The Sun.
London, England, 1811-12-26 00:00:00

JOSEPH LdNCASTER.

A declaration_ male by this man at the recent
eCatholicelinner, in Dublin, as stated in a Morning
raper of yesterday, calls for particular notice and
animadversion. According to the report of the.
Murning Alluded to, and which is •corroborated,
..bY similar reports in other daily printi, JOSEPH,
LANCASTER' after some common-place sentiments
and fulsome eutogitnnt on the Irish people, perfect-
ly inconsistent with thestruple character of the lea
to which he' pi tesses to belong, and , which, we
tra", the good si,:ise of our Irish fellow-subjeas
will inditce :hero to treat with contempt, is said to
have uttered the following words, in referring to
What is termed CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION :
" He would tell the Meeting what no mar, in
exstence could impart bat himself—He had often
talked with the King of England ; and in one of
his conversations lie contrived to know his senri-
upeti Catholic Ea:aticipation. The King was
liavourabie tip Catholic Emancipation ;--he told him
v"s ; .but his Coronation 'Oath, be thought,
rwould nut allow him to do any thing for the Catlin-
-I,cas and he was concerned at It. He thought that
sais proof of conscience was to. he respetted—he
Illentioned it in bonner of the integrity of the King,
'liter it had remained in his own breast for five
Years."
can baldly bring ourselves to believe that,
6fie, man of common sense, even in the Meeting
was intended toy flatter, could give any ciee
flit to this vain, preitenptnoue, and indeCent decla-
131lon.—Mr. LANZASTEIt has betrayed his low Con.
even by het own. statement, 111 saying that
he
cuntrived to know, his Mojesty's sentiments
upon the subj,:6l; thereby acknowicdging that he
practised trick and artifice
,opero the Sovereigivin
Older to draw from lien his secret opinions upon a
tlqhject of great ituportatice to the tranquility of thu
e
nipire, and the future security of the Constitu-
tion.
It would almost be insulting, our Readers to
dwell upon the gross improvability of this man's
klatement, vet a few observations fluty be• nixes-
Ilty, in Order to lay bare his real character to tnari-
fitki,—ls it to be supposed that his Mejester
l'ave confided sentunents to this Matt which he
tunce:lied, from all the wise .and able characters to
State,
he has committed the first offices of the
otate, and upon whose prudence and honour he
ItUllibt. most Confidently rely I Even this vain
boaster does not pretend to Say that his Majesty
declared he had informed nobody but himself of his
real sentiments on the Catholic Question ; and
since he does not presume, so far as to say that his
naJesty had given him such an assurance, upon
what lotendatton does he dare to assert, that' " no
"lan in existence but hiMself" could impart the
teem of the Royal sentiments .upon the subjer3 in
fl"'"i°n ? Mr. LANCASTER hes now completely, in
out (Onion, ruined his reputation, and we con-
ceive that it is absolutely impossible to place any
tcmfidttuce in his futute declarations. Even sup-
Posingt it ossible that there is any truth in this
-1.) he deprives' his Majesty of the grace of a
i.e_nerous avowal of his opinions, inasmuch as lie
‘tltanwitedgel, by implication; that he was obliged
ro'
aneesort to contrivance, to order, to throw the King
his guaid, for. the purpose of dising intp his
ce"lgB.; and this.mean subtlety was put into.
Practice at a time when he was applying to the
te,"'o4ll4'cll for his proteaion of a, system of educe-
k,,litch was to dissipate error, to diffuse know-
ouKe and to amend the heart ! ! " Out ,of his
erl mouth will we condemn him." He has 'shewn
te„,nl3l to be a composition of low cunning, under
d tna‘de of simplicity, and it is .tow more evi-
e;
e-71 than ever; that such a man is, wholly unfit to,
ntrusted with the important care of the na-
tional education. His condua towards Dr. BELL
e,
in:4Cnicienily marked by folly, inconsistency, and
eralitude ; for after having Acknowledged that he
ved tlitS first principles cf his plan from the
• liVtior, lie grossly
attacked the charaacr thle
hentlettan, misrepresented his Words, accused
kiln of being the advocate .of ignorance, and de-
d that he had any pretensiens to credit in the
fiery Plan Of education, which he at first‘, OWI4
that lie had borrowed from the Dottor's book`.--
;41 it IS not difficult to account for mr. LANCAS.
conduct in thus pretending to ,have artfully
et4,e'vn forth the 'sentiments of his Majesty in. favour
Ettiancipetion, and in taking the 00er- -
It nil of discloeing them at the great Meetingof t
ei°")an Catholic's. He found that his character and_
weie understood in this Country, and that 'he
!lae." Retied the friends of .the Establ)shed Church to
" frollize a system of Education calculated- o pre
ee4
4'e-thee Establishment, and therefore be went to.
:144`1) and endeat•aured to ally . himself with th'
Aei'lan Catholics; in older to recover some eit that
eeil°llanee there, which he has nearly, it not
ellolle lost in this country. We earnestly, exhert
who have thought
.favourably pi this mart; to
considera attentively the declaration which he has,
made respecting his Majesty, and then to determine
villcl
!tiler ltdoee not bear internal eVidence of artifice,
estluiPtibits indecebei, and talsehoodeand whether
it
leece,4l', exelte belief in any person who is not
holeby stupidity, or warped by fanaticism: We
Pe the friends of the Constltution in Church and
eap will letiouSly attend to this subjea. and we
Upon our competitors not to suffer so palpable
tel
imposture 10 01155 without due reptebtuoiun. .