The Sun. — 1822-04-26 (London, England)

HARCOURT LEES.  Esserprd, Ireland, March 13, 1822.  Six,—ln your Evening Paper of Wednesday last, I observe a Note of a most insidious character, attached to an article connected with Mr. CANNING'S intended motion for admitting Jesuit Confessors (through the medium of Popish Peers) to legislate for a Protestant Church and State ; both of which they are solemnly sworn to undermine and overturn the first favourable opportunity that may present itself, after they shall be admitted into that very august Assembly, which- the Member of the House of Commons is so anxious to effect, before his appointment to the Government of India will deprive the Executive of his religious services, and the Legislature of his poetry in Parliament, as well as In the Councils of his Sovereign. The Note I allude to, Sir, is expressed in the following terms :—" This Act was passed in consequence of the " diabolical perjuries of the infamous TITUS OATES and his " associates." Now, Mr. Editor, in my exalted character of the Chief, (I may almost say the only) Protestant Advocate for this country, such is the base and degrading servility of the times, I have only to remark on this extract, seleCted by you from a bribed or interested historian, that if you can prove the substance of it correct, even to the capacity of JOSEPH HUME, you will immediately convict the Privy Council and both Houses of Parliament, of the year 1678, of being either rogues or blockheads ; for after the strictest investigation, not of OATES alone (mind), but of several most respectable witnesses, first before the Privy Council, the House of Commons thus resolved, nrmine contradie;nte, " That there is and " hath been a damnable and hellish plot contrived and car" ried on by Popish Recusants for assassinating and murdering " the King, for subverting the Government and rooting out " and destroying the Protestant Religion." This House of Commons, Sir, was crowded neither by fools nor by factious place-hunting vagabonds ; and the consequence was, that their chief objects were the preservation of the life, the dignity, and the insulted character, of their Sovereign, and the protection of the Protestant Reformed. Religion against the mysterious and murderous attempts of the intolerant and idolatrous Church of Rome. Such, Sir, was the conduct that ought ever to be pursued by a British House of Commons who were intent, not in harassing and calumniating Ministers, in order to drive them in disgust (or despair of being serviceable) from their posts, but whose never-ceasing exertions were devoted to the preservation of their King and the sanctity of their Church. Now, attend to the conduct of the Lords. In a conference between the two Houses-on the above vote, the following is the report :—" The " Lords have considered the vote of the House of Commons, " communicated to them at the conference, and have most " readily and unanimously concurred in it with them, nemine " contradieente,' and their Lordships are very glad to see that " zeal" (would to. God we could see something like it now) " which the Commons have shewn on this occasion, and do " fully concur with them, that the most speedy and serious " consideration of both Houses of Parliament are necessary for " prevention of the imminent dangers : in order whereunto " their Lordships have resolved to sit de die in diem fore" noon and afternoon, and desire that the House of Corn" mons will do the same." I think, Sir, this is conclusiv e against the validity of your historical researches in sup,. port of the intended Nabob's motion, and particularly so when you are instructed that Lord STRAFFORD was not convicted so much on the testimony of OATES as from the evidence of a Brother-Conspirator, a holy Friar, by name TunBEEVILLE, who turned approver; as also, that his Lordship_ was not executed in the fervour of apprehension, nor until two years afterwards. Bust the most incontrovertible proof of the plot is to be found in the conviction of COLEMAN, secretary to the Duke of YORK, in whose Letters, acknowledg,ed.by himself, undeniable evidence was furnished of his being a principal Agent in this Popish transaction. So much, Sir, for the diabolical perjuries of