attack of a lawless and undiscerning mob; and to assure you, that we are actuated by no common feelings of resentment and abhorrence, at so gross a violation of that gratitude and respect, which your long and signal services for your country, so eminently entitle

you to.

But this circumstance, so nearly fatal in its consequences, demands our fervent thanks to that all bounteous Providence, who never deserts the virtuous in the hour of danger, and who frequently converts the worst intentions into the best and wisest purposes, for preserving at the same moment your precious life, and preventing so disgraceful a blot being recorded on the annals of your native city.

We rejoice that the blind and disappointed fury of a few misguided wretches, has offered an opportunity to all the liberal, enlightened, and loyal inhabitants of this once flourishing city, to vie with each other in the honourable contention of being foremost in their congratulations to their beloved representative; they can never forget, Sir, what Ireland owes you, that to your great and glorious exertions is to be attributed whatever political consequence she may boast of at this day; they can never forget, Sir, when the treachery of her sons, and the envious jealousy of her enemies, aimed the last blow at her freedom, your distinguished and powerful efforts to prevent the accomplishment of a measure, the desolating and hideous consequences of which your prophetic soul but too well foresaw, and which we sincerely hope you may live to see repealed.

But did we, Sir, require another proof of your exalted virtue, worth, and humanity, you have emblazoned them by the magnanimity you have displayed in the forgiveness of those," who trespassed against you;" may you, Sir, receive the divine reward promised to so glorious an example.

Long, Sir, may your energies, and your experience, survive, to advocate your country's cause.

Signed by Order,

THOMAS WILSON, Clk. Guild.

The ADDRESS of the INHABITANTS of St. JOHN's PARISH.

SIR,

To the Right Hon. Henry Grattan.

WE, the Inhabitants of St. John's Parish, in Vestry asembled, cannot suppress the feelings of indignation which we entertain for the late outrageous aggression committed on your venerated person, but, in common with our fellow citizens, beg leave thus publicly to present you our most sincere congratulations, for your providential escape from the parracidal hands of a few individuals of the most abject order.

We are anxious to evince to you, Sir, the deep impressions of gratitude which we feel, for the many important services you have rendered this country, and that after a long period of glorious and successful efforts in its behalf, to have been wantonly attacked by a miserable and misguided mob, is to us a source of the most inexpressible anguish.

Your magnanimity and forgiving disposition, so eminently displayed on a late occasion, has (if possible rivetted more strongly on our minds, the exalted purity of your character; and permit us to add, that it is our most ardent wish that Providence may long preserve a life, endeared to us by the eminence of every virtue, combined with such brilliant and unexampled abilities.

Signed by us on behalf of ourselves, and that of our fellow Parishioners,

St. John's Vestry Room,

20th July, 1818.

JAMES ANDREWS,
JAMES MOLYNEUX,

Churchwardens.

APOTHECARIES' HALL.

To the Right Hon. Henry Grattan.

30th July, 1818.

SIR, WE, the Master, Wardens, and Freemen of the Corporation of Apothecaries, or Guild of St. Luke, beg leave to congratulate you on your escape from the late outrageous and shameful attack made on your person, on Tuesday the 30th of June.

Feelings of indignation would naturally arise, at the insult offered to our city, in the person of our representative; but how much stronger must those feelings be, when we recognize in that representative, one who has stood by his country in every danger, who has been the firmest and tried advocate of her liberties and her interests, who has added to her splendour, as a nation, by the lustre of his talents.

IRWIN M'ALPIN, Master.

H. GRATTAN DOUGLASS, Warden.

ROMAN CATHOLICS.

Ar a Meeting of Catholic Gentlemen, the following Address to Mr. GRATTAN was adopted.

SIR,

Dublin, Essex-street, 3d May, 1820.

WE have learned, with deep affliction, that your health has been of late much impaired; and that your physicians deem your intended journey to England for the present inadviseable.

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The object of that journey is avowed, and is one which revives and increases those sentiments of lively gratitude and profound attachment which we have ever entertained towards you; and we cannot more suitably express the sincerity of those sentiments, than by most earnestly and anxiously entreating that you will postpone that journey, of which our liberties are the great object.

We have, therefore, a right to conjure you to spare yourself for your afflicted country, and to await a more favourable, and we trust an, early opportunity of advocating our cause with renewed health. For and on the part of the Meeting,

GENTLEMEN,

RANDALL M'DONNELL, Chairman.
J. P. O'GORMAN, Secretary.

Mr. Grattan's Answer.

Stephen's Green, 5th May, 1820.

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I THANK YOU much for your solicitude on my account. did intend to bring on your question speedily; but I feel that this is at present impossible. I shall endeavour to bring it on in a reasonable time, such as may suit the convenience of the parties concerned. Nothing but physical impossibility shall prevent me; as I consider that my last breath belongs to my country.

Your very obedient humble Servant,

HENRY GRATTAN.

I hope in the course of next week to be able to write to you more fully on the important subject alluded to in your Address.

CATHOLIC MEETING:

A Catholic Meeting was held on Saturday, at the Globe Tavern, Essex-Street.

JOSEPH PLUNKET, of Rocksavage, Esq. in the Chair. Mr. O'Gorman reported, that he had received a letter from Mr. Grattan, jun. stating, that his father was anxious for an interview with some Catholic gentlemen, that their number should not exceed six, amongst whom Lord Trimlestown and Sir Edward Bellew should be included. Mr. O'Gorman informed the Meeting, that Lord Trimlestown was in France, and Sir Edward Bellew out of town. The following gentlemen were then appointed to wait on Mr. GRATTAN:

Joseph Plunket,
William Murphy,
Daniel O'Connell,

John Costigan,
John Howley, and
N. P. O'Gorman, Esqrs.

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The Deputation proceeded immediately to Stephen's Green, and returned in about three quarters of an hour. Mr. O'Gorman reported the result of their interview and read the following Address, which had been handed to them by Mr. GRATTAN. The impression which this communication made on all present was affecting in the extreme. It is impossible to describe it otherwise than as that produced amongst an affectionate family, by receiving intelligence of the illness of a beloved parent. Mr. (late Judge) Day, Mr. W. C. Plunkett, and Mr. Burrowes were with Mr. GRATTAN, when the Deputation arrived.

To the Gentlemen composing the Deputation appointed by the Meeting of Roman Catholics.

GENTLEMEN,

Stephen's Green, 13th May, 1820.

I AVAIL myself of your Deputation to give you a very sin cere opinion touching the interests of the Roman Catholic body. I am convinced that it is their policy, as well as their duty, and I am sure it is their disposition, to maintain a perpetual connexion with the British Empire:

To keep clear of every association with wild projectors for universal suffrage and annual Parliaments, and continue to cultivate those gracious dispositions in the Royal Breast which had been early manifested in their favour, and to accept of emancipation upon the terms that are substantial and honourable.

Pursuing such a principle, and with the temper and conduct which they are manifesting, and which I am proud to contemplate, they must succeed.

They desire a privilege to worship their God according to the best of their judgment, and they have a right to do so with impu nity, and without the interference of the state.

I shall go to England for your question, and should the attempt prove less fortunate to my health, I shall be more than repaid by the reflection that I make my last effort for the liberty of my country.

I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your very obedient and attached humble Servant,

HENRY GRATTAN.

ROMAN CATHOLICS OF LIVERPOOL.

Ar a Meeting of the Roman Catholics of Liverpool, held at the Catholic Charity School, on the 24th day of May, 1820, an Address of thanks to the Right Honourable HENRY GRATTAN, on his pas sage through that town to London, was unanimously adopted, and a deputation consisting of the following gentlemen, viz. Rev. J.

Robinson, Dr. M'Cartney, Mr. Henry Leigh Walter, Wm. Talbot, and R. M. Whitnell, Esqrs. were appointed to present the same.

SIR,

THE Roman Catholics of Liverpool, unwilling to let the great Advocate of their claims pass through this town without some expression of their thanks, have deputed us to convey to you, Sir, the grateful sense which they entertain of the noble exertions which you have so perseveringly made in their behalf. In executing this honourable and truly gratifying commission, permit us, Sir, to entreat you not to consider any inadequateness of expression on our part, as indicative of inadequate feeling on the part of those whom it is our pride to represent. The Catholics here, as well as the Catholics of Ireland, are fully sensible of the obligations which they owe to the veteran champion of their cause however feebly their sense of such obligations may be communicated on the present occasion. As British subjects, we naturally possess British feelings; and, consequently, an innate love of freedom- a strong attachment to our glorious Constitution, and an ardent desire to become partakers of all its benefits. Judge, then, Sir, from this, what must be our sentiments with respect to one who has incessantly laboured, during a long and active life, to obtain for us that much wished for equal participation of all its blessings; and who has, by his matchless eloquence in the Senate, contributed more than any other individual to dispel from the public mind that mist of prejudice, the excitement of which, in our views of the case, first principally occasioned the enactment of the penal statutes against us, and whose remains now mainly operate against their complete repeal.

Whether our fervent and united prayer be heard, that you may live to witness the successful termination of your labours, or, like the great leader of the Israelites, you be taken from us, whilst standing, under your guidance, upon the very threshold of the constitution, rest assured, honoured Sir, that you will ever be considered by us as our conductor in chief from the state of Egyptian bondage in which you first found us, to the promised land of liberty under the British constitution; and that the cherished name of GRATTAN will ever be fondly associated and inseparably interwoven with the cause of Catholic emancipation. Sorry are we that for such substantial benefits received, we have nothing but thanks, though emanating directly from the heart, to offer in return. we are convinced that to be admired and deservedly recognized, whilst living, as the distinguished advocate of our civil and religious liberty, and to be classed, after death, amongst the foremost of your country's benefactors, are rewards which your liberal mind, in conjunction with its own approving reflection, considers a more than sufficient remuneration for your public services, valuable as they have unquestionably been. The former reward you have already enjoyed in an almost unequalled degree - the latter as certainly will be yours.

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