The Sun.
London, England, 1812-06-11 00:00:00

THE SUN.

soLEm Quis F.:ILSUM DIAT ?

L 0 ND 0 N,
THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1812•

The Ministerial arrangements are nearly com-
pleted. The Cabinet, we understand, will con-
sist of the following Members :—Lord LIVER-
POOL, First Lord of the Treasury; Lord E t 'HURST,
Secretary of State forlVar and Colonies ; LordCAs-
TLEREAGH for the Foreign, and Lord SIDMOUTH,
for the Home Department; Mr. VANSITTART,
Chancellor of the Exchequer ; Lord ELDON,
Lord Chancellor ; Lord MELVILtE, i'irst Lord of
the Admiralty ; Lord 4ARROWBY President of
Councils Lord CAMDEN will have a seatin the
Cabinet.

It vas our intention to resume the subject of
the attacks which the Opposition arc in the con-
stant habit of directing against the PRINCE RE-
GENT, or " THE C01)11IT," (to use the favourite
term of the Morning Chronicle), against Earl
'Min A, and, as might, of course„ be expected,
against those Ministers who feel it to be their
.duty to obey the commands of their Sovereign,
and not to suffer the business of the Nation to
stand still, in order to promote the ambitious views.
or gratify the splenetic feelings of Parties who
never were likely to have entered into any union,
except tor the advancement of a common interest.
But chagrin and disappointment appear to have so
much bewildered thee faculties of the Opposition
Writers, that they -seem to be rather objects of

pity than resentment. Yesterday they made a great
stir in favour of the Roman Catholics, and at-
tackedthe new Ministers-, because (as these Writers

alleged) they came back with a determination to re-

sist Catholic Concession,which they termed " afun-
&mental article," that Government ought essen-
tially to regard; and they maintained that Lord
MoluA should have been " enabled to guarantee
to the Public the Prince's full determination to make
it the sine qua non of his future . Administration,
WI; ocver should be the persons to carry it on." To-
day we find the Chronicle equally hostile to the
new. Ministers, though it
,was signified by Lord
C-AsTLERRAGH in thcllouse of Commons last night,
that the Catholic Question should not be made a
Cabinet measure, but that very friend to Govern-
.
wentshould be left to the dictates of his own judg-
ment and discretion The public are now asked,
" what ought to be said of a Government who
shall thus shrink from the discharge of their duty
vn a question that they have declared to be of

vital importance ?" Bat after all the difficulties

Ivhich have stood in the way of this question, and
onsidering the different opinions which the most
able Statesnien among us entertain on the subject,
are Ministers to be accused of shrinking from the
discharge of their duty because they do not obsti-
nately persevere in the enforcement of their own
opinions, but consent to let the matter be open to
discussion Ministers will not shrink from the de-
fe-nceof the sentiuients which they have uniformly
maintained., on this subject, and doubtless, still
cons,ider it as qne of " vital importance," though;

as in the case of the Orders in C•auncil,they may be
not unwilling to have the matter fullyinvestigated,
that it may be determined whether or not it would
be ultimately expedient to remove all the bulwarks
which our ancestors erected for the security of our
, Establishment in Church and State. This con-
duct, we. conceive, none but the malecontents of
Party can consider as shrinking. from the discharge
of their duty ; but we beg leave to 9k the_ Oppo-
sition Writers how they are justified in saying that
Me ,Public require a guarantee that all Catholic dis-
abilitiesshel•be removed The public,' or rather
the people, in general, we are convinced, are too
much attached to their good Old Constitution, to
wish for the removal o 1 all its securities, at least they'
will rather demand a guarantee that these securi-
ties shall not be removed, usless some imperious
necessity should operate, and the absolute safety
' of the State demand such a sacrifice. The Chro-
nicle, in this respect, has presumed to use the
name of the Public, without a shadow of autho-
rity or reason. But we have another question
to ask the ChronicieL--Suppose that it had been
signified in the Negociations with-Marquis WEL-
LESLEY and Mr. CANNING, that the
.removal of
Catholic disabilities should be " a fundamental
article," and the " sine qua non of any future Ad-
ministration, whoever should be the persons to
carry it on," would the Marquis and that
Gentleman, after signifying that securities should
be required, have consented at once to such
a sweeping concession ? Upon the whole, no-
, thing can satisfy the Opposition Writers.=--
They abuse the , new Ministry, when they
consider them as adverse not only to Catholic
concession, but to the discussion of the subject,
and now they abuse them no less, because no Cabi-
net measure is to be adopted; and the question
is to be wholly left to judgment and discretion.

Some American Papers reached town last night
from which the following are extracts :

" 'ImpoRTANT:—We &tate it as -a fact, that
Mr. ThPLER, of New York, going over' to France
as bearer of dispatches to Mr. BARLOW, had the
same taken from him forcibly, between London
and Delltr, by order of the British Government,
and they were not restored to Mr. RUSSELL until
he made a positive demand of them to the British
Ministry. On this infamous procedure, we leave
the Federal Republican to wake the necessary apo-
logy,

PROM THE WASHINGTON (DELAWARE) WATCHMAN,

OF/APRIL 8.

The British 50 gun ship, supposed the Guer-
riere, and a frigate, were off the Cives of Dela-
ware on Friday last, in ten
,fathoms water, with
American ensigns flying. , After the pilots went
alongside, they hauled down the American ensign,
and hoisted St. George's flag. They inquired of the
pilots, whether any American vessels of war were
cruising along the coasts : probably the British
Government May have condescended to station a
few ships, &c. along our coasts, to protect the flour
trade, which at the present moment is very brisk,
by giving a few passports to those of our vessels;
who, from neglect or hurry, have gone out without
procuring them from the British Consul.