The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-15 00:00:00

could ciRCULAR.

The Duke of CUMBEM, AND Vilittd his MAJESTY on
Sala day, et his Palace at Windsor. Si R thelmi%
returnial to die in the evening.
The Duke and Metals of Cr,Attrime bresbfasted with
the Princess AUG LISTA on gatorday morning, and after-
.v arils left town fur their residence ist Bushy-park.

Prince Lr.orot.o, and Prince and PriuressEsTnotazr,
honoured the first rept esentati,n of MEACADANTE6 °Feta.
Elioq e C/andio. on Saturilay evening, at the
Icing's Theatre, wit'm their presence.
Tice Pr;iniess Airett;srA attended dirine service }ester.
day morning, in St. Philip's Chapel, Rfgent-street,
The Duke and Duchess of (.3t.oucgs-rrt entertained the
Duch,s of Kr:vr IY!fd select piety to dinner on Satur-
day evening, at Gloiletster.imase.
A Cabinet Conned was held at hall-pest Ouse o'clock
on Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign-office, which was
itttrided by the LORD CHANCELLOR., the Duke of WEI,
LINOTON, Earls BArnrasr, Roest.rx, and itLatttluEs:t;,
Viscount Mtn.vll.l.E, Lord ELLENBoRouau, Mr. Secre-
tary PKEL, Sir GKOKGE MCKAAT. the CHANCELLOP. of
the ESCHEQITER, and Mr. liettalES.

The Council sat in (le!iher eion about tiro I ontx.

Another Cabinet Gainri! was held yesterday afternone,
at the Foreign Wrier, which was at'e:.d al by the whole
of the Cab net "Minister& The Council remained in (1z:-
fibers ion during three hours.
The French Arnha..sader had a conference with the Duke
Of WELLINGTON, on Saturday, at the Treasury.
The new Mexicaa Min ster had an interview with the
Earl of AneeneEN, on Saturday, at the Foreign-office.
His Excellency also visited the Duke of WELLINGTON, at
the Treasury.
A deputation, headed by Visconnt Metvim.r, had a
conference with the Duke of Wst.LINOTON, Oa Satutdiy,
at the Treasury.
The Lords of his Maars-rY's Most lionenrable Privy
Council had a meeting at eleven o'clock on Saturday incom-
ing, at the Council office, which was attended by the Lord
President of the Council, the Master of the Rolls, the
Judge of the Admiralty Court, and the Secretary to the.
Admiralty. Mr. BuLtrett attended bike alerting as clerk
to their Lordships.
The cross appeal " Frank's:id o. M-Gusty." and
NPGusty v. Frankland," (from Demerara), which had
been opened at a previous meeting by Mr. Serjearit STE-
earl:, was resumed by Mr. LIIEWItY for the appellant; the
Attorney-General opened the Respondent's case, and was
supported by Mr. Serjeant SealsKtr- •
The Earl and Countess of ALtranuesr gave a grand
dinner on Saturday evening, at Argyll•heuse, on the occa-
sion of the christening of their infant daughter. The
Archbishop of CANTICXECTItir and Mrs. HowLar, and the
Duke of WELLINGTON, were among the party present.
Sir ROBERT FAIIQUIIAI: his been dangeronsly indis-
posed during the last few days, at his residence in Rich.
mond-terrace. Sir ROST.E.T has, by the advice of medical
attendants, been cupped twice, and Ins had a blister ap-
plied to his head. The answer yesterday to inquiries after
his health was—" Sir Ronetvr is muck the same." Sir
Roam. remains in a EIAIQ of stnpor.

COMMON SENSE.

TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

(From the Morning Advertiser.)

We met&oned the other-dny, in terms of no in-
considerable praise, a work published by Effingham
Wilson, entitled " Common Sense" to the Duke of
Wellington, in which the matter of tithes was
handled in no very friendly terms towards the
Church ; and we have now before us another, the
great argument of which is to prove that the
present distribution of Church property is unfa-
vourable both to the real interests of the Church
and of the community, and that her only safety is in
her consent to a plan of more equitable adjustment.
The author of the work is Mr. Geo. COventry
(also the author of an inquiry relative to
..Innins),
and the following extracts will afford no unfavour-
able specimen of the spirit of his essay, and, we
might alto add, of the spit it of the times
" The purport of the foregoing queri.s is to excite a
spirit of inquiry, that some remedies may he adopted foe
general benefit, not only of the present generation but
of posterity, who will judge somewhat unfavourably of
their ancestors, should they bequeath them a system of
religion fraught with so many innovations, and subjected
to so much injustice. The sante queries equally apply to
England, which, as a nation, gained no more by the Re-
formation than the sister country.
" Centuries, as we have before observed, have rolled
on, without lessening the evil ; on the contrary, it is rather
increased : while the Church has, like the hardy oak of
the forest, defied the passing gale and the winter's blast,
spreading her branches far and wide for the shelter of the
sinecurist and the sycophant, whilst the praiseworthy and
the p
rtoruteected heath. Men's
shepherds are ie ft, as
iitwerea,expaotsleenth beets
duponllteun
aroused from their lethargy. and now behold the true
situation of things; not with any view of levelling the
fabric or dispensing with its ministers, but with an un-
feigned hope, that the day is net far distant, when the
emoluments of the clergy will be more equally and more
fairly dispensed; when the people will listen with plamic.°
to their teachers, if those teachers walk in humility before
their God. _ _

" A well regulated clergy is a benefit to the country ;
and a national church, as society is constituted, indispen-
sable—hut those ministers should he the tree promulgators
of Christianity, and that church fret from co -option,
lest, as Lycurgus wisely observed to the Laced ,nonians,
the true service of religion should be intermitted; for he
feared, that if religion should be as expensive among them
as in other parts of Greece, it might finally }wren, that
divine worship, out of the covetousness of some, and the
poverty of others, would he wholly neglected, wisely con-
sidering that magnificent edifices and costly ofrt•-:.: --ere
not so pleasing to God as the t.. - •r-7
votion of the worshippers."