The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-18 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

ROMAN CATHOLICS.
Ma. EDITOR—The opposition manifested by
the Irish Roman Catholics to the circulation of
the Holy Scriptures, will, I trust, be of infinite
service to those supporters of the " Bible So-
ciety" who have hitherto advocated (what has
been invidiously called) 46 Catholic Emancipa-
tion" but what (to speak in plain English) is
nothing more nor less than an attempt on the part
of the Roman Catholics to obtain political power
and ascendancy in this Protestant State. Although
I conscientiously disapprove of the British and
Foreign Bible Society, and view it as founded
upon a system of religious republicanism—com-
bining all sects, but attaching none, I still shall
be inclined to hail it as a great blessing, should
it under Providence, be permitted to arouse from
their delusive, dreams those well meaning Pro-
testants, who, caught in certain political trammels,
have hitherto enrolled themselves under banners,
governed by a temporizing policy, unworthy of
the memory of those who fought for, and secured
the liberties of Protestant England ! The friends
of the Bible Society evidently imagined, that
they would have been allowed to have pursued
the same course in the Sister Country which they
had been accustomed to de here ; that they would
have been permitted to have their popular Meet-
ings—their resolutions of encouragement and
thanks—their speeches on one side of the question
—their adjournments, and their subsequent sepa-
rate tea-drinkings, to decide whether the Socinian,
the Baptist, the Independent, the Methodist, or
the Church of England Pastor had been the best
orator of the day; but here a most egregious
mistake was made, and an " imperium in int.'
perio" stepped between, and claimed a public
right of discussion ! Ido not stop to inquire
from what motive this claim arose 7 nor is it of
any consequence ; it is sufficient that the claim
was one which from the relative situation qf Pro.
lesion's and Roman Catholics (the former dissent-
ing from the latter upon the-ground of their being
enemies to free discussion), could not be resisted,
except under those circumstances of turbulence
and riot which have so clearly manifested them-
selves upon recent occasions in the Sister Cowl-

try.. The inquiry will, bowever, naturally be

made, what need was there of inviting certain
parties to attend a public meeting* if there was no
point to be argued ; what necessity for aping the
forms of the Senate in moving, seconding, and
putting the question, it it had been previously
agreed that the motion was to pass unanimously,
and no discussion to be permitted ? The effect of
an invitation to the public to attend under such
circumstances, was to send away dissatisfied such
us were not allowed to be heard, let their attend-
mice have emanated from a bad or a good motive.
The conduct of the Archbishop of 'Tam at the
recent Meeting of the Galway Bible Society
I consider as both calm and dignified ; his Grace
was placed in a most awkward predicament,
and when pressed by the Rotnan Catholic Orator
for permission to state his objections to the mo-
tion for adopting and printing the Report which
had been read to the Meeting, the Archbishop
found himself between two fires. Protestantism
called for Discussion, but the Rules of the Bible
Society forbade it; the Roman Catholics were
clamorous to enter the " tented field," in which
they were well aware their numbers would pre-
vail, and the Archbishop, by way of compromise,
and to get out of the scrape in the best way he
could, proposed a private conference, or rather
disputation, In the presence of Reporters, be-
tween the Protestant supporters of the Society
and its Roman Catholic opponents ! This was
rejected by the Roman Catholic champion, and
at length a most amiable man and estimable Pre-
late, a friend to the poor, and one who stood
foremost in the ranks of those benevolent indivi-
duals, who, two years since, exerted themselves
to the utmost for the benefit of their indigent
countrymen, was driven from the chair amjdst
yells of execration and disgust !--well might our
immortal Bard exclaim—
" Ingratitude I thou marble hearted fiend,
" More hideous when thou shew'st thy head.
" Than die Sea Monster !"
I confess I do not augur any good from " con.
vocations" such as the Archbishop suggested ;
they aro much against the Code of Laws which
govern the Bible Society, as discussions at its
public meetings, and will only lead to disputes
who shall have the last word, which (if carried
on ie Ireland) will be pretty warm on both
sides. The population will take part with the
Romish Priests let the controversy end as it will,
and reflections will be cast on the unfortunate
Reporters, whether the Protestants or the Ito.
man Catholics bear away the palm. All these
considerations lead to the inevitable conclusion,
tiohtaitortihoefrea isputolitcoemdelientging" rotten', In the consti-
whtch the Archbishop of
Tusaimmilparretsoidetdh...rwanti
not say but that the cause may be partially
traced to the singular circumstances under which
the Sister Country is placed ; completely insulat-
ed as to any common line of policy to be pursued
in her Government, defensive associations are
some degree necessary to her very exiatence, so
long as she retains her present majority of Ito-
man Catholic population ; and hence, any wee-
sures calculated to bring those parties into direct
collision with the Roman Catholics, are evident-
ly injudicious. The Roman Catholics on the
One hand have not forgotten the siege of Derry,
and the Protestants, on the other, have not dis-
pelled from their minds the recollection of their
great and glorious deliverers, u recollection cer-
tainly best cherished when devoid of any thing
like irritating accompaniments, but which it is
now too much the fashion to cry down and de-
pretote

. _
The independent friends of the Bible Society,
in endeavouring to circulate the Scriptures in
Ireland, have acted from the best of motives,
but they hate altogether mistaken the means of

• It is stated in the Trish Journals, that invitations to be pre.
sent at certain meetings of the Bible Society. were sent to cer-
tain Roman Catholics, who in consequence attended, but were
not allowed to be heard in opposition to motions for receiving
and adopting the Reports made from the Committees, and which
Reports-had been previously read to the audience.
t It ii matter of high gratification, and much to the credit
of the Orange Institution, that processions of Its Members
with thee insignia, &c. in the public streets, are now discon-
tinued.

carrying their designs into effect. The path to
have been pursued should have been c: noiseless"
and " secluded ;" there should have been no in-
vitations to public meetings—no stage effect re.
sorted to—for a public exhibition of Irish Pro•
testants and Irish Roman Catholics is not so
easy a ceremony to manage, as one of Church of
England Clergy and Protestant Dissenting Mi-
nisters at Freemasons"favern. This Messrs.
Noel and Co. have found out, and I hope they
will give Mr. Wilberforce the full particulars
when they return home ; and perhaps the Rev.
Warden Daly (who was present at the Galway
Meeting) will also add his written testimony,
which there can be no doubt, from their known
intimacy, will have a strong effect upon the mind
of the Honourable Gentleman ! !
May we not, Sir, however be allowed to hope
that all these matters are " working ,for good "
I will not give the friends of the Bible Society
credit for anticipating the results which have
been produced by their attempts at public meet-
ings in Ireland, since I firmly believe that they
calculated upon far different ones. If, however,
the Opposition, through their niedium, now
clearly and violently manifested by the Roman
of God,
fiCatholics
aptteeoc
indeed, ottilfiiiieglaoprtpaewtaritodit
yitilen:stgttataino:fditistoulflogfe
ons in tnhoes
consecrated by the Almighty as a means °laws.
stand forward with privileged weal e.
fence of the " faith once delivered to theSai "
Saints,
able regulations, its penny subscarilpi
ll sns bj
I am not mistaken) its Trinket Sales (exPus
dients unworthy such a great and glerie
cause), the Bible Society will hold a prominent
situation in the list of those institutions, %%111101,
as engines under the controul of.an institution
Power, have been by him made instrumental a
ioto,ae ncio(nii
dt
forzi•cesardteirt,igNolva.7B=le_signs.,
I am, Mr. Editor, yours, &c.
BRITANNICUS.

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Although the following relation may be view"
by some as scarcely deserving credit, it fmll,he,
relied on as authentic; the circumstances about 8%-,,
orue€
in it took place in the county `
of Flint, sh
years back. A woman having been co
ecnvictedution,
of a capital crime, was ordered for ex
and was actually hanged. Having remained 965-1
pended during the usual time, she was
eetneve.`,.
from the scaffold, and carried into the church ;Pt
was soon discovered that the vital spark was n°,.
totally extinct,and means were immediately adol"
ed by her friends for the purpose of fully restoriof
animation. The executioner having
of what was going on, and apprehending that n.
should incur censure for the incomplete perforTe
ance of his sanguinary duty, repaired to tann,
church with an intention to dispatch the "I'lp
around
The females, however, who were 1 the
body, became furious when acquainted wil 'L._
hangman's design, and immediately attai. te7l
him with the most violent rage, he ei3s °I) 'ibe
to fly for safety up the steps which Ica
,10
lia
belfry : thither his pursuers followed Walt !Ilia)
been informed
seized him by . the heels, they dragge'; 110,
that his death was the consequence'
down the stairs, and so much iniurerthn the
Pc-arriteed.
mean time the body of the woman "95
away, and the measures fur restoring V" eltiTtlias.,
ly proved successful. But perhaps the ruf,uls to
touishing portion of this narration yet gait, here
be told : this woman, who might be siti" - not
experienced a resurrection from the gral.hibec
long afterwards actually committed one
nett
crime of which she was convicted at the 1,,,
assittes, and for which she suffered MN, in,
Sheriff, In this Instance determined that tne,
tention of the law should not again be
caused a grave to be dug close to the geiritlii 4
which the corpse was immediately burg •
the execution was carried into effect.
~fintll4
ISTRISSAING OCCU lIIIEVcE. About tiro 1,"" g
aigoc a poor woman, of the name of lielgell lying
ri nnterhuryswalk, Lambeth, went "t for).
wit:id:lt,
short time, leaving
her two children at hodn;:
onleer (boys,
one five and the other three Yelirs °,ishe
it,%v h
ibutch thesiie ciliiiiiidd rie,i,iftwseirwe
shut, wag ,and
frustre'cii:
had
. elr return she found the door locked/ fi-A the
para
open, but not sufficiently wide for them then to
inflow, and taken
gOt out at it ; which circumstance lead -a by
suppose that some person must have eaten, 1a
the w away the L them;
in their haste only partially closed it after -
very
the distress of the mother was natureVah,
great, particularly as, after the most nnxtvartl
guides, and having bills posted offering o r-," the
olitaine"
for their discovery, she has not
slightest information concerning them. ~ of
An instance occurred yesterday merni""rrhe
thefatal effects of leaving children aleee' ~ ill
wife of a man named Cox, a labouring 04 '„fu
Chaprnan-street, Commercial-road, having
above
out Ileaving three children (the eldest not
nl,t
Six years old) alone, the dress of on of shriek'l
fine boy two years old, canoht fire. Tile hell
of the children b L .'
es to "
rougot some person t beforil
1100, al
assistance, who put the flames out, but not
i„ iF
oho poor infant was dreadfully burn
et'
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