The Sun.
London, England, 1822-06-19 00:00:00

[THE TIMES.]

Ministers have supported their demand of a
renewal of the Insurrection Act in Ireland by a
communication to Parliament of a copious list of
documents, transmitted to Mr. Peel by the Lord-
Lieutenant. These Papers contain a long series
of reports from judicial persons, Magistrates and
others, descriptive of the state of the country;
which, so far as regards the open perpetration of
crime, is said to be, on the whole, improving ; but
dreadful must have been the antecedent state

of a kingdom, when such pictures, drawn upon-
the spot, and not fairly chargeable, as we sup-
pose, with infidelityy, are taken in evidence of its
improved condition. As most of the facts in this
gloomy catalogne, which embraces a period of
about three months, from the middle of February
to the middle of May, have already appeared in
some shape or other before the public, we shall
not recapitulate them now. Notwithstanding
the cessation of their movements in the open
field, the insurgents have not refrained from
the frequent commission of that class of out-
rageswhich_ indicate the continuance of a stub-
born and hostile spirit. Violence and terror
have been employed systematically, although,
it is confessed, with some abatement of their
previous activity, not in Munster alone, but
throughout all the provinces, as means of ren-
dering three descriptions of persons subservient
to the will of the multitude—that landlords
might be forced to reduce their rents—in-coming
tenants to abandon their farms—and witnesses
for the Crown to withhold their information, on
pain of death, or some barbarous bodily outrage.

[NEw TIMES.]
The Paris Papers of Saturday give the debates
of the Two Chambers on the preceding day, but
they afford nothing of particular interest to the
English reader. The preliminary business of the
Session has been conducted with a degree of
rapidity which surprises equally the Liberals
and the Royalists. This is owing to the good
understanding which prevails between the
Ministers and the majority of the two Cham-
bers, and which has every appearance of
being likely to continue throughout the Ses-
sion. At length France happily sees a Re-
presentative Government proceeding on prin-
ciples calculated for its own support. The mon-
strous and absurd system of vacillation between
loStalty and treason is at an end. It is true that
the Ministers cannot adopt severe measures, nor
do they seem in the least inclined to do so, against
the enemies of the Bourbons. They adopt the
wiser mode of letting those enemies dwindle
into insignificance. It might be desirable
not to leave quite so many of those gentry in
possession of important places under the Go-
vernment ; but it must be remembered that
the Ministers themselves are to a certain degree
under the coniroul of the Saloons in Paris,
where the best company assemble, and discuss
all political measures. Among this best com-
pany all political characters) except the very
worst, find patrons and defenders. The Ladies
especially are loud in their outcries if any
worthy personage of their acquaintance, who has
been in place for the last ten years, under all the
successive Governments, happens to be removed
for shewing hostility to his superiors. Other
Ministers did not regard those otacries,or perhaps
took care to prevent them ; but it is thought that
a Royalist Government must proceed less despotic,
and perhaps in the end it may be the more secure.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

[From the Bury Gazette.l

PITT CLuns.----The enemies of Virr principles
will, we have no doubt, be enraged at the display made at the
recent meetings of sterling loyalty, and sound constitutional
opinions ; but their rage will be in vain, they may as well at-
tempt to stem the current of the ocean, as to cheek the progress
of that system which saved England from revolution ; which
preserved to our Monarch his throne, and to our Nobles. their
titles and estates; which protected the revenues of the church
from pillage, and the property of the landholder from spolia-
tion ; under the influence of which we have lived in peace, and
enjoyed the fruits of our honest industry, without any fear of
being deprived of them by the rude hands of the spoiler ; and
under whoSe influence we still hope to live, in the enjoyment
of peace and plenty, and of every blessing which Providence
can bestow on a grateful and contented nation. It is folly to
talk of the Pitt system as having produced the load of debt and
taxes which the nation has yet to bear. That load is main-
ly to be attributed to the opponents of the " Pilot who
weathered the storm ;" to those men who supported the
friends of Revolution both at home and abroad ; who
sought to paralize all the efforts of Government by their
unprincipled opposition ; and who encouraged the enemy
of their country to perseverance in his wicked machinations
against us, by disparaging our resources, and magnifying the
difficulties against which we had to contend. It is to these
men, and to their system, that we must attribute what we have
lost ; whilst to Pitt and his principles we are indebted for all
we have saved. Whilst we are on the subject of Pitt dinners,
we may be permitted to allude to the contrast which is afforded
at those meetings to the radical assemblages, in the manner in
which the health of the King is honoured. At the meeting of
Sir Francis Burdett's friends in Westminster, a few weeks
since, after the health of the Sovereign, the song of " Rule
Britannia" was sung, instead of that inspiring and animating
anthem, " God save the King." At other meetings his Ma-
jesty's health is drunk frequently in silence; sometimes only
as the " head of the Constitutional Government;" and in every
instance with marks of studied insult and contempt. Look at
the contrast. The disciples of Pitt always receive the name
of their King with enthusiasm ; and we will venture to assert
that, amidst the host ofloyal hearts who joined in the cry of" God
save him," at the Pitt festivals, there was not one but would
willingly devote both life and fortune to his service. The Radi-
cals and Whigs, however, all profess to be loyal—aye, and they
are all, too, honourable men. But how do they show their
loyalty ? By constantly endeavouring to bring the kingly go-
vernment into contempt; by propagating, incessantly, the most
gross and scurrilous calumnies, ' relative to the pursuits and
habits, and acts, of the Monarch ; and by doing their best to
excite suspicion against, and bring down the public odium
upon, those generous spirited men, who, with true and genuine
loyalty, are always ready to stand in the gap in defence of good
government; and to come forward in support of the just pre-
rogatives of the Monarch, as well as of the rights of the people.
With the disciples of Pitt, the rights and privileges of both
prince and people are alike respected ; with the liberals, the
latter are every thing, and the former nothing, whilst they are
attaining the summit of power; but, once placed in possession of
the object of their ambition, and both prince and people are then
made the'mere slaves of their imperious will. History shows, that
such has been the conduct of demagogues in former days ; and
there is nothing in the character of our modern disturbers
of the public peace to warrant us in believing that they would
prove an exception to the general rule. It is by maintaining the
integrity of the Pitt System, that continued prosperity, and hap-
piness, and peace, and plenty, can be expected to shed their
blessings on the land in which we live. That system is the
only guarantee for the rights and privileges of all classes of the
people. Our opponents would violate the possessions of the
church ; they would rob the fundholder of his patrimony :
and were this to be permitted, what security would there be fbr
any other spcies of property ?—A portion of them would
gladly deprive both nobles and clergy of their privileges ; and
how long would the privileges of other classes be kept inviolate ?
Let us, then, adhere to the system-which has raised our coun-
try to glory and honour; and tell our opponents, that;" the
King we hOnour is his people's choice; the laws, we reverence
are our brave fathers' legacy :" that we want no‘change,. and,
least of all, the change that they, would bring us."'
.

FOR THE SUN.

HERESY.

EDITOR-4T. PETER SUS," there shall be
false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in
damnable heresies," and though the word of inspi-
ration must be fulfilled in this is in every other cir-
cumstance, and his brother apostle declares most
positively that heresies there must be among us,
yet it is the duty of any of his successors slim
are appointed by their office to take special care
of the Church, imitating his spirited example, to
establish, as far as lieth in them, unity of doctrine,
at least among those who profess to be within its
pale. It is against these chiefly that St. PETER
may be supposed to warn us, as the worst of all
foes, of our own household, that privily enter into
our bosom, and are the more able from their in-
timacy to inflict the wound, and the wound itself
is the more fatal, as the psalmist so beautifully
complains, in a style of pathos without a parallel :
44 It was not an open enemy that did me this
dishonour, for then I could have borne it, but it
was even thou, my companion, my guide, and
mine own familiar friend ; we took sweet counsel
together and walked in the house of God as friends."
The kiss of Jun.ts was more pernicious to his
master than whole legions of his open adversaries
that conspired against his life—who, but for the
treachery of one of his own friends, would have
had no power at all over him ; his offence must
needs come, and CHRIST took no pains to prevent
what was so necessary to fulfil the word; but he
who has now the care of his Church is bound to
preserve it from all heresies ; for though it is
declared in the word, that such men must be
among us, yet it is also as expressly declared,
that the Church is founded on a rock and the
gates of hell shall not prevail against it. It Is
the bounded duty of the Minister to perform
his part that the word may be fulfilled, and
prevent such false teachers from entering the
Church, who would privily bring in what
he considers damnable heresies—and to at-
tack them in the very threshold ; but if
once they penetrate the sanctuary it would be
difficult to expel them from it, or impossible at
least to prevent the mischief which all such
heretics ever have done, and must do, wherever
and whensoever they are suffered to prevail.—
To attacks of open hostility from the infidel or the
profane, we must, with all our care, as long as there
is profaneness and infidelity in the world, be of
necessity exposed ; but it is our own fault if we
suffer the hypocrite privily to bring in his dam-
nable heresy, and give him the opportunity he so
anxiously watches, under our own hand and our
own seal, under the veil of submission to articles
interpreted in a sense quite contrary to what
they who impose them require, of sliding into
its bosom by degrees, and making such innova-
tions as the Partizans for the New Birth and
New Lights would rejoice to see triumphant
over the sound and sober doctrines of our pure
and reformed Church.

Unhappily for that Church, there are many of
these enthusiasts already in its bosom, " that
have crept in unawares ;" and if others are not
prevented from coming in, and others who are
there are not most strictly and carefully watched
by our appointed watchmen, who are placed on
a height on purpose to observe every approach
of the enemy, they may creep on till they accu-
mulate in such crowds upon us as to do tremendous
mischief, though they never, with all their zeal,
can destroy that Church against which the gates
of hell itself shall not prevail. Among the rest
of their schemes to this malignant purpose, we
hear, in a Paper renowned at least for penetra-
tion and elaborate research, what however I
believe is universally acknowledged to be
a fact, and ought to be generally circulated,
in order to make its just, impression, and
arouse all those who, like yourselves, have the least
regard for the safety of the Church, (and such
a regard as to be called the Bisnor's Paper*)
and long may you so continue, and become in your
turn patronised by the Bishops and Universities
together, that there exists a species of select
vestry, composed of the leading sectarians, com-
monly called Evangelical, who have the entire ma-
nagement of an immense fund, collected through
the means of their emissaries from every part of
the kingdom by gathering weekly a penny from
all the families who attend their preachers. The
directors of this fund apply a portion of it to pur-
chase any presentations below a certain value
which come into the market; and as they are
anxious to increase their temporal power, usually
outbid others who wish to purchase, and then
place in these livings individuals who are of the
same sect, and thus disseminate their doctrines,
which are in opposition to those of the Establish-
ed Church.

With these doctrines we have nothing to do
—let them enjoy them to their hearts' content in
their own conventicles,—but let them not attempt
to overthrow our Church, for the purpose of ma-
king them universal. Neither should they be
permitted to make the Church itself a cloak for
their hostile intentions, by forming within its pale
a body of men who profess, and sedulously dis-
seminate the same doctrines as themselves, and
hold regular communication with those very sec-
tarians who are openly arrayed against our Ec-
clesiastical Establishment.

* THE SUN.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.--Sunday evening, Joseph
Clifton, aged 19, apprentice to a glass-cutter in
Fetter-lane, stripped off his clothes to bathe in
the Surrey Canal ; on diving in his head struck
against a stone at bottom, and he never rose
again. William Jones, a youth about his own
age, whose father works at Mr. Wilkinson's,
gun-maker, on Ludgate-hill, instantly jumped in
to the assistance of his companion, and he also
shared the fate of his friend. The father of the
latter, in endeavouring to save their lives, had
nearly lost his own. The bodies now lie at the
Plough for an Inquest.

A thatched cottage, at Wedmore, in Somer.
setshire, was last week burnt to the ground, from
the intense heat of the Pun upon the glass VViP-
dows igniting the thatcb..