The Sun.
London, England, 1803-04-01 00:00:00

Tott" IE EDITOR OF-THE Stlg.
SIR i• .
As your Parr is a vehicle of very general in.._
fortrtation, and of wide, extensive, and iMportant
influence in .fortni,lg the PUblic Opinion, .it should
be watched over with a care and scrupulosity, which,
to other Intelligencers, is ahogether unnecessary.
A leiter. apneared in it this morning, addressed to
Lord Mot ttak, and . signed reeitar,• in which posi-
tions! wereadivitt.ced, and a " petitio prineipii" ex-
ercised so altogether inadmissible, that it ought not
to pass unnotieed. One Of these was, that the Re.,
ligionipf.Scotland was made the established formu-
lary in that Country, at her incorporation of Poll.
steal arid' Sena, orial.Union with the South, but that
. . ,
the Reitgroh of Ireland his
,met with a very opposite
treatment, ,in similar circumstances. What, Sir,
shall we say to the utility of Language, if such
petrel lions of its meaning are to.be allowed with.
out animadversion and censure ? I say, the
Reli-
gion of Ireland has hen secured and guarded, in the
late great and admirable national arrangements, by
as jest an Establidiment, as wise and liberal, as
' ever was adopted in any State. What constitutes
the .ReligiOn of a Country? Is it not the 'General
Principles of Sacred Dodrine and Moral Virtue,
• which are admitted and acted on .as such by the
Intelligent ark! Leading Members of a Count
try, wheie the Government allows akranks thefree
Use of Religious Enquiry most undoubtedly it is;
and not thoe. of the giddy, deluded, and ignorant':
Rabble. It is most unquestionably the views of
the majority:of the first description free& formed,
that constitute that Religion : and it is this Reli-
gion of Ireland, which has been established by the
sandion of the, United Parliaments :.and, as before,
h is in substance the same as is in England, in'Ar.
tides of Faith, formularies, Statutes, Ceremonies.
The preponderance of numbers, which the Writer
assumes :as the claim of- his Party, stands only. on
the authority,ofahe profound• wisdom, clear cons
ceptions, and Unprejudiced disquisition exercised by
the Losuee Classes. All.. the arts of
perverting? misleading, and forming into FaCtion,
hays been long and assiduously exerted among the
.miserable. outcasts on the mountains, amid the bogs,
eilV4rts, 'rocks, &c. &c.. of Ireland's wildest wastes,
to. (win this mtinerical preponderance. Although
thero are some of the other description, it is the lat.
ter principally who constitute his majority, which
the writer his misnomered Ireland. But would any
man call the opinion of such the Leatning ofa
irk'? or any but a hairibrained Democrat call it the
Political Wisdom of•a Country? What the latter
Principle luis 'effeded in Europe, all the world sees :
what the' first mentioned .Principle has done in ire.;
land, the. same world has seen with equal horror..
But why all these never ceasing murmurs, these
eternala wailings and lamentations about Religious
Sufferings ?,' Have they not the fullest liberty any
truly religions persons could desire ? Do 'they not
publicly iheet to worship God in their Own way,
and none dare interrupt or molest them Are not
Seminaries, for educating- their Priests, maintained
even ...hy dovern.Pnent, which is more than our Yea.
testant Dissenters have ? 'witness illaynooth. in
short, if ktn,gian only was their aim, why.. these
bitter. exchtitns constantly stunning our ears? it is
„plain to the most stupid spedator of the scene, that
it cannot be so. How different is their treatment.
of Protestants in foreign Countries, even -in there.
sent liberal times, waving what it was in past ages.
biany of our unhappy Countrymen, who have:by
misfortune been cast,for a time among the Spanish
American States, know to their
,unspeakable an..
gulch, that there weeny Irish Priest: (who swarm
there) are their most bloody Enemies who. would
have made vidirnvof their persons, if known pub.
licly to have exercised, for themselves only, the
Rites of their Religion. Yet these are the men who
have the effrontery to raise these outcries.
Veritas has instanced the Scotch (whose Relies inn
dmibtless was established there, because found to be
that of the inrelligesit major 10); but I would in.
stance another •bodttnuch more in point r I mean
the English Dissenters. Have they not repeatedly
petitioned against the Test Laws, and been denied P
flat who has heard of forging of pikes, night associa.
tic's's, and armings of the rabble, Scullabugue, burn.
ings, anti burglarious murders all over the Country,
among them P Never the most distant appearance
of such : and why P 'because their aims are indeed
religious only : and while allowed its free and un.
, biassed exercise they are happy; though they could
wish more, they know the former condud„.instead
of obtaining it, would justly forfeit what they have.
I repeat it again, if Religion only is sought, the,
Catholki have all they can desire;' but tti is un.
deniably evident, that more than Religion is sought,
therefore let Government beware. If the use they,
make of present Privileges enables them to shake the
State to the centre, the most Obviously glaring use they,
wilt make of more will be, to overturn It to lisfaunda.
bons.- Why that hint, by implication, of joining'
BONArAkTE ? Could a conscientious Catholic form
a union with him P or swallow his ,astorate pre.
texts of a regard for the Faith now, which, in ,
Egypt, be abjured' lie that runs may read such
principles both in the Patron and Protegees. But
I hope Government, by • a resolute and undaunted
femaies.t, will bring, his brutal, upstart,
.unprinci.
pled' arrogance to that moderation which Peace re.
quires ; if not, welcome War the Nation must, as
I doubt not it, will, cheerfully submit to every pri.
vation, sooner than endure such low.born inso.
lence a day longer. •
lam,Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
' A IVlrldt. CR, or TIM ISIAULisfiED ClitUtchl
11.NGLAND AM) iItELAND.
Tarporky 24th. March,. ;833.

On Wednesday se'nnighr, 43 Mt. Gardiner, school.
master of St. Briavel:, in the couutyl of Gloucester,
was digging up an old wall, he found the remains
of a human body, which, it is suppose►i, had been
murdered, as the barrel of a pistol (the wood work
being decayed) was found by it, as also part of
a woollen garment. From appearances, it is con.
jelured that the body must have lain ,tkre fifty
years.