The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-08-20 00:00:00

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hy me in addition to all (fie motives which ire
.-eisoie- jmust feel in common with the reit of oer felloe-suto
' ' • litillniNVl 1111Weltetit jecb, than the solemn oaths of men, who, if the) els-
. , , ♦ i regardednathe or pledges' might tiara long since en.
PADDY !MEW'S PLOT.
..j joyed tie benefits of that Constitution, in wheel' troy
• IVe ustleretaad from the most unquestionable au- now se aullowsly Irish to participate."
dlerley, Wit another branch of the mine laid by this Thanks were voted to the Dukes •of Sussei and
,estable Conspirator, tins exploded : the happy dis- Keof,' the tart of Danoughwiere, the Right lion.
cotery was made at Kilkenny, where the most bon. Henry Grebe's, Fail Grey, Lord Grenville, the Mar.
riblY hetamous rumours had been circulated for son ' quls Wellesll7,Lord lllollaird, the Bishopa Kiidsrer
=ick. It was reported, with ali the charm- the Right Hon. G. Ponsouby, the It;get ilea. G.
•indttstry of murderous malevolence, that. the' Canniog, the Bishop of Noriticit, Ilw Marquises of
re=were to rise, and cut the throats of all tbe I,anadewee and Headfort the Earls of Poses, DI rm.
h of the county and city of Kilkenny ;lin I , and Conyagbam and the Represenbeisesfor the
that not a single Protestant was to escape this meet tamely in Paelliament. A Fenn of Petition to Par. .
fel slaughter; anonymous letters were forwarded to ilameut was adopted.
jell the Protestants of the county, cautioning them ' ....
!bet to remain in their country-houses, but to post vier rolleivirg Resolutions were paned at a Meet*
jai' to town immediately, as a minute's delay might !lag of the Fame," of Lseentswesou, held at Lie
'endanger the lives of them and their families ; ,some I 'brick on the 10th inst. • .
persons in high stations caught, or perhaps we should __ Lord 1/I.eoant WANT WORTH P, the ('Bins
rather lay, greats' to catch the infection
of wars, " That we have some with grief and shame, this
reduced to the state of
and sent off expresses to their country friends to ree em‘cten. t and ._real"ened city
pettete property by a few Individuals ; and that we
pair to Cava with their families, and such valuable
{property as they could collect at the moment of I solemnly pledge ourselves, at fanners, and Fusers,.
"'seisi of LIBERTY, to use every coosdtuttolial exertion to
the information. On the nights of the '
1 %Rh and 25th, the nightly guards of the city of KiIW recover its Immunities, adtO reestablish its hide-
keney were doubled, and twenty rounds of ball- 'Peledence. . .
cartridge furnished to each man ; these circrun-
highlyhweliggited ehe 114'6" of "r
; stances were generally circulated throughout the we approve of thelr proceedings ;
1 and that, (tom the legal opinions we here el:rived,
ooentry. But the horrid inashination was at once
{ ridiculed and reprobated by every thinking Protest- ;and the large subscription' already entered into, we
aler la the country • some old ladies were alarmed, I
Ilaiehe alarm ruled there 'and the Catholic
i have cause to congratelatemm fellow-citizens of every
]lam._ on the glorious prospect of 'weepers-
*on the Slit was more numerously attended by ,se ampluistisli opening on them.'
dvilaraThat our Committee be authorised and directed
Protestants of rank and talent, than any other ever
Af of fired°
ra take all legal means to ascertain and enforce the
held In that City or County. Nevertheless the Ca, to effect the regis.
thence felt it due to the character and honour of 1
irf‘try affrre.e,tasee within this city,
, and le continue to collect the fusels
bddy to express, in the most pointed terms,
their abhorrence of this most. mischievous attempt at , atilt:34l7r, for the successful progress of ear ender.
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division; and accordingly, on the first day of their i The Assizes for the County and City of Cork ter.
meeting, they published a resolution to that effect, '
which resolution Ms
already
appeared in the are..minuted on the lath. Four young men were con.
under the White-boy Act, for appearing in
nick ; heft as we conceive it right to
present to the . arms, victed,
for the unlawful purpose of lowering the price
Public a felt view of this most extraordinary trans. '
of provisions to the regulation of their own system,
action, we will now again insert it, and most ear-
: and for meeting in treasonable associations. They
neatly request the attention of Irivhman of every 4 •
were ordered for execution °tithe 21st of this month.
rank and religion, to every line and word :—Cap. I
in the Chair.—The following Resolution tain RYAn On Sunday, the 9th Lust. the ears of a horse were
was unanimously adopted : `cut off, the property of a man who was valuing the
That agleam mwe are to do all la oar npwer to preserve the . tithes of the parish of &eamy, near Innisbannon---.
Peace sad temactillicY at this caualel. we feet motives called and a threatening notice posted on his door, that if
tu.arrald",,faraermutherstrret4releports otitififlifitut,medi"a aadi„,:nectioal'hurry'res,aat thew :be farther Interfered in the tithes of the parish, his
massaere of o.n. Protestant Countrynsea, whirl have Item cir- , house would be burned.
culated with the amain industry titratig't this rwtry daring tlhe i 1 About a fortnight ago, as a colt belonging to Mr.
last week, and intended for the wicked and inl.ehlevons porpase
of reviving the expiring spirit of relleittos diword, mid blaming hetes Morison, Birdatone, was looking over a
tbe happy prospect of the cordial union of Irishmen of all Ret hedge which boaaded the enclosure where its dam
show risatudoss g and we feel oorsrive.; peculiarly ealleNsiois • _ _.......2 ....
to declare °dr Indignatioa at the impendinn of reek atrocities • was 11"1""lif something or other alarmed it, and iu-
designs on our part, ri-roanded ao we are by emersion* of an duced it to make a spring to gain tie opposite side.
✓anks, whose early, constant, and liberal (menials* In oar be-
half, we recognise with sentiments of heartfelt thanks and grati. . The hedge beittg old, and newly cut down, the stems
hide. presented their upward dressed points, like a thick.
' • This Resolution was considered by minis ileac- i wedged barrier of bayonets—en these the chest of
quaiated with the alarms so created, as unnecessary j the poor crater* rested. Alarmed by its cries and
and untimely; they could not believe that any per. , groans, a numbered people soon came to its assist.
sou or persons could be found so completely desti- ante; when relieved from its situation, shocking to
bite of every feeling of patriotism or of charity, to relate, its intestines did not only obtrude themselves
fabricate such hellish rumours ;—the following state- , on the view from a large orifice in its belly, but were
meet will, however, prove, that the Resolution was actually discharged on the ground in a very large
most timely, and that the framers and proposers of { quantity. The people stumbled, forcibly laid the
it exercised a truly loyal, patriotic, and charitable poor animal on its back, replaced the intestines with
precaution—for, thanks to the interposition of a all possible care, sewed up and bandaged
jthe wound,
fondly-preeding Providence, the Petal. nas acme an- and, to the admiration of the whole neighbourhood,
COVERED. 1 the little sulterer is able to go &boat, sack its dam,
WM. WILLIAMS, High Constable of the City . and is likely to recover.
of Kilkenny, and First Clerk and Secretary of CO- I On the morning of the 11th inst. two young ufen,
LONF.L WEMYS, MAYOR or fiti.KENNY, stands , brothers, of the name of Brien, masons, from the
charged upon- the OATH of Enw. Noon t, with j County of Limerick, who were employed at the
having endeavoured, by promises of reward, to insti- 1 new Bridge constructing near the House of Industry,
gate Nooses to the dissemination of• treason, and j returned Trom breakfast before the time arrived whop
with having further offered to N'ooeas a carte they should go to work ; and having gone to bathe
blanche for the use of treasonable language among ' in the interval, one of them was seized with a cramp
the taverns and oth'er places of public resort, pro-; .e.the other swam to his support—but both were un-
miming that be should not be pros vuted ; and it fur- j fortunately drowned! Their bodies were speedily
ther appears, that this attempt of %VILLA Alb to insti- j taken up, but all efforts to restore animation proved
gate Nomees, was made on-the very same day that ; fruitless. An Inquest was held on the bodies.yester-
the Circular Letter of alarm was forwarded to the l day erecting, by Joun iloweee, Esq. Coroner, who
country from Kilkenny. We do not insinuate that' vetaraed a verdict 01..-2teetileatat Death. •
the loyal Mr. lVieetaaas had any disloyal motives I
—No--most amiable and most loyal, Sir, your
motives were, no doubt, quite different ; but what-
ever they were, they and Mr.Wiera ‘ll3 himself are to
be subjected to the ordeal of a criminal prosecution ;.
he has already been arrested, and held to bail by his
Worship Colonel Waxers', so that we are prevented
for the present from making any other comments on
this most important discovery, than that we feel im-
peratively called upon to press upon the middling
and the lower classes of our countrymen, the abso•
Mile necessity of guarding with the most austere cau-
tion against the intrigues of those infernal fiends,
who go about like the manly( lion, seeking whoa
they may destroy. Let them beware of tavern and.
prier-house politicians; they know not with what I kr,
avidity the unguarded expression would be turned in- -
rte'
to treason, and the affectation of confidence made--4.4 in INN abuse
lure of destruction. From what we have heard,
we have good reason to think that Mr. %LUAUS
was connected with persons of higher rank, sod
therefore it Is, that we stima, yrith all the sincerity
of our souls, our friendly caution—laliliMßN
BEWARE I--( Cork 31e.rcantik Chronicle.)
MEATTI CATHOLIC itEETINO.
At an Aggregate Meeting of the Cathelics of the
County of Meath, beld at the Court-house Naran,
on Monday, Augusl 10, the Earl of Fingell in the
J•Cltair.
Several Resolutions, propued by Lord Killeen,
and seconded by Elie: Corbally, Foie were unanie
moody adopted; amongst which were the follow.l :-.• - ' -
' ' That the recent discussions oa oar question mi-
ca's*ye us confidently to hope, that the Illostri-
oes Parentage now at the hoed of this realm, will ad-
here- to those principles, , which, 'by promoting
hernial and -good. mill mWe all. his Majesty's
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PJATITION OF POI,4ND.
—rm.--
The parts of Russian Poland snccessively incor-
Iporated with (1w Russian empire since 1/7 l. would '
hi themselves form a considerable State, accprding to
the-note engray.ed On the map of Ilse frontiers ppb.
lhhed with the approbation of the Russian Glivern-
meet, by Major Opperinan, at Petersburgh, in
17115. The successive dismemberments' of Poland
have produced to Russia the following accessions :
Nomher of
sj. Wrests Inbabitanb.
Dyes bit Partition, 1n 1773 76.5511 1,246,945
Partition al 1791
My she subsansinn of Garland 15,271 5r17,011
Partition of 17115
_:v'
_Tgbi • ....... ..._
_. , WAN, '6•787.14.1
District of Bialysack. anted in 181 do? .k.se
by the Treaty of Tusk • S 330.000
71197.1,1
This population is composed of many different na-
tions. The Poles inhabit principally the towns and
castles; the Uhraitians, or Mato-Russians, dwell le
the Ukraine and Podele; the Lithuanians and ice.
nregitians form a race distinct from the -Sclavonian
people. The Nobility of Courland is German.
There are Jews and Bohemians, and even 'fartarsk
established in a corner of Lithuania.
The Russians have divided the country into the
felldwing Governments :-1. Courland ; R. Wane;
3. Givdeo, formed of the ancient Lithuania' pro.
perly se called, tad of Saasogitia ; 4. Witepsk ; 5. ,
Mobliewi-forinekl bf White Ronk ; 6. Min*, ems.
prehepding the ressaioder of White - ' . '
, od Dorsi.. 1 7. Welynek, w
as ' • , 8 and ft. IPedelts and Ay In Like
Rus.
' ' Lithe itutski. The prevent beendarkie
..or thlrCeroreolegre; *Mei have undergone eiverat
dittribiliiOn. - the