The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-07 00:00:00

ORANGE INSTITUTION.

The grand era of the Orange nititution, was
commemorated for the first time, on the 6th November, in the
Metropolis, and we suppose also in other parts of the king-
dom, where this numerous Society holds it meetings. At.tert
o'clock in the morning, several carriages occupied by the Offi-
cers of the Grand and Metropolitan Lodges, left the British
Coffee-house, in Pall-Mall East, preceded by the mace, sup-
ported by the Grand Tylers, decOratea in purple and orange
velvet and silk, for the parish.chuich of St. Mary §onicrset,
Upper Thames-street ; here 64 alighted, and, the Procession
entered the church from the vestry, PrVviously had
a short and, congratulatory exhOrtation fioni the Rector. The
Mace, a handsome ebonystaff, In asilver.stoeltet, summon ted by
globe, on which is a tine equestrian statne.# Wm. ll r, all silver,
with appropriate incriptions wept *at,
,siiiipotted by two grand
tylers with purple, orange, and Olt wands is then the epu ty Grand
Chaplain, and Deputyarand ettepliitte.sloet, in canonical foil
Otte* hat the_Deputy Cireeti Mrteirite., te,p4 Deputy, Grand'',
*tater oftlre Metrepolls; followed bY: tbe officers, and brothers,
all in plain *clothes; and two Tylere, with wands, itc. closed the ,

rear. The Mace was not deposited in the church, but taken

back to tiara Vestry into which, the procession returned in the
fesine.order after the Serino:La—The service for the day was
read- by the Rev. J. S. Sergrove, the Rector and D.O. Chap.
lain Elect. This .Gentleman has distinguished himielf by a
ieties of Twelve Lectures on Popery, which he delivered from
his pUlpit. The Rev. Thos. COmber preached on the occasion.
"The-Rev. Dr. 'Towne, and Maury other Clergymen were preient.
The sermon entered largely into the history of the day, with a
copious explanation of the Orange SOciety, which it vindicated
against its *spellers. 'The 'congregation was much larger than
on most occasional, and included many of the fair sex. The
-sin' ging was particularly good, and the selection of subjects
equally, orthodox and appropriate.
. The dinner at the British Coffee House, Pall-Mall East was
served up in the best tyle, at five o'clock, in the splendid roOrn
where the Metrovelitari Orange Wernuit meet on the last Fri.
detcfcach month. A great proportion of the company, con.
elating of the Clerical, the Legal, and the Medical professions.
In the course of • the evening several appropriate songs were
given by the Members, and many interestingcommunications
ivarternatle respecting the incte&ee of Popery in Great Britain
as well as in Ireland, and the extraordinary Intolerance towards
Protestants, of its professors, at the very moment ' they are
,claiming, beyond that
havenunliited tolerance which their enjoy,
privileges winch would the effect of a boeur,.even over the
'Established Church itself.
On the cloth being taken away the Chairman addressed the
company nearly as follows
Friends, Britons, Orangemen. lend me your ears ; I come to
revive the Orange Institution, nest to censure it. The Royal
' Sussex tells you Orangeism is disloyal. If it be so, it were a
grievous fault anti grievously have x e a long time answered it,
for Sussex is an honourable man. Devon's rich Duke regards
us all as factious, who should be henceforth rendered powerless,
in which concur his brother Dukes of Somerset, Bedford and
Grafton, and Buckingham, with all the other Orenvilles ;
and surely these are honourable men ! Then Weilesley
thought the Orange far from Civil, and therefore charged
Plunkett to attaint it of high treason. 'He, all obedience, swore
that the foul treason was pent up in an empty bottle, (save the
bull,) fraught with dire intent, rudely thrown in Dublin
Theatre, while thousands more aimed it was a bottle of the;
mind, a fete creation procredieg from kris Fa& op.
pm-PM brain. Heron and Markintosh, Grattan, Burdett,
and Milton, were all agreed its " shape" was queetionable,
and-they would speak to it. Nay, Canning thought it " tan.
lable" and " sensible to feeling as to sight." And Newport
ooked. for proofs in holy writ, &c found them not ! And
voracious Hume said that we'd wallow all in Popish gore, and
thought we were his childhood's raw head and bloodyblines
horribly. embodied. Vet Plunkett nothing geine4 by his motion,
save dire discomfiture—as did they all. Still Plunkett is an
honourable man and clever. So are they all, all honourable
men, though not of equal parts. I speak no: to disprove what
Plunkett spoke; but here I ant to speak what Ido know_
that all their words were. in that ratio false, as Orange Men are
true, and brave and loyal.
To be eerietle—in sober end Orange sincerity, I congratulate
you tin your re.appearanca at the bur of public faVoUr to pleed
your own cause, in your own
.proper person. The Grange So.
ciety was coeval with the glorious Revolution of 1688,. in the
4th foot, a regiment raised by Ring William himself. The
necessity for its public exertionS having subsided, it laid dor.
Infant, as it were, till the revolutionary: contagion spread from
Pruned os Ireland. where the Orange Institution successfully
opposed and mainly put down a French and Popish rebellion.
It again withdrew. until the Luddites, also in conjunction with
Irish rebellious Papists, called forth ire activity in the north,
western parts of this island. With its pristine vigour, persever.
ante and success, and for which it received the thanks of Lord
Sidmouth„ and. ught to have been recognised and thanked by the
Parliament of that day. Once more it became, comparativeiy,
witpine, and its Roman Catholic enemies, embeldened by its
forbearance, as the song goes--
",All rejoied, and mid that Barleycorn was dead."
The attacks however, made upon it in Parliament, with the
countenance* of souse Ministers. and the silent permission of all,
tog: Aber with the. avowed, hostility shewn by the Kirig'e Tepee.
Sentative in Ireland, led to the falai result, that, after all the
vapeuring on the self.numbered via millions of enslaved Roman
Catholics in Ireland; in iritelleca in education, in every qualiti.
cation which marks the civilized being, the Protestants are ten
to one. as they art fifty to one in wealth and prosperity, and
that the Protestant interest or. Orane Institution in Ireland, is
but, able and willing to protect itself, if the Government is net
et) week as to be unable, or so wicked as to be unwilling to far_
nada it with that ptotection soul countentinee to which every
gaol subject is by law ottitledo and for which he liberally and
cladly pays in iturse and in person.
We profess to support the law as it stands, of which we have
given as convincing proof's, by our taionission, us our adversaries
have of the reverse, by their tyrannical virulence.
In a time of revolutionary war and consequent rebellious
and treasonable conspiracies; the -legislature toured it netts_,
nary to pass an act for the suppression of treasonable societies,
such as were specified by
,naute in its preamble—the Ilnited
Irishmen, Corresponding tioctet?, and others. It will scarcely be
believed, when narrated bv the tatitre historian, that this
act toss Cnforeed against the Otani;e Institution—.a society
which combines in it whet is best in all. other benevolent
loyal anti constitutional n4ocieties: because, to. its principles of
constitutional loyalty, it soperadds the incessant practice of the
'Protestant Religion in till its purity'. Yet, when its - Grand
Lodge, or head, foetid that, by a most eNtrerne and forced eon-
'ettuction respecting secrecy, it, might by possibility become
questionable by the letter of the Inw, it instantly re-modelled
itself. at an enormous expente for the best lerel advice, how
ti to the law of the land, even under so
tn:aortsrl
ti evade,rbtrultlcctoi?n;
thereby sitting an exainple, which it
woeld be mot-e praiseworthy in, then pale teable to, the Roman
;ilibis iyi
, e vtla x tta 1 eileast,,iiii ng n toOir
stirthe
Catholic Hoard and its suppertnrs to emulate, W•e lay eleuti
to no excluive loyalty, e,
Conlcituti6n ; but, as we reel s
Protestant King. whose reign is co-existent with our Protestant
Constitution, rind which we hope and helievn will continue to
the end of time, we boldly endeavour to inspire the same pa-
triode glow into the.breasts of till otir fellow
I hope I shall not offend by giving a new form to the first
toast in every truly British Meeting..
The King, Lools and Cqrproql4-411 Protestant—four times
four.

The :text toast will be are.etcd with heart, and hand, and
voice, )4y-every genuine JOhn Bual In the EITINIV.
ttr timesurn ff.ttlng..aah a
3,10
The Duke of York the bulwark of the Protestant Interest
7
ting, would only weaken the effect
of the Glorious andltnmortni 3lcluory of Xing William 111.
Prince of Orange—four times tour.
The Chairman dared not trust rus warmth of affection
and
friendship, perfected and matured ,by no common trials, to
expatutte on a subject to which all 44"1,133 to do justice would