Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-08-16
By REQUEST.
From the New York Commercial Advertiser.
PUBLIC MEETING IN MONTREAL.

For several successive days the Mon
treal papers arriving by mail have con-
tanned the following notice:
" The undersigned, Protestant inha-
bitants of the city of Montreal, have
learned with establishment, that the ia
brications of Maria Monk are accredi-
ted by considerable number of per-
sons in the city of New York; that
great excitement prevails there, and in
other parts of the United States, on the
subject of her stories and that certain
individuals who bad been induced pub
licly to avow their isbelef in them,
have been made the subjects of SANDER
/ and persecution on that account. The
undersigned are fully aware that the
stories, OF themselves, do not deserve a
serious refuta,ion. Hence the source
of the indifference to them prevailing
here. Not SO, however, at N. York.
1t is there stated that 'he highest off,
cial authorities in Canada knoso that all
these statements are true, and they sane
| ton and connare at the iniquity.' Un-
der all these circumstances, it appears
| that the Protestant inhabitants of Mon
treal are called upon to express their
public opinion on the whole subject
With view, therefore, of satisfying
such of the public Of New York and
elsewhere as may require it, and above
all, of shielding from unmerited re-
proach another class Of individuals, the
undersigned would recommend the
adoption of such measures as may be
necessary for the expression of public
opinion here, on a subject to which the
prevailing opinion in New York and
elsewhere in the United States could
alone have given even temporary i'm
portance.
"The undersigned, therefore, request
that meeting Of the Protestant inha-
bitants of Montreal should be held at
JOHN o. BRowN's Long Room, Notrc
Dame street, on Monday next, the Sd
of April, at one o'clock, at which time
the subiect-matter of the requisition
may undergo full and public discus.
sion." [Sigmcd by seventy respectable
citizens.
Standing in the position that we have
been compelled by circumstances to
| occupy, notice like the above could
not but be highly gratifying to our
feelings more especially as we recog-
nized among the signatures the names
1 of the most respectable Pro.estants OF
Montreal, gentlemen eminent for their
virtues and their pety, for their wealth
and rank in society. The meeting, II
will be observed, was called for the 3D.
instant. On the morning of that day,
the following handful was posted thro'
the city, which we copy as one of the
manifestations ofpublc opinion in Mon
treal, in regard to this wretched impos-
ture.
"The voice Of the assembled citi-
zens of Montreal will this day proclaim
to the deluded and fanatic believers in
1.-The Disclosures Of Maria Monk, that
Ithey are the fabricatons of a notorious
lharlot, the inventions Of combined lu-
macy and proHigacy; ana ifthey should
still persist in believing, it will be evil
dent that more than mortal means can
alone restore them to their senses.
| "However, the citizens Of Montreal
owe themselves in this matter a triple
duty, as men, as Britons, and as Chris
tians: as mer, that they interpose the
shield of public opinion between high
ly esteemed body of individuals and a
| host of malignant traducers; as Brit.
ons, that they may tell the People oil
| the United States that it is disgraceful
in them to attribute to British Official
Authorities, and that portion of the Bril-
fish people inhabiting the Canadas.
| conniyance at such monstrous iniquity,
lit would be stain upon them to sup
pose that they could have suspicion
Of such iniquity, and remain quiet, far
less connive at it y and as Christians,
that they may read lesson OF GaariEI
and forbearance to the People OF the
United States, who seem, in their per.
secuton of the Roman Catholics, sc
shocking to every benevolent mind, to
have entirely lost sight of those divine
words
Peace on earth, good ,ciH TO men,
The Hon. Peter M'Gill will take the
chair precisely at l o'clock.
From the Montreal Courier of the
4th, we copy the annexed account o
the proceedings of the meeting. No
thing could be more decisive or empha
tic than tho language of these resolu
tons:
The meeting Of the Protestant inha
bitants of Montreal, which took place
yesterday on the subject of the ISLANDERS
of Maria Monk and her abettors, wal
decisive of public sentiment and feel
. ing both with regard to those Sian
ders themselves, and the necessity fol
an expression of general opinion upor
them here. The assembly embraced