The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-07 00:00:00

will be repaid from the composition previously
establishech—This is the outline of the measures
which last night received the unanimous and
warm approbation of the Parliament, and which
we ardently hope
may prove to Ireland the source
of blessings to her present and her unborn ages,
equal to the pangs and the miseries endured, by
those of her children who are numbered with
the past.

[IIRITISII PRESS.]
Mr. Abercomby's motion on Wednesday night,
on the subject of the Orange. Societies in Ire-
land, was one of peculiar interest to that unfortu-
nate country, and produced the important avowal
officially made from the Irish Secretary, that it was
intended to extend the 49th of the late King to
Ireland, and thus suppress at once all secret asso-
ciations. This will indeed be an important benefit
to that distracted island. In putting down those
saturnalia of bigoted fury and intolerance, much
will be done to restore peace to Ireland. The
Orange Associations were in themselves the em-
bodied spirit of the penal laws and proscription
—the record perpetuated in annual insult to the
Catholic population, of, the conquerors over the
vanquished. Their object was to perpetuate the
political and religious divisions and distractions
of the country, and to Profit by them. The bad
spirit had been nurtured and existed in Ireland
for ages ; but until these societies were establish-
ed it did not display its insignia, or openly hoist
its banners. No country presents the history of a
more foul and dangerous conspiracy than that of
the Orangemen of Ireland ;—the objects of their
combination were purely and professedly selfish.
l'heir festivals were a parade at once of
wickedness and folly. They usurped the name
of William as their patron, and nothing could
be more inconsistent. One dark'stain rests on
the memory of William, fiorn the bloody mas-
sacre of Glencoe. In this horrible and manifold
murdbr he was involved by the artful and
sanguinary Stair; but take the character of
William, wiped free, if possible, from this bloody
spot, and he was a friend to liberty and tolera-
tion in their fullest sense. He had arrayed himself
against the power of the abitious and bigoted
Louis the Fourteenth before the voice of Eng-
lish people called him to their shores ; and
though penal statutes were passed in the reign
of 'William and Mary against the Catholics; they
were contrary to the feelings of the Monarch,
who was not ambitious of proscription. The
foul carnivals of the Orangemen of Ireland are
unknown in any other country. The English look
back with regret on the wars of the White and
Red Rose ;--they regard with any thing but
triumph the contests between the unfortunate
Charles and the Parliamentary Army. The
very Bourbons, base and besotted as they are,
do not celebrate the victories and civil conquests
of their gallant ancestor, Henry the Fourth.—
In England, it is true, the 'ridiculous farce
is yet kept up of commemorating the Gun-
powder Plot, and burning the image of Guy
Fawkes ; but it is • merely a piece of popular
mummery, and only witnessed among the lowest
rabble. The Orangemgn of Ireland is ,a ruth-
less barbarian, whose heart no lapse of time can
soften, whom no reflection upon the woes of jin-
man kind, an44l4e,,,,,smimbluty, of huntith aitiosei
can biing back to gentleness tend feeling ; who is
still found exhausting the cup of riot over a bro-
ther's grave, and sending"forth from time to time
the loud yell of triumph as he surveys the bones
of a long-decayed victim !