The Sun.
London, England, 1813-03-02 00:00:00

FINANCES;

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHr-QUER gate no-r-
-tiee, that on Wednesday he would move that the
House should resolve itself into a C6ntuitd.ee of
the whole House, to take ;into eoti?iderution the•.
state of the Finances of Great. Britain.

On the motion of Mr. GRANT, it
.cgily of the
indentures entered into bythe Offir,ers of the Mint
employed in coining gold, as also those of the
Officers employed in coining silver, an account of
the number of licenses granted for issuing Bank
Notes front the year 1797 to the present time, 'ilia
oilier Papers, were ordered to be laid before the
House.

Mr. CANNING presented a Petition -from the
Ship Okneis of Liverpool, against, the admibion.
of India7built Shipping into .British Pot with
,the privileges of English ships. :lle kii.atCd it to
be his intention to move, that these, with ,the
other Petitions ; on the osatue should be
retekred to the CoMniittee .on the East Thilia Com-
pany's Charter._ The Right flo,nourable; Gentle-
man also presented Petition frotn the Carriers,
Tanners, and Shoemakers, praying the rept:ai
the Leather Tax: The two .retitions were,
dered,to lie on the table.

The Outer of the-1).1y was then read for rvsuni-,
ing the.ft/ijourued deb ite on tht

CATUOLIC CLAIMS.
S4' JOHN NPANiPOATWOIIiti not have felt it cost- .
sisteet with the respect be owed the House, . ,
treseeisi; on their time on Oil this oecesion, but for
-eiieysgreet pains which haddieen tel'etei siac ilea
ouiljtct last.disenseed, toetir up the people,
etud itulnce it belict, that the morein now before
the House` was one which would ,vitally -Affect
'their religion. He lamented these proceed-
ings, which, hetbought could tend to no good, Feel
felt it tiecessarveo refute the eherges prefie
kigai t the Cathreies. These. Charges had bece
of the most serious, nature. One reveren6iPre•
i4tol in his writing-3 against Catholio Eanane:pee
Lion, held this language,." Does any one its nis
ie4vate concerns employ another. who wriuhl vp..,
pose his interest, ;trod rejoice in his rein This,
,ire thought, furls chargin,, the great body of the
Catholics with being disaffected to the iot,..reets
of this-country, anti aenely to rejoice, in its ruler;
and lest any doubt shouldexist.ote the sebjcet, the
charge was immediately after made hi- dirett terms.
--tins, be thought-, called for a refutatioa., even
frombis Majesty's Ministers themselves.' it wits
stated in one of the publications against the
that the demands made in '1793 had been
crenplied with, under a promise thitt no farther
concessions woeld be required. This be ,ticeitl,
and in answer to a -question put by the late Mar-
.quis of DorYnshire,. it had been. distioctly stated
at 'that time " that no, .suat promise could be
made ;" and in the Petition presented.hy the Ca-
tholics that/very year, a call was iziucle for' eom-
plete manumission, It wits, nevertheless,. said I t
the Catholics, that " having promised to require
eo more, and having,• its they thought, tidied the
Government off their -griard, they prepared to re-
bel, and called in France to assist them in effect-
.ing a sepertition between England and It cloud -to
secure Roman Catholic nscendaricy.- Thi.;
It had.heen Nutted, over awl over aAiee,
(and by Ministers)' that the Rebellion iv e, not a
'lomat) Catholic
.Rebellion: Protestants were et fie
tte head of it, and there was. hut one ;lonian Ce-
tholic ins the Directory. .-That
were engaged in the rebellion wes beynnri
dteihte Such meet be the cese it. every rebellion,
wirere' the gretwbody of the petiple ere of.-oac
religion, but wlitei the -Freech first appeared in
their Bantry' Bay expe:liti -en , the Cathoiies ewer e
most active in repolling tliein, mid netted heart
end' hand in oppozition to France. The Pi-e-
-'intes and Petitioners, whose Petitions lay hefo.,:e
them, he would recommend topeenseeepeeesieee
a Sermoiewhich had met his eye- th3t day,- and
which was preached before the Howie of Lord .j,
January 30, -1 700. read the passage alluded
to, which censured the meddling of the Clergy tzt
political matters, and described it to be " as mete..
cent as it would be to decide on. titles to lend In
0111)4, which were thesubject of litieution,la
Westminster Hell." He would wish to -ask thove
who ceertendedehe Scriptures justified the eu5A.l.
itm,...of Catholics from pulitical:privileges, weep,
they last read,St. Athantisiusi creed'? .He widea
the. house to look not.. to speculative opinioe..e.
but to facts.' case of Hungary he wished eQ.
be particularly attended- to, Hungary, which
contained 7,0110,000' of people, was so dieirVii,
that the Lutheruns and Calvini:ds were supposed .
to be rivoly equal in number .to the Romete Ca-
or octal ecnteriest .expitiivaiot