The Sun. — London, England, 1817-07-17 00:00:00

ROMAN CATHOLICS. As it is one firm determination to resist every .possibic effort on the part of the Advocates for PtiPERY to overthrow the PROTESTANT ASCEN- InANCY in the British Empire, we shall avail our selves of tvhatever may tend to support our happy Estalilishment in thurcand State..._.Wet.there. - -fore, now insert a more ample account of what wits said by Mr. G. ALLEN on the - 9th inst..in the House of Commons, in consequence of the mo tion of Sir J. C. H IePESLEY, for an Address to the PRINCE REGENT, for a Copy of the Con cordat of 1798, „between Portugal and the See of Rome:— " Mr. ALLEN observed, that as the Honourable Baronet had availed himself the day before. on a motion for Papers, to make -a long speech :on the general subject of the Catholic Claims, ha trusted that he . might he allowed to make a short one that day, taking .adbantage of the same Privilege, and not having had a previoussopaiortunity to express his senti ments on the subject. At all - early period of his life, said. Mr. Allen, it fell to his lot, or rather, he might say, to his happiness, to maintain certain principles in regard to obe dience to Civil Government, as connected with the Eecle 'siastical Establishment of his country, and he thanked God opinions formed at the age of twenty are those which he cordially embraced at the present moment, and his most anxious hope still was, that the religion of the State and civil policy may never be considered by the Legislature, as abstract questions, ip any degree independent of each other. On the contrary, with a liberal view to a most extended toleration of religious worship to every denomination of dissenters front the national Church, he ni.vertheless felt it an indispensable duty to insist on the necessity of an Ecclesiastical Establish ment, preduntimaOt in its powers, its dignity, and its privi leges, as essential fur the support of ail governments, and for the good and vital prosperity of this_ Empire in partiall- Jar. His idea, indeed, of toleration went no farther, he con fesect,' or rather, lie was proud of the assumption, because exped;ence'does not seem to warrant any extension of • a COW trary principle. His idea of a wholesome toleration, lie 'would say, went no farther than that of a mild and gentle Sufferance of the Legislature, permitting individuals to em brace their errors, and worship God after a peculiar form- of their own. To carry the principle beyond this, would be to break do*n the harriers of the Constitution, to violate every impulse of social or religious ordinance, at once to propagate rebellion and auarctiy, apathy, and its conssquence, the demolition of all national spirit and zeal. In these caissons lie was practically confirmed by a residence in a'great and widely extended kingdom on the Continent, some years ago he admitted; but the impi essions then made on his mind, had been rengthened by a continued correspondence, and by proclaims t .ons lately before the Public, in which societies dangerous tothe State have [teen recognized and suppressed. In the country be alluded to, the religion of the population is Ix rototafs, and that of the Court CALVINISM ; but a general toleration ysrNails; and, with the exception of Jaws, all are admitted niffscrimiliately to places of trust and ollice in the tit ate: and thus, by a conflicting variety of unwholesome morbid iu t crests, nec, sarily arising from such an heterogeneous order of things, he witnessed irreligion every where, and a people demoralized throughout. Public justice was but au instru ment iu the. hand of despotism, and the higher and lower ranks of mankind, having no religious bond of union to ;it tact) then) to each other, were alike, in his view, profligate and unprincipled. Even patriotism, a feeling so genia. to the soul of ever? honest man, was to them a chimera, a mere phantasm of the brain ; and the motto in every man's mouth, was " Chi belie ihi patria :" which interpreted is no thing more or less than this—That is my country, that is the country I would live in and call my own, where I can prac tise and enjoy every wanton propensity of the human heart without restraint, and without controul. if he was not misin formed, America exhibits at this moment the same picture from the same cause, and the inference he would draw from the pre mises is this :—There is itt the United Kingdom of Great Bri tain and Ireland, and in every country, a necessity for religious tests to guard the Constitution and Established Church, and the morals of the people, by the exclusion of dissenters of every deitomination front places of trust or Mace ; and embracing this opinion cordially, as he did, whatever may he the case in Ireland or other countries, he trusted that he should never live to witness such au outrageous anomaly is his own, as that of a Presbyterian and an Anabaptist, a Church of Eng land-man and a Papist, sitting on the saute bench in West minster Hall, for the distribution of common justice, or the disastrous day on which a ROMAN CATUOLIC may he permit ted to set his foot within the threshold of the Houses of Par liament, hallowed and pure as they have been maintained since the memorable era of 1688, when a liberal toleration was wisely established, and the year 1778, when all religious re strictions consistent with the safety of the national Church were removed. At that period, he believed, all the disabling sta tutes were repealed, except the Corporatiou and Test Acts, justly described by a Noble Lord, who then Sat in that House adorned by a blue ribbon, as the corner stones of the Consti tution. And may he who would touch those-nionuments of the wisdom and moderation of our ancestors with a sacrile gious hand be devoted, if he might use the strong 'language of a Right Honourable Gentleman nut tow in his place (the Member for Dublin), misapplied indeed when used by him in regard to the greatest man that ever gave dignity to this House, or shed a lustre on the land we live in, but in his opinion appropriate now,—he repeated, may he who would touch-those stones with an impious intent, or, in plainer ards, may he who would venture to move the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, he devoted to an immortality of eterital infamy. 10 the year 1757, the very year, lie believed, iu which Dr. PatEsrLY boasted that atrain of gunpowder had been laid, ' -rain by grain, to blow our venerable Church Es tablishment into air, Mr. Di:aortae, a chemist of a kindred but a milder spirit, proposed the repeal of those sacred sta tutes so far as they related to Protestant Dissenters, but he slid not venture to suggest the removal of disabilities from Jews, Roman 'Catholics, or Infidels. Happily he did trot Succeed, or it is probable we might have had by this time Jaws, RostaN CATHOLICS, and INFInEt.s, as Members of the Legislature. And why nut the Jew as well as the Catholic, if we can possibly forget that the former deities the nativity of our Saviour, while the. latter, believing it, relies oit the infallibility of a man, whom in his creed he stiles " Dominus Deus ,roster Papa," our Luau Goo roe l'oee. " Papa id est atlinirabilis, nec Deus nee homo, sett quasi neuter aut niter utrutuque. Eccepto peceato mania po testqum Deus et sibi °lnnis potestas data est in terra."—lle confessed, if he were asked the question, he would be at a loss to determine which is the greater infidel of the two. The Jew relies conscientiously on his Bible, while time immodest Papist impiously invades the Godhead. It these ate not the tenets of the Roman Catholics, let them he denied, and let them avow, by tests still stronger than those now in force, that faith moo he kept with heresies, that. Popery is not un churtgerth.`e, and that Supremacy and Domination are nut its elsjects. When this is dune, and properly guaranteed, it such glut be done by any religious Papist, it may become a (Ova tion with some, whether the libitum Catholics may not safely be admitted even within the walls of this House, still re taining the doctrine of transubstantiation, with all the minor errors and fripperies of a deluded church. But for his own part, his opinion being so intimately connected with a firm conviction, that the Church of England can derive no secu rity from any concessions of the Church of Rome, and that the tests now in force are absolutely necessary fot its salvo ti in,' be must declare, that it is his stedfast purpose to oppose every measure that may be brought into this House, tending in arty. degree to what is vulgarly called EMANCIPATION, as ill his conscience dangerous to the Protestant Establishment, and, he should tear, eventually destructive of Christianity i• self. but, after all, he would wish to ask, whether these are proper times to talk of concessions and compromise with Papists, and whether, ou the contrary, the re-establishment of the Inquisition in Spain, the ratification of it by Tile the hordes of Jesuits now surrounding us, the per - seeution of Protestants in France last. year, and, what is sem se; their subsequent proselytisn), whether, on the con trat y, all these timings ought not to remind us of the Revolu tion of Itiaa, and whethersit is not our imperative duty to stand fast and firm by the Cuutten and CossoorurioN, and to defend to the last the inestimable benefits given to us at that most interesting period ? These were the outlines of his sentiments on a subject to which he had devoted some atten tau,, ale thought the concessions already granted to the itosiaN LA HOLICS 'of Ireland exceeded the bounds of civil pruslt oce,•and'he trusted, 't hat as loog as be-might have the "ninon. to he a Member of the Legislature, he should ever lord his dots to oppose. the introduction of Partsrs into I'arii assent, tar to act couseientitmsly, consistently, and reli giously, they twist meditate the subversion of Church and `.taste ; and he thought with Lord Boat NOBIiONE, 01141 110 In: ll ,•I t ;11t to be admitted to power Under any Government, to act CoNstsTEs:TLY With us:t wish the lit:sristre• -;;J:s: otAr VEKa Govr;votrzr." FRENCH rktIERS. 13ARcet.etik-, 'Ju-ty -2.—.4t is certain That - the 'Council of - i Car assembled . fttr 'the trial Of Lacy,- of Milaut, and the (AO Conspirators, pronouric ed judgment on the 27th ult. and that the sen teirce,litt-ail' thcrse'Of a capital nat ures. has been sent. to Madrid kir the , approbation of his Ma i lest.y.,...according to the military ordinances riably observed. in such cases. As the supreme confirmation is not required, When there is either, a sentence of acquittal, or of a slight punishment, it is natnral -to suppose that Lacy and his princi ' pal accomplices are condemned to death". But this conjecture, which is founded on the nature and publicity of the Conspiracy, cannot be legally jus tified till the pleasure of the King is known. Up to that period the Judges themselveS must keep silence ; and even the, accused is ignorant of his fate. In waiting the return of the 'Courier who carried tlse sentence to Court, Lacy has been put on board a vessel to-night, and transported, it is said, to the Island of Majorca. It is .not known if this is the effect of instructions previously com municated to the Captain-General of the province, or whether his Excellency took suds a step from a belief that his duty required him to remove the guilty Officer from a city where the remembrance of his ancient services excites the interest of some of the inhabitants. This event is not yet publiA ed, but its certainty may not the lets he telxe on. • MADRID, JULY 1,-115C approaching delivery of, the Queen is an erect which occupies both the Court and the City. A double programme, exposed to publ i c view, prescribes the ceremonial whkh is to he observed in this circumstance, in which all chances haVe been provided for—that is to say, the ceremonial is different4y regulated for a Prince of the Asturias and an Infanta. Im the first case, a round of 6o cannon will announce that Heaven grants to our prayers a male successor to our be loved King, while 12 will make known to the public that the Queen has been delivered of a daughter. The hells of all the parish churches of the city will he set in motion. The Chief Of ficers of the Palace, the Captain of the Gardes du Corps, the Captain of the Halberdiers, the Co bonds of the Spanish awl Walloon Guards, the Ministers of State, a Deputation of the Council of State, the Cardinal Patriarch, the Presidents of the Supreme Councils, the Deputies of the king_ dour, the Captains-General of the Armies, the De puties of the Grandees, the Pope's 'Nuncio, and Foreign Ambassadors, will be present at the bap tism. 7'e Dell7ll will be sung in the Royal Chapel -as soon as the King gives the order. That the public may know at the instant. whether the 'Queen has been delivered of a Prince or Princess, it has. been agreed upon that, in the former alternative, there will be hoisted obi an angle of the palace a flag with the Spanish colours ; in the latter a white flag. If the event happens in the night, the salvoes of artillery will not take place till the dawn of day. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. COVMT-GATIDEN.—Lore in a Village : Young Meadows, Sinclair; Rosetta, Miss Stephens. After which, The Spoil'd 'Di LITRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. — Such 'Flings Are : Mr. Has v:cll, Mr. berry; Arabella, Mrs. Gluver. Alter which, Tim Quaker. NEw THEATRE IttIYAI., Esousii OPERA-I - lousE.—(lst, tirne), Bachelors* lVives: Principal Characteri •by Mr. Wrench and Miss Kelly. After vrtiicb, Turu Out, and Tie Deserter of Naples. • NEXT SATUIUL\Y, 19th .ILILY, LOTTERY WILL FI JNISII.--,FlItSr PRIZP; WILL IL‘VE hio,ooo MORE— PROBABLY MAY BE L.40,3u0!!—N0 ADVANCE IN PRICE!! ARRIVED—I Leeward Islands, 1 Waterford. Due-1 Lisbon, tiottcoburgit, 1 Hanthorgh, 1 Dublin. PRICE 0 F STOCKS WELVIC giCIMCK. THIS I)AY AT r $ per Cott. Red. 8 3 per tent. (rm5....92 8 140 4 per Cents ..... 994 5 per Ccut. Navy Anti.... lUti Bank L. A nn......11 7-16ths India 80nd5,...1035. 108 s. pr. Exch. 1;010.; 20s. 265. pr. Cons. fir Aug.... 84;1 83ii4 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Nlurning, 56 minutrs after 4. I Evening, 21 minutes after S. THE SUN. 504E:41 QVIS DtcEtte rm.,su:u AUPICAT. LONDON, THURSD.IY, JULY 17, 1817. INDEPENDENTS OF SOUTH AMERICA. "ions. Letters have been received in town this morn ing, dated the 19► h of June, from St. Thomas's, which state that Admiral Bator; left Margaretta on the 31st May, with 18 sail of vessels, to pro-' ceed to the river Orinoko, when it was expected he would form a junction with BOLIVAR, but there were no accounts of the latter having pushed for ward to the appointed rendezvous, although there is every reason to expect that he will meet with no particular obstacles to prevent his union with the fleet. These letters are written in high spirits, and the Independents entertain the strongest hopes o f success, notwithstanding the preparations which are making to oppose their progress.—The same accounts contain information that the Expedi►ion from Spain had arrived at Cumana, under the command of O'DONNELL, reported to be from 2 to 4000 strong, so that we may soon expect to, hear of some decisive movements in that quarter '1 of the globe. Antigua Gazettcs to the 20(1) June, and St. Tho mas's to the 20th ditto, arrived this morning. PATRICK KURVAN, l'uomAs WEitTnIIIIIIBAD, Sftti COBB, ESTS., Assistatit-Conintis sary-Gentrals, arr:ved here from England, on Tuts,lay ever:ing last, from BarlAancs, in the Government schooner, Lady Leith. • Ilis Exceflency Lord COMBERMICRE, Governor of Barbadoes, and Commander of the Forces in the Windward and Leeward Islands, arrived at that place on the 3d inst. By a letter from Bermuda we learn, that all ves sels owned by persons of that Island are to be al lowed to enter any American ports upon more fa vourable conditions than those from other British Settlements, the Tonnage Duty upon the former having been reduced from 2 or 2 1 1 dollars to 50 cents per ton. We received last night the Paris Papers of Sun day last, with the exception of the Journal de Paris. Thoie of Monday, which were due this morning, hare nut yet collie to hand. There is no announcement yet of the accoucliement of the Duchess de BERRY, neither is there any tidings of that of another illustrious personage, the Queen of SPAIN, but we extract for the amusement of our Readers an article from Madrid, stating the arrangements made, with much particularity, in the event of the Queen being delivered of a Prince of Asturias or of an Infanta, providing with great care for either case. The publicity given to these preliminary arrangements appears in this Country highly whimsical. The price of grain continues to fall every where in France, and in addition to the most favourable accounts of the harvest from different parts of Germany, the intelligence from Vienna states, that there was every expectation of the most abundant produce throughout the Austrian dorni- Several persons have been arrested at Bout.- deaux, in consequence, it is said, of the disclosures made by Raudon, previous to his execution. Baron Fagel, the Ambassador from the Nether lands at Paris, had set out for Cambray to meet the Duke of •Wellington. The Prussian Vice-Consul at Cherburg has pub lished nNotice, that be had received advices from the Prussian Consul at Marseilles, stating, on the authority of the Captain of a merchant vessel which left Algiers the .15th ult. that the Dey had fitted Out a frigate of 14 guns and some smaller vessels, which hid sailed some days before the departure of the above vessel; and that they were sent out for the purpose of cruizing in the Channel against Prussian vessels, as well as those of the Hanseatic Towns. This intelligence it is stated is confirmed by private letters. From Madrid it is stated, that the new plan of Finance is expected to be given up, in conse quence of the difficulties experienced in attempt ing to carry it into execution. The Basque pro vinces, it is said, are to preserve their privileges, by means of paying a sum of money to the Go vernment. An article from Barcelona mentions, that after the sentence pronounced by the Council of War, General Lacy Was removed from the Citadel, where he had been confined, to be embarked on board a vessel ; it was supposed he would be sent to the Island of Majorca. It is stated from Florence, that there are but slender hopes of the restoration of the health of the Pope. French 5 per Cents,—Saturday, 661. sc. This morning we have received a few Balti , more Papers to the 13th June, but there is no thing iu them of any importance. (From the Quebec Gazette of the 19th ult.) " We understand from a friccd, that JAMES BucttAsata, ESq. his Majesty's Consul at New York, has made such arrangements, that emigrants can proceed from New York to York or Kington, U. C. for 5 dollars and a half, children half price. Should not this lead our steam=boat proprietors and others to reduce their demands upon those emi grants who are coming to enrich their provinces ‘Ve further understand, that Mr. BUCHANAN has come to this country to submit to his Excellency the Governor in Chief, certain Regulations for the reception of future emigrants in the Canadas that may come by the way of New York. There can be no doubt of his Excellency's willingness readily to accede to any plan that may be con ducive to the furtherance of the ,views of the emigrants, and the prosperity of their rapidly in creasing colonies. A Philadelphia Paper contains the follow ing : " NEWPORT, JUNE 7.—We learn that the'Pre sident of the United .States, has . appointed Com modore William Bainbridge, Capt. Samuel Evans, and Capt. Oliver H. Perry, Commissioners (un der a Resolution pf . the Senate in February last), to examine and survey this Harbour and Bay, and the eastern entrance into Long Island Sound, with a view--to the selection .of a proper site for a Naval DepOt, RendezVOuS - , and DockAirard. Three small Government vessels have been ordered here fur the use of tire Commissioners.—Commodore Bainbridge and Catania Evans are shortly ex pected here to join Captain Perry, when the sur vey will be immediately commenced." THs FuNos.—Notwithstanding the re-action that has recently taken place in the price of Funds, our statements respecting a further advance are fully confirmed by the rise this morning. Consols opened for the present Account, which will be to morrow, at 83 7 1, and for the August Account at Szq ; and the Party that have so materially assisted to raise them to their present height, we are credibly informed, mean to take upwards of Two Millions of Stock, as they continue to entersaio the most confident opinion of a still considerable advance. The market is now in such a state, that when a purchaser appears, he has to pay one per Cent. above the price of the market, and a seller one per Cent. less. We are averst to all controversy with any of our Competitors, but we cannot avoid noticing occasionally the contents of the Morning Chronicle, because it is the great Instrument of Party, and consequently the most unappeaseable Enemy of Government. This day it indulges itself in bitter abuse of the Income Tax, a Tax which lies been relinquished, but which, if it could have been carried into proper operation, and have been fairly levied upon the Upper Classes, would have been an admirable relief to the Country. But the Chronicle is so good as to favour Ministers with its advise, and no doubt they will pay due *men» tion to Counsel from so disinterested a source.— Among the topics of this patriotic advice, Ministers are told to " bring back our Establishments to the Old Peace Standard." Now we may fairly ask the people whether Ministers are not doing all they can to effect that purpose, and whether it is possible to get rid of the heavy burthens resulting from long war in so short a time as the spleen of Party may require, and pretend to think would be suffi. cient Another piece of advice from the patriotic Chronicle, which only feels for this country, is to " leave the cause of legitimacy on the Continent to fight its way by its own merits"—that is, form no political or commercial connexions with other countries, and if a military Despot should arise in any one of them, and threaten to overthrow the regular Governments of all others, let them sink ' into ruin, even though that ruin should lead also to the ruin of Great Britain. The influence of the Crowtralso is another vomit' of the Chronicle's political counsel, as if.it bad not been sufficiently curtailed since Mr. DUNNING'S memorable propo- , sition on that subject. The Chronicle concludes with a sly hint at the Suspension Act, under the word "force;" but that force over the Rebellious was so necessary to protect the . Loyal, that is the People in general, that we need not comment on that part of the Chronicle's ingenuous counsel.—As to the attack on Mr. CANNING in the Chronicle of this clay, and its allusion to his family, we need say nothing, as the feelings of every liberal Reader must tura. away with indignation from so gross an outrage of domestic life. The Chronicle, indeed, attacks itself in two lines from Hudibras, which it applies to Mr. CANNING, for it well knows of its political friends " What Factions th'have, and what they drive at " In public vogue, and what in private." The Blue Ribband, vacant by the death of the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, IS, we find, to be given to Earl BArHURsT. America is now said, in the Papers of that counr try, to possess twelve sail of the line, and to have several more vessels of that magnitude on the stocks. We are the more inclined to mention this circumstance, from the opportunity which it gives us of noticing a work every way remarkable anti deserving consideration, " On the Naval Occur rences in the late War between Great Britain and America," by a gentleman of the name of JAMES * who was for some time a prisoner in America ; and has given his attention, in what may be term ed a professional way, to the consideration of those causes by which the Americans obtained some ap parent triumphs over us. His conclusions are most honourable to our skill and courage, and, we trust, will be equally beneficial to us in the wa y of direction and guide for the .future. It is im possible here to insert the Author's plans or ta bles : suffice it to say, that his work is tile of_sal . ciliation chiefly, showing by the most authentic returns, that the superiority of the Americans over us in action proceeded only from their supe riority, either in weight or number, or both, of guns, ot men, vessels, and even shot ; a plate of the different kinds of shot used by the Americans being annexed. In addition to the claims of mi nute accuracy, in all the calculations of men and metal, tonnage and size of vessels engaged, the work may serve also as au entertaining history, of the late naval war. It is addressed "to Sir PHI LIP B. V. BROKE, who, ou the Ist of June, 1813, in his Majesty's frigate Shannon, captured, after a close action of 15 minutes, himself leading the boarders, the United States frigate the Chesapeake, of the same force." Yesterday Viscount CASTLEREAGH, Count MUN STER, and the FRENCH AMBASSADOR, had au diences ot the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton-I)6lqm. The Dukes of YORK and CUMBERLAND visited the PRINCE REGENT yesterday, at Cathoughouse.