The Sun.
London, England, 1813-07-06 00:00:00

CATHOLICK APPLICATION TO THE CORTES.

The idea of applying for the aid of the Spanish
Cortcs it aid of the Irish Papists, however bril-
liant and patriotic, is not original. So long hack
as the time of that glorious heretic Queen ELIZA-
BETH, the Irish Papists applied for aid to Pfit•
Lir of Spain, then a tyrant almost as powerful,
and almost as cruel as their present idol---,BuoNA
PAIIT4 j the glOomy bigot, perfectly coinciding
with his Irish supplicants, granted theni abundant
aid in ships, soldiers, and arms, blessed by the
Pope, and destined for the destruction of Britons
however, the result was, that. the heretical Queen
and her Protestant subjects laid the hopes .of the
tyrant and the traitors in, tbe. (Inst.. What, then
can be ecpected from a (...:ories ? They are too
wise to interfere; but the complaint of the pre-
sent race of Papists may possibly have the happy
effect of detaching some twenty Spanish recruits
from their allegiance.

'mut. 11Ev, the youngest son of the Governor
of Egypt, made his triumphal entry into Constan-
tinople on the the 2d of May, to present the Grand
Seignor with the keys of the city of Mecca, and
of the holy temple of Kaaba. The Sultan re-
ceived him, surrounded by the great Officers of
State. To celebrate this event, the batteries of
the ,port and city fired three times every day for
one week.

On Wednesday 1 tqt, Bur ridge, formerly a \las-
(er in the Royal Navy, who was convicted at the
limas Assizes of stealing a horse and gig, made
his escape from the working party of convict's,
who had been lauded at Blockhouse fort,"from the
Laurel hulk. He was ,assisted by one Bleades,
labourer, belonging to the Ordnance, who, at the
instigation of Burridge'6.wife, conveyed to him
his suit of 'luster's uniform. With these clothes
Burridge equipped himself in a cellar of the fort
cation, sawed his chains asunder, which he con-
cealed in his boots, and thus escaped the notice 0
the keepers. lie went to Gosport. and thence to
the Portsea Hard: Bleades has been committed
to take his trial for the offence.

IMPEthAt .P.,titiiWth-SiT:

itousEi dF PEEPS, Main)Ay, Jul.?. 5:

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C i Ounsel were finally
,liard resp4ing. .the -Scots cause;
Munroe r. Coutts.-r-Judgiiight postpOsied tiii V,-morrow.
.
Respecting the appeal of. the Trustees of lie bite Dulie of
Ql.ieelisherry t., the Earl of Wenilts, Conmei Bete heard in
part. To proceed again on.Wechiesday.
Viscount MArtiMin took the Oaths and his Seat.
Their Lordships then adjourned fur Stink tithe, awing
pleasure. . .
Oa the House resuming; the farther consideration. of
Doherty's Divorce Bill was taken up. Coutwel and the at=.
tend4iit witnesses were called in, and sonic discussion took
place respecting the fornier question of the exact state of
Doherty was in ayttiz.. time'df the marriage tyre--
moily; it Appearing that not long preViotis She bad, with
Medical appr..,tation, been emithied as one in a disordered
tate of mind. The. Learned Coimiel stated, that as ode of
the Witnesses Most competent to prove this, was at pre-
sent in rreland, and another could 11.4 then be fontidi lie had
no hope of being able to bri.:g them forward.in tulle this
Seklion, therefore suhtiiitt;:d to their Lordships the propriety
of deferring the consideration of the Bill until the next
Session:

The Lonn CHANCELLOR, Who had oblerved upon the ne-
cessity of having satisfactory proof adduced upon the point,
seemed to acquiesce iu the proposition of the Lrarned Coun-
sel. The Bill was
.afterwards, uu his Lordship's motion,• or-
tiered to b.: read a set:vitti time that day three mouths.