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resistance - to the Veto alsci erve.to convince every unprejudiced man that they thereby acknowledge a_ Power superior to their rightftil Soveretge, whom they must obey ? Is it not, therefore, natural to cnr•clude that they would employ whatever influence they might possess to the ath'encing and the pro' moting of teet reiigion,' to • whose supreme head they pay such oh , ? So long as this resistance is upheld, so lung must the Petitioners be consider . ed, ,crording - to then erieinal desidiation, as Pa pists ;- being thus completely !hider papal influence, and then-tore not emit lei to .their preseUt assumed appellation of Catitolics. Nay, , whit reliance or —dependence could be placed on the obligations of the professore of any religion, where the superiors of u ditfeted in their opinion (It its fundamental principles; for so it is, their hierarchy, in one part of the United Kingdom, agreeing in the possibility of • acquiescing in the Veto, consistent with the principles of their Church, whilst in the other part, they as stubbornly and determinedly deny it, as do all its IJ:tv. •' • • But even suppose those chaippions of CathOlre Emancipation were to wheel about a second time, and to say, thatehe Petitioners were now ready to concede the Veto, I would ask those supporters of these assumed rights, where is there. to be found_ an. guarantee, on the part of the Rum-in Catholics, . for- their stria performance of the supposed contraet to b+ entered into, or what person is there among them, or what poser to authorize any riegociation to be undertaken, or with whom it would be safe for, or that the Legislature could enter into any compact ? Here it may be observed, that, on the very score of loyalty, on which they found another claim for admission into the State, they have furnished their opponents wi h a ready answer, arising out of that very Petition ; for, insthit they boldly avow, that those of their persuasion who - are fighting our bat tles, are acting more from constraint than`from leg, Or their being zealous in the cause, and that till the boon they ask for is granted, united, vigorous, and general co-operation cannot be expeeled, nor, , will it be called forth. Is this a proof of loyalty ? Again, they say they are entitled toa complete re-- peal ef the Penal Seitutes, because they have ac quire ed in every-act required by the Legislature, exeept tee hiking of an oath, which, by the tenets of their religion, it is incompatible to take; to which might it not be re -lied with great truth and jnteire e edar acitnissien, Gentlemen, to the exer xise ref even political power is incompatible with the Laws of the Land, and with the Letter of the Con ' slim ion, without taking of that, oat ii ; an oath which every Protestant Must take before he can be entitled to the- enjoyment of those privileges which you claim."—Are the Romah Cat hole s, 1 would ask their most streneous advocates, so immaculate as to be trusted with the reins of Government. without _that bond, and the ProtestantS not so ? What is there in the Roman Catholic Religion, its tenets or its principle:, that can inspire or authorise such coh fi 'ence ? Or, where is the State; partaking of the councils of persors professing a religien differing from that of the eslabliihed one ? Or, ate they so much puter, an:l more attached than the Protestant Dissenters, that they are to be admitted to all the ad van t.rges of the Conseil tioi e wit hoot complying with what is required by that very. Constitution, bud the otheis still to be kept without its pale ? Do the Ro man Catholics iinigine,that, if the prayer of their Pe tit n w :s granted, the Dissenters world sit tamely by, and not demand a participation of those rights anki inente itics s hich were granted to their Roman Catholic - Biethren ? And, are they yet to learn that the Legislature a hav'e ever resisted the repeal of those Test Law., even when the supposed propriety, and justice, and the avowed safety to the Constitu- Gni in so deing,wassoabls and so repeatedly handled by that great Statesman, the late Mr. Fox ? How, thettecae the Roman C.itholice hope or expeet that the Legislature, upon any footing of justice or se curity, will ) field to them what has been so reso lutely refused to, even, the Protestant Dissenter ? Supposing, however, that the Legiidattire might be.so imposed upon by their specious and sophistical reasonings, as to accede to the expeaations of the Rom in Catholics, let me ask the Gentlemen of that eersteision, by what standard they judge of the feel ings of the Protestant nobility and geetry at large ? it cannot-be by their own ; for if they are sore, as. it is very evident they are, npontthe point of their ex clesion from those rights which the Protestants en joy, it must naturally oecor to them, if they relied at all, how degraded the latter must appear to their own ey-se and that of surrounding nations, if, after having d reeted the affairs of State for above a cen t tery, with honour ,and credit to themselves, and se cut ity and advantage to these kingdoms, they were obliged to yield that rower to those of an opposite persuasion ; to those, who, by the repeal of those laws, which they require, would be entrusted with the management of ,he affiirs of the realm, without entering into that covenant, matte a necessary quell-_ fication at the Revolution ; whilst the-protestant, to Continue in that power and state of pre-e:Minence he has so - long c usidereil almost as his birth-right, must enter into an aetual, solemn security, for his perseverance in that fil, lity and attachment to the Clown Which he has observed - his whole life through? Human nature never could stoop to this. - There ease it is true, been an attempt, in one part of the United Kingdom, to procure a Petition • from the Pro estants in favour of the Roman Catho lic claims, and which Petition, though formed in • rnhchief, the endeavour to effect a separation amongst the Protest:it ts, I am happy to say has failed of i:a intended objoa ; lor, compared with , the great body of the Protestants, the. names that are annexed to it are but few in number. Some of those a ho have affixed their signatures are men of no weight, and of little property : others have signed it from party motives, and some again in or der to secure their future return to Parliament from those counties where the Roman Catholics have a preponderance; and many more, with shame do I avow it, who, in: their hearts, do not wish success to the measure, from timidity, and a supposition, that, by such temeorizing condu6l, a yielding to the demands of the Roman Catholic s, peace arid quiet would be established in Ireland : but these latter are shallow de-tarcily politicians ; for, in my mind, so far from quieting, at least if we are to judge from experience (and what better criterion can we resort to), the Petitioners would become more troublesome and arrogant in their demands. If' they were not immediately put into places of trust and power, their ,stutettious principles would break forth, and they would not scruple to arraign both the Executive and the Legislature, which, they would , say, had amused them, by ostensibly granting them favours (or m iller, to speak in their own phraseology), their just and unquestionable rights, of w4sich •it never was their intenuon . they s , -ould Profit, or ever, in the remotest degree, participate. This is a dedudion . that follows . most justly, from their never yet hav ing been satisfied, notwithstanding 'all, the indul gences they have received during the reign of our beloved and'venerable King ; but, becoming proud and aspiring by every concession, they have been led, clamorously, to demand what, at 'one time, they kt 01)id most submissively have sued for. But what would they. think, if, by persevering in their indecorous and threatening style of rernon-, strance, they should, at length, arouse and aWaken , the hitherto patient and torbearing feelings and, sptrikof the entire body of the Protestants of the Reilm, and make them send in counter-petitions to both Houses of Parliament from every quarter of the United Kingdom ; a measure which they have heretofore refrained from, merely because of that confidence they have ever placed in the integrity, the honour, the good sense, and virtue of the here ditary Counsellors of the Crown and of the Repre sentatives of the People. But, Sir, if you and men like you, of proved integrity and unshaken firmness, continue your exertions in support of the Constitution (and who can doubt your doing so) no such application to Par liament for its protedion will be•requisite, or will be resorted to ; but 'resting in security, it will bid defiance to all the arts or intrigues of fadious or am bitious men, to destroy it. And every true Protest taut, recollecting iliat by the glorious tevcdution he was freed from Popery, slavery, and arbitrary power, and introduced thereby to that happy state of security for our freedom and our religion, which we now enjoy under the Illustrious House that at present grace the Throne, will rally round that Throne, and round that„Pillar of Liberty, erected at that very revolution, and • will support both at no less expense or price, if necessary, than that of .his life and his property ; not suffering himself to be carried away by the-sophistry of artful designing men, but raking you, Sir, for his example, he will stand fast in the post of duty, and sacrifice, I re peat, every interested, private feeling and considera tion to the good of his country and to the protedion And support of the Constitution In CHURCH AND STATE. MAILS. Ari R 1V613-1 Heligoland, r Dublin, r Waterford. Dos—l Malta, s Dublin, t Waterford. PRICE (r STOCK 5.;. THIS DAY Ai Tw,t.vto'cLocK. Consols. - - 6oi I Navy 5 per Cent. THE SUN. SOIALM QUIS DICIRS IAI.SUM AUDEA ? L 0 N D 0 N, MONDAY, APRIL ! - 20., 1812, FLAG OF TRUCE. 9 1 3 i Our Readers will see by the following letter, that Dispatches have been received from the French Emperor by a flag of truce. We are of course un acquainted with the nature of these Dispatches, but in all probability they contain one of those insidious propositions which he has often made before, not, we should think, with the hope of deluding the British Governinent, but for the purpose of im posing upon the unfortunate people over whom lie tyran izes. "DOVE APRIL 19.-A flag of truce from Calais was fallen in with half seas across by one of our cruizers, and her dispatches landed here. The en velope was addressed to the Naval Commander at Dover, but the dispatches themselves are said to be addressed to our Minister for Foreign At ails. The Captain irinnedi3teiy proceeded with them to Lou- don. '‘‘A Fiench naval officer accompanied the flagt truce." Nkre find that the above flag of truce i 3 addressed from Ole French Minister of Foreign Affairs to lei; Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. This morning a Heligoland mail arrived, bud it brings no pews. BUONAPARTE, as appears by the following lever, has adopted extraordinary preca,t tiOns to prevent our receiving any accounts of his proceedings in the North : HELIGOLAND, ArRIL 1.-I.Ve have not for a considerable time been so long without any intelli gence from the Continent. Some boats \I hich left thjs isLn ! about a fortnight ago are not rt.-turned, a id, it is supposed, must have been capturtd. The increased vigilance, which has been the cause of so rigorous a prohibition of the intercourse with this place, proceeJs from the wish of the French Go vernment to conceal the objed of the movements Made by their troops to the North.—We are with out any local news. Several reports were yesterday circu!afed of ac counts having been received from Lord WELLING- Totq, but they were wholly v‘itbout foundation.— One of them announced the cppture of Badoj ,, z, but added that Lord WELLINGTON bad lost an arm.' Accounts have been received fiom the French coast of a$ late a date as the 17th. They state, than IitIONAPARTE had not then quitted Paris. His de parture was, however, every moment expeaed. CAMBACERES has been ordered from Holland to Paris, it is supposed, for the purpose of pre siding over the Councils in his absence. Many of the Departments of France continue in a very disturbed state, notwithstanding the summary pu nishments of Military Tribunals: Atnerican Papers, of one day's.. later date than those brought by the Armatta to Liverpool, have been received. They. Can add, of course, but very lit►le to the information before us. Mr. RA.NDOLPH made a very eloquent speech on the pas , ing of the Loan, but as it contained no abuse of Great Bri tain, it probably will not meet with the approba tion of our Patriots. He strenuously advises his countrymen not to go to war with this country, and adds, " repeal your non-importation act, and put the two belligerents upon all equal footing in fact—not in words only but in deeds. —If the spirit we have manifeited is reprehensible in an individual, .how much more, so in a nation ? Will you go to war in a sullen manner—half ashamed—half reluc tant ? The public pulse, I assure you, must be wrought up with some other tune, before the coun try will be ripe for war." The UniversityOf Oxford has agreed to a Petition against the claims sof the Roman Catholics. Some Members who disapproved of the Petition haVe signed a Protest, and with great propriety - transmitted it to Lord GRENVILLE. The Party strained every nerve to defeat this Petition, but they failed, and, we trust, will every where fail, in the desperate attempts which they are making to remove those guards which have been provided by the wisdom of our ancestors, for the security of the Established Church. We should not trouble our Readers with again mentioning the name of the contemptible impostor whose insolent letter we published on Saturday, if we were not convinced that there are innumerable foreigners in his country, at' • this moment, as un deserving of The protection they experience,.and as ready to do us every possible injury, as the person called Baron GERANIII. The numbers of foreigners in' England have, of late years, in creased.to an alarming degree, and_thete can be no doubt .that many among them are the *arm rarti marls, if not the naive ugentq, of cur ,inveterate enemy. 'The indiscriminate kindness (not to use a stronger expression) . with which every forelgner is received by persons of rank and fashion in this country, affords them opportunities, of which- they too often av-til themselves, Id injure botb the country and the indi ideals that protect them. We are far from regretting the hospitality which was shewn to those•unfoftunate persons who were driven by their inhuman countrymen to seek an asylum among us ; our observations dO not apply to them : we should be sorry 'to see the protection that has been extended to them withdrawn. But we do feel it to be our duty most seriously to call the attention of Govern-, merit to the numbers, as well as to the conduct, of the other foreigners, with whom this country is now literally swarming.. An Englishman is nut suffered to exist in France,except in a prison,and exposed toe% ery indignity and every oppression that the most ran corous hostility can suggest, while, in this country, Frenchmen, without any other claim but that of being foreigners, are received, protected, and caress ed, while they - insult, laugh at, and' betray us. This subjea appears to us one of the utmost importance. At all times, the ut most care should be taken to pre vent our enemy from 'ending his emissaries among us ; but surely, at such a moment as the present no man can doubt the necessity of • redoubled precau tion. The PRINCE REGENT'S I.4ee is to be held on Wednesday next, instead of Thursday. On, Smut-day the PRINCE .'REGBN.T visited the PrinctssenAßLOTTß of WALES, at Warwick House. Thursday being St. Geor.ge's Day, it will be ce lebrated by the PRINCE REGENT giving a splendid enteroinment to the Knights of the Garter. , Mr. Alderman MAaNAv paired off on Friday, at the Common Council, with Alderman DONIVILLE. The recent movements of. the enemy's ships in the Scheldt have occasioned the' squadion cruising o ff ;hat „station under Admiral YOUNG, to be aug mented.—Sir RICHARD STRACHAN, in the San Domingo, is to be second in command ; and Rear Admiral FERRIER, , in the Bellerophon, to be the third. Admiral DIXON Will soon Kill in tlie Montague, IC) asFume the command at Rio Janiero. Admiral COußcr, at:present on that station, is to return home in the Fouaroyant. It is said that the Servian Chief, Czerny Georges, ha; offered to return under the obedience of the Porte, on certain conditions, the principal of which are, that he is nominated Pocha of Belgrade. ' A routs arrived at Windsor on Saturday for the Royal horse Guards (Blues) to march this day to Leicester. Mr. LovEL, the proprietor of an Evening Paper, was brought into the Cotirt of King's Bench this morning and charg,:d with an informa ion ror Intact on the Trao€port Board. NAVAL NEWS, PLYMOUTH, APRIL 18.—Arrived the [lrelands, HUDSON, Ann, CASSOP, Venus, CHESNLAN, Ranger, WHITEHEAD', and Tribley, "TYRENS; from Sunder land ; Lark, HARRIS, from London; Havoc, WooD, from Yormoutb..; Dove, COOKNEY, from Lytne; and the Aclive, PIDGEON, from Newcastle, • Sailed att.:, Ocean man of war for- Gibraltar and the Meskterraneati, with , two vessels under convoy, viz.. the transport Benjamin Shaw, La wrs , for Gib raltar ; and the Fox, 11.10CK,' for Gibraltar, Malta ; and Messina ; also sailed the Crocodile sloop of wat for the Pouns; the Poi6iers, Camberland, Vene , rable, and Plantagenet men of war, and the Foal; sloop of war for Portsmouth ; the Hannibal and Kengeur men of war to bluckade Cherboutgh ; and the Queen man of war to blockade Brest. DEAL, APRIL 19.--Arrived the Elizabeth, EL LIOT, from Lisbon-. Sailed his Majesty's ships Mars, Orion, Cour akeur; and Ariel, for the Baltic. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 19. —Sailed his Majesty's ship Porcupine, with a convoy for Spain, Gibraltar, &c. ; and his Majesty's ships Rose and Hope for . Guernsey.- CHATHAM, APRIL IB.—Sailed down the River and.anchoied at the Little Nure, his Majesty's sloop Erebus. That beautiful new frigate the Briton, launched last week at this Dock-yard, is coanmissinned by Captain WHITBY ; the Tenedos launched at the same time is in dock coppering. Ships fitting at this port, viz. the Asia, Barham, Sterling Castle, 4rdent (for a troop ship,) Briton, and Thraiher gun •br:g. ISLANDS OF SCILLY, APRIL 11.—Came in his Majesty's sloop Helena, of 8 guns, CNA. Moess.. TAIN, from Jamaica, with large remittance's, it i 5 said, to the amount of one million of money ; aro the ship Callierine, JACKSON, from Demerara, laden with sugar, coffee, and cotton ; the lin-hound, C3pct PARISH, 'from a cruize ; and the brig Jane; - JoLLf, from Mdlta, under quarantine, %kith several coastets. bound up Channel. . Remains the Whiting schooner, Lieut. M03..y.Y. • FALMOUTE, APRIL 17.—Artived his Majesty's ship Elizateth horn a cruize; and Hind cutter ditto- Sailed yes . terday the Wolsingkarn liacl et, uit h the) mail-for Lisbon; and to-day, the Lord Hotart - packt:t for the Brazdi ; also- the Princess Amelia picket, with the mails for Lila, do c. The Eli%atetit packet has gone into the Roads, and will sail for Lisbon to-morrow with another mail, should the wind be fair. Admiral YOUNG will hoist his flag f,tw davf on bgard ihr Impregnable, 98, Captain G. C. MAC" KENZIE, and resume the 'command of the Scheltjg Fleet. _ A Court Martial assembled on Thursday, the 15th instant, and continued, by adjournment, to the 7tfi, for the purpose of inquiring into the circumstance 0 1 , his Majesty's ship Conquestador having struck on A shoal, at the east end of Quiberon 13.1 y, t ailed " Le Four," on the evening Of the 31.1 of Match last, and to toy her Commander, Lord William Stuart, and the other Officers of the,Conquestador, for not hal— ing taken care in the steering and concluding Pi his Majesty's said ship ; and for havkg, through wilfolcie,s, negligence, and other default, run 14 14 said ship on the said shoal or sand ; and for having hazarded the said ship, contrary to the 26th Artici; of War. PttestnENT-.-Right Honourable Lord Keith. MaiusEas-f--.Sir Robert Calder, Bart.; Admiral Durham, Captain Malcolm, (Captain of the Fleet), Captains Linzee, Baker, Dundis, Lloyd, Sir G e olge Collier, Captains Lake, Plampin, Hon. Captais Bouverie, and Captain Barton. After a full ex:lmination of the case, the Court 'pronounced the following sentence : SENTENCE, -The Court is of opinion that the • service upon which the Conquestador was employed, was important, and that her Captain appears to have been urged thereby to use every exertion: to execute ~ his orders. That the , Captain and Master had a mean opinion of the French pilot's capacity, and having no con fidence in him, did not consult him. That, although the Master appears not to have been sufficiently acquaint,d with the setting a nd velocity of the tides, great anxiety and much care were manifested bo h by the Caiitain and him in attending to the steering, and conduaing of the ship' in her course, as well as in plac , ng proper per sons to look out, and that the Master concurred with the Captain in thinking that' the course was not only proper and fafe to be steered, but that the distance-might be run with security ; that after the ship grounded, the Captain - skewed great firmness and presence of mind, evinced great professiorial skill, used uncommon exertions for the recovery of the ship, and in common with all his Officers and crew, cheerfully underwent the greatest fatigue and privation up to the period, of her arrival at Fal month ; that there is not' the Most distant ground for believing that the said Captain, the Right Hon. Lord Wm. Stuart, and the other Officers of the Conquestador, did ,not take care in the steering and conduaing the said ship,, or that the said ship was, through wilitilness, negligence, or off* default, run on the said shore or sands, stated to be La Four," or that she was 'hazarded contrary to the 26th article of ,Par; .and that. the Court doth - iri consequence adjudge the said Captain, the Right Hon. Lord Wrn. Stuart, and t h e other Officers of the Conquestador, to be severally fully acquitted, and the said Captain' Lord Wm. Stuart, and the othet Officers of the CanTueslador, are hereby so several!, and' - fully acquitted accordingly."