The Sun.
London, England, 1818-03-09 00:00:00

LETIER XII.

Mr. EntToß,7--I have reason to believe, that
as every etfort was made on the part of the more
potiticltornan Catholics to prevent -the circulation
of the work of Father GANDoLPHY, no less in,

dustry has beep employed to. arrest the progres
of this address dud appeal of the Roman Catho-
lics since the public attintion has been roused
and directed towards.it. With respect to, the for..

met work, the zeal of the author induCed him to
publish in the face of.the wotld the genuine doc-
trines and principles of his Church, and for this
we honour him. He was not, and would not, be
influenced in the duly of instructing his flock in
what be conceived to be their 'duties by any mo-;
tives of policy ; Ike is a thorough Papist, -he
glories in the name and Profes.sion,aikd disdains to
become an instrument in •the hands Of his- more
intriguing brethren, .to secure even political pri-
vileges by the sacrifice of duty and couscience.—,
He dreads the consequence of apostacy from what
he considers to be .the only true ant Catholic
Church, by the extension of a system of pallid_
tine and time-;serving expedients, which tend to
obscure her real principles and orthodox faith.
He trembles for the durability of that allegiance
to the Supreme Head of his Church, which a
tolerated affectation of indifference to his councils,'
for a specific purpose, may, among the mass of
Roman. Catholics, degenerate into an actual klis- •
regard of them. He therefore sounds the alarm-
and recalls the bewildered subjects of Papal
Supremacy to a recollection of their diqies ;.
'reminds them that no change has tsken place in
the pritici;des of allegiance to this Divine Atli lo-

ritv ,•t6i no innopation can be made upon a system
of Divine Jurisprudence, that the Decrees of the
COuncils of Constance and of Trent areas bind-
.

ing• upon their consciences as if they were enacted
yesterday, and that they are to be considered as
fully articles 'of ,Roman Catholic Faith as if,
given upon the ORAL •TESTIMONY (/,1, GOD HIMSE'LP.
It was from this VERY TRUTH that the Itotnan
Catholic politicians bad been fyr a series of years
labouring, to divert 'the attention of their "

testant Brethren ;" TO DKNY AND TO DISPROVE
THIS was the avowed qbject of every publication,
and of every speech emanating from the host of
advocates for what is termed " Catholic

potion." What, then was the consternation and
.larm of these'persons, when a man of their oWn
Choral), peculiarly eminent-,--riay, foremost among
the learned and Orthodox of their priesthood—
',food forth to disprove all their assertions, and,
disdaining the' sophistry and trick. of priestcraft,
boldly maintained that the doctrines and princi-
ples' which have front the period of the Reforma-
tion been 'the
,constant object of Protestant dread
and 'abhorrence, are the true and unchanged and
unchangeable Doarines and Principles of the Ro-
man Catholic Church at the present moment. All
the attempts made to corrupt this inflexible Son
of the Roman Churchall efforts •to suppress his
work—have proved ineffectual. It is, in the hands.
of all the rising generation of Roman Catholics
as a Text Book, sanctioned by the Pope, and li-
censed and published under the Imprimatur of the
Vatican, and should be in the bands of every. Po-
litician who professes to give an opinion, and
more particularly of every one who may be called
upon to give a vote, upon this most important and
vitally .Constittition;rl Question. Every engine ,
was employed, I repek, by the pOlitical agents
of the Roman Catholics to throw suspicion npoo
this work of Mr. GANDOLI'HY, and even to in-
duce the Court of Rome to prohibit its circula-
tion ;. bat the effort was vain, for although
the College of Cardinals could, in the course
of a single year, decree that ,a legislative mea;.
sure :of the British Parliament ought to " be
receired with gratitude," and that it ought to be
rejected with abhorrence, it was not possible to
withdraw its sanction: from the publication of a
woik which the same high anthority had declared
to have rendered " THR ARTICLES OF THE CA-
THOLIC FAITH CLEARER THAN LIGHT ! !"—(See
the approbation of " the Sacred Apostolical Pa-
lace," Signed STEPHEN PETER DAMIAN', Alay 20,
1810.)
You, have seen, Sir, even from the few extracts
I have made from the work in the worse