The Sun.
London, England, 1822-03-06 00:00:00

ANTI-MILDEW PROCESS.

IN addition io the number of EXPERI-
MENTS in favour of this Invention, made by orders
from the Admiralty and Navy Boards, in all parts of the
World, and by Ship-owners and others in the Mercantile ser-
vice, the PROPRIETORS have received the following valu-
able Testimonial :

• " I have to acquaint you, that in August last I had a Main-
sail repaired of Canvas, one Cloth of which bad undergone
your Process, with others of the same make and number, un-
prepared. The Cutter has completed her voyage to and from
the coast of Africa ; and the same Mainsail continued bent
the whole of the voyage, from the middle of September 1621,
to the beginning of February 1822. The Prepared Cloth has
not suffered by Mildew ; and the adjoining Cloths (not prepa-
red,) are materially injured. The Cutter's first Gib, which
was repaired entirely with your Prepared Canvas, does not
shew any symptoms of Mildew.
" Fob,. 18, me. " 0. B. WALLER.

Master of Cutter Trafalgar."
N. B.—The above facts are also certified by Messrs. WAL-
KER and CO. Sail-Makers, 310, Wapping, where the Sails
may be seen—three pieces of which are in the possession of
BROWELL and Co. at their Warehouse, 23, Aidermanbury,
stamped by Messrs. W. and Co.

This Day was published, in 3 rots. Br°. price I. 7c. boards,
DEISM COMPARED with CHRISTIANI-
TY, being an Epistolary Correspondence, containinr,
all the principal Objections against Revealed Religion, with
the Answers annexed; in which is shown the insufficiency of
the Arguments used in support of Infidelity.
By EDWARD CHICHESTER, M.A.
Rector of the Parishes of Culdaff and Mucha, in thr Diocese
of Derry.
Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 62, St. Paul's Church-
yard, and 3, Waterloo-place, Pall-Mall.

This Day were published, in Bvo. price Bs. boards,
DISCOURSES, adapted to the PULPIT, or
to the USE of FAMILIES, from Tracts and Tleatises
of Eminent Divines.
By the Rev. EDWARD ATKYNS BRAY, Vicar of Tavistock.
Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 62, St. Paul's Church-
yard, and 3, Waterloo-place, Pall-Mall ; and sold by Riving-
tons and Cochran, 148, Strand.
Of whom may be had, by the same Author,
SERMONS, selected from the Works of the most Eminent
Divines of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries; abridged, and
rendered in a modern and appropriate style. .Bvo.'los. 6d.

This Day were published,
In Two Volumes loyal '4to. with Portraits, with Characteris-
tic Devices from the curious Pen and Ink-Drawings of
BENTLEY and M NTZ, as inserted in the Original MS. 51. ss.
MEMOIRES. OF HIS OWN TIMES,
(The present portion comprises the Last Ten Years
of the Reign of George II.) . .
By HORACE WALPOLE, EARL of ORFORD.
From the original MSS. found in the Chest left by his Lord-.
ship's %Val to be opened by the first Earl of Waldegroewlio
should attain the age of Twenty-one after the Year
Printed for JOHN MURRAY, Albetuarle-street.

Ma. EDITO.II—in January, 1821, Mr. O'CON•
NELStied a Manifesto, addressed to his
"fellow Countrymen" of the Romish Commu-
nion ; and he issued another. in January
.1822.
It may aPpear unnecessary and extraordinary to
some, after so considerable a lapse of 'time,: to
bring the former into notice : but I am induced
at- the present momentous crisis, when the mania
ohnistaken liberality, is so general-in thiscountryi
to introduce it to the attention-of your Readers;
for the purpose -of drawing a parallel between
some declarations it contains, and- those of a late
celebrated Emancipator ; and, at the same time,
to sheer' that the learned author of those docu-
ments has been guilty of the grossest misrepre-
sentation and inconsistency, which I have not a
doubt of doing to the perfect satisfaction of every
impartial person. With his phillipic, however,
against Mr. SHEIL, I have no. concern, further
than to cite the old adage—" When certain Per-
sons fall out, &c."
Mr. O'CoNNELL, in the first of the Manifestoes
alluded to, stated briefly, under different heads,
the following propositions, which he had before
" sought to establish"--" That an unreformed
Parliament has repeatedly rejected our petitions
without any rational cause, or even plausable
pretence for such rejection."—" That we have
nothing to amend in our political or moral conduct,
or to alter in out religious principles; and as we can-
not improve our merits, we must endeavour to im-

'prove the. Parliament, that it may do justice to
those. merits."-" That an unreformed Parlia-
ment cannot emancipate us, because it cannot
destroy dissention among the Irish, the instru-
ment by which the Irish are at present, weakened
and ruled."—" That the present. Administration
is not one from which any accession of public
liberty can be expected." And TnionAr.D
Wor.rc TONE, the parent of that demoniac bro-
therhood, the Society of United Irishmen, the
Secretary to the Roman Catholic Committee in
1791, and to the Popish Convention in 1792,-
declared in a letter to his correspondent at Bel-
fast, in 1791, which accompanied the prospectus
and constitution of the Irish Brotherhood :
" My unalterable 'opinion is, that the bane of
" Irish prosperity is the influence of England :
" I believe that influence will ever be extended,
" while the connection between the countries,
cc continues. Nevertheless, as I know that °pi-
" nion is for the present too hardy, though a
" very little time will establish it universally, I

- ,
" have not made it a part of the Resolutions
4‘ I have only proposed to set up a reforma
" Parliament as a harrier against the mischief

44 which every honest man that will open his eyes
must see, in every instances overbears the in-
" terests of Ireland. I have not said one word
64 that looks like a wish for separation, though I
" give it as my decided opinion, that such an event
_ _

would be a regeneration of this country."
- -

" ITritla a reformed Parliament every thing is
easy—without it nothing can be done."—Here,
Sir, we have a coincidence of sentiment and opi-
nion between Mr. TONE in 1791, and Mr. O'CoN-
NEt.i. in 1821 ; and expressed in similar terms :
the former thought " with a reformed Parliament
every thing is easy—without it nothing van be
done ;" and from the preceding part of the passage
it is easy to guess what kind of reform he con-
templated : the latter says," that an unreformed
Parliament cannot emancipate us ;" and certainly
he holds out a kind of menace of " joining at
once the increasing friends of Liberty" (the Ra-
dicals I suppose he meant) " who desire to re-
store the Constitution "by reforming the Parlia-
ment." But 1 beg it may Ire distinctly under-
stood, that I by no means intend to insinuate
that there existed any other resemblance between
these two personages :—quite the contrary : TONE
was an avowed enemy to the Constitution, which
he laboured to subvert : moreover he was a con-
victed Traitor, and " greatly emancipated" him-1
self froth the arm of justice, by means of a razor :
while O'CONNELL is so great an admirer of our
happy Constitution, as estaNished at the glorious
Revolution, that he is labouring to participate in
it ; and he is withal a loyal gentleman ; for he
has been at Court, and has presented a Civic
Crown to his Sovereign, whom he had, always
mentioned in terms of respect.
In the Manifesto of January, 1821, Mr.
O'CONNELL has stated. the Itomish inhabitants
of Ireland to amount, at that period, to jive mil-
lions. In that of January, 1822, he says—" The
" recent census in Ireland, however imperfectly
Cl taken, gives an actual return of names to the
" amount of, within a few thousands, seven mil-
" lions. It is probably half a million below the
" rnark, but take it at seven milliens. /twill not
" be disputed but that • the Catiolics are five mil-.
" ions and a half of that number, that is at least
"full one-third of the entire'population of the
" Empire! ! !" So, by. his (second," the empha-
peOoe" have increased half a million in ,

twelve-months !". Were .they as prolik as they
are evidently inventive, we might. give credit to
this Popish „Mira cle,:in which, 'doubtless, the two
thousand five 'hundred Priests, and Friars, with
whom this 'happy country is supplied, have,had
no share. But when, in England and. Wales,
where the lower classes, wh.o constitute the great
majority in every country', are so much more com-
fortable in their circumstances, from the nume-
rous and various manufactures, fromtheir habits
of inchtstry, and, I will say, from their habits of
cleanliness and sobriety,—the population ad-
vanced suddenly from seven millieus .to • eight
millions . and, a half, from the periisel of • the
Revolution to the year' i 194. I repeat that,
when the Population of England and. %Vali*
had increased only one million and a half in a
century,
_it is really so monstrous an asser-
tion that the Roman Catholics of Ireland had
advanced from three millions in the year 1792,
the numbers thee' impudently claimed by Edward
Byrne's Popish Parliament,- being three-fourths
of the whole population,--to five millions and a
half, in the space of thirty years,—that I scarcely
know in what words to express my indignation,
had well nigh said my surprise, at such unex.;.
ampled,audacity ; but nothing Popish need now
to excite the latter.—" It will not be disputed,"
says Mr. O'CONNELL, " but that the Catholics
are five millions and a half !"--:-.Truly, every
well-informed Protestant in Ireland disputes it,
and knows the assertion to be as unfounded in.
fact as it is impudent ; and every well-informed
Rorban Catholic knows, if he has but the can-
dour to acknowledge it, to be a vaina mis-
chievous boast : but some of the latter have been
so long. in the practice of indulging in hyperboi-
lical representations, that they begin to believe
the falsehoods so often repeated..
In a former letter, which appeared in your
Paper of the 22d of November, I so fully ex-
posed the fallacy of such asSeftinns, that I shall
not now enter further upon the subject : but I
Cannot avoid expressing both concern and sur-
prise that, when the late census was instituted,
orders had not been given to make an exact
enumeration, distinguishing the Protestant inha-
bitants from.the Romish. Such a precaution might
have put to rest this gasconading, troubled, and
would-be-intimidating. spirit.; and at the same
time have afforded useful information to our Le-
gislators, as well as to the nation at large; but
it appears as if this were part of that temporising
system you complain of in your. Paper of the
22d of November; and that darkness is prefer-1
red to light.
And now I shall bring forward my charges of
gross inconsistency. In the first place, in the
former of the two Mattifestoes,,Mre O'CONNELL
says, " The great question is, whether they
ought to continue to petition an unreformed Par-
liament, after repeated and causeless rejections,
or join at once the increasing Friends of Liberty,
who desire to restore the Constitution by reform-
ing that Parliament."--" lam now certain that
to keep us petitioning is the game of the Mi-
niStry."—" This it is," (his dislike of Mr. PLUN.•
KET as their advocate) " which makes me ex-
tremely rejoice that the Petition qf last Session is
defiinct. I rejoice that it ceased to exist, and I
confidently hope it never will be revived." In the
second Manifesto, he recommends the appoint-
ment of a Board or Committee, '= without which
the Catholic cause in Ireland cannot be discreetly
or safely conducted in its present stages,"—
and " he pledges his existence that not one single
irritating expression. would be heard :" but, al-
though Mr. O'CONNELL had been at Court, few
of his brethren have had the advantage of receiv-
ing a lesson in the same school; and I much fear
that, were his now highly esteemed friend, the
Attorney-General, to refrain from " distorting
the Convention Act," the late Doctor DROII-
- bigotry and virulence would be found to
have survived him, and to pervade the whole
assembly : probably, too, as it is difficult to era-
dicate early habits and deep-rooted prejudices,
Mr. O'CONNELL himself, forgetting his newly-
assumed character of a courtier, might break into
some such expression as that he used at an ag-
gregate meeting, in June 1812,—" that it (the
Protestant Church) was as overwhelming a current
of intolerance and bigotry as ever disgraced any
country :". for the cat, when transformed into a
lady, retained all the propensities of her original
nature, and could not leave off mousing; so I
think that, without some sinister object in view,
he would not long " treat with courtesy and
good temper the reasonable prejudices of the
Protestants."—Mr. O'CONNELL has also lately
signed a Requisition to Mr. O'GoastAN, Secre-
tary of State to the Roman Catholics of Ireland,
to call an aggregate Meeting, for the express pur-
pose qf petitioning the Legislature, .not yet re-
formed by the Radicals ; although twelve months
before he declared " an unreformed Parliament
cannot emancipate us ;"" but ought his implied
menace of joining the ranks of the Radicals to be
forgotten ?
Secondly, I accuse Mr. O'CosnsELL of incon-
sistency with regard to the Veto ; for in his
Manifesto of January 1821, he declared that,
" with regard to the Veto, my sentiments
are unchanged and unalterable—my opposition
to the Veto is 'founded, on principles I never
can yield ;—As AN IRISHMAN, I DETEST IT—AS A
CATHOLIC, I DEPRECATE IT." Yet in twelve
months, he pnblisheS,his " Proposed Plan for the
domestic nomination of the. Catholic Prelates,
including full security to the Government against
the appointment of any disaffected. or
,disloyal
person ;" in which, after.arranging the mode of
election, he proceeds, " That the person elected
shall net be. consecrated, unless the notice of his'
appointment be Officially • communicated, by the

`President Oldie election, to-the -Seat of GoVerii-
ment, and two mouths be allowed for investigat-
ing his character ; and that if, within ' that spate
-of time., the. Government should assign; in. 41,
tinct and specific terms, .a charge of
.disloyalty. or
disffection• against hint, 'that the charge .he ''l*:gb-
ferred to the-examination, and decision.of the Ro-
man Catholic Archbishops of lrela tt,. .with • full
liberty to hear the answers of the accused, • anci
REQUIRE PROOFS-ON THE,FART OF GOVERNMENT::
-Here, Sir, I conceive the Veto-has lieen roneed`-
.ed,--certainly under circumstances of unparal-
leled. insult and audacity ; for his MAJESTNIIIIist
.bringforward his charge," cry distinct and *Vic
terms ;": and who. are to be Judges between.the
Sovereign and a disaffected Priest? Why truly
the four famish Archbishops, or Cardinals.;
and dOubtless it will be required of his -M A-
JESTY to appear before-" their Graces" and
Eminences in propria personae, with his proofs in
one hand, and his Crown "in the other, ready to lay
at the feet of the Representatives of the " Holy
Father;" for I presume his Attorney-Generat
would not be considered of-sufficient consequence
to plead before so august a tribunal. 'Such is
the plan Mr. O'CONNELL has proposed, for sub-
jecting his Sovereign to the spiritual authority :of
the See of Rome ; and to this very insulting'prp-
position the following very lukewarm objection
only was made :—" The requiring a strict proof
of a definitive charge of disloyalty would,
prebend, render the power of objecting altoge-
ther ineffectuah"
Before-I dismiss Mr. O'CONNELL'S PROJECT,
I cannot avoid giving the following passage as•to
Romish. Bishops holding correspondence with
the POPE That if any Pope, Prince, Pre-
" late, Potentate, or•any other person whatever,
" shall write to him, or directly or indirectly
" communicate with him, on political topics, he
44 will with all convenient speed transmit under
" his hand to Government, a true copy of ..so
" much of every such bull, rescript, mandate.
44 letter, writing, or communication whatsoever, as
" may relate to political affairs, in any wise, di-
" redly or indirectly, being or having a tendenv
'‘ to be injurious to the rights of the Crown, 'or thd
c Government, or to the civil or temporal interest
"of any part of his ..illajesty'.s subjects.". Upon
this the present Attorney General remarks—.
" Upon the part of the proposal, respeCting the
4c intercourse, nothing occurs save as- to the pai-
",sage underlined in. the proposal, which would,
" as it appears, have the effect of authorising the
" holding a correspondence on subjects affecting
" the whole frame of Government and affairs of
" the State, provided the party corresponding
" were of opinion that the proposed measure
" were not injurious," But your Readers will
perceive, that the restriction proposed is only as
to " Civil and temporal interest ;" and even of that
a Rornish Bishop is.to be the sole judge :—not:a
word as to the security of our Ecclesiastical esta-
blishment, so interwoven with the Civil, that one
cannot be endangered, without hazarding the
safety of the other; and respecting which Doctor
MILNER has declared that, " as a Guardian :of
the Catholic Religion, he could not be expected
to pledge his consent to the making an adequate
provision for the maintenance of the Protestant
Establishment." So that, were Mr. O'CONNELL'S
BoN.» to be taken, in a little time our Clergy
might be deprived of their Livings, the church
of Rome established in all its splendour, and.we
ourselves dragooned into going to Mass : for not
any of these would be considered as "
01' TEMPORAL," but SPIRITUAL.
My third and last charge of inconsistency may
appear frivolous in the eyes of some : but when a
man pushes himself forward as the leader of a
faction, in the manlier Mr. O'CONNELL has
done, every circumstance, be it ever so trilling,
that tends to develope the real- character and
designs of that Man and his party, is of .conse-
quence. It is upon this principle. that I now-ac-
cuse him of gross inconsistency with regard-to
Mr. PLUNKET, the present Attorney General;
of whom, in his Manifesto of January, 189.1, he
expressed, in broad and distinct terms, his disr
like and disapprobation as an Advocate of- the
Claims of the Roman Catholics of Ireland ; yeti
before the expiration of the year, we find
him closeted with that Gentleman, in con-
sultation upon his FAMOUS- PitoJrcT already
cited ; and doubtless.. he, played off his neiily-
adopted Court oratory and graces: but I cannot
suppose the Attorney-General was deceived by
such shallow artifices ; and I trust every Pro-

testant that values the blessings of religious and
civil liberty will be upon his guard against:thV
designs of this modern Proteus.

Mr. O'CONNELL has graced his Manifesto of
Jan. 1822, with this very appropriate motto—
" Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not—
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow•:"
Yet, upon consideration, 1 think it was super-
fluous, as a retrospective view of the events in
the last six months will clearly chew ; for scarcely
had the Royal yacht borne his MAJESTY from

our shores, when all thos " bad 1)(7611014,7 st)
lately and so happily " vanquished," burst forth'iu
the southern counties, like a flame long smothered,.
with renovated fury; and ever since Mr. Crc9N-

NELL'S " fellow countrymen" have been striking,
numberless blazes against their unprotected neigh-
hours., and even against the King's troops, for the
laudable purpose of "greatly emancipating theni:
selves." I
fervently hope, however, that the late and
passing events will open the eyes of the Legisla-
ture, and the British nation, to the danger of
granting political power to the Roman Catholip
of Ireland.

Remember them, the villains,
Righteous Heaven ! in thy great day of vengeance,
Who for gain, for pride, the power of greatness, or revenge,
Shall plunge their native land in civil war."
Cork, Feb. 28, 1822.

SIDNEY.