The Sun.
London, England, 1803-03-22 00:00:00

TO, THE EARL OF MO!RA.

PERMIT me to astute your Lordship of my ac.
quiescence with all' the world, in admiring your
Philanthropy; Patriotism, and the Nableness of
your declare that I hold Mot aA;and Good.
nest synonymous !
' In your late generous oroteCtion of the poor and
destitute Irish upon. St. Patrick's Day, and your
Speech made on that, occasion, I hope my dissension
from your Lordshio,• tho Ugh only in part, will be
pardoned, for we both agree in the essentials, name.
to yllet and calm the Irish Roman Catholics.
The:efore, my L, d, instead of telling them that
▪ lIONAr would l e insincerewith regard to their
• Religion, after his having made it the national one
of France, I think the plan which I shall now propose
will answer better ro gain this very desirable point :
Let the Catholics be told, that a dutiful submission
to the will of Heaven, and to that of their Mitts,
becomes them best, and that it is their wisest con.
duft to behave thus, until it is seen, that to do jus.
tice to three parts out of four of the Irish Nation,
will be absolutely raising a barrier to protect the
Protestant Church from the under Mining waves of
Domestic or Foreign Conspiracy ! My Lord, Self.
interest is predominant in the huMan breast, lime.
fore, emancipate the Catholic upon this principle.--,
But let us suppose for, a moment, that he turned out
ungrateful : a Protestant Parliament bath italways
in Its,power to repay,such ingratitude.
And here, my Lord, one cannot help making a
remark with, regard to the uncommon situation of
Ireland respelling the Union. Upon the Union
with Scotland, the Religion of the People was made
that of the State, although it formerly overturned
Nonarchy algid the Church of England itself! But
in Ireland, the Religion of the Country bath not
yet common toleration for a certain description of
Catholics; and amotigst them I shall mention the
Children of those who have conformed to the Pro.
testant Church, arid in that number the \\Triter of
this Letter is one. It is the opinion of the greatest
COW 11 LaWyers, that by a Law of Queen ANN'S,
Still in foray, persons of this description, who shall
dare to worship Gud publicly according to con.
science, shall incur a przmunire—be imprisoned for
life—furfeit property—and dead in law ! Sure,
Tay Lord, this would better suit the perseeoting
times of MARY and arzAstru than the Nine,
tee4th Century

VBx,ITM.

A Master Carman summoned a Merchant before
the LORD MAYOR, itt the Mansion. house, on Sa.
turiay, for 9s. 6d. r carting three bales of goods
fromethe East India Company's warehouses to Par.
ter's quay. The regular fare was allowed to be
only es. 6d. but the Carman insisted he had a r;ght
to demand one shilling an hour for the time his cart
had been detained at the quay before the goods were
taken out. The Merchant disputed this right, unless
he himself caused the detention, and said it, was of
considerable interest to the trading part of the City,
that the point should be clearly defined by his Lord-
ship. The hook of fares was then resorted to,
wilieth set forth, that if a Merchant, Tradestme,
or Shopkeeper, after hiring a cart, should cause the
same to be detained, the Carman should be autho-
rized- to demand 6d. for every half hour so de.
tamed ; the question therefore was, whether the
hindrance the Carman bad met with, and the delay
he had experienced on the quay, before he could
,approach to unload his cart, was tte'be considered
,as a detentimi caused by the Merchant, or whether
it was not one of those casualties which Carmen
had a right to expc4l in the, exercise of their busi-
ness,, the inconvenience of which was wholly their
own?
'The Carman argued the extreme hardship of
.keeping a cart with two horses employed, and a
man to attend them, for four hours, without the
smallest return, especially as that man could look
to nothing else within the time, he being answer-
-able for the property committed to his care,
.The
IVlerchant Oiled the loss it would occasion to the
mercantile world, and the door for imposition that
it would open, if persons in trade were made to
pay the Mister Carmen for the delay their ser.
%rants or themselves created or met with in the
common course of their business. An instance like
'the one complained of rarely. occurred ; but. if his
Lordship should think the Carman justified in the
demand he had -made, it was most certain the dif.e
ficulties experienced in getting merchandize to the
Quays along Thames-street, would be multiplied
a huedred.fold, and the Merchant be prevented
froM shipping his goods but at a, most exorbitant
rate.
His Lordship observed, when the cart had once
left the Merchant's door, and the property fully
committed to the eustokly of the Carmen;:all
conveniences that might afterwards arise by stop-
page in the public streets, or casual hindrances,
must be considered as the interruptions a Carman
would necessarily meet 'with in the prosecution of
his trade. With such inconveniences the Ivierchant
drat( nothing to do, nor was he in the smallest
degrie accountable. His Lordship theretiere ordered
the regular fare to be paid, and no more.

Last week two women at Glasgow were tried for
having shut" their doors against Mary Brownlie, an
unfortunategirl who used to haunt about their houses,
*ben very ill of a slow fever; in consequence of,
which she died at their dour, in the open street, upon
a cart, on which some passengers laid her. The
Prisoners did not deny the fat}, but pleaded that
they were not related to the deceased, and had given
her lodging merely for charity ; but perceiving that
she could not live long, they determined to get rid
of her, not being able to afford the expence Of her in.
ferment. They were both found guilty, and one
was sentenced to be imprisoned one month, and pay
a fine of two guineas; and the other was banished
from the city and liberties for three years.
Of fourteen prisoners who received sentence of
death at the Winchester Assizes, three only are left
for execution, viz. L., Ryan, F. Powers, and C.
Arnes, for forgery.

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