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

Pr; OlifiESY.

PftilllCTiolthii ThE 13isi1or of MILES, !li .
YEAR 1610.—A prediction by the Bishop of Aries
in the yeV 161 :extracted in 1775; by Dr. Jones,
bite o 1 Kildiire,. from a book deposited io
the RoyO,Lihtary.nt trii, and hi possession o
tWoresp.oetablecientlemen of Dobliq upwayas tir
tacrrty yeiti;i, one of whom received it from Av.
drones :

• ic The Administrators of this kingdom, trance,
sliall be_ so, blinded wish vice, that they will leave
it with Out ilsfenders. The hand Of Gcid*shall e,,-
tend itself over them, and over all the ' rith.--,
There shall be twa husbands, the one trite and the
other adidteroirs (1) ; the legitimate husband sh.,li
be destroyed (2). A ' diyision (3) Shall spring lip
in the House of God. There shall be a great car-
nage, and as gi eat an effusion of blood as in the
times of the Gentiles. The .I.Triitersal Church Mil
the whole world slisll deplore the rain and t?e,
structioa of a most celebrated eay (4), the evyilal
of a great Notion. The altars and temples shall
be destroyed (5), the Holy Virgins outraged utui
driven from the monasteries, the Church Paetors
shall be driven from their seats, arid ,the whole
Church shall be stripped of its temporal goods (6) ;
but at length the Black Eagle (7) and the Lien (S)
shall appear hovering over tar countries. Misery to
theejOh City of Qpnlerice.! t hou shalt at first rejoice,
but thy cud shall come—Misery to thee, Oh City
of Philosophy ! (9), thou . shalt .lie subjected, and
captive Kings (10) humbled. to eonfusitm shall ha
released, receive their Crowns, and shall.destroy
the children of Brutus (11)."
• (1) Napoleon.
(i) Louis XVI: ' • ~_
a) The Constitutional, Clergyot Fr:ma:C.
.l) NloArow. . . '
t)5 jllt>t. ktilienz,n Pc
xoarttitotg:lo,iStutiulne,
7) Russia. •
(9)8) (heat Britain.
Paris.
&tocthe French Empire.
( 10)', 01. Spain and Prussia. •
(I l) Napoleon assumed the title of lik Wets BUoxiaparte , at
the re-capture of Toulon. See his dispatches at that, periusi
a the .I.,'uniteta%

BREAD.—To-day tliere was no GOort of Alder-
men held, the Lord Mayor after inspecting the
Retnrns; ordered the present price to continue:

ROMAN CATHOLIC CLAIMS.

The following is an extract froth an excellent
pvot•k entitled, -.THE CLAIMS of VIE ROMAN CA,
THOLiCS CoNiIDERED, WITH REFERENCE TO VIE
SAFETY OF TUE ESTABLISHED CHURCH, AND TII,S
RIGHTS or RELIGIOUS TOLERATION."

(Continued 11-014,0er Paper of Sat irstlity.)
" But such a claim, on the part of a foreign
potentate, is inexpressibly more formidable, as
that potentates is beyond the reach of controul.
-To entrust power in the hands of those who ae-
knowledge such a supremacy, is, in effect) to en-
trust it to the person possessing that, supremacy;
and that person, it is well known, considers the
religion of a Protestant state as heretical, and time
reelesiastieal authoritrof the Sovereign of sues a
state, as an usurpation,
" This 'distinction between Roman Catholics
and Protestant DisSenters, with regard to the den,
ger of entrweting thena respectively with POWel:fr:
is dolefully pre.ierved in the legislative provisi )71s.
by which their several inaapacities are crc.ted.--,
Thegeneralobject of those provisions is to require.
from atl persons admitted to.situatioos of pubUc
trust and authority, 'sufficient proof of th it beint
\veil affected to thy existing constitutiOn. Nothiog,
surely can he'inore reasonable than such
sleet ; nothing more obviously celculnted---nothing
more essentially necessary—to maintain, in peace
nod safety, the established order of things. Bat
the Constitution- consists of. two parts :—Church
and The tests required are, accordingly,
two-fold. The chief object of solicitude, however,
seems to have been to gunrd against disaffection
to the ecclesiastical part of the Constitution ; as if,
in the contemplation of the legislature, the security
of the Church would he. the most effeettial provi-
sion for that of the State.,;
" By .the 13 Car. 11. c. 1, and the 25 Car, 11.
'stat. 2. (commonly called the Corporati-ou end
Test :Acts), the taking of the sacrament of the
Lord's Supper, according to the rites of the Church
of England, is made the test of affection to that
Church; while the oath of allegiance affords a
like security to the state, by prescribing an en-
gagement cif fidelity to the person of the Sovereign,
as designated b the law of succession. But the
King is head of the church, as well, as of the.
state; and it is incompatible with the supreme
authority, vestedin him in that diameter, for any
of his subjects tg acknowledge a foreign suprema-
cy, eeelesisstical or spiritual. Such 4 suprenin-
cy, however, is claimed by the Church of Rome,
and recognized by rill its Members. Therefore,
both the Corporation and Test Acts, besides an.
oath of allegiance, prescribe also aim oa",h of so- .
premacy, contaioing an,express disclaimer of all
foreign power, jurisdiction, superiority, pre-emi-
neuce, and authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual,
within this realm. Such ore the grand bulwarks
of the 'Coostitutiou in Church and State i—bul-
ADrtrki which, in the nature of things, are esseri,
tilt' to the security.. of those etitablibinnents. But
:he two Acts by which these. bulwarks are prO-
vided,. were respectively passed at peeiods of our
history, which, though not very distent ft each
other, were marked by dangeiti ofa very ilitiervitt
description, requiring different kinds of preeeid-

! "At tlie period of the Corporation Act, it mts
fresh in the recollection of ever) ono, that the
successful. endeavours of the Protestant Dissen-
ters to get pci.ssession of the Corporations, had
very materially contributed to produce the grand.
rebellion, To remove persoint of; that dcscr:ption
from inch situoion, and to prevent them troth
ever returning thither, were the pritnary, thougn
not the sole, objects of that Act which, there-
fore, hegities the, oaths of allegntrice and supre-
triacy-7—(the latter being evicitntly designed to ex-
clude the Roman Catholies,) and the sacramental
(which equally excluded all dissenters,) re.
all members of emporatinns to take an
oath, that they believe it is not lawful to take
itrms against the King, &c. and to subscribe a
declaration against the solemn league and cove-
naut.

LAW:: 14', PORT.

courr OF CIiANCEAY, Fen. t.

EX.V,kIiTE BILY,ANT,

9'his was a petition by Mr. _Bryant, an eminent
Solicitor, to stay the .ploceedings wittier a Com-
mission of Bankruptcy taken out against him, as,,
dealer and chapniiin, and bookseller, until he
should have an opportunity of tryi►,g its validity,
at law. .
Mr. MONTAGUE, for the Assignees, resisted the
application on the ground that ,a trial at law had
already taken place ; and in the jukment of the
Court or Common Pleas, the petitioning credi-
tor's debt, the trading„ and act of bankruptcy,
had been proved, so as to support the Commis-
Mon. He hoped, thereftire, that the Court would
,see no reason tin• any farther delay. No diffe-
rence ought to he made between a rich bankrupt •
and a poor one. Air. N. to slew that delay•tvas
the great object, adverted to certain words in the
Petition, from which it appeared that it was
designed to carry the case into the., House of
Lords. .1

Sir Samura. Itommtv said it could not' be car- *1
vied into.the House of Lords, and yet his Learned
Friend had condescended to dwell upoa these foolish
words in an ill-drawn Petition.; like a lion labouring
to tear in pieces fly. He contended, that though
Mr. Bryant bud at times purchased valuable and
envious books, and afterwaids disposed of them,
for profit, he ought not to be considered as a book=.
seller, in the usual sense of the term ; and theve-
fore was not liable to khe bankrupt laws. Mr.
Bryant was fully competent to. pay his debts, and
offered tsk give up an estate to his creditors, to
secure s 'payment : but' as he did not think
himself liable to the bankrupt laws, he was anxi-
ous to get rid of the Commission.
The LouD CHANCKLL(nt Observed, that he 11int,
self, and he supposed most gentlemen lit the bar,
had been ttv good deal, surprised to hear of a corn-
Mission against Mr. Bryant, the solieltor, us dealer
and ehaptuan,,and bookseller.. It appeared, how-
ever, that Mr. Bryant had occasionally purchased
books aatt,prints, itud afterwards sold
thew, and a Cimrt of law had 'pronounced that
this was a trading„within the statute ; he there-
fore saw no'reason for sta7ing the proceedingi
upon that groom!: But if 'he offer of Mr. Bryant
was such as Wight to satisfy the creditors, then
there eould.be no occasion to procee4 in the Corn-
mission. lie would conAder that point, and give
bis ()Onion out 'Wednesday. His Lordship also,
adverting to a statement of Mr. Bryant, that
be bad snflered some inconvenienee from the non-
attendance of the Commissioners,. said that this
wars very I.vrong, tonl hoped he should bear of no
such complaints in future.
The camstatidA„,ute..till Wednesday moning%