The Sun.
London, England, 1819-04-21 00:00:00

PROTESTANT UNION.

At ft MEETING tit THE PROTESTANT UNION
(ormed 22d januarv. 1813, uuuer the Auspices
of the IRte venerable GRANVILLE SHARP, Esq
fur tie Defence earl Support ut he PROTESTANT
RELIGIoN mid "rHE BRITISH CON,TITUTIoN AS
est Ahkhed tit the GLOHitUS IiEvOLUTIoN 1688),
held at the LONDON TAVERN, 170 t Aril, 1819,

STEPHEN CATTLEY, Esq. in the ChAr ;

IT WAi II EsoLvEn.

1. That Roman Catholics of England and Ireland have
a n;)imnced a deturniinati on 1 o revive, with renewed activity and
vigour, their demandi for Political Power,—dentltids which
hare been repeatedly resisted by both Houses of Parliament,
—it behaves every Protestant Subject of the British Empire

to consider,witb:erioui. attention, a Question which affects at
once both our Civil and Religious Liberiies.
2. That its the existing Laws adord to the Rowan Catholic!,

in common with their leilow-subjects, protection in person
an•l property, and the entire toleration of their• reli;ions wor-
--s!);:), tl.rii nianiic it 4.4j..Ct is to obtain Po!itlcal Power; arid,

ftv, 11,tie ioos 11111 prOeeet:lllgS, We Cannot

t:aolpt Heat, whatever may he granted, nothing short. of an
'a Politlcat Power, without limitation' or restraint,
ilt satisfy thou,. !a marking the progressive demands of
the Roman Catholics, we observe that they began some years
-ao with claiming immunities merely provincial, and con-
fiord to Ireland ; but they, now insist on the right to an un-
limited share in the Government of the whole British Em-
pire. They require a Political Power which is to affect not
Ireland only, but the AdmiOistratimi, at home, of the whole
domestic affairs of the 17nitud Kingdom, and abroad in its fo-
reign relations, and in all its immense Colonies:
3. That,t he Protestant Religion is the great security of the.
ptlblie happiness and welfare of this Country ; for, as our ci-
vil and religions liberties have originated' in, and been pre-.
served be, a Protestant Constitution, it -appears to its that
those invaluable blessings will flourish with -its prosperity,

and decline with its decay.
4. That the Brit:sh Constitution and Government are es-
sent:ally and fundamrntally Protestant; and by a Solemn
National Compact, at the period of the glorious Revolution,
it was declared inconsistent with the safety and welfare
of this Protestant Kingdom, that it should he governed
by a Popinh Prince, or by any King. or (Intern marry-
ing- a Papist, and that all and every persons and per-
sons that should he reconciled to, or hold communion
with, the Ste or Church of Rome, or should profess the Popish
Beligion, or should marry a Pavist, should he excluded, and
be for ever incapable to inherit and enjoy the Crown and

Government of this Realm; and in all such cases the people
of these Realms should be absolved of their allegiance, and
the Crown and Government descend to the mixt'petson in
succession, being- a Protestant! also by the Acts of Settle-
ment, which have so happily secured the Crown of these
Realms to his Majesty and t►is august Family, it. is declared
that the succession of the Crown in the Protestant Line is
for the Happiness of the Nation, and the Security of our
Religion; and that on the maintenance of these Acts " the
Safety of his Majesty's Person and Government—the Conti-
nuance of the Mona' ely of England—the preservation of
the Protestant Ruligion—the Maintenance of the Church of
England as by law established—the Security of the ancient
and undoubted Rights and Liberties of the future Peace and
Tranquillity of this Kingdom,--edo (under God) entirely
depend."
5. That by the Coronation Oath, settled by tine National
Compact entered into at the Revolution for establishing the
Crown on a Protestant basis, the Kings and Queens of this
Kingdom solemnly. engage, " that they will to the utmost of
their power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of
the Gospel and the Protestant Reformed Religion established
by law; and will preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of this
Realm, and to the Churches committed to their charge, all
such Rights and Privileges as by Law do or-shall appertain

unto them, or any of then) :" and we entirely concur in the
interpretatiom of that Oath by our venerable and bfloved
vrreigir, when he considered that it prohibited his acquiesc-
ing, in measures for giving Political Power to his Roman Ca-
tholic Subjects; although he had, with the benignity belong
ing to hjs character, sanctioned the Repeal of those Penal
Laws regarding the Roman Catholics which affected the ex-
ercise of their Religion and.the enjoyment of their Property.
6. That the two Houses of Parliament, as well as the Privy
Council, and the Great Offices of State, are inseparably con-
nected with, and influence the ;little Administration of the
Government; and that a measure which should have for its
object the introduction of Rowan Catholics into the great
Councils of the Nation, if not contrary to the letter of the
Bill of Rights, would be manifestly so to its. spirit ; as it
would be subversive of the great leading principle upon
which the Government of this Realm was. settled at the Re-
volution. We therefore are of opinion, that it is necessary
to exclude RoumnCatholics (their principles haring under-
gone no alteration since the/Revolution) from all Offices of
Legislative and High, Political Power. •
7. That rendering Roman Catholics eligible to be Privy
Counsellors, is to create the means of surrounding, the Sore-
reign himself with Ministers of State whose Religion must
be hostile to his own right of succession to the Throne; and

by investing them with a Legislative capacity, the means are
provided at giving them, if not a• Majority, such a consider-
able Party in Parliament, as, under some circumstances,
would render it impossible to res'st their measures, and might
ekdanger the Interests of the Esrauttsuen Ciluacti as well
ac other estitriaiile Institutions of the Country, and those
Eights cod Liberties. both CiOl and Religious, which Pro-
testants hold

8. That, although the Roman Catholics did not constitute
a majority of either House of Parliament, when, by the Sta-
tute, they were excluded therefrom, yet that measure was
declared to he necessary " for the safety of his Majesty's
royal person and government ;" and they were rendered in-
eligible to sit in Parliament, " forasmuch as divers good
laws had been made for presenting the increase and danger
of Popery in this kingdom, which had not had the desired
effect by reason of the free access which Popish Recusants
Lad bad to his Majesty's Court. and by reason of the liberty
which of -late some of the Recusants had taken to sit and
vote in Parliament."

9. That as the administration of the laws greatly affects
both i.he tights and property of the Church of England, as
well as the civil and religious liberties of others not within
Arr pale, and considering the avowed intolerant principles
of the Roman Catholics with regard to those who differ from
them in matters of religion, we do-not think it would be
compatible with the existence of those rights and liberties to
t atrial their interpretation toltuthau Catholic Judges, whose

ranvt necessarily 1)1., influenced in some. drorce

their peculiar views and opinions.
10. That as the admission of the Roman Catholics to le-
gisloi ice power, and to those otlicei which guide the state,
could not he granted without great danger, neither would
the plan which its advocates proposed in the last Parliament
hare the desired effect of conciliating and allaying the cla-
mours of the Roman Catholics. Those advocates proposed
to guard their measures by restrictions ; the Roman Catho-
lics profess themselves insulted by the suspicions implied in
those restrictions. The sarrie reasoning is now applied as

was first used, when a relaxation of the Penal Laws, and
oti,er advantages, were prayed ; and notwithstanding the Se-
cretary of State for Ireland . declared, when the Elective
Franchise was granted in 1793, that the concessions then
made would satisfy every rational Catholic in the kingdom,
and that nothing further could he granted with safety to the
Protestant Establishment, we have seen all concessions ge-.
nerate at once fresh demands, nail supply the arguments as
well as additional means for obtaining them. We therefore
apprehend that the measnre, with all its guards, will not sa-
tisfy the Roman Catholics; but while it will invade the most
valuable and sacred Wirt of the British Constitution, it will
place ;n their hands a power which will ultimately subvert
the foundation of our Monarchy.
11. That with regard to Ireland, we can see no practical
advantage to be derived to the great mass of her population
by complying with the demands of the Roman Catholics : on
the contrary, the avenues to political power being open to
the Roman Catholics, the lower and middling classes of the
Irish would become more completely the ins'ruments of their
Priesthood, and of others, 'in opposing Protestant iiherties
and interests; and we entertain bet little doubt that the
measure eentemplated would at no distant period encourage
an attack upon the revenues of our Protestant Church Esta-
blishment, and perhaps wholly subvert the Church itself in
that part of the United Kingdom. And though s* is secured
by the Art of IThion, yet, if the Great National Compact
formed at the Revolution is not to !ac held inviolable, it may
be justly apprehended that the Act of Union will scarcely af-
ford a sufficient protection.

12. That we do not consider the Guards and Oaths which
have been proposed, an adequate protection against the dan-
gers attendant upon the admission of Roman Catholics to the
power they seek—it being a notorious fact, that the Sovereign
Pontiff, so lately as the year 1809, by a solemn instruction
,to
the Prelates of his Church, commanded then) to distingnish
between the passive oaths which may be taken, and the active
oaths which may not be taken by the Roman Catholics of any
heretical state ; and declare d ,hat all oaths taken to the pre-
judice of the Church are null and void.
13. That at this period the Church of England in particu-
lar, and all classes of Protestants, are called upon to watch
with great jealousy the progress and designs of their avowed
opponents. The Order, of Jesuits, which in 1773 was pro-
scribed by all the Princes of Christendom for its baneful in-
fluence upon mankind, under every Government, has been
recently revived and brought into activity by the present Pope.
In addition to the Benedictines, Franciscans, Dominicans,

and almost every other monastic order at present within the
United Kingdom, the Jesuits have an exceedingly rich and
extensive establishment at Stonyhorst, in the heart of Eng-
land, as well as others in Ireland : these, in full operation
through all their extensive ramifications, are atone sufficient
to awaken our attention, and are only a few of the various
engines at work for extending those principles which, both in
Religion and Politics, arc ever hostile to a Protestant Govern-
ment. Different pails of Europe furnish proofs of an active
revival of the dormant spirit of Popery muter tls‘-;lnetion of
the present Pontiff, in bringing into strong exercise those te-
nets which mark its intolerance and its hostility to the Sacred
Scriptures and to Religions Toleration, while the re-esta-
blishment of the Inquisition spews that the Church of Rome
is not inclined to relinquish any of its instruments and means,
boss-ever odious. All these circumstances furnish aVitional
reasons for refusing, to Roman Catholics political power in
this i,ingdom—the peculiar depository of the purest princi-
ples of religion, morality, and government, and which, if
once destroyed or debased by Intolerance and Superstition,
would subvert the power (as it would the spirit and happi-
ness) of this immense Empire.
14. That a disagreement in opinion amongst the Members
of the Privy Council, with regard to the great fundamental
principles of the Revolution, is detrimental at once to the
Prince and to the People; and the inconvenience:* which have
resulted from that disCurdanee in the successive cabinets, with
regard to the.admission of Roman Catholics to a share in the
National Councils and Government of this Protestant State,
is sufficiently apparent. ' But if the inconvenience be chvions
in the present state of things, what will' he the state of the
Cabinet and of the Country, of the Prince and of the People,
if men be introduced into our National Councils, who cannot,
in conscience and in honour, agree to a policy predominantly
Protestant ? As we deprecate such an event, so we lament
that the Prince Regent is at present embarrassed with some
Counsellors, whose declared opinions encourage the Claims
of the Roman Catholics, keep alive their discontent; and are,
in our estimation, inconsistent with the true interests of the
Crown,. the rights of the Established Church, and the reli-
gious and civil privileges of the great bulk of the People of
this Kingdom.

STEPHEN CATTLEY, Chairman.

The Chairman having left the chair, it was
resolved, That the cordial Thanks of this Meeting
be given tO'STEPHEN, CATTLEYJ ESq. for his
im-
paitiality and ability in the Chair, and for his
sedulous attention to ;be object of this Society.

CITY Bustt4r.ss.—A Court of Aldermen was
yesterday held at Guildhall, by the LOAD MAYOR.
A Vote of Thanks was unanimously agreed to be
pre.t nted to the Lotd Bishop of Oxford, and to
the Right Honourable and Reverend Lord Aston,
for the. Spital Sermons preached by them at
Christ Church, Newgate-street, on Monday and
Tuesday in Easter Week last.—Several bars of
gold, weighing about 1280 ounces, were pro-
duced and sworn off for exportation.—The half-
yea: 1y account ot. the produce of the Orphan
Fund was presented by the Chamberlain, when
the Court ordered the annihilation of 10,8001.
Orphan Stock, and tickets to that amount were
drawn out of the wheel, -and the Chamberlain
was directed to give the regular notice to the
parties interested, agreeably to the provisions of
the Act of Parliament in that behalf.-

The flourishing state of the Abbey Savings
Bank, in Shrewsbury, has enabled the Directors
to divide a bonus of one per cent. among the de-
pobitors,, in addition to the legal interest. The
depositors are 483 in number, and the amount of
sums deposited 11,0361.65. sd.

THE SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DICEKE FA F,SUM AUDEAT

LONDON,
trEDNESDAr, APRIL 21, 1819.

Charleston Papers, four days later than the last
arrival, tVeri received this morning.

INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON.—We are in-
debted to our friends at Washing!on for the fol-
lowing political news ; the views which they fur-
nish of the late Treaty with Spain are interesting,
and will only give you the outline of the Treaty
with Spain :
1. The Floridas are ceded in Poll. to the United
States. The cession includes all the Territory of
Spain East of the Mississippi River, ‘l,ith the ad-
jacent Islands dependent on the PioVinces.
2. The Western Boundary commences at the
Mouth of the Sabine River, continues North
along the Western bank of the said river to
the 2211 degree of latitude ; thence, by a line
due North, until it intersects the Rio Roxo, or
Red River ; thence along the river Rio Roxo,
Westward, to the 100th degree of longitude West
from London, 811(1'32 from Washington ; thence,
by a line due North to the river Arihanas, to its
source in latitinle 42 ; thence, on that parallel of
latitude, to the South Sea. The last map of Me-
Lisa, improved to the first of January, 1318, is
referred to in the Treaty for the line, and you
will have no difficulty in tracing it.
3. The 24th J4111131y, 1818, is selected for re-
gulating the validity of Grants by Spanish autho-
rity ; all before that day are declared valid by
the Treaty, all subsequent to that day are void.
4. The United States and Spain motual!y relin-
quish all claims for injuries, either national or
private, prior to the signing the Treaty.
5. The United States assume payment to their
own Citizens of claims to the amount of
85,000,000; dollars, to be ascertained by Com-
missioners appointed by the President.
6. The old Treaty of Limits and Navigation
to continue in force, except so far as changed by
the provisions of the present Treaty.
7. A preference is given to Spanish vessels, to
the exclusion of those of other nations, ill the
Ports of ►'ensacola and Augustine, for 12, years.
This is an outline of the Treaty ; it will not be
printed in form until after the exchange of ratifi-
cations. It passed' the Senate by an unanimous
vote, and a Resolution was agreed to, allowing the
substance to be given,

The Paris Papers of Sunday last, which were
due this morning, have. not come to hand.

The French Legislators, if so they may be styled,
in their discussions respecting the Liberty of
the Press, have whimsically connected with that
subject an article (sth) relating to the punishment
of those who may malignantly offer insults to the
Ensigns of RoyalAnthority,by defacingor removing
tbern. This article, which was sanctioned by these
same Legislators ,may he necessary, but is not likely
to have much effect while the spirit of Jacobinistn
lurks in the minds of the People. In fact, the
public mind in France has been so completely
revolutionized, that most probably it never can be
restored to feelings and sentiments of, loyalty.
The Legislators themselves seem hardly worth•
of the name. They waste their time in ora:otic4
parade and frivolous discussions, and there-
fore, deplorable indeed must be the intellec-
tual and moral state of the country when no
wiser and better men can be found to
manage the Government of a People still agitated
by the henvings of a dreadful storm, and which
may be expected to break forth with all its for-
mer violence as soon as the present Monarch is
dismissed from all Worldly eates. But, trifling
as the French Legislators ere, they are formed
of such materials that they m►ay be mischievous
in the highest degree, when temptation is
presented to theta, and therefore every other State

tiltriti:d remain in a defensive polizinn, lzst ~.11t.11"se
crews may again occur, which heretofore were
so disastrous, so ruinous, and so horrible.

THE FoNos.—A fall of one per Cent. has taken
place in the Funds since the Commissioners wera
served yesterday ; Consols were then at 73. This
morning they commenced at 72i tor the Account,
but from the it sales -thrown upon the
market, they fell to 7176; the depression is a"
tributed to the present stagnation of Commerce,
arid the reports in circulation respecting a Loan'
The Commissioners gave for Reduced, still
were served generally by the Jobbers.
The Friends of our (,resent ESTABLISHNEta rte
CHURCH and STATE, and there can be no wise'
reflecting, and honest subject in the British D'Pe
minions who is not a friend to that Establish'
ment, will feel particular pleasure in reading tbe .
RESOLUTIONS passed by the Members of ri'"°"..
PROTESTANT UNION, at their recent Meeting''
That body was originally formed under the au"
spices of the late GRANVILLE SHARP, E ,q• one ()(
th‘e most amiable, benevOlent, and intellige°
characters that ever adorned this or any other
country. A more rational friend to freedom, he'•
inanity, and religion, history has never recorded'
and it is with no slight degree of pleasure vre
form our Readers that a biographical account c'
this truly estimable tnan, and' of his meritorious la-
boors, may be expected nom his fr iend oE ,
floarte, Esq. a Gentleman whose characteV
principles, and objects are congenialeand wit" I:.
abundantly qualified to discharge the 'office wit"
honour to himself and to the subject. At the Meet'
ing of THE PRoTEsTANT UNION on the 17th inst.
the RESOLUTIONS which passed cfearly Prav‘
that this re.pectable body of real friends to ulcer'
country and mankind act in full accordance wit
the principles of their venerable Founder. rf
RESOLUTIONS, indeed, speak so well for the°.
selves, and comprise with so much judgtueil: '
perspicuity, knowledge, and comfort'', the main
points essential to a due elucidation of the su
ject, and so forcibly point out the dangers in vie‘rce
that no comment or cornmendAion our par
can be necessary nn the occasion. The renoved at-
tempts of THE PAPISTS to obtain a full Wuticilt-
(ion in the Legislative Authority of the State,
render it an imperative duty on all friends t"
:heir country to adopt every measure tl't 1111.;:
be deemed necessary in order to Ptt)tel
CONSTITUTION. We therefore have this day
serted the proceedings at the Meeting in hu're
tion, and recommend them most eArtiestiy 10 Is
attention of the people at large. The rAriss.r
enjoy the fullest latitude for the exercise of
•
RELIGIOUS FAITH, and therefore all further
.704
stands mast he founded solely on araarrint'.,i
a desire of regaining that power which they-former
theJ
SO fatally abused, and which, sooner or later,
would assuredly employ for the. ante dhs4'ir„i..
purposes. They object to political disabilities.
v WV°
cause they will not be satisfied with". ' °
-
abilities; and considering that they litive
maintained that their Religious Creed is
ABLE, and THE thAD if their Clue, eh INFAl't'ffies
it would be madness in the British tjuv":l, ftlg
to grant any farther concessions to them'
liar
been, we may confidently say, the neculi3o his
of THE ScN to devote its columns tO
ils'objec't•
cussion of this most important awl
We have bad communications of the nWsrl oot
.able kind from many authorised 1.00"13-e:
tsdoa ,red
Church, as well as from many of oiden"i"
41e.
h
•ven e
1
Laity, which, on that subject,, have gi • tie
"
cided pie-eminence. ,to our Journsi• sof
mate connexion and INDISSOLUBLE sit
sit
render
CHURCH and STATE in this CooarY':
other questions •inferior in importance to 0,1
utUr n,
great foundati ft'
of nor happiness, e t
security, and, therefore, we shall e-Oittinue'
0911'
ceasingiy, to advocate the Cause of' a Pg°,c.ontraril
ASCENDANCY. As long as We have
over this Paper, it shall be open 10 the
t
A e be ilEsgi
ers of- that Ascendancy, and we e'e (00, es`
LUTIoNs OF THE PROTESTANT UNION
co uteri
ted
semial importmiee. that we shall not, be
to insert them merely once, but 311'lt
01 rePri
niaVb
•
as opportunity shall offer, in hope's that tliCy r
Britl"
circulated throughout all parts of fire r
minions, end thereby fully limpress they
which
subiects with a sense of the brinnine's
t 1 tbeit.
enjoy, and of the danger which they _
, if ?Or
posterity would certainly be invoiv.et old pei,
were tig.lin to be pa r amonut the S.t ate.% iropoS
Mimed to overwhelm the Country v"11,) faiW•
illg pomp, its net fill delusioos, its aost-
tiesto, and its destructive follies.

1,3,t;
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wn4 issued lespecting the state of t'Lf
ilacfoizt) has been celled in again 1)"!'e YoRK. It will be seen that Sir 1404te
Itoynl Duke's health : ri‘
" WINUSOE. CASTLE, APRII. 20.-1-114 Royal tlighne- tto
Dike of York continue free from fever., and is. proceedius
recovery as favourably as possible. to attend to •

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