The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-02 00:00:00

ministration,' whose mind is made up upon the merits of 1
the question, and vehl anxious to witness a settlement,
which, by benefiting the state, would confer a benefit upon
every individual belonging to it !%—and delay !—a further
time for a diligent consideration' of those difficulties, is
the much sought after expedient ! when every day, every
hour of that delay necessarily and inevitably increases that
very violence and agitation of which he affects to complain.
We say affects to 'complain ; for what conclusion are we
to come to as to his sincerity, when his Grace alleges
party spirit and violkce pervading every discussion of
the question' as a much to be lamented difficulty : while
he himself has been contemplating ever since the summer,
and has at last carried into effect, a measure, which, be-
yond any event which has happened within this last twelve-
month, has tended to increase that very party feeling and
violence which he laments as insuperable obstacles to Ca-
tholic Emancipation ! Instead of being engaged in the
deep meditations and profound schemes which the romantic
imaginations of our confident politicians had assigned as
the benevolent occupations of a vigorous mind, bending
all its energies towards effecting the restoration of the Ca-
tholics to the rights of British subjects, the Duke, as far as
we have any evidence of his Grace's autumnal avocations,
had been compassing and imagining, by all possible subtle
devices, the recal of that nobleman, the permanency of
whose administration as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland was
the best chance for the preservation of the tranquillity of
that unhappy country;--studying and contriving how to
purge his administration of the only remaining Minister
whose high sense of honour and political integrity would
not admit those considerations which are ever uppermost

in the thoughts of low and narrow minded politicians, as
an excuse fur the delay of a measure which is the founda-
tion upon which alone it is possible to build reasonable
hopes of the tranquillity of Ireland; and as if anything
were wanting to confirm our opinion as to his sincerity,
appointing the Duke of Northumberland as the successor
of Lord Anglesea. If, indeed, the recal of that Nobleman
had arisen from any other error or disqualification than
that of his being the honest, and, therefore, (in the Prime
Minister's opinion) the too importunate advocate of the
Catholics, which we have good reason to know that it did
not, Why then not at least. endeavour to appoint some one
else with similar opinions upon that important subject?
Why, in making the first offer of the vacant post, has he
gone amongst the ranks of the best known and most
powerful of the anti-Catholics? Or, are we still to feed
our hopes and cherish our expectations by the supposition
that the selection of the Duke of Northumberland was the
result of a determination of the Prime Minister to appoint

the whole anti-Catholic aristocracy, one after the other, to
the viceroyalty, for the purpose of conversion? Should
this chance be the object of his Grace, however ingenious
the scheme, we fear that, for his first experiment, the
choice has been peculiarly unfortunate."