The Sun. — 1823-04-26 (London, England)

RICIIMOND."— The same Paper, with characteristic flippancy, speaks of Mr. PEEL as " this self-sufficient person," and affects to ridicule him on his having stated the terms on which he had been induced 44 to take office." Mr. PEEL is so independent in circumstances that no official emoluments can for a moment be supposed to operate upon his mind, and his talents are of so high an order that it must be highly gratifying to the public to see them employed in the service of his country. As to self-sufficiency, never was an epithet more ill-applied. Mr. PEEL, though possessed of distinguished talents, is remarkable for complacent' urbanity in private, and for the modest firmness with which be maintains his principles in public. It is evident that nothing but a sense of patriotic duty could prompt so able and so independent a character to quit the enjoyments of private life, and engage in the turmoils of political warfare, and therefore all attacks upon so public-sirited an individual, can only recoil upon these despicable authors, though they cannot feel shame, or indeed be exposed to a greater degree of indignation and contempt. We will not involve the Party to which the writers alluded to profess to be attached, in supposing that, they would tolerate such revolting brutality on the one hand, or such flippant impertinence on the other ; but it is evident that, if it were possible to suppose that the Party themselves were actuated by such sentiments, we might well deprecate their possession of power, lest they should inflict on this country all the horrors of a Gallic Revolution.  We yesterday inserted Sir HAttcoußT LEES'S Petition to the House of Commons, and we are assused that the alarm of the worthy Baronet, respecting the boldness of Roman Catholic pretensions, and the confidence of the Papists that they will be finally successful in the attainment of political power, is supported by the following fact :—On the day when Colonel WHITE was elected, in Dublin, the Procession to his Committee Room, on his return from the Hustings, was preceded by a vehicle full of Romish Priests bearing a crucifix surmounted with laurel, and though Sir IlAncoutvr LEES suppressed this striking fact, and merely stated that the Roman Catholic Priests influenceel some of the Electors AT the Hustings, it has been insinuated that Sir H. L. asserted in his Petition that they appeared ON the Hustings. The daring fact above stated is notorious, and seems to justify all the alarm arising from Popish ambition.  We are informed that the man who murdered Mrs. DONATTY is arrived in one of the Indiamen.  A private letter from Frankfort of the 15th April says :—" The refusal by the Holy See to confirm the nomination of the Prelates, presented by the Princes who signed the Concordat (Wurtemberg, Baden, Nassau, and the two Ilesses), has caused uneasiness among the Catholics of Southern Germany. It appears that this refusal is chiefly owing to the opposition shown by some of the Prelates nominated, to the Ultra-montane principles. We learn here the change of religion of a whole Commune of Catholics in the Grand Duchy of Baden. The Seigneur of the village, M. de Gemmingen, embraced the Lutheran religion, and a hundred families followed his example. The cause of this resolution was the Ecclesiastical Authority wishiag to displace the Cure from whom the Commune would not separate themselves, and he became a Lutheran."