The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-10 00:00:00

,due On tie lst January, agreeably to Treaty. It would appear,
President foyer had calculated on raising a Loan, and had never
contemplated making the sum in question payable from the Treasury.
Iu the mean time the state of tiade was bad; and the season
sickly; but as very heavy rains bad fallen, it was hoped that the
Island would soon become more healthy.

Bermuda Papers have been received to the 25th Nov. inclusive,
they notice the arrival of H. M. brig Jasper, Captain Blackwood,
on the 4th Nov., in 28 days from Portsmouth, with specie to
the amount of 50001., for the Commissariat. She has als.o on
board 80,000!. for the Bermudas and Canada.

Such is the general prevailing feeling of respect and
attachment to the memory of the late Duke of YORK, that
the most numerous solicitations are making by persons of
superior rank to be permitted to attend the solemn cere-
mony of his interment, even in those stations which,

upon ordinary occasions, are so subordinately filled.

We are glad to perceive that Messrs. SHELL and O'Cox

NELL appear heartily ashamed of themselves, and anxious

to atone for their former scandalous language regarding his
late Royal Highness the Duke of YORK. What infatua-
tion could have led them to use expressions so revolting to
every good feeling of human nature, and so certain of injur-
ing the cause they profess to have at heart—it is difficult
to conceive. Indeed it is not on one occasion only that we
have observed with surprise the intemperate conduct of these
unruly orators. We take it for grunted that impaSsiOned
eloquence is not necessary to convince their audience, or
to sectire their support,—for the audience must be as anxi-
ous on the subject as those who address them. And
viewing their speeches as likely•to go forth to the world,

and to that majority .of the -empire on whose verdict
their fate must depend, •we must regard, almost in
the light of treachery, language calculated to prejudice to
the last degree the minds of their Protestant brethren.—
We do not blame them for being solicitous, nay, intensely
solicitmis, for a restitution of their rights and privileges as
British subjects; but we do blame them for supposing
that there is no difficulty in the case, and that any one who
sees danger in their admission to political power, must be
every thing that is had, and deserving of all manner Otpu-
nishment. We know many persons having no sinister
objects to answer, who would gladly see safety in Ca-
tholic Emancipation, but who find it impossible to bring
their minds to that conviction.

Let the Catholics recollect the lengthened struggle for
ascendancy between the two religions, and let them also
recollect what happened when they had the upper hand,
God forbid that they should experience the treatment they
bestowed, but the recollection of it should make them more
temperate in their demands. And if they do not choose

to be identified with their persecuting forefathers, let them
shew by their conduct that the spirit of their religion is
altered.. How far that is the case, as regards the
Priesthood,—the head of their Church, and the Aposto-
lical Junta in Spain and . France, are at • present
endeavouring to convince . the world. But though
BONNER. and the fires of Smithfield do not haunt
our imaginations (as is the case with :many most
worthy but nervous persons), and though we con-
ceive the dominion of priestcraft impracticable in a
free, rich, and enlightened population, like that of Great
Britain, still we should be Sorry to see an unlimited number
of Catholics admitted to political power.' From some of
the most important offices in the Executive they are
clearly shut ont by the spirit of the Constitution, as esta-
blished in 1688: for we should as soon think of having a
Catholic King, as a. Catholic Chancellor dispensing' the
patronage of the-Church of England.
But, since a Catholic country, like Ireland, cannot be
said to be represented at. all, except by members of their
own body, (which, we conceive, to be the very essence of
representation) it appears to us that the Representa-
tives for Ireland—but those Members only—should be
relieved from the necessity of taking the test oath, by
being included in the annual Indemnity Bill. By such
an arrangement the House of Commons might pro
bably contain 20 or 30 Catholic Members, but by no
possibility more than one hundred ; and in case of this
improbable, we may almost say impossible result, still the
proportion of Protestant Members would be nearly 6 to 1.
Should these 20 or 30 Members he an overmatch (proh
pudor 1) for the other 600—at the termination of each
year, the steps taken might be retraced, by not
including Catholics in the next year's Indemnity
and matters would be in state quo after having given them
a fair trial, for it would ba impossible, even by a second
expulsion, to exasperate them more than they are at
present.

A similar Indemnity Bill might be passed annually, foi
Jle benefit of those Peers who are Catholics, without ex.
:ending its benefits to future converts to that faith.
To anticipate the objections to this scheme, would lead

us beyond the limits of a Newspaper article, but we Rhall
endeavour to meet them when offeled. We can at least
say of them, without the fear of contradiction, that they
are ideal, whilst the miseries of Ireland are real and
existing. All Men of Christian feelings must wish to see
some remedy speedily applied to such monstrous evils, and
it appears to us that this is the point where conflicting ()pi-
nions must one day meet. We are confident that this
measure, at the •enlightened period in which we
live, would not, in the remotest degree, endanger
our glorious Constitution; whilst; by (waging the cordial
Co-operation of the Irish Aristocracy, it would at once
raise Ireland from her present degraded state of misery and
of crime, to that high place which nature seems to have
destined her to fill, as an important-integral portion of the
most powerfill, and in all other respects, the freest Empire
in the world.