The Sun. — 1823-03-13 (London, England)

THE CATHOLIC QUESTION.  MR. EDITOR Ist. It is contrary to the articles of the Union with Scotland, that Roman Catholics should sit in Parliament. - These articles say that there shall in future be a Protestant King,:a Protestant House of Lords, and a Protestant House of Commons.  2d. The above is a harrier to the Catholic Clairntlo seats in the Legislature, because Scotland i 8 Of more importance than a part of the subjects of Ireland, who have Catholic Countries, to emigrate to, if they dislike their own. Those, who prefer Ireland must know how much the EnglishAsteem them: though the English willnot have their liberties subverted for the sake of the Roman Catholic Religion, which Religion is inimical to civil liberty, as the following will 'exemplify :—The Prince, Bishop of Liege, the Tresfoticiers, and the numerous Clergy were ma stained in splendid affluence. This did not content them: but they grasped at more power than the Free Constitution of the State permitted. When the French Revolution broke out, the Liegois united with France, and at once got rid of all their Clergy, to punish them. 3d. After Oliver Cromwell had turned ten  thousand Irish out of that Kingdom, the Irish Catholics wrote him the most loyal and submissive Petitions, and if Oliver had given them their choice of following their countrymen, or receiving Protestant Baptism at his hands, they would, no doubt, have accepted the latter, and Ireland would now have been a Protestant Kingdom. 4th. The Protestants of Ireland are the 'best security to Great Britain, and will never differ on religious topics. The Protestants are more industrious than the Catholics, and every means should be used to encourage industry amongst the latter, and all causes of irritation be sedulously avoided. sth. What is the difference between the Ca tholics now and those in the time of the First Queen Mary of England. Are they less bigotted? Have they less desire of the Propagandi, or are they less desirous of torturing or btrrning by a slow fire those whose religious opinions ditfer from theirs ? If the latter is doubted read the  following :—A Protestant Captain of the British Army in Ireland, during the Rebellion of 1798, was at an advanced post with his company. The Rebels, at 'day-light, advanced and this Captain drew. out his' men, but finding the Rebels In great force, and being shot through the thigh and unable to walk, though the soldiers offered to stay ; he gallantly ordered them to retreat and leave him to his fate—what fate was that t These Rebel Catholics tied him hand and foot, then cut the muscular parts of his body and limbs ;—they burned him' alive on the embers of the guard fire ; as cruel a death 'as ever disgraced human nature to invent. 6th. Have not all the cruelties aud murders within these last twu years been committed by Roman Catholics in Ireland ? 7th. As the seeds of Rebellion seem laid amongst the lower orders of Catholics in Ireland, is not agitating the Catholic Question like throwing a fire-brand into gun powder—us often as it is brt)ught forward In Pirlianfint, it will be lost. Bth, Let us suppose the Catholic Question carried and passed into a law; will that satisfy the lower girders of Roman Catholics in Ireland No ;' there is not an Irish Roman Catholic, who does not know, .or supposes he knows, the landed property which formerly belonged to his ancestors;: and if Ireland was as large as the North and South Atlantic Oceans from pole to pole, it would not satisfy the several claimants. A