The Sun.
London, England, 1825-05-10 00:00:00

[MORNING POST.]

The Amendments made in the Committee to
the CathOlic Relief Bill were agreed to last night
in the Commons, and the Bill ordered for a third
reading this day. On this occasion we trust that
all the friends of the Established Church will be
at their post ; fOr even if they should not be able
to defeat the strange inconsistent medley by
which it is supported, there may be some use
in reducing the majority so low as to prevent
its being carried to the Lords with any thing
like the authority of numbers. Indeed the pro-
fessed friends of the Catholics are already
playing the game of their opponents, and the
discord which the Disfranchisement Bill has
introduced into their ranks, is a most cheering
and fortunate circumstance. Whilst they relied
on it to procure them a few interested votes, they
find that it deprives them of some of their most
constant supporters; and that besides taking
away as much as it gives, it robs them of all
claim to consistency, and points them out to
public view as men who would sacrifice their
most cheristieAl and deep-rooted opinions and
principles to obtain any favourite end. On
the question that the House should go into
a Committee upon this measure last night, Mr.
flume moved as an amendment---►z That a Select
Committee be appointed to enquire what frauds
and abuses exist in the exercise of the Elective
Franchise in Ireland, and what measures it
would be most advisable to adopt, to prevent a
recurrence of such evils." This; howe'ver,
not carry the feeling of the House, which is de-
cidedly, and justly too, more in favour; of this
particular Bill than in that of either of its com-
panions ; and the question having been pushed to
,a division, the Committee was carried by an
immense majority of 168 to 53. In the Corn.'
mince, many Members who have hitherto sup-
ported the general Bill declared their intention
to vote against it, on account of its being coupled
with what they considered a.noxious excrescence.
It is still possible, therefore, that even at this late
and final stage of the measure, good sense, re-
gard for the Constitution, and patriotism may
prevail. That this be not. a vain hope is our
prayers : it now depends on the Representatives
of the country to give it reality, and to repel the
danger which now menaces this country, perhaps
for the .last time.

[vEw TIMES.] • •
In the House of Lords last night the Earl of
Lauderdale, on presenting a petition ,against, the
Equitable Loan Company, observed,—that- the
Bill would insure a monopoly in.the lending of
money at the rate of 5 per cent. interest, although
the object of the Company was pretended to be
universal charity. , His Lordship affirmed that
-the measure would supersede auctioneers, brokers,
and other traders, and that he resisted the Bill be.
cause he was anxious to do justice to the public
at large. The second reading of the Bill, to le-
galize the sale of game, was,moved.by Lord Dacre,
but an amendment was proposed, and, on.
a division, the Bill was rejected by a majority of
.fifteen. In the House of Commons, Mr. Little.
Inn moved fur the Committee upon the Irish
Elective Franchise Bill, when, after a discussion,
in which a great many . Members participated,
the motion was carried, an amendment being ne.
gatived by a majority of 115:--The sense of the
House being thus unequivocally expressed, the
further consideration of the Bill, in Committee,
was postponed until Thursday next.

[BRITISH PREss.]
We have beard that the statements we have
lately published respecting the negociati,on for a
Spanish Loan, have in some quarters been treated
as connected with jobbing speculations. It, would
he well, perhaps, if the parties to whom we al-
luded .-would take the trouble, before. they im-
peached our integrity, to look bark at: the whole
of what we have stated on this subject, and see
1?w far we have already provA to,. be correct
.s
our information respecting facts which now ad-
mit
of.no doubt. All that we have said that could
Ito confirmed, has been since acknowledged to be
true by the very, parties ..who at .first denied it.
:have regularly and faithfully narrated the
pregressnf the negociation. Several times it has
been reported that the Loan was, or would be,
abandoned. At one time we were told that Fer-
dinand.would rather. abdicate his crown than pay
off bonds of the Cortes ; and therefOre not
only there would be no Loan, but no intention
bad, ever existed on his part to borrow., unless the
transaction could beaccomplished without, the ad-
mission of the bonds. At another time it was,
said that indeed there-had been a negociation,-but
that the fall of M. Ugirte, or something else, had
Taut ond.to for, ever. " On each of these occa.:
lions we renewed our assurances filet the tiego-.
viatio'n P•as nOtinterthpted, and e.e showed why

the circumstances supposed to have had this
effect had really had no influence whatever.—
We have pledged ourselves to the correct-
ness of all the information we have pub-
lished with relation to the Spanish loan ; and
as we have been unquestionably right hitherto,
we claim and expect to be absolved the serious
imputation attempted to be fastened upon us. A
short time now will settle the question. Mean-
while we beg again to assure our readers that
we have not sent forth one syllable for which we
have not the very best authority. Whatever
doubts may be felt or affected as to our state-
ments, nobody will now venture to contradict
them.

[MORNING ellaoNlcLE.]
The Game Laws Amendment Bill was lost last
night in the House of Lords. This is only what
we expected. The success of the Bill in the House
of Commons is more surprising than its failure in
the other House; but the knowledge that it
would be thrown out at last, no doubt led several
of the Representatives of popular places to vote
for the measure, though they were inimical to it
in their hearts. The prisons, to be sure, are filled
with poachers (there were at the New Year
no fewer than 1,500 in prison, and the number
is seldom much short of this); and, as Lord
Dacre observed, there was hardly an instance of
a poacher who, after suffering imprisonment, did
not become a hardened criminal. When the
hearts of men become hardened—when they
become dead to all considerations of huma.
nity (as is the case with those who sacri-
fice, without remorse, the peasantry of a coun-
try to their beastly gratification), divine justice
seldom fails to reach them in time through the
consequences of their vices. We know of
no men who have so deep an interest in the mo.
rality of the lower orders, as their superiors—no
men, who have so deep an interest in preserving
in them a horror of deeds of violence. We tremble,
when we think of the consequences to which
these wanton imprisonments of the peasantry seem
likely to lead. Do not let the Gentlemen of Eng-
land think, that if they sport much longer with the
happiness of the peasantry, the consequences will
not extend beyond gamekeepers. The dog bites the
stone thrown at him, but a reflecting man looks to
the hand from which it parted. If the peasantry
are so stupid that they cannot of themselves
make the distinction, they may be assured that
others will supply the deficiency. This murder-
ing through spring guns, and manufacturing of
criminals by wholesale, must have a calamitous
end.

Rev. Mit. KENNY.—We believe it is in the
recollection of our readers, that about two years ago the Je-
suits succeeded in ensnaring a distinguished Roman Catholic
Priest from his friends in Dublin, 'and secretly conveyed him
to their establishment at Clongowes, County of Kildare, where
he was forcilAy detained; because he had expressed his senti-
ments rather freely on some doctrines of the church of Rome,
and his determination to throw off' the trammels of that slavish
and degrading religion. Fortunately for this poor man, Sir
Harcourt Lees, whom neither danger can appal, nor power se-
duce, heard, a rumour of the base transaction, and instantly, with
his usual decision and judgment, adopted means to recover,
and, if possible, to save his life. After great and laborous re-
search he tracced the priest to the South Friary in Cork, where
he had been removed previous to their sending him to the In-
quisition at Rome ; but the terror of an Habeas Carpus, in the
hands of a dauntless champion of our church, soon procured
Mr. Kenny's liberation, when he came over to s country and
conformed to the tenets of our reformed church, he was then
taken under the protection here of some of the distinguished
prelates of our establishment, and is now an able and zealous
Protestant clergyman. The object the priests have in view, in
spreading the foul report contained in Mr. Kenny's letter,
is too evident to be mistaken. %V thank the Rev. Baronet
for enclosing so important a document to us.
" 17, Citrburton-street, Fitzroy-square,
" London, May, 4, 1825.
" Esteemed and Reverend Siri
" The readiness that accompanies the disposition manifested
in your anxious desire to proinote every interest connected with
the Church, of which you are so• distinguished an ornament, by
the exercise of your powerful and peculiar talents, and also that
early, solicitude which you had so kindly strewn in my affairs, now
lead me to request that you Will please to have contradicted a
rumour of rne,which is no* set afloat in the City of Dublin, for
evidently,no good purpose, and which I feels deep and earnest
desire to have.suppressed; not merely on my own account, but
for the esteem in which 1 hold my many and highly respect-
able friends, both ire that City and here. lam informed by a
friend of mine, now in Dublin, that some malevolent and ill-
disposed persons are every where endeavor.ring to circulate that
I (lied in great distress, and that in my last moments I was
calling out for a Roman Catholic Priest • Now, Sir,, here is a
living evidence to give such wicked insinuations their merit-
ed reprobation. J. C. KENNY.
To my esteemed and Rev Friend,
Sir Harcourt Lees, 15, Hen-
rietta-street, Cavendish-square.
( From the Palladium, May 8, 1825.)

1,01113 BA 1.14E11.7N0.---on Thursday very
extraordinary adventure originated in the folly of an old man,
who believes himself to be-ARTRuR, Lord. BAI,MERINO, a
descendant of the Lord Arthur who was beheaded on Tower-
hill. Having conceived .the magnificent project of raising an
immense army, to consist of forty-five regiments, he was anxi-
ous that his cavalry should be provided with such horses as
would render them invincible ; and it occurred to him, that the
very best breed of war horses might be produced from crossing
the common grey mares of this country with Barbary horses.
Believing himself to be invested with authority to do any thing
he willed, he set out with the -determination to impress in-
to hts service ,every grey mare he could meet with. The
first that he saw was dragging a cart near to Canonmills ;
and he instantly ordered the carter to unyoke it. Upon
the carter refusing to do so, the lunatic seized hold of the
mare, And was proceeding to disengage it from its tram-
mels, when the carter. bestowed upon him some pretty heavy
blows, which compelled hith to 'abandon his purpose. He
then found his way to Prince's-strett, where it so happened, that
about the east end of it a boy was standing, having charge of a
grey mare belonging to a clergyman, whose benefice is within
seven miles of the city. The man thought that, to possess
himself of this mare, stratagem would be better than force ;
and accordingly,. having amused the boy with a few ques-
tions, and withdrawn his attention, he suddenly leaped on
the, back of the mare, and set off at full gallop down Princes
street, next I-lope-street, and. then Queen-street. At the
bowie of agentleman in the latter street he stopped for a mo-
ment, rapped at the door, and, strange to say, on the door being
opened, he rode in to the imminent danger of the life of the
footman, and did not halt till he got to the door of the draw-
ing-roism. From thence no remonstrance could induce him to
depart, until he' obtained a shilling to,enahle hint to pay tolls.
He again set out on his journey, and did not stop till he reach.
ed Piershill Barracks, where he put the mare into a stable,
is
and where he was taken into custody by his pursuers, and
t 0
00nbveleoynedg ttoottii,..LP; and
Police-office. He believes the whole Caltonhill
whom determinedhe d
etsoc
rrootjbeßoaust
mereall th
pe tenantsebiaas
upon the Regent Bridge,,
because they will not pay him rents. He has promised grants
of land to all who will support his just rights; and, in addition,
to stock their lands so granted with Irish goats of an excellent
ifinirstduneratanegmemanenwt baseinoro averre;
breed, which yield each *even pints of milk daily. This un-
fortunate
asylum is the fittest habitation for him.--(Edinburgh
Observer, Max; 6.) • la)epcptaareblnet,dver in this city ;_ and
it is pretty plain that a

•
DEATH BY Boxtrzo.--A sawyer, of 'the name
of ,Wilioughby, was killed yesterday ,morning in a casual pugi-
lispc-comhat, with a man of the name of Irving, pn Stoke Com-
mon, near Bushy. They' had quarrelled at a neighbouring
public house, and' the deceased was taken off the:ground lifeless,:
after a fight of more than one hour.

FOR THE SUN.

CATHOLICS.
Shall our coffers then
erupty'd, to redeem a traitor home ?
" Shall we buy treason ? and indent with fears ?"

MR. EDITOR—We have heard of the Golden
Age, the Silver Age, the Iron Age, and we have
had our own Augustan Age, but, if we are to
provide for the Roman Catholic Clergy, the pre-
sent will for ever be stigmatized as the FOOLISH
AGE. IS it not known that the Roman Catholic
Religion is " UNCHANGED and UNCHANGEABLE"
by the solemn declaration of all the Roman Ca-
tholic writers ? Mr. PLOWDEN, now in Paris, is
esteemed to be one of the most learned and able
writers in favour of Popery, and he declares that
they who think that the progress of time has
made any change in the Roman Faith, deceive
themselves, for the Roman Catholic Religion is
" unchanged and uncliangea:ile," and its motto,
SEMPER. EADEM. It is well known that the Ro-
man Catholics consider our Orthodox Clergy as
usurpers, thieves, and heretics, the latter term in
their opinion implying every horrible, execrable,
and damnable quality. Shall we then support a
Priesthood whose aim will be uniformly directed
towards the downfall of the National Church ?
Shall we then actually harbour in our bosom,
our most deadly enemies, who, while we feed and
cloath them, will be incessantly employed in at-
tempts to undermine our Establishment in Church
and State ? The motto, which I have selected
from our immortal SHARSFEARE is appropriate,
emphatic, and speaks with a warning voice. The
existence of a Popish Hierarchy in the British
Dominions never should have been suffered,
whatever toleration might have been extended to
their Religion. The only condition on which a
a provision should be made for the Catholic
Priesthood is, that, as their Titular Archbishops,
Bishops, Deans, &c. drop off, there should be no
successors to their titles within the limits of the
British Empire. The ordinary Romish Priest-
hood arid their Religion may be permitted to en-
joy complete toleration, with the provision that
they should be subject to punishment or expul-
sion from the kingdom, if they endeavour to
make proselytes. Under these conditions, and
these only, a provision' may be given to the
Romish Priesthood. But' to provide for our
bitter enemies, who will never be satisfied till
they have obtained an ascendancy, religious and
political, in this country, would be the height of
madness, folly, and idiotism. Lest I should
be suppo,ed to be a bigotted Priest of the Pro-
iestant Persuasion, I shall annex as the signature
which will characterise my station through life,
what I shall never cease to be

A PROTESTANT LAYMAN.
Pembroke Hall, May 4, 1825.

• " To indent is to sign an indenture or compact."—MALONfi.

WELSH ANTIQUITIES.

We copy the following from the Carmarthen
Journal:--

VALUABLE HISTORICAL AKTIQUE.—Mt. FrOLFORD,
of Kilgwyn, had, upon a part of his estate, at a considerable
distance from the mansion, a pyramidal stone, of prodigious
magnitude, which he was desirous of removing near the house,
but was deterred from the attempt by its apparent impractica-
bility. In his absence, Mr. Holford, jun. with the view of
giving his father an agreeable surprise, upon his return, col-
lected a great number of the neighbouring tenantry, to essay
its removal. The whole lateral pressure of earth having been
removed, a team of five.and•twenty horses were put to, and
succeeded, with some difficulty, in dislodging this ponderous
mass from its site, and exposed to view a tablet, with the fol-
lowing inscription :
A PEWL A BRECEIb Odd un yvan
lion hyd FLWdd An Ad Xxviii
AG; ELim AP OWEn Goch
ALA dd wyd AC—CAdd wydunman
OACO f PREC thy °Rift 1604.
Which, when translated, we take to be " St. Paul preached
on this spot, about the year ofour Lord 48 ;" and Elim ap
Owen (loch, suffered martyrdom, and was buried in the same
place, for preaching Christ, 1604." This isan antique of con-
siderable importance in a historical point of view, determining
as far as such evidence can, the hypothesis of our Learned
Diocesan--that St. Paul preached the Gosfiel in Britain.—.:l
When this inscription was Made does not appear, but even
admitting it was as late as the early part of the 17th century,
it shews the existence of a tradition to that effect, or of some
historical record of which this tablet is probably a transcript.
From the distinctness of the date we are inclined to think the
latter, and -that our ancestors were desirous of transmit.
ting this interesting fact to posterity is apparent, from the
immense labour which must have attended the sepulture
of this tablet. We congratulate the principality upon the dis•
°very of this ancient rule ; and we congratulate the Bishop o f
St. David's upon the discovery of this strong corroborating evi-
dence, that Great Britain (aye, that Carrnarthenshire) is within
the limits of St. Clements " Ri: to tern:a us Liz:cos' —a point
for which his Lordship had contended long and earnestly, and,
as We think, successfully. The discovery of this interesting
tablet determined Mr. Holford to examine a cairn or tumulus,
also upon his property, the result of which was the discovery
of two earthen vases ; one of which, through the carlessness of
the workmen, was broken the other, in which ,were human
bones, was preserved. Under these also was found a tablet,
with an inscription, partly Welsh and partly corrupt Latin, of
which the following is a transcript
Hie JACET iN kAIRN hoN
Coßpvs Lvprs
DA Escop TRECASTELL
LloSeod • AD- 427.

This bears the date of the tiftli century, and is inscribed
to the memory of Lupus, Bishop of 'Precastle, whose
remains it is supposed they contain. , Both those discoveries
were made in the parish Of Mothvey, and if an examina-
tion was set on generally in the principality, we are san-
guine that many valuable antiques may be rescued from
oblivion, and that the cause of history
,would be materially
benefited by the recovery. We should have observed, that
in digging up the tablet which records St. Paul's preach-
ing in this island, human bones and ashes were found.—
The pyramidal stone (one of the maim hirion alluded' to in
Archdeacon Beynon's address at the opening of the Cymrer-
gyddon Meeting in our hallo was formerly surrounded with its
hedge. Since its,deportation to the lawn at Kilgwyn, part of
it has been Polished, and it proves to be a block of red marble,
beautifully variegated with blue veins. , The farm on which the
stone stood, was formerly called Gelly-maen, obviously deriving
its name from the stone. 'The other inscription, it will be
seen, records the martyrdom of Elm ap Owen Goch, for preach-
ing Christ.

~•
COURT OF. APPEAL.—Yesterday the Judges
were all summoned to attend the House of Peers, and the whole
of them -were in attendance, except Justice LITTLEnaf.E:
The Chief Baron delivered the unanimous opinion of the 12
common law Judges,-on the questions submitted to them upon
that part of the will of Peter Thellusson, Esq. deceased, which
related to the nomination to the ecclesiastical preferments, and
which were directed, by the will, to be exercised by the eldest
male lineal descendants of each of his three sons in turn ; and
the first-question was, whether a grandson of George Woodford
Thellusson (through a (laughter, for he had, not a son) came
within the description of
male lineal descendants." On this
point, the Judges were of opinion that such grandson was ex-
cluded; " male lineal descendant" being confined to an unin.
terrupted male heir. The other question was, Whether a grand-
son under age could present"
that he lawfully might.; and the Judges were of opinion

•
A Depilation from the Royftl Society of Li.
terature, headed by the Bishop of St. David's, waited on Major
HENNELI. on 'Wednesday, to confer on him the gold medal
awarded to him. On one tide is an appropriate device ; on the
other a fine likeness of his Majesty.

MARRIED.
On Monday, the 9th inst., at Hadley, William George/Vai-
ton, of Woodford Bridge, Esq.,,to Harriet,: fourth daughter ot
the late Hugh Atkins_ Esq
to miss
At St. George's Church, Lionel Hervey, Els',
Wells, daughter of the late Admiral Wells. _ .

On Sunday, the Bth inst., Mrs. Horsey,
DIED. •
wife of the ReY•
John Horsey, of Northampton. . ces-
On the 7th inst., at her house in the College-green, Wor
ter, Mrs. Hannah Grape, widow, aged 72. ' ' of
At Pita, on the 18th of last month, Harriet,- . the wife
Thomas Henry Musgrave, Esq., and third daughter of the late
Dr. Pemberton,'in the•2sth year of her age.
_..—...2,
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