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7 . 01? THE SUN. CA "T IiOLIC CLAIMS. MR.EDITORIL—THe proMptHoHe• and persever .ance with which you and your Correspondents balie lately come forward, and endeavoured to rouse and direct the apparently torpid attention of the Nation to the real state of what is commonly termed T., CATHOLIC QUESTION, reserves the approbation and cordial support of every him! of his country. Among other addresses, I was led to tioti.e your call upon Dissenters to step forward at this alarming crisis; as they may rest assured, they shall not escape their full share of the gene ral calamities which will overwhelm the 11 Church, when the treasons now hatching against, our Protestant religious institutions are matured and fifty consummate , !. The advances of their pal rolls anti partizms are made with all the pro wl-hied craft and artifice ot Jesuitical clis:iimulation. "Pence is in their montlis,bitt war is in their hearts;'. and hit,' s that Cannot possibly he mistaken, from, several different quarters, fully cootirrn it, that a comipiete le-establishment of the man of sin, who is also the wan of blood, is !began! to vaiLich :hey drive, in this unhappy and now devoted country. Refit cting on this aspect cif affairs, I - was led to peruse e piece nt that excellent divine, the late Mr. FLAIL, whose eminence of talent has long been esinbitAhed in the whole Protestant world. IT is intitnfed " Tidings from Rowe, or England's Alarm." Although the contentions which - at that time existed between somebodies of Protestants and the Na; ional Establishment have long been put to rest by a liberal loleralion, yet of late some on bnth sides have most foolishly and ivickedly been endeavouring to rekindle the flames, whose only result would be, in the expressive language of Mr. F. " to twake a s lire for their common enemies to cvartn their hands at." The republication of this pamphlet, or at least ex!; acts from it, especially whe:E• he describes the internal principles of the Jesuits, (whose resuscitation by the Roman Con- date, at this juncture, is an open declaration of ♦car against the whole Christian world), wooltl be attended with the most salutary effects. If the state of public affairs, then, just before the Revo-. brtion,- so deeply affected the writer, what would be have said had he lived in our tunes ? If the murder of Sir EDMUNDBURY GODFREY fo alarmed London then, what would that of the Prime Mi nister, Mr. PEKCEVAL, have done, which took place the very week after he had exposed and de fettled the imposture and impolicy of their politi cal demands ; the rancour of whose infnriated assassin was undoubtedly instigated and inflamed by their secret artifices, as many things at the time plved to prove. What would he have said at the dreadful inclease of this crime, in and ;About Lon don, sit that none of its inhabitants seem privi leged to count themselves safe in their streets, or even beds, particularly in the east qoarters of the capital, where Papists 'chiefly teside ? Witness that of the Manus, ‘VILLIAMSONS, &c. in Ratcliffe Highway, and above all Mr. TnostsoN BONAR and his Lady. Assassination is the inseparable concomitant and infallible indication of the growth of Popery, as may he seen in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and every country where it is the established religion. How cruelly has it lately raged over Ireland ! Luddism was nothing but the principles end 1 ractices of United Irishmen, transferred into this country ; and many of the rioters who suf fered were Irish Papists, whose Priests ac cutripanied them to the gallows, to adminis ter, as they express it, spiritual consolation!— What would he have said to behold the erection of two Popish, nay Jesuit Universities in Ireland, Castle Brown and Maynooth, while there is but one Protestant Dublin ? and both paid by the United Parliament !! ! As to the pretext of giv ing them a learned Priesthood, never was a more infamous piece of swindling ehicanery carried into efftct. There is no learning taught, or per mitted, but their Canons and Councils : the writings of BAcoN, Nawi'oN, BoyI.E, and LocKa. are as tutreli interdicted and prohibited there, and in every Popish Unirersity, as . those of LUTHeR and CALVIN. In addition to this, the large Jesuit College at Stonyhmst, in Lsucaslin'e, with pupils front, and consequently intimate connexions wit It, all psrts.ot the Continent, also forty Institutions in England and Scotland, ten of them Nunneries, how madly of them are Monks cannot be known, as it seems they are prohibited from wearing the dresses of their Orders, lest the nation should be ; d a me() !! ! When such nurseries of every moral and politiCal abomination are encouraged, or even winked at, how can this nation prosper, or be ex- , pected to prosper ? Indeed every thing calls for the most decisive conduct on the part of the new Parliament : mere negatives will no longer serve. As you have jiistly said, their steps must he re traced. These accursed Jesuit Universities must be suppressed, and three Protestant Universities, besides that Of Dublin, be established in Munster, Ulster, aud Connaught. It is also very clear, from their furious temper and language, that the Popish regiments should be disbanded, as it is plain they are only reserved by their patrons to be let loose at some future period, and so to act over ;again the fable of " The Wolves and the Sheep!" in this infatuated Country. Hoping you will see your patriotic exertions crowned with merited and adaquite success, I subscribe myself, Most respectfully, your'S, ANTIPAPA. 111alei 15, 1819. P. S. If the portentous measures now proposed are carried, or even rendered more attainable here afte►, there is not a single statement that is over charge►d, nor a picture too highly coloured, in the " Tidings from Rome," as will be acknowledged, ~•hen it is too late, and nothing remains but un availing regret, Weeping over her miseries. Pon TUE SUN. PETERBOROUGH JUSTICE. MR. EDITOR,—I suppose, Sir, that I must take for authentic the distant date of MUCUS'S Reply, " FebruAry 23 ;" hard as it is to be brought back into the contest after so l ong a silence. The answer, however, which• makes up in novelt? what it !acts in promptness, must not be very fastidiously received ; and having this evening, for the first time since our Peterburgian discus sion, learned that I have " got the untenable side of the question," and that my " assertions have been tented," I must of course be obliged for the novel information. Pray, Mr: Editor, who has untenanted me ? Who has refuted my as sertions ? Does Amtcus fancy himself thus tri umphant over that " extraordinary at•riter,'• Jus- Tus Upon my word, Sir, I am impatient to learn the how, the whet►, and *the where, of this extraordinary" achievement. Wu i!int: under an assumed siviatnre, I have no tight 10 complain of iny autaonist's concealment. If, however, this AMICUS he not t'o'per Amicus if I am still engaged a ith my former orpiment, his attitodes and his weapons seem strangely al tered. The conntry Attorney gives way to the Country Apothecary ; whose metaphor's too strone,ly of the mortar tor my taste, with love not: physic. illutcos remembers me, Sir, (tithe Lipsey man, , who tancied that no one was sober but himNelf. Nothiag will setve him, but I must be full of spleen, intemperate, and angry, because he has lost his temper.—Possibly, 1 am .he irritable animal of his description ; but greater powers than his ate necessary to stimulore my irritation. A Siraw dropping on the stream cannot excite a ripple, much less a tempest. AN:teus' cannot even stir me by his charge—that 1 lore not Our ConStilution, and undervalue Our Church. if Amicus h as serve d th e cause of either with half my zeal, he has done better service than I yet suspect him for. Yes, Sir, I " would have the case of every capital convict in the kingdom reported to the Sovereign." The Judge is appointed to admi nister the law ; try " hear, try, and determine," between the prosecuting Sovereign and the ac cused subject. When he has, pronounced the Judgment of that law his function may there reasonably stop ;' and the discretion of the law's execution may he left to-the Soverei,4n. Ilow the capacity for sitting ill judgment would be there by impeached, some mote astute brain than I bear most discover ; since the Judges o f Ass i ze, and even the Magistrates of Peterbo roug h, mit " not be put on a lower scale of capacity than the Judges who sit in London. So then—if the Judges are unfit to exercise the Sovereign's prerogative of Mercy, they ate ,dually unfit f or tie distributiOn of Justice ! - --PturilLg i t ath lie e fit st clause into my own language--thus,, mn bot the Sovereign himself is fit to decide Sovereign's . personal prerogative.—l a d m i t it ; nay, I Contend ,for it. But the latter claus e is pe culially AMICUS'S own. It is a 1307 1 sequitur, as Partridge says ; which must not be -34thiled upon me. As completely also must ANuctts keep to him self his very decorous argument, that the capital convicts in the country are safer than if left to the Sovereign's mercy. The verity of this handsome saying may he tried by a plain tact, that through out the country many convicts are executed for of fences of a class which would.not hare brought them to a London scaffold. Amtcus arraign for this the mercy of the Sovereign, and question the wisdom of its exercise ? Animus narrow his prerogative within the shrievalies of London and Middlesex Mucus insist, not only that punishment is wisdom in the Country, but that pardon is foolishness in the Town. But the Judges, including of course the re vered Magistrates at Peterborough, can better de cide on " the final event"—a delicate phrase this for the life or death of a fellow being !—than the Sovereign can, because the trial has just taken place ; whereas the Recorder's Reports are gene rally made after a long interval. So Mr. BEN NET has said, for the second or third time, think.. Yet that interval is possibly more agree able t o [ be poor convicts than to be expeditiously hanged " at the time."—Oh, this expedition is a fine thing ! especially at Peterborough, whose chartered Judges can neither mitigate nor post pone the execution of their own sentence ! Delightful justice it is, to pronounce the - fiat of death in the moruing, and after dinner decide over one's claret, at the—l forget the sign— whether the Sovereign shall be allowed an opportu "ity of exercising his mercy " Local friends" too intervene in the country, and " local circumstances," which in town could not operate. Why not ? A " local friend " would be as apt to solicit a case in -London, through his County or Borough Member, as ef fectually as even at Peterborough. And as for " local circumstances," what those can be which the Judge would not report, either in the trial of with it, unless indeed they occur after the poor devil has been banged, Amicus will be kind. enough to instruct me. the inconvenience of such reports ! and their delay !—and their trouble !—Sr,i when put in, the Valance with a life, these objections vanish,. De vita hominis nnlla cunctatio est Tonga. And who shall presume to assert, that I show any disregard to the Constitertion—nay, that 1 do not -show the most useful regard to it—when pleading for its Sovereign's most excellent and must endearing prerogative in the amplest extent ? when I urge that his power of mercy should be bounded only by the farthest limit of his domi nions ?—t.hat no subject should determine upon its exercise ?—that he s hould know throughout those dominions the sum of human vice and human misery 2—that he should be made ac quainted with the dreadful aggregate ; and thereby be enabled tn judge of its remedy ?—that he, who stands accountable to Heaven for Lis people:s hap ' pines, should have an iceount rendered to Lim- , self of their lives ?—Thus far I have spoken of the Sovereign, generally. I now speak of our Regent : that all his people, even the - miserable tictims of the Law, should have the benefit of his personal abhorrence of blood. But-under the name which I have assumed, I must not talk of Mercy. Be it so. .1 will own that I am too merciful .to the wretched criminals in their cells to style myself JusTus, it my an tagonist will own that he is too hostile to their hopes to style himself Amiens. I beg pardon. He is very friendly :—as staunch a friend as ever to the—Peterborough Magistrates. For all that Amicus bath yet said, the analogy between the Right—was this omission the fault of your compositor, Sir, or mice own careless ness ?—the Right Reverend Bench of Bishops and the Reverend Judge at Peterborough, is still pre cisely what I stated it to be. The Bishops sit in Parliament by virtue of their office, though the temporal baronies attached thereto give them their , eats. In obedience to the one, they decline the judicial function; while, in sight of the other, they record their privilege to , use it. Yet, should a temporal Peerage descend upou a Clergyman, the Canon Law requites him to postpGaie hits tem poral privilege to his spiritual character :--4a suffi cient proof of the analogy—and of the principle too—that it is the profession, not the dress, which determines the capacity; and that a Clergyman, thOtigh he casts off his casiock and surplus, can not divest himself of his. clerical obligation.-- Oceanus non facit monachunt. , In his gown, or out of it, the servant of the Altar is still vowed to the Altar's service. A curious defender of the Priest hood is this Mucus ;. who, while accusing ate of " disliking the Clergy," himself attaches their sanctity, not to their function, but to their garment t. took it, Sir, on their own argument, rather tit diriously, you will say, towards their wor ships, that the Peterborough Justices are " the ooly speaking Trumpet" of the poor, horse stealer. Either AMICes, or Mr ATKTlvseizi, Ido . not exactly remember which, said, that they ap plied in his behalf for the Royal Mercy.. Re _would have had small chance of it, Sir, had they not thought fit to allow the ReGE,IT that opportunity of exercising his blessed prerogative. The fact proves my case ; let the Peterborough Jus!ices, or their literary champions, prove on the other, hand' that they always have allowed to the Crown. the same opportuni!y ; that they have nerCr hang ed a thief without first giving him the chance of die Sovereign's mercy. If 111)11 not tell it, AMICUS has now told, " how bard verbiage may be." Nevertheless, I shOl nit " dip more deeply into JOHNSON'S [lad I applied the epithet " Magisterial,'' to h is Peterborough Justices, Atutcy s would haye as sailod ni witlt the authotity of our great Lexico grapher, that " Magisterial - flietiliS, riot what belongs to the office of a Magistrate, but " lofty, arrogant, proud, insolent, despotic ;" epithets, which, all pow( tint as are their chartered tor- ships, I was not quite so rude as to apply to them. A thousand slipslop talkers and writers Use " it as referting to a Magistrate; still so may Asztcus, for aught I know ; but " Magistratieal" I will contend to be a term " classically" formo, and properly lipplied, pro:. vided that this onceps syliaburum will not iudiet me tot coining, befote ;he Iteverend Judge of the Soke of reterhorough. For the pre , ent, Sir, I release you ; praying only, that as 1 bare answered' Amtcos on'the saute day whereom you published him, yoti will be somewhat more txpeditinus in putting we into. i ot. Any termination of my Reply, Aintcus will call, lam sttec, " a happy Abruptness." He may style it a " faAce" too it he clauses ; though Iris desire of abridging the prerogative of limey infers a' taste more disposed toward tragedy. March 15, ISt% JUSTUS. T EATRICAL 11 F. GIST ER. Perl'ormeit Last Night. THEATRE ROYAL, DRUHY-LANE.--AO. Oratorio,. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT - GARDEN.-tiu Pcsfurinance• - - **. For PARLIAMENTARY PHOCEEDING3, see the Last rage. I'ILICE SI'OCK,S rrizs DAY AT TWELVE o'cLocK. per Cent. Red. .... shut I Bank Long' Annuities....shnt o per Cent. Cons 7 ,lk 744 India Bonds. 365. 38s. pr. 31 per Cent shat Exch. Bills, 2d..... dis. 4 per Cents Cons. for Account. 7441 i ti per Cent. N. Ann..... 104 ii MAThs. AKM DUbliq; 1 Waterford, 7 LiThon, 1- Brazils. DUE-2 Watewford, 1 Guernsey and jersey, 1 Sweden, 3 Hamburgh, 1 France. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO•i1IORROW. 1101:fling, 22 minutes after 7. I Evening, 47 Inmates after 7. THE SUN. lOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM .AIIDEAT !, - LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1819. We received last night the Paris Papers of Suti• day last. .Those of Monday, which were due this morning, have not arri l ved. It will be seen by the following extracts, that the 39 new Peers, whose titles had been verified, took their seats on Saturday, on which day also the titles of nine others were verified, and they are to take their seats at the next Sitting. The Chamber of De puties did not tneet. The pt ()position respecting the Election Law was officially communicated to the President : CHAMBER OF PEERS. " SITTING fIF SATURDAY, MARCH 13. " The chamber proceeded to receive the 39 Peers, whose titles were verified at the last Sitting. They were each successively introduced by two Peers appointed for that purpose, and took the Oaths e►►ti their Seats. " A Cooimit:ee of three eves appointed to verify the Letters of Nomination, &c. of :title other of the neW Vet tiz.—The- Count de Gri the Ma rq uess d'Argosse, the :Marquess d' Amnion, the Viscount Digeon, the Duke de Esclignac, tht Count de Gerininy, the. Count Felix d'ilunostein, the Count de Latour Manbourg the Count (IC Sassy. * " On 111 e Report of tlXiintnittee, the Aiove named Peers were declared to be adtiiiited, their reception appointed for the next Sitting. " The projet respecting the'maimfacture sale of Gun-powder was agreed to (no objecti,4l to it being made), 163 to 4. " The Chamber separated, without any fi%e d adjournment. " CHAMIgEII OF DEPUTIES. " The Chamber received to-day the oflicialcon" munication . of the resolution of the Chamber of ['eers relative to the Election Law. This communication will be announced t° the Chamber at its next Sitting. The Resolorin° will be referred to the Bureaux for ex amination, accot ding to the accustomed forms. ", It is announced, that on Monday not t h; Minister of Finance will present the projet of law respecting the Budget. " PARts, MARCH 14.—Yster(tAy, after [ ll3 ' ? ' the King retired into his CabintA to ttan s ` jet business. understood that General GrottebY "4 obtained permission to return to France, can 'll4 he will arrive immediately, " Plivare letters which we have received ' e r° the departments state, that the Ordonnance ('` the King of the sth March, for creating 60 Peers, has been generally regarded as a wise, b e ' ncf„7ent, anti salatury measure. It. has contri buted to dissipate the apprehensions excite d tril . . the proposition of the Alarquess (Journal ` du Commerce.) " :The Minister of the Interior has, it is appointed a Committee to examine a pror stinrr 7: for establishing EntrepBts in the Cities of " Kingdom, and particularly at Paris. " The Persian Ambassador -to Lontlon ' till here, employing himself in visit log the different pubic buildings, &c. in Paris. " Theremaits of tl\e Count Regnault de "‘ irr `" Jean,d'Angelyevere interred yesterday in metery of [ere le Chaise. M. Jouy deliver° funeral oration. FIVE PER CENTS. Si r/1 . Price Saturday, Ex. Div. .as f. co c. .661. " - DEFERRED sroCK. f. SO • Of the 221 March, 1817, • • B fo - 0 f. 80 c• ‘ - 22t1 Sept. ' 1317 • ,f . :30 C. . ' ' • 22(1 March, tsl 8, ., • 6 t • • sc. 22t1 Stpt. ISIS, 7 C(.li/'' • •• . " ALDRID, AlA Rcti 2, Lctt f ers .'" -TI state, that 2,000 men arc to be sent to Lito 3 ' ic der the convoy 6f a ship of the bile kl( „,•ierl -. Russian) and tyvo 'frigates. i oill'i <<Th e marriage cif . the King is at preset' jai a diplomatic. project.; : there is nothing °llic upon tlte subject." , • los r • I Quebec P,lpeis to the Ist ult. ar ri ve Morning. (Prom the Quebec Gazette of 1he291 1 : 1 ,111 ' ) • .NIAGARA," A,S.; Excellency the Pe" tenant-GovernoF has been please(' to rePr ie ‘ 'e °c .. !del _Bowen (sentenced to he hanged 01. t stealing), on condition that be d t h i s e par 1)15 jesty's dominions on or before the 2.5tb ()1. present month Of January, 1819. tha t Th'e public w ill no doubt be shocked to lte,r J . 0 14' Mr.GounLAY was yesterday coMmitte d to lbg— it{tot,t mon Jail of this place, there to reoo ia bail or mainprize." The rights of Br itisll ‘ stb i it tli e seem now to he held putty cheap on this sl(' .oler Attatitic. In Florida they are put to da b iti the award of -military despots, and here rpdir. nada they are imprisoned at the pleasure of lative Counsellors. aqili' ) J t e (From ;he Charleaon Commercial Advertiser of g l The New Orleans Papers mention Ge') l t be LALLcmANn has " taken the oat!! an d 111.. itte d declaration ,preparatoty to hi s being re. Citizen of the United State, nicer the g-e 14 ,ies occol of q'tired law."lt is also said tha t small farm, and inteniis passing tile reu't'illde r • his days in Louisiana. (Teoln the Boston Gacette of the t;th at) won Admiral fir DAVID Al I f...N6 (iipiitCljed 3 of War hr;;; train Bermuda in q ui!st 01 which is probably tine eone here co ultiljn ed of 1”1 13d 1 ' the schooner Golden Pheasant, arrived at titnot e : glan d ' `4 .Lin. 14, wilen the Golden I'lleasanl was— i lis" ink; for Crooke;l Omit!, Ht 10 o'clock, P• l ''' 1 0 . c oveted a large brig standing o ut trout ttoder th I land. At 1. 30. P. M., the tnig, wifl'in Ira shot di.tatice on our weattivr bow, fired " - R otund sitot, which passed between our nolo ri4 : l ging and nvain-Malit, not more Lb an 10 feel ,11 " ) v the deck—onr colours then flvi:tg. This s hot ''''' 9 • fired evidently with an intention toitij"re '' , 1 . After this the brig ran down, hailed, a nt: 004" I; th e tie Th e i e xert Ofhe, Capti but,:( ett w, ILIS to Tll th e th e I: 11 011 144 1 t t ;' l , tfh. 43 t) 11 4 . s %viol )44 t1 %th e 1144 Whi t 111, Sli . N. recur fuaiii~ the sc 4 1'e. r , 10 , gY bri g, board kk i , a4 /1 0fi n lihrot 11„,„ .E ihst's f e ,„ I N I il l bi 1,„11 of tti ti„ e 1