The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-08 00:00:00

that bloody law, which passed both Houses of Par-
liament, and to which the King, instead of his veto,
affixed his assent,—thus, according to the reasoning
of your composer of petitions, violating his corona-
tion oath. Fortunately, the humanity and good sense
of British Monarchs and Parliaments have supplied
the practical refutation of your resolutions and of
your petitions, The greater part of that bloody
code, which he who has composed what you have
subscribed to considers the best and safest means of
preserving the Protestant religion and Goverment,
has been repealed already. His thirst for blood can-
not now be satisfied ; fur a man may now, in Eng-
, land, worship God according to his conscience and
the religion of his ancestors, without incurring the
danger of the gibbet and the axe.
Here I close my remarks upon what yon have
been induced unwittingly to agree to and transmit
to Parliament and the throne as the exposition of
your sentiments. Ido in charity and in truth
firmly believe, that you suffered your good and
kindly feelings to be blinded by the bigotted zeal of
others, whom I excuse by feeling convinced that
they knew nothing of the subject on which they
wrote the sentiments to which you hastily assented.
But permit me to make an appeal to my old
friends amongst whom I have passed the whole of
my life, and to recal old times to your remembrance.
You loved my father—a warm friend, a kind
landlord, a generous, an able, and an honest mats.
He never swerved from his principles; and they led
him invariably to support the cause, the comple-
tion of which Providence did not allow him to
witness, but wh;ch his descendants may now look
forward to with hope, as they do, wi:h the full
belief and conviction that its accomplishment will
lead to the security of our Protestant establishment,
and the tranquillity of the empire. His exertions
all were directed to one end, and that was, to keep
the county which the King had intrusted to his
charge in peace, harmony, and good neighbourhood.
During his life the great spectre of Catholic power,
which has alarmed you, appeared in all -its terrors.
You never then apprehended the dangers you now
tremble at. You differed from him, perhaps, in so
much of his political opinions : but you relied in con-
fidence on his well-known attachment to the Con-
stitution of his country, and his loyalty to his King,
and you did not then allow any fear of imaginary
perils to interfere with your feelings of good neigh-
boerhood and mutual friendship. His brother, Lord
Grenville, became Prime MiNister of the country;
and, faithful to his principles, openly avowed his
conviction, that a measure for the relief of his Ca-
tholic fellow-subjects was necessary for the safety
of the empire.

For honestly and constitutionally tendering to his
Sovereign advice to that effect, Lord Grenville lost
his power :
_the very measure which he had recom-
mended—and for recommending which he was dis-
missed from office—was carried through Parliament
by his opponents ; the King gat e his Royal assent to
the Bill; no charge was brought against his Majesty
for a breach of his Coronation Oath by so doing :
but the object of Lord Grenville's opponents was
gained, and the cry of " No Popery" was raised
against him and hia friends by the men who, a few
years after, actually carried into execution the mea-
sure which he had recommended. I was then one of
your Representatives in Parliament. I held a sub-
ordinate office in Lord Grenville's Administration.
Duripg its short continuance, and in the course of
the events which accompanied its fall, I passed
through the ordeal of no less than three county
elections—the first, on my acceptance of office; the
second, on the dissolution of Parliament during the
existence of that Administration; the third, on the
dissolution which immediately followed our dis-
missal.

I appeal to you all! Pid I for a moment conceal
my opinions ? Was there a single dissentient voice
to any one of my re-elections ? My colleague was
at that time the son of a Nobleman who succeeded
my uncle as Minister. Every inducement, there-
fore, existed to raise the cry of " No-Popery"
against me, and it was raised ; and every freeholder
within those hundreds who lately assembled to vote
those resolutions, petition, and address, voted for
me. Aye, every one ! I never experienced a warmer
welcome from my constituents. than I did upon
those occasions. Aye, every one! even some of
those were loudest then in my support, who, at your
last meeting, concurred most vehemently with those
who virtually charged my father—whom you loved
when living, and wept when dead, and myself whom
you then honoured with your unbounded confi-
dence—with being traitors to the Constitution of
our country, and enemies of its establishment.
Do I take any part of the credit of the reception I
at that time eXperippeed to myself ? No. You
had not then been lashed into fury and madness by
intriguing, mischievous, and discontented spirits,
which find in the division of families, in the destruc-
tion of social habits, in the dissolution of long-
established friendships, their own foul harvest, and
their true reward. You had not then suffered the
unbridled enthusiasm and fiery zeal of heated youth
to overpower prudence and overwhelm experience.
You had not then permitted the quiet of your hos-
pitable betties to be broken in upon by the frantic
orgies of clubo, ana the intoxicating violence of fee.
dolls imputations. Ido not charge you with having
changed your political opinions; many of my best
friends differed from me then upon this subject, as
they do now, but none then tried to set the son
against the father the nephew against the uncle.
The affections of private life were deemed sacred,
and its decencies were preserved inviolate, and none
thought it worth their while to talk f deluging
Buckingham, Winslow, and Waddesdon, with
bipod, in full confidence that the Legislature would
best decide the wetter, without having re-
course to such butcher-like appeals. You felt then
as Englishmen—and as Englishmen you feel now.
But you then preferred quiet homes to noisy meet-
ings, and good plain sense to frothy speeches and
absut.'d addresses. For God's sake and Tor your
own, let me implore of you to return to ycur ancient
habits. Select the Members of your choice to re-
present you in Parliament, form and express your
opinions like sensible men, but be content with your
fre'p., and Parliamentary Constitution, as it was really
formed by you forefathers, who were Catholics
every soul of them; who, although Catholics, swore
and kept their path, that in defiance of the Pope
they would admit no arbitrary power within the
realm ; and take example from Protestant Elizabeth,
who when the realm of England was invaded under
the consecrated banner of the Pope, and with the
avowed purpose of establishing Papal power, ac-
cepted the aid of British Catholics, and calling Bri-
tish 'Catlio,lie oflircers to assist her Protestant forces,
by their united efforts preser:;ied the liberties of the
, country.
i P,.?.lieye me, gentlemen, with every feeling of at 7
tachusent end regard, your affectionate and sincere
friend and servant,
BUCKINGHAM ADD CHANDOS.

The Duke of CUMBERLAND came to town
on i.);,:x,dy, from a visit to his 111Antstv at his Palace at
Windsor. T;tl.2 A;chhisliop of DUBLIN paid a visit to his
Royal Highness after ,itia at his residence in the
Kincr's Palace, St. James's. !rile j«arl cl ;41..npri visited
the 'Royal Duke yesterday. A great many "gentlahae:;
wane..', on his Royal Highness yesterday with petitions
againss ,the fi;r removing civil disabilities from the
Roman datholcs,"to be
,vrweted by the Royal Duke to
the Hopeof Lof.Gs.

The I)uebess 3f,oucEs4.Eit dined vitil
the Princess AUGUSTA on Monday, at her residrpce ig the
King's Palace, St. James's.

erlime POLIGNAC, the French Ambassador,
had a I ig;c +nfe; er^r with the Earl of ABERDEEN wester-
day, at the office of tits 6.e:21,,A1ry of State for Foreign
Affairs. Monsieur BEitatubi; thep Minister,
transacted business with the Noble Earl od Monday,

The 17..,;r1 of ABERDEEN and the Dean of
CHESTER, had interv4v9 with the Duke of WELLINGTON
on Monday, at the Treasury.
Despatches were sent of from the Colonial,
office, on Monday night, for Sir J. KEMP; the Governor-
Geaeral of the Canada.