The Sun.
London, England, 1815-12-23 00:00:00

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The Company's ships Lord Melville) Rose,
Atlas, Bridgewater, and Princess Charlotte of
Wales, were at Madras the 24th July. The coun-
try ship Moira arrived off Portsmouth yesterday:
she left Bengal the 7th July, the Cape the 19th
October, and St. Helena the 301 November.

We yesterday inserted froth a Correspondent a
"I.mnunication respecting the Protestants in
France, but through inadvertency did not take
care to distinguish it from our own opinions. IVe
therefore hasten to say that we are of no side
upon this important questiOn. We are persuaded
that it comes to us through a medium of the
grossest misrepresentations, and moreover, that the
whole matter is more of a political than of a reli-
gious nature. There is too little of- religion, or
morality either, in France, and a 'great deal too
ranch of politics. Not that we doubt the tho-
rough disposition of Roman Catholicks to perse-
cute Protestants where they have the power—
Ifereticos persequor et expugnabo, is a funda-
mental doctrine, and will never be abandoned so.
Ic'ng as Papistry exists. Neither that we doubt
that the Revolutionists at Nismes may have as-
sumed the name of Protestants, as less obnoxious

than their olden designations of Jacobins or Buo-

tapartists, just as the disaffected in this country
tall themselves pattiotic and liberal. liut„siniply
for the reason we ha.ve stated, that thereAs nut
fuel in Frarfre to feed the flame of • persecution,
•
tor christianity enough to furni-ii martyrs for con-
science sake. The Goddess of Reason reigned too
long, and all good principles have been too long
trampltd under foot in that country, to admit of a:
suspicion of remaining orthodoxy in any extent
to justify the notion (If sufferings or inflictions on
that score. We should as soon look for real ho-
tour from One of NAPOLEON'S favourite Generals,
or real lose of country from these Weathercocks,
"ho have; as they assure us, turned every way
but the right way for la Patric; never, however,
forgeiting that their own interests should lie on
'the same side.

TO sum up these remarks, we confess th'itf"iTe
rare very hale under what denominations these
otribatants• or Controversialists respeciii-ely
tie-
Itroyeaci other. Whether the French agitafiir killed
e called Protestant or Catholick, the chance is
trtativ in favour of his being as well out of the
*erld as in it, and we might at the end of the fray,
SAY' With VOLTAIRE, when winding up the accou,o-
-441* the battle between the Bulgarians and Hangs-
Iriaos (in 'which poor CLINEGUN-D suffered so dread-
Fully ~," tuns twenty thousand /rascals unworthy
t°
1,1"' fell gloriously in the arms of Victory."

"We this day conclude from the Quarterly Re-
Tett) tin' very able notice of Captain rOIITER.S:
ruize :---the article concludes with a most inte.
I"t'stiug of, the fate of the Mutineers of the
ofunty, and of a new Colony founded by some
these tniSgtlidecl men ; but as the leading par-
tie4lars of this narrative were given in THE SUN
to"erai months age, we do not think it necessary
reprint the more perfect accounts.

The Sioniteur. of the 19th extracts an article
froin
"Inflates PoliFires, which notices the
1 " ditletence of opinion among the Royalists
-"ely atta(died at once to the KING and, the
ir.asmuch as one side inclines to a
euient, the other to a rigorous system. Each
3ide supports its sentiments with such reasoning
hppears •to it the most conclusive. His Na-
le,ty, it .b,,,ves, is desirous in his clemency,
04i? (I his Council .in its wisdom, that a Royal Or-
a.uee• shonlct designate many as crimitital„i
(b):et:
th.t such should not extend to all, t
" t4e example made of some Chiefs will have
I,:iSialutary effect upon their accomplices and their
.;erents it) general. And this sentiment the
l!ier of the article fully coincides.
rr „let EMperor of AUSTRIA, according to the
tiolu-sca p"ners, is very anxious to gain the affec-
Las his new subjects, the Venetians. He
Ptis,rl'laticed several of their taxes, and visited the
teivms.,/ where he tasted the provisions, and re-
, , the petitions presented to him.
v.":ite new Wolk of the Abbe de PRADT, on the
the Congress, has, it is said, been seized 'by"
c Police of Paris.
• • lin • • - Prefect of the Department of the eace-
tl'pbt4llas directed
L , that all the passages in the
catechism, catechism, relative -to BUONAPARTE, shall"
5 from the copies used in the public
ols of his district.
tiat;(24",ll LAGARDE still suffers the most excru-
ed ilg Pain:- The ball he was shot. with is term-
fur ,1Y the French a lingot, and used principally
1i le
destruction of wild beasts.
" (rout, Dover, dated Dec. 21, says :
hav,leteeather having become moderate, there
Passas`iiied, for Calais, five transports and several
79th,ge -vessels, with putt of the 9111, 21st, 71st,
riv,il4ll4l- 91st regiments, about 600 men. No
Packet, (thday front France. The King George
Okty, Sailed with the mails of yesterday and this
IrianveltllYing also the Princess DE BRooLto, and
taile'd ?tile." passengers. Lord HAEDwICKE also
4140 •") a schooner for Cala n A extra packet
jailed With the mail for Ostc"*"

Which a great ounther of public priub (Gerinan
and Euglisb) have circulated respecting that int-.
portant act.—We have not room for this demi-
• -
official commentary to-day.