The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TIM LONDON !JOURNALS.

It is a common characteristic of troublesome
times, that one faction should charge its own
offences upon another, and invoke against an ad-
versary the punishment due only to itself. The
Catholic Association have not employed any
threat of illegal violence against any portion of
the King's subjects ; they have organized their
people, it is most true, that all might learn to
combine their efforts for a single end, and might
act harmoniously together; but the end was law-
ful, and so were the means. The means were
votes for liberal Members of Parliament, and
voluntary contributions or subscriptions for the
relief of brethren who should be persecuted for
those votes. The end was Catholic emancipa-
tion. 'What, on the other hand, has been the
demeanour of the Orange faction ? Islave they
confined their sentiments or measures to such as
were purely constitutional ? Have they been;
satisfied with propositions to vote against the--
Catholics—to speak against the Catholics—or-
to resist the progress of emancipation by rea-
soning mankind into a conviction of its- evil isos
licy ? No, the answer to the Catholics has ',seen
the voyage of a certain Royal Duke to England
—the enlisting of recruits for the Cusnberland
legion, under the nickname of Brunswick Clui,s
reorfeveovletirnyg ltehgaanl
tah,:eissherorepraiit'
—and the spitting forth of fire and sword against
their Catholic fellow-subjects, in a thousand
wrathful effusions, the burden of every one of
which was a challenge of the Catholic people of
Ireland to arms—to arms which the leading Ca-
tholics had never ceased to deprecate : a co ,vardly
challenge, too, for it was one which every fire-
and-sword man who uttered it excused by declar-
ing that England would come to his assistance.
Now. is it not an atrocious wickedness to threatete
men who are pursuing laWful measures by-law-
ful means, with opposition and overthrow by
rcnaeialsuaoreys
thsitoilgrebeersnivioe
of a demand for justice by an appeal to 40fcc...,
except the insolence of attributing to ti,,,
si peti-
tionersregreuoilftt lyirei:?l
ev eqrsuyeuscotrhiiomnwe
between
w,ethieninct.
until
tahatebx.o,ai
Catholics
eaxgeoh
,i,
it
ei
ia,
from the Constitution, and Orangemen who ssios
nopolize its privileges. The Brunswick Clubs
of Ireland—avowedly a war establUment_
talked only of fighting, in reply to their country-
liiai ci
iht(iet
ohofef continuept
men, whose preparations were aimply for voting..
Yet they—the Cumberland bravoes—have had
the boldness to charge the Catholics with, .
pur-
poses of armed aggression, and to represent their
own sanguinary proceedings as a system of
loyal and constitutional" defence'. The
Brunswick and Cumberland Clubs it is which
have produced the late assemblage of peasants
in Tipperary. We have no thought of denying
that
(otim;lniaoltliallslsidieiti
tdtsiN3penhli
g:ioiehai
scilitilotetti.•
letters
South describeo f Ireland,
booiketeyttiadot:soeoht
olinnpanteveeliegaerdhitytntsitehiti‘sereilohwl
e:loiliricseswideeipeaceable, themselves in()11
ought
I -i i E.;
tt‘ieol
orultlebi
leo:
ocsNee.:rpci gritoo:lnla'
impar-
tially administered, and the Orangemen must he
made sensible of its power, as well as their in-
tended victims. Of this we see no chance what-
ever, while the Orangemen are allowed to carry
arms, and the Catholics- (very properly) are re-
strained from using them. But the police, as
well as other Orange Satellites, must he checked
in their intemperance, or the results will be
dreadful. We refer on this point to a statement
in our correspondence from Ireland, where one
of these (4 peace" officers snatched a musical in-
strument from a peasant, and but for the exer-
tions of the Clergy, both Protestant and Catholic,
would, with his few comrades, have been de-
stroyed. Admitting, then, that force must be
put down by force, is that, let us ask, to be the
li
ng proposes permanent
letinirne•
tseaenttlsr,atwlhiaillof athniss
50,000 Cumberland Life Guards gnashing their
liblrelslsetldr morega
fort is maintained by the interposition of 30,000
or 40,000 regular troops, and the expense of
working such a costly piece of mechanism sup-
plied out of Englishmen's pockets ! Ireland.
if this be the fate designed for her, can never be
industrious, prosperous, productive, or taxable,
until she shakes off' the unnatural and monstrous
yoke; but that the opportunity will be presented to
her ere we live much longer, there is ample
ground in the present state of Europe for fear-
ing. No man knows better than the Duke of
Wellington how little would or could be done
towards a permanent settlement of the affairs of
Ireland by a successfisl campaign against the
Catholics. It is ndk for' the first time that the
cabins throughosat the whole country have been
burned, the crops wasted, the cattle destroyed,
and the persons of the wretched inhabitants
nationalke infuriated?o—f lelplov'elieitailt:.:
hunted through glen and mountain. And to
what effect, we pray, with a view to the ends of
such wicknel and frightful devastation ? The
vivacious people soon rose with augmented num-
bers, and with more untameable vensreance.—
The atrocities of Cromwell produced
out of which grew the once doubtfia war am4inst.
b
William 111., and the consequent succession of
the House of Hanover. Catholic Irr:tand is
now three times more populous than at the
close of the 17th century. Let us assume that
10(1,000 are put to death (and it is to speak
largely) in this unholy quarrel—what happens ?
Five times an hundred thousand will remain,
versed in war, and insatiable of vengeance.
Is this, we will ask the Cumberland Clubs, then,
the way to govern Ireland? - Is this to fulfil
Kings any one great ends for which " rule,
and for which God has created society ?____
No, give the men their rights ; and if they
will become are men, they
useful citizens: It is industriously reported by
; the Cumberlanders, that a very high personage
has countenanced and encouraged most of these'
ises which have of late enterpr been undertaken
against a relaxation of the penal laws. If the
fact were true, (but we do not believe the state-
ment), we should not hesitate to ask what right
'has. such a personage to
ointerfere at all in such
concerns, except by those means and through
those channels which the Constitution dictates ?
Let the Sovereign
choose his Ministers ; but let
those Mini t s ers choose their measures, and be
responsible for them. It is impossible to believe
the report of a Sovereign. interposing
' to throw
difficulties in the way of his own official advisers,
and scarcely more possible to imagine that any
' Ministers are mean enough to endure the inter.
ferenee. 'We repeat
that
the
statement is Mere-
dible. Well does our august and 'constitutional
Nlonarch know, that when- Princes overstep their
station, calamity never fails to follow. The
well meant obstinacy of one King of England
lost us the United States. The bigotry and ob-
qinacy of the Jacobin Clubbists, who swear by
his name, would lose Ireland for us also. But