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

Protestant Church. He would rid the country
of the Catholics altogether; and, of course, he
would include women and children in his bloody
proscription. When we consider this dreadful
effusion of malignity, and connect it with the
general tone of Protestant feeling, as seen at
these meetings, the threats—the continued talk
of appeals to the sword—we can be at no loss
to infer that deep and dangerous designs exist
against the peace of the country. The object
of those Protestant declaimers is to precipitate
matters to some fatal issue—to hurry on the
Catholics to criminal violence—to drive them to
insurrection and treason—and thus to consign the
country to all the horrors of a civil war. At
present their furious passions are reined in—
the Catholics are under the protection of the
law.; but they eye them as an evil beast does its
prey, with a ravenous eye ; and are enraged that
the Catholics will not venture within their reach,
that they keep on the secure ground of the law,
and that no provocation will tempt them to rebel.
We hope they will still continue to take care of
themselves ; that they will yield implicit obe-
dience to the LORD LIEUTENANT'S moderate
Proclamation, for they may rest assured that the
law is their only safeguard ; that if the Protestant
faction, cheered on, as they would be, by their
pastors, could once strip them of this shield,
they would riot in their blood ; those who are
capable of uttering such shocking menaces would
execute them without remorse—they would
faithfully redeem their pledge of vengeance, how-
ever regardless of other pledges. They seem
to have made up their minds to desperate -mis-
chief, which they will accomplish if they are not
restrained by the superintending vigilance of an
impartial Government. It is right, no doubt,
that all tumultuous assemblages, of whatever
description, should be checked ; but the Bruns-
wick Associations are the true objects of jealousy.
The Catholics are discontented because they are
oppressed—they act together because they feel.
the advantage of union for the redress of their
common wrongs. Their union is a measure of
defence against oppression, which is the root of
all the evils that afflict Ireland, of the Catholic
as well as of the Brunswick Associations ; but
there is just this difference between the two
parties, that the Protestants associate to op-
press, and the Catholics to resist oppression.
If the Protestants would grant the Catholics that
equality of civil privileges which is the right of
every freeman, neither party would have any oc-
casion to associate. The Catholics are united
by the sense of their common wrongs—remove
these, and follow up this great act by a kind and
conciliatory policy, and the bond of union is at
once broken ; the agitated mass gradually sub.
sides, as before, into the bosom of society ; the.
Catholic leaders lose their chttracter and oc-
cupation, and the people again look to their
rulers as their natural protectors. The present
system is artificial, and it requires a great stimulus
of provocation to keep it up—withdraw this
stimulus and every thing will again fall into its
right place. This is the true recipe for the
public peace, and we may rest assured that every
other expedient will utterly fail.

We direct attention to a letter from a respect-
able Correspondent, respecting the Hop Planta-
tion of Sussex, in contradiction to the erroneous
reports which have been circulated about the
great produce of Hops this year. The fact will
turn out to be that the quantity is one fourth
below last year—and more than that under au
average crop. The Duty will be between
140 and 150,0001.

The following are extracts from the United
States Papers, received at the North and South
American Coffee-house this morning :

(From the Norfolk Beacon of the 6th Sept.)

THE EXPEDITION AGAINST CAMPEACHY.
NAVANNAH, AUG. 21.
•

The expedition from Spain came in about 10 days since,
and landed about 2,400 men. It appears that they came
out o►► a wild goose expedition to invade Campeachy,
without any of the means to effect a landing; and it is said
as Laborde refused remaining on that coast at this season of
the year with his vessels to cover their disembarkation, the
Commander thought it better to come here.
We are dreadfully dull here, nothing doing in produce,
and without any news. Our latest accounts from England
are only of the 26th May.

Tile New York Gazette of the 9th ult., under the head
of " Dreadful Steam Disaster," gives an extract of a letter
from New Orleans, of the 14th August. " One of our
finest steam-boats, the Grampus, was rendered a complete
wreck by the bursting of her boiler yesterday morning.
She was towing up four vessels. Seven men were killed,
and five are missing."

Letters from Gibraltar of the 21st and 22d
September have been received by the Protector,
Captain FRIEND, who touched at the garrison
on his passage from Alexandria. We lament
to say the account she brings is more unfavour-
able than any hitherto received. On the 21st
there were 516 cases of fever, and 87 deaths.
A postcript, of the 22d, to one of the letters,
further informs the party to whom it is addressed,
that affairs were still worse at that date than on the
21st. The Protector left Gibraltar on the 22d.

IMPORTANT ARMY MOVEMENTS.—We
suppose the Wolf hounds of the Association will bark with
fresh and aggravated fury, when their leaders learn what
we, have just learned—namely, that the Severn steam-
packet has been actually pressed at Bristol on Saturday,
for the purpose of taking troops to Waterford. A consi-
derable military force will be thrown into the South of
Ireland with all practicable expedition ; and the tenor of
the current opinion is, that no means will be'spared to
assert the dignity and power of the Monarchy in Ireland,
and to provide for the essential defence of the Constitution
of the United Kingdom.—Thank God ! say we.— Cork
Constitution.