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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816 



perty this collection, which has 

 now been incur])oiated for near 

 two centuries with tlie A'atican 

 libi-ary. 



(The minister then lequest'i 

 to be informed of the measures 

 intended to be taken to remove 

 the works, as the Austrian court 

 will readily contriimte to facilitate 

 this objecl.) 



" Dated C'arlsruhe, Feb. 7 , 

 1816." 



The Counsellor and Professor 

 Welkens will set out in eight or 

 ten days for Rome to receive 

 this treasiu'e. 



The roNclations and j>rophecies 

 of a person named Catherine 

 Healy, alias the Holy IVomwi, aic 

 the subject of an addiess from 

 tlie Rev. Dr. Touhy, Catholic Bi- 

 shop of Limerick, which was read 

 on Sunday in all the chapels 

 throughout that diocese. " This 

 woman," says the address, " has 

 presumed to asseit, on the autho- 

 rity of a pretended revelation 

 made to her, ' that infants, who 

 die inmiediately after baptism, are 

 condemned to a punishment of 24 

 hours duiation.'" She has also 

 presumed to utter certain pre- 

 dictions, calculated, under the 

 present gloomy aspect of affairs, 

 to terrify and mislead the weak 

 and ignorant, and disturb the 

 peace and good order of the coun- 

 try." — (Dublin, Freeman s Journal.) 



A new and unexpected difficulty 

 has been raised in Ireland against 

 the abolition of the great sinecure 

 of the Clerkship of the Pleas in 

 the Coxu't of Exchequer, in that 

 country, held by the late Earl of 

 Buckinghamshire. The Dublin 

 Evening Post, of the 10th instant, 

 states, that the Chief Baron, Sir 

 StandishO' Grady, claims the right 



of patronage in the appointment, 

 being an office in his court ; and 

 he has in consequence actually 

 named his son to the clerkship, 

 a« held by the Earl of Bucking- 

 liamshire ; and his brother to the 

 place of deputy, now and for a 

 long time held hv JMr. John Pol- 

 lock. 



The v.idow of Cieneral Wash- 

 ington has consented to the re- 

 moval of her husband's remains 

 to a s])ot on which it is proposed 

 to erect a national monument to 

 his memory. In her answer to 

 the President of the United States 

 on the subject, she says — '"Taught 

 by the great example which I have 

 so long had before me, never to 

 oi)|)ose my private wishes to the 

 l)ublic will, I must consent to the 

 reipiest made by (Jongress, which 

 you have had the goodness to 

 transmit to me ; and in doing 

 this, I need not, 1 cannot say, 

 what a sacrifice of individual feel- 

 ing I make to a sense of public 

 duty." 



11- A dreadful fire broke out 

 about a quarter before 4 o'clock 

 in the morning, at the house of 

 Charles Boone, Esq. in Berkeley- 

 square, which in a short time 

 consumed it, with its valuable 

 furniture, library, &c. Fortu- 

 nately no lives were lost. The 

 house of Lord Langford, adjoin- 

 ing, was just caught ; but by the 

 timely arrival of the engines, the 

 fiames wej'e extinguished without 

 further damasre. The house of 

 Mr. ThornhiiC JM. P. on the other 

 side, received no injury. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Thornhill and family only 

 arrived in town on Saturday. Mr. 

 Boone is in the 90th yeai' of his 

 age, and was taken out of the 

 house through the stables ; he 



had 



