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their gloom over the political atmosphere have nearly disap-
peared; a more liberal system has been introduced into the Bri-
tish Cabinet; justice has been done in many quarters, and from
the feelings displayed on the one side, and the condact of the
tninisters in the House of Commons, when the matter was dis-
cussed we have every reason to expect the Editor of the Albion’s
hopes will be destroyed, and that this meritorious and brave off.
cer wil] be restored to his rank and honours, and his services
| rendered once more available to his country.
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: : Gieeece, | : .
No intelligence, upon which implicit reliance can be placed,
. respecting this devoted country has been received by the last
arrivals. The French Papers, on the authority of a letter from
Leghorn, state that the Greeks had obtained a signal and deci-
sive victory over the Turks in Eastern Greece—that the Turkish
army was formed into three divisions ; the first was defeated—
"the second surrounded without possibility of eseape—and the
third routed. Such are the accounts, and we only wish they
may be confirmed. It is also reported, that the Greek General
Gouras had defeated the Turks who eccupied Salona. There
sre also nustierous accounts of the determined bravery display-
‘ed by the Greeks in their defence of Navarino, though they were
finally unsuccessful. One paper notices the death of the zealous
and valiant Count Santa Rosa. . a4 :
‘The Waly Alitance.
A curious pamphlet has made its appearance in Paris, entitled
“The Rights of Spain and her Colonies,” which contains a fu-
rious attack upon England for having recognized the independ-
ence of South America! It enumerates a list of what it’ ferms
usurpations on the part of Great Britain, and insists that public
justice demands restitution of them. The writer affirms that
the terms “ Civil and Religious Liberty,” which the English
" make use of, means nothing else than forgetfulness of God, and
contempt for Kings. He represents England as faithless,—ex-
hausted—tottering under the weight of her debt, and implores
the Sovereigns of the Holy Alliance, (God bless them) for their
oun safety, to declare war against her! ‘ One of the means he
proposes to injure her is a continental blockade. The writer
has in his anxiety to prove England destitute of the means of
going to war, entirely forgot to shew what funds the Holy Alli-
ance have at present onhand. We’ suspect none. In that case,
probably in the present age of speculating mania the notes of
the Holy Alliance might be negotiated. Query, at what rate
of discount would the merchants of the Stock Exchange in
London, or those of Wall-street, take these notes at? The wri-
Jor O'Connell may well sit down in peace and enjoy the fruits
of his victory. It is not in the power of the Ministry, without in-
fringing in a manner the most despotic, unconstitutional, and
illegal, to interfere with this Association, and to do sé with the
least shadow of legality, it will be necessary to assemble Parlia-
ment, a circumstance which would humble them so much, that,
we should think, they will allow O'Connell and the Committee
to enjoy the benefits of their well-earned exertions. Uvasimity,
and this new Association, will ultimately produce all that Ire-
land wishes—ull that she is entitled to—all she demands.
The papers do not contain any other news of moment; we re-
fer our readers to our summary, which contains copious extracts
from our English, Irish, and Freneh files. .
- . See .
Public Accommeryation.
It always affords us particular pleasure to mark the smallest
attempt on the part of individuals to promote the public good,
or to advance the interests or conduce to the convenience of the
members of the community at large. The City of New-York is
growing by rapid strides into power and importance. Its har-
bour floats the merchant vessels qnd the produce of every clime
—its whitened canvass spreads its bosom to the breezes ofevery
sea—and commerce, agriculture, and the arts, are daily pouring
their immense treasure into the scale of opulence. The empo-
rium of commerce, New-York, invites the Stranger and the man
of business to visit her. It therefore becomes us to contribute
to their comfort and add to their convenience as far as lies in our
power. To them a single Newspaper from the place of their
residence is as valuable, we had alinost said as aJine from their
dearest friends. Estimating rightly the mcouvenience resulting
to such persons from the want of a public Newsroom, the Propri-
etorof the National Advocate has fitted up such an establishment,
and has invited the citizens and strangers to frequent it gratis
during the day. We. herg insert the article announcing it. It
isa meritorious effort to add to the public good, and is highly
commendable to its author.
To Subscribers and others.—We beg to acquaint our friends,
and merchants generally, that the Office of the National Advo-
cate, No. 20 William-street, has been fitted up in such a manner
that all the Newspapers which are received from any part of
the country each morning by mail, may be seen, free of expense,
from 9 o'clock in the morning unti) sun-set, A table is placed
in the ceutre of our bulletin-office, and these Papers, and occa-
sionally Exglish papers, are free, not only to those persons we
have mentioned, but also to re: pectable strangers from every
section of the United States. ~*
The situation of our office being in the neighbourhood of the
Post-oflice, must make a plan of this kind of some little use to
those who cull there for their letters. We have understood that
in this respect the southern cities are very accommodating; and
ter has evidently written this pamphlet during the dog-days iu
Paris. ‘
Hhatest trom urope, -
Counsellor O'Connell has fairly outwitted the Irish Secretary,
Goulburn; he, poor fellow, now returns to Ireland with his
finger in his mouth, and his useless “ Bi for the Suppression of
Associations in Ireland” in his pocket, the laughing-stock of the
good people of Ireland. Goulburn suppresses one Association—
O'Connell starts another. Since our leading article'went to
press, we have reccived London files to the 20th, and Dublin
and Liverpoot to the 23d of July, inclusive, by the fast sailing
ship Courier. Our readers will peruse, with pleasure, the pro-
ceedings of the important Aggregate Meeting held in Dublin,
which we have fully reported in avother column. The plan of
the new Catholic Association will be much more satisfactory to
the friends of Ireland even than the first, which cost Mr. Secre-
tary Goulburn'so much unnecessary time and consideration to
suppress. The intentions of the new Association are clearly
“laid down, their views are thrown open to the world, und a per-
usal of them cannot fail to enlist ad? that is liberal and enlight-
ened on this side the Atlantic in favour of this great cause.
Never was a statute so neatly evaded, asin the present instance,
and the Cominittce, who have so well framed the evasion, and
formed the Association, deserve the lasting thanks of the Irish
Catholics. There is nothing underhand iv their proceedings—
every thing is clearly stated. They disclaim all intention of in-
fringing the present law, and propose that the Association shall
have for its objects—virtually legalized by the act—viz. the
construction of Chapels, the diffusion of Education, and the pro-
motion of frish Agriculture; the encouragement of the con-
sumption of Irish Manufactures, and the extension of Irish Com.
» merce; the refutation of charges made against the Catholics,
and the promotion of mutual toleration and kindliness through
the Press. In addition to this, the Association will ascertain the
population of Ireland, and the proportion of Catholics and Pro-
testants, and the number of youth of each in a course of Educa-
tion, The Committee recommend the holding of Meetings in
the several Counties of Ireland, for the discussion of grievances,
which Meetings may be held in succession, and each of them
nay occupy fourteen days ‘according to law, occupying the
whole upwards ofa year. Such are the fruits of Goulburn’s
Bill. The Ministry of England have got into a dilemma much
more intricate than if they had allowed the former Association
to eaist, and they will find ita much more dificult task to sup-
press this new Association.
aby pure
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Indeed, suppress it they caanot, | 1
hol tadtiy a wa
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certitude,” but of that valuable stream which leads to life eter-
nal. To the woe-worn soul of misery, where is there a greater
consolation? It leaves a world of wretchedness’ and deceit—it
prepares itself for another—pot in a mansion where worldly va-
we see no reason why the same spirit should not be in operation
here.
———
» Taking the Veil.
Yesterday the very interesting but painful ceremony of tak-
tng the veil was witnessed at the Visitation in this town. The
subject who bid adieu to all the substantial pleasures of life,
for the cross and the cloister, was the amiable and interesting
caughter of Capt. Jones, of the navy. There is something pe-
culiarly revolting in the idea of a young and beautiful creature
inmuring herse.f ina convent, and becoming excluded from all
the joysand pleasures of a society she was weil calculated to
adorn, Itreally appears to us like shutting a living body in
a sepnichre to pine out an existence among dead men’s bones
and hollow shapeless sculls; it is to all intents and purposes
inadly leaving the world where there is much substantial good
and real enjoyment to Quixote after another beyond the cold
waters of Jurdan, where all is duskness and incertitude. The
parent has the same grief and agony to endare, as if he had ful.
lowed his ‘offspring to the grave.—Gcorgelown Metropolitan,
Apgust 16,
We ditler in sentiment from the Editor of the Metropolitan
with respect to the preceding. All of us are not Possessed of
the same feelings, nor iufluenced by the same propensities. The
allurements of worldly pride, and the attractions of worldly
comfort, in the bosoms of some, have their influence and effect;
while, in the bosoms‘of others, they are merely received as the
moonshive productions of a solitary moment, or the lambert
extravagancies of a more than half-bewildered intellect. To
some “ the joys and pleasures of society” have no attractions.
But a soul, aware of the fleeting and uncertain pleasures of this
life, seeks no terrene consolation. The sigh that it heaves in
piety and to its God, by an unthinking world, is unheeded and
despised. It does not strive to bury its grief in the bosom of
another—nor is it consoled by the presentation of the fleeting
blessings of society. But it seeks for pious consolation when
misery surrounds it. Tt scoils at the suggestions and vanities of
the world, and flies for comfort to the bosom of its God—
to that God who has promised never, never to forget bis crea-
tures—to that God who when the world frowns in its wicked-
ness upon us, and the vanity ofa miscreant multitude is chafing
us unto death, unfolds the sacred consolations of religion as the
balm of our wounded souls, and invites us to partake of his im-
measurable bounty—not of the “ cold waters of Jordan,” (as the
Editor of the Metropolitan says,) “ where all is darkness and in-
CCOarEtTs? on wr ROPCRMATIOn.
. _ . , 4
History of the Protestant “ Reformation,” in England and Ire,
_ Tand; in a series of Letters, addressed to all sensible and jet
Englishmene By Wittiam Coser.
LETTER Y.
. (Continued from No. 20.)
151, Somebody must own the lands; and the question is, «
ther it be best for then to be owned
their estates; or by those who always may, and who frequently
will and do, live at a great distance from their lands, and draw ‘
away the revenues of them to be spent elsewhere. ‘The monas-
tics are, by many, called drones. Bishop Taser has shown us,
that this charge is very false. But, if it were true, is not a drone
in a cowl as good as a drone ina hat and top-boots ? By droues,
are usually meant those who do not work ; and, do land-owners
usally work? The lay land-owner and his family spend more
of their revenues in a way not useful to the people than the inow
nasties possibly could. “But, besides this, besides the hospitality
and charity of the monastics, and besides, moreover, the lien,
the legal lien, which the main body of the people had, in many
cases, to share, directly or indirectly, in the revenues of the
Monasteries, we are to look at the: monks and nuns in the ver:
important capacity of landlords and landladies. All historians,
jowever Protestant or malignant, agree, that they were “easy
landlords ;”’ that they let their Jands at low rents, and on leases,
of long term of years{; so that, says even Hume, “ the farmers
“regarded themselves as a species of proprietors, always taking
care to renew their leases before they expired.” And, wai,
there no good ina class of landlords of this sort? Did not they
naturally and necessarily create, by slow degrees, men
perty? Did they not thus cause a class of yeomen to exist, rea!
yeomen, independent of the aristocracy? And was not this class
lestroyed by the “ Reformation,” which made the farmers rack»
renters aud absolute dependants, them to this day 7
And, was this change favourable then, to political liberty? Mu.
nastics could possess no private Property, they could save mo»
snoney, they could bequeath nothing. They had a interes
in thear estate, andno more, They lived, received, aud expend:
ed i7t common, Historians need not have told us, that they wer
“easy landiords.” They must have been such, unless
nature had taken a retrograde inarch expressly for their’accon-
modation. id, wa it not happy for the nation, that there wag
such a class of landlords? = What a jump for joy would the fan
mers of England now give, if sucha class were to return to-mury
Tow, to get them out of the hands of the squandering and needy
lord and his grinding land-valuer!
of proe
humay
152. Then, look at the monastics as causing, in some of the
inost important of human affairs, that fixedaess which is so much
the friend of rectitude in morals, and which so powerfully con-
nd care; their character was of necessity a thing of great va- !
lue, and, as such, would naturally be an object of great attens |
tion. A monastery was the centre of a circle in the country, |
naurally drawing to it, all that were in need of relief, advi
and protection, and containing a body o:
aving no cares of their own, and having wisdom to guide the
inexperienced, and wealth to relieve the distressed. “An i
it a good thing, then, to plunder and devastale these establis!
lents: was it a refurmalion to squander estates, thas employed,
upon lay persons, who would not, who could not, and did)
&
do art Or particle of those benevolent acts, and acts of
public utility, which naturally arose out of the Monastic insticus
tions Se
153. Lastly, let us ook at the monasteries as a resource fur
the younger sons and daughlers of the Aristocracy, and as the
means of protecting the governinent against the injurious effects
of their clamorous wants. ‘There cannot exist au Aristueracy
or body of Nobility, without the mwans, in the hands of govern-
ment, of preventing that body from falling into that contempt,
ich i always niust be inseparable from Noble-poverty.
Vell,’ some will say, “why need there be any such body 1"
That is quite another questions for we have it; and have had it
for more than a thousand years; except daring a very short in-
terval, at the end of which our ancestors eagerly took it back
again. I must, too, though it really has nothing to do with the |»
qnestion before us, repeat my opiuion, many times expressed,
that we should lose more than we should gai id of
our Aristocracy, The basest and most corrupt woves ¢
that l ever knew any thing, or heard any thing of, is the repub-
fican government of Penxsytvania, and, withal, the most truly
tyrannical: base and corrupt froin bottom to top; fi
root to the topmost twig; from the trunk to the extreme point
ofevery brauch And, if any PENSSYLVANIAN, who has a name,
and who will put it toa challenge to me to prove my words, ¥
will, before the face of all Europe, prove them in the nost com-
plete and ample manner. Iam not, therefore, for republicurs
Kovernthent; and, then, it follows, that 1am for an aristocracy }
for, without it, there ean be no Limit toa kingly goverment.”
(To be continued.)
_—_——
Foreign Summary.
Kinsale Catholic Meeting —A meeting of the Roman Catho-
lies of the town and vicinity was held on July 8th, at the Parisir
Chapel, Join Donnelan, Esq., in the Chair, when resolutions
were agreed to, perfectly in accordance with those which had
been adopted at the meetings held elsewhere, expressive of
inati ere, by every constitutional means, in
the attainment of their just rights. The meeting was addressed
¥ Mr. Donnelan, ow his taking the Chair, and subsequently by
the Rev. Mr. Crokeran, Mr. Daly, and Mr. Donlevy, a Protesi«
ant gentleman, who proposed a vote of thanks to Mr, O'Con-
nell, A letter was réad from Thomas Rochford, Esq., of Gur-
sity intrudes itself, but in a dome where all jy sanctity, doration,
ne, tht thei.
rettstow'n, expressing his regret that his state of health prevent-
ed his attendance, but concurring in the object of the meeting.
We will hereafter lay a move detailed account of the proceed.
ings by gs
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