It is scarcely necessary to notice the meeting of Roman
Catho- lics at the Hanover Square Rooms, except for the purpose of orrecting any misapprehension that the meeting might create abroad. It should be observed that the persons present were chiefly wal king men. Very few, if any of the gentlemen on the platform were at all known ; even the Roman Catholic clergy of any standing did not attend. The style of speaking is wholly alien to anything that would be heard. at a genuine English meeting. Lord Feilding, the writer of a letter, is very little known in political society. The two direct assertions which he makes in it stand unsupported by any evidence ; one of them is totally incredible, and the other is not consistent with fact. It would require something more than the signature of Lord Feild- ing to make us believe that Mr. Freeborn had employed secret service money to subsidize revolutionists in Rome. And the as- sertion that Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell stand alone amongst the Cabinet Ministers in their Italian policy is noto- riously the reverse of true.
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