The Sun.
London, England, 1819-03-08 00:00:00

FOR TEM SIJAT

Mr. EDITOR.ITI pursuance of the suggestion
Ivhirgi your Com.spondent CLearcos has made, I
venture to offer the accompanyhw Draught of a
Protestant Petition to the Legislattire. If pnb-
lished your Journal, which is indeed THE PAPER
OF THE PROTESTANTS. it will meet,' am persuaded,
manv Headers. I offer it for the adoption of
every Protestant, who desires to see that esta-
blishment of our Choich and State, which the
firmness and the wisdom of our ancestors ob-
tained for us, protected and perpetuated. It is
for this purpose, Sir, that I have advanced in the
Petition, facts, doctrines, and principles, which
might otherwise appear too prolix awl arz!!rnen-
: hot your Readers will consider, that not
only the demands of the Protcstaws, but the
foundation of those demands, should he so not

forth as to force otir enemies to their answer.—
On this ground, I very recpeetfolly recommend
Protes.t,..tit lleetings to be imatediatuly
over the whole Eo-ipire ; and that each %vitt read
at lea 1/4t this Petition, and, if tiloy rlo not adopt it,
mil frame one more agreeable to their own judg-
ment otprot its sititi' and stilistanre. Let the Me-
tropolis big in : let London and Westminster set
811 e4tly

I hm
nest tve4ltied to mine own wilting,. I wii

rear! and adopt a Petition more strong

more concise, more convincing.

Neil iuir am I amhhioni of an,notincing my
name :—I am con'cnrc'd with doing good in

secret.

You. however. Mr. Editor, know me :*

yon know also my sincerity, and the perseverance
amy ener.y. If my fellow Protestants think
that I can farther serve their cause, glally shall I
obey the summons, To a properly authenticated
correspondence, I ,hall not hesitate to unfold
myself; and will communicate with any accre-
dited medium; by which the object may be
fortr -mica of a Petition, addressed to the Legis-
lature or to the Sovereign, from every part of this
Protestant Empire, and proclaiming our Rights
ttwier the Revolution.

" Urt juzulent homines, s.urgunt de nocte Lab-ones :
" Ut tripsum serves, nun expergisceris?”—
" Thieves rise in the night, to cat honest men's throats :
" Will you nut watch, to stv yourself 1"

VIGIL.

P. S.—T cannot refrain the expression of my
very high approbation of your Correspondent
ALBERT. I love to " hold the watch" in such
fellowship.

To the Melt Honourable the lisrmrrs, CITIZENS, and
BURGESSES, of the HOUSE of COMMONS, of the
tNITED KINGDOMS of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND, in Parliament assembled ;
The PETITION of the nridersivted PERSONS, professing
the PROTESTANT rtELIGIoN,
IlusrnurEwETri,

That the glorious Revolution of 1688 was rendered indis-
pemiblc by the attumpts then made for the establ.shment of
Popery ; and that it entailed the Throne of these realms on
the Illustrious House of Hanover, for the preservation of the
Protestant EstaWishment in Church and Stitt..
That the principles of the Revolution do not permit any
act to he done, for the prevention whereof that Revolution
was rife, ted.

Your Petitioners further submit, that the safety of the Pro-

testaut Establishment - cannot continue, without the same
precautions and exclusions, which first created it; and, that
the security of the Protestant Succession cannot be perpe-
tuated, without the same conditions which first legalised it
among Its.

Your Petitioners further submit, that in that Protestant
Establishmrnt and Succession the Constitution resides; and
that their safeguard is the primary obligation of tbe Execu-
tive and the Legislative Powers.

Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray; that the Mini-
strrs and Advisers of. the Sovereign, who alone are constitu-
tionally responsible, may be continued exclusively Protestant,
as well as the Sovereign himself.

That the Peers of Parliament, being his hereditary Coun-
sellors ; and that the House of Commons, through which those
laws must past., whereon the security of the Protestant Esta-
blishment depends, may also be continued exclusively Pro-
testant.

That those persons, unto whom the Protestant Sovereign
may, by his Royal Coounisgion, erstrust the execution of his
Laws, the controul of his Revenues, and the defence of his
State, may also be continued exclusively Protestant.
And, flitily, that no person may be entrusted with power
in these Protestant realms who professes allegiance of any
kind to any other authority than to our Protestant Sovereign,
or whose religious opinions may place his conscience at
variance with his duty.
Your Petitioners rest this their humble prayer upon the
motives and principles of that Revolution, which expelled a
Popish Sovereign for no other purpose than the preserva-
tion of the Protestant Establishment in Church and State :
which declared that Establishment to be an integial part of
'he Constitution, and secured it by the oath of that family
which was called in for its protection.

And your Petitioners advance this prayer with the more
confidence; since, by a principle against which the Roman
(:.+tl►olics have nut yet ventured to petition, the Constitution
► squires the British Throne to be Protestant ; and since the
Constitution cannot maintain its equality, unless all its,

branches are of the same religion.

Your Petitioners cannot forbear to observe, that the argu-
ment so repeatedly urged on behalf of the Roman Catholics—
that the peace of the cutm!ry is concerned in the extensio"
of their privileges—infers the hazard of that peace, if their

We do know this Correspondent: we :admire his talents,
ime respect hts principles. We have often /ire!: indebted to
hire for valuable favours, and hope that he will increase our

LONDON jUilltN ALS.

FROM TUE MORNING I'APER‘; OF THIS. DAY.

Morning chrowciel.
By the Agnes, arrived at Holyhead, letters
V,. ere or. Saturday received from Buenos Ayres to
he 28th November, but they contain no mate-
ial No further intelligence had arrived

from Chili simee the
.21st November, whe❑ the
post .brought the information of the capture of
the three Sp.tnisi► transports alrea►ly pubtishe►l.--
Tl►e Guvt moon of Buenos Ayres was well aware
=

, -
that Spain would ere long make a grand an►l last
effort to subject them, and consequently every pre-
paration of defence %vas making. 'This, it was ex-
pected, would be chiefly maritime, and, besides
guit-hoats, all the cruizers in the Atlantic and
Pacific were to rendezvous in the River Plate
about August, 'l►en it was thought the capture
of Peru would have been effected. 'f number
of commissions in possession of CriliZetS an►ounted
to 170, according to official returns' from the
Admiralty. It is pretty clear these cruizers will
nut respect the flags of any ►►eutral ships carrying
Spanish soldiers and arms on board, nor, ii►deed,
after the declarations of the Royalists themselves,
could it be otherwise.