The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-22 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1826.

THE COURT of 1/IRECTORS ®f the WEST
INDIA DOCK COMPANY, hereby give notice, that an
HALF-YEARLY 'GENERAL. COURT will be held, pursuant
to the directions of the Act of Parliament, at the West India
Dock Rouse, No. 13., Billiter-eqUare, on TUESDAY, the 9th day of
January next, at One o'Clock in the afternoon, at which Meet-
ing a DIVIDEND will be declared for the half-year ending the
91st instant. By order of the Court,
IL LONGLANDS, Secretary.
Wed India. Dock-house, Dec. 19, 1826.
S:B. The Chair will be taken at Two o'Clock precisely.

ABINET-111 AK Elt S' SOCIETY.-
‘../ ,CHEAP-CABINET and UPHOLSTERY, at the LON.
DON REPOSITORY far the CABINET-MAKERS' SO-
CIETY,' being the only real one now existing in London,. No.
71, corner of LEADENHALL-STREET, opposite Aldgate
Pump, and which has been established upwards of Six years.
For Ready. Money, and no Abatement.
The- Trustees and Committee respectfully inform the Nobility
and Gentry, that they still conduct the above Establishment foe
the Benefit of industrious and ingenious Mechanics (who have
large families), by offering their Manufactured Articles in the
Cabinet Line of the best workmanship, and cheaper than by any
Heim in London, no other profit being required' than to satisfy
the warehouse rent and incidental expences tieing satisfied with
constant employment to enable them to support their families,
the number of whom appear by the Books of the last Quarterly
Meeting to be 14S. From the great patronage the Committee
have received, they are in hopes of inereasiug that number.
The following is a Specimen of the Low Prices asked ; all
noode warranted • e. d.
Five feet Mahogany Bedstead, fur-povt 4 10 0

. .
- .
Tent ditto - • -
Bordered Mattress to fit • -
Mahogany Drawers with solid ends -
Eight Mahogany Chairs -

1 t 0
1 1 0
3 5 0
10

:'? (1 0

Maogary 13innianke Tobte
Feather MAI free from dint and smell,
from £2 19 0 to 8 S 0
Drawing-room Sofa, kom Lb b 0 ti, 7 7 0

Sofa Bedetead - s 0
Mahogany Horse-Hair Sofa - - 10 0 upwards
A quantity of Paper Hangings for Bed, Dining, anti Drawing-
rooms, at nearly lialf-priee. The Trade will find it wrath their
attention.

Houses Furnished at a few days' notive, and Apartments in a
few hours,--.Gaudy packed free of expenoe except the matting.

commtrrxr.

T. Corder IJ. Wilson
T. Hailer IJ. Matt
THURNELL, Agent.

1-1 J. Carter
W. Waghoru
J. ASLER, Sevretary

STANZAS

ADDRESSFD TO THE BRITISH TROOPS WHEN ON THEIR MARCH

FOR 10111ARKATION TO PORTUGAL, DRC. 14.
liy Misi.ANNA MARIA PORTER.

A blessing on your banners high !
A blessing on your swords
As firm ye tread, while marehing.hy,
- Ye look Creation's lords !
Ye look the men Spain ought to fear
True sons of Freedom all ;
Who, when their brother's cry they hear,
Start instant at' the call.

Though some are from the peasant's cot,
And some from lordly dome,
From hardy life, or sheltered lot,
Yet all have left a home
And all of that free home will think,
As on they rush to save,
In brave relief they cannot shrink
Before a Bigot's Slave !
And if ye struggle for the right,
In Gas protecting name,
What boots it, though the mortal fight
May gain ye, nought but fame?
For if ye win—or if ye lose
Where laurels wave not high,
The Christian palm more nobly strews
A field where heroes die.
And to your bloody bed shall bands
From earth's far regions come,
To Paid with pure and patriot bends
• Your honour's lofty tomb :
And mothers o'er such sons shalt weep
No tears of frenzied woe;
But tears that heal the hearts they steep
Embalming where they flow.
On then! with banner and with band !
In pomp of gallant show,
Ye warriors of my own dear land !
I bless ye as ye go.
Your music bide my soul rejoice,
Like glory's breath of flame;
For glory past has Prophet-voice,
And tells of future fame.

. .
Gn ! pour that music's rousing air
The hills of Spain among,
And every echo wakened there,
SIAU he proud .memory's song !
Go, triumph o'er her 'mountain holds,
There lift your banners' crests;
The lion on their war-sunu'd folds,
The cross Within your breasts!

__—_-- SHOCKING AccinEwr ..:—Yesterday morning, as'
miss Jane Bartrip, daughter of Mr. Battrip, iarg e o n ,
square, was leaning out of her ehatober:.witulow, two stories high,
mto wipe soeth she unfortunately' over-teethed
ing. off:the glass,of Leicester-
herself, and fell into the street ; she was taken op apparently life-
less, but hopes are entertained 1)- -I f 1
vr tecovery,

ADDRESS OF THE CATHOLICS OF IRE-
LAND TO THE PEOPLE 01? ENGLAND.

Englishmen; Fellow-Christians, and Fellow-Country-
men,—We, the entholies of♦. Irelaod, at the commence-
ment of a new Parliament, deetn it our duty to ourselves
and our country, again to appeal to the good tense and
impartial feeling of our English fellow-subjects against the
unjust disqualifications under which we labour, for a con-.
emotions adherence to opinions which, in our own mind,
we think ate right.
PelloW.-Chtiatians,---Our religion is.your religion—the
religion of the Gospel of Jeans Christ. The first doctrine
of our common. Founder is peace and good will to all men
—the golden rule of Christianity is to do unto others as,
we- should wish that others should do unto us. If in
aught we differ, we do it conscientiously and on conviction.
e only exercise, like other dissenters, that right of choos-
ing for ourselves which i 9 the boast of the Reformation,
and the basis of all Protestantism; and which if you grant,
as you ought to do, on your own principles, tia all others,
why should you singly ref* it unto us? Is it littingrthat
Christians, in the very mitre of Christendom, should be
less favoured than _atheists and infidels, and that this in-
justice, positive, substantial, and extensive, should be per-
mitted to endure against millions and generations, without
any realor sufficient cause ?
Fellow-countrymen,—ln our own country we form a
large majority of the population, and if Ireland, like other
countries, were to be governed in the sense of the majority:
of its inhabitants, we should long since have been free.
But the legislative union has incorporated us with England.
We now form an integral portion of the British empire,
and one-third of the whole of the state. A just
Government, like a just man, will give in propor-
tion as: he veteives. Is it, then, just, that paying the
contributions of our blood and treasure equally with every
ether British subject,. we alone of all British subjects,
should he deprived of our portion of the protection anti
security and honours of the British empire? Is it. right
that one third of the population of any country should be
held in comparative. degradation for the gratification of the
other two ? is such a country free, and is it fitting that.
such degradatiOn and such injustice should endure for three
centuries, against millions and generations, without any
real or sufficient cause ?

It is not from our enemies, whose interest it is to ca-
lumniate, that they may more safely oppress. us, that an
estimate should be taken of our principles or conduct. Of
our principles we ourselves are the.best interpretersof
our conduct, the public at large. We leave. to reasonable
and thinking men the decision on both. We ask them
fearlessly to examine, and then to. judge according to that
examination, between the people of Ireland and their op-
ponents.
There is no real or sufficient cense in our principles or
conduct, to exclude us from ri full participation in all the
privileges of a free state. There is nothing in the tenets
of the Catholic to disqualify him from enjoying freedom.
Portugal is free—France is free—South America is free
—and Portugal, France, and South America profess the
tenets of the Catholics of Ireland. There is nothing in
the Tenets of British Catholics to disqualify them' from a
full enjoyment of British freedom. The British Constitu-
tion was founded by Catholics—can Catholics be indifferent
to its support ? We yield to no class in obedience to the
laws, in attachment to the Sovereign, in honourable
anxiety for the po,!ver, "%lf
empire. Ttreferr pr ivat a situation, civil anti
military, of confidence and honour, we have equalled, if
not surpassed our professions. The very earnestness with
which we now seek a re-admission into the constitution,
is the best proof how strongly we are attached to Its prin-
ciples, how deeply we appreciate its advantages and rights.
NVe have been accused of divided allegiance, subversive
otthe power of a Protestant Government, *nd of the
rights of a Protestant people, of violating or equivocating
on the sacred engagements of an oath, of preserving
un-
changed the spirit of persecution, which tainted all nations
till the present enlightened era. We have disclaimed, and
do disclaim, each and all of these allegations ;—we dis-
elairiad them in 1767; again in 1792; the six leading
universities of the Catholic world, in 1788, disclaimed
them; the chief of our church, Pope Pius VI., in. 1791
disclaimed them ; our Bishops and Archbishops, on their
solemn oaths before the Imperial Parliament, have empha-
tically and recently disclaimed them ; and we cannot dis-
pose of our property or exercise any public trust, without,
in each instance, disclaiming them. We lime sworn, and
do swear as follows :-,--

(Here follows the Oath of Allegiance.)
We have been accused of a divided allegiance. Why
is not the same accusation pleaded against the Catholic of '
Prussia and Hanover ? We have ,denied the calumny,
and the conduct of our ancestors justifies the denial. The
Catholics of Ireland stood firm to the Protestant House of
Brunswick in 1745, against the Catholic Pretender and
the Roman Pontiff. Our oaths are regarded in the ordi.,
nary intercourse of life as inviolate. Why are they not
equally so by our country ? 'Why should there be it dif
ferent measure for us in and out of Parliament? If this ae-
cusation :were grounded on fact, what would preient many
of our body at• this moment from legislating with, instead
of supplicating the justice-of either House of Parliament.
The spirit of persecution is not the spirit or the doc-
trine, but the perversion of the spirit and the doctrine
of the Catholic religion. In bad times, it has unfor-
tunately tainted, more or less, every Christian denomina-
tion. If the Catholic persecuted the Protestant; he did
persecute the' Catholic, it was attack 'and retaliation; and
if the Oatholic persecuted longer than the Protestant, it
was only because the' Catholic was much longer in posses-
sion of power. Nor do we instance this from any desire
or feeling of recrimination, but from a deep conviction that
it is not to any form of religion , that blame is to .be at-
tached, but lust of power, rousing and wielding the bad
passions of the human heart, and which, in all countries,
we confidently trust, must, sooner or later, disappear be.;
fore the progress of freedom, which is the due sense of
mutual interest, and the gradual advance of civilization
through all parts of the globe.
Inc our own land, we ure a proscribed people. We are
excluded from all participation Of the Government; con-
etituting as We do virtually and essentially the nation..—We
pay taxes which we have not imposed ; w e contribute to
the upholding, of establishments in which we. can. have no
share; we pay double tithes, double cars; we are judged
by tribunals in which we have little amtroul. English-
men rebelled against the ship-money and the Star-Cham-
ber. Would the. Englishman of the present day submit to
this:?. .NlTould Canada submit to rt-..would . Hanover ?
And is Ireland to be worse governed than a foreign king-
dom or a distant settlement ? Would it 'not have been
better for her to have been a colony, than, as She is, a vital
portion of this free empire ?
WO do not desire power, but we claim eligibility. \%e
desire that a Protestant Sovereign might have the means
to avail himself of the services of all his people. We de-
sire to enlarge the resources of the British ernpire,to conso-
lidate the liberties of the entire British nation. Is he an
enemy to England who desires
,this ? he a frientko,
England who opposes this desire
If there ere any danger likely to accrue by the admis-
sion of the Catholics of Ireland into the Constitution, *
that
danger already exists amongat us. By the act of 1791, we
i
have already the natural elements of a first pOliticill in-

thierice—means of acquiring wealth --education to employ
it•-=-the -eleetive franchise to render both available. Have
we abused these powers? Has the noble struggle of our
friTholderS in aught dindashed.the stun of British liberty
Have the real interests of the country sliffered 2 At home
we have shown we are capable of upholding, not of injur-
ing, British freedom; abroad, who could distinguish in the
field of battle between the Protestant or Catholic soldier
Nut the Frenchman, who yielded to our arms, nor the
German or Spaniard, who fought beside us.
Why should the Protestant he alarmed at the admission
of the Catholic into the. Constitution ? Does he appre-
hend in his own religion any principle' of - weakness which
will yield in a fair and equal struggle ? Does England dread
one-third of her empire sliMild absorb the other two, ar
that, by the introduction into the Houses of Patti/anon of
a few additional members, the Religion, Crown, and Le-
gislature of these realms will cease to be essentially and
constantly:Protestant

The real danger is in things as they are, not in things as'
they may be; the Protestant suffers where the Catholic is
aggrieved. England is endangered by the oppression and
danger of Ireland. It has been stated before the Imperial
Legislature that this Cmintry is one great mass of discon-
tent. It is—we do not affect to conceal it ; and though
we will not allege as motives for better systems, the ex-
treme cases, feared by all good men in either country, we
cannot disguise the • many intermediate states of injury to
which Protestant-and:Catholic are equally exposed. • Is it
nothing that the empire should, be -taxed for our divisions,
or that an enormous military force should not only consume
the natural resources of the country, but by a circle 'the
most vicious, draw even 'far assistance upon the contribu-
tions of England ? Is it nothing for England, for the Eng-
lish and Protestant proprietor, to. find his revenues des
creased, his security diminished, his tenantry impoverished ?
Is it nothing for the Protestant as well as Catholic mer-
chant to find the avenues of industry closed, the springs of
national wealth dried up, capital, which is cast to every
other quarter of the globe' refused to us, and the British
empire altogether paralyzed in one of its most important
members ? Of the sufferings of our people, privation,
penury, starvation, fever, plague,and death, We say noth-
ing, but we are too close to England not to spread in time
the contagion of our misery. Our population already over-
flows upon her, so also will our wretchedness, We shall
lower her unless she can raise us. Is she disposed to risk
it for a theological difference, or to stand up ere it be too
late, and by a just appreciation of her interests, as well as
ours, to, vindicate both by a single act of justice mulles
nerosity ? • •
People of England—Place yourselves, therefore, in our
Eosition, and reason with us. Look round to the rest of
urope, and judge for us. Is not every other country but
this; Catholic as Well as Protestant, throwing aside its see-
tarian animosities, and, by a removal of all unequal laws,
Combining against the day or trial, which. assuredly must
come, all their 'subjects into one free people ? Shull Eng-
land, the eldest-born of Eeropean liberty, the centre of
European civilization, cede the station which she held for
so many centuries before 'manhind, to nations, whom, till
this hour, she deemed, and,justly deemed, her inferiors
IVe are in that critical moment when the danger. of inno-
vation has passed away, and the advantage of change is
not yet too late. Let Ireland be in deed, as in word, the
sister, but not the handmaid of England; so shall we be
united by a better bond than that of fear—by common li-
berties, mutual happiness, and. the throne of those' realms
.fiketti)fi the' only lasting security for any throne, the
spontaneous attachments and well-deserte,l loyalty of
combined and prosperous people.