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That an humble addrefs be prefented to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, expreffing our utmost abhorrence of thofe infamous publications; and requesting that he will be pleased to give orders for effectually profecuting the printers and publishers; and alfo the author and contriver thereof when difcovered.

This likewife was unanimously agreed to; only Mr. Latouche arofe to account for the conduct of a gentleman of his name, and to request that he might be exempted from the general profecution, as he was mifled to countenance a meeting, which he only thought was to petition against the fugar bill.

In the Houfe of Lords the D. of Leinster delivered likewife fome of the printed papers to the fpeaker. And moved that certain advertisements which he pointed out therein might be read; the clerk accordingly read the refolutions already mentioned, when his Grace made -the like motion as had paffed the Com.mons, the first of which was agreed to unanimoufly; but on reading the Second, Lord Montmorres expreffed his doubts, -as the objects of the profecution (the -printers and publishers) were beneath the notice of parliament, and abfòlutely ob jects of the most fovereign contempt. Lord Annaly thought the authors and publishers of fuch inflammatory refolutions, amounting almost to treason, and calculated to raise bad imprefĥons on the minds of the people, delerved the moit exemplary punishment. Other Lords deliverved their opinions for and against the motion, which was at length carried in the affirmative. The addrefs was prefented; and the answer reported to both Houfes, That his Excellency would give direction in conformity to the defire of the House.

When this answer was reported to the Commons Houfe, the Recorder of Dublin rofe, and delivered himfeit nearly in the following terms:

The Recorder fpoke as follows: I beg leave to call the attention of the Houfe to what palked on the laft day of its fit-ting. On that day, in a very thin Houfe, and withour any previous intention, refolutions were palled, which involve in them consequences of the most momentous importance.

Permit me, Sir, to fay, that if the publications alluded to were improper, our refolutions were premature and hafty, and unworthy the deliberative decifions

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of parliament. There is not a gentleman of the long robe in this Houfe who does not well know, that if a profecutor fhould, previous to the trial of the offence, prejudice the minds of the public by writings, fuch perfon would be found guilty of a contempt, and would be attached in the Court of King's Bench. And yet we, who are the accufers, and who think ourselves offended, pronounce upon the guilt of the accused, and by our refolutions anticipate what is to be the decifion. Instead of our refolutions declaring fuch publications feditious and libellous, the proper refolution, as I conceive, would have been to have addreffed the Lord Lieutenant to lay the publi cation before the law fervants of his Ma jefty, for them to report their opinion, whether they were libellous and merited profecution.

Sir, we fhould make fome distinction between a fettled plan to raife fedition, and the hafty and unguarded effufions of young minds anxious in the caufe of their country, and who have armed in its defence. Our gallant volunteers have been the boat of this country, and the terror of its enemies. Why have hoftilities been commenced against this kingdom, but that it has been united in itfelf and why have invafions of England been meditated, but that it has been rent by internal diffentions? Is it prudent then to put an end to this unanimity? Let us not forget what we owe to the voJantcers of Dublin in particular. When a tumultuous number of perfons for rounded this Houfe, interrupted its deliberations, and dictated to, and infulted feveral of its members, the interference of the military was rendered unneceffary by the prudent, well-timed, and fuccctstut efforts of one of the corps, confiderable in its rank, and poffeffed of great profeffional knowledge,

Permit me alfo to remind this Hopfe that, when the city of London was almoft in an univerfal conflagration, a number of perfens on the day the account came, having affembled in the Park, the volunteers, to the number of eight hundred, quited their usual avocations, and appeared in arms, determined to fupport the public peace at the hazard of their lives. And thell we alienate the affections of thef men, on sccount of a few hady fparks of "affion? In a free country, pub lic queftions are a fair object of public difcuffion: 1 with ever to fee them fuch; and where our actions are pure, we should not fear any investigation. I acknow ledge this parliament deferves well of the people; in it we have obtained great advantages in trade; it voted new tax's to be inexpedient; it paffed a fhort money bill; and it relieved the tenantry of Treland. On fame of its late decifions,

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there prevails a difference of fentiment; but furely a difference of opinion en speculative points of trade and conftitution may be entertained, without any man's shinking the worfe of the person who differs with him, even though his opponent should exprefs fuch difference in the warmest and most unguarded manner.

Let me call upon my Right Hon. friend, to whofe office the painful task of profecution belongs, for his affiftance on the occafion. I know his mind revolts at the idea of profecution; and if it must follow, the world wili, I am perfuaded, as in justice it ought, impute what steps he fhall be obliged to take to bis official character, and nor to his private difpofition. His fentiments are truly a literary tranflation of a noli profequi. He will confider confequences, and he will, as well as the House, permit me to remind them of what our countryman, Major O'Flaherty, fays in the play, That a quanel well made up is better than a victory hard gained,"

I have, therefore, Sir, without interfering with the refolutions of Monday laft, drawn up, and wish to propose fome refolutions as conciliatory on this occafion, and which, or fome fubftantially the fame, I wish to fee adopted ; and they are their:

Firfi, to refolve, That the decent conduct and spirited exertions of the volunteers of Ireland merit the public approbation. Next, to refolve, That we confider the publications alluded to in our refolutions of Monday laft, to have originated in a haily and unguarded, though well-intended zed for the advancement of the trade, and the fupport of the conftitution of this kingdom, And, liftly, to refolve, That an humble Addrefs be prefented to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, expreffive of our withes, that he will be pleafed to give directions, that no further prosecution be had relative to the fubject matter of the faid publications.

In what I have faid, I fhall perhaps pleafe neither party. In the time of warmth and refentment, moderation finds it difficult to obtain a patient hearing: but I have difcharged, as I think, my duty; if I am fuccefsial, I have spent my day well; if not, I protest against the confequences of perfecution, and tremble to think of them.

Mr. Conolly faid, that what he had done on that day fe'nnight he thought his dury. He did not mention any set of voJunteers, or individual volunteers; but he was certain, that no parliament ever deferved more respect than the prefent.

The hon. member also said, bad the publication of fuch papers been difcontinued, or any apology made, he would have been 'glad to have feconded the hon. gentleman's

motion; but as they had perfifted, as 2 member of that houfe, and a lover of his country, he could not think he acted wrong in the course of his condu& in this refpect. The refolutions were paffed in a fuller houfe than the prefent; the parliament deferved praife for fuch refolutions; and he had the pleasure of finding many volunteer corps of the fame opinion with him. If government and parliament were to be attacked day after day, it required to be topped, and the designs of its enemies prevented.

The Attorney-General faid, he could appeal to a right hon. gentleman then in his eye, for his opinion of the volunteers early, where they were but few, and at the beginning of the fellion: he appealed to him, it he did not declare it as his opinion, that they were the falvation of Ireland? But were the volunteers to be afperfed with treafon and fedition? No. It was not the fterling, it was furious volunteers, who deferved to be called Pirmingham volunteers. It was like a perfon's putting on a fcholar's gown to counterfeit a scholar; fo there were many who put on the uniform of volunteers, who were not of them, but went about to inflame the minds of the people at all hours, and particularly in the liberty. Were the fe it.ous paragraphs that had been published to be smiled upon, and fay that they had been done in bade; it would be an infult to the volunteers to fay they originated with them. The queftion was within a narrow compaís. The refolutions of the house C&Tried nothing in them againft the volunteers, but against the authors, printers, and publishers of thofe improper paragraphs, of young, giddy, thoughtless peaple, and fome designing emiflaries of the common enemy. If it appeared that any volunteer was concerned in them, he would appear as an object of deteflation, even to thofe who refpected the honour of his corps. As both houses had unanimously agreed to the refolufions and acid;efs, he could not confent to give up the honour of parliament: the guilty ought to be punished, though no man felt more than he did for the tranfgreffion f an individual.

In respect to publication in the newfpapers, he remarked that many of them were inflammatory; one indeed had been published in the Freeman's Journal, figned Junius Brutes, which was, he faid, written with ablty and moderation, but it could answer no purpofe to fuggelt any doubt upon the prefent occafion.

Mr. Wilton faid, that as the AttorneyGeneral had, with his ufual liberality and good fenfe, expreffed a wifh, to accede to the fubftance of all the refolutions which the Recorder intended to move, he thought it might be expedient to poftpone the confideration of the fubject for a day or two,

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*W. Temkins. A beautiful View of Mariftow in Devonshire, with other Landscapes.

F. Towne. Views in Devonshire, very pretty.

W. Tyler. Faith and Hope, a fine drawing for a monument.

*Hon: Mifs Vernon. Portrait of a

Nun, finely executed.

E. Waters. View of Old Palace Yard, accurately drawn.

B. Wefts (See p. 317.) R. Wilfon. Vicar of Tabley, in Chethire, finely executed.

*J. Wright. A most awful Reprefentation of the Eruption of Vefuvius, where the elements are in a blaze, and the different lights wonderfully expreffed, contated by a cavern, in which Julia is ften bemoaning her ba

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rian Repertory, common justice requires you fhould alfo infert his defence. The charge is, that both the View and Defcription of St. Michael's Mount, Normandy, are stolen from the "Account of the Alien Priories."

With refpect to the Drawing, the writer is totally wrong. The View published in the Repertory, was copied from a large drawing, taken on the fpot by a gentleman of Southampton, which drawing is now in the poffeffion of the editor, and was engraved long before the publication of the Alien Priories *.

Had your correfpondent looked into No. 31 of the Antiquarian Repertory, published in the month of September, 1779, he might there have seen this print of Mount St. Michael inferted, being at least feven months in priority of publication to that in the Alien Priories. The prints are as different to each other as it is poffible they can be, for two engravings of the fame place. The truth of this fact any candid perfon may convince themfelves of by examining together an impref fion of each plate. B. R. G.

Mr. URBAN.

PAUL Vth, by brief expedited De

cember 13, 1609, permitted the jefuits to call ther founder bleffed, and under him he was beatified, miracles being previously authenticated to prové his claim to the apothefis juft. The fubfequent is extracted from many ejufdem farine.

"A chicken a favourite of his miftrefs, by an unlucky child driven into a well, was taken up drowned; the child, terrified by fear of punishment, wept bitterly. The children in his vicarage affrighted by their comrade's cries, and defirous to give him all affiitance their little abilities could yield, bawled out, "Ignatius will reffore it to life." Thefe words no fooner were. uttered, but they faw the fowl was restored to life, but to a different one from that it had before lived. From the moment of its refurrection, it lived a truly religious one, always feparating from others of its fpecies, particularly avoiding cocks. In the city of Mantezle, where this miracle was performed, an annual celebration of it is obferved folemnly, feftivally, and mufically." Credat Judaeus Apella.

Mr.