The Sun.
London, England, 1819-02-17 00:00:00

REMINISCENCE

FROM
DON QUIXOTTE.

TO SUCH AS
With folly more than idiotic,
With madness far beyond Quixotic,
By all the past forewaru'd in vain
I'he Popish Beast would now unchain.

DON QUIXOTTE, Knight, beyond all rivalry,
When forth be went to do his deeds of chivalry,
Not fearing giant, witch, or dragon,
Once met a waggon—
Or it might be several in train,
Bearing in strong iron cages—
Of all dimensions, sorts, and ages,
Wild beasts, a present to the King of Spain.
In one there was a monstrous Lion—
Which our brave Don no sooner had cast eye on,
Than with a voice of thunder,
He bade the driver stop--
Then to the keeper, seated on the top,
And gaping wide with wonder,
He said—open the Lion's cage,
And let us see
If he, when free,
And rous'd to rage,
Dare with DON QuixoTTz to engage.
The keeper thinking one so clad,
And so fool-hardy, must he mad,
Replied—this Lion, good Sir Bold,
Is a most fierce blood-thirsty beast,
And e're he was subdued, I'm told,

Some hundred Moors at least
Fell victims to his tooth and paw—
Look at his monstrous jaw—
Then, thank your stars,
These bolts and bars
Are plac'd between yourself and him.
At this the Don with visage grim,
Cried, good Sir Blockhead—cease your prating—
Unbolt the grating—
This instant what I bid you—do—
Or this same spear shall run you thro'.
The keeper, trembling with affright,
Ope'd wide the door and took to flight.
Fat SANCHO ton, his merry squire,
Esteeni'd it wiser to retire.
But the bold Knight stood firm as rock
With spear in rest to wait the shock.
The lion laid within at length, •
Rose slow, displaying all his strength ;
First stretching, yawning, shaking,
He darted forth his fearful claws,
Then open'd wide his jaws,
Which might a mastiff take in.
Then moving slowly to the door,
He did not even condescend to roar,
But casting a glance
At the Knight and his lance,
With contempt most profound
Turn'd his hind-quarters round,
And stretch'd himself again upon the floor.
Now who would not, with half an eye,
See where the story must apply
Let all in literals be rendeed, •
The Lion is the beast engender'd
At Rome,
Fiercer far than all the bawls
Of beasts which bare the Lybian sands
As home.
What deeds she did, too dread to name I
By tortures, daggers, racks, and flame—
What millions died!
'Till curb'd her pride,
She was herself compell'd by'those-
On whom she had inflicted woes
And direful pain.
To bow the head and wear the chain.
The Keeper and the rest who then
Strove to retain the Lion in his den— •
Are they who would the laws uphold,
The bulwarks of our Church and State,
Whilst the mad Knight, absurdly bold,
Displays the set
Who all the horrid past forget,
And would emancipate
The Persecutors—
The passers by are neuters.
Now, when the opponents, driven from the field,
Were fot-e'd to yield—
When all disability
Save one small formality,
Was quite done away— •
Tint is. whentinchain'd, and the door open stood,
The beast would not go when she could—
But chose in her prison to stay—
With all the contempt which the Lion display'd
For which our best thanks should be mada.
Oh ! good luck to the " VEro,"
And her " non capio pod veto,"
Which has left her still close in her den—. •
Quick—shut to the door,
And be it open'd no more,
Till she give up her errors—ADEN. .

The Duke and Duchess of SAN CARLOS Will
give a grand entertainment, on Monday next, to
his Imperial Highness the Archduke MAXIMILIAN,
and all the Foreign Ambassadors, &c. at their
house in Portland-place.

The Earl and Countess BATHURST have issued
cards, inviting, a number of distinguished per-
sonages, to meet his linperial Highness the Arch-
duke MAXIMILIAN, on Sunday next, to a grand
dinner, &c.
The Duke and Duchess of MoNTnosa have is-
sued their cards of invitation for the 27th inst.
when they will give a grand entertainment to his
Imperial Highness the. Archduke 111.wmILIAN,
and a large party of distinguished personages.
Yesterday, the Earl and Countess of Basso-
Rouon gave a grand dinner, en famille, at their
house in Cavendish-square.

Yesterday, the Marchioness of DOWNSHIRS,
anti the Ladies HILL, left their house in Hanover-
equate, for their seta in Warwickshire,

ENIANCIPATION EXPLAINED;
OR, POPISH ASCENDANCY IN IRELAND.

By a CHURCH of ENGLAND CATHOLIC.

[No. lII.]

(Continued from yesterday's SUN.)

Ireland being considered for many years back as
a conquered country, its inhabitants naturally
looked upon their invaders with a -jealous eve ;
and unfortunately the mistaken policy of Britain
towards her, in cramping her trade, had nourio-
- the jealousy almost to hatred. This part, how-
ever, was very much done away by that wise
measure, the Union, and the incorporation of its
Parliament with the British—a measure which,
however salutary to the Empire at large, and
doubt to Irelana in particular, has left behind it a
sting in the minds of the disaffected, which wiil
require years to eradicate ; for so long as an II ish
Parliament existed, hopes were entertained of a
separation front the Sister Kingdom. These
hopes are still kept alive, and strongly nourished
in the minds of all those professing the Roman
Catholic Religion. I venture to say all, for the tew
exceptions, if any there he, operate but as a (bop
in the ocean ; and as the physical strength is on
that side, it will require the continued exertion
of political strength, by an inflexible retention of
the securities we yet possess, to counteract it.—
When we surrendered a part, and gave the Elec-
tive Franchise to the Roman Catholicti,- they
seemed perfectly satisfied ; and as they had the
Law, the Army, and the Navy thrown open to
them, with exception of the must elevated
posts, there was every. reason to hope that
their professions of entire satisfaction, for
mei) they declared, were sincere. This ap-
parent satisfaction continued but a short time;
the feline character of Popery was blinking,
it never slept, and when it looked about and saw
all was quiet, it sprang upon its prey ; and the
struggle' we have had in resisting and repelling
the attack was serious and sanguinary ; in short,
the last Rebellion is too fresh in our minds to be
easily forgotten, and, in addition to the others
which history records, leaves no doubt of its
unalterable enmity to a Protestant Establish-
ment. It is true that some Protestants'were im-
plicated in the last Rebellion, and unfortunately
there will be found in every Government some
refractory spirits ; but this circumstance, which
the professed enemies of the State (the Roman
Catholics) avail themselves of in extenuation of
their own conduct, does not in any manner di-
minish their treasou, nor the dangerous principles
of their religion, which is intolerant to every
other, even to the exclusion from salvation of all
who die out of the pale of their Church. Whether
the proselyting system of the Church of Rome is
actuated by a charitable zeal for the salvation of
souls., or that it proceeds from its spit it of uni-
versal dominion, matters little to this Protestant
State ; the evil effects of Popery are equally telt,
but it requires little penetration indeed to see its
real motive in Ireland, physical strength. This,
no matter by what means obtained, is the ever.
'lasting object in view, and the Jesuitical emis-
saries of the Church of Rome perform their Mis-
sion in a style according in all points with the
general character of their Order, which I shall
give in the words of an able and attentive ob-
server, who says of them, that they have uni-
formly acted—
" By propagating a system of relaxed and pliant
morality, which accommodated itself to the pas-
sions of men, justified their vices, tolerated their
imperfections, and authoraed almost every action
which the most audacious or crafty politician
would wish to perpetrate. So that Abbe Bot-
ta/at says of them, they are a people who
lengthen the Creed, and shorten the Decalogue,
by extending the jurisdiction and'absolute power
of the Church of Rome; and by the zeal which
they have manifested in combating the opinions,
and checking the progress of the Protestants, the
cod proposed by this Order was to gain converts
to the Romish Church ; with which view they
dispersed themselves in every country and nation,
and, with amazing industry and address, pursued
this end of their institution. 'No difficulty so great
that they could not surmount ; nu danger so im-
minent that they would not undergo ; and, as some
say, no crimes so shocking that have not been
perpetrated by them for the service of their
cause."

How far they have sncceeded in this Proselying
system in irk:land, the ac.tral state of the country,
particularly in the Suit Bern Dif,tricts, too evi-
tleutly chews. Scarce a Protestant is to be met
in 'the lower orders of society ; for wheresoever
the vicissitudes of life may have reduced any in
their circumstances, and thereby rendered them
objects for temptation, they are infallibly assailed
on the weak side, Adversity, to abandon the re-
ligion they were brought up in. It is scarce ne-
cessary to say, that pecuniary argument is the
prevailing one ; and this, no doubt,, is supplied
from their proselyt;ng fund. Whilst this shameful
seduction is practising on the members of the
Established Church, those of their own are so
sedulously watched, lest they should in any man-
ner receive information which may tend to warp
them from their subjection to their Clergy, by
opening their minds .to a chaster concep;iun
Christianity, that they are prohibited from
re-
ceiving even the first rudiments of education,
though gratuitously offered, in the same school
where •Protestant children are instructed, al-
though no attempt be made to change. their Mode •

of worship. Tbis extraordinary vigilance to pre-
serve them to the Romish Clioreli, appears now
to be the leading character of its Priesthood, and
is acted upon in violation of every principle of
liberality and reason; for when the Free Schools
of Mitchelstown, Clonakilty, and Middleton,
were instituted, a Titular Bishop, Dr. Comcita,
absolutely forbad the Roman Catholic children
from attending, because, forsooth, Protestant
teachers instructed Protestant children under the
save roof, and were taught the duties of Christia-
nity from the Holy Scriptures, 'which this learn-
ed and liberal Prelate pronounced Spurious,
as every religions publication must be, which has
not been tried in the crucible of Popery ; and so
forcibly is this judgment acted upon, that this
same enlightened Prelate tells us,---'''r at it is ati
unbending article in the discipline of the Church
of Rome, strictly and unconditionally etj9incd,

'pro member of it stall commune in Divine
rites .with persons- of any other religion. This
Vie says) is not the narrowed singularity of -a
'supposed bigot ; it is not an empty form tetin-
'xinishable at will ; it is, on-the contrary, a fixed
tnaxim among the Catholics, a practical 'corollary
dray o fron► the singleness of their faith. As that
one WO' flows in their opinion from the unity 44
the Godhead, it is the secondary means where-
by their Church stands, and shall stand, upon its
tuck, indefectible. No Roman Catholic Bishdp,
no Homan Catholic Divine will controvert these
opinions,"—(See BENEDIcT, 14th Synod,Dioces.
Lih. 6. Cap. 5 )
A subscription to this nnbigotted Creed, is, ac-
cording to CoPINGER and BliNEDicr, the sine qua
non of Catholicism ; and lest it should in any
manner be considered as a matter that could be
dispensed with, the Doctor tells na, that he
knew a Roman Catholic Prelate, who, in theb-
bet ality of his heart, made application to Rome
upon the subject of Roninn Catholic servants be-
ing required by their Protestant Masteri to j•►iti
in prayer with themselves and families, fur per-
Mission ; but that the answer was such as,to
nay future re•inons'rauce.--(See
.the Hey.
11r►R.ACt TowNstiNffs ohsertalions )
- Thus we see, iliat hots-ever will inclined a Rm..'
mist► Ciergynsan may be towards religious tolcra-
t,ou, he dare nut exercise it. He m .st implicitly
Obey the mandates of the'Sovereigu Pontiff. 1,,
continuatir►t► .or this, Doctor Taoy, the Titular
Hi liop of Dublin, in one of hi: pastoral letters
io 1793, says, that it is 'lie fundamental article
of tiae Roman Catholic faith. The Pope, or Bi-
Shop of Rome, is successor to ST Pe:Tvit, Prince
of I tie Al►ostie;t. I n 'that See, he enjoys, by Di-
vine tight, a Wilmal and ecclesiastical supre-
macy, not only of honour aunt rank, but of real
jurisdiction and authority in the universal Church.
Roman Catholit, conceive this .point as clear-
ly established in the Sciipturts, - and by the
constant' tradition of ,the Fathers in every age,
as it is •by the express decisions of their
Geueral Councils, which they consider as infal-
l;fdc• autitority in poiuis of doctrine. Another
Prelate, equally enlightened with Doctor COelia-
oe.H (Doom flussEY), Ti 4 filar &shop of Wa-
terfotd and Lismote, in a Pastoral Letter, pub-
lished in 1797, whertin he reprobates all Protes-.
tent places of education, and particularly the
Charter• Sehools established by Royal Authority,
where tl►e children of such Romanists as elastic
to send them are instructed and maintained gratis,
Speaks in the following words :
" Remonstrate with any parent who will be so
criminal as to expose his offspring.to those places
of education where his religious faith or morals
are likely to be perverted—if be will not attend
to your remonstrances, refuse him the participa-
tion of CnalsTfs•Body ; if he should still continue
obs•inate, denounce him- to the Church e. ex-
communicate hint), in order that, according to
CnaisT's' Commandment, he be considered as a
Beattie!' and a Pu!dican."
(Tu be continued.)
MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.