dare not, for our
very lives, even talk of war with France. Here it is ac-
knowledged that the French bate us ; that all parties
hate us on account of our conduct in 1814 and 1815.
This shows, then, that we have yet to pay the double
reckoning of that day : not only the reckoning in money ;
but the reckoning on the score of vengeance due to us
from the French. The sews from Spain the French
make a great piece cf work about. We do not ask oar
readers to rely upon any thing they read in the French
papers, until it be proved by events. We did not believe,
for instance, in the capture of the galloon ; but she
is now arrived at Havre de Grace! So, when we find,
by and by, that the French have actually arrived at Ma-
drid, we shall believe that they have beaten the
Spaniards in the manner that they now describe--
1u the meanwhile, our readers ails two that Nis Bo

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• citude a and the balance din:nu
Ns. and even the interests of ti
brit secondary considerations.
3clly. Because it was inconsit
tl.dieiip_probation of interference,
Ase df impartial mediators, and
lama any alteratives in her in
.6 view of idlayitig the fears
France. ” Moreover, those sugg
atble witicipre held out no CI
It does not app
Stestir ingire her, that on
• 1• (Bifida Mt we recommended, F
attrtiter demands, and disband I
ith the other band, we were no
any engattements for the protet
eo **Abe alterations in her C
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Because if Spain ba
meted
modifications, as
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and to every Mliool of t
. Even if those danger
between two maritime f
coast' of France and S
innumerable vexations 1
' • must SOOtiOr or later e
oats.
The following Mtn
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I That'l! last, were sl
Noose of Lords at the
l present immediately a
I Nefton, toed Wm. Fit
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i 3 Taylor, Esq. Charlet
% k F 4 Witliaill Goebel
ber who voted, 169 ;
tl, Died on Twigs)! li
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iie was first cousin
Lord Grenville, and o
whose title he would
death. He ass seam
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