The Sun.
London, England, 1825-05-07 00:00:00

ler .the suXeiktiss of a long illness. She was hardly 46 years'
of age. • •

PARIS, MAY 3.

A journal of this morning mentions as a report, 'that autho-
rity had been sent to the French Consulate General in the Le;
vant, to receive the depositions of Count Guilleminot, our
Ambassador at Constantinople, respecting the contracts with
Ouvrard. We believe that this is a mistake, and that Count
Guilleminot will return from Constantinople to give his evi-
dence in person.

FRENCH FLT:ms.—PAttrs, 111 AT 4. —Five per Cents.
opened at 102 f. 30c.; closed at 102 f. 10c.—Bank Stock, 2,165 f.
—Rente de Naples, (Certificate Falconet), tilt. 30c.—Rente
d'Espagne, 18:1:—.—Royal Spanish Loan, 1823, 58.—Exchange
on London, one month, 24f. 95c.; three months 24f. 80c.—
(Cour: Authentiquc.)

We have received, by express, the node dated
yesterday, from which we extract the following
articles :

MADRID? APRIL 26.
The King anti his august family still inhabit the Chateau of
Aranguez. Prince Maximilian, accompanied by the Princess
Amelia, his daughter, left this residence on the 20th, at five
o'clock in the morning; they proceed to Perpignan, and from
thence to BordeauX, where they will take some repose. The
King has issued a Decree, which, permit's thp introduction of
Foreign Grain, to the Met May, in the-P.Vt,if Cadiz, Algesi-
ras, Seville, Alffietra,•and Malago. -
The Minister of War to the Secretary of the Supreme Council

of his Department,

. .
The King our Lord has taken notice of the'proceeding which
was instituted against Marshal de Camp Don Josef de la Croix,
Brigadier Don Josef Augustin Llano, and Don Francisco
Aguilar y Conde, by which they were supposed culpable of
high treason and conspiring against the Government. The
Council states, that the more they search for the crime they
are accused of the less they find, and they observe nothing
but injustice and calumny. Ills Majesty, with the una-
nimous advice of the Supreme Tribunal, declares that the
arrest of Marshal de Camp Josef de la Cruz is unjust and ar-
bitrary, and suspends all actions against him, and orders that
he shall be set at liberty immediately. The same resolution is
applicable to Brigadier Augustin Llano, and Francisco Aguilar
Conde.

A Decree was issued the same day, that his Majesty, wish-
ng to reward I)on Josef de la Cruz for his innocence, has named
him General of his Armies.

Fnr.Ncir Fl7NDS.—Rentes for Money, 101. 65.; End of
the Month, 101. 95.; left °Tater 'Change, 102. Time.

Then oman Catholic Relief Bill went through the
Committee last night, and no opposition was made
to it, but it is understood that its opponents will
make their stand on Tuesday next, the day ap-
pointed for the third reading. The only new
feature that the debate introduced was, (supposing
the Bill passed,) the contrast between the oath
of a Protestant Member of Parliament and the
oath of the Catholic Member ; the first swearing
" That no foreign Prince, Prelate, State, or Po-
tentate, hath, or ought to have, any power, pre-
eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or tem-
poral, in these realms," and the other admitting
the existence of a spiritual foreign autho-
rity in the Kingdom. It is hardly possible
indeed, without abrogating the oath of the Pro-
testant Member, to reconcile this contradiction,
for a contradiction it is, let the advocates of the
measure say what they will. That such an au-
thority isand always has been exer-
cised,t be admitted,
but it was not exercised
i t
may exercised,b
legally, or has it been it even sanctioned or
tolerated.- A Protestant could then, with truth,
swear that no foreign Prince bath, or
ought to have, any such authority, to the very
fullest extent of the words, and, needed, not to
shelter himself under the confined interpretation
Mr. PLUNKETT has been pleased to put on the
words, in which the Oath of Supremacy is con-
ceived, viz. that no such authority or coffin!l
existed over him. The words of the oath
are as large as they well can be, and in
the most positive terms deny the exist-
ence of any such authority. How then it
is possible for any one to limit the meaning in
his own mind only, and yet swear that he be-
lieves according to the very terms of the oath,
we do not understand. It may satisfy certain
minds, but we think if Mr.PLIINKETT really be-
lieves only to the extent of the Qualification he
made last night, he has no kind of business within
the walls of Parliament, and if the Catholics are
to take the interpretation of the Ca.tholic Relief
Bill from him, even the flimsy securities it pre•
scuts will be frittered away by the admirable
casuistry of the Honourable Gentleman. But
we confess ourselves far too much of John Bulls
to understand this quibble. If, therefore, the
Bill is passed, the Protestant oath must be alter-
ed in order to get rid of the inconsistency of one
man's swearing to that which another imme-
diately after flatly denies.

The SPEAKER took the opportunity on leav-
ing the Chair to give hi: opinion, and he de-
clared that " nothing he had heard or read had
relieved his mind from the serious apprehensions
with which it was filled, kith regard to this
:treat and most dangerous measure." This is
another authority for opposing the Bill--
forsurely
great weight must be attached to the opinion of
a person whose duties qualify him in no ordinary
degree to speak on measures affecting the Consti-
thrown around acquainted with
allt Consti-
tution, t i
tot ni
e, and
securitiesma k ethat him
intimately
are
it. to
protect us from foreign interference and foreign