The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1835.

In consequence, an edition of the work was ordered to be
printed by the present publishers, to the number of 3,000 co-
pies. The work is now very rare, and scarcely to be met
with. And inasmuch as his Grace, Dr. Murray, Dr. Doyle,
Dr. Keating, and Dr. Kinsella, have made it the conference-
book for the clergy of the province of Leinster, the publisher,
as well to obviate the difficulty experienced by them in pro-
curing the work, as also to advance the cause of religion and
morality in the other parts of the Irish Church, is induced to
reprint a limited number of copies."
Again, in the words of the Rev. Mr. M'Ghee—

" We perceive that this book was held in such estimation
by the priests, that in 1832 there was scarcely a copy to be
got, and that it had been made the standard book for the con-
ferences of the clergy through the province of Leinster, as
3,000 copies had been ordered to be printed under the autho-
rity of their bishops and all the priests of Ireland, and there-
fore in the year 1832 Mr. Coyne published again a limited
number of copies, but that number Mr. Coyne informed the
writer of this was 3,000 more. We have, therefore, this book
authenticated, and set up universally by the highest autho-
rities in the Church of Rome, as containing an undoubted ex-
position of all their principles ; published first in 1808, 3,000
copies in seven volumes; again in 183:1, 3,000 copies more in
Fight, in all 6,000 copies, which, at two guineas a copy, which
is the selling price, allowing for the additional volume in the
last edition, makes the sum of 11,250 guineas ; a book must
be of no common importance to be published for the priests at
that enormous expense.
" We now come to consider the principles of this book, and
as it is not my object to make this a theological treatise, I
shall confine myself strictly to those parts which concern our
religion, and the judgments denounced against us by the
Church of Rome."

We shall now extract, here and there from the
pamphlet, a few of the questions noted in it, with the
answers furnished by this grand standard theologist :-
6, Quid est hwresis? " What is heresy ?
" IV. Responsio. Est in- " IV. Answer. It is the
credulitas eorum qui profitentur unbelief of those who profess
quidem Christum venisse, sed indeed that Christ has come,
doctrinam ejus ab e,!clesia pro- but who reject his doctrine as
positam quoad partem aliquem to any part as proposed by the
abjiciunt : tales sunt Lutherani, Church ; such are Lutherans,
Calvinistw, &c." Calvinists, &c."
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" Let me here pause to observe, that this is the great prin-
ciple of all religious toleration—that a man, in the worship of
his God, might be at liberty to worship him according to the
dictates of his conscience, and that he should not be held
responsible for the conscientious exercise of his religion before
the tribunal of his fellow-creatures. The Church of Rome
here supposes this principle to be urged as an objection to her
doctrines--and does she admit it ? does she admit that which
Mr. O'Connell vaunted of some years ago in his address to
the Dissenters of England—' We desire,' saith he, to bring
into practical operation this great principle of individual duty
and social right, that every human being should worship God
according to the sincere dictates of his conscientious belief.'
He adds, This is, we assert, an universal principle, not con-
fined to one sect or persuasion, but extended to every existing
and to every possible mode of Christian belief.'
" The Catholics of Ireland have ever grounded their peti-
tions for emancipation on this great principle of freedom of
conscience.'—O'Connell and Sheil's speeches, page 500.
" Now let us try the worth of these assertions. Here is
this principle brought to the test. The Popish bishops and
priests of Ireland anticipate this as an objection against their
intolerance of our worship : they suppose an objector to urge
that the apostle says, Let every man be fully persuaded in
his own mind.' Therefore liberty of religion is to be left to
every man. How do they meet this ? Do they admit it ?
Do they tolerate the principle ? Mark."
In reference to the question whether " Unbelievers
are to be compelled to join themselves to the bosom of
the " faithful ?" a question which involves the whole
practical' existence, as recognized by the Romish
Church, of that great principle of toleration which
Mr. O'Connell and his compeers so solemnly appealed
to, and so loudly vaunted, when they were on the hunt
to obtain political power from the Protestants, we shall
confine ourselves to those answers which are applicable
to our own condition as Protestants (or, in the Romish
version, " heretics"), and which prove what measure is
in store for us from the hands of the Romish hierarchy
of Ireland, at that day, perhaps no very distant one,
when the whole power of the state, that is, of the se-
parate state of Ireland, shall be at their disposal :
" 111. Responditur 2do. ad " 111. Weanswer,2dly, to the
qutestionem. Infideles baptizati question, that unbelievers who
quales esse solent haerettei et have been baptized as heretics and
apostate, item schismatici bapti- apostates generally, and also bap-
zati, co.i possunt etiam penis tized schismatics, can be corn-
corporalrbus ut revertantur ad pelled by corporal punishments to
fidem Catholicam et unitatem return to the Catholic faith and
ecclesia. the unity of the church.
" Ratio est, quod isti per " The reason is, that they
baptismum subditi facti sunt by baptism are made subjects
ecclesim, adeoque ecclesim in of the church, and therefore the
cos jurisdictionem habet, et po- church has jurisdiction over
testatim eos compellendi per them, and the power of corn-
media ordinata ad obedientiam pelling them by ordinary means
et ad implendas obligations in to obedience, and to fulfil the
baptismo contractas. obligations contracted in their
baptism."
Hence it appears that every Protestant who has
once received baptism is claimed by Popery as one
of her lawful subjects, and may be legitimately
coerced by all those means which the genius of that
despotic church enforces for the execution of her
mandates.
" Perhaps a system of equal religious intolerance was never
yet recorded in print. Let us pause and meditate a moment
on its enormity.
" Every creature who has ever been baptized in my church,
whether voluntarily as an adult, or in infancy, or by compul-
sion, no matter how, is by baptism made subject to the do-
mination of the Church of Rome, comes under her juris-
diction, and is to be compelled by corporal punishments to
go over to the faith of Popery ; not, observe, forced to believe
against his will, but forced to be willing to believe—that is,
he is to be brought to the rack, or the scaffold, or the
stake, and to be forced to prefer the profession of her faith
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to the cruelty of her persecution. It is only necessary to
point out to you one or two more passages in which it is set
forth—first, that the baptism of heretics is valid,and i s
lhat
in
which is meant here. Secondly, the authority which is
claimed over all who are baptized, expressed, if pb
stronger language.
" First, lest Romanists should deny that they considered us
as baptised, and that not being validly baptized, we did not
come under their jurisdiction and their ban, we recite the deci.
sion of Dens on this question, thus:—...
" Non requiritur ut ministre "It is not required that a
explicite intendat facere quod minister should explicitly intend
facit ecclesia Romana, sed suf- to do that which the Roman
ficit ut simpliciter et generatim Church does, but it is sufficient
volet facere quod Christus insti- that he should simply and gene-
tuit, vel quod facit vera ecclesia rally intend to do that which
qutecunque illius sit sententia de Christ instituted, or that which
ecclesia, ut declarat praxis ec- the true Church does, whatso-
elesix ratum habentis baptisma ever his opinion of that Church
hwreticorum." may be, as the practice of the
Church declares, which holds
the baptism of Heretics to be
valid."
So, once more, on the necessary subjection of Infi-
dels and heretics to the Church, we have the sweeping
sentence which follows :
" Hwretici, schismatici, apos- " Heretics, schismatics, apos-
tate, et similes omnes baptizati tates, and all similar persons,
obligantur legibus ecclesia; ,qua who have been baptized, are
ipsos concernunt, neque magis bound 1y the laws of the Church
a legibus ejus solvuntur quanf which concern them, nor are
subditi contra legitimum princi- they more released from her
pem rebelles a legibus principis." laws, than subjects rebelling
against their lawful Prince are
released from the laws of that
Prince."
Now, here, for the present, we shall leave to the re-
flection of our readers that hopeful sample of religious
toleration, or, in other words, of unrelenting perse-
cution, upon which our Protestant brethren in Ireland
must calculate, when the supremacy of the Popish
priesthood shall be firmly established in that ill-fated
country. Innumerable, and appalling as innumera-
ble, are the topics which grow out of those now ad-
verted to in the pamphlet whence we have made the
foregoing extracts. The relative numbers of Protest-
ant and Catholic in Ireland, and the chance afforded
to the former, who are our brethren, of maintaining a
religious, political, nay, social being under the scourge
provided for them by the ill-omened league of authority
and agitation, form one of the deepest elements of the
mass of evil which impends over us. It is strange
that those of our contemporaries who seem most fami-
liar with the fact of that alarming disproportion, have
never once recurred to the most important of all the
considerations belonging to it—namely, 'the principle
which has produced and accelerated that dispropor-
tion. We may offer on that point a remark or two
anon. Connected with the above subject we insert a
letter from Dr. Murray, titular Archbishop of Dublin,
addressed to Lord Melbourne, and renouncing, as ob-
solete and untenable, those very doctrines of Dens's
Theology which we have already seen to be formally
approved by the whole Popish hierarchy of Ireland,
as attested by the signatures of all the Bishops. Now
the name of Dr. Murray does certainly figure among
those of the Rornish Prelates who have in their official
address to their clergy sanctioned that extraordinary
work. The authorities on both, sides, therefore, being
so high, and, truth to say, so accurately balanced—
viz., the most Rev. Dr. Murray "pro," and the same
most Rev. Personage " con,"—we must leave the
people of England to determine between them, adding
only that the object in prescribing the book to the
priests for their edification-is somewhat different *ow
that which the,most Rev. Archbishop may have had
in view while writing to the head of his Ma'jesty':s
Government, it being in the former case to whet th.e•
zeal of the active Popish prLoas.iu the latter. to (16'.

arm the political, and not unreasonable, jeolousv of the
King's responsible advisers.-7imes.
We give elsewhere the statement of the income and
expenditure of the United Kingdom for the year and
quarters ended yesterday, the sth instant. Upon the
former, as compared with the year ending July 5,
1834, there is a decrease of 1,758,886/.—and on the
quarter of no less a sum than 656,4071.—0 r, in other
words, so far as the quarter is concerned, a growing
decrease from the sth of April up to yesterday of about
three-fourths more than the loss incurred during the
previous year. The only increase is in the Customs,
the Post-office, and the Miscellaneous department--
in all others, including the Excise, the Stamps, and
the Taxes, there is a deficit of more than a mil-
lion sterling. The increase on the former depart-
ments being deducted, there remains, as we have said,
a loss upon the quarter to the extent of 656,4071.
This loss would be a matter of very serious mo-
ment, and calculated to give rise to very grave reflec-
tions, were there no possibility of accounting for it on
rational grounds ; but on recollection of what has been
done during the last two years, and of what ought to
have been done, the conviction will be strong in every
one's mind, that the wealth and resources of the
country are unimpaired, and that the most common
financial skill and ministerial economy only, are
required, in order to effect an increase both of the
knowledge and comforts of the people. With regard
for example, to the apparent decrease in the Excise,
it is to be accounted for by the transfer of the tea
duties from that department of revenue to that of
the Customs ; while in the department of the Taxes,
if the amount of the house duty, and other taxes
which have been repealed, be deducted, it will be seen
that the deficit upon the quarter amounts only to
about 72,0001. That deficiency is also in some mea-
sure to be-accounted for ; the probable amount of the
twopenny stamp and alnianack duties amounting, had
they been in existence, to about 10,000/.—thus leav-
ing, after allowing for the total abolition of taxes, from
which no benefit to the Revenue could arise, a total
loss upon the quarter of a mere trifle in the national ac-
count. To those who may investigate the financial
statement—no very agreeable labour—the accuracy of
this calculation will be at once apparent ; but the trifle
to which we have alluded—namely, about 72,000/.—is
well worthy of the attention of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, because it occurs in that department, the
Stamps, which in ordinary times rarely undergoes any
change, and which, during the last quarter, has exhi-
bited a startling decrease. That decrease, however, may
partly—nay, in great part—.be accounted for by the
unrestrained circulation, so far as the efforts of the
Government are concerned, of publications which
ought to be stamped, but which are allowed to cir-
culate in their different localities without any stamp
being appended to them. Two hundred thousand of
these publications—or rather, we should say, ten
millions of numbers of these publications are allowed
to be published annually without stamp or tax of
any description—and is it, therefore, to be wondered
that the stamp duty on newspapers should be
the source of the deficiency ? Nay, is it not rather
to be wondered at, that newspapers, having been
allowed to be published without a stamp, the defi-
ciency should not have been greater ? We have
reason to believe that the Government of which
Lords Althorp and Brougham formed a part had
determined to reduce the tax on newspapers to the
lowest possible amount, in order at once to furnish the
best information to the public, and to protect the re-
venue against such frauds as those to which we have
made allusion ; and wisely they would have acted in
adopting such a course. The revenue would have
sustained but little loss—smuggling (in so far as news-
papers are concerned) been prevented—and the fair
trader been protected ;—but not so the present Go-
vernment, whose maxim is, apparently, to lower the
amount of the revenue, by encouraging the contraband
merchant at the expense of the fair trader. Will the
stamped newspapers submit any longer to this unfair
system of taxation ?—or rather, we should say, will
the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, who might
gain immortal honour by a bold reduction of the duty—
attempt to defend such partial taxation ?-3forning
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