The Sun.
London, England, 1819-01-29 00:00:00

FOR l'ilE SUN%

POPERY.
MR, rriron,-1 half suspect your imp le
E le
in extracting from sonic Irish Journal the ortic
defensive of Popery, into your Saturday's Stito
And that knowing the wakefulness of VIGII-401
slyly intended me an opportunity of exposing roil
castigating its writer. Be this as it roll' 10
shall always find me at my post ; and 56.° I°llg'
10
a subtle Papist or a shallow Protestant bil,
growl or yelp, so long will I be ready to adniinilof
ter the necessary muzzle. I am not afraid a
their bite ; but their balk is troublesome,

must be silenced.
This nanieless Brawler argues on the rrititi;
15 or it
tion of our Empire, as amounting to
millions pt,
12 whereof, he tells us, are Pr°les"°c,:
and of the remaining 30r4, a part 014 je
nut,
or
tholie." Roman Catholic, he /beans.
suit-like, he suppresses the fact, that the one Pro,
tion of the Empire which sends one hundrcd Metal
hers into the House of ConimonS, is, in its !frit
majority, Popish ; that Popish Ireland 91r-tivot
pr edominates in the County Elections ; °°(/ 'roe
when emancipated into the Cities and Cotr,,b
she would' soon return,
Towns,
by her Vir
01
prevalence, ninety-nine of those ,Members csifitd
her own religion. He does not yet wee
it convenient to avow that the Protestant irt
v"'4" to
sity of Dublin, shotitti she ittdeed be glic"ve
continue Protestant, would soon be the s°litill
-
Eiectress of a lirotestant Member. To dello..
this, he must reject their own accredited" 51.4-itg
MENT ;" which, after vaunting the Irish Prlithe
o
Catholics as possessed of all the strength °I of;
Country, declares them to be, " v41.1101° 1"

THE L'EOPLE OF IRELAND:'
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No.—This man is not quite fool enonguoh
"
ignorant that a numerical calculation of t" iOO/1
Empire, without reference to the. proFarlcuhe
share or power of its parts, is not a fair Ca
goo
lion of its electoral influence ; he hopes,l)°"' 'not
that his readers will be sufficiently as"ine of
to detect the unfairness. I leave any 1134`..dge.
common sense and common honesty to
whether Popish Ireland--not to mention trna;-••
ditiooal weight of the Popish part of ringifb-dat*
would send only " twelve"' Members int°, old
Parliament, as this arguer would fain perB"a b
t,re
I leave it also to be judged, what influence
en
it►is'
died Papists or more would hare with all onft
tly wanting to keep in, or with any OPlrsil,„tes
wanting to get in, by the barter of tbeirliffect"
• upon any question, no matter bow vitailY €%,
ing our Constitution, for some extended 00
elusive privilege to. Pope: y..
06LkettoithPapists deny this.—Letibe:pr„tes,0-00
1 1"
Before the Papists have wrigthd thernsel4Ls
into our Parliameut, it may be wise also to 101 "d
what. has been done, or is to be done, with,
Counsellor O'CONN81',1;;
?Tided, by his Circular Letter of 1814, to be coi*L-01;
ethroughout Ireland for the use of the P°ll,,'
florin' 9 in it day or two, Mr. I or, ri
scud you a veritable copy of the Contiselk,rs
th
ar, and a calculation of the amount raise
c li ic
cc Lich, 1 believe, will svirtTer. your Reatler4•
the same time, I may take, perhaps, the
of asking, how many Boroughs, or noinirtatwits
Uf
.
Boroughs,_ are to be purchased with this egorib 0
sum '--This This Emancipatory Poll-Tax, v',,iso
their Lordships of the Popish Treasury - •
adroitly levied ?--Tee chimi, of so p„ramonli ex,
questirm will plead with Mr. O'CorsitaELL 6011001
case for postponing the coup, de grace kvbificil
intended for his famous " Addiess."'ne 51$'
riot have long to wait for it however. riler4
I did not expect to hear, the yid orginosh
of Protestant Ministries employed in l'-'OlOl
States, or Presbyterian privileges allowol
Protestant Government, dragged into the 'ore
don. When Popery evinces herself as Wee -did
serous in her principles as we are, or as ore that
Presbyterians, she may be entrusted wi`b ej•-•
power which neither we nor they have abui,l-(10
but not till then. The Protestants acic',),');t:,;---"
the government of the Church in the
his authority therefore is not disputel".,
Presbyterians do not acknowledge it in 9117A:vitl‘
hie head :—his authority therefore is not
.
ed. The Papists acknowledge it io the 17°P-00
the King's authority is therefore by 111'1°' of.
counteracted them alone, a visible or reoC
The same precedent cannot apply in djebe
cases. Popery is so far " Catholic," fiat ;piers
exclusive in her dogmata of ambition,
once, and persecution. She is indeed sui getter
and so let her remain. Cie
No.—lt is not the " faith" of the 12otnanLot
tholics, nor their adherence to any P3l.",,celie
" creed," that created or continues their e," 00C
sion. This evil, if it be one, is occasioneu'oro
by their tiansubstantiatiou, or their
ship, or their purgatory, or their seven
arse'4.-
opioions, which to Os ate nttetlY of
less ; but by their pertinacious maintenauceued
the Papal Supremacy, and their own
independence rf our Sovereign in the very 00
qf his dominions. A maintetibnce, which is 00
an essential part of the Roman Catholic
eel K t 1,6
nor indeed any part of it at all ;" and which ore
Romani Catholics of other couotries have.l4:
that vtl"oisti
decency than to assert. Strange la,
every Roman Catholic people, except the °folio
of heland. of Spain, and those who live iwineigt),
ately tinder the shadow of the Tiara, this 6)41. ritf
arrogation is disclaimed, and the due aUt-c°olte
over the Church recognized in the native •'•
cons/ear;

reizn. tboliC
t the Pope be the head of the Roman CL'iineti
Le
doctrine through all Christendom, if his c"
j.,-e
0 4 ,
(s)(f) pleases---but !et every Sovereign he the "-ooti
_thtt the Rowan Catholic discippie in his Idd
os,
r: :—we need then hear no more of rein' 04
strictinns• Tits AleilllS of Avoiding then/

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