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      by the present state of the country . In their ranks , however , we find Mr . Huskisson and one or two others who are separated by a wide interval from the principles or prejudices of their colleagues . We will not believe that they will desert the opinions or relinquish the measures which they have recently and powerfully advocated . They will be opposed to their associates in power on

      some subjects of the first importance , and it is obvious , therefore , that the government , as at present formed , contalus many elements of dissension , if not of dissolution . The change , which has damped the hopes of the Roman Catholics , has increased and invigorated their resolution to press their claims upon the attention of the Legislature .

      Simultaneous meetings have been held throughout Ireland , and petitions to Parliament are in preparation from all parts of that country . A meeting of the British Roman Catholics has been held in London , and rendered remarkable by an interesting speech from Lord Rossmore , a Protestant Peer , in which the fact that Mr . Pitt , through Lord Cornwallis , promised

      emancipation to the Irish Catholics , as the price of their consent to the Union , was established beyond further controversy . A petition to both Houses of Parliament , in favour of a repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts , was unanimously passed at this meeting , and we are happy to record it in our pages as an evidence of the liberal views of our

      Roman Catholic brethren , and an important recognition by a large arid influential body of the great principle of universal religious liberty . The petition to which we refer is as follows : . " The humble petition of the undersigned Roman Catholics ,

      " Sheweth , That a numerous class of their fellow-subjects , Dissenters from the Established Church , are deprived of liberty of conscience by the operation of the Test and Corporation Acts . " That while your petitioners are ex-

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      erting themselves to procure their own emancipation from the operation of the unjust laws of which they are the victims , they entertain an anxious desire that all classes of their fellow-subjects may enjoy the same rights of which they themselves are in pursuit . " That , accordingly , your petitioners respectfully but earnestly entreat your Honourable House that the said Acts may be forthwith repealed . "

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      144 Correspondence .

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      An old and respected Correspondent must not consider that he is " sent to Coventry , " because there has beeu a delay in inserting some of his communications . The account of the Salford Meeting did not arrive till that now inserted had gone to press .

      The Conductors wish to mention in the commencement of theii articles ou political events , that they do not purpose to continue them uniformly , but to resume the subject only as suitable topics or particular events may render it desirable . Several communications have been received as to which , from particular circumstances , the Conductors ask the indulgence of correspondents in delaying for a short time their acknowledgment .

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      In France we have to notice the expulsion from office of an able minister who has found himself incompetent to encounter the opposition which he has justly excited by his compliances with the will of the court , and by his efforts to restore , as far as possible , some of the worst privileges of the old regime . He has been succeeded by ministers

      who , probably , will not have sufficient influence or energy to confer any important benefits on France ; but the noble example of disinterestedness and patriotism which has been recently given by the electors , and the growing influ ~ ence of public opinion in that country , are the best and most satisfactory pledges of future improvement .

      Official accounts have reached us of the departure of the European ambassadors from Constantinople . The Sultan is making every preparation for war , but as it will be merely defensive on the part of Turkey , and all the objects of our intervention in the affairs of Greece can be accomplished without aggressive hostilities , we may hope that the contest will be soon and quietly terminated .

      The message of the President of the United States to the congress has been received . It contains , as usual , a clear statement of the resources and expenditure of the Republic , and it preserves a friendly tone towards England , while it notices the disagreements which have occurred on the subject of the New Brunswick territory , and on the question of trade with our colonies .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1828, page 144, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2557/page/72/