10 JANUARY 1829, Page 10

ROMAN CATHOLICS.

MR. SPECTATOR—I should be much obliged to you, or to any of your correspondents, if you or they would inform me whether a Roman Ca- tholic can fill the post of Geveriti in Chief commanding an 0)709 on foreign service ;—the command held by the Duke of Wellington in Spain, for ex- ample. In short, could the Duke have held that command if he had been a Roman Catholic ?

City, 7th January, 1829. Q.

As the law now stands, a Roman Catholic may hold the chief command of an army, not only on "foreign service," but even in the British Islands,—En.