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firs...hips, to be much greater than vies at first said.—
The Christians, it is adde4obn on their side three Ip-
sariot ships, and what they stillniore regret, the intro{!
pid Canaris, who was blown up with the Turkish ship'
.which he engaged. The same papers report that Der-
wish Pacha has experienced a fourth defeat at Geniis,
whence he designed to penetrate into Livadia.
Letters from Trieste, in the Awgsbarg Gazette of the!
SOth of September, say; lhat a vessel which left Corfu
on the 11th, arrived at Venice on the 18th. All the
passengers are agreed as to the great disasters sustained
by the Turks in]the cluatof Samoa. • The Capudan Bey
of Tunis, commancling.one of. the frigates that were set
on Sre,,axtein piing to ex4ape warralien prt-
• soner. According to. these passengers, the Greeks made
a •.econd attack, in whit!' they burnt a Turkish ship of
C-e line and two frigates.
•• As for the corps that landed on Samos, it was de-
stroyed to a man. A great victory by Admiral Miaules,
over the Egyptian fleet, is spoken of. Many other re-
ports, all advantageous to the defenders of the Cross,
are in circulation ; but it cannot be denied that they
need confirmation.7—French Papers.
PROTESTA STs AN I) CATHOLICS.

THE SITUATION OF PROTESTANTS IN FRANCE COMPARED
.•WIT/I THAT OF CATHOLICS IN ENGLAND.
(rams ?HZ MILO
The lam in England is made for the.mainlenance of
the Trotestant religion. In France, oa the contrary,
nouwitbstanding the small number of Protestants, the
hostility of their princirles to all authority, and the no-
velty of their existence, the law is equal for all. It is a
principle in England that all religions which differ from
the teligiin of the' State ou'ght to be destroyed. In
France, far from being destroyed, they are protected,
and even supported at the expense of the public trea-
sury: In England, Protestants, considered as the ftiends
of the new system, are distinguished by the most emi-
nent prerogatives ; and the Catholics, who form a third
part of the population, are an outcast people. They
are children disinheiited by their'father, excluded from
all marks of confidence, and from every pursuit which
leads to honour and fortune. They hear all the burdens
of the State, and share none of its advantages.
.In France the twenty-nine thirtieths of the population
attached to the religion of the State do not enjoy the
slightest exclusive privilege. Protestants are admissi-
ble to all public posts, and, in fact, hold them to an ex-
tent beyond the proportion of their number. They are
electors, and, eligible equally with Catholics, who fre-
quently return them, without-enquiring into their reli-
gions faith. There ate among them Peels, Deputies,
Generals of Division, Prefects, Presidents of the Royal
Courts, Councillors of State, and of the First Tribunals,
Mayors, &c. We have even seen, both under the old
and the new regime, several Protestants in the French
Ministry ; whilst England would be alarmed, and think
herself on tile brink of ruin, if a single Catholic were to
enter the King's Council or occupy an important office.
In the British. Empire the Protestant Clergy live only
--upon the spoils pf the.ancient Church ; they enjoy im-
mense property, founded by Catholics and for Catholics,
who little imagined that these benefices, the ft uit of
their pii us donations, would one day pass into the hands
of their enemies, and he employed against the donors. Be-
sides, the Catholics who have outlived oppression, or who
• are still tolerated, are compelled to suppot t their Bishops
• and Pi lest., and to build, at their own expense, humble
chapels by the side of the temples which bare been
tAkcp from them. _

'net are forted too, besides paying the Ecclesiastical
tax, tithes, to a clergy foreign to their treed, which
pt ovides for rune of their skiritual wants, to contribute
to the building of Anglican churches, which they never
enter, and which are not even frequented.by Protestants.
In Prance, on• the contrary, the Catholic Clergy, al-
though reduced to a slender hire—a poor compensation
of their ccofiscated property—havemot Taken a farthing
from the Protestants. There are even given to the
Latex, Catholic temples, and where there are none, they
receive aid to construct new ones ; none of their property
has been confiscated ; they
,enjoy in peace what they
possessed, and their Ministers receive a salary from
the Government, although they cannot claim it by WI
title of indemnity, and this salary exceeds that of Ca-
tholic Rectors, who are very differently occupied.*
We will not inquire whether this is tight or wrong—
we will not attempt to decide whether the toleration of
a religion which is not that of the State, or even the
rotection of it in the event of its being troubled, ought,
in st: act propriety to extend to favours and direct sup-
port—we will merely report facts, establish a point of
co riparison, and shew the respective positions of the
Protestants in France and the Catholics in England.—
Notwithstanding all this, and the liberty of the former,
France stilt passes for fanatical, intolerant, and perse-
cuting; and under this view the English and German
Papers are filled with invectives against her, whilst,
notwithstanding the state of oppression of seven millions'
of Catholics, England passes in the eyes of the multi-
tude for the classical country of toleration, and the ge-
',serous protector of civil and religious liberty.
• The Etude meant, we imagine, that the ordinary duties of the
Catholic Priests ate wore burrheadeine than those of the Protestants.

INK EVENING STAR

LONDON.

FRIDAY, OC roBER .8, 1824.
THE FUNDS..

SPOOK EXCHANGE. TWELVR O'CLOCK.

Consuls opened at 9.1 i i for the Account, which will be on
Tuesday. and up to this hour they are 95i, with scarcely anything
doing.—The suns which will be paid to the l'ublic to-morrow, in
money, if claimed by the ilisseutieuts from the lour per Cults. will
•
by upwards 01 X439C0,C00. •