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TRUTH IS POWERFUL,
YOL. I.
NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1825. ,
AND WILL PREVAIL.
NO, 22 .
IRELAND.
Catholic Assocfation.
A (From the Dublin Patriot.)
“Sia—You will oblige me by inserting in your respectable pas
per, (which, in my judgment, advocates the Catholic cause an its
‘vue grdutds), the following statement and opinion.
I remain, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Wituiam Betrew.
It having heen resolved at the late Aggregate Mecting of the
Catholics of Ireland, held on Wednesday, the 8th of June, 1825,
~ That twenty-one Gentlemen be requested to meet in due ob-
servance of the law, and consider whether there can be framed,
assist in the con webs
tnolic affairs, as may be
out resorting to the two frequent holding of Aggregate Meetings
and iv parucular, without in any way infringing on a recent
Statute,” and not being one of. the persons ay pointed for that
purpose, I take this method of making known ty opinion on the
matter referred for consideration, being on every ground anxi-
sus tv contribute, as far as in my power, to a right decision by
the Catholic Body on the subject. .
OPINION.
a ‘have read ‘and attentively an the Act of the 6th of
adhe present King, chap. 4, led, “An Act to amend cercain
Acts relating to unlawful” Soe fies in Ireland,” aud, ii opi-
of acting ‘1 any manner with a view to procuring the repeal of
any of the laws of which the Catholics complain, if such pody
is in reality and in feet to be continued for fourieen days from
its first meeting ; am of opinion it is competent to have,
without violating the Act in question, any body of persons, act-
ing for the purpose in question, provided it shall really and in
fact not have existence for a longer period than I have just men-
“tioned, and provided such body shall not undertake to appoint
any person or persons to levy or receive, ‘and shall not them-
selves, receive, when levied, any money or contribution froar
sxuy of his Majesty's subjects... See the first section of the Act
f Parliament above neatigned t may be right to observe,
that the 8th scetion of the Act in question, even where it pre-
serves theright of petitioning his Majesty, or either or both
houses of Parliament for the redress vt any public or private
svievance, still limits the continuance of any assembly of Com-
mittee to he convened or appointed for such purpose, to the
same period of fourteen days, and prohibits the receiving or
vollecting any money or contribution, except so far as may be
necessary for the specific purpose of preparing and transmitting
10 the King, or either House of Parliament, a Petition for the
parposes mentioned. See said Yth section.
In what I have above written, { have confined myself to the
operation of the Actof. Parliament referred to, as being the Act
10 which I conceive the Resolution of the the Age’ regate Mecting
alludes; but there is another. Act, which passed in the Parlia-
ment of Ireland in the thirty-third year of the late King, and i is
recited in the before mentioned Act of the fifth year o
scut Majesty, which prohibits all assemblies of ‘men elected or
appointed to represent, or assuming aright or authority to re-
present the people of Ireland, or any number or description of
ihe same, under pretence of petitioning for, or in any other
manner procuring an alteration of matters established by lawin
Chureh or State, except the Parliamentand Houses of Convoca-
tion; and if any body of persons were now to be assembled for
the purposcs just mentioned, and should have been elected to re-
present, or should assume to represent the people of Ireland, or
any of them, such assembly or body of persons would be unlaw-
tal, even if its continuance were Timited to fourteen days, and
although they should not undertake to collect, or receive, when
collected, any money.
‘It results from wirat [have written, that in my opinion no re-
newal of the late Catholic Association, ner any formation of a
similar body to continue for more than fourteen days, nor an
- renewal of the late Catholic Rent can now take place without
a violation of the law; and should any attempt be macle to evade
the late Act of Pavliaraent, (which in my opinion would be as
wiworthy as enw vavailing,. and Ww trust, is not.
contemplated, 7) the question for the jury oles the direction of
the Court, if an indi should be preferred, and a trial
should take place, be, whether iniruth and in fact
the assemblage of persons iv question was, read/y ‘and in sub-
stance to have continuance for more than fourteen days, however
its continuance was apparently putan end to by adjournment or
oxherwise, or whether they, in facl und in Gull undertook to
vollect or receive. money, except.for the necessary expeuses of
preparing or Arapstaitiug § petitions to the King, or either or both
dfouses of Pacliame
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“B5th June, 1825, Ge Charles-strect.*
‘ Qyveess .
TO THE CATHOLICS OF IRELAND.
Merrion-Square, June 28, 1825.
Fellow-Countrymen—I cannot longer defer addressing you,
and yet [ write amidst the pressure of so many engagements as
to be quite unable toreduce into form the many topics that crowd
upon my inind. Accept and excuse a hurried sketch of some of
the most prominent features of the cause of our insulted and be-
trayed country.
bord Liverpool has insulted us by his charge of divided alle-
gian jodern judicial and elegant phrase—the
thargej is a “false as hell;” and no man living could better know
that it was false, than Lord Liverpool, who used it. There ts
not a Catholic in Ireland but feels indignant at the charge. . But
of what value is indignation, unless it prompt us into active ex-
ertions, by every legatand constitutional means in our pewer, to
get rid ‘of the Minister who thus added bittet insult to the griev-
ous injury of postponing the restitution of our long and unjustly
withheld rights and liberties
This is one feature iu the modern picture of Catholic affairs,
Itis in vain to shrink from contemplating it. Its influence is as
powerful as itis pernicious.
The next great topic ‘for consideration is the speech attribut-
ed to the Duke of York, The heir presumptive to the throne
might have been silent upon a’ measure o much of
exasperation on the one hand, and a bitter feeling on the other;
aud he might have been thus silent without obtaining any great
credit for decorumn or delicacy. * But, if decorum and delicacy
on this subject have been flung to the winds, and if the heir pre-
sumptive has been represented to us by an interested faction to
be a fiery partisan, no + from what motives, sacred Hea-
ven! what must be the disposition of the Catholic who could, at
such a moment, endeavour to weaken the n able residue of
Catholic strength, by dinging amongst us the materials of dis-
trust and discussion.
The speech attributed to the Duke of York has beea variously
reported. The reports differ extremely from each other, I (rust
they are all erroneous. too much respect for all that is
virtuous in the reigning family, and I bave too much ailection
for the principles of the British Constitution, not to hope that all
the reports of that speech are false. dn wrath they contain the
admixture of the greatest imaginable ubsu with the viles:
profanation of constitutional principle. ‘The construction put
upon the Coronation Oath is to the last degree absurd. So ab-
surd indeed, thatno inan in the House of ‘Co! ‘ommons, for exam-
ple, could assert that construction without being content to he
set dowa asadolt and a driveller, by every human being who
heard him. is a cruel absurdity as it relates to the royal fae
mily, because it latiributes to the late King George the Third re-
peated and multiplied perjurivs, It is, in another point of view,
actual high treason agaiust the present reigning s fiuwily because
it directly contradicts the round-wor' evolution which
prought that funily to the jorones That R Revolution was justified
by the apprehens e Second would enforce his
individual opinion upon religi iction to the natio-
nal belief. He There has beena
Jong favourite Whig toast in England, expressed in the form of a
prayer, in which 1 mast heartily concur: “ That the example of
one Revolution may, not only in our times, but for ever, prevent
the necessity of another.
ut to descend from matters a theory and abstract constitu-
tional reasoning, let us consider the conduct of the Duke of,
York merely in its practical results We have been already me-
naced by the over-vatiant Marquis of Anglesea and his flussars,
and we have been ordered from, high authority actually to des
re
a
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e dismal circumstances, the only sources of hope can
be found i iN FIRMNESS, TEMPERANCE, and usiox. Temperance,
‘e te sure, is a good thing at all times, but PERSEVERANCE,
MNESS, and UNANIMITY, are the genuine resources of all men
deserving to be free.
But, alas! the tocsin of dissension has been sounded; the
standard of discord: has been raised from a high place ; und it
as been officially announced in the government newspaper,
a division aud distraction are to visit our councils, and are to
be inseparable from our future proceedings.
This, fellow-countrymen, is an awful waruing. The object to
De attained is entrusted to a skilful hand, aad to long practice is
combined that species ef perverted and sophistical ingeunity,
which, while ft is capable of any thing in politics, grent or good,
is adtairably calculated to do “mischief, anid “entail permanent
evil on the Catholic cause.
The under-growl. of. poor Jack Lawless, and bis few and
foolish partisans, may be, as ithas been, a mere source of ridi-
cule and laughter, it might tease for a moment, but it could do
no permanent harm. . But Mr. Willian Bellew stands in avery
diferent situation. . Ie is connected iu the nearest ties of blood,
or of aGinity, with some of the first and highest families'iu Ca.
mischievous consequences to the liberties of the Catholics Btust
flow from his conduct.
Catholics of Ireland—Mr. V m Bellew deserves noue of ‘
your confidence, Since the. year 1 799, he’has receiv rmas
nent pay from every insulting and oppressive adiministration,
which, for the last 33 years, ruled und scourged unhappy [ree
land. He certainly has two, and, I firmly believe, three pen
sions.” The first he acquired in or about the year 1792, when a
party was formed in the Catholic body to assist the then admi-
istration in opposing any further concession of their just rights
}o the Catholics of Ireland.
liis second pension was obtained, as F-understand, by his ser-
vices in procuring a party of wealthy Catholics to accede to that
vilest aud worst measure that eyer afflicted wretched Ireland—
the Usiox. He was promised the place of Chairm: an of a Coun-
which he never exjoved, by asecond pension, which he badly
earnet
His last pension was obtained immediately after he had, at a -
meeting of the Cathelic board, held in the Stationer’s Hall, i iu
Capel-: stvect, taken the lead of @ part 0 endeavoured to in-
flict a vote of censure upon the Canolic Pree of Ireland, for
having opposed the Veto. Mr. V
sion, paid five guineas to have the He
used that privilege against the Catholic Pree of Ireland ; but,
although defeated by am najniy of , he did not throw
away his snoney. for it wpe “by Parliamentary
documents since published, * that, on the very day fortnight af.
sion, he got an addition to his pension of no less
vavnuin, making, I believe, altogether, pensions:
enjoyed by hin to the amount of £750 per annum,
Perhaps he may have a third pension, or, perhaps, as politi-
cal gratitude has been defined to be, “a lively sense of future
favours, he is ouly politically grateful to the Administration of
which Lord Liverpool is the dignificd head, and his Royal High. *
ness the Bishop of Osnaburgh the great glory; and which Ad- |
ministration may deem it at ouce inore prudent and more hus
mune to make use of pensions. or bribes to distract our councils,
and render hervcless b y division, our best resolves, than to
employ the keen swords and prancing steeds of Lord Anglesea’ 's
Hussars to cut us down, and then to trample us for falling’
Be that as it may, Mr. Wn. Bellew has once more ventured
forth. Me has published, in the Patriot, an opinion on Goul-‘
bura’s Catholic Association Act; and he, a Catholic, as he says,
and an Irisuman, as he certainly is, has had the (f would almost
call it) political impiety to speak respectfully of that Statute!!!
Respect for that Stanute!!! ! Never. We will obey it, Mr. Wil-
i We will uot infringe a‘let-
3 that is what we never will ;
we never can forget
and although we e may forgi sauth
the vile inilictioh, until we “obtain, st we shall soon ob-;
tain, by constitutional means, its total repeal. 1 trust we shall,
if unauimi rity reigus ainongst us, and peace and harmony guide
our teny and manly councils, connnce the people
of England, and the Parliament itself, as to allow that Statue. 2
‘to remain longer on the Statute-book, ould bea di: e toe
the Legislation of the Empi
There is, howev ver, one consolation.- The Statute is fortamate- >
ly most lame-and defective in its construction. By endenvour-
ing to attain too much, it has fallen short of its object, and with-
out infringing one single letter of its provisions, or bringing
ourselves witinn one gingle clause of its penal enactments, we
can form a link and chain of connection between all classes of
Irish Catholics, which must mitigate the horrors of our degrada-. °
tion, whilst we seck for Emancipation itself by other, but equally
legal and constitutional. means, sti}l left to us expressly by the
new pena al law
a the opinion itself, 5 some’ preliminary questions arise.
Whe was it that laid the case before Mr. Willian Bellew! Who
paid his fee?—and above all, who called « on him to publish an
epinton. hostile certainly, to Catholic right!
Leaving these questions unanswered, I proceed tothe opinion
itself—and Lhave the Blensure t to say that it proves bin to be
who emutter “,
‘ About ‘e Jol 3 aud miss vine matter.
He hes not touched the point respecting which the Committee, &
of 21 were appointed. He has only shown his inclination todo:
mischief, without ability, in this instance, to achieve i and
his publication lias acquired importance only because it plaioly.
ig the signal for disseusionamungst us—it is, F repeat, the toc.
sin for.domestic strife. Here comes forth the very Adas of dis-
sension, and his opinion is pothing more than a Geclaration of
war ina forensic for and fashio
Lwrite for two purposes. ane
against tary natiempt by. Mr.
among:
first is to caution the Catholics"
jam Beltew to raise a party
gt
Hie aiger est; bune tu Rom ave caveto.
My s second purpose is to explai Ldo not at once deve-
lope my plan. Alas, the Parliament i is still sitting want no
tholicireland. Many of them have, from various causes, much
confidence j in his legal shill. [thas heen said, and it is proba-
bly true, that he has good qualities in’ privete lite to attach his
cooucctions to Lim; but if these connections do wot distinetl;
and imncdiately. separate froin bids in political life, the most
rider on Goulgumn’ 6 Bill. It is enough to have (oulhurn dim.
self return to us, a8 of course he will, withont bis bringing over
another specimen of penal legistat .
“Th t the Purliauent 1 acs, the New Catholic Asso~
Jpiedge " Self sclemaly as a-
‘ation t will start into existence.