The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-19 00:00:00

THE SUN.

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LONDON-,
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1817.

No Paris Papers have arrived this morning.--
Two days' Journals are due.

New York Papers to the 27th of November,
Charleston to the 16th, Montreal to the 16th;
Philadelphia to the 24th, and Baltimore to the

250), do. arrived this morning.
(From the Commercial drleertizer of Nov. 525.)
MONTREAL• Nov. 15.—The weather for the

creek past bas been uncommonly mild for the time

of year.
The Montreal Bank is said to have commenced
with quite an unexpected confilenee from every

class of the Community, so much so, that the
Merchants are realizing more convenience from

it than they ever anticipated. Since it con

n►enced 13,:siness the deposits are reported to have
Ou Saturday last, the flonour-

been immense.

able IV. B. COLTMAN, one of the Commissioners
appointed by his Excellency for settling the (lit-

ferenees between the Honourable Hudson's Boy
'Company and the North-west Company, arrived

here from,the Red River, with HENRY AI'KENZIE

Esq. The Right Honourable the Lad of SELKIRK
rrt urns to this city by the circuitous route of
Philadelphia, and is expected daily.
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•
(From the New Yorh Erening Pont, y the ciath.)
Charleston Couriei-Offee, Nov. 13.
Farom ST. MARY, Nov. S.-The United States
gun-vessel, Nu. 168, Lieur. .I‘(.3At.t., has arrived!

Iv re, aitcr a very boisterous passage. Amelia
appears to be all in a bustle, and there is constant
cannonading there—the place is under martial
law. Report says two prizes are off. Annexed
you have the last Proclamation issued by Com-

or 40 lh•eslost, Ode Geve•endr 56. e-
. have shift died:of their bruins. There-hare
been upwards of 40 vessels &ivy% from this lit r',
kind- not one has 'yet "returned : it is feared thikt
they are all lost.

The Electra, WILOAMS, from Philadelphia,
has been dismaged in 'a severe gale, and carried
into St. Malos ; and it is reported that fliet'aptain
and his two sons are drowned.

Tim attention of our Renders wild douttless be

directed towards the only event of importance
which.occntred yesterday,--the Trial of Mr.Wit:-
LIAI Hotsr, on the charge of publishing a mis-
chievous and profane libel. We have selected
such an account of the Trial as contains s full
recital of every essential part, studiously forbear,.

lug to insert those passages which were the grounds
of ttie prosecution, and which, as they were mis-
chievous in their publication, ought not be cir-
culated through the Country in the reports of

e legal proceedings. The Opposition Papers,

however, have eagerly seized on those pas-
sages, and published them at • length. It
any doubt therefore could have existed as to
their principles and their . views, such inser-
tions must remove those doubts. As Mr. 1-loria

is to be again tried on other charges of the same
nature,we shall only express our regret that a man
of his talents and knowledge had not directed his
attention to Publications of a different kind, as,
front the abilities which he displayed in his de-
fence, it is evident that he is better qualified by
natural powers to compose useful works than to
be merely a vendor of' them.

We haVe not lied leisute to make any comments
on the " Address and Appeal of the Roman Ca-
tbolicg of Ireland to their Protestant Brethren of
the United I:ingdom of Great Britain." We
have, however, no reason to regret that we did
not call the attention of our Readers to the

document in question. As to the insertion of the
article itself, it is very long, and has nothing
original in its contents that could entitle it to a
place in our Journal. The arguments are old and
hackneyed, and the complaints are unfounded.—

Ise PATtsTs, however, have now thrown oil' the

mask, and at -length openly avow that they are
not satisfied with the West extent of religious

toleration, but aim at an entire participation in
political authority. It is therefore time, for the
Legislature to make a determined stand, and to
signify, in the most emphatic manner, that they
never shall partake of political power. The Appeal
i 4 limit's: speaks of " the wrongs" %Illicit die Papists

have suffered. This is an inauspicious opeoing, and
premises little of moderatient in the Fogless. What
are " the wrongs" of these restless People, %shorn

nothing will satisfy but the complete Government
of this Country, civil, political, and religious ?
first they,were very moderate in their requisi-
tions, but they became more confident upon every
concession, and then petitions were soon con-
verted into demands. But of all the specious, or
rather ridiculous, pleas which they have brought
forward in excuse for their refusal to let the
British Monarch have a Veto in the nomination of
their Bishops, though it is probable that such
Veto would never be exercised in any manner that
could wound their feelings, and certainly never if
they made a .proper choice—but the most extra-
ordinary plea, we say, is a declared apprehension
on their part, that by possessing this Pero, the So-
vereign might be brought by his Ministers into
" an ungracious dilemma." Kind, scrnpulous
souls ! What are the grounds of their objections :
" First the absence of all necessity for its enact-
ment (a controul over the nomination and ap-
pointment of Bishops), and secondly, the rejection
of it by the rersons upon whom it is intended
to .operate." Nothing can be more silly than
both of these objections. In the first place there
is a positive necessity for such a controul, lest
such meddling and ambitious characters should he
nominated and appointed as have rendered them-
selves conspicuous for their bigotry and offensive
zeal. We could mention some persons who,
being popular among the Papists, would most pro-
bably be chosen, but whose appointment might
well excite alarm among peaceable Protestants.
Next, the objection of the Persons upon whom
%rich a controul is intended to operate ! Is then
an unreasonable and a contumacious, opposition to
a measure affecting the Protestant Establishment
to be a rule of conduct with the Legislature ?
They say that the " Ministers, in whom it is
sought to invest this right of controul, have so-
lemnly declared their belief that our Religion
(Popery) is superstitions. and idolatrous. There-
fore, were they to appoint such Pastors as would
be most sincerely attached to Catholic doctrines,
and best qualified to tesch them, they must, select
the men most likely to disseminate opinions which
these Ministers repudiate as superstitious and
idolatrous, and consequently unchristian. Thus