The National Register. — London, England, 1808-06-06 00:00:00

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Why base the foes of Catholic tmancipation so constantly eMployed, as one of their arguments, a tleclansatinn ou the disaffected spirit which they assert to be inherent in the Popish profession It is but too plain that discontent dues exist; and it is equally plain that this discontent should be allayed. Since attachment has been stilted in the bosoms of the Irish, it becomes uccussary that we eudeavour to conciliate them by hope. But the opposers of their Claims ,emiteud, that their discontent is unreasonable, and would not he stilled by the measures proposed, Laresionable, the discontent of freemen deprived of the rights freedom ! rnreason, able, the discontent of brothers defrauded of the heritage of nature if these be unreasonable discontents, then where is the reasonableness of the boasts that the happier mem bers .of the community are so constantly uttering about their own invaluable freedom, and their own unrivalled constitution ? But it is said that the concession of the immunities now solicited would not allay these discontents, If indeed the want of these immunities be not a reasonable . cause for discontent, the cunceision of these immunities will not perhaps be an adequate cure for discontent but we think that we can easily prove the alleged causes of uneasiness to be fully adequate to the eflects that we see in some mode or other existing among the Irish Catholics, There are people who say, " Oh, it is impossible that the " poor people, the peasants, and the mechanics, should : " expose themselves to the dangers of rebellion, merely for " the sake of procuring to two or three hundred rich men. , 46 the chance of seats in Parliament, pr of certain high " offices in the civil and military departments, And then "so few persons at any rate would be able to gain " these great offices, that the dillerence would never be " sensibly discerned even by the higher orders of people." It must. be observed that most of the prohibited offices are offices of high dignity. The people of consequence who would aspire to these offices have a weight which makes their mortifications become a matter of genes cal interest in. society I their relatives, their frieeds, their tenants, their dependents, down to the lowest ranks of the state, are influenced by the temper of their chief, arid moved • perhaps more violently than himself, inasnonch as their • understandings are leas vated. They, have a pride in- the dignity of their leader they have a. mortification in his discredit ; the cause of the chief is the cause of the party : and that power which is felt to operate upon the great, operates downward, even to the remotest individual who stands linked in the *Wee of society. The stone that fal!s upon tho water, not only makes a ring round thit little spot where it drops, bat ex, tends the undulation of the surface in a hundred eiretcs l one beyond another, each wider than Ow which have preceded it. But the middling classes of society fbel the orera'.'on pf the existing disabilities, pot merely thrQush in diem yrne NUMBER TW ENVY-TIBREE. ON TUE CATHOLIC . pvamos, AND ITS" It If:Ct.:VTR/N. ( Continued from oar last. ) • :!. g Whenever the rulers of tliis nation have occasion to detnand•upon the people, it is their custom to ex- British tinipre is placed in a situation of peril, and that it ,behoves all classes of men ifices for the defence of their country. But which we live, be indeed times of difficulty ich we are sorry to confess is the case, does necessary for the Government to take all means of surmounting its difficulties, and ob vers, of increasing rather than diminishing .rength, and conciliating rather than disgust of the people at large ? Yet at this period of calamity, Great Britain is content to de natural rights, four millions of men, the of her islands, the subjects of her Govern. io might be an army fighting her battle's, is exasperating to ho an army arrayed „istence. The old watch-word still rings in Britain must exert herself to weather the how does Britain make her exertions ? entering to swim on this tempestuous ocean with Abs bound uselessly to her side. Her Roman iubjects, a fifth of her whole population, are ex. common interests of Britons. And why ? o ;. but because, three hundred years ago, councils have passed ecclesiastical decrees, the spirit of the mode of worship now esta- Britain. owe persons who admit the value of the such a population may afford, but who ex. population will Ann.(' its ass:stance without vo or subsequent reward. These are not the Jman nature, \o man wilt serve another, attachment in the first instance, or from the Inpence after the service is performed. The neither attachment nor hope to engage service, So far from entertaining attachment been long nourishi;ig di s c o ntents of a ver y descriptiou discontents which it is the imperious Government to allay. This is an argument terrifies the antagonilps of Catholic Emancipft , seek consolatiou from tlwir fears in argu means consistent . with each; other. Sometimes any great discontent does exist among the ilick pf Ireland in general. But if no great , exist among the Roman Catholics of Ire- Ol t why have rel.plions deluged that unfortu for twelve years vast with the blood of her Foi l ft • • ..~-- _ _J • • tt , s) '~ a make a dem and•ul claim, that the unprecedented per to make sacrifice' if the times in wit and danger, whirl it not become nem the possible mean •iating its danger its natural strengt ing the minds of tl acknowledged cal price of their nal natives of one of menu—•men who m but whom she is aga►nst her exist( our ears, 64 Brits 6t storm." And I Why by senturinp one of her limbs h Catholic subjects, eluded from the co fpr a crime Boman Catholic cm repugnant to the blished in Groat H There arc sum assistance that suc pect that this pop previous ►gotive 01 principles of hum unless from sated hope of recpmpen, Irish have now n them in our servic to us; they have bl alarming clocripti4 ditty of our • Gofei that always territi tinn c and they se, ;neat! by lig mean they deny that an Homan filtholicm d►scontent does etm lead in general l w nate country for t No. XX//I. Fa '