The Sun.
London, England, 1820-05-09 00:00:00

.rapiCtity tlaratien Lutnibrirtly and riedinont on her
way to France.

rivE PER CENTS.

Thursday

. 73 f. 50 c.

Friday

Friday.
Of the 22c1 March, 1817
22d March, 1830 ... .88 f. 70 c..... 68 f. 75 c.

DEFERRED STOCK.
Thursday.

Tria Qugasr.—The Dover Letters of this day
state a report that her MAJESTY has actually
reached Calais. it the Public were to credit all
the reports of her movements, they would think
that her motto should be " hic et übique."

Accounts front Jamaica, to the 25th March,
state that BRION had sailed ►vith his Squadron to
protect a landing of the Expedition on the Main.

The subject chiefly interesting in the House of
Commons last 'night related to the Petition
from n large Body of London Merchants, which
tv•te itoroduced by Mr. BARING, recommendi►►g a

recurrence to former principles in our commercial
intercourse with other countries. The Honourable
Gentleman filleted largely into the subject, and
viewed it in a variety of lights, with reference to
the 'Manufacturing, Agricultural, and other In-

terests of importance to the State, au to an rid-
cable as well as beneficial intercourse with other

countries. As the question will no doubt undergo
a full Parliamentary discussion, in order to pro-
duce a result founded upon true principles of na-
tional policy, it would ill become us to hazard our
crude opinions on a subject of such magnitude and
intricacy, in its present state, and therefore we
shall wait till it has been thoroughly investigated
by the collective wisdom of the Legislature. But
as a Public Journal can and ought to be the me-
dium of useful knowledge, sound reasoning, and
conclusive illustration, Toil SUN shall be open to
the observations of those intelligent Correspon•
dents who, not having an opportunity of deliver-
lug their opinions in Parliament, !nay be anxious
to convey them through the channels of a Paper
which has always had principally, indeed, essen-
tially, in view the happiness of the People and,
the prosperity of the State.

The discussion of the Roman Catholic Question having been
postponed for a few days longer, will give an opportunity to
the Protestant Community of expressing their sentiments in
r►ther a more beneficial way than they conld otherwise have
done. The time, however, is by far too short for any decided
expression of the public voice; but we hope and trust, that
should the motion for the Committee be carried, the People
will instantly press forward, and fill the tables of Parliament
with their Petitions. Indeed, after the public challenge
which was given by Mr. RATTAN last year for petitions
against the Claims, it is almost justifiabie in the Representa-
tives of the People to conclude, that the latter are favourable
to the measure of concession, except they firmly, but consti-
tutionally and legally, declare their sentiments. The ex-
pressien of popular opinion (when kept within proper
bounds) is always attended with beneficial effects; and al-
though no Representative is bound to yield up his private
conscientious convictions under nay circumstances, or would
be justified in so doing, yet it is well known that, according
to the wild and varied texture of the English Constitution, a
certain degree of irresistible influence attends any deci-
sive declaration of the People's sentiments.—Null Re-
ligious Toleration the Itonian Catholics already possess;
they are only excluded from those offices and situations which
w,•uld give them a direct influence over our Protestant Esta-
blishment and Constitution. The most determined Advo-
cates for their Claims admit, that there must always he souse
Gyfices front which tlicy nurse be excluded ; and therefore the
idea of conciliating the minds of the. Roman Catholics, by

geanting a Psßt of their Demands, is perfectly futile. So
long as they are excluded from a single °thee, so long will
they be discontented. We have been accused by some of
wishing to raise a " No Popery" cabal ; but we repel the in-
sinuation. None would be more zealous than ourselves in
the cause of Protestantism and Liberty, (for they must stand
or fall together), but none would more der ecate a repeti-
tion of the scenes of 1780. We would tell our Legislators in
the words of our good old Barons, " Nulumns leges Anglice
mutari," but we would tell them this as the result of due
consideration and conviction, not of idle and inteMperate
clamour.

SPECIAL COMMISSION.—Late on Saturday it was
resolved, that the Special Commission which was
adjourned until yesterday Morning, to meet at
Hicks's Hail, should be dissolved by the non-
attendance of the Commissioners —lf, therefore,
any other persons should be apprehended, who
were involved in the late nefarious transactions,
they will, in all probability, be left to the ordi-
nary course of justice, under the Commission of
Oyer and Terutiner.

The health of her Royal Highness the Duchess
of YORK continues to improve.

Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council
was held at the Foreign Office, which sat for two
hours in deliberation.
Yesterday the Duke of GLOUCESTER visited the
KING for some time at his Palace in Pall-mall.
Yesterday morning Prince LEOPOLD attended
the Anniversary of the Port of London Society,
for promoting Religion among Seamen, at the
City of London 'tavern. In the afternoon his
Royal Highness left town for Claremont.
A person digg'ing in Bridgeton, Scotland, on Monday, found
a number of pike heads of different kinds, concealed in the
earth, and carefully rolled up in a number of copies of the
Black Dwarf.
The .rlyr Courier of Thursday last states, that " an Armed
Association has at lest been formed in the town of Kilmar-
nock, consisting of three companies." Kilmarnock, it is well
known, has all along contained numbers of disaffected per-
sons; and when the Radical Proclamation gave the signal for
a general rising, they commenced drilling on the highways.—
Yet it is only now that a corps for local protection has .been
completed there.