The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-10 00:00:00

FOR, THE SUN.

Enrroa—l observe among: the extracts
from the London. Journals in: your Paper of the
4th instant, that the Morning licrald'ex presses
Its surprise, that the same unlimited-.tolera-
tion," and even " actual community of religion"
is not established in Britain.and Ireland,: as it
has, lately been
,by. the Royal .Proclarnation in
Hanover ; and. that " any real danger should be
apprehended from Popery in one country, which
is • not equally' to be feitred in another."
.Surely
the writer'd that atticle,has not considered, that
the applicability of an abstract question to prac-
tice must be deterinined by.a. due regard to the'
charcter of a people, avid the immediate circum-
stances under which they are placed:;- how in-
'deed is a question to be considered, aS'in' itself
an abstract one, unless its agreement with the
two last mentioned objects is necessary to con-
nect it with practicability ? If we do not consi-
der this connection as a necessary one, shall we
not be liable to run into all the excesses of
Utopean theory, and all the wildness of specu-
lation, which made the French philosophers treat
the lessons of experience, and the regard due to
habit and prescription, with so much contempt ?
a presumption for which they so clearly atoned.
A due regard to circumstances of the times, and
all that constitute (Item, is surely necessary to
determine that political expediency, • without
which no measure can be adopted with safety or
prudenre, or even any probability of success. I
state this as a general truth, without any wish
to determine the mode of its application to the
Catholic Question in these kingdoms, the merits
of which are perhaps so much of a speculative
nature, as to render it very difficult. for a think-
ing man to make up his mind thoroughly upon
them. Indeed the Morning Herald, by a
sort of vagueness, and vacillation of reason-
ing, upon what it designates as a matter
of " mere lucre" in the " 'Tithe Rent,"
mixed too with a positiveness of deci-
sion, and an affected pleasantry upon the
" vain and preposterous hopes of the Roman
Catholics," and upon " the effect that would re-
sult from " taking the mass of them out of the
hands of their leaders," seems to acknowledge its
inability to settle this difficult question, otherwise
than by a reference to the " wisdom of giving
them at once all they are entitled to ask, or that
we can in prudence yield to them." Thii I
think resembles the conclusion of a work on the
French Revolution (I think by the 'Marquis de
Boille) in which the policy is urged of " Go-
vernment's making reasonable concessions, and at
a proper time," both which it leaves its readers to
determine, hoping that the weakness and uncer-
tainty of human reasoning may, especially in our
political concerns, be supplied by the all-know-
ing and gracious interposition of Providence, I
remain, Sir, yours, &c.
January 6, 1825. CMS.

SIR HARCOURT LEES, 13 kitT.

(Fruit the Bristol Journal.)

A man who has long since perceived that
spark which was endeavoured to be kept concealed by
the thickest obscurity ; one who has penetrated through all
the mysteries of secret plots ; one who, by his exertions, has
hitherto prevented the smothered embers of the Late rebellions
.froM being blown into a fresh blaze by the pestiferous blasts,
.of Jesuits, or by the pestilential blasts of insurrectionary dema-
gogues; one who successfully opposed to such plagues an
Antidote, originating entirely in himself, in which. he has had
• the hardihood to sign with his name the thoughts of his heart—
in which he has exposed the machinations of rnalignants, the.
treachery of pretended friends, and the effects to he dreaded
from ignorance or supineness. A man who has borne the brunt
of calumny, who has. withstood the violence of abuse and re-
proach ; a man whom the frown of power has not awed, nor
the vengeance of a hostile host has intimidated; a man
who has used ridicule, irony, invective, sarcasm, and di-
rect accusation, according as circumstances. required, as
his re,,ard for the true religion of God incited him,
as his love for his country stimulated him, and as his unshaken
loyalty to his King behoved him ; a man who has proved him-
himself a real patriot; who has given the very best advice to
the Irish Romanists ; a man who has, unarmed and unpre-
pared, encountered the assassin, disarmed Hint—nay, more
converted him ; a man whom the Protestants of Ireland
look up to as their champion, and who has made him
their rallying point ; a man whose clarion can rouse
them to action, or allay their alarms; a man in whom
they know they can confide, who regards their preser-
vation who loves peace, whose courage danger cannot shake,
and whose conduct has always been constitutional in- thq
strictest sense. The Reverend Sir Harcourt Lees is • that
man ; let this character of him he examined ; if. it. be
correct, let his voice be heard by the people of England with
attention ; let his admonitions have weight ; let not his veracity
be suspected ; let his experience guide those who can influence
the executive ; and let his suggestions, drawn from actual in-
• formation, determine the proceedings of those who are boand
to uphold the safety of the empire at the risk of impeachment.
No language can be too strong when the danger is so pressing ;
no resolution can be too determined when the stake is so Nital
'no caution can be too great, when the lives of so many depend
upon a single signal —lf the warning voice of Sir Harcourt Lees
be not heard in England, Ireland will receive a shock which
may shake the empire, and from which Providence alone-can
protect us. The plot has been long matured, the crisis ap-
proaches, the very period for the experiment has arrived."

ATTEMPT TO MURDER AN OFFICER.--Some
time since, Alfred Pople, of Queen-spare office, and also
turnkey of Tothill-fields prison, with Gillmore and Handley,
alSo officers, received anonymous intimation that their lives
were in danger, and warning them to be on their guard. The i
intimation was treated with ncliffirrence by the officers ; but we
regret to say, the fact of such a determined plot, at least as far as
it regards one of them, has proved too true. It was well known
by the leaders of the desperate gangs who cruise in Westminster,
that Mr. Pople, sen. resided near the prison in Westminster,
and it was supposed that Alfred Pople also resided with him.
About eight o'clock on Wednesday evening no less than tour
bullets were fired at one moment into the parlour, through the
shutters and door, -the pannel of the latter of which is com-
pletely shattered. Fortunately the determined villains missed
their object, as Alfred was from home, and his mother had
left the room a few minutes previously. The cause of this mur-
derous attack is more than guessed at, and we entertain strong
hopes that the wretches will not escape justice.

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