Star.
London, England, 1829-02-03 00:00:00

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND THE

ROMAN CATHOLIC&

We give the following extracts from the Morning
Papers, as they contain the on dits of the day respecting
tue policy Ministers mein to follow with regard to the
Roman Catholics; and as they all acme in stating that
a 'relaxation of the laws affecting this body is in the
contemplation of Got ernment, we must :oppose there
is some truth in the statement. However, general re-
port is not always a test of truth ; and we should not be,
at all surprised ourselves, if the esceptior, and not the
general rule were, in spite of the concurring assurances
of our morning contemporaries, to hold good in the
present instance. However, a few days more.will put
an end to all uncertainty on this momentous question:
FROM THE TIMES.

The informati n which we are going to communicate
sill be found more tlrAn amusing. It is, perhaps, only

gossip, but gossip which has relation to an affair Di aim)
interest partakes of the importance of the main subject.
It is, we believe, about two months since the Duke
of WELLINGTON fiist resolved uppn effecting that mea-
sure with which, etc long, " Europe will ring from side
to side:' Of course the determination must be im-
parted to a certain person in the Cabinet, whose pee.
j udices were the most hostile to loneession. The eons-
monicatii n at first was not yeti favourably received ;
" but could not he (the unwilling Member) be allowed
to retire for a while, till the measure slkas completed,
and then re-admitted ? A substitute, ad isierint, might
be found in the Huskissonian half pay list, of whom it
would be easy to get rid afterwards, as his Grace knew
by experience." Tl.e insidious proposition was declined
by the straight forward soldier. No: if I, Mho W -
once as much opposed to Catholic cweession as rms.
self, am content to compromise my character for con

sistency from a sense of the dangers likely to be Rio-
duced by the rejection of the Catholic claims. wiiy
should not you ?" Why this 6:testing ? Toe question
was one of difficult solution, and we suppose remained
unt esolved.

In the mean time, the wary ones are beginning to
see, if we may u•e so homely an expression, " which
way the cat jumps." That spiteful Dean who so ma-
ligned the illustrious CANNING upon this very question,
is said to have wheeled " to the tight about," as if by
military command. It• will be amusing to observe. in
what manner the Clergy will come found; but come
round they must, and will.
For ourselves, we are ready to avow our admiration
of the energy and &mum of character which, despis-

ing puny cavils, at length brings the United Kingdom '
witla view of niter nal peace sod concord.
FROM TRI MORNING JOURNAL.
We hate to annoance rumours this day which will
excite apprehension, surptise. indignation, and disgust
from rune end of the country to the other. And-they
are not rumours basing their origin in the inventions of
the day—not the silly gossip of the idler—not the
dreams of the enthusiast—but rumours which we have
every reason So fear will prove well founded.
The Duke of WILLINGTON. it is said, has resolved to
introduce a Bill in favour of Catholic Emancipation,
and this important fact will be communicated to the
nation in his Msaaseis Speech from the Throne on
Thursday next. It is further said that Mr. Pan has
intimated his intention to resign, and that other im•
port changes will take place in the Cabinet. It is also
affirmed that an eminent Divine, whose political and
polemical writings have obtained for him much dis-
tinction as sell as a deanery, has changed sides with
the celerity of Mr. CHARLIt+ BaowsLow, and has all at
once discovered that the concessions may safely be
granted on certain simple and unobjectionable con-
ditions.

These are the rumours of the day ; and it is with
extreme sorrow and mortification that we confess we
believe them to be true. Notwithstanding the letter cf
the Noble Premier to Dr. Cowrie—notwithstanding the
removal of Lord A Nautsay—notwitlistanding the ape,
'poirutment of the Duke of NoRTUUMIBIRLAND, we are
assured that the Duke of WSLLINGTON has found him-
self in such a position that he has no alternative but
either to attempt the settlement aft the Catholic question
or resign. He has, therefore, chosen the most arduous,
we wish we could say the more honourable task.
FROM TIM MoRNINO
A report was prevalent last night in a certain quarter,
that the Duke of WELLINOToN had promised to a
certain Catholic Priest of letter-writing notoriety, that
he would introduce a Bill into Parliament for the
Emancipation of the Roman Catholics, upon two con-
ditions—first, that O'Consat.t. should give up all
claim to the. Representation of •Clare; and secondly,
that the Irish Association should previously be broken
up, upon the faith of the Noble Duke's promise !
We notice this report, not for the purpose of coo.
tradicting it—for its absurdity is its contradiction;
but merely in order to show to the country tit*
desperate shifts to which the Oppositionists are driven
in their efforts to throw a stigma upon the the.
racter of the illustrious individual at the bead of the
Government. We forbear from mentioning names;
but we think we could point out the busybody "kb
whom the rumour originated.
FROM Tlil MORNING lIRRALD.
We do not ourselves profess to be in the secrets( f the
Cabinet, nor do we give much credit to those who do.
We suspect, indeed, that the present Premier's con-
fidantes are not exceedingly numerous; and that some
of those who, from official situation, think they know,
or ought to know, his Grace's intentions, do not, in
fuct, know a great deal more of the matter than those
who know nothing. Under this reserve, we may be
permitted to state that it is strongly rumoured, in
what are called well•informed circles, that, notwitb.
sanding all that has passed, the Duke has a de-
sign of bringing forward a proposition relative
to the Catholic Question, which, if acceded to, will
set that matter at rest, or, if refusei, will be of such
a nature as to throw the whole odium of its rejection
upon that party, whether in or out of Parliament, who
set themselves in array against it. There are two
propositions which, we believe, admit but of little.
dispute; the one, that the loudest brivelers for Catholic
Emancipation ate among the most desirous that it
should not be granted; the other, that nothing but am.
ple securities will ever reconcile the moderate part of
the Pi otestant community to it. It will be to meet die
views of the latter, and to leave the former without a
pretence for agitation, that the Duke o! WILLINOToN%
proposition will be offered; and it will be accompanied.
we have as little doubt, by a decisive putting down of
that abominable nuisance the Association.
IMORAINO CHRONICLR.
A statement has just got into circulation of a nature
so extraordinary, and apparently so improbable, that
we should have some hesitatioa in noticing it, had we
not learned from experience the truth cf the French
saying, that k vrai ;eat pas toajoars le vraisenthlabia•
We by no means intend to pledge ourselves for
the accuracy of the statement in question, but we
shall give it in the ipsirsima verbs that we hue
heard used in one of the very citadels of Ultra.
Toryism; while the lugubrious solemnity that se-
nowpapied the coMmottication, and the ludicrous ap.
piehensions which it excited, were unimpeachable
evidences of the sincerity of the orator and the con-
viction of his audience. The prediction may, to be
sure, prove to be what is called in the polite voca-
bulary of St. James's, a mystification, and in the more
homely dialect of St. Giles's, a hoes; but that it circa.
late, in high places, without contradiction, we have)
the evidence of our own senses.
This extraordinary intelligence was conveyed in the
f bllowing words —a So then it is all up; a Motion is
to be made immediately after the opening of the Session
iby the Duke of WILLINOTON, for leave to bring in a
Bill to relieve the Catholics from certain Disabilities on
certain concitions; and the Motion is to be seconded
by the Right Reverend Father in GOD the Lord Bishop
of LONDON. I wish them joy of their conversion." It
was further aJded, that the Bill was already prepared
ender the eye of an eminent champion of the High
Church Party, and had been submitted to the consider.
ation of his Qrace the Archbishop of CANTRRIVRY.

The intelligence in the Getman Papers received this
morning is by no means important. Whilst the accounts
from Si. Petersburgh inform us of increased hostile
preparations on the part of the Russians, those from
Berlin hold out a hope that the moderation of tia

vitataL Munn will induce him not to undertake a
second campaign..-Similar reporti have been •o fre-
quently cutrent, and so often di►appointed, during the
Ir,t six months, that we ate inclined to give them but
.very partial credence. The following are ems acts :
UERLIN, JAIN. 19.

Though the most extensive preparations are mailing in the inte-
rior of Russia for the vigorous continuation of the war, many well
informed persons are of opinion that there will not be a second
campaign, but that the negociations for a peace, which have bet ti
consinentred, will kad to the result desired. This expectation of
peace is founded on the disposition of the Emperor of Russia, as
well as on the friendly relations of the Christian Powers. A hope
is entertained that the Cabinet of Sr. Petersburgh will be induced.
by the represeutations of the Neutral Powers, to relax a little in
its demands upon the Porte, and render it more easy for the Su:tan
to accede to an arrangement of the differences. It is, of course,
taken for granted, that the mediation in the affairs of Greece, and
the last Declaration of the Powers, will be accepted by the Porte,
and that as soon as the Ambassadors of France and England have
returned to Constantinople, they will employ their influence with
the Porte to restore peace with Russia, and that they will find in
the Sultan the same spirit of moderation as the F.roperor Nicholas.
—Rut should these hopes he disappointed, and the Porte deceive
all these calculations, It is thought that a second campaign may still
be avoided; because the Powers, convinced of the truly pJcific
sentiments of the Emperor Nicholas, would then a 1 declare against
the Porte. and throw upon it the responsibility of continuing the
war. The Sultan and his Ministers, who now look (..sward with
great uneasiness to the renewal of hostilities, especially le Asia,

notwithstanding the greatest infatuation and must unbending na-
tional pride, will hardly expose themselves to the danger of pro-
voking a declaration of all the great Powerp.announcllog their hrm
resolution to maintain peace, and to require the Porte to give way
in certain points. The negociations respecting the affair% of Greece
are continued at Londeln. It is said that the Cabinet of St Peters
burgh has formally assented to the Declaration of the 16tb Nov.
in every point, and accedes only in a certain degree to the potiptisak
of France, which were entered in the Protocal at the same lints.
The exchange of couriers between Paris and St. Peteribuigh is
very active.

It has nut been possible to effect an amicable adjustment of dif•
&fences between Hanover and Brunswick, as his Highness the
Duke would not accede to the proposals of the Courts which have
acted as mediator.. It is supposed, therefore, that It will now be
brought before the Diet.
VIENNA, Jars. 20.
Yesterday evening the mortal remains of the Princess Metter.
nich were conveyed to the parish church of &. Michael, where the
o►sequies were performed, and immediately after conveyed to the
Princess's family vault at Plass, ia Bohemia. The interest which
all classes of the inhabitants of the capital have testified in this
event—so afflicting to Prince Meteernich—was truly affecting. and
afforded a striking proof of the attachment and respect telt fur this
distinguished &amines. Yesterday morning thousands Bucked to
the Chapel in the Prince's Palace, where the remains of the Prince-s
lay in state, who has been so suddenly cut off in the flower of her
age, and whose amiable character had acquired her universal
esteem. At the funeral the crowd was so great that there we. no
room in the Church, and an immense multitude ri mined assem-
bled in the adjoining square and streets, till the melancholy proces-
sloe set out for Bohemia.

VIIMINA, JAIL 92.--Metalliques, 97 1 16; Dank Shares, 1;104.
.-41essiebee &Mow. Jan. 27.

From a French P.per received this moriaing of the
Slit of January:

The news from the East continues to be vague, and the report
of the Divan hawing accepted the Treaty of the 6th of July is not
yet confirmed. It is also said that the GLUM Stoma wishes to
set again in his capital the French and English Ambassadors ; but
it is net believed they will return Wove the neat), of the 6th of
July has been accepted by the Turks, but we cannot remain lung
-ignorant en that subject, as 11. Jocular will not continue long at
Constantinople.

In regard to what passes at the theatre of war, we also remain
in the same incertitude. The movements of the Tur►ish army
towards the Danube have wholly consisted of skirmishes between
the advanced posts.
They write from Bucharest of January 5, that tbey do not
now fear the passage of the Danube by the Turks. They also
speak of great preparations making by Russia for the next campaign.
Varna, according to accounts, is completely provisioned, and
that the sixty ships, which the Russians have iu port, are to
act, in the spring, against Burgos.

CI'T'Y. Twecve o'CLoac.

Consols opened this morning at SS buyers, and have been dune
at SS to j: sines which they have declined to an. It is sup-
posed that some party is realizing.
In the Foreign market nothing is doing as yet.
CITY. HALF-PAST ONR O'CLOCK.

Consols, whieh were in the early part of the morning very Beni
at 1114 for the Account, and had every appearance of a Nerer
rise, suddenly receded to 1171, owing to a report that some caba
had taken place between the Ministers in regard to the Catholic
Qoestion; and that it was expected, should it be persisted in, kir.
Pest would resign. The above fall in the market was also owing
to a party who bought largely yesterday afternoon, and said them
again this morning. Consob have receded about j per cent. and
the market looks rather heavy at preirent.

In the Foreign market Mexican Bonds are meedinaly heavy,
and have been done at thirty sellers.

Earl and Countess WILTON left their residence at
Grantham some days ago; the former with Mr. Ntettae, of the
Holt. Leicestershire, for Rid Dassiases; the Countess sod Lady
G. Nevuas, for the Earl of Hasse's, Knows/el Park.
The Duke of RUTLAND and family continue at Bel-
volt Castle.

THE MARQUIS of ANOLESIL—k-is understood that
hie Lordship will take an early opportunity of delivering his sen-
timents upon the recent events that have taken plate in Ireland.
The c•mbosation between the R teat coal °uncoil in
the North, by which the coal, like the ti.h-market, is fed sn as to
maintain both the price and the monopoly, expires on the 10th
last and the Duke of WIII.LISIGS9II. it is said, is determined to
vent its renewal.

The following Aldermen have lately qualified to act
u ►tagistrates fur the county of Middlesex : Sir Cuellar: Fames,
Sir Parma Loom, MOWS. IIIaCJI, WAITHMAN, and Cnaurrortina
Salm

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The remains of the late Was. Swum, Esq. *al be
deposited to airow in Westminster Abbey.
Lord DUNDAN't sent-day, for the Aske estate, was
held on the 40th ult. when his Lordship, with his usual benefi-
cence, made a handsome return to all his tenants.
Ve"us and Jupiter, the two most beautiful planets in
the War System, are now visible in the morning twilight, and are
in cuniunition.
Essol.l2ll °emu-House —His Royal Highness the
Duke of Sawa, his Grace the Duke of Raneoaa, Lord Hewitt*,
Lord TANNERTILILI, Count LUDOLT, the Right Hon. the Speaker of
the House of Commons, the Hon. Lose Wzrzsacer Mr. Gauen,
Lady
Re.
HOLLAND, lady TANINIMLII, Countess LNDOLF, La W.
W. Wyss, . honoured the French perfornsances at this
with their presence last night.
A K tot 'sou Till Wittre Hoaaa.—When our army
was in Parise soldier, after paying his devotions to the ton-bellied
god, was seen trailing his body to quantts as decently as he could,
like a log on a serpentine stream; be rolled along tolerably well till he
came to a bridge; here he was brought up by a sentry, who asked
bim who he was, atc. site. " Who am I F' replied he, uammering,
" why an Englisbnun, to be sure." " You an Englishman," cried
the other, " :wien ! you're von Hanoverian got tam—you're a
vice horses" " What's that you say, you French rascal ? a white
horse!" " Yes," answered the sentry, us vice horse." " Well,
then," roared the soldier. suiting the action to the word, to take a
kick from the white hors,."— United ScrpiceJenrnal for Ectruer,y.

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