The Sun.
London, England, 1819-03-18 00:00:00

CA "T IiOLIC CLAIMS.

MR.EDITORIL—THe proMptHoHe• and persever-
.ance with which you and your Correspondents
balie lately come forward, and endeavoured to
rouse and direct the apparently torpid attention of
the Nation to the real state of what is commonly
termed T., CATHOLIC QUESTION, reserves the
approbation and cordial support of every him! of
his country. Among other addresses, I was led to
tioti.e your call upon Dissenters to step forward
at this alarming crisis; as they may rest assured,
they shall not escape their full share of the gene-
ral calamities which will overwhelm the 11
Church, when the treasons now hatching against,

our Protestant religious institutions are matured
and fifty consummate,!. The advances of their

pal rolls anti partizms are made with all the pro-
wl-hied craft and artifice ot Jesuitical clis:iimulation.

"Pence is in their montlis,bitt war is in their hearts;'.

and hit,' s that Cannot possibly he mistaken, from,
several different quarters, fully cootirrn it, that a
comipiete le-establishment of the man of sin, who
is also the wan of blood, is !began! to vaiLich :hey
drive, in this unhappy and now devoted country.
Refit cting on this aspect cif affairs, I- was led to

peruse e piece nt that excellent divine, the late
Mr. FLAIL, whose eminence of talent has long
been esinbitAhed in the whole Protestant world.

IT is intitnfed " Tidings from Rowe, or England's
Alarm." Although the contentions which-at that

time existed between somebodies of Protestants and

the Na; ional Establishment have long been put to
rest by a liberal loleralion, yet of late some on
bnth sides have most foolishly and ivickedly been
endeavouring to rekindle the flames, whose only
result would be, in the expressive language of Mr.

F. " to twake a slire for their common enemies to

cvartn their hands at." The republication of this

pamphlet, or at least ex!; acts from it, especially
whe:E• he describes the internal principles of the
Jesuits, (whose resuscitation by the Roman Con-

date, at this juncture, is an open declaration of
♦car against the whole Christian world), wooltl

be attended with the most salutary effects. If the
state of public affairs, then, just before the Revo-.
brtion,- so deeply affected the writer, what would
be have said had he lived in our tunes ? If the
murder of Sir EDMUNDBURY GODFREY fo alarmed
London then, what would that of the Prime Mi-
nister, Mr. PEKCEVAL, have done, which took
place the very week after he had exposed and de-
fettled the imposture and impolicy of their politi-
cal demands ; the rancour of whose infnriated
assassin was undoubtedly instigated and inflamed
by their secret artifices, as many things at the time
plved to prove. What would he have said at the
dreadful inclease of this crime, in and ;About Lon-
don, sit that none of its inhabitants seem privi-
leged to count themselves safe in their streets, or
even beds, particularly in the east qoarters of the
capital, where Papists 'chiefly teside ? Witness that
of the Manus, ‘VILLIAMSONS, &c. in Ratcliffe
Highway, and above all Mr. TnostsoN BONAR
and his Lady. Assassination is the inseparable
concomitant and infallible indication of the growth
of Popery, as may he seen in Spain, Portugal,
Italy, and every country where it is the established
religion. How cruelly has it lately raged over
Ireland ! Luddism was nothing but the principles
end 1 ractices of United Irishmen, transferred into
this country ; and many of the rioters who suf-
fered were Irish Papists, whose Priests ac-
cutripanied them to the gallows, to adminis-
ter, as they express it, spiritual consolation!—
What would he have said to behold the erection
of two Popish, nay Jesuit Universities in Ireland,
Castle Brown and Maynooth, while there is but
one Protestant Dublin ? and both paid by the
United Parliament !! ! As to the pretext of giv-
ing them a learned Priesthood, never was a more
infamous piece of swindling ehicanery carried
into efftct. There is no learning taught, or per-
mitted, but their Canons and Councils : the
writings of BAcoN, Nawi'oN, BoyI.E, and LocKa.
are as tutreli interdicted and prohibited there, and
in every Popish Unirersity, as.those of LUTHeR
and CALVIN. In addition to this, the large Jesuit
College at Stonyhmst, in Lsucaslin'e, with pupils
front, and consequently intimate connexions wit It,
all psrts.ot the Continent, also forty Institutions
in England and Scotland, ten of them Nunneries,
how madly of them are Monks cannot be known,
as it seems they are prohibited from wearing the
dresses of their Orders, lest the nation should be
;dame() !! ! When such nurseries of every moral
and politiCal abomination are encouraged, or even
winked at, how can this nation prosper, or be ex-,
pected to prosper ? Indeed every thing calls for
the most decisive conduct on the part of the new
Parliament : mere negatives will no longer serve.
As you have jiistly said, their steps must he re-
traced. These accursed Jesuit Universities must
be suppressed, and three Protestant Universities,
besides that Of Dublin, be established in Munster,
Ulster, aud Connaught. It is also very clear,
from their furious temper and language, that the
Popish regiments should be disbanded, as it is
plain they are only reserved by their patrons to be
let loose at some future period, and so to act over
;again the fable of " The Wolves and the Sheep!"
in this infatuated Country. Hoping you will see
your patriotic exertions crowned with merited and
adaquite success, I subscribe myself,
Most respectfully, your'S,
ANTIPAPA.