The Sun.
London, England, 1812-12-26 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

• At a Court-martial held st Lisbon, on the 9th
of September, 1812„Lient. WILLIAM i‘I'VEAC;Ii,
of thelith rtgitnentof foot, wa, arraigned upon
the under.uncier-mentioned charges, viz, :

For 'behaviour unbecoming an Officer- and a.
Gentleinan, aqd subversive of good order.
and military dkeipline, iu tne -several inttauccs
set forth
,in the following
Ist.. Forunoffieerlike conduct a'nenting him-
self from his quarters .without leave, v. hen in
the 'surgeon's report, ,from the 3a to the 7th of-
-
July,, •
-1.,_812. •

2d. ,For disobedience of orders in not return-
ing to his quarters from the 17th to the 29th of
JUly, 1812, although positively ordered 'to do so
by, his Commanding Oliicer'in a letter dated. 25th
of the same month.

3d For unoflicer and ungentlemanlike conduct
in drawing rations Of forage for a horse, between
the 9th and 11th days of June last, and also be-
tween the Bth and 29th days of July following,
although he, Lieutenant M'Veagh, had not one in
his gossession, thereby defrauding the public of
rations of forage as aforesaid.
For unodicerlike conduct in writing two
letters, of a disrespectful tendency of and to his.
Commanding Officer, the one dated Lisbon, 27th
of July, and the other dated Passe D'Arcos, Ist
Of August, 1812.
sth. -For unofficerlike and tmgentlemanlike
conduct it; demanding a bed, to which he was not
entitled by the regulations of the Commander of
th'e Forces, between the hours of hive and twelve
o'clock, by -night of Wednesday, the 29th July,
1812, and for using violence by drawing his
sword, and thereby terrifying Senhora Margaritta
.De ,CohnO Correio into a compliance with his
detnands.

Ist Additidbnl Charge—
I,+'or breaking his arrest on or about the Bch of
August, iBl2.

2, Additional Charge

For unfficcrlike and ungentlemanlike conduct
in preferring charges, 'dated Lisbon, 9th of Au 7.
gust, aga.inst his Commanding Officer, Lieutenant,
Ca!onel Bromhetad, through the irregular channel
of the Major-General commanding in the first in-
stance, being subversive of good order and mili-
tary discipline, after charges had been delivered
to him, Lient. M'Veagh, by the Adjutant of the
regiment
~,on the day !preceding and after having
actually been under arrest.
Upon which charges the Court decided,:‘ that
the prisoner was guilty a the whole Of the charges
preferred against him, and therefore sentenced
him to ,be disniiss,ad his Majesty's service, and
rendered' incapable of ever serving his Majesty

At a Court. Martial held at Palermo, in Sicily,
on the 25th of August, 1812, Lieutenant John!
Goff, of the 21st Regiment of Foot, was arraigned
upon the undermentioned charges, viz2:—
lst.. For highly insubordinate conduct in using
provoking language to me, his Commanding Offi-
cer, in the public streets of Palermo, on or about
the 9th day of June last, stating, as his motive,
my. having reproved him in my official capacity,
for an irregularity on the 4th of June, 18P2.
2d.' For contempt .of the Ist Article, 12th sec-,
tion, of the Articles of War; in stating his being
aggrieved by me, his Commanding Officer, to his
Excellency the Commander of the Forces, with-
out my knowledge.
3d. For disobedience of my special order, in
absenting himself from the evening parade of the
Ist of Aug. -1812.
4th, For repeated neglect of duty; and a direct
violation of the Regimental Orders of the 10th of
May,,1812.
sth: For speaking of me, his Commanding Offi-
cer,
_r.► a disrespectful and contemptuous manner
to different Officers of the regiment.; all tend-
ing to the prejudice of good order and Military
discipline,

ALEX. JAMES Ross,

Major, Commanding 21st Beg. R. S.F.

Upon Which -charges the Court decided, that
the prisoner was guilty of the first and second
charges preferred-againSt him.
• With respect to the 3d charge, that he was not

guilty. '
In regard to the fourth and fifth charges, that
he was guilty. ,
The first, second, fourth, and fifth charges, upon
which "hie prisoner has been found guilty, being a
breach of the Articles of War, the court (loth ad-
judge that he shall be cashiered.

At a Court-martial held at Fuente del Maistroi
in Spain, on the 15th of. August, 1812, Cap-
tain J . Francis l'Estrange, of the Ist battalion 3d
foot,
,wes arraigned upon the undermentioned

charges, viz.
For conduct highly unbecoming the character
of an Officer and a Gentleman, and tending in the
most direct manner to subvert good order, dne
'subordination, and-military discipline, in the fol-
lowing instances, viz.
Ist. For repeated and -obstinate. disobedience of
orders, both written and verbal, in persisting to
come
.repeatedly to parade dressed unlike an Of-
ficer, at various periods, between the 27th Fe-
bruary, and the 17th May, 1812; in open de-
fiance of.his Royal Highness the Prince Regent's
regulations respecting dress, as well as of Re,,
gimental Orders issued to enforce obedience
thereto-. -

2d,. For obstinately disobeying his Command-
ing Officer's orders on parade at Villa Franca, iii
Spain, on or about the morning of 17th of May,
1812, in refusing to quit the parade ,and go home
to his quarters, when requested and desired toElo
so by the Commanding Officer in person, in con-
sequence
.of his having again come to parade im-
properly dressed as an officer, and thereby setting
a determined example •of insubordination to the
whole Corps.
3d. For making use of disrepectful, violent, and
threatening language to his Commanding Officer,
purporting to give him a challenge, in presence of
several officers and soldiers of the regiment, on
or near file parade at Villa FranCa, En Spain, in
or about the morning of the 17th May 1812:
4th. For disobedience of written Orders issued
by desire of the-Officer commanding the biigade,

in appearing at the bead of his company under
arms, without his s:Wibrd, at different times 12e.
tureen the 20 of Jan. and t. 4 17th of May, 1812.
sth. For frequently absenting himself from pa-
rOes of the regiment without leave, and for con-
tinuing to persi?t in 'a practice so contrary to good
enter and military discipliffe, from the •period of
bis joining the Ist battalion,'abotiti tike middle of
October, in 1811, to the 17th ..t44' May, 1812,
after repeated official communication had been
made to him to forbid the continuance of she habit.

6th, For general neglect of duty as Captain of
a Company, in not attending to 'its interior e?co-
nomy and good order, as it was his d!ity to do ac-
cording tid the established regulations of the ser-
vi,e. , ,

7th. For general irregularity of conduct, tend-
ingto disturb the .peace and harmony of ;tis bro-
ther officers, and highly subversive of good order
and military discipline.
The Court ivas of opinion, that on the Ist, 2d,
4th, sth, and 6th articles of charge, the prisoner is
guilty. On the tliird article of the charge, the
_Court was, of opinion that the prisoner'. was in
- part guilty, inasmuch as, of having made use of
disrespectful 'end violent latiguage' to his Com-
manding Officer ; but acquitted him off having
used threatening language, or sueh'as was pur-
porting to give him (his said Commanding 0%7
cer) a challenge. On the 7th charge, the Court
found the.prisoner not guilty ; but having found
him guilty of the extent, as above specified, on
the respective articles of charge, the Court sen:
f teuced him to be cashiered.

LIMEiCCK, DEC. 12.—Monday last, a General
Court Martial assembled in the New Barracks
of this city.
Immediately atter sivearing in the Members, the
Court proceeded to the trial of Lieut. P. Lynch;
of the 2d battalion 90th regiment, \rho was ar-
-raigned.on the.following charge
For scandalous and infamous conduct, timbe-
comingan officer and a gentleman, in attacking
Elizabeth O'Brien, servaut .woman to. Dr. Sayers,
of Limerick, on the evening of the 19th, of No-.
vember last, .and cutting lie l• on the head with his
sword.

The following witnesses were examined on
Monday and Tuesday ;—Elizabeth O'Brien, Mrs.
Sayers, Assistant-sung on Ewing, 90th regiment ;
and Lieut. Campbell, 80th regiment. •
The prosecution •close:1 on TUesday, and. Mr.
Lynch entered on his defence yesterday.

SCOTLAND.

COURT OP SESSION-SECOND DIVISION.

A B

EDINBURGH, Nov. 12.—This was a case of
rather a curious and extraordinary kind but,
from reasons which will readily occur to our
Readers, we forbear to mention the parties
nameg.

A. some time ago, brought forth a bastard
child, and accused-13. Of being the, father of it.
B. when CalledThefole the Session of the parish in
which he resided, " acknowledged ag-ent with
A." but " refused being father of the child," iii-
iistitucb as he had not been in habits of familiari-
ty with her for six months prior to the.period at
-tvhich she alleged the child had been procreated.
But he did not deny that he had.oceasionally seen
he; during that period.
A. haying brought an action before the Court of.
Sessiow for in-lying expeuces And aliment of flue
'child against B, the Lord Ordinary, on Bear-
ing `.`" parties procurators on the grounds of the
libel, and. defences, repelled the defences, and de-
cerned against the defender for the 'principal stun
and interest thereof as libelled. Found him liable'
in expellees, and remitted the account thereof,
when lodged, to the. Auditor of the Court tb‘ be
taxed.", To this interlocutor his Lordshii. ad-
hered, on. advising two successive representations,
with answers, and prohibited any moresrepresen-.
`felons. •

The defender having somehow got notice, that
the child laid to his charge by the pursuer was a
mulatto, or child of colour; presented a reclaim,.
irg petition to the Court, stating the fact, and the
impossibility thence arising of the child being his;
and craving, that he might be assoilzied from the.
action with expenses. The petition was appointed
to be answered; and, on advising the petition and
answers, the'Court (12th June, 1812) appointed
Commissioner to take inspection of the child' in
question,. and to report. • The report bears, that
the. Commissioners having proceeded to pur-
suer's place of residence ; taking with him not
only two medical men of the vicinity, but also two
intelligent-,Gentlemen, who bad been long resi-
rent in the island of Jamaica, whose opinions
the surgeons (one of whom had also been in the
West Indies) were desirous of being aided by ;
and having all seen the child in question, which
is a male, -and examined it from head to foot, af-
ter being stripped, these four persons concurred
in opinion with the Commissioner, in the most.
decisive possible manner, that the ebiid is of Co-
lour, that is., that the father of it is:a negro,- or
(Idler degree of an African. Aod
the said several persons confirmed an oath, as ad-
ministered to-thein by the Commissioner.
The. Court, on advising this renort, (12th No-
vember, 1812), alteredthe Lord Ordinary's inter—
locutor and assoilzied the defender. • .

EXETER, 1}2c.2;3. .
On Mondaylast the Lord Biziliop of this, 1)io
• cese held a private Ordination Exeter,'when his
Lordship admitted the Rev. T: Mint Ley, B.
of Exeter College, Oxford; the Rev: Vere John
. Akton, A: B. of St. John's College, Cambridge ;
the Rev. Matthew Lonndes, 'inn. A. B. of F.x,
cter College; Oxford; the Rev. G. John Pree-
man. LL.B. of Trinity llail, Cambridge ; the
Rev. T. Pascoe, A. ,B. of Jesus (ollt*e, Cam-,
'bridge ; and the Rev. J.Nonge, of. Unive-
rsity College, Oxford -;= into the ,Holy Order of
Priesthood.,

Aft,er the Ordinati'Ml,'his Lordshiri liceoed the
...Rev. Yonge 4 piibtfeln:eacher thronghout the
Diocese of Exeter, and instituted him to the Rec-
tory of Neivton Ferrers, in Devon.

ROMAN CATIIOLICS

(Continued from our Pai;er, of Wed estli:.l

" In this latter respect it,is to be feared,,that the
French devolution; and the Lirth of its horrible
offspring-3acObinism, have greatly iocrease'd the
dangers of . the country. Upon the whale, there-
fore,, the domestic history of the.year 1780 fur-
nish(s fa most salutary lesson,—warning us that
uoth ng is more likely to raise' a flame in -Hi s
country, than a jealousy of Popish influence, and
a (load Of Popish ascendancy. And Al.*, no-
thing can he more calculated to inspire such jea-
lousy, or tp excite soch dread; than the' admission
of Papists to an equal participatiOn, on equal
terms with Protestants, of political power and civil
ao,:hority in the State.
" But, independently of all consideration for, po-
pular feelings, much as those feelings -Deserve con-
sideration, especially on Ali constitutional ques-
tions, is a compliance with the elaims,of the Pa-
pists likely to. prove satisfactoq to :hat part of out-
Protes(ant community which is accustomed to
reflect, and which is governed by reason and by
principle ? And here, it cannot fail to occur to
the recollection, that the utter exclusion of Pa-
pists-from what they now seek to obtain, was pre-,
cisely the object of that arduous struggle 'with
Popery, which preceded the revolution in 1688,
and which was happily, as was their thought, ter-
m Mated by that, great event. During the course
of that struggle, various laws were enacted with_
a view to .time, above object: Iu the 'reign of
Charles 11. the Test Act wits passed to exclude the
meinher; of the Church of Rome from all officcs„
civil and military.. 'towards the close of tt e snipe
.reign, the principle of'exclusion, 'with regard to
persons. of tls4 deseription, was extended to Par-
liament. Thenest monarch . was a processed Pa-
pist ; and his efforts were continnally directed, as
those of the-Papists are now, 'to the removal of
all disabilities from the ineurbers of. the Chnreh
Rome for which pnrpose, he availed himself of
'those specious and conciliatory pretexts of liberty
of conscience, and brotherhood of affection, hick
are now again resorted to for the' attainment of the
same object.. 'lle was partiettlarly anxious for the
tepeal of the. Test Act, which lie found to be the
grand obStacle to topisli ambition Ile endea-
voured ,to obtain the consent of the Prince and
'Princess of Orange to such repeal. Botthose il=
lustrious personages replied to an application made
to them for that purpose, that ` the Test wa's"not
to be considered as a penalty inflicted on the pro-,
fess'ors of ony religion, but as a security for the
established worship, and that- it was no punish-
ment or men to be excluded frOin public offices,
and to live peaceably on their reVenues or inch's-
, try." The systematic and persevering cudeavours
of this monarch to subvert the Protestant; Esta-
blishment, and to promote the ascendancy, of his-
own religion, obliged his Protestant subjects to
resort to the first law of nature',--the law of self-
preservation ; and the resistance which. syas thus
necessarily occasioned, and which, on no.other
principle, could have been justifiable, led to a state
of thing; for which the Coustitotion had not pro-
vided,—the vacaacy of the throne. In supplying
that vacancy, our ancestors remembered that their
struggle had been with Popery, and they took the
proper means to prevent the necessity At another
struggle with this formidable adversary, by
~his
total ailsl perpetual exclusiOn fr )nn all power and
authority in the State. They fotind Papists al-
ready excitide6l lsom office and from.Parliaineutt.
It remained to exclude them' from the throne.—
This was done by the Bill of Rights and the Act
of Settlement. And their exclusion Lfrom office
was rendered more sure by the 'Act of Supre-
macy.
" The laws thus made for the exclusion of Pa-
:
pists front power were not mere temporary enact-
ments. They were meant to be permanent safe-
guards of the rights and liberties of the British
people. They were intended to serve as firth aid
innuovable barriers of the Protestant Establish-
ment, as impregnable bulwarks of the Constitution.
In this light they have been viewed ever since. Ex-,
perience has borne testimony to the wisdom with
which they were frioned; So beneficial have been
their effects, so many
,blessings have followed in
theirtrain, that the British people are accustomed to
look back with venerbtion to the Revolution, as the
epoch from which they date their freedom, prosperi-
ty, and happiness.' Even the Itoinan Catholics have
participated-in their benefits: *The Constitution,
secure under such protection, has acquired a de-
gree of vigour and stability which, since the ex-
tinction of Popish pretensions .to the Throne, has
enabled it to grant free toleration to the members
of the Church of Rome, who now enjoy entire
freedom of conscience anti of. worship. But, not
satisfied with this high privilege—a privilege ne-
ver granted by them to persons out of their COM-
nruiion—they are grasping at power.—They.de-
marrd unconditional admissibility to all offices and
departments iu the static.; they require equal par-
ticipation, on' equal terms, with their ProteStant
fellow subjectS; they insist on the removal of
every disability and disqualification to which they
are subject on account of their religion. These,
they inform us, are the only terms which can af-
ford thein. satisfaction. But can such terms be
satisfactory to the Protestant part of the column-
Pity ? Arc the Protestants Of this country pre-
pared to undo all that their ancestors did for them
at the period of the Revolution—to back
the Constituthin to the state in ,Which it existed
previously to that memorable era,—and to forego.
all the fruits of that' struggle with Popery, which
was. then with so Much difficulty carried on, and
to the success of w:hich we arc indebted, both' for
our domestic felicity, and our,uational greatness ?
It would ,he an insult to every Protestant in toe
country to deem it necessary to reply to these
queries.

It appears, by a document lardy vblished, thfit. h com-
municated Lis design in that respect ts) Mons. Barillon, the
.
French .\.inhastmdor, who, •iu .a. letter the. Kin of Franc*,
• informs his master, that, in a conrersatiOn, between him and
the'King of England, the latter had declared, that it wu
his design to procure a'repeal of the Test and Hiaheas Cor-
pus' Act's; of which, one was the destruction of the Catholic
reli lion, And''''the other of the Hoyal.Atithority.'•---.-See Mr.
history of the early Part of the ;tieig.i. of James 11.
:pp ;,:din,

t In Ireland irupistA were not excluded from Parlia‘rntlit
until uttei• the Revolution. '

LONDON: Printed by THOMAS. WOOD, of Noe. 2i, Russell-court, 135-y4es-street, Corent-garde
At (hiqcE, No, 112, Striue, where AdrertiscniantY, Oroter

"lint it may. be raid, 0.:4A the Paints -not
aipir to' the Throne,,--that. they'
ed° not as for
the ap•eal-bf the Act of S,ettlement,----7-thit
Content them to become Ministers of State, Mem-
bers of Parliament, Chancalors, .Judges, Gene-
rals, and Admirals, under a Protestz,nt King, re-
maining incapacitated, on account of their Teti- •
gion, for the regal inheritance, in case inn indi-
vidual in their commurtionshould ever be next in
succession to the Crown. Modest' preteUsions.!
But how does this construction even accord with
the terms in‘which their claims are advanced ?
'fhese terms are absolute and unqualified,—they
point to no exception.7—They are expressive of a
dchtand to be freed front nerrilisabiliry whakrer, •
to which the petitioners are subject on acconnt of
their religion: Here is no reservation of the grand
d:s:tbiticy specified in the Bill of Rights, whereby
it is declared; '' that it is inconsistent with the
s-ifety and welfare-of this Protestant kingdom to
be goveined by a Popish Prince,, or any King or
Queen marrying a Papist." Admitting, however,
that, notwithstanding the unnualified terms iii
which their pretensions are advanced; the regal
succession' does not come within the sphere of
their actual ambition, can it he believed, that if
they were freed from every Other
:disability, they
would be satisfied in seeing themselves excluded,,
because of their religion, from the possibility of
such 'a "such ,a succession }—l-laving been declared
admisible Co every other office, would they cheer-,
fully acquiesce in an exclusion from he highest
office in 'the state,7--from,that office whieb, at ail

;ages, has most inflained the ambit`mn of mankind?
When invested with every other species of poWer
and anti-m.4v, political civil, legislative, and Judi-
theyake consistent to see an bei)-ap-
parc;ntexcluded from-the `Prone, because lie was,
Papist, 'orbecause he had married,%t Papist ''s
rather, would not such an occurrence, sooner than
any other conceivable • event, dispose them to te-
voit and insurrection ? It may be perhaps,
that the extreme reinottness of such cmicingeney
precludes the necessity of admitting it into the cal-
cilation. But in no iespeet are profound states-
men more distingui'shable from superfiCial politi-
cians than that the former provide, by ',ler-
manent .and efficachniS measures, against remote
dilliculties and dangers, while the latter content
theinseices with ineetin7.,, by temporising; expedi-
cot's, the dif:iculties and dangers )-f: the moment:
Besides, the contingency here supposed may not
be so remote as it appears : the most .unexpected
and improbable events arc daily and hourly occur
ring; and a, few years ago, we should have been
as little disposed' to anticipate the fact of two
Princes of the House of Brunswick supporting,
with the mot ardent, zeal, the. claims of Popery,
as we ate•nmy to,look forward to- the devolution
of the Crmvn, in the regular course of inherit-
ance, on a Prince in communion with the Chute')
of Home. At all events, one truth is clear ; if
once Papists be admitted to power, on. the prinei.
ple which they are. endeavouring to ,establish,—.
that of equality of rights, (and they declare that
nothing 'less will satisfy them) it would be in-
compatible with such pretensions, t 6 'attempt to
draw a line, and to say, tliusfar and no farther:—
Such a principle is.therefore obviously .at direct'
variance with the pinciples,of Protestant succes-
sion. Nay, more, it opens the door to a 'return
of Popish ascendancy., against which there can be
no effectual security but Protestant aset.,ndanc) ;
and this is sacrificed, the moment the principle of
equal rights between 'Protestai:ts and Papists is
admitted.

" Bat, we are told, that since the period of the
Rovolutiou, Popery has underg-one so- great a
change as , to, justify a removal of those barriers,
by w,hich its adherents have been so long excluded
from • situations of power and authority.—Has
then the Ethiopian changed his skin, and the
.Leopard his spots ? Whether 'or not'the Church
of Rome, partaking of the .mutability which be-
long; to all earthly establishments, especially in
these unsettled and eventful times, has under-
gone any and 'what chany,. may be a matter of
curious speculation ; but in all our speculations'
(01 this subject, we ShOuld take care not to. lose
;ight of one'general truth :—that while Popery
continues to be a distinct religion, hostile to.the
principles of the Reformation, it cannOt be safe
"40 abandon the principles of the Revolution. The
attachment of its members to their Church Must
make them hostile to a Protestant establishment.
and; with power in tbeir hands, dangerous ,fO a
Protestant state. And as no change short of a
complete Reformation can do away the distinction
between the. two religions, nothing less than such
a change ear,' justify a' removal 'of the political
distinctions, which we have found it necessary to
•cstablish between the parties by ivbom those reli-
gions- are re.speetively professed. Whenever, in-
deed, such a change takes place, those di::tinctions
oleourse cease to exist.••
" But leaving merely religions differences out of,
the.question; it is material to ask, has Popery un-
dergone any change, with regard to those qualities
which 'furnished the. real grounds of the exelwion _
of its adherents from power, at the period of the
Revolution. Those qualities were, its despotical
-nature=its intolerant character—its ,invariable
tendency to promote arbitrary power--its irre-
concileable hostility to the rig-hts and- liberties of
man!.iinli civil- and religious. Unless it can be
most clearly and, satisfactorily proved to have en-
tirely divested itself of these qualities,,we should ,
be 'chargeable with the grossest folly, with down-
right iill'atuation—if -we were to remove the bar-
riers by which. alone it has hitherto-been prevented -1
.
from•enuangertng.our free Constitution.

*Their loyal Highnesses the Dukes. of Kent and Susses.
,[To be continued.]