Transcribed by Alison Kilpatrick Geo. Transcribed from the 28 March 1793 edition of the Calcutta Gazette newspaper, by permission of The British Library: Dublin, Sep. 13. It is said that a subscription, amounting to three millions sterling, has been completed among the Roman Catholic Gentlemen and Merchants of Ireland, for the purpose of purchasing lands in North America. The object of this purchase is said to be two fold: first, that these lands may serve as an asylum to which those people may retire, should they fail in obtaining what they now seem to consider as essential to the being of Freemen---the Elective Franchise. The second object is, that they may be a source of profit, should their situation in their native country be made such as to induce them to remain in it. This measure of the Catholics, should it be carried into execution, must very deeply interest the National welfare. Nothing has occured [sic] in Irish politics, within the present century, more worthy the attention of the Politician and the Statesman. ========================