The Sun. — London, England, 1821-05-12 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. ED .11LY EXTRACTS rnom THE MORNiNG PAPERS.] [NEW TIMES.] Continental affairs seem (with a few - local ex ceptions) to have attained so general a state of tranquillity, that public credit daily assumes greater solidity. An express was yesterday re ceived from Paris, bringing the price of the French Funds for Wednesday, which fully•confirms our remark. The rentes continue rising in a remark , able manner ; they closed on that day at 83.50., hich is full half per cent. better than the last quo tation.—As to , Spain, which is one of the most la mentable-exceptions from the general tranquillity, the probability seems to be, that it will be left en tirely to the struggles of its internal factions : and a more miserable fate its worst enemies cannot wish it. The Guerrilla warfare, now carried on by pa triotic Insurgents against the tyranny of the Cortes, is exactly similar to that of the brave and faithful Vendeans in France, against the ty rants of the National Convention : and the Cortes are imitating the French Convention in the san guinary laws which they are passing against the Royalists. The Spanish Peasants, like those of M Vendee, fight under the double incitement of Religion and Loyalty; they are devotedly at tached to the plundered Priesthood, and sincerely venerate the insulted Monarch : and hence they cannot but look with equal horror on the sedi tious mob of Madrid, and the atheistical orators of the Cortes. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] Our readers are aware that to the wisdom and liberality of the Marquess of Hastings, the cen sure which had for twenty years been imposed on the press in India was removed ; by which the complaints of Natives for oppression, if well founded, might teach the eye of authority, and thus protection be extended to the many millions of human beings, subjected to British dominion, and who heretofore had no channel by which grievances could be made known. The enlarged policy of the Governor General was adopted by the enlightened Governor of Bombay, and at no previous time has our wide Empire in the East enjoyed such security, prosperity and happiness, es under the present auspices. In removing the *previous censorship, the press was liable, as it ought to be, to the judicial tribunals ; and ac cordingly we see by the dispatches which we re ceived on Thursday, that on the 23d of November a motion was made in the Supreme Court of Ben gal,by Alr.Spankie,the Ad vocateGeneral,for aßule to shew cause why a criminal information should not be filed against Mr. Buckingham, the Editor of the Calcutta Journal, for the publication of " a false, scandalous, and malicious libel, of and concerning the Government of that country," in 'a letter on merit and interest, signed 2Emzdus, the libellous matter of which consisted in stating, that all promotion, advancement and reward, were withheld even from merit, except by the perni cious means of political influence, or, as it is ge nerally termed, interest—an imputation which, from every account, is totally unfounded in the present Administration of our Indian Govern-, rnent. A Rule was granted. On the 26th, Mr. Fergusson prayed, on the part of the defendant, for an extension of the rule, first, on the plea that some doubt existed in his mind as to the jurisdiction of the Court, or its power to pro ceed by criminal information in cases of libel ; and secondly, as to the necessity of collecting documentary evidence and materials for the de fence, as he intended to argue both on the law and the fact ; but more particularly to prove the absence of all criminal motive or intention on the pert of his client. Mr. Spankie objected to any extension of time on the grounds urged by his Learned Friend. The jurisdiction of the Court was 'established in direct and express terms in the Charter, by general usage, and by analogy with other Colonial Courts. The Chief Justice con curred with the Advocate-General ; Sir Francis Macnaghten seemed to think the question of jurisdiction might admit of argument. Sir An thony Buller •concurred with the Chief Justice. After some further argument by - Mr. Fergusson for delay, and by Mr. Spankie and Mr. Money, the junior Counsdl for the prosecution, the rule to shew cause. wai extended to the first day of next Term, which Would happen on the Bth of January, and of 'which we have not yet had an account. But every friend to the fair freedom of the Press must rejoice in thus seeing it brought to account for the exercise of its functions to an in &pendent tribunal. Imbnxit.io POST.] The present contest in Parliament between the Traders to the East Indies, and the planters and Merchants interested in the welfare of the West Indies, is not a queition merely between these two parties, but one in' whiCh Great Britain herself is most deeply int eres t e d. The West Indians are great customers for our manufactures, employ a large portion of our shipping; and of course a great number of our seamen, whom we can come at almost whenever we want them ; and those Islands can. be protected by our Navy, which we must aN-ays keep powerful to pro tect ourselves. Our exports to the East were, in 1819, to the value of. 3,052,7411., but the trade was found to be considerably overdone ; and in the next year, fB2O, it was reduced to about one half of this amount, or one fourth of our exports to the "West Indies. Their ships employ many Lascars, and the distance of the voyage puts the - Sailors they are .navigated by. .for a long time out of our reach. liindoostan, moreover, cannot be protected by - Our Navy, and will probably some - day (perhaps not a very dis tant bne) be the conquest of a new Alexander, Genjis Khan, Tamerlaine, or Baber. In conse quence of the facility with which the Colonies of the Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Spaniards get slaves, which we are forbidden to do, and the small expence at which their sugar is taken direct to Europe, comparatively with that from the British West Indies, which must first come to this country, together with the advantages they derive in a supply of provisions, lumber, and fish, from the United States, in . American vessels ;. and , a free trade with all the world, the eohtinent of Eu rope is supplied - by them with Sugar at a much less.price than our West Indies can afford to sell it for. The cultivation, therefore, of the British West Indies, must be reduced to the demands of the Mother Country and her possessions. Every hundred weight of Sugar brought from the East, and consumed in the British dominions must inevitably displace the same quantity from the West, and, pro canto, diminish their culti vation. After having ruined the West Indies, by encouragina- c' the competition of the mawkish Sugar from the_ East ; and when we some day lose liindoostan, Great Britain will see herself under the necessity of paying Foreigners for a part of the Sugar we must consume. We shall then have to thank the advisers of new-fangled notions and untried theories, for our altered situation in re spect to this important branch of commerce, and for the loss of a part of the large advantages which our trade and naval strength at present de rive from our Colonies in the West Indies.— But when we consider the Dbligatiens of the double monopoly under which the West India Colonies were settled, we are not at liberty to -take this strict, but satisfactory view of our own interest, which fortunately here coincides with our duty. We must perform our engagements, by which we received advantage for advantage granted by us. They have been acted upon for a long period of time, and are therefore as bind ing upon both the parties as long, at least (as all pretend to honour and justice), as if the com pact had been written in the most formal lan. guage, and with the most indelible materials. [THE TIMES. From the Paris Papers of the Bth, which ar rived yesterday, we learn, that the Chamber of Peers had, on the day preceding, formed itself into a Court of Justice for the trial of the per sons charged as parties to the conspiracy of the 19th of August, 1820. The accused were 34 in number, of whom 24 were charged with being principals in " a plot against the person and life of the King, and of the Members of the Royal Family ; the aim of which plot would be to de stroy or change the government and the order of succession to the throne, or to excite the citizens to rise against the Royal authority." Five of these appear to have fled from justice : the re. maining ten were accused of being " privy " to the conspiracy, and not revealing it."— The list of names and description of persons were followed by a statement of the case drawn up by the Attorney-General, and read by the clerk, which occupies nearly four columns of the Monitcur. The doubt entertained by some per sons on which side this'conspiracy was formed, whether actually by the. Buonapartists, or the Police, has, together with the gravity of its im puted objects, attracted to the result of the trial an intense curiosity and solicitude. [BRITISH PRESS.] We must take the liberty of expressing our total dissent from one of the principles laid down by the Earl of Liverpool in the discussion of the Grampound. Disfranchisement Bill, in the House of Lords, on Thursday evening. The Noble Earl said, that the two houses of Parliament, in depriving the borough of Grampound of the elec tive franchise, ought not, in their Bill of Disfran chisement, to select the place to which the right of electing two Members should be transferred, but that they ought to repose the right of selec tion in the Crown, and empower the executive authority of the State to grant the charter of electing Members of Parliament to whatever county, town, or borough, it might be pleased to select. This power the Noble Lord claims for the Crown as a continu ance of the ancient prerogative, not re flecting upon the vast changes introduced in the very principles of our Constitution, and in the spirit of our Government, by improved political science and a long train of events, since the time when this branch of the prerogative was last exer cised in the reign of Charles 11. It cannot be denied tleit in the olden time of our history, pre vious to the Revolution, and when the value of a seat in Parliament, and the importance of the House of Commons as a branch of the Legisla ture and as a check upon the executive authority were not sufficiently appreciated, the inhabitants of boroughs used frequently to apply to the Crown by way of petition, praying that they might, for their poverty and inability, be relieved from the grievous burden of being required to send representatives to Parliament, to whom, in those days, the constituents were bound to pay certain daily wages, sufficient, when first rated, for the decent support of the Members. The Crown used, on such ,applications, to investi gate the truth of these pleas of inability, and either condemn the petitioners, if there were good cause, to endure the burden, or transfer the charter to some other borough better capa ble of enduring, it ; or, as it sometimes hap pened, suppress this portion of the national ra presentation altogether. Increased knowledge has since taught us to deny to our Kings the exercise of so dangerous a power, and the circum stance of its total disuse since the time of Charles 11, proves that in the sense as well of the Go vernment as of the People, the Revolution was supposed to have wholly superseded this portion of the ancient prerogatives. PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. [FROM THE HULL PACKET.] THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT TILE TIIIITH. The domestic news of this week is barren, and the foreign is not important. This leaves us at liberty to comment on a sub ject which should interest the public attention more than any other, either foreign or domestic--we mean Agriculture. It has been remarked, that there never was an inquiry more important than that in which the Agricultural Committee are now engaged • but that, nevertheless, the p u bli c expects no= thing from its labours.' This is in part true, for the nation is not yet prepared for the only remedy which can be suggested, the remission.of a considerable amount of taxes which press upon industry, and consequently the necessary composition of others to, we fear, an equal amount. For although The Times asks with great! simplicity, if it would do no good to take off five Millions of taxes ? it has not shown how a fifth part of the same could .be saved, with due attention to the security of the public creditor, and without manifest injury to the general good. In the Mean time, various modes of robbing the Fundholder are talked of, as if the - public mind were to be prepared f or th e adoption of some one or other of them; and although one of the Ministth of the Crown has distinctly disclaimed all intent tion of resorting to the dishonest expedient, there are found in all 'companies persons who maintain, that to. it we.must come at last. It is, to a certain degree disreputable to us that such a mea-' sure should b e e v en talked of; but we are quite satisfied that there is no danger of its adoption. The. Minister who should propose it, would deserve to be impeached as a public robber, and the Nation which could approve of bankruptcy as an ex pedient, would deserve to be overtaken by it as a calamity j but, before such breach of faith can be contemplated,. it, must be fairly tried whether the property of the - country,sidirch is un questionably pledged for the public debt, cannot be made to discharge its engagements ; and to • decide this question, we need only recollect, that it is now free from direct taxation, and that income alone haS contributed, without much apparent in 'convenience to individuals, ten per cent. 'We do not think it will be necessary to call for any such contribution,. but, until it has been resorted to, and to a far greater extent than we have hitherto seen, it would be.downright fraud .to touch the pro , perty of the public creditor. The present distress is the consequence of former errors in the mode of attempting to protect British AgricUlture ; and of the indiscreet and premature alteration in our monetary system; the latter measure in . particular being demanded by the united voices of a large majority of the nation. That majority was (as often) in error ; and, at generally happens, those who were loudest in their outcry apinst rag-money, and the Borough mongeks' Bank, are now the most vehement in their complaints of the alteration which, so far as their influence could go, they may be said to have produced themselves. We are, however, happy to repeat, that a gradual improvement in our situation is in progress. There is not an industrious operative manufacturer unemployed in the North of England or Scotland, and we hear of none in our own neighbourhood ; and although the Manufac turers depend more upon the Farmers than the Farmers upon them, yet the increased consumption consequent upon full em ployment and fair wages will a little be felt, and we have shewn that whatever the Agriculturists may have suffered hitherto by the competition of untaxed Foreign Corn, the alteration in the value of money since the Corn Bill was passed, must effectually protect them for the future ; and, if so protected, corn must eventually bear a remun era t ing price, unless much more is pro duced than the consumption of the country requires. There is perhaps more danger of this than of our wanting foreign supplies ; b u t as, on the average of several years, there has been a consid era bl e importation, which has found its way into consumption at last, we are not apprehensive on this head. For the rest, so long as the cultivation of the land yields any profit at all, the landlords and tenants may settle the division of it among themselves. The average rental of England is reduc ed, perhaps, fully in proportion to the sacrifices made by the possessors of other property ; but there are districts where the land is gond and the necessary investment of farming capital considerable, in which the landlords have here paid chiefly out of that capital, instead of receiving a part of the acquired profit. This also is the case in Scotland, where rents of - .C5 and £0 per acre are yet known, and of £3 and £4 not very uncommon. This, allowing even for the unquestionable superiority of the land to the average of England, is too high ; but the Farmers have saved money, and the Lairds have not, and the leases be ing long (usually 19 years on good land, which is only three successions of crops), the former are held to their covenants.— This, however, is in daily course of amendment, although the alteration requires more time than in England, where, 'fortu nately for the Farmer, many of our great Proprietors do not grant leases at all, and seven years is not an uncommon term. But, speaking of the kingdom generally, it has long since ceased to be question of rent, but has become one of vital im portance to the community, as affecting the employment of the largest body of our labourers, and tie success, and of course expenditure of the possessors, •an aggregate of capital and in dustry of the last importance to the nation, to whose strength they have hitherto contributed so much. Nevertheless, we repeat, an improvement is in progress which in time will correct all. If we cannot wait for its operation, a direct levy upon pro perty and income in some shape or other, by whatever name it may be called, .to render feasible an equal abatement of taxes which press upon industry, is the only other remedy. The proprietors of the soil are the only people to step for ward and stem the current of ruin from families who constitute the most valuable part of our country, namely, the good, ho nest, industrious farmer. If they; would allow their actual pro perty to be.taxed, then we might be exonerated from the many vexations of minor taxes, and be enabled to pay our present rents without reduction ; cultivate their land with spirit and cheerfulness, and retain that, which, from oppression, is be coming an open waste again, to the great disgrace and loss of our country gentlemen, and injury to the state, for the lack of employment promotes pauperism and distress. If the taxes be not taken off, or rents considerably reduced, we are convinced, half our country will be thrown into a situation the most alarm ing ; and God only knows the result. TIIE ARMY. On Sunday and Monday, the 6th and 7th instant, that fine regiment of cavalry, the Greys, (Scotch) arrived safely in this city; itf 71 . transports; from Waterford ; they sailed the pre vious Thursday. Divisions have since proceeded on their route to Biriningham and Coventry. They were quartered here a short time previous to the battle of Waterloo, where they add ed to their former laurels. For sobriety and respectable de meanour,they are as much distinguished as for gallantry.— (Bristol Gazette.) The following Military Departments in Ireland are, it is said, to be reduced : Adjutant-General and Inspecting-General of the Recruiting Service, Major-General Lord Aylmer, K.C.B. Dublin. Quarter-Master-General at Dublin, Major-General George Airey. Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Montressor, at Cork, and Major-General Sir , Sidney Beckwith, K.C.B. commanding at Armagh, to be reduced from the Staff on the 24th inst. Major-General Charles Egerton, Dublin, to succeed Sir S. Beckwith, at Armagh. Major-General Sir John Elly is to succeed Sir John Lam bart at Athlone. Major-General Sir John Lambart is to succeed General Mon tressor at Cork. The Leinster District to be under the command of Sir C. Grant. Head-quarters, Dublin. The Commissariat and Barrack Departments in Ireland are forthwith to be consolidated. The Medical Department of Ireland, so very efficient, and under the controul of Dr. Renny, is to be continued without any reduction.—(Dublin Patriot.) LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 12. BLASPITEAIY AND SEDITION. THE KING V. MARY ANNE CAItLILE. Mrs. M. A. Carlile (sister of R. Carlile, late of Fleet street) appeared in Court this morning, and after hearing read two. indictments preferred against her, for having published certain false and scandalous libels on the 10th and 12th March last, against the Government and Religion of the Country, pleaded not, guilty thereto. It was then intimated to her that the trials would come on at the Nisi Prius sittings after Term 'at Guildhall, London. THE QUEEN. THE KING V. THE REV. R. EL.;COW. A rule Nisi for a criminal information was obtained last Term by Mr. Brougham against the defendant; •a Clergyman of Liverpool, for a libel on her Majesty the Queen. Yesterday Mr. PARKE was partly heard against the rule. He contended that, proceeding by criminal information, the party was bound, however illustrious in rank, to put in affida vits, contradicting the truth of the libellous allegation—that Was not done in the present case, and h e contended therefore that the rule must be discharged. In support of his proposi tion he cited the case of the King against Miles, and several other cases, in all of which it Was heid necessary to have excul patory affidavits. Mr. Justice BAYLEY being obliged to leave, the Court de ferred further proceeding till this day, when Mr. Brougham was to be heard in support of the rule, but the Court did not enter upon it on account of the number of motions for new trials which were heard, and which occupied the whole of the day.— Adjourned at four o'clock. BENSLEY V. BIGNOLD. This was an action by Messrs. Bensley, the printers, against the late Secretary of the Norwich Union Fire and Life Office, to recover their demand for printing a pamphlet on the defen dant's account. At the trial before the Chief Justice at the•last London Sittings, the plaintiff had a verdict, With liberty to the defendant to move to enter a,nonsuit. Mr. GURNEY, for the defendant, now accordingly moved to enter a nonsuit, on the ground that the plaintiffs having substi tuted the names of other persons on the first and last pages of the pamphlet in question, as printers, instead of their own, con trary to the 39 Geo. c. 79, s. 27, they could not recover in this action, and he cited several analogous cases. The COURT thought the question worthy of further consi deration, and therefore granted a Rule Nisi. The Portrait of THOMAS lIAT.L, Esq. (the founder of the Sacramental Lecture, and the donor of the Gold Chain now worn by the Deputy Mayor of Norwich), which was presented by John Taylor and Edward Taylor, Esqrs. at the last Assembly, is placed in the Common Council Chamber of tha.t. City. FOR THE SUN. ROMAN. CATHOLIC. Though the claim of these people to a share in the government of this Protestant country, is for a time repelled-, yet, as we have no sufficient security against its renewal, to quiet our minds upon the subject, it may be wise to keep it still in view ; and calmly to consider it, while we have leisure, in all its bearings. We shall certainly see no reasons for security in any of the aspects under which it can be, contemplated. I have been careful to superscribe this article ROMAN CATHOLICS ; because Conceding to them the un qualified title of Catholic's is of very evil tenden cy. I know that this is chiefly done through indolence, for the sake of a shorter appellation and has been done for no better reason, even in the preamble of the Bill submitted to the Par liament. But it ought not to be done, because they take advantage of it, to consider us as not Catholics; which itldeed, by giving them that title, we seem indirectly to admit. We are Ca tholics as much as. they are Catholics and so is the general body of the Greek Church also, uncatho licized only by the arbitrary sentence of the See of Rome. All these are members, of the general or CATHOLIC Cnu exit of Christ, though differing in the purity of their practices from various causes ; yet all holding the fundamental doctrines of faith in Christ, and the hope of salvation through his atonement. We talk of Schism, and apply the term to the more trifling subdivisions of the Catholic Church, but, in fact, the only great Schismatic body is the See of Rome. It arrogates all power to itself, and creates effectual Schisms, or divisions in the body of Christ, by cutting off from its communion all who refuse to admit the peculiar doctrines which it has happened to adopt. There is no other schism. We consider the Church of Rome as a true Church, though in many points corrupt. We derive our orders from it, and exclude it from our communion.— They have excluded themselves. The declara tion of Elizabeth to the Roman Catholic powers who interceded for the English Papists, truly said"" there was no new faith propagated in England,—no religion set up, but that which was commanded by our Saviour, practised by the primitive Church, and unanimously approved by the fathers of the best antiquity." `—We, there fore, condemn not the Papists. We think that they may and do find salvation, under all their disadvantages, and we know that they have, and always have had, much of real piety among them. But this is not reciprocal. They condemn us in the mass. We are all heretics, destined, unless we recant, to everlasting punishment ; and if tole rated, from imperious circumstances, in certain situations, yet undeserving of the smallest tole ration, and fit only to be admonished by fire and faggot. We are detestable in their sight, and always must be, so long as they consider us as rebels against God's Vicegerent, and possessing neither Church, nor Priest, nor Sacra ment. This is the grand difference, and the in surmountable reason why, though Protestants may safely be employed in Popish Governments, the indulgence cannot be reciprocal. We lament the errors of the Papists, but we curse them not. We regal d their church as corrupt s erroneous in many points, and even idolatrous, but right in fundamentals, and still a part of the Catholic Church. Roman, indeed, in their corruptions, but Catholic in the true part of their faith. Our Church they consider as wholly reprobate and abominable. They cannot, if they would, do other than wish its extinction. For it is in their eyes,.a-blot in the page of Religion, worse than Mohammedanism. We only wish them reformed, they wish us destroyed : and both with equal piety of intention. The result of this state of things is, that a Roman Catholic must, in every situation, feel himself bound in conscience to un dermine, counteract, and if possible, to ruin any Protestant Establishment. What else can he feel towards those whom he considers as A po states from the true Church, and the declared enemies of God ? It is in vain to attempt con cealing these things from ourselves. They must be so, as long as Rome retains her high preten sions, and her Priests and Laity submit obe diently to her decrees. Tell us not then what they will do, or will not do. We know what they must always do, so long as they style us trEn ITICS. We know what they have always clone, not through malignity of mind, but from the imperious command of conscience. CATHOLICUS. * Collier's Church History. THE DUKE or WELLINGTON.-It having been intimated that the illustrious hero of Waterloo would, probably, visit Lancashire in the course of this summer, a letter has been addressed to his Grace, repeating the invitation to a public dinner, which had been conveyed to him when at Combermere, by a deputation from Warring ton., His Grace has condescendingly replied, that, should he visit that county, he " will cer tainly avail himself of- the invitation." We can confidently state that the Noble Duke has ho noured the - Warrington Pitt Club by allowing his name to be enrolled amongst its members ; and that a medal of the club has been unanimously voted to his Grace, which it is intended shall be presented to him in a box of English heart of oak.—(Liverpool Courier.) Yesterday the Rev. THOMAS MILLS, one of his MAJEST Y'S Chaplains in Ordinary, was instituted by the Lord Bishop of Lownorr, tg the Rectory of Little Benny, in the county of Es sex, on the Presentation of NATHANIEL BARNARDISTON, Esq. of the Rycs Lodge, in that Parish, void by the Resigna tion of the Rev. THOMAS WEIGHT. FlRE.—Yesterday morning, at one o'clock, a fire broke out in the second floor of the sugar house of Mr. TROGLOPE Back-lane, St. George's in the East, which burned with incredible fury. At half-past two the whole of the building fell in with a tremendous crash, excepting the North front, breaking all the windows and doing con siderable damage to an adjoining house. Much fear was entertained for the safety of Mr. JOHN SON'S timber-yard adjoining, from the great gnantitY of flakes of fire which fell into the yard. But the great exertions of the firemen prevented a further extension of the conflagration : the loss is considerable.' Happily no lives were lost. 'l:`4t CA' ITOLIC BILL. The following we have extracted from a Bel fast Paper as illustrative of the general senti ments of that part of the Empire on the late Ca tholic Bill. In one or two points we are aware that our Readers will perceive a slight difference of opinion from the' sentiments of THE SUN— bdt the whole is so well entitled to attention, that we offer it without further comment : " THE CATHOLIC BILL has failed; and, on mature consi deration, all parties may find reason to be satisfied with its failure. " THE KINCi is relieved from the odium and painful re sponsibility of withholding favours, which the temper of the times would not allow him to confer. " PATRIOTS were justly alarmed at such an accession . of patronage and influence to the Crown ; and REVOLUTIONISTS dreaded a settlement, which threatened to frustrate their hopes. "' PROTESTANTS will reflect, that it enabled . the Crown.to Select a Popish Cabinet; and to put the executive and judicial authorities, the Navy and Army, the revenue and magistracy, into the hands of Catholics. They will consider, that if the King were surrounded with Popish servants ; if Je suits and Popish Emissaries had• access to the inte rior of the palace, a weak, superstitious, or profligate Prince might, like Charles 11. be easily perverted to so in dulgent a faith. Remonstrance would then be illegal: re,. sistance would be rebellion : Popery would he the fashion : the Court and the Law would tread the road to preferment : even the Clergy might discover a marvellous resemblance, or a very accommodable difference between the two Churches. Such things have been, and may be. " THE CATHOLIC ENGLISH NORT.7IIEN will'regret their exclusion from Parliament; and in this regret every generous mind will sympathize; but the Irish Lords are on_ the same footing with the Protestant Nobility, and could "hardly, in any case, expect to be preferred to theM as representative Peers. " The POPISH LANDED INTEREST could: not sit in the present Parliament;. few would succeed on a general election : still fewer would be appointed to high offices in the state ;• and their eligibility would only aggravate the moitification-of being overlooked. " BARRISTERS would have been subject to the same cause of chagrin, discontent and disitffeetion, with other Gentlemen, during the present reign ; and, as now appears, during the next. " The MASS of the LAITY would have been more disgusted at the degradation of their church, than.flattered bs7 the eLvation of a few ambitious lawyers. Freeholders are already - on a level with protestants; and the number of freemen would rot be in- . creased ; for corporate bodies. would resent their eligibility by refuSing to elect. " THE CUERGY were notoriously sacrificed, by this Bill, to the ambition of a few aspiring laymen. They had nothing to complain of, and nothing to gain. They prayed to be left as they were, and they were threatened with persecution, under the name of emancipation. "'TIE PAROCHIAL CLERGY must either have violate& their feelings and principles by taking the oaths ; and thus lost the respect of their people ; or, by refusing them, exposed themselves to the malice of their enemies. " THEIR DIGNITARIES must have submitted their preten sions to a Board of Protestant laymen ; but their most respect able Clergymen would decline preferment on such terms. anti be revered as Confessors, while the Bishops and Deans were stigmatized as apostates. • " In short, and in fine, the tendency of the Bill was toin crease the influence of the crown and subvert the Constitution; tei endanger t!le Episcopal establishment, and undermine the independence of the Catholic Church ; to excite discontent among the laity, and expose the Clergy to a petty, and irri tating persecution ; without removing the causes ef the present discontents. These grievances, inflicted under pretext of emancipation, could not be endured, and would give rise to continual complaints and appeals to Parlianient. The only cure for all these evils is to .abandon a project, which, has so often been found equally unsatisfactory, dangerous, and im practicable.; and suffer this troubled state of society to "subside into a calm. • -" PUILADELPHITS." CORN-EXCHANGE, MAY 11.-Our market eon= tinues thinly supplied with Wheat and Barley, having bittl . no fresh arrival since Monday, and the demand being tQlerably brisk for prime samples of the above articles, Monday !'s prices were fully obtained; but the inferior descriptions go"drrery slowly, and prices nominal.—Fine Oats sold ,rather freely at. Wednesday's prices the supply this week h av i ng b een com paratively small. in Peas . and Beans no alteration. SMITHFIELD, MAY 11.-T here was a middl ing supply of all . descriptions of cattle at market this, morning, of which there were some left over from last Monday The prices of all sorts of meat are lower, there being a heavy market. Beef . Mutton --3sGd to 4s (id I Veal - -4sGlto 5s 4t - 3s Gd to 4s Gd Pork - - - 4s 6d to Ds 4.1 Lamb - Gs Gd to 7s Gd. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, May t Amsterdam Ditto, at Sight Rotterdam ' 12 I 5 Antwerp l2 10 Hainburgh SS 7 If Us Altana . • Paris, 3 Day's sight 45 80 0 Us. . Ditto I3ourdeaux, ditto Franhfort on the Main Madrid ' Cadiz 36 E 1 foct ive Bilboa ' 351 Elfective Barcelona ieville ... 351 Gibraltar .... . 30± Leghorn Genoa 431-Venice, Ital. Liv._ 47 60 Walla 45 -Naples S9I Palermo . 1163. per Qz. Lisbon Oporto Rio Jantiro Dub1in.... 9f BULLION Portugal C4t,ltl, in Coin 1.0 0 0 petOz- Foreign Gold, iu Bars 3 1, 1 0,1 New Doubloons New Dollars Silver in liars, Standard o 4 1 1 IIiIITHS. On the 10th inst., Madame Gosse Sanger, of the Kin's Theatre, of a son. On Monday, at Chiswick, the Lady of Henry F. C. Caven dish, Esq. of a son. The Lady or General Milken was safely delivered of a son and heir, on Tuesday last, at their beautiful residence of Isy Cottage, in. Devonshire, and both the infant and Lady are doing well. MARRIED. On Tuesday last, at St. Pancras Church, James Philcox, Esq. of Burwash,__Sussex, to Miss Louisa Hu L i ghesolaughter of the late Richard Hughes, Esq. Barrister, of ncoln's Inn. On Tuesday last, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Thomas 0 Swymmer, Esq. of Swailowfield, to Diana, eldest daughter of the late A. Swymrner, Esq. of Fonmon, Glamorganshire. DIED. On the 2d of September 1820, in India, whilst on duty, " sorting some native Princesses on a pilFrimage to places of re ligious worship, Exuperius Robert 1 urn er, E. Captain ift the Company's service. At Thame, Oxfordshire, after five days' severe illness, fro° pleurisy, Mr. Walker Dorrington, aged 41, second son of Thc' s philus Dorrington, Esq. late of Thome. Last week, at Thaxne, .in the 90th year of her age, Mr s ' Rickets, upwards of 50 Years a Governess in that place. Lately, aged 60, Jamcs Griffith, D. D. Master of Univer• sity College ; Oxford, and Prebendary of Gloucester. - On Thursday last, at Laytonstone, Essex, of a rapid decline, after a short but faithful discharge of his ministerial functions. Vie Rev. Wm. llanbury, of New College; in Oxford Olive sity, in the 25th year of his age. LONDON : Printed by J. B. CARSTAIRS, of No. 29, Gref t Ormond-street, Queen-square ; and published by W. ' SCRIPPS of. No. 7, South Molten-street, 'at nit St 7 ' 4. OFFICE, No. 112, Strand; ADVERTISEME.VM , ORDERS, LETTERS, tte. (post-paid) must be addressed.