The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-12 00:00:00

Lately published,
In Syn., price 51. 6d., the Fifth Edition, of
REMARKS on SCEPTICISM, especially
as it is connected with the Stibjects of Organizotion
and Life, being an Answer to the Views of M. Bicttat, Sir
T. C. Morgan, and Mr. Lowrance, upon these points. _
. By the Rev. THOMAS RENNELL, A.M.
Vicar of Kensington.

Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 62, St. Paul's Church-
yard ; and 3, Waterloo-place, Pall-Mall, London.

GARDENING.—AGRICULTURE.
This Day was published, "
In 12mo. price Is. WI., the Second Edition, of .
IHE COTTAGER'S COMPANION, or a
Complete System of Cottage-Horticulture, intended
to instruct the Industrious Poor of Great Britain in the Art
of Cottage Gardening.
By 'WILLIAM SALISBURY,
Author of the Botanist's Companion, Hints to the Proprie.
tors of Orchards, &c.
Printed fOr F. C. and J. Rirington, No. W, St. Paul's
Church-yard :.arul.3, Waterloo-place, Pall-Mall.
By whom'will shortly be published,
The Cottager's Agricultural Companioh, comprising a
Complete System of Cottage Agriculture, intended to in-
struct the Poor of Great Britain in the Arts of Cottage Hus-
bandry. By the same Author, linao. is.

As lAn not find that the late Census has yet
been I.);iblished, I am at a loss to conjecture
where,-Mr. O'CONNELL. found his seven millions
of inhabitants—a thing totally incredible, unless
through some miraculous Popish Agency—when,
in the year
.1672, the whole population of Ire-
land amounted only to one million, one-hundred
thousand—in 1731, according- to the statement
of the Romish Priests, as mentioned in Buagces
" flibernica Dominicana," to- two millions, ten
thousand, two hundred and twenty
1732, by the Census taken by order of Govern-
ment, to be under two millions-.--and in 1791, by
Mr. Cu.+ LsrEas7s-calculation*; to fotti millions two
hundred thousaudi which had been considered
much too high by. the best informed men in Ire-
land ;—the rat-her, wtsen we consider that in
England and Wales the population increased
only a million and a half in a century. I also
doubt the truth of this reported miracle upon
another principle. Ireland contains 27,459 square
miles,. and 11',067,712 acres, plantation measure ;
and seven millions. of inhabitants :give, within a
fraction, '255 to each squa.re•mile, or one inhabi-
tant to one acre a half and half a perch, induct-
ing mountains and bogs ; the latter of which are
numerous,and some of great extent, one, the bog of
Allen, extending, over 300,000 acres. Taking into
consideration, therefore, the amazing annual ex-
ports from Ireland, in grain of different kinds, in
butter, in bacon;-in black cattle, in pigs, even in
potatoes, and latterly, in whiskey; and also the
vast quantities of beef and pork cured and bar-
relled eveky.season, for the use of the Navy and
the •Colonies—it ',really appears -incredible that
seven millions of inhabitants could be maintained
upon the remaining products of the country. I
am .aware that the great majority of the pea-
santry, particularly in the southern counties, live
chiefly, if not altogether, upon, that indigenous
root the potatoe ; but still they do subsist upon
the produce of the soil ; and, if there be any
truth in Mr. O'CONNELL'S assertions, there must
be a very procreative quality in the potatoe.
Were any further proof wanting of Mr. O'CON-
NELL'S gross inconsistency, he has recently fur-
nished > a very strong one. In -his Manifesto of
January 'lB2l, he said—" The great question is,
whether they (the Catholics) ought to continue
to petition an unreformed Parliament, after re,-
peated-and causeless rejections—or join at once
the increasing friends of liberty, who desire to
restore the Constitution by reforming that Par-
liament." " I am now certain, that to keep us
petitioning is the game of Ministers." " Pat
an unreformed Parliament cannot inanoipate tat."
Yet, on. the 13th of -February 1822, when a Pe-
tition to that identical unreformed-Parlianzent
was adopted,. he thus expressed, himself—" I
-trust I am not guilty of impiety when;. in the
temple of my 'God, I thank that God for the
unaitiMity we have this day evinced in adopting
that Petition."

Being uninitiated in the arcana 'of the Holy
Alliance, I cannot be a judge how far Mr. O'Cox-
NELL'S eulogy on the Romish Priests, pronounced
at the. late . Aggregate Meeting, was, appli-
cable : but the praise of some is dispraise in the
opinion of others : for instance, the Popish, or
Back-lane Parliament, befkire it was obliged to
dissolve itself; on the enactment of the Conven-
tion Bill, after voting 15001. to T. W. ToNE,
resolved," that the services THEOBALDW. Twit,
Esq. had rendered to the Catholic Catise, were
such as "no gratitude could over-rate, no remune-
ration over-pay;" and the elder KEOGH, at
Meeting of the Roman Catholic Committee, in
July 1810, highly panegyrised the same person,
even after he had accompanied an invading enemy
to Ireland, to emancipate his former friends and
patrons.—Every person at all acquainted with
the tenets of the Popish Religion must know
the unbounded influence their Priests have
over the minds of the Laity, more especially
those of the lowerorder, by means of those tremen-
dOus engines of Papal superstition and tyranny
—auricular confession and purgatory. This in-
fluence is also acknowledged by Doctor TROY,
in his pastoral Letter, published in 1793, in
which he says," The Catholic, Laity of Ireland
respect their Clergy, and confider it a duty. to
be regulated by their determinations in all points
of religious doctrine._ They are attached to their
pastors and spiritual guides, who love them as
their children in Cilium Clergy and Laity-are
united by the most tender and interesting consider-
ations. Every effort to dissolve this union must
prove-ineffectual. Interest
.and duty continue to
render it indissoluble. In adversity and prosperity
they must rise and fall together." how thi2n can
we account for the ignorance of the Priests,
to say no more, of the numerous Popifh Canspi-
racies and Insurrections,
.and, trriay
.now add,
three open Rebellions, that have disgraced and
agitated this country, and delbged it in blood, in
the last thirty, years ? Doctor AFNEVIN, indeed,
a member of their Church, and of course one that
would not have calumniated Romish Priests, de-
clred.upon, oath; before the Secret Committee
of the Irish. House of Lords, in
.August 1798,
that; when he had been sent as an: Ambassador
to Hamburgh in the preceding year, to treat with
the French Minister there, for the Invasion :of
Ireland; he was instructed to state, " that the
Catholic Priests had ceased to be alarmed at 'the

Mr. CHALMEns made his calculation from documents fur-
nished from the Hearth-money Books of 1791;, and allowed six
inhabitants to each cottage or hut of one hearth, vihieli the late
ttight Hon. Dr. DUIGENAN clearly proved to be at least one-.
third too high ; as he also sliewed that Mr. CHALMERS'S cal-
culation of the Inhabitants of England and Wales in 1794 was
below the actual population.