The Sun.
London, England, 1819-01-20 00:00:00

THL ROMAN CATHOLICS.

As the time draws near for the new attack that
is threatened upon oor Establishment, the weapons
of its defence ought to be made ready ; that we
may not have to sharpen our sword, while the
enemy bath drawn his out of the scabbard. For
this purpose, the columns of Tug SUN are al-
ways open ; and the aid of every man, who pos-
sesses t once ability and honesty enough w serve
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF ENGLAND, IS soli-
cited and encouraged to render that good service.
We think it right to open the Arena with ex-
posing their primary falsehood. They call them-
selves " Catholics." It shall in the first instance
be shewn that they have no right to the appella-
tion.

" Catholic" is, quoad Christianity, the term
appropriate to the Chris!ian Religion ; all whose
professors belong to the universal Church of
Christ ; or, to the flock of the faithful, made up
of her several congregations. Not any particular
Church is privileged to assume this common title :
it is the nomen generis, which belongs generally
to all, and therefore cannot be the peculiar pro-
perty of any one. If the Church of Rome be
the Catholic Church, then the Church of Greece,
the Church of Geneva, and the Church of Eng-
land, either are not parts of Christ's Church, or,
being parts, are subservient to the Church of
Rome ; and her assumption of " Catholicity" is
the assumption of exclusiveness or of supremacy.
But this, though strongly contended for, has
never yet been conceded (and we trust never will
be) to the Church of Rome by any other Church.
Her Church is Roman Catholic; as ours is English
Catholic—a name which we cannot help thinking
more distinctive, as well as more dignified, than
the name " Protestant," which is too sectarian
in its sound, and not sufficiently original. Each
Church, with reference to her particular doctrine
or discipline, should assume her particularizing
distinction. One, is the English part of the " Ca-
tholic," or Universal Church ; another is the Ge-
nevan part of the same Church ; another the
Greek part ; and another the Roman part ; not
any one the Catholic Church, but all constituting
that Church altogether.

Therefore, we should beware of the cunning
and fraudulent assumption which the Romanist,
arrogate of their Church's Catholicity, in the
exclusive and paramount sense wherein they af-
fect it. When speaking of their profession of our
common Founder's Religion, we should call them
Roman Catholics; when combating their mainte-
nance of the Pontifical supremacy, we should
style them, (a ml they may quarrel with the term,
or disprove it,) Papists.
In some succeeding Numbers, we shall endea-
vour to expose their FRAUD, in terming the Laws
whereof they complain, " Penal Laws," and the
remedy which they seek " Emancipation."

DEATH OF THE QUEEN OF WIRTEMBERG.—A
Mail from Flanders has arrived.—One of the
Brussels Papers states that the Court of the Ne-,
therlands had just received intelligence of the
death of the Queen of WIRTIIMBERG; but no
particulars are mentioned. Her Majesty was sister
to tie Emperor of RUSSIA, and the same Lady
who resided at the Pulteney Hotel in London, at
the time her brother and the other Allied Sove-
reigns visited England, and who, as Grand Du-
chess of OLDENBURGH, received so much deserved
attention from all classes of Britons. She mar-
ried the present King of WIRTEMBERG in Ja-
nuary 1816. She was of remarkably delicate con-
stitution.

Monday evening, at five o'clock, the PRINCE
REGENT held a Privy Council at the Pavilion at
Brighton, at "which Mr. BULLER attended, as
Clerk.

POETRY.

"GO ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS,"

BY B. SWIFT, FS6O..

There hangs neon the Temple wall

A Dial painted fair;
Wise thoughts and true ones to recal,
'Twas kindness placed it there. .
The motto on that dial is,
" Go about your business."

Old Father Time bath wings to fly,
Whose speed bath ne'er abated;
Yet move they on as silently,

As if our will they waited :
Old Time than Man much wiser is,
In " going about his business."

And yet, those pinions have a speech,
While from imr vision turning ;
A serious I sso n well they teach,
How richly worth env learning
The utterance of their silence
"Go about your business." •

They never sleep, they never stay,
To pleasure or to rest them ;

Nor for one idle holiday
Hath folly e'er reps est them.
Unlike to man is Time in this ;
Still "going about his business."

Time hath three tenses; and but one
Of these to man pertaineth ;
The past beyond his reach is gone;
The present still remaineth—
Who knows the future will be his?
Them go about your business."

Aye-=go about it while you can,
Ere youth and strength are ended
Fcr life is but a narrow span,
Even when to age extended.
The longest (lay too little is,
For " going about its business."

But what that. business? Can it be
The things of lower earth ?
Or questions of eternity,
Whose lasting shews their wort h ?
To seek an empty shadow, is
Not "going about your business."

Time speeds before :—once fairly sped,
Not lightnine can tiertake him ;
Keep then alone with even tread,
And your companion make him—,
To move with Time, most truly is
To " go about your business."

About it then—thru' night and day,
Yuur duty still pursuing ;
When Man is called from death, to say
In life what he was doir,g,'
Your safest answer will be this—
" I went about my business."

Then stand you not with vain pretence,
To gaze upon this 'dial ;
But bear its lessen with you hence,
And give it honest trial :
For human wisdom ends in this—
" Go about your business."

SHIP NEWS.

PORT GLASGOW, JAN. 17.—Arrived in the
Clyde the 15th inst. the American ship Fanny,
FOREMAN, 20 days from New York ; on the Bth
inst. fell in with the brig Lavinia, Rostm, of
Poole, from Newfoundland to Cadiz, a complete
wreck, and took the Master, Mate, and two sea-
men off, being all that remained of the crew.—
The weather still continues very tempestuous,
anti we understand several vessels are on shore in
the River and on the Coast ; but it appears the
greater part of them are coasting vessels, and
that very few lives are lost.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 19.—Sai1ed his Majesty's
ship Pheasant on a cruise.

BRIXHAM, JAN. IS.—Arrived his Majesty's
ship Spartan, and Vigilant Revenue cutter.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 17.—1 t blew last night and
all this day a tremendous gale from W. by S. to
W. by N., but fortunately it has continued clear,
and vessels homeward-hound might with safety
haul in and make the land. The packets and
merchantmen in the Roads appear to ride out the
gale well.
Eleven o'Clock, p. m.—A poatchaise has just
arrived from Fowey with the mail of the IVA!sing-
ham packet, where she anchored this morning,
48 days from Jamaica. She experienced very bad
weather : sp9ke the Queensberry packet, for Ja,
maica, 'the day after she sailed.—Still blows hard
from the Westward.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 18.—The vessel mentioned
yesterday as being in I3ootle Bay, with a signal of
distress flying, is the Thetis, from Cephalonia.

CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. 20.—We still continue
without arrivals from our own coast. Although,
we had but little English Corn at market, yet the
sales were heavy for all grain, at last Monday's
prices, and only Wheat and Barley of fine quality
could be disposed of.
BUONAPARTE.-The Journal de Gard (a Ger-
man Paper) mentions the receipt of news from
St. Helena, announcing, " That NAPOLEON ap-
pears ready to sink under the-weight of a malady
which leaves but little hope."
Calcutta Papers to the 27th of July have been
received at New York, brought by the ship
Stephen, Capt. SMITH, which state that a large
expedition was fitting out at Calcutta, to proceed
to the Island of Ceylon. The first division of
transports, with 3000 troops on hoard, • sail-
ed on the 25th of July, and Captain SMITH
passed them at Senor. Two ships of war, with
troops on board, were to sail in a few days after
Captain SMITH.
Letters from Curacoa, of the 22d of October,
state, that a Spanish squadron had been defeated
by Admiral BRION, but the particulars are not
mentioned.

The Duke of &max changed horses yesterday
afternoon at Maidstone, on his way from Tun-
bridge ‘Veils, to visit Earl DARNLEY, at Cobham
Hall, where a select party is expected.
Yesterday Marquis 'WELLESLEY arrived in town
to attend Parliament.

Yesterday, at one o'clock, Viscount CASTLE..•
REAGH arrived in town from his seat at North
Cray, and went to the Foreign Office, for the
first time since his indisposition.

Lord STEWART, our Ambassador at the Court
of Vienna, accompanied by Colonel WARD, Mr.
E. STEWART, and a numerous suite, arrived on
Wednesday last at Brussels, and set out next
morning for London.