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by the Roman Catholic Bishops, both of Great Britain
and of Irelind. themselves. The Roman Catholic
Bishops of Great Britain thus explain their motives and
object. " " Having, in the foregoing declaration, en-
deavoured to state, in the simplicity of truth, such doc-
trines of our Church as ate most -frequently misrepre-
sented or misunderstood in this country, and to explain
the meaning in which Catholics undeisrand the terms
by which these doctrines are expressed in the language
of their Chsirch, we confidently trust that this declara-
tion and explanation will be received by all our fellow.
subjects in a spirit of candour and charity, and that
those Who have been hitherto ignorant of, or but im-
perfectly acquainted with our doctrines of faith, will do
us the justice to acknowledge, that, as Catholics, we
hold no religious principles, and entertain no opinions
flowing from those principles, which are not 'perfectly
consistent with our duties as Christians and as British
subjects. This declaration we. the undersigned, ap-
prove and'publish, as an exposition of our principles ands
doctrines on the subjects to which it refers."
'the Roman Catholic Bishops of Ireland declare as
follows At a time when the spirit of calm inquiry
is abroad, and men seem anxious to resign those pre-
judices through which they viewed the doctrines of
others, the Archbishops and Bishops of the Roman
Catholic Church in Leland avail themselves with plea-
sure of this dispassionate tone of the public mind tol
exhibit a simple mid correct view of those tenets that
are most frequently misrepresented. If it please the
ALMIGHTY, that the Catholics of Ireland should be
doomed to continue in the humbled and degraded con-
dition in which they are now placed, they will submit
with resignation to the Divine Will. The Prelates,
however, conceive k a duty which they owe to them--
lAves, as well as to their Protestant fellow subjects;
whose' good opinion they value, to endeavour, once
more, to remove the false imputations that have been
frequently cast upon the faith and discipline of that
Church which is entrusted to their care, and that all
may be enabled to know, with accuracy, the genuine
principles of those men who are proscribed by law
from any participation in the honours, dignities, and
emoluments of the State."

What remains for me to add will be very short. I
have already stated, in my address to you in October
last, and in my letter to the Duke of Norfolk, my opi-
nion of the justice and expediency of attempting the
final settlement of this question : and, I am sure, there
are few men really indisposed to assent to the justice
and expediency of that settlement, if it can be found
compatible with the maintenance of our civil and reli-
gious Constitution in Church and State. For the rea-
sons which I have assigned.
1 du not conceive that the slightest danger would
acci ue to the Constitution, either in Church or State,
from t' e admission to sit in Parliament, or to hold a
civil office, of any Roman Catholic, seriously prepared
to attest on oath his entire and absolute agreement with
the sentiments contained in these declarations of the
Roman C =tholic Clergy, upon the points which I have
mentioned: and I, for one, should not be disposed to
admit to the privileges of the Constitution any Roman
Catholic who was not so prepared. I do not consider that
I any called upon to mix up the question of the opinion;
entertained, or presumed to have been entertained, by
the Roman Catholics of former periods, as to the ex-
istences:if an absolute power in Rome of nullifying the
obligation of oaths actually talon, or of forcing upon
the minds and consciences of the Roman Catholics of
England and Leland doctrines and opinions affecting
in the slightest degree their civil duties. The Roman
Catholics deny that such a power ever existed ; but
imagine, for a moment, the actual assumption or asser-
tion of such a power by any present or future Pope or
General Council, ,The continuance of the Roman Ca-
thoPcs (after such an act of assumption) to take an oath
assenting to the principles contained in these, their own
spontaneous and solemn declarations, would be the
must practical and conclusive assertion of their own
indeperglence, the most entire renunciation of the au-
thority of the Pofe, which it would be possible to ob.
tain from any human being.
Supposing, therefore, the Catholic question to be
carried upon the principles here laid down, and sup-
posing, for the sake of argumnt, that it be admitted
that the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland is not at
the present moment independent, we shall have two
alternativt s. If the Pope and the authorities cf Rome
approve and sanction these declarations, either by a
direct expression of consent, or by that confirmation
which is involved in the absence of all protest against
them; in either alternative, we shall possess all the
sanction which Roman Catholic authority can give to
an expression of opinion by any body of Roman
Catholics.

On the other hand, should these declarations be dis-
claimed by the See of home; the Roman Catholics of
Great Britain and Ireland must make their si•lccifon be-
tween two alternatives: the one an acquiescence in the
authority of the See of Rome, involving a resumption
of their disabilities—inasmuch as such acquiescence
Must itrevent Aen taking that oath, which, by the
terms of ,the nroposition, will be an indispensable pre-
liminary to the _removal' of those disabilities:—the
other, a qualified separation from Rome, to the extent
of formally 'and solemnly, den) ing her authority to con-
trol them in any point of belief remotely aff,:cting the
exercise of their civil duties : and I contend, confidently,
thee such denial will hare been absolutely given, if
they continue to take an oath affiaming the doctrines
cuntained in these declarations, notwithstanding any
disclaimer, on the part of the See of Rome, of all or any
part of the doctrines so declared. Under either alter-
native, it appears to me, that our security would :email
unimpaired, and that the disabilities must and will,
ipso facto, revive in each individual instance, whenever
a real occasion demands their reproduction. If any lay
Roman Catholic of Great Utitain or Ireland, notwith-
standing these declarations of the Roman Catholic
Bishops of Great Britain and Ireland, should acknow-
ledge the temporal power of the Pope in temporal mat-
ters, the oath which he must take, to enable him to enter
iiito office, will be an effectual bar to his availing him•
of any measure of emancipation. This, therefore,
applies to Vie case of emancipation prior to its being
carried into effect: but, supposing it to have been
carried into effect, the case would stand thus :—The
lay Roman Catholic, who takes an oath founded on these
declaration., which assert principles sa:e and constitu-
tional, gives a st cut ity that he is a proper person to be
admitted to the privileges of the Constitution. If, in
consequeoce of any irotest from the See of Rome, he
feels• himself called .upon, in point of conscience, to
abandon the opinions, which, in the first instaoce, he
haimaintained, by his oath, he can no longer take that
oath ; and (tom that moment, he will resume his. pre-
sent state of disability. The measure of emancipation

will have been nugatory, as far as ha is concernel Ii
will be understood that I am putting an extreme case ;
but I argue the question with reference to the extreme
case, that nothing of omission may be imputed to me.
I halite thus endeavoured to redeem the pledge which
I made to'you in October hit. I have made as much
effort many man ever has to bring this subject calmly
and argumentatively before my constituents. I only in-
vite, in return, your cairn and temperate examination
of the subject ; and I am willing to hope that I have
not forfeited your confidence, for having presumed to
think, for the reasons which I have so minutely detailed,
lin the documents published in the Appendix, that the
prosperity of the British empire would be confirmed
and consolidated by the admission to the privileges of
the Constitution
,(under the limitations and subject to
the securities which I have endeavoured to describe) of
more than six millions of our fellow-subjects, who are,
4nd who will be, by the laws of our common nature,
dissatisfied and impatient, so long as their existing dis-
abilities are continued.

I have the honour to remain, your faithful and obliged humble
servant, IL WILMOT-HORTON.

MEXICO.

The PYRAMUS, whose arrival at Portsmouth we yes-
terday announced, left Vera Cruz on the rth of March,
land brings letters of the 24th from the capital, but
their contents have no political importance. The speck
on board the PYRAMUS amounts to about 500,000
dollars, of which near 300,000 are remitted for the pay-
ment of the Mexican dividends due in October, and the
rest on private account.
4t_Musco, NbatcH es.

" This week is the Carnival of Mexico--the entire
population may be seen in the streets ; booths are erected
for the kale of lemonade, ices, &c. and amusement is the
order of the day. The Churches are decorated splen-
didly. I observe a striking alteration for the better in
the dresses of all .lasses, but particularly in that of the
poorer part of the population. Men who, last year,
wore jackets, now figure away in coats, and those who
thought themselves very gay with a no,/ blanket thrown
over their shoulders, now sport jackets; every thing is
improving around us, and, ere long, few countries will
be better off than this.

g 4 The duties payable to the Dlineria of a rial ii every mark of
silver coined, increases every month, the best proof that can be given
of the improved state of the mines.
" Mrs Morkr has at length left os, hot unaccompanied by Mr.
Camacho, whose health is net yet sufficiently re-established to war-
rant so long a voyage ; he will, however, soon follow."

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, JUNE JUNE 8, 1626.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Consols, which left of yesterday at SO. for the Account,
opened this morning at the same price; after which they went up
to 801; and-remain at present alternately buyers and sellers at the
above price, with little doing.
Current Pricer: Old Spanish 7/ 111, Mexican 621 65, Colombian
new 40/ 41, Russian 201 81.

ONE O'CLOCK.

Within this hour the Market has improved. Fifty Thousand
Consols have been bought at 1104 for the Account, and they may
now be quoted at SO/.
PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Red. 79% %
3 per Cent. Cons. Shut.
Si per Cent. 86%
Si per Cent. Red. 85% %
4 per Cent. Shut.
4 per Cent. Scrip 1% IA
4 per Cent. 1826, 941,4
L'ng Ann. 19 1.16 Vs
India Bonds. 9
Eiox) Excheq. Bills 8 9 8 prem.
£5OO ditto 8 9 8 prem.
£lOO and £2OO ditto 9
Cons. for Acct. 80% %
FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
Colombian Bonds, Pruu. lids. 13 p C. 911
Do. Bonds, 1844, 4l+ 1 Russ. 8d5,1898, 5 p C.
Do. Ace. 41k Ditto Acet. 801 81
Daniell Bonds, 3p Ct. 56 j Span. Bonds s p Ct. 71 8
Do. Acet. 57 Ditto Acct. 8
Greek Bomb, S p Ct. 14 10 Ditto 510, se
Mat. lids 182.5,6 p Ct. 681 313 I Ditto 85, 81
Do. Acct. 623 3 Spin. sp. C. 1823, S
Pertly. lids. 6 p C. 29e Fr. Renter, S p C. 97f
Ditto Acct. Exchange, 95f 55c
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK.

Mexican Company
United Mexican
Welch Iron & Coal

.0 prem.

lIMA It r. PAIR.
100 15 1 51
40 00 19
25 25 7

AUSTRIAN FUNDS, VIENNA, MAY 07.
Itlctalliquea 00k. Bank Shares 1107 14.

In all the negotiations that have taken place during
the last few years between Russia and Tur key, thelatter
Power has evaded the fulfilment of any terms to which
it acceded ; and we find there is some suspicion of the
good faith of the Porte at present. A private letter
from Vienna, of a recent date, in the Brussels Papers,
received this forenoon, states that some apprehensions
are entertained respecting the result of the negotiations
between the Turkish and Russian Commissioners, who
are to meet on the frontiers of the two empires ; and that
it is feared the Turkish negotiators may have recourse
to their old practice of tergiversation and delay. This
is said to be the teas= that the rise in the Austrian
funds his not been supported.

Rio de Janeiro Papers have been received to the 22d
March, which bring advices from Monte Video, stating
that on the 25th of February the buencs Ayrians ap-
peared in front of Praca da Colonia with a force of one
corvette, four brigs, and one schooner. A messenger
was sent on shore to demand the surrender of that
castle, but the garrison replied, they were prepared to
receive them. On the following day the enemy com-
menced firing, which lasted for five hours, during
which time attempts were made to persuade them to
surrender the Castle, but not succeeding, they retired.
One of their brigs was burnt during the action. Private
accounts have been received of a later date, to the 30th
of March, which state fiat the Brazilian Minister had
received disp.ttches from Lird COCHRANE, dated from
Brussels, which innmediat ly caused a Council to be
assembled. The accounts from Dahia are ut the 26,h
of March. They state that the EMPEROR had set off

again for Rio de Janeiro, uhere great tejoicings Were
expected to take pltiee on his account.
This forenoon we received the Allgenteine Zeitung to
the 2d ;list. It contains an article from the frontiers of
Poland of the 23d of May, stating that there have been
again some disturbances among the peasantry in Po-
dolia, who were joined by some discontented soldiers;
but that these disorders were speedily quelled by the
vigorous interference of the military force, and tran-
quillity was perfectly restored. Since then, it is said,
some persons have been arrested at Kiew.
Brussels Papers to the Bth inst. reached us this fore-
neer'. They shew the jealousy with which the proceed.
ings of the Pore and the Roman Catholics are watched
in the Netherlands. The following is an extract:

BRUSSELS, Joxit 6.

Some Clergymen in Zealand have received from his Excellency
the Governor of that province a letter, of which the following is a
translation:

4. Michlleburgh, March 11, 1828.

" You! Reverence knows, that in this kingdom no bull of the
Pope can be published m posted up within or without the Church,
till it has been laid before his Majesty, and received his approbation.
" Recommending in general to your Reverence strictly to follow
this rule, at the same time obey his Majesty's orders,by inviting
you particularly not to lose sight of it, with respect to a Bull issued
on the subject of the year of jubilee ; and consequently, in case you
have received it, or should receive it, not to make any use of it till
it has received the Royal plata.
_

(Signed) VON DOREN, Governor of Zealand."

It is now very confidently reported that Mr. Secretary
CANNING will be proposed a candidate for the City of Westminster,
in which case there is no doubt of his return, even if he should not
personally canvass or appear on the hustings. The wit and eloquence
of the Right Hon. Gentleman would, however, give so muck life
and interest to an election, that there is no doubt an attempt will be
made to induce him to attend occasionally, should his friends, who
are to meet this evening at the Gordon Csfce•house in Covent-
garden, deternaino on nominating him.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. •

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PARTIES.

The Earl of Darnley entertained a distingsdsked party at dinner
yesterday, at his home in Berkeley square.
Lord Carrington entertained a large party at dinner yesterday,
at his house, VihitehaU.
Lady Log gave a splendid rout on Tuesday evening, at her
house in Privy Gardens. There were present upwards of Wu of
the baut too, including his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester,
the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, Prince Esterhazy,
and most of the Foreign Ambassadors and their ladies, &c.
Lady Bromley entertained a select pasty of fashionable. yester-
day, at her house in Berkeley square.
Mr. Hinchliffe had a dinner party yesterday, at his house in
Green street, Grosvenor square.