Pm" t - i 146 MARC II THE NATIONAL REGISTER. trade in the last year. The two subsequent years of pros pet ity render it unnecessary now to go into the particulars of the losses in the former case, and we have no doubt that the experience of one or two years will equally prove that the stability of British commere;al prosperity is not to be shaken by the disasters of the year 1810. Yet as the effects of those disasters are still felt all over the trading an d manufacturing co mmunity, it may not be amiss to remind the Public of their amount :—The seizures in the Baltic did not fall sho o that rt of te amountn millio tons, th a e Briti n s nd c h osti tla tutedind g , a total lobs of capital t community. The trade of nations regulates itself ac cording to the same rules and principles which govern the commercial operations of individuals. The capital lost to the nation was, perhaps, not less than a fifth of the whole of its exports. Any man who can suppose, that an individual, who had in one year lost to the amount of a fifth of his whole manufactured stock, could either thane the . spirit or the means to produce or to speculate o th same extent the year immediately succeeding, can con ceive, that the Orders in Council, and not the losses of an unparalleled magnitude to which we have alluded, p:oduced the e.ecline of trade last year, and the distresses and discontents of the manufacturing classes, which every feeling heart must bleed to witness. CATHOLIC MEETINGS. The Catholics seem eager to encrease the political diffi• culties of the times, by seizing every opportunity, even the most unpromising, of intruding their claims on the notice of the Parliament and the Throne. That they possess the right to petition no one can deny : but that they exert it at a wrong period, is equally clear. It is now ascertained, that the force of the Opposition is in sufficient to carry the boasted measure of Catholic eman cipation through. Their numbers have been tried in the House and found wanting ; to revive such a question at this moment, when there is no prospect of its proving successful, can therefore be done with no other end than embittering political animosities. The Catholic mania has extended from Ireland to this country ; for whilst, at at an aggregate meeting held last week at Dublin, an Address to the PRINCE REGENT and a Petition to both Houses of Parliament, praying a complete repeal of the Penal Laws ave been proposed and carried, along with thanks to LP h rds GRENVILLE and GREY) for their refusing all emolument for the Catholic cause, a meeting of Pro testant Noblemen and Gentlemen took place on Monday last at the Thatched House, in this metropolis, to consi der of the , propriety of signing petitions to both Houses of Parliament, in favour of Catholic emancipation. LIBEL AGAINST CHRISTIANITY ! .11 A case, which we hope will ne ver a g ain occur in fuel annals of British justice, .was tried on Friday in the Court of king's Bench. It was that of a libel against God, against the Founder of the Christian Religion ! A book seller of the name of EATON, indicted for republishing parts of PAINE's works, not only vindicated the act, but I continued in his defence in Court to utter the most infa mous blasphemies against the Christian Religion, its di vine author and its apostles, and attempted to prove that the G.d of the Jews was Mars, the Cod of War ! He was found guilty by the Jury, and instantly committed to Newgate. The best punkliment which could be inflicted upon such a being, would be to luck him up for life 3. - nong lunatics. • FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FROM THE LISBON MAIL. LT sto•,:, Fr s. 2.3.—We have no news of importance. Head-quarters remain at Frenada. Some divisions of the army have come int* the rear to refit; in other respects every thing remains in statu quo. Extract y an 0,17 i cid Dispatch, from Lord Wellington to. Don MiguelFwjas, dated Freyneda, Feb.l9.. gi I have received no details of the movement which GEILADADIA has made faom Gatlicia. !believe he Intended attacking Astorga, but retired to Villa Franca in the beginning of the present month ; and Ge neral CABRIR A, who hal advanced to Baneza, retired upon Puebla de Sanabria, in consequence of finding th e enem y were in force in Be:ie .:ante. I conclude that the right of the army of Portugal has marched from Zamora to Benavcnte. 4 6 The detachment of the Conde DE AMARANTRS' troops, which occupied Puebla de Senabria when General CASRSRA marched upon Baneza, has returned to Portugal, in consequence of the Spanish troops having arrived there."—(Lisbon Gazette, Feb.l9) 1......,...... I FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. •••••=•••• P A RIS, FEB. ‘2 . —Peniscola, thirteen leagues from Tortosa, has just submitted to Niarshal Suchet. This fortress, situate upon the border le s of the sea, by which it is almost surrounded, upon an extremely e vated point of land, is between Tortosa and Valencia, and very diffi cult of access. Marshal Suchet contented himself with watching it, dur ing his operations against Blake's army. After the surrender of Valencia, he commenced the siege of it, which presented new obstacles for the engineers to surmount, and fresh glory to be acquired. There now remains no place to he subdued from Tortosa to Alicant, which the Duke of Altinfera is preparing to besiege in form; his airily is already in mction, and will soon be under th v.-ails of that place, to which the wrecks of Blake's army has retired.e IRELAND. Dus mat, MA aen S.—lnformation has been sworn before Mr. Sandeys, Magistrate of the county of Kildare, by several Protestant Gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of Maynooth, in that county, that on the night of the 28th ult, their houses were broken open by a numerous banditti, and robbed of arms only. On one of those Gentle men, Mr. Nugent, observing, that from the careless manner in which they threw about charged pistols, he supposed they were not used to fire-arms, they ordered him to come out and he should see the con trary ; he did so, and saw from 25 to 30 men in jackets, armed with tirelocks, drawn up in rank, who, at the word of command, went through the manual and platoon exercise. About midway between Cork and Kinsale, two strongly garrisonett towns, and not more than twelve miles asunder, near a place called Brown's Mill, the Board of First Fruits have thought it necessary to build a Protestant Church; but so violent is the opposition to this mea sure, that the Government have been obliged, at the expense of 7001. to build a barrack, and place two companies of the 6th foot therein fur the protection of the Church. Yesterday, after a furious struggle on the part of the Catholics, to ex pel Mr. HutldNston from the Dublin Library Society, that GentlemAs was confirmed fit his seat by a majority of eight. MPERIAL PARLIAMENT• HOUSE OF LORDS. MONDAY, MARCH 2. On the Order of the Day being read for going into a Committee on thehe Nottingham Frame —breaking Bill, Earls Grosvenor and Carlisle, Marquis of Douglas, and Lord Grenville, again repeated their ()hyenas to it, from a conviction that it was both cruel and inefficient. Lord Gitosv Esi OR proposed as an amendment, that the attempt to de stroy should not be declared felony, but a misdemeanor, which Was aceded ; several other amendments were made, after which the l c ouse resumed, and ordered the report to be brought up to-inorrow.—. Adjourned. TUESDAY, MARCH 3. The House, in a Committee of Privileges, heard evidence, and ct• ed a variety of witnesses, in relation to the claim of Sir George Jeanngham to the Stafford Peerage. Farther proceedings Thursday se 'might. The Report of the Frame - brea kin g Prevention Bill was taken jilt° consideration. Agreed to, and the third reading ordered for friday next. The Nottingham' atch anti Ward Bill, the Clink Liberty (5011t,..b" work) Paving Bill, and several Private Bills were brought up from Commune, and mad a first times—Adjourned.