The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-08 00:00:00

SIR HARCOURT LEES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
The exultation of the Courier at the number
of Letters the Protestant and consistent Editor
of that independent Journal has been lavotired
with, expressive,of thanks and gratitude for the
late. exposes of the real objects of O'CONNELL and
his Popish banditti of Revolutionists, is truly
amusing to me. I hope the writers pay the posh
age of them,. or the poor Editor must be in the
d—l's own way, as pick Martin would say—
Almost to the eve of a general rebellion, the
publication of all that important information,
, first in. this Empire, promulgated, and con.
tinued
,unceasingly to do up to the present MO-
meat, in the Correspondent and in, several loyal
Papers that had the wisdom to admit them; one
service the, courier's conversion may nender—and
only one :—to °bring backs... to the, true faith the
despicable traitors, miscalled Protestants, who
have formed a junction with Popery, under an
expectation of tickling something out of the
Romish part of the Cabinet; but, its to the Edi-
tor's boast of 64 rousing a spirit in England,"
I beg leave to assure him that 1 long since antici-
pated his zeal, and have received and answered
the "folios" or letters of thanks and gratitude to
myself, from all parts of Great Britain, for the
very same information he is now giving, at least
a Near and a half back. The Sun, Morning Post,
St. James's Chronicle, john Bull, and British
Guardian, well deserve every praise for the power-
ful support they have given to the Protestants
of Ireland, in co-operation with our invalu-
able Journals here ; but as to the Courier's
46 rousing propensities," they resemble very much
in effect the 44 rousing
.eaplosion" made by Miss
Barbara O'Connor's swelled elbow, in the Chapel
of the Nunnery at New Hall, Essex, as describ-
ed in the London Catholic Magazine of that won-
derful day—which. Miracle toek
_place full forty.
eight minutes after Prince Iloh'entoe's Mass was
ended, as I explained (exposing the humbug tit
the time); must have been the case, from the
difference in the longitude. Ilohenloe, and thw
Courier, in their different lines of humbug, have
long afforded memmuseraent.

I believe the entire Cabinet, as well as the
entire Press of England, will now admit, that /
was the first and only man in the Empire who
had the penetration to discover the true objects
contemplated by Popery, and the firmneL,s and
integrity, to persevere, up to the present hour, in
calling upon the Ministers to rouse from their
stupor, and to save both King and Government
from destruction. Two years ago the London
Times said, 1 must be mud ! What does this
Editor say now ? Loo4 to his columns. If I
was mad then, he ought now be in a straight
waistcoat.

In great haste, Sir, hut always yours,
Very slut2rely,
HARCOURT LEES.

Dlackrock, Friday.

FOR TIII SUN.

EDDA.
FABLE X.—Of the God's in which men must believe.

' Mr. EDITOa Gangkr proceeding asked ;
Which are the God's before which men must
bow down ?-11ar answering hint said : There
are twelve Gods which men must serve. J4fnhar
opens his mouth and says ; the G oddesses are not
less holy than these Gods. Tredie adds: Odin
is the first and the most ancient of the Gods.
He governs all things : and although the other
Gods are powerful, yet do they serve him as
children serve their father.* His wife lerigga
foreseeS all that will happen to men, but keeps
it fast locked within her breast. This is proved
by the following speech which Odin addressed
one day in verse to Luke.
" 0 foolish Loke ! 'how can'st thou pretend to
know the future', since it is known only to
Friggoi and she reveals it to no one ?"
oi6nis called the Universal Father, because
he is'''ilie'parent of all the Gods. Ile is called
also the:Father of Battles, because he adopts as
his children all that die sward in hand. To them
he assigns as a dwelling-place the' palaces of
Walhalla and Vingoff, and he bestows upon them
the name of heroes. But he has yet many other
names. Gangler said, " Here are indeed many
names, and certain I am that great is the learn-
ing of him who remembers them well, and knows
besides on what occasions they were each be.
names,al)sisd 'up' doi
en
Ie will, however, julliwrael:vdreevt iri,reedtne) 41m4 4ybleouruc,ll4l all
lni theseevf
ecwr.
words, that his having so many wives from the
great diversity of languages, for every na-
tion being anxious to adore him, and to
offer up prayers to him, was Obliged to trans.
late his name into its own language. Some
of,his names he received in consequence of the
adventures he met with in his travels, which are
recorded in our ancient histories. And you can.
not he reckoned a well-informed man, unless
you are able to give an account of all his mar.
ve I lous adventures.
• This passage again clearly establishritoeitsanltptellirerfeeneir.edatteitimpeworirenpaowerrnArniascebonCaYtiatnoleff'soticets.
CiOd over all the rest of the divinities Which were adored tff the
i
Scandinavians. This God was called also As, As, or &sus;
naalnnuidls
tot hfbeemr erec:elor
eibobeuenl
tbia
eottia: bat
ttt,itithehesuateemOlcie:t
iet
battle.st
lim/cddoei n of the Scandinavians
and the :Ere/ of the Gaulti, and the Teat of the Germans, watt'
the God of War. If it scent singular that the father of Gods
holy occupation. They believed that men were placed on the-
earth by Providence merely to display their courage, which they'
ocofubloddttraonndlyvallloptiorn, twheerefieladm of
life and could alone secure happiness anti consideration the
next.

..
We are concerned to state that the rot in sheep,
is very general in the Western part of the county,.
The oldest graziers state that they do not remem.
ber it to have been so bad for neatly .forty years
past.—(Kentish Gazege.)

lINCILISH AND BRISTOL CHANNELS' JUNCTION

CANAL..

'lt is -with unfeigned pleasure that we perceive
notices to have been given for bringing the Ship.
Canal between the Bristol and English -Channels
immediately under the consideration of Parlia-
ment. We have perused with extreme interest the
ptPliminary report of Mr. E [soup, the engineer,
which leaves not a doubt of its practicability, and
warmly enter into the well-founded expectations
of the Committee.

The woollens of South Wales in general, the slate
and coal of Glamorgaushire, the copper of Swan-
sea, (where all the ores from Cornwall are melt-
ed), the iron of Merthyr, Tydevil, and Aber
Dare, and the groceries of Bristol will thus with
unwonted facility be supplied .to the whole of
the south coast of England; and to that, which
after all, must be the great emporium of corn-
pierce, a London Market. If further induce•
ments were necessary, humanity and patriotism
are not wanting to promote so good a cause.
The difficulties of circumnavigating the land's
end have already been stated, but it is not this

alone that the mariner has to dread.—From per-
sonal experience we have reason to know that
the navigation of all the lower part of the
Bristol channel is peculiarly dangerous. The
• 'velocity of the tide, which frequently comes up
ith a head of 5 or 6 feet when added to the
prevalent minds from the south-west makes it,
under such circumstances, next to impossible to
.beat down : even in the chops of the channel,
uhilst in a gale of wind the iron-bound coast of
the North of Devon and Cornwall threatens cer-
tain destruction, there is no friendly port for which
a distressed vessel can bear, except the distant
ones of Padstow or Milford. Those who have
witnessed during the fair months of summer the
perilous situation of.a ship.embayed below Hart-
land Point, with the usual wind blowing in shore,
can alone form an adequate idea of the wintry
terrors of that long barrier of cliff's opposed to
the fury of the Atlantic. The zeal with which
the design has been taken up by the Nation is a
sure test of its merit. We hail the increased

activity of the proprietors as an omen of success,
and congratolate the Public at large on a work,
the commencement of which may be well consi-
dered as a triumph of national prosperity.—
The foundations of Roman greatness, it is true,'
were laid by the victorious arms of the Re-
public, but it was her j udicious policy and
the pacific government of the second Caesar,
which consolidated her wealth and magnificence.
It was then, first, that tier widely dissemi-
!tilted colonies became the bond of indissoluble
anion, and one absorbing principle pervaded
countries whose peculiar interests were as various
. as their climates ,and manners were distinct, and
--the facilities offered to commerce, by widely ex-
-tending roads and public security, tempted the
merchant from the Euphrates to the Pillars of
Hercules, The Military power of the Imperial
Mistress of the world has long since passed away
the pinion of her up-soaring eagle has drooped.:
the name of the eternal city is left. as little more
than a moral to adorn a tale; hut her roads, her
cloacce, her aqueducts, to thii play unrivalled,
still , remain as less perishable memorials of a
grandeur' truly Roman.
leis in such a point of view that we are dis-
pose►d to regard this undertaking of our country.
I men. At a period when England is emerging
with renewed tisoUr from her difficulties ; when
lalkour, is cheap,.mund .capital abundant;,. ,w,hen
at home, front the -,manufucturer to the ,agri-
culturist, all is peace and prosperity.; when
abroad her navies have opened -.to..the remotest
extremities of the globe new ,paths to.her com-
merce, we see a society of individuals accom-
plkhing a design of national importance and

zees rearing to the glory of the State a monu-
ment of which Kings bight be proud.
The breadth of the, isthmus of Suez is :per-
haps something greater than the distance in
this case to be cut through, but the attempts of

OF predecessors of thp Ptolemies were abortive,

and those intelligent Vionarchs. themselves never
contemplated a project on a scale so magnificent

as this. The fatuous canal of .Languedoc must

How of necessity sink into comparative insigni.
licence ; the idea of a passage'for fleets remained
for more enterprizing times.

Again, we may congratulate the country. It
Was -reserved for her, whose boast it is that her
merchants are as Princes, and the rights of her
• citizens the surest pledge of constitutional free-
dom, to eitablish by the voluntary act of
• duals, her fame in works equal to any which on
• Contluental Europe have been created by the
hand of military despotism, or wrung from the la-

hours of sufTering'Pe°Ple• Whilst we remember,
Abat the wonders of the Simplon, and the .earlier
so plans ,-'
ttrch of,liannibal originated in of blood

sited and conquest, it is doubly gratifying to see
the arts of peace, thus rivalling and eclipsing
military glories. Let us proceed as we have be-
gup., and whilst in the latter we proudly yield
to none, let us in the former exhibit to our con-
temporaries, and leave to posterity, in works
such as these, imperishable records of the supe-
riot ity of Britons.

THE CITY OF LONDON HOME MISSIONARY

AUXILIARY SOCIETY.

In pursuance of public notice, a very respect-
able and numerous meeting assembled last evening at the City
of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for the purpose of form.
ing a Home Missionary Society exclusively' for the Metropolis,
and to be denominated as above, "The City of London Home
Missionary Auxiliary Society." It IC HARD H U MPIIRE Y
MARTIN, Esq., was called to the Chair.

The CHAIRMAN opened the business of the meeting by a ge-
neral commentary on the numerous advantages which religious
instruction is calculated so confer on society at large. Those
advantages were visible in the great moral revolution produced
UT the exertions of other Societies which held the same great
object in view. The diffiesion of the Gospel through the in-
strumentality of Bible Associations .was the first in point of vi-
tality. The Tract and Sunday School Societies walked hand in
hand as it were, diffusing around them the light of intellect and
the blessings of truth, dispelling the dark clouds of ignorant
superstition, and opening the human mind to the bright pros-
pect of ealvation. The Seamen's Friend and Port of London
Institutions had also thrown ffi their mite to the Treasury.—
The Foreign and Home Missionary Societies also claimed
regard for their invaluable exertions in this good work.—
But was it not to be lamented, that in the Metropolis of En'g-
land nothing had hitherto been attempted in regard to the
establishment of a Missionary Society peculiarly for Lon-
don ? It might be argued that the Home Missionary So-
ciety already in existence was equal to the discharge of all
and every duty that presented itself; but this he (the Chair-
man) should deny. The Home Missionary Society's la-
bours were devoted rather to the country parts, where there
was more to be done than they could possibly accomplish,
without looking to London at all. It might be contended
that the number of places set apart for Divine Worship in
the Metropolis did away the necessity of Missionary exer-
tions: that also he should deny. The duty of the Mis-
sionary was to go forth into die lanes and alleys, the remote
streets and obscure courts, where vice and ignorance were
united to oppose him—where the voice of a Minister had per-
haps never been heard—and where the name of God had never
been aspired but in blasphemy. If in the country parts there
was more ignorance to contend with, in London there was more
vice—more confirmed depravity. These were the objects con-
templated in the formation of the proposed Society, and lie
trusted that it would find supporters.
Mr. J. Colorer (one of the Secretaries to the Home Mis-
sionary Society), in commenting on the general benefits arising
from the Institution with which he was connected, expressed his
opinion that the Home Missionary Society, however important
as to the villages and hamlets, could not efficiently operate in
the metropolis. On referring to the circular lately published
by the Parent Society, it would appear that thirty Missionaries
are now labouring amidst a population of more than one hundred
and thirty thousand persons; two hundred anti twenty villages
were thus visited, and three thousand boys were educating in
the principles of the Christian Religion, and tracts were daily
circulated and gratefully received. It was also pleasing to say
that the receipts during the last year, including subscriptions,',
donations, ilec. amounted to 701101. These were consolatory
facts, and should stimulate to still further exertions. Some ob.
jection had been made thet ehere was not to be found that gross
ignorance in the country which called for those extraordinary
exertions. It was not necessary to go back to Salisbury Plain,
or the Isle of Anglesea for the remains of Druidical supersti-
tion, or to search the Vatican for the dregs of Popery. One in-
stance of existing folly would suffice—At a village in Hereford
a poor woman troubled with disease was recommended to
apply for part of the Sacramental offerings, and to melt die
money into a ring, which she was to wear as a charm. The re-
quest was granted, the ring was worn; and in the next pa-
roxysm she strangled her own child ! Many other proofs of
gross ignorance and prejudice might be adduced which would.
plainly prove the necessity of Missionary exertions throughout
the country at large, but he conceived that such exertions were
even now imperatively called for in the Metropolis, and that
therefore the Institution of the proposed Society was peculiarly
desirable.
The Rev. on proposing the first Resolu-
tion,took a general view of the several Charitable Institutions
already established, and concluded by. putting it to the good
sense of the meeting, whether the intended one was to want
sufficient support to bring it on equality with them in point of
utility.
The Rev. DAVIS seconded the Resolution, which was for
naming the Society as above, and urged the expediency of adopt-
ing the plan pursued by the Rev. Dr. Chalmers in the city of
Glasgow—namely, that of dividing the city into districts.
The Rev. HOIHIOUSE prOposed a Resolution for the ap-
pointment of officers, &c. which was ably seconded by Mr.
Al tt.r. E it, the Cash Secretary to the Home missionary Society,
who gave an interesting statement relative to the affairs of the
Institution. _ _

The Rev. IL EAsow proposed the third Resolution, and took
a general review of the charities of England in the words do.
celebrated Foreigner, who observed, " That our l'iospitals re-
sembled splendid palaces, and that England, despising courtly
pomp and political parades, had suffet.td her palaces to go to
decay, insomuch that they were altogether unworthy of a Fo-
-reigrier's notice." Amongst all those bright gems in the Me.
tropolitan Crown, one was still wanting—a Missionary Society
for London, which he was even glad to find on the eve of a
foundation.—This Resolution was seconded by the Rev.
Drake, of Cambridge.
.The fourth Resolution was proposed by the Rev. KEY-
WORTH, who bore testimony from experience to the ignorance
which prevails throughout the villages in England.
The Rev. MOORE followed in a very ablespeech, which,
we regret, our limits will nut permit us to give.
The Rev. OwEN then proposed a Vote of Thanks to the
Chairman, seconded by. the Rev. WYATT, and the Meeting
dissolved. after. a considerable subscription was made in support
of its funds.