The most numerous and respectable Meeting of the Roman Catholics of the county of Roscommon, convened for a length of time, assembled in the Court-house of Roscommon, on the 5th of December instant, pursuant to an adjournment resolved on at a fór mer meeting held on the 2d of September last, when the following Resolutions were unanimously agreed to, Owen O'Conor, Esq. in the Chair.

That, conscious of the rectitude of our principles, of our unshaken attachment to our Sovereign, actuated by a just and legitimate admiration of the unrivalled excellence of the British Constitution, and aspiring to a participation of its advantages, we do again renew our Petition tional Repeal of the Penal Laws which aggrieve and degrade the Roman Catho lics of Ireland.

to Parliament for a total and uncondi

which the Penal Code inflicted-and in the only adequate modes of administering relief. There could be no doubt that the Catholics would cheerfully follow the advice of Sir Henry Parnell; and they must be blind to their own interests, and insensible of the value of such a friend, if the tone, temper, manner, and language of their Petitions did not accord with his opinions. The draft of the Address to the Regent is in preparation. It will be ready to be submitted to the Association on Saturday in the ensuing week. It will contain a respectful but manly appeal to the good sense and justice of the Executive Government. There will be nothing in it sycophantic, mean, or cringing. It would deserve to be rejected if there were. But it will contain an abstract of the facts which demonstrate the That we do adopt the form of Petition treachery of the original enactment of agreed upon by an Aggregate Meeting of the Penal Laws-the impoliey, and the Roman Catholics of Ireland, held in Dublin, on the 24th of January last; and above all, the injustice of their conthat the Earl of Donoughmore be retinuance and that in the profound re-quested to present it to the House of spect which is due to his Royal Highness, who is now, in fact the first Magistrate in the State, and the rightful Governor of these Realms. The Address will again afford us an opportunity of assisting the grand principle of freedom of conscience-that principle which, by being recognised by Government, and carried into practical execution, would give freedom and the Constitution to the Catholics of Ireland, only because it would afford protection, security, and equal rights to the persecuted Protestants on the Continent of Europe.

He then concluded, by moving a Vote of thanks to Sir Henry Parnell, for his very kind and eminently useful communication; which was, of course adopted unanimously.

A discussion, or rather a conversation arose upon the most adviseable mode of raising the necessary funds. Mr. Mahon having left the Chair, and Captain Galway being called thereto, the particular thanks of the Meeting were voted to Mr. Mahon, for his conduct in the Chair.

Lords, and our faithful representatives, the Honorable General Stephen Mahon, and Arthur French, Esq. to the House of Commons.

That our most grateful thanks be given to the Earl of Donoughmore, for so

often presenting and supporting the prayers of our Petitions to Parliament, and for his spirited and able advocacy of our Claims on all occasions; and that our Chairman be requested to communicate this. Resolution to his Lordship in the strongest terms of respect and gratitude.

That the thanks of this Meeting are due, and are hereby given, to our Representatives, for their general good conduct in Parliament, and for their uniform support of Catholic Claims.

That although we can never reconcile to our principles, civil or religious, the odious and unnecessary arrangements of of a Veto in its apprehended form; yet it is our opinion, every reasonable concession should be made on the part of Catholics, consistent with the full enjoyment of their civil and spiritual Claims and the constitutional rights of the country.

That we consider the future nomination of our Bishops by Dean and Chapter, to the exclusion of all foreign in

terference, as a measure which should tend to conciliate all parties, remove religious dissensions, and thereby essentially promote the interests of Empire. That relying with unreserved confidence on the wisdom and discretion of Parliament, without presuming to point out or dictate any specific measure for adoption, we do confidently hope, as such an arrangement, by removing all possible apprehension of danger to the future security of the present Establishment, must necessarily satisfy the Protestants of the Empire at large; that it will also insure to the Roman Catholics of Ireland, the full and unqualified restoration of their rights.

That we do implicitly concur with our venerated and respected Prelates, in their last dignified decision against an arrange. ment tending, as we conceive, not only to destroy all Religion among the Catholics of Ireland, but eventually to endanger the civil rights and liberties of all classes of his Majesty's subjects.

continues with unabated violence in nany parts of Ireland, it is inexpedie to present similiar petitions at this time

Resolved unanimously, That in a ing to the foregoing Resolution, we e not actuated by any dereliction of dut nor do we less strongly feel disappr bation of the system, nor less dread i hurtful consequences, being thoroughl persuaded, that this Protestant combina tion against Catholics is illegal, an keeps up a spirit of irritation and animo sity on both sides, and is an attempt t persecute for religious opinions.

Resolved unanimously, That we ear nestly entreat the Earl of Donoughmore and Sir Henry Parnell to bring forward motions on this subject during the ensuing Sessions; as we are convinced, that the permanent tranquility of Ireland depends on the suppression of the griev ances sustained from the Orange party.

Resolved, (with several dissentients an amendment substituted, as the last paragraph, in a place of one expunged,) That the most unqualified thanks of That actuated by a spirit consistent with this Meeting be given to Sir Henry Par- our Resolutions, we behold, with abhornell, for his active and unremitting ex-rence the restoration of the Inquisition

ertions in our cause.

That the Bishop of Norwich is justly entitled to the gratitude and admiration of the Catholics of this Country, for shewing so splendid an example of liberality, in a Protestant Bishop, and maintaining the justice of our Claims, both in and out of Parliament.

in Spain, as an abridgment of the legiti mate rights of the people, which are es sentially of more importance than the so much talked of legitimacy of Princes. We likewise view with the strongest emotions of disapprobation, the persecution of Protestants in the South of France, commenced apparently under the countenance of some of the branches of the Bourbons. And, while we lament that this perseeution should only have com

The following truly admirable and constitutional Resolutions were enter-menced under a Government establish ed into, at u Meeting of the Friends of Civil and Religious Liberty, held in the Meeting house of the Fourth Dissenting Congregation, in Belfast, on the 11th of December, 1815, the Rev. Robert Acheson in the Chair:

ment in France by the power of the Al lies, in the erecting of which they proof social order, we hail with pleasure fessed to have in view the establishment the pledge which the British Govern ment have given, in their answer to the English Protestant Dissenters, of their disposition on this subject.

Resolved unanimously, That the exercise of private judgment in forming reli- Resolved unanimously, That the Unigious opinions, is the unalienable right of ted States of North America hold out an every individual, and that no Govern-object worthy of imitation, where all ment ought to interfere between the Sects live peaceably together, and are mind of man and his God; nor ought equally protected in the right of forming any person to taunt or revile their fellow their religious opinions. citizens for opinions deliberately and conscientiously formed.

Resolved unanimously, That having petitioned the two Houses of Parliament, during the two last years, without success, on the manifold evils arising from the system of Orangemen, which still

Resolved unanimously, That the thanks of this Meeting be returned to Daniel O'Connell, Esq. as being the first in Ire land to eall public attention to the perse cution of Protestants in France, at a Meeting of the Catholic Association, in Dublin; thus evincing, that in the ho

nourable pursuit of Catholic Emancipa- | for the benefit of the Sunday Schools tion, and protection from the hostility of in this town. Preparations were made Orange outrages, he only sought for him- for furnishing the royal pew; and numself, and his fellow Catholics, that liber-bers of the most respectable families ty which he was equally ready to grant were present. But her Majesty and to others. the Royal Family preferred the performance of the sacred duties of the day in a private manner at the Pavil lion. The Bishop of Exeter officiat and the collection was upwards of ed as Chaplain to the Prince Regent, seventy pounds."

On

Resolved unanimously, That our aim in adopting the foregoing Resolutions is as well to turn public attention to the disturbed state of Ireland, from the persecutions of the Orange Societies, as to excite to sympathy on the part of the people, and an interference of the British Government with the outrages committed on the Protestants in France. It CATHOLIC SUPERSTITION. is far from our intention to throw blame Sunday, the 3d of Dec. the Rev. B. on Protestant or Catholic Communities Murphy preached the annual Sermon generally, but only on such individuals at Townsend-street Catholic Chapel, as, either in Ireland or France, violate the principles of civil and religious liber- Dublin, in support of the Male and the principles of civil and religious liber-Female Orphan Houses and Dayty; and in this feeling we earnestly call upon the liberal of all Sects to join, that, school of St. Andrew's parish in that by general expression of public senti city. The collection, notwithstandment, the evils complained of may being the badness of the times, amountremedied. ed to upwards of FOUR HUN DRED POUNDS.

We are enabled to state, that the first impression (in gold) of the beautiful medallion of the Pope, executed by Messrs. Hardman and Lewis, of Birmingham, from the marble bust in the possession of the Vicar Apostolic of the Midland District, was sent by the latter as a present to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, through the hands of his Secretary, the Right Hon. Colonel M'Mahon. In return for which the following letter was sent to the donor:

66 Sir,

your

"Carlton-House, Nov. 27, 1815. “I have had the honour to receive and present to the Prince Regent, in name, a superb medallion of the Pope; and I am commanded by his Royal Highness to return you his best thanks for your polite attention in sending to him so beautiful a specimen of art and workmanship. I have the honour to be, Sir,

With great respect,

I DARING OUTRAGES.

On Monday evening, the 27th Nov. Mr. Wm. Baker, of the county of Tipperary, was murdered, by some unknown persons, on his return home from the sessions held at Cashel, under Messrs. Peel and Grattan's Insurrection Act. Mr. Baker was a gentleman of moderate but independent fortune, and his private character was respectable; in any other situation than the public office of an active magistrate in a disturbed county it might have been amiable, perhaps popular. But an ardent zeal, grafted upon a moderate understanding, has too frequently in Ireland led to sad and sanguinary scenes. Every endeavour has been made to trace the perpetrators of this barbarous crime, and a reward of £5000 has been offered by Government for the discovery of the offend

Your most obedient servant, ers. J. M MAHON." "To the Right Rev. John Milner, D.D. &c. &c. Wolverhampton."

PROTESTANT BENEVOLENCE. The following act of charitable munifi- | cence is copied from The Morning Chronicle:" Brighton, Dec. 17th. -This day a sermon was preached

On the Saturday preceding, a savage and atrocious murder was perpetrated by five members of the Creggan Yeomanry corps, in the county of Armagh. The names of the murderers are Johnstons, those of the sufferers are Edward Hanlon, Bryan Hanlon, his brother, and John

M'Cucker, all Roman Catholics. It seems that these unfortunate persons were quietly sitting in a public house, kept by Hugh Macmahon, a Protestant, on the road to Newtown Hamilton, about four miles from the former town, and 48 from Dublin.M'Parlan, were aiding and abetting The murderers entered the house all arined, and demanded refreshment.— The girl who waited knew them, and was alarmed. She addressed one of

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