The Sun.
London, England, 1807-04-07 00:00:00

CORONATION OATH.

The advocates for the late Ministry, adverting to
the subjed which occasioned their, removal from
Office, seem to make very light of His MAJESTY'S
Coronation Oath, and consider it as an easy matter •
to,clispense with that oath, if it should interfere with'
What an Administration may deem proper to bring
forward for the advantage of the State. But wise
and reAttaing men will not treat the provisions framed
by the soundest Statesmen, and san6tioned by long
experienCe, with 'so much levity. However saga-
cious and however honest in their intentions an Ad-_
ministration may be, their judgment is-not to be set
in opposition to the. celleclive wisdom of ages.
The horrors of Popery this Country bitterly ex-
'perienFd—and all those horrors might have re-
vive.d among . us, if- it had not been for that
Revolution
,which is justly marked with the epic .
thet' of " Glorious," because it produced • our
-greatest bulwark of Civil Liborty, and our firmest .
guard of Religions Faith. While the Laws which
resulted from that Revolution continue in force,
Civil and Religious -Freedom have nothing to fear.
Even those who dissent from the National Faith
enjoy the blessiogs of a liberal toleration, nor would
they be excluded from political power irthey were
tosubmitto those tests which are essential for, the -
preservation of our happy Constitutioru Uptin. this
subject we shal:l.snbjoin an Extra& from 'A PaniPhlet
written in the year 180:1i by Mr. Reeves, a Gentle-
man who has a profound knowledge of the British
Constitution, and a, genuine sense, -loyalty;
referring our,Readers to-the whOle of his arguments
upon .a!subjed intimately •conneded with the mea-
sur.e -Which the late AdminiStration so rashly, aid
so fatally for themselves, thought proper to urgela
Opposition to the conscientious feelings of theix.
Sovereign, . •
(,‘ It has been improvidently said, that the King
should be releasedfrOin his 'Oath, if it stands in the
way of any supposed improvement like the one now
intended. But, 'surely, it is-dealing too freely with
establishments, to annul original constitutions, that
have endured -for years, merely to make way- for
some experiment, of _ great magnitude, and very.
doubtful success ; -'to say nothing of the trifling with '
the most sacred of all san6tions among men, which
ought to be out of the reach of legislation itself,
with all its omnipotenCe. Should the whole legis-
lature join in making such a law, with respea le a
private subje&, it would be a very -questionable mea-
sure ;- but to suggest ,it with respea to the King, is
surely one of the. rosiest imighlations that w_43.....eYer:
conceived.

" Persons who would resort to such an expe,
dient do not at- all consider what is the sort of pro!-
ceeding which constitutes a law; they are not
aware, that the two houses of Parliament are the
King's advisers in matters of legislation ; and that
their office is only to propose to him Hills, which he
may make into laws, if he apprOVes them. Thus,
the intended release and absolution would be resolved-
into this ; the Lords and Commons propose to. the
King to pass a.dispensation to absolve himself from
his Oath ; and he passes it accordingly. This would
not be a very auspicious beginning .to a great pin for
the advancement of rttligion and piety ; though some
might think it a casuistical expedient, not unsuita-
able with tat genius of Popery, whose cause it is to
serve." • • •

The. payment of Tythes has been urged as one of
the chief grievaitces of which the Irish Catholics corri
plain. Mr. (31.1.:TARD, 'of Dublin, in an excellent_
Speech which he lately delivered in the Common
Council hoatctiht)arlm3autblejettV:_following striking 0-
psear:'tast:lilt fifty of of that
°'n
ile
suProtestant Proprietory Possess forty-nine
the lands in Ireland. When any
man has lands to' set Whio are tythe free, he does
not fail to advertise that circumstance, and he sets
his lands considerably higher in consequence thereof;
but it his lands be :sabjea- to Tythes, the taker makes
an abatement in the tent's, even more than the value
of the Tythe. It follows then from these
_premises,
which no man can controvert, that the subtradion
of property is from the land -owner, and notfrOm
the land-holder, who, though he immediately pays,
pays only as the agent of the land-owner, who, were .
the land tythe free, would receive a much higher
rent : it therefore follOws, that the Protestant Fro-
prietory pay forty-nine parts of the Tythes which
support the Church Eitablishment:; and if the RO-
nianists pay the- remainini•fifitieth, it will not be
detkd that the grants which, of late years have
been-,made..td them .fully counterbalance one fiftieth
part of theTytbes of Ireland. The weakness of the
Clergy is the inducement to attack them first; the
rents are the tieitt object the'true cause then otheir
clamours against. the Clergy, their many inhuman
murders committed on that order of men, is not
because the RocnaniSts are oppressed, , but because
they wish to detroy our,heretiCal 'Church." .

The Elppe.ror ALEXANDER, accompanied by his
brother; the Grand alke CONSTANTINE, has set off
front fit. Peterib..nzh to join -the Armies, and of
course, we presume, to takt; the coaimand into his
OWII hands;

AEROSTATIoN;—A brand Balloon is about to be
exhibited 'and -.eaused to ascend ion the Phoenix
Park, near Dublin, by. an Eleue of BLANCHARD, of
Aerostatic memory. The P'ilteeen Acres is the spot,
and palings are ere; ing: rqpnd a‘Farticular 'part, for
the " cx.clusion•of the,prpWace,-!' . ,

IlkitirC,l.

Ext,aeis from the ,Vezz, Foi k Papers, r,b. io.