The Sun.
London, England, 1817-06-02 00:00:00

TIE prrr vLuu.

At A cenval lleetingof the Committee, held,at the City of,
London tavern, :May 21, 1817,
Hircii, Esti. in the Chair :
Resolved Unanimously,

" That this otaniatiPe cannot withhold their expression*
of surprise and regret at the sentiments contained, in Mr.
Canninz'a answer to the lion Crary Secretary's Letter of
'twit arum,

" That with respect to the toot to which Mr. Canning ap-
pears to entertain in strong on olklection, it bus certainly
been-forsonic years past one a the ‘stondine touts'', of ihn
Clult; but that front that Gentleman !lone hare they learned,
tliat it is ' the Irish Oiangc Toa3t;' they not only not
jug a4opte4 it tram any other Club,hot being perfectly Igno,
rant of the fact that it formed one of the toasts of tbe Vrans!
'Societies in Ireland.

"Thut the bentiment, or rather the principle involved in
that toasts [mist stand or fall by its own omits-, and not by its
use or abuse by ony body of wen whatever.

" acs:ording to their conception of the
,Aritish Con-
-1 Protestant Ascendancy' is e‘sential to its eery
sE)e:ill:tete flee
; hitha t they consider it not only is. ' x question of
great political isnportance,' but as a question 'of
purtonce to the kstalrlisbed Religion of the Country, which
is s,, interwoven, as it were, with its Goverument, that
the destruction of the one oust produce the destruction of
the other; * consequence which, in their apprehension, km

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long:Ceased to be a sabject fur 'speculation, by becomiut
matter of bisiaricil fact.

That, oh 'this point, they essirettly da reoternin a most
decided ovinictO; atia they feel that they li#Ve a.right to sto
press that opinioa, tither by fheii•tOasis, or hy soy °thee
thatztel of commodicatiun whieb to then iowy appnr most
• .
eipedient or proper.

" That they adinit, and deeply lament, the fact; that a dif.
(Crewe Of opinion .on this greet gnat/Linn prevails anortsg the
friends of Mr. Pitt ; that while.they assume to themselves nn
right to centime those who view it In a different tight froth
that. in Which they hare been aieustorried to regard it, while
to 'WO they nillingly allow the utmost credit for purity of
intention and ter Consistencyof conduct, they claim for them-
,selves the same ;plaice, in asserting ant vindicating their own
.opinions with freedom and With firmness.
'"Theft if they rightly understand Mr. Canping, Mr. Pitt
'wits, tot, in las belief, Et friend ;to the Protestant Aitendancy;
on whkb point they intpreSis their own decided co+.
viction, that 'the Protestant Aseendancy, never had a driller
'ftlerid than that 111nstriont Statesman; a conclusion which
they hire been led 'to form froth all the information Trweb.
they hatebeen able to collect, as well from the public rietta-
rations of Pitt himself, as from the cominunications of his
personal friends.
"That it is not, therefore, withont extreme concern that
they have, for the first tune, been induced to believe, and that
upon the authority nf a Gentleman of such extensive know-
ledge and abilities, whose talents they admire, and whose cha-
racter they respect, that the friends of CaJbulio Entaleipat ion
are enemies to Protestant Ascent:latter; whereas, they bed
always understood, that those friends of Mr. Pitt, who had
voted for the Claims of the Catholics, bad diiwowed all inten-
tion of interfering with the Ascendancy of the Protestants
and it is tar beyond their power to reconcile the preservation
of the Protestant Establishment with the destruction of the
Pr'otestrint Ascendancy.
"That in communicating their sentiments to Mr. Canning
on this subject, 'they are very far from wishing to ques-
tion, much less to controvert any opinion Which thAt
Gentleman' may he pleased to entertain, having no
other object in view than to rescue their own opinions,
and their, own connect, from misconception or mi,re-
presentation ; tltut there are so many points of constitu-
tional importance on which their npiniuns are strictly cargo-
nial With his tiWtif and they are inch Gant friends to tho Ad-
ministration of which Mr. Canning forms so distinguished a
roar that they larbent more than they can express, that he
should have made ascot like of their opinion nn this one sub-
ject (which in them would amount to a dereliction of prin.
ciple), the condition ot, his acceptance of their invitation;
determination on his part at which they are the more sur-
prised as another distinguished. Member of the Cabinet, wins
has spoken and voted on the same side of the question of Ca.
tliolic Emancipation as Mr. Canning, has, without the
smallest uniectiun at hesitation, accepted a similar invita.
OLIVER, HATCH, Chairman.

ti.lll.

NG. CANNING TO IGITN.GIFFO2I).
Olauceater Lodge, May 25, 181.

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" Mr. Canning has the honour to acknoiviear,e the receipt
of Mr. Gifford's letter of the tad (in reply to Mr. Canning's
of the I ith instsi, and .of the paper which accompanied it,
containing the copy of cuettin lieselutions signed by Mr.
Oliver Hatch.

" Upon the seuerul matter of these itesolntions, Mr. Can.
ning has neither‘thepretensiOn nor the desire to offer any eh.
sCrvation ; but he feels himself called'opon to notice, far this
purpose of repelling an infereate'rnost unaccountably drawn
front" Mr. Canning's' letter of the 11th—,that those of Mi.
rites friend., who, in coneUrrenet (4s they beliee) %Alt Mr.
Pitt's *pinions, give a qualified.supportio the question, ins.
properly termed Catholic Emancipation, are, by Mr. Can..
ning's admission, enemies to the 'Protestant !Ascendancy.

“Nothini in Mr. Canning's letter to Mr. Gifford--Nothing
t hat he ever wrote or-uttered in his life..;4(rords the shadow
of a fuundatititi for such an inference. - His objection to
being present at' w Meeting :a Aaatatr of 4.1 b. nit, at which
the Toast of ” Protestant Ascendancy" is to male a part of
the ceremonial of the day. tests on grounds perfectly con-
sistent with -that entire attachment to the Constitution in
Church and State, which Mr. Canning firmly hunrres Who
common to all Mr. Vitt's friends,us writ as to the bulk of this

ustion."

NO. V.--MR. JOHN GIFFORD TO MR. CANNING.

" Mr. (Afford presents his respectful compliments to Mr.
, Canning, add begs leave to assure hint, that lie will have the
honour of laying Mr. Caonities Letter hefore the etuntuit I et
of Management this afternoon. Mr. G. cannot but esio sa
satiiraetioli et finding that a. wrong infereit‘e has
been drawn front an expressiuu in his former letter,.and that
Arernid lilt fribnds who Vote far the Catholic Question,in
qUal ;fled sense, are nut enemies to, the. Protestant ASIA: 114#11CY•
It would dire Mt. Gifford, alid every other 111knitier of the
ihtt Club, tins gleat,it plc dSlite, if Mr. It.-
114LIC ifiC eiing eu the Stith with- hic company; M. G.
feeling datioied that nothing would pass capable of giving. the
slightest ofrenc; to 4.16 q thittleitiftit attacite4, toethe cuttatitu-
ti,,n in Church and State, isshe is fronviocL4 Mr. Canuins is.
" Unice, Wurship-*reef, May iti.K

NO. VI.--...?vt11. NG TO MR. GIFPORD.
L4c1,".1,14 87. 1817.

Mr. Canning presents his complinients to Mr. Qifford.
Mr. piuning has received Mr. GiYord's Note of yester-
dtty,:in answer to which
,cso far as it. may reinire an answer)
Mr. Canning has only to refer Mr. Clifford to his letter "of the
filth inst.:. the sentiments expressed by Mr, Canning ih that
letter being in nosiegree affected by any thing that Mr. oil:
'cad bas communicated tti him, either from ilium% or reel the
part of the Pitt Club Committee,"

*** We arc requested to state that Mr. CAR-
LOtters and the Retolutioni of tha cum.
mittee of die Pitt Club, which were tinatxim<►ugly
agreed to, were not i.uhlished with the klowledgc
or coneutreuee u# tLr C;oturnittee.