The Sun.
London, England, 1824-04-03 00:00:00

ADDRESS TO SIR 11. LEES, BART.

The ADDRESS of the MASTERS, WARDENS, and
BRETHREN of the GUILD of MERCHANTS, unani-
mously Voted to Sir H.ARCOURT LEES, Bart.
NVe, the Masters, Wardens, and Brethren of the Guild of
Merchants, beg leave to present you with this Address of thanks,
for the undeviating and powerful support which you have, and
are still affording, to the British Constitution in these awful
times, by the zealous exercises of your genius, your profound
information, and your virtues.

When we reflect that the whole of the Catholic Question
turns on the expediency of removing the disabilities under
which the Irish Roman Catholics labour, and on the degree
of security which could be given to the Protestant Religion
as by laws established amongst us, we feel pride that we pos-
sess in the gratuitous service of our reverend King such an in-
dividual•as,Sir HAncounT whose talents have crushed,
in both -countries, the enemies who rashly entered into the
arena of polemics with a writer as pure in principle as he
convincing in argument. We will not trespass, Sir, on your
time, by endeavouring to give even a sketch of • those services
which you have rendered, with honourable and manly perse-
verance, to the King, the Constitution, and the Church—we
shall merely content ourselves by saying, that to your abilities
are the Protestants of Great Britain indebted for the clearest
light that ever has been shed on the state of the Irish Emancipa-
tion Question—the rivalry and the enmity between the Catho-
lics and the Church—and the inadequacy of all securities which
have been proposed by the advocates of that baneful measure—
as well as impressing on the deluded minds of the Irish people,
that the first and general duty of the Legislature is, to secure
the Establishments as settled at the glorious Revolution.

HARCOURT LEES, Bart.
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the Loyal Guild of jfrchants,
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and State in the highest veneration, and impressed with the
most profound gratitude for the blessings we have so long en-
joyed under its influence in this portion of the United Empire,
I cannot but feel the greatest degree of satisfaction at re-
ceiving so strong a testimony of the approbation of my
Fellow-citizens for my humble exertions in defence of my
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My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen—ThP Protestants of Ire-
land, and the Church of
England, in particular, have always
been considered since the Revolution as the chief support of
civil and religious liberty in this almost pagan country ; and
it affords me the deepest concern to behold, in the nineteenth
century, a system of policy, engrafted in the Government of
Ireland, which, in weakening the connection which has existed
for so many centuries between the King and his most faithful
subjects, has commenced its ominous and lamentable career,
by essaying to deceive an enlightened Sovereign—and which
system I predict, will inevitably terminate its course through
the blood of the Protestants of Ireland, if much longer per-
severed in, by convicting the Jesuit faction in his Majesty's
Councils, of either the mose profound ignorance of the Consti-
tution, or the most premeditated treachery to the Throne of
my beloved Monarch.
The Popish Church, Gentlemen, is,
by the essential prin-
ciples or her constitution, intolerant, and avowedly hostile to
every other religious establishment—consequently at direct
enmity to every extension of religious freedom ; and to so en-
lightened an assembly as the present I need not refer to the
page of history to establish this unanswerable fact—that the
Popish creed is equally unfavourable not only to the civil li-
berty of the subject, but that it is perpetually encroaching upon
the rights and prerogatives of the Throne, while it is unceas-
ingly, but most cautiously undermining the vital principles of
the British Constitution.

MTLord Illayor and Mr. Sheriff Lamprey—l beg leave to
express to you in particular the deep sense I shall ever enter-
tain of the distinguished and unparalleled proof you have af-
forded, by your presence here this day, how highly the City of
Dublin appreciate my humble exertions in defence of both
Church and State; and I beg you will convey to Mr. Sheriff
Perrin my regret that his official duties in London have pre-
♦ented me from assuring him in person how fully sensible r am
of his attachment to the King and to the Protestant Establish-
ment of Ireland.

Gentlemen of the Common Council—l have already experi.
enced, by your unanimous declaration of confidence in my judg-
ment, and a vote of thanks for my services, passed at an earlier
period, and the true interests of this unfortunate country, with
the dignity and happiness of our venerated Sovereign, are ever
paramount and ascendant in all deliberations and resolves of his
Majesty's loyal and Protestant Commons of the city of Dublin.
—(Dublin Antidote, March 27.)

ASSAULT ON MR. JAMES, the Naval Historian.
—Yesterday forenoon, two persons burst into
the house of Mr. James, Chapel-field, South
Lambeth, and after some threatening language,
fell upon him with bludgeons, struck him on the
head, and several other parts of his body. His
wife, who was beginning to recover from a se-
vere illness, suffered a relapse in consequence of
the alarm into which she was thrown. On the
servant being ordered out for a Constable, they
ran out immediately, pursued by Mr. James,
and escaped in a coach which was in waiting for
them. One of the individuals introduced him-
self by the name of a gallant Captain in the
Navy ; bat we do not think ourselves at liberty
to mention the name, as we cannot believe that
any gentleman would be guilty of such an act.—
(Morning Chronicle.)

A numerous and respectable Meeting of the In-
habitants of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was held in
the. Guild Hall in that town on Wednesday
last, the MAYOR. of Newcastle in the Chair,
when it vas resolved to address Petitions to both
Houses of Parliament for the gradual and effec-
tual Abolition of Slavery, throughout the British
Colonies.