The Sun.
London, England, 1822-08-24 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—Some few days ago, a man named John
Martin was, with his wife, held to bail for receiving stolen goods
from children of a tender age, The said man keeps a Marine
Store Shop, in Crown-street, Soho, well known to the Offi-
cers of Police. Yesterday he attended at this Office to claim
a large trunk of brass-work, which had been found in the loft
at No. 24, in the same street, which he said was his property.
A woman, who resides as a lodger at No. 24, Crown-street,
said, that on Tuesday last she obtained leave from one of the
lodgers who lives at the top of the house, to hang up some
clothes fronting the window to dry, and while she was thus
busily employed, she heard a violent crack ; she looked round,
and immediately saw the ceiling give way, and in a moment
after a man's legs came through, and there he stuck ; was so
petrified at what she saw, which was so unexpected, that she
was for a moment unable to stir, but obtaining resolution, she
ran down stairs, but when she returned, she found the man
gone. In the confusion some people created an alarm of fire.
rrhe engines arrived, and all the surrounding neighbourhood
was in a state of uproar. Martin's son was found concealed
at the top of the adjoining house, and there was found in the
loft the trunk, containing the brass work produced, which was
quite full and new. Martin said that he had purchased the
things of various persons—that he thought he recollected buy-
ing a knocker, which was among, the things, at Mr. Reynolds's
shotain Frith-street. Upon the whole he gave such an unsa- ,
tisfactory account, that the Magistrates, Sir R. Birnie and-
Mr. Minshull, ordered the trunk, with its contents, to be de-
tained, at the simile time cautioning Martin how he acted for
the future.
TIATTON-GARDEN.—Yesterday, Thomas Leithwich Ro-
binson was charged by Mr. Sykes, Solicitor to the Stamp-office,
with feloniously forging and placing the King's mark on several
articles of plate, with intent to defraud the revenue. On Mon-
day last a large chest of plate was entered at the Custom- ,
house for exportation ; it was from a most respectable gold and
silversmith, and Consigned to another at Calais. On the
plate being examined, at the Custom-house, it was discover-
ed that many of the articles had the Hall mark forged on
them; the consequence was that the whole chest of plate was seized
on ; an inquiry wasinade at the silversmith's who consigned them
when, without hesitation, he. informed Mr. Mills, Inspector of
the-Marks and Stamps at the Goldsmiths' Hall, of the Pri-
soner's name and address from whom he bought the articles
which bore the forged stamps. The Prisoner declined making
any defence. The witnesses were bound over to prosecute,
and the prisoner committed to Newgate for trial.
Uarross-HALT..—Yesterday a brutal fellow, named James
Tinting,. a groom in the service of T. Richardson, Esq., who ,
resides in the Kent-road, was, before M. SWABEY, Esq.,
charged with having maliciously stabbed a very valuable horse,
the property of hiS master. The greatest indignation was ex-
cited by the examination. Mr. Richardson stated, that about
six o'clock on Thursday evening, as he was sitting in his par-
lour, he heard a very unusual noise proceeding from the stable.
He immediately ran into the yard, and upon, looking through
the stable window, saw the prisoner, with a large stable
fork in his hand, making a furious attack upon one of the
horses. The poor animal plunged very much, and groaned, but'
the prisoner continued the attack, and inflicted a desperate wound
in the jaw of the horse, the prongs of the fork having entered
about two inches. The witness entered the stable, and re-
probated the cruelty of the fellow, but was himself soon given
to understand that as little ceremony would be shown to him-
self as had been shown to the poor horse. " D—n you, you old
villain," said the prisoner. " I'll serve you as I have served
your horse, and I'll set your house on fire too." The witness
added, that of late prisoner was in the habit of drinking very
much, and that the abominable habit had wrought the greatest
change in the unfortunate man. The horse was rendered useless
in consequence of the wound.—The Magistrate strongly repro-
bated the inhumanity of the prisoner, and sentenced him to pay
a fine of M., to be imprisoned for two months in the House of
Correction, and to find securities to keep the peace.
Maittaionawili-STstaaxan Yesterday Mons. Brusseni,
valet de chambre to a Spanish Nobleman, was charged with
driving over a poor man, the husband of a laundress, in Ithe
Fulham-road, on the 13th of August. The defendantaleelared
it was merely accidental.—A sea4eniant .waa .agreed;; to, and
I defendant paid

FOR THE SUN.
LETTtIt XXI.

MR. Enrroa—Those who support the claims
of the Roman Catholics, from the greatest orator
who amuses his auditors with jests, it matters not
whether at the expellee of the dead, the living, or
the unfortunate, to him who is scarcely capable
of going beyond a simple aye or no, all indulge in
the most ridiculous and mischievous hyperbole,
exaggerating or diminishing, and frequently, con-
cealing circumstances, as may suit their purpose,—
all assert, that Popery has undergone total trans-
formation, and is not now of the dangerous and
persecuting nature it was formerly ; or at least,
that the enlightened minds of its modern pro-
fessors, partaking of the amiable liberality that
distinguishes the present age, are not under the
influence of a blind, superstitious, intolerant re-
ligion :—of course, that there can no longer be
any danger in admitting-Roman Catholics, and
that they ought to be admitted into both Houses
of Parliament, and into the highest offices in the
State, equally with Members of the Established
Church. It is, however, not a little remai kable
that these liberal-minded advocates of Popery
make their assertions in direct opposition to the
Ihighest authority in Ireland, Doctor Troy, who
has declared, that " the Roman Catholic Reli-
gion is UNCHANGEABLE, and applicable to all
times ;" and also in opposition to no inconsidera-
ble lay authority in England, Mr. Francis
Plowden, who in his " Case Stated," uses this
strong expression, " If any one says, or pretends
to insinuate, that modern Roman Catholics, who
have been late objects of the bounty of Parlia-
ment, differ. in ONE lOTA from their ancestors,
he either deceives himself, or WISHES to deceive
others. SEMPER EADEM is more emphatically de-
scriptive of our Religion than of our Jurispru-
dence :" so that these emancipators evince as
total ignorance of the Romish, as they do want
of regard for the ProteStant Religion, which they
at least profess.
In the course of this series of letters, I have
endeavoured to shew, by a comparison of its pre-
sent with its former character, that Popery is as
harsh, unbending, domineering, and tyrannical,
as it was in the darkest ages ; and that its modern
professors are actuated by the same intolerant
spirit, and the same hostility to pure religion and
civil liberty, that distinguished its adherents at
any former period. In support of my allega-
tions, I appeal to every act of the present Pon-
tiff, Pius VII., since his emancipation from the
power of " his dear son in Christ," Buonaparte,
to his re-establishment of that detested engine of
Papal Tyranny, the Inquisition—to his Bull o?
August 1814; for the restoration of the demoniac
order of Jesuits " in the ecclesiastical States,
and also in all other States, on the most pressing
petitions from his venerable brethren, the Arch-
bishops and Bishops" (quere—did any go from
the " Holy Island")—to his Bull, addressed to
the Primate of Poland in June 1816, in which
he styles the Bible Societies " a pestilence,"
and " a defilement of the faith"—to his Bull of
September 1819, addressed to, the Irish Romish
Bishops upon the same subject—to his censure of
the French Government for " countenancing
Heretics, Sectaries, and Schismatics ;" to which
source may be traced the late persecution of
Protestants in the southern Provinces of that
Kingdom, of whom 18,000 were reduced to
beggary, and- many hundreds were murdered—
and finally to his declaration, that any connexion
with Heretics was " an alliance between Christ
and Belial, light and darkness, truth and false-
hood, sincere Piety and Impiety." 1 also ap-
peal to the Resolutions and Pastoral Letters of
the Romish Bishops in this unhappy Country—
to their hostility and opposition to the use of the
Holy Scriptures, and to every plan of education
sanctioned by Protestants--to their avowed and
open patronage of the Republication of Ward's
" Errata of the Protestant Bible," his " Con-
troversy of Ordination," •Pastorini's " History of
the Christian Church," and numerous other
pestiferous works—to their criminal supine-
ness, both before and since the explosion of
Rebellion, though they can fulminate the thunder
of the 'church in support of their own spi-
ritual authority, or to enforce their own exac-
tions, as I have already shewn ; and of which I
shall give another recent and notable instance.
Finally, I appeal to the speeches of Popish Ora-
tors at Aggregate Meetings and in their " ille-
" gal Assemblies," to the Manifestoes of the
leaders of their party, and to other publications
that issue from a Popish press. In a word, I
appeal to the speeches, declarations, publications,
and actions of the whole Romish community, lay
as well as clerical, for the last thirty years.
Two cases in point have recently occurred,
which I cannot avoid here mentionh7g : the first
will shew the bigotry, intolerance, and insolence
of a Romish priest ; the second will furnish an
unanswerable proof, not only of the tyranny ex-
ercised, and the unbounded influence retained,
by the Romish Bishops ; but also that the ter-
rors of the church can be called into action with ef-
fect, for the purpose of promoting their own views;
though, when the peace of the country is con-
cerned, they can be allowed to remain dormant.
As to the first—ten or twelve respectable Pro-
testants had attended the funeral of a deceased
neighbour, on Sunday the 7th of July, to the
neighbourhood of a Romish chapel, into which
they were led by curiosity to enter ; and they
heard part of an edifying sermon. The priest
denounced the terrors of the church against all
Roman Catholics,
who should suffer their chil-
dren to attend schools patronized by. heretics :
" for," said he, 4' the Established Church is a
" humbugging, idolatrous, heretical church, in
" which is no salvation. The object of their
" schools is to put the Bible into the hands of
" children. I tell you the Bible should not be
" read in schools, nor should it be read by any.
" that are not in holy orders. You cannot un-
" derstand it. The Protestant Church has per-
" vested the holy Scriptures to its own purposes.
" It turns and explains the Testament for its
" object, contrary to the true meaning ; and I
is
se
Roman Catholic:
no salvation to be
:c "obtaineddeclare to you
except
there
th in
44 Church. All Heretics must perish everlast-
" ingly." And this is one of the scions lately

engrafted into the Priesthood, from the Seminary
at i\laynooth, endowed and supported by a Pro-
testant State !!!

The second is furnished by the Limerick
Chronicle of Monday the 22d of July, which
states, that " the parishes of Loughmore, Mon-
" gret, and Rahoon, in the Liberties of Limerick,
" have been excommunicated by the Right Rev.
" Doctor Toohy, for contumacy and disobedi-
" ence, in rejecting the Rev. Mr. McNamara, of
" this city, as their Pastor, whom the Bishop had
"
appointed to that situation. Excomrnunica-
" tions were yesterday fulminated from the dif-
" ferent altars of the chapels of this city, against
the refractory parishioners." It is scarcely
necessary to add, that those rebels against the
" Mother Church" have returned to their al-
legiance.

In my 14th Letter, which appeared in your
Paper of the 29th of June, mentioned two in-
stances, the one of a Romish titular Bishop, the
other of a Romish Priest, having excommuincated
each an individual, to the ruin of his circum-
stances, for refusing to comply with their exac-
tions ; and in my subsequent Letter, I gave an ex-
tract. from a Bull of Doctor Coppinger, threaten-
ing to withhold the Last Sacrament from such
married persons as should refuse to separate from
his or her yoke-fellow, though his Majesty's Ec-
clesiastical Courts hold those . same marriages
valid." But Doctor Toohy's is a sweeping clause,
excommunicating the inhabitants of three parishes,
for resisting his high authority, in the appoint-
ment of a Priest. Now, Mr. Editor, this Rev.
Doctor's district, or diocess, was the very focus
of sedition, treason, and murder ; it was the hot-
bed, in which those baleful weeds were germin-
ated, nurtured, and matured; and from whence
they were transplated into the adjoining coun-
ties : yet this pious orthodox Divine remain-
ed perfectly passive, while -those crimes
were plotted, and afterwards perpetrated,
by the members of his communion, by his own
flock, " whom it was his duty to instruct and
keep in the right way." No sooner, however,
did they presume to resist his spiritual authority,
than the thunder of the Church was fulminated
against them ; and it is worthy of notice how soon
the terror of excommunication brought them to
submission. It must be manifest, therefore, that
had he thought it his duty to an heretical State—
had he thought it his duty as a Minister of Him,
who came to proclaim " Peace on earth, and good
will towards men," to have called into action this
infallible thunder of his infallible church, he
would have saved many valuable lives to society
—he would have saved his country from an in-
delible stain—and he would have saved thou-
sands of his own communion from the commission
of crimes, which drew upon themselves the punish-
ments they merited, and ruin upon their wretched
families.

No person of common sense, who has any
knowledge of the Popish religion, can for a
moment suppose that Dr. Toohy and his Priests
were ignorant that "a bloody insurrection was on
the eve of breaking out ;" for, as auricular con-
fession is a sacrament in the Romish church, as
every person is obliged to go frequently to con-
fession,
and as it is a crime of the deepest dye to',
conceal any thing, even thoughts, from a ghostly
Father, by which means priests acquire a com-
plete ascendancy over the laity :—for these rea-
sons, I repeat, it is obvious that the Romish
priests must long since have been thoroughly ap-
prized of the intended " bloody insurrection," as
well as the prophet Daniel. What opinion, then,
can we form of Romish priests who, from the
principles of their religion, must be acquainted
with the very springs of action of the laity—who,
by means of the terrors of excommunication and
purgatory, have unbounded controul over their
minds—and who can fulminate the thunder of their
church, to promote their own views, or the interests
of that church:—w hat opinion can we form of those
priests, who, with such irresistible powers, could
tamely witness treason, murder, and rapine de-
solating the land ? For myself, although their
hands have not been actually imbrued in the
blood of the victims of superstitious fanaticism,
I consider them as guilty as the, wretches that
immolated Mr. Brereton, and the interesting
youth, Hoskins. There is misprision of treason,
and there is misprision of felony ; let those that
are learned in the law define the degrees of guilt
in the perpetrators of crimes, and those that are
privy to them : but I do conceive that the deep-
est shade attaches to the most Reverend and Re-
verend Personages, who, by means of their own
supreme and irresistible spiritual authority, or
by a timely disclosure, might have prevented
the scenes of horror and devastation which have
desolated and disgraced the country, since his
Majesty's visit to Ireland.
Permit me now, my Protestant fellow-subjects
of the United Empire, to call upon you in the
most solemn manner, as you value the blessings
of religious anti civil liberty you now enjoy, to
be watchful over, and firmly to stand forth in
defence of, those liberties—" in defence of that
" Protestant Establishment, which placed Eli-
"
zabeth upon the Throne, and laid the founda-
" tion of that edifice which has been the wonder
" of surrounding Nations—the British Empire ;
" that Establishment which survived the mis-
" taken policy of Charles I.—which was inter-
" woven into the British Constitution by the
" prudent foresight of Sir William Cecil—which
44 was adhered to by the honestest and wisest
44 men in the Parliament of the first Charles,
" (among them the good Lord Southampton,
" father of Lady Russell, whose Lord was sacri-
" ficed at the shrine of Popery,) which survived
" the hypocritical tyranny of Cromwell, which
cc was acted upon by the true- Patriots in the
" reign of Charles 11., which bowed to the
cc dust the hereditary honours of his infatuated
44 brother, James 11., which raised to empire King
" William 111. of glorious memory, which was
64 seized and relied on as the safeguard of Britain
cc by the great Lord Somers, and that constella-
" tion of able Statesmen who, with him, pro-
" duced the glorious Revolution ;—that Pro-
" testant Establishment which, in a happier hour,
cc hound the fortunes of Britain and House of
" Brunswick together ; and which, I trust, will
cc bind them for ever, in despite of the machina-
." tion of Popish Committees) Couveutions,

" Boards, and their Coadjutors."—(Letters by
a Protestant, published by Chapple, Pall Mali'
London.)
I shall now, Mr. Editor, take leave of you and
your Readers for a time. To you, Sir, I return
my best thanks for your kind and flattering at"
tention to my Letters, which will encourage Iva
to resume my pen, when any thing shall occur'
To your Readers I will say, that if I have ad-
vanced arguments which may have convinced twit
of them, before misled by Popish artifices, °J;
the danger that must arise to our Ecclesiastical
arid Civil Establishments, from granting politio"_,
power to Roman Catholics,—l shall think mY
labour well rewarded. And, for myself, 1 be,6,
leave to add, that, as well in the course of this
tedious series of letters, as upon former act"
sions, have drawn my information from history
from Parliamentary Records, and other authen'
tic documents ; nor have I " set down aught in
malice ;" so that, however the eye of criticiso
may discover errors in the arrangement of rnf
subject, or in my style, I Lave no apprehension
that any thing I have advanced will be contr°'
verted.
I cannot better conclude than in the address,
of a late writer :—" Our Constitution is a then:
" so glorious ; and were they the last words
" were to write, or the last words I had to utter'
" I would invoke the people of this land in tbe,
" words of the Roman Patriot, while 110105
" up the Constitution and Laws to their view

Oh, never let them perish in your hands,
But piously transmit them to your children.'
Cork, Aug. 20, 1822.

THE HARVEST.—Owing to the unusually 6ile
weather, the Wheat harvest has been anili
pleted in the Western, Southern, Eastern, 1113.
most of the Midland Counties. In the Wester,'"
Counties, which have this year taken the 144
in time, quantity, and quality, the Wheats 114"
yielded most abundantly.
The very early departure i f the SIVaIiOW 5
said to prognosticate a hard winter. It is rte.;
marked that these birds are now congregating or
the way which is usual late in Se
October, and apparently for the purpose of
gration.
lath,A body of fire, about the size of a very
melon, fell last week in the Bay of Falinonfr
This meteoric phenomenon seemed to rest oPci
the surface of the water, for a few seconds, 411
then sunk, causing a great agitatipn in the Sea: e,
NORTH AMERICA.—The following Advertiii..4sir
ment appears in a Savannah Journal :—" ""p-d,
Notiee.—All persons are hereby not only 1011/-4
butlabsolutely forbidden, to give me credit,on
pretence whatever, as from this day forwarc,.
shall not pay any debts contracted by myself
JOHN HEWIT."
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A METAPHOR BROKEN.—A Senator In
House of Commons exhorted his hearers a•
Ptember,
be on peaceful terms with England for tiOiroi,
sons ; first, because she is our sister killgn„1:.
and secondly, because she is the strongest in'fort
STREET ROBBERIES.—Within the last heel
nights the following street robberies have well
committed by a daring gang :—Mr.
residing at No. 21, Surrey-square, was to
tacked, about ten o'clock at night, by held
men in the Kent-road ; one of their' 'of
his arms, whilst the other robbed hLtn s,
his watch and seals. Mr. Punr.ips, of Ind
Temple-place, Blackfriars-road, was attar the
precisely in the same way, and, no doubt, btva
same fellows, in the Borough-road, and owor
of his gold watch and seals. Two other ge.!
men were stopped in one night in Black
road, and plundered of various property.

CWRSE OF EXCHANGE, August 23;

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