The Sun. — London, England, 1819-03-13 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN. Mr. EDITOR.—The presumption of our ene tuies, and the easiness of ourselves, have com bined to bring us to that state—which, however difficult it may seem, is the best state we now can . possibly he in.--Popery has not been satisfied with Toleration.: and we are now come to the extreme question—whether Popery shall be placed in our Establishment ; or, whether even Tolera tion shell be continued to her ? I assert, without fear of refutation, that not only the Protestant Statue Law of England, but the Catholic Si htnte Law of England, and her an cient immemorial Common Law, are incompatible with the legalization of Popery. To content the Papists, not only the Statutes at Provisors,of Prae uuunire, and of Supremacy, but the Common Law whereon these are founded, and which they recite, must be abrogated by any measure of entire Emancipation. Mr.. GRATTAN may endeavour to slip by these troublesome enactments, in the Re. lief Bill which he has announced :—yet they will countervail hint, and check him in every clause and, senteoce.. Neithec, Protestant infatuation nor Popish fraud can, however, keep them any longer behind the curtail,. Tae question now leads duly oc co an alternative, too straight f. 4. policy to warp, and too narrow for cunning to escape.— The alternative is this—and I beseech every Pro testant to look to it well : THE Col:410N LAW OP ENGLAND MUST PUT DOWN POPISH EMANCIPATION OK POPISH EMAN- CIPATION WILL PUT DOWN THE COMMON LAW OF ENGLAND. Both cannot exist together :—and the decision must now be made—which shall cease to exist. The limits of demand on their side, and of concession on ours, must now be finally ascer tained. The necessity of the discussion originated with our own folly, in granting to Popery any thing :—j4istly ,*therefor e, we must take on our selves the inc.nvenience, possibly the danger, pro bably the contest, of its conclusion ; not postpone it to the aggravated hazard of our posterity. Its peril took root with our first indulgence of Po- eery ; it has enereased with her increasing power : and the future safety of the Empire now calls for en? immediate and conclusive determination— WHETHER POPERY OR PROTESTANTISM' SHALL POSSESS THE ASCENDANCY IN GREAT BRITAIN. Hitherto, the Papists have proceeded by sap : they have twisted, and writhed, and wriggled themselves within the vestibule of our Constitu tion :—but the Inner Gate is still closed ; and they cannot penetrate into the Sanctuary, unless we open it, or they break it down. The alarm is given :—they can no longer pick the lock. Never theless, they mast be Either admitted inside, or turned bark into the street. The alternative of safety and of submission is still ours. Yet, dangerous as emancipation would prove, absolute and unconditional, it is not half so earnestly to be deprecated, as that miserable species of concession, which offends the Papist, 'while it gratifies not the Protestant, and alienates the Protest int, while it attaches not the Papist ; which tralris enemies of both, and friends of neither ; which argues all the folly of desperation without its courage, and all the weakness of cowardice without its caution. In the 'mule of God, let us not temporize between two dangers, until we incur the evil of both ! Rather let us resolve to meet, that we may be able to escape the other ! The crisis is now arrived—and thankful I am to the insolence which forced it on !--when Britain must make her election between Protestant alle giance and Popish gratitude. Let it then be made with unhesitating decision, and maintained with single consistency ; but away with that va cillating policy, which has hitherto, in the gra dual progress of emancipation, put forward cun ri,,,z distrust as confidence, fear as lihernitty, vq+iivocation- as candour, and reserva tion as coocession. Viel,l all, or keep all. The Papists themselves e comvilcd us to the alternative;--to a se alterna.ive, rerhaps ; and one, which I had !noel, rather see—yield all, or resume all. Ti, rie • is another consideration, Which some rap:st may be kind enough to "7 1 ,plain. Our Common Law, and the Anti-papal Statutes which affirm it, all originated while England was Catholic. - Vet the nova) Vuto, and the securities, to which the I'apista so vehemently object, arc all in ac- COI dance with that Catholic Law. What they sack, therefore, it not Catholic liberty ; but Popish power : —that power which our Catholic ancestors :pouted and di: tied. Yet, why speak I of those tittles ?--The Revo-: lotion made our 'throne and our State exclusively Ptourternt. It altered the inheritance' of that 'Throne, and gave it from the lineal possessor to to co!!a!eral - branch (a change, be it observed. not less revolutionary than it it had been trans foiled to no toter stronger), (or the purpose, stud on the CONDITION, of preserving the Pro testant of that Revolution i,u all its integrity. Wt.ile that purl/use is maitraioed, that condi tion is absolute. Woe to the traitorous band that wim id si)ake its security!—Awake, PROTEITANTS: w•44(lt and ward. P. M'S': is at your gates. The niniel has sounded the TOCSIN. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDE,.—A °ratark. THEATRE ROYAL, Day RY-LANE.—No Performance. PRICE 01 THIS DAT AT r STOCKS 'ELVE tiCLOCK. 9 per Cent. shut I Imperial 3 par Cent. Ann. 731 S per Cent. India Bonds.-- 355. 365. pr. 3i per Cent ........ shut I Exch. Bills, 2d..... 2s. 3s. dis. 4 per Cents Ditto Commercial.... 335. dis. 5 per Ct. Nary Ann loslifi I Cons. for Account Bank I.mng Annuities, ...slant MAILS. ARRIVED-1 Dublin, 2 Waterford, I France. Hamburg - 11, 1 Holland, 1 Lisbon. HIGH WATER AT LONDiTti BRIDGE TO•MORROW. .laming, 53 minutes after 3. J Evening, 19 initiates after 4. THE SUN. lODENI QUIS DICERE FALSUID 4UDEAT LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1819. We received last night and this morning the Paris Papers of Tuesday and Wednesday last.— In the Chamber of Peers it will be seen, that ou the. former day the. documents were verified re specting the creation of 39 of the new Peers, who were to take their seats at the next Sitting this day. There was DO rneetinK of the Cham ber of Deputies, either on Monday or Tuesday.— The following are extracts : 44 CHANIIIER OF PEERS. " SITTING OF TUESDAY, MARCH 9. " The Chamber assembled at two o'clock, aftk.r the breaking up of the Bureaux, wlio were employed in the examination of the proposition rcipecting seditious,eXpressions. " The President laid before the Chamber the Letters of Noinioation and other Acts, vt.bch bad been addressed to trim for the purposes of the ad n►ission of 39 of Ole new Peers, created by the King's Ortio►►nance of the sth inst. " A Special Committee was appoihted by to to verify the Letters of Nothination and the age o the patties. " This Committee, consisting of the Count Decazes, the Count Mol6, and the Marquess de Clermout-Gallerande, made its report during the Sitting, declaring, that the documents submitted to verification had been found perfectly regular. " The reception of the new Peers will in con sequence take place at the next Sitting of the Chamber. " The 39 Peers whose titles have been verified ore, " Marshal the Duke d'Albufera, the Count d'Arjizon, the Count d'Argout, the Count Becker, the Count Belliard, the Baron de Barente, the Duke de ('adore, the Marquess de Catelan, the Count Chaptal, the Count Colchen, the Count Cornudet, the Count Clapirede, the Count Dejean, Marshal the Duke of Dantzic, the Count Daru, the Marquess de Dampierre, Marshal the Prince d'Eckmuhl, the Count de Grammont d'Aster, the Count Germain, the Viscount Hou detot, the Count Lacipede, the Count Laforet, the Baron Mounier, the Count Mollier, the Count Marescot, the Duke de Plaisauce, the Count Pelet (de la Lozgre), the Count de Pontecoulant, the Count Rapp, the Count Rutty, the Count Reille, the Count Rampon, the Count Ray mond de Berenger, the Marquess de Saint Simon, the Count de Sparre, the Marquess de Talhouet, Marshal the Duke de Trevise, the Count de Truguet, the Count de Verhuell. " The Minister of Finance presented a projet agreed to by the Chamber of Deputies, respecting the manufacture and sale of gunpowder. " The projet was referred to the Bureaux. " A special Committee was appointed to report upon the proposition respecting seditious ex pressions. The Committee to consist of the fol lowing Peers : " The Count de Seze, the Count detastellane, the Mar quess de Marbois, the Marquess d'Aguesseau, and the Viscount de Chateaubriant. " Adjourned till Saturday. " PARIS, MARCH 9.—The Journals have an r nonnced, that a projet of law respecting the Na tional Guards will be immediately presented, and some of them have given different statements as to the intended enactment. The questions con nected. with this subject will doubtless receive a solution, conformable to the principles of legiti mate and constitutional Monarchy, in the projet of law, which the Council of the National Guards is directed to prepare, and which, when finished, will be submitted to the King. in Coun cil. What has been hitherto announced, as form ing part of the arrangements of a projet upon this subject, ought only to be considered as the ex pression of individual opinions.—Ploniteur) " Yesterday Prince Paul Esterhazy, accompanied by the Baron de Vincent, the Austrian Ambassa dor, had an audience of the King. " A German Journal asserts, that a Grandee of Spain is commissioned to proceed to Dresden, to negotiate a marriage between the King of Spain and a Princess of Saxony. " M.Regnault de Saint Jean d'Angely is expect ed immediately at Paris. " A great number of the newly created Peers were introduced to the King yesterday. " Several Petitions, numerously signed, have arrived from Nantes, Brest, and other towns in Brittany, praying for the maintenance of the Law of Elections in its present state. A Petition to the same effect has also been addressed to the Chamber of 'Deputies, by 200 inhabitants of the small town of Viteaux (Cote d'Or.) " The Duke de Richelieu arrived at Mont pellier the 27th ult. " A horrible murder was committed a few clays since at Angers. A' butcher cut in two, with a large knife, a man of whom he was jealous, and buried not far from his house the two parts of the body. His dog, however, who had witnessed .the interment, scratched up the earth and unco vered the head; by this means the murder was discovered, and the murderer taken into custody. On the 6th inst. at the Court of Assizes at Rouen, a man named Moncomble was found guilty 'of poisoning his mother and three sisters, by means of arsenic. It was only by means of remedies promptly administered that they escaped death. Hia motive was to obtaiti possession, by their deaths, of a rente of 240 francs. He was sentenced to the punishment of a parricide. " MARCH 10.-.-Yesterday the King received the Corps Diplomatique, and afterwards trans. acted business with the President of the Council of Ministers. " The Cook, who after having passed some years at St. Helena, has obtained permission to return to France, gives, according to the Belgian Journals, intelligence of Boonaparte, which does not accord with all the rep►►rts that were circu la►ed respecting the ill health of that Per sonage, and the unhealthiness of the Island, when there was a talk of obtaining from the Congress permission to remove the prisoner to another fortress. If we may believe his cook, Bnonaparte good health, and was no otherwise tvas 111 ver inconvenienced than by increasing embonjoiat' He was, however, rather melancholy ; he em' ployed a part of his time iu writing his I'Temo►rs' " The Duke de I3assano is said to have 1.44 ceived I►ermission to return to France. FIVE PER CENTS. Shut price , , .6S f. f2 O c• Monday, Ex. Div. 65 f. 20 ''• Tuesday 65 f. 40 C. • ~ DEFERRED STOCK • TtitSP_____, Ar. ' MONDAY. Of the 22d March, 1817,—. .1 , ;(/ I. 75 c. ........ 81 •• '----_, , 22(1 Sept. 1817,—. .7df. 7 5 c......... 79 f. ', 2?.d March, 1818,....76 f. 76 c......... 77 f. ---. 80 E2d Sept. 1818,....74 f. 75 c . ........ 74 f. - C. " HESSE CA SSEL,' FEB. 28.--Several Llelsifill to and Hanoverian artisans and others intel li. i embark in April and May for the Unite d Sigitc of America, to establish themselves there." As the subject of THE INSOLVENT 1 3411 - ;re of ACT is speedily to be brought under the 1 01.- ts tfie Legislature, and as th e sev eral CorresV ildel,lo of our Paper have mo s t a bly discussed i ts °ell " • and defects, and almost every day contin ue m i inquiry, we conceive it to be an imperative P-to on every Member of Parliament, in both Non ses ' attend to their remarks, otherwise the interests 0 . 0 the Commuity at large may essentially. suirer. T SUN shall be as freely open t o thi s itnrrtBll: s ub' ject of domestic policy, as to that of C III.- 1 t he EMANCIPATION, which would assuredly ental pd destruction of our E s t a bli s h ment in Cav ite° - STATE. . 00 Of I Before the expiration of the present 5 t291 01 be Parliament, we h o p e man y improvements wil l be made in the Representative System of the C° . ° try :we mean such will restore it t° its °11:10 nal purity, and satisfy the rational par t °f radi ces community. community. To check some of the evil e r y which prevail in sma ll B oroug h s , " th e 1311- i• and Qualification Oaths" s h ou ld always be sa :J nistered to the Electo rs b e f ore t hey are P er ; 6lte of to poll. It should no t b e l e f t t o the disc ret.°P ,,ire• the Candidate, or his frie n d s o r agents, to tetl' ing it, but it should b e o bli ga t or y o n the Re or or Officer to see that it is d one without l ayou t - distinction. The want of the Qualific ation A in many places has l e d t o an e vil of no °fr-i n oc , magnitude—we mean the . practice of creat i " g ro b, casional Voters, or Faggots. To shew the 10 01 lie with what abhorrence th e Judges of e °fl o od have viewed it, we will quote the o pinion e sPr fr o by a celebrated Chief Justi ce , on the subj ect uin'o votes lawful thing,slieh nd ne tethe Bench. His Lordship s a id, " that t he Ili " on , n d e strnet ion iaowtetsu " the Govern ment - and De u s trcutNo ° F Pl ‘ aid tc : 44 l: " WENT." " That it was sens e l ess to t think f m a ea‘ n va d s ed a tvcretrtyieevil and a al " practices were part of the Constitution of :10 " Government, or to imagine that persons vvij r to " we entrust with our lives and fortunes ong li so i " be made and chosen by such evil devi ces ' pa . •' that such practices de se rved to be sev erelY ; u ss " rushed ;" and he directed the Jury, in ' be : E st then before him, El to give SIGNAL DA1440-is to The object of Mr. WILLI AM WlLLtors'o 13i e d go remedy this evil—but it must not be C Onfi.n lit of places only where the right of voting ari ae i g i o ther real real property, but must be extended t° 51* n be places. No well-grounded objectio n . ca , s od urged against it. In London, Westniin°unt gter ie . of f in all the Cities and Towns which are C of England themselves, and 'in all the Counties - a nti and Wales, a Qualification Oath is req uire : a c t ed, why these other places should have be en °— fr. . , ' Las never been satisfactorily accoo ntea 5 1l The recent cases of Penryn and Barnsi ki l )je bo the necessity of requiring the Bribery 493111 10 0° taken by Electors of all denominations. We ve that it will go a long way to cure the ° t i e d trust that the present opportunity will not best' w •en to pass away without some l e gislative vo llt respecting it. The present ,Parliament bePnce. iv en and the country cannot fail to have eor' fid So ve. it, and.be satisfied that every rational itthout mein will be adopted, that can be ill"r t it' endangering the existence of the e(" 3S L -n si nce self. The tempered spirit and zeal s" e ` t ; e ll s t al" the commencement of the Session is t he "liessr s. swer that can be given to the diatribes BURDETT, WILSON, Hoanoose, and a ll 1'0" advocates of Annual P a rli a ments a nd Suffrage. . Bank. and respectable concern the Tam _ 0. 'We are sorry to announce the failure 411 I ^ l 4 Bank. of the firm of HARDING, OAKES Br" I S 01 'Wednes. LINGTON, which stopped payment on last.—(Coventry Herald, March 12.) Se Thursday the Duke and Duchess of G" i ti v e io P, TEE dined with the Princess AUGUSTA, ot ', / - iiti; sor. Princess SOPHIA, who is DOW eni"„' ( b 9 ~ much better health than she did s o me relatives since, joined the company of her Royal re r T'," 0 # in the evening. The Doke and Duchess oturii-014 CESTER left Windsor about nine o'clock, 'n,,,s; rived in town at Gloucester House at balvr eleven. ,t n a The Earl of HUNTINGDON during the pa- - 3 0 . present week Iles been engaged in the takillgpceso worth vtifsii, session of his various heir - Able propery in Ij r,ol . tersbire and the aojoining conn , ie S. 0 I ' l ) ,lsCe ship met his numerous cenawry in ea"' 1 0 49 with great courtesy and contle%tension, °lcr aod extremely liberal in Ihe distribution 01 Sil` Ale among the inhabitants. P 1 P lip° 6 S 1.0 bri 1 11 SI 11,0 list () win iN v i t t hose d ress l' kei it ti / 4 tt I : r Ys ve tti bAls t ures Th e 4toci Of te r ►►i On t. aim tttio , 11,1 4 i v et tip )4()t„ t R4 ltast, t, kr vt, t :' Nt,:,.. C l "krt FOR THE SUN. MR. EDITOR,—The writer, in a remote county , has been extremely delighted to-day with a letter signed VIGIL, in Lie SUN of yesterday—perfectly satisfied that Power, Power, Power, is the all in all, and all, in every part of the present Catholic Claims ; and that a Papist is the last man under Heaven that should ever be trusted with it in any country claiming to be Protes:ant. But why not stop there, and, alarming 'men at their danger, leave the passion of fear to its free course ? Why—bring forward in the next line a mere abstract proposition— " Political Power is not a natural right," a proposition which will instantly create myriads of opponents, ready armed for the field, to a me taphysical eternity of warfare. The writer is not prepared to maintain it in his closet and to himself; and could l►e mate it there as clear as any one in Euclid, there it should re main ; for no one convert should he ever expect to matte out of doors of any man against whose in terest it militated. Cannot this be left out of the Petition; may this paper have the effect it deserves. March !t, 1819. L: O. LONDON JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. Lillornin g Chronicle.] A circumstance is mentioned in private letters to have occurred in the French Chamber of Peers on Saturday, which was most carefully con cealed in the Journals of Sunday and Monday.— The Count de Lamoignan, after the vote on the proposition for repealing the law respecting se ditious expressions, proposed an Address to the King, expressing the regret of the Chamber at the recent augmentation of the number of Peers. This is stated to have been scouted as highly in decent ; and, by a sudden adjournment, the pro position was got rid of. Several private letters - agree in mentioning the fact above alluded to ; but in no one of the Journals was there a sylla ble that could lead to a supposition of such a cir cumstance having taken plaCe. [Morning Post.] The German Papers inform us, that the Cham ber of the States of Hanover is to be re-organized in a new form. The Chamber, in which the Peers and Deputies have heretofore sat together, will be divided info I‘VO, and an Officer, called an Hereditary Marshal, is to be placed al the head of both. The produce of the taxes in Hanover has failed to equal the expenditure of the Govern ment ; and this is whimsically enough, but cer tainly most erroneously, ascribed to, the Exche quer being charged with more expences since the restoration of the legitimate Sovereignty than it had to hear under the " unhappy Westphalian Government." [Morning hierald.l We are happy to find, that the intentions of her late Majesty the Queen, in farming an Insti tution in memory of the lamented Princess Char lotte, for the grown-up unprovided orphan daugh ters of Clergymen, and Naval and Military Offi cers, is carried on with great spirit. No situa tion earl be more helpless, ordeserve more com miseration, than theirs ; yet, among all our be nevolent establishments, we have not betore beard of an Adult Orphan Institution.