The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-13 00:00:00

ON THE CATHOLIC QUESTION.

MR. EDITOR
Ist. It is contrary to the articles of the Union
with Scotland, that Roman Catholics should sit in
Parliament. - These articles say that there shall in
future be a Protestant King,:a Protestant House
of Lords, and a Protestant House of Commons.

2d. The above is a harrier to the Catholic
Clairntlo seats in the Legislature, because Scot-
land i 8 Of more importance than a part of the sub-
jects of Ireland, who have Catholic Countries, to
emigrate to, if they dislike their own. Those,
who prefer Ireland must know how much the
EnglishAsteem them: though the English willnot
have their liberties subverted for the sake of the
Roman Catholic Religion, which Religion is ini-
mical to civil liberty, as the following will 'exem-
plify :—The Prince, Bishop of Liege, the Tres-
foticiers, and the numerous Clergy were ma stained
in splendid affluence. This did not content them:
but they grasped at more power than the Free
Constitution of the State permitted. When the
French Revolution broke out, the Liegois united
with France, and at once got rid of all their
Clergy, to punish them.
3d. After Oliver Cromwell had turned ten

thousand Irish out of that Kingdom, the Irish
Catholics wrote him the most loyal and submis-
sive Petitions, and if Oliver had given them their
choice of following their countrymen, or receiving
Protestant Baptism at his hands, they would, no
doubt, have accepted the latter, and Ireland
would now have been a Protestant Kingdom.
4th. The Protestants of Ireland are the 'best
security to Great Britain, and will never differ
on religious topics. The Protestants are more
industrious than the Catholics, and every means
should be used to encourage industry amongst
the latter, and all causes of irritation be sedu-
lously avoided.
sth. What is the difference between the Ca-

tholics now and those in the time of the First
Queen Mary of England. Are they less bigotted?
Have they less desire of the Propagandi, or are
they less desirous of torturing or btrrning by a
slow fire those whose religious opinions ditfer
from theirs ? If the latter is doubted read the

following :—A Protestant Captain of the British
Army in Ireland, during the Rebellion of
1798, was at an advanced post with his com-
pany. The Rebels, at 'day-light, advanced
and this Captain drew. out his' men, but finding
the Rebels In great force, and being shot through
the thigh and unable to walk, though the soldiers
offered to stay ; he gallantly ordered them to
retreat and leave him to his fate—what fate was
that t These Rebel Catholics tied him hand and
foot, then cut the muscular parts of his body
and limbs ;—they burned him' alive on the em-
bers of the guard fire ; as cruel a death 'as ever
disgraced human nature to invent.
6th. Have not all the cruelties aud murders
within these last twu years been committed by
Roman Catholics in Ireland ?
7th. As the seeds of Rebellion seem laid
amongst the lower orders of Catholics in Ireland,
is not agitating the Catholic Question like throw-
ing a fire-brand into gun powder—us often as it is
brt)ught forward In Pirlianfint, it will be lost.
Bth, Let us suppose the Catholic Question
carried and passed into a law; will that satisfy
the lower girders of Roman Catholics in Ireland
No ;' there is not an Irish Roman Catholic,
who does not know,
.or supposes he knows, the
landed property which formerly belonged to his
ancestors;: and if Ireland was as large as the
North and South Atlantic Oceans from pole to
pole, it would not satisfy the several claimants.
A PROTESTANT.