The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It is with pleasure that we publish a Procla-
mation by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, dated
on Saturday last, by which both the illegal
Orange Assemblies are prohibited, and their sup-
pression and dispersion by legal means ordered ;
and with even-handed justice is it also pro•
hibited, that riotous attempts be made to put
those assemblies down by Catholic mobs. It is
evident with whom the provocation and mischief
begin ; and is it not most detestable, that the
benevolent intentions of Government to pacify
Ireland should still he frustrated by a spirit of
mere malignant revenge ? " You shall not
pacify Ireland," say the Orangemen—" we will
render the great measure carried by you for that
purpose abortive. Our predictions that emanci-
pation would do .no good, will be falsified if we
suffer it to do good.' The Catholics, also, hav-
ing obtained their great object, may be content
to bear for a while that their adversaries should
indulge in expressions of disappointment and
dissatisfaction. " Let than laugh who win," says
the proverb ; and those who lose may be allowed
to cry. The intense feelings of both would soon
moderate, if not irritated Ity collision. The
following letter is worthy cif an attentive
perusal

" DUBLIN, SUNDAY ErgNINo.
" I Wrote fo you on Friday evening, that the
Privy Council would hold an extraordinary sittThg:
in the Phoenix Park on Saturday, for the purpose cat
issuing a proclamation to put down the principle
pretext of those illegal Orange meetings in the
north, which have on the recent occasion been SO
pregnant with tumult, and the shedding of
" I wrote last night to inform you, that the
Privy Council had sat three -hours (from three to
six o'clock in the afternoon), and had determined
to put forth the strength of the Executive in extin-
guishing these lawless associations.
" I now send you the proclamation which the
Law Officers were directed to prepare, and, not-
withstanding the Sabbath, all the official personages
at the Castle are in full employment. Large packets
of these proclamations are directed to be forwarded
to the Magistrates by this evening's post, through-
out the north of Ireland, as well, indeed, as to all
other parts or the country.
" You will perceive that this Proclamation is
signed by the Archbishop Of Dublin, whose anti--.
Catholie propensitiei are so well known-, by Lord
Goo, Sir George Hill, and AttornerGeneral joy,
. .
whose. feelings were heretofore...supposed to have a
similar bias. Sir John Byng,'..the Commander of
the Forces, also assisted in the Council. - Het bad
come -up from his tour of inspection in the north?
and was an important eye-witness of the state of
that part of the country.
" This Proclamation, you will observe, is more
comprehensive than any which has ever `been before
issued in Ireland. It applies to all parties—the
Orange procession promoters, and those illegal.
bodies of the peasantry congregated to resist them.
" The election for the county of Clare has just
been fixed for Wednesday the 29th inst. TilP sum-
mary of last year's voting of 50/. and 201. free-
holders, and those registered lately, is ascertained to
be as follows :—For Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, 226
(501. and 201. freeholders); and for Mr. O'Connell,
76. .In the late registry 674 10/. freeholders were
registered. Of these, it. is calculated nearly 600 ate
pledged to vote for Mr. O'Connell."—Times.

i'IIOaAMATION BY THE LORD LIEUTZNANT AND

COUNCIL OF IRELAND.

" NorrrutminEttLAND—Whereas, in certain Mo.
ties of this part of the United Kingdom, meetings
of large numbers of his Majesty's subjects have lately
been held for the avowed purpose of commemorating
political events, or the manifestation of particular
opinions political or religious ; as also for the put.-
pose of resisting, by violent means, such commemora-
tions or manifestations, to the great danger of tbn
public peace, and the well founded terror and dread
of his Majesty's peaceable and well-disposed sub-
jects;

" And whereas such meetings have, in recent in-
stances, been attended with loss of life to some, and
' personal injury to others attending them;
" And whereas we have reason to apprel:end the
recurrence of such large assemblies;
" And whereas many %vell-affected but unwary
individuals may be seduced by divers pretences to
.attend the same; We, therefore, the Lord-Lieutenant
and Council, being resolved to put down and sup-
press such meetings, and to prevent the recurrence
thereof, have thought fit to issue this Proclamation,
solemnly and strictly warning all his Majesty's liege
subjects from henceforth to discontinue those assem-
blages, either for the purpose of assisting in such
meetings or assemblages as aforesaid, or for illegally
resisting, the same ; and do charge and exhort them
to the utmost of their power to ((feet the disconti-
nuance of all such meetings and assemblages, and
thereby to prevent the danger and mischief conse-
quent on the same. And being determined strictly
to enforce the law and the penalties thereof against
persons offending in these premises, do charge and
command all Sheriffs, Mayors, Justices of the Peace,
and all Magistrates, Officers, and others whom it
may concern, to be aiding and assisting in the exe-
cution of the law, and preventing such meeting and
assemblies from being held, and in the effectual dis-
persion and suppression of the same; and in the
prosecution of those who shall offend in the respects
aforesaid.

" Given at His Majesty's Lodge in Phoenix Park,
on the 18th day of July, 1829.

" ANTHONY HART, G. F. HILL,
'• W. DUBLIN, JOHN RADCLIFFE,
'• GOFtT, H. JOY,
"PLUNKETT, F. LEVESON GOWER,
"WILLIAM M'MAHON, JOHN BYNG."
The Dublin Evening Post of Saturday last
exclaim 2—

" But what a state is the country reduced to! In
Tyrone, Armagh, and Fermanagh, the Catholics have
been obliged to retire to the mountains for protec-
tion. The niilch-cows are suffered to ru►► wild
about the country for the want of proper care—the
children and their mothers have fled from their
homes, under the terror of assassination ; and if
vigorous measures be not speedily adopted, the civil
war in the North may be extended to other quarters.
" A Privy Council is sitting at this moment. May
their deliberations be governed by wisdom ! May
they awake to the dangers which encompass the
country round about, and by an immediate and ener-
getic appeal to the ultimate laws of the State, save
Ireland from n convulsion. We say, at once, disarm
the yeomanry and proclaim Martial Law !"

The Priv), Council has terminated its delihe-
rations ; and the result is a Proclamation, call-
ing upon the authorities of the country to obey
the Laws, which will produce about as much
effect as the invitation to Master Barnardine
to come down and be hanged. The Dublin
Evening Post has hit the nail on the head—
" Disarm the Yeomanry and proclaim Martial
Law." There is no use in shilly-shallying when
multitudes are taking the field against each other.
In all cases of this kind severity is mercy. In a
country where the Magistrates arc partizans the
law is a mockery. The only efficient discipline
less than
1: who
f jily in
thousandfitr l
p
is martial law administered unsparingly and im-
partially, without regard to religion or party. A
Contemporary, the Standard, exclaims—
eiriloWusilititmheespausisceerotefdthealltillgeston
men, though aided by the Protestants of Irelacd,
could not effectually controul the Popish rabble in
that island—will he, indeed, when the rebellion
threatens, and when, perhaps, he cannot command
half the required number of men, will he disarm Me
Protestants? He will not—he dare not. We Rust
that his own heart would forbid him ; but we tram
still more in the heart of our P!-ote,:tant 01.1 t
he, foi no inferior consideration, will devote mil-

lions of his most faithful subjects to the knife, and
he pike, and the burning barn—and in the sacrifice
surrender half his crown. The Protestants of Ire-
arid will not be disarmed—they will not be left
naked to their enemies.' Could the voice of Eng-
land prevail, the Protestants of Ireland would not
be left to fight the battle by themselves. It is our
attic no less than theirs; and would our Govern-
ment permit, as a Protestant Government would
permit, hundreds of thousands of the invicti of this
unconquered nation would throw themselves in the
front of it."

The moral of this is that the Protestants
ought not to be devoted to the knife and the
pike of the Catholics, but tilt: Catholics ought
to be devoted to the. knife and the pike or
musket of the Protestants. The Duke of Wel-
lington ought to know men neither as Catholics
nor as Protestants, but as subjects of the King,
and to give no man, whether Protestant or Ca-
tholic, the privilege of setting the law at defiance.
It is quite obvious, however, that without mar-
tial law to curb and restrain the unruly, whether
high or low (and the Magistrates require as
much curbing as their inferiors), one irritation
will only pave the way to another, till the people
may be so far committed as ti) render it no easy
matter to put them down. The opponents of
Administration flatter themselves %lid' the idea

that Ministers will not have nerve enough to
adopt measures adequate to the emergency, and
that they shall be able to charge all the blood-
shed which must flow from neglecting the present
symptoms to the acrount of the recent change
in our policy. 'Ministers should distrust all
party men, and avail themselves as much as pos-
sible of the services of strangers to Ireland—
wen accustomed to order and obedience, and
ready to do prompt justice on transgressors,
whether high or low, Protestants or Catholics.
—Morning Chronicle.
Dr,.s,outhey has found a congenial critic in
the Quarterly Review, for July. A great part
of the article would make a very suitable Appen-
dix to Cobbett's History of the Reformation;
and if our opinion hare any influence at Rome,
we would recommend to the Editor of the next
edition to improve it by an addition judiciously
selected from The Quarterly, in order- that the
Catholic world may see what the English have
lost by turning Protestants ;—" The ceremonial
of the Roman Catholic Religion (says the Re-
v:ewer), like that of the Levitical law, had its
use. It was ever corant poptdo ; its numerous
:Saints flays—its gorgeous processions—its Cill-
cifixes—its statues—its rosaries—its places of
pilgrimage—its monasteries, both in the city and
the wilderness ; all these brought religion home
to men, backed such as were religiously disposed
by public opinion, served as visible acknowledg-
ments of an invisible world—the substantial con-
fessions of a nation's faith in things unseen.
There was much in this liable to abuse, but there
was much, too, that was holy and good ; and
they who have travelled in foreign lands, and
listened to the vesper-bell—the
Ninth di Montano
the paia giorno pianger ohe xi muore,l—
regret that tasteless fanaticizm which swept
away many sensible yet innocent incentives to
devotion as abominations, and guarded effect-
tually against religious excess by substituting for
it religious indifference. . . . Our churches
arc now closed in the week-days, for we are too
busy to repair to them ; our politicians crying
MIL With Pharaoh, yc are idle, ye are idle ;
therefore would ye go and do sacrifice to the
Lord.' Our cathedrals, it is true, are still open ;
but where are the worshippers ? Instead of en-
tering in, the citizen avails himself of the excel-

lent clock which is usually attached to them, sets
his watch, and hastens upon 'Change, where the
congregation is numerous and punctual, and
where the theological speculations are apt to
run in Shyock's vein pretty exclusively. If a
church will answer, then indeed a joint stock
company springs up ; and a church is raised with
as much alacrity, and upon the same principle,
as a play-house. The day when the people
brought their gifts is gone by ; the solid temples
that heretofore were built as if not to be dis-
solved till doomsday, have been succeeded by
these emaciated structures, bloated out by coats
of flatulent plaster, and supported upon cast
metal pegs, which the courtesy of the times calls
pillars of the church. The painted windows,
that admitted a dim religious light, have given
place to the cheap house-pane and dapper green
The with its florid reliefs and
,ipacious crater, nas dwindled into a miserable
basin, Sermons have contracted with the build-
inns in which they arc delivered, consisting, like
them, of less massive materials than formerly,
and having for their title (if it is meant they
should be taken) Short Discourses.' The
Clerical distress has accommodated itself to the
sermons. Virgil's motto for his heifer, omnia
magna,' in all things reversed—the skull cap
gone—the shovel hat b r, boincr—the cassock, which
almost in the memory of man lingered amongst
a few ancients, shrunk into the unmeaning apron
of the Bishop and Dean—the flowing bands,
which it was heretofore the pride and pleasure o.
many a Mrs. Primrose to adorn with needle-
woik, dwindled into two puny labels. All these
are indications (many of them trifles indeed)
that the age of forms is gone by, and of some-
thing better than forms, for they are the straws
which point to the quarter from which the wind
has been long setting in. To those who seek
for other and graver signs, we would say, look
at the number of Churches erected by the piety
of our ancestors within the City of London, and
compare them with those at the West End ; or
take any town of mode' n growth, and contrast it in
this particular with one of other times." However,
there is one consolation, though the skull cap is
crne, and the shovel hats are going, our eyes are
:401 blessed with the sight of these memorials of
' better and more pious days. Let us make much
of the shovel hats while we have them. Again,
let us hear the reviewer on our losses from the
changes froth Popery. " Multitudes of the ac-
tually indigent drew their daily bread from those
establishments (the Monasteries), and for the
labouring peasantry there had been on the whole
no landlords like the Monks. They received
of the fruits, which was in those days a much
more convenient mode of payment than money.
They lived constantly among their people, strew-
ing where they had gathered. They had less
temptation to prodigality than the nobles, and,
therefore, less need to fleece their tenants in or-
der to maintain it. Then expenditure was on a
scale the most liberal—fold for the indigent—
employment for the able-bodied—a retreat for
the aged dependents of every great family which
was enrolled amonst their benefactors. Nor
were there Wanting the upper classes who were
deeply interested too. The Abbeys offered
prizes worth the winning, even to men of rank ;
and when trade and politics had not as yet pro-
vided au honourable field for 'the exertions of
younger sons, a snug birth, La a Laonastery might
be found for them ; atteeded (by the way) with
this advantage (as Mr. Southey.observes), that
men of slender abilities were. there innocently, if

r not usefully, employed ; whereas) they may be
now thrust into platts of some importance as
public functionaries, to the great detriment of
the interest of wiser heads over whom they are
set ; and it might be added, too, as a second
advantage of their monastic destiny (that accord-
ing to an expression of Johnson's), they would
thus be prevented by the rules of their Order
from propagating " Alas for the
good old Catholic;times !—lbid.
We insert a letter from Mr. Cobbett on the

subject of some remarks in the Chronicle o.
Saturday. The courtesy of the communicatior,
will not surprise any one who is in the habit of

reading Mr. Cobbett's writings, either in English
or Greek, into which language, we rejoice to
hear, a most useful publication, the Cottage
Economy, has been translated, an honour that
has not been done to any of Sir Walter Scott's
books—which by the bye shows the good sense
of the Greeks; as cottages are of more import-
ance to a country than novels. We are glad to
hear that matters between Mr. Cobbett and Mr.
Staunton can be so satisfactorily. 'explained,
though it is assuming a little too much to infer
our affecting to believe that he received money
from the Catholic Rent under a false pretence.
In casting about fur the motives that could have
induced Mr. C. to make a statement, without
any foundation in
,fact, namely, that we had
lately " been an advocate for Catholic Emanci-
pation," while in 1824 we were " its bitterest
enemy," from which, he very charitably in-
ferred a conversion effected through the instru-
mentality of Mr. O'Connell, the Treasurer of
the Catholic Rent, the imputed connection
between himself and the Rent flashed across
us, in this our embarrassment to account for
such readiness to believe corruption in others ;
we are little given to deal out accusations and
charges of corruption against our cotemporaries,
from an unwillingness to believe any man so
egregious a fool as to place his reputation at the
mercy of the rogues who would offer him money.
We think when Mr. Staunton agreed to give
Mr. Cobbett twenty pounds per month for leave
to republish his Register—suggesting, however,
that the money ought to come out of the Catholic
Rent—Mr. Cobbett acted wisely in answering
that with regard to the Rent, he had nothina
and would have nothing to do, because it looked
much better that it should be considered a trans-
action of business between him and Mr. Staun-
ton, than a contribution from the Rent. It was
Mr. Cobbett's business to receive the money
from Mr. Staunton on the best terms ; it was
Mr. Staunton's business to know whence he was
to obtain it. Mr. Cobbett says, " with regard to
the cause of Reform, it must succeed. Precisely
how it may be accotnplished, and what sort of re-
form it may be, I cannot tell ; but the people must
be let loose in some way or other." We also be-
lieve that a Reform, some day or other, will
take place ; but we are unable to discover any
symptoms of its immediate approach. All we
know is, that with regard to the character of
the Reform, it is of infinite consequence that
the people be prepared to make the most of cir-
cumitances when the crisis arrives. The better
informed they are, the less likely they are to
allow themselves to be abused by men who
would employ them as instruments for improper
ends. Information is at present making rapid
strides among them ; and the longer Reform is
delayed, the better will the people be able to
understand the nature of the means necessary to
secure them against misgovernment. Through-
out the Civil Wars, according to the most trust-
worthy authors, the great body of the people of
England were the tools of their enemies.—
Burke, writing to Earl Fitzwilliam, describes the
English as essentially Tory ; and Bishop Wat-
son, in 1791, observes, in a letter to Dr. Per-
cival, that " the bulk of the people in England
will admire Mr. Burke's principles, for they
have a cast of Toryism in them." Church
and King mobs have only departed with
the generation. Things have for some tune
worn a better aspect, and we have no fear
for the future, because the good seed is
sown, and must bring forth fruits. We are as
friendly to Reform as Mr. Cobbett can be; only
though much younger in years, we have the mis-
fortune to be much less sanguine in disposition.
That man is happy over whose head nearly
sevtn:y summers have passed, without taking
from him any portion of his confidence or cre-
dulity. If, amidst all his changes of opinion, he
embraces the last as cordially as he did the first,
he may well dispense with the praise of superior
sagacity. Though the History of the Protes-
tant Reformation be " Pigs' Meat," it is such
meat as the pigs willingly eat, as is proved by the
celebrity it has obtained, and its success with all
the pigs, from the Pope downwards. However,
we have no intention at present to enter on so
wide a field as this. We shall conclude with
assuring Mr. Cobbett (we shall not be tempted,
by his example, to repeat his little monosyllable)
that he states that which is not the truth, in
saying that we ever wrote a line against Catho-
lic Emancipation. We may add, that we neither
are, nor ever were admirers of the Catholic reli-
gion ; that we are no lovers of Catholic Priests ; and
that the principal reason why we dislike too many
Protestant Priests is that they are, both in their
principles and practice, only too like Catholic
Priests. There are some things in the Catholic
religion that we should hesitate to condemn,
from anything that has supplied their place among
Protestants. if the Benedictines and some
other Orders have a large portion of the wealth
of some countries, they use it nobly in the en-
couragement of learning, which is more than can
be said of Protestant Churches, which are sel-
dom distinguished for learning. Besides, it
would be uncharitable to deny that the Catholic
Church was admirably fitted for the preservation
and diffusion of learning in the middle ages,
however out of character it be now. But what-

ever may be the qualities of the Catholic Priest-
hood, we should not think of looking to them
for civil acid religious liberty, except perhaps in
those instances in which the Catholic Church
itself can only be defended through the principles
of civil and religious liberty. In Spain, in Por-
tugal, in Italy, in France, the Priests are, with
hardly an exception, the enemies of improve-
ment and independence ; and even an Irish
priest, while he combats for the freedom of his
oppressed countrymen at home, will be found,
we suspect, to sympathise in other countries
more with the enemies of improvement than with
its friends.—lbid.

We really pity the Lord Chancellor, the
highest judicial functionary, that, with a mind
necessarily occupied in weighty matters, he is
doomed to have any part of his valuable time
taken up in deciding where two schoolboys shall
spend their holidays; and this not as a solitary
instance, but whenever thefesti dies occur. The
Duke of Wellington might as well be appealed
to, to determine the colour of every excisetnan's
mexpressibles ; or the Archbishop of Canterbury
to say what the worshipful fraternity of Parish

Clerks may cat for breakfast. It nt.t our dis-
position to turn serious matteni into ridicule ;
on the contrary, we complain of it as an im-
proper mode of occupying the time of a High
Court like that of Chancery, and calculated
to throw an air of ridicule over its proceed-
ings, Bcsities, the wards in Chancery amount
to some thousands, all of whom are entitled
to the same minute attention as any one
or two can be ; and let only the same
nervous sensibility bring the cases of only one-
tenth of them before the Court in this shape,
and we shall have the Lord Chancellor called
upon presently to decide their holyday tasks, if
not the patterns of the dolls, trap-balls, and
other playthings, with which the little masters
and misses are to while away the time ere they
resume Cicero and Lindley Murray. It is said '
that " de nilnimis non carat lex"—that there
are matters too small and trivial for even the law
itself to take cognizance of; and surely the
point in question is one. We say nothing of
hardship to these children themselves of being
thus, as it were, made a kind of judicial spec-
tacle of: That is not our concern ; what we
complain of is, that the High Court of Chan-
cery should be compelled to be occupied in mat-
ters comparatively so low as these ; and that,
while hundreds of subjects of a grave and
weighty nature press themselves upon its atten-
tion, it should be compelled to listen to what
are comparatively matters of no moment at all.
—Morning Herald.