The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-22 00:00:00

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means be allowed the right of cracking jokes
and uttering epigrams against the Fanatics : but
let the Fanatics in return maledict the. Charter
and the Laws, which allow Protestants to enter
publicly their temples. This is what ought to be ;
but, alas ! fear is a bad counsellor; and we sus-
pect, whenever parties are under apprehension,
the law will be appealed to in aid of opinion.
We owe our present security not to the law, nor
to the sentiments of Judges, who are as tyran-
nical as ever, but to the persuasion of our Mi-
nisters that they are too secure to be injured by
the Press. The French, at all times, are somewhat
less firm in the
urr:ves than the English ; and in
periods, of excitement, • their apprehension
leads th.-6, to greater acts of imprudence than
our public men would think of. It is well for
Catholic Emancipation that the change of Minis-
try in France did not precede the event. Had it
been stated, before that event, that Charles the
Tenth was induced to dismiss his Ministry, from
their refuslil to authorise the publication of the
Pope's Bull, in which he anathematized every
religious sect, and condemned every liberal in-
stitution, but with the usual reserve, of protest-
ing apinst whatever it contained hostile to the
Gal:tican Church, and contrary to the laws of the
S.tate, what a clamour would have been raised
against poor Popery ? In vain would it have
been urged that there is no security against folly
and fatuity in Monarchs ; that if an individual
invested with political infallibility is set up, the
character of the mind of the individual will de-
termine the character of the manner in which the
infallibility is exercised ; that if our Monarch is
swayed by a Pope or a Jesuit, another will be
swayed by a mistress or a flatterer. Loyal sub-
jects must submit with patience to the folly of
their Sovereigns when they are fools, and thank
heaven for their wisdom when they are wise. A
Protestant Bishop is pretty nearly as dangerous
an animal at the ear of a Sovereign as a Catholic
Monk.—lbid.

We are glad to find that the Select Ves4.ry of
the parish of St. Marylebone are not
for
some time to be allowed to repose
on a " bed of
roses." The Parochial Con,-
engaged in making prep ar anittee are actively
ations to resist by every
legal means, in mniur.ction with the great body
of the inhabitants their usurped authority. Five
district Cojw- •
anttees, as we are informed, have
bee" aP"fointed, with power to nominate collec-
lebj, to provide the " sinews of war," by receiv-
ing such sums and donations as the inhabitants
may choose voluntarily to subscribe in aid of the
proceedings necessary for the vindication and
maintenance of their rights. Each collector is
furnished with a book, signed by the Treasurers
of the General and District Committees ;
Monthly Meetings will be held of those
Committees and the Collectors, when the re-
ports of the amount of each district subscrip-
tion will be announced, and other business
connected with the great object of delivering
the parish from the domination of the self-elect-
ed, tax-imposing oligarchy, will be transacted.
With regard to the private characters of the in-
dividuals composing the Select Vesiry of this or
any other parish we have nothing to do. They
may be all for what we know, most respectable
and worthy persons in the private relations of
life-,-,our opposition to Select Vestries, of the
nature of that in St. itiaryiebone parish, h
founded upon broad constitutional principles.
We hope the day will never come when English-
men will tamely submit to the grievous oppres-
sion of taxation without representation. Such
a power, when acquieSced in, argues the highest
authority of the tyrant and the meanes.t submis-
sion of the slave, .;t i 4 a power repugnant to
common sense, inconsistent with common secu-
rity, and opposed to the spirit of the British
Constitution. So carefully did our ancestors
guard against the introduction of this principle
into the machinery of the State, that they would
not allow the HOuse of Lords—honourable and
exalted as the members of that branch of the
Legislature are—to originate money-hills, or pro-
pose any measures for the taxatrnrdsobf
the
people—and why ? The House of Lo
(with the exception of the Bishops) composed of
hereditary legislators, who represent only their
own order, could not impose taxes on the people
without violating the great maxim, that English-
men shall not be taxed without their own con-
sent, signified by their Representatives in Parlia-
ment assembled. What can be more absurd
than that the petty government of a parish
should arrogate a prerogative which neither the
King nor the House of Lords can exercise
without subverting the very foundations of the
law by which all power is established If the
people must pay taxes to Select Vestries, they.
ought, at least, to have the appointment of them
,--they ought to have that salutary control over
them Which constituents can exercise over their
Representatives. Whenever the power to tax
is assumed without the responsibility to account,
it is a duty to resist it, and, in such a case, re-
sistanee cannot be persevered in without eventual
success,--Morning Herald,