The Sun.
London, England, 1825-05-26 00:00:00

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The French Liberal Journals have taken up
the strange fancy that the Catholic. Emancipation
Bill was rejected in consequetic'e or:The.progres4
which Jesuitism is making on the Contioent. The
source of this mistake is twofold; first,-thedis.
-
position of most people to dive 'exaggerated con-
sequence to their own Concerns---and next, the
disposition, equally natural anticorntoott, to throw_
odium upon an adverse party. - There cannot be
a better proof of the futility of .'supposition'
than its not being insisted on by fhe-OppOnents of
the Bill in debate. Most extraordirtarrindeed.
it would be if the progress -:of -Wat may be
called anti-Liberalism abroad, were treated as' a
subject of alarm by the very party and persons-
who have patronized the influence of anti-
Liberal Ministers iii France, Ottl prayed. for the
success of the French armies in Spain.: These
gentry of the Liberal Press of: Paris may _rest as-
sured that whatever were the. real causes of the
rejection of the Bill, those 'causes were purely
de.3estic ; and that most probably the result
would have been the same, if instead of M. de
Villele, the Duke Decazes, or the Abbe de la
Mennais, who may be set down as mutual anti-
podes, were Prime Minister of France. They
also assume that an extraordinary effect was pro-
duced by Mr. O'Connell's - seeming to identify
himself with the Jesuitical , Ultramontane
party abroad. The fact is, that Mr. O'Connell's
eulogy 'of the liberality of Charles X. and his-
charge of bigotry against the Spanish Cortes, were
SO obviously spoken in utter ignorance of the
politics, parties, and transactions of Europe—
uttered perhaps, too, in the penury of exhausted
rhetoric, and the necessity of saying something—
that they passed over without notice. •

[monxiNG Ciutorinr.E.]
The Bishop of Chester has, it seems, taken
great offence at the statement, that he changed
his opinions, which were once favourable to the
Roman Catholics, the moment that he became
tutor to the NepheW of Lord Liverpool. In a
letter, in the Courier of yesterday, from one evi-
dently as well acquainted with all the passagesl
of the life of the Right Reverend FatherinGrod,'
as he can be himself, we have an authorised
contradiction of this statement Allow me,"
says this very intimate friend of Doctor Blom-
field, to assure you that there never was
a more direct and complete mis-statement
of fact. The Bishop avowed,. in his speech,
that he had once, in early life, entertained
sentiments favourable to the Roman Catholics ;
but that, when he had read and reflected upon
the subject, he was compelled to alter his opi-
nions.. Ile expressly stated, however, that this
change was not of recent date. 'Ps present no-
tions of the question were formed and avowed at
a time wheb' they were OrpOied.to every view Of
private interest which" he could entertain, bei4
hoStite to the opinions and wishes of the Earl of

Bristol—the friend of his family, as well as to
those of. Earl Spencer, the Nobleman by whom
his extraordinary merits had first been noticed
and rewarded. And this fact (which gave pain
to his Lordship) was very feelingly alluded to in
the commencement of his speech. Mr. O'Con-
nell's assertion is, therefore, not only unfounded,
but is diametrically opposite to the truth. The
Bishop's sentiments on this subject, far from
being of an interested nature, were formed in
opposition to the bias of private feeling, as well
as to the prospects of professional advancement.
I shall just add, that Lord Hervey, the nephew
of Lord Liverpool, to whom Mr. O'Connell al-
ludes as the instrument of the Bishop's c sudden'
and' miraculous' conversion, entertains himself
different views of this question. It is well
known that this amiable and promising young
Nobleman might have been, at this moment,
the Representative of the University of Cam-
' bridge, had he not defeated his own hopes of at-
taining that object, by the candid avowal of opi-
nions differing from those of his tutor." Who, after
this, will say that interest had any thing to do
with the conversion of this learned Prelate? In fact,
as the world now goes, it may well be considered
a miraculous conversion, having been, as his apo-
logist observes, " opposition to the bias of
private feeling, as well as to the prospects of pro-
fessiomal advancement."—The only difficulty we
have in regard to the claim of extraordinary dis-
interestedness, set up for Dr. Bloomfield by his
zealous apologist, is, that the same disregard of

interest would seem to. be exceedingly common
among his brethren. An analysis of the votes
on the Emancipation Question, will shew that
there was a considerable majority of the higher
Peers, as Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, in favour
of the measure ;. that the weight of property was
also in its favour, and that the Bishops, and a ma-
jority of the Viscounts and Barons, turned the scale.
Now, as notwithstanding this weight of property
in favour of emancipation, the Clergy:were, with
very • few exceptions, against it, what are we to
infer, but that they, in many cases, ,sacriticed
their interest to their conscience ? Vhe.Bishop of
Chester's disinterestedness , may, therefore, be
great, but fortunately it is not extraordinary. So
the Right Reverend Prelate did not change his
opinion the-moment that he became tutor to the
nephew of 'Lord Liverpool. lie changed it,
however, before he became Bishop of Chester ;
and, without calling in question the sacrifice of
his interest to his,conscienCe, we trust" we may be
permitted to observe, that at the period he made

it, he must have had- something like a pre-
sentiment, that without -a`change he would never
be Bishop. of Chester, or of any other place.
There is some mysterious union between hostility
lo the Catholics and a Pishdpric,—which, though
Dr. Blomfield might. not be able to account for
satisfactorily, could hardly fail' td force itself on
the notice of so acute an obsprVer. The change

led to Chester, though change might not'be caus-
ed by Chester. The distinction is of more im-
portance than it may seev to

[sEw,:rtmEs,].
The Chronicle persists J. calling -the Earl o

Liverpool a" very.crafty" inane and, in ascribin,
to him" intrigue" in the trinsactions. If
ever there was a Statesman -whose political -con-
duct,, through a quarter Oa century, stood above
all such imputationi, it is, Coici Liverpool. . And
what " exquisite reason”, has -the Chronicle for
supposittg, that on the preie(OcCasion, his Lord-
ship has belied: the-whole •touor:of a long public

life ?: Why, that "'it canliattlly lie doubted, be-
cause (forsooth ,Mr. o',,Connell brought for-
ward:the charge in a very confident tnunner !"
Thus, then, arddilern-mais,-.11,01-s7ou must either
believe Lord Livellio-Ol t 4 be a: false insidious
trickster, or you must believe Mr. O'Connell, in
moment aiiii:Aappointment, to
-.have entertained...lwr.' .suspicion. Can
any" man of common-- sense- hesitate a single
moment which, skiellf tins dilemma lie must
embrace ? nin -oar own part, we ditrer from
_ _ _ _

LOrd'Liverpoo!, and wedifier froril
nen but we Wat,',itot _be. unjust ..to
The Noble Earl has conscientiously form-
ed his opinions on the
,Catholic Question dif-
feient, from those' of seireraPof hiS colleagues in
-the Cabinet, and those opinions he has avowed,
whenever avowal was necessary, without reserve.
That 'he should confine his thoughts to his own
breast, when there was Mr' need .to disclose them,
is mot atrall extraordinary ; neither is it extraor-
dinary, that his silenCe should
_have been inter-
"preted by each partyacc,ording to.its.own wishes.
On the other hand what do we see in Mr. O'Con-
nell
? A wan 4f sanguine ternperkiruenta. man
apt to be run away with by the feelings of the mo-

ment. - To-day lie is all adiniration.at that" fine
animal," Cobbett.4 to-morrow lie falls down
and. worships " the doll," as Cobbett 'calls Sir
Francis RUrdett. At one period, Mr. °Non-:
nell vituperatei the whole English nation ; at
another time he finds them to be every thing that
is.generons and. liberal. This Gentleman, Who,
whatever else he,may be, is certainly not a
calli-
dus rertim 'wsliatator, under the impulse of
spleen and .v.efiEakion, pronounces an opinion .on
the conduct of a ,Volitical adversary. We ask,

without meaning the slightest disparagement to
Mr. O'Connell's moral qualities, is his judgment,
on such a question, at such a moment, worth a
single pitkch of snuff?.

vader, unless lie has an overwhelming force, and
at the same time the spirit of a Barbarian, never
makes war in this manner ; and therefore we
may ascribe the ferocious conduct of the Pa-
cha to revenge and disappointment. It com-
pletely unsets the report that he had nume-
rous partizans in the country ; and as the Greeks
appear to have weathered this storm, there is no
difficulty which they are not capable of struggling
with successfully. The Egyptian expedition had
been considered as the ordeal of their strength ;
and if they could pass through it triumphantly, it
_was said both by their friends and foes, that no
other trial could injure them. It is now placed
almost beyond a doubt that this attempt to re-
place them under their former yoke has utterly
failed ; and if Ibrahim Pacha does not pay with
his life the forfeit of his temerity, he must think
himself fortunate. As to the danger with which
the Greeks were menaced on the side of Albania,
it seems to be very slow in its. approach, or to
have wholly died away; and the latter inference
is the more likely of the two, seeing the fickle
and mercenary character of the Albanians, as
well as the pecuniary necessities. -of the Porte.
It is therefore highly probable that the at-
tempt of the Turks to raise an army in that
quarter, will prove as fruitless this year as
it did in every former instance; and, in
this case, the veriest driveller must see that

it exceeds the means of the Porte.to re-esta-
blish its sovereignty over the Greeks. It re-
mains now to he seen what effect foreign inter-
ference may have ; and from the appintment of
Lord Strangford to the Russian Mission, it would
seem as if some scheme of this kind were in con-
templation. It would fail, however, should it
be seriously entertained, from the very complexity
of its object, and the difficulty of reconciling the
conflicting interests of the different Powers.