The Sun. — London, England, 1817-11-24 00:00:00

ing spirit lie buried under the general assumption Of loyal and sound principles, why-should any con dition be offered by the Advocates for Emancipa tion ?_ Why not at once tsvg% equal rights, and equal participation in the beeents . of the Consti tution, and boldly deny the necessity orany condi tion ? Why admit the danger of granting to them uncontrottled power, and yet argue as if no danger really existed ? 'Do not tkese men .pereeive that their own admission implies the necessity of conditions, which must not be - nominal but - efficient and strong, to keep down a spirit o encroachment, equally acknow ledged by the Opponents and Supporters of Ro man Catholic demands I Either our ancestors were very timid and foolish in setting up the Bulwark of restraining Laws, or we must be worse than foolish in pulling theist down ; for •I have never heard an argument rationally maintained (and of course I-exclude the flippant assertions of The.Bri- tish Press), which could prove them to have been necessary in the one instance, -and. superfluous in the other.. The only approach towards a Teasdn . for complying with the Roman Catholic Demands (for Claims they cannot be in any view of the sub . jeC!), is the inference drawn . by`' these Protestant . supporters, that the light of ,the 19th Century has dispelled the errors of the Catholic Church, coin -. prehendiug. all those principles and prejudices which are incompatible with the safety of -a Pro- t-e*ant. Government. But this has been more -zralously denied by the Catholics themselves, than by those who are so liberally - condemned for their hostility towards them. . It is denied officially, ex 'Cathedra—and by acclamation in the gratuitous hallucinations of their popular Orators. They are the same now—and for ever—" scalper cadent — is the maxim in which they glory, and the inctelihle superscriptiOn of the Labarton Which they bear in the front of their array. • We cannot. persuade them that they are changed, they resent the imputation, and are proud of consistency in ror, which senders them obnoxious to the peace and welfare of a Protestant State. But are wa then changed ! Is the glorious Constitution of OUR FOREFATHERS less an object of our veneration, or is the risk of innovation less to be apprehended tram any accession or strength of hostile princi ples by which it is likely to be accompanied ? Are the means of proselytism less open to an intriguing Clergy, or the Throne more hedged round with constitutional loyalty, than at the pe riod of our Regeneration ? Without entering into any detailed answer to these questions, I have no hesitation in affirming, that every thing in the pre sent day, connected with high constitutional principle, is on the decline,. and that the sterling spirit of our ancestors is debased by the alloy .which French Philosophy and French Tinsel have insinuated into it. Never was there a period in 'whiarinniaation could have been so fatal to our vatic-sal- interests as the present—never was poli tical -hypocrisy so rank ;—never were speCulations so dangerous ;—never were political parties. so desperate as at this moment ! And yet it is in such a period that men, to whom, judging from their .fortner principles and conduct, we are disposed to give credit for honest and honourable intention, are availing themselves of the character they pos sess, and the hold they flatter themselves they have upon the Public Mind, to overthrow the, principle upon which our Constitution %. as RE FORMED in 1688, and to urge the fatal experiment of admitting within the walls those who are tought to - believe that their first duty towards God and Alan, is to level them with the dust. dear then, Sir, that in a constitutional point of view—and as a general. question--no -pJedge or sufficient guatantee can ever be given by the _Roman Catholics as long as tl►ey ren►ain under the influence of foreign Councils—that is, so long as they are encouraged to believe that their duties to a ! 7 'ireign, spiritual, and presumed infallible guide, are paramount to the duties of allegiance, and the laws of the Society in which ti►eir lot is cast. "!'hey cannot be entrusted with the administration of La►vs which are repugnant to their principles and prejudices, because no man will zealously perform a duty which stands •in opposition to what he considers a paramount duty. It it not in the nature of man to do it—and with respect to the description of men who arc now under consi- deration, experience and history attest the uni form tendency of their principles to encroach upon and undermine every Establishment which is op posed to the dogmas of their own faith. It has been the policy (and the arc with which the sclieve has been carried II is admirable) of the Rowan Catholic Advoca' tes to give a popular (ir to the most lippoi4*-4Nestion that ever occupied too at(-mtion'iittd inter e st of the British People, - The political principles of the' Roman Catholics e substantially ARBITRARY—their spiritual no tions as decidedly bigoted, exclusive, and lime euzing. lu the support of these the most popular appeals :tre made to our liberal and indulgent feelings ; all the arts of oratory, which the licence of speech so lavishly displays in the Palace-yard, harangues, are transferred to a cause from which all" popular principle has contantly been excluded, a►►d (which would be scarcely credible, were it Hot forced upon our conviction at every turn) THE oppoNE NTS of a system thus stigmatized through every page of history, as illustrating the extremes of per secution, bigotry, and intolerance, are held up to popular obloquy (more especially by the Whigs, who owe the only consistent and le gitimate claim to public esteem to the exertions of their founders in the same cause), and charged with the very principles which it is their aim and object to prevent true► ever contaminating the sources of British Liberty, and Constitutional Security. But I have already, I fear, transgressed my lirr►its, and my kind monitor in The British Piers has warned ►ue against prolixity—kits est aL husle duceri, . • I am, Sir, yours, LANFRANC. TO-MORROW THE LOTTERY BEGINS DRAWING, BY ORDER OF THE LORDS OF THE TREASURY. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Prrfornied on Saturday Night. ThEATRE ROYAL, DIIITRY-LAIKE.--kAn Oratorio. TllEaTith: RoYAL, COVENT-Gaapcx.--The Castle of Andaln. sia : Alphonso, Mr. lirahain; Lorenza, Miss Stephens, With The Russian Festival and The Review. MAILS. Anntven—t France, I Hamburgh, 1 Flanders, t Holland, I Guernsey and Jersey, 2 Dublin, 2 Waterford. DuE—l Lisbon, 1 Gottetthurgh, I Haatbugli, I Holland, Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS Ti 1)A Y AT TWELVE o'ClAirK. :3 per Cent. Bed- 82Th I Bank L. Ann. 21 I-36th 3 per Cent. Cons 83.14 ; India 8und5...........995. pr. 4 per Cents..... 5 per Cesa.SuryAnn.lG4 109 j Cons. fur Account.. Nit Ate , age Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns wade in the .Week ending the 19th day of Noremocr, is 51s. lid. per cwt. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 5 ininutts after s. 1 Evening, 30 minutes after 3 •rtiE SUN. SOLE3I QUIS DICE SE FALSUNI AUDEAT ? LONDON, 1110ND-IY, NOVEMBER 24, 1817. We *received yesterday-the Paris Papers of Thursday last, and this morning those of Friday, with the exception of the Gazette de France, no copy of which, for either of the'abovementioned days, has come to hand. We give in another column a few extracts from the Journals of Thursday. Oue of them states, that Prussia is about to negociate a loan in Hol land. The following are extracts from the Papers of Friday. The Moniteur contains four Ordonnances respecting Finance, the object of one of which is the more speedy making up the accounts to be laid before the Chambers and of the three others, to introduce a greater degree of economy into tl►e Administration of that .Department " Pntttsf Nov. 21.—Yesterday the Court of CassatiOn rejected the appeal of M. M. Cutnte and Dituoyer, against the judgment-of the Cour Royale. The Journal de Touloute states, that the per sons accused of the assassination of M. Pita Wes will be tried, about the middle of January. .‘ " A letter from Marseilles mentions the arrival there of it Captain who left Tunis the beginning of September last, and who learnt Irom travel lers flying from Algiers, that at the latter place 7 or 800 •persons • died per clay. Precautions were taking at Tunis to prevent the communica tion of the contagion. Persons who arc in cor respondence with commercial houses at Algiers ta e , that much discontent exists against the reigning Bey, the conduct of his two sons having excited much indignation : one of them by carry ing off and violating women and girls, and the other by capriciously beating and ill-treating per sons whom he happened to meet, and who dis pleased him. The people murmured much, and it was apprehended some catastrophe would take place 'similar to those which so often occur at Al giers. " The communication respecting the Concordat will, it i 3 believed, be made to the Chamber of Deputies to-morrow. .“ Wednesday being the day of the funeral of the Princess Charlotte, the curtains of the boxes of. the English Embassy, at the different Theatres , of the Capital, were closed, and it was remarked that no person of that Nation appeared either at the Theatres or even in the Promenades, although. to the latter, the fineness of the day had other wise attracted considerable numbers. " M. Clavier, Profesrr of History at the Royal College of France,. Member at the Academy of Inscriptions anal Belles Lettres, Author of a learn ed work on the catly ages of Greece, and other potyl,if7ations, died ou Tuesday almost suddenly, aged 52. Ile was for some years a Judge of the Criminal Court of the Department of the Seine. In'that situation he displayed much courage, par ticularly on the trial of General Moreau in 1604. Murat, then Governor of Paris, pressed him to condemo that General, assuring hini that the Em peror would in tat case pardon norcnti. " who would pardon us in our own estimation !" replied M. Clavier. This resistance was never forgiven. M Clavier lost his place as Judge in 1611. " The Chamber of Dquties assernhled yester day in their linreaux, to exntuine.-the iirojet-le specting the Liberty of the Fres. - • • " FIVE FEE CENTS. 14 Wednesday C4 f. 85 " 'Thtlrsd•+y " VIENNA, Nov. }O.—There is still a talk of changes being about to take place inunt, Ministry. `` FRA.KFORT ) Nov. 16..--The Count tie rteintaaru teas been recognized as Plenipotentiary to the Most Serene Germanic 'retie c inister Diet. " BAMBERG, Nov. 13.--Madame de Krudener arrived on the 10th, in the evening, at Wurabourg, with a suite of 18 persons, including Madame de Berkheim, her daughter, and an Eugl:sh Lady of distinction. " Her carriages, on their arrival at Wurz bourg, were escorted by a detachment of Badese Gendarmerie, who returned on the • nth to Bischoffheim on the Tauber. Madame de Km dener set out yesterday for Saxony. The Bava rian Gendarmerie escorted, her to the Bavarian frontier. She has declared her intention. of re turning to LivUnia. I'ATRAS, SEPT. B.—A -harvest of extraorcl nary abundance of every description had raised the hopes of the inhabitants of the Morea, and (be Plague had at length ceased it ravages, when a new scourge has spread desolation. " On the 23d ult. about eight in the morning, a loud detonation was heard in the direction of Vostissa, similar to a discharge of artillery. It was almost immediately folloWed by a violent earthquake, which lasted about a minute and a ;all. At the same time the sea retired to a grew distance, leaving the vessels in the harbour aground. The water returned again with great fury, rising 15 feet above its ordinary level, and covering with its waves - an extent of land of nearly a hundred paces. It at length resumed its accus tomed level. • " The tape which formed a part of the Har. hour or Roadsted of Vostiss,a, and was situated at the mouth of a River named Gaidouroupnieti, after having thrown out a very thick smoke, was thrown down into the sea, which is sat this point of great depth. The town, ►which contained SOO houses.„._ some public edifices,' a mosque, and several churches, is almost tntirely destroyed, .and 65 of the inhabitants perished in the ruins. The villages of Mourla, Dimipopoulo, Lomnari, and Temeni, in the neighbourhood of Vostissa,have also been destroyed. • " During eight days, - shocks less violent, but very frequent, succeeded the earthquake. A great extent of land, half aleague troM Vostissa, is covered with thick and muddy Water." There is a letter in The Morning - Chronicle this day from Madrid, ang lice The Morning Chronicle' qffice.. It is somewhat surprising that though-The Chronicle has exposed itself to so much ridicule and contempt for its' fabricated letters, it is deter _ Mined to persevere in this Wand hackneyed trick. -The letter purports to express alarm on the ami cable footing between Russia and Spain ; but to chew the bungling construction of this letter, the Spanish Correspondent professes to be' familiar with the policy and the measures of the British Cabinet. We doubt not, however, that the Spa nish Politician is full as well acquainted with the politics of the British Cabinet, as the Editor of The Morning Chronicle is with those of the Spanish Cabinet. To give some colour of authenticity to the letter in question, it states that the Russian Ambassador " passed through Seville about the 3d, in (good. health, and without meeting with any,. accident, across the Sierra Morena, thanks to the post horses prepared for him by Royal order, and the consequent escort, whilst at the Some time, common people are obliged -to travel in caravans to avoid the robbers." It may be inferred from this' passage, that it. is. a crime in the Spanish Government to .adopt 'any measures to protect the Person of a foreign Ambassador. But this expressiOn', about the 3d, plainly spews that the Spanish Correspondent resides in the Strand, for, otheritriseiltbowirwit much of. the journey of the Ambassador, it is - bard!) , pOsible _that be should not know the exact day on . which it took place. But it is generally the fate-of falsehood to . • betray itself. „Tite'foll6wing pa ragritpiliippears in The Morning Ch;•onlete - of 'this day : " There is now no doubt but that Parliament will be dis solved in the month of March or April.- The country ought to be N i warc of the event. A short Sessina intervene for the Purpose of passing 11foney Bills, the''" ny Bill, &c•; and allihe essential business of the year,,,. ;ether with the Budget, th,e attempt to renew the Income Tax, &c. will be reserved for the new Pat - lianaA. Orders have been given to all the Departments to mal, out forthwith and send in their respective estimates. We imagined tliat thipmight be done for the purpose of calling Parliament together immediately, but we believe it is only to enable Ministers to see what fur ther petty deductions can be made without touching thegreat heads of ParliaMentary influence." It is hardly necessary for us to animadvert on the presumption and meanness of the above para graph. Where did a Paper, constantly venting its rancour against Government, obtain its knowledge of the intentions of Ministers ? • How does it know when a Dissolution of Parliament is to take place, or whether it is at present intended ? As to the business likely to employ the Session, there is lit tle difficulty in guessing what its general objects n 1 fig ut when the Chronicle says that 'r f attempt to renew the Incorue Tax, &c. Ivill he for the new Parliament," it:Jidvances lt it knows to be a falsehood, and this falsehood it is ' sues for the mere purpose of excising popular Its observation that Ministers mean, iii a great et ' . sore, to convene Parliament'' to see what furth er petty deductions can be made," is of a pi ece ' with its usual consistency, in at one time (14 ' . mantling retrenchments, and at another condee ing Ministers for adopting them. There is b dt one sentence in the above . splenetic and malir nant paragraph to which we assent, viz. " T bd Country ought to be aware of the event," nanW ly, a Dissolution of Parliament whenever it tor pens. The Constituent 43ody indeed throughoutP British Empire should propose a test to the re' spective Candidates, demanding from them pledge to resist, to the utmost of their power, s ri further concessions to THE PAPISTS. The interests of the British. Constitution imperatist4 demand such a pledge ;- and it is our ardent %Oi l that no man will be chosen for a seat in ti!‘ Legislature who May refuse to give such proof of his attachment to our Establishment in Chure 4 and State. The ProvinCial Papers received this tts‘orni4 contain accounts of meeting* at Worcester, miugham, and Carlisle, - at which addresses o f condolence to the PRINCE. REGENT and Prince LEOPOLD were unanimously agreed to on tr)e melancholy event of the. death of the Princeo CLIARLOTT.E. BRIGHTON, NOV. 23. 7 -The PRINCS REGENT/ accompanied by the Rev. F. W. BuomBERG, ar• rived at the Pavilion soon after ten o'clock o Friday evening, and Sir WIC KEPPEL and Colo nel THORNToN were in attendance to receive the Illustrious and disconsolate Visitor at this man• sion of Royal retirement.—During the whole ©f Saturday the PRINCE REGENT dial not extend his recreation beyond the Pavilion.—At. two o'clock this afternoon, the Rev. F. IV. BLONIEERG ated Divine Service before the PRiNCE REGENT and the Household, at the Pavilion.—Afterwarill his Royal Highness was induced to take a tide along the retired Rottingdean road.—His Royal Highness was much dejected,' and appeared (0 take little notice of any of the passing objects. The QUEEN leaves Windsor early this morning for,Bath, where her MAJESTY is expected to pasta three or fditr weeks.—(Morning Herald.) The Hati4 Herald says—" It will "affo rd great consolation to the sorroWing inhabitants of this city to be' informed, that her Majesty's' return positively fixed for Monday next : the last relay of hot ses (Messrs. Lucas and Reilly'q is ordered to be in readiness at Atford at three o'clock in the afternoons." The same Paper adds—" We understand that Sir Henry Halford does not return with her Ma , ‘ jesty to Bath, confiding his inestimable charge to the efficacy of our healing springs, under 14 di rection of the resident Medical Gentlemen already appointed." The Cork Chronicle, of the 19th inst., adverting to Mr. JESSE FOOT'S Letter, makes the following, judicious comments on a subject that will ever interesting : " What an awful responsibility has been thus assumed by some of the Princess's medical attendants. What hazardous self-confidence, a finality whiA, unless in a very rare instance, is the distinguiAing mark of rashness and incapacity. This deeply interesting subject, once publicly entered upon, must be searched and examined to the utmost. Every fact con nected with it must be laid before the Public. Nothing that has happened can long be concealed." EXTRACT OF A LETTER VEWI CEYLON, DATED JUNE 18, Nl7. The Native Schools have now become very nunv..rotE, and for a few cents. per month, witb ont the expence of books or stationary, the boys can learti to read roost floently on the 014 Leaf, and witir,astonishing rapidity they learn a kind of short bond, so that they wi!l take down a whole ;ermon without missing scarcely a word. Little boys, about 10 years old, write as last as they can move their pen. ,So far we can assert, that one Spanish dollar Will support a boy of 10 years of age with food and clw Wug, one month,— Females never learn even to write, as it wool,' he thought a disgrace for them even to learn to read. PECULIAR RESPECT. The (Dublin) Corre spondent, a Paper distinguisbed for luyal and ho. pourable feelings, states, that iTs own puhlica. tion, and that of other respectable Journals. of Dublin, were suspended on Wed;lesdav last, as a tribute to the virtues of the departed PEHTCeSS CHARLOTTE. The Doke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER go to Brighton to-day. Priece.LEoPOlD is expected to go there for a short time. Mr. Alderman Woon. late Lord Mivor, is notf in Paris, where he arrived on the 19(11 instant. fie alighted at the Hotel Aleuri-e, roe Saint Honoie, of which Lords BEAUCLERK and RAN' CLIFFS are also temporary inhabitants. On Tuesday list Mr. HAMMOND, Midshipman of the Rochefort, was unfortunately &owned off Brighton, with three men, when on duty in a• boat, looking out for smugglers. i