The Sun.
London, England, 1819-04-23 00:00:00

FO'I SUN.

CATHOLIC CITTESTiON.

Ma. EDITOR—If the p'assin4 a just Act or Par-
liament. near forty years ago, to exempt Roman
Coln.lics from penaltie% incurred by•an adherence
to the religion of their fathers, in a spiritual

sense,, produced the most destructive tumults•in
and about the metropolis, what can he expected
if l'arliam;nt should be so lest- to the duty they
owe to their Country, as to pass one which will

admit them to a share of political power, in a
temporal sense ? The pen trembles in my band
while ; ask the question►. In Religion they have a
right to all the toleration they enjoy. In Politics
they have a right to protection for their temporal
allesli mice, hut not in spirituals, wt►ile they Owe
a religious allegiance to the Pope of !tome. 'l'i►'e
o:ffetcrice here is so wire, that it is impossible to
r,concile it. It would split the union of alle-
gian'e to Cl:melt and King, as forming one State,

strving his Mr:it:sty as silpretre citil roagiorate at
home, and their holy father abroad as. a religious
The anomaly .is too great, anti the ineo'n-
sistency insolvable. The pretences set tin by
their !elders are specious, plausible, anti design.
i::g ; Ili( it inferences de,...citfol, a d their con-
clusions talse. Sorry, therefore, urn I that any
I\letuber of Pdrlidtheut should think other wise,

and Hypeat disposed to favour their claim.
All before the ileformalion, when the religion
of ti.e country was Rornish„ is ctit of question,
ft I) d cannot, since its destruction, be quoted in
point. AU since the Ile!orrmation shews the rest-
less and turbulent spirit of the Papists as a con-

1410-trice, which occabiored the Corporation and

These, however, have relaxed in
operation, and the Papists, with other dissenters,
have been relieved in more matters, of conscience,
which ought to be tree ; and they have nothing
to ask for but leaving out the Presbyter ians,eitc.

'test Actg.

the Papists ask for a share of political power,
saying it has nothing to do With the Ct►ristian
Religion, or where its supremacy rests, This I
deny: The politics of Great Britain and Leland
are connected with its establishment in religion,

Avlicse ‘vholesome doctrine is disseininieted there-
with ; not to be polluted' by Popery, nor the ad-
mis,ion of its enemies. let, as if men were

blind in intellect, poisoned by party, and indif-
ft rent to all ieligion, they will not see that the
intractiou of all order, tewporal and spiritual,
and the peace of a Protestant People, will be sa-
crificed to the arrogance and presumption of
mixing their tares wilt our wheat, leaving us the
former, while they engross the latter.

TERR2E FILIUS.

MR. O'CONNELL'S ADDRESS

TO THE

CATHOLICS OF IRELAND.

" Remember thee! yes, while there's life in this heart
It shall never forget thee, all torn as thou art ;

More dear in thy sorrow, thy gloom, and thy showers,

Than the rest of the world in their sunniest hours."

FELLQW COUNTRYMEN—One more year of
hunti:iation and alltnage in our native land has
passed o'er us. We haYeendured one year more
of degradation and injustice.
" in the administration of justice, we are ex-
chided from all judicial situations. The property,
the person, the lite, the honour
.of Catholics of
J eland are in the hands of Judges, not one of
whom can' ht. a Catholic ; they may he of any
other, religion whatever, or of no
.religion at all,
but not one of them can be a Catholic.
In the Corporations, we ate excluded from
all offices,. from Mayor down to Scavengers, both
included.

" ton, the injustice is rendered more
poil:o.,nt by the superadded result—for we alone
are thus excluded trorn parish vestries ;—they are
open to all her disienter's from the E,tablished
Church, Presbyteri•,tns, Methodists, Jumpers, and

Jew. 4.
" eatholics .of Ireland, how long are we fated
to suffert hose evils ? [low long are we doomed
to he micas 9nd slaves in the lauil of out birth—
if) the land of our fora:tilers ?
" 'The answer to these questions is perfectly'
easy. We shall continue to cockle infetiwity
and inpitiee unfil that time arrives when the
Catholics of Ireland shall arouse heinsOveS to
deniaml with a combined voice, in the tone of
perfect courtesy and reFpect, but in accents of per-.
feet. firmness, their freedom. It ail the Catholics
will now combine to demand their 'right ; if they
will, as they easily tan, blend conciliation of
temper and manner with constitutional firmness
and determination, the remaining links of our
cflains will fall off, and we shall be restored to all
we desire, to an equalization of civil rights with
our Protestant -fellow-countrymeu.
. .

" Every thing announces the present as a period
Peculiarly well suited to a fresh effort for relief. In
Ireland, prejudices have almost entirely vanished.
The Protestants of Belfast and Galway have en-
tered ir►'o the spirit of conciliation and kin►ili•
ness 5 they have set us a glorious example of af-
fectionate cordiality which we ought to cherish,
and abyve all to imitate ; indeed, it such a teo►-
per as the Protestants of Galway and Beltast have
exhibited were universal, we should scarcely feel
the evils of our exclusion. _ . .

Catholics of Ireland, your fate is in your
own hands ; it is the business of every honest
man ; no rush amongst you is too high to be
ah,.ve the evils of our political inferiority; no
man amongst you is too low to be unaffected by