The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-29 00:00:00

" a perusal of the beautiful graphic sketch of the
Kent Meetieg which the Courier has given else.
where," from the pen of the political quack of the
day. Brunswick Clubs, in fact, few as they are in
number, and impotent as they are likely to turn out,
quvad the question of Catholic Emancipation, do
not seem to be so easily got up as our cotemporary
imagines. Though the victory was claimed by them
at Penenden Heeth, it resembled so much one of
those Russian engagements, in which thirty or forty
Cossacks make :breakfast, only, of two or three
thousand Turks, that a similar risk is not likely to
be incurred. The Chiefs of that Meeting know
full well that they had only the satisfaction of
claiming the victory—that the numbers, as well as
the argument, were on the side of the supporters
of Catholic Emancipation—and that it would be ex-
tremely hazardous, if not totally destructive of the
trifling success which they have gained, to try a
similar experiment. Our cotemporary, however,
appeals to every county in which the illiberal faction
is supposed to possess a strong hold, as if its cry
would rouse them to action. But we give them
credit for greater wisdom than to listen to it. They
have nothing " at stake," and they will not there-
fore move; they will wrap themselves up in their
.self-importance, and pretend that there was no use
for bestirring themselves, because there was no hope
of success crowning their labours. A greater folly
or a greater nuisance, in fact, than these Protestant
and Catholic Clubs there does not exist, or ever
did exist, in any country ; and we are not a little
astonished that the Duke of Wellington has not in-
timated to them how wholly unconstitutional they
are, and how insulting to the Government over
which he presides.-31orning Advertiser.
Our contemporaries who labour in the cause of
Popery affect to ,entertain apprehensions, or shall
we not rather say, hopes, that the Catholics of Ire-
land will rush at once to the desperate extremity
of rebellion, now that by the vigorous and deter-
mined spirit of English Protestantism they find
their inordinate expectations defeated, and the less
direct enterprise in which they have been 8o long
engaged against the British Constitution baffled and
put down. In this apprehension we do not partake.
In proportion as the expression of Protestant opinion
in England is unequivocal, so is the apprehension
of any dangerous popular movement in Ireland
diminished. We urge, therefore, upon the mere
grounds of immediate policy, and with a view to se-
cure the public peace in Ireland, that Brunswick
Clubs should be instituted until they pervade the
whole of this Protestant land ; and that the inha-
bitants of every one of our counties should forth-
with be called upon to express their sentiments in
accordance (as we know they are in accordance),
with those which the assembled freeholders of Kent
have so strongly and triumphantly proclaimed. Por
what does the whole history of Ireland attest, but
that the Papists, umier the influence of their Priests
and the demagogues whom their Priests employ or
patronize, add continually to their demands, and to
the violence and fury of the insolent menaces by
which they seek to enforce them, in a degree cor-
responding exactly with that, of the apparent
or supposed prevalence in England of the spirit
of coneiliation, and with the apparent or sup-
posed laxity of principle in the English Govern-
ment ? Every man in England who suffers it to
he supposed that• he is favourable to the in-
erease of Popish power in the British Govern-
ment stimulates the spirit of insurrection in Ireland.
Let it once be shown that the British nation is as
unanimous and decided as we sincerely believe it to
be in fact, in opposition to the pretensions of the
Papists, and from that moment, whoever speaks or
thinks of a Popish insurrection will be taken even in
Ireland for a madman. Visible and manifest una-
nimity upon the subject among Englishmen is the
true panacea for Irish turbulence and discontent.
These spring from the perpe• d irritation of delu-
sive and irrational hopes, and are sure to be extin-
guished as the hitter are dispelled. But if we are to
have a Popish rebellion in Ireland, according to the
apprehensions or the hopes of the advocates of
Pepery, we do not hesitate to say is us
have it now. The friends of the -Prottsvant
Constitution of the Empire are fully pri-v.m.
to ree.r are: crush it. If the Papists e-e
now (li-posed to rebel, in order to secure seats le
Parliament, or upon the Bench of Justice, to su:r
men as Shell and O'Connell, still more, after these
are conceded, will th(. be disposed to rebel in order
to secure the substantial power, wealth, and autho•
city of the Primacy of Ireland to some such man as
Dr. Doyle. Here may be found the ground-work
of a popular and therefore dangerous rebellion ; and
it is evident that should the way for a rebellion of
this sort be prepared by concession to the Papists
now, the Protestants of the Empire would then
be less prepared, both ice spirit and in means, to
resist it, than they now are to withstand any efforts
that can be made to extort compliance with the
actual intermediate demands of the foes of our
sacred Church and our inestimable Constitution.
The progression of Popish demands, a progression
interminable, or terminating only in the forcible
suppression of every other religion than that of
Popery, is the necessary consequence of the exclu-
sive and persecuting tenets of the Roman Church.
Emancipation, Ascendancy, Monopoly—a monopoly
to be enforced by the faggot and the sword, as it has
always been enforced--are but successive stages in
the career of the Romish Church. The fierce per-
secution by which she once strove to defend her de-
clining power, is but a feeble type of that by which
she would again strive to re-establish and con-
solidate her authority. The spirit and the prac-
tice of persecution have never been extinguished
in her bosom, or become obsolete in her prac-
tice. In her strong holds, Spain, Portugal,
and Italy, they reign 'as paramount as ever, anti
appear occasionally to be dormant only for
the want of victims. In France and some other
countries, where she retains a nominal autho-
rity, she has assumed a character of mildness,
because, by the extravagance of her tenets,
and the atrocities of her practice, she has surrounded
herself with a nation of infidels, yielding no more
than a simulated obedience to her sway. In all the
countries where Popery is tolerant, it is evident that
there exists between her and her votaries no other
connection than what may be fairly described as a
reciprocal interchange of conventional decencies.
Would this be the case in Ireland should Popery
there acquire the ascendancy ? The idea is prepos-
terous. The Popery ascendant in Ireland would be
the Popery of Spain, Portugal, and Italy, with this
difference only, that in Ireland, during better times,
a rich holocaust of Protestant victims has been
prepared for its superstitious and sanguinary grasp.
—Aloe ning Post.
We must catition our readers against reposing
any credit in the alleged despatches or intelligence
from `. erne which informed us last night of the
capture of that town by the Russians. We do not
Affirm that the letters that have been received from
Han-weigh were fabricated in that city, for they
may have been fabricated in Berlin. We do not
assert that Varna has not fallen--that the news
of its fall is an invention—that the letters are
forgeries; but this we do % assert—they have every
appearance of being so. e put no faith in them for
y
the following reasons :—First. The news with which
we are favoured by the wayboefdellaernbirgh is rarely,
under any circumstances, to
on. It is not
many mouths since we were amused,pndeta
. and some of our
contemporaries w
were delighted and astonished, with
victory said to be gained over
the details of a grand
the Turks by the Russians on the Danube. The
accounts were undoubtedly true, with this exception,
tion, that they referred to a battle fought about the
close of the last century. Second, We do not
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be-
lieve this news, because it is impossible, at this sea.
sor, , or any season of the year, to convey intelligence
from Varna to Berlin, in twelve days, considering
the nature of the route. For some time the road
from the former place by Brailow to Berlin has
been obstructed, the Turks .tee in straggling parties
on both sides of the Danube, and consequently tra-
eellizig in that direction. by Russian courers is im-
practicable. Hence way it that we were nearly a