The Sun. — London, England, 1825-02-22 00:00:00

THE SUN. SOLEIU GUIS DIOERE FALSUM AUDEAT LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEB. 22, 1825. Last night the Bill for the Suppression of the Unlawful Associations in Ireland was read a second time time in the House of Commons, and carried without much debate by a majority of 146. This result may be said to have put sign and seal on the death warrant of the Association ; and we are only astonished that so much discus sion should have arisen to impede the speedier execution of this incumbent though stern duty. Whatever excuses we might be induced to make for the diversities of opinion on the subject of Catholic Emancipation, we confess we are illi beral enough, if illiberal it be, to behold with amaze, not unmingled with regret, the phalanx or ability which the Catholic Association had the power to muster for its defence, in the late struggle in the arena of Parliament. We are ready to admit, that there is a something irresistible in the tones of deprecation issuing • from the lips of the Owncast, who fancy them selves the victims of oppression. From this circumstance the plaint of the petitioning Ca , tholics, while they comport themselves with hu mility, and clothe their visages with becoming sorrow, might on the first sight of their case, gain !natty friends to their cause; but is there aught effrontery, or the rave of infuriate endeavour, to excite the sympathy of beholders, or to guide. their hands mechanically to relief ? What quali k ties but these are to be traced in the attitude of the Catholic Association ? and, notwithstanding the Opposition gladly buckled on the armour of its champions, engraving on their banner— " Resist, and ye mill be successful !"--the lipshot of the business is, that the Catholics hot having the power to do worse, are deter- mined to lose no opportunity of thrusting their thorns i►► the sides of Protestant Ascendancy ; 'i►'d the Opposition, espying no chance of doing better, are equally eager, on all such occasions, to magnify the scratches of these burrs into gash es and mighty scars. But this glowing zealotry ►►ev-er effect the ultimate object it pants fo r. Tke Association may assert what it pleases, and the Opposition may throw in their yokes, in concert with its sentiments, b ut the daring boldness of that body cannot be truckled -to by Government : its object being 'sinister and palpable, coercion has become in 4ispensabl,e, since no middle course could be available to counteract its operations. It would have been well, we think, for the ulterior claims of the Catholics, if they had blighted this Society in the bud, as the tone and,proceedings of even its dawning existence ha ve obviously demonstrated what its prose "lsm would have emboldened it to aspire to, Lad it attained the vigour of maturity before the extinction of its hopes : and, if, after the peril of this parried thrust, we permit the Catholics aq a i o to steal a march on use and bereave us of th e vantage ground, we shall, as a nation, de -so. ive all the ills we meet with, be the- j the worst wh ich can befal. The Paris Morning Papers of Saturday, like th ose of the preceding day, are filled with the d ebates ii the Chamber of Deputies on the pro. Pose d indemnity to the emigrants. M. GIRAIt, l 3 who was not a l lowe d to a dd ress t h e Cham t'er On Thursday, has published the speech he in ed to hav e delivered. Ilis object was to v .a ‘'e poi nted out the i n d ecency o f the em i grants b ° ,, i 9 a g' in favour o f a p ro j e ct i n w hi c h th e y are , as it . 'lVidllaiS, so di rec tly an d d ee ply i n t eres t e d. I t 'Tears from his calculation that there are, in the t P i res ent Cha m b er o f D eput i es, 320 mem b ers , o f the ° ld privil ege d c l asses, 18 4 o f w h om b e l ong to e ancie n t nubility ; besides which there are 260 Public f unctionaries. The Law of Sacrilege has lb ssed the Chamber of Peers by a majority of I) a gainst 92. I n th e p resen t temper of the . trePuties, there can be no doubt it will be carried ttull iarriP l iantly throu g h the Lower Chamber. The p o e .nthi l ent to which we alluded yesterday, pro oslng to su b st i tute the punishment of hard la -13:" for that of death, was moved by M. de 141 tb, and though powerfully supported by j • tie C IIA1 • or " LAUBRIAND, was rejected by a ma to,,Y of o n l y f our, the numbers being 108 against pe - *: The Penalty of death, however, at a bite po of th e di scuss i on,_ was modif i ed so as to be lb Lie contin gent on two c i rcumstances : the one, u ii„ at the sa cre d vases at the moment of profana otin Should contain consecrated hosts ; and the o e r, that th e profanation should have been ctp in th e v i ew o f several persons. When t Y ene of the contingencies occur, profanation i t 1 ° he h punished by h ar d l a b our f or l i fe. When Pen committed publicly, death is to ensue, D id t° be preceded by an amende honorable. The i i e er s Were afterwards occupied with the consi (l ration of a Law against Piracy. IS Ca generally understood th a t the Tribune, I G .Pt• Gul oN , w i ll proceed from Lisbon to braltar, for th e ' purpose of bringing to Eng and the Earl .of CHATHAM. SHIPWRIGHTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. St a—ln the early part of December last I was permitted, through the medium of your columns, to invite public atten tion to a subject possessing peculiar claims on general con sideration, viz. " the Policy of the late Repeal of the Combine " tion Laws, and the practical effects that have resulted from " that repeal, as far as they have hitherto developed themselves." And although the remarks I then ventured to offer, had peculiar reference to one department of British industry, yet, as I have reason to conclude that an extension of the inquiry would prove similar results to have ensued among almost every class of our manufacturing population, I shall, I trust, need no apo logy for recurring to the subject, seven with those who may be least disposed to consider the Ship-wrights as a body of suffi- dent importance to attract public interest, or to justify general conclusions. Frorn.the tendency of many questions proposed to intelligent witnesses examined before the Cotnrnittee of the House of Commons, whose report produced the repeal of the Combina tion Laws, from the words of the Report itself, and from the . arguments employed in the discussion of the question, by the ad. vocates for the repeal, I am equally justified in concluding that the conviction of those who originated and supported the mea sure was, that the laws prohibiting combination had been the CAUSE of " mutual irritation and distrust," and had actually lsd to those combinations they were designed to prevent ; from this conviction resulted the inference that their removal would allay that irritation and distrust, and the consequent and ex pressed expectation that combination would thenceforward cease ! Let us inquire how far the experiment has demonstrated the correctness of this conclusion. Distinguished from many other classes of Mechanics as a body, by the general sobriety of their habits, and correctness of their moral conduct, as much as by the personal ac tivity and strength, requisite for and consequent on their la borious occupation, the Shipwrights of London have of course, like other descriptions of workmen, been engaged in occa sional disputes with their employers.—But for a period of more than twenty years no general suspension of work of any long continuance has occurred, their ditference3 have been unmarked by those demonstrations of exasperated feeling, and of intemperate violence by which the artizans in many trades have been disgraced, and no instance has, I believe, taken place in which punishment has been inflicted for any breach of those laws, the partial severity of which has been so loudly denounced. Yet it is not pretended that during that period no combination has existed among them. When im may. think necessary for the performance of the work required by the'masters. In the assertion of thiS monstrous claim, one strike has already taken place. Delegates are at this moment travelling over the country, and have already occasioned the Shipwrights of Whitby and Scarbro' to strike! Ample funds are collected by a subscription of one shilling per week from each member, and a triumphant expectation is avowed of bringing the Masters to their own, the Shipwrights, terms ! But the recital of these facts has already occasioned me to in trude so largely on your columns,, that I must reserve for a fu ture Letter all comment on the causes that have led to, and the probable consequences that may result from them. I would only repeat, such was the state of this trade under the exis tence of the Combination Laws ; such is its condition since their repeal ! I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, London, Feb.2l, 1825.. VERAX. LONDON INrOIITIIEIIN RAI L-RoAn.--The Direc, tors of this Company have issued Circtilars to the applicants for Shares, stating that in consequence of the Bill to be brought into Parliament by the LORD CHANCELLOR, which is to have a retrospective operation as far as the meeting of Parliament, they do not deem it proper to issue further Shares until his Lordship's plan be more fully detailed. VALENTINES, A NONY MO US LETTERS, &c.-A gentleman, much annoyed by the expellee io which•he wal.p❑t M receiving by post different artick.s of the above description, applied to the Post-office for redress. From the following reply, it appears that persons put to such useless expellee are not without remedy:— " General Post-offu :e. " Sir—We can give no general instructions as to the return of the postage on letters which the. parties open, but if you will send to me any which you conceive to havk been improperly addressed to you, we shall be the better enabled to judge what redress can be afforded. . " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) "F. FREl e plls'G, Secretary." His Royal Highness the Duke of YORK was so much recovered yesterday as to be able to ride out in his ca briolet in the course of the afternoon, and to pay a visit to the King at his Palace in Pall-mall. His Royal Ilighnes was visited yesterday by the Princess Sophia. The Maquis WELLEsLEY, we regret to hear, was so severely indisposed with a cold, as to be obliged to post pone a Council appointed to be held at Dublin Castle, on Thursday last. The Pit Est DENT of lIAYTI has ordered the LP gislative Body of that Republic to be convoked for the 10th of January, on account of urgent circumstances. • pelled by a sense of danger or of injury, real or imaginary, Several Captains of Cornish mines have lately they have frequently acted strongly and simultaneously.— accepted situations in the Mexican mines, at sa- The power of combination h a s, th ere f ore , ex i s t e d, w h en sup- lanes, we hear, of from 7001. to 10001. per gea r posed necessity for its exertion c a ll e d it i n t o ac ti on , an d h as We understand that the large ship the Gaunt .ceased with the occasion which I have ever considered could Inis has quitted her moorings at Blacktvall, and alone justify it—the resistanc e o f un j us t aggress i on . U n d er has gone down to Nortlitleet to be docked. this system, though the Shipwright of London h a s, f r o m deli- W e regret t o l e a rn, tha t t h e v e ner a ble Dr. ciency of employment, deeply partaken of th e diffi cu l ty - and dia_ PARR, wh o con t in ues at his Vicara g e o f Hatton, tress from which our labouring popul a tion h ave b ut recently is in such a state as to leave scarcely any hope of his recovery. emerged, his wages have never been reduced below five shil- lit consequence of the expected success of the lings per day, and from the prevailing practice of piece- measures e w d e ii t l ine( France istl for thatthe work, a tolerable workman, when employed, could generally earn tie - int e l) debt, ropj vern similar m e proceeding e i l. r d o i i nLi a s l con 4 trc templated on the part of die understand Government. six or seven !—But with the repeal of the Combination Laws In ea e r r i i cai,i7latitzshtearte per contract t fore new loan at 75, in a stoeli A NEW ERA HAS ARISEN ; new sentiments pervade all minds. Unity of action ia no longer regarded as the legitimate means of applied to the taking i ou r t c o n f ;11 e t 1 1 l e i a produce rthe existing sli il ,r. whichs peris to o -n b t e transferring bonds, the holdets of which will have the option ' of opposing oppression, but as the obvious and legalized step, for i s s l e f l o ie r v t ( j qt a r- t eiT l iZe a s in tn o le u n n t t to o ;7li l e e, : , 3 , per m cent. sock, or of ti being the attainment of power ! Hence, the extensive association, p r a a i n d s o e fra lri t g pa tit r. pose will be between 3 and 4 millions ; an ck e d g i u t i the aspiring claim of the bold, the restless anti the discon svru rea b r l a e p t it o al t tts e p of rup sl u l iti e fi c r o cl r as t s be en i trta i i i n views wholly fa tented ; the regular organization ; the collection of extensive this measure is completed, it is expected thaf ) I v ie er r i eTt e c n t t i . on -T o f f' funds; finally, the surrender of the right 'of individual action, i their us s ia publicl ,,u debtsia unit n a a similar manner will be attempted by and the establishment of the unlimited controul of the few overAustria, ent i l s V i h n e g t , l o le r r ta s n u t cce a s s sf,t a d n ori n rg e t,Jh m e the physical force of the many. With this mighty engine at very attempt at this moment t i h t at u n f o; ,t e t a r r u s e exis ( t of any interruption to the general tran-luil command the struggle commences, not fur righti, but for power. Animosities are excited; envy, hatred and malice, ]sty of L the. 13 3. t ) 11 . Decemb at C ' and all uncharitableness, are engendered, and tyranny, the in South America, 3lr. WI LI. za,m D e Ay r isß o n r a N l: s t o ll, r a ge ag l 1a I 5 je, was known w Consul t ? , f the e Government detrrwbulerhinbtelnlio sure concomitant of power, vested in hands unconscious of its duties, and unaccustomed to its exercise, subverts the princi- gain; and as a merchant of s g a re m ae n en ei ter co r r iz si e means successful in what is regarded as the szi ' mmunt bon y unz, plea of social order, and endangers the existence of the social n ye a a m rs ely o , i tta l c i r t i e u i ir n etentof wealth. Having spent several fabric, That this picture is not overcharged, I shall now en, South America, during the early struggle dcavour to prove. ' for liberty, his "Memoirs of the Mexican 'Revolution," (pub lished' about two years ago), furnish one of the most interesting No sooner had the Bill repealing the laws in question re• pictures of the events connected with th e p ass ibn scenes i n th a t ceivedthe Royal Assent, than a genera l feeling of indefinite country that can be submitted to the leader." The Spanish Government alleging that he had interfered improperly in poli tical pervaded all classes of the manufacturing popula, as ei r i c . ? , :r e e te st d et i l f and sent to Spain as a state-pri tion. Among the Shipwrights this feeling soon assumed a do- luckilys t n e n a e l l a . fat iti s e iiet i i s n e a sca, or in all probability his finite conviction, that the opportunity was now afforded for ob- Spanish dungeon. days '.vould have een ended taining, by effectual and universal combination any object they 110111511) Me lIDELI.-The following letter, COM irnatia7illlngehharaslll).eartscul;rars of i another murder ccOcrnit could desire to gain. A Meeting was soon held, an Association m ter nui eu t: mu C a z i r t T tu C y 'h u r u on u i n cl e e— uf "Aylesbury, Feb. '2O :—I have t formed, a Committee of 34 appointed, and on the 16th of Au tthuroyse horrid deeds which so often stain the pages of our his gust last a Society was formally established, which soon in- was committed last night, about Il o'clock, eluded in its members every individual Shipwright of the P o rt on the person of a fine young m a n named Morris, at Aston aCilnyteouna, one t f the half way from hence to .Tring and not of London. Having elected as Secretary a long distinguished t w of fe pla w c e e re wl u i l e t r l e i the_two. old persons, Ed champion, whose principles, whatever they might be in ward Needle milt his l Ivisited the #, spot this morning, and a esaaewd tilt about ix t i w y o uf years tie ago. e . morals, had notoriously . involied the most decided ceased. considerable ruat bruise on one of the temples, freedom in religion, and the most violent democracy also on the chee ere k, a a n tieti mortal wound is on tile baek of tsheerrlllesaTiuchnilrutneide,n,bnuatutil2 e in politics, and who no doubt considered a liberal salary, Na le r r g c e ( c t i lie w p it r i i i ne l iLal n ), R c e o e in ves,.and Coker, are re c ta. tody here, and distinguished situation, preferable to the toil of la, a th en e m m m i u tr u de r r iil, Tle t weapon borious industry ; delegates were dispatched to every Outport supposed to have been used was of the Kingdom, and the Society soon added to its list almost feet long. and Tt w oi c ::e o rt f our Magistrates, (Sir John Dashwood King, cW c itt t e h n e ded at the Magistrates' every Shipwright throughout the Country ; and as an induce.. Cham " ber this morning,n Browne, The Coroner's Inquest will.be held to-morr uw , depositions aud i t il le p p ri u vl ) tf i e e . meet to those in Iles MAJESTY'S DOCK YARDS, to enrol will r e e x p a u m rt i e ngtgn take place on the village; Molrririendesday. It is commonly themselves in THE UNION, a pledge was given, that if dis-a had_ given . informati . on to the Lord of the Manor. that charged from the Public Service, : either a guinea per week Allen had been guilty of oftences agZs o t , t r l u le E g i a t me laws. should be allowed, Olt EMPLOYMENT PROVIDED FOR TIIE3I ALLEG ED" Alunts•n OF ' A A ' IrE _IN ST. . BY THE COMMITTEE ; this pledge has been punctually re- GILES'S.—The above neighbourhood - has been thrown into agi tation again, in consequence of the reported murder of Nary deemed ! The avowed object of this Society is, to use its own Coleman; a woman who cohabited x' i• , Richard Hawes, who words, " for the mutual support o f eac h other on the just right resides . in St. Giles s- It is . said lie to returned home the other cc evening, el when, l ar l er ft hVng l some high words with her, lie heat of a seven year's servitude, and a scale of prices founded on the w afterwards found in " principles of equity between masters and men." Its natural the r vrioemenn,tkkeatt;ingeat the mouth,no a s c e e. an he su i r , geon was sent for, but sbe expired soo I agerneaillyawdeeasd.wAas tendency soon developed itself. It was stated to the Ship- of ta ' .ll t a i r?l t a o cir c o u u s n t h t -te a e n t d i • e u x i l rer in„ Ti l icr ?i re '. E. ComArrr, Esq., builders, that the Committee of Shipwrights were engag ed n w . as remanded until the in the formation of a book of prices, in which they have been result of the Coroner's inquest be known. SIIOCKING OccuartExcE.—llachel fltitli of employed for some months, without any communication with old h s t o on sh -und e e t zkine i neglected her some child of about seven ' years the Master Builders. But, in the interim, a system of harass-ittiwaas ?they founeftitittle le neighbnurs going into ing demand for alteration of' prices has been successive- the room where it tually mother part of the blanket which covered t infant f:Nt e had a e ly and continually practised in EVERY Dock Yard . in the unnatu ral e m ust h o y y vi b , a y s fi3 l t i i r n . d ir lr e i w n t k o i n ng th a e t a japuubtivic-house and taken in- River, and on the slightest refusal of implicit compli- to died on AVednesday afternoon, and . the wretched cons lr'ehres childt ra n al l e m . 0 t ance, an immediate and universal STRIKE has ensued. By degrees, objections to the controul of the Masters, as to the e e e l t t l i 6 1 herself r- .) e u l t f h w b i o tli i iaeshabnetkreerci4i.e!'slAntleie lock-ups." Inquests were Coroner, Died by the il employment of t heir men, were advanced, and on the agitation case of the child, the Jury found a verilicCtoor;') e neglect ^f, ' Itnn"thtahteoflvatget of woman the towards it by y the of every question, an entire suspension of work took placeevuetrdict was " Lunacy." - till the permanent sitting Committee could be consulted, whose mother." suppusiu g that the dread of punishment, together with horror i • anti remorse, must have caused mental derangernent.—(Man dicta have always been implicitly obeyed !—Proceeding as • chester Courier. ) ~ . . they acquired strength, on the discharge of a workman ' fro from ALARMING 1 1 II; F..-Tills mor • rung, about three one establishment for alleged inCapacity, five hundred men j . '4; broke" o'clock, a Aire out at the I 1 , louse of i Ir. instantly struck, and not an individual would return till the - in " .ci BIRNIE bookseller, alert-lane, Covent man was restored, At drestored too in the way most insulting Garden, which it entirely destroyed, with till to his employer! length the mask is entirely thrown off: the furniture, and a valuable collection of iiool's Wages have become an . object of minor importance. A tone of The Peacock Tavern adjoining is very much i ' U . dictation anddefiance is assumed. The mastersare publielY vill- ittred ; arid so rapid were the flames that M- , r. fled, arida system of regular annoyance and degradation pursued 8111NIE . and the inmates were . Obliged to escape towards them and a claim isnow o , Penlyavowed that the Commit- out of the windows in g reat confus ion, but I utp tee, the imperizem i . r;i imperio, shall h ave the positive right ofsend- 4 1 pily no lives were lost. Mr. 13IltNIE) we regret ing to any establishment as many and such individuals as they to hear ) is but partially insured. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. • . The Marquis of Hertford, in, Piccadilly, from Brighton ; Mrs. John William Birch, in Harley-street; Mrs. Bouchier, in Wimpole-street ; Mr. and Mrs. : utler Danvers, and Miss Fremantle, in Chesterfield-street, Mayfair ; Mr. and Mrs. Bebb, and Miss Barnett, in Gloucester-place; Mrs. Ale2t. Baring, anti Miss Baring, in Piccadilly; Lieut.-Col. Burgess Camac, at Knightsbridge ; Mrs. Thos. Chaplin, in Grafton street, Berkeley-square; Mr. Ridley Colborne, in Hill street ; Mrs. Franks, in Bryanstone-square ; Lady Georgiana Grenfell, in Bolton-street, Piccadilly ; Chev. de Los Rios, at Greillon's Hotel; Countess Ludolif, in Gloucester-place; Countess Mount Norris and Lady Juliana Annesky, in Pic cadilly.; Mrs. Humphrey St.*John Mildmay, in Piccadilly; Mrs. Charles Mills, in Manchester-square ; Mr. Edward W. Mills, in Hill -street;. Mrs. Mills, in Hill-street; Hon. Mrs. • G. Philips and Miss Cavendish, in Hill-street ; Lady Pole and Miss Pole, in Upper Harley -street; Lieut.-Col. Stanhope, in Piccadilly; Count and Countess St.Antonio,iii Hanover-square; Sir John Wyldbore Smith, lady-Smith, and Miss, Smith, in Great Cumberland-place ; Lady and Miss 13ethia Stoughton,in Lower Brook-street, from Bath ; Hon. Mrs. Talbot, in Dover street ; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vansittart, in Upper Brook-street; Mr. and Mrs. Vernon, in Park -street, Grosvenor-square; Rd. Price, Esq. M.P. at the Hyde Park Hotel, Hyde Park-place, from Knighton, Radnorshire; Mr. and Mrs. Vigors Hervey, at ditto; from Park-place, Windsor; Mr. and Mrs. Carr, and and Miss Carr, at ditto, from Scotland; P. H. Dyke, Esq. at Ditto, from East Hall, Foot's Cray ; F. Walford, Esq. at ditto, from Shropshire ; Salmon Mactavish, Esq. at ditto, from Bed ford ; the Rev. P. (Alders, at ditto, ron], West Wickham ; E., Barker, Esq. at ditto, from a tour. BRIGHTON., FEB. 20.—Mr. HAY NE arrived here on Thurs day, and was present at the performance of Miss FOOT): at the Theatre, on that evening, and • on Friday ; the latter occasion was, announced ax for the benefit of Miss Foote, and Mr. H. became a generous purchaser of tickets. The house, as in the two preceding instances, was brilliantly crowded ; and Mr. Hayne readily and cheerfully joined in the unqualified ap probation bestowed on her. In the course of Friday, Mr. Hayne had an interview with the mother of the Lady; and, we have every reason to believe, with the young Lady her self: Indeed, the best understanding appears to exist between them. Miss Foote appeared as Oriana, in" The Inconstant," and Clara in " Matrimony," on Friday. Mrs. and Miss Foote left the Old Ship, to return to town, yesterday morning. Mr. Hayne, from the York Hotel, followed for the same desti . nitton, very soon afterwards. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. STATE OF 'ELIE ODDS. -' E.TTING•aOO3I, Fg . x. 21 111DD1 ESIVO ItTtl. 3to 8 agst the D. of Grafton's 10 to 1 agst Actmon two 16 to 1 agst Bro.toSpermaceti. 7 to 1 agst Pastime 8 to 1 agst 3ltileteer 17 to 2 agst Rufus 21 to 2 agst Bolero 1 to 2 agst Alinc 9 to 1 agst Sorcery DEIZZY. 15 to 1 agst Phantom c., dam ray Itubens 0.. S. I 9to 1 agst Tontine 9 to 1 agst Pastime. . ST. LEG Elt .• 30 to 1 agst Brigand 30 to 1 agst Cow-boy 40 to 1 agst Altisidora High odds agst any other. DONCASTER 17 to 2 agst Memnon 12 to 1 agst Clevekaud 14 to 1 agst Redgauntlet 29 to 1 agst Androgeus 22 to .1 agst Homer HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. The next Meeting of the Hampshire Hunt is fixed for Wed nesday, the 9th of March, at the Swan Inn, Alresford, when the Horses for the Cup are to be named.—The Stewards are C. R. Barrett, Esq. and the Honourable William Gage. MEETINGS OF HOUNDS IN THE PRESENT WEEK.- His Najesty's.Stag-hounds, on Friday, at Stoke Common. 11. Joliifte,'Esq.'s Fox-hounds, on Thursday Storne Bush ; Saturday, at South End. The Surrey Vox-hounds, on Thursday, at Godstone ; Satur day, at Crown Ash Hill. ihe H. H. on Tuesday, at Brookwood; Thursday, at Nut ley Church ; Saturday, at Bentley Green. The Hambledon Hounds, on Wednesday, at Westbury ; Friday, .at Owslebury Down. The Tragedy forthcoming at Covent-Garden Theatre, ,under the title of ORESTES, was written by the late PEER. BAILEY, Esq„ who, as the Public must recollect, was suddenly struck dead, in a coach, while accompanying his wife t• the King's Theatre. The play is founded upon the model of the Old Greek Dratna, with Furies, Chorusses, &c. tgc„ but with an adaptation to the taste of the times, as far as is consistent with such a model. Ilaumoxic TifEATRE.—The regular Season Qf this little Subscription Theatre commenced last night with Love in a Village, a Ballet and Blue Devils.• It has been made under Mr. NATHAN'S auspices a most elegant place of amusement, and the resort of the most select and fashionable company. The performances of last night gave great satisfac tion. Miss LEO, in Rosetta, sang and played with very con_ siderable excellence, and the other female parts were ably filled by Miss DAVIS and Miss PHILLIPS. Mr. JONES, formerly of the Lyceum; represented Young Meadows, and was justly encored in some of the songs his acting was also uncommonly good. The Ballet was tasteful, and the dancing elegant, and the whole was far above what one would have thought could be achieved within so limited a space. _ _ Another Love match is said to he in progress at one of our 11.1etropnlitn Theatres, between a fair Syren and a Noble Lord of acknowledged gallantry. This event, how ever, is not to be consummated until the close of the season. The Dowager Duchess of lllcumoNo was last night in the roof over .the House of Commons, which is the only accommodation for ladies, to hear the debate on the Ca tholic Assodiation Suppression A letter from Captain .DAvinson of the ship Northumberland, of North Shields, to his owner,-states the fol. lowiug 'fact, .1. he ship was lying at Sierra Leone. "On the Ilth of November, 18.24, one of our crew, being on the bowsprit fishing, dropped his knife overboard. He made a great deal of work about it ; but judge his surprise, wilco, on the same after noon, he caught a dolphin, with the identical knif e i n it s b e ll y ! The fish was cut up in my preSence, and I saw the !knife taken out." B OTTE RELIES were yesterday seen flying about a garden four miles west of the metropolis. And in the same garden the lilac trees and honey-suckles are beginning to bud', and beneath them crocuses, snow-drops, &C. are in flower. HAwiricu.—We have to record a most ME LANCHOLY OCCURRENCE which happened in the Swin, ,on the sth inst., and a s justice will doubtless c a ll f or an investiga tion of the affair, we give the account without comment, as re ceived f r E rom dw th a e rd Lewis, lips of the injured party, "O n t h e sa id d ay, " says master of the Aurora salvage vessel of this port, " at 20 minutes before nine, A. 51, we brought up alongside the buoy -of an anchor in the Swin, and ran a rope to it. intending as soon as it was sufficiently moderate ,to weigh the anchor and take it to the Vice-Admiralty warehouse for the good of the owner, having the gear already arranged for the purpose ; about a quarter past nine, the Hope, of Colches ter, John Allen master, ranged up alongside, who hailed Lewis, saying (holding up a piece of paper at the same time), " You shall not have that anchor, I have the Captain's order to take it up." Lewis answered, "As I have my rope fast, I shall certainly weigh it ;" and immediately James Tranham and Thomas Coppin, two of the Aurora's crew, got into their skiff, and ran another rope to the buoy, when Allen instantly let go the Hope's anchor across the buoy rope, which he hooked and barbarously held on; and in a moment, before the two poor men in the skiffcould cut the rope, they were plunged down, head first, into a watery grave--the former leaving a wife and one child, and the latter who is brother-in-law to Lewis) a wife and three children, to mourn their lamentable bereavement. The Hope," says Lewis, " then hove her anchor to her bows again, tearing the -Aurora's skiff to pieces, and stood off. The Providence, of Ip s wi c h,. which was near, pushed off her boat to save the men, but it was too late—they were sunk from human aid. Etrix Mer cury.) A DEFENCE of the PROTESTANT CHURCH from the ATTACK of the MODERN HISTORIAN of the REFORMATION, W. CORBETT. (No. V.) Most of the earlier Fathers agree in con struing this promise as made to PETE rt not in any exclusive sense, bat to the rest of the Apostles, and to the Disciples of every age, in his person, that make the same strong confession of the faith which he had just delivered in answer to his Lord. Even Augustin so interprets the passage ; but there are two of the earlier Fathers more explicit. Origen declares, " lie is the rock, whosoever is the disciple of Jesus; upon such a rock all ecclesiastical learning is built. If you think the whole Church is built solely on St. Peter, what then will you say of John Boa nerges and of every one 'of the Apostles ? Shalt we dare to say that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against Saint Peter only ? Or are the keys of the kingdom of Heaven given only unto . him ?" Saint Jerome also says, " Bishops and priests, not understanding this text take upon, them some part of the proud look of the Phari sees." Again.--" You will say the Church is ; founded upon St. Peter, though the same thing, in another text, is affirmed of all the Apostles, and that the strength of the Church is equally settled upon them ;" and again, " Wherever a Bishop is whether at Rome or Constantinople,&c, he is of the same,worth and priesthood ; the force of wealth and lowness of poverty makes not a Bishop higher or lower, for all of them are suc cessors of the Apostles." After all the pre-eminence which the Ro manists can trace in the word, it is . only in the favour of Peter in his own person, and tint its any of these his successors, as they represent themselves ; and which even if they are, they are no more entitled to this pre-eminence than ' any of the Bishops who presided in the other Churches. Even the great Cardinal, who has taken so • much pains to exalt the Pope of Rome as high as he can, is obliged to confess, that though some distinction is'bestawed on Peter by that word, yet there is not a syllable in it to esta ' blish the title of the Pope as his successor, and sends us for authority to his favourite traditions. This is the same Bellarmine, who yet exalts the Pope above the Divinity, and proclaims him to have more than the power of Omnipotence to " make virtue vice, and vice virtue." I am glad to see the account here given of the Church so entirely agree with the sentiments of a Prelate now living, whom I am always proud to have on my side, and who has ever fought the Philistine with success, in whatever shape or period of his life he arises—whether in the form of a Romanist or a Methodist, the latter of whom pretends to hold the former in the greatest abomination, and yet often is found—as extremes will meet—in nearly the same errors. On this occasion I am happy to confirm the opinion formed from looking into the ancient authorities, by an authority so highly esteemed by all who have the real interest of the realls- Catholic Church at heart, and desire to see it de fended, not only from the broad and open attacks of the enemy without, but from those subtler and more undermining enemies, which are at work against it in its own bosom. To this particular point of the Pope's supremacy, how strong and plain is his language :—" Though the Church at large," says he, " was built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ him. self being the chief corner stone ; and though St. Peter in particular may b e regarded as a Ro c k, . and the primitive church, as formed at Jerusalem, was originally founded, yet between these pre mises and the inference that die Church of Rome is the supreme church, some intermediate posi tions are required which are either frivolous or false., As the primitive church at Jerusalem was . the mother of all churches, so, all particular churches, or the universal church, may be justly said to be included in our Saviour's prophecy. But then the Church of Rome will be included only in cwilmon with other churches, and cat} have no claim to be considered as meant' especially by our Saviour. And, with re-' spec to the position, that the Church of Ro - me itself was founded by Saint Peter,'it is wholly destitute of truth. If Saint Peter was ever at Rome, it is manifest both front the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles of Paul, that Saint Paul must have arrived the . re* before him ; and the Epistle to the Romans proves incontestably that the Church of Rome was not' founded by St. Peter ; but, even if it was, the: Church of Rome was no more entitled to supre-' macy oa that account than the Church of Jerir:; salem. Nor was it more entitled than than Churches of Ephesus, Thessalonica, and other Churches founded by St. Paul, whose authority was not inferior to that of St. Peter. Still less was it entitled to that supremacy from the mete circumstance that Saint Peter presided over the Church of Rame, for the same argument would give supremacy to every other Church over which either St. Peter or St. Paul presided." A PROTESTANT. (To be continued.) MERCANTILE SHIPPING. DEAL, FEB. 21.,--Wind N. N.W.—Arrived th e Ap o ll q , Blyth, from Berbice. Passed through the Clio, Foreman, for St. Vincent's. The whole of the outward-bound have sailed in the course of the day ; also a large fleet from Ramsgate har. hour. A ship from the Westward with " Elizabeth'' in, her fore-topsail passed up to-day. PORTSMOUTH, FEU. 21.—Calm.—No arrivals or stabiles." PLYMOUTH, FEB. 20.—Wind S.—Arrived the Louis.{, Marmion, from St. Michael's in 16 days. Off the por t . , the_ . Martha, Edwards, from New York in 24 d a y s , for Am ster .. i .. alli F AL MOUTH, FEB. 20.—Wi n d nezer, Bustard, for Jersey. the ,L;be.. Off Plymouth the Teneriffe packet, from Ten mo T u l t i h e t H he on i9 C ti o i m in P s a ta n n y t 's ship Inglis fancied her pilot off Sid_ On Friday the l 1 th in s g t. ra j nd (ll l i e:ee r o j t r: t v h i e s :ri r xh ° it i: TIMER, Esq. was called to the 13ar by the 4onourable &.! ciety of the Middle . Temple. 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