The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-13 00:00:00

[MORNING POST.]

The Romish Priests exhort their flocks to pay
the Catholic " Rent"—the Romish Priests volunteer and pub-
licly go about collecting the " Rent"—the Romish Priests ad-
vise their flocks to support and become members of the Catho-
lic AssociatiOn—the Romish Priests are themselves attending
and active members of that assembly, and there, and with its
approbation, scurrilously stigmatize the Protestant Religion,
and deny to its Clergy and Prelates their legal and apostolic
right to the sacred character they hold in the State ! It Is
of notorious that but for the exertions and co-operation of the
Romish Priests, neither would any thing like the amount of
" Rent" be subscribed which has been, nor would she Associ-
ation possess the power or embody the danger which it does.
These are facts defying even cavil. It is also proved by the
proceedings of that Body—virtually proclaimed by obbett
and the rest of its accredited Agents—that the tendency,
aim, and purpose of its constitution - and conduct, are,
to revolutionize Ireland, and establish the separate indepen-
dence of that part of the United Kingdom. These are the
main grounds of our hostility to that unnatural commixture of
polemics and politics, bigotry and rebellion. Nay, we have
waved all minor considerations upon which the toleration of
such a preposterous innovation on the lawful institutions of the
realm might be denounced. We have met the associators on
their own arena, to prove them on their own principles a nuisance
that ought to be abated. We have said, that even on the
absurd hypothesis of the political objects of the Association
being desirable, the iniquitous instrumentality of a low-lived,
yet ambitious—a mean-spirited, yet tyrannical—a vulgar su-
perstitions Priesthood—by which it is sought to achieve those
objects, must to every man of sense and feeling—every friend
of civil and religious liberty in the enlightened parts of the
world, render that Body an abomination--a pestilence. What
at this moment makes Spain contemptible to other nations and
a curse to itself? .The horrible predominancy of Popish Priests
in the Government of the country. Why did we espouse with
such sincerity and strenuousness the cause of the Spanish Con-
stitutionalists ? Because it went to disenthrel the people of the
Peninsula from the debasing detestable yoke of besotted fana-
ticism, and to depose the Spanish Clergy from* despotism
which they exercised over the mental as well as the political
rights of a great nation. Was the investiture ofthe Popish Priest-
hood with new privileges and additional property the tendency
of a single proceeding of the Constitutionalists ? quite the
reverse. Those vultures were scared at the introduction of a
rational system of rule, and only returned to prey upon the
vitals of their wretched country, when a bigot and a tyrant, by
foreign anus, was unchained upon his subjects. We have sup-
ported the independence of South America for similar reasons,
and, as we recently proved, our hopes and anticipations are
rapidly realizing in that quarter of die globe. We only wonder,
then, that any person who professes to be a friend to Ireland, or
to have a spark of pure liberty, lit in his heart, can find a pre-
tence to palliate the existence of the Catholic Association tilr a
single day. How can any being, who has even breathed within
the free atmosphere which emanates from and encompasses the
British Constitution connive at the perpetration of worse horrors in
the Sister Island than have polluted the most benighted annals of
Spain The prelusive chuckling of Priest 111‘Sweeny over im-
agined massacres and prospective ferocitics, halt no parallel
perhaps in Spanish history—or at least out of the refectories of
the lloly Inquisition. The bloodshed, butcheries, and burn-
ings, which must follow such a revolution in Ireland as the
Catholic Association broods upon, would deaden every agoniz-
ing recollection ot' the perfidy, proscriptions, and murders which
have signalized the restoration of Ferdinand and superstition to
tyrannize Over Spain. The Romish religion, its teachers, and
its followers, ire Heaven knows, bad enough in Spain, but they
are all infinitely still more infamous the other side of Saint
George's Channel.

[monNtNo ItEitAr.n.3
There is no leading article in this Paper to-
day.

, .
M,
IL liApie.---A. fortnight since we copied a
•
paragraph from the Jolt's Bull Newopaper, in which it was
stated, that " Mr. Rayne had- paid his addresses to the three
daughters of a Colonel /I. consecutively; that he was actually
accepted by two or them, and womised a friend a large present
if he would bring about his marriage with the third." At the
time we inserted this'statement, we thought it attached rather
and, for the sake of the
too much consequence to Mr. Elayne ;
to stly t
hat.the principal part of
ladies alluded took'e are happy
it is incorrect. ' It is true that Mr. myna -did pay Ins aresses
to each of the three daughters of a gallant Colonel ; hut that he
was accepted by either, is entirely out of the :question. The
elder of these young ladies first attracted his intention, but she
Would not for a moment listen to him, and he was rejected tan,
'erenionle. He now lairished the most assiduous attentions on
the seeond, and when he fancied he had secured her affections,
lie had the hardihood to make overtures to the third ; but who,
instead of " accepting him," actually laughed at him. The
gallant Colonel treated .him witlf "'silent contempt, and he
was forbad ever entering the house again.—(Devizes Gazette.)

The idea of a dissolution of Parliament in the
ensuing spring seems now to lose ground, pro-
bably (rein the circumstance, that (unless pre-
viously dissolved) a Parliament continues, seven
years, not merely seven sessions (see 1, Geo. 1.
st. 2, cap. 38). 'Wait; only the fifth year of
present Parliament.--(Derby illereury.)
MA'rn EWS and las Tom are both in Dublin,
Powerfol.talents to their
lending the aid of their,
friend ABBOT, the. Manager end-lessee of the
Theatre. I4sTON has produced
overflowing
houses every night of IbisPerAWM4HCP,, MA*.
THEWS is, perhaps, the only comedian whose
annual theatrical visits to the Emerald Isle are
attended with undiminished success.