The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-02 00:00:00

rIPO DANIEL O'CONNELL Esq., the
_AL Apostle of Peace and Goodwill; or, as 'designated by his
Countrymen, " The Great and Good."
Sir,—My Commission to call upon my brethren to search into
and take up the real name of their forefathers—ANGELS''—(not
Angles or Ingles, literally hole-and-corner men and devils) pre-
dicted by Gregory the Great, confirmed by the writings of the
Venerable Bede, and fulfilled by Egbert, A.D. 823—is at an end:
but net so the warfare which has grown out of that commission,
against any new adoption of the name of Briton. The objections
against the Irish beim,. called West Britons are-
1. The name has long been appropriated by the natives of the
county of Cornwall, in England.
2. The name of West Britain instead of Ireland, will not sound
well either in English or Lstin--Little Britain worse still : how
infantine the Royal title of Queen of the Great and Little Britons
—of the Great and West Britons, how incongruous.
3. The alteration of Britannia to Britain, or G. 8., is bad, de
origine morover, it was so altered by the sole will and caprice of
James 1., and probably against the will of the people.
4. The term Briton may agree with Britannia, doubtfully so
with Britain, but certainly cannot agree with Great Britain.
5. The Irish have not the same reason for upholding the name
as the Scotch ; out of love for the name-giver. He was, I believe,
the first Royal renegade or waverer from the faith of St. Patrick,
equally claimed as the forefather of the Scotch as of the
James also sent Presidents into Ireland, who boasted they would
cut with the King's sword King John's Charter to pieces, level
their cities with the ground, and strew them with salt. His really
Protestant Predecessor, Elizabeth, was toe discreet to enforce the
cruel Acts against the Irish Catholics.
6. Although the English and Scotch may persist to glory in
their new .fangled, half-formed, barbarian name, the Irish can
have no more reason than the negroes to adopt it. Roman Catho-
lics especially ought to execrate it as a name, being a lie and
against the truth : moreover, the name was anathematised (I am
stating from recollection, Gildas or Bede, or both), by St. Augus-
tine, together with the people and their Church in particular,
because they would not with him preach the word of God
to the Saxons, though dwelling together in the same land
(gene invitata); and the success of the Saxons, by the famous
Alleluia victory, over the Britons, the precursor of their almost
entire extermination, has ever been held by good Catholics
to be the consequence of that sentence, and time would seem
to prove the heavenly fiat of this authority of the Holy
See. Ido not think the English would hug the name so closely if
they feared the coming of the Britons to claim their own again, so
much as they pretend to fear the subversion of their Church by the
Catholics claiming our cathedrals and colleges as their own. Surely
somewhat may pacify these worldly wights. I entreat you there-
fore not to take the accursed name of Briton in any form : but, as
it is ascertained, en the best authority, that of the Angel, or Eng-
lish blood, now existing on the Irish soil, far the greater portion
circulates in the veins of the Roman Catholics, continue to exhort
your countrymen, as that zealous Apostle, St. Paul, sets example,
not to wrangle about the distinction of sects and creeds, but rather,
with the English and Scotch in 'Union, join to sing with ANGEL
name,4

The Angel's Hymn,
Glory to God in the Highest ;on earth peace, good-will toward
men."
ANGELUS Omnium Sanctorum Thamesis.
Dec. 25, 1838.
Demonstrated in a short pamphlet, " The Angel, or English,
Queen."
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