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FOR THE SUN.

Mr. EthTon,

As the claims of the Roman Catholics of Ireland
excited so much attention, and are shortly to under--
go a Parliamentary discussion, perhaps you may find
room for the following observations, -in order to
prove the necessity of the King, or Chief Magis-
trate of a State, being the Supreme Head of thu
Church.

The ancient Romans,during the regalgoVernment
2nd republic, had no distinctions, as in modern
times, of clergy and laity ; but their Generals, who
led them succesifurly to battle, were often their
High Priests ; and the Romans had the wisdom to
insert the following law in' the - twelve tables :
Let no man dedicate his field to the service of the
altar, and let him be discreet in his offerings of gold,
silver, and ivory."
When Constantine the Great assernbled the
Council of Nice, in Bythnia, in the year 325, he
then had it in his power not only to enforce (hit
law, but also to have made himself the supreme
head of the-Christiun Church ; both which would
have contributed to check the ambition of the cler-
gy, and have kept them within those due re-
quisite tot the welfare of the empire, and the hap-
piness of society. By acting otherwise, the meta-
physical controversies of the clergy often be-
came the cause of political contests, during the
reign of the successors of the Emperor Constan-
tine, and the rancorous animosities of the clergy
threw the provinces into confusion,. and ultimately
ended in the destruction of Chiistianity in Asia and
Africa, as also of the loss of Constantinople, ti eca-
pital of the Eastern Empire„;when besieged •ip
1453 by Mahomet 11. Emperor of the Turks—for
the Christian clergy- palsied the efforts. of their Ema
peror Constantine Paleologus, and prevented the
people assisting in the defence of, the city.

If so much mischief was caused by the inteMpe.
rate zeal of the clergy in the early ages of Christian 4
ity, when religion might be supposed more-pure, as
being nearer to its ine source, the present time
being more remote, the same causes might again
produce the same erfeas, unless the Sovereign Power
is invested with .the supremacy of the Church;
nor is it more improper tor the Civil Magistrate to
be at the head of the Church, than for a Pope or a
_Bishop to be a Civil Magistrate.; which was the
case at Rome, and at Liege, &c. in Germany.—
There is not
,a truer axiom, than- " that power re—
quites checks ;" and the clergy being' men, they
require; restraint as well as the rest of mankiid, anti
the firtn hand of the Civil Po xer to keep them in
.

The Catholic Bishops bf Ireland seem desirous of
not acknowledging the power of their Sovereign's
Veto, and which, if ever resigned for one instant,
then Ireland has a chance of being as much rent by
dissensions as ever the Eastern
.Rolpan: Empire was.
,Suppose 200,0001. were annually appropriated
for the maintenance of the Irish
.Roman
lie clergy, who being alt. why:tried, the following'
propotrions might be thought sufficient huh-.
dyed pounds per annum for every Priest, with the
addiiion of fifty pounds a year if they kept daily a
a free school, and part of the education of the poor
should be to learn practical agriculture, and to work
three or four hours daily for the Priest. The poor
Irish then would from their earliest years be habitu-
ated to labour, and ever after be, with encourage-
ment, industrious, which would effect a change for
the Sena! of Ireland, and its poor inhabitants would
not, Ps at present, exhibit •a picture' of idleness.,
ignorance, rags, filth, and poverty.

Chap,ls and burying-grounds should be built and
given to the Catholics.' Two hundred thousand
pounds a year would be wet )bestowed for these be-
nificent purposes, 'and it is far from improbable the
Irish Roman Caill'olic ( rgv would be icdifferent as
to:the claims of their Bishops, and not "chose
to
lose the substance for the shidu*.. As to the Ca-
tholic Bishops, they could be afterwards provided for
at leisure,,; and their refusal cminot prevent the Ca•
th9be laity of Ireland accepting and having every
thins which the wisdoin ot,the Imperial Parliament
can give them, if., indeed, it snould be deemed at
all necesary,to E,rant them more titan ti ey spo•s!ss,
AN OLD CORRESPONDENT.