The Sun.
London, England, 1819-01-12 00:00:00

YOR TUB SUN.

tz, CATHOLIC DEMANDS.
44enTott,—.1 am happy to see that you still
ilestlil7etelo your support of Protestant Ascendancy;
le'' when literally translated, means Protestant
S
ettoitv)
The "
of
vo, "locates for Catholic Claims talk much
th at is " likely," and what " unlikely," when
444 claims shall be granted ; but, Sir, I beg
re t" transmit to you, for the information of
tertlilleaders, a pretty broad hint of what is
-4) hi a bare-faced Catholic Prologue to the
‘n Piece they are labouring to get up, and which
tin sated in the Belfast Paper of the sth of Ja-
tilerY)lBl9,—perhaps they expect the curtain to
. about the Ist of April :
of
a.:Ve are informed that the Rev. Dr. CONWELL,
ttt t klngtinnOTl, Vicar-General of Armagh, has
Lich RPPointed, by his Holiness the Pope, Arch-
ti °111) of Armagh, and Roman Catholic Primate
Iti"
Dotys Alr. Editor, what will the Catholic ad-
s,fe-atet Say to this ?--You observed very correctly,
be days ago, that if the Catholic Claims shall
tekg.rinted, then may we expect to hear of recla-
tti°N of all the forfeited estates. That you
theten'Net in this assertion, I can corroborate by
$0( ‘tell'aseertained fact, that, particularly in the
:1"' the heirs or reputed heirs of those estates
the existence, and that whenever any one of
dies, his next heir is enfeoffed, or " served
as they call it in Scotland, by the Catho-
Cop those very estates Miere these heirs • are
th tied up to with the greatest veneration. But
case will'not rest there. You see that the
.ep 44 bare not forgot their claims ; indeed,
degree in the Irish Hierarchy carries double.
tler'l"lY, however, the Catholics had the mo•
fratY t° Prefix the epithet "Titular" to their suf.
tk,4 8 ; but now the mask is laid aside, as in the
44)Ple quoted—Ex uno disce °nines.

DILEMMA

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

CATHOLIC PETITION.
(Prom the Belfast News Letter.)
It 11
vel,kllay be inferred from the answer to the card
111,t appeared in the News Leiter of Tuesday,
(atilue purport of the petition in favour of the
toit "'lies, now lying for signature in this town,
r h,°Pen the TH HON R to Princes of the Catholic
.")11. Although the intention is not explicitly
ew
'rani_ethe words 4J total and unqualified" war-
thehis,!onclusion, and sufficiently denote it to
Abject of the petition. A friend to civil
rlgious liberty, and universal toleration, who
toes,,ll°t wish to deceive Parliament with respect
bi the teal sentiments of the Protestant subjects
iit!bis part of the empire, declines to sign the pe-
laa for the following reasons
m as its prayer tends to the removal of the
~arCattun of the Crown to Protestant Successors,
the g Protestants, it is calculated to promote
`at,dr:Peal of an essential part of the Bill of Rights
est I,l"eceision, and to alter the Constitution, as
.rished at the Revolution.
lia fished
the evils to be apprehended from this
II lige are not visionary, and distant ; but real,
11",111,4Y be learned front our history before the
'the :11,160n; and probable, as being dependant on
lohiT'd of the'Prince, or the policy of the Court,
eerie" may at any time draw us into family
Petit)" and compact with a Catholic Crown.
)awaat religious liberty, and universal toleration,
taittillg flourished, and been gradually expanded,
the er the present system, it may be hazardous to
111., Peace of the Catholic, and to the security of the
ist:(leHaot subject, to expose the Crown to vacil-
of -iinas between the two religions, or to contrariety
sii%n"ii'aeoce; as past experience has proved, that
llet4e°ns and jealousies may be engendered; that
114 followed
may be produced on the one part,
that -,°"owed by retaliation on the other ; and
siti,"! 'whole frame of society may be disor-
sipr`e,°• This consequence is the more to he
(;leaendarched, as the part of the community of the
II °f England persuasion may ill brook
tat
Alien" Catholic Prince, or one under Catholic in-
oeete,' should be the head of their Church, and
11),1! appointment of its functionaries.
11Pplv-e ate some of the main objections which
4,r Co 114, the opening of the Throne to Catholics,
qthe,,,ri"ces marrying Catholics. As no subject
X4llll. Nims can aspire to it, there is no parti-
tholi exclusion; and Foreign Powers, of the Ca-
le„Perloasionlwho are much more affected by
llett.,l"ltation than any subject, hare never consi-
st 43 an indignity offered to their religion.
titerl3
our first obiect to fence the Throne, and
tiallk ate some Offices of the State which serve as
tliahalitil to it. Among those, the Lord High
Itie,-eellnr, who is the Keeper of the King's Con-
It tie'ee, and of the Great Seal of England, which
fire ‘.!3sary to give validity to the King's acts—
mleeroy of Ireland, who is the representative
ttait„aJesty there, and cannot, consistently with
ti4l7 of government, be of a different constitu-
tasTj', the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, the Com-
lisht`'er of the Forces, and the Primate, who are
tati:)ll to be appointed Lords Justices on any oc-
itl thll. should all be obliged to qualify themselves
e same manner as their Sovereign.

;41,1 ilk° such a petition," many an " enlightened
, man" CANNOT, without a dereliction
a,,,1 good sense, subscribe.
31st De.ccinbe;- 1818.

thil"sterday evening Dlr. TURNER delivered his
Lecture upon the Science ot Perspective, to
ed
tiery itutbe ous audience ; it vrincipally consist-
'lie
' explanation ot different abstiose pro-
s(it'" of. Euclid, upo which the theory of this
Ilte is built. n SUANE was iu the Chair.

FOR THE SUN.

HISTORY OF THE OTANI' OCHLOS.

(Continued from Tus Sox of the 4th inst.)
Flattering and insidious as these wicked argu-
ments were, they did not speedily prevail, to the
extent that these sycophants wished. They caused,
indeed, a certain quantity of ill-humour, which
lay fermenting in the gizzard of the Giant (if a
gizzard he had, as was generally supposed, from
his being able to digest almost any thing), but
they did not yet work him up into absolute fury
and violence. Happily for himself and his neigh-
bours, OcHLos was not much disposed to volun-
tary action, nor naturally ambitions. Conscious,
in some degree, of his intellectual deficiency, he
seldom thought of acting for himself ; but was
happy to prevail on persons of wisdom and inte-
grity to conduct all business of importance for
him ; and, though he sometimes grumbled at the
result, yet, not knowing how it could have been
better managed, he commonly acquiesced, and left
things quietly in their former channel : and as
his prodigious bulk required a vast supply of food,
he was never very uneasy when all his mouths were
tolerably filled at regular times, regarding those
as his best friends who were his most successful
caterers. In this matter, indeed, be was some-
times very unreasonable : for it the calamities of
the times, from war, or any other cause, even from
unfavourable seasons, at all cut short his allow-
ance, he would soon grow very angry ; and would
censure those who acted for him, as loudly and as
fiercely as if it had been in their power to con-
troul events, or command the elements.
At these times, his sycophants and seducers
never failed to exert their utmost art and industry
to stimulate him to madness; anti the better to
deceive him, they were always careful, at such
periods, to assume the name of Patriots; a fiction
rather bold, while it was evident that their at-
tempts directly tended to the ruin of their Coun-
try, anti even to the hurt and grievous injury of
poor OcHLos himself ; whom, however, they
affected to consider as representing the whole
Country, or being so much the most estimable
part of it, that no other could deserve a single
thought. Gross as these flatteries were, the
shallow monster was always much inclined to
swallow them, and to patronize those persons the
most who poured them the most copiously down
his throats. But in the midst of all these efforts,
which often wore a very threatening aspect, if the
matter of food got into a better train, OcuLos, as
quickly, returned to a better humour ; and, though
he always favoured the sycophants, still suffered
them to waste their breath in vain ; and went on
to eat, drink, work, and sleep, at the times allotted
for each, without troubling himself to abuse,
much less to injure, any one.
But when by flatteries, lies, and slanders of
every kind, multiplied with no less ingenuity.than
depravity, the Giant was at length worked into a
real fury, his wrath became most terrible. Like
the whirlwind or the hurricane, it swept down all
before it. Insensible to pity, and incapable of rg!
Election, his steps were marked by desolation ; and
to the murders which be chose to commit he
proudly gave the name of summary justice. Even
to murmur at his proceedings was death ; nay,
even to refuse them applause was no very sate
experiment. His first victims, of course, were
the persons slandered by his sycophants ; but the
next were most probably the sycophants them-
selves ; violent as they were, he soon began to
think hem too tame ; and though their flatteries
were so gross, his increasing appetite for praise
was soon dissatisfied. Other sycophants then
arose, whose object was to exceed the first, and
to proceed to the worst atrocities without a mo-
ment's hesitation: By their advice, the first syco-
phants were quickly sent to follow those whom
they had slandered ; and this process continued to
operate upon successive sycophants, so long as
any new ones could be found more devoted to the
Giant's will, and more devoid of feeling or con-
science than their predecessors.
This violent state of things could not long con-
tinue, without producing universal desolation, and
the history accordingly relates in how unexpected
a way it was suddenly brought to a conclusion.
[To be cuntiaued.)

ROBBERY AT THE DUTCH AMBASSADOR'S.—
Late on Saturday night, the sentinel opposite the
Dutch Ambassador's house, in Whitehall-place,
observed some persons walking on the roofs of
the houses opposite, and conceiving hesaw thieves,
he alarmed the watchman, as be himself could
not leave his post. The alarm reached the house
of Charles Dew, of Queen-square, in Scotland-
yard, and he repaired thither. On examination,
he found the thieves bad entered a house under
repair, corner of IVhitehall-place, and from thence
went on the roof to the Dutch Ambassador's,
which they entered by a fan-light, opened twelve
boxes, and carried part of the contents into the
empty house, hut being alarmed, they bad not
time to carry off the property.
GREENOCK, JAN. B.—Two beautiful antelopes,
• male and female, sent home by the Marquis of
HASTINGS, we understand, have arrived in the Ca-
ledonian, at this port, from Calcutta, with several
exotic botanical plants, which will be forwarded
to the l‘larchioness, at Loudoun Castle. Captain
Gillies has also on board a very fine young
tigress, which was presented in compliment to
him by the Marquis, on his departure from Cal-
cutta : this animal is at present so simple and
sportive, as occasionally to be permitted entire
treed= on deck, without the smallest hazard of

danger.
‘Ve have received from a Correspondent the
present of a pear, one of eight gathered last week
front a tree at Beckenham, in Kent, as a second
clop. It is of the Charmontel kind, and that
which we have received is really rich and well fla•
voured, though the greater part are described as
tasteless.—(Times.)
A pair of shoes, the upper leathers of which
were made of Rat-skin,were exhibited a few days
ago at East Ret'ord; the leather is exceedingly
smooth, and as soft as the finest kid, and yet itp-
pears stout and firm. It took six skius to wake
the pair of shoes.