The Sun.
London, England, 1825-05-23 00:00:00

EXCHANGES ON LONDON.

HANBUTIGH, MAY 17, 36-1. ; Two Months 35 10A.---
PETEItSIILInGH, MAY 3,10 5-;32.—LEIPSIO, MAY 13, Three
Months, 6 14-13Ent.ix, MAY 14, Three Months, 6. 21.--
VIENNA, MAY 7, Three Months, 9 32.— BREMEN, MAY 16,
Two Months, 59 3.—( Hantburet Papers-, May 17.) ,

We have received Brazil Papers up to the 18th
of March from Rio dc... Janeiro. They contain nothing politi-
cal, but are occupied with decrees for making mines in Brazil,
granted in favour of Messrs. Carneiro, Leao, and Co. ; Messrs•
Reid, Irving, and Co.; Messrs. Raikes, Garry, Rougemont,
Freitas, Da Costa, Carvalho, and other Merchants of Londoa•

Several files of Awe cdn Papers arrived this
morning to the Ist of May.—The following. are

extracts :

[Extract of a Letter from the Havannah, March 391

" Yesterday a French brig of war, a French merchant ship,
and a brig direct from FraLce, arrived here—no news by theta

tThithas tome 'to—the public ea: --113 late piratical acts --every
thing has the appearance of tranquillity; but many doubts its
continuance. The Spanish Officers, arrested a fortnight ago
by order of the King, have made their escape, generally to the
United States. They were Officers of two regiments suspected
of being hostile to the present state of things."
[Extract of a Letter from Campeachy, March 8.1
" On the 28th ult. 800 men arrived here from Merida, the
bead-quarters of the place. Two days previously a brig of war
also arrived, bringing eight Spanish Officers, said to be bearers
of proposals from persons in the Havannalt to the Commandant
of Campeachy, for a supply of men to assist in the charge of the
(government, the inhabitants being dissatisfied, and were willing
to unite with those of Mexico. It is said that the Fort called
Cabannias, on the left of the entrance of the Ilavannah, would
soon surrender, on assistance being known to be at hand."

Jamaica Papers to the 3d ult. arrived yester-

tily.—The Spanish squadron which was off the castle of St.
Juan de Ulloa sailed from thence on the 20th of March. A d vices
from Guayaquil mertion that Admiral GUISE, the Commander
of the Peruvian squadron, had been arrested and sent to Lima
by the Intendant of Guayaquil. This proceeding arose from a
demand made on the Intendant by the then Admiral of 39,000
. dollars, alleging at the same time that his men would mutiny
if the money was not paid. This the Intendant construed into
• a threat, and immediately caused his arrest: GUISE'S officers
expressed much indignation at this occurrence, but had not
committed any act of a retaliatory nature. A report was cur-
rent at Guayaquil, that the Marquis of MON TEAGUDO had
been assassinated at Lima in the latter end of January. On
the authority of a•letter from Campeachy of the 11th March, it
is stated that an expedition, consisting of between 500 and 600
men, had been prepared for the purpose of making an attack
on the Havannah ; but had been abandoned on information of
• :the arrival thereof the Spanish squadron from Ferrol. General
IANTANA was on the point of resigning his command in
Yucatan, and was to be succeeded by General Illoru, who was

expected to bring with him a considerable body of troops.—
About 30 individuals, many of them said to be persons of note,
were said to be under confinement at Campeachy for sedition.
A new tariff of duties for the province was in preparation,
many of the items of which were said to amount to an almost
'total prohibition of English manufactures. These are absur-
.dities, however, incidental to all early attempts at legislation,
and which better information and consideration will infallibly

The Public is aware that a Meeting of the
'Members of the English Catholic Association
took place on Saturday last, at the Crown and
Anchor Tavern in the Strand. The abject of
this meeting was to give expression to their ideas
ou Ow subject of the rejection of the Catholic
Relief Bill by the House of Lords. The Duke
of NORFOLK in the Chair. It is hardly worth
while to enter into any examination of the speeches
of the different persons who favoured the meet-
ing with their sentiments on this point ; suffice
it to say, that the very words used might have
• been easily anticipated, consisting as they do of
'violent abuse of the opposers of the Bill, and
HO less violent praises of its advocates. Mr.
O'CONNELL'S speech was in truth nothing more
(although a very long one) than a comparison of
the respective merits of each party ; and in exact
proportion as he thought fit to vilify and calum-
•iiiate one party, he raised and exalted the other.
The Learned Gentleman seemed entirely to for-
.get, that the natural result of his overstrained
efforts at vituperation and laudation would
be to leave both parties in the public esti,
Thation exactly where they were before. On
the point, however, of the merit which the
Catholics claim as earnest of their notions of
liberty, by the fact that Magna Charta was
Wrested from King Joint by Catholic Peers, it
may be as well to say a few words, for the claim
}lax been foisted on the public in, a manner that
shews the 'degree of reliance they place on it.
We ask the Catholics, then, whether the whole
effect of Magna Charta was not to secure the
Barons from the interference of the Crown with
their Lordships ? whether almost the whole of
at is not employed in settling the disputes of King
-.11t,.! the Barons as to the Reliefs, Wardships, Mar-
riages, and so forth, and securing these means of
tyranny in the possession of the Barons, not in
abolishing them altogether, we ask them whether,
excepting four or five chapters, at the most, out of
the whole 39, any provision is made for securing
.the liberties of the subject, and to save him from
the TYRANNr and OPPRESSION of his liege Lord,
Although it saves him from that of his lawful
'Sovereign ? Moreover, we ask, what sort of li-.
berty_we should enjoy under the single protection
of A.lagnaCharta, unassisted by the Act of Chas.l 1.
lor abolishing of feudal tenures and the Petition
`of Rights, the Bill of Rights, and the Habeas
Corpus Act ? We ask them, in conclusion, whe-
ther the word " Freedom " is not used in Magna
Charta in opposition to villeins and serfs, and
riot in the general acceptation it now has ?
i\ir. O'CoNNELL also claims the establishment
of trial by jury, as errianatio,g from Catholics.
Let him prove it if he can. Although the leaders
f the Catholic party are thus warm on the re-
jection of the measure which puts a bar upon
their ambition for the present, their tone is mo-
derated into complete submission when speaking
of the Bill which was to take away the vested
rights of the largest portion of Catholics, he
i 8 satisfied with expressing his disapproba-
tion of that measure in very passive terms.—
e are diiappointed at the conduct pursued by
the Catholics on this point. We did hope to see
them give full and loud expression to their in.
4,,ighation at the proposition, to have heard them
the privileges they sought for, if attended
:: ith the abandonment of those they now enjoy.
Such. conduct would have .evinced the honesty
Re
of the views with which the Ca-
Relief Bill was brought forward.

- :rise New TIMES, we observe, this day, oh-
je.ct' to a passage in a Pamphlet, " attributed (it says) to the-
nl of Cnor,i'," but to which, in fact, he has put his
tO,- This pamphlet we noticed On its first publication, and
Iligh praise which we bestowed on it, we have authority to
•fiYl, .has been sanctioned by several of our Church Dignitaries.
ispix9P433age objected to is—" Civil !illegiance is a dream, where
allegiance is not bound up.with it." A great and
sax'e rtant truth is emphatically comprised in this pas-
it Ili!, as relates to the Roman Catholics ; for, however,
c 4 c'itY be denied, for the attainment of a particular purpose,
he doubted, that iF the Head of the Romish Church
Rianc!,xercise hiss piritual authority, and forbid " alle-
'l,acy,' that the Roman Catholics would bow to his supre-
-1150,..,_0(1 yield implicit obedience ? The arguments of Mr.
wizi,toi against the cession of political power to those who must
are e,:tniliiHiate our present Establishment in Church and State,
;itent t).ioy tgn eloquent and irresistible. Let the Roman Catholics
p,*rjtlrnost latitude of religious toleration, but never let
Prio.rtciPate in the power or GVERNING HE STATE
'ZTING.THE• CONSTITUOTION. T
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corrir,;vk". have been received from India, but
,itinicate -no intelligence of which we were
giread .
possesseu.
the Re (4t,1) CIL& NC ELLOII- bad an audience of
"'IN% yesterday.