The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-29 00:00:00

GLOUCESTER, D c. 27.

On Thursday last, a highly respectable and
numeroos Assembly of the Nohility. Gentry, and
Freeholdeis of tilt" County of Gloilesrer, met
pursnatit to reqoisition, at the Great Room, 'in
the New Shire Hill, for the purpose of consider-
ing of the propriety of presenting Addresses of
condolence to his, Royal Highness the PRINCE
REGENT, and, his Serene Highness Prince LEO..
POLO of SA.XE COBOURG, on the melancholy of.ca-
sion of the demise of our beloved and ever-to-he-
lamented' Princess CHARLOTTE. The High She-
riff, Sir EL CANN LIPi'INCOTT, having been called
to the chair, Opened the kusiness orthe day by
reading the requisition : after making,a few 're-
marks upon the occasion, he expressed the satis-
faction he felt in complying with the wishes of so
respectable a body of requisitionists. Hjs. Grace
the puke of BEAuFunT then briefly proposed the
Address to, ,the PRINCE REGENT, which' was
warmly seconded by the Hon. and Right Rev. the
Lord Bishop of the Diocese. His Grace then, in
like manner, brought forward the Address to
PRINCE LEOPOLD, which was seconded by the
Right Hon. Lord APSLEY, and both. Addresses
were unanimously adopted.

BATH ARRIVALS.—Duchess of Marlborough,. Lord Rivers,
Sir C. Bluwp, Sir C. B. Codrington and family, Sir R.,'Lady,
.and Nilo Gresley, Sir G. Sitwell, Sir T., Lady,' and Miss
Shelley, Lady Elizabeth Pane, Lady Sydney, Hon. Mrs.
Percy Fraser, Admiral Otway, Lieutenant Colonel Cassell,
Colonel Doveton, Lieutenant-Colonel Furzer, Lieutenant.
Colonel and Mrs. Fiamilton,.Lientenant-Colonel
Colonels Ramsay, Rainey, and Stopford, Majors Morris and
Osborn, Captain and Mrs. Cox, Captain Pane, Captain and
Mrs. Jones, Captain and Mrs. O'Connor, Captain .Weston.

. The retnains of; Mr. SUTTON COCHRANE, who
was unfortunately killed in a duel with - Major
LOCKAER, were interred at (2,,wes, on Tuesn;4y
se'unight. kis said this lamented Gentleman was
a son of Mr. BAsit. COCHRANE. The principal
parties in the duel are still at large.

I'HE CATHOLIC 'CLAIMS.

FOR THE SUN.

[LETTER V.]
Alr.4l.DFrolt,-,--11 was myintelition
filled' the pled.,4e by whieb.l felt myself bound to

-expOse'tlie- fdls'e statements and 'inconclusive rea-
Vorriogs cootained ifl the professed it 11$ Wer to Mr.

PEEL'S late speech upon the Claims of the Roman
C;lLholics ; but alth6ugh I am reatly"to

that there are some points which stmt require to

be noticed itt the Nit-11)11kt, lesssfrotn tire strength
of the writer's arguments, than the itibtilty of

collocation by %ehleh they are attempted to be
posed upon the Public, %re have now sprung game
of -so much higher a cast, that it woul►i; in the

Sportsman's phrase,
shot" to pursue this inferior sport.-,

" be wasting powder and
" THE AD-

f(-DRESS AND APPEAL OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICS
" OF IRELAND TO THEIR PROTFSTANT BRETHREN
" OF TO UNITED EIN'GDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN

" AND IRELAND," is a public document, which I
have no hesitation in affirming to be The-most
important, and the most iuteretiting, that has oc-
cctrc4 in the political History of this Country
since the, period of thy Revolution in 10S8. It

is au official and .tangible declaration of die rin

eiples and views entertained by tl►e Roman Ca-
tholics of the Empire; equally remarkable for
the bold and unconstitutional assumption of

Chims, .as it is for the prudent and guarded
omission of all which might be supposed to

tate against them.

It is a Masterpiece cY

Monkish Casuistry, and if it do not actually pro,

seed front, is truly worthy and illustrative of, the
style, character, and talents of the now re-edified

College of Jesuits. We have, I repeat here, some
thing tangible; we have the grounds upon which
the supposid Claims of the Roman Catholics are
raised, and the object (which partial disclaimers
have no power to obscure) of their ultimate ex-
pectation and hopes. We have the solemnly re-
corded opinion of tire Papists of the British Em-
pire upon the Constitution, as it was established
at the Revolution, and of its administration up
to the present day. But we have in addition to
these New Lights officially brought to bear upon
this most important question, the extraordinary
eccessiou of evidence to substantiate the fact, be-
yond the possibility of any fiotire dispute, of the
Immutability of PopiSh Principles and Doctrines,
by a direct and regular avowal and defence of
those prtacipies ntra duet, every di,gc amd
period of English History. - I -I) a v e sofficiently-
ex-
plitined myself as to the channel through which
these lights are conveyed to us, by a reference to
'the School in which I consider the document be-
'fore us to have ot:ginated. It will be my duty to
'tear aside the Veil which is intended to obscure
from the view of the British Public the real end
and object of the Appeal, and I shall but ill ful-
fil that duty if I do not expose in its true colours,
'the most systematic and traitorous attempt to under-
. mine the Constitution of these Realms, and to be-
guile the People into becoming accessories to their
• owe undoing, that the tehole record of their His-
tory can produce. Fur this purpose, Sir, I must
trespass upon you and your readers for a much
larger and longer share of attention than I had
anticipated in my endeavours to expose the shal-
low artifices of a single Pamphleteer. I could
not- so soon have expected the impolitic dis-
closure of the latent designs of the Roman *Ca-
Alone Body, which nothing, be assured, but
the confidence of success could have thus
prematurely disclosed. They have found Ad-
vocates and Supporters among men whose
political characters have hitherto been un-
impeached; they have ranked among their
friends, .Statesmen, who. have identified them-
selves with their Cause, for the purpose of Party
and Faction ; and others who, in the spirit of real
liberality, have espotised their interests in the face
of history and experience, because they considered
them as deprived of Rights—the exercise of which
could bear with it, no danger or hazard of the
Public Weal. Nothing appeared Wanting,- but a
Manifesto to.the Country at large, where a plau-
sible appeal 'to iastice and humanity might be made
to a People proverbially open to thearts of flat-
tery, and prone to give credit to general profes-
sions. As so many of the higher orders of the
community had, from a variety of motives, been
• lawn into concession, it was inferred that the
Mass of The Public might be still more easily
duped into following their example, by the affec-
tation of popular appeal !—They appear, how-
ever, in the hurry and impetuosity of their zeal,
to have forgotten, that fortunately for the Interests
of this Country, there is a vast body OF W3BII AND
REFLECTING MEN, more especially among the
Middle Classes of Society, who blend neither with
. the intrigues of faction among the higher—nor
with the ignorant clamours of the lower orders ;
men who reflect—and compare, and combine ob-

03, and abide by their own conviclitsn-oit
;neat Questions .01 moral and political t't utli

They Aid:ntlit, 1 'their itattc and eagerness
to seizelke prey which appeared ready liar their

calcolate the effect which 4 public avowal

of principles, however obscured or adorned for
The purposes of deception, %void& have upon-this
description of persons, and in 'thy views of the
-subject, which I conscientiously believe, as a man
of honour, to be induced by no single piejudiee

beyond that which n►ay he so stigmatized in the
pure love )(lid veneration I entertain for the Laws

and Constirtoion of thy "Country-, there is not a

dispassionate or conscientious man in the Unfired
Kingdom, who can read this ADDRESS AND

PEAL from `ruts ItotVIAN CATHOLICS, without the
conviction irresistibly fastening itself on
,his mind,
that it is nothing short of a Declaration of War
against the PROTESTANT ASCENDANCY, and the de-
nzand of Succour to realize their hopes of success in
the prosecution of it !
I shall now, then, Sir, proceed to analyie this
extraordinary production for the benefit of those
who are too apt to skim.the surface of thingsyand
to commit themselves to opinions which they
will not take the trouble to form for themselves.
There is- something so soothing to the indolent
vanity of mankind,. in being persuLded that the
adoptiOn of a certain system of notions will rank
them among the liberal acd enlightened portion of
the community, that rather than be at the pains
of ascertaining the truth, they become the
13t-
GOTS of a clamour% and the victims of a name.—

A .few cant terms and phrases are substitute(' for

principles, and the tools of a Faction are self•
directed into a Body of Illumines !—With sncli

men it may be supposed, that it is_ in vain
to reason—but as the enemies of the Consti.

tutibn• estimate the justice of thtiir opinions
by the numbers which may be induced to support
them, it would be very impolitic iu those who are
devoted to it, to lose any opportunity of throw-
tug truth in the way of men, who, though they
never take the pains to seek it, may chance to be
attracted by it, when it stares them in the face
I premised.that I might be tedious, and you will
further infer this, when I stave it to be my inten-
tion to notice every particular clause of the Ap-
peal, where.auv'siguity is found to even to
the turn of an expression, for where Mental Re-
siztwation makes an essential part of an Opponent's
el( -d, a particle may have its object, and even
punctuation be-employedto mislead.
To, begin, tkervi4ire, with, tho E,tordiam, the
Appeal -opens with two assertions,• one of which
'has been an hundred iimes confuted, and the
other rendered equivocal by the very mode•of its
being introduced, namely :---That this "Address
" and Appeal against an unjust and unwise Code of
" Laws" is made " on behalf of Six Mtt.t.toNs of
" LOYAL subjects." The Loyalty (in its - strict
or accepted sense) of , men who stigmatize the
Laws of their Country as " unjust and unwise,"
and are in the act of labouring to overturn them,
must, to say the least of it, be problematical ; but
that there are Six Millions of these Loyal 'Roman
Catholies in Ireland, by which it is intended to
render the Cause formidable by the number of its
adherents, and which, in the general Language
of these Persons, and their advocates, appears to
authorize the assumption that the Roman Catho-
lics are THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND, is utterly un-
true and unfounded, upon any Census or Calcu-
tion of the Population of that Country. This
may appear a trifling objection, but if any man
will take the trouble to observe the artful pur-
poses to which it has been, and may be rendered
subservient, he will at once perceive, that .it has
not been carelessly or accidentally introduced in
the Outset of the Appeal. The best authority we
possess to guide us in the estimate of the Irish
population (Cleticus Dromorensis) states the whole
to be about fire millions and a- half,- and -the auto-
her of Protestants are at least two millions, which
in point of 'timbers will 'educe. the Roman Ca-
tholics to little more than one-half their asserted
superiority. " I am, therefore (this writer adds),
borne out by facts, in saying, that taking together
Numbers, Property, and Station, the great causes
of influence and ascendancy, the Protestants of
Ireland are at least equal to the Roman Catholics,
who Have been emphatically styled " The Pao-
' PLE of Ireland." Bot do the Roman Catholic
Advocates suppose that, were we even inclined to
pass over this solemnly reiterated, Untruth, the
statements would operate to any effectual advan—
tage on their Claims ? If their numbers enter in-
to anypart of the calculation, it cannot be relatively
to the Population of Ireland alone, but to that of
the whole Empire ; if they assume a right found-
ed-upon the relatiVe proportion of 'timbers in
Ireland, they negative the right, whet, it is
brought to bear upon the . United. Kingdom, of
which, they do not form a sixth part. They can-
not have Ihe•advantage in both cases, and it 'will
be recollected that this " Appeal" 'is made to the
People of 'THE WHOLE Empire.
So much for the simplicity and candour of the

Otii:iimg Appeal to t'ite 'Protest:tot brethren of e
United hiogdont, the pot'pose of which is stated
to he to iniog Protestant -professions of at-
tachment to the Cctuse.trf Cibil and Religious Liberty
to the Test. Now, Sir, I do. Verily believe, that so

insidious an attempt to pervert ttrms and to
render them favourable to principles) which,
in
.their original application they were expressly
advted,to contemn and reprobate, is without pa-
rallel, unless in the Manila Secreta,, inscribed
on the 'ocnerable pillars of the School of
Loyola !—What, let me ask, is the sense
conveyed to the mind. of an Englishman by
the term Mil and Religious, Liberty ? Is it not
the direct rejection of arbitrary Principles and
the Popish Creed! Whence did it arise, and how
was it first introduced ? As the WAR CRY of
Englishmen against foreign influence and Papal
usurpation, as the SHOUT OE VICTORY, when
JAMES was driven from the Throne, for attempting
to re-establish there in'these Realms; as the CONY,TIT
TUTIONAL RALLY oftheWinGs when they completed
the work of the REFORMATION at the REvoLy-
TION, by seeuriag the Civil and Religious Rights of the
People against POPERY as well as against Tile Yore !
Well may these appellants " offer their sincere as-
" surances of grateful recollection to those Mem-
" bets of the (present) Honourable Houses Of
" Parliament who have, by their votes Qf advocacy,
" (Whig votes, be it recol!ected) contributed to
" the advancement of LIBERALITY." Such Li-
berality is cheaply purchased at the expense of a
little flattery on one side, and self-complacency
on the other ; but shall Englishmen barter away
their Birth-right, because some men arc bold
enough to assert, and others silly enough.to be-
lieve, that black is white ? Shall men redeemed
from bondage, and restored to the full and perfect
enjoyment of Liberty, resume their Chains, or
at'teast. replace them in the hands of their lonizer
Task-Masters, because these Task Masters assure
them, that they are 'opt, nor erer were, Bodges of
Slavery, but Emblems of Good-will and Christian
Charity? 14 is preposterously insulting to the
understandings of Mankind, to ground the expec-
tation of success upon such a plea. I know no
term in the English Language sufficiently expres-
sive of abhorrence and contempt of so insidious
an endeavour to confound right and wrong—or
of indignation at the insolence of the attempt •to
ground upon it a Claim on the part of the Appel-

ants.

indeed, Sir, it is difficult to subdue those
feelings which this most daring and extraor-
dinary Mamifesto excites in the breasts of Con-
s titinional Englishmen, or to lower them to
.the tone of sober discussion. That there should
be found men who even profess
,an attachment to
the Principles of the Revolution, or who partahe,
in common with foreivers, of that admiration,
which has constantly accompanied the Cor-sti-
lotion, since its perfect establishment at that
Great Epoch, capable of espOnsing and advocating
the cause of the Roman Catholics, after the peru-
sal of this their laboured and official Appeal, ap-.
pears to Me impossible. Already has it produced
its influence—already do men, within the range
of my own observation, begin to draw back from
the Precipice towards which 'they had incautious-
ly been led ;

Quell] Deus vult pe-rdere, pries dementat.
It appears almost like the interferrnee.of Provi-
dence to rescue an ungrateful people from im-
pending destruction; the ebullitions olhope seem
to have clouded the perception of the Appellants,
and, like BALAAM, they have blessed where they
meant to curse. They hare opened the eyes of
the People, and it will be the crime and scandal
of Constitutional Englishmen, if they suffer them
again to be closed upon the fate anticipated in the
successful issue of the RoinavCathelic•Claims.
shall shortly resume" the subject.
I am, Sit, your's,

LANFRANC.

CORN-EXCHANGE, 'DEC. 29.—Our Market was
well supplied with all kinds of Grain this.morning.
Fine Wheat sold on the same terms as this day
week ; but there was no demand for infJrior ;
-having a goOd supply of Barley, it may be
noted from Is. to 2s-. per quarter lower ; Grey
Pease and 'Pick Beaus have each declined 2s. per
quarter ; the Oat Trade is rather dull, and from

Is. to 1-4 s. per gnarter low
in other Articles no altera
Foreign Wheat -41 s. 51s. I
- • - 9Si, 1084.

cr than this day week

6011.

English Wheat - 525.

Fide ditto - - -84 s. 90s.

Old ditto - -113 i:

Rye . 325.

Fine ditto - - -40 s. —s.
Barley - - SOs. 375.

Fine alto • - - 445. —s

New ditto - - -55 c. —S.

Malt

Filo. ditto - - - SO5. 83s.

Whitel'eOse (boilers) Ali. 58s.
Fine ditto - -60 s. —s.

iotel, Elitiburgh—The
:SS u lIUNTLY, and the
s of TwEEDDALE.

Grey Pease - - - 323. 40s.
rnic ;try Pease - 445. —s.
Tick I.kcaus - - -80 s. 40,
Old ditto - - 445. —s.
Small Beans 80:. 40S.
Old ditto - - -44 g. fpls.
Feed 4 tans-- - 123. 20s.
Fine ditto - 245. 4; s.
Poland ditto - .• 17%,. 193.
Fine ditto - - 304. 393.
Pntatoe ditto - :Ws. 41s.
Rape Seed 481. SGI. per hit.
Fine Flour - - - 7`)s. 803.
Seconds - - Ms. 755.

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