The Sun.
London, England, 1819-03-04 00:00:00

REGISTER OF FASHION.

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland will give a
grand dinner this day, to a large party of distinction, at their
house in St. Jaules's-square; and another on Saturday next.
Lord Sidmouth gave a grand Cabinet dinner yesterday, at
his house' in Clitfrd-street, Bond-street, which was attend-
ed by most of the Members.

Lord Holland entertained a large party to dinner yester-
day, at his heake in St. Jatnes's-square.

The Duke of Norfolk arrived yesterday at his house in St.
James's-square, from his seat, Farnham, Suffolk.
The Earl of Deauchampis arrived at his house in Pall-Mall,
from Paris. •

Earl and Countess Speticer have left town for their seat,
Althorpe, Northamptonshire.
The Countess of Powis arrired yesterday at her house in
Berkeley-square, from her seat, Witlleott, Salop. -
The Countess of Cowper left town yesterday, for her seat,
Pansenger, Herts.

REMARKABLE INSTANCES OF THE MILDNESS OF THE

WEATHER.

Several leaves in an old maid's prayer-book have just
sprouted forth anew—being a part of the matrimonial service.
A spinster of the name of 'Snow recently left town, en lon
paint, to make a visit in Bedfordshire. A Snow-drop • has
been since seen in that county.

A lately wedded beau, somewhat post meridian, has just
discovered that he is likely 'to have a more early son and heir
than he could reasonably hare expected, owing to the very
advaxced state of—his lady.
A soldier• returned from the wars has found his:widow in
full blooot, having just shed'her sables,.
A new crop of dandies has just budded, which it is feared
the frost will entirely kilL
A tailor has advertised two acres of winter cabbage, sus-
pected to-be so many yards of broad cloth!

BRIGHTON, MARCH I.—lt was vinderstood last
week that the Pitt NCR REGENT intended to remove
from the Pavilion, for Carlton-House; for the
season, on thiS day, Monday, the Ist of March ;
but, it now appears, that his Royal Highness has
deltry'ed his departurt until this' day se'nnight, at
ne'areit:
The Earl of " ABEEGAVENNY has generously
granted to the Overseers of Cliailey, Sttsex,
about '4O acres of waste land,
,for cultivation,
and i 0 give employment to stick of tfte poor of
the parish as are destitute of other work.
EXTaAORDINARY DEATHS IN ONE FAMILY.—In
Deceinther lasi, the son of Mr. Gil-LARD, a farmer
at lialherton, near Tiverton, in Devonshire, lost a
lint healthy boy, 11 years of age, atter a few days'
illness, by a throat complaint, leaving behind him
three sisters, all likely to grow up hearty young
women. In Jannaty, Mary, aged ten years,
was seized with a pain in one of her eyes, from
which no setiOOS effects were apprehended, but she
died the sixth day utter. On returning from her
funeral, her sister, Elizabeth, aged three years,
was taken ill, and expired. .From this period, to
the 2d of this month, his remaining child conti-
nued unwell, when she also died.

On Sunday last, about noon, a mad dog passed
through this city, and was seen to bite n;ne or ten
dogs, and afterwards to run across a field. Most
of the dogs that were- bitten have been killed ;
others were immediately taken to Southampton to
he-dipped. The Mryor has desired the inhabi-
tants to confine their dogs for twenty-one days,—
(Winchester Paper.)

ton TIIE SUN:

Mr. EDITOR,--I+l colorOris of a late tium-

ber of your Constiottional Print, you have indeed
most truly asserted, tb.,t '' the present is au alarm-
ing crisis : PoPBRY threatens our Religion, and Ja-
cobinism our Constitution."
_To the latter, in-
deed, every Religion seems alike indifferent; but

in the professors of the fprmer, en»iity to every
mode nf Worship and Government but their own,
is,added to a belief that all without the pale of
their communion are anent and encinies to GOD,

without hope of salvation ; and not only so,•but
that to root up, extirpate, bud destroy all such,
is 'their bounden duty.; a tneritdriat►s act, which
will be their pasToi•t to the mlosions of eternal
bliss.

It is therefore clear that PopEHY threatens not
only oor RELIGION, but "also our CONSTITUTION

and our Laws.

Although by your permission T purpose conti-
nuing to address my fellow-conntrynien, through
the medium of your valuable Paper, opon the im-
portant subject of . the CATHOLIC QUESTION, 1
intend in my present to confine myself more par-
ticularly to (lie subject of my last communication.
The BELFAST. PROTESTANT PETITION in favour
of the ROMAN CATHOLIC CLAIMS, it appears, has
roused'" Ai brhabitant of Belfast" to inquire from
the Catholic Party, through the medium of a
Belfast Paper, whether, from the terms " total
and unqualified repeal of ALL the Penal Laws," 'Stc.
is to be understood Pupal eligibility to fill the
Turtot44 of these* realms. The ambiguous and
Jesuitical reply to that inquiry was poirred out
,by your Correspondent„ DILEMMA, iIIITHE SUN
'of the 6th ult., and, as he predicted, that reply
having been taken up in the 'affirmative, the re-
spondent has instantly rejoined with his ecoivo-
cal " under the Constitution," telling us (to quote
his own words, which are precisely parallel in
meaning) thax" the words total and unqualified
refer entirely to the liberties of the subject."
I really am at -8 loss, Mr. Editor, to which in-
stance or incongruity, among the mass of false-
hood and self-contradictiOn which sppeafed in
th,ese replies of the Catholic Advocate, first to call
your attention.
It is twice asserted with the most barefaced
effrontery, that the BRITISH CONSTITUTION IS
NOT PROTESTANT-0111s_ credence can be given

o any assertion after this P) If it be NOT, what,

in the name of TRUTH, can it be called ? A Con-
stitution, in a political sense, is a•form of Go-
vet-potent established by the Laws of the
In this favoured (shod, the Laws have constituted
and deClared the King of England shall he a Pro-

!estant—(ll3l he shall take 'an oath to preserve arid

maintain inviolate the Protestant forms, both of
Religion and Government—they have consliluted
and declared that the KING IS, and by all the
Menthers of the Government shall be, acknow-
I-edged to be the Suplerne Head of the Church
this Realm ; now these Enactments, or in other
words, these. Constitutions are in absolute opposi-

tion to (he arrogant and ambitious Conslitutions
of the Romish Church, •NhiCh claims universal
TEMPORAL. as • Weil as above
every other pokver. Our den;al of this great attri-
bute to the Church of Rome is one amongst the
numerous other grounds from whence we derive
the name of PROTESTANTS. Our present glorious

Establishment in CHURCH and STATE IS thcrefore

most rightly to be esteemed a PROTESTANT CON.;
STITUTION in the strictest weaning of the ivord.s.
Indeed, a very few lines after those above
quoted, this Catholic Advocate himself acknow,
ledges the Protestantism of our Colistilotion !
Ile supposes it '• not very likely that the influence

of a few. Catholics in the House of Commons will
effect any change injurious to the PROTESTANT
ESTABLISHMENT." •So much for his consistency.
In naming a distant period to which the Catho-
lics may look forward with the " flAttering hope"
of the conversion of the Irish Representation to
their persuasion and faith, he bears evidence that
such an hope is entertained, and thai vocb con-
version from Protestantism will be (no niatter by
what violent means) sedulonsly aimed at, and with
the hope of success, at a time not probably so dis-
tant es he-would lead us at the present time to ex-
pect. These are no " far-fetched inferences."
We must bear in mind that we:have Jesuitical

sophistry to oppose, that we hare :Men to deal
with whose highest authorities and v‘hose spiri-
tual guides, at' the. present enlightened ,period, do
sanction the worst species of falschood—equiNica-
tion and iIENTAL'-ESSERVATIoN.
• " the Cnustitution is to be distinguished
from the .6n,veiontent,"—that the head is to be
distinguished from the hands, I allow ; the .prin-
ciples and resolutions of the former are the guide
of the executive powers of the latter, end in the
ease before us, the members of the latter are so-
lemnly sworn to preserve inviolate the Protestant-
ism, security, and treedont, ut the former.
The next paragraph of this most extraordinary
composition I cannot forbear requesting you to
reprint, as a specimen of the most inconsigenr,
absurd, and impossinle theory which could have
been ad%aneed :—" Eat were we to conceive Mot
ALL THE THREE ESTATES.' (KING, LoRDS, AND
CoMMoNs) '' had become converts to CATnoLtaSin,
hod ABJURED the PRoTESTANT RELIGION, and
abrogated the PRoTESTANT SUCCESsIoN, STILL do
1 assert that the British CotisTrroTtoti na;ght exist
lit lts ESsENCE and SUBSTANCE, olthough with this
change of the religion of the Monarch !!!"—The
plrinest common sense must instantly perceive the
absolute fallacy, not to say Insidious character, of
the proposition.
They !lase professed that they desire to do to
others what they wuuld.Wish to he done to chen►-
selves—good--very good—hat let us prone (hell
consistency iii this point also. They have ties lared
that, "es ltishuteu end as Catholics, they never could

con-Sent to ANY dominion or confront whatsoever over
the appointment of THEIR Prelates, on the part of the
Crown, or of the Servants of the Crown."' This was
in ancient tunes a rock of stumbling, which de;
luged the Continent with blood;)—they scorn any
regulation which tends " topl.rce THEIR Church
Dignitaries tinder the influence of the Ministry of
the day," yet they modestly expect ova Church
Dignitaries to be placed Under the '' influence "
and " contionl" of a CathOlic Ministry. They
demand that a I.orman Catholic shall be deemed
eligible to fill the important station of Lord High
Chancellor, to which belongs the right of presen-
tation to numerous and extensive Protestant Be-:
nefices! l riot it to any impattial man (acquainted
with the past and present doctrines of the. Church
of Rome), could a Catholic High Chancel►or con-
sCientious/9 present _a benefice to a conscieutions
Priotestant Divine, who; firmly satisfied, iipon a:n-•
ple researcl►; Of tl►e truth, piety, and simplicity of
his own faith, would deem it his dirty zealously
to ploclaint its evidences, and expose the errors,.
impiety, and corruption of the Itomish Church?'
His answer would be, that such neither could' or
would tin this. Yet these very men, -clamouring
for US. to yield to THEM one of the great bulwarks
of the security of our Churdb, declare indignantly
that they will never consent to ANY dominion or
contruul whatsoever on our part, and for the abso-
likte self-defence of our own Chttich ; nn, not even
the power of approving or giving a Veto- to their
own appOintrnents,, though this regulation do riot
in the slightest. degree endanger their Church I I
ALBERT.

[Albert's second Letter to-morrow.]

SHIP NEWS.

DEAL, 'Armtek 3.—The polacca brig
BIANCHI, from Antwerp to Marseilles and Genoa,
ran on shore on the Goodwin Sand about une
o'clock his morning,' and is totally lost, with a
great part of the cargo. The Captain andcrew
took to their boat, and most providentially reach—
ed his Majesty's ship Severn in safety, where
they were received with the most kind humanity,
and safely landed here this morning. -
FALMOUTH, MARCH I.—Sailed his Majesty's
ship Dauntless for the East Indies.

Alkacit 2.—The Little Cherub, M'Ks-
vs a, from America for this port, came on shore on
the ont,i►le of the Spurn Point last tight about
eleven o'clock, having.previonsly struck on the
Binks, where she lost her rudder : assistance has
been sent, down to her, but fears are entertained
for her safety.

YARMOUTH, • MARCH 3.—A %boat, marked,
Eleanor, Myth, RoBT. SINTON," has teen
brought , into our Court, and we are told other
wreck l►as been seen, branded " Blytl►," so ;hat
we fear a vessel of tl►at name has been lost near
this place.

LtvettPont., '.LARCH 2.—Arrived of thi9 hntt
the Tom Hazard, from New Oileins, in 38 (I,iys
from the B4lize.

It is with much regret we have to state, that

letters have been received in town, putting the
loss of the Berwickshire beyond donht. Sh 6
was lost, it appears, off the co,ist of Wales, and
none of the persons on board were saved.—(Cork
Advertiser.)