The Sun.
London, England, 1812-12-24 00:00:00

tluin the hone of conducing to the stability
-of a Protestant Establishment, by any
the object of which is,to give encouragement and
power to Popery.
The other topic of inquiry, will be found
,to
deserve very serious co:isideration Can any plan.
of final and conciliatory adjustment be devised,
which would conduce to the satisfasctiOn and con
cord of all classes of his Majesty's subjects'?
,It is
obvious that, in 1....10ti0n to the subject under
consideration, his Majesty's subjects are divisible
into two classes.—Protestants and Papists. These
are the parties to be • satisfied. 'The latter are the
claimants ; and it cannot be denied that they tell
us very eNplicitly what is necessary for their sa-
tisfaction. They declare, unequivocally, that
nothing prod tfee that effect, short of a remov,
al of every disabilite and disqualification to which
they are subject on account of their teligion.—
They have been allowed the full benefit of religious
toleration.---They enioy perfect freedom of con-
SCICIIC6 worship.—They have been admit-
ted to very important civil privileges to
. satisfy them, all restrictions whatever must be
done away ; and they must be admitted to" equal
participation, upon equal terms," with Protes-
tants themselves. ;It may, indeed, be reasonably
dottled, whether the concession even Of their
actual 'claims would afford satisfaction to the-
Pa?ists. Experience has_proved, that it is pos •
sibte to grant; and even to cceed, their utmost
demands without prodecing that effect. This wtis
the case in the year I TO; whensolennily
:dl views to what is called complete email:.
cipation ;—that is. to say, Ivhot they now sack :
they specified tie objects 'which comprised. all
their wishes, and with the attainment of which.
they declare they should be satisfied
pal of which 'was a very limited grant of the
elective franchise. They obtained more than they
asked. They reeeived the Ormons boon of the
elective franchise, without any qualification V. hat=
ever ; and the result ha 3 been the reverse of ,satis-
_ faction. Every concession made to them, has been
convtirted into a ground f. fresh demand.f. In
like manner, it is possible they may be restless and
discontented, even though all they now ask should,
be:eonceded to them. They may .even be encou-
raged •by the possession of political -power, to as-
pire, in Ireland, to an exemption front the Pay-,
ment of tithes to a Pratestant Church—to the re-
covery of the'fbrfeited e:Ltates, and even to the as-
. cendancy of their own religion :—objects which
arc known to be near their hearts ; and for the
attainment of which, it Is natural to expect, that
whatever, power may be put into their hands will
be enyloyed;
"But supposing complete satisfaction on their
part to be the residt of a coMpliance with their
demands, is it certain that sack au adjustment
would prove satisfactory to his Majesty's Prntes-
tont subjects ? This is an inquiry which deinands
our most serious and impartial con'Sideration. In=
stead of any thing being; gained, an immense and
irreparable loss would be incurred; on the score of
general harmony and national tranquility, :if, in
order to conciliate' the former of these classes, the
latter should-be excited to discontent, on a suh'-
ject so interesting to filch. feelings.

"-That, the satisflction of Ptotcstants, as well
as Papists, should he .considera as an indispen-
sable condition
:in any conciliatory adjustment to
be' made with the latter, is 'clearly implied in the
resolution of the- House of Commons. And the
same candid admlssion was made by Mr: Canning
(on whose motion that tcsolution'was passed) in
his -address to the electors‘;• on the iith day. of
.the
late eketion for Livetpool, when .he 'said,—
' There is no opinion that I hold more strongly
than this,--that, to he settled happily, this great
question must be settled peaceably, and with the
concurrence and good-:will of all classes of
the Protestant community.'

"In considering this question, it is riot pos-
sible, and it would not be wise if it were* pqs-
sible, entirely to lose sight of the disgraceful
scenes which occurred in the year I 7SO—seen-es,
which afford little encouragement to hope that a
compliance with the claiMs -of the Papists wilt
afford general satisfaction: On that occasion the
alarm excited by Popery :was altogether ground-
less. Nothing had been done, or sought to be-
done, in fin'-our of the members of the Chur-ch of
Rome, but ‘vhat WM dictated by justice, and con-
sonant with the principles of the Constitution.—
Nothing had been granted- to them but a repeal
of lows, subjecting them to penalties on account
of their religious worship. -Not an atom of po-
litical power had been put into their•hands ; nor
had they advanced any pretensiOns of that kind.
They now demand an unqualified adinissib'ility to
ell situations of trust, power, and emolument, in
the. State., .Nothing less than this will satisfy
them: Reflecting' on the horrors which took
place at the period allu-led to, and which filled all
hearts with consternation, can we, ought-we, to
divest. our minds of apprehension, lest ,a Compli-
ance with such claims, far from being satis•lac-
tory to nil classes, may prove destriictive of. pub-
lic t:-anquility. It is true, the outrages which
then took place, were the wsiik of a frantic po-
pulace; and deplorable would be that state of so-
ciety in which the dread of popular fury were al-
lowed to supersede The dictates of reason and,-iiis-
tice. Yet, surely, when we are inquiring whe-
ther a particular measure is likely ti prove satis-
factory to all classes of.his Majesty's subjects, the
feelings of the nitthitit;.le ought not to be. laid en
tirely out of the account. It may be said; indeed,
that the mUltitude were on that occasion excited
by artful and designing men. True but the
feelings so -Wrought .upon must have previously
existed, 'otherwise there would have been no fuel
to Wm,: up a flame ; iris not to be sup-
posed either that those feelings of abhorrence to
Popery have becoMe extinct during the interv'en-
ing period, or•that agitators are now wanting to
take every advantage which 'popular feeling can
afford for the excitement of. distUrbance •and in-
surrection:.! •
(To be continued.)

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