The Sun.
London, England, 1819-03-31 00:00:00

roa SUN.

CATHOLIC QUESTION.

MR. Eneroa—Good as any opinion is of the
L'apiSts in general, and ready ask am to believe
tliem men of truth in their private affairs, I should
,doubt it if they said, " what we petition for from
you, we would instantly grant, were we in your
situation and you in ours."

To solve this doubt, let the Protestants put to

them the following question :
(‘ Gentlemen—We live usider a Protestant Go-
vernment in Church and State, which-is our pride
and our glory ! Would ye, if it were PopiSh,
grant to us as Protestants what you so urgently
claim as Papists ?- .you not deny it ITS, and
have none to share in political power but Papists
IVould ye not do more, and deny us toleration in

our religion, even as Our dissenters of old did,
who, •when in power, denied to their brethren
what when out of it they loudly called for, saying
it would encourage the grOwth of schism ?"
Should ye answer in the affirmative, and speak
truth, it would, put ye in a dilemma, and .maka
you appear insincere in your own faith, and alto-
gether indifferent to any religion whatever.

So preposterous and anomalous is your claim,
that to exlmine it in its minute- parts, strips of
its water gilding, is to tumble it into pieces, and
annihilate the whole.

ThRILE

FOR THE SUN.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS.

MR. EDlTOR—Having noticed the Remarks of
your Cotrespondent Ark O.I3\SERVER," who most
incautiously gives the Appellative Swindling as an
Accompaniment to Debt, I take leave to reply to
such parts only cif his Letter as ha‘ve not been fully
and most ally answered before.

If any Debtors have been discharged by the
Commissioner of the In'olvent (;curt, after im-
putations of fraud which were nut established,
and future evidence can be obtained to prOve such
fraud, the Court has a power of re-caption over
the Debtor, and may again commit him for fuller
investigation, and upon proof of fraud may irin-
prison him for five y6rs.

The Writer says, " The Act gives Legislative
sanction and encouragement to unprincipled

" persons to:contract debts, by letting them know
" the extent of the consequence." If the fact
was so, it cannot be said that the same Act re-
quires, or invites, Tradesmen or others to part
with their property on credit. But, in truth, the
operation of the Act' is totally different:---for the
consequences of Debt and ImprisOnment
,being
established by Law, those who_ were inclined
heretofore to obtain credit with--fraudulent views,

are now deterred by the penalties of tl:e.Act,
which provide against such fraud ; and Creditors

arc more cautious, because ;heir power is di-

zuiuished.

Luxury, Extravagance, Profligacy, Fraud, and
Crime, have no protection nuuler this Act ; but
on the contrary, it the Act is mainly deficient in
any thing, it is in those Provisions which direct
penal intiictkons, without having directed that
such Penalties shall follow lawful Convictions, as
is uniformly required under Prosecutions for
Crime.

A SPECTATOR.

THE ITALIANS, or The Fatal :Accusation.—We
are requested to state, that a FIFTH EDITION
Of Oils TRAGEDY, with au APPENDIX to the for-
mer PREFACE, was PUBLISHED YESTERDAY MORN-
ING.

MELANCROLY ACCIDENT.—On the night of the
9th instant, Mr. Hilliard,Revenue Officer, of
Monaghan, accompanied by a seijeant and 12 men
of the 29th Regiment of Foot, and a constable,
Proceeded to make a seizure of a still, near Roban,
parish of Derryrnore, in the county of Armagh.
•Having -effected th?s object, beleft the serjeaut
and five of the men to take care of the still, until
Ire went to another bill with the constable and the
other men to make another seizure ; and charged
the soldiers on no account whatever to fire. unless
in defence of their lives, and should either party
be in danger, they were to fire a shot as a sign,i.
Mr. Hilliard had not long gone when Mr. Geoftge
Reed, revenue officer, of Arrn,gh, aceotnpanikl
by a party of 30 men of the sante regiment,havim
got an information also, approached the still- house,
when the Monagbau party called out, who are
you ?' Mr. Reed thinking they were only the
people who Were distilling, advanced, -when the
signal shot *was fired. ifetortunately the Armagh
party thought they were fired upon, and immt-
diately discharged their arms into the lions?. We
understand Mr. Hilliard made all possible speed to
prevent. mischief. On the approach :if his party
to the still-house, the Armagh division had pre-
sented to fire upon them, boa Mr. Hilliard railed
out '1 ant Hilliard the gauger,' and Mr. Reed im-
mediately knew him. When they entered the
still-house, two unfortunate young tnen, of the
Monaghan pally, lay on the ground—the on.
dead ; the back past of his head hating been
blown away. The other is severely wounded in
tne head also, the bullet having lodged in his
forehead, about one inch above his nose.
recovery is not expected. Cormack O'Neill,
dead; Conlori4 wounded.---(Dublin Paper`.)