The Sun.
London, England, 1818-03-25 00:00:00

THE COUNTRY.

Our Readers will recollect that when we insti-
tuted the- plan of taking EXTRACTS from tire
Newspapers in circulation all over the Empire,
under the title of PRovINCIAL JOURNALS, which
we have changed to the more general head new
adopted, we signified that we should nor confine
.ourselves to the matters of local intelligence which
those Journals might afford, but communicate the

opinions and arguments of their respective con-
ductors, on all subjects of national and universal
interest. We begun with The Leeds Intelligencer
and The (Dublin) Correspondent, as we were
struck with the loyal spirit, sound principles,
knowledge and ability, which those Papers, in
p articular, displayed, aml we have since been
often indebted to both. As the Conductors of
the Provincial Journals are placed at a dis-
tance from the chief FURNACE OF FACTION,
the Metropolis, they have Icisure to judge
coolly, to reflect on the nature of passing
events, and on the characters of those who ren-
der themselves conspicuous, either by vanity, folly,
interested motives, or by the nobler impulses of
public virtue. Loaf FoI.KESTONE stands among
these conspicuous characters, bat whether from
Party zeal or Public virtue, we shall leave the
people at large to determine. At present, how-
ever, we shall avail ourselves of the opinions of
n Writer who possesses distinguished abilities,
'which he seems at all times disposed to exert in
support of the General Interests of the Empire.

(Front The (Dr ?ilia) Curreiymilent of the 21st inst.)
"LORD FOLKEtiTONE.
"An important construction of the Law passed
for empowering Magistrates to visit prisons was
established by the proceedings which took place
on Tuesday in the House of Commons, by which
it appears, that this authmity dues not apvly
prisoners committed for High Treason. This
decision resulted flout Lord FOLKESTONE'S 11)0.
tion, for leave to bring in a Bill to explain certain
doubts as to the Statute of the 31st of the King—
which motion his Lordship thought i: proper to
withdraw, all the arguments that he had used be-
ing utterly refuted by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL.—
We are aware of rhe improptiety of the term " ar-
guments," when applied to any thing which is re-
ported of his _Lordship's speech ; for an oration of
a more desperate aim, more di!qinctly calculated
to loosen all the train ligamekits of society, or of
a more genuine Jacobin stamp, than this which
has been set forth in the London Newspapers as the
-Speech of Lord FOLKESTONE, we never have read.
It is wild, rash, absurd, and impudent ; and,
while it aims at traducing the Judgment-scut,
and setting up the Government as the common
enemy of Right at. !Justice, it is one of the most
ignorant diatribes in all sound principles of the
Law of the Land, and of general Justice, that
tver was pri,nonoced. We sneak only of what
read—not of what Lord VOLK ESTONTE has
spoken ; for, we would hope, that he never
could have expressed those sentiments which are
imputed to him. We should never think of
blaming his Lordship for his own conceited no-
tions of his knowledge, nor for his overweening
estimate of himself ; for this is become so fami-
liar now, as to become an absolute indication of
Reformers, of all sorts and sizes. However they
may vary in their species, this generic duality they
uniformly display. It is a melancholy infatuation
only that can drive men of rank and condition
into such pernicious eccentricities—into conduct
anti principles that, if ascendant, must throw so-
ciety into confusion, and
.bury themselves among
• the first victims in its ruins."

OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC QUESTION.

FOR THE SUN.

PART XII.

AEVIEW OF A LETTER. PRONI LORD GRENVILLE
To LORD FINGALL, dated Camelloid-house, Jan. 22,
1810.

MR. EDlTOR,—Ttiming to this letter, milt! in

language, and cautious in sentiment as it is, it
would be wrong to select disjointed paragraphs,
to answer partial purposes. hi tie eleventh of
these papers, it is said that the noble writer,
after introducing arid eloquently supporting the
Petition of the Homan Catholics, had, on ma-
turer deliberation, shrunk from the question.--
•Tltis he admits, because circumstances had been
changed, by the imprisonment of their spiritual
-1-lead, under the tyranny of BUONAPARTE, who
determined that in future his successors should be
named by the Crown, which destroyed his su-
premacy in spirituals, and consolidated the Galli-
earl Cliarch and State into one ; consequently Ro-
man Catholic subjects would owe their spiritual
allegiance to a foreign King, with a Pope in his
belly, and temporal homage to a domestic one,
yid] a mitre on his head. This would be such
nonsense, that the receiving them into civil and
political power, would place them, in a war, as
enemies to him in a civil sense, and friends in a
religious one. It would be to brandish two
swords, as St. Peter did, who fought for his
great master, one secular, the other ecclesiastical,
which were afterwards seized by the POPE, and
perhaps, like St. Peter, they might afterwards
deny and renounce the hand that was opened. to
shake their own.

But to examine the letter; his Lordship says,

AT NINE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, TO-MORROW,
LOTTERY DRAWS.-THREE PRIZES OF THIRTY
THOUSAND POUNDS, SIXTY-FIVE OTHER CAPI-
TALS, AND EIGHT PIPES OF PORT.

$.41 For Lt fEIt.tRY REVIEW, see our Last Page.

THEATRICAL REGISTER.
Performed Last Night.
TnEATnr,AL, PwitY-LANE.—Know Your Own Mind:
Millarnour, Mr. Rae; Lady Bell, Mrs. Alsop. After which,
Olri.
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GA nnEs.—(fourth time), Rob Roy
Macgregor; Francis Osbaldistone, Mr. Sinclair; Diana
Vernon, Miss Stephens. After which, Harlequin Gulliver.

MAILS.
ARRIVED-1 Dublin, 1 Guernsey and Jersey, 1 Malta, 1
France. Du E—l Waterford, 1 Holland, 1 Gottenburgh,
1 Lisbon, 3 Haniburgli.

LA DY- DA Y.—Holiday at Um Bank, Stock Exchange, &c.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW.
Morning, 31 minutes after 4. Evemiug, 56 minutes after 4

THE SUN.

SOLEM Quis I)fCEItE FA ',SUM fl OF:AT ?

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1818.

We received last night the Paris Papers of Fri-
day and Saturday last. Those of Sunday, which
were due this morning, have not come to hand.
We give extracts in another column : they chiefly
consist of the details of as event which for tits•
moment spread consternation through all Paris,
the destruction by fire of the Theatre Royal de
l'Odeon. The flames burst forth on Friday,
whikt several of the persons belonging to the
Theatre were empkyed iii making arrangements
for the next day's representation, and their pro-
gress appears to have been so rapid, that all-the

body of the Theatre was destroyed in a very short
time, with very considerable loss of property, and
reducing by this calamitya number of families to
the greatest distress.

The Lord,SPECER whom the Paris Journals
recently stated to have been conveyed to Saint
Pelagie for 9 debt of 49,00 francs, is explained
to be Lord SPENCER CHICHESTER.
The King of PORTUGAL and BRAZIL is an-
nounced to have acceded to the Holy Alliance.
The Chamber of'Deputies closed the discussion
on the Customs Projet on Thursday, and adjourned
till Saturday, to hear the Reporter of the Com-
mittee, and decide upon the Projet.

FRENCH FIVE PER CENTS.

Thursday, vx. thr. . - Gc f. so c.
Friday,.. ditto 65 f. 90 c.

This morning we received Norfolk (America)
Papers to the 22d ult.
(Frow, 7'he Norfolk Herald of the 20th rf Fib.)

TRINIDAD, JAN. 21.—We are ID possession of
important news from Caraccas. Mr. LINDSAY,
of Grenada, arrived here the day before yesterday
front Cuinana and Caraccas; which last city he
left the end of llecember ; he states, that confi-
dence in the Royal Army was restored; and that
emigrant families had returned from St. Thomas's
and Curacoa, amongst which, we understand, are
two sisters of the Marquis del Tono. Orders had
been received from the Spanish Cabinet to observe
the strictest obedience to the Royal pardon of
those persons who would wish to return, and
avail themselves of it. All the families retired

were immediately putt in possession of their pro-
perty, and from the known character of the
Captain General, Brigadier-General PARDO, all
the• Emigrants who wish to return to that Coun-
try may expect an entire compliance with the
Royal Indoho. From two, to three hundred
houses were building at Caraccas ; and at La
Guita and Porto Cabello, trade with the neutral
Colonies with Old Spain had greatly revived.

(From the Charleston Conricr V. the 20th Feb.)

The Bill reported in the House of Representa-
tives, by Mr. FoRsYTn, from the Committee to
whom was referred so much of the President's
Message as related to the commercial intercourse
between the United States and the British West
India Islands and Possessions in North America,
was worthy of tlttir particular notice, from its
technical title of a Bill supplementary to the Act
regulating Duties on Imports and Tonnage,

Ire gave it.

It is a literal transcript, we believe, of the Bill
reported by the same Committee at the last Ses-
sion, which was ably debated, but was laity over
as- deser►•ing more mantle consideration. Few
subjects of the present Session are likely to excite
more interest than this Bill for countervailing the
British Colonial Policy, if we except, perhaps,
the Bill for establishing an uniform System of
Bankruptcy, which scents loudly demanded from
all the commercial sections of the country.

It has been confidently asserted that Ministers
have sent new Credentials to our Ambassador
at Stockholm, with an acknowledgement 'of
BERNADOTTE, on the part of the British Govern-
ment, as inheritor of the throne of the late
Usurper. We have several times expressed our
disbelief of this reported fact, and from all the en-
quiries which we have made, we are inclined to
peresevere in our incredulity, As yet, we have
only heard of an acknowledgment on the part of
the KING of FRANCE, but, not considering that
amiable and intelligent Monarch as exercising his
free-will in these revolutionary times,• when too
mile!' is necessarily sacrificed to popular opinion,
corrupted by Jacobin principles, and encouraged
by Jacobin success, we lay little stress upon what
tve deem a kind of compulsory acquiescence on
the part of that Monarch, and rather direct our
views to the conduct of other Sovereigns, who
are not under similar restrictions. - Those Sove-
reigns will surely pause before they commit a sort
of felo de se act upon legitimate Authority, in
sanctioning the seizure of a throne, while the
Lawful Monarch, and his most promising lick-
Apparent are in existence. Besides, it would be a
point of national prudence in other Govern-
metal, before they acknowledge a Government
of usurpation, to know a little mote of
the clue character and probable designs of
the new self-elect.:l Monarch. Once a Ja-
cobin always a Jacobin, and it is the Jaco-
bin nature to engross as much power as it can
tor itself, and to embroil other couutries in or-
der to secure authority in its own. We heartily
approve of the conduct Of Lord GRENVILLE' in
not tolerating the authority of 1300NAPARTE, When,
by coup (11 main, he first possessed himself of the
supreme power in France. Lord GRENVILLE acted
on that occasion like a wise, cautions, and expe-
rienced Statesman, and if we are finally obliged to
follow the other Powers of Europe in a degrading
recognition of usurped authority, while the right-
ful claimant is alive, let us at lead endeavour to

profit by the concession, and .secure some alvan-
tages to ourselves. tVe, THE DELIVERERS OF
Eunorrt, have been insolently stiles(' A nation of
Shop-keepers. It i's true policy, then, and not de-
gradation, for us to act like prudent tradesmen,
and not part with aby thing without an equi°
valeta., La Serjeant BERNAbOTTE pay for our
acquiescence in his self-elected Royalty before we
part with that recognition, which Will be the most
honourable security for his throne that. any Go'
vernment could confer, however diSgracefttl it mg,
be to our own national character.

CORN-EXCHANGE, MAncti 25.—Havingno fresh
Arrivals since Monday, the little business donBiti
Fine Wheat and Oats were at Monday's prices
Fine Barley supports its price ; in other kinds of
Grain there is no alteration.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM BUENOS AYRES, DATED
DECEMBER 30, 1817.

. _
" The political situation of this province i 3
considered pretty securely established in the
minds of the impartial to he Republican, so that
there is nothing to apprehend as prejudicial to
the cause of either external or domestic ell"
mies. We have very late accounts from Ch h,
which gi Ve account of the great success of the Pa"
(riots in that quarter. e Royal Army had been
obliged to retreat towards Lima. The Republican
General Belgrono, from this place, had several,
partial actions with them, in all of which he had
put them to the rout. The Portuguese and 6"
nerd Artigas have of late been very inactive,
having little or no skirmishing : the former Pos-
sesses Montevideo, with very little territory ; the
latter all the Northern and Western ports of !k'e
province, and in this situation they have re-
mained for some time. Some reports say this
is owing to the Portuguese shortly intending
to evacuate their bold ; others, that they are
only waiting for reinforcements, which ore,
expected front Rio Janeiro, when they "111
make an attack upon Artigas. The Portuguese
and this Government at present are on rather
ftit-ndly terms, hut how long this tranquil scat`_'
of things will continue it is impossible to say, f°
all these people have kept perfectly aloof "
mental grounds, in any thing that might hal
been made under commission isturd by hint, wool(
not be permitted to enter the waters of this port'
or any under its Jurisdiction." •

The Prince of lIEssE LIomBERG yesterday kftf
town for Windsor, on a visit to the QuEEN
PRINCESSES.
On Monday morning the Dukes of KENT "I
StissFx visited the Duke and Duchess (if C;Lou"
cEsTER, who afterwards left town for Winds,'"
The Dukes of YoRK awl CUMBERLAND YCster'
day visited the PRINCE REGENT.
Yesterday Count Muss Tea had an audience of
the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton-house.
WINnsoR, MARcu 2-I.—At a late boo.r. last
night the !lice of Ku NT arrived. The weatl)ec
proving stormy and cold; the Royal Family love
not left the Castle for two days past. Tls:i 5 dOr
the Prince ref HEssE IlomsEstG is expected topaY
his first visit to her MAJESTY and the FeiNcesso-
- bells began to ring this mornini, awl IweC
continued the %%hole of the day ; numbers of pc"
sons of all ranks were assembled in expe,quA"ll
of seeing his Serene Highness. ,g
ROYAL HUNT.—Monday the PRINCE BcoENT
Staghounds turned out a deer, which wag 3 very
i
fine one, at IVinkfield-plain. The deer sh("ve`
great sport, taking through the woods by Sr. ~Leon-
ard's-hill,. crossed the Thames 'nearly
ball; the Gentlemen Sportsmen' and hounds carr
through Windsor, and renewed the chase
Salt-hill, where he took across the country t°•
wards wards Uxbridge, and ran with great' sPeed be
Harrow-on-the-Hill, and about three miles on
other side he was taken, after a long day''
Version.

EASTER TUESDAY.—YesterdAy, accort-3": tO
i I
ancient cuslom, the Scholars of Christ's E1°51.7t7
walked in procession to the Royal
when about one o'clock they, with their heroin_
and nurses, were admitted to the Mansion-h°Tie,
ill
and after seeing ail the ornaments of the Eggt;lha
Hall, they passed in procession throngr' 0,
Grand Saloon,. where sat. the LoanMAYOII, L'l%-
MAYOII%sS, and faintly, with the REcoßnEg
City Officers, when his Lordship of
each.
of of the boys with sixpence, a glass of wine,
bun ; after which the Lord MAyor went in ware
with them to Christ Church, when 'a sermon tv°s
preached by the Rey. Dr. CHATEY,of Cambridge'
who took his text front the 29th Chapter of Job?
and 13th verse.
Inc BIRMINGITAM THEATRF, opened on p-fti.
day last. Mrs, C. EENIBLX, who, with
ElI
talents and aceomplislitnentS, which inStltr 111110 f
her into high estiiu as an Actress, but 'vac
to the disgrace of the Managers, cannot pri)ce-ir
an engagement on the London Boards, is, -0),
gaged to perform a few nights at Birmine3;el
where we doubt not that she will be receilio.
a cordial ‘velcome. It is unjust, a$ ‘“,..1 re
tiny, in the MJnagers of Covers ("Lrden
not to avail themselves Of the tahmts of tilis
tfC:O, who has hardly a superior in point of cote,talents, and eeitainiy Lone equal i,t point "'r
complishments, as site was induced to quit
Lane Theatre when Mr. KtiMBLE heCmlie a
pricror of the other, as he knew her talents
might be rendered eminently usefol.• But, fr°'
what we hear, private partialities and pitill:o 111- •
chinations are suffered to prevail in ttle latt
Theatre, otherwise, Mr. WALsn, who saablY. ~e
•
sided over the !misled department, and bisi Mee
cowplished pupil, Miss CAREA, would not 'l.B'
been discarded. It is fit that the nature and .101. i
lives of these machinations and dismissiuns shn
o
be publicly developed.. -
SIMPLICITY.—A countryman giving evidence 1.111
a Court was asked by the Counsel if be was 1“::11
in wedlock.? No, Sir:" answered the roan,
was born in Deconsitir!"
LETTER OF THE LAw.--:-A girl being
, for
stealing a pair of black silk stoCkings, bult it be-
ar
ing proved upon evidence that they. were t'V"
ones, she was acquitted, .