The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-22 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, JAR. 21.—Wind N.N.E., fresh breezes.—The Hon.
Company's ships Hyth and Repulse, with the whole of the out-
ward-bound, sailed this morning. The Britannia, Evans, for
St. Kitt's, ran on board the Amity, Johnson, for Bombay, and
sprung the bowsprit of the latter ; the Britannia proceeded
apparently without damage. The Briton, Martin, from Sierra
Leone, and a bark, homeward-bound, remain.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 21.—Wind N.k., strong breezes.—
Sailed the lion. Company's ship General Kyd, Nairne, for
Bengal and China ; Lady Campbell, Irvin, for Madtas and
Bengal; Julius Ciesar, Stafford, for Carthagena ; Hector,
Mitchell, for New York : and the Jane, Riddle, for Madeira.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 20.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived the Dutch
brig Three Sisters, Rollin, from Antwerp for Rio Janeiro,
leaky. Sailed the Dickens, Proctor, for :Naples.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. N.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived the Pa-
ragon, Chaddick, from Charleston. The William Wise, from
Demerara, reported yesterday on shore on Hoyle Bank, had
gone to pieces; crew sawed; part of the cargo has been washed
on shore. The Ardent, Davies, for Maranh.im, is-puttiug
back, with loss of rudder; a steam-boat has been sent, to her
assistance: she has since gone on shore under 3lockbeggar.
A schooner (name unknown) is sunk on Hoyle Bank.

The Hercules, Decker, from Hamburgh to New Orleans,
was driven on shore at Amram about the the 2d instant; part
of the cargo expected to be saved.
The Camperdown, Raisbeck, from Riga to London, was► on
shore near I)rogoe the 30th November, and had thrown part of
her cargo overboard.
The Aram, Trist, bound to London, was driven on shore at
Copenhagen the 20th ult.

The East India Company's ship Thames arrived at Anjeer
on her way to Chins, on the 6th August, all well. •
THE STORNAwAY PACKET.—About a mcnth ago we men-
tinned that serious apprehensions were entertained for the safety
of this vessel, which sailed from Poolewe, on the Mainland,
for Stornaway, about the middle of November, and disap-
peared in a storm which commenced on the day she left port.
So general was the impression in the Lewis that she had
foundered at sea, and all on board perishek, that the relatives of
the passengers, several of them respectable individuals belong-
ing to the island assumed mourning, looking upon their loss as
certain. The Rev. Fraser, of Stornaway, was one of those
supposed to have gone down with the vessel, and on the pre-
sumption that the parish was vacant, a new Minister, the Rm.'
J. Cameron, has actually been appointed in his stead by the
Crown,jas appears from an extract from the London Gazette of
Saturday se'nnight, inserted in our last paper. We are now
happy to have it in our power to state the singular and gratifying
fact that strong hopes are entertained that the packet weathered
the gale in which she was supposed to have been lost. A letter
has been received in town, stating that she had been driven to
tile northward in the first instance, and ultimately to the coast
of Holland (Norway, we should rather suppose) ; and in
the Inverness Courier of Thursday last, we find that a report
prevailed there that she arrived at Stromness, all well, on
her homeward voyage. It is said that when she weathered
Cape Wrath, she was so dismantled by the storm, that every
stitch of canvas was torn to tatters. This in some measure ac-
counts for her extraordinary trip.-4 Edinburgh Observer.)

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEP:TINOS OP BOUNDS IN THE ENSUING WEEK.

His Majesty's Stag-hounds, on Monday, at Salt Hill; Fries
day, at Iledfont Lane.
Mr. Meynell's Hounds, on Monday, at Egginton P.r'e;
Thursday, at Shirley Park ; Saturday, at Lton Wood.
Sir G. Sitwell's Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Barlow.
Woods ; Friday, at Woodhouse-mill.
Sir B. Graham's Hounds, on Monday, at Pithian's Gate;
Wednesday, at Acton Burnell ; Thursday, at Ercall Mill ;
Saturday, at Lee Bridge.
Sir It. Pulestone's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Marford Hill ;
Thursday, at Overton Bridge; Saturday, at Oteley Park.
The Cheshire Hounds, on Monday, at Fox and Barrel ; Wtd.
nesday, at Duddon Heath ' • Thursday. at Black Dog, on Barn-
hill-road ; Saturday, at Tarporley Town End.
'1 he Earl of Scarborough's Ft x-Hounds, on Monday, at
Wigthorpe Bar; IVedacsday, at Apley Head; Eratay, at
C:.. worth.
The Badsworth Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Smcaton Bridge;
Thursday, at Crofton Village ; Saturday, at limdsworth.
Burton Hunt.—Sir R. Sutton's Hounds, on Monday, at
Wankney ; Wednesday, at Gate Burton ; Thursday, at Bran-
ston Wood ; Saturday, at Swallow Beck.
The Berkeley Hounds, on Monday, at Coxwell Woods ;
Tuesday, at Whittenham ; Wednesday, at Kingston Lisle ;
Friday, at Stadhampton Gate.
Sir Jacob Astley's Fox-hounds, on Monday, at Brisley ;
Wednesday, at Guestwick Church ; Friday, at Kyhurgh.
Mr. Dewing's Hounds, on Monday, at Testerton House ;
Wednesday, at Seamin ; Friday, at Field Dalling.
Mr. Muster's Hound's, on Monday, at Brampon Wood;
Tuesday, at Newnham ; Thursday, at Cransley ; Friday, ,at,
Buttock's Booth.

The Cuke of Grafton's Hounds. on Monday, at Stoke Btuerns
Park ; Wednesday, at Castle Thorp ; Frulay, at Whistley
Wood.

The Oakley Hounds, on Monday, at Swineshead ; Thurs-
day, at Marston Thrift; Saturday, at Piz llill.
Earl Fitzwilliam's Hounds, on Monday, at Wa'cot ; Tues-
day, at Thorpe Wood ; Thursday, at Thrapston Bridge.
The Quorndon Hounds, on Monday, at Allexton,Nrillage ;
Tuesday, at Glooston ; Wednesday, at Kirkby Muxloe;
Thumlay, at Widmerpool; Friday, at Scraptoft ; Saturday,
at Switliland Wood.
Lord Anson's Hounds, on Monday, at ()cisme ; Wednes-
day, at Newnham ; Thursday, at Kingsbury Wood ; Satur-
day, at Shuttington Bridge.
The Priokside Harriers, on Monday, at Newmarket Hill ;
Wednesday, at the Kennel ; Friday, at Telescombe Tye.

CORONER'S I NQU EST.-011 Thursday etominz,
at nine o'clock, and Inquest was held at the Half Moon, C i J.•
stone-street, Mary-le-bone, before T. STIRLING, Eq.
Toner, on the body of 3ladame Ilighichetr, a Siberian lady,
known to many foreigners of distinction in this coun-
try. The deceased had been some years in this coui ty,
;.nd had first conic here attached to one of the Russian sui-
t assies, and was allowed by a Nobleman of distinction of the t
tointry, for some years, 12/. per month ; but owing to sonw
I ad conduct of her own, that was reduced to 71. per month,
which she had up to time of her death. The following was
tt e evidence given :—Mrs. Wells, landlady of the Half Moon,
tA, that she knew the deceased many vears and saw her
f r the last time alive, about half-past et, ht o'cl Eck on Tlit.K-
day evenirg. Tile deceased held apartments in witne,s's
house, and enjoyed good health, and appeared between fit y
and sixty years of age • the witness served her with a pint..:'
porter, and one glass of peppermint. At about half-past eleven
o'clock, the witness was going up stairs to bed, and as she pass-
ed the bed-room of the deceasal, she was assailed by a strong
firtid smell, and immediately burst open the door, when a vo-
lume of smoke and flame burst forth so rapidly, that she was
obliged to run down stairs to save herself ; she gave the_
alarm, and her husband ran up, and succeeded in extinguish-
ing the flames, but the deceased was burned to a cinder. The
deceased had a monthly income, and always paid her bills
regularly. The witness believed the deceased got inebriated
in her room ; she asked her for a bottle of wine, but was refus-
ed ; however, a bottle with some wine was found in her room,
which she had bought, but not paid for, in the neighbourhood.
The deceased was habitually inclined to intoxication. The bed
and bedding were partly consum d Mr. Wells, husband of
this witness, confirmed her testimony in its material parts, and
the Jury found the following verdict :—" The deceased was ac-
cidentally Lurned to death while in a state of intoxication."
ATTEMPTED Su ICIDE.-Yesterday a young wo-
man who has resided for several years is a respectable family in
Bath-street, Old-street-road, took a quantity of laudanum,
with an intent to put a period to her existence. Her fellow-
servant was coming down stairs at the time the unhappy wo-
man was taking the liquid ; she gave the alarm, and medical
advice was inst Lady called in, and the usual remedy applit d,
but it was feared to no purpose.
ittanDEßY.—Abont 3 o'clock yesterday after-
noon as two boys, sons to Mr. J. Morley, tailor, 14, Prin es
street, Lot don-road, were coming out of Red Lion-court, F ee -
street, one of them carrying a bundle, containing 3 new coats,
value ill., they were accosted by a short man, with red hair,
and a scar on his right cheek, dressed in a blue frock-coat and
trowsers, wearing a white apron, and baying buckles in thet
sidetiien oofbltati shoes.obtained
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the upper part of the steeple of St. , taken
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TIM LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Jan. 22, 1825.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
t would be difficult to describe the sensation
produced yesterday in the Foreign Market, by
the posting of a letter from Panama at the New
-BngiandCoffee-house,in which it is stated thatßoli-
Tar was completely defeated near Truxillo on the
17th of September, and two of his Generals killed.
This letter was received at New York by the
Agent of the New England Coffee-house, who
hail it from the Editor of the Boston Sentinel ;
so that little suspicion could attach to it as to the
source through which it came, although the dates
ae4 other circumstances were calculated to raise
serious doubts as to the correctness of the account
in its origin. These, however, were overlooked in
the panic that was excited,and the South American
Securities fell considerably ; Colombian Bonds to
b 9, and Mexican to 80, whilst in the Mining
Shares it was difficult to find purchasers. In a
short time, however, persons had time to weigh
the merits of the intelligence, and the opinion
against its authenticity became so general, that
the Stock rose' again, Colombian to 01, and
"Mexican to Si. The Share Market, however,
continued very heavy ; the improvement in the
Bonds was caused in some degree by an an-
nouncement that an eminent South American
house hail received letters from Bogota of the
9th November, in which it is stated that Bolivar
was, at the date of the last accounts, received in
Bogota from Peru, driving Canterac upon Cusco.
In the English Market every thing remained
steady. Consols for money are at 9-11, and for
the Account at Wt.—The Bonds of the Greek
Loan remained very firm, notwithstanding the
reports in circulation respecting the disunion
among the Greek Chiefs.—French Rentes have
fallen from 1031 to 103, but without any cause
beyond the general dullness of the Market.

[MORNING POST.]
Much effect was produced yesterday on the
foreign market by the posting up of a letter from
Panama, transmitted by the Agent of the New
England Coffee-house, at New York, and said by
him to have been received from the Editor of the
Boston Sentinel. This letter stated that a great
battle had been fought between Bolivar and Can-
terac, very near Truxil!o, i❑ which, owing to the
treachery of one of his battalions, which went
over to the euemy in the hottest part of the ac-
tion, the former had experienced a severe check,
and had been compelled to retreat so far, that
though he had fallen back in good order, the
triumphant Spaniards had been enabled to
invade the Colombian territory. This com-
munication immediately occasioned a consi-
derable depression in Mexican and Colom-
bian Bonds ; but the panic was soon dis-
pelled. A look at the map showed that Boli-
var's last position was upwards of 600 miles dis-
tant from the seat of his reported defeat, and
that both he and his antagonist must have marched
more than thirty miles a day, without any inter-
ruption, for three weeks, in order to engage in
the vicinity of Truxillo, which was hardly prac-
ticable. It was also observed that Bolivar's
force had been reduced to 6,000, and that of
Canterac- increased to 13,000, which was a
complete reversing of their numbers. The
strange fact that the Boston Editor should
have. communicated to a person at New York
s. piece of intelligence which he withheld
from the public at Boston, contributed to
throw additional doubt on the matter, and
the South American Securities resumed a
great portion of their buoyancy. All fears were
a# last set at rest by the arrival of the Jamaica
Gazette, which contains extracts of letters from
Truxillo, dated the Ist of October, in which no
mention whatever is made of an action, or even
of the approach of the armies in the neighbour•,
hood. Several letters were also brought by the
Jamaica Mail_ from Bogota to the 9th of -Novem-
ber, and the Bogota Official Gazette, .which an-
nounces that dispatches had been received by
the Colombian Government, from the Intendant
of Guyaquil, dated the 27th September, advising,
th-at, in consequence of furti.er successes of Ge-
neral Bolivar in Peru, he had reached the river
Apurimac in pursuit of Canterac, who was re;
treating with all speed on Cuzco. Instead of
having fallen back towards Truxillo, it there-
fiiti appears, that Bolivar had penetrated nearly
1000 u ile's itfta the heart of the country.

• [Tue. Tunes.]
Among the subjects to which time and circum
stance have rendered it unavoidable that Parlia
went should devote, and devote immediately, a
large portion of its most seious inquiries, is the
condition of our national marine. There is no
one branch of the public interests which more
tteserves a Ml and industrious examination-
-there notteAna-grieve to say, which more !audit
calls for it. In spite of every attempt by Corn-
missioners, Secretaries, Clerks, &c., whether as
Members of Parliament or placemen, to inilster
up the hackneyed sayings of the public offices, to
give plump contradiction to positive facts, and to
stifle by ridicule, by insolence, or by majorities,
each successive proposal. to decide the truth
of alarming statements in such a manner as
to satisfy sober and. discriminating judges—in
spite of all this praiseworthy diligence, on the
hart of Lords and gentlemen in office, a con-
viction has somehow or other spread itself rapidly
and' widely throughout the kingdom, that the
whole system of our navy demands a rigorous
revision, both as to the materials of which our
men of war are composed, as the laws and usages
by which they are manned and governed. A
disease but little known to our ancestors, and
not more familiar to foreign nations, appears to
have made, within 30years, the most unparalleled
and frightful ravages amore:; the King's vessels of
war. Ships not serving for more than a fourth
of the period for which they had been esti-
*rated" to endure, have been brought into
dock, .receive, at • ttn- enormous expence,
.what is described as a 44 thorough repair ;" and
even before the process of repair was completed,

have, from the virulence of the distemper which
afflicted them, decayed almost under the carpen-
ters' hands, and been pronounced incurable. New
ships of the first order, magnificent as models,
costly in their materials, elaborate in workman-
ship, and of proud and encouraging promise,
have, on the earliest inspection after being
launched, turned out unserviceable from the
dry rot ! At this moment not a few of the finest
looking vessels in the British navy have actual-
ly perished in their respective harbours, and the
hundreds of thousand pounds which have been
expended on them might as well have been
cast into the ocean. - This fact has not been
denied. It is terrifying : it is more so, because,
from the conduct pursued by men in office,
the nation are kept studiously in the dark
respecting the nature and rapid growth of the
calamity. This is one grand subject which we
humbly propose to the notice of the House of
Commons at the commencement of the approach-
ing session : and we recommend it with the
greater confidf.nce, because there will then be
so much a better tale wherewith honourable gen-
tlemen may recover the strayed affections of their
constituents before another meeting of Parlia-
ment. A second—nay, a more important sub-
ject—is that of the British seaman himself ; and
impressment, with its long train of mischiefs and
of horrors. To that, perhaps, we shall return
anon.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
A very clumsy attempt has been made to
cheat the holders of South American Securities
by palming one of the grossest fabrications that
can well be imagined, upon the agent of the
New England Coffee-house, resident at New
York. We have given the dispatch of this
" learned Theban" in another column, and our
readers will at once see, from the internal evi-
dence of the document, that it is not worthy of
the slightest regard. It was posted, however, in
the public room of the coffee-house, with every
circumstance of appropriate dignity, headed—
" Late and important from South America."
The story itself is too outrageously ridiculous to
deserve a serious refutation by a critical ex-
position of its wild absurdity. Suffice it that
Bolivar, who we know on good authority was
pursuing Canterac, in the direction of Cuzco,
is by some magic operation brought back to
Truxillo, a distance of above six hundred
miles, where, with an army diminished by some
means in number to 6000 men, he is completely
defeated, through the treachery of a battalion of
his veterans ; and, to crown the wonderful nar-
rative, he retreats to Guayaquil, 300 miles fur-
ther, and the victorious Spaniards invade Colom-
bia! Never was there so feeble and wretched an
imposture ; and yet so morbidly sensitive is the
Foreign Stock Exchange, that it produced some
effect for a time in depressing the South Ameri-
can Stocks. The broker's " eye, in a fine frenzy
rolling," saw the absolute dominion of the beloved
Ferdinand restored throughout the vast conti-
nent which once acknowledged his sovereignty,
and the fires of the Holy Inquisition spon-
taneously rekindling, to burn the new Con-
stitutions and their supporters' together. The
report, we are told, was first received at
Boston, from whence it was transmitted to New.
York, where the Ambassador of the New Eng-
land Coffee-house, " keeping his eye on the
watch," writes up to the last moment of the
packet's departure. When this vessel arrives at
Liverpool, by some accident this news, which the
editor of the Boston Sentinel had alone received,
having been deposited in a second bag, is over-
looked for two days, and instead of reaching
town on Wednesday with the other American
intelligence by the same conveyance, is detained
till yesterday. Its history is not less extraor-
dinary than its character. Its certain falsehood
is established beyond doubt by several facts.—
The defeat of Bolivar is represented to have
taken place near Truxillo on the 17th of Septem-
ber; and the (forged) letter announcing it is
dated Panama, 20th October. Letters were yes-
terday in town from La Guayra, dated the sth
of December, from Guayaquil dated 28th of
September, and from Truxillo dated the Ist of
October, in none of which is there the remotest
allusion to any such occurrence.. The letter
from Truxillo describes the positions of the
armies, which were then„..a fortnight after the
date of the pretended battle, near five hundred
miles distant. Letters vere also received yes-
terday, by. way of „Jamaica, from Bogota to
the 9th of November-. The Bogota Gazette an-
nounces that dispatches had been received by
the, Colombian GOvernment from the Intendant
of Guayaquil, dated the 27th of September, ad-
vising, that, in consequence of further successes
' of General Botivar in Peru, he had reached the
River Apurimac in pursuit of Cantarac, who was
retreating with all speed on Cuzco. We have
, no doubt that the next advices from Peru will
bring the details of the uews we published in
subsiauce on Wednesday.

- [i*Eve-ir tin
The French Papers contain a Cabinet Order of
the King of Prussia, :lilted the 28th ult. respect-
ing the Censorship of the Press. This Order
forbids the publication of all works calling into
doubt, or treating with derision, the historical or
doctrinal truths of the Bible. It permits the'
controversial writings of different sects, but for-
bids them to use harsh expressions of each other,
and particularly to call each other heretics.—
Some sarcasms are directed against the Austrian
Observer,forthe favourable accounts which it gives
of the Turkish affairs. The alleged order of the
Sultan to Ibrahim Paella to leave the Bay of
Macri and make a descent on the Morea, is ridi-
culed." It is very easy,"says the writer," for the
Sultan to order the conquest of Greece ; in fact
he has done nothing else for the last four years ;
but the execution of these orders is a little more
difficult : and the rodomontades of Mussulmans,
always boasting and always beaten, are too well
understood now to frighten even the women and
children of Greece." The Etoilc observes," the
Journal des Debuts, which is not very suc-
cessful in its reasoning, is still less so in
its facts. It announces that M. Hyde de
Neuville has remained in Portugal, and that the

frigate Armide passed by Lisbon without com-
municating with him. Now the fact is, that M.
Hyde de Neuville has just arrived at Brest in
this very frigate, the Armide." We have often
shewn that the Journal des Debats was an un-
principled Paper, and we are not much surprised
at this exposure of its ignorance. The French
Rentes closed on Tuesday at 102 80 for the
Account.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
Yesterday another hoax was played off on the
holders of South American Securities ; and, in
spite of repeated cautions, several of them, we
understand, have been severe sufferers, by a fraud,
too, of so gross a texture, that, they forfeit our
pity, in consequence of the contempt in which we
are obliged to hold their understandings. A letter
was posted up in the New England Coffee-house,
dated Panama, 0ct.20, according to which, Boli-
var was defeated near Truxillo on the 17th of
the preceding month, with great loss, and forced
subsequently to abandon the whole of Peru, and
seek refuge on the Colombian territory. The
first objection to the truth of this statement, is,
the impossibility of the occurrence which it re-
lates ; as it was not physically possible that an
army which was at Iluanca on the 25th of Au-
gust (the date of Bolivar's last dispatch from
that &ace), could be at Truxillo on the day
when the engagement is said to have occurred.
The distance between both is about 500 miles,
in a straight line, and more than 600 by the
usual route. The next objection is the si-
lence of letters from Truxillo, which were writ-
ten two weeks later than the date of the alleged
engagement; but it would be an abuse of words
to waste another ou so glaring an imposition,
particularly as we have the means of proving that
Bolivar was more than 700 miles from Truxillo,
pursuing his victorious career, and in full march
on Cusco at the time of his pretended defeat. We
have seen a letter from Bogota, of the 12th of
November, which was received yesterday
by a very respectable house in the City. This
letter gives the substance of a Bulletin, dated the
29th of September, which had been received
from the Intendant of Guayaquil, in which the
intelligence we exclusively published on Wed-
nesday last is fully confirmed. It announces the
defeat of Canterac in a second battle, with the
loss of 1600 men, and that Bolivar was rapidly
approaching Cusco, in the confident hope of soon
destroying the remains of the hostile forces, either
by compelling them gsi disband, or to fight under
such circumstances 4 would insure their total
defeat. Whoever is disposed to give our Govern-
meta credit for the priudence of their proceed-
ings, will, after that late decision, concur in
this opinion.

[MORNING HERALD.]
One of the prevailing follies to which the thirst
for personal vanity and distinction gives rise, is
that of people toasting each other's health at
public dinners, and of lauding each other to the
skies in the shape of resolutions coming ready out
and dried to Public Meetings. So methodically
is all this arranged now-a-days, that the pro-
poser and seconsier of each resolution are prepared
'and advertised witk' admiratkie minuteness-; and
if a performer, not previously engaged, attempts
to step forward on die boards, both the Managers
and the audience unite in preventing his being
heard. There is something so ridiculous in all
this, that we wonder how people of sense and
respectability can be found to come forward to
be gibbetted in this ludicrous manner, which can
only be accounted for, we suppose, in the weak-
ness which induces almost every one to covet a
niche in Vanity Hail. Our attention has been
called to the subject now, by a series of resolu-
tions passed a few days since (and published in
most of the papers), at a Meeting of the British
Catholics, in which the usual laudatory strain is
adopted ; but in their zerl to praise almost every
body and every thing, they have been betrayed,
as might be expected, into one or two manifest in-
consistencies. Of this a striking instance occurs in
the praises and congratulations they bestow upon
Mr. O'Connell for his share in the late proceed-
ings in Dublin, after having in the same breath
declared their attachment to " temperate discus-
sion," and " calm investigation," and declaring
that " intemperance may debase a good, but
never can exalt a bad cause." If this be not
blowing hot and cold, we know not what is. No
man can have read the accounts of what has
passed at the Meetings of the Dublin Association,
and not be convinced that temperate and calm dis-
cussion is what has never yet occurred within
its walls. And if the British Catholics, who, we
believe, are prompted by a milder and more
conciliatory spirit than that which animates the
leaders among their warmer brethren of the sister
island, would promote their joint interests, it
must be done by repressing, not by applauding,
the heated and intemperate zeal which has eaa-
racterized most of the proceedings of the Dub-
lin agitators. We cannot, too often repeat, that
it is the misfortune of the Catholics, as a body,
to he spade the
.2,9910 of the personal vanity
and ambition of persons who appear to care
little for the main body of the people, in
comparison with themselves and their own selfish
objects. It is the duty of those who wish
well to the Catholics—who would give them all
that can safely be granted under a Protestant
Church and Government, to save them from
themselves, and from the violent injudicious
courses to which the conduct we refer to every
day more and more exposes them. The British
Catholics, however, we are happy to see, have
not ventured to applaud the proposed prosecu-
tion of the Courier. Here they have sl.own
their judgment ; for, of all the injudicious pro-
ceedings of the Dublin Association, this is en-
titled to the first rank, and, if not forthwith
abandoned, will do more injury to their cause
than any thing their decided opponents can ever
accomplish. The worst of tyranny generally
proceeds from those who talk loudest in favour
of liberty. And the attempt of those persons to
employ the Press to give vent to their own vi-
tuperation on the one hand, while they would
shackle its free agency on the other, is a toler-
able specimen of the candour, the liberality, the
mercy, and consistency of these worst enemies of
the Catholic cause.