The Sun.
London, England, 1813-01-02 00:00:00

`QUFEC

,
Nov. 17.—We liaVe it on the anf
thotity :t,3f.several boat Lien of integrity., that -it
large body of Americans (stated at more thon
'3,000 ir,n) from Sockets' harbour, bad laniiled
about 18 miles from Kingston, on Tuesday last.
ilritish forces of every description were in-
stantly put in motion, and About 5 p. m. an inces-
sant firing of artillery was distinctly heard, which
"lotted until dusk : the result was not known, but
we doubt not of its having been as gloriatis as
the battle of Queenstown. Every on acquainted
with b;ue 49th., and the loyal and high-spirit-
ed people of Kingston, will agree with us in opl,'
nion, that their invaders will be discomite4, and
covered with shame. It is added, thi,t the 40
gun-ship laid down about six weeks agnat Socket's
harbour, is already launched.
The.report of the American camp being broke
up at. Plattsburgh is unfounded.
The troops continue there in hip force, and
are determined to attack us. They ftre accurately
informed of our. numbers, but imacquAinted
with our metal. That the first is thu case, can
beno wonder, .for they have no need of spies in
this count.y to sent! them intelligence.

A PROCLAMATION.

" Quebec, November g.

'" Whereas Treaties of Peace and Friendshiii
between his Britannic Majesty and the Emperor
of all the Russias, and the King of Sweden, were
signed at Orebro, on the Bth -of Julylast, by Mr.
Thorntan, on the part of his Majesty, and by the
several Plenipotentiaries of the two Powers on
the part of their respective Sovereigns., and the
signing of the stine having been officially 'commu-
nicated to me, 1 heeby, in his Majesty's name,
call upon all his loving subjects in this provhice of
Lower Canada, strictly to observe, by sea and
by land, the said Treaties of Peace and Friend-
ship, existing as aforesaid.
(Signed) GEORGE PICIVOST."

FORCE 'OlsT THE FROSTIER.

We should be heartily glad to gratify our
leaders with an accurate, statement of the force
on the frontier, us much anxiety seems to prevail
on the subject ; but as the troops are continually
arriving from the interior, and from one port to
another, it is impossible to give an accurate state-
ment. The following is predicated in the
authenticated date in our possession :

HARRISON'S ARMY.
In the Western County, including the troops at Fort
Ilaaison, Vincennes, and Indiana, generally 13,000
On ti►e Niagara River 6OOO
At Platshurgh and its vicinity • 8000
Burlington, Swanton, and Derby
At Sachet's Harbour and at Ogdeusburgh 5OOO

J 3,500

,
The above number is exclusive of the Pennsylvania
awl Virginia troops, who are now on their march,
and have probably ere this reached the Western
Frontier 4500
The whole corps of Greenbush, on their way to
Plattsburgh

41,500

In the certain anticipation of complete, success
against the Russians* it appears tliat Buonaparte
had gone to the campaign with a plan for the pro-
dnction of a new batch of Kings. Murat Was to
be made King of Poland, and ,Naples was either
to be incorporated with the kingdom. of Italy, or
to have a new king. How many more new dy-
nasties It was the intention of lluouaparte, in the
plenitude of his anticipated.. success, to found, it
is impossible- not to know. But how great mist
be his mortification, when, instead of making
hinge, he must begin to fear for his own person.
The following letter from Messina explains the
I:iiinge. respecting Murat :
" Messina, Nov. 18.

" A flagof truce arrived litre from the opposite
',Coast yesterday morning. They report, that
King Joachim, (Murat) is to be removed to the,
Throne of'POland, and ,that Naples is to form a
part of the Kingdom of Italy. ley. asked us if
it was true. that Ferdinand and his Queen bad
sailed for England`?—it having been long re-
ported at Naples, that their Majesties had con-
sented to abdicate the Throne of Sicily in favour
of the Hereditary Prince, and retire into that
kingdom."
EXETER! Dna. 29.—Yesterday• morning, about
twelve o'clock, a most distressing Circumstance
occurred at the Royal Horse Barracks in this city,
by the prematfire dissolution of Richard Yates,
tsq. a Captain in the sth reghnent of the line,
who fell a, lamentable victim to suicide. This
Officer .was in the meridian Of life, at. the age of
30 years, and returned from the Peninsula about
six weeks ago, where be had been upwards of
three years, nobly defending his country's cause,
and braving every danger; lie bore a very supe-
rior character as a military man, and his whole
deportment was marked with every amiable qua-
lification which distinguishes the Patriot and the
Gentleman. SOon after his arrival at Plymouth
he marched to Kingsbridge, at which town it was
first perceived that he deviated a little from his
uniform line of conduct, and loose and incoherent
expressions were observed in certain letters which
he tvrotc, insinuating intentions which have been
so fatally realised ; his spirits aiierwards flagged,
and he became manifestly dejected.

On the day preceding the melancholy catas-
trophe, he re.inained confined to his bed the whole
day ; • previous to tiketing his awful exit, be di-
rected his servant to take some letters to a Cap-
tain in the same regiment, after
,which he pro-
ceeded to terminate the dreadful scene, by placing
a soldier's musket to his breast, the butt-end rest-
ing 'On the ground, and with'his sword pushing
against the trigger., be diiicharged the contents
through his body ; the bait entered his left breast,
came out at his hack, and ascending upwards,
lodged in the ceiling. it appeared that he ex-
perienced some difficulty in the process, as the
paint of the sword was much bent, and was found
in his band ; the report of the gun alarmed souse
of the privates, and his chamber door was broken
open soon after thc„ieedwas done, but too late to
be of any service, as be died instlntly.—A Coro-
ner's inquest, of respectable Gentlemen, sat on
the body this day, before Siostuet WALXEY, Gent.
Coroner. Verdict, Lunagy.--(Ereter Paper.)

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. The Hnlsean prize fur the year.lBl2, has been
adjudged to Mr. Daniel Guildford Wait, Student
of St. John's CollcAe, for his " Inquiry Into
the Relifzioue Knowledge which the Heathen Phi-
losophers7derited from. the Jewish Scriptures."
„The following is the subject for the Hulsean
Prize Essay, for the present year :—" On the
Magi who came to adore the new-bo; n Jesus, and on
ihe_Star which directed their way."
(lWard C. Brick wood, Esq. of Doctors' Coin •
tnons, was on the 23d ult. admitted to the
shili of St. Peter's College, vacated by the rzsig,
nation orthe Rev. IVilfredClark, Rector of Castle
;Camps, in this county, and late Preacher at thq
Charter-house.

- - ,
His Royal highness the Prince Regent has
heen,pleased to grant unto the Hon, aneßev. H.
'clOck,ayne Cust, M. A. the place and dignity of a.
Prebend of his Majesty's Free., Chapel of St.,
George, in the Castle of Windsor, void by the,
resignation of the Hon. and Rev. Henry Ryder.
The, Rev. Henry Finch, M.A., Rector of Little
Shelford, and Vicar of Great Shelford, is collated,
by , the Lord Bishop of Ely, , to the Vicarage of
Long Stanton All Saints, in this county, vacated
by the death of the Rev. Thomas CocksbUtt.
The Rev. 'Thomas Win. Brereton, B. A. is in,
stituted to the Vicarage of Framsden, in the
county, of Suffolk, on the presentation of Earl'
Dysart.. .
The Rev. Charlei Steggall, B. A. with last week
instituted to the Rectdry of Westhorpe, in Suffolk,
on his own petition.

The undermentioned Officers are now employed
as Aides-de-Camp to the LORD LI'EUTENANT of
Ireland :—Lient. Colonel Lord 11. SOMERSET, 4th
Dragoons ; Major Ftsnza, 6th Dragoon Guards ;
Captain thus, Ist Dragoon Guards : Capt. Lord
DELvYN, half pay ; Major GARDENER, 90th Regi-
ment; Capt. VERNER, 7th Hussars.
The Magistrates of Glasgow, to prevent a re-
currence of the scenes of riot and outrage that-dis-
graced the city of Glasgow on the last day of 1811,
issued a Proclamation on Tuesday last, exhorting
the peaceable, 'inhabitants to keep within doors
during the last night bf the year. On New year's
day morning last, several people were severely
hurt in Glasgow ; and, in hdinburgh, three per-
sons were killed, and fort' or fifty robbed of
money, watches, bats, &c. tor which three young
men afterwards suffered death, five were trans-
ported, and about a dozen sent on board the
tender.

A 'deserter from the artillery, who had enlisted
,
with another party, was 'recognized at the market
iu Brechin onthe 24th ult. and lodged in jail. On
the Sunday morning after, whi!e the jailor was
serving out his breakfast, :he sprung past hint, and
made off. The jailor, gave the alarm, and his
daughter, who happened to be standing at the
door, hearing the cry of her father, and knowing
the:man, immediately darted forth, seized, and
threw him to the ground. 'She was considerably
hurt, hut kept her hold till asssistance came, When
he Was reconducted to jail.
A waggon, coming from Hertford to London, on,
Thursday last, was robbed of six sacks of flonr
and one of pollard, neat Waltham-Cross Turnpike.
Four men, in two ,small carts, passed the gate
a short time before the robbery was committed.
About ten days ago another waggon was robbed
near the same spot at a considerable quantity of
butter and cheese, and it is supposed by the same
depredators, who, in both instances, escaped with
their booty.
A 'most melancholy accident happened at Bal-
lintuim; Strath-tummel, parish of Blair-Athole
On Friday; the I 1 th at. December, Alexander.
Calebanach, alias Dow. tenant there being
employed in drying grain on a kiln, went,
about midnight, accompanied by his daughter',,
a young girl, to lift off the grain, when, most
unfortunately, the rafters, which, it seems, were
rotten, gave way, and he was precipitated to
the bottom of the kiln, when it immediately
took fire, and before any assistance could be ren-
dered him, he was burnt to death. Owing to the
scarcity of water, the darkness of the night, and
timer late hour at which the fire happened, it was
not got under till noon next day, when the body,
which was almost consumed, was with dif iculty.
extricated front the rubbish. He has left, a widow
and three children, whose situation may be more
easily conceived than expressed.

Mi. Jaques, # pedestrian of 'much celebrity,
started from the Edgware-road, on Monday last,
to go 200 miles on foot, in 72 hours, for It wager
of 200 guineas, such being at the rate of 67 miles
a day. The pedestrian did 74 miles on Monday,
and he accomplished 82 on Tuesday, and halted
at a village near Andover, having 44 miles to
perform. He would close his journey four miles
front Bagshot, and at eleven o'clock ón Wednes.
day he had only 24 miles to do, and was in good
condition, so that he would win, with ease, in se-
veral hours less than the given time.
A duel was fought yesterday morning in u field
at the foot of Highgate-hill. One of the Gentle.
men received the ball of his antagonist in the arm,
after which the affair was accommodated. The
parties were both inhabitants of Highgate. The
cause of the quarrel originated at cards.

(MARGE,
BY Tim LORI) BISHOP OF LiNcor.tv,

Delivtird in May,Jime, 12,.t0 the Clergy of lip

, Dioce,e.
(4'outinutd from ollr,Paper of Yesterday.)

The offices, and situations in question were
eremed, not for the sake of those who were to
pp,ssecs them, but for the advantage of the public,
for the safety )i1(1 good government of the coun-
try.: They are not, to be granted merely as favours
nor to be considered as :rights. The benefit of
the community, and not ,of the individual, is the
object. to be tittained. And therefore we should
defeat the design and intent of these offices, we
should act in direct opposition to their original
institution, by granting theni to persons, •whp
might feel themselves called upon to use the pow-
er, which they confer, iii a manner hostile to the
welfare of the established; constitution •

It is sometimes, i4l, that Papists, being excltid-
tal from power,tire conseqneruly persecuted ; as if
exclusions froth` power and religious persecutions
were convertible terms. But surely this is to con-
found things totally distinctin their nature. Per-
secution inflicts positive punishment upon persons
who hold certain religious tenets, and endeavours
to accomplish the renunciation and extinction Of
those tenets by forcible means : exclusion from
power is entirely negative iu its operation—it only
declares that those w io ccrtaia Opinions shalt
not till e,,rrain situatiOns ; but it' acknowledges
Men to be perfectly free to hold these opinions.--
Perstenti6n cotopeis men to adopt a precribed
Edith, or to stiffer the loss of liberty., property., or
even life. EXClitsion , from power prescribes no
faith ; it allows awn to believe And think as they
please, without molestation or interference. Per-
secution requires men to, worship pod in one, and
iti.no other way. txCluSion from ',power neither
-commit& or forbids any mode of divine worship
—it leaves the hie iness of iclig,ion, whet e it ought
-to he left, to every man's Judgment and con-
science.

Persecution proceeds from a bigotted and san-
guinary 'spirit of intolerance ; exclusion from
power is founded in the natural and rational prin-
ciple of self protection and self' preservation,
etinally applicable to nations ant( to indiViduals.—
istory informs us of the mischievous and fatal el-
fects of the one, and proves the expediency and
necessity of the Other. In support: Of these asser-
tions, Wt! apped to the. sufferings 'of Protestants•
iu t!,,•ery co.dittry of Europe where
.Popery has been
preilon,i:lailt, tote danger to which tiurTrotest-
ant •,t as exposed under the two last
Kings of the 11.(1tttilt of Stuart, ;Ind to the internal
peace and entire freedom from nit reliAious feuds
and aonnosnies which this hingdom has enjoyed
since the revoli;tinn. .

It is a maxim of every civil govrtpnent,,,even
where a nioilerat dcgree of freedom prevails, that
avittrance ,41' fidelity should.be given by every rr-
Sou, pre% ions to hi, admission into any office or
siti:at ion of aatitori; yOr trust, Those who have
14:1 experiktnce in Ow utanAgement Of public
aelf,u',vledgt: the inefficacy of laws, when
eilleinistered by iwrsons hostile to the 'spirit in
which they were framed r and upon this principle,
no provisionsovhich,could he devised for time se-
craity ca' the Protestant reliii;ion, would be suffi-
cient, if Papists posse44sed any considerable share
it' the
igovernmput of this country. Ls en Mr,
flume, whose partiality to the
‘House of Stuart is
as well known as his indifferenc6 to ell religious
tenets, nanOwledges that James 11. ;was derIVICIIt
lllffn allikrektlCd and of to the religion etul
constitutiOn Af bi 4 country ;" and " when this
was ,wantinl-i;(pyS the histotian) every excellency
which he Possessed became dangerous mint perni-
cious to kingdoutt.''

' And 'what weir the mode that King :fames adopt-
ell to subvert the religion and constitution of his
country ? Was' it not by cru to remove
all religious tests respecting the admission of per-
sons into Offices of power and confidence ? And
is not that the.very object at which the Papists
are aiming at this present day ; Is it not asto-
nishing that such attempts Should find supporters
and advocates among those who affect to be the
warmest admirers of the glorions,reyolution; anti
to be in the strongest degree attached to the con-
stitution, at„it was then established ! Can'this,
admiration and attachment be reconciled with an
anxious desire to repeal and abrogate those very
regulations and guards, whiCh Our atice,tors, in
their eaution and Wilidolll, provided for the stabi-
lity and firmness of our civil and ecclesiastical esta-
establishments ?Statutes which Blaekstonecalls the
Enlwarks• of the 'COnstitntion, and says, that
they were enaetedto prevent Crude innovations in
religion and government, and to secure the Esta-
blished Church against perils from non-conform-
denominations, among whom he parti-
cularly mentions Papists.
Y lament that time will.not permit me try read to
you the two declarations of King James the Se-
cond, heeatute they contain the very arguments for
the repeal of the Test Laws itow urged by the •
friends of the Popish .Claims but I will quote a
part °la letter written in 1687, by Pensionary
Vagel to Mr. Stewart, by command of the Prince
and Princess of Orange, as illustrative of the prin-
ciples whiehplaced them on the throat. of En g,
land, and as putting the question in its true light :
I.llk is its plain and simple itinguage,—" Their
ilighocstes could by no InoatlS agree to the repeal
of the test and those other penal laws that tended
to the -security Of the Protestant nyligion, since
the Roman Catholics received no other prejudices
from these than their being excluded from Parlia-
ment and employments ; and that by them
-the Protestant religion was sheltered from all the
designs of the Roman Catholics against it„ of
against the public safety; that neither the test nor
1,11 r):“.. other laws could he said to :Carry any se-.
cm-it y is, theta against. the 'lnman Cathoiks upon
siNapint of their conseienres, being only provisions
4iitdifyirz men to be MemberS of Parliament, or
to be cyji,ll,lc of bearing Office, by which they
must &dare before God and man, that they were
for the Pi otestapt Religion i so that, indeed, all
;‘, ontounted to no inure than a securing the
Axil Religion from any prejudice it might
•:ritin the More than
highnesses have thought, and do still
. ought nut to be asked or enpected from.

LONDON: Pri 'Oct! by IoNT As

them,,since by that means:the Roman Catholics
and their posterity would be for ever secure in
persons or estates, or in the exercise of their
religion ; and they thought the, Roman Catholics
ought to be satisfied with that, andfnot disturb
the quiet of the , kingdom under :pretence that
they were shut out of Parliament and 'employ-
ments ; and because those laws, whereon the se-
curity of the ,Protestant Religion chiefly consist-
ed, were not repealed, by:whieh they might be
put into a condition to overturn it. Their High-
nesses were convineed in their consciences that
both the Protestant Religion and the safety of
the nation would be exposed to most. certain
dangers, if either the tests, or those.othor penal
laws, of which he had made frequent mention,
shouhi be repealed ; therefore they could not con-
cur with his Majesty in those matters ; for they
belieVed they should have much to answer to God,
if the , consideration of any present _advantage
should induce them to consent to things which
they believed would not only be very dangeirs,
but, prejudicial to the Protestant Religion—that
since the matter that was then in hand related,
not to the making of new laws, but to the total
abrogation of those already made both by King
and Parliament, their Highnesses did not see how
it could be expected of them, that they should
consent to such an abrogation, to which they had
so just an aversion, as being a thine. that was con-
trary to all the laws and customs of all Christian
States., whether 'Protestants or,, ,Papists, who ad-
m a ittednone to share in the'Government, or, pub-
lic employments, but those Who professed the
publie and established Religion, and endeavour-
ed to secure it agriust 'all attempts whatsoever.
It is declared in one of the 39 articles, that the
King is Lead of our Church without being sub-
ject to any foreign power ; and it is expressly
said, that the Bishop of Rome has no jurisdiction
within these realths4 On the contrary, Papists
assert, that the Pope is supreme head of the whole
phristian Church, and that allegiance is due to
him from every individual member in all spiritual
matters. This .direct. opposition to one,of the
fundamental.pri»ciples of the ecclesiastical paa
of our constitution; is -alone sufficient' to justify
the exclusion of Papists front all situations of au-
thority. They acknowledge indeed that obedience
in civil matters is clue to the King. But cases
;mist arise. in which civil and religious duties Will
clash; and he knows but little of the influence of
the,Popish (0.2 r the n'tind of itc votaries,
who doubts which of these duties. -Would be sa-
crificed te, the othet. Moreover, the most subtle
casuittry cannot alWays discriminate between
temporal anti spiritual things ; and in truth, the
concerns of this life. not unfrequently partake of
both characters.

of England, v.l, p. ,296. Ed. 7G3.
•Ketinett's llist, of Englund, vol. 3, p.
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The Corfu Gazelle, of the 11th of November,
contains the toll Owing statement : -

Voyfo, Nov. 11.
" The English nre endeaVouring to effect a re-
volution amongst the Greeks:in the Ottoman ter-
ritories. Largeiptantities' of powder have been
distributed amongst the peasants of the Notre.,
and several engineers have been lately actively
employed in taking plans of Ole IsOnitts of Co-
rinth, .and of the strong fortified towns iu its

We understand, that in consequence of the
intrigues of the British, the Turkish Governme,nt
has insisted, upon their immediately evayuating the
'islands of St. Mame and Cerigo ; and in the
event of refusal, has directed Ali Pasha, the Go-
vernor of Albania, to attack them %fith a large
force, which is already ass.embled at Giannina."
Ii order to enable the country to appreciate the
heroism with which our Officers and seamen have
defended themselves in the recent tetions with
our Trans-Atlantic descendants, we insert the
following table of the comparative dimensiops of
British and American ships :
Length Breadth
Name.- Bate, on gitn-,leek. for tonnage. Tons.
Tresi dent Ft. Ft. In.
Cemstitution. 1- 44 180 45 10 100
United State, .
Acosta* 4O 164 40 5 11-27
Arethusa l4l/ 59 3/4 013
' • Tigre.
Africa -I- 1,4 160-10 44 9 14ta