The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-23 00:00:00

TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN

VICTORIA.

GRACIOUS MADAM—One of the humble of your Britons
dares to address your Majesty, and to felicitate you on the
just and merciful reprimand awarded to the impudent, con-
ceited Address of the Faction, which has been and conti-
nues to be as the beacon of tyranny, and the very right arm
of superstitious fraud.
Thank God, the time is past when a Priest, after
trampling the laws of God under foot, could dare to put his
foot on the neck of an Emperor, and proudly chaunt
" Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder, the young lion
and dragon thou shalt trample under foot."--( Psalm xci.)
Even in this land of the free the Priestly faction was so
powerful as to strip the King to his shirt, and compel him
to walk to church with naked feet !! I The last days
of Queen Anne were disgraced by the enactment of the
Schism Act, which provided that no Dissenter from the
Episcopacy of what is called the English Church, should
be allowed to educate his own child !! ! So zealous were
the leaders of the Priestianity faction to enforce this most
unjust law, that a deputatton from the Convocation of
Episcopacy waited on George the First soon after his ac-
cession ; the self-called Reverend Gentleman implored the
King that, for the benefit of the Church, he would put the
Schism Act in force ; he manfully said, " Nay ; nor will
1 suffer persecution on account of religion during my
reign."
I conjure your Majesty to con with deep thought the
grand important sentiment of this one of your grand-
sires, and you may rest assured that this is one of the
brightest gems in the British Crown ; may you wear it long
untarnished in glory, so that the faction of Priestianity
may not have power to rob you of the sublime glory of
doing justice, and showering your benevolence on every
one of your people, from the remote of India to the extreme
of Canada, and north and south's full boundaries. The
King also further said, " The gentlemen of the Convo-
cation may not after this meet to legislate but to pray."
The faction still feel sore at the noble conduct of the
King on this occasion, and many of the teachers of Epis-
copacy in the most blasphemous manner, curse the acces-
sion of your Majesty's family to the British Throne.
In 1715 the faction got up a rebellion, and its most ar-
dent promoters were Clergymen ; the University of Ox-
ford proceeded to such extremes, that a young man was
put into the black-book, and was refused his degree for
two years, because he had invited a company to drink
King George's health, and the dignitaries of the Univer
sity lied ample vengeance in store for those who dared to
insult the University by honouring King George and the
Protestant succession.
The conduct of the faction at the time was such that
the Ministry gladly availe,i itself of two very intelligent
men, Gordon and Trenchard, who displayed much talent in
three periodicals—" The Independent Whig," " The
Cato's Letters," and the!' Cordials for Low Spirits."

These periodicals exhibited in the most naked state the
political knavery and the superstitious fraud of Priestianity
and its confirmed enmity to Christianity and civil liberty.
Even these publications at this day are like an episode in
the history of our country, alike interesting to your Ma-
jesty as to the humblest in the land. Notwithstanding the
mortification of the serpent faction in the accession of the
Brunswick family, it reared again its dragon flag in 1745,
and stalked through the land in blood, and again was laid
in blood.

Countenanced by Priestianity, often has faction trampled
on the people, and insulted the Throne. Its gross mind
led to the separation of that immense Colony now known as
the United States, and a great accumulation of public
debt. and much private loss.
Then came the awfully impressive event of the French
Revolution. The cess-pool of superstitious fraud was dis-
turbed; it rolled in swelling surges ; Priestianity, horror-
struck, stood aghast, and its satellites yelled with rage
through all the secret chambers of fraud, when the freedom
of religious worship was proclaimedin the public council of
a nation, where hitherto it had been criminal to mouth a
prayer to God, except agreeable to the rule of reigning
hypocrisy.
The three unclean spirits, like frogs, the Romanizim,
Grecianism, and Protestantism, sword-armed, agreed in
the spirit of persecution, and unanimously called forth the
power of nations to the great knife battle to support wan-
ing Pi iestianity ; this horrid strife finished in 1815, as if it
had been a quarrel with a single individual tyrant.
Faction crowed, and we were threatened with the revival
of the superstitions of the twelfth century, while all rejoiced
in the fall of the spoilers of nations; faction contemplated
a debt of eight hundred millions and the degradation of the
industrious as unworthy of a thought; but it struck me
forcibly that the mental commotion could not possibly be
silenced by the sword, arid that the word battle must now
continue to rage till the intelligence and wisdom of the
Legislators, and the Sovereigns of nations cause Justice
and the benevolencies of Christianity to flow to every hu-
man being under their constitutional control. _ .

Then no sect can be allowed to share the purple with the
just ruler. Then would Priestianity be innoxious except to
itself,because Christianity then might stand erect in society,
for it only requires forbearance as it forbears with all who
differ from it in mind.

Now, during the strife of the word battle and the sword
battle, I have anticipated the triumph of right mind—
even the voice of the faction dared not to refuse the
Emancipation Act, because it passed with the approval of
the Hero of Waterloo, God bless him. The faction re-
fuses still to do justice to a large portion of the community,
else your Majesty could not have been insulted by the late
address of Bullyism, against the good intentions of your
Majesty in Council.
Indignant at the insolence of tke faction, I have dared
to implore your Majesty to take a retrospective view of the
conduct of that faction, which, with the name of God in
its mouth, is often engaged in the work of evil to our
common country, and particularly its base malignant con-
duct to your Majesty's house, when it has been unable to
lead the Monarchy itself.
At this moment its venomous agents earnestly pour the
slime of its poison upon your Majesty's good name.
Madam, I trust that your Majesty will sympathize with
the feelings of a man on the borders of seventy, devotedly
fond of his Bible, which he considers as the most faithful
councillor of right mind ; and wbo is determined to call
the discontented dignitaries of Episcopacy to set their
house in order ; because I find great disorder in their
ministrations. I intend in future remarks to call on them
to explain how tbey dare to claim the management of the
Grant for the promotion of National Education, when
they hive sho.wn their want of inclination, if not in.
competence, to correct the extraordinary discrepancies
between the Prayer-book and the Bible which have
existed three hundred years. But this must be the subject
of futUie papers, which, with all due respect I will address
to ,our Majesty. For the present I will conclude with
God bless your Majesty ! and may the Omnipotent richly
endow you with knowledge, wisdom, understanding, judg-
ment, courage, and intrepidity, to hold the dragon of po-
litical ar.d superstitious fraud, astounded and floundering,
in the lake of its own formation, the very cesspool of per-
secution, that the faithful of the British may continue to
joy in the presence of their Queen.
With the most fervent prayer for your Majesty's health,
glory, and happiness, I remain,
Your devoted Servant,
GIDEON DOLL-SMASHER.
Pri:nrose- Hill, July 14, 1839.