The Sun.
London, England, 1821-07-13 00:00:00

POPERY.

EDITOR.--As the public mind has hardly
yet recovered from its sur-prize at beholding the
unfathomable abg.cs, to whose very edge the na-
tion had been dragged by the fatuity of some
late political measures : at seeing the lower House
of Parliament vote for (what in fact and result
would be) not a toleration, but a re-establish-
ment, of the long abjured tenets of Rome : among
all the alwining events of -these Unhappy' times,
certainly the most portentous, and' big with this
! nation's fate, it will be well to consider it in all
its naked undisguised foulness, stript of that veil
of sophistry and deceptive equivocation, under
which its partizans always attempt to conceal it.
Th's has been characterised by those agitators,
who have so long abused the public Press, as
" The 'Era of Reason;" -hut should with more
propriety be entitled that of Treason; -and of
late indeed, hardly disguised, but in such terms
as bewray to the attentive eye their real source.
All the political immunities so strenuously peti-
tioned for, mere said to lie 44 only. in spirituals :"
and how cruel to restrain such tender consciences
as Catholics have always displayed, on points Uni-
versally conceded to all men. But listen on
this subject to the language of an authority to
which every-member of the establishment will
implicitly bow, the excellent Book of Homi-
lies It is well known, as by all histories,
" so also by daily experience, that none have
more. ambitiously aspired above Emperors,
" Kings, and Princes, nor have • more per-
" niciously maved the ignorant populace to re-
hellion against their Princes, than certain
" persons,' who falsely challenge •to. themselves,
" only to be accounted and called 'Spiritual.' "
Having described how the spirituality' of the
primitive 'A postles and Evangelists was display-
ed, it adds,—" But after that, ambition and de
" sire of dominion entered into Ecclesiastical
" Ministers, whose greatness, by the doctrine and
"-example of our Saviour, should chiefly stand in
" humbling themselves; and the Bishop of Rome,
44 being 'by the order of God's word, no other
" than the Bishop of that one See; and never yet
" well able to govern the same," (as we find is*
still the case), " when he, by intolerable ambi-
" Lion, did challenge to be, not only the Head
" of all the Churches dispersed through the
.‘ world, but also to he Lord of ali the king-
" dents of the world,' as is expressly-set forth -in
" his own Canon Laws ; most contrary to the
46 doctrine and example of our Saviour Christ
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whose Vicar, and of the Apostle Peter, whose.
" .Successor, he pretends to be. (Sextus. Decret.
" lib. 3. tit. 16.) After this ambition entertain-
" ed, and this challenge made, by the Bishop of
," Home, he became at Once the spoiler and de-
" strayer of the Church, which is the kingdom
" of our Savibur Christ, and of the Christian
"Empire, and all other Christian kingdoms, be-
"being an universal tyrant over all." Then, re-
lating the bloody wars, awl inextinguishable ran-
cour hence excited between the eastern and
western Christian Empires, it obserVes, " The
" ambitious intentions and most s:Ebtle drift of
" the Bishop of Rome in these practices, appeared
" evidently by their bold attempts in spoiling and
" robbing the Emperors of their towns, cities, do-
" mains and kingdoms in Italy, Lombardy, and
" Sicily, of ancient right belonging to the empire,
" by joining them to the bishoprick of Rome or
" else giving them to strangers, to h,olitqf the Church
cc of Rome as ' in capite; and as chief Lords
" thereof ; by which tenure the greater part
" are held to this day," and so indisputably ought
to be surrendered to the empire again, especially
those territories termed " the State of the
Church," by every law of politiCal equity. In
the 6th Homily it adds, to use one example of
our own cc: try, " The Bishop of Rome did
" pick a quarrel with King John of England,
" about the election of Stephen Langtml to the

Witnc,s3 the banditti tilat plundered or murdered all pas-
sengers, even to the ve:y gates of Rome.

" See of Canterbury, in which the, King had an-
" cient rights, being used by his progenitors, all
" Christian Rings of England, before him : the
" Bishops of Rome having no right, but had then
" began to usurp on all Christian kingdoms, as
" they had acted before: against their Sovereign
" Lords the Emperors, proceeding by the same
ways and means, cursing King John, and dis-
" charging his subjects of their oath of allegiance
" and fidelity." It then relates this Popish fac-
tion, introducing the Dauphin of France and a
great
,foreign army, to whom allegiance was
sworn, and John finally driven to hold his Crown
under the Pope : the foulest blot in the escutcheon
of England that the pen of history has recorded.
And yet Ne hear the descendants of these trai-
tors complaining that they are deprived of their
legislative rights in being denied a seat in
the House of Peers, though their whole conduct
irrefragably demonstrates that they would act the
very same.. part over again at this day. But it
may be objected, .that this is but the recrimination
of one rival communion against another. Hear
then the
.language of an eye witness, in makingthe' tour of modern Italy, the incomparable
Author of the Seasons, Thomson, in his admired
Poem on Liberty ; describing the present de-
graded state of these regions, and glancing- at
their past history, he paints in his glowing style
the irruptions of the Goths and other Nortlzern
Sarbiffians ; and adds, (Part 4th, 1. 480-77
" Outrageous mix'd with these,
" Another- species of tyrannic rule* ;
" Unknown before ; whose cank'rous shackles seiz'd
" Th' envenorn'd soul. A Wiker fury, she
," Even o'er her elclerTh Sistee- qranniz'd,
" Or if perchance agreed,- inflam'd her rage. •
" Dire was her train and loud, the sable band
" Thundering; submit ye Laity ! ye prophane !
• " Earth is the Lord's; and therefore ours ; /et Kings
" Allow the. common claim, and half be theirs I
" If not, beheld the.sael•e'd livluning flies !
-"-Scholastic discord with an hundred tongues,
" For Science uttering jangling Words obscure, •
" Where frighted Reason never yet could dwell,
" Of peremptory feature, cleric pride,
" Whose reddening cheek no contradiction bears,
" And Holy- Slander his associate firm,
" On whom the lying Spirit still descends !
" Mother of tortures, Persecuting Zeal,
" High flashing in her hand the ready torch,
" Or poiniard bath'd in unbelieving blood ;
" Hell's fiercest fiend ! of saintly brow demure,
" Assuming a celestial Seraph's name !
" While she, beneath the blasphemons pretence
" Of pleasing parent Heaven, the source of love,
" Has wrought more horrors, more detested deeds,
" Than all the rest combin'd ! Led on by her
" And wild of-head. to work her fell designs,
" Came idiot Superstition ; round with ears
" Innumerous strew'd ; ten thousand Monkish forms
" With legends ply'd them, and with tenets meant
" To charm, .or scare the simple into slaves 1 !
" And poison reason ; gross she swallows all,
" The most absurd believing ever most !
" Broad o'er the whole her universal
night," The gloom still doubling, Ignorance diffas'd.
" Nought to be seen but visionary Monks,
" To Councils strolling, and embroiling Creeds !
" Banditti saints ! disturbing distant lands,
"-And unknown Nations, wandering for a home !
" All lay revers'd ; the sacred acts of rule,
" Turn'd to flagitious leagues against Mankind,
" And acts of plunder, more and more avow'cll
" Pure plain devotion to.a solemn farce!
" To holy dotage virtue, even to guile,
" To murder, and to mockery of oaths!!!
" Brave ancient freedom to the rage p of slaves
" Proud of their State, andnighting for their chains.
" Dishonoured courage to the bravo's trade
" To civil broilS! and glory to Romance! !
" Thus human life milling d to ruin reel'd,
" And giddy reason totter'd on her throne !
Ile had said before, Part Ist, 1ine.193 :
" From feeble Justice, see how rash Revenge,
" Trembling,. the balance snatches, and the sword,
" Fearful himself, to venal ruffian gives !
" See where God's altar musing murder stands,
" With the red torch of dark assassins stain'd ! ! !"
And outrage on Civil Jurisprudence which con-
tinues 'to be the practice of their Priests unto
this hour ! and: was lately exhibited at Malta,
where a criminal, having taken refuge in a
church, was 'most obstinately refused to be de-
livered up to the Magistrates; until an officer was
sent,with two pieces of artil fery, and threatened to
blow the'edifice about their ears, unless the mur-
derer was instantly surrendered _to justice. And

these are among the "harmloss spiritual immuni-
ties"•which they demand, and of which the public
ear is almost stunned with outcries for the'restora-'
tion. If the Sect, which practices such enormities

has really increased in: numbers in the degree
which it is asserted by their patrons and advo-
cates they have of late done in England and Ire-
land, all the force of their arguments turns
against themselves, -and supplies their own
unanswerable refutation; and shews how the
language used by Wick/iffe in his day is but a
picture of our own times. " Men § might well
" cry out against the decay of religion, but he
‘‘ would show them whence this decay proceed-
" ed. While the preachers of religion never in-
" culcated religious duties, but entertained the
" pee-pie with idle stories and lying miracles ;
" while. they never enforced the necessity of a
" good life, but taught their hearers to put .their
" trust in a bit of parchment, and the prayers of
" hypocrites, it was impossible but religion must
" decay: such treacherous friends did more hurt
than open enemies, But a regard for religion,
" he added, was not to be expected from them;
" they had nothing. in view but the advancement,
" oftheir order. In every age they had made it
CC their practice to invent and multiply such new
" opinions and doctrines, as suited their aVUri••
" cious vieus ; nay, they had in a manner set aside
‘ Christianity, by binding men with their tradi-
" tions in preference to the rule of Christ, who

it might well be supposed kit not Liv, useful
out of his scheme."—Yet we see and hear of

these monastics now as openly and avowedly esta-
blished on both sides of the Irish channel, and.
in other districts of the kingdom, fostered by al?
patronage of high political characters, under the
modern pretext and cant, term of iiberalitv. And
yet at th- very same time we behold the nations in
the south of Europe, and in Spanish Ac--,Aerica
(where till lately these recluses of every
species swarmed), now struggling, too much
in vain, to recover the enjoyment of their long
lost civil liberties:, while insurrection and intes-
tine broils, excited .by .Monastic Agents, are gra-
dually reducing them, through anarchy and blood,
to their ancient state of bondage, mental and po-
litical. We see also the unhappy- Greek Cs rii-
elans surrendered to the .merciless butcheries of
their Ottoman Oppressors ; ard. t.e Nations of,
Europe withhold from defending them, by the

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Church Power. t Civil Tyrzr,ny.
,4- Crusaders. - it Vasssllnge.
§ See Prebend Gilpin' Life cf tVickliffei-p. if., 777.---tr.on cr.d
..I":e..rvis Editicr.. . '

vile sophistry of Jesuit Pamphleteers, both here
and elsewhere ; the true relson of which is be-
cause they have alWays rejected with scorn all
the impudent claims of the P‘oman Conclave to
Spiritual and Ecclesiastical S;!:premacy. -Int short
it is-utterly impossible for Li n-ty-; either politi-
cal, intellectual, or literary, -to exist, or even long
remain, where they are not S,-,,pi,itesed. If ever •
they appear to use the language (5f popillar right's,
it is only where the Governments will not be their
submissive tools us oppressing an,' plundering all
the rest of society ; and is all )7,v mean now, or
ever did mean. As to their hatred of real literary
merit, let the persecutions of Galileo, the silen-
cing Mirandola, and murder of itegiomontanus,
&c. &C. stand forward as the eternal proof. All
the -boasted- atchievements and liberality' of Leo
the Tenth, were spent on the mere fringes pod
trappings of science, while the glorious robe itself
was overwhelmed with the filth of vituperation
and anathema; witness Locke and Newton, inter-
dieted to this hour!! wherever 'their Hierarchy
predominate. What a public robbery then is it
to establish Universities, where only, or prin-
cipally, their senseless and contradictory- Ca-
nons and Decretals are inculcated on the Students. ,
As to Ireland, where their necessity was pleaded
for, it is well known that the Christian Faith was
disseminated and established there, as. well as in
Great Britain, some centuries before the Pope,
or Spirittial Universal Head on eart4, was either
thought or heard of ; which was not -until the
'commencement of the seventh centnry; and then,
as events proved, only as the instrument of :saCer-
dotal rapine. It is notorious, that the misery and
depression of the lower classes in Ireland 110-%0
only from the insatiable rapacity oftheirpriest-4 ;
and their idleness, which increases it, frown their
numerous holidays; and such is tly, s'tuatiOn.in'd
has been not only of that, but of ever=y Popid'
country, without a single exception. As to re-
bellion, was not the oa!h taken by our late Rl'''.
decals, (as a bond of union in their secret mi'-
ings), couchod'in an impious 1)01 nwst exp.-wive.
perversion of that prophecy in Ezekiel, 44 WILL
" overturn, overturn, overturn, until he Col.l'e;
" whose right it is," &c. &c. kr., which viewe3
as directed against our Protestant Goverrithent7
plainly sheaved who their leader's were. The're'
,fore, while every Irish Mail brings over accouns
of fresh atrocities perpetrated by them, as
tardly and base as they are savage and inhunza':
when the grey hairs of age, the helplessoess pi
infancy,:the.tenderness of females, ere rnade the
Indiscriminate prey of midnight murderers; if?
high time to. awake and deliver -them from t'l-
- deceivers and instigators. It Is plain, t!'''ll
not only India, but the Sister Kingdom
become the field of the most zealous and unw4'."
tied exertions of all our religious societies, f
that for Promoting Christian Knowledge down t
the humblest Country Auxiliaries. .

I am respectfully, your's, •
ANT/PAPA;

Yesterday afternoon a great number of Pel.-
sons, nearly 500, were locked in the Koval rA"
,
change for not leavin, the place upon ,[lie
notice of ringing of the bell, which is (low fr,r.
,
quarter of an hour. One of the porters, an
firm-man, employed on the 'Change, vv.as9
locked in, upon whom some iinfeeliag pers^t'
began to vent their rag.-.,e,,but, late
• I
M. P. for Middlesex, rescued him after he rl4(
been insulted. - During this time a .number ef
the: persons forced off the gates at 'the west 4114
of the 'Cbanae and rushed out. This,outraO
has se:-Prat times occurred lately, as the
repairs of the gates plainly show.
A der'
SHOcKING ACCI DENT.—Wed IleS(1 a - ,
son, of Goodman's-fields, was thrown from his horse. PeZ
conveyed to Mr. Hopkins's, the sirgeon, nesr CsIT-721z1t-'d
heath. On examination the hack pai t. of his head w'Lls
dreadfully fractured, and wis as soon a; possible cca';':3,es..
to his home, where, we lament to add, he expired on Vi=.;y.
day night, leaving a most afflicted wife and a numerous fir
• FIRE.--Shortly after nine o'clock last nigl!frf
dreadful fire broke out in the house of Mr. CLAP it, ftlnli',„'"liir
htoker, on Cl,2rkenwell-green, and in less then half
the premises were completely destroyed. Every •cifilir.t, ef
made to save the adjrtimnt,:, houie t. hut owing to a :"the.
1;:-
water all exertion proved fruitless, and it speedily .b•ecall_.'2ii;;2l
veloped in flames, Which communicating in a few 1111-nut.,-it.:-
a third house presented a most awful sceriQ.' it gang‘-s
•
thirty ruffians added greatly to the confusion that
An adjourned Inquest has been held on the berdY .
the possession of Dr. Lloyd, on Waterloo-bridge.
r: turned the following verdict—" That the body. 0, a'.
found on Waterloo-bridge, on Saturday evening, ia.ll,
.natural death, and that it w..s procured for the F-1.1-P—
e -
dissection." • .
About a month ago, two Whals of large dime nsicrs`ltt;s'
found, forsaken- by the tide, at a point ealh;cl Inn
bay of Wigtown, in Galloway.., 'These pcaceful, Ifjctic
derers were fitst observed by a party of sza-f*aring
youths,
teii
hadbeen out a fishing expedition, and 0110 ;r3lr-e63 et,
thought of seeming the prize. To work, ti-i•refore, thcY,s„,,.
and as a substitute for an anchor, hit un'ori sorntwhatonie,
gerous expedient of inskin hzlf
l fast the l'oa't to the beer'fin.
largest fish. But the-anina.al, whoSe leviathan carcass t•-•.:Eg
buried in the sand, and which had hitherto made no -
7-es;apshal,
was very far from
.relishing thiis unoit.-1 intelference, art
low as tie water was,' he began to beat it so lustily, an to-,a
such good- effict,. that had not the parfy pnidentlY
mooriage, they rniAlit have perished in a soon of
owl. creating. Ac,,ornmodating themsrives to circurnsttl:lo,
they commenced an attack upon-the hinder pat 3 of the Ole
and, rude as their implements were, su;,•cee led in fill'r:oe
boat with about
•ton and a half of blubber. With
they immediately stood for the town of.Wigtown ; an,s
pro,iitting themselves with' a cable,Orichor, hatchet, sa,'a,',./e4
they r“ur•••rie'l to Inner well but by this time the tide haa'..f
accompani. d by a smart from the N.,147., and want7ae
careaps:,a both the fishes far beyond the reach of
13'22'km:4-K1 nr•zailan —( lasgo w CI iren i cle.)
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.MARRIED. g
Yesterday, the 12th inst,, at Islitu-rton Church., °at cio' t;
I,llcir.eian, p.a., of Goswili-street, to Pgltzabeth,
tar of Win. tti,rnitli., Evi., of Tuinell-nicee, Hiogte' c 1
On Wednesday, the th
thamptonshire, Lieut-Colonel Reeve, Grenadier' 1".1-,
Leadenharn, Lincolnshire) t 3 the Right -Hon. La,/ ty
shcrard • after the ceremony the Colonel and bis,,,Vor"-
Firlishade, the seat of the lion. J. Motickton, for Ltfr;o6o>
pack, the of the Latiy's brother, the Earl of' Harw-

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. On Tuesday lest, aftsr a lohg and severe illnei.4, •t• . ,
Wife (.I‘Air, (.'ha,:ls Reeve, of half-moon-strset. ~,:i(ioll'''
At E.:.st Sheen, on the 14t'-, inst., the Rev. P. CCI ''' 1,':1
of l'ortrn an-street, Portman-square. .f 0
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At Catn, in France, on the 7th inst.„ Ann, the 'xi - • ,
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jos,Th D'Acre 'Watson, of the East Indian arroY• of t,'-"..1-,
On Fziday, the 6th inst., George Hassell, ES'l'9 Ills 0--
bury, Bucks, aged N ; and on Saturday, the 'ittl'
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On Wedrif...day marring, the 11th inst., afterrtrii'.-74, ''''.
short and sudden illness, INlr. Thomas '..Vir.c.be, Age '
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yeszi an inhabitant of Cripple7ate. e 1,,,, 3; -.-„z, -:5
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