Star.
London, England, 1829-01-06 00:00:00

*Jailing
Coionsblaa

In the Sr** of yesterday we gave a statement of the
produce the Revenue for the Quarter which ended
that .d. 47. which was as correct as could then be .ascer.
tained. We now present, in somber column, the official
Returns, and it gives us much pleasure to find that the
Revenue irf seen more flourishing than we represented
it. The iactease upon the quarter just ended is
686 2211. and upon the )ear no less a sum than
1 660.6471. In tie whole of the branches there
has been a considerable ircre..se, with the excess.
tion of those of the Miscellaneous and the Customs.
The former, from' its constantly fluctuating name,
irequires no remark; and the apparent , deficiency

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in thf latter is perfectly teconcileable from the factl
that the sum received on Corn last "year .cacankad,
lthe amount received.this. year by 620,(04. and that •
transfer' of Tea Duties of 270,0001. was made froth
the Customs to the Excise. These two beads of
Receipts being added, will infinitely more than
connterbalance the apparent deficiency under the
head of Customs, whilst a material increase
will
still be left in the department of the Excise. Thus
has tl e statement cf theCuANCILLOR of the EfttrEQUalt
been more than realized ; and in every respect di•
we feel perfectly warranted in offering our most
cordial congratulations to the Public upon t' .e highly
prosperous state r f the Count. y.

We understand that the Roman Catholics in Ireland
presume to say in their private cor cleges, as sell as in the
frantic revels of their public orgies, that they will not
permit the Government to dictate, not the I..egi,lature
prescribe, what moderate men term a wholesome Eman-
cipation Bill. The forty shilling freelvildets mu t not
be disfranchised—the Clergy must not be regally pen-
sioned.

Whether Emancipation k to sully the vccortls of the
laws of England, and the memory of Lord SotuEns
and his associate Peers to receive additional glory firm
ithe contracting clouds that lower upon the policy c.f.
present Legislators, we presume not to inquire. But
in ail events, we join the universal voice of Protestant
England in demanding the annihilation of the lorty
shilling freeholders. The ezercise of their peri.icicu,
power is detrimental to Jae Church 4 England—to kbe
Protestants of the Eospire..o the interest: of the S we
—to every grade of slickly, from tl.e hurnble4 me.
chanic and the rudest peasant to the noblest Peer.

While their influence is continued, Ir.! .nd will be
under the governntect of a democracy, and f f the
worst kind, a democracy of Papist , whose MA KATO
and COUTEAUS are Priests envenomed against note?.
tantism, and thirsting for power. From tl e way i
which the system has worked, we may read the history
of its tame operations. As ambiti -n sill continue to
have sway upon the minds of men, the aristocracy ill
Leland will still seek either f ei themzelves, r r then se
lations, tl.e honour of bring Members of Par liament.-;-
Hitherto a
°residence in the country, the reputation or
kindness as a lindiord, of justice as a Magistrate, and
of benevolence as a man. were the pi incipal !eateries of
character urged on the attention of the electors at the
hustings.
But now the election is in the hands e f the Pr'ests.—
If the swinish herd, more sunk in harb.irism than the
insane devotee that places his neck under the ss heels of
the juggernaut car, feel one sting of conscience in op-
posing his kind and parental landl-rd, I ell, with all-
its terrors, is denounced as the fell judgment of the is..
ceased Priest upon his sr ul. Even miracles, that St.
FRANCIS XAVIER confessed he could not pet form for
the idolaters of Japan. ate wrought with wondrous
facility for the idolaters of Ireland. This infernal
prostitution of the divine cMce, has assumed even the
virtue of a zeal for liberty, in the contemplation of the
aristocratic Lord, or the rich Plebeian—they turn
the mischief that the Priest woks to the fur-
therance of their own object. And, let the truth be
known—the contagion has suread and is spread-
ing, and the rabic and respectability ..1 Ireland, are
falling down one af:ei the other under the Priest's
feet. When these men, who have sought power
through such base means, have secured it, the Pant
being the bestower of it, becomes naturally the distri
butor of place and pensi,n. him the middling
ranks look up. He, a Popish Priest, besotted with
ignorance, vulgarity, and an ungovernable bate to
every thing Protestant, is the pattern of his surround-
ing neighbourhood. His complying clients, im;tating
the servility of the Priest-made senators, fill in with
the cry of demolition to the Protestant Church, and the
slanderous and poisonous anathemas against the es.
piession of Protestant sentiments. To hint a 14.ve or
admiration of what the lessons of infancy had invited,
bangs down the thunderbolt of Primly vengeance
The Squire colours in the free if t'.e Priest should over•
take him talking with a Brunswicker. To desire the
ascendancy of Protestantism is to be a bir t. To vene-
rate the Church c f England, is to loathe the person of
Roman Catholics. To praise a sermon preached by a
Protestant, is to be a saint. To be zealous in the cause
of GOD, is to be an Orangeman; and to love the Bible
is to hate the Priest.

This ablative power of the Priest, which removes from
society all the ancient land-marks that preserved it, is
a contradiction to that binding organization of tanks
which our laws, and the distinction of King, Lords, and
Commons were intended to preserve. For ni,w, att
authority and jurisdiction in Ireland can be traced to
the Priest's sway. If he dislike a landbrd. his tenants
hate him. If he disapprove of a Magistt 4te, the pat ish:
condemn him. If a Protestant Minister is not a Liberal
he is an exile amid thousand , for they almost refuse to
salute him. Virtue has no honours, unless the tongue.
utter Popery ; religion nu sanctity, unless there is an
eternal silence about idolatry. A heart is not honest,
unless it throbs to the pulsations of thr Priest ; nor the
mind any endowments, unless its cultivation be frittered
away in speeches at Liberal Clubs,orahe orgies of a de-
secrated Sabbath day. Gracious Heaven ! is this state of
society to be permitted by Protestant England ? Is this
frightful democracy to rear its bydra•head in a nation of
freemen and of cavaliers? Ate the laws of the land_
ate the grand capital features of the Constitution—are
the pledges of the Union, all dead letters, mete empty
sounds ? Is the Protestant Church to be preserved in
Ireland, or is that ill•fated land to be made a mad-
house f it Dittoes from Salamanca, or insane boots
from Maynootb ?

We ihall take an early opportuu,ty of ,hos► ins that
the payment of the Priests, under any modification of
it that has ever been proposed, is futil and cannot be
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productive of the least advantage.

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le Palos Papers a Sunday led leifyigy iv,. „
a
ceived lag night. Their con nts ate not of a -
tam., unless in one pat ticular, in the dispatch tertiati
from General MAISON, commanding the Pinch trees
in the Morea, where, alter stating. that the army ilk
an improved state of health, announces that KIN
Cuiets of Western Greece have commenced ofreuitt •
operations against the Ottoman tate. This retry
activity of the Greeks, if followed by the success Midi -
may be erpected horn the diminished power of thor .
great belligerent: ;et .the East.
modeler:Mtn Moldavia represent the Toth as
opponents, cannot fail to e:.:barrassthenuestion °fp" -
between
I
'operating on the Russian line in Bulgaria, but no iri.
ticulars are given. _

We received this morning Dutch and Hamby*
Papers to a Late date. It appears by an extract from*
Pruu:an Gan:::1:, of the 2e:th ult. that the Twit
have tmdc:takt a a winter campaign, aud made min,
tempt to recapture Patna, in which, after some hod
47.,;hting. they have failed to succeed. No par:kalif,
-are given ; but it appears both a:mies have sul'at4
con,iderable toss. The brave SERA:J(IER, who cna,
man.led tie Tu. Its, is reported to be severely smatuled,
Ts e following are extra( ts

HAMBURGII, Dec.:,;,.

The Prossion Sate t:atret:e oryesterday contains the followiugs
Several letters from the Turkish frontiers contain the intetllgettte
that the Turks have failed In an attempt upon Varna. The km is
said to have been cowiderahle to both armies, aad the Streik*,
vsboeotrotanded tire Turks, is said to be seserely vroisodet
Letters from Odessa of ICsh December say, ttat Omer Vtione
li.visig made r movement from Sebum!' uptm Baurditk, General
Ruth advanced against him from Varna.—Haoss. IteperstriDecjo.
ST. PETERAURGIL •Den. 10.

yesterday the. Saint's day .►f his Majesty the .7:.sipsow was kr%
with the usual so!cmnity. Te Deems was performed hi ei the
Churches of the capital, and the city was Illuminated. —avow 4

AV kr110w.24, !At 20.

Ul be St. li.rershsciA Jatirmil from the ifitb to the 10th d Do 4
haae tio news whatever from the army.)
itorrEnDA 51, Jar. 2.
The number of ships that have arrived in the Muse during*
year I ttA was 2,C113. Among theta wete-3Z-1 from Lonsleumg
from liars' is h,161 from Null, and 29 from Newcastle. &like., 2,07•
The arrivals at Amsterdam wets 2,t32, and at Antwtrp 935.