The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-07 00:00:00

ATHOUSAND YEARS AGO.
When Saxons, true to Heaven's command,
Had cast out. every British stain,
igbcrt the Great—in Union named this land.
Alfred—her Guardian Angel—taught this strain ;
Rule * Engle-land—England rule the waves,
* Engle, or Englishmen, ne'er be, as Britons, slaves.
* The Saxon or Old English words (which are still so pre-
served in all the other branches of the Teutonic language) for
Angel-land—Angels ; not Angles ! nor Anglo-Saxons ! ! and
most clearly not Britons ! !! whom our forefathers justly tooted
out of the land—them and their language too ! as fully demon-
strated in the Angel, or English, Queen, sold by Maddon and
Co., No. 8, Leadenhall-street, price one shilling.
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By bringing forward two strictly analogous precedents-Ist,
The Union of the Saxon Heptarchy, the Natives whereof have
ever since been called Engle, Englishmen ; in Latin Angli ;
in French, Anglais. 2d. The Union of the Three Kingdoms,
England. Wales, and Scotland, the natives since generally and
vauntingly mis-called Britons among themselves, but still An-
gli and Anglais abroad. I have already shown, and now again
hope to do so, that there can be no real Union with Ireland
until English, Welsh, Scotch, and Irish, are called by one
name. Britons, or Great Britons it cannot be. Little Bri-
tons, as some pedants will have it, might be deemed an insult
only next in degree to the Lyndhurst denunciation, Aliens,"
forsooth. The greet O'Connell himself, the Apostle of Peace
and Goodwill, has endeavoured to get the name of West Bri-
ton adopted at a large public meeting, thereby showing his zeal
for a real union—but there was no response—for why ? the
name of Briton stands accurst by Holy Mother Church in her
best days (see the Venerable Bede). The Scotch as well as
Irish would object to " English" as a word having no meaning
in their view but that of priority or tyranny. The Romans of
the Eastern world, for 200 years after they had forgotten their
mother tongue, upheld their Western Father-name; but was
it ever heard, 0, rare infatuation ! we still holding fast ourfa-
thers' land, laws, language and religion—forgetting their pa-
triotic and appropriate Union name, glorify and magnify the
name of Britons, a people extirpated by our fathers on ac-
count of their base treachery, and doubts exist whether a word
of their language be known amongst us. Let us, then, as good
men and true, once more unite in brotherhood, as was done so
beneficially by our progenitors the Saxons, a thousand years
ago, and take up the same honourable distinctive name, and be
altogether Engle or ANGELS instead of devils one with another.
( See the Marquis of Westmeath's explanation in the House of
Lords, 7th April, 1d40.) To sum up all—
Away with all falsehoods--Briton, Whig, and Tory,
All names of Ignorance, of Malice, and Vain-Glory,
Let Angel-name and ame succeed—Hosanea! Victoria !
The Dictionary or Supplement of the French Academy, just
published, the only authority of the kind in which I have seen
any explanation of the word Anglo-Saxons, says, " A name
" given to the Saxons who established themselves in the
" country now called Angle land, because the Angles were
" one of their princiral tribes ;"—a most illological deduc-
tion—for if any truth in the premises, they ought to
have been called Saxonico-Angles or Saxon-Angles, for
everybody knows that the people of this country have
not once been called Angles at home ; indeed, it can al-
most be proved that there never were any Angles in England :
it is no more our fault that the Latinists have translated the
Saxon " Engle" into Angli and the French Anglaise, than that
the Spanish, &c., call us Inglese, not one of them being a fair
translation of the word, and the first, " Angli," a complete
evasion of it. It is folly to suppose that the Saxons let the
Latins change their national name to Angli, which they again
translated into Engle, and so named themselves and their
bravely-gotten land Engle-land : still greater folly when we ,
look at the difference between the Latin Anglicanus and English.
The first English falsifier of Engle into Angle, I believe to
be the Hon. Dairies Barrington, about 60 years ago, whence
sprung up the new-fangled visionary word Anglo-Saxou.
James the First, always reputed a good antiquarian, never
dreamt of such a word, and still less that his subjects would
ever be called by the base and barbarous name of Britons ; the
natives of Brittany in France being so called in his day, but now
changed into Bretons. Notwithstanding all this, it has been
found that a pseudonym is a better point of union than no name
at all, or than such a word as Aerees.
In the Monthly Magazine for October, 1839, I have
written enough to show that the word Angel is a good name
and much wanted in a religious as well as political sense, and
that the word Protestant should never have been used as a re-
ligious sectarian name, articularly by the English ; indeed,
all names that are ante. 'scriptural, or not in comformity with
the Scriptures, ought now to be discarded. St. Paul com-
plains ( I Cor. e. i.v. 10, &c.) of divisions by every one calling
themselves Panlians, Apollosians, Cephasians, Christians.!
Also (chap. iii. ver. 4) " While one said!, I am Paulian, &e ,
are ye not carnal ?" True, it is written, they were first
called Christians at Antioch ; but is it not to be
gathered that it was by their adversaries and by way
of contempt ? ( These self-same remarks apply to
to the word Protestants. St. James says, c. 2, v. 7, "Do not
they blaspheme that worthy name by which ye are called." It
is plain that in early times they never called themselves Chris-
tians, for St. Paul, when King Agrippa exclaimed, '"Fhen
almost persuadest me to be a Christian, Acts 26, v. 28, with
much solemnity avoids repeating the name, either because he

felt that it partook of blasphemy. or that Agrippa had used it
by way of contempt : indeed I do not know that the name be-
came favoured among men until Constantine erected the SYAI-
LOG, "In hoc SIGNO vincere." The word too is now more
generally understood to mean civilization. What man is he, who
shall rightly say lam a Christian ? Say rather with humility,
" The Lord knoweth them that are his ; and let every one that
nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity."— 2 Tim., c.
v. 19. See also how carefully the use of the word Christian is
avoided in Acts, viii, v. 1 and 3 ; ix, v. 1 and 2 and 21: xiii., v.
43; xix., v. 23; xxii. ,y. 4; xxvi., v. 9, 11; xxviii.,v. 14, 92, &c.
&c. &c. Whereas, now•a-days—see Penny Cyclopmdia (St.
Paul)—the word is introduced on every occasion. Can the re-
verential Jew join a community which.' presumes to call itself
by any name of God, to whom all glory and worship are due ?
Wanted some respectable men to deliver handbills of this
import—not to the poor—all their attention must be directed
to get them bread; but, as the time is at hand, to the rich and
great, to such as apparently can read, mark, learn—Revelationsexix., v. 17—noting the rema kable discrepancy between the
heading of a. xix. , v. 17, " The fowls called to thegreat slaugh-
ter," and v. 17 in the text, " Come and gather yourselves
toge!lier, unto the supper of the great God."
ANGELUS in sole (in veritate, publice) stens, excla-
mans, &c.
N.B.—Althpugh we must needs, perhaps, tolerate all the
false and incongruous names which have crept into use amongst
ourselves, as well as those by which foreigners in general call
us (the Teutonic or German race the only exception), let
them not entirely usurp the place of our heaven-appointed
name, ordained by King and people in a more solemn and
formal manner than any other national name in the Old World,
our long-proved, well-deserved good name, now that it is
fairly brought to light.
w,* Any proposal (pre-paid) from the large towns in the
Three Kingdoms, to print and circulate this announcement of
truth, of peace and good-will (ipsissimam sire qua non), will
receive due attention. Address Mr. IL Poeell, l.rosUgt, 2,
Mmon'a-street, Old Kent-road.