The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-23 00:00:00

PART V.

Mx.tprrott,—Paracy is exceptionable, because
it is idolatrous, calculated for arbitrary power,
and is incompatible with freedom. Many per-
sons ‘vho profess it are good, charitable, and
humane, but from early prejudices do not see its
consequences, or from a mistaken principle stifle
their judgments, and think it a duty to be of the
religion of their ancestors. With these all Pio-

testants can live in charity and peace, though.
they cannot join them in civil power, unless the
Church and State are secured against possible
danger. As this cannot be, while, from the very
spirit of their faith, they are inimical to the
former, they are justly ineligible and inadmissible.
In all ages and places sects and schism 3 were
found 'dangerous to civil Government, as the cause
of private combination against the.-laws, which
obliged the- Magistrate to repress them ; but as.
this often enflamed and increased the evil, time
and experience suggested the more wholesome,
though paradoxical, remedy of tolerating what
could not be approved. Restraint, which gave
the object importance, was taken away, and the
liberty of the risind succeeded.
'When 1.3;11011 GARDINER, by his persecuting
spirit in Queen MARY'S time, argued on toleration,
be overbore the mild and persuasive language of
Cardinal Pot. r. in its favour, and being sanctioned
by this bigoted and sanguinary Queen, it drenched
the Kingdom in human gore. Something similar

happened on the CnntineOt under the Emperor
CHARLES V. who throughout his life had endea-
voured to extirpate heresy, which produced him

nothing hut confusion and disappointment. The
violence of the laws here of Queen MARY, in sup-
port of the Roman Catholic Religion, has rendered
it ever since abhorrent to the people of England,
who glory in the Reformation, and no wickedness
Can equal revenge and cruelty when covered with
the cloak of religion.
In the time of Icing JAMES I. his Ministers
Were called persecutors of the Puritans or Pro.
testant Dissenters, who deemed themselves the
only trite Church, and held that none other
should be tolerated. The Clergy who refused to
comply with the legal requisites, were deprived of
their livings, and properly so, as none should
enjoy a heue.fiee who resists its conditions, and
lanolis them to scorn.

Uniformity in religion has been at all times

found necessary to civil Government, and that
even Protestant Sectaries should be excluded from
it. Lird BACON. was convidced that schism tended
to its subversion, and nothing but the idolatry of
Roman Catholics excluded the sect of Protestants
in Roman Catholic Countries.
To repeal, therefore, the Corporation and Test
Acts might lead to the downfal of the National
Church, and melt its Bishops and Clergy into. no-
thing ; but it is contended tlrit no one ought to
pay for opinions he does not believe, nor be de-
prived of an opportunity to seri:e his country as a
non Con. It is the pertinacity of opinions, and

an enmity to the Church established, that keeps
them at a due distance. They have a right to
enjoy the one, and nothing but the other justifies
Pat liament in dispntsing with their services for
the good of the Country. Some there are even
among Protestant Dissenters who call toleration

a .rag of Popery to suppOrt iniquity by law, yet
the Legislature has liberally granted it to Roman
Catholics in full, though it had multiplied corrup-
tions in doctrioe and discipline, and is the most
absurd system of Christianity that ever annoyed, the

good sense of man'. This, as favouring despotism

at the expellee of liberty, now calls aloud on Par-
liament either to dismiss their application, or to
guard, by all human means, in case of a-com-
pliance with their request, the safety of Church
and State.

TERRA FILMS.

GIBRALTAR, JAN. I.—" A report has within a
a few days been in circulation of the most tiiabo-
lie4l outrages having been committed in Algiers,
and particularly that 011 Christians aml Jews
were compelled to turn Moors ; hut this report,
1 ant Ithppy to fin% is false. By letters received
from thence, ten days old, it seems that there
had been a plan to depose the Dey ; but he bay-
ing retired to the Alcassava with his faithful ad-
herents, and removed there all the treasure, be
has set his opponents at defiance ; and after some
of them were killed, the head of the party who
intended to set np a new Dey fled."
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aranßlTE.—Letters have been received by the
London Missionary Society, stating that idolatry
is completeiy abolished in Otahei,te and Mimeo,
amd in a considerable degree in other. islands
adjacent. The King, Pomare, has sent all his
family idols to the Missionaries, desiring them
either to destroy them or send them to Europe,
that the people of England may see what
" foolish gods" they formerly worshipped.