The Sun.
London, England, 1816-01-03 00:00:00

t..itois'i'A`t;:z-rs IN FRANCE.

..Theopeiiink 'off 'the rrotestant Cb,rchei
Ni,nles on the :Mkt *att. hai
ji,otittur, but as this aot of nom:jolts proteCt‘i.o/if
• o
instead of petiection by the Frenrb.GOvk meat,
dues 1113 i ittit the'f;urposes of our brawl rs ai •,
. s

Lome, the 1.6.11e4 llr. DontoßO. (in-the

liivsiiitimis) 'Mfr. Cobb in, 'has ptiblished,a dark
lettei, iniinnaiing, that the
_work,.of slaughtcrii,s,
going nn iil i}:horrible,inanner, though the c. 1.-..,..
tent of time ass'stissinatious cannot be kuotosi:. tis the
friends anti faMilies of the murdered are sir) petri-.
icd with horror that (credal Judens) they bury,
.
Ihelr dead in secret and in silence ! ! ! AiraV.o4Nfi,
Cobbin !' In same sae line follows the Eht of
the Morning Chronicle : • . .. e ,
'- " In some of the papers (quoth this Worth)),
ire find a statement that the. Protestant Churches

at Nimes Were re-opened on the 21st ult.. and
that it was announced by the ringing of the bells.
We should sincerely rejoice to find that ,the no.

fortunate Protestants Were again in a situation
tyamittilly to perform the, rites of their 'public'
worship ; but it is not an unauthorised paragraph,
which may have been purposely fabricated, tliat
Stan convince us of the fact, particularly .witen,
the statement is at variance with uur own vor:
illation, which, we lament to say, anuounee the
persecution to be still continued. The circum-
stance of- the ringing the bells renders the state
-
meta' altogether improbable,, as the re-opening of,
the Protestant Churchei: would not certainly hare
teen. accompanied by anything in the tva,y,.: cif
trinnspli ; andifaitch an evenr had at all oceur,red,
there wouldfloubtless 'have been some better.atf-
tliori,sed notice of it than the paranrapb wellave
quoted." .
Mat other notice this reasonable sceptic woittld
desire, we know nut, nor do we know when toll-
ing the bells for church was made " u triumphil
Ina these fair and patriotic writers have many:
strange.notions.
• We had intended to- offer some further, renfarks'
cm this subject„,bat we-find the matter an very**
and convincingly handled in a provincial News.
•paper, The Sheffield Mercury, that we have no,
hesitation in adopting the short Essay which is'
contained in .its-last .publication, and does great
credit to the author.. •

, .
" The recent. persecutions of the'Protestantit.isf
prance has excited the liveliest ayntpathy and i -
clignation among all rlitsies in this contitry,,-r...
does credit to our tCelings
.as
vihen, in the zealotte ardour of benevolence,
proposed to recommend to•our tryil (3,ivcl:l!ileos.
.a.dir-tc.t interference in their behalf, wr czin:iiil.lk.
c4nress .are not without apprell:n,ititie that
such an interference ttitlet do witch 'more harm
titbit good to those ary übjects of only
compass ;on. 01 those, e, hose.. well 'meant zeal
expect that such prateastire woull-,
h& highly beneficial to the Peotetant'Stiftereri,
eitottld a patieat attention to a Short
and plain argu:iteiti, Let' us make the caseeptir
owtt,.and think, a very few words will inf..
to-shew tint probability of ti'directly contrary
offe'ct ,

1,1 the year 1780, es some of our readers
fit nave a
,personal recollection, _the:peuce.,of.
fish Metropolis, as well as other pars of
ae kingdom, was outrageously broken by a PrO. •
tr;taat mob, who put the life, of every Catholic in
danger and the propetty of many of them to the
tames. . And, let it be remembered!, that these
otrocitirs.were not committed alone in a provin- .
444 town, beyond the instant reach of the law,
or atter a season of bitter aninmaitica and fottioold,
confattion, among an ignorant peasantry, end
4ler' an unsettled
,Clorernment., `No—they took.
Flace.,prinefpally in the Capital—in a petiod.pf,.,
prefditind peace—under the immediate eye of the,
ittw—and in the actual pretence of the Chief.Ma-'
.gist rate--to which we may, in a spirit at admiring '
gratit ode add„ ':that to the presence of
.mind anti.
ptrsdprit4 intrepidity of our ;venerable Monarcipon
that occasion, Ivas London, in till human proba-
bility, rescued! 'front a secimd eretelgration, and
eterv. Catholic in the kingdom from a barbarous .!
tleath !
" Now, horrible as these outrages. were, teL
Its only suppose that the French Government hatti4
by its.,Ambassailori:-presente,d a strong remotH'J
*trance against ,f': (he perserti tkittn (j.:' the
•Englieb
'Catholics," • demanding that they. giould be:put ,
wider the immediate protection of the,laws, and
their persecutors punished. Would not the in-
evitable consequence of such an intelle.renca have
Ir4en to. have exasperated the transient anituo, •
shy of Ain ignorant rabble into a permanent)
national feeling- of jealousy and. hatred ? "%What
wind if an English mob have said, if they hint
found the objects of their Vengeance setking
',souction from a King of Mulct ‘Vould nut.
their hatred have' been doubled, and
.
paliti-
cal zealotry have. given a yet. `keener edge to
•teligiu_its rancour ? Nor would the ;(.).,•dsrntuent
"itself, possibly, have felt so ready It, extend their
roterttan when thus claimed of-them as a right
fireignerS. In, addition to which, observe the
danger or. Olin'kittily,particulsr,portiOn of a nu-
lion with a retartce on foreign interference. It it
serteslileM in one turn, it may in anotter. Such 1
anititerference must inevjtsibly•w 'so the seeds Of,
endles di4conto on the one hatid„and perpetual

.
Jethuusy,,,m the other. Let us remember what was
the fveling in this ‘critnitty, wheirthe,ol'..
41)1F111 of 1)01in deredyin talk of 4,4euding
'emissary to the:Spanish Cortez to beg their in,
tuenee with the 'British GOvertitnent in, their
latiiiont. Did not that .i.ery, intrniton eisentiallyic
'injure the Catholic Cause tit popular estimation ?
" We haienot gone. into any exainittAtion of
the Evidence prottneed on this occasion:, because
wr hove taken-it-up rather us, a question of Orin..
ciple than of wet truly
as any, the active'Bentrolenee anti Christian Ch.,i-
rity.tbat are .exerting themselves on Als occa-*
sion—altd could only wish that their efforts inlgtl
be`e&ifined to what is the and practicable tallier
'theft 'squandered. on-attempts of a. Ilaubtiul, it
'ot dattgerotys nature. Britons 4 by air ineani;
t-xpress their sympathy for- the-:-.suffering4
'`"4 dtca litother. riututonts,
,whatever upy

rave! been 'their rt rptui contri-
butions for tireir stiecour!--mut let them, if
they pun, provide for them in 'this peaceful land
an asylum from the storm. But let' theni not run
the risk of aggravating the evil, and "prolonging
the calamity, by an interference, which, without
serving the Cause of the Prote.itaists at all,' would
be snre.to render the name of Britain hateful to
every Catholic in France. .We hare rid them of
their great spurge,' Btfaimpartv ,---because his do-
minion was :incompatible with our own safety ;
but: with the contests and quarrels of their reli-
gions:sects and political parties, so long as they
disturb,nOt Peace of. Europe, neither Pru-
AlenccaorHumanny can, in out opinion, sanction
ourpublie Interference." '

• ' Tile following has been handed to us as an ex-
tract of a letter from France, relative to the Pro-
a
testants of the South, We hope the highly laud-
ablem
exertions, of the friends at humanity in this
'country' have at length had their inuntied effect in
compelling the French Government to adopt effee,
tnal meastnes fo
iL r restoring the persecuted Pro-
testants to ll.their former privileges : .
" The 1 refect of the Department of Gard hay-
big invited to his house two Ministers of the Pro,.
testaut communion,' mid two Members of the
Consistory, with the Mayor of the city of Nimes
and his Adjunct, informed them that .the French
Government'iook the interest in the opening of
tha teMples, and seemed even to accuse him, the
Prefect, of negligence in this respect ; he there-
fore invited and even enjoined ttit:m to le-open
their temples, assuring them of every protection,
hut added, that the 1-16 man Catholics. seeiog with
dissatisfaction that these temples were, before the
Revolution, Catholic churches, it was agreed, in
order that there might be no pretext for distiirb.
mice, that there should he new temples. The
city would give the laud for building theta on :
cue to be 'situated to the North, and another to
the South,, and
..to gait 110,000 francs,' towards
'which ne informed them the Duke d'Angouleme
1 .would give 15,000 trance. The proposition has
,18etal aeceFed, and tilt, work is about to be cout-
I myieed The temples will he, wirliont the city,
19'iltid until they are tinishvd, the Protestants Will
J,itiiit peaceable possession of the present temples."
1.17-44foriting. Chronicle of this day