The Sun.
London, England, 1819-05-03 00:00:00

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Veil ti) ofTer. rope! 37 Is ,t,lvetSe
(0 tirwe..tinotism, that no security which they can
utTer, of we devise, Can Ore consistency to the ail-
mission of ally persons into a Protestant Parlia•
uncut, whose religion, by its itieompatibility with
the Ring's supremacy, is contrary to the consti-
tutional.principles of a Protestant Government..
"Tlity demand to he-admitted to share the belie.
fits of the Con-stittition in common with their fel-
low -suljects. Hit those only are fellow-subjects who
are equally subject 10 the same Laws and the stone
Sovereign. But Papists are not subject to the
King's Ecclesiastical supretnacy—they do not ac-
knowledge his -_entire Sovereignty--they cannot,
therefore, lre cadets fellow inhjects. We should
most sincerely rejoice to call them really so.
"'Hue asstimp,ion of the term Catholic by the
(;rturcli of Rome, is ill-founded. Catholic trans-
latel is Universal. The Church of England is
truly C nth iltc, atv... in her Liturgy she prays for
the Catholic Church, that is, the Utiiverssil
Church, the Church of Christ throughout the
world She is a Protestant Church, not brcause
she is not Catlionc, hitt because site protests
agaiost-i tie eriori d.l.o;:allee of Pope'y• The
meaning of the terns Catholic has nothing to do
with akes Or, naliolnS ; but a Church is Ctithol.e,
that adheres to one rnle o'f faith. 'Pioirsiants be-
lieve, in this one whole Church, but they do not
tel that. the Clittrelt of Rome is exclusively
that one and whole."

FOR THE sUN.

or.Ttionox.

ON THE CATHOLIC QUESTION.

MR. EDITOR--I now proceed to the sohject
proposed, previous to my long and severe illiie.rs ;
yet before 1 enter on i!s llim it (hate discussion,
beg to premise, that I dischim all risititions or
illiberal motives or party prejinliceis; hitt list rny
only aim is to elicit truth, and then firmly to
nramtain the truth thus elicited. Nor have I,
All'. Editor, the resit to IP ton to suppose, that any
one, iodividually considered, is amenable to toy
inadequate liibunal ; since 1 ain duly aware, riot
the wide field both of literary and political discos-
sifin is freely atitl fairly op,n to every elan; and
th-at each bas on liAa bitable Fig hit to choose his
own pith, how digressive soever that path may
he : nor is- be (Deity excepted) accountable to a'ny
on.e, unless to tii, own conscience, which is as it
were the High Priest of that temple of rectitude
(Mid has consecrated in every man's breast.
At the same time it must he• 'recollected, that
when the question which forms the subject twit-
ter of such discussion is one not only of iodivi-
dual, but of national, nay of vita) importance, to
the tranquillity and security, the civil and reli-
gious interests of the realm, every one who advo-
cates its cause attaches to himself a responsibiliry
toethe truth, pork y, and importa:)ce of what
,he
thus publicly espouses and defends; as also for
tile impartiality With which he states such (pies-
tion, discusses its merits. -Hence it is evi-
dent, that be should reason troin fair and liberal
data, acid not trout exparte statements. This
being conceited, yet 1 prestime 01..1 k callow be
controverted ; 1 proceed to remark that the Edin-
burgh Reviewer, in his observations on a ;yolk
by Sir J. TH itoCKmoliToN, on the Ctitl-t9lic gics-
tion, (MIL'S the fullowiog bold assertion :

We may venture to lay it down .As a general
proposition, ;bat all testi ic:ive la ws which eitelinte
certaiu CIaSSVS Of Mell (viz. the Roman Catholics)
from political stations. are, in their immediate
operation, oppressive and
This, Mr. Editor, is a mere principii petitio,
founded neither in truth 'nor just reasoning, since
nothing is proved, but barely asserted. Now it
w,as incumbent on this writer not to have thus
dogmatically assetted, but incontrovertibly to
have played, whether such 1;1..5 as restrict the
Papists are, either in their immediate or re-
mote operation really oppressive, or only con-
ceived to be so. And had this writer been inge-
nuous and impartial as to his motives, desirous of
being unequivocal as to his terms, correct, as to
his premises, aild liberal or legitimate as to his
conchisions, and thus uusophistical in his reason-
ing, he would have %vorded this general proposi-
tion very differently; or had he taken the trouble
to examine the merits of the case, nay even the
troth of his own deductions, he would have found,
that it is neither the Catholics conceiving such
laws to be oppressive, nor his asserting them to
be so, that constittites them such ; and that such
sophistry is not argument, such assumption no
proof, but rather sacrificing truth at the shrine of
party prejudice *. This clearly COllvißces us, that.
we ought to pause, reflect, examine, and prove.'
before we rashly assent to the mere ipse diait of
any writer, how superior soever his attainments,
brilliant his talents, or great his celebri:y ; bear-
ing in: mind that important aphorism of CICERO,
" Ne incognita pro cognitis hubeanins, hisque temere
rissentianius." Yet suppose, Mr. Editor, for die
sake of elucidation, we
,sbould erroneously and
inconsiderately grant him his general proposition,
and agree that such laws as restrict the Catholics
are oppressive :,he would immediately retort, laws
which are oppressive 'are unjust, ergo, ought to be
repealed. Tilt's, by gaining an inch, be would
take an ell. While on the contrary, deny his as-
sumption, and request him to prove the truth of
his argument,—you would at once destroy the
flimsy superstructure of his puny reasoning, and
discover the spider behind his web.
April 26. A Bit UTON.

* As well might he assert that all the laws which form the
Crin►inal Code, and which restrict the ►ll•disposed from com-
mitting robbery, murder, and the black catalogue of et ceetera,
are oppressive ; because these persons may Been► them so :
Yet were any one to make this assertion in the presence of
the most untutored Rustic, he would both swile at his weai,-
ness and suspect his honesty.

COURT OF CHANCERY.—Satnrdity, in the case
of Kynaston, v. the &Ist India Company, re-
specting the right of the plaintiff, as Rector of St.
Botolph, Aldgate, to enter the Cuntpatty's Ware-
Surveyors, to value the tithes due to
11101, the Lord Chancellor granted an injunction
agaiost the plaintiff, the Company haviog ap-
pealed to the House of Lords.

The wretched old woman who was flied ar the
Dumfries Circuit Court on Saturday senniglo,
tor child-murder, and acquitted, di:nt iiL the pri-
son there ou Tuesday aftertAutm.

LONDG:',; .10111;1A L'3.

MOM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

Plorning Post
AMERICAN TREATY.

A Bill having been brought into Pirlhment to
tarry into effect this disitstrous rC v, we trust
it will receive that consideration and nitentiou
which. its importance demands ; and if by any
precaution, on the part of tke Legislature, the
evils, which otherwise must result trom this im-
politic Convention, can. be lessened or postponed,
we flitter ourselves they will be adopted far it
is evident the people engaged in the Newfound-
land trade, and in the fisheries from New Bruns-
wick and Nova Scotia, must abandon them, un-
less some protection and encowagement is held
out to them to continue in them. We submit to
our Readets the follo,ving Extinct of a Letter
from our Correspondent : _

We are fearful that the British Government has given
the death-Now to the future prosperity of the King's North
American Colonies, in ceding to the United States, by the
late Convention, the fisheries ; for permitting her Citizens
to fill within three miles of this coast, is the sante,. of even
worse, than to allow them to fish in common with our fish•
ermen, for they invariahly will dress the fish on the gronnd
where it is lake; ; which will pi event the shoals front com-
ing forthir in shore, so that those who are within ;a stile
or lest of the laud will find little or imu fi,h. Their minihers
will he so great on the Coast of Lahridor, that that fishery
will he lu.t to as. The Americans can fit out their vessels
from one fio,rth to one fifth less th-in can be ci?me front
the IttitiTh Province.; added to which,.the Aniericati Go-
verutuent•giee s howity generallyof two d.silat.s and opwards
per ton-on the sit;lipiog en4a.,:ed in the fiTheries, and ft„•aa
one fourth to one half us dollar on each (I,lntal of fish canglit.
The Americans,have theta the liberty of tahing the fruits of
their labour r• trery jith nzarhet in the world, England e`A.
ceptea, and of taking back wittit they chOo-e in retort. It is;,
known fact, that. i.t the year 1316. t!te,e were on tln• Coast of
I.alirad,r sail and upwards of American vcsse:4.
No•pkice cult be itarne.d whicb w.tulti induce the UiCit,il `states
to rive t;;, or re:inquiiih the adiantazes they !vice 50 Lately
gained from Great liritaitt, which is a proof of ,the es`inia•
tints in which these concessions are viewed by them: We are
of opinion, and so are all our neighbours. that our Guvern-
inent has given up what the Americans themselves tiever'ex-
tie:qed to obti.in. The evil is not yet seen, but it will sopw
itst If much sooner than many way expect."

THP. PHRSIAN Ar',I3ASSADOR.-1-liS Excellency
has stew no company since VVedllt!.(l4r, wheii he
entertained, as we before stited, live Gentlemen.
His stay in this country will probahly nor exceed
four month: ; that peliod has been issuo • The
prircipal persons in Lis sni'e dress splendidly,
and we may add gracefully. His Excellency ap-
peared in Hyde Patti on Saturday, mounted on
his Arabian courser, and wearing is dagger of
extraordinary size, the hilt of %%hid' was cusered
with diamonds.—(lbid.)

Tna FAta Chic ssIAN.—We are assured., by
person who has been gratified %yid' a sight of this-
refehr.sted female, that she is not, in fi,gove, the
Veois of Cleomenes !—that her face does not ac-
cord with an Englishman's ideas nt heanty.—
Her Attraction is in a pair of oncotn-
munly piercing black eyes, and she seems to know.
how to make use of them. In stmure she doeS
not exceed the iniddle height.— (Ibid )

[Lllornilig Ch'vuicie.] •
The Amphiou triga7e, from Baenos Ayres and
Rio Jaitiero, arrived on Sat'urday, the former of
'which places she left about .the beginning of Fe-
bruary, :old the latter on the 6iti of March. The
Amphion is ordered home by the Admiraltyaano-
ther frigate having gone O'' oir board of which
Comm afore Bo kyles, who -cotit'ar nes in command
ot the La Plata station, will heist his flag. No-
thing maierial had beta) seecived overland from
Chili, in conseqaeoce -of. some temporary obstruc-
tions in the passes of ihe Andes Mountains; but.
tka United States sloop ot war Ontario, arrived
at Rio from Valparaiso, reiwricil tliat the little-
pendent squadron, under Lord Cochrane, at the
beginning of January, was in readiness for the
projected attack on Lima. Ifs Lordship had.
then been in the country about a month.
[The Times.'
The egnipment uf the Ueda and Griper being
completed tor discoveries in Baffin's-hay, and the
alterations being finished hi the latter vessel,
Visconot Melville, accompanied by Admiral Sir
Graham Aloore, K C.B. Sir George Clerk, Dart.
and John Barrow, Esq. proceeded on Friday after-
:woo to inspect them. On the arrival cf his
Lordship at Dutton!, he was received by
Commissioner Cunningham, at the Dack-yard,
accompanied by some of the Members ot the
Navy Board, and directly went on board the
[leek, where his' Lordship, &c. were ic-
ceived by Lieutenant Parry, who has the com-
mand of the expedition, with the accostomed ho-
nours. Every part was minutely inspected, ris
also the accommodations for the Officers, and
for birthing the crew. The same ceremony took
place on board the Griper, Lieutenant Liddoo.
Lord Nlelville, and the Gentlemen who accom-
panied him, expiessed their approbation ot the
whole, and in the evening they returned to town.
The Vessels drop down immediately to Long-
reach, below Woolwich, where they will take on
board their guns and ammunition; and then to
the Nore, for the crews to receive their wages ;
after which they will proceed on their• voyage,
stopping at the Orkney Islands for some small
Jupplies.

[New Times.]

Great anxiety exists throughoAit the commercial
world ror the appearance of the Report on the
Bank Restriction, which it is believed, we know
not with what certainty, will be presented this
day to Parliament. It is not so much for the
contents of the Report itself that anxiety is felt,
as for the amount of the Loan which it is pre-
sumed will be announced very shortly after the
presentation of the Report. Very large sums
Inive been long locked up from trade, in antici-
pation of this Loan ; and therefore the negocia-
don of it will at once determine the quantity to
be brought Iwo immediate circulation. The
Funds have rather improved since the Probability
of a Loan was considered to be converted into
certainty by the message of Lord Liverpool and
Mr. Vausittart to the Stock Exchange; and it it,
'bought, should the sum required riot exceed 20
the Funds would experience still further
improvement. Saturday teas a holiday ht the
Bank, arid consequently no money business
done. For the aith of May sonic purchases rat
Consols were trade at 72k, which raised the price
to 7'4-t.; and a•bargain or two was done at ra, but it
subsequently declined again ton, and closed at 723.