The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-04-10 00:00:00

Fee, irrrier.d.l tear, ... at ..
mAy probably rtsult from turning a Beat ear to the
claims of 'he r'atholics, as this CTllical crisis.
.. luredu per tirt, tine, i stoppleeltaro duiek, "
The Crholics have, for some months, been calm
and tr.!, grill, in the espeaation that some measure
would he speedily adopt d for their relief ; wr
hare, thqrfore. Si. apprehend, that a total dint)-
, priintment of Alt their esper..rtio- b will be attended
with !he m-st fatal cons, quences to an empire,
iwh o- very ea'stcnce de, eau, on i.s ult.nim,tv and
p-ts vii duce, and wlinti is row the only Adair% In
Europe that ;stolidly orsas b its independetice, in de-
fianze of the threats of an haughty and tyrannical
U. - "

iftrper
The t. IiaNCELLGR of the EXCHEQUER
(Mr. Peter-yid), ot served, in reply so the KIM
Hon. Gentleman. tat the measure whirls had oc-
casioned the dismissal of Ministers. was AM, un-
necessary, and ilea, issueless. Unnecessary, as the
Catholics had alte:dy been appri!.ed of the &sin-
Jination cif the rut. rs and people of the United
Kingdom to satisfy rho it claims ; and useless, as it
!tad been on all hands admitted, it was too con-
fined a measure to grant them cif INA redress.—
Indeed, such cone .sion as would be satisfaClory to
ti-e Catholics, he thoug'imust finaliy lead to the
establidtment of a Popish Hierarchy. As to
circumstances existing so contradietoty to the man-
ner of the late Ministry's exit from office, he would
be happy to be informed. In his opinion there did
attpear some mystery in the sequel of this transac-
tion, though the late Ministers have been very
diffuse in their explanatit.n. lie regretted the
fiends of the late Ministry had introduced so many
different topic. into tl.eir discussion, that it would
be totally rut of his pnaer to answer them fully in
the space of tie ri nininder el the night. It had
been argued, that the dismissal of His Majesty's
Mittisat is WAS lup,l.lycansurable. and the demand of
a ple lee was more so. But what ale we to think
of these sante Ministers demandi g a pledge of ita..••
demni:y from it Sovereign ? which e as, in effeth
to secure them a perpetuity of the Administration,
let their sentiments be ever in 6ifferent from that
of the Mt parch, as it further reserved a power of
bringing forward, from time to time, any measures
they theuld deem expedient. This, indeed, was a
strarge way to avoid one unconstitutional pledge.
by demanding another. He said he was not awar
of the interference of ar.y secret adviser in suggest-
is g the pledge proposed by His Majesty, and
of this he had reason to suppose he had been
accurately informed from the first sonrces.—The
far
ptorYiety of demanding such a pledge, he was
from meintaining; but the fans which took place
previous to the change, he felt it his duty to Stet
at length to the Houre. (He then went into a
statement of the circumstances previous to the late
change, similar to that we have on a former occa-
don given the public.) The late Ministry, he ob-
served, had said, that in finally resigning the mea-
sure they had sacrificed private feeling to public
duty. If this were a measure so necessary for the
interests of the empire, could it then be said that
they reigned at length this important measure
through a feeling of public duty Certainly not.
But His Majesty had expres-ly, conceived that his
compliance in the measure would be a complete
breach of his Coronation Oath, and therefote wished
to inform them be was unshakenly resolve. Hh
e
theteforn demanded a pledge on their partd, whic
pledge, had they accepted, they could only be at-
teded by it, H hile they remained in office, and they
might therefore conscientiously have signed the
agreement ; since they were convinced of the
inicos4bility of assisting the Catholics, from the
Xng's avowed scruples on tbwt buhra. lic stated