The Sun.
London, England, 1804-08-02 00:00:00

DUBLIN, JULY zB.

MONDAY morning snore wicked and malicious
iocendiary t,et fire to a !ionic belonging to a family
of the name of Brien, about a mile from Cloninel,
. the Ca%lid The walls only were lett
n f,d the rn st considevible part 'of the
rtoperty of the and industrious proprietors,
tog 9( different t.pucies of country produce,
implements, &c. which had been
dgetl in.this as a ger.eral warehous'e for the several
tr.incheS, of the family, was_ totally constimecL—
Thii,is he third Ofiociuus outrage and premedi.
t,,ted • injury has been infliCked upon
unolfe: ding
,pii:s7le':within these few months. A
capaciousoud well-stocked out.lsou,e was, with
savage Malice, set fire to and burned to the ground,
in the first instance t a few nights after this trans.
aetion, ten of their cows were harbsronsly maim.
cd ; and, Is reasonable- to presume, the last a&
(;I.villainy was intended to accomplish their tie-
itrunion. The liberality and wisdom of our Laws,
however, will support tie sufferers, and reader in.
ctf,ttual -the
,diabolical design of the incendiary ;
ant we trust that the Gentry of the neiebourhooti,
front a feeling of duty
~4i* well as.interest, will ex.
erase evrty means; to discover and bring to the
most exemplary punishment the perpetrator trper-
Petratiirs of this 'mist detestable and daugcrous
me! Gazitte.

IRISH' COURT O CII,4NCERY, JULY Is.

cessary : he knew what was the interest of the child ;
he knew the Istw of the totintty, and he had ail •the
faits before' him; aid considering the disabliogsSra-
totes at an end, he appointed a Roman Catludic
Guardian, and theethy designated the future reli.
I. pion of the child. He was not aduated,• nor will
this Court coin cettd to be actuated, by a cowl.
deration of the tempt rat interests of the chip! *, his
expeCtancies, or his'disabilities ; what may he. gain-
ed by his !icing a Protestant, or what may be lost
by his being a -Roman,Catliolic.
The LORD CN lIACILI.Olt:---Thil ii a very Im.
pliant •case in its principle several matters have
been introduced in the discussion which I wish to
throw out of my consideration. The great ques-
tion is, in what religion
.is this child to be edu.
c.tted ? ' It would 'be .highly advantageous, if it
were possible, that he should have liis own choice,
without receiving any preaious prejitlice, because
' , .-educatian itself is only a communication of ptejua
dices, and tin who educate the child communi-
cate such to him as in their judgment are best. It
is impossible to say, that in the education of a child
1 his mind can be left open ,and clear of paejudice,
j.and especially in respeCt of religiOn : that 'religion
I will, generally speaking, bind his mind, of which
he has received early impressions. This clii:a is
:thus situated : the ConStitution.of the Country has
devolved the authority which might have been -ex.
`ercised by his + parents, to the King ; and the King,
with respett to children in his situation in this
Country, has autharized•Me, by his sign mann il, to
discharge that duty which for him pets:l6lly is•
impossible. 1, -therefore, in taking care of Minors,
am exercising that . trust by delegatiori which is
.teposed-in the King. In appointing a:Guardian to
the -person of the child, I delegate that .power
which .1 have from the Crown, in a great r degree
',to another ;•,and this' of •necessity, because of the
,• - impossibility of my attendiog,personally to all 'the
. wards of the Court. :The question,..therefore, is,
in what manner, and to whom,l ought to delegate
the care of this child ? There is a circumstance'
in this case that makes it extremely difficult to
. name -a Guardro. ; the different religion of the.
child's near relations, and the mitaalerstantling.
evidently. exiting- between them. So that it the
:child were c onmitted to lils paternal relation, he
probably: would • -he excluded from intercourse
with . his mother's relations, and ,v;ce 4,*ersat St
marl think, all thirsts cansidered, the Master is the
proper persou to b::•Ga‘adian. But he is,sproperly
. soesileilig, a mate Olficar of the Coto t ; Aft he cannot,
in the ',atone af thing;, give else same attention to
the sill , j .ts.t that a to :loan. might.; and !hetet-me-
the Court, io such:eases-4d goordianahip, &reds., :as,
in this. case, an iatieiryanut beforealte. M a.ter who
I is appointed Geardiati, bui.before•ano:ther Master,.
what is tha .propel:caurae of. education to,be par;
sued.—AS to•what is-said-on one sitli,, that the pa-
rents, 01 - this e:iild were ortolan Catholics, awl
these! re- thst it should be• educated in the same
per,easton ; and on the other ail., that the interests.
to tile I:3(eie being that he should,be of a different
persuasion; it should he btettat • Protestant ...• I led
this to be a very sarious question in its consequences:
it does not iii ,ply 10 ;his case alone, tier only topera-
suns. prufeSsiag the Rem in Catl-mlic religion-, a it ay.
- pl tes to ill pt:Tions v. h. ..,: i•'..'l' 'tilts ditirs Curti the
Eitabli4heil Church, teclaaling Jews, for instanc.e. . I
have foond,asince .1 cape iota this Ceuatry, the
general habit mi .aeplicatiun for goirdian;hip be
• persons professing she Roman Cath ,:it: it.eigiaa,
to inquire • what was the religion of the fatLar of
the could, • and generally speaking, the go irtlian.
ship has been. put in a course, the natural come- •
queoce of which -would, be, .:the educating: of :the
child in the stnnelefigion.. Wliena child has-in the
life time- of his father;- advanced to.a Perii-d when
a ,considerable .degree of -religiolti education has
been given, it would have been too strong a. thiez '
to say . that •it Lhould be changed :
,he,te. the child
was very young at the death of its billet, aod the
person to whmn the Crown had "then •dalegated the
• ciihe 4cntineirs, shatight fit to give thegilArtlianbilin
to its niaternal•grataltailier, professing
.the Renaos
Cathalic Religion : . and certainly. :On ;no ground
of his religious persutaion did I wish to maiae. any 1
. alteration in :that. appoiotment, but upon -other 1
gramidsa which I, am persuaded were solid ; -and
therefore, L shat) nut Inllce aoy newailteration, hot •
SUDZ,r. the child to Jenntin nadir thA: goartlionship
01 :.Vlr. Walker. With respect 'to the Outaition, of
the child, it ,is so aerious a qatanioui ' that: I theist •
pause before I mike any order on it. The King
might, if he thought fit, give. me direeTtions as to
the mode 'of educating children of this .descrip.
ton; :but I have received no such directions, arid
I am therefore 'principally to consider what has
been the habit in such cases, of persons who have
held the same official situation whieh I hold, all
if they have 'nit thaught fit to interfere, .1 should
rather incline to., think it my duty to folloW tile
, tingle COUCIIC ; Iv as the opinions of the child can.
not he materianl'changed in the interval, 'I shall
take a short dine for talaction. This'etataag 1.6
• Unfortunate; More perhaps than any. other, in: the
difference of religious opinions among.t its is Ira.
The Legislature thought fit,-at what is
now a remote petiod, to- exact • what was. deemed
• a relotmation of : a religious establishment : a• gnat
portion of the inhabitants of the country did not
'conform' to that eatablishment, but resorted to and
still profess a different religi als faith. In
.this
country there are I believe very few Whe do nor pro...
teas the Christian • religion ; eat in. Endlaral there
is a great number of... Jews, aft] if art a rgqiriti t
which has been strongly urged acre to haaa its foil.
effect,' it would be the duty. of tite.Caaricellor of
England, whenever a child :of aiew flea been lett ..
without parents, to take care thatot be .edueateti a
Christian ; but I know of no instance where this
has -Wen done. It is daubtleas :that duty of the
King to support, to the utmost of hit power; the
Established Religion ; it is made, an essential and
fundamental article of the Union between- the. two
.Countries, that the laa.stablislied Church should tar
ever be supported,. as the religion of the State :
these. are 'soiemn •olaigationa no doubt on the per-
* -It hatt•bech suggested that Mr. Lynris was a wealthy
man, with ritaelinsaresa. and the minor 11101 E probably be Me
• hi:ir, Whereas Mr.
~u'Cuisnor had claim-en. ...
f Father.. . • ''

snn-in supreme authority, lout no all Pete
by authority from him. But, on tilt othef hands
the prejudices of :the people--the habits of the,
Country, and the necessity of uniting. all persons
Of whatever religi )us perstwi,n, in one sense, at
least as one people, that 'the: tnay-all live undet
one law, and not attempt of their own force to
overturn any thing Which has been established 7
when these come into .view, it may, in point of
political prudence, be a matter .to be comidered
whether it wituld not be better to forego (what
otherwise it tnust he confessed would be my duty at
atling by aioli,;rity from the Crown) the taking
Care that all persons should he educated according
to the established Government of the Country, of.
which the Church is a 'part, and to, permit the
education of all according to tinsie respcaive
gions i• --;Were I to decide at this moment, the in:
ctination of my mind is, as it was at first, to semi
this matter back to the Master to reconsider his re•
port, and to inquire with every degree of libera"
li:y, which tae case will admit, in what mintier
this child can he educated best for the benefit of
the Country and of Itirro.elf, in every view of the
case. Perhaps I may think -it advisable to assist
my.own mind by conversation with others in title
Country, whose prudence I rely on. 'Lis "SC
must form a rule -tor my cons ua in many 0411"10
and being Ivo a simple question of ki-Lei.ti drc"-'
sion or auth -rity, but one of great p o'c°
qtisist,,nre on
'nce, I incline to
licetO shin
n it my duty to .take othe!'
a,
this Cotnory : is particularlyt'n amT Idealtyn.rtcocta'siovi:uilfit
the Lird Cliaoc.,-tlor of England, because
.Slit
princi, le should govern ,bis COlidUa as mine, Ow
because he would have orpotruoitirs of raking di*
tali ins front higher. authority, which I have nor'
--The laying down some gen .r.,1 rid': on the
subjeft (not ,turnif.g on the pirticular circutn•
stances of this et!. r on. ole in triers in complaint
on' one side or Cie (vim), would be useful, a' it
would quiet the minis of the people, and Noce!
these_ Avert-minus which are produstive of so 01.
irritation and so much. ex,•er,ce it would be
also,. that persons whoana) be applied to for advice
in similar Cases may know what to advise.; a ca-
-sideration imporiani fir every person who sits in 1
judiclai situation.— flierelte, let Mr. Sot.' curPg
GINERAC3 M tionstat,tiover, am; 1 Nisi, Ow time
inquiry. resveCiing the conduCt of Mr. O'Connel
should be SUS' rotted also; it on iy give time to 111,8
hien& of this ebild come tu.suMe agreement Willi
each other.