The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-29 00:00:00

[BRITISH Pit ESS.]

The Catholic Priests in Ireland, in order to
spew some reason for opposing the dissemination
of the Scriptures among their flocks, have now
turned round upon those whom they call the
Biblemen,
.and commenced an attack upon the
diameter of the. Sacred Volume itself. We some
weeks ago noticed with surprise the strange epi-
thet bestowed on. the Protestants, by which an
attempt was .made
.to stigmatise them for their
reverence for the, Bible. „We were then ignorant
of the , sense in which , the Catholics meant' to
point .the phrase against. their adversaries. No
doubt, however, can now. remain as to the design
`of the,imputation. We see before us the extra.,
ordinary and most incredible spectacle of Chris-
tian Ministers borrowiog the language of Paine
and Carlile, in order to scandalise and vilify the
Divine Revelation, on the authenticity of which
alone the truth of the Christian religion depends.
The very language, which has most justly, with
the consent, and at the earnest and importune
request of all the different Sects holding the
Christian faith, • been prosecuted in the Courts
of Justice; and condemned as blasphemous,
is,--ve turn again to the Irish Papers to assure
ourselves of the fact, too monstrous to be believed
on slight evidence—republished from the lips
.of men who profess to be ordained to preach the
truths of the Gospel, and inculcate its sacred
doctrines among the people under their charge.
The Deist and the Infidel have at this moment,
as, coadjutors in their labours,, the CatholiC
Clergy of Ireland. Under these circumstances
it is quite appropriate that he who raised Paine's
bones from their unconsecrated grave, in
order
flint he might, parade them through this Chris.
tiara land in solemn mockery of its religious
feelings,--aproject, by the bye, which. he
never dared to attempt to carry into exe.
cution,—it is right, 'we say, that those who
adopt. Paine's sentiments should have, their cause
advocated by Paine's champion. But what must
even the reflecting part of the Catholics them-
selves think as to these proceedings ; if, indeed,
it be admitted to a Catholic layman to exercise
any faculty of his mind with. regard to spiritual
matters ? They hear their. Priests describing the
Bible as a book obscure, dangerous, unfit to be
put jute the
,hapds of.youth ! is not.such a repre-
sentation directly calculated to destroy all reve-
rence for the ScriptUres ? The object is manifestly
to excite among the ignerant and deluded followers
of the Catholic Clergy ti fanatical abhorrence of the
Sacred Volume*, to whiCh all Christiana' who dare
to jUdge for ilienoelves, lgok with i4ous hope and
confidence for their salvation. So far iia'ee theta
outrages, .been carried, that at a contrOiersial

meeting lately held at Castlebar, a Priest ac-
tuatly selected particular passages of the Old
Testament, of which he spoke with all the ob-
scene licentiousness of a practised freethinker.—
At other places texts have been tortured, to show
how easily the essential doctrines of Christianity
may be quibbled away, and the words of our
Saviour rendered the language of faction and dis-
order. Never were ridicule, invective, and abuse
more copiously showered on all that the Christian
world relies upon for present consolation and fu-
ture happiness. The argument, that if the Bible
be given to all, some will not rightly comprehend
the whole of its contents, is absolutely unworthy
of serious refutation. What knowledge is not
liable to be misunderstood or misplaced ? Let us
then at once extinguish all science and learning,
and resign ourselves for ever to these reverend
guardians of eternal ignorance.

THE ViMY-.

[From SATURDAY'S GAZETTE.I
War-Office, Nov. 26, 1824.

ht Regiment of DragtiOns:—Cornet Sir Lewen Powell Glyn,
Bart., to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice ‘Vathen, appointed
to the 15th Light Dragoons; John Barney Petre, Gent. to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Gip.
15th Regiment of Light Dragoons--Lieut. Augustus Wa-
then, front the Ist Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Bayard,
who retires.
Ist, or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Battalion-Sur-
geon Samuel William Watson to be Surgeon-Major, vice
Thomas Nixon, who retires; Assistant-Surgeon Andrew Arm-
strong to be Surgeon, vice Watson.
7th Regiment of Foot—Ensign Lord Spencer Augustus Chi.
cheater, from the 434 Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Greaves, promoted in the 54th Foot.
10th Ditto—Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Anthony Singleton King,
from the half-pay 98th Foot, to be Major, vice Robert Gordon,
who exchanges.
31st Ditto—Surgeon William Ramsay White, from 84th
Foot, to be Surgeon, vice. Callow, who exchanges.
434 Ditto—Gentleman Cadet Wilbraham Egerton, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lord
Spencer Chichester, promoted in the 7th Foot.
48th Ditto—Lieut. William Temple Graham, from half-pay
23d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice 'Hutchinson, appointed to the
78th Foot.

: .
60th Ditto—Ensign Lucius Barber Wilford, from halfLpay
I lth Foot, to be Ensign, vice Joseph Alexander Wolff, who
exchanges ; Paymaster David Scott Kinloch Maclaurin, from
the 77th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice George Read, placed upon
half-pay ; Ensign John Liddel to be Adjutant, vice %I'M, who
resigns the Adjutancy only.
62d Ditto—Lieutenant Arthur Blair, from the 47th Foot, to
be Lieutenant, vice A. Stewart, who retires upon half-pay 47th
Foot.

73d Ditto—Ensign John Annesley Hickson, from half-pay
of the 12th Foot, to be Quurtermaster,vice Jeretniali Campbell,
who exchanges.
76th Ditto—Lieutenant Wm. Nelson Hutchinson, from the
48th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Henry Wood, who retires
upon half-pay 23d Foot.
84th Ditto—Surgeon Wm. Charles Callow, from the 31st
Foot, to be Surgeon, vice White, who exchanges.
UOth Ditto—Brevet 31ajor Manly Dixon to be Major, vice
Wright, deceased; Lieut. John Lncas Cox to be Captain, vice
Dixon; Ensign Stephen IVm. Popham to be Lieutenant, vice
Cox.

9901 Ditto—Ensign Edw. Last to be Lieutenant by purchase,
vice Beauclerk, promoted ; Jatfray Nicholson, gentleman, to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Last.
Ceylon Regiment—Second Lieutenant Cosby Warburton to
be First Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Malcolm, promot-
ed ; Francis Norris Toole, gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice
Warburton. .
Royal :ifricao Colonial Corps—George Anthony Nott, Esq.,
to be Paymantor.
2d Royal Veteran Battalion—Lieut. Edwin Griffiths, from
half-pay Royal Artillery Drivers, to be Lieutenant, vice Win.
Herschel Oriesback, who returns to his former half-pay.
UNATTACIIED.—Lieut. Aubrey Beauclerk, from the 99th
Foot, to he Captain of a CompanY, by purchase, vice William
Payne, who retires,
GA ttnisoNs,Lieut. ' Otto Schwartz, on half pay Nova
Scotia Fencibles, to be Town-Adjutant at Cape Breton, vice
Weeks, deceased.
11 osr ITAT. ST Air r,—,9urneon-Major Thomas Nixon, of the
Ist, or Grenadier Foot Wards, to have the rank of Inspector of
Lieutenant of the County of
Commissionllospitals without ,
xi gne ad tkyitttihoen ailjoprady
Southampton.
The Right Hon. Sir George Henry Rose to be Deputy-Lieu-
tenant. _ . .. _

Commission. sinned by his Majesty's Lieutenant of the County
„
of Norfolk.
nd Regiment of Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry.—Tunstead and
nappipg Trop.—Cornet Iladden Browne to be Lieutenant,
vice Scott, resigned.
Commissions in the Irolland Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry,
sia.ned by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lincoln.
mliniain Porter, (lent, to be Lieutenant, vice Ntraite, re-
signed ; Buxton Renrick, Gent. to be ditto, vice Albin, re.
Signed.