The Sun.
London, England, 1819-02-02 00:00:00

ELECTION PETITIONS.

The SPEAKER warned lion. Members, that the
lime beyond which no. Election Pe►ition could be
received was fast approaching, and invited those
who had any to present not to neglect the op-
port unit y.—Adlottrued.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

CLI M BING BOYS.

The Report of the ]surveyor-General of the Board of
Works, who was directed to ascertain, by cx;•einnent, hoe.'
far it is safe and practicable to supersede the practice of
Climbing Boy 3 by the use of Machinery, has been presented
to Parliament. It appears that in the experiments made he
bad the assistance of all our most eminent architects; and
the result is, that " he is most decidedly of opinion, the
total abolition of Climbing Boys in the Sweeping of Chim-
flies is at present impracticable, and could not be attempted
without incurring much risk of danger to the general safe
ty of the 'Metropolis.

Report horn the Committee upon Expired and Expiring
Laws.

LONDON JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAL

[Morning Post.]

Mails front Holand and Hainhurgh have ar-
rived. Great interest appears to have been ex-
erted to procure the recall of Soffit, Grouchy,
Lailemand, Cantor. Savary, and Huhn, to France.
An article from Stockholm contradicts in positive
lerrs the report or Sweden having sold the Island
of St. Birtholornew. The States of Hanover have
remonstrated against the Decree of the Govern-
ment, forbiddin:, actions to be brought for the
recovery of arrears of interest of the Royal Cham-
ber. The States declared they wete ready to
make good the 2,000,000, of interest thus in ar-
rear ; which had an instantaneous effect in raising
the value of the paper currency, depteciated at
fiat, in consegoence of the Governnient Decree.
It is also reported at Hanover, that the States
have demanded a reduction in the army, from
30,000 to 17,000 men. It is said the Regent is
so averse to this measure, that he gives two-
tl-,irds of tire revenue of the Crown-lands to keep
1. up.

The Party, who are so fond of appealing to the
conduct of Antt•rica, ought to be told, that the
Congresi have .ypointed a Secret Committee to
jiinitt:re into the affairs of their National 13ank.—
(Ibid )

[The Times.]

COURT-MARTlAL.—Yesterday *the Court-Mar-
tial appointed to try Lient.-Coionel Elay, of the
Jtith liasszrs, on three ehat‘ges, preferred against
Lim Ctdonel nirray, of the seine regiment,
lissembled at the Board of Claims, opposite the
Admiralty, Major-Genetal Sir 1%1. Disney, l'resi•
dent. The Judge-Advocate attended in his place.
At the conimencement of the proceedings, it was
intimated to the Gentlemen %vim attended for the
daily press, that the publication of any part of
them, until the whOle were concluded, might be
Prejudicial to the accused, R 3 they must at first
necessarily he ex pante. This intimation, as far
as we ourselves are concerned, was unnec(ssary;
for we should not have thought of giving a pre-
mature disclosme of any thing which transpired
until the. conclusion of the trial, and even then
the case would interest but few of our readers,
4s it lekti chiefly to is settlement of accoulo.

'o7:t TIIE 'UN`.

COUNSELLOR O'CoNIELI. AND THE TENPENNIES.

" JEREMY DIDDLER.—Have yon got such a thing as Ten-
pence about you ?"—l?ffisinAr the Triad.

MR EDITOR,-1 thank you for your insertion
of my. last. This courtesy encourages me to he
active ; and so long as you c4ovinue the'Protest-
ant character of your Journal, 'so long you shall
find rue its steady ally, I promise you. Let the
Protestants be only one halt as diligent and as
united as the Papists arcn—and my lite on our_.
success. To defect an enemy, it is necessary
sometimes to take a lesson tram him.—Now, Sir,
for Mr. O.CONNELL'S

" CIRCULAR.
" PLAN SUGGESTED you PAROCHIAL SVB-

`1 SCRIPTIONS

" To appoint a person in each parish to make
"'individual application co every householder.
This person shall take with him to each
lage or farm a list of the householders—•ancl
should apply to each of them, whether be was
willing to cn►ctrihute . ten pence, or any higher
" sum, toward defraying the expellees of the Ca-
tholic Pennons.

" E.,tch person p3Ving shnold be mat ked down
" tfs of the SUM inserted in the marein.
" Each person retnsiig, shimid have the words
" ?cf./act/ to- cunt? ibute ten pence,' added to his

" name.

" And a second application should be made to
" those tvLO tetuse—with on intimation, _that the
":list would be read in the Chafiel on the ensuing
'' Stwilay.
" The list bhf;ithl be real at the Chapel, as
" 50.19 P. 3 it WilB ascertained that no inure could
" be cillected.

'• The wore wealthy persons will 4 of course.
" cola; il►ute more than terinvoce ; but no stun
" si►otild- be received froth any l►ersun, save what
'' he can afford to, give with the most perfect
" convenivnee. -

" Sir,—l am directed by the Committee of Ac-
" counts to stud you the above plan, ano to re-
" quest your attention to it. It will not be easy
" to carry this plan into effect. without the eounte •
finance of the Catholic Clergy ; but it is proiumed,
" lro:n their constant attention to the i-werests ot
" their countrymen, that they will give this plan
" the aoppot tot their advice. It is also expect-
ed, that you should trithStllit to the Board an
" account ot the parishes in the County in which
you re-fide, in which this plan shall be. carried
" into effect.

You cannot dozy greater service to the Ca-
" tholic Cause, tiraii by ext•rting yourself on this
occasion, as the funds of the Boor:4 are quite ex-
" hausted ; at:ti it will he. isipossible to transmit
" our petitions to Parliament unless subsctiptious
" are collec:ed.

" The !bode of carrying this plan into effect is,
" of course, left with you; bur ii is ln,p,d that
" you will not refuse to give your zealous and
" active assistance.
" I have the honour to be
" Your very obedient humble Servant,
" DANIEL O'CONNELL."_

Ilere's en engine, Sir ! strong enough to lift
the Protestant Establishment off its cen,re; and
at work nearly these five years, unchecked and un-
noticed ! But 1 will forbear all comment, until
I " STARTLE" -your rwatiers with a little Owle
i!►struc.ion about the sum which the " circular"
motion of this steam-ctigine was c•ilculauetl to

raise.
The Popish Board, under whose authority the
above curious document was issued, reckons, by
its accredited statemPnt;" the numeration of
the " emphatic" people of Ireland, the PviSts,
at tour millioni two hundred thousand ; reckon-
ing then the subscribing patriots at two-thirds,
their tenpeunies would produce an impost of one
hundred and sixteen thousand, six hundred He'd
sixty-six pounds. 1 will however be cand-id
enongh not to take them upon their own deli-
berate exaggeration, but on a truer and more
moderate standard. I will errant !hem only as
two-thirds of their molted number, and, of course,
at t wo-thirds only if the above contribution.
Still, there will remain.a subscription for the
use of the Board, of SEVENTY-SEVEN InousANo,
SEVEN HUNDRED ,AND SEVENTY-SIX POUNDS,
without calculating 4‘ the more wehithy persons,
" who, of course, contribute more than tell-
" pence." Supposing this-, as we well may, a
monthly contribution, it has produced the annual
sum of NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE
THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED AND TWFLVE
POUNDS, which for the last tour years, from
1814, it would not be lair, Sir, to include the
Ways and Means of 1819, as already raised,
makes an aggregate sum of more titan THRBE
MILLIONS, SEVRN HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS,
collected front the Papists of Ireland by her Con-
trouling and Managing Board,—Talk of the King's
Taxes after thi, ! •

Now, Sir, what occasion, what honest and
lasrlul occasion, had the Board for such is sum ?
I acquit its Members of pocketing this money
among themselves ; but, after accounting for
all their public expenses—their agents' hills for
prosecutions and defences, their Counsellor's
tees, the fines of their convicted libellers, the sa-
laries of their seditious Newspapers, the Secret-
SCI vice-money of their Threshers and Carders and
Ribbonmen, tite ;tomtit its of. their sotfering Patriots
and ;be Representatives of their executed Martyrs,
nay, their presents to one another of cups and
sideboards—a+ tolerable stint will remain ; of
unt;ms expended in the purchase of Boroughs, I can
upon the Pl.).ald and its Collectors to state the
application.-^--SILENCE WILL CONVICT THIO.I.
• If you knees, Mr. Editor, the delusions prac-
tised on the poor ignorant Papists of Ireland, the
irritations with which they are perpetually leveled,
and the more than despot:c authority with .which
their Priests tranq le both on body and soul, you
would readily believe the facility of levying even
the enormous sum which I have stated. The
means too, of compelling the refractory, are more
" emphatic" than ever tsx-gatherer or tithe-
proctor can adopt. To read the name of the re-
cusant in the public Chapel; was an especial mode
of enforcing contributions. His own back, or
his wife's bosom, might be carded by some ever-

getic tomirten:trtfoin'iirin the tbroAt
might he •distraincd at the chapel door by the
Priests' girdle ; or he- might Ittit;e found it diffi-
cult to replevin his brains from a tiotts huller. •
Protestants !—Look to yourselves. Popery is
awake—ye are asleep :—Popery is busy, ye Are
idle : Popery is ever doing sontetbing—yejare
never doing any thing.
Again I say, that Popery is formidable only as
she is neglected :—that she is dangerous bra to the
coward, and innoxious to the fearless hand that
grasps and crushes her mischief. Mos° %conk
persuade me, that she is to be either dreaded or
trusted, thus will I answer--
- " But I tell you, my Lard fool, that
Out of this nettle, danger, l‘C
" Pluck the flower—safety."

Ina day or two, I rei(erate my at tcntions to
Mr. O'CONNELL'S ‘. Andress," being always, Sir,
Your faithful Sei %wit,
VIGIL.

THEATRICAL REGISTER.
Performed last Night.
THEATRE noyAL DitURINLANE.-04th time), Briar's. Lu-
cius Junius, Mr. Kean Tarquinia, Mrs. W. West Atter
which, The Silver Arrow.
THEATR*RovAL,CovENT-GARDS.X..--Jane Shore: Lord Hast-
s, Mr. Young; Jane Shore, Miss O'Neill. After which,
Hurlrcfniu Munehausen.