The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-29 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

or, RIGHTS if BURIAL
POPI'S'H INNOVATIONS;
Ma. EDITOR=-.I was '.sorry to perceive in
your Paper of this evening, -the Letter entitled
" Rights of Burial "." The disgusting hypocrisy
in which it is evidently written is too barefaced
to pass unnoticed. Mr. MICHAEL BLAKE did not
wish the grave of an excellent citizen to be made
an arena for anti-religious disputation—he did not
wish to increase the biller affliction which lay at the
moment so heavy upon thehearts of the relatives ;
he owed it to the countless multitude not to excite
a flame amongst them, which might have involved
the sexton, the church, and the country. Herein
is much swaggering and boasting of influence,
Mr. Editor.—So then our sextons, our church,
and our country, are at the mercy of Mr. Michael
Blake, at the mercy of Popish prudence !
This is a precious state of things, and the truth
will out occasionally. And Mr. Blake seems to
think, that because the subversion of our church
and ecclesiastical righti is not to be counte-
nanced by permitting Popish innovations in her
ceremonies, she is to be terrified into submission
by the disastrous consequences which are to fol-
low the refusal and prohibition of them—to fol-
low, to ensue, at the word of command from Mr.
BlakeoPopish priest; and why, again, because the
Protestant Church will not tolerate the introduc-
tion of Popish rights into her burial service. And
if Mr. Blake is really' in heart the tender phi-
lanthropic person fie would have us to think he
is, by advertising himself in the whole round of
newspapers, with which this metropolis abounds,
why, let me ask, did he run the risk of excit-
ing a riot by his appearance at the grave at all ?
He could have gone at some other hour ; his
prayers would have arrived in plenty of time,
inasmuch as the Head of his Church could at any
time lend him the keys of Heaven ; I ask, why did
he go at the moment the ceremony was taking
place, when he might have gone uninterruptedly
at any other time. This is not the time Mr.
Editor, to suffer Popish intrusions to gain ground,
under the garbled and insinuating title of " Irish
Customs." Mr. Blake too asks, 64 did he attend
in his official capacity ?" and then, presently, we
find he " took off his hat to assuage, by a short
condoling prayer, the sorrows of the living—to
implore perpetual rest and peace for the departed
soul." These. Mr. Editor, are his own words;
therefore, his first question being answered by
himself, by stating what he did AS A MASS
PRIEST, for his prayers would not have availed
had he been a layman ; it is a hypocritical
and a petty subterfuge for Mr. Blake to
say, that because he did not appear in " the
surplice, or stole, or cassock, or any vesture or
badge of clerical order, he therefore did not ap.
1 pear in his official capacity." It is sheer non-
sense to talk or write as lie does, for, if he did
not attend in his official capacity, why was he
there, why was he to put up any extra prayers ?
Of one of our Protestant clergymen it might,as
well be said, he does not act in his official capa-
city when administering the sacrament to a dying
or sick person in his bed-room, because the
clergyman has not got his gown or bands on.
—I am not surprised myself at Mr. Blake's
considering " his official capacity" to lie
in his.cassock, or surplice, or stole, and not
in his person, when we know how much the
Roman Catholics are attached to outward cere-
monies, and upon which chiefly the Popish
faith rests. An example of this fact our
country has lately witnessed in the manner iii
which the masses for the late Pope have been
performed ; in splendour and magnificence, in
their music, in their gildings, and their gorgeous
tapestries and banners, far excelling " the Co.
ronation as lately performed at his Majesty's
Theatres Royal, Covent Carden and Drury
Lane."

I have to apologize for trespassing so long
upon your attention, Mr. Editor; but, if yoU
have watched those criminals of a late date exe-
cuted in Ireland, and those who have generally at-
tended them as clergymen before execution, if you
have felt the struggle in every shape which the
Papists are making for the ascendancy in Ire-
land, if you witness a state of things there, which
does not and never did exist here, in this Pro-
testant Isle, you will pardon my intrusion on
this occasion.
Sept. 29. JUSTICE.
* Taken from The Dublin Evening Herald.

MOOSE DEER Hoarts.—Lately, the head and
antlers of a inoose.deer was found at Cloghan,
perish of Kilniore, county of Armagh, in the.
estate of Sir, CAPEL MOLYNEUL They were
embedded in a_ stratum of marl, about five
feet below- the surface of the ground. The
antlers are about. 12 feet from tip to tip, and in
good preservation. About threo. years. ego,. the
skulls and antlers of two deers of u specks of
unusually great size, of which.we have no example
in this country, were, raised from the bottom of a
beautiful lake in.StrCAPEL'S demesne at Castle.
searching- for au 'ancliOr that bad. been
lost therein by the breaking of a cable.
dropWt deowanrofn itihaeppParjradteoin 6,sl:."dJamtheallintit'
, Ptalilf,..soonl(FlVieldra!vlaahto,
refi
was only In t; frnm an I.:
• TirCu'iie recovered in a very aborty time,
and was•loon able to resume his. 'station and do duq: The
our
Correspondent,
aeonsuinptive habit, and liable milts. We fitly*
to croyarfeoiciatihneg intosirott
which...re were led
Ito ill 176ennilerdariar

BIRTHS.
the wife of Robert Grants Esg ,of Tillyfour, of a son and heir.
On Sunday, the ust inst„ at monym•ustc. Anertieettshice,
°II the 2P-11' last., Uri. Ric'hard Thomas, of tile Strand, of
a' son.

,
MARRIED:
On Saturday: the rith inia.,: at St. George's, llanover-
square, Dr: Edmund Abbey to, Llarrie Ca seine Walker,
niece of William Turner pm.' . of Reigate, Stlrrei;
of Mark-lane,ounifest daughter of John
On the 27th inst., st Ala;drilen-Laver,Ar.'6. W. Edwards.
Cozens, Esq., of Af
to Prances Louisa, y
—agdalen-Laver-hall, Essex-
Bateman, Esq.,
On the 27th inst., at the New Church, Alarilebone, Thomas
ton-park,near'Lsneaster., to Julie. blargaret, second' daughter
of the rata 1?LnI Chun - E of th Bengal Civil Service.
Esq.,
°t'the Middli Temple,. f ,ondon, and of flui.

In the
, DIED. - . .
On Satur,d,ay
84th year of Ilia atm Sir Alan atarnbrei Km.; late one of the
weak> at the' Crovin Trin,Harrovgate,
Judges of hie Majesty's Court of (;ornnurit P14444* • -
;On Thursday, after a short illness, Mr. Sergeant Marshall.
By his deaths vacancy takes plate'on the Well Bench.
On Thursday,- Serit:.2s,: Mr.: Henry Hall of 'Manor-place,
waiworth, in.the pith. ear
Ori Saturday eveninol34lol
Totten
27 `,0,1 Thomas Leadbitter, of
,ale ir. , r.
hatri-c ourtr llt. • ' -