The Sun.
London, England, 1819-03-06 00:00:00

now recur.

Hitherto I have treated this crafty document
according to the plain meanin4 which prima facie
seems attached to it, and in which view I trust it
'is sufficiently proved to be replete with falsehood,
contradiction, and solecism. We will now recur
to that part which appears more especially to un-
veil the treachery of our adversaries, and gives its
such information as in an important degree recon-
ciles some of the principal apparent discordances
of this piece of Jesuitical ingenuity, The mask
is fallen, and the traitor stands contest. We are
told that the repeal of those laws which limit the
succession to the lititish .f.brone to Protestants,
wouIdONLY alter " the fo►m of the monarchy,
without at the same time encroaching on the essence
of the CONSTITUTION." That "the t'onstilution
is to be distinguished from the Government ;"
this, I take it, implies that our present governing
Administration differs in its execntive acts from the
principles of the Constitution. That our laws are
" often exclusive privileges';" that from such" the
Constitution withdraws its countenance," and con-
sequently, that many of our " bad and barbarous"
laws are inconsiste►►t with THE CONSTITUTION.
That " though the PROTESTANT RELIGION were
ABJURED, and the Protestant Succession abrogated,"
vet would the " British Constitution exist in its ES-
SENCE 'and suasTANcs." And the mote certainly to
confirm and explain the meaning of the whole, (and
as it were to put. us upon.our guard), that the Bat-
' TISH "CONSTITUTION is not RADICALLY (mind this
radically) or essentially PROTESTANT."
Now, Mr. Editor, I do•assent to the consistency
of all these assertions, in the view in which they
shall now be laid before your readers,—by keeping
in my mind's eye that one consideration shall re-
concile all these seeming absurdities, and that only
one will reconcile them,—namely, that the. Ca-
tholic Advocate; speaking of THE CONSTITUTION,
mentally intends (by a laudable and "pious
fraud") to refer to that Constitution -(I give his
words) "KNOWN and ACKNOWLEDGED by the
great and fundamental „principles of
~publte
and personal freedom, embodied .in CATHOLIC
MAGNA CHARTA,:' upon the principles ot.which lie
evidently considers the present .Constitution of the
laws enacted at and since the !'.:Reuctution," as an

:encroachment, and which they demand wholly to
be " expunged from the Statute Book." Of this,
their argument, founded ou our 'Great Charter
(which by the way is &tinned by their own
Church, as hereafter I shall take occasion to no-

lice), 'granting " quod EccleilaAnglicana libera sit
et haheat omnia jura sua iniegra," &c. 1 am fully
aware, 'anti 1 trust prepared to meet them on. that •
ground at any time, when to argue that point may
he of more importance than at present especially,
Mr. Editor, as I have thus already so far trespass-
ed upon your valuable Cohonns. I cannot, how.
ever;- dismi,s the subject without reminding the
,British public, that we have here a key presented
to tis, which With equal facility will unlock and
Make plain the secret meaning of that eminent
specimen of Jesuitical duplicity and talent which
was lately addressed to thnt. bar their "Roman
Catholic Brethren.' We may 'tow most truly see
that they " seek not'to accomplish an innovation
of the Constitution,
;but to accelerate its unre-
stricted operation," (i e. as under " the Bth Henry
before his conversion") that they do truly " vene-
rate" THAT " same Constitution." I will not now
longer detain the attention of your numerous
'traders, than to intreat that they let not this im-
pm taut subject pass lightly from 'their thought's
but that as Britons, e‘'ery man of whom England
expects to do his duty, they Will seriously con-
template those dangers which sew gathering
round_their dearest rights, and as their ditty calls,
firmly be resolved to defend, even to the most
perilous-eXtreutity; their present (dearly purchased
by the blood of thousands, and proven by three
centuries' expetience) glorious, tree, and happy
PROTESTANT CONSTI TUTI2,9
Jan. 19, 1819

ALBERT.