The Sun.
London, England, 1817-07-31 00:00:00

PitOVINCJA,IJ

The last article v,1i.:11 we extracted froru The
.(Dublin) Corre'apomdent was :throu!tlrriut•ptegnant
,ity, good zien.se, sotindprincsides, cotnpre7
heosiy, liouv!e6ge. We now tal,,,e
.anocher, Ex-
tract fronr.the.same Paper of the '..:Oth just-. which,
in addition to those qualities, disfil4s,a vela of
pleasantry, burnottr, and p tyfltl satire, that nips;
gratify our Readers, and excite a high respect
for` the versatile powers of the writer: It',olll
give our Readers a. proper notion of the nature
and effect of Mr. HAYES'S unlucky .Embassy to
the Head of the Rornish Church "''

" A, Morning Paper lately published an article,
extracted from a German Print, jlt which the Rey.
Mr. Hayes, so celebrated for hi iniSsion to Rome,
his rz,isa4iventnres there, and his `Epistolary uu-
toriety was stated- to be—niad. An Eveniog
Paper, shortly after, averred, that the article from
the German Paper was a labricatiOn, because, it
understood, that a letter bad been received from:
the patient at Rome, by his friends in Dublin,,
dated the 18th of June, ni which time the alleged
lunatic described himself to be pronounced out ,of
(lanesr by his medical attendants—mentioned,,
that the Rev. Mr. Magawley had quitted Ron);
for Ireland—and that he, himself, was to reaq
the Roman States.; in Consequence of the Order of
the Government that be should do so remaining
unrevoked.

" How the question of intellectual derange-
ment stands, it is not for us to determine ; but
the vis consequentice is not apparent in the argu-
ment, tronr, hie h the fallacy of ,the article in the
German Paper has been attempted to be deduced.
First : " we understand," in the . technicality of
'Journal- writing, rather implies a distrust of the
author ty involved in the observation ; and, in
the present case, leaves the question, of whether
Mr. Hayes mote the letter, in an-equivocal pus.
tore . and ;next, even it he had written. the
letter, that circumstance not- enough to esta-
blish the infeeende, that what the German
Paper had. asseited.of Mr. Hayes, was a fabrica-
tion. Perhaps truth may lie between tho,e ex-
rreines. Perhaps Mr. Hayes was really mad—
am', indeed, it- woiddlook like it, when be wrote
his first, .his imperishable Epistle, concerning his
" obstinacy,” ;mu his. ()Cie.r qualifications for his
mission :—perhaps be was convalescent when he
wrote this last-mendolled letter, concerning the
reality of which; it would not be presumption or
incredulity to entertain a doubt. :The contempt
with Which fills unhappy Ambassador was treated.
by hii Holiness'the Pope ; thedisctrnifiture which
has sash an.i- latitas, is 411 port unity received from
the circumspect and wily talents-of his Italian
opponents ; and chagrin of being defeated where
lie promised weer ; and the intolerable destiny
of returning to Ireland to. he laughed -lir, may
have 'disturbed the equipoize of a mind, but ne•-
gligently balanced at best, ititified the stafi-
mew in the. German Paper—and; on the Antic'
hand, the wholesome severity of medical discip-
line, might have called back the routed and fugi-
tive unde•rtandiug of the Delegate, and repossess-
ed of suflicient'rtason -to write a letter, con-
cerning the movements.of Messrs. Magawley and
Drunigoole, and his own removal front the Papal
dominions—leaving a perfect 'cure to time, anti
the medicament of a few flattering testimonials
from the Catholic Board.

" Those., however, 'who insist upon the story
of the mental derangement of Mr. Hayes being a
fabrication, do not rest their assertions upon. the
improbability of the thing itself, nor upon a total
want of all precedent for his insanity—if disease
needed precedent, among those who conduct the
political :itfairs-of the Roman Catholics in this
city—for the precedent is quite in favour of Mr.
H:iyes's derangement. We take upon us to
affirm, and with a due sense of the importance of
the affirmation, that we have twice read, in " the
only Catholic Paper inireland," rank 'admissions
—spontanesms proclainations, we may say—dial
the writers in that nnique, hottet, and decorous
Journal—those' vlio were disputing aml reviling;
reasoning and railing, inventing what was not,
and perverting what vv,as—(tnarks of. the disease,
not doubt)—those who W'ere, with such untiring
labour, lashing the Pope and Mr. Peel, Gon
salvi and Mr. L. 'Foster, the Prince and Qilarall-
tot ti, the Protestant Religion and the Parliament,
and keeping up an incessant warfare Upon a most
curious Melange of .men and thingsliad actually
confessed themselves to.be wroti up to'a pitch
of madness—they did, indeed. Now, if the props
and pillars of our Irish Cat holicism---accomplished
and gracious personages, as they ate—at the head
of " the only Catholic Paper in Irelanti,-.7tak-
ing into their own hands•the, entire range of (:,6-
tholic affairs—the Church and the Constituency—,
the Veto and the voting—the Orphans of the
Charter-liouses, and the Orangemen Of-Ulster—
and:every thing and cbetunstance, temporal and
clerical, no maiter what ;—if such persons do,
openly and Iterdicd for, present themselves in.
their public confessions, in print, as being actnal
madmen—why. may' not Mr. Hayes, this' poor
'Friar, as he is called by some; this learned and
astute Jesuit, as he is calied.by others; who is
'only the tool, instrument---running footman, as it.
were—to those !eminent persons—wby, lee sa•y,,
s 60(0E4 he not have a right to tape his mortifiea-.
Lions and disappointments too much to heart' also,
anti indulge iii a fit of insanity ? He has been
only mad in manasciipt, while his musters were
mad. in print—as Tilburintes attendant wis maj
in, white linen, tvhile the mistress wi.3 &glad in
white•satin.

" They avowed themselves mad, bec )(Ise Par•