The Sun.
London, England, 1819-04-13 00:00:00

pected, and some such Speeds be tittered.

My Lords and o.entlemen—h addressin you,
from this place, highly grat,ified to commu-
nicate to you the increasing prevalerscr lit (he
Catholic Religion throughout this realm ; rind to
„express Iny,confidence, that with your pious anti
vigorous co-operation, th. small renulant of lie-
rest) which yet. lingers in Britain Ain be speedily
and effectually evirnated.
" 1 ant happy to inform your that, tinder
the all-powertol auspices his'llolitn,gs the
thy; SeVeral Citholic Potentates of Europe zea+
lonsly concur wilt me in rite eradication of the
Protestant Fier,sy, and the numerou% sects o hick
it has ,toles Hied ; the penticiotis errors wher,of
have, to lite. great scandal of Christenth, in, so long •
alienated England from her rightful obedience :o
'the Holy See.

" Keeping diligently in view the principles
our pious placement-4. James the serontl
and Queen Maly the Firsr, of e,er-blessed menta.
ry a .and aided by:your wise rivoration ut their

" I have directed Commissions to be issued,
acrolding to the Act passed in the last Session,
tot !he surveying the different Counties, and exa-
mining into the family settlements of the several
estates therein. The Commissioners ‘vliont 1
have selected are all active Catholics, and approv-
ed by hi, Eminence : I have therefore lull confi-
dence, that such Abbey and Church lands as may
have escaped the first enquiry will he detected ;
being conscious, that to merit the protection of
the Holy See, all the usurpations of the Heretic
King Henry the Eighth—whose soul is in perdi-
tion—must be restored to the Church, utterly and
unreservedly.
" In Ireland, this holy work will proceed with
peculiar facility *; as the title deeds of the seve-
ral estates, which heretical injustice has so long
cecupied, have been, in that island of saints, stu-
diously preserved by their Catholic inheritors,
together with the maps and other ancient records.
The enactments of Elizabeth, of James, of Crom-
well, a Chalks, and of William, can no longer
oppose, a modern harrier of two centuries to our
slllCient right :—heresy must now take her turn of
confiscation and forfeiture ; and I gladly antici-
pate the conclusion of this measure, unincurn-
bvt ed with any difficulties, as the Irish Catholics
h;rve carefully avoided all securities upon, and all
purchases of those unhallowed possessions.
" It affords me the most heartfelt pleasure to
gate, that negociatious have been opened with
his most Catholic Nlajesty, the King of Spain,
for a union bet nem one of the infants of his
pious House, ',lnd my second daughter, the Prin-
cess Aingdalena Teresa Veronica ; and still more,
that the Pope has deigned, in an especialniauner,
to illustrate the British Throne with the beams of
his sanctity, by proposing the marriage of nor
eldest son, the Prince of Wales, with his .Holi,
neFs's niece, the Marchesa Agnes ,thstda Undtci-
milla di Bigotioi :—a blessing which I have has-
toted to accept with the most reverent and grate-
ful humility.
" Geutkinen of the House of Commons--I hare
directed the estimates for the services of the cur-
rent year to be laid before you-; and I entertain
too doubt of your readiness to furnish such sup-
plies ac may enable me to resume the tribute of
the First-fruits and the Peter-pence t, which, in
the Catholic ages, were duly paid by England to
the Holy See ; and the regular payment whereof
in future will be Idle strongest proof of a sincere
abjuration of her late deplorable apostacy.
"My Lords and Gentlemen—l cannot announce
but tin h sleep regret, that some of my heretical
subjects have audaciously persevered in the wor-
ship of the late-established sect, notwithstanding
the severe laws which have been enacted against

their.—l fed very reluctant in suggesting the ne-
cessity of severer penalties; but my duty to the
Sovereign Pontiff obliges me to reco►nmend your
unceasing vigilance in the suppression and pu-
nishment of all Heresy.—By so doing, we can
alone °Wait; the favour of God's Vicar on earth,
and his infallible assurance of our prosperity."

• The following.- Manifesto was found. on Sunday, 7th Au-
gust, 1803, Posted on tine door of St. Werhurg's Church, in
Dublin, the Parish Church of the Lords Lieutenant :

" Catholic Viitoe.
" We acknowledge that there now does exist among the
people through this country, a determination to possess them-
sulves of, and- to transfer to their posterity, their ancient
rights and properties; namely, the estates, lands, and church-
which the abonzinahle scum of England have, from
time to time, plundered them Of, and which are now applied
til heretical purposes, in order to abolish the Catholic Faith ;
but let a wretched Government beware how they tamper with
the Rek:lion-of the People."
t The First-fruits, or -Innate:, amounted upon the several
Sees in England, as taxed by the Pope's Holiness thereon, to
the comfortable suutof 80,2891. Rs. This rate appears in the
Pope's Books, anno 1537 —Allowing fur the difference in the,
value of totiriy, it would, inn 1319, amount to not less than
one hundred and fifty thousand pounds. Add to this, a full
year's rerenuc paid into the same Apostolic hands My every
Clergyman ; trekeing-at least the above some. Bishop Bur-
net tells us, that from, the commencement of Henry the Se-
venth's reign to the suppression of this grinding impost, a
period of less than fifty years, eight hundred thousand ducats.,
of eight shillings each, were drained out of England into the
coffers of the Holy See ;—only about seven millions of our

rofidera money !
The %Wei-pence was another delightful tribute, paid to the
Pmitifical Peter out of every family in England. A sort of
Cathrylic and Apostolic Income Tax ; which the eight Henry:
suppressed, and which Popish Ascendancy would of course
revive.

EASTER MONDAY.-Yesterday, according to
ancient custom, several of the Aldermen, with
their Ladies, the Sheriffs, Recorder, and other
City Oilicers, assembled at the Mansion-house, for
the put pose of accompanying the Lotto MAYOR in
procession to Christ's Church, Newgate-street.
At twelve o'clock they pat took of art excellent
dejeune ,with his Lordship. At one o'clock the
toys of Christ's Hospital, and the lit'idewell
boys, to the amount of 700, arrived at the Royal
ExChrtnge, where they %yalke'd about under the
(7.)loiinade with their ferieuds ;ill half-past .two
o'clock, when the procession proceeded along
Cheapcide, rnitild St. Paul's Church-yard, Lud-
gate-street, the Old Bailey, up .Newgate-street to
Christ Church, where a most excellent Sermon
was preached by the BiSII6O of Ox FORD. Before
rt;*e.Settnolt, an Anthem, composed foe the occa-
sion, was sung by the bdys, and after .the Ser
atl aceoaant of the progress of- the 4XF:rent.
11.ospitals`waS read. After the Church Service,
the procession.(with the exception of the boys)
tpturnefl in 'the same order to the Mansion-house,
*here a most superb entertainment was provided
tirr them. Several persons of rank and distinc-
ttio partook cif the dinnei;; and in the cvening
t het e was, as usual, a splendid Ball.