The Sun. — London, England, 1819-04-23 00:00:00

FO'I SUN. CATHOLIC CITTESTiON. Ma. EDITOR—If the p'assin4 a just Act or Par liament. near forty years ago, to exempt Roman Coln.lics from penaltie% incurred by•an adherence to the religion of their fathers, in a spiritual sense,, produced the most destructive tumults•in and about the metropolis, what can he expected if l'arliam;nt should be so lest- to the duty they owe to their Country, as to pass one which will admit them to a share of political power, in a temporal sense ? The pen trembles in my band while ; ask the question►. In Religion they have a right to all the toleration they enjoy. In Politics they have a right to protection for their temporal allesli mice, hut not in spirituals, wt►ile they Owe a religious allegiance to the Pope of !tome. 'l'i►'e o:ffetcrice here is so wire, that it is impossible to r , concile it. It would split the union of alle gian'e to Cl:melt and King, as forming one State, strving his Mr:it:sty as silpretre citil roagiorate at home, and their holy father abroad as . a religious The anomaly .is too great, anti the ineo'n sistency insolvable. The pretences set tin by their !elders are specious, plausible, anti design. i::g ; Ili( it inferences de , ...citfol, a d their con clusions talse. Sorry, therefore, urn I that any I\letuber of Pdrlidtheut should think other wise, and Hypeat disposed to favour their claim. All before the ileformalion, when the religion of ti.e country was Rornish„ is ctit of question, ft I) d cannot, since its destruction, be quoted in point. AU since the Ile!orrmation shews the rest less and turbulent spirit of the Papists as a con- 1410 - trice, which occabiored the Corporation and These, however, have relaxed in operation, and the Papists, with other dissenters, have been relieved in more matters, of conscience, which ought to be tree ; and they have nothing to ask for but leaving out the Presbyter ians,eitc. 'test Actg. the Papists ask for a share of political power, saying it has nothing to do With the Ct►ristian Religion, or where its supremacy rests, This I deny: The politics of Great Britain and Leland are connected with its establishment in religion, Avlicse ‘vholesome doctrine is disseininieted there with ; not to be polluted' by Popery, nor the ad mis,ion of its enemies. let, as if men were bli n d in intellect, poisoned by party, and indif ft rent to all ieligion, they will not see that the intractiou of all order, tewporal and spiritual, and the peace of a Protestant People, will be sa crificed to the arrogance and presumption of mixing their tares wilt our wheat, leaving us the former, while they engross the latter. TERR2E FILIUS. MR. O'CONNELL'S ADDRESS TO THE CATHOLICS OF IRELAND. " Remember thee! yes, while there's life in this heart It shall never forget thee, all torn as thou art ; More dear in thy sorrow, thy gloom, and thy showers, Than the rest of the world in their sunniest hours." FELLQW COUNTRYMEN — One more year of hunti:iation and alltnage in our native land has passed o'er us. We haYeendured one year more of degradation and injustice. " in the administration of justice, we are ex chided from all judicial situations. The property, the person, the lite, the honour .of Catholics of J eland are in the hands of Judges, not one of whom can' ht. a Catholic ; they may he of any other, religion whatever, or of no .religion at all, but not one of them can be a Catholic. In the Corporations, we ate excluded from all offices,. from Mayor down to Scavengers, both included. " ton, the injustice is rendered more poil:o. , nt by the superadded result—for we alone are thus excluded trorn parish vestries ;—they are open to all her disienter's from the E,tablished Church, Presbyteri•,tns, Methodists, Jumpers, and Jew. 4. " eatholics . of Ireland, how long are we fated to suffert hose evils ? [low long are we doomed to he micas 9nd slaves in the lauil of out birth— if) the land of our fora:tilers ? " 'The answer to these questions is perfectly' easy. We shall continue to cockle infetiwity and inpitiee unfil that time arrives when the Catholics of Ireland shall arouse heinsOveS to deniaml with a combined voice, in the tone of perfect courtesy and reFpect, but in accents of per- . feet. firmness, their freedom. It ail the Catholics will now combine to demand their 'right ; if they will, as they easily tan, blend conciliation of temper and manner with constitutional firmness and determination, the remaining links of our cflains will fall off, and we shall be restored to all we desire, to an equalization of civil rights with our Protestant -fellow-countrymeu. . . " Every thing announces the present as a period Peculiarly well suited to a fresh effort for relief. In Ireland, prejudices have almost entirely vanished. The Protestants of Belfast and Galway have en tered ir►'o the spirit of conciliation and kin►ili• ness 5 they have set us a glorious example of af fectionate cordiality which we ought to cherish, and abyve all to imitate ; indeed, it such a teo►- per as the Protestants of Galway and Beltast have exhibited were universal, we should scarcely feel the evils of our exclusion. _ . . Catholics of Ireland, your fate is in your own hands ; it is the business of every honest man ; no rush amongst you is too high to be ah , .ve the evils of our political inferiority; no man amongst you is too low to be unaffected by one. the inFluence of a hostile alministiatiun of`the law ; believe me there is no man who may not he of some use in procuring emancipation, and. all can be roused to assist each other, believe me that emancipation will be certain. " Let nit then conjure you, As you value your selves, your families, and your unhapp.y enontrY. to, cast away all -pretences, ,for negligence - or silence, and to come forward one and all to de mand your rights. " Catholics of Ireland, we are about to ad dress another and a better Parliament. This,is a moment peculiarly suited to our just views. The ProiestAnts of this Empire, and in particular the Protestants of Ireland, exhiL;t daily proofs of an increasing , liberality and kindness. fine Govern ment appears riot to he unfavourable. " Catholics of Ireland,• deign to liscn to the Counsels of an humble bfit sincere hieud, who athises you at tLia propitious motntH to make one enrnLined and nomellul struggle for ',happy homes and altars f•ee.' " I bet: leave, cf•llo;r-countrytnen, to subscribe myself, your tlevi,ted Servant, "•I)A\IEL O'CONNELL." FOR THE SUN. THE POOR LAWS. MR. EDITOR—Of all the at tempts to make these Laws efficient, the Sill brought in►o the Com mons by Mr. STURGRs Boy KNE is by lar the best ; atul ought,. as is devoutly wished, to pass. The dis Order to he cured has too long prevailed. fly the 19. 1-1. Vll. Overseers wele directed to kelp the poor within the cites or towns where they were, horn, or had resided three years, so as to entitle them to a settlement ; but after the dissolution of the Monasteries by his son Henry VIII.; many other provisions were made for theta by Parliament, in lieu of what they lost is the alms of those superstitious houses. Edward the VI, founded the Hospitals of Christ and St. Thomas, in London and Southmark, for youth health and sickness ; and Bridewell for the employment of the able, and correction of the idle. For the poor in, gtneral throughout the kingdom, Eliz. by the Act of the 43d year of her reign, directed that overseers should be appoint ed in evety parish, to relieve the impotent, and to find work for the s'urdy in their own homes; not in comtnon work-houses, .where liberty and do mestic comtorts are abridged, and the sober and diligent are too generally placed with the disso lute and lazy. Since tl•e Reformation, the great variety of La', -s. and the decisions thereon, have not only swelled the S'atute Books, hut have increased the poor, and the difficulty of telieving them, by the several modes of obtaining set , lements, which have set the parishes to quarrel with each other, and pot them to enormous expenses for law suits, although the Act of Elizabeth directs that each pisrish shall maintain its oven poor. By the 13. and 14. Charles 11. the poor gained a settlement by birth, ildiabitancy, apprentice ship, or service for 40 days. This enconraged. emigration train the parishes, but if they did not rent tenements of 10/. a year in any, they were deemed intrmlera ; and so short a residence hav ing occasioned frauds, the 17 James 1. directed, that they should give notice in writing to the parish officers of their qualification before they could enti•le themselves to a settlement by inha bitancy; and the 8 William 111. c. 30., by way of further caution, directed that certificatesshould be given to a man, shewing the parish he was of, whereby he could not be removed from any other, until he became actually chargeable there. Be (ore this Overseers removed labourers aga , nst their will, front where they Were industriously employ ed, to where they came from, on pretence that they were likely to become chargeable where they dwelled. Thus were the Poor Laws till the year'l793, when an Aet pissed for the protection of Benefit Societies, in which the members thereof were,ex pressly exempted from any removal ; and in 1795 another Act passed to prevent a removal until the poor were actually chargeable. Vet this often produced expcn.iive litigations, and forced a poor man from where he had lived the prime of his life, - to where he was forgotten or unknown. As a remedy for this, a residence for a' given time, on giving notice of his qualification to the Over see) s, and not being chargeable in the mean time, might give him a better title to a settlement than service, renting a tenement, or performing, an office. In short, if none but the impotent were to be relieved ; if no children were taken from their parents but were living in dirt and vice; and if poor men with their families were employed when they 'requited it, for their own entire profit, industry might soon revive, labour be a pleasure in pro viding subsistence, the 'indigent Might work without a murmur, and when truly impotent be entitled to support from their peculiar pal ishes. NUMA. SumcioN OF MtinDEX.—A considerable sen sation has been excited at and in the neighbour hood of Sunbury-green, near Harrow, in conse quence of a circumstance having transpired, by which a female of respectability is charged with having been privately delivered, and murdering tier offspring. A young woman, about 17 years of age, named Ann Smith, residing at Sunbury, who had been suspected for some time to be in a state of pregnancy, was within these few days so altered in her shape and appearance as gave rise to a report that she bad been delivered, and had destroyed the child; and what strengthened the suspicion was, that the body of a new-born child was discovered in a ditch. The body was taken up and carried to the Mitre public-horse, and information was given to the parish officers, who, from the investigation of the case, sought out the young woman on whom previous suspicion bad fallen, and she. immediately acknowledged that she had been delivered of a child ; 1 anti a cousin of the young woman acknowledged that the child, soon 'atter it was born, was thrown into some water, and concealed in a ditch. The Parish Surgeon was called to examine the body, and immediately afterwards notice of the circumstance was sent to Mr. STIRLING, the Coroner, who appointed to hold an inquisition at eight o'clock last THEATRICAL. REGISTER. • Performed Last sVi MEATRE ROYAL, Dltt'HY-LANE.—peril the Plonith , : Sir Abcl Handy, Mr. Mundell ; Susan Isliss Boyce, .11 fter which, Abut - lab. • THEATim ROYAL, Cori,T-GArtilEF.—The Heart of Mid-Lo- Geor:e Rubertson; Mr. Mnerrady Nlathze Wildfire, • Mrs. C. Keinble. After which, Fort unatus and his Sons. To coßrtEpoNnENTs. BRITANNICUs, Letter V. To-mm.l,w ;—also, A CONSTANT READER O❑ the NEW GAME For see the,, First Page. PRICE eii THIS PAY AT r Et;tta: ~tnclr 251 3 per Cent. 71i1 7-1 S perCent.Cons. 717 4 72i 71qi 31 per Cent - 9i SO 4 per Cents 5491.90 5 per Ct. N. Ann. 103 . 4 1044_ STOCKS O ' CLUCK. Bank' Long Ann. 18 11-16ths India Bonds, 85s. 335. pr. Exch. Bills, 2d......55. Gs. pr. Ditto Coninicrcial....29s. dis. Cons. for May 711 72171 i ARgrvEl,-1 Dublin, I Waterford, I Flanders. DUE-1 . Waterford. 2 Guernsey and Jersey, 1 Sweden, 1 Hamburg!), 1 Holland. • HIGH WATER AT LONDON 13RIDGF. TO-MORROW. Nlorning, 21 minutes after 2.—Erening, 5-1 minutes after 2. THE SUN. SOLENI (VAS DICERE PALstIM AUDEAr ? LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1819. We rectiveti this morning the Paris Papers 4 Tuesday last. The follott my are extracts : " CHANIBER OF DEPU TIES, MONDAY, APRIL 19. " The discussion was resumed on the first prUjet respecting the Press, Art-iek 8, respecting outrages on Public Morals, &c. " U. H a otefeuille proposed as an amendment to substitute ' political or religions morality.' • " This amendment was soppported by M. Puy maurin, who dwelt upon the necessity of putting a stop to the ravages of impiety, and of those furious sectsswho would have neither God nor King. The Illumines in Germany, and the Car bonari in Italy, had thrown of the mask, and it was plain that their object was to oserturn 'be Throne upon the ruins of the Altar; they had to leration in their mouths, but persecution in their hcar►s. " Several voices on the right—Support, " The Count de Hautefeuille spoke in support of his amendment, but wishing the law to be rendered pet fectly clear, be proposed to substi tute for the r words he had proposed, Every out rage upon public morals, whether upon religious moralit y or 'Too good manners.' " The Count de Marcyllus supported the am'etidment. " The Keeper of the Seals observed, that the great object was to maintain full and entire the. lihcrty of all religion, and all modes of worship ; but as the ,words tali; ions-morality did not in terfere with the special creeds of different sects, I N was dilmsed to support the amendment as first proposed. "M. Courvoisicr thought the term public morals included outrages upon religious morality, but he saw no inconvenience in adopting the latter'term. • The amendment of M. Hautefeuille, that is to say, the insertion of the words • public or re ligious morality,' was agreed to almost unani mously, eight or ten Members only on the left side voting against it. • Some other articles were adopted atter dis• cession, without amendment. On article 20, re specting speeches, &c. delivered in, or printed by order of, the, Chamber, not being liable to prose cution, M. Laine proposed an amendment, to in clude in this inviolability speeches printed fl De.: puties, which they bad not -actually delivered in the Chamber. This was opposed by the Keeper of the Seals, as a dangerous extension of the privilege of a Deputy, and the question 'be ing considered of great importance, whilst the hour was getting late, an adjournment of 'the discussion took plate till to-morrow. " Argun 20. The Ring yesterday transacted business with the Ministers of the In terior and tor Foreign Affairs. " Cardinal Perigord, Archbishop of Paris, had a conference on Sunday with his M jesty. " It appears that the works at St. Conti will not be finished before the 20th June. is not probable, therefore, that the King will go to re side there till that period. " The Duke de Richelieu arrived at Genoa the Bth lust., frmn Marseilles. " The Duke of Saxe Weimar has probibizeil the reception, at the University of Jemi, of any fm:eigner as a student, who is not furnioa ed with a special recommendation from his So- vereigs). '' The story of a tumult at Berlin appears •to be entirely unfounded. " The Persian Ambassador was to set out yes reiday evening. giuntag of Nfate:u; the hest part of (Let7l been waiting upwards of six lonths for cats oe 9 ' On the 11th of March thcre were 130 les& than seven privateer brigs dud live schooners cruising off the port of j-lavannah ; on the same day, '2/ sail, under Spanish colours, were seen skeffi li b t NJ. the.-abote A steamkbZiat,tif 40O4ton' s, bad be'en fOs'''t in (b e Ohio River, by which six people lost their lives. On the 24' , 1 of February it was very.sickiY a t St. Pierre's, Martin'que, and numbars -were dying. All kind of American produce was 1 11 '" commonly dull and scarce ; no money was "be - had ; sugar was scat ce, and very bight in price; molasses was 68 and 70 lonis, besides the cololli6/ duty ; 106 sail of French vessels in port, rn° sd / from France with produce, but conid get r 7 market. St. Eustatia, S. Bartholomew, add tke Five Islands, swarmed with p r ivateer's, who robb ed and plundered all kind w of vessels they fell in t S ini tl Several English hadiEtg li bn s e h e sh p il l ): ll , l( ic e , t r i e ic d h b l y i a them.d : a rri v e ( c .) l o n e at M t r ha .; ptivateers informed that Cothmodore Au o bar died of the fever. The packet from SaVannah to New York had been lost, and all hands on board perished. (From the same Paper.) We understand that the Hon. JOHN foltsY ; 11 ' on Tuesday took a formal leave of the o" cut ' ve' previous to his departure, as Minister Plenirten; ( 4% 1 ' 4 tiary, to Spain. The United States' sloop , Hornet is waiting to convey Mr. F. to his 'des- 1 H;d tination. ' ne The Chevalier tl i in enrexllt, having, at his req uest) 13 ONIS, we learn, win retort, o tained leave of his Sovereign for that ro r P °s- 0 Conjecture has not nanted'a successor f° • a post, that has beets so long and faichfully occu.. pied by the Don. (From The Boston. Palladium of the 25th We Are sorry to leant from the "%Vest Dale ne that the Insurgent p:ivateers still cor/ti n commit the most daring outrages. An g ngil : ship had been plundered by them at St. 3'11;°;(-:.:, Cuba, the Captain of which they nearlY death, and several of the crew aisoi 3r" : e ol(' il • co rillOtiered the ship.of'every thing they co veniently carry o ff. a, A large fire was ol)served at the Di"' Forgrujoi, on the lith Febrwiry last. The Alexander, trom New York 10 Cluulest"? had experienced a severe snow storm or) the ) , ;(1 :,1 March, on her passage hence, (hiring vv°'"' hands before the mast woe frost bi tten, three ok them so badly as to die, next day. We have occasionally referred to an Addr ess ' and inserted passages, from the Irish Barrister' ad Mr. DANIEL O'CONNET.L, to the Roman C tholics of Irelaud, but - as he is a zealous Chi a for the claims of POPERY, and is ny,st proba l " the confidential adviser of the Papists of rl) ' 4 country, and of course may he supposed to el preys their wishes, and to state their fall i tensions, we deem it necessary to pibini t tile * whole of that Adiress to our Readers tit* It is an important Document, and caonot " make a strong impression upt.n all friends t° r 1.6. British Constitution. We are assured, 081 1 1 111 January last many thousand conies of thi s dress were, dispersed through 3 ' l ' l 1 : 1: 6 -- doubt through every part of Ireland. it is a • c- . - 1- cumstance not unworthy of notice, th' it° I t the printed Copy of this Address, all the r ters were 'waked in "ehe I t c this peculiarity was intended as a r° initiated is more than we presume to 1 ““ 's1. T j e --. It is singular, and can hardly be supposed t 0 without •a meaning. It is evident, whatev er °ai r . be said about courtesy and a temperate !w ooer t l ' 3 the Address is intended to rouse a spirit d e tertni ßet - to maintain the, cause, and to proceed r° the most hostile extremities rather than not 11211 e its purposes fully accomplished. We find th at :7 have given great satisfaction to a very large t. vtro 'of our Ecclesiastical Body by t h e estimate wt►icl, submitted to our Readers of the Maiority be the Popish Claims were likely to be'rejctet.bja the House of Commons, viz. 81 0.1. ; , we have i learned by, subsequent that t u ti l e majority is likely to be still greater, an d hat feelings of those Members who are firm friends to ° the Protestant Establishment a r e likelY be expressed in the most 'emphatical illan°ea against all future effot;ts in support of Jf *. restoration 'of a POPISH AsCENPAN CY • v may venture to trust the assn'r ances of tbm°l';' of our Ecclesiastical Friends, the 'e fforts of Pa per have tended not a little t(i rou se the 'ottel).. .tion of the People at large to the impending' tl3°- ger, and that the Nation will not in a s light d e i gree he indebted to Tire 'SON for h a ving Pa ce( that danger in the most striking paint of v iew ' and enlightening the People to a due considerl' or giCr tion of the blessings wiali they enjoy ote stant Government, and of the miseries t%'biell we re 3 0 i° they would assuredly endure, if they under the dreadful subjugation of Popiill bigotry, and despotism. FIVE PEE CENTS. Monday .... 66 f. 65 c. DIA.T.HRF..I3 Of the 22f1 March, 1817, 84 f. SO c. .422.1 Sept. 1917, 2.2 , 1 March, 1818, SO f. 30 c. 22d Sept. 1818, ..... 78f. c. • , 22d March, 1819, "Of. 40 e. (From the Boston Commereial:ldrertiser of the eGth March.) There were upwards of 400 sail of shipping waiting at New ()deans for cargoes in the be. - .