The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—On Saturday evening, in consequence of a
previous arrangement between the purties, Mr, William Collins,
the person charged with obtaining 1,7001. from Colonel Canine,
by false and fraudulent pretences, was brought up for a second exa-
mination. The Christian name of Colonel Cumac is Jahn, awl
not William, as stated by mistake in our lust report, and he was
formerly in the Life Guards, The Name legal advisers attended
on both sides as before.

The deposition of Mr. Well, Colonel Camac's solicitor, was
read over, and he made a few verbal corrections in it. lle added,
that the defendant engaged to bring the bond spoken of from
Mahnesbury in two days after receiving the 1,7001. Ha also
stated that it was a " pile of (and not five, as stated before) bank-
notes," which be saw at the Bank of England, on the top note of
which was the defendant's signature.
Mr. C. Phillips—Pray, sir, is your name Wall or Wells ?
Witness-_My name,
Sir, is Well.

Mr. Phillips—And you are au attorney. Pray, bow long have
you been vo 7—Witness—Several years. tight or nine years.
Mr. Phillips—What is the firm hi which you are a partner?
Witness—Capel, Rowley, and Well.
Mr. Phillips—Had you any knowledge of the defendant before
the interview which took place between you and Colonel Cinume
and him in April ?
Witness--None whatever. Ido not know that I ever saw his
person before.

Mr. Phillips—And bow long was it after the first interview
Lot you gave him the 1,7001. ?—Witness—About six weeks.

Phillips -Aral so you, an attorney of eight or nine years'
practice, pnrted with 1,7001. to a man of whom you had no other
knowledge than a six weeloe acquaintance? Were you introduced
to any of his supposed friends at Malmesbury?
Witness—l was not.,
Mr. Phillips—Did you make any inquiry into the truth of his
story ?—Witnessi—No.

Mr. Phillips—You did not see any of the burgesses ?—No.
Mr. Phillips—You did not go down to Mitlinesbury ?—No.
Mr. Phillips-.. Nair, .Sir, what was liw object, immediate or
ultimate, of your paying that sum of money to my client ?
Witness—lt is already stated in my deposition.
Mr. Phillips.—Was not the object to procure the return of a
inember to Parliament ?--.Wittiess.—No.
Mr. Philllps.—Upon your oath, what was the'object?
Wituess.--I object to answer that question. .
Mr. ask you again, was it not to procure the
return of a member to Parliament?
Witneas—The Object is already stated in my deposition.
Mr. Phillips.—Then why did you say so directly "No," when
I asked you just now? I again ask you, was not the object of
paying the 117001. to the defendant to procure a seat in Parlia,
nient ?—Witness.—l object to answer.
Mr. Phillips.—
Sit, I appeal to you in the face of the public to
answer me the question.
Mr. Adolphus.--Don't appeal in the face of the public. The
public have nulling to do with the mutter. These remarks are
opuull!filiicneteyleu,kdant°d though I iye way
everytliugh
feud their
respect for the gentlemen
who report these proceedings, I say it is not fair.
wro a certain Ito the
A long altercation ensued between the counsel, but produced
no result.
After some further remarks, Mr. Dyer, a clerk in the Dank of
England, was 'called, and produced SO of the 34, 301. notes, paid
into the Bank 011 the 1 I tli of May, one of which bore the signa-
ture of the defendant.
Mr. Phillips asked Mr. Adolphus if he did not mean to call
Colorie,loQamie.

Mr. Adolpin-is
.mid not at present. A elerlt. at DrummOnd's

should have bean present to prove, that the notes produced by Mr.
Dyer were the Same which had been paid at that house for Col.
Camac's cheek, and as he was not in attendance, he (Mr. Adol-
phus) should proceed no further. Ife must have the notes
identi-
fied before he called Colonel Comic. '

Mr. •Phillips said it was very extraordinary, and a great pity,
that the whole truth could not be got at once.
Mr. Adolphus said it was not necessary. It might be al) very
well for the gratification of public curiosity, but whatever ulti-
mate view, if any, the parties might have had in paying the
1,100/., it could be of very little consequence to the public to
know. The case was a simple isolated one, of obtaining money
under' false pretences, and all that was necessary was to prove
that it bad been so obtained.

Mr. Phillips said the parties were all liable to an indictment.
The prosecutor was as bad as the prisoner.
Mr. Adolphus said, that this remark was also improper. It
was too much the practice now-a-days to roll back the crimp of
the accused upon his prosecutor, and it was endeavoured to place
every thief in a better situation than his accuser.

Mr. Phillips said Mr, Adolphus had no right to apply such a
term to Mr. Collins.

Mr. Adolphus said he did not tend to apply it personally. His
remark was!' general one.

Mr. Phillips repeated his opinion that all the parties were
liable to be indicted for a conspiracy. " I don't mean to say,"
added the learned Counsel, "that, as times go, there is any great
moral culpability iu the matter, but that there is legal guilt no
one can doubt.

Mr. Adolphus-4 should like to see an indictment of ' your
drawing up on the case.

Mr;Well being asked when he thought the witnesses from
Malmesbury could be in attendance, said he had little doubt
that they would arrive early in the next week, and with the con-
sent of all parties the further hearing was adjourned until they
should arrive. Mr. Collins was again conveyed to the watch-
house.

ADDRESS of the BRITISH CATnOLICS.

TO OUR PROTESTANT FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN.

FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN--We present to you a Declaration
drawn up and signed by those Ecclesiastics who, in this country,
are the expounders of our Faith. We beg earnestly to call your
attention to this document, which distinctly repudiates the oh-
noxiouslenets imputed to us. The Irish Bishops have given a
Declaration of Catholic principles similar in effect to this
We ask you, can you believe that we are joined in a perfidious
league to deceive you? Are those amongst us,. who are linked
with you by social habits and friendly intercourse, those in whom
you confidently trust in matters of high importance and from
whom you meet, in return, with integrity and fair dealing, to be
considered honest . on every other occasion, and capable of deep
designing fraud and duplicity on this?
To our sense of the sacred oblintions of an oath, we daily
sacrifice every object of ordinary ambition ; is it in human nature,
that we can become perjured men in this solitary instance? We
are accused of idolatry; we disclaim the imputation, of not keep-
ing faith with heretics ; we disclaim the imputation, of dividing
the allegiance which is due to the King; we disdains the impu-
tation, of acknowledging in the Pope a deposing power; wo
claim the imputation, of believing that a Priest can absolve from
sin at his own mere will and pleasure ; we disclaim the imputa-
tion—and we disclaim each, and all, these opinions, moat so-
lemnly and most unequivocally.
Our religion is called a persecuting religion. - We reply, that
the Catholic religion, and the policy of Catholic State*, are un-
fairly confounded; and if the Ministers of. the Catholic religion
have, at any time, co-operated with the Civil Government in
measures of persecution, they forgot the divine 'precepts of. their
Founder, in attempting to prevent the introduction of sects by
violence and injustice, and we condemn the deed; are we to sutler
for their misconduct ?' In the unholy race of persecution which
,has been run by various denominutions of Christians at other
times, this, or any other country, if members of the religion we
profess were not exempt from blame, we deeply deplore their
blind infatuation—why then are we to be punished for excesses in
which we bore no part, which we us cordially condemn as you do,
and for which your ancestors are not less liable to reproach than
ours? If the professors of the Catholic faith were even peculiarly
distinguished, in times long past, for their mistaken zeal (Which
we do. not concede), the more deeply should we lament their errors;
but let not the liberal ProteStant, and the enlightened Catholic
of the present day, allow themselves to be hurried by prejUdiced
or interested men into hatred of each other, and thus perpetuate
distention, and. religious bigotry, in the name of the God of Cha-
rity and Peace.

We challenge calm enquiry into the practice of the present Go-
vernments of Christendom, and we believe it will be found, on
candid examination, that the principles of Religions Liberty are
fully us well practised in Catholic as in Protestant States, We
entreat you deeply to consider tho effects of the example of the
Legislation of this country, in the various nations of' the world.
Above all, weigh well its consequences in the rising States of
South America. We beg of you to keep constantly in view,'what
power of argument the continuance of these laws of exclusion
affords to every enemy of liberty, whether civil or religious,
throughout the world.
We request you to put this question to your own minds.
Is
there another country in the world where, for conscience auks,
several of the most ancient nobles of the land, are deprived of their
hereditary privileges; where hundreds of gentlemen, possessors of
ancient and large landed estates, are deprived of honours and
rights, the usual attendants on birth and property; where the
industry of the merchant and the talent of the lawyer are checked
in the midst of their respective careers ; where six or seven mil-
lions of the people are deprived of the benefit of equal chances
under equal laws. And as a proof of the direful, but natural
effects of such a system of law, we implore you to look at Ireland,
that island of genius and of fertility. Behold her in all her naked-
ness and all her misery.
Our Religion is raid to be peculiarly proselyting. If to pro-
selyte be to convince by the use of fair argument, then is ours
a proselyting religion. As Englishmen, we claim the right of
free, disclissimi, and we should be ashamml to call ourselves
your fellow-subjects could we forego this valuable privilege.
But if to proselyte, be to substitute force for argument, and
to give premiums for apostacy and hypocrisy, such proselytism'
is a disgrace to any form of Christianity, and we solemnly
ahjse it.

"We entreat you to endeavour to divest your mind; of precon-
ceived impressions to our disadvantage, and calmly to examine the
situation in which we stand. In a country boasting peculiar li-
berality, we suffer severe privations because we differ from you
in religious belief. The remaining penalties, neither few nor
trivial, of a Penal Code of unparalleled severity, still press upon
us. A Catholic Peer cannot sit and vote in the House of Peers,
and is thus deprived of his most valuable birthright ; a Catholic
Commoner cannot sit and vote in the House of Commons; a
Catholic Freeholder may be prevented from voting at Elections for
members ; he cannot sit in the Privy Council, or be a Minister of
the Crown; he cannot be a Judge, or hold any Crown Office in
any of the Spiritual, Equity, or common Law Courts; he. may
practice at the Bar, but he cannot become a King's Counsel; he
cannot bold any office in any of the Corporations; he cannot
.graduate at either of the Universities, much less enjoy any of the
numerous beneficial offices connected with them, although both of
those seats of learning were founded by Catholics ; he cannot marry
either a Protestant, or a Catholic, lintels the ceremony be per-
formed by a Protestant Clergyman ; he cannot settle real or
personal property, for the use of his church, or of Catholic schools,
or for any other purposes of the Catholic religion ; he cannot vote
at Vestries, or present a living in the church, though both of those
rights seem to appertain to the enjoyment of property, and may
actually be exercised by infidels.
Such are our principal grievance*; but, more than all, we
complain of the galling brand of disgrace, which is the eon-
sequence of these disqualifications, which is more intolerable, to
honourable minds, that, the severest, pressure of penal infliction,
and necessarily implies guilt on our part, or injustice upon
yours.

to bear about urea painful feeling of inferiority, and of undeserved
reproach. It ie to us no matter of surprise, that tales %Tido,
Prom early youth, to the last stage of existence, we are domed
malevolence invented in troubled times, which party zeal propa-
gated, and which, in • many instances, were sanctioned by the
forms, though not by the reality, of justice, should be perpetu-
ated even to this hour, and that a general mass of prejudice
should have been created, requiring centuries to remove. The
infant is taught, with his first acmnts, to impugn our faith ;
his
education matures his early impressions, and he remains through
life hrea creature
and incapable of sanctioning injustice or
deceit, are thus drawn in to become our opponents. We beseech
all such attentively to investigate, before they finally condemn.
We invite all to the cool consideration of our principles, because
ltule eatfueerleingf , s prejudice' Persons possessed of the most
) no
we know that they will bear time test of the closest inquiry.. If
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be, they are not more our enemies than yours; and be it our mu-
tual task to unveil them, that religion, the child of heaven, may
not be disfigured by human passions, nor infidelity find an ally in
our want of charity to each other. Bearing equally with you, our
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