The Sun. — London, England, 1821-02-27 00:00:00

;~"' -3,-; it! VI. J~ ~.~ :~~ - k 2 j NUMBER 5894.] OFFICE Or ORDNANCE, July 31, Isea. THE PUBLIC 'are h e reby informed thA Thirty-seven PLATES of the 'OIIDNANtIE'SURVEY •f GREAT BRITAIN, carried on under the Superintendence of the late Major-General WILLIAM NUDGE. II:D. F.R. and A.S., are now ooniplete, and that IMPRESSIONS from them *resin Sale at the ORDNANCE MAP OFFICE, is the TOWER of LONDON, arid also at WILLIAM FADEN'S, Geographer to his Majesty, and Agent to the Board of Ord nance, at CHARING-CROSS. These PLATES contain the Counties of kent, Essex, Ilussea, Hants, Dorsrt, Devon, and Cornwall, and pro,or lions of Somerset, Surrey, Pembroke, Cardigan, Carmarthen, Glamorgan, Wilts, Becks, 'Middlesex, Suffolk, Hertford, and Cambridge. Part IX. containing nearly the whole of Pembrokeshire, and portions of the affluent k;91191,44, was.pnitlished -on the tat of August. 1819, and a. the. Work is still in progress. ac cording to the original Design of gist - 0g a complete Map of Great Britain npon a Scale of one inch -to a Mile. the Publication of the haute parts - will follow as fast as ttte na ture of such a Work will ;intuit, without increasing the an nual Expense. r ,. G tletneti wishing to procure a Map of the Country sur n-Aftvnting their own habitations, may, by-application t o Mr. ; -;7se.lt, at the Ordnance Map Office. (where au Index Map he shown) select atiy sheets they please, for that purpose. All Letters on this subject, addressed to Mr. Baker, under M„ corer to th e Secretary of the Board ot.Ordnance, Pall Mall, will be iuimediately attended to. By Order of the Board, R. U. CREW, Sec. PUBLIC DINNER. HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. WINCH eSTEa. FEB. 94. II IS Grace the DUKE of WELLINGTON having accepted an invitation to DINE with the GEN .II.EMEN in the Commission of the Peace, and DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS of the- COUNTY of - HANTSs—the DIN -Agit will take place at Winchester, on Monday the sth of March, and a BALL wilrbe given on the evening of Tuesday, the 6th of March, under the direction of the under-named Stewards : The M arq. of Buckingham •; The Earl of Northesk The Earl of Cavan Viscount Palmerston • Right Hon. Lord Rodney Right Hon. W.S. Bourn e Sir It. H. Vivian, John Fleming, G• P. Jervoise, Esq. Thoq. Asheton Smith, Esq. tlliatn Chute, Esq. • - Hans Sloane, Esq. Winvaist mit 6, r d, E sq . p aolet St, J. Nlildmay, Esq. ( ;(*.rge Eyre, Esq. Charles Michel, Esq. Joseph May, Etkif• Ticktts of admission to the Half each, are to ;he had 'Ton Managing Committee of Stess Winchester, on or hvfdre 'rut Gentleman not beinK in the Cot Deputy Lieutenant, who is tiesi is requested to apply as above, t to make arrangements for arc of Persons than the Gentlemen _Deputy Lieutenants may amout C.."T Ticket s for the Ball, at by the Managing Committee. Sir L. Worley riohnes, Bart. Sir Thos. Ileatlicote. Bart. Sir Charles Flalse, Bart. Sir J. W. S. Garitiller, Bart. Sir Peter Pole, [last. Sir Thomas Miring, Bait Sir Lucius Curtis, tlart. Sir Charles Ode Bart. Thomas Deane Sbute, Esti. Rev. William Gamier Walter Long, Esq. James Scott, Esq. Combe Compton, Esq. Andrew IL Drummond, Esq. William Fitzhugh, Esq. George Ward, Esq. D. Grwme, Esq. Dinner at Otte Guinea and a i application, by letter, to the yards, at the White Hart Inn, ►ursday Ist March —And any 'omission of the Peace. nor a irons of atteuding s t he Dinner, the Stewards hoping to be able :ommodating a larger number in the Commission and the at to. 7s. each, will also be delivered 50, Smith Street, King's-Road, Chelsea, CON. Nov. 27,1820. °I . a Letter from the Countess DUNDONALO, to Mrs. j( niNSON, Proprietor of the AMERICAN SOOTHING S YRUP. LADY DUNDONALD haiing witnessed the wonderful effeets,:..pf Mr's. JOHNSON'S SOOTH sykup in her own Infant Daughter, now eight months tn aff,.rding almost instantaneous relief, When her dear `hel d had b een in paroxysms of pain arising from the Cuttin „ f h e e o . 'ell., she thinks it incumbent on her to acknowledge 1,. „ 'weaey of Mts. JOHNSON'S :SOOTHING SYRUP, and recommend the sante as an invaluable Recipe to all Mo prs fur their Infants, while suffering' from the pain of sti, Cuttin g ; an d M rs. J o h nson h as L a d y D un d una l d ' s f u ll pe,rjuis s i on to make this acknowledgment public. Re tail, I nvaluable Medicine to' be had, Wholesale and Re of the Proprietors, Johnson and Williams', '94, New ,!'")-street, Oxford-street ; and, by their appointment, of all 9".,e. principal Medicine Venders in Town mid Cuuntry, at 25. ",,,Per Bottle. •h_."•l3---Mrs. JOHNSON relieves the Poor, as usual, at her Tueust, every Tuesday and Saturday morning, from Nine till °'elnek, by bringing a Letter front a respectable House ...:‘P4r2 to cettify that they.are real objects of charity. To T. TAYLOR, Esq. No. 9, N e w B r idg e - s t r e e t, L o ndon. Holennaen SIR, BEG leave to inform you, that ever since the 1•04 ,Y e ar 1790, I had heels afflicted with the Lues Venereal, tiom its obstinately resisting every course tit medicine lee " 11151 by the most eminent of the faculty here, and - un ch z ,"int; severalsevere courses of salivation, and twice dis berd from the Hospital with little relief, would appear to ~ the most inveterate nature. In tl.c spring of last year to.'lloilsorder bad got to such a heados nearly to put a period ,in./s'xistence-1 had a large ulcer on the crown of my head, each arm, and my legs were brake out in,a frightful sta tt l " ; my right was dreadfully painful, and had been in a lav„ i."f ulceration for the last seven years ; my left had also , 4 41. ,e nodes on it, was very much discoloured, and gave uxcruciating pain, particularly when warns in bed, *as ry ''''Y to deprive me of rest • its this lamentable state, I - Kre;tt " 4 "nended by Mr. J. i'llompson, (who received so wh• ich t e i li re by them here), to take your Leake!s Patent Pills, • tai,; egan to do 'on the 26th o. May ; in the course of a ,111 o▪ l' e n r a utk"t tt el7 bcgsaa to receive benefit—in little more than a " the ul cers on m y h ea d An d arms were soun dly healed— t, th e sores sus my legs healed also ; leaving, how -41,1 ' c"asid era bl ed i sco l ourat i on i n the s k in, an d pa i n i n the "1 the left,•which, by the blessing of God, am! a little th e ''' . Pet severance in your invaluable Medicine, subsided; tin / dispersing, the skin regaining its natural line, and otitTeturnal'pain gradually going thus became, by 4 r ,.. , t'cral advice and medicine, perfectly free from all my st,e:r co mplaints—have recovered my former spirits a lid e r , tit ,gt l l, and am become jot!) , and fat, in which state having ; i.e. :lilted many months, to the astonishment of all who knew ani at a loss in what terms to expresa my gratis ink, hut trg his S' o ut for the good of other suffering asortals, to make Ces" m y case as public as possible, as I shall on every occa in Si) doing you will greatly oblige, Sir, your grateful, obedient, very humble servant. _ • - 'ALEX. MUKKER S W l. an s Close, .High-street, Edinburgh. .1 is Witnesses to the above Cure:— .n Th•impson, No. 3, New Poultry Market, Edinburgh, i , John esi.liitosli, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh. 1 4 - , i ej•lireil and sold by the sole Proprietor, THOMAS TAY- Citf Member of the •Rt.yul College of Surgeons, at his :, Us e. No. 3, New Bridge-street., London; where, after a ''',%staitt. residence of ;florid than 40 years in a practice parti . Inarly directed to the cure ot Venereal dcmplaints and those Incidental to the Parts of Generation. with that inviolable Seticrecy which men of hi s p ro f ess i on silunitl always observe in sch cases, he flatters himself the advice and assistance he Krattiitously administers to persons t.iliiug this Medicine, will be estttmed, by a discerning; Public, as au advat.tage seldom at tainable, and vivid o f a ll am bi grtity. .. Also sold, by hi s appointment, tor the conveni ence o f t h ose brin g at a distance, at the Toyshop, N0..103, Oxford -street ; Mr. Dishorough's, No. 7, Fish-street-hill; Mr. • • Baxter, Nouth-bridge, Edinburgh • MI. Callwel 's, D u i, li n ; an d o f !m e p erson i n every considerable town Fn Great Britain and helsind, in boxes 'font*? 2s. 3d. each, stamped, and sealed u with full acid plain directions, whereby persons, of either te4 . L " 1 1,e4" t helziociTei with ease,!pstd i secrtcy, ;old safety. .I!LIBLICATIONS. NEW JOURNAL OF POPULAR MEDICINE. 011 the i it of March, will be published, price Is. tit] Numh.•r I. of • AMONTHLY JOURNAL of POPULAR MEDICINE, explaittint: the nature, causes, and pre- Tention of Disease, the immediate mana4ement sif aceidentQ, and the * means of preserving health COndacted by' CH .AS. THOS. HADEN, Surgeon to the thelstc'ind Brompton Dispensaryoktt. ; Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers%Conit. Contents ;—lntroductory Es , rte, Observations on Colds 4 the signi of health itml disease in Children, Measles, Cholera Marlins, Cnnsumption, Sprains, Erysipelas of the face, Guinea Wornt.i. the Cm:arian Operation, OA , • Treatment of Cancerous CoMplaints by pressure, Fever, the Cure of Fis tubing Sores in the Chreks, by dratthur Teeth, &c.—Besides an ample Digest of Information on Chemistry and Science in general. Also, just published by the same Author, PEACTICAL ow:Eltv.knoNs . on the 'COLCHICUM AUTUMNALK, as a SubStitute for Bleeding, &c. prim 4s. THIRD NUMBER of like NEW A, MONTHLY MAGAZINE, (NEW SERIES') for March I, enlarged and printed on a new and very improved . - I. The Friars of Dijon, a Tale, by T. Campbell, Esq.' 11. The Yemple and its Inhabitants. 111. Ott Dancing. IV. Readers - and Writers. V. The Bachelor's Theimometer VI. On; Collecting. VII. Thoughts on .Thinking. GllOStiallA, With a new Theory of Apparitions. SOX. Trouba dour Ptietry. X Novels of the Author of Don Quixote— The Iliti4trions Scullion. XI. The Fall of the Leaf, by the late Mts. John Hunter. XII. Narrative of the Captivity of Alexander Scott, among the wandering Arabs of the Great African I)esart. XIII. Germany Past and Present. XIV. On the prevailing taste fur Isolated Columns as Public Montt mentg. XV. Science of Political Economy. XVI.. Causes of the Present Stagnation of Colimeree : Statistical Viesv of Great Britain from 1814 to 1890. XVII. Itegister of Po lities. XVIII. Net Publications wills Critical •Reniarks. XIX, Fine Arts—British Institution Gallery. XX. The Drama. XXI. Varieties, Literary and Scientific. XXII. Rural Economy. XXIII. Foreign Varit ties--New Discover ies of the Abbe Maio—Ruins of Pompeii—Austrian Litera ture—Royal Literary Society of Warsaw. XXIV. Useful Arts—New Inventions and Discoveries—New Constructed pump —Method of restoring White Colou'r in Ancient 'Paint ings —Hints of Inventions—Light by. Friction even tinder Water,. &e..&c. XXIV. Reports, Literary, Meteorological, Agricultural, and Commercial. XXV. Interesting Occur rences. promotions, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, with I3i °graphical Particulars of Sir G, 0. Paul, Bart. Mr. Serjeant Hunnington,, Rev. H. Kipling, Mr. C. Arbuthnot; Sir G. Campbell, IVm. Noel, D.U. Mr. /Vim Walker, &c. eve r London : Printed fo r H enr y C u lh urn and Co. Conduit Street ; and retailed by all Booksellers and News Venders throughout the Kingdom. PIANOFORTES. 'PEDAL FT ARP, AND BARREL ORGANS. gn i ABTNET PIANOFORTE, not to he equalled for good Touch and Tone, shop price GO Guineas, fur 33 Guineas. Square Piano Forte, at 90 Guineas, and '24 Guineas. A Pedal Harp, as good as new, 45 Guineas, cost 75 Guineas. Grand Six Octave Horizontal, -cost 100 Guineas, for 75 Guineas.—Also two Barrel Organs for Church or Chapel, one at 50 Guineas,the other at 85 Guineas. Mr. WATLEN, 13, Leiester-prace, can with confidence r e • commend the abov,. Fnstraments to his Customers, being the best of their kind, and very great bargains. !ammo FOR THE SUN. 11 1 THE ROMAN CATIIOLIc: QUESTION. As many persons jtave been induced to sup port the Roman Gi. colic Claims under an idea that both Mr. PITT and Sir W. BLAcksTosrE were favourable to the concession, we beg to call the attention of our Readers to the following Ex tract from Mr. STOCKDXLE HARD Y'S late Pam phlet upon the subject, (first published in this Paper under the signature of Britannia's) which we think conclusive on this point.—Vide, " A Series of Letters addressed to a Friend upon the Roman Catholic Question." " You assert, as another reason why the Claims should be conceded, 'that the Laws sought to be repealed were merely made for temporary pur poses, which have long since ceased to exist, and that it is unjust any longer to retain them.' The authority of Judge Blackstone has been quoted for this opinion, but a reference to the works of that eminent lawyer will not justify the appeal. His words, when speaking upon this subject, are the following, and the caution displayed in them is particularly remarkable. Afterhaving explained the reasons which had induced the Legislature to enact several severe Laws ?which are Bow re pealed) against the Roman Catholics, the Learned Judge proceeds :—' But if a time should ever arrive, and perhaps it i not very distant, when all fears of a Pretender shall have vanished, and the power and influence of the Pope shall have become feeble, ridiculous, and despicable, not only in England, but in every Kingdom in Eu rope, it probably would not then be amiss to re view and soften these rigorous edicts ; at least till the civil principles of the Roman Catholics called again upon the Legislature to renew them.' Had Judge Blackstone lived at the pre sent day, I think there can be little diffe e rence of opinion as to what his sentiments would have been on the Roman Catholic Question. It is seen, that when the rights of Englishmen were entirely de nied to the Roman Catholics—when their persons, their religion, their properties, and their means of defence were withheld from them, he still enter tained some doubts as to the policy of repealing the existing laws, and evidently consikered himself as treading on tender ground, when hinting at such a repeal being made. The wish of the Learn ed Judge has been accomplished, as to the revi sion and amelioration of the rigorous edicts which were in force when he wrote his book ; and none are now left, except those which, in the almost immediate subsequent page to that wherein the above extract appears, he has denominated as " Bulwarks of the Constitution." * The authority of Sir William Blackstone is therefore decidedly in favour of the existing system ; the Penal Laws have been reviewed—they have been mitigated—:- those which were passed for temporary purposes have been repealed—and such only are left as are necessary for the preservation of the Pro testant Constitution. '' You have also attempted to connect the name of Mr. Pitt with the Roman Catholic Claims, by representing that great Statesman— that true Whig of 1688—as an advocate for their • Dl. Com. rol. 4. p. 57, su, 15th, edit. and Ditto, p. sg. - • - • , -Q-=•= • -.or- " - t*-- s w n • I.4‘,:t:A‘', • '`• -• Alfffl TUESDAY. .FEBRCARY ', 18.1. concession upon the groUnds we are now con sidering, I am itsVare that some have gone so far as to assert that a disthwt pledge was given to the Roman Catholics at the time the Union was projected, that their Claims should be grant ed ; but this assertion has been met by a direct contrary one on 04, part of a Ntiblit Lord (Castlereagh) wtr inok'a;very active and lead ing part in that Metnorable - question; and it has been clearly shewn that a pledge of mere con sideration and discussion, trot of concessiott„ was givert.t One or .the great objects &IticliMr. Pitt had-in viewten he projected the union of the two countries, was a fair, temperate, and Statesman-like dikussion of the Roman Catholic Claims. llis v4e would have been given for their consideration,: but hy'no means for their unlimited concession: That c 'rAstinguished indi vidual wished to feel the pulse of the English people, en the subject ; and had he lived to have done so effectually,'to have seen the almost uni versal disinclinatint which evinced itself to the measure, and the circumstances which attended the General` Election of 1807, he never would have sanctioned a proceeding to which he per ceived the English. 'Nation were so averse, and which was so little likely to be attended with benefit to the country. Mr. Pitt would never haye supported the Measure of concession with out most adequate securities being given ; and had he been spared to have witnessed the temper and disposition which were evinced, when securities much inferior to those which he would have probably required, Were proposed by the professed Parliamentary Advocate of the' Claims—to have seen them represented as indis pensable within the House of Commons,- and reprobated as unnecessary, degrading, and insult ing without, I think there can be little doubt as to the vote which . the Right Hon. Gentleman would have Nivel'. Ilk support to the'measnre would have been given under an 'idea of its forming a means of strength and alliance ; to do which, it must necessarily have been supported by the un animous assent of the nation at large. When, however, that lamented personage had found that this was not likely to; be the case, and that it would neither satisfy the Protestants on the one hand, nor the Roman Catholics on the other, he would never have opened a source of broils and dissensions, which would in all probability have concentrated themselves into a focus, from which nothing but angry pasSions, mutual criminations, and harassing recollections would haveissued." ♦ Vid. Printed Report Of Lord Castlereagh's Speech in the Honse of Conwons, '2sth May, 1810. W. Me e : Pitt's Speech iv the House of commons, asst Jaunary, 1 iP9. On introducing' the Proposition of th, VoioU between Great Britain and Ireland, and Gitiord's Life of Pitt, To t, a, p. 545. Tonilin,•'s Speech, delivered in Trinity Col lege Chapel, Cambriible, December title. 1806 THE CLERGY.----The Meeting of the District Committee for the Deanery of Droxford, in aid of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, held last Wednesday at Fareham, was numerous ly and respectably attended. Several important regulations were adopted, and a new Branch of the Committee was instituted at Droxford, where a depository of Bibles and Prayer Books will be immediately established. The Rev. Roberl Grant, Fellow of New College, and. Curate of Droxford, was appointed an additional Secretary for that part of the Deanery. The names of se veral new Subscribers were 'added to the list. One hundred guineas were transmitted to the Parent Society for the purchase of books; and we are happy to be able to report that 1-10 Bibles, 1100 Prayer 'Books, 200 Testaments, 100 Psal ters, and about 2000 Religious Tracts were cir culated last year by this Committee. OBSERVATORY, GOSPORT, FEB. 21.—(The New Coact.)—A Cornet made its,appearance here last evening, at 35 minutes past six o'clock, within two or three degrees of A ige'nit?, the last star in the wing of Pegasus. It is 32° to the East of the Sun, and sets • with Saturn soots after eight o'clock, about W. N.W. but is 181 9 to .the North of that planet. Its small light tutc/cus was surrounded by a diffused Cana three-fourths of degree in diameter by the sextant, and its per pendicular tail was nearly 4 9 in length when the coruscations were most vivid, through the upper part of which a small star of the sixth magnitude was perceived by the help of a telescope. `This is unquestionably the same Comet that Seigneur Pons, Astronomer of the Duchess of Lucca, dis covered in the constellation Pegasus, in the evening of the 21st ult. but which, to our kArilv edge, has not yet been seen by the English Astronomers. On Saturday a meeting date Inhabitants of Shoreham took place at the Star Inn, to consider of the propriety of making a new road from that place to Brighton. '1 he opinion or its im portance was unanimous; they. entered ' into a liberal subscription for . the necessary estimates and surveys. The Lottery AdvertiSments of Friday or Sa turday may be expected to contain curious infor mation, as it is well known, that previous to Va lentine's Day, every Ticket 'and Share was,sold, consequently the Public then had all the Capitals in their possession ; however, a few 'have been returned to the Office-keepers, .which are now selling to those who were before disappointed, and it may probably prove that all, or a part Of the Six 21,0001. are among them ; if so,',the Ad vertisments will perhaps - mention where they first went to, when returned, and to what places they were ultimately sold, as there is not a doubt they will all again fall to the Public.-;-- So popular is the Scheme, and the Wheel so un commonly rich, added. to the. certainty that at least Three of the 21,0001. Prizes must be drawn Next Thursday. ;14 4111 119 IL THE SUN. POiATICAL ttEMAI'sKS, ICotiOltd.: , ,i from oar Pap , ..r of T:stc.rtlay.l Mn. Entrro it—l send the conclusion of the remarks 1 extracted from a work published some ytiars ago, and Crust that the addition made to them will more directly point out. the. 'necessity of niaintuining the present regulations with respect to the admission of Metnbers of rariiftatent; to the exclusion of the Catholics. " Is it not essential to a gaot Romp CativAie to belim that his Priest hatit full power to absolve Lis -Tt4i.nly this is impossible. To prove it unnecessary. O this principle may he not perpetrate crimes, without l t or of cOliftience or anx iety as to consequenceS, since all the guilt incurred may be expiated at no great expenCe. I gral.t• that he is ntrienable .to fie law, and thattht furze of moral principle and terror of, the laws - may Operate as a sahttarycheck upoa lesseT crimes. But will Mt the influence of tiles,: moiives!be Much weakened; when Connected with the certainty of abS'Aution, and when the object of the crimeis the-ovorthrow of the, Protestant, and th e establishment of a Catholic succession.? • • " Is it not essential M :a sound nom of . , Catholic to practice auricular confession ? The fact is.iradispett chi' By this Mighty engine Catholic Priests acquire an exact kri:lWledge of the pre vailing inclinationi of their conftessingpenitts and the princi ples that govern their conduct. They became acquainted with the most delicate and important secrets of indiv„iduals andefuni lies, theyare furnished wits facilities for tit: carrying on of sedi tious projects without opposition, and possess tfie means, of di. recting the prejudices of their devotees to the furtherance of t heir own designs, and of imposing the most profound secresy upon all who are admitted into a cOnspiracy. Witness the re.. hellions and massacres in Ireland during two hundred years.— In some of their. fatal conspiracies ninny hundred persons were entrusted with the dreadful secret, and yet that secret was never divulged till the appointed day, when die Protestants were to be massacred, without regard to age, sex, rank, or relative con neetions. Witness the conduct of the French Catholics on the fatal eve of Ste Bartholomew. At a period when all ranks of Protestants considered hostilities at an end, andwhen they were engaged in celebrating the nuptials of a Protestant Prince and Catholic Princess, they were surprised at midnight, by the tolling of a bell in the Louvre, which was the signal for their slaughter and for the extirpation of the Protestant • Faith thrOughout the French King's' Doniinions : seventy thousand Protestants were slain, as the 'French King then boasted, within a few days ; and before ti e'slauglifer closed, it is suppOsed that 300,009 Protestant Martyik Were sa:Crifiejd. Although t na ture of this sanguinary project, anti even the day for itS'yerpe tration, with the particular signal for the commencement of its execution, were generally known among the Cadoilics e they re tained the secret inviolate within their own; brests, : pAltr "01 assumed every epoesiblez 11y-lice to ""qui" - 4 4 " 1511 * fidence of their devoted victims ".titte.h. was the fact, and it cannot .be contra.dieted a ta-That there are virtuous men among the !atholics, is not to be denied, but no amiableness of dietoosition in individuals can correct the decrees of infallible Coon ifs. The Legislature of our nwn country can recognise only official .documents of the Catholic fait i ; and can reeptlete their opinion of its spirit and tendency only by the effects it has produced in preceding ages.: Besides no regular, nor authorised recantation. of their principles has ever yet taken place ; nor.do the Catholics of the present day pretend: to mohiply the decisions of former Councils. On :the contrary, the opposition of the Catholic to all Other Chris tian associations, their union to the See of Rome, anti their ve neration for the authority of the -Pope, continue 'unaltered.— These are not bare assertions. But the times; say the Atlocates for Emancipation, are altered. New and more brilliant lights haVe appeared" to dispel the glooin of intolerance, to elucidate principles of civil and religious liberty; to lessen the supposed importance of articles of faith, which the mist of past ages had magnified, arid to diffuse a spirit of candOur; liberality; and be, nevolenee amongst all denominations' of Cliristians. I would ask these Gentlemen . what. effects these ,lights, unknown to former ages, have really produeed ; besides the scenes which France has witnessed. Ilave these brilliant lights poured their genial rays upon the Areitt nviSs of the Catholic population of Ire, land ; bro:ten the fatal chariri of priestly infltience ; dissolved the adamantine Chains of ancient infallible Councils, and raised Os?. degraded millions of oar fellow-creatures to moral dignity anti philosophical eminenee ? • " But since we are told that times, and circumstances, and men 'are changed, and that it is the wisdom of state policy to change with them, let it be granted.—But no change of times, circumstances, men, or mariners, can change decrees that arc unalterable. What measures then are the English and Irish Catholics to adopt in order to obtain complete Emancipation ? The answer is plain and obvious. They must cancel by autho thOrity equal to that by which they wete established, or at least by the highest authority of their Universal Church, convened in Council, those Decreed of forhier Councils, which strike at the very foundation of Peoteistant communities, for they must separate theinselves from all obligation to those obnoxious te nets which, as long as they are held, must exclude'every con.: sistent Catholic from poWer its the British Government ;" but this they will not do. Thus then, the cause which disqualifiei the Catholic from becoming a gember of Parliament, is his refusal to take the abjurathin - oath, the intent of which is well known and More over, the inenthers of thy Catholic . Church will not submit that it should be in the same situation hi which the Established Church is placed ; namely, miller the cOntroul of the civil go veinMent of this country. We will 'proceed to examine what would be the consequences, • supposing the Catholic queition was carried. The abjuration oath would no longer be admi nistered ;' consequently, in course Of time, the representatives of the peopled England will be under the influence of a Fo. reign Power, since the votes o f the Catholic's would be guided by 'the discretion of the Pope. It is. an important fact, and should lie maturely considered, that the Catholics have a. mil lion and 'a half of personal estate,' lying at present unapplied and accumulating ; with this the Catholics might purchase the greater number of the seats in the Boroughs of the Kingdom, since it is the highest price ensures them t the majority of the Boroughs are in the possession of the PRESENT Whigs ; and herein we may perceive the real principle of inducement to that Party to advocate Catholic Emancipation; as it is m 951 erro. • *FA: „ netattly.tleaihnini ted ;. for, thhit eateS tfaiehigh „neeeiuses width eiht too ethedftildarhate tot eirjrca; *the ecl:eitension thlitation to the Catholic's, heffeeteti ; Wittld furnish the 11 of • replaniShing aheint DIA :the only ' motive of that • Party, and- thus' they- wOuifi - teteriff eta -Pathnud to personal interests. In few years, 'according 'le: the -present -systeM maintained in tilt; BorOt e ffin, the majbrity of them would be sold into the Catholic fainiliei,and ;; few yeirs more their funds would be renewed, and tkia- would re turn, by the powerful bribe of money, the majority pt the County Mernb.-r..i, tipeb. the pres...ut us tem, ,'lf' . an'taili was talnainistei6ff tZ each returned representativ e , when la .cable -1 e to take his seat, -that neither directly ur indirectly, Lad he to his knowledge procured his retnia h bribery or correption 6 any kind, and that he neith e r now doss ner is faiurc intialis to reward the yoters by compensation of any sort, thrsi an ,oath to that purpose would effectually remove the d in that Nint, of view : the country would have men of genehte biota. naerit, character, and property, for its reprt.sentativ,; ; far-theiridneea meat now held out by bribery to voters to u vin II those who they imagine will pay beat, would be withdrawn ; the people would then choose tits man who in the County bore the highest charac.- , ter, and possessed attfficientteal property i for, they would say, wn t td t ei y ni st io n' i rn i e s l a w i: n isl s a a ind t s e, iala an e possessions do t i o u P his m t l i s wa t r t itt:on:joa:a -the ;:::::euxt• promote our interests. The above oath li the County bribery, and the presentßorough st - ater else;- end benefit the country ; then there could be noneedrplacemen;&e. and however an ambition to exalted situatiohs Might infitteece some, it is evident emolument could not he their object, ;end therefore we migl tt expect reduction in the reilaries attached to offices. It would be satisfactory even to the country, if a till Were passed to inquire into the state of Borough towns, as to tLir eleedve franchise; to curtail those that had illegally extended their righti, and those that had by usurpation or negligence been de prived of them might have them reentered. This miel.t be demonstrated in various . reasonings, too numenns now to display ; but since there are large and popoleus towns not represented, and others misrepusAtted, the last plan of the immortal Pitt, and illustrious for an ha provement in the representative system, might plausibly be 2,1. vanced, as most worthy of considefation at this time ; namely, to destroy the distinct elective franchises in Boroughs, and to add Knights in proportion, of those removed, to the counties. This was the main feature, rind worthy of a Sincere, impartial ; and principled Reformer, if ;such a one is ia reality to be found But I must return to the immediate subject now before me ; ti, a Author to whose work I :an referring, says,. 'suavest that after the Roman Catholics are athnitted to a share in the Legislature, one of them, so admitted, gairte the esteetn and confidence of IAI Sovereign, and is-chosen by him for his Prime Minister, and ee* is admitted to rule the Councils of the Nations' ' Will not the PrOtestants and Protestant Religinibe -Sortie dangell? Can the most zealous advocate for the Romfai C:t . t i te t stWir No ? I defy hien - IVA-hem helyhatte--hisaekwaseistsce prose far ther, what is not an impossible or improbable thine! ) tliet a Rins in hoer , a (%atholiceaseende the Throw, and het such t King has Roman Catholic .11Itenbers of tl• _A„.:11,11 liu . wihl havelis' confidence ? Who will guide his Cottail :.: and to what end will they be directed ?''To the the Ihoman Czttholie Religion, or that of Protestant ? Vet the_ Supporters of the Rmatin Catholics she: e Can thLiallitan that the Roman Catholics will not be the faVonrites, and tqreornan Catholic interests will not be preferred ? They cannon: Then I affirm that a more extended toleration, bylhedlacioua term Catholic Emancipation, is replete . with dauber,. and that it is infatuation to grant it. . -•a • - " But more than r have supposed may take place, for. not only a ROman Catholic in heart may ascend the Throne, but a Roman Catholic in professiOn too, for if you make lhornteh Ca tholic Legislators, will they not be able to alter nth Con oN A. TION OATH ? Or, if they should not succeed in this, would they not be almost in a, frenzy were the HeleApparent to, the Throne to be debarred because he might have embraced their religion ; and Should we not, on this account, be obliged to place him on the Throne, though he-were a professedßoman-Catholic. And when we had a Roman Catholic. King, and Roman Catho lic Members of the Legislature. what would hinder the Protes tant Establishment being destroyed, and a Roman entholie one established on its ruins, and persecutiOns against Piiitcsttuits being again conimenced ? An adyenturoits Woman Catholic might easily do this. Is it asked how ? First, he would dis solve the Parliament and use the influence of the Crown in pro. moting a return of Roman Catholic Members or favourers of his scheme, and what he wanted here he wouldanake up by bribery, set that he would procure a majority in the bus;.. of Commons. Next, 'as to the House. of Lords, he could, and, no doubt wotild, make Lords until he got a majority in that House, provided he could get it by no other menea ; and let it be rernern. tiered that the King cah legally make Lords at Iris pleasure, and as many as he will. Now, having thus procured a- majority in both Houses, what is to stop him in acceenplisliing his -designs ? Let me ask the members of .the Established Church and the Dissenters hoW they woald act ? Are you bad men or are you good men ? If bad men, your only source is to rebel ei f good men, you have no resource, for a good man knows it is Li s duty to submit to the powers that be., Now we may res:st the endeavours of the Roman eathOlies without being rebels iivhich thank God we may) but when they become the Constituted Au thorities, we cannot. Several Princes of the Blood are said to be very zealous for Catholic Emancipation, and they Se.eiat t a see no great difference between Popery and Protestantism, though they are as opposite to each other as light and darkness, fire and water. Now it' they do not conceive that there is inuea difference in the two religions, they are not unlikely to make a change ; and this applies in equal force to all the Members of the Houses of Lords and Commons who think after this man. nor. So that it is not at all improbable but that in a few years after the Roman Catholics got into power, the majority of the legislative body would beccime favourers of the Catholics, if not of their religion ; and when the Roman Catholics shall have got the ascendancy, the Protestants may tremble, and justly so, for the Catholics never could have got the ascen dancy, so far as man can judge, but through the folly, the in fatuation of the Protestants.' •It is now rumoured that Mi nisters intend to concede every thing to the Catholics but a seat in Parliament. If, however, they do concede them thus much, they do in effect concede every thing,. fortevery thing else must be conceded if thus Much is granted. Suppose a Roman ca_ tholie is appointed to a command in the Army or Navy, and he is as successful an a Wellington or a Nelaou, and the Roman Catholics then petition for a seat in Parliament. Will they not obtain it ? Most certainly. Never then should any further con. cessions be granted ; we have made concessions too many al. ready, and they have never given satisfaction, but have only en. couraged the Romanist& to make new demands. ~ Y... ~....... , ; 7 7y . ,- l I T ,, ...ttek.kr..., -- , ltt .4 ' . -,lk ; ..., :it :" •'' % O r r , I ,f• ti ; i , ..._.... - ly." 4:1211-,b45N1 z t . FIDEI DEFENSOR. i i