The Sun.
London, England, 1817-05-08 00:00:00

(Prom the Philadelphia' Journal nfihe 313! .3,larch.)
Captain 13,vx-rF.ti, of the British brig Itober4,
who arrivcd this morning in 19 days frotn To•
bago, informs, that a severe epidemic, supposed
to be the yellow fever, had ragpd among Ow in-
habitants of that Island through the greatest part
of the winter. We believe that the disease hail
swept °flat least one tenth of tbe population since
ihe Ist Unnuall. The disorder is attributed to
the long prevalence of northerly winds, accom-
panied, with tin Usual coldness of the weather.

r.t.'tom the. New Toth Evening Post of the lst Of riprit.l
On the 20th February, the Buenos Ayres brig
Patriotic, Commodore TAYLOR, made her appear-
', mice off the .Moro; in company with loin• small
schooners, tinder the 'same flag. The same day
commodure'TAYLoa. 'demanded of the (..;overuor
certain men confined In prison, who were a short
time previous captured undtr•the Patriot Flag,'und
who had taken a store vessel, accompanied with
the threat, that it they were not conveyed to him
immediately, he would hang as many Spaniards
then in his possession, in sight 'of the Moro. The
GoVernor refused to deliver them up, and, as. far
as we could learn, marched them off, to the
vannah. The Cotamodore. mentioned it ai his
intention to remain off the Moro 4or 5 days longer, .
'when, if the men demanded were not conueyed to
.him, he would hang as many Spaniard's, and then
should cruise off Mexico. Captain' . ,ives it as -
his opinion, that if the SCIIPOIIer which captured
the does not accompany the Commodore,
it will be unsafe for vessels to sail along that coast. ,

It will be seen by our Report of the House of
Commons that no time has bein lost in proceeding
to carry into effect' the recornmendations of the
Finance Committee. Two of the Bills for the
abolition of Offices found to he unnecessary, were
brought in last tliEht by Air DAvi us att.aExt,
and eight More are to he immediately introduced.

AS Me. GRATTAN'S Motion in support of the
pretensions of the Roman Catholics, for farther
Legislative Concessions In thle;r favour, is to be
brought forward To-morrow,we heg leave to call
the particular attention of all FriglnlS to the Pro-,
testant Establishment to this, most alumina. sub-
jeer. We are the more indneed to do so by some
observations in a, respectable Morniug Paper,
which seems disposed to support those, pretensions,
and quotes the opinions of the late Mr.VirtNnn
nhi
in favour of a further extension of political power
to the notstan Catholic Body. Mr. WINDVIA'WS
intellectual (towers- and attainments 'all People
malt remember with respect, hut he It as too
spccillative in all his notions, and
of a Quixoris iii..bis. politics. This is a quei.
lion not to be determined hrspecions theories,
but by the awful evidence of facts. 'rhe history
of the Roman Catholics, or more properly speak-
ing of POPERY, SlieWS that it has, always endea-'
voured to effect its objects by means gond and bad,
as the occasion'required. lts fundaptentld maxim
is Jemper eadern all its Inter advocates, oralind
literary, have mautained this maxim, and have
Solemnly 'avowed, that they who imagine that
any change has taken place in the Roman Catholic
creed deceive themselves, for that it isr now as it
ivas at first, nod su avid invariably continne: 'What
faith then can be put in the prolescors of that
Creed, since it ivas nanth'er of their Maxims

iu former times, that " nu faith bhotild I,le
ept with lieretickf," and if such was once their
doctrine, which cannot be denied, it must be

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one pound of yeas!, fire puunds of ordinary meal
aud a of snit, piodtice twvive poutids
black bread, but s arum y and nourishing.''

A Flanders Mail arrived at a late hour this
morning. The following is art extract from one
of the Journals :

r,‘ Fast.i.tuottr, APRIL 20.—A German Jour-
nali speaking of M. Santini, says, It will not be
amiss to cnquire, iVbetiler M. Santini has not been
entrusted brßuoriaptitte with commissions to be
executed bY• verbal communications ; and this
question might .be followed by a hundred others.
Time will shcw u 9 bow he will be received in
Italy, whether he will be allowed to act freely,
and what Nvill be the consequences.' "

New Yolk Papers arrived this morning to the
4th of Aptil, with a variety of olFers to the same
date.

tFrom the New York Oozeite of the 3d of .dpril j
Captain Mini.' ti, of the schoonor James Munro,
arrived at Baltimore, in 22 days, from Lagnira,
informs, that there bad been some s.:.;irmishing
between theßepublican and Royal armiJs, but the
result was variously mentioned, Rumour:ltated,
that a Proclamation bad been received from Simi!),
granting pardon and restoring the property of all
Stich of the Insurgents as would abandon their
cause,
.except Officers, which was expected to be
promnlgated after the fall of BarCelana, an event
confidently expected by the Royalists. Cumana
still remained in their.possession.