The Statesman.
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brief authorit) ," n mad, in A Confect for property as
well ac right, deprite Englishmen of these merles of
public discussion it Well are prescribed in the practice
of our fathers, and which, though not absolutely ne-
cessary to initiate our proceedings, were certainly
necessary to secure to them the prompt, the marked
attention and the reverence of Parliament. My
friend near me (Mr. Roscoe. jun.) has stated to you
the cause of Mr. Rathbone's absence, he has de-
scribed the service which that Gentleman has render-
ed, and in his name has acknowledged the vole of
thanks which you have very properly and unani-
mously recorded. Gentlemen, 1 allude to Mr. Rath-
bone, because you all must reeollect what passed be-.
tween him and the present Mae or of Liverpool, a
man whom I will not mere pert icularly name, from
considerations which it noted be idle to explain to
any respectable assembly. its reply to a requisition,
the object of which was tee public discuession of the
Orders in Council, in the Town-hall, his Worship
not only declined a compliance tvith the purpose of
the requisition, but did not deem it at all necessary to
'mint out any other wayin which a design, affecting the
great and leading interests of the town of Liverpool,
could be executed. Such was the treatment received
by that immense moss of the people concerned in the,
issue of this most important subject? Such was the
treatment received by our truly worthy and respectable
friesel Mr. Rattsbone, the son, the immediate de-
ecendant. of that good, and great, and enlightened
chancee—teat MAN so honoured, so revered, so
lore!, so lamented ! Weil, Gentlemen, the whole
amount of Liis bri.ioess i that one man was against-
eiscossion, that atuneer was for it, and you all know
the consequeece. Mr. Brougham too was for dis-
cession. and nix Worship was agliast it. I shall
not trouble ye., with any comparadve estimate of the
intellectimi romp of thee, Gentlemen.
A ;rest constitutional object, as applied, to the
Magistracy, it was fit and necessary to mention. If
it merely regarded the individual, I certaiuly would
no' have stooped to votice it. He who now hap-
pen., to he Mayor, 1 dare say, did not dream of °face
three weeks before his entrance upon it. If such a
sisiou crossed his mind, i think I can, with great
safety, assure him that no such dream or vision di:-
tabu', the rest of any other man.
Gentlemen, to the skilful, the splendid, and the
triumphant exertions of Mr. Broughem, whose best
and wittiest consolations must be found in the heatt.
felt rejoicings of a grateful anti gladdened land,
J would add that humble tribute of approval tad
admiration, which, 1 very well know, amounts to
veiling more than a mere attestation of my own
fecline,s. 'the disieterested, the ardent, and !min-
ter:Meet] devotion ef himself and Isis talents—the
way in which you are t!,;; ttav told, that he has al-
most torn himself to pieces ia your service—his rea-
dy attendance, his useeasitig liens for his country—
Nis talents, his diligence, his vis tree, command your
grate(l acknowledgments ; they remind you of
better day:. and, united with the exertions of others,
are devilled to procure for 1' see.. pro!:1. be-
cause better, days. 'Mr. Breegliaurcesseet cell of suc-
cess. Ills wisdom is his eloquence, and ids country
is his object. Ile is not the tool, or the submissive
slave, of any of those Parliamentary combinations
which invariably end in the destruction of indivi-
dual integrity; and, Gentlemen, I do most solemnly
declare, that I cannot picture to my imagination a
spectacle more impressively grand, than the continued
advance, and the rapid march to greatness of a young
man, by the unmixed force, and by the persevering
agency of his own genius, his wisdom, his eloquence.
his courage, and integrity. How, then, arc you to
reward these signal services? My worthy friend, Mr.
Itichardson,in pointing your attention to Parliament,
has pninted out the most splendid and suitable reward.
Let the theatre of Mr. 13, ougham's greatness ho the
scene of yout gratitude. Let the dissolution of Par-
liament be the bond and the tnentento of the heaty ob-
ligations you are under to this dlstlispielted charac-
ter. It will also afford yoU the opportunity of shew:l
leg your sense of obligation for those services which
our fiend, Mr. Yates, has mentioned; for he very
truly and very gravely has told you, that of our pre-
eel( Represeutatives he c 3 ortc of them twice. Now.
Gent!. men, with some little respect for myself and
my time, rather than see one of them twice, I would
See f:ro of them once. fly ail o:at it due to your-
:wives, and to this great community, I call upon you
to rest ee the town from its present degraded state
of representation. Rescue the town from tile ha-
bitual slavishness of one member, and from the sor-
did and prevaricatiug politics of the other. Rescue
the town from the ignorance of both. Where now
can you look for the image or the representation of,
your comn.ercial skill, your public spirit, your wis-
dom. your proud and distinguished advancement itt
all teat conduces to benefit or to adorn society ?-
lou look for it almost every where, except in that
Place Where it is most needed. Where is your de-
fen' e or your security, if you distrust the ceutinel ?
—Where is your consistency or discernment in s
snaking those the objects of your choice, in whom'
infatuation itself would be ashamed to confide? I
think he who knows, without blushing for, the pre-
sent representatives of Liverpool, must be miserably
destitute either of blood or modesty. All that is
mean in conception or miserable in effort, all that is
insuperable in folly, appear to me to be abundantly
represented—but nothing else. The ignorance, the
thickest darkness of the town is caricatured, is re.'
presented to excess, like the increasing shadow of a
declining sun, where the projection is greater even !
than the body it represents! Gentlemen, the ob. i
led of this day's celebration is a Clear and convinc- '
jag proof of what perseverance and public spirit,
when exerted in a peaceable and legal way, can, it
all times, accomplish. It would be net difficult or
nnpleasing task to prove to you, by those lights and
illustrations afforded by the laws, as well as the ge-
neral history of your country, and indeed it is in
the laws of your country, that you will find the most
accurate and luminous history of it; I say these
sources will afford you ample proof that all restric.i
tints upon innocent commerce is not only repugnant'
of the spirit of the Constitution, but in direct viola. I
tion of existing statutes. Security and encourage,:
meld were established, not only for your own trade
and navigation, but protection and even indulgence
were extended to foreigners. It is, Gentlemen, to
the operation of this wise and benignant principle,
that you are to refer the extension of your commerce,
the improvement of your manufactures, and your an-

Arr.

doubted maritime pre-eminence. Such were the
schemes of your fathers, and I wish to GOD I could
told that this, the ancient law, was the present %is,
dom of the land. Politically, as well as commercial-
ly, all we ask of our constituted bodies, in.tbe per-
formante of their great functions, is to revolve in their
gen orbits. All we ask et them is to keep within
the lines, or if I may so express myself, to keep within
the tropics of the Constitution : not by going too far
north or south, to lead us into darkness, into night
and error.' I call upon them to be governed and
guided by the superintending lights of .the Constitu-
tion, and pause at that line, at which the sun, that
.1 bright and blessed orb itself turns bick.
One word more, and I have done.—The disconti-
nuance of a bad practice has subdued or averted the
hostility of America. The origination of a good one
may conquer France. It is no degradation : offer
peace upon such terms, with reference to both court-
' tries, and with such dispositions as ought to be re-
spected. If received, a wearied, a grateful, and a
bleeding world will adore you. If rejected the
world must still respect you. This was the clear and•
direct policy of Mr. Fox, a statesman of deathless :
fame, a man of as much power and light of mind as
ever graced this or. any other nation—the senator
who exulted in greatness, but was silent in victory
—a man not less distinguished for his gigantic tin.
derstanding, than for the kindness and benignity of
his disposition—this was the artless policy of Fox,
the workings of whose mind were like the workings
of nature, effecting the grandest purposes by the
simplest means. Think you, that a man so gifted,
'whose mind was one mass of light and wisdom,
would have fixed Isis whole heart upon that which
was not, with hon air and with safety, to be pro.
cured for his couier ; or that he could have told
the Pecple of En_ lan ~ that that peace, which was
unattainable, was to be the first object of their de-
sire? Impossible! Before the transcendent, the
peerless excellence of his mind—before the noble and
' majestic frankness of his nature, even the harsh, and
stern Tyrant of the Cootieent ceased to be immove-
able. For what then do you tight ? Is it for repo-
' teflon ? You have it already. The reputation of
I year soldiers for discipline, for steadiness and
i bravery—the renown of your captains for skill and
valour—in fact, your military character can hardly
attain a greater elevation, even in the judgment of
your enemies. Thus you have little to expect—yos
have much more to forfeit. Gentlemen, as peace is,
not the immediate or avowed object of this meeting,l
I shall not further detain your attention. I have
much to say upon this, the greatest of all subjects ;
! hut I think I hnve the authority of our distinguished
friend in the chair (and I desire no better) in some of
his affroira.ble compositions, not to be so envious to
I stir the public mind in the mere contemplation, as in
the expected accomplishment of a great measure.--
i That I tiust and believe can be at no great distance.
Peace we must have.

Mails. Due.
Dublin
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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:
MONDAY, JULY 6% 1811.

We have received Dublin Papers of Thursday last,
the day fixed for the Aggregate Catholic Meeting,
by which it appears that a Petition for " Universal
fte!ig'ous Freedom " was read and agreed to, and a
so:ntion passed that it should be re-committed to
the Board of the Irish Catholics, to be presented to
Parliament before the close of the second week of the
next Session.
CJ THOLIC AGGREO4TE IdEETINO, Drstrx, JeLs 2.
EARL FINOALL, in the Chair.

The Aggregate Meeting of this day was more nu-
merously attended than any preceding assemblage of
the depositaries of the wealth and power of the Ca-
tholics of Ireland. At one o'clock the Earl of FIN-
': A LT. took the Chair, amidst the enthusiastic applause
of his countrymen.

Mr. M‘DoNxtr.i., seconded by Counsellor O'Cos-
xsu. proposed that the Petition should be read—it
was accordingly read, and it appeared to be a trans-
cript of the Petition, *midis mulandis, of the Dis-
senters of England to Parliament for universal Reli-
gious Freedom.
following Resolutions were then proposed :
Resoheil, That the Petition uow read be re-enminitted to the
BOARD of the !RIM CAI-lows, to be presented to the Legisla-
tnrc the first favourable opportunity, so that the same may be
presented before the close of the second week of tlieeustsilig Sea-
sioo of Parliament.

Resolved, That the Catholics In the different Constar, and
Towm in Ireland be again requested to use their best t scrtions ;
to procure the success of our Petition.
Counsellor O'CONNELL spoke at considerable
length, with his usual felicity of expression, and
strength of argument.
Chevalier WC tarns., after an introductory
speech, which was frequently interrupted by the
most unequivocal marks of disapprobation and dis-
gust, moved the two following Resolutions, as an
amendment to the second Resolution, proposed by
Mr. ox-z arONNELL
Resolved, That, with heartfelt gratification, we observe the
daily progress of lineraMennsong our Protestant countrymen—
a liberality We coosider as an earnest of the speedy fulfilment
of our hopes, and rapturously hail as the cheering dawn of
speedy lisaaneipation.
Resolved, That determined to persevere in demanding a total
Repeal of the Laws add Disabilities by which Catholics are af-
fected ; we are nevertheless ready to listen to any conciliatory
overture which, by removing the prejudices of mousy, and tho
alarms of some, may kad 10 &Piot orrovonsmit satisfadesp to.
iboth parties.
The first part 4Pe Refolatioks was Itisbilly

proved, but the Chevalier 141T.teTnit had hardly ut.
tered the :ord 'arrangement," when the feelings of
the People were irented in marks of thestrongest dis-.
approbation and disgust.
I Counsellors FINN and O'Gonx.ta answered his
speech with considerable animation ; bat the Resolu-
`, tions were not read from the Chair, as out of the
three thousand Catholics in the house, a single per,_
son could not be found to second so insidious and so
fatal nn Amendment.

Thanks were voted to Lord FINGAr.t.
On the above the Dublin Evening Post remark,
'6 that the Catholics of Ireland, with that nobleness
of mind and of action, which has hitherto distin-
guished them, and with all the liberality and wisdom
worthy men acting for a great and generous People,
had resolved to sink the question of Catholic Emanci-
pation and TO PETITION UPON TILE PRINCIPLE OF THE
DISSENTERS for the removal of all disabilities!!! We

have not time or room, now fully to express our appro-
bation of this enlightened policy on the part cf our
Catholic fellow-subjects; it goes to a sincere, a com-
plete union of all sects and parties—to that Christian
and Constitutional Union, before which no intrigue--
no cabal—no witchery can stand7.--beforewllich bigotry
must melt into an 44 airy nothing," and intolerance
become dumb for ever. The call of the last Aggre-
gate Meeting has been heard—the voice of that As.
sembly has reached the limits of our island—the
counties begin to come forward—the Catholics of the
county and city of Cork are to meet on the loth of
August—a Requisition to that purport has been
published, signed, by a number of the most respectable
Catholic Gentlemen of Cork. Requsitions for as-
sembling Kerry, Clare, Roscommon, Meath, &c.
are, we understand, alsd in a state of forwardness.—
The spirit is general, and the Cause must succeed."

Another Dublin Journal has the following perti-
nent remarks on the late discussion in the House of ,
Commpns respecting Lincoln Prison :—" We have
presented our Readers with Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY'S
admirable strictures on Prison Abuses.—lt would
have been fortunate for Ireland that, during the WI. 1
son of her disturbance, when, 4 a little brief autho..
rity' was permitted to play such fantastic tricks,'
a voice clear and intrepid as Sir SAMUEL'S had been
raised for the Prisoner. The secrets of the Prison House
at Lincoln, monstrous and appalling as they are, fade
away before the enormities—the recorded and u neon-
tradicted enormities of a piste,. gaol. Time has shrouded
the perpetrators in oblivion, and healed, we trust, the
deep wounds inflicted upon the sufferers; but such
scenes might recur, and it is to avert such a direful
recurrence that we give eager publicity to this most
important document. There is no cau.,•e in which a
free Press can be so honourably engaged, as the pro-
teetion of the Prisener from those harpies, who, in de-
fiance of law, fatten upongtheir poor and defenceless
victims ; defenceless, not from the silence of our
laws, for on the subject of Prisons they tre fluffier-
ous and excellent, but from the gross and scandti-
Inns negicct of some, whose boucle(' duty it is to
shield the captive from all unnecessary hardship and
coercion.—To the honour of this country, there are
some gaolers who are above the infamous meanness
of wringing an income out of the wretchedness of
those committed to their custody ; whose table of.
fees is obvious to inspection; nLa extort no money
by the terrors of fetters ;—bitt these and other pri-
vileges of the Prisoner should not be left to the op-
tion of a Gaoler; they shou!d Le generally extended;
and we sincerely trust, that the discussion which has
recently occurred will materially contribute to their
diffusion ; and that the subject will never cease to be
canvassed, till all the. seoret tormentors—the foul
persecutors of their fellow-creatures, who, com-
pared with the highwayman and the pickpocket they
plunder, are honourable characters, are brought be-
fore the tribunal of the Public, and hooted out of
their dens by universal execration. We cannot close
our remarks upon this subject without depleting,
that so great and so good a man as Mew-Ann should
have so strongly recommended solitary confinement,
a system materially conducive to the induration of
the feelings, and the inveterate establishment of bad
and vicious propensities— a cruel and sullen punish-
ment, which palsies every generous and redeeming
emotion, and opens the door to the vile machinations
of vindictive despotism. In Philadelphia, where
the economy of a prison is carrried to its completest
perfection, this expedient is never resorted to but as
a punishment for the refrxtory ; the instant they are
submissive they are restored to the society of their
fellow prisoners, during the working hours of the day,
and only locked up during the night in separate
apartments. Man unsocialised must soon become a
Monster ; and the' sooner the theoretical error of
HOWARD is corrected, the better will it be for those
who were the objects of his anxious, but, in this in-
stance, mistaken solicitude."

I French Papers have reached town to the 30th ult.
BONAPARTE arrived on the 18th at Insterburg, which
is only 50 miles from the nearest frontier of Russian
Poland, 150 miles from Wilda, and 190 from Riga.
An extraordinary Diet Arts to assemble at Warsaw,
on the 15th of last month, for the purpose, as was
supposed, 'of carrying into-effect tiw project of NA-
rohtox for• ties re-establishment of the Kingdom of
Poland.
Letters from Sicily repeat. the report, that the
Kiso and Quirtm are about *o kale that island ; and
it is supposed that their Fitl proceed to Vienna.—
One of the first proceedings of the Parliament, which
was to meet on the 13th of last month, it was under-
ftood "mold be, to appoint a Committee.to draw up
the phui of a new Coastitatioa.' . •

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The following letter was posted rni Setortinv at
Lloyd's;—:" tosr.eut M 4.1 1 3. c Pour
Friends, from London, and Amazon, frecsl :Aver-
pool, and the. United Stales, from the same part
(but all of Mein last front Amelia Islttoid), were ad.
mitted to enter here • this day; the same louden,: far
duties as if the trade was open. The l'air Amerieur,
from Liverpool. elly also he admitted."
By a ship- which- has reached the dat•port,
have the acceptable intelligenze that she pass..d the
Mediterranean fleet, all went a kw leagues to the
west of the Scilly Islands.
A Dublin Paper, intimates, that a proposition of
another security, equivalent to the Vcto, and to be
substituted for that measure, would be brovglit for-
ward by the Catholics. This new security is cs:ied
a Domestic Non:taut/on: and when applied to the
appointment of the Catholic Bishops, to which the
Veto also was applicable, means, we suppose, that.,
although the Catholics will not allow the Crown to
have a prohibitory influence in the appointment of
their Bishops, they µill nppoiht them among Oven-
selves, without any reference whatsoeier to the
Pope. _ .

Sven, in one of hii dedications, observes—that
the only diffidence betwixt the• Church of Rome and
our oxen on their opinions of the certainty of their
doctrine is, that the former flanks it is al ca.yl
in-
fallible, and the Idler that it is never in the wrong.
An Algerine squadron, consisting of two frignt•s,,
two sloops, and two brigs, has for some time past
' been cruising in the Mediterraaean. On the 27th of
April, the Ilaughtg gun-brig, Lieutenant IlAttrty,
proceeding with a convoy for Malta, fell in with it,
when the Algerine Commodore, after examining the
ships, ordered the detention of a Greek vessel, laden
corn. On this order being notified to Lieutenant
IlAavrT, he immediately went on board the Alga•
rine, accompanied by his Surgeon, as int.•rpeter,
to remonstrate against this unfriendly act, and to
request the liberation of the vessel. Instead, how•
ever, of his reqnest being complied with, he re.
ceived the most gross and abusive language ; hie
own ship was threatened to be seized ; and, on re.
fusing to deliver up some papers belonging to the
Greek vessel, he was knocked down, repeatedly
kicked, and his pockets rifled. He was ittstat:ly
obliged to depart, without obtaining the release of the
vessel, and proceeded to Cagliari. A representation
of the affair had been made to Sir E. PELLEW, but
there was no probability of redress being obtained
from these ruffians.

The Abbe BOMANELLI has visited lately all the..
catacombs which surround Naples. Be likewise ens
tered the subterraneous caverns of the church of St.
Janvier, and, assisted by a guide, explored them to
the extent of two miles and a half, in the midst of
human ashes, broken coffins, skeletons, and ruins.
lle beheld on all sides Greek inscriptions, cnlptured
upon stone or marble ; and paintings of Christ:las
who had suffered martyrdom. Ile also nofired the
remains of some altars, the tombs of the first Nea-
politan Bishops, and one catacomb, the inscriptions
on which recorded the ravages of a pestilence in
Naples, in 1020.
Mr. BETTY is engaged to perform for a few nights •
at the Southampton Theatre, prior to his treading the
boards of New Drury.
Owing to the present low price of the Funds,
Farmers and other Persons, under the authority of
the Land Tax Act, may make themselves Free-
holders for the small sum of about 101. by prchas.
Img the Land Tax upon the Farms they occupy, or
any other in the neighbourhood ; which will enable
them not only to oblige their landlords with a vote
for the county, but entitle them and their children
to receive Forty Shillings a-year for ever, without
the risk or expense of Title Deeds, Parchments, &c.
for the Land Tax may now be redeemed so as to
produce very near 5 per Cent. Interest for Money.
—5l. a-year Land Tax at 55 per Cent. the pre7ent
price of 3 per Cents. will cost 1001. 16s. Sd.—
Such an opportunity has nct oGred since the year
1804.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH, JOLT 4.

Sailed the 511 n Josef, of Ilt) guns, Admiral Lord Keith, for the
station off Brest; and Northumberland of 71 guns, for liasqua
Roads; also the Intelligent gun-brig for Basque Roads.
Sailed' the Rosamond sloop of war with the onward-hound
Newfoundland and Quebec. feet; also the Hermes sloop of war,
with convoy for Cominna and Lisbon.
Arrived the Talbot sloop of war from a cruise.
Sailed the Spaitish ships Aguilla, Felicana, and San Carlo,,
for Spain; and General Graham, ftw. Cadiz.

The Weymouth, T. Hoskins, Master Commanding, from
Malta, Gibraltar, and Cadiz, was released from quarantine, at
Portsmouth, on Thursday morning. She left Malta* on the 7th
of May, with the Victorious. 74, Captain Talbot ; Acorn, Cap•
titan Blight the Rivoli, 80 guns (Victorious's prize), and a COP.
yoy fur England. These ships captured a valuable French
schooner off Sardinia, laden with silks, which they took into
Gibraltar. The WeyWootth left Gibraltar on the filth ult. far
Cqdiz. Tile Tr:mead/ills, Acorn, and It ivnli, and convoy, were
jto sail for England on t'.e Itith ult. The Victorious and bet
prize are to go into Plymouth.
T:te St. Domingo arrived on Saturday, at Port/mm/0, from
watching the enemy's fleet in the Scheldt, which remains in slabs
quo; but the fleet in the Teach is increased to sevon •ail of the
line.—Lord /Rawlins Beauclerk was blockading thew, wi h the
Royal Oak, Cbri:dian VII. Gloucester, Barham, and Defiance.
sir Richard Straehan has resigned his eimmand under Ad,itical
Young t and Captain Gill, in consequence, will' be supeneded
In the command of the St. Domiego.
DARTMOUTH, JULY 4.

Arrived the day before yesterday the Coqoelet cartel, from
Modals, and sailed again yesterday far ditto.
COWES, Jams 5.

Arrived the Orlando, Diana, and the Lord Collingornod
transports, with part of ilse 18th and 63d Regiments, frotaJeniir.

THE MARKETS.

CORR EXCHANGE; Jory 6.
fresh arrivals of Wheat to-day make a tolerable good
supply ; samples of fine quality in demand, and the general sales
fully at last prices qudted. Rye, with Barlei and Malt, each
at little fluctuation. NYhite Peas doll in &Ale—very faw Grey;
Beans, of each sort, likewise fully keep their price. Oats have
arrived in tolerable Papply, and this article is named nearly at
the last quotation. Mut without alteratiln.
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