The Sun.
London, England, 1828-06-02 00:00:00

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

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We'have aeon far superior nutnbers to the present,
of this Magazine, though we will not deny that it
possesses good sense and some vivacity. The first
article is,altogether, political; it is entitled " On
Public Affairs," and runs through the late discussions
and improvements at Saint Stephens with lightness
and freedom of animadversion. The East Retford
business it comments on with unsparing severity,
and launches forth its invectives against the East
India Company's monopoly. With respect to the
Catholic Question, it warmly advocates the liberal
side, and puts forth some cursory remarks on the
subject ofd securities,, and the genekal administration
of Ireland, which have point and ingenuity to re-
commend them : en voici--
There has been a good deal of rattle also about " secu-
rities," which we can only describe by calling it truly
anile.. What securities can you have from six millions of
men, but their affections and their interests? Who is to
enforce the performance of any contract made between
England and a whole people ? To what jurisdiction, divine
or human, are the " Security hunters" to appeal, in case
of an infraction of the bond ? Make it the interest of the
ohliger to be honest, and he will discharge his obligation.
Make it the interest .of the Catholic landholder, now a nu-
merous and powerful body, that his country should be at
peace, and it will 50 remain. Give him a stake in .the Go-
vernment of his, native land, and he will shed his blood,
and risk his estate and his life in defence of his.recently ac-
quired freedoni. Make it, as England has long been doing,
theinterest as well as the feeling, 'of Catholics to disturb
Ireland; and we shallsoon-find that they possess the ability.
Instead ef the present expensive army cantoned in Ireland,
as an enemy's country, for the express purpose of enslav-
ing its Catholic, population, at an expellee altogether little
short 0 four millions annually; emancipate, and you need
not keep one-sixth of your present 'armed gaolers. Nor
even that number, except as a mode of employing your
annyintime of peace. Alter your tithe system, make it
a municipal and fiscakinatead of a spiritual and degrading
payment,; in the latter ,mode, 'too, at once oppressive in its
amount, and offensive (to men of a different religion) in
its forni.

On the vacancy of each Irish Protestant biehoprick,
equalize all the sees; let none exceed or fall below4,oool.
a_year ; and in the Archbishops, confine the income to
double that amount. Let no living exceed or fall below a
clear income of 8001. a year. No curacy to be less than
100/., and not paid out of the incumbent's income. Let
the Catholic Clergy of all ranks be paid by the Govern-
ment salaries equal, at least, to the present precarious in-
comes wrung from their indigent flocks. The whole of
this expence, for a double hierarchy, being clearly ascer-
tained, sell all the present Church lauds, and let the pro-
duce be thrown into a fund to defray the payments charged
upon it. The poor would thus not be oppressed. The
Clergy of both religions adequately remunerated, tithe-
proctors and Ecclesiastical Courts (fertile sources of oppres-
Kiwi and rebellion) "et /we genus enter," would at once
be disbanded. Let the assessment per acre be wads fairly
and universally, according to the intrinsic value of the,
land, or to its annual produce, and collected, like all other
taxes, by the Officers of Government. Protestant lawns
and deer parks would thus not escape, while the potato
acre of the Irish peasant would nut then be unduly bur-
4iened to make tip for the insulting deficit of his opulent and
Protestant neighbour. The Protestant Clergy would thus
generally and equally, and justly be provided for. We
should see no fat pluralists doing duty in an inverse ratio to
their ecclesiastical emolument ; and no starving Curate ex-
tort a bard-earned stipend from the gripe of his wealthy
and reluctant employer. Irish Bishops would even then be
more amply rewarded for their, spiritual labours- than most
of their English brethren of the same rank are, and Arch-
bishops would not have it in their power, by running their
lives against ecclesiastical leases, to drive a whole province,

if not island, into despair and rebellion, by exacting in-
comes greater than the pro,i;it.e of a German principality,
and claiming almost unlimited renesal &mg, from a popu-
lation a different religion.
" The Philosophy of Clubs" is a flimsy, cotitran-
place collection Of legal anecdotes, respecting persons,
of whom the world knows little and cares less who
wishes to learn that Dr. Parr: founded a cldb Called
the " Teinpus Puni.iiii" at Norwich, of which the
members were 4' all unflinching smokers--7your six
or seven pipe men ?" Tice iiltelligettee is, as
worthless as it is dully told. " Walks in llern#:"
the continuation of a series of papers under die
same head, that have appeared in this Magazine, and
must. we conceives.hy this time have closed the eyes
of some hundreds of readers. We ourselves have
dosed over the present article with indescribable
satisfaction: it is quite lulling, and has been
thoroughly saturated with laudanum. " Gag and
Magog," from the pen of Mr. James Smith, is a
lively and magniloquent apostrophe to these guardian
civic giants. We wish we could spare room for
extracts. " Travelling Abroad" is a pleasant, rapid,
and metaphysical disquisition : the moral of which is,
that people are much better at home than scam-
pering about over the continent. We recog
nize, in this essay, the sparkling and paradoxical
pen of Mr. Hazlitt. " Rambles in New South
Wales" is a sensible and quiet sort of article; anti
the " Sermon by Sheridan," a (we suspect) catch-
penny manufacture.