The Sun. — London, England, 1820-03-13 00:00:00

--- TO THE ELECTORS OF GREA C Bitl FAIN. FELLOW COUNTRYMEN, Yon are now shout to choose those who are to 'give us laws, and being the first I'arlia►nent in the new rei g n, it may naturally be looked to with more titan common interest. I wish therefore to draw your particular attention to one point, on which 1-am in hopes much agreement of sentiment will prevail in the middle classes of society, (which I take it for granted includes the greatest portion of the Electors,) however they may differ in their political sentiments on other matrers. I mean the • question of :-CATNOLIC EMANCIPATION ; iptes'ion more nearly connected with our real happiness, as coming borne to, and affecting our Coincide peace, our very fire-siles as it were, as well as our public welfare, than we are apt to. imagine. meitcly I believe because we never con. tetunlate the evil until it threatens ; and when a majority of the House of. Commons has put it aside, we also put aside our thoughts'on the sobject. . _ _ Whatever may be said by the movers and sup porters of every question bt ought forwards in the Ilouse on Catholic Emancipation, although they may tell you it'is only one lit,le indulgence more, by w:-.y of makikta the Catholics attached to Go vernment, and a great deal besides of very aniu•iog sr'jdti.try ; the plain naked truth is, that CATHO LIC EMANCIPATION HIeVIS CAI HOLIC ASCEND ANCY, which the Catholics ate determined to ob • lain if possible, and the prtident patt know the surest and only way of accomphstiing it, is by r tin it; on with one step at .a lime: I say the pruden- part, for the ittrprudent part in Ireland have not been wise enough to conceal their aims ; but have publicly declared, that they peremp torily insist on . having the AscgteDANcy in SPIRITUAL MATTERS; t ?it they will admit of no vehis to annul their choice of likhops ; and t h at they will not be satisfied, or even accept of, any think less. Consequently their loyalty or at tachment to Government, is not to be - bought for any trifling cone' ssions. lint you will say, that although this may be th e i r w i s h, how are they to attain it, so lung as we take care .that the Protestant Members of the House of Commons be in the proportion of three or four to one ; and, that,only.a few Catholic Members be admitted, to represent the ma jority of the Irish people who are Catholics ? Suppose by way of argument then, we admit only ten Catholic Members, or even five ; it jo not very long since, that a question on Catholic Emanei p'atioo %vas decided by one single casting Vote; end, therefore bad there•been only otte Catholic Alemher, in the place of those decidedly Protes tant, (I mean the majority,) the question would have been carried;_ and consequently it is difficult to say what number (however small) of Catholic Members, may nut he sufficient for obtaining CA THOLIC ASCRNDANCr. If the Catholics gain only one imijority, they will not stop there; no arti fice will be left unttied.to obtain snore; and It will he soon discovered, that not five or ten Mem bert-will be thought an adequate representation of all the Catholics in Great Britain, and Ireland; but that more must soon lie added. It is matter of great surprise to me, that in a House of . Commons, professedly all Protestants, every agitation of this subject sl►e►v's, on the di visions, nearly one half of the Membt rs so be on the side of . the Catholics ; surely the Members must be strangely, blinded by their notions of liberality and toleration, _if they do not perceive, that if these measures ►•ere carried according to tfteir votes, it would severely injure, if not to• tally destroy, the very stanri►►a by which► the strength and .happiness of this Coun . try is up held. I mean, the moral principle of the people., It was this principle that Obtained for Bri tain the high pitch of pre-entinenee she held in 1815, 'when during the preceding wars, every other nation in Europe, had in some way or other, been obliged to contes the superiority of one con quering not er ; while Britain alone, wise, strenuous, firm, of unsubmitting soul," constantly' !net its threats with defiance, and ul tittUrely triumphed. 'The soperiotity of this country was acknowledged by the great powers engaged in the same contest placing, with genera l consent, the Duke WELLINGTON in the com mand Of all their Armies of Occupation, at the bead of their own most illustrious and distinguish ef 'Generals. The moral, not the physical strength of Britain, achieved all this : industry furnished virealiTt, integrity credit ; public spirit applied theM ; and religion gave courage and persever ance. While our physical strength, from extent and popelatiou, bore no COMpillsoll to many of the coremporary powers of the Continent who had been severally vanquished. in order to abew how this viral stamina, the moral,prioeiple of the nation, will be injure/I by Catholic emancipation, I twist assume, for the sake of argument, that they have obtained indul gences to a moderate. extent ; and w ill suppose that tt,e Throne and the highest Offices of State, remain Protestant ; that the inferior Offices of State, both Houses of Pailiamelit, the army and Navy, the Magistracy and Corporations,-have a small mixture of Catholics in each. That the people of every persuasion are carefully to ab stain from interrupting each other in religious ceremonies, and - every one to serve God in his own way, anal 'observe only such forms and re strictions as his Church or Sect enjoins. For a while, it might be supposed, all parties would go on dOmfortably enough together ; and if there xvere none but enlightened, well-informed Lay Catholics, it might possibly last. But the Court of Nome will not stiffer it. For, that the same thirst for Supremacy, the same desire to keep the people under the influence 'ot th 2 Priests, and at tain thereby the Catholic ascendancy, in the Church at least, .of every COuntry, still exists in the Conclave, appears evident, by the vigilance they exercise to prevent the propagation of the G-so,rel, by Bible Sodieties, wherever they have influence like the Pharisees of old, " they Sea and !tint] to make one proselyte."-- The Cii'rholic Bishops, therefore, will receive iustioctions from the Pope to exhort and stir up the Priests to use- all diligence in making converts; by such 'means a s 1 best answer that purpose. . - These means not be by terrors, but by temptations ; at leaSt until - they-have - gained suet cient accession of numbers to contend. Every Roman Catholic Country has its grandest holiday on a Sunday : more Operas, Ballets, Theatres, and public places of amusement are open on that clay, and are more frequented, than on any other day in the week : let it be remembered that it was in coming out of the Opera Ilouse on a Sunday Evening, that . the Duke of BERIII was assassinated. The Catholics who have wanted .only one vote on a former occasion, to carry . a question in the hionse of Commons, when no Catholics were members, will not then want influence to get a few minor Theatres licensed, in London and all the corporate TOwns, for the amusement of Catholics on Sundays. The irre ligious of all sects and parties will soon join such an accommodating faith, at least will join their mode of finishing the Sabbath ; and thus give a great accession of numbers in their favour. The 'undecided in religion, and most of those young pet sons who are trom under :he controul of their parents, or superiors, on that day, will be in clined to take an innocent peep at first, and sering no harm as they think,, will grarliially• prefer sitting in a. Theatre at a smail expense, (for low prices will he a pall of their policy here as it is tit., the Continent), if it be only to look at young pet sous_. of the oppusite sex, to staying a t home, teiding, or yawning over the tire, in 'pro testant dullness.—Even many mitt! le aged persons it is to be feared would ne.t be very particular about going sometimes ; when enstom had render ed these exhibitiOns more familiar. Now, what svoidcl be thecouserpeoce of this, as to bringing on a laxity of the moral piinciple of the nation, I need not be At (MICE) trouble in pointing out I need only request you to enquire, if you doubt, what are the . general morals of C , Atholic countries no the Continent ; and which are greatly owing, I !hills, to these causes. lint the grand engine. which destroys all morality, rant and branch,: amongst the lower ordets, is the koowledp..Je that they can get absolution, no some terms or other, front the Priests ; and finilly escape the punishment tit hell, as they. think, for every crime. 1 firmly believe, that it is this persua sion, amongst the lower orders . of the Irish, that has led them to commit murders and robbery to such an extent as they are continually doing ; especially on - the Protestants ; as if they had nothing to tear from the vengeance of God,aull had only to evade the punishment of man. Is is true there have been instances of retaliation, on the part of the Protestants ; but they are, much more rare ; and these, I have n o doubt, are from the bad examples and irritation of the Catholics ; and I Make this inference, front there being 'DO instances, or at least none in compariton, of murder and assassination being set about systematically in bands, io those coun tries where the lower nOpulation are Protes tants of the reformed Church ; while Italy, the vet y home of the Porte, and the fountain head of Popery, and outer Catholic countries, are in tested 'with hordes of ruffians ; living professedly by pillage and murder *. It - stay be said it is the fault of their Governments ; pray then what Go vernment is Ireland under ? I say, it is the fault of their religion ; which has taken nom them the fear of God ; for they believe, that even ill got wealth will purchase absolution of the Priest at the hour of death. , As the causes before mentioned will more par ticularly tend to demoralize the lower orders, and affect in a certain degree the middle Classes-, I must crave a little of your attention, to another cause of demoralization ; which I..SuPpose will have most effect on the middle and higher orders of society. The female character in this country., 1 apprehend, to have great influence on the mu ral, of the community. The conjugal happiness, domestic order, and pure morals of every. family, .depends much on the mistress. The increase .of Catholic people, will no doubt produce a pro portionable (or more than a proportionable) number of Priests. %Veil educated young men of this• class will be gladly admitted into society ; and as parties Joust cons!st of Romans and Protestants indiscriminately, it may be sup posed intermarriages will take place more ire. queudy- than heretofore, between Protestant men and Catholic women ; for in youth, personal at tractions and pleasing manners, are often such ir resistihle argot»ents,as not easily to be overcome; especially as our Clergy are not authorized to thunder out their anathemas of eternal damnation, to prevent it, as the Catholics are, unless the parties will profess a conformity to their Chureli. This introduction of the Priests into general so ciety, and these intermarriages, would give th em -great opportunities, by assiduity and frequent in- j tercourse, to make converts of many protestant females, and finally to exerci-e that ascendancy over the Ladies of this country which time young Alrbees (not always by purely spiritual 'argu ments,) exercised over the Ladies in France ; and which was so unfavourable to the female, cha racter and to public morals. lam very willing to give Catholic Priests credit for as much virtue as other men ; r evert the Protestant Clergy nut ae cepted; but their religion forbidding then) to Marry, and the confession of a woman's frailties, made to them with her own lips, in order to ob-. tain absolution, together with much leisure, awl without any_ worldly pursuits to excite 'their am bition, they ate exposed to peculiar temptations ; and I am not inclined to asetibe so large a shale of sane icy to any sect of Priests, as to suppose that they are not men of like passions with others. I leave it therefore to every Protestant husband, to judge for himself, if by any means Catholic influence infects the females of his family;.-whe ther the frequent domiciliary visits of the Priest, or the Clot , eililo Et coutession, and the i‘teas of, what may be the consequence,- will not abate family confideoce; poison conjugal felicity, and not only, as_ I bt•fitst asserted, bring evil to a man's fire-side, but iu many cases, corrode like a canker worm; the very Cure of his heat t. I will now' thank you for your patience, and drop the subject ; for I shall not inetend totits pote, whether the Pope is - Christ ' s Vicar on eiirrh, 4 i•lr. Collier, an Fate,lish Gentleman of distinc►ion, was not very long since murdered in Italy when travelling, with his attendants, in mid-day, by a company of Banditti. and the true nepresehtative of St. Peter; although troll) what I have read . of the Pope and St. Peter, their characters and conduct spent to : me a's'oPPo site as light and dark': nor will I attempt to dis prove, that the Pope and Cardinals concentrated in Council, are not so_ hilly assisted by the holy .spit it, as to render their decisiimsinfallible, as the decrees of God himself, and thereby givk them power to dispense eternal rewards and punish 7 tnents . at their will; I w ill not, I say, dispute these matters here ; although most of toy Lord Cardinals of England, and those who have come to this country from •Rome, (and who it is fair to presume, brought as 'pitch holiness, with them as they set out with,) seem to have been influenced by a satanic spirit, rather than a holy one ; if'we are to believe our histotians ; but trill leave these matters to he settled by the Theologians ; and conclude with exhorting my fellow Electors,' if they would not like to see their Country reduced to a level with the Roman Catholii, States' in tnorals ; if they wish not to give up the superior 'distinction now attached to a Briton ; if they wish to see comfort and confidence at their own 'fit e ;tides ; if they wish to be 'independent in their families ; .and not to be priest-ridden ; let them not tremble at the prosp'ct like children, but .avert it at the present like men ; by hOldly and p - skive!), refusing to vote for any Members to sit in the approaching Parliament, but those who openly avow their determination not to befriend Catho lic Emancipation ; so long as they ate sent to, Parliant;:nt by Protestant Electors. I au), Gentlemen, Your'R, &c, JOHN BULL. WESTMINSTER ELECTION. THIRD DAY. The state of the Poll at four o'clock on Satur day Wag i s ((MOWS Sir Francis liiirdcit 11r. 1-loblionse -• 944 Mr. Lamb .. GO7 The Following liand-hill was circulated timing The day. by the Committee of Sir F. Burdett awl Mr. Ebdihouse.:— " Burdett and kohhouse.—Electors, you are earnestly re quested to give Mr. Lamb a witicnt hearin , . lienrwhat-he addresses to you—let him defend himself be fore ' you who are his peers—and haying beard him,, but riot until you hove heard • him, judge of his fitness to represent you, and pro nounce your verdict accordingly. By' Order of the Committite, " S. BROOKS, Chairman. • " Colura;t tee-room, Rainbow Coffee-house, March • Mr. J UNES lit.inDUTT OM) stepped torwar(l, and said, that he was sorry at being under the necessity of announcing to the electors the indis pOsition of Sir Francis Burdett. His cold was so extremely bad, Ow if lie were present, it w ou ld have been impossible for him to make himself audible. His absence, therefore, he trusted, would be attributed to the only cause -which conld hAve wit!ebeld him• from appearing on the hust ings.—(Cheers.)—He desired, on his own ac count, to - be permitted to congratulate the. Ele ctors on the situation of the poll, The advantage they had gained chat day, lie trusted, would enable them to bring the contest to a successful and triumphant result. Ile could not let this op portulity pass, wi'hont i , ffering his humble, but warm and sincere.thanks to 3.1 r. flobhouse, pho had so zealously advocated the cause of general freedom, in resisting that monstrous power of ar bitrary jlrisdiction which had been claimed by the 1-louse of Commons.—(Clieers.)—He wired it were bin. his means to serve him more es sentially than be had, but they might rest - assnred . that every exertion in his grasp should he made to secure his success. The tmid:lnd unconsti tutional power of arbitrary jurisdiction to which he had alluded, he would represent, to them in the 'language of truth,norin his own language, .but in (bat of Mr. Burke, who said, '' That a large and liberal construction in ascertaining otr e p ces ; Hod a discretioriary power in punishing them wits a criminal court of equity, which was a monster in jurisprudence." To the truth of this observa.' tion, he was wire, that all to wiroM he addres“d himself would bear the strongest testimony. The" Honourable Gentleman concluded by . adverting to the scriptural story of the man who bad fallen among thievts t , and who, though passed by the Levit es and priests, tvai relieved by the gond Sa- mat itan, who refreshed him, and poured oil into his wounds. fie trusted the Electori of West minster would prove the good Samaritan to Mr. Elobbouse, hind'up his wounds, and pour oif upon them, by reforming hirn as their Representative in Parliament. Mr. LAME next presented himself to the elec tors. He returned thanks to the opposite peril - for the courtesy they hid exercised in requeiting for him a patient hearing. But even if they were disposed to attend to this recommendation, he would not occupy their attention for any .great length of time. He could not but regret the ah. settee of the Worthy Baronet, whose . indtspOsi lion hid been aurmunced, for be confelsed that lie - had some satisfaction in speaking after birn..— (Cries of bravo !)—There was a pleasure in hear ingthis speeches, because be met his opponent fairly, and grappled with his , arguments in an ripen, candid, and honourable in:inner—he took no mean advantage of what might have been said, and fairly represented the observations to which he might feel hims, If called upon to reply. .But! with regard to Mr. Hubbouse, be was not pre, pared to make the same declaration, and therefore he should be pet fectly contented to let his speech of the. preceding evening go uncommented upon, —(Groans and hisses),---41t least those c ar t s in there was a difference between them. There , were points, however, in which he entirely •coh curled, and to which he listened with great sti-. tisfaction. With respect to the numbers which• had polled, he begged to, assure the electors th at lie was as witch undismayed as ever. .He still retained the same confidence as to the result of :this contest.—(One of the crowd exclaimed, , -- " Then you have a cursed deal of assurance.") -Ile admitted -that he had ; and he believed it was very necessary on those hustings:— (Bravo and laughter:)—And Ite also ved thatit was 11(11 conllnrd to 1111r1 idCMC:—.?(L3qghter.)— Mr. Hubhouse had told them on a former day to let his . (Mr. Lomb's) canvassers .go'about with this onestion :—‘.! Will you vote for a.nian who says that the House of Commons is the constith. tional Representatives of the reople—or for a Man tvho holds a contrary doctrine .He readilY met ill"r. Hobhouse on that point. He was Iva' ling that his canvassers should put this question) for he was ready to stand or fall with .the Consti tution, such as it was.. He was ready to stand. by the Constitution with all its defects, rathet, that) he would concur with the illegal attempts which were made out of doors to effect a Refortg which was calculated rather to destroy altogether, than to amend it. He would consent to no Re; Om but such as was brought abotir by legal sou constitutional means.—(Loud disapprobation WO' here_ expressed by an individual in the crovrak when a person who stood near Mr. Lamb et; claimed, " We want no Cato;street conspiracies. This created considerable uproar and hisses.).' Mr. Lamb, in continuation, begged to ask, if the House of Commons were the infamous and cot', rupt 'hotly w Welt the Honourable Baronet (Sir E g i Burdett) hod described, how it came to pass that both himself and Mr. Hobhouse were so anxious to obtain a seat in such an assembly ?—(Cries of " Because they mean to . reform it.")—Da they indulge the Quixotic hope that their do queuce, would eudble them to persuade that cor.= ropt House to reform itselt ? And this, too• after they had told them; day atter dry, that it Ile" ver would reform itself ? If the House would not' reform itself, where Was the consistency of theiri wishing to sit in it ? If Mr. Hobhouse had any consistency, it was not in the House that he should seek to reform it, !At out of it, at the head of those Gentlemen who were to effect red form by pulling theiears of its Members.—(t'lisses and some cries of " All fair.")—lt was hardly to he expected that those who would incite, or pt--. (her recommend the people to insult the Member" of the House..of. Commons, would be thcmSelveti , anxious 14 obtain a scat in an assembly whicts, they had characterised 'as'deServing those insults , , For himself he could only repeat, - that he was for a liclottn in the Constitution by constitutional and legal means, and if it could not be re formed in this way, he hoped it would never be reformed at all.—(Some applause, - and cries of " Off, off.")—ln conclusion, Mr. Lamb - repeated' his confidence as to the ultimate issue of tbe f Election. , . floßuousE now presented himself to die Electors. He said he was pleased to find OW the Honourable Gentleman who had just a d-; dressed them should feel sensible of the courtesy I whiCh had been exercised towards him in the re' ( pie (which had been made, that he might be al' towed a hearing ; but .be was sorry to say that: be had not exercised a similar courtesy in return., He hadtold . th eiti that he felt pleaitire in answer' iris, Sir Francis Burdett ; but while he passed this' complitnent to the worthy Baronet, he thought , it necessary to add, that he (Mr. Hobhoi'se) had. taken mean and captions objections to his speech% Mr. LAMB denied that he meant to apply those epi:bets to Mr. Hobbouse. 'What he said was, that Sir F. Burdett had not taken meats ad iisn' tages of what bad fallen . froin him. Mr. 1-1011110 USE said, that the inference to lit drawn from this language was plain and intellV gible—it was in terms saying, that although Sic Francis Burdett did not take mean edvantages, that be (Mr. Llobboutte) did—n e e e? b e k,,,, as t he lbouoto able Gentleman had furnished, With.hit psualingenili!y, a new glossary to his owl, word y ,, he should make no further allusoin to the subject,., He could not help saying, 'however, that wl'eu Mr. Lamb complained of being misrepresented, it would have beet, but candid to have stated in w bat re•pect the tnisrepre,sentatioll bad taken place. \J r• H. then •pi.oceeded will great ingenuity and elo quence, to reply to the different topics of Mr. speech, and to observe, ibia his motive for desirie4 , a seat in the House of Commons was precisely rue : same as that which had been dedared by Mr. Fo% arid ,Lord Grey, when asked a similar question , namely, the . hope that by the speeches delivered in Parliament, att effect would be•produced out of. ; doors, which would ultimately con'tince the peopl. of the necessity of reform, and finally lead to t~ . beneficial result in the House - itself. After sorne' rematks on what he called th e d ou bl e f ace which,, Mr. Lamb bad assumed in his private letter of so' 'ideation, and in'his public' advertisement, be cow' . chided by rpTting this distich— Vile Neuters, in n►iddle way steeri►►g, " Are ❑either fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring." Awry'. OCCURRENCE,—FIid4 night, on the , ~alarnr of lire being given, Air. W. H. GOLowyEizt a most irespectable Surgeon, residing in Bridge,. '•st reel, Bath, lett his house to attend it i he natl. scarce leached illarypori-street, when, melad' choly to relate, he tell down' senseless ; st veltii . medical brethren immediately attended, to render every assistance in their power, but it was too' late, the vital spark had fled. ► Saturday afternoon, flit cc children weredecoyed froth the neighbourhood of Brook. Market, Hoi• iron), by a woman, %rho took 11. em into a fie;at near Islington, where she stripped them of all their, westing apfiafel, and left them : they were found some time after, newly perished with cold DO I hunger, and taken to the constables, %Om, resided. in the n'elghbourhood, who, after Wilt ming theta, 'and giving them something tO'eaf, carried 010 0 , home to their parents. _ BIRTH. On the lath inst., the Lady of Charles D. Gordon, Esq'' of lienwarh-hill, ui a ()Atli:liter. • MARRIED. t. 'At her brother's house, Si raloell, 'on Sunday, the sth cnr M.; s. «illiant Webster, to H. Grwge Leslie, Esq. of De"' On Saturday last, at St. Mary's,- Tslinzton, William Scott; Harvey, s.,s Londonderry, Esq., to dessieMai y, third dough' ter of k.lharies Roberts, Esq., of his Majesty's Receipt of bx ChtVier. - DIED. -. 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