Star.
London, England, 1829-01-17 00:00:00

taIVAT6 CORRESP,,NDLNCE.

PARIS, JAW. 12.
We have now fail ly clamed u, on 0 e rigours iif a
Pa isian winter. The thermometer has for the last two
or tbreeslays been c.,quetting bet*.een severe and hard
boat., Yesterday Intoning it (Iteaumui )- marked
degtees bel.,w Zero (about fourteen of Faliverit.eit,
eighteen under breezing point). The Seine was coose
quently covered with tloatiog masses of ice, and wilt (it
he cold increase by only three degrees more), be cont.
pl rely frozen over by to mot row. The streets, paved
with stones haling cr.nvez surf.ces, are hardly practi-
cable by horses. Every moment you beho•d the poor
animals fall. Even those experienced cavaltrir. the
Gendaraseve de Chasse, ate to be seen leading their
horses when going to mount guar d at the palace. Skating
commenced on Saturday pretty generally. Yesterday
the circular basins in the gardens of the Turneries were
covered f►om morning till night, by the bedew's, gazing
at Calico! palineurs, who aspired not to the distinction
f venturing upon 'the basin tie Yalette—a piece of
water, which, when frozen, is always selected by your
wise countrymen for the scene of their exercise, because,
should the ice break. they run as good a chance of
drowning as on the Serpentine. •
Every moment the news horn the Morea assumes a
more serious aspect. The fe►er incidental to the country
was becoming less formidable, when a new disease, de-
scribed as t•f the nature of a plague, made its appear-
ance. •To continue the occupation of Greece, uncles
these or even ordinary circumstances, would be a mea-
sure the most unpopular in Fiance, and can only be, if
rer,isted in, with ulterior views, not yet developed. Any
doubt, however, that may remain on the subject of the
Ft ench in undettakiag this expedition at all will be re-
L moved ou She opening of the,Chambers.

THE HUMBLE PETITION 07 THE ARCHDEACON AND
CLERGY Or THE ARCHIMACONRY •01r EXETER, IN
•THE Diocrae Ur RZETRFL.
Your vtitioners approach your Honourable House
with feelings of incre.sed apprehension at the menac-
ing and systematic spirit of intimidation manifested by
the Roman Catholic subjects r.f this empire ; while the
character of the concessions demanded remains un-
altered, and is altogether oppcn.e.l to the principles on
which our Protestant Constitution bas Ling been hap-
pile established.
Full protection for the exercise of their ieligion,
se-
cutity in evety civil tight, and admission general y to
civil and military employments, have been freely con-
ceded. The demand is now trended to unconditional
admission to those p-litical office. which designate the
-soling powers of the Stale at home and admired. Yar
-
pat'itinners have only to refer your 11onourahle H use
,19 the eublicaton and official documents of the time
'diked memhers of the Roman Church, and to the evi-
dence already on yr ur table, for am; le proof of the
unchangeable nature of Popi ry, and of tl.e avowed
!instant of the Papist s to the Estabtished Chin. h. But
that ‘sl ich, in the opinion cf your petitioner s, renders
peculiarly dan,,einus their adrilissibi.iry to tl.e same
power and trust with oilier *suilijecrs. an I makes their
c i.e totally distinct from all other religions Disenteis,
es, the obedience which every Papist ii cessuily owes to
die Papal See; an obedience to a foreign Poster which,
however it may he attemred to reconcile under the
character ill stihroission only in spiritual, is io invoivcd,
from the err/ tenet, of Popery, with jurisdiction and
authority in iv, pore's, as must r ser render their alle-
giance to a Protestant Sac conditional only, and im-
pel feet
Your Petitioners. therefore, earnestly implore your
Honourable House nut to deviate honi the principles
settled at the Revolution, whereby the Government and
Parliament et ti•is Representative Constitution is de-
clared to he essentially Protestant, convinced, as pour
l'etiti..ners sincerely are, that no political power can be
conceded in Roman Catholics Without danger to the
civil liberties, and t 1 e Protestant teligion of t‘ e British
empire.—And your petitioners will ever /hay, fltc.
The following Petition has also hien agreed upon by
the Archdeacon and Clergy of the A iclideacont y of
Barnstaple, and is now in the course of signatu e:

THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE AIXIIDEACON AND
CLERGYMEN OP TILE ARCIIDEACONNY UP EARN-

STAPLE,

Sloweth—Thit the anew inn of your petitioners, both
AS itiz,ns and Clergymen, has of late been most forci-
bly and painfully di arn to the piocteJir.gs of his 111 a.
jetty's Roman Catholic subjects, who, not content with
the civil mid privileges which the n cht ample
toleration has bestowed upon them, demand an equal
parlicipatii n iii political power with the Pri ttstaNts of,
the empire.
Unwilling that their silence should be misconstrued

at this important kinctirre, and firmly continued that
the admi,sion td Romani Catholic, to hitzh traces '.l
'tower and trust will. not only be detim.i.ntat ti the

w<elJ ire ot the Established Chinch, but alm dangelons
to the best iinerens of the community at large, you:
pet timons .rnobt tutobly implore y. yr tionontabte
LI-use to preset ye those principle!, and maintain t'sow
laws, t.y wl.ich his Atjebts% R nroan Catholic ant jets
have beLn su long and so wisely departed from seats in
Parliament, and from the exercise of iheise functions
which, in a free P:ntestant Consii ution, can mils be
co :::::: ittrti with safety into Prntestant hands.—And
your peii:ionerb shall ever prat, stc.