The Sun.
London, England, 1819-04-24 00:00:00

Fon THE SUN.

To his Royal Highness the ININC6 RFORNT of the
United Kingdom of England and Ireland, and to
the Two Houses of Parliament.
The day ii near at hand on which the following
. great Question will be agitated in the Commons
[louse of Parliament :

Is it for the happiness of the United Kingdom—in other
words, •is it necessary for the existence, and to the freedom,
of the United Kingdom, from treason and bloodshed, that
the Catholics be admitted into a full participation with their
Protestant brethren, in all things relating to the State, be-
fore Parliament in its wisdom bath abrogated the Act of Par-
!lament of Henry V 111., which declares the King of England

to be the supreme Head of Church and State; and also the
Act of Parliament of the settlement of the Crown of Eng-
land in a line Olen and thenceforward purely Protestant ?
This is a momentous question, which I dare as a
Lawyer, to press into the consideration of your Royal High-
ness; and of you, the Peers; and of you, the Honourable
Members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
because upon your cherishing, or rejecting it, depends the
misery or happiness of the United Kingdom.

I shall abstain from rudely giving my opinion ; and content
myself by putting a few questions, resulting from the former
question, whiCh I feel, from a consideration of the nature
and tendency of the very solemn oaths I took on being called
to the bar, I am imperatively called on, by conscience, to
place before your Royal Highness ; and you, the Peers of
Parliament; and you, the Honourable Members of the
Commons House of Parliament.

Of my first question, there naturally arises a second—
namely—Which is the parent Church ? the Catholic or the
Protestant ?

Hence, as there is no one but will concede that the Romish
Church is the parent Church, a third question is afforded me
namely—Kith a parent a right to expect, require, and de:
mand implicit obedience on the part of the child ?—or bath
the child a right to expect, require, and demand obedience
from the parent ?

By the law human, which is of the taw divine, the child
shall be obedient in ail things to his parent ; so long as, in
obeying his parent, he offend not the law of God, or the laws
of the land, made for the conservation of the peace of society.
This gives birth to a fourth question—namely—What will
be the consequence, when the parent (the Romish Church)
cannot succeed in commanding his Protestant child ? and
vice versa the parent will not submit to the rule laid down by
his child and his household ?--ti other words, when each con-
ceives, and obstinately maintains to the last drop of his blood,
that his own course is the best ?

The fifth and final rely serious question I shall put is—
What is to become of the Protestant Peers and Protestant
Gentry of Ireland, when deserted by the Protestant peasantry,
wlio are daily emigrating from their country (I am well in-
formed) by reason of the dreadf►►l ills they believe will befal
them, in case the Catholic hotly obtain the concessions they
require ? I have the honour to subscribe myself,

Your very obedient humble Servant,
JOl-11V HAWFSEY ACHERLEY.
Batb, and Grosvenor-place, near Bath,
April, 18t9.

We understand that the Right Honourable Ro-
BERT PEEL, late Chief Secretary of Ireland, is in
treaty for the purchase of an 'extensive and valu-
able estate in the county of Kilkenny.—(Leinster
Journal.)

POETItY.

CATULLUS.—(No.

O Corolla qua' etipis pate ludere
Et satire paratum habes : sed vereris inepta,

CoLoNitn, who lov'st on a long bridge to plan
And would'st dance, were it nut from a fear that' the sta),
Ou small but ments propt, yielding, down bridge should go,
And sink nc'er to rise in the dark gnlpli
May'st thou with a bridge to thy heart's content meet,
Strong enough to support the quick rope-dancer's feet,
If thou to the frolicsome trick wilt incline
I wish to hare play'd on a Freed-man of mine.
Over head in the mud I would plurge the poor dog
From thy bridge—which may very well be as the hog—
Besides, its font stench is most dark and profound :
The fellow in shrewilnesS does not much abound—
More simple is he than the lately weau'd boy
Who lies on his knee, of his father the joy.
This block, who has got a young girl for his wife,
A tender eade-lamb in the bloom of her life,
To he valued tar more than the grape's ruby blush,
Let's her do what she will—nor regards her a rush.

A mere branchless log, not e'en mor'd by the breeze:
So my lump of lead nothing hears, nothing sees—
What he be—if he be of be not—is unknown
To him who I now from thy bridge would have thrown,
In the hope to arouse his lethargical soul
By leaving his dulness behind in the hole—
As a mule from the slough scrambles out with dismay,
And leaves all his shoes sticking fast in the clay.