The Sun.
London, England, 1821-05-12 00:00:00

'l:`4t CA' ITOLIC BILL.

The following we have extracted from a Bel-
fast Paper as illustrative of the general senti-
ments of that part of the Empire on the late Ca-
tholic Bill. In one or two points we are aware
that our Readers will perceive a slight difference
of opinion from the' sentiments of THE SUN—
bdt the whole is so well entitled to attention, that
we offer it without further comment :
" THE CATHOLIC BILL has failed; and, on mature consi-
deration, all parties may find reason to be satisfied with its
failure.

" THE KINCi is relieved from the odium and painful re-
sponsibility of withholding favours, which the temper of the
times would not allow him to confer.

" PATRIOTS were justly alarmed at such an accession .of
patronage and influence to the Crown ; and REVOLUTIONISTS
dreaded a settlement, which threatened to frustrate their hopes.
"' PROTESTANTS will reflect, that it enabled .the Crown.to
Select a Popish Cabinet; and to put the executive and judicial
authorities, the Navy and Army, the revenue and magistracy,
into the hands of Catholics. They will consider, that
if the King were surrounded with Popish servants ; if Je-
suits and Popish Emissaries had• access to the inte-
rior of the palace, a weak, superstitious, or profligate
Prince might, like Charles 11. be easily perverted to so in-
dulgent a faith. Remonstrance would then be illegal: re,.
sistance would be rebellion : Popery would he the fashion : the
Court and the Law would tread the road to preferment : even
the Clergy might discover a marvellous resemblance, or a very
accommodable difference between the two Churches. Such
things have been, and may be.
" THE CATHOLIC ENGLISH NORT.7IIEN will'regret their
exclusion from Parliament; and in this regret every generous
mind will sympathize; but the Irish Lords are on_ the same
footing with the Protestant Nobility, and could "hardly, in any
case, expect to be preferred to theM as representative Peers.
" The POPISH LANDED INTEREST could: not sit in the
present Parliament;. few would succeed on a general election :
still fewer would be appointed to high offices in the state ;• and
their eligibility would only aggravate the moitification-of being
overlooked.

" BARRISTERS would have been subject to the same cause
of chagrin, discontent and disitffeetion, with other Gentlemen,
during the present reign ; and, as now appears, during the
next.

" The MASS of the LAITY would have been more disgusted at
the degradation of their church, than.flattered bs7 the eLvation
of a few ambitious lawyers. Freeholders are already- on a level
with protestants; and the number of freemen would rot be in-.
creased ; for corporate bodies. would resent their eligibility by
refuSing to elect.
" THE CUERGY were notoriously sacrificed, by this Bill, to
the ambition of a few aspiring laymen. They had nothing to
complain of, and nothing to gain. They prayed to be left as
they were, and they were threatened with persecution, under
the name of emancipation.
"'TIE PAROCHIAL CLERGY must either have violate&
their feelings and principles by taking the oaths ; and thus lost
the respect of their people ; or, by refusing them, exposed
themselves to the malice of their enemies.
" THEIR DIGNITARIES must have submitted their preten-
sions to a Board of Protestant laymen ; but their most respect-
able Clergymen would decline preferment on such terms. anti
be revered as Confessors, while the Bishops and Deans were
stigmatized as apostates. •
" In short, and in fine, the tendency of the Bill was toin-
crease the influence of the crown and subvert the Constitution;
tei endanger t!le Episcopal establishment, and undermine the
independence of the Catholic Church ; to excite discontent
among the laity, and expose the Clergy to a petty, and irri-
tating persecution ; without removing the causes ef the present
discontents. These grievances, inflicted under pretext of
emancipation, could not be endured, and would give rise to
continual complaints and appeals to Parlianient. The only
cure for all these evils is to .abandon a project, which, has so
often been found equally unsatisfactory, dangerous, and im-
practicable.; and suffer this troubled state of society to "subside
into a calm. •

-" PUILADELPHITS."

CORN-EXCHANGE, MAY 11.-Our market eon=
tinues thinly supplied with Wheat and Barley, having bittl.no
fresh arrival since Monday, and the demand being tQlerably
brisk for prime samples of the above articles, Monday !'s prices
were fully obtained; but the inferior descriptions go"drrery
slowly, and prices nominal.—Fine Oats sold
,rather freely at.
Wednesday's prices the supply this week having been com-
paratively small. in Peas.and Beans no alteration.
SMITHFIELD, MAY 11.-T here was a middl-
ing supply of all.descriptions of cattle at market this, morning,
of which there were some left over from last Monday The
prices of all sorts of meat are lower, there being a heavy
market.
Beef .
Mutton

--3sGd to 4s (id I Veal - -4sGlto 5s 4t
- 3s Gd to 4s Gd Pork - - - 4s 6d to Ds 4.1
Lamb - Gs Gd to 7s Gd.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE, May t

Amsterdam
Ditto, at Sight
Rotterdam ' 12 I 5
Antwerp l2 10
Hainburgh SS 7 If Us
Altana .
•
Paris, 3 Day's sight 45 80 0 Us.
.
Ditto
I3ourdeaux, ditto
Franhfort on the Main
Madrid
'
Cadiz 36 E 1 foct ive
Bilboa ' 351 Elfective
Barcelona
ieville
... 351
Gibraltar .... . 30±
Leghorn
Genoa 431-Venice, Ital. Liv._ 47 60
Walla 45 -Naples S9I
Palermo. 1163. per Qz.
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Jantiro
Dub1in.... 9f
BULLION

Portugal C4t,ltl, in Coin 1.0 0 0 petOz-
Foreign Gold, iu Bars 3 1, 1 0,1
New Doubloons
New Dollars
Silver in liars, Standard o 4 1 1

IIiIITHS.

On the 10th inst., Madame Gosse Sanger, of the Kin's
Theatre, of a son.

On Monday, at Chiswick, the Lady of Henry F. C. Caven-
dish, Esq. of a son.
The Lady or General Milken was safely delivered of a son
and heir, on Tuesday last, at their beautiful residence of Isy
Cottage, in. Devonshire, and both the infant and Lady are doing
well.

MARRIED.
On Tuesday last, at St. Pancras Church, James Philcox,
Esq. of Burwash,__Sussex, to Miss Louisa Hu
L ighesolaughter of
the late Richard Hughes, Esq. Barrister, of ncoln's Inn.
On Tuesday last, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Thomas 0
Swymmer, Esq. of Swailowfield, to Diana, eldest daughter of
the late A. Swymrner, Esq. of Fonmon, Glamorganshire.