Star.
London, England, 1816-06-07 00:00:00

TO: THE MOON.

Hall to thy cold and clouded beam,
Pale pilgrim of the troubled sky !
Hall! tho' the mists that o'er thee stream
Lend to thy brow their sullen die !

HOw should thy pure and peaceful eye
Untroubled view our scenes below,
Or bow a tearless beam supply
To light a world of jarring woe t

Fair Queen! I will not blame thee now,
As once by Mary's locely side,
Each little cloud, that dimni'd thy broar,
Did then an angal's beauty hide.

And of the shades I then could chide.,
WU arc the thoughts to memory dear,
For while a softer straiu I tried,
They hid my blush and calla d my fear.

Then did I *war 01 ray serene,
Was formed to I•ght some lonely dell,
By two fund lovers only seen
Reflected front the crystal well;

Or sleeping on their mossy cell,
Or quivering on the lattice bright,
Or &acing on their couch to tell
How swiftly wanes the summer night !

70 THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRELATES OF

IRELAND.

GEN TL EADLN —As. you are the highest Ecclesiastical
Authority of the Church of Rome in Ireland, and as
it is by your permission that the Douay Version of
the Sacred Scriptures is at present in circulation
among such of your flocks as can read, no apology
Rill be thought necessary for calling your attention
to an alarming tenet avowed in that work. It is con-
tained in a note on the Bth verse of the 17th chapter
of Deuteronomy, which runs as follow : •" Here we
see what authority GOD was pleased to give to the
Church Guides of the Old Testament, in deciding,
without appeal, all controversies relating to the
law; promising that they should not err therein,
and punishing with death tech as prowdly refused to obey
their ckcisions : and surely lee kat not dons less for Ilse
Church Guides of the New Testament."
Are we still to be told, on the authority of the
Church of Rome, thet the Clergy of that Conimunion
have authority to punish, with .haeb, sttch as refuse to
obey their decisions respecting the law of Goo fl
" From this attempt to revive the detestable doe-
trine of murdering a man for his religious opinions,
every unsophisticated Irish heart, whether Catholic
or Protestant, will revolt with horror, and you are
called upon to publish a direct disavowal of such a
horrible doctrine, if, in your lab urs for emancipa-
tion, you expect the support of any rational
" PROTLSTANT."

Our Readers recollect will, what effrontery it was
repeatedly stated that the spirit of religious persecu-
tion had entirely subsided at Nimes. in consequence
of tlmse bold statements, the public sympathy excited
in this country in tavour of the persecuted ceased to
express itself in such a manner as could alone serve
the cause, or arrest the sufferings of the Protestants.
In Parliament. and through the medium of the press,
the most industrious eifot is were used to misrepresent
the matter, and to calumniate those respectable men
who wished to interpose the public voice between the
persecuted and their savage and blood-thirsty perse-
cutors. AU the aids of sophistry, misrepresentation,
and of bold denial were brought forward, with a view
of exciting an impression that the account of the ex-
cesses was highly coloured, and that the outrages
were merely retaliatory on the Protestants
system succeeded so well, that die Protestants, and
not their murderers, were considered to have been
originally the offending party ; and the former were
thus consigned, unprotected and impitied, to the yen.
Aeatice of their etienries This was a horrible situa-
tion, and die imagination cannot, perhaps, conceive a
state of more poignant, even desperate misery. The
Protestant, after suffering the most cruel injuries,
which human nature can sustain, sees the laws of his
own country, and the public opinion of Europe, in-
stead of affording him protection, absolutely directed
against him ; and when he dares to walk amongst the
ruins of his temples, or over the graves of his mur-
dered relatives, he is exposed helpless to the savage
taunts and tnenacin,t gestures of his blood-thirsty per-
secutors. Had public opinion in this country been
suffered to express itself, the Protestant would have
been secured at least from a repetition of those heart-
rending outrages. But no—the public have been in-
formed that their interference would not only be im-
proper, but injure the party meant to be served.
However, Laine, the new Minister of the Interior,
has, to his honour, caused the business to be sifted,
and expressed a determination, it is said, to protect
the persecuted sect. But we shall not attach more ins•
portance to such professions, until we hear that some
of the murderers have been brought to justice, or till;
the local Authorities, particularly the Prefect, receive
some mark of R-yal indignation.
The Duke of SAN CARLOS is gone to Vienna in the
quality of ArnbAssador of FENDINAND V 11.
,to ar-
range some difference which has arisen out of certain
resolutions taken in the Congress of Vienna relating
to Spain.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Friday se'nnight a most
distressing accident occurred near Bathgate, on the
road to Linlithgow, in Scotland. Rosetta. MEMEL;
a servant to the occupier of extensive lime and coal.
works in the neighbourhood, h.id been directed by his
master to carry, with a horse and cart, a considerable
number of barrels of gunpowder, for the use of his
lime quarries, to the plAce which he occupies as a
depot for that article. MAME was sitting on one of
the shafts of the cart. From causes yet unknown, the
gunpowder took fire, and shocking to relate,exploded
with a tremendous noise. The unfortunate man who
drove the cart was thrown into -a clump of trees, the
body of the cart was torn from the wheels, and the
horse ran furiously to Bathgate with the shafts. The
inhabitants ran to the spot, and discovered MZIKLZ
dreadfully burnt, and scarcely a vestige of his clothes
remained. When found .he was alive, but insensible,
and was carried to an adjoining faun-house.; Me.
dical assistance was soon procured ; but notwithstand-
ing every effort, the poor man died in about an hour
and a half after the accident, leaving a wife to lament
his loss. The horse was also much scorched. It is
understood there were about nine barrels of ganpow.
dcr on the cartat the tins of the explosion.