The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-01 00:00:00

(Frern Achernionn's Repository of Arts, Fashions; The following Address to " the Freelaolders of
111anufactures, 4-c. 4-c.) the County •of Kent," from Lord Bexley, has been
PitOlitaNADEDRESS.—Dress of black satin Turque; , , • ,
eiretuateu extensively during the present week. It
the bodice made close and long-waisted, laced before
was distributed as the dinner of. the Brunswick
and behind, and also pointed : the sleeves are very
large to the elbow, and twice confined with black Club yesterday at Maidstone, where considerable im.
velvet bands, fastened by jet buckles. The sleeves portance was attached to it.
are smaller from the elbow to the wrist, and are TO THE -FREEHOLDERS OF THE :COVNTY OF
there confined by Berlin cameo bracelets olf east ,
KENT.
1 s.sErtzsteN—ziarnig no official situation, or dis-
irotti* The skirt is very full, and plaited in all round, I .
and trimmed with a puffing of black crepe lisse and
lanceola leaves, pointing upwards : chemise/1c within tinguished station in the county which peculiarly
the 'dress, and full. ruche. Large circular hat of called upon me to address you yesterday, and per.
black Leghorn, tied under the chin on the right side ceiving that yokes, much more powerful than mine,
: could reach only a very small part of the assembled
widutrimming, irradiating from thence to the.edge
of the brim : papilithiaceous bows of black gauze
multitude,
and that therefore, the sentiments of thoe
ribbon are placed on each side towards the top of
who addressed you, though delivered on Penenden
the frown..• Lavender-colour gloves ; black prunella
shoes; Tliibet abase' of lavender-colour. I Heath, must substantially reach you through the me-
• DINNER, •DiFSS.—Black velvet dress, made ex- ! (nlllll,ol' the Press, I determined to remain a silent
tretrieTi stihr tr; The body err Rosalinde, scolloped spectator of the proceedings. I also felt that some
rointstehe bust, with pendant ornaments attached to •of the statements to which I wished to cell.your at-
the 'Point of each scollop : melon velvet sleeves un- tentien were of a nature whiels...sequired more de-
der long full ones of white aerophane crape, fag- liberate.consideration than the excitement and ngi-
tened at the wrist by jet bracelets, nearly half-a- tation of such a scene rendered possible.
quarter broad. The skirt is fulled in round the Before I enter upon the general subject, I wish to
waist, and terminated by scollops instead of a hem correct a misstatement, relatire to myself, which
or rouleau. Turbans of white aeroplane crape ; the has appeared in the public papers, and which, as it
fulness longitudinal, and supported by frequent bands might be calculated to injure me in your good opinion,
of black and lavemder-colour velvet; band of the after the part which I took in signing the Requis
name round the head, and a plume of white ostrich sition, for the Meeting, in some degree imposes
feathers and fancy velvet ornament placed far back on •me the obligation of addressing you. It
on the left side. The hair in ringlets. White kid has been asserted that it was my intention
gloves, stamped and tied at the wrist. 'Black "satin either to make or support a motion of Adjourns
shoes. meat. That I rot ed against the motion, when made by
Mr. Hodges, is known to those who were hear nie,:
;and it is so far from ever having been Illy intention
to take such a course, that in the answer I made to
the very first communication I received, on the sub-
ject of any proceedings ,in the county relative to the
Catholic Question, I expressed si distinct opinion
that nothing short of the declared sense of the Free-
holders, taken at,a County Meeting, regularly cos:-
veiled, could produce that effect upon public opinion
which it was the object of my Noble Friend who ad-
dressed me to bring about.
Having disposed of this personal point, I wish
next to declare, that it was 'neither my object, nor,
so far as I know, that of others who joined in cons
vening the electing, to express a preninture opinion
upon any measures the Government may think it
right to submit to Parliament, or to dictate to the
Legislature the course which it should pursue.
We have great conlidenCe that those Ministers
who have- ong been the able and successful advocates
of the Protestant calm will continue to give it
effectual support; and we are so far from a wish
to intimidate the Legislature, as has been calumni-
wsly-imputed to tts, in so many forms, and in so
public a manner; that it is opr desire to rescue the
two Houses of Parliattent from the intimidation
under which it is attempted' to compel them to sanc-
tion measures which their delibetate judgment bps
repeatedly rejected. •-
It is attempted, under the dread of the copse-
qiences of longer resisting the claimi of the Roman
Catholics, to compel the Legislature to assent to
their pretensions, not from a sense of their justice or
expediency, not with due delibcraticm and afull view
of the future consequences of concession ; but, for
the purposes of averting the immediate evils of re.
bullion and civil war. .Has not the Catholic Asso-
ciation usurped the privileges of Patliament, and the
Prerogatives of the Crown ? Dees it not impose
taxes ? Has it not marshalled the people in tnibtary
arras. ? Has it not created an Order—the Order
of Liberators ? A eery ominous name ! and one
which too plainly indicates very alarming designs.
Under such circumstances, and while the most
unbounded latitude is given to the advocates of the
Roman Catholic cause to urge their pretensions by
every mode of threat and intimidation, shall the Men
of Kent be told that they will incur the guilt of pro-
Voking Civil War, if, in a peaceful and legal manner,
they declare their resolution to support the authority
of the Laws and the Constitution of their Country ?
The main erguMent upon which the Romai• Ca-
tholic adiocates rely, is, that however dangerous the
principles .of the Roman Catholic Church may in
former ages have been to the cause of Civil and Re-
ligious Liberty, and the Protestant Constitution
established in these Realms, those dangers are now
passed by, and the apprehension of them become
ridiculous—that' the sentiments of the Roman Ca-
tholics are now enlightened, andlberal, and that the
charges .of Bigotry and Intolerance are now only im-
putable to the, Protestants.
Gentlemen ! The alliance between Popery and
Liberalism is no new event. Every one of the mea-
-sures which cost King James the Second his Crown
were measures taken in the names of liberty of con-
•science, and tharemoVal of political distinctions, on
account of religious differences;. but, our ancestors
knewahat, while he talked of toleration, his ultimate
aim was really persecution : and, at their utmost
risk, and with a profuse expenditure of their blood
and treasure, they achieved the Rerolution, and
established that systeM of Protestant Laws and Con-
stitution under which,. for nearly a century and a half,
this country* hae enjoyed a.degree of religious tolera-
tion 'and civil .freedom unknown in any other age or

THE ARMY.

MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY.
I,IEUI HN A N T-GEN ER A 1.---Rtlyerd, late Royal Inv. tog..
Hammersmith.

LISVIENA NT-COLONEL9—De Menard, half pay, Royal
For. Artillery, Falaine, France ; Newton, half pay, 134th
Foot.

Mason--Laing, half pay, Royal African Corps, Africa.
CAPTAINg.-111`Drinattl, half pay, 76th Foot, Ara Hay,
North Ilist ; Pexton, half pay, 104th-Fitot Rist, half-
Inclep.
I.lErrxriarrs—.Johnson, 37th Foot, Tralee; Alex-
ander, 94th Foot, Gibraltar; Osborne, ditto, ditto; Boys,
half pay, lot Foot; Gordon, ditto; M‘Diarmid, half pay,
:York Light Infantry.
CORNETS, SECOND LIEUTENANT, AND ENSIGNS—
Adlain, half pay, 19th Dragoons, Doncaster ; Ryeroft,
half pay, 21st Dragoons, Lancashire; Trollope, 82d Faot,
Port Louis, Mauritius ;' Munro, (Adj.) 90th. Foot, Zante ;
Bull, R. Eng. Gibraltar; Gibb, late Royal Sappers and
Miners, Dunse, N. Britain ; Stephenson, late Royal Sappers
and Miners, Niagara, upper Canada.
AninT.iNT—Roberts;-Aate R. Art. Drivers, Marton,
Gainaborough.
ManrcAs. Der.—Surgeon Barton, 12th Lancers, Lon-
don; Surgeon Heaviside, late H. Gren. Guards; Staff.
Assist. Surgeon, J. Thomson, Trinidad.
COMMIE,SAKIAT Dar...--Dep. Corn. Gen. Spiller, Ever..
ton ; Dep. A►sist. Com. Oen. Handily, Bodmin; Deputy
Assist.-Com. Gen. Smith, Gibraltar ; Deputy Assistant
Commissary General Clements, en his passage from New
Santis Weles.

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MOVEIIRNT OF TRO flq 110: LAND,
it
The Depot of the 91siiliegi ent of Foot has
.marel.tea
from Armen to Omagh at f the 97th Regiment of
Infantry from Tralee to Cork ; the 10th Regiment of Foot
from Cork to Kinsale ; and the 19th Infantry from Kin-
sale to Clare Castle.

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR OCTOBER.

By the time this Report will get abroad, the bar-
vest of corn and seeds may he deemed completely
finished throughout the three kingdoms ; and, al-
though with abundant difficulties and heavy cxpence
in many parts, on the whole, with far greater success
than could hare been even hoped. It was quite na-
tural and in course, under the late circumstances, and
in a case relating to bread for the national supply, for
the public mind to be powerfully excited, and for
gloomy apprehensions and alarms suddenly to arise.
Such fervours, whether in respect to prospective
good or evil, to large or defective crops, are ever in
extremes. Just so it has proved, and fortunately, on
the present occasion. Accounts, indeed, favourable
enough to surprise us, are coming from various parts
of the country ; and, on the whole, alarm has, in a
considerable degree, subsided. This also has been
confirmed, so far as our personal observations have
been extended over several counties.
In Cornwall and the extreme West, and also in
some few parts of the North, they boast of wheat
crops, equal in both respects to the crops of last year,
and scarcely deem worthy of quotation their small
sprinkling of sprouted corn—their: rains during the
summer, as in most parts of Ireland, being genial
showers, with dry intervals. Their barley crops,
late harvested, but generally bright, fine, and heavy.
By a singular anomaly, oats, so abundant elsewhere,
is the worst erep they have complained of during
many years, end particularly defective in straw.—
Plenty of seed wheat of fine quality, both old and
new--the new white proving the best sample, yet
the sudden brisk demand has maintained it at a high
price. With the above exception, the report on all
their crops and their harvestiug appears highly satis-
factory. From Cumberland and its vicinity the ac-
counts arc nearly as satisfactory. They seem to
have escaped all the difficulties of the harvest ; their
wheat nearly an average quantity and quality ; oats
with a vast bulk of straw, and good prospect of yield;
with the best crop of barley they have gathered
during many years.
Hop-picking has concluded under happier auspices
than expected, and the crop tallies very evenly with
that of wheat in regard to amount and quality. Of
turnips and mangel-wurzel there will be plenty,
though it is supposed the crop of neither will be re-
markable for size and weight of bulb.--Monthly
Magazine.

country. •
It is trzie that, for the security of that Constitu-
tion, laws of severe restriction were imposed upon
the Roman Catholics. That they were more ne-
cessary (in Ireland especially) than some are willing
to allow, appeared from a circumstance which, for
the first time, was brought to light by the examina-
tions of the Committees of Parliament in the year
1825; namely, that from the Revolution until the
extinction of the House of Stuart, the Ron.:in
Catholic Bishops of Ireland continued to be nomi-
nated by the representatives of that family—a. cir-
cumstance which, at once, proves the great influ-
ence wlnch they must have continued to retain in
Ireland, and the dark and impenetrable secrecy with
hid' the affairs of the Roman Catholic Church
have been managed in that country. During the
reign of his late li.lajsty, the legislature judged
(and, in my opinion, judged wisely as well as
lne-
manely) that circumstances were so much Altered
as to admit of the removal of such of those re-
strictions as either affected in any
ob-
servance of religious worship, the. enjoyment of
property, or the exercise of polesstons, exceptfl m
a very few cases connected with polit.icalim nenee.
The question is now, whether the sow' its of the
to allow of
Roman Catholics are eo far changed as
degree the
their Compkte admission to the exercise of all politi-
cal rights equally
with Protestant
It is always difficult to judge of the sentiments
of bodies of men, because among individuals so
shades of
many difference are to be found ; and
subjects
it
j
there are, and always have been, among persons of
the Roman Catholic persuasion, many men of ge_
nui,ic piety and eminent virtue, and others in whom
reuse of homur, or an inherent feeling of moral
principle, has corrected the pernicious doctrines of
corrupt church; but the bulk of the people must
be suppssed to act upon the tenets avowed by the
lirincipal ecclesiast:cal authorities; and upon this
subject, a mass of authentic information has been
;aid before Parliament, which has, hitherto, not at-
tracted so much attention as it deserves.
Besides the important examinations which took
place in 1825, a large body of information was col-
lected by the Commissioners of Irish Edneation
Enquiry; and I wish pmiticu!arly to call your atten-

BREMEN, OCT. 25.

The Government of Hanover, in conjunction
with the Senate of this place, have issued the
following declaration, dated Bremen-haven►, 16th
October :

" That for the present, all vessels coming from
Gibraltar into the 'Weser, shall ho directed to a
regular Quarantine Establishment; and that vessels
coming from Spain or Portugal shall, previous to
their admission, be subject to every precautionary
inspection."

CURIOUS STATUTE AGAINST THE MEN
or KllNT.—After the *uppremion of the riot created by
JACK CADE, Government (pays BARRINGTON on Statutes)
seemed to think that the full cellars of Kent had given
yig-our to rebellion ; for, soon after its fiippresion, a sta-
tute was issued which restrained each man of the county
from brewing more than 100 quarters of malt for his own
nee.—Kent Herald.

in the neighbourhood of Eastry, twenty shil-
linga was offered to each person choosing to attend the
meeting. at 31aidatune, in fa•ronr of the BruirswickCluldiiit,.
A bik,r'is cdrt was engaged to convey several individual,.
who had received this stn. After shelving thrm•clvec or.
the Heath (either being eager in the rause they espcmeed.
or the beer.they swallowed being too powerful, it matters
not which) the party did not reach home until the neat
day. A weg, finding them in a state unfit to discriminate
right •from wrong, took advantage of the circumstance,
and chalked on a prominent part of the cart, " The Sense-
of the County." In this condition the vehicle reached
Canterbury, to the ;resit amusement of the citizens.—
Kehtidh Chronicle.