not to join, but likewife to prevent the affembling of the convention. Terrified by the threats of government upon the one fide, weighed down by the mill stone of aristocratic influence upon the other, the counties remained unmoved, apparently unaf fected, at least they did not make any effort towards appointing reprefenta tives to the intended convention. This obftacle was to be overcome, or the hopes of the catholics were blasted for ever. I again came forward; I went through the four provinces, accompanied by my lamented friend T. W. Tone, I attended the meeting of the catholic Bishops in Ulfter, held in that province. With thofe prelates I found it neceffary to have an interview, Jikewife, with the bishops of Con naught, who had been tampered with and deceived by the mifreprefentations of a catholic lawyer. In my journey thither, I was accompanied by my der and much lamented friend, Thomas Broughall, with whom I traverfed the fouth of Ireland. When a good example. was once let, it was followed with enthefiafm, and the convention became the genuine, full and complete reprefentation of the ca tholics of Ireland Yet even this con vention did not entertain an idea, for fome time, of applying for more than the elective franchife, and ad miffion to grand juries; until towards its clofe, it determined to petition the fovereign himfelt for a full admiffion to all the rights and privileges of the conftitution. The convention appoint ed five of its members to carry the petition to the foot of the throne. In January 1793, the deputation was introduced to the King and prefented the petition, I was of the number So were Lord French, Chriftopher Bél. Jew and James Edward Devereux, Efqrs. who are ftill living, and to thole three furviving delegates I refer, for the honourable teftimony which they borewith refpect to my fervices at our interview with Lord Melvilles ButI haften to what gives me infinitely greater pleasure, the refult. The refult was that the catholics were restored to the elective franchise-to magiftracies to grand juries — and one sweeping claufe removed numberless penal ftatues. Thefe privileges fo beneficial to the tenantry of Ireland, from the greateft landholder to the pealant, my accufer calls petty privileges, and the 'fhare I have in procuring them he pronounces to be another of the injuries I have done to the Catholics of Ireland. This anonymous writer calls on me to account for the addrefs to the Duke of Bedford-he fays that it is grovelling and flavish without one expression conveying a hope of emancipation I have in my hand that addrefs, from which I will read two paragraphs, to prove his want of truth in this, as in his other charges, and that the address did convey hope of emancipation. The following are the paragraphs which I allude to. "That it will be the atchievement of your Grace's Adminiftration to have guided a falutary and comprehenfive fcheme of policy, to that glorious developement, of which the advantages have been in part displayed, and the important confequence must be to invigorate the admirable British Conflitution, by introducing a loyal people to defend it, as their own chief good." May your Grace permit us to conclude with the expreffion of those fentiments, in which all Irish Catholics can have but one voice-Bound as we are to the fortunes of the empire, by a remembrance of paft and the hope of future benefits-by our preference and by our oaths. Should the wife generofity of our lawgivers vouchfafe to crown that hope, which their juftice infpires, it would be no longer our duty alone, but our pride, to appear the foremost against approaching danger; and if neceffary, " o remunerate our benefactors, by the facrifice of our lives.', But a strong and specific charge remains to be anfwered; that either five or fix thousand a year was offered by Government, as a reward for keeping back for one year the Catholic Petition. The charge is against me-it is evident that he muft infinuate that not only the offer was made to me, but accept ed by me; for if I rejected the offer, where would be the crime on my fide; I once more call on this defamer, to come forward and give even a fhadow of proof in fupport of this charge. The prefent and the late government muft know of every fum paid for fecret fervices, and I defy Catholicus Ipfe, 1 defy the late Adminiftration, I defy the prefent Administration, or any man living, to fubftantiate this charge. And now, in the prefence of my country and my God, do folemnly declare, that I never received from any Minifter or Government to the amount of fix pence, for myself, my fons, or for any part of my family-and the pro ceedings here this day fhall, thro, the medium of the public prints, come be fore every one of the parties. As to the allufion to my being visited by Meffrs. Ponfonby and Grattan, and the hint that no acquaintance, friendship or family connexion exifts between them and me; I fcorn to make a boaft of acquaintance with elevated characters. Whatever advances to any thing of that kind may have taken place, have uniformly proceeded from themselves; but if the writer, whoever or whatever he is, means it as an afperfion that I am the founder of my own fortune, that I have no heredetary estate in that country. where robbery, under the form of confifcation or the penal code, has deprived all the ancient Irish of their property, the unmeaning allufion and infipid hint I fhall treat with filent contempt, and haften to the refutation of one lie more, that "I kept back the recital of our fufferings during the late Administration. The Duke of Bedford arrived here about April 1503. On the very commencement of the next Seffion, a deputation, of which I was one, had two interviews with Mr. Secretary Elliot and Lord Chancellor Ponsonby to press that quellion. As foon, however, as I had reafon to think that our application was over ruled in England by Lord Grenville, I then founded the alarm at a meeting held on the 24 of January 1507, and, as what I then faid, was printed by Fitzpatrick by order of the Committee, I refer to it without troubling the prefent meeting with a recapitulation. A degree of confequence was, indeed, attributed by others to that fpeech, which I never thought it merited; which is that it was brought to the King, and contributed to the dismissal of Lord Grenville and his colleagues in 1807. But this much I know that, from that day to this, Mr. Ponsonby never honoured me with a visit, which Iregret infinitely more from my perfonal refpect for the man than on account of his being leader in oppotion or administration. Permit me now, Mr, Chairman, to return my most grateful thanks to you and this affembly for the patience with which I have been heard, the honour which has been conferred up. on me, and the indignation which has been evinced against an infamous aflaffin, who has attempted to furprife and calumniate a man who had devo ted near thirty years of his life to the purpofe of breaking the chains of his countrymen. And now, Sir, let me return to the fubject immediately before this meeting, although I can scarcely think that I have been guilty of any great digreffion from it, in adverting to my own conduct during the pro. grefs of the caufe of Catholic emanci pation. I am adverfe to the tendency of the refolutions propofed, because I think that the idea of petitioning would not answer the purpofe defired, and is at all events premature, We are certain to be rejected, and rejected with undifguifed contempt. Is this a fort of treatment, to which you would wish to accuftom your catholic countrymen? Do you fuppofe them reduced to the condition, to which our worthy Chancellor the Earl of Clare promised and engaged to bring them? yet fuch must be the cafe, if they are induced to come forward feffion after feffion, laying themselves, with the certainty of being rejected, with as little ceremony as a turnpike bill. Why, in the name of God! determine now, what you are to do nine months hence, regardless of the march of time, and the current of events that may accompany it. Why, ever, refolve upon a petition to Parlia ment, rather than one to the throne, or an appeal to the people of Great Britain and Ireland? are we afraid of our wavering temper, that we wish to bind it by a premature refolution? Have we no confidence in the Catholics of Ireland? have we in a word, no confidence in ourselves? The wifeft men, both in and out of office, have been threatening us with invafion from France. Such an event may, then, take place, and poffibly before the time occurs, which you wish to fix upon for petitioning. If Bonaparte were in England or Ireland, that furely would be no time for petitioning. You would, in that cafe, be called upon to beat him out of the one place or the other; and petitioning I fuppofe would not be your weapon. Or the French Emperor may be taken prifoner, and lodged in the Tower; or unfortunately, he may be lodged in a very different place in any one of which cafes, I can fee little good that could refult from your petitioning : has already done infinite harm, and your petitioning may do more. It has involved you in the veto, and a hundred other difficulties, from which I believe the very wifeft of you do not fee the way of immediately extricating yourfelves. In short, we must always act according to the entergency of circumftances, which can not be feized upon by anticipation Above all things, whatever we do, let us avoid the appearance of inconfiftency, and that we may do fo, let us fhun precipitation. I have the more reafon to imprefs this upon the meeting, as, the last time we affembled, a great and glaring error appeared up. on the very face of our proceedings. A motion for a petition was made, feconded, oppofed and argued and after a full difcuffion the declaration propofed as an amendment, was carri ed by a great majority and the petition confequently rejected. This I thought final upon that occafion, and retired extremely ill to bed, and when many others had withdrawn upon the fuppofition that the bufinefs of the day was over, it feems that a number of young gentlemen, with great clamour and confusion, several of them speaking, or rather roaring at the fame time, again propofed the refolution to petition which had been previously rejected, and, afferting that it was carried in the affirmative, were not ashamed to have it published in the English prints, 1ft that they would not petition, and 2ndly that they would. They have acted fince with an equal regard to confiftency. We all know or have heard that a meeting at Tyrone fanctioned Lord Grenville's letter, and directed their reprefentatives in Parlia ment to vote for our emancipation only upon condition of our fubmitting to his Lordships plans. It feems that thefe gentlemen, who call themselves a Catholic Committee, reprobate Lord Grenville and his letter, but at the fame fame time return their fincere thanks to the Tyrone meeting for adopting and confirming the fentiments aud opinions of each. Let me, then, afk are fuch men fit to conduct the affairs of five millions of men, or even of a folitary individual? I fhall now conclude and vote for the amendment propofed by Mr. O'Connor. PETITION The humble petition of Patrick O'Connor, Blaney 'Brian, and M'Guire, to be appointed Infpedors, Surveyors, and Overlookers, vulga ly call'd Excifemen for the County of Cork, (its own felf, mo Jewel) in the Kingdom of Ireland. AND whereas We your aforefaid Petitioners will both by Night and by Day, and all Night and all Day; and we will come and go, and walk and ride, and take and bring, and send and fetch, and carry; and we will fee all, and more than all, and every thing, and nothing at all, of all fuch Goods and Commodities, as may be, and can be, and cannot be, to pay Duty. And we your aforefaid Petitioners, will, at all Times, and at no 'ime at all, and at Times paft, be present and absent and be backward and forward, and behind and before, be every where and no where and here and there and no where at all. And we your aforefaid Petitioners, will come and inform, and give information, and notice, duly and truly and honeftly and wifely, according to the matter as we know, and dont know, and by the knowledge of ourselves, and every one and no one at all: and we will not cheat the King any more than what is now and at all Times lawfully practifed. And whereas we your aforefaid Petitioners, as we are Gentlemen of Reputation, and we are irlth Protest ants, by Shaint Patrick fo we are, and too. Witness our several and feparate BARNEY O'BLANEY ACCOUNT OF SALAMANCA Extraded from Ormsby's Fortugal and Salamanca is indebted for its celebrity to being the feat of an University which was founded by Alphonfo the IX, about the year 1200, and is the principal one of 23 in Spain. It has fince received confiderable endowments from refpective Kings; and portraits in relievo of the principal benefactors are preferved in the cloifters: Those o the prefent Queen, and Godoyfthe Prince of peace, have been recently defaced. In this Univerfity there are fourteen Colleges in which there are not at prefent (November 1608 one hundred ftudents noft of them having joined the armies, till then there were about four hundred. That which is called Jefuits College, having belonged to that order, is preeminent in fize and beauty, and is now divided into a Spanish and Irish college. The foundation of the latter is for fixteen, and at this moment moment there are four vacancies.hefe are filled up by the Roman Catholic Bishops of Ireland, in retation; the youths they recommend are maintained and educated at free coft for seven years, they then take degrees, and are ordained for parishes in their native country. While this inftitution demonftrates the zealous attachment of Spain to her religion, and her parental fondnefs for her Milefian colony, fo far as Great Britain is concerned, it may have been injurious to her interests: and fince the establishment of the college at Maynooth, can no longer be neceffary to the priesthood of Ireland Most of the prefent ftudents have employment, or are foliciting it, in our army, their studies being completely interrupted. and, I fincerely hope they are the laft of my countrymen who fhall receive a foreign education. Let them remain at home and learn a vocabulary, from which, I truft, the names of herefy and per fecution will, ere long be blotted out. IMPORTANT EXTRACTS FROM THE NEWSPAPERS. A very large package of ftamped hand-bilis, hearth money receipts, and advertitements claiming relief for the starving manufacturers of the Liberty, was upped for America, as curious hittorical documents to explain the nature and effects of a goverment of Englishmen.. he light of thefe valuable articles, may convince the friends of Britain, in the United States, that they have no great caufe of regret for the capture of Burgoyne and Cornwallis." : There is no part of the British do minions where the trial by jury is better underflood than in Dublin. If time can give inftruction, a grand juryman in this city must be well informed, as his employment, in a legal way, is like a Judge's-it continues for life. Mr. L a Proteftant tailor, having refigned bufinefs, at the fitch-1 ing department had left his house these few years paft,and has undertaken the profeffion of Grand Juryman which his friends affure the public he will conduct with the greatest attention, to the rights and privileges of the conftitution as by law eftablithed. The Major gave a dinner a few days ago, to M'Auley the orator.-Among the company were Sir Duplicate Triangle, the Dog, Mr. Emerfon, Ruffell, Mr. Fofter, feveral Genetals, Crown-L wye s, and other profeffional gentlemen, who enjoy all the encreafing profperity of the times. On Sunday evening, three young aldermen were received into the St. James's freet cradle, and after due examination were admitted members of the houfe. The eldest of the three young gentlemen was not more than two days old. Mr. Fofter has caufed his great lift, lately published, promifing to re name to be underwritten in a little lieve thirty thoufand ftarving people in the Liberty. When we fee a man who has so many claims to answer from his tradefmen, tenants, and other creditors, fo generous we have no hesitationto fay, that he appears under ftandard. He who makes no provifion for his friends cannot be ferious when he propofes to feed ftrangers. Aman who will give two 'hundred |