racter and conduct of the Princess of Wales. This Report is of such a nature, that her Royal Highness is persuaded, that no person can read it without considering it to contain aspersions on her character, though its vagueness renders it impossible to be precisely understood, or to know exactly with what she is charged. The Princess of Wales feels conscious of her innocence; and considers it due to herself, to the two il lustrious Houses with which she is connected by blood and marriage, and to the people of this country, in which she holds such a distinguished rank, not to acquiesce for a moment in the reflections which have been cast upon her honour. The Princess of Wales has not been permitted to know on what evidence this Report has been founded, nor has she had any opportunity of being heard in her own defence. What she knew on the subject was only from common rumour, until she received the Report; nor does she know whether it proceeded from persons acting together as a body, to whom she could make her appeal, or only as individuals. Her Royal Highness throws herself upon the wisdom and justice of Parliament, and desires the fullest investigation of her conduct during the time that she has resided in this country. She fears no scrutiny, provided she be tried by impartial judges, in a fair and open manner, consistent with the laws of the land. Her Royal Highness wishes to be treated as innocent, or to be proved guilty. She desires Mr. Speaker to com municate this letter to the Hon. the House of Commons."

By

GEORGE P. R. Whereas we have beheld with the deepest regret, the daring outrages committed in those parts of England wherein some of the most important manufactures of the realm have been for a long time carried on; and being firmly persuaded that such outrages have been, in a great degree, occasioned by the wicked misrepresentations and artifices of ill-designing persons, who have deluded the ignorant and unwary, through the specious pretext of procuring additional employment and increased wages for the Jabouring manufacturers, by the destruction of various kinds of machinery, now most beneficially employed in the manufactures of this kingdom, and have thus seduced them to enter into unlawful associations, and to bind their consciences by oaths and engagements not less injurious to their own welfare than destructive of the good order and happiness of society; and seeing that the extent and progress of the trade and manufactures of this country, which have been continually advanced by the invention and improvement of machinery, afford the best practical demonstration of the falsehood of all such pretexts: We, therefore, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, being anxious, by every means in our power, to bring back his Majesty's misguided subjects to a just sense of their own individual interests, as well as of their duty to

his Majesty, and of the regarda which they owe to the welfare of the community, have thought fit, by the advice of his Majesty's Privy Council, to issue this Proclamation; and we do hereby, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, exhort all his Majesty's loving subjects strenuously to exert themselves in their several stations to prevent the recurrence of these atrocious combinations and crimes, by which the public peace has been so long disturbed, and the persons and property of individuals endangered and destroyed, and which have so justly drawn down upon the offenders the severest penalties of the law. And we do more espe⚫ cially warn those who may be exposed to such seductions against the danger of binding themselves by illegal oaths and engagements, to obey the commands of secret directors, who, keeping themselves aloof, involve their deluded associates in all the guilt and peril of violence, robbery, and murder. And we do further, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, earnestly recommend and enjoin his Majesty's loving subjects, whenever it shall be found necessary, to have recourse to the salutary mea sures which the wisdom of Parlia ment has provided for the protec tion of persons and property. And we do further exhort the proprietors of machinery not to be deterred from continuing the use and employment of the same, but vigilantly and strenuously to exert themselves in the maintenance and defence of their property, and in the prosecution of their lawful and meritorious callings, in the full persuasion that due watchfulness

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and resolution, exhibited in the first instance on their own part, will, as has been proved by recent experience, most effectually prevent or repel such unlawful aggressions; and we do further, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, charge and command, all Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, Mayors, Bailiffs, Constables, and, other civil officers, to continue their utmost vigilance and activity for the preservation of peace and good order, the prevention of nightly and other unlawful meetings of ill-designing and wicked men, and for the defence of his Majesty's peaceable and industrious subjects, from the secret machinations and open attacks of the violators of private property, and the disturbers of the public tranquillity; trusting, as we do, that by the constant and active exertions of all well-disposed men, the misguided may be reclaimed, and the mis. chievous kept in awe, without the necessity of recurring to the chastisements of the law, which it will be our duty, as guardian of the general peace and prosperity of the realm, strictly to enforce, if unhappily the renewal of such atrocities as we have lately had to deplore, should again call for the infliction of just and exemplary punishment.

Given at the Court at CarltonHouse, this first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, in the 53d year of his Majesty's reign.

Solicitude for the spiritual interest of our beloved flocks, obliges us once more to suspend the exercise of our other pastoral duties, in order to deliberate, in common, upon the present posture of our religious

concerns.

We hasten to declare to you, the lively feelings of gratitude excited in our breasts by the gracious condescension of the Legislature in taking into its favourable consideration the disabilities which still affect the Catholic body. With these feelings deeply and indelibly. impressed upon our hearts, it is with the utmost distress of mind that we are compelled, by a sense of duty, to dissent (in some points connected with our emancipation) from the opinions of those virtuous and enlightened statesmen, who have so long and so ably advocated the cause of Catholic freedom.

Irobably from a want of suffi. cient information, but unquestionably from the most upright mo tives, they have proposed to the Legislature the adoption of certain arrangements respecting our ecclesiastical discipline, and particularly respecting the exercise of episcopal functions, to which it would be impossible for us to assent, without incurring the guilt of schism-inasmuch as they might, if carried into effect, invade the spiritual jurisdiction of our Supreme Pastor, and alter an important point of our discipline, for which alteration his concurrence would, upon Catholic principles, be indispensably necessary.

Beloved

probation;

probation; on this account we deem it a duty which we owe to you, to our country, and to God, to declare in the most public manner, "that they have not, and that in their present shape they never can have, our concurrence.' As, however, we have, upon all occasions, inculcated the duty of loyalty to our most gracious Sovereign (the securing whereof, is the professed object of the proposed ecclesiastical arrangements), so we would be always desirous to give you the most convincing proofs, that we are ready, in the most exemplary manner, to practise it ourselves. We have sworn to preserve inviolate the allegiance which every subject owes to his Sovereign we are not accused of having violated our oaths.

Should any other oath, not adverse to our religious principles, be yet devised, which could remove even the unfounded apprehensions of any part of our countrymen, we would willingly take it. We owe it to our God, to be free from disloyalty. We owe it to our country men, to endeavour, at least, to be free from suspicion.

Upon these grounds, reverend brothers, beloved children, we announce to you the following resolutions, which, after invoking the light and assistance of God, we have unanimously adopted, viz.

1. That, having seriously examined a copy of the Bill, lately brought into Parliament, purporting to provide for the removal of the civil and military disqualifications under which his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects labour, we feel ourselves bound to declare, that certain ecclesiastical lauses or securities therein contained are utterly incompatible with the dis

cipline of the Roman Catholic Church, and with the free exercise of our religion.

2. That we cannot, without incurring the heavy guilt of schism, accede to such regulations: nor can we dissemble our dismay and consternation at the consequences which such regulations, if inforced, must necessarily produce.

3. That we would, with the utmost willingness, swear (should the Legislature require us so to do), that we never will concur in the appointment or consecration of any Bishop, whom we do not conscientiously believe to be of unimpeachable loyalty and peaceable conduct;" and further," that we have not, and that we will not have, any correspondence or communica tion with the Chief Pastor of our Church, or with any person authorized to act in his name, for the purpose of overthrowing or disturbing the Protestant Government, or the Protestant Church of Great Britain and Ireland, or the Protestant Church of Scotland, as by law established."

Reverend Brothers - Beloved Children-the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all-Amen.

Dublin, May 26, 1813.
[Here follow the Signatures.]

Treaty with Sweden.

In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity.-His Maj sty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the King of Sweden, equally animated with the desire of drawing closer the ties of friendship and good intelligence which so happily subsist between them, and penetrated

with the urgent necessity of esta blishing with each other a close concert for the maintenance of the independence of the North, and in order to accelerate the so much wished for epocha of a general Peace, have agreed to provide for this two-fold object by the present Treaty. For this purpose they have chosen for their Plenipotentaries, namely, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on behalf of his Majesty the King of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Honourable Alexander Hope, Major General of his Majesty's Armies; and Edward Thornton, Esq. bis Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the King of Sweden; and his Majesty the King of Sweden Lawrence d'Engestrom, one of the Lords of the Kingdom of Sweden, Minister of State and for Foreign Affairs, Chancellor of the University of Lund, Knight Commander of the King's Orders, Knight of the Royal Order of Charles XIII. Great Eagle of the Legion of Honour of France; and Gustavus Baron de Wetterstedt, Chancellor, of the Court, Commander of the Order of the Polar Star, one of the Eighteen of the Swedish Academy; who, after having exchanged their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles: Art. I. His Majesty the King of Sweden engages to employ a corps of not less than 30,000 men in a direct operation upon the Continent against the common enemies of the two high contracting parties. This army shall act in concert with the Russian troops placed under the command of his Royal High

ness the Prince Royal of Sweden, according to stipulations to this effect already existing between the Courts of Stockholm and St. Petersburgh.

Art. II. The said Courts having communicated to his Britannic Majesty the engagements subsisting between them, and having formally demanded his said Majesty's accession thereto, and his Majesty the King of Sweden having, by the stipulations contained in the preceding article, given a proof of the desire which animates him to contribute also on his part to the success of the common cause; his Britannic Majesty being desirous in return to give an immediate and unequivocal proof of his resolution to join his interests to those of Sweden and Russia, promises and engages by the present Treaty to accede to the conventions already existing between those two Powers, insomuch that his Britannic Majesty will not only not oppose any obstacle to the annexation and union in perpetuity of the kingdom of Norway as an integral part, to the kingdom of Sweden, but also will assist the views of his Majesty the King of Sweden to that effect, either by his good offices, or by employing, if it should be necessary, his naval co-operation in concert with the Swedish or Russian forces. It is, nevertheless, to be understood, that recourse shall not be had to force for effecting the union of Norway to Sweden, unless his Majesty the King of Denmark shall have previously refused to join the alliance of the North, upon the conditions stipulated in the, engagements subsisting between the Courts of Stockholm and St. Petersburgh:

and