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To he seen at the Manufactory, l 67, FLEET-STREET, Price 80s. and upwards. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. It seems that tL.re is little hope that the absentee of Tuesday and Thursday last will pay. He promises for rest Oc:.ober, but we doubt him much. There are two or three wbc will save by the event, as unless h appears to pay, he cannot, of course, receive. One gentleman loses two thousand to him.—The betting yesterday was confined to the Oatlands Stakes, (to be decided this day at Ascot Heath), on which it was brisk at the under-men tioned odds. Nothing of moment was done on the St. Leger ; but as some bets have been made between Thurs day and yesterday, we have subjoined the odds. The Derby and Oaks of next year, are as yet quite out of the question. OATLANDS—(ASCOT, THIS DAr.) 3 to I agst Dervise 8 to 1 agst Syntax 5 to 1 agst Adeliza 8 to 1 agst Monarch 7 to 1 agst Garcia 10 to 1 agst Black Swan 7 to 1 agst Royal Oak 10 to 1 agst Upaa Memnon and El Dorado do not run. . - JULY STAKES-EWMARKET). 7 to 2 on the ST. LEGER. 0 to 1 agst Granby 20 to 1 agst Lunaria 10 to 1 agst Mameluke 20 to 1 agst Matilda 10 to 1 agst Nonplus 20 to 1 agst Malek 10 to 1 agst Reviewer 25 to 1 agst Pedlar 20 to 1 agst Glenartney 25 to 1 agst any other. The following horses are named for the King's Plate to be run for at Ascot this day : Duke of Grafton's Dervise Marquis of Exeter's Hobgoblin Earl of Egremont's Chateau Margaux Marquis of Tavistock's Leeway Mr. Heathcote's Nigel. THE BAR. We have received information that his Majesty has been pleased to direct the following promotions at the Bar :-- NORTHERN CIRCUIT-Mr. Sergeant Cross to be King's Sergeant ; F. Pollock, Esq. King's Counsel ; D. F. Jones, Esq. Sergeant at Law. WESTERN CIRCUIT-Mr. Sergeant Wilde, King's Ser geant ; C. F. Williams, Esq. King's Counsel ; Thomas Erskine, Esq. Do. ; H. A. Mereweather, Esq. Sergeant at Law. °xi-oar) CIRCUIT--J. Campbell, Esq. King's Counsel ; Horace Twigs, Esq. Do. ; W. Oldnall Russell, Esq. Ser geant at Law. HOME CIRCUIT—Mr. Sergeant Taddy, King's Sergeant; H. J. Stephen, Esq. Sergeaot at Law. NORFOLK CIRCUIT—H. Storks, Esq. Sergeant at Law. MIDLAND CIACUIT—No promotion. It is understood, that Mr. Sergeant Taddy and Mr. Twiss will quit their respective circuits on receiving their promotion. The new King's Counsel ale to take the oaths before the Lord Chancellor on Wednesday next, and the new Ser geants the oaths and their seats in the Court of Common Pleas, on the first day of the ensuing term—(Friday.)— Morning, Herald. MUTINY IN AN EMIGRANT VESSEL. (From the Limerick Evening Post.) The Paqfic, of this port, James Brown, com mander, which left Cork about three weeks since with passengers, for Quebec, put into Labasheeda bay on Sunday evening. The cause of her re turn was owing to a general mutiny having broken out amongst the passengers off the coast of Spain, it being their intention to rob Mr. John Afoore, of this city, who was supercargo, as they believed he was in possession of a large sum of money amounting to 5,000 sovereigns, and then to run the vessel on the coast of France. So intent were they on prosecuting their design, 'that they would not allow the top-mast or spars that were carried away, to be replaced, and actually lowered Mr. Moore over the side of the vessel for the purpose of forcing him to give the money. He would have perished by their hands, but for the interposition of the mate of the vessel, who, at the risk of bringing their vengeance on himself, persuaded them from their purpose. They were about murdering him for having interfered. Great barbarity was used to wards the crew, the mutineers deprived them of their provisions, and at the same time compelled them to work the vessel, and steer her, as they imagined, into France. The mate assured the mutineers that they were making for France, while he was actually bringing them into the Shannon. Some of the mutineers are in custody, and an investigation i , about being made into the parti culars cf this extraordinary transaction. Mr. ill from is confined to his bed, being serio usl y from the severe treatment he received. WRESTLING.—The wrestling match on the Hoe was concluded on Thursday, after a contest of four days. There were some fine falls, but the interest was not well kept up. Woollaway won the first prize of 101.; May, a marine, the second of 5/. ; John Wyatt, third of 31.; and Glanville the fourth of 11. The wrestling at Broad clist, on Monday and Tuesday, afforded some excellent sport. The first prize of 71. was won by Wreford—the second was awarded to Under down—Fry bad the third prize, and the other double-players received 10s. each. In clearing the burial-ground at Millbrook, for the purpose of enlarging the church, a large oak coffin was dug up, which, having no head stone near it, and although perfect, bore the marks of great age, was opened, and, to the astonishment of the attendants, was found to contain three large round stones, but neither body or bones. No clue to the discovery of this anomalous circumstance has yet been ob tained, and, as the age of the coffin gives a ne gative to the assumption of its being an act of resurrectionists, we apprehend it will be in vain to Puzzle our heads about it, although a cor respondent asserts it ascribable to ossification, which bones, even in the natural body have so great a tendency to.—Southampton Herald. TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1827. LETTERS FROM HIS LATE MAJESTY TO THE LATE LORD KENYON, ON THE CIORONATION OATH, WITH ILLS LORDSHIP ' S ANSWERS : AP fD LETTERS OF THE RIGHT HON. W. FITT TO HIS LATE NIAJESTY, WITH HIS LATE MAJESTY'S ANSWERS, PREVIOUS TO THE DISSOLU TION OF THE MINISTRY IN 1801. CORONATION OATH. 1 NV. & M. C. fj. The Archbishop or Bishop shall say Will you solemnly promise and swewc to govern the people of this Kingdom of Englanil, and the dominions thereto belonging, according t.o the Statutes in Par liament agreed on, and the Laws and Customs o f the same ?" The King and Queen e,hall say :—" I solemnly promise so to do." Archbishop or Bishop, :—" Will you to the utmost of your power cause Law and Justice in Mercy to be executed it i all your Judgments ?" Kind and Queen :—" I will." Archbishop or Bish op :—" Will you to the ut most of your power m aintain the Laws of God, the true profession of tb e Gospel and the Protestant Reformed Religion e!itablished by Law ? And will you preserve unto t he Bishops and Clergy of this Realm, and to thf: Churches committed to their charge, all such Iliuhts and Privileges as by Law do or shall appertain T into them, or any of them ?" King and Qucfm.—" All this I pr_.aise to do." After this the King and Queen, laying his and her hand upon the Holy Gospels, shall say, — King and Coven.—" The things which I have irerebefore prouaised, I will perform and keep. So help vie God." No. 1. TO THE LORD KENYON. Queen's-House, March 7, 1795. The question that has been so improperly patron ized by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in favour of the PapistF,, though certainly very properly silenced here, yet i t seems not to have been viewed in whe seems to me the strongest point of view, its mili tating aginst the Coronation Oath and many exist ing Statutes. I have therefore stated the accompa nying qu cries on paper, to which I desire the Lord Kenyon. will, after due consideration, state his opi nion in the same manner, and should be glad if he would also acquire the sentiments of the Attorney- General on this most serious subject. GEORG. R. No. 11. THE QUERIES REFERRED TO IN No. I. (WRITTEN BY THE KING'S HAND. ) The following Queries on the present attempt to abolish all distinctions in Religion in Ireland, with the intention of favouring the Roman Catholics in that Kingdom, are stated from the desire of learn ing whether this can be done without affecting the Constitution of this country ; if not, there is no oc casion to view whether this measure in itself be not highly improper. The only laws which now affect the Papists in Ireland are the Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity, the Test Act, and the Bill of Rights. It seems to require very serious investigation how far the King can give his assent to a Repeal of any one of those Acts, without a breach of his Coronation Oath, and of the Articles of Union with Scotland. The construction put on the Coronation Oath by the Parliament at the Revolution seems strongly marked in the Journals of the House of Commons, when the Clause by way of Rider to the Bill (28th March, 1689, Commons' Journals #) establishing the Coronation Oath, declaring that no thing contained in it should be construed to bind down the King and Queen, their Heirs and Succes sors, not to give the Royal Assent to any Bill for qualifying the Act of Uniformity so far as to render it palatable to Protestant Dissenters, and the Clause was negatived upon a division. This leads to the implication that the Coronation Oath was under stood at the Revolution to bind the Crown not to assent to any Repeal of any of the existing laws at the Revolution, or which were then enacted, for the maintenance and defence of the Protestant Religion as by law established. If the Oath was understood to bind the Crown not to assent to the repeal of the Act of Uniformity in favour of Protestant Dissenters, it would seem to bind the Crown full as strongly not to assent to the repeal of the Act of Supremacy, or the Test Act, in favour of Roman Catholics. Another question arises from the provisions of the Act limiting the Succession to the Crown, by which a forfeiture of the Crown is expressly enacted, if the King upon the Throne should hold communication with, or be reconciled to the Church of Rome. May not the repeal of the Act of Supremacy, and the establishing the Popish Religion in any of the Hereditary Dominions, be construed as amounting to a reconciliation with the Church of Rome? 'Would not the Chancellor of England incur some risk in affixing the Great Seal to a Bill for giving the Pope a concurrent Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction with the King ? By the Articles of Union with Scotland it is de clared to be an essential and fundamental article, that the King of Great Britain shall maintain the Church of England, as by law established, in England, Ire• land, and Berwick-upon-Tweed. The bargain made by England, in 1782, by Yel verton's Act, gives rise to the question, whether the repeal of any of the English Statutes adopted by that Act, would not he a direct violation of the compact made by the Parliament of Ireland with Great Britain. No. 111. ANSWER TO NOS. I. AND 11. Lord Kenyon receired your Majesty's commands when he was in the country. He came immediately to town, and Meioses what has occurred to him upon the question. He has conferred with the Attoniey- General, Lad believes there is not any difference in opinion between them. They are neither of then' apprised what was the extent of the alteration meditated to be made in Ireland. _ _ Your Majesty's most obliged and dutiful subject, March 11, 1795. KENYON. [aNcLo..En IN No. 3.] The Act for the Union of England and Scotland has made the Church Establishments in the two countries essential and fundamental parts of the 0 The Extract from the Commons Journals, alluded to by his Majesty. " Jovis, 28 die Martii, 1 Willielmi et Marif.±." A.D. 1689, Coronation Oath. The Bill for establishing the Coronation Oath was read the third time. A Proviso, ingrossed, was offered, as a Rider, to be made part of the Bill, which was read the first time ; and is as follows : " Provided always, and be it hereby declared, that no Clause in this Act shall be understood so to bind the Kings and Queens of this Realm, as to prevent their giving their Royal Assent to any Bill which shall, at any time, be offer ed by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the taking away or altering any Form or Ceremony in the Established Church, so as the Doctrines of the said Church, a public Liturgy, and the Episcopal Government of it, be preserved." A Debate arose thereupon. The Debate upon the Proviso, offered to he made part of the Bill for establishing the Coronation Oath, was re sumed. And the question being put, That the Proviso be read a second time : It passed in the negative. Resolved, That the Bill do pass; and that the title be, " Au Act for establishing the Coronation Oath." Union, and has declared that the Acts of the coun tries for securing the respective Church Govern ment shall be and continue at all times coming part of the terms of the Union—that I understand to be the necessary construction of the words of the Iltht section of the Act. The Coronation Oath, enacted in I William and Mary, requires the King to maintain the Protestant reformed religion established by Law. The Btl4 section of the Act of Union shows that by Religion established by Law, is meant the doc trine, worship, discipline, and government of the Church. This includes the King's Supremacy and the various orders of Ministers, and the prov►s►on which the State makes for the decent support of the Clergy. The doctrine and discipline are regu lated (inter alia) by the Acts of Uniformity, and the Liturgy as it stands enacted by the statute of 13 and 14 Car. 11. To overthrow any part of the Church Establish ment, as I have now stated, would, as it seems, militate against the Coronation Oath, as settled in the Stat. 1 W. and M. and the Act of Union, and contravene an essential and fundamental part of the Act of Union. In order to preserve the Established Church, several Laws have been enacted, subjecting those who dissented from the Established Church to penalties or disabilities; and the.4e have pressed sometimes upon cne denomination of Sectarists, and sometimes upon another, as the temper of the times or the supposed necessity of the case required— R.pists and Conventiclers have in their turns felt the rigour of Statute Law. 7i he statute of 22 Car. 2. c. 1. for preventing con venticles, a:.d other statutes of like tendency, ex isted at the time when the Coronation Oath was framed and enacted by 1 W. and M. c. 6., vet i►► the same Session of Parliament the law called the Tole ration Act was made. Several indulgences both in England and Ireland have been since granted to several denominations of persons dissenting from the Church of England. Those regulations have been supposed by the makers of them not to be hostile to the Church of England as by law established, but merely to repeal or lessen the rigour of penal statutes, which, though thought necessary at one season, were deemed inexpedient at another time and under different circumstances. So long as the King's Supremacy, and the main fabrick of the Act of Uniformity, the doctrine, dis cipline, and government of the Church of England, arc preserved as the national Church, and the pro vision for its Ministers kept as an appropriated fund, it seems that any ease given to Sectarists would not militate against the Coronation Oath or the Act of Union. The proviso, which was rejected on 28th March, 1789, as appears in 10th vol. of Commons' Journals, p. 69, might possibly be rejected as being . thought unnecessary : for it is observable from printed his tory, that in that very year a commission issued, au thorising several Bishops and other learned men to revise the Liturgy and Canons, and prepare such al terations as they should think expedient. Though the Test Act appears a very wise law, and in point of sound policy not to be departed from, yet it seems that it might be repealed, or altered, without any breach of the Coronation Oath, or Act of Union. The temporary Bills of Indemnity, which have so frequently passed, have in effect, from time to time, dispensed with it in some degree. It should seem that the Chancellor of Great-Bri tain would incur great risk in affixing the Great Seal to a Bill giving the Pope a concurrent Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction with the King. It would be contrary to the Coronation Oath, and subversive of a funda mental part of the Act of Union. No. IV. The King is much pleased with the diligence shown by the Lord Kenyon in answering the ques tions proposed to him ; but as he seems not fully ap prised of the extent of the present application of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, the King has thought it best to enclose a petition received yesterday, and the state of the question as drawn up by a Right Rev. Prelate of that Kingdom, on which the King wishes to have the Lord Kenyon's further opinion in w•riting. Queen's House, March 14, 1795. GEORG. R. No. V.—enclosed in No. IV. It has been confidently reported in Ireland, that in compliance with the unbounded requisition of the Roman Catholics, a Bill had been prepared to capacitate them to sit in Parliament without mak ing and subscribing the Declaration against Popery, or taking the Oath of Supremacy. This appears to be a direct violation of the English Act of the 30th Charles 11. statute 2, chap. I. ; which enacts, that no person shall sit or vote in Parliament, until he shall have taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Su premacy, and made, and subscribed, and audibly re peated, the Declaration against Popery therein con tained. Which Act as far as relates to the said Oaths and Declarations, was made the Law of Ire land, by the Irish Act of the 21st and 22d of Geo. 111. chap. 48. sect. 3.—lt also appears to be a re peal of the Declaration of the Bill of Rights, which are expressly enacted and established, " to stand and remain and be the Law of the realm for ever." —lt seems to be a repeal of the Act of Settle ment. " Whereby all the laws and statutes of the realm for securing the Established Religion were ratified and confirmed." Among which statutes so confirmed we must place the preceding Statutes of Charles 11. and the Declaration of the Bill of Rights.—lt appears also to be a direct violation of the Act of Union (.5 Anne, chap. 8.), by which the inviolate maintenance and preservation of the Esta blished Religion in Ireland is secured, by providing " that all and singular the Acts of Parliament then in force for the establishment and preservation of the Church, should remain and be in full force for ever. And it is further therein enacted, that this t 5 Anne, c. S. s. 11. " And it is hereby further en acted, that the Raid Act passed in this present Session of Parliament, intituled ' An Act for securing the Church of England as by Law established,' &c. and also the Act of Parliament of Scotland, intituled An Act for securing the Protestant Religion and Presbyterian Church Govern ment,' &c. be, and shall f6' ever be, held and adjudged to be and observed as fundamental and essential conditions of the said Union, &c. &c. ; and the said Act passed in this present Session of Parliament, &c. and also the said Act passed in the Parliament of Scotland, &c. are hereby enacted and ordained to be and continue in all times coming the com plete and entire Union of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland." S. S. " And be it further enacted, that for ever here after every King or Queen succeeding and coming to the Royal Government of the Kingdom of Great Britain, at his or her Coronation, shall, in the presence of all persons who shall be attending, &c. take and subscribe an Oath to main tain and preserve inviolable the said Settlement of the Church of England, and the Doctrine, Worship, Discipline and Government thereof, as by Law established within the Kingdoms of England and Ireland, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and the Territories thereunto belonging." The seventh section recites part of the Act intituled "An Act for securing the Church of England, as by law esta blished," of which the following is an extract That an Act made in the 13th year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth of famous memory, intituled An Act for the Ministers of the Church to be of sound religion ;' and also another Act made in the 18th year of the late King Charles 11. intituled An Act for the Uniformity of the Public Prayers,' &c. and all and singular other Acts of Parliament now in force, for the establishment and preservation of the Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, shall remain and be in full force for ever." PRICE 7D. Act, and all and every the things therein contained, be and shall for ever be holden to be a fundamental and essential part of the Union." It seems also that an inviolable observation of all these Statutes is made obligatory upon every King and Queen of the Realm by the Coronation Oath. Is it not advisable, therefore, to put an end at once to a claim that is inconsistent and incompatible with the terms of the original contract between the King and the People, and subversive of that part of the Constitution formed for the preservation of the Protestant Religion as established by Law ? The same great fundamental Statutes which secures the Rights and Liberties of the People, secure also the Protestant Reformed Religion as by law established; and if that part of them which secures our Religion is to be repealed now, what security remains for the preservation of our Civil Rights and liberties ? Is it not therefore necessary to extinguish such vain ex pectations by an explicit declaration—that they can not be complied with ? No. VI. ANSWER to Nos. 4 and 5. Lord Kenyon returns the Petition he was ho noured with, and his sentiments on the state of the Question which accompanied it. Your Majesty's most grateful and dutiful subje4 KENVON. [Enclosed in No. 6.] It is a general maxim that the Supreme Power of a State cannot limit itself. Either of the Houses of Parliament may, if they think proper, pass a Bill up to the extent of the most unreasor Ale requisition that can be made ; and, provided sound policy, and a sense of the duty they owe to the Established Religion of the country do not operate on their minds so as to prevent their doing what is improper, there is no Statute Law to prevent their entertaining and passing such Bill, to abolish Supremacy and the whole of the government and discipline of the Church of England, as now by Law established. Our ancestors did not suppose, at the time of the Revolution, that any danger was to be feared from these quarters; and, therefore, the Statute Book does not exact any promissory oath from the Members of the Houses of Parliament, binding them not to receive or pass Bills hostile to the Reformed Religion as by Law established. But that is not the case of the King. Recent miscon duct, in the reign of King James 11. had raised great jealousy ; and, therefore, the Coronation Oath exacts from the King an Oath to maintain the Laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant Reformed Religion Established by Law, &c. &c.** The state of the question with which I have beer: honoured, supposes that he requisition now made is a direct violation of the Statute of 30 Car. . st. 2. It certainly is inconsistent with that Law; and if it shall be yielded to, will, in effect, repeal it, though that Law, when it was made, was looked upon by the Legislature as necessary for the more effectual preserving the King's Person and Government, by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament. How far that law still continues a fence for the Church as by law established, must be judged of by those who are to act on the proposed repeal, if such a measure should be brought forward. Those who think it is an important and necessary part of the defence of the Established Church, may also think that the Coronation Oath was meant to pro vide against the King's consenting to the Repeal ; for though an Act for repealing the Statute of Charles 11. would not in itself break in upon the Established Church, yet it would facilitate steps which might. afterwards follow for that purpose, as by this means Papists might constitute a majority of each House of Parliament. It cannot well pass observation, that the whole system of Laws, as to the purpose of the present Inquiry, was to guard against the possible introduc tion of Popish influence into any branch of the Le gislature. As far as respects the Sovereign, it is guarded by the oath he takes; and with respect to the Houses of Parliament, by the Declaration in 30 Car. 11. I am not aware what clauses in the Bill of Rights are supposed to be broken in upon by what is sug gestPd as likely to be proposed. The Statute of 12 and 13 W: c. 2ff, shows the great anxiety the Legislature then had to guard against Popery. But here again the question re curs, how is the supreme power of the country bound ?—The two Houses of Parliament are not under any promissory oath—that obligation has been extended to the King only. This statute of Wm. 111. has done no more, as far as respects the present question, than the former Statutes had done. The Paper I before sent stated, I believe, what then occurred, and all that at present occurs on the Statute of Union. In short, the question resolves itself to this :—Will the proposed Act violate that Oath, which promises to promote and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as it was at the time of the Union by law established within the kingdoms of England and Ireland, &c. The Petition expresses apprehension of proscription, persecution, and oppression. All grounds of such apprehensions, if such there really are, may be safely removed, if the late benefits, which the Petition admits, have not removed them, without endanger- ing the Established Church, or violating the Coro nation Oath. I will, out of anxiety, add one word more. It seems to me, that the judgment of the person who takes the Coronation Oath must determine whe ther any particular Statute proposed does destroy the Government of the Established Church. It seems that the Oath, couched in the general terms in which it is found, does not preclude the party sworn from exercising a judgment, whether that which he is bound to maintain will be essen *6 Extracts from the "Debate on the Coronation Oath" (Par]. Hist. v. 5, p. 200) : Mr. Hampden, jun. " The King swears positively to the true profession of the Gospel, that is, the Christian Reli gion as it is against Popery; and in this is the stress of all your oath. Protestant is looked upon as a word hononra ';le ; and, not only the word, but the thing, to the last drop of blood. It is every body's endeavour to keep up the Reformation, and avoid returning into Popery." Mr. Godolphin. " All our securities rest upon the King's conscientiousness. I would not put in the words (is or shall be established by law), because I would not leave a doubt, if it is not the intention of the llouse to alter the Religion established by Law." Mr. Somers : "The question is, to add the words, shall be established by law.' I desire the addition for great regard to the Legislature. In the former paragraph, it is ' statutes, and laws, and customs in being,' in the other establishment. He that gives his consent to take away does not maintain them." Mr. Pollexfen : "We frame an Oath, not for ourselves, but for the King ; and he ought to be satisfied ; the King is tender of what he promises—much more of his Oath." Sir Henry Capel : "Itis a tender thing to make a Law ; but in an Oath, for another person to take, it is always a rule to express the thing plain." Sir Thomas Clarges " Whilst a sort of men, that pro fessed the Protestant Religion, joined with Popery lately in the Declaration, and write and profess that the Penal Laws ought to be taken away, now you are makinL an Oath honestly and plainly to explain it to the world." t Commonly called " The Act of Settlement," and intituled "An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject." 0,-0:::,„, ~:- la_ :_-,.•.-,.____„ :_ii,,: iv\ . e ..„,,.4::,:,;;,_,_.,_,:.7.,,.: \ ,,..,..,,..4. tially or in .471. 1 -,,, ~x - , ~ by pe pivoted measure. ' --.. ...''.;.::. i'' 4 . :T.4 l ':' .". • A.—LETTERPF : i . ! , . - t,'!', . 6-- - 1113„ a pVTE KING. Doorn:treitt, '-' ‘ :: ' ..ii: 4 :115 1, 1801. Mr. Pitt would We Celt lt, it all events, his duty, previous to the meeting of Parliament, to submit to your Majesty the result of the best consideration which your confidential Servants could give to the important questions respecting the Catholics and Dissenters, which must naturally be agitated in con sequence of the Union. The knowledge of your Majesty's general indisposition to any clmnge of the laws on this subject would have made this a painful task to him ; and it is become much more so by learn ing from some of his colleagues, and from tither quar ters, within these few days, the extent to which your Majesty entertains, and has declared, that sentitri:Pt• He trusts your Majesty will believe, that every principle of duty, gratitude, and attachment, must make him look to your Majesty's ease and satisfac tion, :,1 preference to all considerations, but those arising from a sense of what in his honest opinion is due to the real interest of your Majesty and your dominions. Under the impression of that opinion, he has concurred in what appeared to be theprevailine• sentiments of the majority of the Cabinet—that th e e admission of the Catholics and Dissenters to offices, and of the Catholics to Parliament (from which latter the Dissenters are now excluded), would, under certain conditicns to be specified, be highly advisable, with a view to the tranquillity and im provement of Ireland, and to the general interest of the United Kingdom. For himself, he is, on full consideration, con vinced that the measure would be attended with no danger to the Established Church, or to the Protestant interest in Great Britain or Ireland :—that now the Union has taken place, ar.d with the new provisions which would make part of the plan, it could never give any such weight in office, or in Parliatnenti either to Catholics or Dissenters, as could give theth any new means (if they were so disposed) of attack. ing the Establishment :—that the grounds on which the laws of exclusion now remaining were founded. have long teen narrowed, and are since the Uniort removed :—that those principles, formerly held by the Catholics, which made them be considered as politically dangerous, have been for a course of time gradually declining, and, among the higher orders' particularly, they have ceased to prevail :—that the obnoxious tenets are disclaimed in the most positive manner by the oaths, which have been re:ilnred Great Britain, and st• 11 more by ene of those required. i r Ireland, as the col dition of the indulgences already granted, and which might equally be mads the condi.' tion of any new ones :—that if such an Oath, containing (among other provisions) a denial of the power of Absolution from its obligations, is not a security from Catholics, the sacramental test is not more so : That the political circumstances under which the exclusive laws originated, arising either from the conflicting power of hostile and nearly be lanced sects, from the apprehension of a Popish Queen or Successor, a disputed succession and :s foreign Pretender, and a division in Europe between Catholic and Protestant Powers, are no longer appli cable to the present state of things : That with re spect to those of the Dissenters, who, it is feared, entertain principles dangerous to the Constitution, a distinct political test, pointed against the doctrine of modern J'cobinism, would be a much more just and more eiTectual security, than that which now exists, which may operate to the exclusion of conscientious persons well affected to the State, and is no guard against those of an opposite description That with respect to the Catholics of Leland, ano ther most important additional security, and one of which the effect would continually increase, might be provided, by gradually attaching the Popish Clergy m the Government, and, for this purpose, making them dependent for a part of their provision (under proper regulations) on the State, and by also sub jecting them to superintendence and control :—That, besides these provisions, the general interests of the Established Church, and the security of the Constis tution and Government, might be effectually strength ened by requiring the Political Test, before referred from the preachers of all Catholic or Dissenting Congregations, and from the Teachers of Schools of every denomination. It is on these principles Mr. Pitt humbly , !onceives a new security might be obtained for the Civil and Ecclesiastical Constitution of this country, more applicable to the present circumstances, more free from objection, and more effectual in itself, than any which now exists; and which would, at the same time, admit of ex tending such indulgences, as must conciliate the higher orders of the Catholics, and by furnishing to a large class of your Majesty's Irish subjects a proof of the good-will of the United Parliament, afford the best chance of giving full effect to the great ob ject of the Union—that of tranquillizing Irelard, and attaching it to this country. It is with inexpressible regret, after all he now knows of your Majesty's sentiments, that Mr. Pitt troubles your Majesty, thus at large, with the gene ral grounds of his opinion, and finds himself obliged to add, that this opinion is unalterably fixed in his mind. It must, therefore, ultimately guide his poli tical conduct, if it should be your Majesty's plea sure, that, after thus presuming to open himself fully to your Majesty, he should remain in that respon sible situation, in which your Majesty has so long condescended graciously and favourably to accept his services. It will afford him, indeed, a great re lief and satisfaction, if he may be allowed to hope, that your Majesty will deign maturely to weigh what he has now humbly submitted, and to call for any explanation, which any parts of it may appear to require. In the interval which your Majesty may wish for consideration, he will not, on his part, importune your Majesty with my unnecessary reference to the subject; and will fe2l it his duty to abstain, himself, from all agitation of this subject in Parliament, and to prevent it, as far as depends on him, on the part of others. If, on the result of such consideration, your Majesty's object.ons to the measure proposed should not be removeil, or sufficiently diminished to admit of its being brought forward with your Ma jesty's full concurrence, and with the whole weight of Government, it must be personally Mr. Pitt's first wish to be released from a situation, which he is conscious that, under such circumstances, he could not continue to fill but with the greatest disad vantage. At the same time, after the gracious intimation, which has been recently conveyed to him, of your Majesty's sentiments on this point, he will be ac quitted of presumption in adding, that if the chicf difficulties of the present crisis should not then be surmounted, or very materially diminished, and if your Majesty should continue to think, that his humble exertions could, in any degree, contribute to conducting. them to a favourable issue, there is no personal difficulty to which he will not rather sub mit, than withdraw himself at such a moment from your Majesty's service. He would eren, in such a case, continue for such a short further interval as might be n ecessary, to °pose the agitation or discussion of the question, as far as he can consistently with the line, to which he feels bound uniformly to adhere, of reserving to himself a full latitude on the prin ciple itself, and objecting only to the time, and to the temper and circumstances of the moment. But he must entreat that, on this supposition, it may be distinctly understood, that he can remain in office no longer than till the issue (which he trusts on every account will be a speedy one) of the crisis now depending, shall admit of your Majesty's more easily forming a new arrangement; and that he will then receive your Majesty's permission to carry with him into a private situation that affectionate and grateful attachment, which your Majesty's goodness f or a l o ng course of years has impressed on his mind—and that unabated zeal for the ease and honour of your Majesty's Government, and for the public service, which, he trusts, will always govern his conduct. lie has only to entreat your Majesty's pardon for troubling you on one other point, and taking the i liberty of most respectfully, but explicitly, submit.