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‘Vor. I. No. 28.) ry
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D WILL PREVAIL. |.
tie Fra. tee
“TRatce Td.
_ SPECIAL, REPORTING SAGACITY, AND
D panne CONFIDENCE.
Seen
“doin displayed by, the « “Special i Gorretpondents” at~
© tached to the [rish Deputation in this metropolis for
“ the’) purpose of conyeying to the Dublia papers; and
/ i) through them-to the Trish people, the movements and
“Bheie opinions and
as the expense of the writers and publishers, have
been - -attend Jed with regret that. their readers should
have: ro. better source of, information on which to
“ground their hopes or fears fot the good-and welfare
“of their country, and the attainment of their just pri-
: Vileges. : The occupation “of these political seers is
é ‘
* happily. at an ‘end, and. we: shall: take our leave of
them by giving one more specimen of their deep pe-
Snetrat n into the waysof futurity, and the labyrinths
of state, mystery. "The * Special Correspondent” of
the Dublin Moraing, Register, a.paper.. lately: estab-
lished | ‘under, the. auspices ‘ofthe defunct Cathotie
1 Asso iation, tells his, ‘employer s = ,
«There are; independ lent of the measure of emancipation,
no tag additional Bilis. uy hey are at present intended tobe
~ separate mexsui ¢ affecting the forty shilling free-
. holders, and raising the “qualification to 107. is 34. oes
+, not affect the its of the registered frecholders, nor ¢!
‘rights of forty sbilling freeholders in towns and cities, bor
- ‘the rights of such frecholders who holdin fee., The other
“os ‘measure: ig intended to” make a proyision for the clergy-—
blanks are leit: for the sums. “It is worth observing.on this
° , BIN, that, though, | the clergy ate to bé peid,. their ndepen |i
. dence is not
After the, passing of the act,
ut, by, the lew of the land, to re.
annum, |.No Ministers or other
3 e power tor reniove,
: way eee the ‘eghions The Catholic aletay: .
iran vafter the bill, will be @ elainisnt on the State, not a pen-
sioner on the Government.’ He will stand precisely inthe
*~ situation of a’ fundholder, whd demands and receives his
. dyidend.on quarter day.—Is the fundholder a dependent
oa the Minister?” Not at all: his is a stti or legal right, not
... @epondent on the will of power: jhe receives it as such, an
“ is neither grateful or deper.dent,”
ye We aduiire:the’i srenuity of. the. avriter) though
: we cannot help thinking “he has ‘paid’a very’ poor
“ compliment to the Catholic Hierarchy, by: placing
| them’ on'a Jevel with, the Jew Fundholder.—We
have not, ‘seen the clauses of this bill, but-we may be
_ allowed to doubt, whether the Catholic Priest will be
: : the: same manner asthe Jew Fundholdcr.
: latter goes, to the, Bank, to receive bis dividend;
mer wall’ be paid, most probably: out: of the
‘Exehéquer, as the Pensioner and Singcuriét
ster, but .the Catholic Priest will most as-
ue _suredly “be table to “yexations and, . refusals, if he
ae “Should happea to be a little too zealous in the exer-
cise of- his. spiritual. duties, ora little too bold in
‘standing up for the, people’ 3 righta, Let.us suppose
the pensioning plan ia full force, and the Clergy i in
° possession | of their salary.—Well, the Rev. Messrs:
* Pope (uct of Rome) and Daly determins on another
» Bible crusade vat Carlow,’ vand: they: meet with the
agdy and ‘able resistance they lately ex-
athers Clawry, AL Sweeny, Kinsella
will any one be so credulons a3 to
expect’ rede latter” gentlemen will be paid their |,
salaties without, any. trouble from the understrappers
of the Castle ; ; that. payment will not be delayed by
some subterfage 0 or other? They -may. be claimants
on the state, and will continue to be so,.we verily be-
Vieve 5 but it will.be a question whether their claims
~ will be allowed without Considerable difficulty until
- they consent to become pensioners to all intents and
~ purposes, and silent witnesses of the ravages mak-
_ jing by the. wolves, i in sheeps’ cloathing among their
_ flocks Are, “Dot, these “ Special Correspoatents
aware that the Irish Caiholies have’ had the right, by /P
the law of the land, thege thirty years, to be admitted
to the freedom of Corporations, ‘and bow many have
been allowed ‘to, enjoy this’ right? 2“ Was not a part
of the’ Rent appropriated. tq the enforcing one of the
Corporations to admit three of these > claimants to the
rights claimed? Yes, and we
Rent will be necessary” to-oBtain the cluims of the
Clergy, in the event of the Bil passing, and tbe
Priests continuing, to. perform “their sacred duties
with zeal and courage,
Weare astonished at confiding’ di position
manifested by the Deptt on, after. the many. es-
amples of treachery played’ upoa them bythe enemies
of Catholicism. Have they 30 sdow forgotten the farce
of conciliation performed just ‘before’ his Majesty's
landing. in. Ireland, : in ww hich Myr> Sectetary O'Gor-
man ‘took 50 conspi icuoas a part * Did not the dis-
appointment of. the Catholi¢s after the departure of
the King, lead to the estab ishment of the late Ca-
tholic Association 2. 2 “And do’ they really imagine that
the Ascendency | arty afe'hecome less hostile to the
Catholic religion, or pore fiberat fa shariag” the good
things of this state, thai! they were “before ‘the De-
putation entered ‘Lorton d If they do; we pity'¢ them
from the bottem, of our soul We do most sinderely
pity them.” Yor’ our poten aunot’ perceive the
east abaterent, of that! bostit feelings! ‘thonith we’
greater shar of raads ie tant decepetis to
si, aad when they have
Gobapiais of.
. “alg i fet them reflectow }
in these’ few. days, and ites Anust be ‘convinced that
the time for ‘confiding “Ys! not. yet arrived Do we
not learn by” ‘the’ ‘Par artlecypatary: Reports. that “the
draft of the Bil drawn: 4p cby Mr-O'Connell, was
merely a blind to the Deputitions’ That'as soow 45 |:
he was ‘gone, it was rejected though that ‘gentleniar
was led, to, “believe that hevwas ‘authorized by the
Cominittee to prepare. {avid expetted to. take the
printed copy of it.in his pocket to Lreland.. Do'we
not,see Mr, Spriag! Rice’ Predenung a Petition ‘from
soine rich Protestantsof Litierick ¢ fa Catholi¢ county).
nity io, =
pation, and calling for’ the a sfranckisement of the
poor Catholic freebolders}: “On this’ Mi, Littleton,
an English ‘county, member, g Sots up and gives notice
that he shall, after, the retess,“inove for leave ‘to
bring i ina bill to gratify ‘these ‘rich Irish Protestants,
Next we have Lord'L. G er Siving notice of amo-
tion) that on the. ‘gett f April, he- shall move for
leave to .bring ia .a, Bill: to’. Pension’ the, Catholic
Clergy, and the House, the Honourable House, every
Meinber of which swears ‘th ioe this” very. Clergy are
idolaters, hailing’ the anneuiicement with cheers!!!
When we see such menas Dawwsoit and Brownlow be-
stow: Ss their meed of praise: oa the plan of pensioning
and despoiling, it is high th to begin ta be some-
what more cautious thaw 4 ay ‘And when. we
ding.”
are told that ‘the measyre 13 grounded oa the follow-
ing plausible - pretext, which we’ take* from the
Morning ‘Chronicle of Wednesday, we cantiot “help}
considering the Catholics who shuts bis: eyes to the
danger” which’ ‘breatens! his Civil “end.” Religious
Rights, Nabiy culpable, ead By tong’ rue | his
“The @ proposils for the 8 provision for the catholic ergy
and the ‘abolition of Forty’ gana Frechoiders, urigingee: ia
the celebrated pamphiet entitldl «a Skstch of the State of Ire
land past and present,’ of whidit a Dew é caine was published
by Mr, Murray, .i9 °1822.—* Sur # the writer; ‘some
roy cbhtedted a
bY
eople which ‘now pays, with ahniost, equal reluctance, es
double establishment. - uch a paul | FeMLaye phe ‘
most ‘plausible and the mo es os chfecton
until this be’ accomplished, t in England ae tee | ia
reland can hardly be sail ‘o, stand” on the same grounds of
pelicy and-reason.” Upass ovo the detuils, [trudtpuactis |”
cable, to arrive at the results certainly bengficiat—tha prea- >
sanity reHeved, at least appeased—th ne landlord batted — Ff.
the Protestant Ulery secured-—the Cathulic Priesthood ihe
servants of the Erith etpire, not of Rome—tireir power
of good increased, of evil destroyed—and their present pre~
carious and illegal tivelihoods replaced, br a coastitctional
and honourable pr: ‘ovision, a, chief cause of animosity ehait- < ¢
cated, and the country iadulged, improved—perhaps traa~
quillized, bye ithe extension nf a priscinie. ae olge tho '
case of the ing Clergy, famili: coved.
We. canict say. whether. (his is‘a par to hélp ths
work, or a gratuitous notification from the Chroricls, .
who is, be it remembered, a great stickler“fur pans
sioing the Cathdlic Clergy of Ireland, in order to
reduce the _population of that. country. ; But what
will Mr. O° Conall, agd.these who think with, hiua,-
say to this unequivocal declaration, that the Tatended
provision for the Catholic C lergy,-is'to arake- then!
“ SERVA NTS oF THE BIUTISH EMPIRE,
in contact with the ¢ political cae
Chapel? Let them not lay thie.
their souls, that there iS auy thing
cere in.the measures now on foot regard
and ‘Religious Libertics of [relau
given by: the Catholic. Prolates. E
fs taken place with- te
infuence ; and there are men weak cenorgh to
this’ degradation ‘of the Pegpie- and hucuiliation ofth
s-aS an act of | UNCONDITIONAL! ESTANCERATISN. ©
! should the conditions of this wacdaditionad
measure ‘becomia alaw, the Catholics of Ireland ee
5001, find thtmseis e3 ina more galling situation thas:
they area present. . WwW. She ~
oa
It is understood hae a simultaneous discussion of
the Roman Catholic Question will he proposed to elt -
the“ parishés in England at the Easter _Vestries — ,
Blarne’ Post. ©
© Onaxcs Institerion- —Oa Friday last, a ‘Quarter:
ly Meeting of the Grand Lodge of Great Britain, was~
Feld. at the Mansion of Lord Kenyon, in Portman
square. His Lordship, as Grand Master of England,
presided on this occasion, and Colonel Fairman, De- ~
puty Grand Master of Londou, officiated ‘as bis Laid, ce
ship's. Vice. ° “Prayers “Ddeing ‘road by the Rev, Mr.
Bann,‘one of the Depnty Grand Chaplains, and the ©
ge duly opened, some Reports’ were made ‘av’
the general prosperity of the, “Association, with. the
rapid increase of its members, both as to redpectably ‘
lity and number, in alt parts ofthe kingdom.» ,
“The Lord Chancellor, whilst. bearing a cause in -
his court; “velatite’to one of the Mining. Companies,
said, it would b2 next ta impossible | that these asso~
ciations should keep aut of Ghaiicery, and when they “
were once in they would Never get ou
“Wedtesday’ five -chil{zen, oamed Daniel, Isaac,
Elizabeth, Joanna, and Jane, the offspring of
Abraham Simmona, a Jew, and of Jane Bark key Sim.
faons, hia wife, residing at Devonport, were hapt
into the Christian faith by tha Rev. Mr, Fled 2
St. Andrew's Church. - The Rev. i. Hitch
tev of St. John's Chapel, Devonport, &¢
ang a number of respectable. Penadieaa 2g. f
witness the eeremoay. ‘Phe’ father himself’ Stl =
shortly be Sepneedy the e mother t is of Carisrt .
eul
legal provision “thould ut once he" ange fer the Cathovc
Piles hood, for the sprituat mrexgbers ef the majority of the
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traction.