The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-29 00:00:00

(FROM THE MORNING POST.)

The mad and factious attempt of O'Connell
and his crew to cry up a Papist crusade, our
readers already know, has been given up by the
arch-demagogue, but 'evidently not without a
struggle, and the humiliation of a submLsiJn.
His vanity hitherto has ruled him and the vast
majority of his tools; but at length his yoke has
been found so oppres.iive, that an effort has been
made to shake it off. This ambulatory mission
was suggested by King Dan, and was no doubt
intended to Le a menacing body of delegates to
bully the British Cabinet, and to force their way into
power by intimidation. However, the excited fears
of some of the Agitators have left him in the lurch,
and the mission is, for the present at least, aban-
doned. The service, perhaps, was apprehended
to be of a perilous nature, and the guests, like
those invited to the lion's den, were much more
ready to acknowledge the honour done to them
than to undertake the visit. Several excuses, a,
our reade:-s have already found in our columns,
were sent ; but if the individuals sending them,
really felt that the mission was a proper measure,
or one likely to be of real service to their designs
we must suppose they ,would not have been de-
terred. by private business from refusing their
countenance and their presence. But no, they could
not come—they knew the thing was the sub=
kid of every sensible or loyal man's ridi-
cule—they saw they were to be the mere
puppets of O'Connell, and the State Doctor
was to move them at his mere will and pleasure.
They kicked against the degrading servility—they
felt the danger they must of necessity be exposed
to; and to this combination of causes are we in-
debted for the abandonment of so incendiary a pro-
ject. But suppose it otherwise, and then, we ask,
what, good could they possibly produce, or how
were they to work ? Were those peripatetic Pa-
pists to travel about to fairs and market places ?
Was O'Connell to parade them upon stages or
scaffolds to the revolted, the "gaping multitude?
Was he to increase the rent, by exhibiting them at
so much a-head on his line of march from Liver-
pool to London ? Did he think he would be per-
mitted to plead at the head of them, at the bar of the
House of Commons, and,, like another Anaeharsis
Clouts, proclaim himself the orator of the Papist
race ? We will not undertake to say whether one
or all of these motives actuated him; but we need
not the gift of prophecy to say, that had the mission
been persevered in, the cause of Romanism would
have been thrown back a century. The people of
England are too wedded to their religion, they feel
too strongly its superiority, they participate too
largely in the blessings of a Protestant Constitution,
to endanger the one or the other; and we firmly 111
trust that England .

...
Nought will rue,
If to herself she prove bnt true.

The people of this country are now called upon to
defend their all, or surrender it to the enemy who
already presses against the gates of the citadel.—
But we must have no terms, no parley—we must
go vigorously to the good work, and by one grand
united effort silence the revolutionary force they
bring against us. Our hearths and our altars must
be kept unprofaned ; we must not give way to that
mock-liberal notion which has been thickening and
maddening the brains of many for the last few years
—we must speak and act with determination, con-
vinced that our cause is righteous, and " thrice is
he armed who hath his quarrel just.". Our inte-
rests, our safety, the honour of our country, the
maintenance of our religion, all call upon us to stand
forward ; and while we look with the utmost confi-
dence to the wisdom of the Legislature, we entreat
the people not to be supine.