The Sun.
London, England, 1803-04-05 00:00:00

TO THE •EDITOR.OF THE SU.Ni

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ONCE more, I beg leave to trruAle you with a
few lines. I have read a long Epistle in your Piiper
from a Gentleman at Tarporkr: he endeaVotirS to
confute What have advanced in- Tile SUN hilt I
shall now prove his etThrts are inyain. He tells 'us
that he is a Member of the English Church—of the
Irish Church—and I think he might have added,' of
the ScOtch Church too; I think if a certain famous
Clergyman was now alive, he would be of his Church
likewise---I mean the Vicar of Bray.
I still keep to what I have written, and to which
he cloth not give me an answer : I say a certain part
of I,e Irish Roman Catholics have not liberty of
conscience to profess the ancient.Religitm of their
family, and which they think right to ilo-,-these
are the Children of Converts to the Established
Church.. I may likewise add, that Catholic Soldiers
and Sailors, ,by the Pen.ll Liws still existing,' have
nn latituck tti Make a public profeSSion of their'
faith, although it is often winked at by those Who
could punish them for doing so : to:-peove- ir, take
retrospel of that Bill prepared by Mr. Grattan,
in the Fitz william Administration; to relieve them;
had'there not been a necessity • for this,' it would
have been nugatory. It may likewisel)e remem.
tiered, that much about : this time a Soldier, was
most cruelly, whipt at Clonmell, in Ireland,; for con.
duaing'himself- as a Roman Catholic ought to do,
with respect to his worship.! As to BONAPARTE
and Dettierkts, I leave them to the Gentleman of
Tarpotley, to deal with them as he shall think fit,
but shall only observe, that it might be of set-like
to the First Consul, if, instead of going to BeFgium,
he would take a trip over here, white it is safe for
him to do so, and try to mollify your Tarpoiley
Correspondent, by singing to him 'that Air in
Midas, 44 Pray, Goody, moderate the rancor ofyour
tongue," &c. In the mean time he may send over
to Corsica, to enquire into family matters, and so
be able to blast his pedigree methodic.illy.
As to the Scullahogiie business, let it be remem-
bered that those very Bog.trotting and Moun-
taineer-Irish drew the King's cannon in a prodi.
gious fall of snow, when the French landed at
Bantu Bay, and cheerfully shared their potatoes
and food ,with the soldiery.—Sure it cannot be
forgot, that at this very period the Catholic Priests
commanded Loyalty and Obedience to the Govern.
ment from their Altars! and yet such Men are
not allowed to form a part of the People, or have
the Rights of a. Citizen I And I must remark, that
had Emancipation ,taken place, after this praise-
worthy condua. at Bantry, perhaps the subsequent
proceedings at Scullabogue, Vinegar &Hind-
muck, and such pretty sounding names, had never
taken place, as the artful French would not then
have had a proper soil; to sow the seeds of Sedition
in ! 'As to the cruelty of Irish Priests in Foreigiti
Countries,l never heard of it before, and wish to
know where it Happened : I think our graeiotis So,
'Vereign would never have allowed a Subject to be
massacred, or even ill used, with impunity. As
to the Presbyterian Test, there is nothing severe
in it, as the grand points of the Protestant Doctrine
nmain the same to all. Yet I wish all Tests were
sent down the stream of oblivion, and a proper
Oath to the. Government substituted in their place :
thus an invulnerable phalanx would be formed at
this critical wra, and each mangive his heart' along
hand to:support the Constitution!
As to Emancipation, a few words on it, and
love done : for until those great and illustrious
Personages of the PITT party, and of the Fox party,
Who are decidedly for it as a wise and just measure,
alter their, Opinion, I think most men will difier
from the Gentleman of Tarporley !
April 4, 0303.

VERITAS.

LANCASTER, ArRIL 2.

Our ...assizes did not terminate till Wednesday
lak, there having been no less di oi ninety-lour
Canses entered .for trial 'at. Nisi Prim, many of
which,- however, Were submitted to reference.
The following five capital convicts are left for
execution, viz, Patrick Quigley, Henry Rice, and
TbOmas Ward, for burglariously breaking 'the. dwel-
ling-house of Richard Bevington, at. Waveetree,
near Liverpool; loworth, for burglariously
breaking the dwelling-house of Agnes -Heap, of
turnley ; and George Short, for sheep-stealing, at
Liverpool.
'On passing the awful sentence of the law upon
Quigley, Rice, and Ward, the Judge observed,
'that owing to their barbarous conduit towards the
prosecutor and his wife, at the time they committed
the burglary, if any person had been convicted of
murder at these assizes, he should have ordered
them for exebutien at the same time.
The number of persons tried for Manslatighter
at our Assizes, it is much to be lamented, has in-
creased in a rapid degree within a few years
Nine were tried here last week, four of whom were
conviled. Two of the latter were burnt in the
hand ; in order, as was emphatically observed by
the Judge (Sir Giles Rooke), that they might carry
back with them into that part of the county from
whence they came, those ignominious'. .marks which
would shew the detestation in which their conduct
Was held by the Court. .
On the trial of Thomas Fielding, for the above
offence, his Lordship,. in the strongest terms, ex-
pressed his abhorrence of the inhuman manner of
fighting in the southern part of this county. lie
observed, that if a man has brought his antagonist
to the ground, and theo kicks or strikes him, whilst
the vanquished person lies in a state of insensibility,
such tin-ad of •hrutil ferocity constitutes the crime
of Murder ; and, upon conviaion, he would not he-
sitate to leave the person for execution, without
the -least regret.