The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-15 00:00:00

FOR. THE SUN.

MR. EDITOR—From your kind 'attention to
my former Letter, I am induced ugain.to address
you, for the purpose of troubling you with a few
remarks upon Mr. PLUNKET'S speech, OH Sir
JOHN NEWPORT'S late motion on the affairs of
this long-agitated, long-harassed,—l had well
nigh said,, long-misgoverned country ; for there
has been a temporizing system too long and too
generally pursued, with regard to Ireland, that
might well warrant such an expression, without
any misapplication of terms. Not, however,
that I have any doubt of /the genuineness of that
speech, as I formerly entertained, and do still
entertain, as to that of the charge, imputed to
Mr. JUSTICE FLETCHER ; for every sentiment it
contains, as given in the public prints, is per-
fectly consonant to the well-known principles of
the Right Hon.. Gentleman, upon what is called
" Catholic Emancipation."
I cannot, however, avoid expressing some sur-
prise that, in eulogizing the Romish Bishops and
Priests in Ireland, a person of his intelligent,
strong, and perspicuous mind, should have over-
looked a very prominent and a very favourable
circumstance respecting those Right Reverend
and Reverend Gentlemen, which could not have

failed, when enforced by the power of his
overwhelming eloquence, to have convinced every
sceptic, as to their loyalty to their Sovereign,
and their attachment to our glorious Constitution
in Church and State, as established at. the Revo-
lution ; I mean that truly constitutional work,
replete with Christian charity and meekness,
which lately issued from the press in this city,
intituled " A History of the Christian, Church,"
by Signor Pastarini ; and patronized by Doctor
Murphy, the Romish Bishop, and all his Priests,
the rather, as it engrossed much conversation at
the time his Majesty's Attorney-General last
visited Cork ; and still more, es ti 'know that a
Gentleman then purchased 'a copy, for the pur-
pose of presenting it to one of the Crown Lawyers
(not the Attorney-General),froni an idea that, tho'
the learned and pious Author had got beyond
sublunary rewards, the republishers and pati'ons
of so useful and valuable a work ought not to go
unrequited.

The_ doctrine he then promulgated, as to Fa-
ther O'Sullivan, his ,also surprised me not a
little; not only as coming from a lawyer of Mr.
Plunket's eminence and sound constitutional prin-
ciples, thus making the influence of Priests para-
mount to the Laws of the Land, but also as a
Member of that branch of the Christian Church,
called Unitarian, if it be' not a misnomer to style
that Christian which denies the Divinity of the
Founder of the Christian Religion ; between the
Members of which, and those of the Church of
Rome, " there cannot," as the Duke of New-
castle justly remarked, in his admirable Letter
to the Earl of Liverpool, ," be any religious feel-
ing ifi common."

As to his opinion respecting the origin of the
present Rebellion, doubtless the force of his elo-
quence will have 'produced the desired effect
upon ,the minds of those who are unacquainted
with the tenets of 'Popery, and are ignorant of
the real state of this country, and who may pro-
bably take little interest in it—or may be indif-
ferent alike as to all religious establishments.--
ormay, as the Duke of Newcastle remarked, wish
to establish their own Church upon the ruins of
of the Protestant Reformed Church : but the
Protestants of .Ireland,—that is,- those that are
Protestants lit more than the mere name, will
think for themselves, as long as they retain the
power, before Popery shall have been establish-
ed, and shall have forged " -Manacles and
Mufflers for their minds ;" and they will judge
from reason and experience, of causes and effects,
even though it may be in opposition, to the Bulls
of Pope Plunket, and Pope Pius VII. 'There
is, however, a criterion,. by which we may judge
if the Right Honourable Gentleman really, felt .
as he spoke :—if he thought so• highly of the-
Rornish Priests, as he would wish -the world to'
believe he did, or that the present rebellion has

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