The Sun.
London, England, 1818-08-07 00:00:00

oIIIP

MR. SINCLAIR'S SPEECH*.

.~aa.=--

FOR TH: SUN.

Mr. EDlTOR,—Perhaps it is giving an uniieceS•
sary consequence to an indefensible passage in a
very sensible speech, to offer a word in its refu-
tation ; but the regard I bare for the speaker and
for truth, entitles him to an answer ; and I have
no doubt that his reflection upon it will convince
him, that his Majesty's Ministers are as deset vin'
of his pro,ise for their 1;1)(1.11 and candid resist-
ance of the Roman Catholic Claims, as they are
'or the rest of their political conduct, which he

S 6 justly approves..
SINCLAIII says, that he would grant the
Roman Catholics an unlimited eligibility into civil
and political power, because. the Sovereign is the
third part of the legislative, and tue whole of the
executive arm in the Kingdom, which would be
a sufficient safeguard to the Protestant Establish-
ment, as he would naturally prefer Protestants to
great offices of,trust, in exclusion of the Roman
Catholics, who would not complain. Never was
th re assigned a more slight and inapplicable rea-
son in favour -of their Claims ! It flies over all
the sound sense that has been said and written on
th.t contrary side, and blinks the palpable and un-
deniable inconsistency of admitting them into any
power whatever in the. State, while ungenuine
members thereof, as they undoubtedly are, so
long as they deny the spiritual supremacy of the
Sovereign in a Protestant Kingdom, and perti-
naciously acknowledge_ it in a foreigner, over a
Roman Catholic country. This objection to
their Claim, which they have haughtily wound
up to a demand, is insuperable. The wise rejec-
tion of their presumptive services, which are not
wanted, may offend, but does them no injury.—
It may provoke, but does not fetter them. If
they feel themstlves in chains, ti-ey are their• own
smiths, and may knock them off at pleasure.—
This Gentleman then refers to Catholic France,
where be says Protestants are eligible to the Se-
nate, and Catholic Austria and Bavaria, where
Princes marry Protestant wives ; hut what, ic
the name of common sense, has this to do with
the British Roman Catholics ? It is no plea for
their corn ng into trust, civil, military, or naval ;
which is only for those whose temporal and spi-
ritual tenets agree with our national and Protest-
Establishment in Church and State.

' I:► short, Sir, such is my admiration of the
Speech in general, that I cannot but think some
rank Roman Catholic has sown tares among its
purest wheat, which excites an anxious tNish in
me, that the speaker would read my former papers
on the subject, in Tuft SUN, and reconsi►ler ►he
passage, which, with all due deference and re-
spect for him, has called forth the present ani-
madversion front

TEMLE FILIUS.
• Scc THE CVN of Monday last.

The (Dublin) Correspondent, we perceive, has
taken Iron► In SUN GRANT-T,
junior's, admirable Speech on the Inverness-s;,iie
Election ; a product!m) well calculaied to herald
with a 'vantage this Gentlein:in's assumption of
his office under the Irish Govvrimi,a.

CORN EXCHANOR, AU
tined large supply of Wk
ing ►vas very heavy at LI
and Malt is steady ;
brisker, and full as deli
there is no alteration.
Foreign Wheat - 60*. 70s.
Fine ditto - - 755. 80s.
English Wheat - 655. 70s.
Fine ditto - - - 755. 85s.
Old ditto - - - —s. —s.
Rye
Fine ditto - - - —s. —s.
Barley - - - - 885.445.
Fine ditto - - -50 s. 565.
New ditto - - - —s. —s.
Malt
Fine ditto. - -90 s. —s.
IVlntePease (boilers) 51s. 565.
Fine ditto - - -58 s. 645.

JG 7.-1-IRviiig a conti-
ea: , tt e Trade this more.
Vb)pday's prices ; Barley
the ()at Trade is rather
11.—Ill Pease and Beans

fret- Pease - - - 565, 58s.
Fine Grey Pease - sss. 625.
Tick Beans - - - 645. 68s.
Old ditto - - - —s. —s.
Small Tielt Beans -65 i. 765.
Old ditto - - - —s.
Feed Oats - - - 235. 30s.
Fine ditto - - 345. —s.
Poland ditto - - RBs. 305...
Fine ditto - - - 365. —s.
Potatoe ditto - - 345. 355.
Rape Seed 461. 521. per last.
Fine Flour - - - 70:. 755.
Seconds - - - 655. 70s.

ISLE OF WIGHT) AUG. 3.—The harvest in the
Island is going on well ; the principal part of the
Wheat will be housed by Saturday, and a more
abundant crop has not been in the Island for
upwards of 40 years. New Wheat, brought to
market on Saturday last, weighed near sixty-two
pounds per bushel, which is supposed a general
average for the Iskod.

CAUTION TO STAGE-COACHMEN.--Yesterday
James Hunt, driver of the Norwood stage-coach,
was summoned before the Surrey Magistrates, and
fined 51. and costs, for racing with another coach
al Newington, on the 20th July, and driving in so
furious a manner as to endanger the lives of the
passengers.

DISTRESSING CASE..-Mr. hitlN YOUNG, al-nos:
respectable man, late landlord of the Mocker Red
Cap Tavern, about a month ago attempted to
take away, his own life, in a fit of derangement,
by shooting hitnsclf through the !,ead with a
pistol. The ball lodged in the hack part of his
head, and carried away one of his ears. It was
extracted, and every expectation entertained of
his recovery, when lie was seized with deratige-
aunt, and died raving mad.

. flu Saturday, at Durham, as the prisoners were
returning to gaol, after receiving their sentences.
John Pratt, a young man 24 years of age (sell-
!t nced .0 transportation for 7 years), suddenly
thre-, off his handcuffs, and ran away trom the
cohstables in whose charge he then was, near
Elyet-bridge. Although the alarm was instantly
;.4 it en, he ran ftrotigh the trarket-place, cvhic
was much crowded with people, and got clear off.