The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-16 00:00:00

CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION.

(FROM OUR OWN coRREsFONDENT.)
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, MARCH 14.

I have great satisf►ction in stating to you, that at a
very full meeting of the Common Council, held at the
Guild Hall this day, at one o'clock, a petition to Parlia-
ment (of which I subjoin you a copy), was unanimously
agreed to in favour of the removal of the civil disabilities

of our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects ; thus affording, if

any additional proof were wanting, the most unequivocal
testimony as to the liberal sentiments of the educated por-
tion of the community here, upon a question which so

much engrosses the public attention.

The sensation produced upon 'Change, and in the Ex-
change Coffee-rooms, at half-past two o'clock, when it
was known that the petition was carried UNANIMOUSLY,
was of the most cheering and gratifying description. Indeed
it may be safely averred, that the respectable corporation
of this town never sanctioned any public measure that
gave more universal satisfaction than the one immediately
referred to.

The petition to the LORDS will be transmitted this even-

ing to the DUKE of WELLINGTON, his Grace being a free
burgess of the town ; and the petition to the COMMONS
to CUTH BERT ELLISON, Esq. one of its worthy represen-
tatives. The following is the copy of the petition :

TO THE HON. THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED
KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,
IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED,
THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE MAYOR, RECOR-
DER, ALDERMEN, SHERIFF, AND COMMON
COUNCIL OF NEWCASTLE.UPON-TYNE,
SIIEWETIT,

That your Petitioners observe, with great concern, that
many insidious attempts are now making to excite in the
public mind an unfounded alarm in consequence of his
Majesty's gracious recommendation to Parliament to review
the Laws which impose Disabilities on his Majesty's Ro-
man Catholic subjects; and your Petitioners earnestly pray

that this Honourable House will be pleased to adopt such
measures, consistent with the security of the Protestant
Succession and the Established Church, as may be most
expedient for the removal of those disabilities under which
a numerous and unoffending portion of the United Kingdom
has long laboured on account of their religious opinions, and
the further continuance of which your Petitioners consider

altogether unnecessary.
And your Petitioners shall ever pray, &c.

The Duke of Cumberland left town at an
early hour on Saturday morning, on a visit to his Majesty,
at his Pa!ace at Windsor.

The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Vic-
toria attended divine service yesterday morning, in the
private chapel attached to the Royal Duchess's apartments
in the King's Palace at Kensington. The service was
performed by the Chaplain to the Duchess of Kent.
The Princess Augusta visited the Duchess of
Gloucester on Saturday, at Gloucester House, Park-lane;
and also paid visits to the Duchess of Kent and the Princess
Sophia, at their apartments in the King's Palace at Ken-
sington.

Lady Charlotte St. Maur and Lady Caroline
Jenkiuson have been appointed Ladies of the Bedchamber
to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.
A Cabinet Council was held at half-past three
o'clok on Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign Office, Down-
ing-street, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor,
the Duke of Wellington, Earls Bathurst and Aberdeen,
Viscount Melville, Lord Ellenborough, Mr. Secretary Peel,
Sir George Murray, Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, and Mr. Ber-
ries. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was prevented
from attending the Council by indisposition. The Minis-
ters sat in deliberation till seven o'clock.

Prince Lieven, the Russian Ambassador, had
an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at the
Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and in-
troduced to his Lordship Count Potowski (who arrived in
town on FridaY morning from St. Petersburgh.) The
Prince and the Court were occupied for a considerable time
with the Noble Earl.

Prince Polignac, the French Ambassador,
had a very long conference yesterday with the Earl of
Aberdeen, at the Foreign Office.
The Lord Primate of Ireland, and the Earl of
Aberdeen, had interviews with the Duke of Wellington on
Saturday, at the Treasury. Earl Bathurst visited his
Grace yesterday.

Sir Thomas Gooch, M.P., Mr. Wodehouse,
M.P., and eight other gentlemen, forming a Deputation
from the Maltsters, waited on the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer on Saturday, at the Treasury, and had a long con
ference with the Right Hon. Gentleman.

The Duke of Wellington entertained a select
party to dinner yesterday, at his residence in Downing.
street.

It is rumoured that the Duke of Cambridge
will come to England, to speak, as well as vote, for Ca-
tholic concession.

Lord Hill, the Commander-in-Chief, has
taken the villa of the late Mr. Cockerell, at Westbourne-
green, for the purpose of being near his official duties.

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Captain Garth is rusticating at his little Cas-
sino, between Calais and Boulogne, with Lady Astley.
The House of Commons has been sitting for
nearly six weeks ; and it is remarkable that there have
only been two divisions, and those upon the Catholic
Question.

His Majesty, we are happy to repeat, enjoys
the best possible state of health, of which he has now had a
long continuance. The worthless statements which are
being continually vamped up at this important period,
either to serve a political purpose or to gratify a mercenary
object, would be undeserving notice but for the circum-
stantiality and pseudo-official air by which they are ac-
companied• In the present instance we know that the
state of the King's health has been such as not even to
afford a pretence for such a statement, and that his Ma-
jesty has continued to dine regularly with the members of
his distinguished suite, with two exceptions only, since
his taking up his abode at the Castle,—a fact which of it-
self is sufficient to dispel all the fictions of these paragraph-
mongers.— Windsor Express.
The Duke of Bedford's improvements in Ta-
vistock-square, and that neighbourhood, are nearly com-
plete. There is now a noble road, a free communication,
and a delightful home view, in the line of the London
University, from the late Mr. Perry's fine mansion to
Gower-street and Tottenham-court-road. The site on
which Mr. Perry's house (called Tavistock-house) was
originally built, comprehends nearly two acres of ground,
and three large houses are now erected upon it. The
view from the upper apartments of the Hampstead and
Highgate hills is perfectly uninterrupted, in consequence
of cutting down the trees in the front, but the entire gar-
dens and extensive shrubberies are, we perceive, very pro-
perly preserved.