The Sun. — London, England, 1817-08-27 00:00:00

CuNVENTR)N BETWEEN TUE SOVEREIGN i'ONTIF3" PIUS VII. AND MS %I')S 1' C1:11.1S1 lAN MAJESTY LOUIS XVIII. RING OF FILINCE AND NAVARRE. na ne of the Most Holy and 'Undivided 'L inky. His ; ,-ss the Sovereign Pontiff Plus VII. and his Alost Christian Majesty, animated with the most earnest dt sire that the evils which have Rfflicted the Clittrea for so many years should en tirely cease in France, and that the religion in that kingektn should resume its ;int lent splendour, since the happy return of the descendant of St. Louis to the Throne of his ancestors at length permits it ; auel in order that the ' Ecclesiastical discipline, should be more suitably regultved, have Nvilla those viee.s resolved to eu.vr Into a s ol e mn Convention, reserving to ihenbelves hereafter the power of wore fully providing for the interests of the Catholic Religion. In consequence, his Holiness the Sovereign roota Pius VII. has named for his Plenipoten tiary his Eminence Mooseigneor Hercule Gon salvi, Cltdinal of.tlie Roman Holy Chinch, Dea con of St. Agatha, ad Subun am, his Secretary of State. And his Majesty the King of France and Na varre, his Excellency M. Peter, Louis, John, Casi rrier, Count Ile Blacas, MarAnis d'Aulps, and des nolands, Peer of France, Grand Master of the Wardrobe, his Ambassador Lxtraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Holy See, who having duly exchanged their full powers, and finding them to he good and in due form, have agreed to the following at : A n rteLc I.—The Concordat agreed upon between the So vereign Pontiff Leo X, and Francis I, King of France, is coo,egoence of the preceding Article, the Concor dat of the I '6l b July, ISO , ce.ises to be of any effect. lll.—The Articles called organic, which were made with out the Ittiowltdge of his Holiness, and published without his cowsent on the sth of April, 190:2, at the sanic time w ith th e before mentionedSloncordat of the 15111 July, 1901, are abro gated in this so far as they are contrary to the doctrine and to the laws of the Church. • . IV.--The sees which were suppressed in the kingdom of Fiance by the [lull of his tiolincs) of the 29th November, 1810, shall be re-established in point of number, as shall be mutually agreed upon, as most advanti4cous to the interests of V.—All the Archiescopal and Episcopal Churches in the Kingdom of France, erected by the said Bull of the '29th 'November, 1901, are preserved, as well as their actual titu- larit s. Vl.—The disposition of the foregoing article relating to the preservation of the actual titularies in the Archhishopricks and Bishopricks which now exist in France, shall not prevent particular exceptions founded on grave and legitimate causes, nor shall it prevent the actual titularies from being trans ferred to other Sees. Vll.—The Dioceses, as well those which are actually in existence, as those which are about to he erected, with the c eisent of the actual titularies and of the chapters of the eacant Sees, shell be circenescribed its the manner best adapt ed for their better Administration. Vlll—There shall be secured to all the existing Secs, as well as to those which shall be created afresh, a suitable pro ei,ion in lauded property en rentes .tur r Etat, as far as cir cunistaeces will permit, and to the mean time a sufficient revenue shall be awarded to the pastors to ameliorate their coalition. Euduwreents :ball at the same time be provided for the Chapters, the benefices and the seminaries, as well for those already in existence, as fur those about to be esta blished. IX.—His Holiness and his Most Christian Majesty are ac quainted with all the toils which afflict the Church of France. They are also well aware, how greatly the speedy augmenta tion of the existing Sees would benefit the cause of In order, therefore, not to delay a measure so advantageous, bis Holiness will issue a Bull to proceed, without delay, to the erection and new circumscription of dioceses. X.—His Most Christian Majesty, willing to manifest a fresh proof of his zeal for religion, will, in concert with the Holy lather, employ all the means in his power to terminate, as soon as possible, the disorders and impediments which op pose themselvee to the prosperity of religion, and the execu tion of the laws of the Church. XL—The territories of the ancient Abbeys, tardlius Dioc ceNis., shall be united to the Dioceses within the boundaries of which they be found included in the new circumscription. XII.---The re-establishment of the Concordat, which has been adhered to in Ftauce till the year 1789 (stipulated fur in the first Article of the present Convention ) , shall not bring with it that of the Abbeys, Priories ; and other Benefi ces, which then existed. These which mar hereafter be esta blished shall in all cases be subject to the regulations pre scribed it) the said Concordat. XIII.—The ratifications of the present Coe 2 cention shall he exchanged within one month, or sooner if possible. XlV.—Tke moment the said exchange shall have taken place, his I biliness will confirm the present Convention by a Bull, and will poblish a second Bull to determine the circnin sct iptiun of the Dioceses. In faith 'Altered the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention, and affixed to it their respec tive seals. DECLARATION MADE. BY TI-1C AMBASSADOR EX TRAORDINARY OF MOST CHRISTIAN MA JEsTy. His Most Christian Majesty haying learnt, with extreme pain, that' certain Articles in the Constitutional Charter which he has granted to his people have appeared to his Ho liness contrary to the Laws of the Church, and to the reli gious opinions which his Majesty has never ceased to profess, penetrated with regret at such an interpretation of his views, and desirous of dissipating ail doubts upon this subject,—he has charged the Undersigned to explain his intentions to his Holiness; and to avow, in his name, with those feelings which belong to the eldest Sun of the Church, that after having tfeclared the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman religion to he the religion of the State, he has confirmed to all those of his subjects professing other persuasions, which he found established in France, the free exercise of their religion, and has, consequently, guaranteed it to them by the Charter and by the Oath which his Majesty has taken. But this oath can in no wise impugn either the dogmas ur the laws oft heChurch ; the Undersigned being authorised to declare, that it relates only to the civil order. Such is the engagement which the Kindles entered into, and which he is bound to maintain. — Such is that which his subjects contract in swearing obedience to the Charter, and to the Laws of the kingdom, without being compelled by this act to any thing contrary to the LaWs of God and the Church. The Undersigned, in addressing the present Declaration to his Eminence the Cardinal Secretary of State, iii conformity to the commands which be received from the King his Master, bas the honour to entreat that his Eminence will hare the goodness to submit it to the inspection of the Holy Fattier. He nresusues to hope, that it will have the effect of effacing every contrary impressiou, and, by this means, promote the salutary views of his Holiness, in confirming the repose of the French Church. The Undersigned has the honour of renewing to his Emi nence the Cardinal Secretary of State, the assurance of hie very high consideration. Rome, the 15th of ,Tilly, 1817. BLACAS D'AULPS. SOUTH ANII4AUCA. 'We give the following letter from a Morning Paper, without in the slightest degree pledging ourselves with regard to its contents : " PORT OF SPAIN (TRINIDAD), JULY 6. " As an Englishman, I look forward to the perfect emancipation of Spanish America as iden tified with our best interests; and as far as relates to the inhabitants, nothing can tend so touch to their improvement, as being relieved from that state of bigotry and profound ignorance, with regard to the principles of good government, and the useful arts 01 lite, in which the Spanish Go vernment Las tept rut- 300 yea'r§; And I ice no reason to uvpose that the persevering etforts ot Bolivar and the triends of freedom will not eventually over all npposition. The Creole troops light with such actermined itennr, that the Spani , 4rds cannot stand the shuck, and hence no Spani•lt army now exists in the field any where. The tall ot the capital of Guayana may be looked for every moment ; A's the hmle pendent squadron Flom Margarita had reached the Orinoko, and the Spanish garristiti, even previously, had been driven to the greatest . dis tress. The trade of Guayana, when taken, will not he confined to that rich province, hot wiil take in that of Varinas and part of Santa Fee, which are already in the hands of the fact mots;. To give you some idea of the subject, the Independent General Net occupies the province of Varinas, all the Lower Apure, and as far as Calabozo, about 60 leagues from Caracas, with - 4000 cavalry, com posed of the Sambos of Boves and Morales, and others of that class. Ile defeated Morillo com pletely in .January, as seen by his own reports. Holivar, P.ar, Bermudez, Cedeno, and a host of other good offices, besiege the two cities in Guayana. On I 1 th April, Piar destroyed the Spanish division of 1500 men, most of Morillu's veterans, so completely, that an Englishman, who was at the city of Angostura, who saw them march out and return, says, that not 50 escaped, and only Brigadier La Torre and two Officers.— This Englishman, who was there with his brig, was embargoed tili the 2d.of May, and for the last month lived on jerked beef alone, without bread, and wi:nessed daily people dying of hun ger. In consequence of thk, all who could de sert have gone over to the Patriots, and the last arrival gave a far more dreadful account of the scarcity. The surrender is therefore looked for momently, as Brion's squadron, consisting of four heavy brigs, and six schooners and sloops, well armed, and eight heavy gun-boats, entered the Orinoko three weeks ago. Villa-Edna is in the• Llanos, about San Carlos, 60 leagues from Cara cas ; Nonate Perez has driven the Spaniards out of the provinces of Casanare and 'lonia, in New Gra nada; Socorro has also freed herself ; Roxas com mands at Maturn ; Marino, Saraza, and :lottagas, occupy the plains in the rear of Barcelona ammo Cumana ; Margarita bids defiance to the Spa niards and their paltry expedition, and in a word,' the Dons are every where quite pet plexed and un done. I see every probability of their shortly being quite driven out cat Venezuela and New Granada, and good care will be taken they do not return. The Spaniards have lately abut General Freites, and three or fear other Independent of ficers, taken at Batcelona. This operation was performed on their back-s, for Spaniards will ne ver cease to be brutes to the conquered. Marino offered to exchange a Spanish Colonel, Luxano, for Freites, but Morillo preferred shooting him., and letting the Spanish Colonel take his chance, which 1 fear will be a bad one. In short, so long as the Spaniards put their prisoners to death, they can expect. no quarter; nor, indeed, do they deserve any. if the Spaniards hail any means to carry on the war beyond their garrisons, they would have no doubt atteMpted the relief of Guayana : instead of that, they blockaded Mar garita for 13 days, but dared not to land." THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Lust Night. THEATRE ROYAL. HAVMARK KT.—Wild Oats HoVet', Mr. Ma thews ; Lady Amaranth, Mrs. Glover. After which, Exit By Mistake, and The Rival Soldiers. New THEATRE ROYAL,. ENnt.ini Ovena-House,.—The Per sian Hunters : Principal Characters by Nlr. Horn and Miss M. H. Buggies. After which, Fire and Water. To which was a.:ded, How to Die for Lore. MAILS. AR+usitn—l Lisbon, I Gottenburgb, I Dublin. Du Ilamburgh, e2 aterford. PRICE OF STOCKS TAIS DAY AT TWELVE O'cLOCK. Bank Stock, esii 1 Bank 1.. Ann..... 40 15-16tlis 3 per Cent. Red. Stith 1 India h00d5,........ 1235. pr. 3 per Cent. C0n5...... 301 iii ; 3 per Cent. 1751. SOR T 4 per Cents 9801 Exch. Bills, ...... c29s. :As. pr. 5 per Ct. Navy Ann... P1ii7,1,1 1 Cons. for October,....ffl iii/ HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MOB:LOW. Morning, 11 minutes after 3. j Evening, at minutes after 3. THE SUN. ikOLEhl C 21113 DICEHE FA LSONI AU IJEAT• LONDON, TEEDNESD.,4I% AUGUST 27, 1817. The Paris Papers of Sonday last, which were due this morning, have not come to hand. The following is an extract of a letter received in town this morning by the Lisbon Mail, dated August 12 : " The last accounts from South America men tion, that a severe Battle has been fought an the Banks of the River Oronoko, between the Pa triotic and the Royal Forcts. The Royal party were so strongly entrenched on the grand bank, that an attempt to dislodge them was thought to be an hopeless expetiment. The Patriots endea voured to gain the other bank of the river, by which means it was hoped they would be able to draw the enemy from their entrenchments, where they could not be attacked but with manifest dis adrantange : the artifice succeeded—the Royalists were thus drawn from their strong holds, and a general battle was fought, at the point of the bayonet. The Royalists sustained the impe ' tuosity of repeated charges with the greatest firm ness ; and when overpowered, slowly and reluc tantly retired from the field ; at length the Pa triots, flushed with success and confident of Victory, charged the "s - etteathig cuiumns of the eneniy mionbled fury, and compelled them to fly in every direction." Ire refer our Readers to another column in our Paper, for the CONCORDAT recently concluded be tween the French Government and his Holiness the Pope. This CONCORDAT has been stiled an ;input tant Document by one of our Competitors, and it is so far important, as it spews the sub terviency of the King of FRANCE to the infallible authority of the Papal See. If the King of a power ful Monarchy can be thus submissive to the Head of his Church, upon points, too, that affect the in terior concerns of his own Government, what but the most bigoted obedience can be expected front the Roman Catholic Priesthood, and all the Ro man Catholic Body, wherever dispersed, if the SOVEREIGN PONTIFF should issue any decree, open or secret, against the Government under which they reside. To give political power, therefore, of the slightest kind, to the Roman Catholics, would be to prepare a vital stab to our present Establishment in .Church and State, when we consider that the Members of the Roman Catholic Church deem it meritorious to keep no faith ►with Protestants, if they conceive that by any violation of faith they can promote the interests of that Church, and effect the down fal of the PROTESTANT ASCENDANCY. EXTRACT OF A LETTER PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT AT LIVERPOOL, DATED AUG. 25. Arrived this day, the Flora, FORSYTH, from New York, in 28 days—cargo, flour, &c. ; Prince of Brazil packet, TAYLOR, from Baltimore, in 27 days, with flour ; and Betsey, MERVILL, from Savannah, in 69 days. The zirmenins, Eagle, and Protection were to sail from Baltimore in 3 or 4 days, for this port, when the Brazilian packet left. Four ships sailed, yesterday for the States.—All the other vessels from the States, as mentioned in a former letter, sailed previous to the 2lst. Our Flour Market as per last. The ships Wexford and ffurora arrived yesterday, the former in the Downs, the latter at Portsmouth ; they left China the Ist of April, and St. Helena the 10th July. We stated on Monday that The Morning Chro nicle hnd not ventured to deny any of our facts, but had founded its reasoning on its own miscon ceptions. Our readers will now fudge bow far we were justified in making this assertion. We are accused of broaching the absurd (" Mini sterial" The Chronicle calls it) doctrine "- that treaties with Spain are not binding when any commercial advantages are to be derived from them by Great Britain, &c." This is twisting . and torturing the fact with a vengeance ; what we said, however, was merely this, that bases may be proposed for a definitive treaty of peace, upon which. to build a Commercial Treaty at any fu ture period, if thought mutually expe►tient, with out binding either of the contracting parties to the acknowledgement of such a measure after wards.' To the question put to us by The Chro nicle, where those manufactories of Spain are now earlied on, to which the introduction of British cottons could prove so destructive, we answer without hesitation, that they abound in the pro vinces of Catalonia, Valencia, Granada, and in many otheVparts of Spain. We know nothing of the deserted buildings which The Chronicle • speaks of at Avila, Cuenca, &c. but we do not suppose that The Chronicle means to say, that be cause some shops or warehouses are here and t here shut up in London, the world is therefore to conclude that we have no trade. It would no doubt suit the purpose of the Opposition writers marvellously well to have this additional com plaint to make against the Icing of Spain, that he had prohibited British cottons from pure envy and enmity - against us, thereby depriving his peo ple of a necessary article of doodling, and hin►- self of On enormous revenue, only to gratify his hatted to every thing British. One thing appears to us, however, perfectly clear, which seems to have escaped the recollection of The Chronicle, namely, that either the inhabitants of Spain must have some manufactures of their own to sopplY the want of ours, or appear like our first parents, ADAM and Era, in the Garden of 11:len, in puris noturalibus. We cannot very well understand what the Inquisition has to do in a qaestion re lative to a Commercial Treaty, or for what pur- pose The Chronicle has brought the holy tribunal forward on this occasion. If to prove that the hatred to British industry is fotnente,i by its mem bers, it will be some consolation to The Chronicle, which we feel pleasure in affording, to learn, that f►ow the Grand Inquisitor, down to the meanest Familiar, they are every one of them clad in Eng lish broad cloth and English stuffs. It is truly laughable to hear of the laudable endeavours of " the Marquis DEL,CmgrO, for the establishment of a Commercial Treaty, having dwimilticl into soul post-6{71 , 2e atid tiee estubl;..:.;l;4vvt. of packets betwcen Falmouth and Coruntia," much diplomatic skill, or any negociatiOn at all, had been required to point Out the necessity of t direct communication between the two countries, after the war with France in 1793 had cut off the one Avhich had till then c7;isted overland. The Chronicle iii bringing- upon the carpet the communications between Mr. CANNING and Ad:- tuiral APODACA itr NOS, forgets that its observa tions of last Thursday, to which we Answered iii our Paper of Saturday, referred to the Treaty of Peace in 1814 ; any thing which may have passed with Admiral APODACA SIX years before, and at a period when, in consequence of the war,. the sip tuation of Spain was, as we before stated, totally different from what it is now, is therefore foreign to the subject. The circumstance May serve, however, to spew that the blame, if any, which now attaches to the King, and draws upon him the severe and perpetual censure of The Chronicle,. equally attached to the Government of the Cortes, which it has so long supported, and exptesses upon every occasion a desire to have restored.-- The fact is, that unless the Court of Spain could be prevailed on to disregard the interests of the Spanish Manufacturers for the sake of ours, and to establish a Commercial .Treaty upon this Fin-, ciple, none is necessary fur the establishment of as unreserved intercourse between the two Countries, since that intercourse is already existing. lire have already stated that our observations on the Fiscal Regulations of Spain refer to a state of peace ;—the warning given by Mr. PITT 10 the Spanish Merchants in London of the prObability of a war with Spain in 1803, therefore proves nt4 7 thing. It only sherds the attention of the Minis ter to the interests of the individuals, to prevent the recurrence of the losses which bad been sus tained by the confiscation of British property on the breaking out of the war in 1796, and it is but justice to the Spanish • Government to say, that such confiscations, on the breaking out of a war between the two Countries, mid never taken place in Spain until that Country fell under the infl4.- enee of Republican France. We are not more disposed than The Chronicle to approve of ill treatment to Prisoners of War, cr those detained in consequence of political disseu- 'ions. .We only quotee, the treatment which the French received. iu Spain in answer to the pati ality stated by The. Chronicle to exist in Spain ita favour of the French. In canciusion, we must ob serve, that The Chronicle must have been very much puzzled for an answer to our arguments, to have had recourse to Such tar•ietched and inte4r. Tant matter as it has brought forwai di on this cc- casion. The following is an Fixtraf,t of a Letter'from Fin Oflicer commanding a batallion of Native Infantry on the Madras Evablisitintnt " Camp, near 11;!ssing')a,l, or.. the Nu.riublab River, 28th February, 1817.. _-,-- ~ " We have of late had a very active time in bunting Pindaries, hut with• little success in our quarters ; much, however, has been d,,ne iii others, vast numbers of them having been killed, and thousands of their horses taken, 30 Mit imagine their day is past. A Bengal force is now cotne to relieve this, and we arc off, k raven knows where, in .a few days. In the mean time the horizon is clouded in Set MAWS atiti a Mahratta war becomes daily more and rricric probable, unless he consents to subsidi*e a fe,,re.c of ours. lie has certainly :titled and abetted the pi n d ar ies, who have committed dreadful outr4gcs in our N. Division this season, and l know not how we can be Of punishing the rascal.. I shalt wr ite to you again as soon as matters develope themselves a little—at present we are all touch IA the dark." '.Chi following statement has been plibiklied:--- " it is stated in (lie City, that so extensive ana valuable have been the captures made by the Instil' , gent privateers of South Atnerica, that the Gout' taittee at Lloyd's have. for some time past givell the circumstance the most serious considetation , Due Portuguese indiaman lately takf.s.tr, was insurcti to the arnotint of nearly 300,00Ut and two or Otref vessels nearly as valuable, with an i m merse nuil l , 1) , ...r o f Spanish and I."'oittit.:,itese merchants of les`-' co nsequence. Tile amount lately paitl hi the Underwriters at LLOYD'S is loosely cai; culated to amount to the enormous sl im, of horn two to three millions, as the greater pro' norrion of th e S pan i s h , an d Portnguese vessel' , lure Insured in this country. in consequence, 4 deputation front the Committee hale me+le uppli° cation to Government ; hild the reily is said to gig the Get:tie:Alert it Lloyd's not the sligitte:4 encoty ragenteut to expect that Government will take a pi " step on their behalf. It is teported to be in effect' that Portuguese and Spanish vessels lolling runlet the flag of each nation, and the property on boar' s Iliving apparently foreign, after their capture t i nt(la such circumstances it is impossible that the tie vernment of England can intet fere. if the nacr es chant s insure propt.r y trot nutter the British c 4, 1 it is an individual concerti, and not at all a tit'' 1 timid question." THE MEMBERS of the WARRINGTII PITT CI-0 5 have presented to NATHANIEL .-ITCHEON, their beautittil Medal, front a die athu;rably cuteil lty I'. - Wyott. - Lord CAsTLEREAGH came to town ye!terd , 'Y itiotniog front his seat North Cray, to attend tl' c Cabinet Co , tneil. %%bird' was tool d fur to . ‘"' o'clock, at the Icrrign Office.