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Sermons Preached in April.

On Wednesday the 15th, an English discourse was preached opposite the Artillery Barrack, Island-bridge, by one of the Sergeants in the Commissariat Department. As this preacher is a pet divine in his own country, from which he arrived, in November last, he was attended by all the church in town, and particularly by the 33 Civilizers of the Bible Society. The Battalion of Testimony kept the outer ring, under the command of Firethatch, Mr. Keat, bandy Sibthorpe, Tumbler Cozens, Crowley and Verden; the register of Converts, occupied Mr. Latouche's pulpit, from whence the hymn of invocation was given out, by Sibthorpe. The Sermon continued two hours, during which much sanctification was made evident, but unluckily as Sergeant Crib was testifying his call, by trying a swoon, he stumbled, when by some untoward accident he frightened a horse, under a tumbril, which not understanding the art of preaching, took fright, and in his flight carried one of the wheels over the Sergeant, and before any assistance could be had, so lacerated his thigh, that he awakened with the pain, before his soul had time to start on its intended excursion to the first heaven, where Hutton the Currier sings, with the old women he and Wesley converted to the Lord.

Mr. Kent, whose evangelical and mercantile labours have placed in high eminence, amongst the elect of Whitefriar-street, and the Bacon-makers of Spittlefields, preached to an assembly of saints, convened for the purpose, in Hall's (the Papist-killer) cell in Newgate. The crying sins of popery and rebellion, were handled by the holy Huxterman, with wonderful signs of inspiration, and the Jconoclast or living Image Breaker, expressed deep abhorrence at the progress of idolatry. The service concluded with a round of hymn singing, among the performers, on the nose organ; Mr. Verdan and Pully Gallagher, were the most

conspicuous. At three o'clock the visitors retired, each complimenting the pardoned convict with the kiss of

peace.

CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER.

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This office has been very happily placed in the hands of Mr. Pole, we say happily, because Mr. Pole, notwithstanding his political arrogance, is so far elevated by education, fortune and family consequence, as beyond the little corrupt tricks that would make a man the instrument of partial measures. He will not sell the honors and dignity of office, to accomodate speculators, he will not allow the distiller or brewer any advantage over the public, he will not leave monopoly against the public interest, nor bargain with vulgar men, to encrease his rent-rolls, or to pay his debts. The fair duty of a statesman is done by him, because he has no interest but what he thinks to be

the glory of the empire; he possesses property, without injuring it by extravagance, he can encrease it by the system of patronage, and he owes nothing, because he disdains to plun der industry, by cheating his tradesmen or tenantry.

(Vide Judge Fosters Reports, Vol, r.)

Meeting at the Tenters of the Earl

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moved we suppose to admit air, which of Meath's Liberty. came direct from the north pole, acPursuant to a requisition, stuck up, companied with showers of snow and we to judge by appearof Newmarket, and hail, were pump signed by a number of unemployed ances, very visibly discomposed the Broadweavers, to the following effect: draperies natural and artificial of the en"That in consequence of the present tire convention-it now being twelve state of affairs on the other side of the o'clock, there were loud and repeated water, and our peaceable and enviable cries of chair, chair, when they were situation on this, a meeting of arti- informed that in consequence of the zans, at present living like gentlemen meeting being so respectably and nuin this Liberty, be convened on the merously attended, the great want of 25th inst. to take into consideration room, and pressure to obtain admitthe propriety of presenting an humble tance, that it was deemed adviseable and dutiful Address to his Royal to adjourn to the Tenters, which was Highness the Prince Regent, congra- agreed to; it was only now that our tulatory of his entry into full and reporter had an opportunity of comunrestricted authority, and the vigor- pletely seeing the dress a-l'ordres in ous and prompt measures he has taken Council worn by the manufacturers of Ireland; the hat is antique, aud to ameliorate the distressed conpresent dition of the inhabitants of those unit- beautifully scolloped round the edges, ed kingdoms, and to dispose of other the mold and every other article apsubjects which then shall be submitted propriate. We understand this new to their con-ideration; and that said and convenient apparel is to be univermeeting be held at the house, called sally adopted all over England, as is the Brass-castle, corner of Mill-street, already so much the rage at Nottingbeing from time immemorial the broad. ham, Leeds, Huddersfield, Manchescloth weaver's Senate-house, and now ter, Birmingham, and other great the only one in this kingdom." In manufacturing towns; the meeting consequence of the above requisition, having arrived at the proposed place, at an early hour the place of meeting which suited extremely well, as it was was thronged to suffocation. It was on a rising ground, commanding a numerous, and consisted of Broadweav- complete view of the elegant receptacle ers, Sheermen, Dyers, Slubbers, Cot- for our English teachers of the law ton-weavers, Cotton-spinners, Burlors, and gospel, regularly termed the Dressers, Wool-sorters, Wool-spin- barracks, at Harold's Cross, which ners, journeymen Tanners, Curriers, brought to mind corresponding ideas Taylors, and Carpenters; there also the other Barracks at Golden-bridge; the attended Huxters, Grocers, Chand- intended site of the new Bridewell was lers, &c. These last description easily also in view, Kilmainham Gaol in pergraced the meeting with their pre- spective, the Prevôt, Royal Barracks, sence, as they had nothing to sell, for Mr. Pole's charitable Porridge Asythere was nobody to buy, the Forum lum for indigent Roman Catholics, was quite in character; it had every commonly called Channel-row, and appearance of the blessed effects of several other equally useful establishLegislative Union, and British. con- ments for our security and ease, on the troul; the back parlour where the other hand arose from the sea; the machair was placed, was visible from the jestic mountains of Dublin, fertile to upper story, although four stories high; the very tops, the green fields of Erin, there were no such impediments as rivers Beautifully meandering below doors and windows, these were re- the sun, now in its meridian; all naFOR MAY, 1812, VOL. V. ture looked gay to a spectator-with

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out being acquainted with the order of things at present, it would indeed be difficult to reconcile the contrast between the squalid appearance of the hardy sons of Erin, and the verdant and never failing plains on every side. However, the business of the day was proceeded on by a gentleman being unanimously voted to the chair, and here it is we regret our not being authorised to mention the names of the different speakers, and others who conducted the object of the meeting with such propriety. This gentleman, who we shall designate by the name of Mr. Idle Shuttle, rose, and having addressed the meeting, informed them that he held in his hand a number of resolutions, which he would have the honour to propose to them, they were such as no man present could say against, they were dictated by a gentleman, no man in Ireland who possessed a better head or a sounder heart except one. The worthy chairman having read the resolutions, sat down amidst the universal applause and approbation of the whole assembly; another gentleman whose name we could not learn, seconded the motion of his worthy friend in the chair, he congratulated the meeting on their respectable appearance, and the approach of summer, when these useless incumbrances, called wearing apparel, could be entirely dispensed with; he could not, now, that he was addressing them, forbear alluding the speech of his worthy friend, the Barrack-street coal-box furnisher, Sir Edward Stanley, on the memora. ble visit he paid them in the Weaverssquare. On that day the learned Magistrate was pleased to assure you, he came from the Duke of Richmond to tell you in his name, if you would quietly disperse, return to your labitations, and if you could muster alle glance enough to put off eating for another fortnight, his Grace would set all your looms going by buying two more shooting frocks of your manu

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facture, and calling a Dancing Parlia fiament at the Rotunda for your benefit. The orator proceeded thus: I am obliged to say that no effort like this of the worthy Knight's has been made by any Magistrate since, though our necessities are four-fold as numerous, and our numbers as many, with the exception of our Secretary's wife and four children, who you all remember were not strong enough to live without food, and became victims to their patriotism and patience; and the wo Murphy's, who were killed on the Coombe, by the Lady Mayoress' coach going over their bodies, being too weak to effect their passage across the street. In consequence of the inertness of our looms by the preference taste decrees in favour of English produce, the sanction loyalty gives to war, and the treachery of a Parliament that whipped us one day, sold us on another day, and handed us and our industry over to strangers, who care as little about our wants, as they know of our manners. I am aware that my words give offence to many of this Assembly, for an apparent tone of disloyalty interspersed among them; but this breach of alle giance will be excused, when it is considered that it is only protection that can deserve allegiance; it is not to men we owe duty, but to measures. There is no man here if his belly was in order, his clothes in repair, and his rent paid, from the produce of protected industry and uninterrupted trade, who, I believe, would be willing to hazard such blessings by turbulence or sedition.Hunger is a muster-master, and where he predominates, disaffection will fol low, and he that has nothing to lose cannot be worse; and those that would appease the ravages of famine by fine words, are as silly as the orator, Mr. Stanley, who undertook the miraculous task of feeding 20,000 persons with the price of the Duke of Richmond's two shooting frocks. Amidst the loudest acclamations which this speech excited, the orator proposed the fol lowing Resolutions

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Resolved unanimously:-That as we learn from that emporium of learning and genius, the British House of Comidle mons, that restricted manufactories and starving manufactur ers, are subversive of that depravity of morals, for which we are so notoriously remarkable, that an humble and dutiful address be presented to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, praying that he would be graciously pleased to continue the some till we, the mere Irish, are completely civilized.

Resolved unanimously :-That we
do graciously approve of the pardon
granted by his Grace the Duke of
Richmond to Walter Hall, the Papist
and United Irishmen-killer, and that
a petition be likewise presented to his
Grace, praying that he would be
pleased to command and direct the
said loving Walter Hall, Brown of the
Pigeon-house, Shiels of the Post-office,
Ritson of Enniskillen, and the other
numerous Halls,-Shiels,--Browns,—
Ritsons in embryo, to come into this
the Earl of Meath's Liberty, and then
and there mercifully dispatch about
30,000 of my Lord Howick's super-
abundant population, at present half
dead by starvation, not by tedious.
forms, but to put them out of pain by
good musket quickness, and his peti-
tioners will ever pray.

Resolved unanimously:-That a
monument of Freestone be erected in
the Weavers' Square, on which shall
be engraven in letters of fine sand, "Be
it remembered, that when Hunger and
Starvation were the characteristics of
the day, the loyal Corporation of
Dublin voted an Address to the Prince
Regent, praying him to continue in
power, the Duke of Richmond, Mr.
Pole, Major Sirr, Jack Giffard, and the
train of loyal et ceteras, by whom we
are at present so happily encouraged!!

Mr. Idle Shuttle being requested to
leave the Chair, and Mr. Starve, jun.
being called thereto,-

Chairman for his proper and dignified
conduct in the chair this day.

Signed by order,

FLUMMERY, Sec.

Specimen of English Christianity.

From the Journals of the Houfe of

Commons, Oct. 1695.

"A petition of Edward Spragg and others, on behalf of themselves and other Protestant porters, in and about the city of Dublin, complaining that Darby Ryan, a Captain under the late King James, and a Papist, buys up whole cargoes of coals, and employs porters of his own persuasion to carry the same to customers, by which the petitioners are hindered from their small trade and gains.”

MR. THOMPSON,
Law-Agent to the Post Office,

Has given an example of benevolence,
which, at this melancholy season of
scarcity, ought to be imitated by the
opulent, instead of offering rewards
for hanging the hungry peasantry.-
Like the associated Lords at Mullin-
gar, he feeds those in his neighbour-
hood; he gives meal and peas to all,
the indigent about him at the Scalp in
the county of Wicklow; he alleviates
their wretchedness by distributing com-
fort; he does not attempt to diminish
the expectations of the hungry by the
terrors of the gallows; he prevents
crimes, preserves order, and earns es-
teem by acts of humanity. We know
our praise will do him no honour, be-
cause, as part of the superabundant po-
pulation, our diminution is an object of
senatorial policy, and whoever retards
it, tends to embarrass a favourite object.

Resolved--That the Thanks of this
Meeting are justly due to our worthy.

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CATHOLIC GRIEVANCES.

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(Continued from p. 164 of our last.)

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There certainly appears great reason to question the soundness of the principle of law, upon which it has been decided, that "An action at "law may be sustained to recover ❝ damages from a catholic clergyman, "for a more excommunication.". For, if the catholic worship be erroneous, as is pretended, if the catholic religion and practices be dangerous, and fit to be stigmatized and discountenanced. by the laws, surely it would follow, and the law ought to presume, that the removal of any person from the catholic community, howsoever effected, must be rather a benefit to him than an injury. He ought, therefore, not to be deemed entitled to complain of such removal, but rather be congratulated as a fortunate person, extricated from an unhappy society, which is condemned by law, or barely permitted to exist to a partial extent, and under hard conditions. His temporal condition must derive admitted advantages from such a removal, and though his pros-, pects in the world to come may be somewhat impaired by the untoward, event, yet this is a supposition that the present code of laws cannot entertain or act upon. The question may possibly be brought under solemn discussion hereafter, and finally set tled.

At present,' the doctrine appears to be as unreasonable and unfounded as it is vexatious and harrassing to the. catholic clergy of Ireland.

IV. The catholic clergy are denied the permission (and "sometimes even in Ireland) and perform the rites of their religion for the catholic soldiers " and sailors." This interdiction, and its extent, shall be treated of hereafter in the

chapter detailing the disabilities whet affect the catholics in the army and navy.

V. "The catholic clergy are m"protected by the law, pro "hibiting the disturbance of d " vine service, whilst celebrated "by them."

It is observable, that the celebration of divine worship in other dissenting congregations in Ireland, is protected by an express Act of Parliament, imposing a penalty of 20. upon any person disturbing it. This is but reasonable.

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And in England, the catholic wor ship is protected in like manner, by an English statute of 31 George III. ch. 32. (1791.)

VI. The catholic clergyman, "bound by his vows to a life "of celibacy, and generally in "narrow circumstances, feels "the harshness of being held

liable to the payment of a ❝ modern tax, called Bachelor's "Tax."

This tax was, doubtless, levelled only against persons, more able to contribute to the public Revenue, and more likely to be compelled by it to enter into matrimony. Had the catho lic clergy been duly recollected and respected Ey the State, they would have been deemed well entitled to an express clause of exception from the payment of this tax in the annual Revenue Act; hotwitstanding, it has been demanded and exacted.

VII." In various other instances, "the catholic clergy have rea "son to complain of the insult

or injustice legally fixed upon

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1st. They are interdicted (as we shall see in the next article) from receiving any endowment or permanent provision, either for their own support or for that of their houses of wor ship, &c.

2. They receive no public recom. pense for their arduous and unre

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