The Sun.
London, England, 1821-05-23 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

May 29, E. Smith, Green Lettuce-lane, teaAealer—June
26, T. • Sisley, St. Peter the Apostle, in the Isle of Thanet,
merchant—June 14, R. Ainley, Doncaster, silk-mercer—June
14, T. Bleasdale, Chorley, ironmonger—June 15, J Wilkin-
son and W. 'Wilkinson, Blackburn, 'Lancashire, cotton-manu-
facturers--June 16,. J. 514 Alaster, Norfolk-street, New-road,
master-mariner—June 16, T. West, Gracechurch-street, whole-
sale perfumer—June 16, W. Fincham, Epping, banker—June
9, L. Moses, Great , Prescott-street, Goodman's-fields, mer-
chant—June 16, W. Scott, Pall-mall, tailor—June 9, G.
Hardisty and J. Cowing, Bedford-court, woollen-drapers—
June 30, 'W. Miles, Oxford-street, linen-draper—June 14, It.
Hunt, King's Lynn, Norfolk, tailor.
CERTIFICATES,- JUNE 12.. _ _

P. R. Phillipps, Carmaithen,_ Baggott, Biom-
yard, Hereford, skinner—W. Ayton, Macclesfield, cotton:.
spinner—J. Parsons, Long-aere, coach-lace manufacturer,-4.
Fordham, Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire, plumber—J. Sl ()per,
Bath, baker—ll. A. Noble, Albany-road, Camberwell, wine-
merchant—T. Barnett, Kendal, corn-merchant—J. Clarke,
Worestcr, coach-proprietor—R. Fry, Leicester-square,.linen-
draper.,-.1,D: Rayner, Bow, mast-maker—R. Holroyd, Hall-
fax, jeweller—J. 'Wells, Liverpool, merchant..
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
R. and, T. Jenks, - Fleet-street, looking-glass-manufacturers
—J. Yarker, W. Wilkinson, and W. )(taker, Ulverston, Lan-
cashire, common-brewer—W: Noakes and T. Barton,
.Wad-
hurst, -Sussex, draper—W. Hall and W. Rostill,
ham, manufacturers—. and G. Franklin, Rochester, .coach-
ma.4teri-j-W. Cattefall' and W. Wilding, Pool Side, Lanca-
shire, spirit-merchants—J. IViudditnan and T. ThoMpson, Co-
VentrY, riband-mr.nufactur-rs—J. E. and J. E. WaIo.:11t, Win-
chester, cornmon,brewm—lL Lambert and N. Phillips, Man,
chester—W. and J. Leeson, Nottingham, hosiers—J. P. and
I. Hewlett, Fareham, Southampton, brewers—E. Saunders and
J. Page; Liverpool, tailors—R. Seaton and .1. Tippett, BristOl,
shipwnghts—J. W. Ewing, and J. Wingate, Glasgow.

Yesterday, at 12 o'clock, the fountfi.tion stone df
an additional building to the workhonse of the
parish of St. L'otolPh-Nsithdut, Aldgate, in the
county of Middlesex,'was laid by MestrS.PArmit,-.
NEti and Mums, the churchwardens, in the pre-
sence of the vestrymen and many respietable
parishioners. An appropriate inscription being
prepared, Was enclosed in a glass bottleand de-
posited in a cr.vity previously made in the stone ;
after which the company separated, highly gra-
tified with the spectacle. The intended. build-
ing is become necessary in consequence of. the
increase in the number of the poor of that parish,
and is calculated to afford every comfort and ac-
commodation.

PRICE SI;VE/ir'PENC

FOR THE SUN.

ROMAN CATHOLICS.---(LETTER
Ma. Envort—The See of Rome is 'the Grand
Schismatical Power in the Church of Christ.—
All Christians, though differing in many points
of practice and opinion, 'might generally agree
as brethren hut for the intolerance of that power.
Assuming that its own interpretation of the gos-
pel is the_only true one, which it has .no moi.e
right' to. do than the Eastern Church, or any
other Christian Church on earth, it cuts itself off
from their communion, by denouncing them as
rebels to its usurped authority ; and follows up
its separation by thundering out anathemas against
all those.who, by its own acts, are driven from it.
It is true that the Patriarchs 'of Constantinople
fong contended with the Bishops of Rome for
supremacy over the whole Church, and the title
of Universal Bishop, which the latter successfully
assumed when 'the power of the Greek Empire
declined ; but even the Roman Bishops could
.clearly see the impiety of it, when claimed against
themselves.,ThuS, in the sixth century, Gregory
the First,
.sifrnamed the Great, could inveigh
against the iniquity of the pretension, when set up
by his rival, John of Constantinople. He de-
clared, that his 'pride, in affecting it, demonstrat;•
ed the approach of Antichrist; and so indeed it
did, but not in that quarter. Ile could beseech
the. Empress, to whom he wrote, to conjure her
by Almighty God not to give the least cimsent
to this perverse title. He could ask, in writing to
an Emperor, " who is this, who, contrary to the
gospel and the decrees of the Canons, presumeth
to take upon him this foolish and .proud name
Ile could assert, and then certainly with truth,
that" none of the Roman Bishops ever assumed,
or consented to use, though offered to them, this
name of_ singularity,"—(See Tracts against Pe-
pery, Vol. 111. Tit. x. 13. 46.)
Yet when, in after times, the Successors of
this Bishop had assumed thevery same title, and
by. the .decree of Gregory the Seventh bad ap-
propriated to themselves alone the once general
name of Papa or Pope, it became at once a mor-
tal sin to dispute their claim and refuse obedience
to them. Now, what is the nature of that obe-
dience, so haughtily demanded by a large part
of the Western Church, so foolish and fatally ad-
mitted ? It is no less than an absolute submission
in all matters of faith, doctrine, and discipline ;.
a renunciation of all common sense In the inter.
preting of Scripture, or in' any other point. where-.
in that sovereign authority may be pleased to
interpose. This clearly was a yoke, which
neither Christ nor his Apostles ever meant to
impose upon mankind. St. Paul could say,
" though we, or an angel from heaven, preach
any other gospel unto you than ye have received,
let him be accursed ;" and this he twice repeats
with emphasis. Yet certainly it never had been
preached or received in that day that all men
should submit their common sense to one.
But with this error and deceit, as far as reli-
gion only is concerned, we have nothing, in the
present argument, to do. We have only to in-
quire, before we entrust power to the hands of
those who do admit it, what may, and in many_
cases must be i,ts operation in civil matters: We
will not now recur to those abuses of this spiritual
authority, by which men swere, in former times,-
compelled to give up their allegiance to their
laWful Sovereign : though, in truth,' we have no
security against the repetition of such
Practices - no pledge but the present weakness
of the Roman See. But let us. consider, not
probabilities or possibilities, but absolute cer-
tainties, with respect to the operation or Roman
Catholic power within a Protestant State.

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In matters purely temporal, perhaps, no evil
consequences might arise. But in all those, and
they are no small number, in which civil business
has any bearing, more or less remote, upon reli-
gious feelings, interests, or designs, all the power
that Papists. can by any means acquire must be
exerted against the Protestant Government.---
Particularly any plan of utility to the Church
of England or resistance to the machinations
of that of Rome, must meet with the most
decided and determined hostility. Now the
Church of England has finite enough of ad-
versaries already An, the. legislature. As, for
example, all the_ Dissenters, her ancient an-. 1
accustomed opponents ; all the Sectarists, who
are 'planning new divisions...in her bosom ; all the
_Liberals, to whom her very self-defence is bigot-
ry ; the Soeinians, who hate her orthodoxy ; and
a .few perhaps, but I hope not more than a few,
Who hate the very name of Religion. If to these
enemies you add the steady,, persevering, artful,
underwining, systematic, and inveterate, hostility
of the Rornish Church, what can we have to hope
for the continuance of that establishment, which
for more than two centuries has made us happy..?
which has brought down providential. blessings
on us, to an amount which, as it was never seen
before, could never have
.been expected but
which, if once our .Protestant establishment
should fall, will vanish,

Like the bascics's fabric of a vision. -
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DVAill BY FuinTING:7--Another death oc-
curred on board .a lighter in the river on Mon-
day. TwO men, of the names of GoonAril) aiid
ANDEIISON; having had a dispute at a public hmise,
agreed to go thither and fight it out.
,The men;
Who were heavy round slashing hitters, , fought
for fifty minutes, and-both sustained much injury
by heavy falls in alinoit every round : at length
was knocked down, and was stunned
with the blOw : his head fell heavily upOu the
planks. Ilis seconds were unable to rouse him,
and tie died in less than two hours.
.I3oth men were
inebriated at the commencement of the battle.