The Sun.
London, England, 1819-02-11 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

A DREAM.

Dreams are toys;—

Yet for this once, yea, supco3titionsly,
I trill be squared by this.

SHE\XSPEATtE•

Mn. EmToR,-=-Not witlistandin my name,

dreant sometimes ; and upon those oct rt,ions 1
tr generally asleep. List night, 1 was in that
redicament, and was favoured with a vision;
which, as it followed he occupation of my wak-
i.,g thoughts, will perhaps excuse my somno-
lency.

I dreamed, Sir, that I was in the Parliament
; that the Bill for the entire Emancipation
of the Roman Catholics had pased the Lords

and Commons, and was at that moment presented
to THE REGENT for his decision. You know,
Sir, that dreams are very unaccountable things ;
and as we do not live under the Imperial Tyrant,
whO used to hang folks for treasonable dreaming,
.1 will venture to tell you bow I fancied in mine
that some persons had persuaded THE REGENT that
he might give HIS FATHER'S assent to such a Bill
without violating TIIE CORONATION OATH. Well,
Sir, the Bill was just going to be passed ; when
-a person stept forward, drest in a foreign habit,
in,roduccd by FERDINAND of Spain ,aud his GRAND
INQUISITOR, who very reverentially carried the
'Pope's Bull in one band,- and a lighted faggot in
the other. The stranger's train was held up by
PRIEST MILNER, who seemed, as Lingo says, to
'l. think he might act Cardinal Virot.szY in that
Bou,e ;" and a long train followed of sturdy
iars, who liouldered and jostled " my Lords
and Gentlemen" very handsomely.
THE Li EGE,NT paused.—The stranger advanced
toward the Throne ; and in a loud voice denonn-
ced THE ACT OF SETTLEMENT 65 a " GRIEV-
ANCE," from which the Holy Roman Church still
wanted to he emancipated. He then declared
himself the lineal Heir of the STUART race ; and

solemnly uttered these words :
" To establish Protestantism, you expelled
" my Ancestor ; to maintain it, you excluded his
" Posterity. He conk! have done no more then,
" than what yourselves are going to do now.—
" What is right in the Legislature, could not
" have been wrong in the Sovereign. The pu-
" nishment, therefore, should expire with the
" offence ; and, when you have destroyed that
" Establishment, which you banished nty Ances-
" for for endangering, will you not relieve his
" Heir from a forfeiture, which was only just as
it was necessary,• and which, when no longe'r
" necessary, will cease to be just ?"
The Stranger ceased.—Our REGENT took the
J 11 in his hands, and tearing it asunder exclaim-
ed—" LE ROY S'AVISERA." His faithful
Protestants 'set up, in their joy, what Counsellor
O'CoNtsieLh so civilly termed " the ruffian shout
of English insolence." The PRETENDER, with all
his train of Friars and Faggots, vanished at the

sound ; awl I—awoke.

Do not yo►t think, Mr. Editor, that " the
foregone conclusion'' of my dream entitles me,
even in my sleep, to call myself

VIGIL ?

FOR THE SUN:

THE ACT OF INSOLVENCY.

is thought, by many respect-
able Attornies in our city, that the Commissioner
appoilited to execute this Act is not a Ithurtzed to
rake up a sort of peculiar Court, with Officers and
Assistants.• By the old occasional Acts, theMa-
gistiates in Sessions, on a short petition from In-
solvent Debtors, and a schedule of their property
to be delivered up, discharged them at a small
expellee, on the interposition of rek4nlarly bred
Attmnies at L•;w ; hut now the complaint is, that
a single Commissioner conceives himself higher
than -a Nlagistr3te, in a tribunal exclusively his
own; attended by Counsel to aid or oppose peti-
tiomrs' discharges. This is not all, as it is said
that he formally admits any nom who is not an
Attorney at Law to act as agent for and against
ptisouers playing relief ; and appoints a kind of
prothonotaiy to settle hills of costs, and issue
snoimonses for particular purposes between the
parties, woo also exacts tees, insomuch, that
what with Counsel, -Prothonotary, Agents, alql
hangers ou, the poor debtor has an absolute or-•
deal to go through, and if he escape its fire or
water, Ilia scanty pocket is emptied, and he is
turned upon the world at large a pennyless wan-
th-rer—and a wonderer too that such an Act
should pass for the convenience of Parliament,
and the profit of a Commissioner, his Prothonota-
ry, and Agents. 'ibis calls with stentorian voice
on
.the Legislature for correction, either by
amending or repcalin;:. it altogether, as it con-
verts the dispensation of justice into traffic. •
Worcester. A COUNTIIX ATTORNEY.