The Sun.
London, England, 1819-04-22 00:00:00

POPEI.Y.

r:DITOR—As the momentous crisis tire.Ws
near, when the general interevs of the Protestant
Faith are to be suspended in the awful balance of
Senatorial discussion, et least as 1C respects Great
Britain, I have to request a plare in your pa-
triotic columns for some extracts from that pam-
phlet lately recommended to notice. The wide
circulation you can effort; them, will give nn
ealeiency and influence to their f.,cts and truths,
which even a new E.lition could not perhaps ac-
complish, or may lead to a deliberate and atten-
tive peresel of the original itself. The Rev.
Atohor commences tvi,h this observation, "Every
faithful Minister sustains the relation of a watch-
man unto the nation in which he lives, as well-ns
that of Pastor to -he particular flock over which the
Holy Ghost has plat ed him ; and therefore ought
not only to be of a public spirit to observe the
first approaches of netional calamities, but also
of a courageous spirit to give warning of them.
Being !has a debtor to my dear native country,
and hearing round dhow me the noise of bloody
Papists rallying for slaughter, I could not but
present to the public view these awakening con-
sideretioes and counsels ; if happily true zeal for
the Protestant leterest might be provoked, and
the growieg designs of the common enemy be
detected and retarded." And so strong were his
national feelings, lie exclaims. " Were I sure of
personal safety, yet how could I endure to see
the evi; that Will come upon my people ? How
ten ible a think would it be to stand upon the
shore, and see so glorious a vessel as England
cast away," &re &c. But among other important
points of discussioe, his description of an Eccle-
siastical Body which has lately and clandestinely,
I might add, treacherously been restored among
113, and who have most appropriately been deno-
minated " The Pope's Jani,aries," deserves the
most particular perusal and deep ::hard. Hos-
pipian (Hilt Jesuit, p. 225.) describes " how
the Jesuits animate him, whom they employ for
the murder of Kin. sV ! They lead him into a
chapel. where the knite lies wrapt up in a cloth,
with Anus Dei engraved on it. Then they open
the knife, and spriekleit with holy water, fast-
en;ng 14 the heti some consecrated beads ! with
this iudulgence, ?bat so many stabs as be gives
the tang, so wally souls he saves out of purga-
tory ! ! Then hey present to him the knife with
these words, 0 'lion chosen of God, take to thee
the sword of Jephtba, Sampson, David, Gideon,
Judith, of al iccahens, of Julius the 2d, who de-
e, soled himself from the Princes by his sword !
Go, and he wisely eonrageoes, and God strengthen
thy band ! then they all fall upon their knees
with the, waver, Be present, oye Cherubims
and Set-Taints, he present ye Thrones, Powers,
and Udy Ang,l, fill this vessel with glory, give
him the crown of martyrdom. He is no longer
ours, hut your companion ! and thou, 0 God,
strengthen his arm, that he may do thy will, give
him thy helinst and wings, that he may fly from
his enemies.' Then they spew hint a crown of
glory, and say, ' Lord respect this thine arm,
and the execution or thy justice.' I'hen they tell
him they see a divine lustre in his face,' settle!'
moves them to fall dowe, and kiss his feet ; and
noes he is more limo mortal man,' &c. &c.—
How instly then does 'Voting, who in his third
Night had exposed and execrated their cruelty to
a Pm orestant corpse, thus apostrophize them,
" Their name from Jesus, and their arts from
hell •," and how justly might Mr. F. say of their
Head, whose. precepts instivie them to such
crimes, " he is the Son of Perdition in au active
as well as !massive sense." But there is amothei.
trait in this jostly abhorred Ecclesiastical cheeac-
ter, which strongly individualizes and identifies
his guilt, is hich, from the prodigiousness of its
impiety, many Protestants cannot bring them-
selves to believe, and which many Papists arc
not willing to acknowledge—his being deemed a
God ! but see the hexameters in it is pro-
meleated to the prostrate a.loriag throngs—
" Oruculo mcderaris rze-
Tito in tcrris credcris (-sec Dens !" Soo us IV.--11
such is the Holy Father, what then are the
chil-
dren of this blessed family ?' Hear Richorius, " A
Priest is as mulch above a King as a King ,is above
a beast ; yea, as God is above a Priest !" now
then is it possible that such men can ever be the
loyal sehjects of any earthly Sovereign, much
less of a Pretestant one ? finless he submits to be-
come their mere instilment, their abject tool,
',led set render his kinedorn and vassals (like Frt.-
ditesoll the Beloved, embroiderer for the Virgin
Mary) to their domination, cruelty, anti rapa-
city. Here some may pet baps object that this
title seems merely hyperbolical---a metaphor.—
Have (licit thmidel bolts, his ftations anathemas
of excommunication, been only metaphors ? Was
!heti the well known massacre of Paris, in which
so many sictims were offered to this *lnfernal
enly a metaphor ? for which a blas-
phemous jebilee and public processions ,were
in-
stituted at Rome ; and which is thus adverted to
and described by one of the most popular and ee-
lebreted writers of the present day :—" It is
enough to call to time reader's recollection the
bloody secret of the massacre of St. Bartholomew,
which was kept by such a number of the Catholic
Noblemen for two years, at the expence of false

Whose foot., ye gulls, though cloven, must be
Night Thoughtit.

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alined, and Unsuspectin:
Gallants lent their wiltieeee4s;.e'' New
Stypietnent tti ruts. Br flatrikilieVlolldry,
3, p. 144 )—Oue part of iihis scene has been act-
ed over here: The breach islf the MhSt solemn dea
claratiOns nen: roogai,ehtt which could hind an
honourable mind, " that it the privilege!: they
now enjoy were tonteded to them, they (the Ca-
tholics) [levee would ash for any more." The
latter part of the tragedy will most assuredly and
irresistibly follow, it Parliatneut is so infatuated
as to entrust them with legislative and official
power—nothing can prevent it. Indeed, the late
French Revolution, which inflicted so many mi•
series on Christendom, and the world at large,
seems but a continuation of the system of blood.
Its origin has often and justly been traced to the
repeal of the Edict of Naatz, when the dragoon-
ing apostles of Louis XIV. tilled Europe with
French fugitives, that escaped the carnage and
rewarded the nations who received them with
their industry and manufacturing establishments.
Its actual commencement took place when the
fated Louis XVI. published his ordonnance for
a partial relaxation of the persecuting stab
tutu, by no means a complete political este.
blishment of Protestants. Hebert, Gobet, &c.
with many leaders in the following horrors,
were Ex-Jesuits, and true to their character,
as drawn by Hospinian, led the Whole Royal
Fa-
wily no the scaffold, which, although avowedly
Catholic, hesitated to gratify their Insatiable
thirst of heretical blood any longer, and to sacri-
fice the political ptosperity of the nation to their
fury and rapacity. Such was the true cause of
Damien's attack on Louis XV. ; such, of all the
multiplied wars awl scenes of civil bloodshed, from
the days of Henry IV. and Ravilliac. It is related
by historians, that the confessions of the latter,
when pun to the torture, were taken down in such
a confused and illegible manner, they could never
be understood. It was never intended that they
should ; just as a!! intelligence of the enormities
which have been perpetrated, and are so to this
very hour, at Nismes, &c. in the South of Ft ance,
have been most anxiously suppressed, or imptl.
demi), denied ; the assassills repeatedly acquitted
by the infamous Tribunals, such as Trettaillon,
&c. or even promoted. Yet it is the pattisans,
the correspondents, the confidantes, the members
of this execrable Ecclesiastical community, which
are now propoed, with all the sophistries of con-
victed dissimulation, or demanded by threats of
revolutionary arrogance, to be introduced to the
benches of Parliament, to be installed on the tri-
bunals of justice, to be placed at the head of ar-
mies, &c. Nay, that treachery has in reality an
ultimate view to the throne itself, let the genea-
logy of the Princess Elizabeth (sister to Charles
1.), and all her descendents, be consulted, and if
the disqualifications of religion (the Popish) are
done away, all the political confusions and civil
wars of the Houses of York and Lancaster will
be acted over again. As the Monks and their
Heads had a leading shore in these national cala-
mities, and from this weighty motive, that there
might be no time lett to attend to or enquire after
their own villanies, the Nation may see whither
the revival of monastic institutions among us is
intended ultimately to lead. In the mean time,
there can be not the smallest doubt, that this is
the true cause of that dreadful increase of crime,
so generally noticed and deplored, which is de-
luging the land, and unhinging social order in all
its institutions and gradations ; and tin il an
Emancipation of Catholics from their spiritual
bonds is effected, any further political concessions
will only add fuel to the fire, which will devour
the glorious fabric of the British State. Let Pro-
testants then lay aside their mutual animosities,
and awake to the real slate of the natl®a ; else
they may soon " find a Procrastes who will cut.
them all of a length." Men that will not permute
a God, and suffer their "laid) to he new-stampvd,
must either run or the for it." There is one 'flea-
sure which has lately been attempted,—to iuolmse,
by legal adjudication, a most inquisitorial taxation
of Protestant places of worship; under pretence of
aiding the Poor-rates. In whatever views it may
have originated, Loyola himself could not have
devised a more efficient and successful means to
promote his Party's design, to divide Protestants,
and paralyze their every effort at opposition to the
resuscitation of Popery. Let a vote of Parliament
put an end to all future fears and jealousies on this
head, declaring all places of worship free for
ever, and these petty vexatious cease. Then may we
yet hope to " weather this storm,'' and bring The
Imperial Britannia, dressed with all her commer-
cial, her political, her literary, her military, pen-
dants, ensigns, standards, and flags of honour,
safely into port.—.l am, respectfully,
Your's,
April 14, tarn. ANTIPAPA.

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Tice Duke and Duchess of KENT were expected
to arrive here yesterday, with a numerous suite,
for whose accommodation apartments and beds
are ordered at the King's Head Hotel E, and it is
undeistood their Royal Highnesses proceed to
Cobm-k,!!, the seat ut the Eari of DARNLEY.---.
(Canterbury Paper.)
Saturday last Mr. STUART and Mr. ALSoP were
returned for the Boning!) of Came!ford.
Wednesday an adjourned meeting of the Pres.
bytery of Edinburgh WR3 held, when the Report
of the Committee appointed to take into consi-
deration the celebration of illegal marriagcs was
laid before. them. Alter detailing the various
evili which arose from the present mode of
granting eertificalet, the report stated, that it
would. be desirable that some plan should be de•
vised for remedying the existing abuses in the ce-
lebration of marriages. Atter a good deal of ren,
coning on the subject, Sir H. Moncriet moved,
that, as a check on the conduct of the Session-
Clerks, they-should be requested to attend tha
Presbytery with their books, at certain period.,
in order to ascertain that the certificates
granted were in proportion to
.the population.
of the parishes. The Session-Clerks of
burgh, South Leith, Canongate, and Sr„ Curb-
bert's, were accordingly directed to attend with
their books at the next meeting of the I'rt-sbytcr...4
and the Committee was requested to frame from
the Report a series of regulations by that tune.•°-•
(EdinGurigh Courant, April 17 .)

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Vl4R:L'f A NI E N.T.

TIOUSE OF COMMON:), WEDN'EsnAy, Arim.2l.

tr)itse re.aseembleil tliis day at a quarter
beture 4 o'clock.

MILBORN PORT.

The Chairthan of the Milborn-Port Election
!Conottitree 'reported, that the Sitting Members,
Sir I.':(lward Paget and Robert Matthew Cashetd,
'Esq. e‘ere dilly elected ; th-ft the petition against
their return was not frivolous or vexatious, and
that thrir opposition to the petition was not fri-
voloos or vex:itions.

Mr. H. SUMNER fixed the motion of which be
bad given notice before the holidays, for leave to
bring in a Bill to regulate the trade of country
butyrs, for to-morrow.
A petition front the Roman Catholic inhabl-
tan:s of the County at Roscommon, praying to
he admitted to a till enjoyment of constitutional
'privileges, was received, and ordered to_lie on
the table.
fir (ig()ttGe OSBORN presented, in tie absenee
of an 11011. Friend, a 'petition from the Protes-
tant iiii4blitititS of the •Borough of Newry to the
same effect —Ordered to lie on the table.

thyssEs BURGH -presented a lietttion from
the insolvent Debtors confined ici (.;ac low Gaol,
pra)l,:g tor relief, and for a geuerai act of grace.
Ordered to lie on the table.