indeed has not this little region done, in the world of art and poetry? creased in value. The estate of Eyrecourt recently sold for 12,000l. ing a prosecution unless the author of the alleged libel were given up, 1 ADDRESS TO MR. O'CONNELL. Mr. SHIEL, in a speech of great eloquence, moved the following Resolution-" Resolved-That the prosecution of Mr. O'Connell has excited the amazement of the English public, and is calculated to awaken a The Learned Gentleman observed, that mindful of the ties between Mr. stronger feeling than one of mere astonishment in the people of Ireland." Plunkett and the Catholics, his baffled attempt against Mr. O'Connell excited a feeling of sorrow mixed with that of indignation. The defeat of the prosecution was undoubtedly a triumph for them; but let them not, in a delirious joy, forget the ignominy of their condition. It was only transitory advantage; they were still the underlings of Orange domination; penalties and disqualifications were still heavy upon them. (Chers.) But we owe it,-continued Mr. Shiel,-we owe it to the abstract dignity Let an Englishman, if he is wise and well off, seek his wife among cious God! what motive could have prompted this extravagant underof truth, to record our condemnation of this marvellous proceeding. Grathose most respectable of all the respectable families on earth, who in taking? When Mr. Plunket read the words attributed to Mr. O'Connell, his own native soil spend a good part of every year in the country, and did he ask himself, "What is the provocation given to this man? Who make every body happy about them. I have one in my eye now at is he? and what am I?" I know not whether he administered that inC. in Northumberland, the Head of which is a second Allworthy. terrogatory to himself; but if he did, this should have been the answer :— Even the town residence of this family looks upon a noble garden." I raised myself from a comparatively humble station, by my own talents, Never shall I forget how affectionately the mother and daughters (the to the first eminence in the state. In my profession, I am without an most unaffected people in the world, and yet they read Latin-Hear equal. In Parliament I once had no superior. I have obtained great that, ye Blues and ye Anti-blues!) never shall I forget how they all wealth, great fame, great dignity, and great patronage. When I was out came about the object of their love, putting their gentle hands about his of office, I kindled the popular passions, I enlisted them upon my side. neck, and asking him how he fared after his walk. There is not a I was fierce, virulent, and vituperative. The Minister turned pale before me. At last I have won the object of my life. I am Attorney-General of good of his fellow-creatures which he does not seek; nor a grace to Ireland. If I had been a Roman Catholic, instead of an enfranchised grace it, which he does not feel. I sometimes change colour when Presbyterian, what should I have been?"-(Loud and repeated Cheers.) alone, to think what regard and gratitude an author may feel towards I can tell him: he would have pined under the sense of degradation. such men, and how long he may struggle in vain to show it. Why He would have felt like a man with huge limbs, where he could not stand cannot we coin some of the wealth of our imagination into proofs erect; he would have felt his faculties cribbed and cabined in." How tangible, and pour down our souls upon them in the princely shower? would that lofty forehead have borne the brand of Popery? How would The less they care for it in one sense, the more desire we have to show that high demeanour have worn the stoop of the slave? Would he have them how we care for it in another. And yet, God knows, I grudge been tame, and abject, and servile, and sycophantic, and moderate? No! no man his generosity. But "these things are a mystery.". I look and virulent tribune of the people; he would have superadded the honest he would have been the chief demagogue, the most angry, tumultuous, upon it as a blessing in my lot, that all the friends I ever was con- gall of his own nature to the bitterness of political resentment. And is · nected with have sympathised with me in preferring a country life. this the man who prosecutes for words? If Mr. O'Connell were AttorneyAnd yet they have liked the town too: and so do I. Luckily, very General, and Mr. Plunkett were the great leader of the people-if Angenuine country may be found near town, for those who are not rich thony were Brutus, and Brutus Anthony, how would the public mind enough to go to a distance.-Come, let us whisk ourselves back again. have been inflamed? "The very stones would rise and mutiny!" There is nothing like it. I pitch myself into one of those old green Would to Heaven that not only Mr. Plunkett, but every other Protestant lanes, of which I am so fond; and invite any bachelor that pleases, to who deplores our imprudence in the spirit of a fastidious patronage, come and see me. I think there is a cottage in the neighbourhood would adopt the simple test of nature, and make our case his own: he would confess that if similarly situated, he would give vent to his emotions in phrases exasperated, and participate in the feelings which agitate this great and disfranchised community. There is no man of ordinarycandour who will not rather intimate his wonder at the moderation than his surprise at the imputed violence of Mr. O'Connell. With fortune, rank, and abilities of the first class-enjoying pre-eminence in his profession, and the confidence of his country, he is shut out from honours accessible to persons whom nature intended to place infinitely behind, and whom their religion has advanced before him.-(Loud cheers.) If he were to adopt, or if his country at his suggestion were to assume the tone which is prescribed to us, the people of England would not believe that we laboured under any substantial grievances. "I do not believe you," said a celebrated advocate of antiquity to a citizen, who stated to him a case of enormous wrong, "I do not believe you."-" Do not believe me ?"-"No!"-"What! not believe me! I tell you, that my antagonist met me in the public way-seized me by the throat, flung me to the earth, and-"-" Hold," exclaimed Demosthenes, "your eye is on fire your lip begins to quiver-your cheek is flushed with passion-your hand is clenched-I believe you now. When you first addressed me, you were too calm, too cold, too measured; but now you speak and look like one who had sustained a wrong.”—(Loud cheers.) And are we to speak and act like men who had sustained no wrong? We! Six millions of what shall I say? Citizens? No! but men who have been flagitiously spoliated of the rights of British subjects, who are thrown into the that will suit him. IRELAND. CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION. The meeting was the most numerous ever known. The rent for the week was stated at 7751.; and among the contributors were several Protestant gentlemen and a Quaker. Mr. O'CONNELL noticed at some length the Orange plots in various parts of the country to create irritation and alarm, and recapitulated the exposure by Mr. M'Donnell regarding the distribution of "Pastorini's Prophesies" by the Protestant Archbishop of Dublin, &c. (See the last week's Political Examiner.) Dr. Magee and his Son had preached most violent sermons against what they called the Catholic demagogues; and another clergyman, Mr. Crothwaite, had absolutely declared that he did not know how soon they would be obliged to sally forth with the Bible in one hand, and a knife-a knife was the word, in the other. But, thank God! the people were now fully warned by the Association-they knew that violence could only lead to extensive bloodshed, to their own augmented misery, and to the disgrace of the Association (Cheers.) When the Association began, the country was disturbed-now it was tranquil security and peace had been established; property was in mire, and covered with disgrace; upon whom scorn is vented and contumely disgorged. We-who are the victims of legislative plunder; who have been robbed, with worse than Punic perfidy, of privileges which were purchased at Limerick with their blood, secured by the faith of treaties, and consecrated with all the solemnities of a great national compact-shall we speak like men who had sustained no wrong? (Loud cheers.) Shall we ask for the rights of freemen in the language of slaves? Common sense, common feeling, common honour-may every generous principle implanted in our nature-may that GoD (I do not take his name in vain), may that Power that endowed us with high aspirations and filled the breast of man with honourable emotion, who made the love of freedom an instinctive wish and an unconquerable appetite-may the great AUTHOR of our being-the CREATOR of the heart of man, may God forbid it! (Loud and continued cheers.) The Resolution passed unanimously. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. Mr. EXAMINER,—Nothing has amused me lately so much as the air of pretended, unconscious fashion, which the Editors of Blackwood's Magazine are labouring hard to infuse into their occasional articles connected with town, its habits, its art, or its literature. Conscious that they and their publication are marked in the modern athens, they wish it to be believed that in London they are admitted to the utmost familiarity with the leaders of the season, male and female; that they can fill up, with a certainty beyond dispute, all Lady's blanks in Byron's Conversations; that they can show the number of letters by the number of stars; and, what to the vulgar is as unintelligible as Chaldaic, to their dandy, elegant, careless, accomplished, pistol-refined capacities, is as easily understood and as perfectly intelligible, as writing letters in the names of their friends, which their friends never saw till in print, or shaking their hands with all the heartiness of regard and respect, while their own hands might perhaps be reeking with the ink hardly dry that had conveyed to the printer the blackest calumnies and foulest falsehoods on the very beings then before their faces! Mr. O'CONNELL was received with enthusiastic cheering. He expressed the feelings of delight with which he was inspired by the cordial approbation of his countrymen, and the hope that the late attack on him might be useful to them. He denied that sedition had been justly imTo modern athens belongs the glory of the Bull and Blackwood puled to him. He would vindicate the verdict of the Grand Jury by morality. It could only have arisen in a city where society was hovering avowing his principles and his opinions on Radical Reform. He was on the confinements of civilization without having yet lost the ferocity of firmly attached to the connection with Britain, which he believed savage_life-the precise state of the modern athens about 10 years would be as useful to Ireland as to England, if the people of the two ago. Since then, steam-packets have made communication with London countries met, not as masters and slaves, but as freemen and brethren. so easy and rapid, that the habits of the metropolis will by degrees be He would squauder the last drop of his heart's blood to maintain that imperceptibly conveyed into all the ramifications of Northern Society; connection. I am attached-proceeded Mr. O'Connell-to the King who and as a proof already of the effects of such intercourse, Blackwood begins now fills the throne, because I saw (and I speak literally), I saw his eye to exhibit symptoms of wishing to be thought “ fashionable,”—of knowglisten with affection for the Irish people, and because I saw him trusting all the hells and all the haunts of London life-of talking with a himself to the unarmed loyalty of his Irish subjects. I am attached perso- swaggering familiarity, as if the Editors knew more than it was discreet nally to him, who, in his proclamation to the people of Hanover, expresses to tell, and as if what they did tell, they told with Champaigne and himself thus: The differences of the Christian religious communities Burgundy at their elbows, lounging at Long's; when it is most likely cannot lead to any difference in the enjoyment of civil and political rights, written at a dirty whiskey-house, on a dirty table-cloth, with a glass of in countries composing the German Confederation. * * The notion toddy for inspiration, into which a more dirty waiter had put dirty sugar of a predominant and of a merely tolerated church is entirely abolished." with his filthy fingers! What name was attached to this proclamation? The-name-God bless him!-of George the Fourth.-(Loud cheers). Oh, that we were Hanoserians! Oh, that we were part and parcel of that same lucky German Confederation! He was attached to a Nobility, which gave security to and adorned the connexion between the King and people. He firmly adhered to the general maxim, that every man affected by the laws should have a voice in the election of the law-makers. With these principles he had only one object. Not young enough (said Mr. O'Connell) to hope to obtain any ends by violence, all my fair ambition is already satisfied by the station which I fill. I have, as Mr. Shiel has said, given seven hostages to my country; my children are grown up about me some have arrived at manhood, and I should be the most doting driveller if, with the professional revenue which I enjoy, and possessing a property which would otherwise render me independent, I should embark in any wild scheme of revolution. It would be folly, Sir, to beard the Government of Britain in all the pomp of its present strength; to present our bare-headed peasants before her organized legions. It would be insanity: and I trust in God, that there is not one man who does not feel that it is his interest, as it is his duty, to preserve a patient condition; and as our ancestors for generations have done before us, submit for conscience-sake to a code which we dislike, rather than risk the shedding of a single drop of blood.—(Loud cheers). e; Other Resolutions were then moved, declaring that an Address should be presented to Mr. O'Connell, expressive of their sentiments respecting the late prosecution. For some seasons, the reputed Editors have journied to town with letters from high quarters, which put London society in an awkward predicament: the letters were from those who had every title to instant consideration, but, alas! they introduced people who had no claim whatever. Admitted however they were, with just the feeling one would admit sleek-faced hyenas, and with a sort of embryo notion that they came to beat up for materiel, for the amusement of their Autumn readers: in short, that they came to wind themselves into habits of familiarity with the first society in fashion and literature, that they might more easily speak to the point, in any future falsehoods or attacks. This being precisely the feeling on one part, and on the other a consciousness that it was quite true, you may imagine, Mr. Examiner, the state of feeling generated between the parties. Conscious guilt made our talking, versifying, editing Gentlemen silent as death; and just suspicion clipped all hearty, frank, unstudied sallies,-the heart and soul of honour able wits. Since that, our Dandies have returned to Aathens, and all succeeding Numbers of Blackwood have given evident symptoms that they know St. James's-street from Cheapside, and Murray's shop from Day and Martin's; that they have been at the Opera, and have heard that a Stockbroker is like Byron. So much, Mr. Editor, they know, and little more, I assure you. They may pick up, now and then, something true from the unguarded conversation of their superiors; but, be assured, their supecant, their unprincipled lying, as any of the honourable inhabitants of riors are as averse from their treacherous ridicule, their hypocritical Aathens itself. "Turner is the greatest landscape-painter next Claude.”—He is so, there can be no doubt. "Wilkie is superior to Teniers in expression, and equals him in richness of colouring."-In richness of colouring and handling, Teniers is as superior to Wilkie, as Wilkie is superior to him in character. Mr. BRIC took notice of the report in some of the newspapers, that the The autumn has been remarkable in Aathens for a great inundation of first proceedings of Parliament would affect the existence of the Catholic London Artists, which astonished not a little the Sawney Connoisseurs. Association. He did not believe that report, because he believed the They began to find out that Woolly Allan was not Raphael-that Government was sensible of the advantage it derived from the proceed- Nicholson was not Vandyke-nor Williams a Gaspar and consequently, ings of the Association. The Marquis Wellesley, compared to his pre-after making them tipsy at dinners, and pumping them in their gay decessors, was on a bed of roses. They all remembered the dreadful moments, the article on Painting appears, last month, with a sort of rebellions and endless insurrections. But a very short time ago, special summing-up of the characters of our principal Artists, which will amuse commissions were issued every month, and the Judges travelled under them through the country, guarded by soldiers, and causing the blood you for its true Scotch nationality. of guilty insurgents to flow in unavailing torrents. Crime led to punishbeat, and punishment multiplied crime, until the fields and highways of Ireland were drenched with the blood of her oppressed and guilty people. Ad bow was the present state of peace and security produced? Not by he relief of the people: they remained under the same wrongs and dens. But they were directed by the Association in the right way. Chee, s.) They were taught the crime, the shame, and the folly of recourse to that system of outrage, which could accomplish no Cosible good for their country, but which would infallibly bring down their own heads the just punishment of the law. (Applause.) The Catholic Association influenced and guided the people; they were sight to hope; their minds were directed to the legitimate sources of stitution. al relief. The object of the Association was to enable the or and the oppressed to appeal to the law, and only to the law, for dress; to lay before Parliament, in the shape of humble petitions, the grievances of the people, and to state proveable facts for the information the Legislature. Could anything te more useful or more desirable an that? (He ar, hear!) Their conduct was before the world-their foors were open to strengers, to enemies, and even to spies, Caving The Resolutions were agreed to, and Mr. Shiel was requested to pre are the Address. Sir Thomas is next to Vandyke and Velasquez."-He is not. "Allan is, in drawing, the very first of his time."-How can the Editors talk such nonsense? Allan is a humble imitator of Wilkie; he knows very little indeed of drawing, of colouring still less. The Editors have done Allan a great deal of harm by their over puffing. As the Editors and Woolly get warm over toddy, and swear eternal friendship, we have no doubt Woolly contrives to persuade them that he is the greatest man in the world; but when they open their eyes the next morning, they really should look again at his inefficient pictures before they write. The best thing Allan does in the world is imitating the humming of a bee. This he does to perfection. Haydon," they proceed," is perhaps, after Wilkie, the cleverest man of all these."-After Wilkie, reader, of course. For Blackwood's Editors to have the most distant notion that Haydon, an Englishman, could be on the same level, or a higher one, as Wilkie, a Scotchman, would be the greatest miracle of the time. But he has, with the exception of the head of Lazarus, retrograded, both in execution and in reputation, since the time when he painted his Solomon; and his last effort, Silenus the iniquity, although nothing is more common. For example, should preaching to Ariadne, is bad beyond belief,-a complete cockneyism in the Lord Chancellor, Sir Harcourt Lees, and the Ascendancy, maintain conception, and a daub of daubs in its most coxcombical execution." their ground at this moment, so far as to cocker up another Irish rebelAgainst the injustice of this, I beg leave to say a few words:-Black-lion; in the event of its terminating in the manner of that of the United wood's Editors have about Haydon a peculiar feeling of mortification. States, the admirers forming their faction,-led on by Bull and BlackFor some time, they used to amuse their readers with fanciful accounts wood, glorious leaders!-would immediately expatiate on the evils proof his dress, to deny his talents, and ridicule his objects. In 1820, after duced by Pitt, Fox, Burke, Grey, Sheridan, Brougham, Captain Rock, his great success in London with his Jerusalem, he went to Edinburgh, and Liberalism. It is just thus with a numerous herd of praters in regard exhibited his picture, and succeeded triumphantly. Blackwood recanted, to Voltaire, the tenor of whose accusations have been facetiously enough praised him to the skies, and inserted one of the most adulatory sonnets summed up by the lively French song-writer, Berenger, in a series of which had ever been addressed to him, after abusing every one who stanzas, in which, after the manner of the restored Jesuits and Capuchins, had written sonnets to him before! The Editors invited him to dine all the wicked actions of mankind, from the murder of Abel downwards, squeezed his hands to their very hearts-and from that time to this his are connected with the labours of a man of the last century, who,-imname has never been mentioned. It was said the other day, that as the pious wretch!-sought to laugh the animal called Monk from off the Magazine was falling, the best way to raise it was to begin a series of per- face of the earth, and very nearly succeeded. sonal attacks as formerly. The very next Number contained an infamous attack on Kean: and Haydon, as formerly, was the Raphael of the coeknies! Oh Mathens, athens, thou containest a delightful set within thy classic walls! In execution and completeness, in colour, effect, and drawing, Lazarus is Haydon's best work. The Solomon is not equal to it by any means. Lazarus, it is understood, was painted throughout without an alteration: this gave an equality of execution which none of his other works possess in the same degree. With respect to Silenus being cockneyish in conception, I really do not know what it means. Is there anything more common than for a man intoxicated-(as the Editors must all know)-to have sudden fits of moral feeling? Have the Editors never seen the President of their well-known Society preach from his Chair with his eyes half fast, his mouth half on one side, his cheeks flushed, and his tongue refusing utterance? If any appellation suits the conception, it is Sawneyish-it being more of the habit of the Literati of athens to get into a chair and preach morality, when they are quite drunk, than it is the practice of London Presidents; and I do not believe that such habits in London would have entitled any President to be afterwards elected a Moral Professor. LITERARY NOTICE. A. To the great number of English readers of French who are well acquainted with the character and contents of the Philosophical Dictionary, it is lost time to dwell upon its claims as a work of extraordinary merit, both in matter and manner. A still larger class of English readers however exist, who, unaided by a due acquirement of the French language, have been hitherto necessarily unacquainted with it, and of them, not a few who have been classically educated in other respects. To the greater part of these, the present version will be unequivocally welcome, while every friend to the unfettered exercise of mind will rejoice at the appearance, in the English language, of a work in which that privilege has been so usefully and brilliantly exercised. It would be miserable indeed, if by aid of a profusion of mere parrot-like epithet and expletive, the English Frerons, Garasses, Patouillets, Nonottes, and Desfontaines, should be able to effect in England what their counterparts so deplorably failed to do in France. To be sure, that point has been decided already to no small extent, and the sequel will doubtless be correspondent. Voltaire has his faults-what voluminous and versatile writer of extraordinary power has not?-but he was a vigorous, incessant, and successful labourer for the advancement of the social condition of the species, and has done much to ensure it; one grand proof of which fact is, that no reaction or restored influence can ever again sanction feudal, priestly, and judicial oppression, in a country in which his works freely circulate. It was not amiss for the Capuchin of the New Times, the other day, to call on the Bourbon Government to put down the great leading classic of France: could such a policy be acted upon, it would, no doubt, prove an efficient step back again towards the times which witnessed the massacre of St. Bartholomew, the Dragonades of Louis XIV. the lettres-decachet of La Chaise and Le Tellier, the persecutions and legal murders of Calas, Sirven, Martin, and Debarre; of the sacerdotal "luxury, intrigue, avarice, and oppression of an intriguing and predominant priesthood; in short, of all which really produced the French Revolution, and wherever it exists, ought to produce another. To conclude: the English language at length possesses the Philosophical Dictionary of Voltaire complete, and looking to some points in which the rapid progress of information since his death has necessarily tended to elucidate and correct, the English Edition has possibly some few adIndex, of which the Original is destitute. A brief glance over the latter will at once satisfy the general reader of the curious variety of subject, just as he may be convinced by the perusal at random of half-a-dozen pages together in any of the volumes, of the quick, intelligent, and an abated spirit, which pervades this extraordinary work from one end to the other. Q. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, Sixth aud last Volume, with General Index. THE sixth and last volume of the only English version of the above celebrated work is at length published; and the English reader may be congratulated on the appearance, in his own language, of possibly the most witty and variously informed series of social and philosophical disquisition that ever existed. We say witty and variously-informed, because, as it is altogether hopeless to deny the first quality, the usual practice of the imitative herd of railers at this great author, is, to admit it, by way of opposition to the second. A perusal of the Philosophical Dictionary will convince every calm and disinterested mind of the injustice of this arti-vantages over the French one-not to mention the addition of a copious fice; for whatever the difference of human opinion upon various of the speculative points which are more or less discussed in these highly-seasoned volumes, the extended knowledge and enquiry of their chief author are self-evident. The wit of Voltaire, in its peculiar spirit, is unparalleled; his information is doubtless less rare; but who will venture to deny, that, as compounded in the Philosophical Dictionary, they form together a most attractive course of reading for the social and general enquirer of every description. We affect not to conceal, that his occasional analysis of scriptural tradition and character may frequently assail the notions of various classes of religionists; but as the premises are always formally supplied, decorum strictly preserved, and the exceptive qualities of faith duly admitted, the investigation, even to such persons, must be more salutary than otherwise, especially in the promotion of a tolerant spirit, and of general benevolence and good-will. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. AMERICA. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DEC. 10. [At an early hour the Galleries began to fill with spectators; and soon after 11 o'clock many Ladies entered the hail, and took possession of the sofas and seats which were appropriated for their reception. A great number of additional seats soon became necessary, and, long before the hour appointed for the reception of the General, the House presented an exhibition of beauty and fashion which has scarcely ever been equalled.] Fayette. The doors were shortly afterwards thrown open, and the Senate entered, and took the seats which had been vacated by the Members on the right of the Chair. At one o'clock George Washington La Fayette, Esq. and Colonel La Vassieur, the General's Secretary, entered the House, and took their seats on one of the sofas by the side of the Secretary of State, and in a few moments General La Fayette entered the House, supported on his right by Mr. Mitchell, and on his left by Mr. Livingston, followed by the Committee. The Speaker and Members then rose, and the procession advanced towards the centre of the House. Mr. MITCHELL introduced General La Fayette in the following words: In regard to humanity, and the social progress generally, the Philosophical Dictionary will prove a monument of the indefatigable zeal, spirit, and patriotism of the celebrated French man, to the end of time; for nothing can better prove the earnestness and perseverance of his various labours against tyranny, priestcraft, and superstition, and still more against the monstrous and complicated evils which they engender wher-The Senate were invited to attend the House to receive General La ever predominant. It may be doubted if any single individual ever did so much to unmask and render hateful an d'ridiculous the various baleful oppressions, practices, and prejudices, which impoverished the sources not only of French national prosperity, but of social well-being all over the world. Persecution shrunk aghast from the searching powers of his ridicule; and, dragged into the face of day, a mass of petty usurpations and venal impositions was laughed out. of existence. Yes; but all this led to the French Revolution, it will be observed! In reasonable subordination to the facts on which it was grounded, it doubtless did so; but what then? We have no wish to lessen what are properly called the horrors of that Revolution; but, after all, it has proved a great good. Great as were these horrors, they were transient, and no way to compare with the lasting misery produced by the slavish and pestilential loathsomeness removed. France, for endless generations, will enjoy the benefit of the The General was then conducted to the sofa placed for his reception, sacrifice made by one; and even were it 11ot so, what has Voltaire, or when the SPEAKER addressed him in the following words: any man, to do with the consequences of the reaction of a misgoverned "General, The House of Representatives of the United States, impeople, whose misgovernment he patriotically exposes, and would reme-pelled alike by its own feelings, and by those of the whole American Pleasant, truly, to attribute the evil to the exposition, instead of people, could not have assigned to me a more gratifying duty than that "Mr. Speaker: The Select Committee, appointed for that purpose, have the honour to introduce General La Fayette to the House of Repre sentatives." permit me, Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, to join to the expression of those sentiments, a tribute of my lively grațitude, affectionate devotion, and profound respect." whatsoever. MOONLIGHT. of presenting to you cordial congratulations upon the occasion of your recent arrival in the United States, in compliance with the wishes of Congress, and to assure you of the very high satisfaction which your presence affords on this earthly theatre of your glory and renown. Although but few of the Members who compose this body shared with you listened to with the profoundest attention. Throughout the whole of the Both the Address of the Speaker, and the Reply of the General were in the war of our Revolution, all have, from impartial history, or from Members, and in all the assemblage, both on the floor and in the gallery, faithful tradition, a knowledge of the perils, the sufferings, and the sacri-nniversal silence prevailed. Every eye was strained, and every ear on fices which you voluntarily encountered, and the signal services in the alert, that not a movement of the countenance, nor a syllable of the America, and in Europe, which you performed for an infant, a distant, language, of the venerable object of so much solicitude, should be lost. and an alien people; and all feel and own the very great extent of the As soon as the General had resumed his seat, Mr. Mitchell moved that obligations under which you have placed our country. But the relations the House do adjourn, which was carried. As soon as the adjournment in which you ever stood to the United States, interesting and important had taken place, the Speaker, advancing to the General, offered his peras they have been, do not constitute the only motive of the respect and sonal congratulations, shaking him cordially and repeatedly by the band. admiration which the House of Representatives entertain for you. Your The Speaker then introduced all the Members, individually, and thus consistency of character, your uniform devotion to regulated liberty, in closed a scene the most imposing in its character, and instructive in its all the vicissitudes of a long and arduous life, also command its admira-effects, which has ever been presented to the people of any nation tion. During all the recent convulsions of Europe, amidst, as after the dispersion of, every political storm, the people of the United States have beheld you true to your old principles, firm and erect, cheering and animating with your well-known voice the votaries of liberty, its faithful and fearless champion, ready to shed the last drop of that blood which here you so freely and nobly spilt, in the same holy cause. wish has been sometimes indulged, that Providence would allow the The vain Patriot, after death, to return to his country, and to contemplate the intermediate changes which had taken place to view the forests felled, the cities built, the mountains levelled, the canals cut, the highways constructed, the progress of the arts, the advancement of learning, and increase of population. General, your present visit to the United States is a realization of the consoling object of that wish. You are in the midst of posterity. Every where you must have been struck with the great changes, physical and moral, which have occurred since you left us. Even this very city, bearing a venerated name, alike endeared to you and to us, has since emerged from the forest which then covered its site. In one respect you behold us unaltered, and that is in the sentiment of continued devotion to liberty, and of ardent affection and profound gratitude to your departed friend, the father of his country, and to you, and to your illustrious associates in the field and in the cabinet, for the multiplied blessings which surround us, and for the very privilege of addressing you which I now exercise. This sentiment, now fondly cherished by more than ten millions of people, will be transmitted, with unabated vigour, down the tide of time, through the countless millions who are destined to inhabit this continent, to the latest posterity." While the Speaker was addressing him, General LA FAYETTE was very evidently affected. At the close of the address, he seated himself for a few seconds, and then rose, in a tone influenced by powerful feelings, and made the following Reply: [A slight volume of " Poems by Thomas Wade," containing "Tasso Skeletons," and "The Spirits of the Ocean," has just been published, and the Sisters," "Tasso's Spirit," The Nuptials of Juno," "The the work, we are informed, of an author, who, according to law, has not yet reached the years of discretion. His powers, however, are any thing but puerile; and his poems teem with passages which prove him to be a true son of Apollo.-We add a specimen from "The Spirits of the Ocean:"] On Heaven! how beauteous is the glow But far more beautiful the tint The moon roll'd on, in cloudless glory, Flung a pale garb of silvery hue: To charm the stars through which it went, Save the wide ocean's ceaseless roar, "Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives :-While the people of the United States, and their honourable Representatives in Congress, have deigned to make choice of me, one of the American veterans, to signify, in his person, their esteem for our joint services, and their attachment to the principles for which we have had the honour to fight and bleed, I am proud and happy to share those extraordinary favours with my dear revolutionary companions; yet it would be, on my part, uncandid and ungrateful not to acknowledge my personal share in those testimonies of kindness, as they excite in my breast emotions which no adequate words could express. My obligations to the United States, Sir, far exceed any merit I might claim; they date from the time when I have had the happiness to be adopted as a young soldier, a favoured son of America; they have been continued to me during almost half a century of constant affection and confidence; and, now, Sir, thanks to your most gratifying invitation, I find myself greeted by a series of welcomes, one hour of which would more than compensate for the public exertions and sufferings of a whole life. The approbation of the American People, and their Representatives, for my conduct during the vicissitudes of the European Revolution, is the highest reward I could receive. Well may I stand firm and erect, when in their names, and by you, Mr. Speaker, I am declared to have, in every instance, been faithful to those American principles of liberty, equality, and true social order, the devotion to which, as it has been from my earliest youth, so it shall continue to be to my latest breath. You have been pleased, Mr. Speaker, to allude to the peculiar felicity of my situation, when, after so long an absence, I am called to witness the immense improvements, the admirable communications, the prodigious creations, of which we find an example in this city, whose name itself is a venerated palladium; in a word, all the grandeur and prosperity of those happy United States, who, at the same ume they nobly secure the complete assertion of American independence, reflect, on every part of the world, the light of a far superior political evilization. What better pledge can be given, of a persevering love of iberty, when these blessings are evidently the result of a virtuous resist-R. J. Greetham, Liverpool, ship-chandler. Solicitor, Mr. Chester, nce to oppression, and of institutions founded on the rights of man, and the Republican Principle of Self-government? No, Mr. Speaker, posterity has not begun for me, since in the sons of my companions and friends, I find the same public feelings, and, permit me to add, the same feelings in my behalf, which I had the happiness to experience in their fathers. Sir, I have been allowed, forty years ago, before a Committee of a Congress of thirteen States, to express the fond wishes of an American beart; on this day, I have the honour, and enjoy the delight, to congratulate the Representatives of the Union, so vastly enlarged, on the Realization of those wishes, even beyond every human expectation, and on the almost infinite prospects we can with certainty anticipate THE HEALTHY CONVENT. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. Staple-inn. BANKRUPTS. R., J., and J. Byram, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, woollen-manufacturers. J. Sugden, Huddersfield, cloth-merchant. Solicitors, Messrs. Clarke, H. McKenzie, Walsall, Staffordshire, draper. Solicitor, Mr. Wheeler, J. Humphreys, Vauxhall-bridge-road, carpenter. Solicitor, Mr. Shutter, Millbank street. Westminster. the THE EXAMINER. ship, and were relieved, after six hours' exposure, by the acti- J. M'DONNELL. In the Chamber of Peers the address first proposed by mizen-mast to be cut away; but this did not in any way M. Bonald, which was entirely conformable to the views of relieve us, as the ship seemed to be firmly fixed in the sandthe Ministry, was warmly combated. number of Peers attacked the principle that the emigrants as the cabin was fast filling with water, and the crew and A pretty considerable bank, where she first struck, about two miles off shore; and had a right to an indemnity, and when M. Clement de Ton-passengers eager to save their lives, about seven o'clock, when nere, the Minister of War, rose and said, "Observe that you day appeared, the last resource of ordering out the boats was attack a principle recognised by the King, in his Speech from the Throne," a general murmur of disapprobation arose, and took refuge in these: as first, the Captain declared his purresorted to; nearly all the crew, but few of the passengers, even the partisans of the indemnity reminded the Minister of pose to remain in the ship. I, in company with another the principles of representative Government. from the Throne," said they," is the speech of the Ministers, the jolly boat was afterwards sent for the Captain, who em"The Speech gentleman, saved our lives by swimming to the long-boat; delivered by the King. It is unconstitutional to adduce the barked in her with his chief mate, six passengers, and three Monarch personally in support of a principle which must sailors; but in approaching the shore, a heavy surf running, be freely discussed in the two Chambers, and which can- she capsized, and all perished, except the last three. not be a law till it has received the approbation of the three powers." Every paragraph of the proposed address was then put separately to the vote, and they were all rejected. In the Sitting of the 31st, another address was proposed and adopted. The Chamber, recognising the general principle that the emigrants have a right to an indemnity, would not bind itself in any manner with re-appointed to investigate the various cases of the Spanish and THE SPANISH AND ITALIAN REFUGEES.-The Committee spect to the mode of execution which would have been Italian Refugees, have had their second meeting. The meetconsequence of its adopting the address in the form at ing was most numerously attended at the City of London first proposed. It is, then, easy to see, by all that has passed Tavern.-The LORD MAYOR being unanimously called to the in these two sittings, that the Ministry has to fear a powerful Chair, his Lordship, preparatory to the commencement of opposition in the Upper Chamber.-Part of the Peers acknow- business, stated to the meeting, that he had received commuledged the right of the emigrants, others consider the indem- nications in answer to the letters he had sent to Manchester, nity merely as an act of policy, and others again as an act of Sheffield, and Leeds, recommending that a public Meeting munificence. The majority will agree with the Ministry only should be held at each of those places, for the purpose of inon the one point, that an indemnity shall be noted, but it is creasing the subscription to the Spanish and Italian Refugees. doubtful whether it will agree with it respecting the mode of The authorities of Manchester and Sheffield (the Boroughexecution. Already the Journal des Debats of to-day con- reeve and the Clerk of the Cutlers' Company, we believe) retains an article by M. de Chateaubriand against the proposed presented that meetings should be forthwith called at those means of procuring the sums sufficient to pay the emigrants. towns, in conformity with the proposal of the Lord Mayor. The emigrants themselves are not wholly satisfied; they ex- The answer from Liverpool and Leeds, although they did not pected an immediate and integral indemnity, and they are to be defeat the expectation that a similar conduct would be purpaid only by 5 instalments in 5 years. During this time they sued at each of those places, were not so satisfactory. The will be at the discretion of the Minister of Finance, who may Mayors stated, that before a Meeting could be held, the inhadelay or accelerate the payments at his pleasure, by requiring bitants must sign a requisition themselves, and the Authorities documents in support of their claims, which it well be difficult had no right to interfere without such a sanction. to procure. M. de Villele takes a great deal of pains, and those gentlemen sent a practical comment upon the Lord the result always is to excite universal complaints. All the Mayor's suggestion, by inclosing a bank note for 201. in aid emigrants are not in favour of the law. There are some who of the charity; and it is expected that, although public consider it as impolitic, and contrary to the national interest; meetings may not be held in some corporate towns, the of this number is M. Gilbert des Voisins, whose fortune is claims of the Refugees will meet with much of that sort of very limited, and who, if the law is adopted, will be entitled acknowledgment which is daily paid at the various bankingto 3,000,000 francs. He is, however, one of the most de- houses at which contributions are received. cided adversaries of the proposal of the Ministers. LOSS OF THE SHIP DIAMOND. TO MESSRS. W. AND J. BROWN AND CO. LIVERPOOL. GENTLEMEN, The unpleasant duty devolves on me to Cardigan Bay, Jan. 3, 1825. communicate the loss of the ship Diamond, Captain Macy, from New York to Liverpool, consigned to your address, which occurred here yesterday morning about five o'clock, our port of departure on the 12th ultimo, and made Cape We left Clear about eight o'clock p.m. on the 31st; we continued to proceed favourably up Channel with a steady breeze West, but the Captain seemed to think we were too close in with the Irish land at this season of the year, and shaped his course rather to the southward and eastward, and probably proceeding too far in this direction, led to the unfortunate result which happened. Yesterday morning, about 1 o'clock, the land was distinctly seen close on board, and then every effort was made to wear the ship off, which unfortunately did not succeed, as there was a strong tide setting, and it is generally imagined, the Captain mistook the lights he observed. On finding, however, the perilous circumstances of our situation, he used every means which bis skill suggested to extricate us; he caused the One of TOTAL ABOLITION OF THE TAX ON SALT.-By many, and more particularly the agricultural classes, Wednesday first, the 5th current, will be regarded as a white day in our financial annals, in as far as the article of salt is concernedtaxable-as free from the contact of the exciseman's stick, as an article which, from that day, becomes as untaxed as unthe snow which covers the summit of Mont Blanc. Exactly two years ago, the duty on English salt was reduced from made in Scotland was generously relinquished altogether. 30s. to 4s. the cwt. while the duty on the same commodity This was felt as an important boon, and the trifling duty of four shillings per cwt. which was temporarily retained on English salt, took so little from the pockets of our opulen neighbours, while it afforded such protection to the Scottis manufacturer, that there are hundreds who think it shoul have been continued.-For many purposes, and particularl but to dig and refine, boil and evaporate, are such different for various curing processes, marine is superior to rock salt operations, that in most of our manufactories it requires six cwt. of coal to make one cwt. of salt. Now, therefore, that the duty is abandoned in England as well as Scotland, all or supplies must be drawn from Cheshire; and while we free] admit that the public generally will be benefited by the change, we cannot help feeling a little sorry for such of o◄ = ely |