The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-05 00:00:00

AGAR V. DRINK WATER.

Mr. A9AII said, this was a case of exception oil
It report of the Master, in which he himself was
persollally interested, as were also the Ptoprietois
and Managers of the Regent's canal Company.—
The matters in questirn were alreddy well known,
to his Honour and to the other Court, and it was
therefore unnecessary for Dina to detail them.
:What he bad now to state was, that notice of the
:notion before his Honour had bee:: sereetl'on the
opposite party, to which no answer hid been
made. fle.- had an affidavit of this, and he be-
lieved there was no IlveeSsity for his proceeding
farther, as he evils of opinion no opposition would
now be made by the Regent's C ftl.il Company'.
The Vica-CuascELLon said, since it is so, lq
the case .be put down as decided.

IRISH CATHOLICS.

OBSERVATIONS ON OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE SWORN
, BY THEM.

(Concluded.from oier Paper of Saturday.)

It I►as teen truly observed, that the reinstate-

menu of the Pope bas produced' a re-action in
most of the•Hon►isl► States in-Europe, by elicit-
ing in his votaries that spirit of intolerance, and
that fanatical rancour towards every other deno-

Initiation of Caristivinse • which are peculiar to
-popery-. The following incidents afford movies"-
.
tioeable .proofs of this, The Pope no sooner.
recovered his territoriesethan he expelled from
them Protestants. of every description; and V.I.
the .complete accomplishment. of it, he re-esta-
blished the Ingeisition. He restored the Older
of the Jesuits, us stated before. Ferdinand VII.
did the like in .his dominions, by a decree dated
the2lst of July 1814, soon at-ter his restoration,
in which be declared, that he. would not federate
atiy religion hot -the Moorish ;
.for which the
Pope thanked hint, and assured him that it would
tend to the salvation of ,Iris soul ; ^Ferdinand,
who sear missionaries through the country, to
root out and expel any vestitses of that baneful
heresy with which .our brave .heroes might have
infected it. The Belgian Bishops . protested
against the excellent Constitution framed for the
Neelierlands,- because it allowed religious tolera-
tion, which they d dared, to be incompatihle with
the principlesof their/to/9 religion. The sanguinary.:
and- 110°1e-rata spirit of popery has been more
terrific in Irelamd since the peace than (hieing the
war ; though its votaties cannot hope fur the
aid of the Frenrh, which they solicited during the
war, and of which. they were in constant expec-.
tation;. but above all, the persecution of Pro--'
testants -in the boutb ot France ; the _perpetra-
tors of those .sanguinary cruelties, those who se-
esetly encourage and approee of them, and as a
matter of course, all,Romanists (1) endeavour to
palliate their turpitude., by asserting' that they
were levelled against Boothipartists only, and
that religious fanaticism was in no %vise concerns
ed-in them.; but the reader must he convincer) of
the contrary by the following statements. In my
first letter, I proved drat the .extirpation oft;
heretics is rejoined as a religious duty byvarious
canons of the Runtish Church, of which I gave
copious extracts, and that the Pope and his clergy
are bound by 04113 to enforce them in every state ;
and as their practical effects have been Aseiefully
experienced trot only in :trope, burin Asia and.
America, his Holiness may truly say, "` Qum
regio in terris, nostsi non picots 'Acids." Under
the infloence of these principles, Pope Innocent
111., presiding in the 4111 Lateran Council, A.D.
1215, ordered a crusade, in which matiy sove-
reign Princes were obliged to join through fear,
to extirpate the Albigenses., who. were very nu-
merous, inhabited the South of France, and were
Subjects of Raymood, Count of Thoulousc. Their
only clime was, that they professed pure Chris;i-
anity, and were free from the errors of the
}lowish Church (2), 'which drew on them the
veogeatice ot that sanguinary Pontiff, who had
a. million of them destroyed as heretics, by
teas-
srcres, tortures, bornitigs,"aud other violent
deaths, and their sovereign, Ravnyind, dethroned,
because instead of persecuting them, in obeeietice
to the Pope's mandates, he gave them that protec-
tion which they merited as loyal and peaceable
subjects. Tire reader will find a foil account of
this neligious butchery in the general history of
Laugordoc, in Spoodanns, the popish annalist,
who praised it. in Mezeray, Thuanus, and Mu-
&brim. Lest the sanguinary spirit Which occas
slotted - this dreadful persecution should in the
smallest degree abate, the Romish clergy have
made their flocks celebrate the anniversary of it,
by feasts and processions in most of the towns
where it took place ; which Voltaire coodemns,
Wilt just severity, in his essay on tOlera-
fion. In . short, since the reign of Francis 1.,
to the eve ot the French Revolution, the
Government, instigated by the Clergy. never
ceased to persecote the Protestants in France,
and the- multitude, iespired with fanatical fury
against them, by the lessons which they received
from their ghostly advisers in the confession
box (3), were always willing instruments on such
occasions. For a minute and circuntstatithil ac-
count of these religious persecutions, I shall refer
tire reader to the work of t lie celebrated Claude,
a,- French minister, intituled, "The; .Lameotation
of the Protestants cruelly oppressed in France ;"
and to another work, intituled " Popery always
the same, exemplified in an authentic Account
now parrying on against the Protestants in the
South of France," printed and sold by B. Dodd,
near Stationers' Hall, London, 1746, 12mo. •

Th,:Bssembly of French Bishops, in 1765, thus
Cmpreec thetOSEIVVS to I/06AS " It is in vain
Ism your Majesty has forbidden the exercise of
.any oC,er religion in your- dominions than
.that of the holy Boman Apostolic. In con-
.tempt 01 . these taws, .the Protestants dare to
bold congregational meet in gs." Their only
crime was, that of worshipping in woods or.
retired places ; for they dared not to build a
plfice of worship. Their Bishops prescribe
,the followine reiaedy for this crying evil. "If
be law which revoked the Edict of • Nautz,
if your N'iniesty's declaration of 1754 had been.
exactly and rigorously executed, we are bold to
.ev, there would not be at this day' One single
,Protestaot in France," (4) ' Because the sangui-
n Ivy spirit which had cause►l. dreadful persecutions
iu T.oois XlV.'s reign had abated, and the wounds
which they had inflicted on the country began to
"vep,l, the indignation of these pious. Bishops Was
'excited ; and nothing could satisfy them, but
the (Ia ties of persecution. These pious
Prtlate• tori-ller state in their remonstrance to the
We shall not further press on your Ma-,
mdice the fatal effects which will neces-
sto lv result to. France from a toleration which
:oust produce such tatal consequences. It is'not
On!), 10 our religion and to the church that your
niiesty owes protection—yon owe it to yourself.
t If the noyal'Authatity be not speedily exe7
used, to put a stop to the enterprizes of heretics
and the progress of impiety, the time to remedy the
tsil be, passed. May this our humble re-