The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-09 00:00:00

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TB [EVES' Q UARREL.

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`Foi4'Sev6ral daVs' we have been addressed in anoriy
monsdelttits;::written evidently by persons acquainted
with.whe t is-passing in some small. Conservative circles.
all assuring us that the Protestant cause is threatened by
the new Ministry, and urging us to resume the p itiwt
we occupied in 1829. We vainly sought to obtain per-
sonal interviews with the writers of these letters, in
the hope that we might by reasoning calm their appre-
hensions, if they really . entertained any, which we more
than doubted. Our anonymous correspondents were ton
cunning ; they were willing enough to commit us
to .falsehood, but they would not commit them.
selves. We had no difficulty, hoWever, in dis-
covering who they were from the nature of the proofs
of •hustility to the Protestant cause with which their
communications • overflowed these proofs being
that certain Irish Protestant leaders had been
neglected in the disPosal of offices ; and all possible un-
certainty was removed by an intimation, given to us in a
letter of Monday, that the line which it was found we
would not take, would be seen adopted by a most re•
spectable Irish journal of the same day. As that journal
was, to our knowledge, in a great measure influenced by
an individual, we were at no • loss to know from whom
the threatened mischief proceeded. Circumstances of a
private, we might say of a personal, nature render it
improper for us to name the individual, but Irish Protes-
tants can be at no loss to fix upon him when we say, that
he is the last man in the empire whom the Protestants of
Inlaid ought to trust.
This morning we looked into the Irish journal to
which we had been referred, and with equal sorrow and
surprise we, saw in that able and respectable organ of
Protestant principles the threatened attack upon Sir
Robert Peel's Government. This has determined us not
to remain silent ; for when we find men, of whose talents
we have had proof for many years, and whose integrity
we can never doubt, thus grossly imposed upon, what
may not the less informed class of Irish Protestants fear?
Having said so much to explain the causes, and to
show the minute dimensions of the pretended discon-
tent in the Conservative party, we shall now enter into
the details of our distasteful task. We know , that in
doing so, we shall give a day's triumph to the adversaries
of Conservative principles ; but better give them the
triumph of a day, than permit the growth of an evil
which, unchecked, must render their triumph final, and
end in the ruin of Protestantism in Ireland, as ruined it
will be if the Irish Protestants do not heartily commit
themselves with the present Governmeitt.
The following is an extract from the leading article of
the respectable journal to which we have referred, as
being misled into an expression of discontent :
. ."For ourselves we must speak candidly. We cannot
but tech wills surprise and regret upon arrangements
zelilch, however excelleist and unexceptionable in gene-
ral, appear to exclude Ir, 1 slid from her fair share cf
power and patronage in the Administration. Some few
posts back we gave ,willing credit to &?' Robert Peel for a
desire to do justice to Ireland in this respect. One or
two miner appointments seemed to indicate that the
Conservative leaders of Ireland were about to receive
that consideration in the Cabinet, which not merely their
services to the Conservative cause, but the importance of
the country itself demanded ; and we could not contem-
plate the possibility that the tide of preferment was to
rest at those shallows, and that the heads of the party in
Ireland were not to share in the honours and employ•
ment,s of which Scotland had secured for herself a rea-
sonable portion at least, and which England was enjoy-
ing from a cornucopia. In the Cabinet, indeed, we have
the Duke' of Wellington, in himself a host, and Sir
Henry Ilardinge, an excellent man ; but neither of them,
inthe restricted sense we speak of, heads of the Irish
party. But, neither in the class of secondary officers,
Sibrr in the Boyd household, is Ireland fairly represented.
We have no desire at all to embarrass Sir Robert Peel.
As the' organ of the Conservatives of Ireland, we
fought his battles long and faithfully ; and it is because
we desire to see his Government flourishing and per-
manent that we take leave to remonstrate on an over-
sight which might tend to diminish the confidence of Ire-
land in his Administration.- Official appointments are
the types of policy. We should like to' see the policy
of the new Administration indicated by such unequivocal
demonstrations.

" With respect to the Irish Administration we
had something to say—part of which is anticipated in
the following letter, received, whilst we were committing
the foregone thoughts to paper, from an influential cor •
respondent