The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-19 00:00:00

PRICE SEVENPENCE.

be to insubordination, I am convinced that it has
never happened that they have been roused into
open rebellion but through the machinations of
ambitious, designing, Wicked, Men : and their
secret advisers and abettors might probably be
found amongst thoSe who-are loudest in declaim-
ing against their outrages. EDWARD BYRNE'S
Popish Parliament played exactly such a game,
with regard to the defenders ; and, on the 23d
Of April, 1793, they published the following Re-
sOlution,=." Resolved, That, notwithstanding the
earnest endeavours, and frequent exhortations,
of the general and sub-committee, it appears
that many of the lower orders of Catholies have
persisted in associating with those deluded peo-
ple called Defenders,'—We take this opportuni-
ty to repeat, what we have so often, copectively
and individually, endeavoured to impress on their
minds, our. utmost detestation and abhorrence of
such illegal and criminal proceedings : and we
once more call upon those unhappy men, if such
yet remain, by every thing dear to them, to us,
and to posterity, to desist from such unwarrant-
able acts of violence, which have already proVed
fatal to so many of themselves, and to,returp to
the obedience to the laws, and to the laudable
pursuits of honest industry." •

Nothing short of the authority of Parliament
could convince an ingenious mind that the fore-
going resolution was written and published with
the design of deceiving the Government, and their
Protestant fellow-subjects,—at the very time,
that the Legislature had granted to them the
Elective Franchise unqualified : but so it ivaS, as
appears by the Report of the Secret Committee
of the Irish House of Commons, which state's,
" That the Defenders were entirely composed of
Roman Catholics,"—" that they were sworq to
secresy, And impressed with a belief that they
were assisting the Catholic cause."—" Sums of
money to a considerable amount have been levied,
and continue to be levied, on Roman Catholics in
all parts of the kingdom, by subscriptions and
colleCtions at their chapels and elsewhere."—" It
does appear that letters were written by a mem-
ber of this Catholic Committee in Dublin, previ-
ous to the last Assizes in Dundalk ; in one of
which the said person, in the name of the said
Roman Catholic Committee, directed inquiries to
be made touching the offences of which the. De-
fenders, then in confinement, were accused."=
"It does appear that the. said person, to whom
the said letter was addressed at Dundalk, did
employ, at a considerable expense, an Agent and
Counsel, to act for the several persons accused
of being Defenders, and who had been indicted in
consequence."

Since I forwarded my fourth Letter, I have
seen the official return of the Population of the
different Counties in Ireland, which has confirm-
ed the opinion I then expressed ; and which in-
duces me now to recur to the subject : but I
shall, for the present, content myself with bring-
ing, at one view, before your Readers, those
counties, the population of which I conceive to
be most extravagantly over-rated, as opposed to
others More consonant to reason,—premising that
those of the former I shall choose are counties in
which Roman Catholics preponderate.

Counties. Souls in 1313. 1 Souls in 1821. Increase.

Cork - -
Gals-ay -
Limerick - - -
Mayo -
Wicklow -
Cork City - -
Down - -
Antrim - - -
Londonderry
Waterford - -
Kildare - -
Dublin City -

523,931;
140,995
103,865
237,371
83,109
64,364
287,290
231,548
168,181
119,457
85,133
176,610

702,000
286,921
214.286
297,538
115,162
100,505
329,348
251,601
194,199
127,679
101,715
186,276

176,044
145,96
110,421
60,167
32,0.53
36,141
42,058
30,053
7,918
8,222
16,582
9,666