The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-03-06 00:00:00

idles:led upon the state of teat 1 o orry, maid come te co other conclueion, than that the great evils were prodoo d. by the ienorance—the deplorable ignotaere, in which the people were kept by the Priests—the Jesuits, an I the other appendages to a system which in his (Sir T. Lee) opinion, was contrary to the spirit of the British Consti tution. Menwoulal'he found them who with toleration in their mouths, took all poisible pains to exclude the admissiou of truth or knowledge to the whole of the pen ile. 'file Hon. Baronet then referred to a pamphlet pub lished by some persons...ailed Steer or Steele, or some web name, as conclusive on this pine Amongst other notable instances, the anther mentioned the circumstance of a Popish Bishop coming one evil day into a parish school, I and abirolately whipping the boys lest they ghould learn tto much. Mow-some more arguments against Jesuitry and Po y, he plot (Tile Ito say that whether he shou ld , take'an ulterior steps upon the petition, was a matter upes w Ida he had not vet made tip his mind. He hoped, however, no objection would be made to the printing of the petition, for the petitioner declared be was ready to seibetandate his statements, either at the bar of the h me, or before a Select Committee. The Honourable Baronet concluded Ly moving that the petition be brought up. Mr. HUTCHINSON said, the pointed appeal which had been wade to him respecting the character of this petitioner, would be a sufficient justification of his indi elduelly rising to address the House, if a more paramount eritke et' duty, as a Aletelor of Parliament, did not sti- Inelete him to state what hie opinions were upon the sub ject matter of this petition. To the first he addressed himself shortly, but upon the second, namely, the con tents of ibis petition, which had been deliberately, and after a formal notice given, to enhance its importance, this brought forward, he must be excused for speaking hie sentiments a little more at length. Mr- Parker, the petitioder, was not unknown to Lino His knowledge of him was not extensive. bill he had a pleasure in saying that, in all the qualifir ;Worts of a worthy member of to. iesy, in the several re.atiuns of husband, fob sr, and friend, it did not exceed hie respect for his character. — I must be understood, however, as saving this unconuect- ed with, er approving of the light in which the petition -1 er hid thought proper to percent to the house. He be-' keyed Mr Parker to be an aggrieved individual. He be lieved him when he said, that r•' his misfortunes pro- ceedel from his placing frith in the promises of Govern- client and of tide house. He knew that he left this coun try, with a number of followers: for the Cape or Hood Hope, with hopes that had never been realized. and trust ing to pledges that {mil rot been redeemed. But he rr I gretted•that Mr: Parker had had the weakness to mix , up his private claim., well founded as they were, with questions, the connection with which must neutralise their effect, and expose himself and his .cause to ridi- 1 cute, - When he first waited neon him, (Air. H.; he com plained that the Coloni sl Secretary, Colonel Bird, had shown some personal lesstility to him. lie had then no knowledge of this gentleman, but from the information which I.e had since steer iced, he did not think him capa ble of acting 'rem the motives wtsich were ascribed to him. t'olonel Bird, he found, had been in the office of the Conemander-in-Ultief, where his efficiency was such, that he Was reeemniended to an employment at the Cape of Good:Hope, Ind Ire had since been matte Colonial Se cretary. It was mistrial' recommendation of his princi ples to ray; thiel C owed bisfirst elevation .o the friendship of .111 r.•• Wyndham. But, Sir, said the Honourable Member,• the gravamen of this petition is, that it ascribes to the Jesstite all the miseries and ail the die orders which have afflicted unfortunate lrel end for ages. This is assuming, as did a petition presented the other night by the hon. Member for Armagh (Ale. Brownlow), that an establishment of that Order at this moment ex ists in that country. I deny it-1 deny that such an ea:atattshnossit does exist; and I protest against the sub terfUge, the pitiful erasion of ascribing the real griev antee•and miseries of a people subjected for ages to an rendered- illorestmant arstrpersecutien, and still groin lag under the effeettrial indrule, to the visionary intlu enee of any eerier of teen.—(ilear ) Nothing could be wore inanlting to a whole people—more cruel, than thus to give the go-bye to their complaints. He (Mr. H.) bad more tb know that the miseries of Ireland were ascriba ble to other and deeper causes than the influence of Priest's or Jesuits. It was a mockery of their sufferings thus to trifle with them. But if an es'abgeltment of Je eoitseekisted in Ireland, where was it ? - (Hear.) Why not name the place where it was situated, or the consti tulon by which it was governed ? It was somewhere above ground, it did not exist In the bowels of the putts. • Ask the Hon. Baronet where it was—he did not know; the honourable member fur Armagh could not OR histfing.o upon it. All he (Mr. H.) could say was, tit if Inch an establishment did exist, it sets not sanc trona as an establishment by the See of Rome. In 142Pentren are application was made to the Pope, his lioliere replied to Dr. Poynter, thet he would not restore the Jisuist In the British Dominions!, as the feelings of the Government were knOwn to be hostile to them.— They had been previously restored in Russia. upon the Opplicatisin of the Emperor; and in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies.- They had alto been restored in other places,' with the sanction of the Pape; but in the United 'Kingdom that sanction was withheld, fur the reasons lie bad stater'. The only authority, as far as be knew, for the existence of Jesuits in Ireland, was a pa ragraph in some nawspeper, which stated, that an esta blishMent of the order was set up at Clongowes-wood, in the county of Kildare. But was it upon that establish- Ment that the Hon. Baronet meant to fix the cha r seter •of ° ignorant and intriguing?' There certainly rat a seminary at Clongowes-wood, under the direc tion of a gentleman of the name of Kenny—a men ail' the roost unblemished character and a profound claseic j el scholar, who had received Isis education abroad, lust whether to be a Jesuit or nut, he (fir. ii.) could nut Fay. This seminary had been now for some time flourishing, and the benefits derived from the 'existence of such en istabliehment in such hands, were already extensively felt throughout Ireland. Insmad of its being the sour. e from which disaffection was sprees' &brow!, this seminary hall conferred the most essential benefits of e location upon the youth of Ireland, and se 'Oral gentlemen had moored the University of Dublin felon it with great credit to themselves. And so far , from its proceediege bri n g concealed, the establishment I was 'open to the inspection of all the neighbauring Ma ' gietrates and Gentlemen. It had been visited by the Duke of Leinster. The Noble Lord, his brother, a Afres h''r of this house, Lord Cloucurry, and several others. It lied been approved of for its system of education by men of the highest rank in letters • and rat the last remains dens too of the Fellows of Dublin College expressed their approbation of the manner in which the young gen tlemen acquitted themselves. Them gentlemen, sew, it should be recollected, were members of a Protestant University, congratulated the country upon prosesoines such a sernirary. lilted slim been productive of 01 7 - best effects upon thee - habits of the people iii its i mi n e .. diate vicinity. - The improvement which had taken place In the moral and religions habits orthe people of Cion stovers Wood was• already striking, because the people hal before beet? remarkable fir a spirit of insubordius ti oi. Yet this was an establishment to which the pe i tioner dared to attribute the present disorder's of Ireland. =site (Mr. H,) was not aware the , the Jesuits hid stay ourtnection with the South of Delantt.—he wished they bed. ' He wished to see the extension of each establish :Anent+, as he was sure an amelioration of the condition of Abe people wadi be the consequence. - The Hoia. Bono ' bit had feid that this suject was • command with an lenportant qnestion which was shortly. to be bcought.be bre the house. As it related to that question, he (Mr. i rTfIE. STATESMAN 4.. ._ H.), rtjoiced that It was now - brought forward.— it was welt. that the hoase anti this country should see the means by which the inisncipation of Roman Catho lics was to be impeded, and of what description its oppo nents were. They would seed's% when every argument bottomed in reason was taken away, the adversaries of the measure would continue to keep five millions and a half in slavery, upon pretences visionary and unfounded. —(Hear). It was of moment to lay (wen the whole sys tem, its trickery, meanness, and had feeling, and to ex pose it to the people of this country, who were still in great ignorance of the real condition of the question.—. (Hear, hear). He repeated that there was still in this house,. and in the country, the greatest ignorance w ith regard to the real state of Ireland. ' He regretted that Gentleman ' so respectable as the Hon. Baronet and the Hon. Mem ber for Armagh, could be brought to lend themselves unwittingly to measures of this sort. The house had been too - long blinded, gulled, and deceived upon this subject. For these reasons he rejoiced that this petition hod been presented, as it tended to show the temper of the opponents of the Catholics. But at the same denied the truth of its allegations, for if such an establishment as the Jesuits exis!ed in Ireland, it was for the instruction of youth, and could not produce any had effects. l'r. Murray, the coadjutor Bishop of Dublin, haring b-en alluded to. he (Mr. H) could only say that he knew him to be a Prelate of the most exemplary piety and excellent eh tracter. The Hon. Member concluded by expressing a hope that the qnestion of Catholic Eman cipation would be more taken up by Englishmen, for Ireland was so torn by factions. and its people so enve nomed against each Are, that they were quite incapable of forming a temperate judgment upon a matter which appealed so immediately to their feelings—(Hear). Mr. WILMOT did not rise to oppose this petition, but to protest against the discussion which had taken place upon it. Of all the irrelevant discussions which he had ever heard, they appeared to him the moat irrele vant. For what was the state of the case? A petition was presented from a Mr. Parker, who complained of cer tain misfortunes which he bad met with at the Cape of Good Hope. These lie ascribed to the hostility of the Colonial Secretary, Colonel Bird, who, it happened , was a Jesuit. So far all was fair; but how the petitioner, or the lion. Baronet, or any one else, could draw from these premises a conclusion that the Jesuits were the causes Jf all the disorders in Ireland, was to him (Mr. Wilmot) a strange problem. It ti as certainly very unjesuistical rea soning, for the allegation and the conclusion seemed to have no connution at all wi It each other.—((dear.) If the claim upon Government had been stated by itself, an answer might be given to it; hut the petitioner could not expect to forward his cause much by mixing it up with irrelevant matter. The Hon. Baronet was not n arer to getting the documents, though be toiled from night till morning in arguing that the Jesuists were the cause of the disorders in Ireland This petition was an other proof of the petitioner's prolixity, for he had al ready teazed the Colonial Department by long letters in the same strain. The Colonial Department were not called upon to reply to such appeals. As to the Hon. Baronet, his reasoning as to the Jesuists in Ireland was the greatest " non sequitur" lie (Mr. W.) had known since the dayi of Partridge.—(A laugh.) If he had con fiaed himself to the case of Colonel Bird, he would have got an answer ; but when he stated that the rest in wheat was raised by the Jesuists, the Government could say nothing. One fact, however, was clear, that when the Hon. Baronet found so muc h time to apply himself to Colonel Bird and the Jesuists, his. ideas of agricultural distress were not of so melancholy a case as he would have people to supposv.—(Laughing.) Mr. HOIDIOUSE ridiculed the idea of ascribing the disorders of Ireland to the Jesuists. Mr. HUM E regretted, for his sake, that the peti tioner had mixed up hie case with the ether considera tion'. Ile had reason to know that Mr. Parker had really a claim upon Government. The idea of imputing the troubles in Ireland to Jesuits was ridiculous enough. If such persons as aesnists existed, he challeneed any hoe. member to say where they did exist. He had been in formed that there was not the name of a decent man at tached to the petition against the Jesuit., which Ives pre sented by the hon. member for Armagh. Mr. IIIiOWNLOW said it was supposed an establish ment of J. suits exis'ed somewhere in the county of Kil dare. Ile insintained that the subscribers to the petition were persons engaged in the linen trade. . Mr. MAURICE FITZGERALD and Sir HENRY PARNELL spoke against the absurdity of attributing to the Jesui a tire present disturbances in Ireland. The petition was then laid upon the table and ordered to be printed. • . ORANGE SOCIETIES IN IRELAND. Mr. ABERCROMBY rose, and said that before he en tered upon the subject, of which he had given notice, be felt it necessary to advert to what passed on a former night, with respect to this motion. An Hon. Gentleman had apprized the house, in the usual manner, of his in tention to submit to their consideration the recent pro ceedings of the Government of Ireland against persons charged with insulting the Lord Lieutenant. The Hoh. Gentleman he understood meant only to arraign those proceedings, as an unconstitutional and indiscreet exer-' rise of power. Now, it would be obvious to all, that the question thus iu'ended to be submitted to the house was one of temporary and limited interest. The question which he ventured to submit to the house, was one of a different character. It involved many . and deep considera tions—extensive in its objects -and aiming at the dissolus tion of a system which was founded upon an exclusive principle. The two questions were therfore very dis tinct, and it was with surprise he heard the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Plunkett) call on him to postpone the consideration of the subject. He, upon a hasty view of the case, declined to comply with the Right lion. Gen tleman's solicitatiottet, and now upon a deliberate view of that decision, he declared his satisfaction at the part he acted. He wished therefore to be understood as avoid ing all discussion on the conduct of the Marquis Welles ley's Goveramettt. When the question arrived which would give the opportunity fur discussing that subject, he would not be backward in the free declaration of his sentiments. Neither did he intend that the present dis cussion slionld at all engage the consideration of what MO commonly collet! the Catholic Question. He promi sed to offer no propositions to the house that night, in which the mist determin tel opposer of further conces sion to the Catholic body might not as consistently con cur as their warmest advocate. He would rest his motion on general grounds, which would claim equal support from both descriptions of persons. lie was informed that the notice ut this motion caused great agitation.— Ile mould admit that it hod created an extraordinary sen sation amongst those who wished to encoutage Oran to Societi• lint the house should also remember, on the other hto 1, that guest alarm and jealousy of this body existed iu the min Ic of an i ittuense p trtion of his Ma-, jesry s subjects. Coll.! he then select a subject which it more bscame the dusty of Parliament to consider and thoroughly investigate, than that with respect to which the people of the empire were divided, and on which each party f. It so intensely ? If it could be shown that the Orsnge system contributed to the wel fare of the State, anti that its maintenance. were essenti al to the peace and good order of the community, then would he say, " let truth prevail, and let the Government openly and avowedly protect and encourage it." But if it nas found that this system ten led to perpetuate discord t ' to irritate the feelings of a sensitive people, then would . he say again, "let truth prevail, and let this system he absolutely put down." lie was anxious that the matter . should be thoroughly and temperately discussed. He did , put wish to conceal his opiniin from the house, that much henefit would be derived from the socceas of his motion by the'Catholici; but he most also remind the house that great advantsee woeltl he defierd by the Protestants --(Hear.) But above the feelings of either one party cr the other, i e reaper teal the ascendancy of the Ceti ditn tion and the known laws of the re alm.—(Bear.) It wes because be was confident that the morcessity of giving the whole people the undividel benefits of the known law and Constitution was universally recognised, that lie was encourneed to submit the precut motion to the house. In what he was about to state, hr would not impute m,- lives to any individoals, or asperse any collective tiody,or even those eng aeed in these Soctedes. It was the system he attacked. The system he held to be vicious; It was productive of great evils—it was unconstitutional and he believed he was sanctioned by very high authority in' saying that it can in many respects illegal. He thought it a great misfortune for Ireland, that such a system should ever have been established. It was a great mis fortune even for those Protestants who were induced to engage in it, for they most see that, from its very na ture, it was a system that aimed at the overthrow of Constitutional Government, by setting up a power to controul the Administration of that Government, and held out a series of alarming events, as the result of its continuance, that called equally upon Protestant as upon Catholic—upon Englishmen . as upon Irishmen, to op pose it. Having stated thus much generally upon the subject of his motion, be would come more particularly to the consideration of the details. lie proposed to enter into an examination of the origin, nature, and character of the Orange system. In order to qualify himself to do iles he found it necessary to open the history of Ireland front the period of the recall of Lord Pitzwilliain to the Onion witb Great Britain —eta in terval in the I triunes of that unhappy country which no man possessing feelings of his nature could real without the deep tst sorrow fur the sufferings of the fortunate pee ' ple. ?so where did he see that the perpetrators of the most barbarous atrocitiee were brought to punishment. I f any person woad consi ler the circumstances of the r, call of 'Lord Fitzwillimi (lie begged now to say, that he did not enter into the question whether that wan a politic act or not,) if any person would bit consider the events of that time he must see,in the combine 1 operation of the appoint ' went and recall of that Nohlentan, exhibited in the deep colours of truth, the force rf this tnaxim, that the worst system which a tiovernineut could pursue was one of ve- W 110 was there who would deny this, that cen sidered howl/Well the hopes done p 'try and the fears of another were excited by appointment ? the one morally l expecting the return of a more gracious Adminietratiore the other apprehending the loss of power. How great was the disappointment and mortifieation of the people at the recall of that bird Lieutenant. In a country divided and agitated as Ireland Mae, the people were kept balanc ing bete een the alteration of hope end fear. The party whose fears had been excited by the appointment of Lord Fitzwilliantobtaine I the victory, and lie feared that it was too true of them, as it was of all Governments placed in similar circumstances, their triumph was recorded in the increased severity of their rule. He would not cuter in , to the history of the rebellion that afterwards succeeded: But it was iteceseary to allude to the scenes which at the commencement of that scene of blood tuuk glaze in I the county of A rueigh. The county of Aritiaeh was di vided into two classes—the Defenders, who were Uetho 'lies, and the Peepef-day bays, who were Protestant. The latter formed a great maturity, and maintained a severe ascendancy. They carried on a war against the Defenders, which was characterised by acts of lawless outrage. They were at once prosecutors, jurors, judges, and executioners. They carried on a fierce per secution against the opposite party. They expelled, from time to time, unprotected persons who were ob noxious to them, to an amount whick, though stated, for the credit of the most moderate writers, he woul I be afreie to repeat, lest it should bear the appearance of exaggeration. Judgment followed trial, and execution followed judgment e jib the utmost rapidity. To show to the house that he was not exceeding the bounds of truth, he woold quote authority for the statement lie had made. At a general meeting which „as held in De cemlier,l79s, bard Gosford made a statement, in which lie described the outrages which %ere ittflicted on the Roman Catholic population of that county. One of the Resolutions stated, that the county was in a state of alarming disturbance, and that the Ronaan Catholics were attacked in their persons and properties in a most wanton and cruel manner. Such was the description of those picieredings given by those best ateptainted with the circumstances of the country. By reterting to the history of Ireland, it would be found that in the autumn of that year, an action was fought at a village called Dimond, and front that time it appeared that those bodice assumed the title of Orangemen. lie thought that they hail no right to take that name; these were the origin of the body, and what act of theirs was it that justified the assumption of such a name? . He deeply regretted that persons avowing such principles should have chosen to pass under such a denomination, because when the home considered the influence of names, it was reasonable te in fer that a title deserving to be connected with higher sentiments and better principles should not be associatee with hostility, divisions, and discord. lie held in his band the resolutions of an Orange Association, drawn up in 1800, and also those put forward by an Association in Dublin, on the part of the general body, in 1820. The general nature and object of the Institution were stated in detail in the declaration put forth by this body. 'flue members of the Association were divided into so many districts and lodges. There was the Grand Master, the Deputy Grand Maori., &c. They held different sorts of M clings, the principal and controlling one being that of the Grand Lodge at Dublin. The Declaration of the Grand Committee in Dublin, put forth in 1820, stated that they were assembled to review the state of the Orange Institution, and purify it from certain abuses. Whet these abuses were, the house would see from one of their resolutions. it set forth that the Committee had observed much evil to arise from the indiscretion of certain of their brethren, and from the existence of a great variety of modes of admissioe, some of them inconsistent with the other, and in many instances call ing on the candidate to acknowledge sentiments elect' were repugnant to the religious feelings of their country men and to decency. The Committee, therefore, pro ceeded to frame a form of admission " proper" as they said, " to be taken by a man about to dedicate himself, by a voluntary obligation, to the discharge of the duties of a loyal Protestant ," So that the house would see that the abuses which the Committee felt it necessary to correct, were those which had been introduced by time indiscre tion of some of their brethren, and those which were em bodied in the ceremoities of admission. 'limy stated that they felt it necessity so to frame their declaration as to render it efficacious In checking the overzeal of indiscreet persons. They subjoined an exposition of their principles an 1 their resolutions to celebrate the vie ory of the Boyne every year in J.ly. He then ad verted to the proceedings of• the Orange Committee of ISO 9 ; they set out with declaring that it was contrary to their principles to prosecute or upbraid any man for his religions faith, and instead of oppressing, they held it to he their duty to beds% arid support all 'Geed subjt ens whenever they were railed upon so to do by the necessi ties and circumstances of their ease. Now, he begge to say, that he fully concurred in sentiment with the &mews of this passage. It was a sentence in which every lute ought to jivin.—(Retie.) But the most mate rial part of the proceedings ass time oath subjoined to the Form of Admission. It went on—" I, A. 8., do swear, that 1 will hear true allegiance to his Majesty King George IV., and his lawful successors ; that I sill maintain the successin in the same being Protestant." The words " Protestant ascendancy" were those welch had been snhetituted. It was argued that the im p pit es e . the two expressions was the saute ; bet he beg ged to state that in the fentilier acceptation of the words " Pre testant ascendency," meant a very different thing. Before the. veer 1762 a piety been ilistinenietied by the title " the Friends to the English interest." After the events ofletie this title carried adifferent Inc ming, and it tv SS changed to the expression " the film's of the ant arwetelance." He [legged to state that he had not the least teeeeticei to the words " b-ing Protestant," in th e form of oath. Tl.ere was apeenliar elm•mio those words— they reveled the everds of the great Revolution—thee raised op recolleetions of elorimis and successful stru - - glee for freedom. Never shoull they with his consent be expunged from the statute hook.—(hear.) The o ith proeeeded. The candidate means he sees never a Bomar, Catholic, nor a United Irishman, and that la • nil! be ready to assist the authorities, Hut the most imeorat : t e ; part was what followed : and Ido most tot emnie swear, in the presenceof Auetteeev lion , that I will notilisclus; either in part or in the a !tele, what I am now gouts meet-eels , to heart that I will conceal it front all except a brother Orangeman, whom I seat! know to be such byth i tires usual marks; that I neither ivill e rite it nor indite it, tir cause it to be wiitten or spoken, eve. So help me Gem, and so keep mac steeliest to this my Orangeman'soeli z ..- Gone." The house must be wrack with teat important p ss tee in this form of oath, by which it appeared th a t pe the :e r n e n w i as nit s ie ri t t e te d t , hi u ntt , o h be privately teas privat b e o ly un c r solemnly never vlat'!dto i disclose; was there not ground of strong suslecion in this circumstance? Was it too uncharit Able to suppose that in a society selfesonetituted its this was—that where there was this provision f r concealment, theme must he stone.- thing in the procestleiga which it tees tweese try sewed he kept in the dark ?—(llear.) It was impassible for him to sly what was the nature of this ttedeseets el ea: tof proceedings. All he should 84y at this mommt, wee teference to it was, that the House of Co:onions cold not glance with an eye of indifferenee a. melt an that they should be wholly free from jealousy of such societies. lie could not understarel why it Was LetnStart to frame such an obligation, tulles: three was so m e. thing in their principles wed to be revieeed the Moose would ohsei ve tol, that this mysteritois eueject wt.t sacredlyas protected from the lino tici,eof the Kin g ': Government, as from any intlivitltial in the ri shin —from sit except the Orangemen. -(Hear.) I lthere were respect .his and weleintentline individuals connected pith Groot se - cietiee, lie could only lament that they sheltie be pl wee, through their own kink, in st cm!) are:sing a slate at' relation unit the Government. Ile luegge , l to mall 1„. attention of the Hon Tto several artim suejoined to tl e declaration of the Grand Committee in leetl. Ity of them it aepeeredl that the Ilea:beet of t e e s were bound not to carry /ma) any thine in the cometrot thee: duties from any person, but arias and a iinsueitior, except from an ecemny ? eetio gas this emelt y? If a private enemy then was every ..etrigeinee's it•si retion set up its ;§intier between those who we. e enemies It a public etettny where was he to be foetid? Ilere opportunities for the working of hod pae;ions were thee opened, which must, as they hal in tee twiny inst meets. been. distinguiseed by the errs *llse next lute insured to the leads of the assotietion euelt Morin:tient about the members respectively, as were necessary to ru-ible therm within a given terve to eolleet th ee; te . tether on acv etuergeney. Every member was to return toe necessary account of himself, an I in case he did not cemply with the regulations, he was to he lined by tee Mister of the Lodge. The beet veenettem reel the Ito the seeresy to he observed b •i•V•CiI tee Peeplemen (which is e superior designation in the Sovi,ty) en i the Granter men. tteitit!wions followed, by which the principal melt- hers of the Asancietiens were put in peeeession of suet circumstances relating to the other ni-niltsrs respectively, as lee to the most minute controul over their vosdnet.— The niiNt regulations embraced the tie--eetary ineasitres for introducing the system into regiments. f heie tore then teethrr tegulatioee for the meeting of the lirendee Lodge twice a year. Here tl ri was the natare of tee Soriety to which he tweeted to call the attention of the. hi mac. The house would find, that very soon after it establishment they became an important an I formidable body. They began to adopt a language and a tone as it they were administering the Goverament of the kingdom._ In )797, nearly too years alter their establishment, proclamation was issued, signed by Edward Bell, J. C. Beresford, and two more, on behalf of themselves and their Orange brethren, addressed to the people of It etaad. In this decl tretion they disavowed in the most unequivo cal manner tee imputation of ntolerance, persecution end of hatred for relig . ous differences. The declaration was lionoutaele to them—he tooted It t ) their honour—het he quoted it alto to furnish proof of the fact that the Orangetneu found themselves so oppressed by the op position of public feeling to their principles, that they. Meisel it necessary to do all in their power to dissoci ate the principles of persecution from Orengeiene Who• could wonder at their anxiety- to proutulgete a more me deratedefiuitiin of their principles and °ejects. seeing that the name of Orangeisns was with good reason 4eeor f ated in the minds of the people with the most sang 'Mary atrocifes ? But as if at once to leave all doubt wet of - the qnestion, as to the. impoicy of such societies, tee Proclamation embraced an oath, in which those who subscribed it, obliged themselves to maintain the King and Constitution against all his eneitiiea—aliee him, who was a rebel to his King or a rebel to his Goo. Ahd who constituted the Orengeaten into a tri- Minal to decide between any matt and his Cnee - roa ? (11ear.)Siipposte the caseof an Atheist—cont.,' he he a rebel to a Power which he did not believe to exit. Was it possible that proceedings like this coul Ibe bel I consistent with the peace or safety of any country?— Having stated thus much on the vonstitmion of these so cieties, he hoped the house w°.ll now at lalge Itine,while lie stated the consequencesavhich in Gel tnd were the nt ceseary result of societies so constituted. Ireland was divided into two parties,the Protestant pry au - I tee Ca tholic party. The Protestant party were in possession a exclusive power, ani of a Church establishment munifi cently supported!, while the Catholic party lied nu powee, no Church establishment. The Catholic pi ieets erre en tirely dependent for support on the lama y of thcee of their own Communion, A large portion of the landed property was in possession of Protestantso great number of whom were absentees. In that country there was want ing that most important link of society, a wea lthy, in fa pendent, and opulent middling cla-s. This was really a melancholy picture of the situation of !reknit, hut it was a true and faithful one. It was a fact, that the Protestants, who were the smallest portion of the people, were pos sessed of a large Church Esteblislinteett and considerable power, while tiw larger portion, hieing of a different reli gion, had neither one or the other. He would now observe that when a Government professing to direct and controul the affairs of Ireland, attempted to itttrodstce the princi ples of liberty and a fair and impartial admininistriaeon of the laws, and give a facility to the disseiniuetion of he ow• ledge, the attempt would produce such a state of things as would require great wiedotn, temper, and moderation on the part of the Government. To remove the rails which that state of things might Cr. ate, there should be amongst the higher orders also an example of forliearld!re. iaoilciation, and wisdom. But 0.-erge Seltietice been;( a l : t d t i l o a n n n i g e w e d h r dangerous a they e c h arac t e r, e pr i n ci ple ieted. o a i nd e :r e f e l i e u n s o pe i v o twl r ltFeZ u tro i e l p i d i e e i t f i l i f i c:u ' ;: ir i t b l i - : of admis-ion to any society on an upright moral cheractste en a loyalty which Was engrafted on an ardent and sincere attachtMent to the Constitution, ontr,lii be not be admitted a member . of'it, if •it were established for any useful purpose But in the Orange Societies, though a !PO •persol' IVIIS