The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-11 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the or•ningPapers,Jan. 11, 1825.

[THE TJMES]
Among the most effective instruments for stop. '
-ping the course of groundless alarm in Ireland, is
That of simply stating each successive artifice em-
ployed for the propagation of terror. We have
in former instances accomplished great good by
this obvious and straight-forward method ; some
of the facts which we circulated through England
having shown men of sense, not connected with
Ireland, nor possessing means of accurate inforrna-
tion from that country, what wicked snares were
laid for their credteity, and for the advancement
of what base and selfish interests they ran the
risk of compromising the public peace. Another
of the tricks played off by Orange diplomacy
was tried a short time since in the South of Ire-
land, hut happily with no more success than
Those which had preceded it. A party of inhabit-
ants, in the consternation interest, about the
little town of Bantry, called upon Lord Bantry,
to forward to Government, and to recommend,
as from himself, a requisition for arms and accou-
trements, for the use of a corps of volunteers
which they proposed to raise, in the present
frightful condition of the country—when the
throats of loyal Protestants were all baring them-
selves to be cut by the fated hand of Pastorini.
Lord Bantry, as required, sent up the memorial,
but not, as desired, did he annex to it his own
sanction or concurrence. On the contrary, he
declared that he wholly dissented from the me-
morialists with regard to the existence of any ne-
-cessity for such warlike measures. Government
agreed with Lord Bantry, and the arms, &c.
were refused. The Catholics of the neighbour-
hcod had afterwards their meeting, when they
voted an address of thanks and confidence to the
Lori Lieutenant. The ordinary arts are still in
operation—of distributing forged Rock notices—
of committing outrages byOrangemen on churches,
and throwing the blame on the opposite sect—of
calling out the Police on false intelligence, and
then sz.ting the fact of their having assembled as
an argament of public danger. In the North
some violences have been committed ; but Catho-
Vcs were. the victims of them, not the perpe-
trators. On one occasion cartridges were de-
livered to the Orange Yeomanry of Aughnacloy,
from a report that 6,000 Popish Ribandmen were
marching thither—a wild and stupid falsehood.
Bad, however, as are such attempts to create
confusion, and fierce and sanguina*ry as we fear
we must denominate the spirit whence they pro-
ceed, the most deplorable circumstance connected
with them is, in our judgment, that morbid sym-
pathy which impregnates whole classes of men in
England with Irish prejudice and animosity. So
long as the bulk of the English nation remains
uninfected by whatever chances to be the predo-
minant fury of the day in Ireland, a coutroulling
and remedial power exists amongst ourselves, ap-
plicable to the maintenance of something like
tranquillity across the Irish Channel. But here,
as evil fortune wills it, the very spring of na-
tional intelligence and sobriety—the very foun-
tain of hope for Ireland, has been more or less in-
fluenced by those tendencies for which it is the
natural and only cure. Protestant ascendancy
in Ireland is the war-cry of a faction. We un-
derstand it, and know how to put it down ; but
the same cry reverberated from the shores of
England, is the accession of the empire to the
cause of a faction—it is a Judge degenerating
into a party. We urge this the more empha-
tically, because the immediate instance which
has suggested the remark to us is of recent date
and of imposing seriousness. It was hut on Wed-
nesday last that, at Bath, and on the occasion ofl
a meeting for the repeal of Assessed Taxes, a
Gentleman—a Clergyman—a Dignitary of the
Church—the Rev. the Archdeacon of the Diocese
—objected to a repeal of the public imposts.—
Why ? Because Ministers would want increased
armies " to quell the disaffection so predominant
"in Ireland !" This Gentleman happily stood
alone at the meeting, but not so in the country.
He represents a body, not of ecclesiastics merely,
but of alarmists—of Tories, of reasoners at the
point of the bayonets, and by virtue of the
bullet. This is the case of an English gentleman
and clergyman possessed with the very demon of
Irish party. We repeat, that if such a spirit
spreads here, the equilibrium of the empire is
lost, and with it the first great element of our
safety and prosperity as a nation. How must
those Catholics now execrate their own folly,
who have been, as we long since pointed out to
them, playing their enemy's game ! We find
that at a meeting of Catholics, in Dean-street,
Soho, on Sunday evening, a rent was agreed to
be levied, and a division of the metropolis into
districts was the preliminary part of their scheme.
We would, as friends, recommend the Catholics
of England to let alone such measures ; they
do not suit the palate of this country ; and the
Catholics here, not constituting the public, ought
to be studious of popularity.

[MORNING POST.]
We find that the mischievous and illegal prac-
tice of extorting what is called " Catholic Rent."
has found its way into this country. A Meeting
of Catholics for such a purpose in the heart of
London, which has in its time borne witness to
many an appalling scene from the fanaticism of
the same body, may naturally assume an alarm-
ing aspect to our peaceable Readers! Whatever
may be the real or proposed objects of the per-
sons who are at the head of such assemblies, the
dangerous tendency of their acts is morn than
questionable. It is only necessary to collect
the embers of discontent to blow them easily into
a flame; and every day's experience shows us that
this will frequently take place of itself, when the
inflammable matter is once got together. It now
appears that a regular organization of the Catho-
lics of the Metropolis is to be made, for which
purpose London and Westminster are to be di-
♦ided into four districts. " A President, Direc-
rs, and other necessary officers," are to be cho-
sen for each district. " Catholic Rent" is to be
extracted from those districts, and the needy Ca-
tholics are no doubt to be periodically enlight-J