The Sun.
London, England, 1820-03-11 00:00:00

TO THE ELECTORS OF UREA I' BM FAIN

FELLOW COVNTRYMBN,

You are, now about i 0 Choose those who are to
give us 14 WA , and being the first Parliainent in the

Dew reign, it may iintorAlly he looked to with more
than common interest. I slab therefore to draw

your pirticular attention to one point, on which
1 NM ill hopes touch agreement (Pt 3(.116111,ot will
prevail in the mititlle C1,1,3eS of situ joy, (which I
take it for granted includes the greatest portion
of the Electors,) however they may differ in their
political sentiments on other matters. 1 mean
the qtiestion of CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION
ques,ion more nearly connected with our real
happ,tiess, as coming tiontr to, and n ife ci log our
domestic peace, our eel y fire-aides as it were, as
well as our public weltme, than we ace apt to
imagine, merely l believe becatise we never con-
template the evil until it threatens; and when a
smell tuaiori;y of the Eloule or Commons has put
it aside, we also put aside our thoughts ou the
cr,

%/111,itever may be said by the movers and sup-
porters of every questioii htonght forwards in the
House on Catholic Emancipation, although they
spay tell yoti it is only our Voile indulgence more,
by way of ni,king the Carlodies attached to Go-
veroment , anti great deal besides of very amusing
soplii,ory ; the plant risked ihat C%-rqo-
tic EmANcirATIoN means CAltioL:c. As...;ENo-
aNCY, which the Cath°flee are deterlilitled to Ob..
tAlti if possible, and the ptutleot pat t know the
smest And roily way of accomplishing it, is by
getting on with one step at a time. I say the
prudent part, for the iuel rodent part in Ireland
have not been it iae enough to conceal their aims
tint Irate publicly declared, that they peremp-
torily mats! utt having the AsCIiND.INCY in
SPI MTV AL MA-LA-Las; that they will admit of no
retos to annul their choice of Bishops ; 81111 that
they will not be satisfied, 01 even accept of, any
thing less. Coustquently their loyalty or at-
tachment to Government, is not to be bought
for any trifling concessious.
But you will say, that although this may be
their wish, how are they to attain it, so long as
we take care that the Protestant 'Members of the
Douse of Commons be in the proportion of three
or four to one ; and, that only a few Catholic
Alernbett be admitted, to represent the ma-
jority of the Irish people who are Catholics ?
Supi.oseiby way of Jrgurnent then, we admit only
ten Catholic Members, or even ii,e ; it ip not rely
long since, that a question i,n Catholic Emanci-
pation was decided by one single casing L'ote ;
and therefore had there been only one Catholic
Alt:tither, in the place of those deLidedly Protes-
tant, (I mean the majority,) the question would
have been carried; arid rousequenily it is difficult
to say whet number (however small) eft Catholic
Mend), rN, may not he stithrieni for obtaining CA-
THOLIC ASCI.NOANCY. If the Catholics gain only
one major ity, they Will 1101 stop there ; no arti-
fice will he heir wailed to obtain more; and it
will be soon discovered, that not five or ten Melll.
bets a II tie thought au nil( qoite representation of
all the Catholics in Great Britain, and Ireland;
but that mote must soon be added.

ft is matter of great surprise to rate, that in a
house of Commons, piotessedly all Protestants,
every agitation of this subject strews, 00 the di-
visions, nearly one half of the Memb. is to be on
the side ut the Catholics ; surely the Members
must be strangely blinded by their notions of
liberality and toleration, if they do not perceive,
that if these measures were carried according to
their votes, it would severely injure, it riot to-
tally destroy, the very stamina by which the
strength anti happiness of this Country is up•
held. I mean, the moral principle of the people.
It was this principle that obtained tor Bri-
tain the high pitch of pre-eminence she held
in 1815, when during the preceding wars, every
other nation in Enrope, had in some way or other,
been obliged to contess the superiori►y of one con-
quering po,er ; while Britain alone,

wise, strenuous, firm, of unsuhmitting soul,"
constantly wet its threats with defiance, and ul-
timately triumphed. The superiority of this
country was acknowledged by the great powers
engaged in the same contest placing, with general
consent, the Duke of ‘VaLt.twoTots in the com-
mand of all their Armies of Occupation, at the
bead of their own most illustrious and distinguish-
ed Generals. The moral, not the physical strength
of Britain, achieved all this : industry Int nished
wealth, integrity credit ; public spirit applied
them ; and religion gave courage and persever-
ance. While our physical strength, front extent
and population, bore no comparison to many of
the cotemporary powers of the Continent wh• had
been severally vanquished.
In order to ahew how this vital stamina, the
moral priuciple ut the nation, will be injured by
Catholic emancipation, I must assume, for the
sake of argument, that they have obtained indul-
geoces to a moderate extent ; and gilt suppose
that tne Throne and the highest Offices of State,
remain Protestant ; that the interior Offices of
Stale, both Houses of Parliament, the Army and
Navy, the Magistracy and Corporations, have a
small mixture of Catholics in each. That the
people of every persuasion are carefully to ab-
stain front interrupting each other in religious
ceremonies, *sod every one to serve God in his
own way, and observe only such forms and re-
strictions as his Church or Sect enjoins. For a
wort:, it might-be supposed, all parties would go
on comfortably enough together; and if there
were none butt enlightened, well-informed Lay
Cd(110110, it might possibly last. But the Court
vt Rome will not suffer it. For, that the same
thirst for Supremacy, the same desire to keep the
people under the influence of the Priests, and at-
tain thereby the Catholic ascendancy, in the
Church at least, of every Country, still exists io
the Conclave, appears evident, by the vigilance
they exercise to prevent the propagation at the
Gospel, by Bible societies, wherever they have
influence : while, I ke the Pharisees of old," they
compa,l sea sit I,4nd to make one proselyte;.---
The Catholic Bishops, therefore, will receive
ingtlucTion3 from Hie Pope to exhort and stir
up the Priests to use all diligence in snaking