The Sun.
London, England, 1819-04-27 00:00:00

FOR 1 FIE SUN.

MR. EDITOR—The inclosed has been transmit-
ted to me by a friend and fellow-advocate in the
Cause you so nobly support—the Freedoin of Bri-
tain. It is an explanation and vindication of the
sentiments avowed by SYDNEY in The Bath He-
rald of the inst., and to whirl) an illiberal
and irrelevant answer was returned under the sig-,
DEVltre Of [II dRIINO. A NGLICUS. It s,irely would
have been a stronger indication of the B Ali Edi-
tor's impattiality, and would have more fully
prov, d hi, at; achment to the Estabhshment,which,
if he be (as I am informed he is) a member of
a loyal Corporation, he loss sworn to suprort,
bad be inserted SYDNEY'S Replication. This,
however, it apdears was refused (pun two groonds,
on.. of which is frivolous, and the other, I am

11;!.onut d,, is not founded upon fact. 1 trust,

!g l': E.!itor, that it is 1101 trespassiug too much
upon yout itolul;;ettee to request, that through the
1-y d Columns /41 SUN the ternpet ate and tin-
tinoverahle Defence apd I{e-ply of Sy DN 14, y way
!I WO the eve of iitaLarto-ANGLIcus, told of his
ultra liberal

ALBERT.

" ON TITF, nomAN CX7TI"LIC (ZrE'TION.

4' Mt:. EDIT,,—Not a 6 artviitt4 nr tnr the
pfhlti,tilit!) t,r R0,11.1i1 CA' to I'olitte,4l poorer
in ih.s-Pi.neNtatit Country has been adtit.ced by
llinerno Anelieuc, in what hr is pleased to r;,11
truly' to Sydney's Leiter, in The herald
!lit 3tl inst.

" The truths hr cannot controvert he pasSes
57th siLntio, ant) declares bis intention to desist
trout the defence of a cause in which lie is evi-
detoly unable to proceed.
" liiberno-Anglicas seems to toro, that him-
self is deeply guilty of that v,ry illiberality of
which he falsely a ruses Srluev,—neonely,
ca-
lntnnv, when he calumniates' ~s.vu Noblemen and
a lii.hop ' for expressing sentiments adverse to HIS
()PINION of what is right.' by ce-illOig them DUPES
ty then own PUS! LLANI tlerllo-AtigliCUS
should. at least, have been consistent in his Reply;
and nu'''. reduced himself to the
bring rey g,i:ty of th,it whit It 1)c
charges upon his -

" Sydney avows himself an advocate for the
most extensive RELIGIons LtENhTY, and the oni-
versal en;oytnent of POLITICAL PRIVILEGES, in all
ea- s where the concession of such privilege 3
Would be ee,mpatible with the Protestant security
and freedom ot this Nation—btu he denies that
the cent essi-ns now demanded by the Catholics
he so, , ber;:,se they lv otild pave the way
to a C,lthr,ir: .-I,cendant y.—beeaittie, tinder a
Catholic ANcenclancy, ttligions. Liberty has de-
clined, and PoPtivit has never been found to ad.
Vance, but always to endeavour to injure the ii,-
tcrests of PROTESTANTINM,—,II,I- hceaose the
tocip!es which
tr(rwer days are still the iv.), hanged pri74cioßs of
• Pupery at this moment, ,nd thereto!! Inns( lnrv
.i -
ably tuilowed ny %,itruikr con.seipientes.
Her., !Wspliwy rest!, his pritucivalobj,ction to
Participation in It is
not what loyalty „n;1 heel) shewn
wherever ii uy have been trusted,' under a Pro-
testant A',CENDANCY,----but, what proofs rut Zval
and artach,nely Fri-lists have affor,ed to protest_
nor principles and Protestant Princes, when pos-
sessed either or an Ascendancy, or ot physic-11 fotre
segicirmi to attempt tneir annihilation. 'tue page
ok. anthentic Ilusinty atior,us us none Toese
principles are ilisavowed—by whom Only by a
bony ot individuals, supported neither by the heads
of the Cal 'Joh, entir.:n, nor by- the only author ity
which call effectually declare them twit and void.
It Sydney he in error on this point, and
11i-
berno_Arlglicns can cute any competent authority
of the Rotnish Church repeating t iose barbarous
decrees of the Councils and of Popes, which other-
wise (tho,,gii 11..1(1 lint as musty records) are the
standards ti the present Riwrish Principles, and are
now in vit trial toree a4atost tlfe heresy' of Pro-
testantism' (the BANS AN!) DISHASE 0F THIS
tiS it i• termed in the Rhemish -Bible* just
republished, tinder high authority, i,i -the Ronsish
Church), Sidney will then allow. that dangers
may not he apprehended (tom the admission of
the Catiiolie Claims.

" A long list of the names of the greatest men
in worth, in knowledge, talents, and station, who
have adorned the annals of thiS Empire, might
be adduced, whose opinions support the senti-
ments of Sydney,—hut a question so important
would be perhaps better di•eussed upon its sim-
ple merits, and the arguments elicited he drawn
front facts, rather than opinions, however illus.
Itions thosc. men. who have entertained theta.
Sidney despises" NOT names or opinion.s, but
hr repeats that they ought not to be suffered to
weigh against authorities and facts.
'' Sydney defends not any of the tumultuous con-
duct of tht.• ORANGE LODGES—he heartily depre-
cates any attempts:" by whatever party, to tyran-
uise over or persecute others for their opinions.
The Dublin Orange Societies were instituted
shoot '2O years ago, at a time when the rebellious
Irish, associated under the title of " UNITED
IRISHMEN," cart ied their seditious proceedings to
such excesses, that it was deemed expedient by
the Protestants to unite in self-defence, and (as
they openly declared at the time) their only ob-
jects were '' the maintenance of social order and
the protection of the tires and property of all his
Mairsty's loyal subjects from the spirit of anarchy
and outrage which threatened them." These ob-
jects Sydney avows deserving of " encomium"
and &fence—hut not those objects imputed to
Orange Societies by Hiberno-Anglicus.
It is not LIBERTY, but PRIVILEGE, the Catho-
lics seek. ,To the former they have, in common
with all, a right, and they are not deprived of it.
But Ptivilege is to be bestowed on those alone,

1 See Note on John aiv. 28.

who would brit use the power it eon veyd agaiugi
the safety of the community.
" Hikroo-Auglictis confounds the true nature
of the question, and adop's a false principle for
the foundation of his cwinions. lle asserts th3r
the Catholics are " harassed " and " petsec;nted,"
as it exclusion from power and religious persecution
Were convertible terms : they are totally different.
Exclusion is entirely negative and delensive,in its
operation. It only declares that those who hold
certain dangerous opinions shall not fill certain
situations. 'Persecution compels the adoption of a
presciihed faith (a principal feature of Popery)
under penalty of the loss of librrty, property, or
life. TOLERATION, with EXCLUSION from power,
interferes not with any civil or religious Liberty.
PERSPCUTION proceeds from a bigotted and san-
guinary spirit of INTOLERANCE. It is therefore
clearly a misrepresentation to assert, that six mil-
lions of Catholics are " harassed" or "perse-
cuted," he-anse, by the existing Laws of England,
a eomp,,e;irive few troni the higher classes are
restntioed from the exercise of POLITICAL POwIER.

11 k beneath the dignity of this important sub-
ject to Mold:4e in illiberal epithets, or in trifling
and rersouel criticism. In this respect Sydney
declines to fullo,v the example ot
Ilibrruu-
An„licns. conscious that such .ptomotes not the
calisr or either, and only ten,la to veil the real
merits of the question front candid scrutiny.
" Bash, April 1711819. SYDNEY."

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