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rtht 1 /how how it could exist in a country, the majority pf whose population .were Catholics. The spiritual power iaterfereal with the import-ant institution or marriage, and the.Catholic e s appealed in such cases, nut to the ordinary tri - bonats, hut to.the,Consistorial Court.. As to the objections sonartinaea , urged against their mural prinCiples, he did not belieee them ; on. the contrary, he was di,posed to think they were as pure as our own. but their ecclesiastical opi nions he did not consider sate in a Protestant country. Tier church was a hierarchy in which there was the same gradation as in the Church of England; and could we look at latch an instrument under the influence of a Foreign Power, without fearing that it might be applied to evil purposes ? And the principle of excommunication was another dangerous principle, and that of atreolution, not in its ,pititual but temporal effects, might be productive of such cnosenuences, as at least to render it material to know what securities would be afforded. The. opinions wt ich he had just stated were not the opinions of Protestants,. but of Roman Catholics. With resped - to the spiritual and temporal power,-.if there: were two cooflieting duties to perfoian, it must be. evident that the Catholic would prefer • what he conceived the higher to the subordinate dot and) yet. according to the dictates ofahis religion, h- must consider his spiritual above his tempqral—duty. W,th this atieweof the subjea, he must -maintain that so long as tint opinion was entertained by the Catholic, it would not be safe to place him in political power in a country of which the Fstablished Church was not Catholic - If it was more dangerrnts at one time than another, the danger was greater now than formerly. In former thrice, when the ques tion was agitated, _Catholic Europe was divided; since then the Pope had froinnecessity become tributary to the-Head of tire GovernMent in France—he had suffered a state of the deepest degradation, which in former times would have placed the character of the religion in a doubtful point of view, as contrasted with the high tone for domination which it formerly held. If then the - security was taken off, and nearly the whole of Catholic Europe was under the domina. Sion of France, what assurance would this country have in the event of the death of 't he Pope, that his successor would not be a creature of Iluonaparie-ethe more especially as Rome was denominated the second town in the French I. mpire ? His Noble Friend had talked of. the existence of special cir ' curnstanees in favour of the Claims-- what those special cir curnstatices were he did not know. The objections might havecliminished in some respects, but they had increased in others. He would therefore consider the danger. es likely to arise, so far as it might affed the security of the State. The necessity of the concession had been argued on general grounds, as affirming a complete battier against all former de. minds. How stood the fad ? In 1792, the demand of elec tive fronchise was put on different footing to what' it was placed to 1793; was conceded to them—but the next year c.. 1110. the contest' for removing all the disabilities of which they now complain. What did the Catholics contend ? They cons , der themselves in a religious view as attached to the only legitimate Church in the world, and consequently that their Church had e jurisdielon not only here, but in all countries. liVae it in the course of human nature to suppose, that if those claims which they now urge were con - ceded, they would rest then Satisfied, and not leak to the further. ante of their own religion, and to the establishment of it in the state in which they held political power?-- The question was not, as had been stated, whether they should pay to two churches or to one, fbr there was a man in Irei-and ce)) was not directly interested in that question ? but whether they should have an established religion, agreeable to their ideas of correctness ? That was a question which i:iterested all ranks, from the highest to the lowest; besides, the great body of the Clergy had a ciired interest.in it. The whole of the latter part of the speech of his Noble Friend went to deny that arty safety could he found, until the Ro, min Catholic Church was established : yet, in the former part of it, .he stated that he. was friendly to the Protestant Church. The fair inference to be drawn from the whole of the arguments of his Noble Friend, was this. that it was necessary Ireland shhuld have a Roman Catholic Establish- Menlo aryl this country a .Protestant one. Now, he was prep oed to maintain ilia such an anomaly in Government could not exist. for every free'State must have for its security but one Established Church. 'With resped to the admini stration of the Government, Catholics and Protestants could not jointly administer with benefit to the State the affairs of the country. In Switzerland, in Holland, and in Poland, proofs were to be found of his assertion. BLit where the Go= vernmeoL was Catholic, then the instances whielt his Noble Friend had adduced Might bear him out He believed, if Ireland was under a Roman Catholic estahlis.hment, still preserving a Protestant King, the a , guments might o..ve some weight; the Temporalities resting with the Sovereign. The question, however, was, whether the power of the Church could he safely trusteel in the hands of the Roman Catholics without prejudice to the interests of the Stato— that he would answer, Certainly not. With resped to the veto, there had been much diversity of opinion. Some of the Catholics declare that such a security was never held out ; others admit that it was ; but though there was this contrariety of opinion, all declare it is not their religion to allow a Protestant Sovereign to interfere in a Roman Catho. tic t_ hutch ; and yet these very petitioners would themselVes attempt to intercete in a Protestant Church. As to the dan gers likely to arise in Ireland he believed, meat sincerely, that whatever danger or inconvenience might arise from re sisting the claims, he really thought more would arise at this moment from concAing them. His Noble Friend had much Undervalued the principles of the Revolution ; he must maintain, that the principles of the country were the funda mental principles 61 the Constitution. If the arguments of the Noble Marquis related to a mere question of expedient) then lie would admit the assertion to be true ; but if it was a matter of right, .then the terms mint equally apply to the Crown What was now desired ? Not to give them actual pattial relief ; but to give them all that they might di.'sire. Such a concession might have the area of excluding the Royal Family from the Throne. The Noble Earl concluded with objecting to the motton. We regret very much that we are unable from want of Tor ni to give the remainder of the Debate. The Marquis of Dov , s;sut gs, Lords hYRON, MOIRA, and GRENVILLE, supported the Motion, and the Lott D• CH r CELLOA replied TO them. At Six &Clock tit,: House divided, For the Motion 67 Proxies 35 I 1 Agai►rst it 1-:3 Proxies 71 —174 rvlajority against the Motion 72 Adjourneci. 110 USE OF COMMONS. TUESDAY, APRIL 21. We are prevented, by the reason above stated, from giving the derails of the proceedings. Mr. W. Pole obtained lcavc to bring in a Bill to stop the Distilleries in I,re;and. The Coil; S read -a triii - d time and passed. A Com- MittLe was - appointed to try the Wootton basset Election.— Adjoorned. I.S. £k vrn—Z Anholt, I Dublin, 2 Waterford. Du tt—x a. ctiz, I Lisbon, i M alta,_r Guernsey, z jersey. PRICE OF STOCKS. THIS DAN Ar TW - T.VILO ' CLOCK. - • - 60,.. Red. Ann. • - Cansols. 'V S U N. SOLEM QUIS DICIR.I. FALSUM AUDRAT ? L 0 N D 0 N, WEDNESDAY, Arum ( 22, 1812. This morning two Anholt Mails arrived. Hos tilities lave not yet commenced between Russia *lld France, but the Emperor ALEXANDER has quit- Ted to join the Army. A treaty, offen sive and defensive, has been concluded between i tikwsttia and France. We ore this morning enabled to by before our Readers the following most important Declaration, which has been issued by the British Government. w—We have nut zoom now to comment upon it ; but we think it mu;t effectually set the question re. specting the Oiders in Council at re,t. DECLARATION. The Government of Fra:ice having, .by an Official Report, communicated by its Minister for Foreign AtThirs to the Conservxive Senate on the 10th day of March list, removed all doubts as to the perse verance of that Government in the assertion of prin ciples, and in the maintenance of a system, not more hostile to the maritime rights fmd commercial interests of the British Empire, than inconsistent with the rights and independence of Neutral Nations; and having thereby plainly developed the inordinate pretensions which that system, as promulgated in the Decrees of Berlin and Milan, was from the first designed to enforce; his Royal highness the PRINCE REGENT,' a&ing in the • name, and on the behalf of his Majesty, deems it proper, upon this formal and authentic' republication of the principles of those Decrees, thus publicly to declare his Royal High nuss's determination -still firmly to resist the intro duaion and establishment of t4is arbitrary Code, which the Government of Fiance openly avows its purpose to impose by force upon the world, as the . Law of Nations. From the time that the progressive injusticf and violence of the French Government, made it impossible for his Majesty any longer to reslrain,the exercise of the rights of war within their ordinary limits, without submitting to consequences not less ruinous to the commerce of his Dominions, than de rogatory to the Rights of his Crown, His Majesty has endeavoured by a restricted and moderate use of those rights of retaliation, which the Berlin and Mi lan Decrees necessarily called into action, to recon cile Neutral States to those measures, which the aondu& of the enemy had rendered unavoidable : and which, his Majesty has at all times expressed his readiness to revoke,so soon as the Decrees of the enemy, which gave occasion to them, should be formally and uncondition4lly repeale.i, and the Com merce of Neutral Nations restored to its accustomed course. At a subsequent period of the war, His Majesty, availing himself of the then situation of 'Europe, without abandoning the principle and object of the Orders in Council of November 1807, was induced so to limit their operation, as materially to alleviate the restrictions theteby imposed upon Neutral Commerce. The Orders in Couneil.of April 1809 was substituted in the room of those of November 1807, and the retaliatory system of Great Britain acted no longer on every country in which the ag gressive measures of 'the enemy were in force, but was confined in its' operation to France, and to the countries upon which the French yoke was most strictly imposed; and which had become virtually a part of the dominions of France. The United States of America remained never theless dissatisfied; and their dissatisfaction has been greitly increased by a❑ artifice too successfully em ployed on the part of the enemy, who has pr tend ed that the Decrees of Berlin and Milan were re pccled, although the Decree affecting such repeal has never been promulgated ; although the notifi cation of such pretended repeal distinctly described it to be dependent on conditions, in which the ene my knew Great Britain could never acquiesce ; and although abundant evidence has since appeared of their subsequent execution. But the enemy has at length la'd aside all dissi mulati.on; he now publicly and solemnly declares, not only that chose Decrees still continue in force, but that they shall be rigidly executed until Great Britain shall comply with additional conditions, equally extravagant; and he further announces the penalties of those Decrees to be in full force against all nations which shall suffer their flag to be, as it is termed in this new code, " denationalized." In addition to the disavowal of the blockade of May 1806, and of the principles on which that blockade was _established, and in addition to the repeal of the British Orders in Council—he de mands an admission of the principles, that the goods of an enemy, carried under a neutral flag, shall be treated as neutral ;—that neutral property under the flag of an enemy shall be treated as hostile ;—that arms and warlike stores alone (to the exclusion of ship timber and other articles of naval equipinnt) shall be regarded as contraband of war ;—and Out no ports shall be considered as lawfully blockaded, except such as are invested and besieged, in the presumption of their being taken, [en prevention elltre pris], and into which a merchant-ship cannot enter without danger. By these and other demands, the . enemy in fact requires, that Great Britain and all civilized nations, shall renounce, at his arbitrary pleasure, the ordi nary and indisputable-rights of maritime war ; that Great Britain, in particular, shall forego the ad vantages of her naval stye' iority, and allow the Com mercial property, as well as the produce and manu factures of France, and her confederates, to pass the ocean in seQurity, while the, subjects of Great Bd. lain are to be in effect proscribed from all commer cial intercourse with other nations; and the produce and manufactures of these reairns are to be excluded from every country in the world to which the arms or the influence of the enemy can extend. Such are the demands to which the British Go vernment is summoned to submit—to the aban 'donment of its most ancient, essential, and undoubt ed maritime rights. Such is the code by which France hopes, under cover of a neutral flag, to ten der her commerce unassailable by sea ; whilst she, proceeds - to invade or 'to incorporate with her own dominions all States that hesitate to sacrifice their national interests• at her command, and, in abdica tion of their just rights, to adopt a code, by which they are required to exclude, under the mask of Municipal Regulation, whatever is British froth their dominions. The pretext for these extravagant demands, is that some,of these principles were adopted by volun tary compact in the Treaty of. U , recht ; as it a Trea ty onc.-! existing between two particular countries founded on special and reci - procal . considerations, binding only on the Contraaing Parties, and which in the last treaty of peace between the same Powers, had not been revived, were to be regarded as decla ratory of the public lawfof Nations. It is needless for his Royal Highness to demon strate the injustice of such pretensions. He might otherwise appeal to the pra.aice of France herself, in this and in former wars, and to her own esta-• blished codes of maritime law : it is sufficient that these new demands of the enemy form a wide de pariure from those conditions on w hi c h th e a ll ege d repeal of the French Decrees . was accepted by America, and upon' which alone, erroneously as suming .that repeal to be complete, America . has claimed a revocation of the British Orders in Council. His Royal Highness, upon a review of all these circumstances, feels persuaded, that so - soon as this formal declaration, by the Government of France, of its unabated adherence to the principles and pro visions of the Berlin and Milan Decrees, shall be made known in America, the Government of the United States, gloated not less by a sense of jus- tice to Great Britain, than by what is due to its own dignity, will be disposed to recal those mea sures of hostile exclusion, which, under a mis conception of the real views 'and condua of the French Government, America has exclosive!y ap plied to the commerce and ships of war of Great To accelerate a result . so advantageous to the true interests of both countries, and so conducive to the re-establishment of pelfea friendship between them ; and to give a decisive proof of his Royal Highness's dis:;osition to perform the engagements of his Majesty's Goverruntlif, by revoking the Or ders in Council, whenever the French Pierce~ shall he aetuilly and unconditionally repealed ; his Royal H ghness the Prince Regent has been this 'day pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Ma jesty, and by and with the advice of his Majesty's Privy Council, to order and declare— " That if at any time hereafter the Berlin and Milan Decrees shall, by some authentic net of the French Government, publicly promulgated, be ex pre,sly and unconditionally repealed, then and from thenceforth, the Order in Council of the 7th day of January 1807, and the Order in Council of the 26th day of April 1809, shall, without any' further order be, and the same hereby are declared from thence forth, to be wholly and absolutely revoked and further, that the full benefit of this Order shall be extended to any ship or vessel captured subsequent to such authentic act of repeal of .the French De crees, although, antecedent to such repeal, such ship or vessel shall have commenced, and shall be in the prosecution of a voyage, which, under the said Orders in, Council, or one of them, would have subjeEted her to t'apture and condemnation ; and the claimant of any ship or cargo which shall be cap tured at any time subsequent to such authentic aka of repeal by the Freneh Government, shall, without any farthet order or declaration on the part of his Majesty's Government on this subjea, be at liberty to give in evidence in the High Court of Admiralty, or any Court of Vice-Admiralty, before which such snip or vessel, or its cargo, shall be brought for ad• judication, that such repeal by the French Govern ment had been by kuch authentic ad promulgated prior to such capture ; and upon proof thereof, the voyages shall be deemed and taken to have been as lawful as if the said Oiders in Council had never been made; saving nevertheless to the captors such proted.lion and indemnity as they may be equitably entitled to, in the judgment of the said Court, by reason of their ignorance or uncertainty as to the repeal of the French Decrees, or of the recognition of such repeal by his Majesty's Government, at the time of such capture. . - • His Royal Highness - however deems it propel to declare, that, should the repeal of the French Decrees, thus anticipated and provided for, after• wards prove to have been illusory on the part of the enemy and should the resttiaions thereof be still praetically enforced, or revived by the enemy, Grt•ot Britain will be obliged, however reluctantly, •afier reasonable witice to Neutral Powers, to have re cqurse such t measures of retaliation may then cp• pear to be just and necessary." Westrniqster, April 21, 1812. From the LONDON GAZETTE, April 12 t, 1411-1.1. BANKRUPTS. William Sea, Mi !ton, Kent, coal-merchant, to surrender A prii 25, May 2, and 3 ,at twelve, at Guildhall, London. At. tonnes, Messrs. Hindeancl Son, Milton, Kent; and Messrs. Brace and Plower, Essex -court, Temple. Thomas Lumley, Harrow-road, Paddington, stone-masona April 28, at twelve, May 7, at eleven, and June a, at one, . at Guildhall, London, Attorney, Mr. R. Pittman, Pad dington-green. William Ro}ston, Macclesfield,. Chester, ironmonger, Mai . 7, at five, 8,, at ten, and June 2,_at two, at the Macclesfield Arms Hotel, Macclesfield. Attornies, Alessrs.•Bell and Brodrkk, Bow-lane, Cheapside; and Mr. Grinisditch, Macclesfield. John Coates, Bromyard, Herefordshire, currier, May 14, IS, and June 2, at eleven, at tke Falcon Inn, Bromyartl. tornies, Messrs. Taylor and Son, Featherstone. - buildings, Holborn, London ; and Messrs. Worinington'and'Dangct field, Biornyard, flerelbrdshire. Matthew Roger Barker and John Noon, Leicester, worsted spinners, April 27, at six, 23, it ten, a,al June a, at elevco, at the White Hart Inn, Licester. Attornies, Mr, • ton, Leicester; and Mr. S. Taylor, John-street, Bedford row, Lr,ndon. Thomas Bell, Aln wick, Northumberland, scrivener, May is, 16, and Junc2, at eleven, at the White Swan Inn, Aln. wick. Attornies, M essrs. Lambert, - Alnwick ; and Mr. I-I. Mounsey, Staple-inn, London. Thomas - 1111i and Humphrey Wood, Queenhithe, London., oil and colourmen, April 23, May s, and June; at one, at Guildhall. Attoinies, Messrs. Bovill and Tustin, Nee Bridge-street, 131 icktriars. George Noel, East •Stunehouse, Devonshire, lime-burner, May 5,6, and June 2, at eleven, at the King's A rms, Mouth. Attornies, Messrs. Drewe and Loxliam, Ntor Inn, London ; and Messrs. W. and S. Gregg, Plymoutll. Joseph Wor hal I and John Thurston, Catherine -street, Strand , upholsterers and cabinet-makers, May 2,9, and June 2. 3t one, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Vincent, Bedforti-street , Bed ford-sy mire. John Swan, Robert Anderson, and George Swan, %VVPir'l wall, merchants and co p per - sm i t h s, April 2S, May 5,, V". une 2, at one, at Guildhall. A ttornies, Messrs. Kearsel and.Spurr, Bishops ate-street Within. George Alexander Wylie, Marrifold.court, Throginottorl . street, merchant, April 25, klay a, and tune 2, at eleveu , at Guildhall. Attornies, M essrs . Bell and Brodfrlck, BP.'" lane, Cheapside, Joseph Coopey,Churchdown, GlOuces!ershire, horse.daealtro April 30, May 1 . , and June 2, at eleven, at the Rain loth Gloucester, Mtornies ' Mr. J. Meakings, Ilar e .cotnif Temple ; and Mr. W. C. Ward, Gloucester., Henry Furber, New -street, Covent-garden, hardwareinaa* April as, May a, and June e, at ten, at Guildhall. A t " turnies, Messrs. Barroe;s and Vincent, Basirgliall-strat. William Mitchell, udd-stieet, 13runswiek-sTiare., width: 4 May 2, at ten, 9, and June 2, at one, at Giaddhall. A torney, Mr. H. turner, Percy -stree - t. Bedford-square. lames Cass, jun. Rochdale, Lancaster, woollen-manutdc' turer, May 6, at fiv e , 7 . a t ten , .and June z, at eleven, 0 the Roebuck Inn, Rochdale. Attornies, Mesrs. Shutti'' worth. Rochdale ; and Mr., E. Chippendale, Serjeant's' inn, Fleet-street. • Henry Smithers, Henry Keene Smithers, and George 130' 0 ' Newport, Nlonmoutirshire, coal masters, Aim' 12, and Lune 2, at tw el ve , at Guildhall, London. Ai totnics, Messrs. Collinstind %Yeller, Spital-square. John' Robinson, Kingiton-upon Hul;„ dryer dud teikru'' April 24, 2i, and June 2, at the Whit:: ii.srt :14i* vrx), stop-upon-tiull. John Crowther, Manchester, 4,6, and 1 104 z tc , rn at ic t s, n' Al a es t s t i l-1 :. Halstead l3iagc‘ ri v a t er d Ainsworth,l _and Messrs. Milne and Parry, Temple, London. [Dividends, &c. to-morrow.) The Duke Dec INFANTADO entertained party at dinner on Saturday, at his house, in Spring Gardens.—Among whom were • The Earls of-„Westmoreland, Camden, and Dmtmouthf the Portuguese Ambassador, Lords Harrowby and Meiviiik Messrs. Johnston, Chester, flamiltvn, &c.: THE ARTS.-Mr. WILKIE favoured a large part, of Atnaicurs on Saturday with a private view o f his paintings. They amount in number to twenty' nine, including six which has been seen at the Royal Academy. We can confi.leanly repeat, ths nothing equal to these productions have beta] sera since the d a y s o f H OGARTH. They ate in genes ' charatlerised by original humour, most admirablf executed. There . are also some of a pathetic de# scription. The whole is a masterly display of ar t and genius. The Eighteenth Report of the Commissioners o f Military Inquiry has been printed. It embr,,ces th e Office of the Commissariat, but is so voluminous' we have not room, at present, for a satisfactory' sketch of it. It states many. frauds practised in the delivery of - V , e supply of bread, forage, and fuel to • the troops. The principal are commuted in the article of forage, and in these the Quarter-Master. and Contrators divide the benefit ; but great atten' tion appears to have of late been paid to the corree' tion of these abuses. The Brauedageren gun-brig has landed at Yar' mouth a boat's crew of French, Cu6torn-house Odi" .cers, whom they took in the Emms; after which, they manned the boat from the Bravedagerin, and towed about the river without stispicion,• when the,' captured four ve,sels, laden, which were going u? the river. The Scourge Custom-house lugger, of De Captain it. CURLING, now lying at Dover, a leo'. nights ago sent off a look-out boat, with seven Lfl on board, but they have not been since . heard of. BIRTIiS. • On Sunday the rzth inst. at his house in Thornten.rosvo Greenwich, the Lady of 1. Pearson, Esq. So of 21 Daughter. Saturday last, in Martin's-lane, Mrs, Daniel Larw hert, of a Daughter. On Monday last, in Bulstrode-street, the Lady of T. r• Brarnstun, fsq, of a sti.l..born child. MiRRILD. On the 16th inst. at Richmond, Yorkshire, the Ref' Mark lames Paulson, to lane, only daughter of the late f' Winn, Esq. Of . Prior.llouse. On Saturday last, at St. Mary Church, john Morth comb; Esq. of Ashbury, in the County of Devon, to An►a Eleanor, eldest daughter of the late Admiral Sir Thottl Louis, Bart. of Cadz.well, in the same County. Also, °ls the same day, the Rev. Henry Woolcombe, to lane Fr,rince s r second daughter of the late Admiral Sir Thomas Louis, hart• DIED. • LONDON: Printed by 1 Fl() MA S WOO D, of No. 35, Maiden-lane, Covent-garden!, and Published by WI ILI AVI ARMIG ER SCRIPPS, South Molton_street Grisvev o r. square , 1)34 64rti Wrzcg, No, 112, Strand, %here Advertis i wicuts, Orders for tits Paper, letters fur the Editor, &c. (post-paid), mus t lie addressed_ On Monday, at her house in Baker-street, the Right Floe• Dowager Lady ons:ow, rend of the late Richard, Lord One low, who died in 1766, and daughter of Sir Edward Elwillo Bart. She lived to the great age of 94.