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School and Lodging .. _.—.., Court Yard, extensive Garden
Grounds, wailed mond, &se. very eligible tor Buildiog.
fly Mr. R 0 BINg, at Garaway's, on Thursday next, at Twelve.
1g4344
• CAPITAL FREEHOLD ESTATE, the
Property or WILLIAM &w
1603 att, Esq. comprising the spa-
,Y. Ibilanston, with Offices of asiescriptioas, a range of
ned Apartments, forming the West wing, contains vs-
Apartments, Lodging amid School-roonss, Court-yard,
'awns, Play-grounds, and extensive- Gardens, surrounded .by
Softy walls, clothed nub choice Fruit-trcen, l'oc+house, Farm-
yard, Coach house, and Stables, and Out-buildings, the Whole
trici ly Three Acres, situate on Croom's-hill, and communicattag
ith Royal-kill; the whole in possession of Dr. Burney, as an
easy of the first respectability and extensive aceonupodi-
_ sor a Residence for a Geutleman. •
Dt.fay be viewed, by Tickets, and leave of the-tenant; Pardeu-
Ff*of Mr. Knowlesden, Carpenter, acc. ; Mr. Blake; and at
;he Groyboutid,Greanwich ;of Mr. Chilton,Soliciter,Chancery-
; at Oarrinrafie4 and of Mr. Robins, Warwick-street, Got-
n-square, where Ttr.kets for viewing maybe had, 'and a Plan
dm Estate seen.
COMPAC II ni It''. --

STABLESh •ce.

LNT RESIDENCE* un tlie korsidi of
witl) GARDEN, coAcit.tiousr,

By Mr. ROBINS,
bn the Premises, on Tuesday, the 2d of February, 1813, at 12,
ACOMPACT DESIRABLE RESIDENCE,
held for a long term at a low groped rent, situate No. 6,
on the gall side .of Wimpole-street, Cravern4-square, the
property of a GENTLEMAN.
Consisting of a neat Entrance Hall, Breakfallt-room, excellent
lung Parlour, opening to a neat Garden. On the First Floor
two Drawing-rooms, communicating, and neatly finished;
the Second Floor are two Bed-chambers, and a Dressing-
, Closets, &c. and three Attics over ; a Stone Staircase to
Second Storey. 'Basement contain. Housekeeper's-room,
tlere-rooms, Servants'Aall, detached Kitchen, Scullery,
Cellar, and Vaults for Beer and Coals. A Garden at the
neatly laid out, leading to a Coach-house, and Stable for
our Horses, with Loft and Room over.
Trs be viewed by Tickets; Particulars on the Premises • of
lhir, Grant, Solicitor, No. 4, Holborn-court, Gray's4nn ; and,. of
Mr. Robins; Warwick-street, Golden-square, of whom Tickets
viewing may be had.
WIMPOLE-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE.
t Fashionable Furniture, Per and Chimney-glasses, Brac-
ket and other Clocks, small Service of Plate, Linen, China,
4 Ply, Cellar of Choice Wines, and other Effects,
By Mr, ROBINS,
On the Premises, No. 6, on the East side of Wimpole-street, on
, Tuesday, February 2, and following Day, at Eleven,
ri-TE Fashionable HOUSEHOLD FURNI-
TURE, comprising Four-post and other Bedsteads, with
011 Ni-cotton, &c. Furniture. ; excellent Bedding, well-made
Cabinet articles, of all descriptions ; Drawing-room suit of silk
tabberet Furniture, Pier and Chimney-glaues, Clocks, small ser-
vice of Plate, Linen, China, and Glass, Cellar of Choice Wines,
consisting cf fine flavoured Claret, Madeira, Hock, Champagne,
liseellas, &c. the Property of MATTHEW DAY, Esq.
May be viewed on Saturday and Monday preceding the Sale ;
Catalogues, at One Shilling each, -to be had on the Premises;
and of Mr. Grant, Sol citor, No. 4, Holborn-court, Gray's-Inn ;
sad of Mr. Robins, Warwick-street, Golden-square.

PROTESTANT
T a MEETING of PROTESTANT GEN.

Governsopitg— thoestitlouanci of the Monarchy "efEefielta
the Peenglielliiim_ of the Protestant Religion ; the maintenance
of the Qbpr tof England.. as by law established; the security
P of the midst lad undOubted Rights and Liberties' end the
et Allure face and Tran3uilllty, of this kingdom, do (um*
at Gen) entirely depend.
8. That, as by the laws of this kingdom, a Protestant Go.
vernmeni has been declared essential for the continuation of the
limited monarchy of this realm, and the security of the liberty
of the subject, so we-consider, that, especially as the practice of
Government depends so much upon the Ministers of the King,
And upon the Parliament, it ever has been necessary, for the like
that our Legislators—the patrons of our Protestant Church.
the Mmnbers of the King's Privy Council, and the Great.
Officers of the Executive Government, should pot be Roma
Catholics.
9. That, since the period of the glorious Revolution, about
which time those Acts of the Legislature were passed, we have ,
seen nothing in the character end features of the religion -of the I
Romeo Catholics which can lead us to suspect the wisdom *mil
policy of the principles upon which those salutary Acts wens-
founded ; or which have at any time hitherto rendered it expo%
client or safe to abrogate them. On the other hand, we bellows
that a different policy would have been full of danger; and wadi
have ended in the subversion of the civil and religious libiledn/
of the country, and the destruction of, the Monarchy, and of our
Protestant Establishment. •
10. That, as we have not yet witnessed any favourable altera-
tion or amelioration in the spirit of the Roman Catholic religion,
so are we taught not to consider any such change at present as at
all probable. On the contrary, it bps been stated by a writer of
that persuasion, of considerable authority, that " If any one pre-
" tends to insinuate that cht modern Roman Catholics differ in
" one iota from their ancestors be either deceives himself, or
" wishes to deceive others." What their ancestors were we well
know; and what themselves are, they.thus undisguisedly pro.
claim. On this ground therefore we see that we have no more
to expect from Roman Catholic ascendancy than our forefathers
have found; and we have only to look back through the history
of these realms to see what may be expected by Protestants from
that religion which its partigans avow has never changed.
11. Tint we do not conceive the Roman Catholics, with the
tenets which they hold, can, with safety to our Protestant Esta-
blishment, be admitted to further Political Power. The infem.l
bility of general Councils, which may be revived under site in-
fluence of our enemy; the power of the Romish Church,
rating to a most extensive degree up on the authority of
ministers of that religion, both in their appointment and cantles.
*nee in office • and having the strongest influence upon the
of their people:—the confiaing of eternal salvation tie
these within the pale of their own church; and the imputing of
the crime of heresy to Protestants ; for which crime the Romish
Church claims the right to inflict the heaviest temporal punish-
ment ; these tenets, to this hour strenuously maintained by her ,
highest authorities, operate powerfully upon the body politic,
and render it unsafe to entrust further political power to those
who maintain them. And, bearing in mind, that the very
adoption of such principles necessarily excludes the Toleration of
other modes of faith, we conceive that the admitting to the
higher offices of state, those who conscientiously hold those prin-
ciples, would greatly endanger, if not totally destroy, our Civil
and Religious Liberties.
12. Thet, as we do not see that the restrictions by which the
Rowan Catholics are excluded front the power of framing the
laws, and administering the highest offices in the government of
our civil and religious establishment, can with safety be abolish-
ed, so we utterly deny their Right to demand their Abolition.—
Every State possesses a right to restrain whatever is dangerous
to its security ; and no individual, or association of individuals,
can maintain, as a claim of Right against the State, the relaxation
of any restraint of which the continuance is required for the
Safety of the Community.
13. That the existence of a Power who, to use the words of
Mr. Locke, can not only " persuade the members of his Church
,o whatsoever he lists, either as Purely religious, or in order
Thereto; but can also enjoin it them oa pain of eternal fire,"
must always be dangerous to a state where its operation is ad-
mitted;.-but, to give further political immunities to persons,
whose spiritual instructors and ministers can only receive their
existence by such a power (whether vested in the person of the
Pope, the Romish Church, or a General Council), would be
uighly dangerous.
14. That, notvlithstanding the danger of Popery to the wel
fare of this country, we are ready to allow liberty of conscience
',o those who profess it. We revere the principles of Religious
Toleration, which serve at once to adorn and secure our Pro.
tenant established Church ;—and we will ever support those
principles while they are exercised in a manner compatible
with the peace of the community; but in the den 111 dm of the
' Roman Catholics of Ireland we see nothing merely religious;
indeed, their religious privileges are already so ample, end
well secured, that they scarcely admit of farther extension,
unless their Church I; to receive positive encouragement, and
become the established religion of the kingdom.
15. That we should exceedingly lament if the rejection of the
Claims of the Roman Catholics should occasion resistance to the
laws, or be attended with alienation from the Government; but
we are convinced that, if such would be the consequence of their
rejection, their admission would be attended with consequences
far more fatal to the empire at large, inasmuch as it would place
the means of effectual mischief within the power of those whose
supposed disloyalty would be again excited, should every future
claim, however extravagant, not be admitted ; but we conceive
that, from the clamour of those whose ambition interests them so
powerfully in this question, it has received an importance of a
more extensive quality than really belongs to it. The lower or-
ders of society have comparatively no interest in it. The adop-
tion of it would not ameliorate their condition. The Rich and
PGwerful, or those in the immediate pursuit of riches and power,
would alone reap the fruits of it; and, if persons of this descrip- ,
tion were to excite rebellion because they'are not rendered eli-
gible to possess political power, what would they not do, if they
were disappointed in obtaining the power, after they had obtained
the eligibility.
18. That, as the liberal and tolerant Concessions which have
'been made to the Roman Catholics during the reign of his pre.
sent Majesty, with which they declared themselves at the tame
to be fully satisfied, have rather served to excite than to allay
discontent, and, instead of raising gratitude and attachment, have
prompted them to demand as a Right the most extensive acces-
,itin of political power, urged with great violence of language,
we do not come ive that the concession of those claims would
either increase their attachment to our Prcitestant Government,
or add to the security or happiness of Ireland, or the Kingdom
at large.
17. That acknowledging in the King, the power of negativing
the appointment of Roman Catholic Bishops, is one of the lowest
of those securities which the State has a right to demand, on
the admission of Roman Catholics to further political power;
hut they refuse to admit even this security, and positively deny
the necessity of any other. In the Resolutions of the Meeting of
the Catholics of the county of Dublin, held on the sth November,
1812, it was resolved, la That they deemed the idea of annexing
" any conditions or restrictions to their emancipation, under the.
"‘ name of securities, to imply a most unmerited insult to their
'" allegiance, and to their understanding, and that such an idea had
" originated with their worst enemies, far the mere purpose of
" delaying the concession of religious freedom, which they claim
" as a right, and ite concession of which they deem essential to
" the safety of the country." Which Resolution we crsnskier
be virtually.approved by the Roman Catholic Prelates (twenty..
eight in number), assembled at Dublin, lath November, 1812, in
their Address-to the Clergy and Laity of the Roman Catholic;
Churches in Ireland. We do therefore apprehend, that, as the
principles of the Roman Catholics are now notorious to the
world (and the onus probandi lies upon them to shew, from 44-
ctent authority, if they are altered), no further inquiry is neces-
sary, till they have distinctly ,tatted the nature of those specific
securities which they are willing to give on their admission to
'further political power.
18. '1 hat a Committee (with power to add to their num-
ber) be chosen to conduct the affairs of the Society, to frame
regulations for its management, and to publish its proceed-
ings : and that a Subscription be now opened for those purposes.
' 19. 'Chat Si Ernest CATT Ley , Esq. be Treasvrer.
00. That these Resolutions bc signed by the Chairman, and
advertised in the public Papers,
GRANVILLE SI-14EP.

. . .
XI TLEMEN, convened to consider the CLAIMP of the
I&OMAN CATHOLICS, held at the Crown and Anchor Ta-
rp, in the Stratai, London, January 22, 1813,
pRANVILLE SHARP, Esq. in the Chair.
Mutt inforpiation on the subject of the Roman Catholic
Claims wia communicated by different Gentlemen, and many in-
teresting and well-authenticated facts were stated, by which it
*P.Peartd to the Meeting :
1. That the subject now under consideration is of the highest
insportance to the welfare aced happiness of the United Kingdom
•f Greaveritain and ireiand.
2. That, from the extetnive Information now received, ft is
evident that much misapprehension prevails in this Country with
respect to Ireland, and to the general Tenets and .`lralrit of the
/Lamm Catholics in that part pf the Empite.
0. That the Claims of the Rpman Catisolics, together with
the Principles and Rights of the Protestants, ought to be gravely
tqad impartially brought before the Public I net with any party
flews, ror in a spirit of• personal hostility, but of moderation
Ippd godiwill ; not by exciting prejudice and alarm= against
the Roman Catholics, but by circulating and eliciting such infor-
• ation as will show, whether their Claims can be conceded, cop-
: witty with the Safety of our Protestant State.
4. That, in prdtr to collect and diffuse Information on these
Nip/ interesting topics, and at the same time to defend and
apppost the Protestant Interest in these Realms, a Society should
be ipstituted.on the basis of Civil and Religious Liberty, as re-
cognized by the British Constitution.
The Meeting therefore Resolved to form a Society, to be en-
titled, THE PROTESTANT UNION, for the Defence and
?Import of the PROTESTANT RELIGION and the BRITISH
k • NSTIIpTIONI as established at the GLORIOUS REVO-
t 'LIMN, 1688.
In order to declare the Sentiments of this Meeting, and the
i .ci es upon which the Society is formed, it was Resolved,
114
r ; 3 it appears to this Meeting that the Roman Catholics
' : • as I Right, under the name of Catholic Emancipation,
..eteral of all laws and disabilities by which they are affected
.
. ac °vitt of their religious tenets. This demand embraces not
•nly the exercise of unlimited and uncontrolled religious liberty,
.pt involves the grant of the most extensive Political Power.—
he attainment of their object would enable the Roman Catho-
. to possess the patronage of the Church. of England. '1 hey
mold be eligble to sit in Parliament ; to become Privy Conn-
Mors to the King, and to exercise all the offices and patronage
.f the highest derirtments of the Government of Fngland, as
ell as Ireland, whether in Church or State; and indeed to fill
he Throne itself, should the Crown descend to a person of the
• man Catholic religion.
2. That we cordially admit the great Principle of the Protes-
nt religion, so amply recognized by our National Church,
yhich allows every man to worship Gan after the dictates of
s own conscience, provided he do not disturb, the peace of the
omgnlspity. And we are ready to apply this principle, in its
idlest extent, to .persons professing the Romap Catholic reli-
lop, But we have no proof, nor indeed cumpla:nt, that the
!man Catholics have not, for many years! been fully secured
the free exercise of their religion ; and we believe that the
aisting laws afford theta ample protection in their religious pro-
Op; and, consequently, as they are under no restraint of a
eligious nature, their object can only be the removal of political
rigtiong. Nevertheless, if the laws can be proved to be in.
ufficient for this purpose, we will cheerfully support any mea-
ure necessary for Religious Toleration.
S. That Political Power and Religious Toleration are matters
sally distinct; the latter may be ptsfectly enjoyed without any
erial portion of the former.
4. Thg, with regard to rendering the Roman Catholics eli-
ble to farther Political Power, 'the wisdom of that measure
• lacipally depends upon its expediency and the degree of Safety
• the State with Which it can be granted.
s, That the Protestant Relgion is the great security of the
Wolfe bappiness and welfare of thin country; for, as our civil
4 religious liberties have originated in, apd been preserved
y, a Protestant Establishment, it appears to us that those in-
laahle blessings will flourish with its prosperity, and decline
ith its decay: •
i. That it has been the wise policy of our ancestors, who have
erred and established those great principles of civil and reli-
. •
igus freedom, whichkaviess,ntially contributed to the security,
.rosperity, aril renown of this empire, to exclude. Roman Ca-
• olio from its government.
7. That it has bfen declared, by that Great Charter of our
ivil liberties, the Bill of Rights, " that it hadbeen found by
Frier.; • inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Pro-
m* kingdom to be governed by a Popish Prince, or by any
t. irg Or Ouevn marrying a Papist; therefore every person pro.
easing the Popish religion, or who should !navy a Papist, shbuld
• excluiLd from, and be incapable of, enjoying the eloyernment
. f this realm and of Ireland. And by the Acts of Settlement,
Joich have so happily secured the crown of these Halms to his
• • y and his august family, it is declared that the suvession
f t • e crown in the Proteltant Line is for the happiness of the
. ~ 'Ant and the stcual of ,ur relifion ; antl that cm the pais-

Mr. SHARP having left the Chair,
Resolved, That the thanks of the Meeting be even to the
Chairman, for his unwearied atteption to the objects of this
Meeting, and for h:s impartial conduct in tho chair.
JQHN HlCslbl, Secretary,
The Committee will be happy to freely,• any useful am.
munications respecting the objects of Tto Protestant Unless,
:dtesst4 to the Secretary, Mr. kiwis' it, at Mr, iiicwfuree,
PoOkillisS4 Pkfittleeti 4trandf 1.00611!

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MILITARY .PROMOTIONge
WAR. 01710119 JANUARY. S.
Peyion Regiment—Major-GenerdJeln Hamilton, from the
81st Foot, to he Colonel, vice Lieutenant•Genetal Rarnsay.l
deceased.
Gaaaisons.—General John Floyd, of the Bth Light r
to be Governor of Gravesend and Tilbury, vim General Sir
Thomas Musgrave, deceased.
FOREIGN OFFICE, JAN. 28, 18I& .i. •
' A dispatch, of which the following is a copy, has
been received by Viscount Castlereagh, his Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
from his Excellency General Viscount Cathcart, K.T.
his Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleni-
potentiary to the Court of Russia, daied
My Logo, fit. Petersburgia, Jan. ISIS.
I have the honour herewith to transmit to your
Lordship copies of two Proclamations, together with
a nominal list of the General Officers who have been
taken prisoners by the Russian armies, which I have
just received from Wilna, but which have not yet
been published here.
No further official intelligence of military- opera-
tions has been received here since my last.
Private letters of the 80th, from Liebau, mention,
that the French troops stationed at that place,
marched, on the 22d of December, for Memel ; from
which it appears impossible that they should not have
been cit eff, if they attempted Tilsit, which was'oc-
copied on the 11th by Count Wittgenstein, who was
nearer to Konigsberg.—l have the honour to be, Ste.
(Signed) CATHCART.
DECLARATION.
At the moment of my ordering the armies under
my command to pass the Prussian frcntier, the Em-
peror, my master, directs me to declare, that this
step is to be considered in no other light than than as
the inevitable consequence of the military operations.
Faithful to the principles which have actuated his
conduct at all times, his Imperial Majesty is guided
by no view of conquest.
The sentiments of moderation which have ever
characterised his policy are still the same, after the
decisive successes with which Diviva PROVIDENCE has
blessed his legitimate efforts, Peace and indepen-.
dente shall be their result. These his Majesty
offers, together with his assistance, to every people,
who, being at present obliged to oppose him, shall
abandon the cause of Napoleon, in order to follow
that of their real interest. I invite them to take ad-
vantage of the fortunate opening which the Russian
armies have produced, and to unite themselves
with them in the pursuit of' an enemy whose pre-
cipitate flight has discovered its loss of power. It
is to Prussia in particular to which this invitation is
addressed, It is the intention of his Imperial Ma-
jesty to put an end to the calamities by which she is
oppressed, to demonstrate to her King the friendship
which be preserves for him, and to restore to the
Monarchy of Frederic its eclat and its extent. He
hopes that his Prussian Majesty, animated by senti-
ments which this frank Declaration ought to pro-
duce, will, under such circumsances, take that part
alone which the wishes of his people and the interest
of his states demand.
Under this conviction, the Emperor, my master,
has sent me the most positive orders to avoid every
thing that could bar. a spirit of hostility between
the two powers, and to endeavouF, within the Pros.;
sian provinces, to soften, as far as a state of war will
eermit, the evils which for a short time, must result
from their occupation. (Signed)
• PRINCE KOUTODbOIPF B:443LENsito,
The Marshal Commander in Chief of the Armies.
PROCLAMATION..
When the Empercr of AU the Russias was corn-
-pelled, by a war of aggression, to take arms for the
.defence of his States, his Imperial Majesty, from the
accuracy of his combinations, was enabled to form
an estimate of the important results which that war
might produce with respect to the independence of
Europe. The most heroic constancy, the greatest
sacrifices, have led
,to a series of triumphs, arid when
the Commander in Chief, Prince Koutousotf Smo-
lensko, led his victorious troops beyond the Niemen,
the same principles still continued to animate the
Sovereign.
At no period has Russia been accustomed to prac-
tise that art (too much resorted to in modern wars),
of exaggerating, by false statements, the success of
her arms. But, with whatever modesty her details
might now be penned, they would appear incredible.
Ocular witnesses are necessary to prove the facts to
France, to Germany, and to Italy, before the slow
progress of truth will fill those countries with mour-
ning and consternation.
Indeed it is difficult to conceive, that, in a cam-
paign of only four months duration, one hundred
and thirty thousand prisoners should have been taken
from the enemy. besides nine hundred pieces of can-
non, forty-nine stand of colours, and all the waggon-
train and baggage of the army,
A list of the names of all the Generals taken is
hereunto annexed. It will be easy to form an esti-
mate, from that list, of the number of superior and
subaltern officers taken,
It is sufficient to say, that out of three hundred
thousand men, (exclusive of Austrians,) who pene,
trated into the heart of Russia, not thirty thousand
of them, even if they should be favoured by fortune,
will ever revisit their country,
The manner in which the Emperor Napoleon re-
passed the Russian frontier; can assuredly be no
longer a secret to Europe. Sp much glory and so
many advantages, cannot, however, change the per-
sonal dispositions of his Majesty the Emperor of All
the Russias. The grartd principles of- the indepen-
dence of Europe have always Formed the basis of
his policy, for that policy is fixed in his heart. It is
beneath his character to permit any endeavours to
be made to induce the people to resist the oppres-
sion, and to throw off the yoke • - has weighed

which
them down for twenty years. lt is their Goiern.
ments, whqse eyes ought to be opened by the actual
situa;ion of France,
ages may elapse befcie an opportunity equally
favourable again presentk itself, and it wauld be an
abusl of the spu,dpess of Pitoymabica not to take ad-
vantage of this reconstruct t4O great work