The Sun.
London, England, 1819-05-05 00:00:00

PETERBOROUGH JUSTICE.

Mr. EDITOR—The reverend life-and-death-Men
of Peterborough, ate determined, I see, on cling-
ing to their judicial privileges. Happily, how-
ever, there were no wooden Toms, whereon to
exercise this time their discretion of the Royal
mercy ; a brace of pilferers only came before the
brace of parsons, who at the last Quarter Ses-
sions had the whole Bench to themselves, their
discretion therefore could reach no farther than
whipping and imprisonment.
My animadversions, irmead of dissuading one
Clergyman from the exercise Of functions so va-
riant from his sacred office, have excited a reve-
rend brother to share his activity. At least, the
superior intelligence of A:mm/5 has had this
blessed operation ; nevertheless, I am more than
consoled, by finding that the lay Magistrates have
left to our parsons the undivided amusement of
passing sentence.
Possibly, Sir, I may resume the subject ; but
the antagOnist who encountered me so rashly,
aid dropped me so hastily, must not again ex-
pect my notice. If AMICUS returns to the con-
test, he must assume another signature. I fling
no spear to hit the back of a flying adtergary.
May 1, 16!9. JUSTUS.

FOR THE SUN.

PRAYERS FOR THE KING.

4$ The effectual fervent prayer fd a righte4as man availeth
mach."

MR. EDITOR-1 ettrl so pleased with the gentle
rebuke which the Rev, Mr. GURNEY has given to
those Clergymen who omit in the service of their
Church a prayer for the restoration of the King's
health, that I cannot help sending you my sin-
cere approbation thereof.
I know not any excuse they can have for not
constantly supplicating, on the knees of their
hearts, the Author of all goodness, to so desirable
an end. If to a physical certainty it were impos-
sible to obtain it by the art of man, it would be
an impious presumption to say that it is impos-
sible to GoD

At all events, Sir, our prayers for it are evidence
of our veneration for one of the best of Kings,
and that he ever and anon reigns in our hearts,
only to he forgotten when we are no more. I
say this, as a Roman Catholic Priest, hound with
joy by my native allegian'ce to a Monarch in
whom there is no guile ; and although by my edu-
cation I am taught to owe n religious allegiance
to the lineal descendant of Hitn, who shake as ne-
ver man shake, 1 have no wish for trust or power,
civil or political. 1 know that Church and State,
as by law established, are indivisibly one, and
That the admission into confidence of a friend to
one, and an enemy to the other, would be gross
nonsense, and an act of madness. As a sound
and true subject, I would neither accept the
office of Secretary of State. nor would I bold the
Great Seals, were they offered me; because, if I
did, I should wound my conscience by the exer-
cise of their duties in a temporal sense, while I
was adverse to the religion of my country, and
should be ashamed to sit in Council with its
genuine Members, who, as enemies to Popery,
oar people call heretics. Protestants may class
114 e as one, and thereby defame ; but as a true
Briton, and, I hope, a good Catholic Priest, I
thank Mr. GuaN EY for his chastening remarks on
his neglectful brethren, and I assure him, I shall
continue to pray in my Chapel for the King's
ecovery to the last beating of his pulse.—Quivis
ateret ickm.

FATHER O'LEARY.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE GIBRALTAR CHRONICLE
Of SATUNDAY, APRIL 10, 1819.

The Officers of this Garrison, anxions to have
within its walls some memorial of the splendid'.
achievements of the British Army.in Portugal and
Spain, came to the resolution of erecting a Bust
of Field Marshal his Grace the Duke of WELLING...
TON ; and, considering bow materially the opera-
tions of the Peninsular War were facilitated by
the resources of Gibraltar, we know not a spot
where British Officers could so well record the
Duke's heroic deeds as in this fortress, situated
as it is on the frontiers of the very laud his army
saved.

The Non-commtuissioned Officers and Private
Soldiers of the Garrison have also had' an oppor-
tunity of joining their Officers in this mark of re,
spect towards the illustrious Duke, and their
united exertions have raised a mound in the New
Alameda, upon which a very handsome column
for supporting the. Bust has been recently erected.
Preparations were made, (hiring the last week;
for fixing the Bust upon the column, and this day,
being the Annivt rsary of the Battle which tenni-.
'rated, at Toulouse, the glorious exertions of our
Peninsular At my, has been selected.as the most
appropriate for the ceremony.
.At three o'clock,
this afteryo•rn, his Excellency the LIEUTENANT-
GovEßNou, accompanied by the Nlilitary, Naval,
and Chit Officers of the Garrison, proceeded front
the couvent to the mound in the New Alameda,
where a guard of honour and four bands of,trinsie
were stationed, •the Bust itself being covered by
the colours of the different regiments. The troops
composing the Garrison were stationed on the
upper and lower sides of the Alameda.
Upon the arrival of his Excellency on the mound,
the Bust was finally fixed upon the site destined
for its reception, and the colours being removed,
the whole was exposed to public view, the griard‘
of honour presented arms, the hands struck up
" God save the King,'' and three cheers were
given by the line ; after which the Bands played
" See the'Conquering Hero comes." The cere-
mony was concluded by the Officers and Soldiers
drinking the Duke of WELLINGTON'S health upon
the spot, while the repeated cheers of the troops
were echoed by the surrounding spectators. A•
vast concourse of the most respectable inhabitants.
had assembled on the Alameda, and the weather'
being remarkably fine, we have seldom witnessed
a more gratifying scene.
A Ball is to be given by the LIBUTENANT-GO•
vcarroa 04 Monday evening, in honour of the

occasion.
The Bust, which has been cast in bronze from
some of the guns captured by the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON, is considered a very striking likeness of
his Grace, and does the highest credit to the ta-
lents of the Artist, Mr. WESTMACOTT.
The following Latin Inscription is engraved on
a brass shield, which will he fixed upon the column
in the course of a few weeks :
INIAGINEM. HANC. ARTHUR'. WELLESLEY.
WELLINGTONLE. DUCIS.
A. D. MDCCCXIX. POSUERUNT. BRITANNI.
TAM. CIVIL'. QUAM. MILITARI. MUNERE.
IN. HAC. ARCE. FUNGENTES.
PR.ECLARAS. RES. GESTAS. ADMIRAT/.
ET. VIRTUTEM. BELLICAM.
IMPERATORIS. SUMMI. INVICTI.
QUI. ANNUENTE., DEO. OPTIMO. MAXIMO.
IMPERANTE. GEORGIO. TERTIO.
BRITANNIARUM. REGE. PATRE. PATRIIE.
COPIIS. BRITANNICIS. PFLIEERAT.
ET. SOCHS. HISPANIS. ATQUE. LUSITANIS.
HAS. REGIONES.
A. DIRIS. GALLIIE. EXERCITIBUS. , •
TUM. F(EDE. OPPRESSAS.
IN. REBUS. VEL. MAXIME. ARDUIS. ET. PENE.
DESPERATIS.
POST. LONGAM. ET. DURAN!. MILITIAM.
ET. PRXLIA. INNUMERA. TOTIDEMQUE. FERE.
VICTORIAS.
PULSIS. GALLIS. A. GADIBUS. USQITE.
ULTRA. PYRENZEOS. MONTES. ET. GARUMNAM.
FLUVIUM.
AD. IMMANI. TANDEM. HOSTE. FELIX. LIBERAVIT•
RENATUM. DENIQUE. IN. GALLIA. ET. BELGIO.
ATROCISSIMUM. BELLUM. CONFECIT.
UNO. PR/ELIO. WATERLOO.
ET. EUROPAM. AB. INSTANTE. TYRANNIDE. VIN-
DICAVIT.
ET. IMMORTALEM.
NON. SIB'. SOLI. SED. ARM'S. BRITANNICIS.
GLORIAM. PEPERIT.
DE.- REGE. ET. PATRIA. ET. GENERE. HUMAN°.
OPTIME. MERITUS.

The following English Inscription will appear
on the Pedestal.

THIS COLUMN,
Brought from the Ruins of Lepida,
Was presented I,v Ilictinno TußtiElt, Esq. Commanding
H. 111. Storeship " Weymouth,"

To His Excellency General GYORGE DoN, G. C. 11. and
G. C. M. M . Lieuteriaut Governor of Gibraltar,
under whose Auspices
The Bust which it supports was erected
by the
Corps of Royal Artillery, Itoyal Engineers, Royal Sappers
and Miners,

Detachments of tlic Royal Staff Corps and Royal Waggon
Train,

The 1 tth, Z•Gth, ‘27th, 64th and 4th West India. Regiments,
and lay the

Officers of the Naval, Military and Civil Departments

of this Garrison.
A. D. AIDCCCXIX.

NOTE. In giving the following translation of the Latin in-
scription we have adhered as closely as possible to the origi-
nal, but are aware that the classical force of the Latin is in a
great measure lost,
This Bust of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, was
placed here, in the year 1819, by the British :',lilitary and
Civil Officers of this Garrison, to evince their admiration of
the splendid achievements and military talents of that great
unconquered General, who, by the Blessing of Almighty God
(in the reign of Gent ge 111., King of Great Britain and Ire-
land, the Father of his Country), while commanding the
British Forces and their Allies, the Spaniards and Portu-
guese, in a state of affairs the most trying and almost despe-
rate, after a long and arduous contest, after battles innu-
metable, and nearly as many victories, having driven the
French front Cadiz even beyond the Pyrenees and the Ga-
ronne, at last most happily liberated these regions, at that
time cruelly oppressed by the merciless Armies of France,
front their implacable foe ; and, finally, when that most de-
structive war had again broken out in France and Belgium,
finished it by the single battle of Waterloo, thus rescuing
Europe from impending tyranny, gaining immortal glory not
only for himself, hut tor the British Aims, and deserving
must highly of his King, his Country, and Mauliind.

The Paris Papers of Sunday last, which were
due this morning, have not arrived.

(From the American Papers received Yesterday.)

NEW YORK, APRIL 10.—A Letter from Wil-
mington (N. C.) states, that information was re-
ceived there on the 31st March, that a Portu-
guese ship of 700 tons, prize to some privateer,
had stranded near Beaufort ; that the ship had
gone to pieces, but most of her valuable cargo,
consisting of cochineal, cottons, teas, bides, in-
digo, &c. bad been saved. The Portuguese Con-
sul, on hearing the above information, proceeded
immediately to the spot, and demanded the pro-
perty ; but was informed by the privateersmen
that it was their property, and the American Go-
vernment bad nothing to do with' their flag, and
they would not give up any of the cargo. The
Consul bas applied to the Government Autho-
rities.

An attempt' was made on the 27th of March
to set fire to the town of Savannah, but it plowed
unsuccessful. Several persons had been taken up
on suspicion and committed to prison.

Though we congratulated our Countrymen yes-
terday on the result of Monday night's Debate
on the Catholic Question, yet we cannot but
deeply regret the small majority which appeared
on a Question of so much importance to our pre-
sent Establishment in Church and State. We
indulged a hope that many Members withdrew
from a supposition that the debate would be ad-
journed, but we conceive that nothing should
have been left to conjecture. The Catholics, no
doubt, will triumph on so small a majority as
two against them, and will renew the attack with
increased confidence. Accordingly we find that
The New Times, which was once what is styled a
Ministerial Paper, but which seems now to have en-
listed in the bands of Opposition, (having so reso-
lutely espoused the interests of POPERY,) declares
this day, that it " cannot but hail the result of the
Debate as the forerunner of those conciliatory
measures by which we have always hoped to see
all descriptions of his MAJESTY'S Subjects united
in zealous attachment to a free Constitution,
and a paternal Government." The obvious
meaning of this passage is, that the Parts-rs
should possess all that they demand. But it
so, our " Free Constitution" would in the end
be annihilated, and we should be brought
under the " paternal Government" of Toe
Pore. We should then see how be would treat
his Protestant Children. The nursery, or school,
would most probably be Smithfield, and they
would be taught by fire, torture, and the gibbet,
the only way to Heaven.—But this is not all—
the same Paper confidently avows its belief
that argument can little serve the Claims of
Popery, and that they are " assisted by the spirit
of a genuine liberality which pervades the minds
of Protestants in general throughout the Empire."
This is a question of fact, and we, on the con-
trary, believe that the Protestants, throughout the
Empire, are alarmed at the pretensions of PorkizY,

except the comparatively few Orotesiants
too weak to judge of the past or to We,
see consequences, or blinded by a false'
lib
rality, support those demands which lead t
our total destruction as a Protestant People."'
We heartily concur with Lord gaNY°h:
in his opposition to the cell core passed
Lord CARNARVON last night on the Clergy:
because they come forward in support-
our Orthodox Clittrch It is their duty to do ilai
and they would have neglected their duty most
_
reprehensibly if they had not come forward 0;
a danger so alarming. For our own Parts
can boast of some Correspondents of high rant„
in the Church; and we exhort them most earn
ly to persevere in favouring us with their colltuid:
nications, not only at the present critical 111°1uell;
when the danger which threatens us shall
turned aside; but until the PAPISTS shall be cull;
O
tented, if possible, with the utmost latitude
'
Religious Toleration, and shall never sia'n Pre,
I,i
sutne to disturb the peace of the Country wt

limed demands of Legislative Power.

SHIP NEWS.
LIVERPOOL, MAY3=-176ePrincesslio(1-t
t
11141(6AN, from Bengal,•has arrived off tbi
the
sailed .the, 20th) and from the Sand Boas -611,
25th .December; touched at St. Helena the 2
FebrUary, and Ascension the 4th Match, lino
td
14
boarded by his Majesty's ship Sophia ; °ls°
13ALLINGAL, from ditto; The (01°-
BoAG, from hence, is arrived at Betlggh
DEAL, MAY 4.—Arrived, and sailed fot the Ith!,;
ver, the Thomas Coots, MAJOttin %ruts ; ScBle7t
V
Castle, SOTHERBY ; Orwell,, LEACH ; iv Seri
ville, STEWART ; and Princess Amelia, lihi's/°:,
from China ; Prince Regent, Ilauats, snd
chester, SurroN, from Madras ; Marchioness
0-
Ely, KAY, from Bengal ; Arab, BAttcLAY,
the South Seas. The BArossa, for BorabaY'. is

coming through the Gulls.
Asa) e 5
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 4.—Arrived his Ai---,e5
ship Atnphion from Plymouth. Il
PLYMOUTH, MAY 3.—Arrived his Ig.destY
ship Albion, Admiral PH1.71108(4 from Malta °-
Gibraltar, with a mail.
Henry, STACKPOLII, of and for
LIMERICK, APRIL 27. The brig Williaill
New York, reported to have sailed, has been detained at th.
River Mouth by the Revenue, for having ma:
passengers on board than the Act of Parliatne° .
allows. ' •

. .
•
CUSTom s', UF.T.
Entered Inwards,' -May 4:—Uhion,' Galloway,Karl'
Twee Jonge, Vrowen Varider, Worcum ;
ham, St. Nlichel's ; Eanning, Patterson, Canton.
ie found'
lands;tered Oniwards, May 4.—Heed, Barker, •,„.e.,;warclft
Vine, Price Londonderry ;., Wellington, Co'
Dublin ; YredericC.Julius Christian, Bombolt,Elsill a" TIT'
pcnhagen ; Prince of Waterloo, Page, Ostend ; Na"sisker
mayne, Lisbon ; Margaret, Smith, Rotterdam; Ant'
• Oa
Hm aburgli ; Thirza, Gay, Dent.
Cleared Ozawards, May 4.—Liberty, Maule, '0%1100;
I'etershnrgh ; Patty, Wheatley, Elsin and Petl;:
Pallas, Beckman, Bremen; Lord Wellington, Cilarrcr 0)1414
and Petersburgh ; Anna, Phillips, Buenos Ayres:iY
Cuden head, Halifax; Cumalle, Alexander, Riga ; Peuit.ipiblet
Enon, Havre and Caen; Harmony;-Bislop, Riga
Maryson, Cork; Pelican, Barber, Scyille.

iv Pr
CORN•EXCHANGB, MAY s.—The supply of erf
lisp Wheat at Market this morning tras
small, yet the trade was heavy at Monday's Pric-f,
and only that of fine quality could be dis Posed
infer
Fine Malting Barley obtained 40s. but the rf
rior qualities could not be got off, except St veR,
low prices. Fine fresh Oats sold rather free'lr',,
but not at any improvement in price ; but die °lO
dinary samples are cheaper, and dull side'
Beans and Pease no alteration.

1-tiOMPAIYN:"it'E..fitvG,
eENhCaEv.e
not
_3
SouTHvvARK h s°'
Fk
much trade the last few days as we had the
previous. The sale for Pockets is very d"ll'
MAIDSTONE, MAY 3.—The exci o .edin
nights of last week have very materially arlfecl,-(l‘s
the Hops in this neighbourhood ; some gr°liii
many of the hills arc entirely destroyed, an'
most places they appear extremely yellow•
•
NCO
BRIGHTON, MAY 4.—This afternoon the Pol
RE6eNT repeated his carriage exercise along to§
West Cliff, towards Copper's Gap, and as fa oft'
Shoreham, accompanied by Lord WILLIAM
DON.—Vesterday his Royal Highness took 13
solar route, attended by the above Noblettitlei;
and escorted by two out-riders.—lt is with nitjos
gratification we have to observe that the 1)141?er,
REGENT is recovering strength, and this of
norm Royal Highness was nearly free 'r:ivcs
pain of the gout, and walked with coinmParaeo
ease.—We understand that his Royal 11144%,:banble
intends to join the dinner party of his
Guests this evening, for the first time since 00
Hli,po,Jition. From the favourable improvetne°sc
Le
,n the health of the PRINCE REGENT, it i 5 01(11e
certain that his Royal Highness will hold a v'
on Thursday, the 13th of the present mon& the
Doter; OF YOHK.—IIim Roy al Highness ltiS
Doke of YORK still carries his arts! in a siing,
oyal
hand remaining very touch swel!ed.
during his stay at Windsor wolke
great deal, and in his pedestrian excursions I
e..%
principally accompanied by Geneial TAYLOR' is
Yesterday his Royal Highness held a Levee at
Office in the II orse Guards, which was hutil-r°
""IY attended by Military Officers and others rttc'
congratulate his Royal Highneas upon his ret"
to London, and his advanced state of recovery•tbe
Lieut. PARRY took leave of the ',olds of
,
Pinliral(Y Friday, previous to hi; leaving 1;111,-
loud utt the Northern Expedition.