The Sun. — London, England, 1819-01-12 00:00:00

YOR TUB SUN. tz, C ATHO L I C DEMANDS. 44enTott,— . 1 am h a ppy to see that you still ile s tli l 7 ete lo your support of Protestant A scendanc y; le '' w hen literally tran slated, means Protestant S e ttoitv) Th e " of vo, "locates for Catholic Claim s talk much th at is " likely," and what " unlikely," when 4 4 4 c laims shall be granted ; but, Sir , I b e g re t " transmit to you, for the information of tertl i llead ers , a pretty broad hint of what is -4 ) hi a bare-faced Catholic Prologue to the ‘ n Piec e they are labouring to get up , and which tin sat ed in th e B e lf ast P a per of the sth of Ja tilerY)lBl9,—perhaps they expect the cur tain to . ab out the I s t o f Ap r il : of a. :Ve are i n f orme d t h at t h e Rev. D r . C O NWELL, t tt t klngtinnOTl, Vicar-General of Armag h, has Li c h RPPointed, by his Holiness the Pope, Arch ti ° 11 1) of Arm ag h, a nd Roman Catholic Primate I ti " Dotys Alr. Editor, what will the Catholic ad s,fe-atet Say to this ?--You observed very correctly, be days ago, that if the Catholic Claims shall te k g . rinte d, then may we expect to hear of recla tti°N of all the forfeited estates. That y ou theten'Net in this assertion, I can corroborate by $ 0( ‘tel l'aseertained fact, that, particularly in the : 1 "' the heirs or reputed heirs of those estates th e e xistence, and that whenever any one of di es, his next heir is enfeoffed, or " served as they call it in Scotland, by the Catho- C op th ose very estates Miere these heirs • are th tied up to with the greatest veneration. But cas e will'n o t r est there. You see that the .ep 44 bare n ot forgot their claims ; indeed, degre e in the Irish Hierarchy carries double. tl e r'l"l Y , however, the Catholics had the mo• f ra tY t° Prefix the epithet "Titular" to their suf. t k , 4 8 ; but now the mask is laid aside , as in the 44) Ple quoted—Ex uno disce °nines. DILEMMA PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. CATHOLIC PETITION. (Prom the Belfast News Letter.) I t 11 vel,k l la y be inferred from the answer to the card 111, t appeared in the News Leiter of Tues da y , ( ati l ue purp o rt of the petition in favour of the to it "'lies, now lying for signature in this to w n , r h,°Pen th e TH HON R to Princes of the Catholic . " )11 . Although the intention is not explic itl y ew 'r ani_ ethe words 4 J total and unqualified" war thehis,!onclusion, and sufficiently denote it to Abject of the petition. A friend to ci vil r lgious liberty, and universal toleration , who t o es ,, ll °t wish to deceive Parliament with respec t b i the teal sentiments of the Protestant subjects iit!bis part of the empire, declines to sign the pe laa for the following reasons m as its prayer tends to the removal of the ~arCattun of the Crown to Protestant Successors, th e g P rotestants, it is calculated to promote `a t , d r :Peal of an essential part of the Bill of Rights es t I ,l"eceision, and to alter the Constitution , as .r i shed at the Revolution. lia fis hed the evils to be apprehended from this I I li ge are not visionary, and distant ; but real, 11", 111 , 4 Y be learned front our history before the 'th e : 11 , 16 0n; and probable, as being dependant on loh i T'd of the'Prince, or the policy of the Court, e eri e " may at any time draw us into family Petit)" and compact with a Catholic Crown. )awaat religious liberty, and universal toleration, ta it t ill g flourished, and been gradually expanded, the er the present system, it may be hazardous to 1 1 1 ., Peace of the Catholic, and to the security of the is t : ( le Haot subject, to expose the Crown to vacil of -i i n a s between the two religions, or to contrariety sii %n " i i 'aeoce ; as past experience has proved, that llet4 e° ns and jealousies may be engendered; that 114 f ollowed may be produced on the one part, th at - ,°"owed by retaliation on the other ; and si t i,"! 'whole frame of society may be disor sipr`e,°• This consequence is the more to he (; l eaendarched, as t h e p ar t of the community of the I I °f England persuasion may ill brook t at A lien " Catholic Prince, or one under Catholic in oeete,' should be the head of their Church, and 11 ) , 1 ! appointment of its functionaries. 11 Pplv -e ate some of the main objections which 4 , r C o 1 1 4 , the opening of the Throne to Catholics, qth e ,,, ri "ces marrying Catholics. As no subject X4l lll . Nims can aspire to it, there is no parti tholi exclusion; and Foreign Powers, of the Ca le„Perloasionlwho are much more a ff ected by llet t .,l"l t ation th a n any subject, hare never consi st 43 an indignity offered to their religion. tit er l3 our first obiect to fence the Throne, and tiallk at e some O ffi ces of the State which serve as tli ah ali t i l to it. Among those, the Lord High Iti e , -eell nr, who is the Keeper of the King's Con- It tie ' e e, and of the Great Seal of England, which fi re ‘.! 3 sary to give validity to the King's acts— mleeroy of Ireland, who is the representative ttai t „ a Jesty there, and cannot, consistently with ti 4l 7 of gov ernment , b e o f a different constitu tasTj', the Lord Ch anc ellor of Ireland, the Com lisht`'er of the Forces, and the Pr imate, who are ta t i: ) ll to be appointed Lords Justices on any oc itl th ll . should all be obliged to qualify themselves e same manner as their Sovereign. ;4 1 ,1 i l k ° such a petition," many an " enlightened , man" CANNOT, without a dereliction a,,,1 g ood sense, subscribe. 31st De.ccinbe;- 1818. thil"sterday evening Dlr. TURNER delivered his Lectur e upon t h e S c i ence o t P erspect i ve , to ed tiery itutbe ous audience ; it vrincipally consist 'lie ' explanation ot different abst i ose pro s(it'" of. Euclid, upo which the theory of this Ilt e is built. n SUANE was iu the Chair. FOR THE SUN. HISTORY OF THE OTANI' OCHLOS. (Continued from Tus Sox of the 4th inst.) Flattering and insidious as these wicked argu ments were, they did not speedily prevail, to the extent that these sycophants wished. They caused, indeed, a certain quantity of ill-humour, which lay fermenting in the gizzard of the Giant (if a gizzard he had, as was generally supposed, from his being able to digest almost any thing), but they did not yet work him up into absolute fury and violence. Happily for himself and his neigh bours, OcHLos was not much disposed to volun tary action, nor naturally ambitions. Conscious, in some degree, of his intellectual deficiency, he seldom thought of acting for himself ; but was happy to prevail on persons of wisdom and inte grity to conduct all business of importance for him ; and, though he sometimes grumbled at the result, yet, not knowing how it could have been better managed, he commonly acquiesced, and left things quietly in their former channel : and as his prodigious bulk required a vast supply of food, he was never very uneasy when all his mouths were tolerably filled at regular times, regarding those as his best friends who were his most successful caterers. In this matter, indeed, be was some times very unreasonable : for it the calamities of the times, from war, or any other cause, even from unfavourable seasons, at all cut short his allow ance, he would soon grow very angry ; and would censure those who acted for him, as loudly and as fiercely as if it had been in their power to con troul events, or command the elements. At these times, his sycophants and seducers never failed to exert their utmost art and industry to stimulate him to madness; anti the better to deceive him, they were always careful, at such periods, to assume the name of Patriots; a fiction rather bold, while it was evident that their at tempts directly tended to the ruin of their Coun try, anti even to the hurt and grievous injury of poor OcHLos himself ; whom, however, they affected to consider as representing the whole Country, or being so much the most estimable part of it, that no other could deserve a single thought. Gross as these flatteries were, the shallow monster was always much inclined to swallow them, and to patronize those persons the most who poured them the most copiously down his throats. But in the midst of all these efforts, which often wore a very threatening aspect, if the matter of food got into a better train, OcuLos, as quickly, returned to a better humour ; and, though he always favoured the sycophants, still suffered them to waste their breath in vain ; and went on to eat, drink, work, and sleep, at the times allotted for each, without troubling himself to abuse, much less to injure, any one. But when by flatteries, lies, and slanders of every kind, multiplied with no less ingenuity.than depravity, the Giant was at length worked into a real fury, his wrath became most terrible. Like the whirlwind or the hurricane, it swept down all before it. Insensible to pity, and incapable of rg ! Election, his steps were marked by desolation ; and to the murders which be chose to commit he proudly gave the name of summary justice. Even to murmur at his proceedings was death ; nay, even to refuse them applause was no very sate experiment. His first victims, of course, were the persons slandered by his sycophants ; but the next were most probably the sycophants them selves ; violent as they were , h e soon be g an to think hem too tame ; and though their flatteries were so gross, his increasing appetite for praise was soon dissatisfied. Other sycophants then arose, whose object was to exceed the first, and to proceed to the worst atrocities without a mo ment's hesitation: By their advice, the first syco phants were quickly sent to follow those whom they had slandered ; and this process continued to operate upon successive sycophants, so long as any new ones could be found more devoted to the Giant's will, and more devoid of feeling or con science than their predecessors. This violent state of things could not long con tinue, without producing universal desolation, and the history accordingly relates in how unexpected a way it was suddenly brought to a conclusion. [To be cuntiaued.) ROBBERY AT THE DUTCH AMBASSADOR'S. — Late on Saturday night, the sentinel opposite the Dutch Ambassador's house, in Whitehall-place, observed some persons walking on the roofs of the houses opposite, and conceiving hesaw thieves, he alarmed the watchman, as be himself could not leave his post. The alarm reached the house of Charles Dew, of Queen-square, in Scotland yard, and he repaired thither. On examination, he found the thieves bad entered a house under repair, corner of IVhitehall-place, and from thence went on the roof to the Dutch Ambassador's, which they entered by a fan-light, opened twelve boxes, and carried part of the contents into the empty house, hut being alarmed, they bad not time to carry off the property. GREENOCK, JAN. B.—Two beautiful antelopes, • male and female, sent home by the Marquis of HASTINGS, we understand, have arrived in the Ca ledonian, at this port, from Calcutta, with several exotic botanical plants, which will be forwarded to the l‘larchioness, at Loudoun Castle. Captain Gillies has also on board a very fine young tigress, which was presented in compliment to him by the Marquis, on his departure from Cal cutta : this animal is at present so simple and sportive, as occasionally to be permitted entire treed= on deck, without the smallest hazard of danger. ‘Ve have received from a Correspondent the present of a pear, one of eight gathered last week front a tree at Beckenham, in Kent, as a second clop. It is of the Charmontel kind, and that which we have received is really rich and well fla• voured, though the greater part are described as tasteless.—(Times.) A pair of shoes, the upper leathers of which were made of Rat-skin,were exhibited a few days ago at East Ret'ord; the leather is exceedingly smooth, and as soft as the finest kid, and yet itp pears stout and firm. It took six skius to wake the pair of shoes. H ite(. 01 11 ' . la of rflll fro I tl ,O the - 4"roill' sit ii, and T he items ;d. ant' C leer If .b) bar' Lec trs' II ' 11°t' Ora' 1,r,;(1,:)%0 POETRY. The following Ltxrs, which we have taken from The Cork -istvertizer, are so applicable to the chief part of those Electors of Westminster who vote for the .lacobinical Can didatei, that they seem as if intended to designate the De snocratical Patriots of the latter City : THE NEW COUNTY SUMMONS. Boys, who wish for pastime rare, To the County Court repair, Fear no hindrance from decorum, Blackguards carry all before 'em. Few of dignity and mind, In that meeting now you find ; Or should some of better sort, Raise their voices in the Court, Down they're knocked by vulgar hooters, Less freeholders than freebooters; City scum of all that's base, Shouldering merit from its place; Vagrants roaring patriot speeches, With but half a pair of breeches; Outcasts of their own profession, Impudence their sole possession; Lost in fortune, low in station, Lower still in reputation ; These are now the noble voices, In whose tone our ear rejoices ; Modern Yahoos Swlrr's surpass, Governed by a stupid ass, Whose discordant, stunning bray, Drowns the generous Coussees neigh. Hasten, boys who love the sport, Hasten to the County Court, Scavengers from Lane and Alley, Round your ragged Leaders rally, Cry down 3Est, and his Committee, Bring the refuse of the City. Listen not to Lords' addresses, Thu' extolled by loyal presses, Let them of decorum vapour, 'We've our own congenial paper, Edited by Men otr Letters, 'aging was against their betters; They will print what you indite, Printing trash is their delight, Mix but something democratic, 'Twill be bailed with joy extatic; Slandering Queens, insulting Princes, This their loyalty evinces; Be your trash not worth a curse, Thty'll by comment make it worse. Hasten, hasten to the Court, All who love the noble sport, Fear no hindrance from decorum, Blackguards carry all before 'em. JONATHAN, Junior. REGISTER OF FASHION. ARRI CALS.—The Earl of Ashburnham, from his seat, Sussex; the Bishop of Chester, at his house in Langham place ; the Earl and Countess of Huntingdon, in Bryanstone square, from Grove House. DEPART U nEs.—Lord Melbourne, and the Hon, Wm. Lamb, for-Earl Cowper's seat, Herts. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING IN THE SPORTING CIRCLES YESTERDAY ON RACES TO COME. The chief of the betting was about a horse of Lord Ross more's for the Doncaster St. Leger, the only Irish horse in that Stake.-25 to 1 was taken freely. OATLANDS• • 4 to 1 agst Pendulum. 5 to 1 agst Bonniface. 51 to 1 apt Rasping. • DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Euphrates. 10i to I agst Pledge. 15 to 1 agst Iris. Even betting 6, and Mr. Crockford's 4 agst the Geld. OAKS. There was nut a het offered. Tun THBATIM—The Tragedy of Isabella was repeated last night at Drury-Lane Theatre, and Mrs. WesT again appeared to t.•reat advantage in the part of the mournful widow'd wife. Mr. 11. KEMBLa acquitted himself very well in Biron.— The new Pantomime has now passed through the storms, of opposition, and the Silver Arrow has winged its way to popularity. There was a to- lerably numerous audience. Green-room report says that Drury-Lane Thea• tre is preparing an abundance of novelties of va. rions kinds, in order to prove that it will at leas deserve success, by zeal, assiduity, and a libera cuditure. Yesterday, at three o'clock, R Cabinet Council was held at Lord CiSTLEREAGH's house in St. James's-square, in consequence of the Noble Vis count continuing so it :disposed as FICA to be able to attend at the Foreign Office. . The Council sat till about five o'clock. The deliberations of the Cabinet rehited to the arrangements for the meeting of Parliament. The Hun. C. PERCY is about to Loceed to Corfu, having been appointed Treasurer of the Republic of the lonian islands. EARLDOM or HuNTiNGDON.---Orl the 7th inst. the PRINCE REGENT issued his Royal warrant, directed to the Lotto CHANCELLOR, empowering his Lordship to issue a writ of summons under the Great Seal of England, to the Riv,ht Hon. HANs FRANCIS fIAsTiNGs, as Earl of Hunting don ; and a writ of summons has been delivered to the Noble Peer a ccordingly. Yesterday being Plough Monday, the Officers of the several Wards in the City, chosen in at the last \Vardmotes, were sworn into office at Guildhall, before the LORD MAYOR, Recorder, Aldermen, &c. The American Indian Warriors, who performed last season at the English Opera House, arc now the attraction of the Dublin Theatre. SUDDEN DEATH.—Mr. KING, of the house of KING and CUFF, of Wood-street, Cheapside, ex pired suddenly, on Saturday night, after having eaten his supper. This Gentleman had attended all that day in the Jurors' box in the Court of King's Bench, and was in o“:ellent spirits, EXEC" - appa ratus for carrying into effect the last opera tion of th e law on Stephen Morris, for a rob bery at Camden Town under circumstances of peculiar atrocity, William Tingy, for bullock stealing, and William Knight, for a highway rob bery, was erected opposite the Debtors' Door of Newgate. On the clock striking eight, Wm. Tingy- was placed on the scaffold, attended by th rr e h i l ev ra . o lN r l n r i . n C g O , T a T t ON a , n w e l a io dy fe i r l it ' ly ti littet prayer with the unfortunate ct iminal. William Knight next ascended the steps with much gaiety, and appeared in close conversation with the Rev. Gentleman during the time the execu tioner was adjusting the rope, at the conclusion of which he vociferated twice distinctly, " I am innocent, innocent !" Morris was the last of the unhappy men ; on his coming on the scaffold, be bowed to the Sheriffs ; he also joined in the pious business of the Rev. Divine, who continued his exhortations till nearly 20 minutes past eight, when the fatal signal was given, and they were launched into eternity. Tingy has left a. wife and four children to lament his untimely end ; his age is fifty. Morris has also left a wife and family. Knight, who is not more than 19, has been long known as a depraved character. After banging the usual time, the bodies were delivered to their respective friends for interment. An im mense number of persons attended this awful ceremony, principally of the lower order. The following Letter was sent at six o'clock this morning to Mr. BROWN, the Keeper of New gate, by the three Convicts who have suffered the sentence of death : " HoNonnen SIR—We hope you will not be offended at the liberty we take in addressing you, to, beg of you to be so kind as to allow the in closed to be published and distributed amongst the prisoners in this prison ; particularly to those who lay under sentence of death, in hopes that it may be a means, through Hod's most gracious mercy, of bringing them to a consideration of their awful situation in which they are placed, is the particular desire of us, unfortunate sufferers. " STEPHEN MORRIS, his YC mark. " WILLIAM CRIPS, his ;01 mark'. " WILLIAM KNIGHT, 17 years old." To the PRISONERS under SENTENCE of DEATH. " 'Phis conies from three unfortunate Men, who are about to suffer the penalty of the Law, with the kind intention of directing you to flee from the paths which lead to eternal destruction. We wish you to take into your serious consi deration the awful situation which we stand in. We are about to quit this life, to enter into either the blissful man sions of those who thoroughly repent of their sins, and come to God with a contrite heart, or to the everlasting misery pre pared for those who die in their sins. Some of you, we are afraid, arc soon to he placed in the same situation ; to you, in par= ticolar, we would wish to consider within yourselves whether you would wish to go to Heaven, we would wish you to pay particular attention to the pious exhortations of a most worthy friend (Mr. Baker,) if you will give ear to his kind invitations. We assure. you, that he will teach you in the right way to lay hold of those promises which Christ mentioned to our fore fathers when he abode on earth, which you will find by referring to the Holy Scriptures, particularly, the New Testament, wherein you will find those truths, which if you attend to . will bring you into the way that we so touch wish you to enjoy, as by the enjoying of those blessings it is our wish that you should enjoy the same privileges, and let us assure you that we do sincerely pray that you will endeavour to embrace the offer of ;Salvation which is ,laid down in the Gospel :if you do not, you may depend upon it - that you will not enjoy those blessings and privileges, therefore we do sincerely wish you to pay particular attention to these few words. 'Ere you see this we shall be no more in this tvorld, and let us assure you that we never felt that consolation in this world, or in any of its pleasures, as We do now feel in the en joyment of true religion : may God in his mercy be pleased to direct you to look up to Him for those blessings which he has so faithfully promised through (be merits of Jesus Christ, whodied upon the cross to save you from your sins, in whom these was neither sin or guile to he found, and may you be led into the way which we would wish by our feeble efforts to prescribe to your serious attention. ." In hopes this will have the desired' effect, is the prayers of your well-wishers, " WILLIAM KNIGHT. 1' STEPHEN MORRIS, his >4 Mark, . 1 WILLIAM CKIPS, Mark. " Monday evening, II o'clock, Jan. I I, 1819." • Tried and convicted by the name of William Tingy. The RECENT OUTRAGE in EDINBURGII. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY. Thursday the Court met. The Lord Justice Clerk addrzssed the Lord Advocate, stating, that the Court had heard with horror the shocking and disgraceful procedure which had taken place its the streets of this city on Wednesday, the.3ool of December last, on the occasion of the execu tion of Robert Johnston. The Court, before they felt themselves disposed to interfere, wished to know what was the result of any investigation his Lordship had instituted in consequence. The LORD ADVOCATE stated, that having heard of the proceeding, next morning he had ordered the Procurator Fiscal to apply to ate Sheriff of the County to investigate minutely into the whole circumstances, and that investigation was going on, although not yet so complete as to enable him to lay it before the Court. lie had also appli.sl to the Magistrates of Edinburgh for a staie,!ent of the proceedings, which had been furnished, but was not complete to be laid before the Court. His Lordship said, he agreed entirely with the Court, as to the shocking and disgraceful proced u re which had taken place, upon reading the account of which, in the public prints, he was very mitch hurt indeed. His Lordship, however, was happy to state, that the Magistrates of Edinburgh had no concern with the step which was taken to bleed the untortunate man ; none of the Magistrates were present upon the occasion, and the persoil who did so, with the view of ascertaining whether Ire was dead or alive, received no orders to do sc from any of the Magistrates. His Lordship took this public opportunity of stating this, and assured, their Lordships that every information should be laid before them. The Loan JUSTICE CLERK.—The Court Ce - taioly expects, my Loid Advocate, the fullest vestigatiou ou this painful subject. 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