The Sun.
London, England, 1822-06-29 00:00:00

[THE TIMES.]

After the principles upon which the Slave
Trade was defended were, if we may use the
expression, conquered in the British Parliament,
and that iniquity which was before felt by the
heart of every uncorrupted man was demonstrated
to his reason, it might have been thought, if any
integrity prevailed among Princes and Govern-
ments, that the odious traffic would at once
have been denounced throughout the worldl
and that such measures would have been adopt-
ed, that even if any were base enough in nature,
they would not have been hardy enough in cou-
rage to carry it on. Still, however, we have to
listen to declamations on the subject, whilst the
trade thrives. Russia, Portugal, and France are
the countries from which it derives its greatest
encouragement or its chief support—from the
first Power, by the preference which its tariff
gives those sugars which are chiefly manufactured
by imported slaves—from the latter, by direct
participation in the trade. Our mode Of dealing with
these Powers will, no doubt, be different. TO the
Emperor of Russia, who, whatever jealousies may
prevail, we will not hastily believe to be in-
different to the cause of humanity, the decla-
ration of his Minister, with that of all the other
PoWers of Europe, signed at Vienna February the
Bth, 1815, should be represented ; the preamble
to which declaration states the resolution of the
contracting Powers 44 to put an end to a scourge
46 which has so long desolated Africa, degraded
46 Europe, and afflicted humanity." The discord-
ance of the pretent tariff with the obligation then
so solemnly entered into by his Imperial Majesty
shinild be pointed out ; and we trust that honour
hat not yet so finally taken leave of Cabinets and
Court 4, but that he may be induced 'so to regu-
late the commerce of his dominions, as not to give
life and activity.to that trade upon which he had on
every principle. of justice solemnly passed Sen-
tence of death. The course with France may be
somewhat similar. Buonaparte could abolith the
trade promptly and decisively. Are the Bour•
bOni less potent for good and honourable and
Ifurnaae purposes than that Tyrant ? At all
events, it appeart clear to us that those Govern'.
meitit Which stand pledged to the abolition, and,
tiPpn which 146 can priiire inCompetence to giVe
4ffett to their own engagements, should consign
the execution of theta to more powerful or adroit
0 hands.

FOR THE SUN.

LETTER XIV.

Ma. EDITOR---I have just read hr the Warder of
the Ist of June a paragraph, stating, that at the late
Annual Visitation of the College at Maynooth,
held by the Lord Chancellor, the Chief Justices
of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas,
and the Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer,
that " his Lordship called the attention of the
" heads of the Roman Catholic Church, then
" present,and of the teachers of that religion, pre-
" siding over the instruction of its professors,
44 to the doctrines advanced hy, and the claims
" asserted for, the Roman Catholic Priesthood
" by the Reverend Sylvester O'Sullivan, P. P.'
44 of Knockacoppel. These, his Lordship, if we
" are rightly informed, represented as hostile to
‘‘ the judicial constitution of the Country, and
" inconsistent with the security of the' State. The
". President, Dr. Crotty, as we are informed, in a
" speech of some length, thanked his Lordship
" for the introduction of this subject, which gave
44 them an opportunity of disclaiming,as a doctrine
C 4 of their Church, what Mr. O'Sullivan had so
" unadvisedly advanced, and concurred with his
44 Lordship in every expression of its reprobation.
" lie was followed by several of the Professors,
" who declared that the- exemption claimed by
" that Gentleman would not be tolerated by any
" foreign Government, or meet support in any
" foreign University. The heads of the Church
" expressed their unqualified assent to Dr. Crotty
" and the Professors, and even the students of
" the College gave testimonies of their concur-
rence in reprobating a claim, to which no Go-
" vernment could, with any regard to its safety,
" submit ; and which would surrender the laws
" of the land to the caprice or the interest of an
" individual of the Church, who might feel him-
" self disposed to obstruct their operation."
Although I have begun this Letter with the
foregoing paragraph, I shall not yet make the
use of it I intend, by drawing inferences from it;
but proceed to lay before your Readers a few
extracts from an Address of Doctor Coppinger,
titular Bishop of Cloyne and Ross, to his Priests,
taken from the Southern Reporter of the 30th of
May, for the information of such of them as may
not have seen the original ; and then make some
remarks.

" In the recent deplorable excesses which have agitated cer-
tain districts of this Diocese, fresh instances of your zeal, ad-
ditional proofs of your merit, have been exhibited, which, be-
sides the approval of your own consciences, have entitled you
to the high encomiums of the Judicial Bench ; and how grati-
fying to myself, to have been complimented for this your laud
able conduct, by one of the first Law Officers of the Crown.—
Aware, as I had cause tar be, that no effort was wanting, on
your part, to stem the torrent, at the moment, or to remove, as
well as to obviate, by salutary remonstrance, and religious in-
struction, that delusion, which, from a neighbouring County,
had, extended to our own, I withstood the several suggestions
made to me on the subject of publishing a Pastoral Address.
I knew you were strenuously anticipating whatever I could com-
municate in that way; I was convinced you required no further
stimulant, and if, at this day, grateful and general acknowledg-
ments are elicited by ydur, labours lam glad thus publicly to
declare that the undivided credit has been gained solely by
yourselves. 'Would to GOD that the warnings you gave had
been still more generally attended to, and that the unfortunate,
infatuated individuals, who have forfeited their lives, or have
been severed by exile from their families, had taken your advice
while it was yet time; their widows, their wives, and their
wretched offspring would not, in that case, have to lament the
loss of their protectors ; nor wandering, as they now must,
in houseless pauperism, add new griefs to the general
mass of Irish misery. What the extent and pressure of this
misery is, you my venerable Brethren must have the best op-
portunities of ascertaining in the daily discharge of your duties,
which conduct you to the several abodes of wretchedness where'
hunger and nakedness, and contagion, in all their squalid va-
rieties, prey upon their forlorn victims ; and you well know
that these sufferings alone, not treason, nor rebellion, nor poli-
tics, were the real incentives in the late confusion ; you well
know that these combustibles were but too widely diffused in
every quarter, ready for the torch of every incendiary. Des-
ponding, tarnishing, maddened, these poor deluded creatures
inflamed each other, and became persuaded that a community
of anguish must swell their muster-roll with tens of thousands;
and that their mighty army, though undisciplined, unorganised,
unprovided, but led on by Captain Rock, would be irresistible;
that tithes, rack-rents, and every other grievance must cer-
tainly be abolished, and leave them in quiet possession of every
thing they ambitionei."

For myself, I must confess that I have always
looked upon " Pastoral Letters," and such Ad-
dresses as the present, as a kind of double en-
lendre, or a masked battery. The Editor of an
Evening Paper in this City has treated it as a
fabrication : but I consider it as the genuine
ebullition of the Doctor ; and I shall make my
remarks upon it accordingly. _ _

Had this Reverend writer taken that interest
in the tranquillity of the country, and the real
and consequent welfare of his flock, he wishes
the public to believe he did, he would, however
highly he might have thought of the zeal or his
Priests, have published a Pastoral Letter, as had
been suggested to him : and it was his bounden
duty not only to have done so, but also to have
co-operated with his Priests in enforcing the
duty of allegiance to their Sovereign, and obe-
dience to the Laws, upon the minds of the igno-
rant; instead of which, by his own confession,
he remained perfectly passive, notwithstanding
" several suggestions" to the contrary, and left
all to his Priests.

Every person at all acquainted with the tenets
of the Romish Church must know the unbounded
influence Priests have over the minds of the laity,
by means of auricular confession, excommunica-
tion, and purgatory : nor can there be a doubt
upon the mind of any rational dispassionate man,
as to the result, had the Priests done their duty
upon the late occasion, as scarcely any votary of
Popery has the hardihood to withstand the
thunder of the Church, in the form of excommu-
nication, which, we learn from Lind wood, " is of
two sorts, the lesser and the greater; the lesser
excommunication is the depriving the offender of
the use of the sacraments and of divine worship;
the greater excommunication is that whereby
then are deprived, not only of the sacraments
and the benefits of divine worship, but of the so-
ciety and conversation of the faithful." This

thunder Priests are ready enough to level against
those who incur their displeasure or who refuse
to submit to their exactions ; and, within these
few years there have been two instances of men
reduced to beggary—one at Clonakilty, in this
County, the other at Ballyshannon, in the County.
of Donegal; in consequence of the greater ex-
communication;--and for what ? Why, truly,
for refusing to pay subscriptions for building
Chapels, when their circumstances would no
longer allow them to do so, without injury to
their families. These are no fabrications, Mr.
Editor : they are upon record ; and the sufferers
obtained redress from the laws of their country,
the one 501. from a Priest, the other 1501. from a
titular Bishop.. And during the contested elec-
tion for this city, in October, in the year 1812,
the Priests, by the terror of excommunication,
denounced from the altar, compelled several
Roman Catholic freeholders to vote for the Pane-
gyrist of Buonaparte and Advocate of Popery, in
violation of their promises to their landlords.—
This last circumstance, and by no means a soli-
tary one, may shew Liberal-minded Emancipators
what they have to expect,and how all the engines
of Popery will be set in motion to return Papists
Members to Parliament, should they unhappily
succeed in their scheme of subverting our glo-
rious Constitution.

But, I ask, why have the Romish Bishops and
Priests been, in a manner, passive : the former,
too, so very verbose in professions of attachment to
his Majesty's person and Government, and pro-
mises of inculcating upon the minds of those com-
mitted to their c:lre " implicit obedience to the
laws of the land ?" Why was not the greater
excommunication resorted to, when remonstrance
and warning failed, to prevent " the unfortunate
infatuated individuals" from rising in rebellion
against their Sovereign ; from committing every
species of crime—rape, murder, robbery, and the
destruction of property ; and bringing ruin upon
themselves and their families ? Their Reverences
cannot plead ignorance that " a bloody insurrec-
tion was on the eve of breaking out," six or seven
months before publicly mentioned by Mr.
O'CONNELL : for, as auricular confession had
been appointed to be observed as a sacrament,
after the Church became Popish, I presume no
penitent would venture to conceal any thing
from his ghostly father. Was not that Priest,
therefore, bound by his duty as a subject, by his
duty as a citizen, and by his duty as a Christian
Divine, to reveal to Government a deep-laid plot
against the public peace, which would have
saved the effusion of much blood, and many of
his own communion from the punishment due to
their crimes ?

In my Fifth Letter, which appeared in THE
SUN of the 19th of April, I gave my opinion of
the Insurrection, and its source ; however, I can-
not avoid here repeating, in opposition to Dr.
Coppinger's extenuating causes, so happily jum-
bled with effects, that the distress, which has
been general, has pressed as heavily upon Pro-
testants of the lower class as upon Roman Ca-
tholics ; and I defy the whole Conclave of Popish
Bishops, aided by Mr. Grattan, to prove one in-
stance of a Protestant, let his distress have been
what it might, having joined the ranks of rebel-
lion.—lt must therefore be manifest to every un-
prejudiced mind, that " treason, rebellion, and
politics, were the real incentives to the late•
CONFUSION."

As I do not wish to impede the current of na-
tional benevolence, at once so honourable to, and
characteristic of, Great Britain, I shall pass over
his bombastic compliments. It had been better
if he had contented himself with giving the meed
of praise justly due to Britons, without casting a
general reflection upon the Irish Nobility, Gen-
try, and Clergy, many of whom have contri-
buted, with a liberal hand, to relieve the wants
of the distressed, and many of whom have evinced
the deepest interest in the welfare of the lower
class, by establishing upon their respective estates
schools for the instruction of the children of the
poor, who otherwise must be brought up in bar-
barous ignorance, the precursor of crime; but
those Noblemen and Gentlemen would not im-
plicitly submit the direction of those schools
to Priests, who, they were well aware, would
counteract their benevolent intentions, as it is the
policy of the Church of Rome to retain her vo-
taries in a state of darkness, convinced that the
light of the gospel would soon dispel the mists
of superstition. But he informs his "venerable
brethren," that there is 46 reason to hope, the Le-
gislature in its wisdom shall patronise such a sys-
tem of education for our poor, as our religious
principles can fearlessly adopt, and, by pecuniary
bounties, assist us in diffusing it through the
kingdom ;" that is, to disseminate Pastorini's
pretended history of the Christian► Church,
20,000 copies of which have been printed in
Cork alone in the last ten months, ; however, I
trust the Legislature will not lavish the public
money in, nor countenance the propagation of,
such doctrines ; in other words, that they will
not leave the execution of any plan they may
form, exclusively to the management of Popish
priests.

As for the " encomiums that flowed from the
judicial Bench," or the " compliments from one
of the first Law Officers of the Crown," I cannot
suppose that those grave and dignified person-
ages could have descended to the frivolity of
paying what are called French compliments :
therefore, as some persons are of opinion that
praise unmerited is the severest satire, it is to
be inferred that they adopted that covert mode
of expressing their disapprobation of the cri-
minal neglect of the great majority of the
Romish priests, conceiving that conscience would
have pointed the arrow : but the use that has been
made of these encomiums and compliments,
will, I hope, be a warning to them in future, to
speak plain English, and not to indulge in the
figures of Rhetoric.
But whether the Right Honourable Gentle-
man alluded to, did or did not deliver .the genu-
ine and spontaneous sentiments of his mind, with
regard to the Romish Priests generally, in his
speech on the 30th of April, on Sir John New-
port's motion on the State of Ireland, it is mani-
fest that he could not have done so, in his vindi-
cation, as given in the public prints, of Priest
O'Sullivan's conduct, during the late Special

Commission in this city ; some particulars of
which I detailed in my fifth Letter, published is
your Paper of the 19th of April ; for it is impus:
Bible that a Barrister of such profound legal
knowledge, as that Right Hon. Gentleman is nal-
versally allowed to possess, could for a moment
seriously have thought, upon the plea of necessity
and usefulness, of making the influence of Priests
paramount to the laws of the land; which laws,
Priest O'Sullivan had twice treated with the
greatest contumacy; and he triumphed in insult'
ing them. Be it, however, as it may, with re-
gard to the Right Hon. Gentleman in question;
it is an incontrovertible fact, and it affords the sin:
cerest pleasure to every friend to our religious and
civil establishments, that the Lord Chancellor of
Ireland did not approve of the doctrines advanced
by, and the claims asserted for, the Roman Catholic
Priesthood, by the " Rev. Sylvester O'Sullivan,'
P.R. of Knockacoppel ;" which his Lordship "
rem
presented as hostile to the judicial Constitution
of the Country, and inconsistent with the security
of the State." It is also not a little remarkable,'
that this doctrine, which, if it had not been lir,
held, was at least countenanced by high legal
authority,o has been disclaimed and reprobated
(with what sincerity it is not for me to deter
mine ; it is sufficient for my present purpose, that
it has been disclaimed and reprobated) by the
President of the Royal Roman Catholic College
at Maynooth, by the Professors, by the heads of
the Romish Church, then present at the visita-
tion, and by the Students : that the Professors
" declared, that the exemption claimed by Mr.
O'Sullivan would not be tolerated by any 0'
reign Government ;" although it had been to-
lerated in the City of Cork, by which means the
murderers of Mr. Brereton escaped justice ;'and
that the Students joined 64 in reprobating a daft's,
to which no Government could, with any regal.
to its safety, submit,and which would SUILREND°4
the Laws of the Land to the caprice or the inte-
rest of an individual of the Church, who [night
feel himself disposed to obstruct their operation,
all which was done in the case of the Reverend
Sylvester O'Sullivan.
In my next, I shall submit another Labor of
Doctor Coppinger to the consideration of your
Readers, in the hope that it may meet the eye
of the Lord Chancellor ; as I am convinced the
claim set up by the writer for his Church will
meet the decided disapprobation of his Lordship'
Cork, June 9, 1822. SIDNEY.

'MELANCHOLY AccIDENT.--Last night an 18'
quisition was taken before T. HIGGS, Esq:
Deputy Coroner, at the Ship public house, Mib;
bank-row, on the body of a young lad name'
Thomas Ward, who was accidentally drowned'
in the moat which surrounds the Penitentiary, cns
Thursday last. John Pratt, Esq, surgeon t°
the Penitentiary, deposed, that about sore°
o'clock in the evening he had just left there,
when he was informed that two boys were in the
water drowning. He, accompanied by the G°'
vernor, porter, and a gentleman named Panics:
repaired to the spot; the latter ran first, undressed
himself, and diving brought up the deceased ; he
dived again and caught the other who was al°3°si
lifeless. Witness instantly administered the uso
remedies, with the assistance of the GoverOr°
for upwards of half an hour, but without all
success. The other lad shortly after recovered;
This witness's testimony was fully corroborate°
by Mr. Enoch Danks, of Millbank-street, whu
further added that the water was about five feet
six inches in depth. Charles Cooper, aged to
years, the lad who was with the deceased at °e
time the accident happened, said, 'that they 113 d
gone there for the purpose of catching fishl
when his companion fell into the water, he had
partly undressed himself, and jumped in, hoping
to save him when he went to the bottom. (The
evidence of this lad was not taken on oath int
consequence of his youth.) The Jury, with 0l
any hesitation, returned a Verdict—Accede/04'7
Drowned.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE, June 26. ~, •
Arnstet darn - 12 10 C. "
Ditto, at Sight l2 7
Rotterdam l2 II
Antwerp l2 6
Hamburgli sa 9 4+il-176
Altona
Paris, 3 Day's sight 2S o 0 ,it.
Ditto
l3ourdeaux, ditto
, /
Franisforton the Main
Madrid
,•elf e
ir
Cadiz - tiro
Bilboa 3st Efr"
Barcelona - . 35/
Seville
Gibraltar
Leghorn
Get utt 43&---Venice, Ital. Lis/1.. 27 60
Malta 45 -Naples 391
Palermo
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
Dublin .... 94, Cork 9i pet Cent.
BULLION. 00
Portugal Gold, in Coin 1.0 0 0 P"' . 1
Foreign Gold, iu Bars 3 17 10i
New Doubloons - • .-•
New Dollars
Silver in Bars. Standard 0 4 11
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. COAL-MARKET, JUNE 28.
Ships at Market. Ships sold Price. n&
384 Newcastle . 22i 31s Od to 1444.
12 Sunderland - 7 30s 6d
to Od
1 Stone Coal - 0 - —s Od ^^s'o,l
1 Welsh Coal - . I. . Od ?4!04.1
5 Culm - 5 . .—s Od to oLo

BIRTHS. GO'
On Monday last, at Cheltenham, the Lady of Thorns; oid
Fitzgerald, Esq., of Oakland, County of Mayo, Irelanuo
Baldshay Hall, Yorkshire, of a daughter. child"
Mrs. John Pepper, in Portman-square, of a still bortt.„„,

MARRIED. • ,
On Thursday, the 27th inst., at the Parish Church of R,eri the
in the County of Kent, John Bayley, Esq., eldest son 13'hter.
Hon. Mr. Justice Bayley, to Charlotte Mary, second dal el
of the late John Minet Fector, Esq., of.Do;er, and Keall
Abbey, in the same County. . ner.
On the 25th inst., at Upway, near Weymouth, thetioll,
Robert Vaughan, to Susan, youngest daughter of Capt.
Royal Crescent, Weymouth.

DIED. A h 0100*•
On Thursday last, Mrs. Absolom, wife of Georgel.'S
Esq., of Blackheath, aged 46: AVarril/er-.
On the 26th inst. at St. Mary Cray, Kent,. George
Eq. of Bloxham Grove, Oxfordshire, aged 75 years. 4 the
On Friday, the 26th of April, IBA by the upsettn4 :,'„n of
boat of the ship Camden, off Antigua, Charles, secants
~viore.,
E. H. Desvignes, Esq. of Hunter-street, BrtlnB4ick4q
was unfortunately drowned, aged 17. —......"'_----

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