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London, England, 1829-04-09 00:00:00

CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.

ABSTRACT of the HOUSE of PEERS, as they voted on the
Motion for the SECOND READING of the CATHOLIC
RELIEF BILL, on the 4th of April, 1529.

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1829.

Poor old Lord ELDON, the staunch Intolerant of
four-score, seems at last nearly exhausted. The
little trickling streamlet of his invention and in-
genuity has fairly run itself out—the channel is
dry—there is not a particle of freshness left. One
by one his Lordship's arguments have been replied
to, and given up by many, even of his own party,
and the slight stock of logic that he has yet left on
hand, is actually not worth the valuation. He en-
deavoured, last night, to shovr fight, as usual, but it
was a mere show. The substance—the stamina
that should enable him to force the trenches of his

opponents was wanting, and nothing now remains
for the disconsolate old gentleman, but to shut him-
self up in Doubting Castle, nurse his gout, and de-
fend himself and those about him from the encroach-
ments of liberality and intellect.
The downfall of this once influential statesman
►vill serve as a useful warning to those, who, trusting
to their own superior energies, may be tempted to
array themselves in presumptuous hostility against
the character and necessities of the times in which
they live. In the overthrow of Lord ELDON'S supre-
macy, they will find their own distinctly shadowed
forth, should they ever attempt like him to dam up
the current of public opinion, or direct it into wrong
channels. A few years ago, and who so great—
who so omnipotent, as the Ex-Chancellor of Eng-
land ! His word was all but law—his opinion de-
cided the Ministry—his high behest kept seven
millions of British subjects in the most unjust and
debasing thraldom. What is he now ? Read the
Debates and see. There see the poor old man
drivelling night after night his puny maxims of in-
tolerance to a House, which pays that respect to his
years and experience, which they would scornfully
deny to his argument. There see SAMPSON shorn of
his strength—the giant prostrate on the earth, sad
the crowd looking down upon him, in silent ex-
pressive wonder at the weakness of the bug-bear
who so long kept them in subjection. But this is
the world all over. They first set up a scare-crow,
bend before it in worship as before a Deity, and
then when they are sick of adulation, pull it down
unceremoniously from its niche, and condemn it for
that very elevation, which, after all, was the work
of their own hands.

Lord ELDON retires into private life with the
singular consolation of reflecting, that the power
which was intrusted into his hands for beneficent
purposes, has been turned into the Minister of evil ;
that on no one occasion hus he ever been known
to contribute to the improvement of the age; but
throughout his political career has invariably kept his
face turned towards the East, forgetting that the sun
of intolerance has since made the circuit of the ho-
rizon, and is now set for ever in the West. Yet his
Lordship—strange infatuation—still persists in look-
ing for it in the East !

A Buenos Ayres mail arrived this morning. The
accounts are unfavourable. They state, among other
things, that a civil war has broke out hi the pro-
vinces, that three chiefs are at the head of 1,000
men, and that the Governor has marched against
them with 800 cavalry. The following are extracts
from the Buenos Ayres Papers to the 19th January
BUENOS AYRES, DEC. 21 .

A document has been published, entitled, "Manifesto
made by the Provisional Government of Buenos Ayres, of
the motives that caused and justified the movement of the
Ist Dec. 1828." It is very long.
It is reported that the routed forces of the es-Governor
have collected in various parts, and committed some out-
rages, and that the Convention in Santa Fe, when they
heard of the change effected in the Government of this
province, had authorised the Governor of Santa Fe to as•-
list in order to establish order, if necessary.
Dec. 27.—The intelligence of the proceedings in this
city on the let instant has caused great sensation in Cor-
dova. A project was presented to the Junta of that pro-
vince, by one of its members (Larcano), and we believe
immediately passed, to unite in the person of the Governor
(Bustos) the legislative, executive, and judiciary authorities.
Bustos has issued a proclamation, dated Cordova, Dec. 10,
stating, that "liberty is threatened by a factious party, that
the man who caused theanarchical movement on the Ist inst.
in Buenos Ayres, is the same who so many times has had
the audacity to assert that he should never be satiated
with spilling the blood of the Provincialists. Those who
have been guilty of the scandalous act of deposing the
Governor-General, constituted so:by the general vote of the
provinces, placing themselves at the head of the troops
who had been destined to assert the honour of the Republic,
are the same who, in 1814, requested from Charles IV.
a branch of the House of Bourbon to be King over us ; are
the same who, in 1815, protested to the Count de Casa
Flores, the Spanish Ambassador in Rio Janeiro, that if they
had interposed in American affairs, it had been for the object
of better assuring the rights of his Catholic Majesty in this
part of America ; they are the same who, in 1816, would
have sold us to Don John VI., the Prince Regent of Por-
tugal ; they are the 'lame who, in 1819, would have sold
us to the Prince of Lucca ; and, finally, they are the au-
thors of all the misfortunes of Portugal.
The Governor of Santa Fe (Lopez) has issued a circular
to the different provinces, slated Dec. 19, 1828, upon
the movement in this city on the Ist, stating it is neces-
sary to attack in its origin the evils which threaten not
only the provinces of Buenos Ayres, but all the Republic,
which will be involved in miseries, if the system of the
Unitarians is suffered to prevail ; and that the salvation
and 'security of the country demands that the system
should be put aside and exterminated.
The Governor of Entre Rios (Soli) in answer to the
above, dated 10th inst. agrees in the necessity of acting
with promptitude to avert the evils which threaten them
from the late military movement in Buenos Ayres, of which
Don Carlos Alvear and Don Juan Lavalle ate stated to be

at the head, and that he (the Gotetnor) is ready t° aci
with considerable force.
JAN. 10.—From the tenor of our ^domestic'newstry
tht animosity engendered, civil war would teem tol)eis
avoidable. The adviees from Cordova, however, g_
rather favourable, inasmuch as it is positively..staeed
the Governor (Bustos) has not 800 disposable.trOePh
is likewise short of money and horses.
11€1
JAN. 17.—His Majesty's ship Ganges, 84 guar,
Admiral Sir R. W. Otway, sailed from Rio Janeiro k
Ist, and arrived at Monte Video the 10th inst. The its
mir.ll, Captain Inglefield, and several officers, /,51e
Buenns Ayres in the Tribune, a boat front which 09'
on shore on the 13th.

Our City Correspondent says, that a private lel
ter his been received from Rio Janeiro of the Bth °II
February, which contains the following imports°
information :—" Don PEDRO has consented to or'
knowledge his Brother as King of Portugal, Pt"
vided be pursues milder means in his Governall
which is to be guaranteed by Austria, France, 51'
EnglAnd. The Cortes are to meet sooner than
expected; and the frigate is to take back -a Geri"
Princess, whom Don num° is going to • marry.;
Exchange, 26i to 27. Every. thing wis 'veil
at Rio."

The French Papers are chiefly filled with ?II
titulars respecting Cardinal CASTIGLIONI and
elevation to the Chair of St. Peter's. "
says the Massager " supported by France at till
time of the election of LEO XII., and opposed t°
that Sovereign Pontiff." Our readers will find
tracts in another column.

The German Papers announce the death of hie
Serene Highness the reigning Landgrave of 4Esst
Homuurtc, who died on the 2d of April, at-Hoer'
burg, after a short indisposition, at the age
.of 59
years. Prince Louts of Hesse-Homburg, Governor
of Luxemburg, succeeds him. The death of tbe
late Landgrare was occasioned by inflammation 0/
the chest. The same Papers state that news be/
been received from Bucharest of some advantage/
obtained by the Russians near Varna. The mei
complete arrangements, they add, have been made
in the Russsian army for the subsistence of the
troops. They state also that the Divan at ConstBrr
tinople is more than usually busy, and has had fre'
quenc meetings of late. We have given extracts
elsewhere :

IiRAYKFORT, APRIL
His Serene Highness the reigning Landgrave of 117.
Homburg died last night at Homburg after a short BID',
at the age of 59 years.

Prince Louis of Hesse Hombur rftgA, N o
Gor
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burg, who succeeds to the Landgraviate. of Hesse neint:
burg, is at present at Berlin, whence he is expected 00 il
tend the funeral of the late Landgrave Joseph Louis, Whicls
will take place next week. The illness which °call°ee
the death of the late Langrave was
.an inflantal,l44l:
the chest. The Landgravine in the most affectionatc!"-i
ner never left him till he breathed. his last. ger P.Olll
Highness is as well, as can be expected under suchcircuts
stances, but like the other members of thefainily Plowed
in the greatest affliction. . •
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The reports of a serious and sanguinary action• 1.1 r"
Varna, which were in circulation -here a -few
seem to be wholly unfounded. .. • - '
FRONTIERS OF WALLACHIA, MARCS
We have received news from Bucharest, of some addax"
tages obtrined by the Russians near Varna,. which milYille.o
considered as preludes to the grand operations which To
shortly commence on. the Danube.. The weather 01
rather severe, but the grass, which hi beginning to. 0°1",•'
promises abundant forage for the cavalry in the,priseiPl`.!:
ties. In general the. most complete arringementai
been made in the Russian army for the aubsisteticc
troops. As last year, 60,000 or 70,000 teem' of
co °/ee
Td
will he employed for the nveyance of ovii ~
OPI 're--
Bessarabia.

CONSTANTINOPLE, lIANCIi I°'
Since our last letter some supplies of cot's hare. b!go
received here, so that the apprehensions of famine are!,l.ot
so great. The Divan has frequent meeting..
she
On the 28th there was an extraordinary Coundia, 001..
which all thegreat men of the empire waited on to the
tan, who intends to take the field, to lay before 140,
measures that had been resolved upon. The Beet 01' Sew
ships of war sailed on the 7th to the Channel, law to,
past many twroohepencehathveeybeearneemtobargokedbyhier: to
Sstria
Adrianople.
We have nothing new from the theatre of war since,
occurrences near Bazardjik.
As this letter says nothing of the events at Siteltai'
they seem to have been known bat to few people at ce-
stantinop!e.

BRUSSELS, AT ML 4'
In the Second Chamber of the States General two 1301
messages were read, the one accompanying a new gee° d
chapter of the third book of the Ordre de Procedure,l
the other modifications of some chapters of the civil
Numerous petitions for the redress of grieyanocoP, • t
against some of the taxes proposed in the decennial budget,
were referred to the committee of petitions. •
ANTWERP, APRIL
We have another terrible act of piracy to relate. Cap'
Min Neal, of the American ship the Paris, which hoe Alf"
rived here from Batavia, reports that the fine American thIP
tie Topaz, bound from Boston to India was attacked by 8
Pirate off St. Helena ; after taking out a great part of eke
cargo the pirate set fire to the ship, and would- net "Lke
out a single man of the crew. Will this horrible air°
remain unpunished, and will not not the maritimePolier!
of Europe adopt effectual measures against the bandit"
who infest the seas? On this occasion we think it pop.
to add, that proceedings are going on before the judicl4l
authorities in this city against the pirate Smith, who is
absent (contronace).
Accounts from Frankfort speak of the assembling of 1;4
Austrian army of observation on the frontiers of Serf--
and Bosnia during the present year.

As the late triumphant majorities in the House
of Lords no longer admit a doubt of the success et.
that wise and just measure—the Bill fur the Relief
of the Catholics, we, at length, have leisure to ad'
vert to a current report that another highly into
resting discussion is likely to take place on a Sub'
ject intimately connected with Church discipline,
viz. a recent addition to the number of Bishops, with-
out the usual formalities of a conge d'6lire, the it"
tervention of a Dean and Chapter, or announcement
in the Gazette!

Rumour states that a Reverend Gentleman, 101°'
from infancy, could never pronounce the word'
" noli Episcopari," happened to find himself some

time since in Paris, attain the fullness of charity t°'
wards his Anglo-Parisian countrymen persuaded
himself it was of great importance to their spiritual
welfare that there should be an English Protestant.
Bishop of PARIS ! Having blended historical with
his theological studies, he discovered in the course cd

his reading, that one BONAPARTE, at no very remote
period of ‘var and revolution, placed an iron crowll
on his own head, and thence formed the idea, ill
these " piping times of peace," of ensconcing
own brow in a mitre.
BONAPARTE, however, gave solemnity to his pro'
ceeding by calling in the aid of the POPE, but the
Rev. Gentleman neither expecting aid from his Holl.l
ness nor the English Episcopacy, after much cogitv
tion turned his thoughts and steps towards Scound,

where ultimately overcome either by his arguments
hisirnportunities, the Scotch Bishops consecrated
'"thelter. (thenceforth we presume the Right Rev.)
'Gentleman Bishop of Pam. This point ac-
.l—complished, be speedily returned, enthroned him-
self, and exercised all the episcopal functions of
ordination, confirmation, consecration,&e. the Anglo-
- Parisians not caring to enquire into his title to do
so, and the French caring still less whether he per-
formed them or not. Although so little cared for in
Faris, the news on reaching this side the water oc-
casioned no inconsiderable sensation, particularly
among the Right Rev. Bench, this irregular as-
sumption of the Episcopal dignity being fraught
With great danger to the Church, since, if them be
an Angle-Gallic Bishop of PAats, we mu't shortly
1, expect a Gallo-Anglican Bishop of LONDON, who
may feel as much disposed to share the revenues
the labours of the See. A Right Reverend
Prelate therefore addressed a monitory letter to this
"Piling but erring son of the Church, who on its
.-receipt observed for some time a respectful or ex-
-Pressive silence, which he at length broke by a
elastic:al quotation :

" Mellor est conditio posoidentis"—
, m"ning it is presumed that " possession is nine
points
law ;" and having learned from an
A noo.;:f tile
arisi
an
quamted with , who had good reason to be well ac-
the fact, that the King's writs had no
force in Paris, promptly concluded an Episcopal
monition might be as powerless, and thereupon has
ventured to shew symptoms of contumacy ;—thus
this important affair rests at present.
-.... The Earl of ELDON, in the midst of defeat and
liscornfiture, chuckles at the new opportunity for
.expressing devotion to the Protestant Church, admi-
. ration of the wisdom of our ancestors, anxiety for
the welfare of posterity, and has even pronounced
(without expressing a scintilla of doubt !!) that at
...•
„ ihe glorious Revolution of 1688 there was not any
Anglo-Gallic Bishop of PARIS.
His Grace the Duke of NEWCASTLE, as soon as he
his collected his ideas, (which are generally abroad,
though the Noble Duke himself is seldom an ab-
sentee,) intends to demand an audience of the So-
vereign.
Messrs. SADLER, BANKES, WatIERELL, &c.
1001 C Wise,

For to be seeming wise, you know,

Is half as good as being so.
The Charity children in parishes under the con•
troul of Anti-Catholic authorities are filled with
dread and apprehension, lest they should be corn-
' palled to resume the work of signing petitions. We
• 411 heaid, however, on good authority, that a well-
.: known Jew Fripier in Dake's-place, perfectly con-
with the value of second-hand articles, is
"making arrangements by which he expects shortly
eCorrie possessed of all the Anti-Catholic peti-
tlone that have lately been presented, and in order to
live time trouble, and ex pence, as well as avoid the
zileatidal lately attendant ..on procuring signatures to
petitions, proposes, as soon as the let CUR be as-
.loried, at 'a
small charge, and on the shortest notice,
110-supply any Noble Lord or Honourable Gentle-
. .
.11441, with any number of signatures from an unit to
,14)0,000, to append to any petition they may be dis-
. *ell io.present to. either House of Parliament, or
Yat the foot of the Throne;
•,„

They "write' from Constantinople to the 11th
March, that more than .100 couriers have been dis-
.sll!4!l ftoM the cipital to the provinces, with in-
formation that the SULTAN will depart for Adrian-
bple on die 21st March, to be followed by the troops
‘l)‘ the camp of Ramis Tscheflik, and all the volun-
letts from the capital, to the number of 1.50,000
men' when an attempt will be made to retake Varna.

The presentation of the Freedom of the City was
Yesterday presented to Mr. PEEL, amid the ap-
Pisuses of one of the most respectable assemblies that
''were ever yet congregated together within the walls
the City of London.