The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-16 00:00:00

P E'.R Y.

014 TAE ImMUTAiIILITY OF POPERY; BR•
celebrated " ESTIMATE of ;be MANNERS *add MUT
CiPLES of he TlMES:"—Loudon, • MS.' Sereutb
tion.—Vol. 2. l'art 2. Sec. 4.

" OF THE DIFFERENT GENIUS AND PERNIANESaI.

OF POPERY AND PIIOVESTANTISM:

(Concluded from ycsterda's SUN
" With respect to the rest of-EurOpe, itsl)rea
sent state tcods to prove strongly the'giineeid
(milli here advanced. We see the.- Protestaa
Crowns divided against each other; the PoPisti
Crowns in union and confederacy. Theltuss
and Swede have joined the Popish Power in -tear'
ing to pieces his Majesty of Prussia. The En'l
press Queen hath at length thrown otf the masque,
hath basely deserted those who had long and oft"n
.
saved her from destruction ; and given a striking
proof of this great truth, that where pride and bi-
gotry rule the heart, there hurnan virtues fi ecru°.
easy entrance. France is playing its old game/
and.pursuing its establi,hed plan of power.
"'Thus the active and zealous Popish principle is
every where working its way ; while the coldoeSS,
of Protestantism leavesthe issue of things to 1110
calm and ineffectual deliberation of civil policY
forgetting that passion is the soul of action, ant!
the great spur that has ever urged mankind to ah
that is good or wicked.

If we consider the different geniuS these.
two systems, as described above, we cannot Won"
der at this difference of conduct ; and to evinces
that it is not the result front chance, but frog'
established causes, we shall see the same spirit
working in each, in former ages. Bolingbroke
(who was a great historian, 0101101-bat a poor,
reasoner ; and saw facts its their apparent con'
nexions, rather than in their interior causes) hails
given us the acttal state of Europe in the days
James the First ; which bears so strong a ret
semblance to our own, in regard to the genius 01,
the two religions, than it cannot be thought
curious. Oa the one side, the
_.% hole PoPisba
interest, in the empire, was closely united ;
the cause of Ferdinand was the common cause o'
the party. The Popish interest out of the Env;
Aire, conspired in the same cause. The King 0.1
Poland assisted the Etnptror in Hungary. Troops
front Italy, and a great army front the Nether'
lands, acted for him in Germany.---Evel France,
who ought in good policy to have opposed tl'!;
House of Austria, was induced by the bigotry (!`,
her Court, and perhaps by the private interest
',nines, to declare for the Emperor against. a)!
King of Bohemia. On the tidier side, time VW
testant interest in the Empire was far from beil)g
closely united; and farther still front making 06
cause of Frederic the common cause of the I'3llP
Even the Princes of the Union had different views.
many of them leaned to the Emperor ; none 0';
them could be entirely depended upon: And t 1
Lector of Saxony, the most powerful of the Pro'
testant Princes of tite Empire, was so far frail'
uniting with the others, that he was first private'
ly, and afterwards openly, but ell, along veri
steadily, on the side of Peidinand. Out of the
Empire, some assistance might have been expect°
ed from the King of Deoruatk and the Dutch :
hut even their accession must have been p urcb
en, at least it must have been made useful, tit "le
expenceof Britain.'

" Had the writer collected these facts from hir
tory, and drawn them thus to one central point'
it might justly have been suspected, that be lou
thrown a false light upon themiit the recital'
t
that they might better serve his purpose: It
when we consider this paragraph as coining fratn
an author who was dead before the present asPe
of things took place, we cannot but aCknowlol4t
,
the permanent uniformity of principles, worklt
he same effects in the most distant periods

time.
" The event of this Popish league ought indeec
to strike us with awe, though not with despo'r
dency. Frederic of Bohemia was swallowed 117
by the confederacy ; but though no human 0!°
can, pietce the impenetrable veil of tate, yet •%ve
have reason to hope from what is past, that roe
great Prince now combined against, is not defigi!'
ed by Providence as. a sacrifice to bigot power:
Let us rather behold_ him as the appointed gusi7
dian angel of truth and liberty, who with the
swiftness of light, and the terror of a whirlwio4l
cheats the ft lends of freedom, and overwhelms bec

enemies.
" The manifest inference is this; as-it appe".s
from these reasonings that the genius of Popel
is active, insinuating, furious, unalterable,
inanely ; the genius of Protestantism, calm, 1.3.
tional, indolent, fluctuating, perishable; that vcf,
ought to be most watchful in the preservation w'
this invaluable blessing ; and active in the Or,
port of those who are the great suppoiters
Protestantism."

On the evening of Friday, the 2d inst. the
Pavilion belonging to the Earl of EGLINqTOtI
at Ardrossan, was entered by robbers dttriok
the absence of the keeper, who, ,on her Fetin).
found her chest and trunks broken up, and thrce
five-pound Bank notes, three one-pound notes.'
four crown pieces, a Bank of 'England token, tw°
eighteen-pence pieces', a sixpence, variows,
silver coins, two breast pins, one with a Cairn'
gorum stone, and the other with small dianiai►'is
set in it, and a gold ring, the whole her own full,"
perry, carried off.

BIRTH
On the 34th inst.- at his Lordship's seat, Leistocie Houser
Suffolk, the Lady of the Right Hon. Lord Hitntiugfield, s•°l
son.

MARRIED.

Yesterday, at. St. Peter's-le-Poor, Horatio Ripley, eldest
son of John Richard Ripley, Esq. of Clapham Coinnion, to
Jane Maria, second daughter of J..L. Siordet, Esq. of Austin'
friars.

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