Sir Charlet Bagot has lef...
The Times, 1824-12-06T00:00:00

Sir Charlet Bagot has left hiis house in Cumberland- stlreet, to procced on his embassy to the King of the Ne- tiherlands. Mlr. Stratford Canning was eingaged nearly the wvhole of Saturday with Mr. Secretary Canning at the Foreign-office, and took leave of the Right Honourable Secretary, pr'evious to the departure of his Excellency on his embassy to St. Petersburgh. Yesterday his Excellency left Grillorns hotel, to proceed on his journey to St. Petersburgh. On Saturday Mr. Krouse, the King's Messenger, left town for the Netnerlandls. Yesterday the Lord Chancellor had an audicnce of the King.I The Clhester CAlrenicle states, that it is in contemplation to run a iteaam-vessel between London and Chester. The subscription at Edinburgh for the relief of the suf- ferers at the late fire alrcady amoounts to upwards of 7,0001. List of vessels building and orderedl to be built at Ply- mortth Dock-yard:-St. Gcorge, 120; London, 110; Hindoston, 80; Cerbgrust, 45; Circe, 46; Proserpine, 46; Statira, 46; Tigris, 46; Daphne, 28; Porcupine, 28; Racehorse, 18; Hyacinth, 18; Rolla, 10 ; Reindeer, I0; Saracen, 10- Savage, 10; Scorpion 10 - Sealark, 10; Hope and M5utine gun-brigs (ready for launching) Nightingale cutter; Belzebub, Devastation, and Volcano, bombs. Repairing-Impregnable, 104; atublin,74; Ivincible,v74; Pike schooser. Upwtvards of SOO.sail of vessels are said to have been de- tained by adverse winds in the Bristol and English Channels for unwards of five weeks. Irish provisions of aLl sortt; have risen con. sftderablv from want of supplies coining to market, and slates, which are chiefty supplied fromn Wales, are scrcely to be procured in town. When these important subjects are considered, and if wve call to mind the dreadful havock created recently by the storms that hlave raged in the West of Englanld, we must sav, that we watch with some anxiety the pregrcss of the great ship canal. This im. portant tscheme promises to open communication for supplies at all times, and b, connecting the grand harboura wvhich srill be foundI at the extremites, vill be the means of saving annually manv Y2 luable lives as well as an immense quantity of property. A corre. pondent inMorlm us, that the surveys tre now completed, and tbat they are of a favourable character. We have not for a long period felt more scandalized at any thing than the sympathy which ha.s been excited in the public mind in favour of *Mlr. Fauntletoy. In complivnent to prevailD ing prejudice, we have abstained from al remark, until it is im- possible to assert that strictures on our part eau have any bearing ott the fate of this distinguished criminal. We can readily under. stand how pity may and ought to be extended to all those unhappy creatures who, from having been denied the advantages of education, doo-ned to associate with the worst and most degraded of their species, and exposed, by the circumstances in which they were placed, to itli sorts of excitemneRt and temptation, could hardly do otherwise than commence and terminate, in the usual manner, a career of crlme. Guilt, in such cases, is hardly distinguishable from misfor- tune. But in a case like that of Fauntleroy, who, though well educated, and fenced round by conoexion, acquaintance, and inter. coarse, with all the safeguards of character, and having all the Incite. inents to upright andl honoarrable conduct which the best society affords, could, nevertheless, become a wholesale dealer alnd carry on for years, coolly, deliberately, and tkilfully, a wholesale trade in crimes of the deepest dye, we look upon all sympathy as being in itself absolutely and obviously culpable. It is nothing to say that tie party forged upon was the Bank of England. That body could not long be so high-mindedI as to pay, without agitating questions re- specting negligence, &c., unless such ofenceas wers rare indeed. And while the criminality is the same, the shock to confidenceacredit_ trust-the injury to society-is manifestly greater, ori account of what has very heedlessly and absaidly been urged as an additional ground for sympathy. The s?joflowaetzs of the publia, and of mar,y ptublic w/riters, wvas never more strieingly exempilifiefd than upon the present occasion-The SeoLrs7nan CATrIIOLIC ASSOCIATION.-On Wednesday last the Ca- tholic Association met at the Corn Exchange, D)ublin, when, after aonne preliminary business, Msr. O'Connell reported on an Address to the People of Ireland, wvhich hc concluded by mtoving should be re- ceived anti adopted by the neeting. Mlr. Fitzsimmnons seconded the resolution, which was opposed by Mr. Lanigan and Mtr. O'Rellley, the former of whlom moved, and the latter seconded an amendment, that the address be re-considered; the amnendment was, howev er, negatived without a division, and the original motion carrfed. MUr. O'Connell then announced the subscription to the CCatholic Rent for the last week as amounting to 1,0321. 7s. 9.^d. and gave notice of a motion for vesting another 1,0001. in the fands, when, after a vote of thanks to Sir Thomas Esrnonde, the Chairman, the meeting a- journed to next Thursday. In the course of the discusion on thec address, Mlr. Lanigan celled Mr. O'Cornell to order, on his re- marking, "it appeared to him there was an ingenuity exercised in urging objections to public docurents," declaring with some wfarmth that the speaker " hnd no right to imnpute ingenuity to any gentleman." Mr. Lsanigan was, however, padffcad.-Xndata papere SIN~JGUL.AR PA NATIC1S3t.-CFrOin the dudlin Patriot.l -The following r ies portent consmr nicaton, s the writer terms it lia been addressed tO the l ilitor of the Poriog . The writer pro- miOes him thc re nuneratiohs of many blessings for it immediate publicity :-w A pilgrim in sackcloth Intends forth ith that a placadn shall be exhibited in our streets, in order to protect him from the eaze and obstarEction of the idle and giddy multitude, id the groat"work he meditates for blotting oUt his owa sins, which are manifold-for imploring blessings on his family, consisdingof a wrife and step-daughter, nnd for averting the wasth of heaven fromn his dearly beloved country, convulsedt by Ribandmea and Orangemesr and by Biblicals and Roman Catholic Prieswa , as the inteicrion of the oat Higat for the wickedness sad degeneracy of the people af a ranits and professions. To propitiate Heaven sald tO restore aU -a countrymen to favour and beno iction, he is resolved to rst, to piray, tO clothe himself in sackcloth, and in all fumeilit to walk hare-foot through al the streets of this slnful city." The following s a placard he intends io exhibrt :_" A plg rim in sackcoth to has fellow-citizens, greeting, m ercy and benediction. Hie requests they wsill not impede his passage, or follew him in crowds through the strets. the is prepared for the sofrs of the wicked, but they will depart from iniquity when he will bheean promisi;ng mercy to the repentantdtherefore let them not contribute to a puiy lic nuisance boytheirmolestation. The pious lovers of their country have an ample oldportunity of co-operating in the great object of his call, be- fore the several altars in the kngdom., where petitiont to the King of Kiings may n.ot be altogetber uneveilin.g. Ad isrsolved. to fs, pra,! ton behaslf of my wice, my family, and my nationl, i humbly penitently, and publil confess, that we have all been justly scourg- ed for our offcnces against God. I solicit health for buy wife end dying step-daughter; the power of discharging my jurt debtso the reronciliation of aU ey countrymeno and an eternal perseverance in faith, hope, and charity." RbteonNszANEiS.-In the year 1801 thwo pooy women in Hereford w fere bound in a recogntzance of 201. each to attend and give edence onEl altrialit the assizes there. They complied with the conditions, and returned to their homees. Ad few weeks since when 23 years had eulpsed, they were both a rreshed, on the grounr that after the trial, they had not p pliedi to the Court for a formal dingtarge from their obligation. The one arg bailed, end the other wan commoitted to pison; both have since been released by means of R petition to the Barons of the Exchequer, the fees of which, amounti inH to nearly w each, arc to be defrzyed by subscription. Since this time, four other poor persons have iseen committed to Hereford prison by a siinlar process, and with the mere difference that their omission of thisdlcgal form took placer even years ago. In conuni quencer the visiting teagistrates of the county prion stated tfeir case tote frLords of the Treasury, throug e the Secretary of State, and thder Lsordships have not only tant to eachl of them al dischargSe fres of all expense, under the Royal sign manual, but have alnso most hunmanely obteaned the sm of 301. feqrm the Royal bounty, to be distriuted, at the discretion of the visiiny m agistrates, to the unfortunate individuals who have been exposed to so much distrss in their persons and circumstances by the proceedingse agranst theti. -Skremebtury. Chroxic7e, Dee. 3. There are thirty-smto priloers in Yoren Castle for trial at the next Assics, tiartceno of gend tsnt t haoged withe a isda !