The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-04-17
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By arrival of the Acadia, at Boston, on Tuesday,
we have dates nine days later from Europe.
We find nothing in the Parliamentary proceedings
that will interest readers-he doings were mostly
OF a local character.
The London Times of the 18th says, in reference
to Mcleod:
The atrocity of taking away the life of our fellow
subject would be SUCH whatever violence of the rabbe
democracy of the border may threaten that
~ ieel an uneasy emotion upon that point. How the
lndiignty already offered to England in his person,
will be disposed Of is quite different question: and
one which may yet involve other lives less precious
than that of Alexander Mcleod. ....
The boy Jones, has been third time arrested in
Buckingham Palace. The London Standard says, q
most rigid investigation to the in which he
mas three times effected entrance into the palace
Is about to take place. In addition sentence ofm-
Psonment Tor three months, the punishment of hard
apor s ADDED he boy persists in his first assertion
that his only motive to hear the conversation at
Court, and to write an account Of it. He had been
liberated from prison just two weeks, at the time he
arrested
DUBLIN, March I6.-The following are extracts
from an article which appeared in the Pilot Mr. o.
ConnelPs own paper 'of last night The same journal
publishes at greet length the proceedings the Repeal
Meeting at the Curragh the day previous. What
their joint effect may be the minds of the inlamabe
populace it is very easy to conjecture The article is
headed-Ifmes 1911 uH
"wAR-ENdLAND VERSUS IRELAND
The time approaches when England must be hui
inflated or just, and Ireland may be free. -
England may declare war; but who will war for Eng
land2 Ireland ? What pay taxes and shed our
blood And for what?
Why should Ireland war against France?
est to be promoted by such war What has Ireland
done to France or France to Ireland that should
shed each others blood France invades
lreand-well where in her implicated endorsements
VIII England find troops to defend Ireland and pre-
serve her province? Will Ireland defend herself, or
leavehe battles to the bellgerents and make no choice
between masters 1t is plain England does not cal
cuate on Irish cooperation - A war against
America is war against friends.
Were England never our tyrant nor Ireland never
her slave we would war with reluctance but as il is
no. we with America; our hearts forbid it,
our hands would be powerless We cannot swell the
ranks of such battle--and for what For love of
Englandr
That there may be no deiusion about the paternity
ofthe foregoing, the article concludes with The Oft
peated lines
Great glorious, and free
First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea-"
The Repeal Meeting at Curragh of Kildare came
off on Sunday, the 18th. After Mr.. O'Connell had
heard mass. The numbers present variously est-
mated one report gives 10000 as the marimum
while another states that fourth of that number
constituted the whole amount of physical force ready
Join Mr.. OConnell in his demand for the severance
Of the empire.
FRANCE.
The Paris Journals, of the 10th March, have been
received they contain nothing in reference to the
Eastern affair.
BY a royal decision of the 18th inst Rear Admiral
.aine was invested with the command of the French
naval forces in Algers in the room of Rear Admiral
Baron De Bougainville.
Letters from Touon of the 10th inst state that re-
Inducements daily arrive in that harbor, and that up
wards of 1000 men were then waiting to be embarked
or Algers There were then "A armed vessels of all
sizes lying in the roads and harbor of Toulon.
The trial Of BARNES is not expected to come on be-
ore the month Of May
No less than so 60 individuals had been arrested
out of them could yet be identified as the ac-
completes of Darmes and it believed that the lat
er would be tried alone by the Court Of Peers.
The Marquis de Casaremisa left Paris for Madrid
IN Monday, with, it was supposed, some financial
proposition to the Regency.
NJ MaximOs Mazum the Catholic Patriarch of
the nited Greeks, arrived the 18th at Lyons on
his way to Paris. The Prelate resides at Antioch,
and has within hsjurisdicton the Greek Catholics of
Egypt and Syria, in whose favor he is coming claim
the protection which France formerly afforded the
Christian population of those countries.
The Mayence Gazette of the 10th inst. mentions
that the Germanc Diet had resolve to grant reward
of 900 forms $4,000 Brsh) to the inventor of
the electromagnetic motive force.
The Courier de Lyon of the 18th ult., publishes
letter from Italy of the 4h, stating that the city of
Reggie, in Calabria, was nearly destroyed by an
earthquake on the 22d ult. The shocks were 10 in
one heap of ruins most of the houses were thrown
down, and the rest damaged as TO be altoge-
ther unnhabtable; the Palace of the Governor, the
Tribunal, the Cathedral, five other churches, and va
rous other buildings were entirely destroyed. The
inhabitants had sought refuge partly at Messina, and
partly at Naples.
Madrid journals and private letters of the 9Th inst
were received by express.
The retirement Of M. de Gamboa, the Minister of
Finance, would, it thought be shortly followed
by that of M Chacon, his colleague of the War De
partment. The latter appears, however to have con
scented TO retain office until the opening OF the Cortes
M. Saenz, the Under-Secretary OF State OF the Ad-
ministration of Finance has been replaced by NJ ha-
Calatrava, whose appointment was not YET gazeu-
ed but considered official 49,,
The capital continued to enjoy perfect tranquility,
and the accounts received from the provinces were OF
n re-assurinC character. Some emssarles OF the re-
publican party had made their appearance at Pontevc-
dra but had met with little encouragement from the
inhabitants
II was the general opinion in the best informed cir
ces that the Duke of Victory, if not appointed sole
Regent OF the kingdom, would be at least proclaimed
by the Cores, President of the Council of Regency.
A financial project, of which the Eco del Concrete
publishes the programme was much talked of at the
Madrid Bourse the 9th. According to that jour
nal four ofthe most respectable citizens of the capital
had offered to advance the Government sum of 80,
600 900 reals, 100000 of which to be applied
during two years to the payment ofthe capitalized cou
pons, and 40 900 900 to the wants of the Treasury
II believed that those four houses had come 10 an
understanding the subject with a wealthy foreign
house. The conditions were unknown.