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two intervals of: power ‘and domination i in the reigns
” of Mary and. James II, as if it were intended bya
wise and mereiful providence to show that the Irish
catbolics-were as lement and charitable to others—
even to their .oppressors and .persecutors, as they
had been firm and unbending under persecution:
16th, On thé latter. occasion, in.the. reign of}:
. es IL, the Irish Parliament, at least ‘five-sixths
_ of. them, were catholics ; y never introdu ced
one single law to interfere directly or indirectly wit
the profession or practice ‘of the protestant reli-
ion. :
6th. And. as sto the reign of Queen Mary, slet it
be ‘recelleete d that during the lattor end of that of
her father, Henry the oth and tho entire of that: of
her brother, Edward t the, catholics of Ire-
‘land had endured a Most cruel, barbaraus, and
bloody persecution, suffering oll that a profligate}o
aristocracy and a licentious soldiery, drunk with res
ligious zeal, and animated by plunder, could possi-
by inflict.
17th. Tho catholies of freland returned to power
on the accession of Queen Mary. They had the}
making ofthe law, andthe. exdzation of the law in| wa:
their own hands, yet they never punishe
tor, nor 7 parser da Protestant, nor enacted a penal
law, nor she sad any one trait of revenge, teat
nay, their virtues . were not. mereiy
da per secte-
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other’: towards Papists.” " Yet there was no prosecu-
tion for 80 mischievous a libel, for. which, however,
{ cannot feel much regret-—but this, I think, .is quite
inexcusable tha tthe Governm ent, conti ued it its pe-
cuniary patronage to néwspa pers {hat not f only pub-
lished: but actually” ‘praised the li
4th, Thi
a Judge to accompany sade se Jebb on the last circuit. |
The illness of Baron M’Clelland threw upon the Irish
h) goveromenttha choice. ‘They chose erjeant Lefroy!
Thi eedingly proper Shave,
ut it certainly was not one conciliatory to the ca-
tholics—and the good teinper we have shewn could
not originate with or be promoted. by, the selec:
ion
=.
°
o
th. A valuable office fall into the git of the go-|s
verament, whereupon t ately bestowed it
a AIr. Saurin; a son of the ** cidevant” Attorney
General who, though a Tory, filed more informa-
tions, and instituted more prosecutions against the
Press than any half-dozen Whig Attorney- -Generals
3 leails'me naturally to ihe: selection made of | §
oo VOL.-EX. |
of the old eyotem ofa solicitor, and now " proverbial.
\fur unnecessary candour or chivalrous _sincerity.—
The vdeterinination to provide for this. agent at. the
public expense, seems
authority. -
strated the disposition to avoid the open, ‘manly,
generous and conciliatory ©
n, It trast, “that the conduct of the
perpetual oblivion, and to substitute in their stead,
peace, harmony, and mutual good will.
T have also shewn that the Irish government, in-.-
stead of st timulating and - pro: motng: this spirit of
peace and mony, “have. by their public acts,
counteracted its salutar influence. and materially
here;
tants of, freland, the interests of truth compel me to
ever institute tter,
might have b een a right one—bat to the catholics it
ty unconciliatory. We owe none of our good
temper’ rh it.
8th. The © management of Trish affairs goes on iin
the old train, with. the old workmen.
proceed. It is a duty, -but a paintal ne which I.
perform in laying one more topic ic be’
Alas ! it is this : catholics “L am + bound to
orresponding spirit of kind-
ness and charity. from many, (oo many, of their
oe,
iberal
ver a ord—and rley, of
3
asy
sand pro oster
y Samilr sof English Protestants driven out o}
their native land by the terrors of the bloody perse-
eutions of Mary, and her cruel. minions.
18th. It.may not be amiss -to add to those splen-
did instances of Irish catholic charity, an exam
r
+s
of infinitely less important nature, but redolent of
the same epiri allu our conduct when the
King came to Ireland.. During the treaty for con-
cilietion on that occasion, we were publicly insulted |
by the then: dominant - party, -but we forgave the in-
sult; and fo forgot all the injuries inflicted on u'
ily Performed our part of the compact ina
and t r of peaceful sincerity
roth, I have. only to add, that wrhen our perseve-
ring: struggles were at length crowned with victory,
‘ there:was not on our part any insolence of triumph;|t
noinsulting demonstration of our sense o
we instigated the
ntrymen ; we rejoiced with a holy gladness, with-
out: insult, i injury, or insolence_ towards our former
oppo
Peach | Protestants of Ireland, are the dispositions,
and such h n the conduct of th atholic
ow, ona foo oting of perfect equality with
y deserve’ ror friendship. .
lesire your “hiendship r [and I regret
to- be obliged to -say it) this our contin con-
duct has all ‘our own suggestion. The gov-
ernment cannot claim any share in * soothing the
teinper of the Irish catholics. The Irish govern:
o example of conciliation or alter
tion of the old presrbing system. . They contribut-
the of national. benevolence be-
yond a few sugared words—words - contradicted by k
a
all their fetio
is nothing which- shews the. kindliness
ofthe catholics vof Ireland i in a stronger of view
t. with the miserable perseverance}
in: the old exclusive and irritating ‘system’ by the
managers of the Irish branch of the present adminis
tration..
. Ihave shewn what the conduct of the catholics}
has been since emancipation. t me now point
out a. few traits-of that of the Irish government.—
_'The contrast will serve to. enhance catholic merit,
_ and leave the world to form its own estimate of the
* puny minds and paltry heads by which we care ruled.
Conciliation awes nothing to these ruler:
te government has: not hitherto given to
any: one catholic the enjoyment of any one benefit|
fro! mancipation. Exclusion, in Fact, has | been
as rigid, so far as the. government could: controul, as
exclusion BY LAW. .
Neither has any ‘one favour been: shew:
y ‘The protestants holt
countenanced with as
. much of repulsion as ifthe penal code still subsisted,
. and that it were ‘still a contamination to: favour the]
.. civil rights of Papists S.
. The newspapers. maliciously libelled Tua
Jebb, and raleely attributed to hima charge by which
he was made to say,that the law should be adminis-
vantage they
the police—just as
and S
ive ay eye on Pop “This
may be all very Pri ‘uu it is ‘in sober ‘cadness,
'y unconciliator
“Oth, It.was expected that after. emancipation the
e|government would devote itself in. good earnest to}m
the internal - amelioration of Ireland. Alas! have
ie symptoms of c e-2—and if there are none,
surely. the government cannot claim any merit for
our conciliatory tem
1 Look at the: profession of the law. While
a| Pec! was the pride and Bory of orangeism he admit-
d that it was wrong to exclude catholic Barristers
from being King’s co co unsel. Itis plainly unjust to
deprive those who expe: and con
rience, tinue to want, |
the benefit of the talents of a-catholic Barrister. I
is, I say, ‘unjust to . deprive those | ptlionts of the ad-
would derive ’fro t precedency of|a
their favourite advocate, Vibich a a sill goivn confers.
But three terms have elapsed since.the legal injust-
ice was abolished. : The practical injustice contin-|i
ues.to this moment. Surely this is any thing but
conciliatory to the catholic:
- It will be said that I éomplain’ thus from|i
motives of personal resentment at being still depriv-
ed ofthe station of King’s counsel. The truth is
not so, There are abundant reasons why I should
not get that which i is considered by the | giver as a
our. There is not a reasanable man in the com-
munity but mu: ust admit, and I readily admit, that i.
government is- perfectly justifiable in nen sho owin
me any grace whatso horough pa aced
radical unfit: for any rpranaction but there i is Mr.
that be, and his former political offences
\be conaumed | in the dazzling. light of
gen Why have the:
if the "penal ‘awe attille
there be any thin,
{serable system of oxclus
2th. This exclusion | ie the more ‘inexcusable,
heeause of the conduct of Lord Manners just before
his departure. Ifa tory coat feel delicacy
his object.was. to gratify a party purpose, 1 hope
Lord Manners would have felt the indelicacy
nay Ww
his superior |
can
ore snconcttory than. this mi-
of con-
cluding his provessional career by’ making. “t think it
was thirteen: King’s counsel aa hate. Ie But this
| undue preference is just another reason’ why some
compensation should have been made to the catho-
Hie Bar by the present chancellor: J may be mistak-
thatt thie cuntey is man
try heart. -
i3th. Thero remaing 5 bul one siveunmataricg more
to notice for the present, aod it is one. which might
be avoided’; yet it-ia @ feature in the: unconcitiatory |
policy of our Irish rulers. It is the ‘supposed em
tered in ohe way towards Orangemen, and: in.no
| ployment in the- underworking and minor diplomacy |
regory~ronain at the Castio. a deputy :
and a L Di
we heard the subject even mentioned ? 2? Whereas are]
ey been excluded a as 8 rigidly as |,
jcatholic: press: with. that.of the:
when ("
n, but Ido believe Sir Anthony Hart would have},
of eoreested his evil if he desite d todo it. There i it
jowever, unarrected, pro ving, I think,
Twill pass over r this topic as eapidly as E can: 7
my object is to produce
crease or continue irritation. I will confine mnysell
to as few instances as.I possibly can.
Ist. Some of the nobility,.and many of the gentry .
of the porthern counties, have announced their de-
rermination to_ persevere in the Orange system.—
The county of Fermanagh, in particular, has given.
most _unfavourable ‘specimens of their determina-
tion
. The Orange lodges and processions have .-
boot continued in many places in the North with -
all the former circumstances of irritation and male-
volence.
3d. runswick . clubs: have--dwindled into,
pauper colonization societies—but mind, exclus
ly protestant ; thus making charity partake
ofa
jsectarian hue, and we employed to promote not
kindliness but rane
t
his excuse Protestant ehstity is, inits
nature, a got up b: w des .
ad ei yy several wrell meaning ‘but mistaken:
individua: a job which ‘Must necessarily
soon falta put j in the mean time is it not both insult.
ing and cruel to make it exclusively, Prote stant.
. You cannot mour was: rais--
ed ¢ against the catholic sceenclatiens ‘pecause one of: .
its members-proposed exclusive dealing to the ca-
tholics. The motion was lost verwhelming”
majority ; i yet the catholic Bssociation was er itied
and abused by the. per: who are form-
ing .the exclusively. protestant ‘colony. Is not this.
unjust and inconsistent, and, above all, is it not ex--
cessively bigotte
6t utthe greatest stirrer of strife is the Orange:
press. That press has increased, -not abated, its--
virulence since emancipation. ere is: the same
enve. d personal slander ; the same disregard’
bi ctive ;. in
pat!
Mr. Sheil has sinned not at all against the powers | Orange press of this day, as they were twelve monthe-
may welljago
. - Recollect that this-press: subsists on, protes-
tant patronage.
7th, Contrast for one moment tne conduct of the
ange, and-see:
whether it be not cruel in. the clergy of the estab-
ished c' o patronise the virulence of the lat-
ter. in instead of imitating the christian example of the:
8th, “The conduct of Protestant clergymen i ia the:
more indefensible, because of the species of persons
who are employed in writing for the Orange press..
Many of them creatures without a creed—nominal
tremulous hearts, if they. have any religion at.
Besides they are notorious: for their imm rality’ a and..
of their lives. Why should beings such,
ubsisted- by any portion of the Irish-
am glad to be able to desist from this part of
‘my subject. I have said enough to slow that the
catholics have not been met by any coi ongenial s spirit
|since omancipat
requires in ‘order to promote benevolence and:
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matual conciliation.