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T,II. C.FIROLIC CAUSE.

degree, that it produced a gerwial disporiliun fit 71,07, net
IV withhold their Petitions to Parliament any longer.
loam Catholic Peers, Bishops, aid (;.mtlerrieu, undertook,
at the inetaitre or the Irish Government, to stop the progress
lof the intended Petit' to Parliament. I ventured to re-
asonetrate with the different perauniconcermiel in this sptcu-
latitio on the futility of their expeetatiouts. 1 orouuded my
Ciordstreet, Dublin, October 20, 1618. I opioiou tin the invaluable informatiun of the trader* and
My Brett Sew-1 have to amdengite fur any lad lowly i shopkeepers resorting to Dublin. As 1 was the only Cach0,,,;,,,'
,,,;,,,' lie sowing the many that approached the prim-ilea! Members
hot I was unwilling to delay, fur a moment, the
of the Irish Alloonistratiou that ventured to state the whole
oaten on:cation alf my sincere congiatulatione, on heroine
caa tha fkillifill and patriotic Member for Coedits:yr hail troth, 1 was nut attended to till it was too late! ! ! By an
1,. ,-, pie twitted with a gold cop, as • token of esteem and f appeal and a due attention to the feelings and exprelationit of
nole froml .. modoallached coosttitemos-an evert the Catholic Rudy, without any go.lietereene the Govern-
e ...iv hannerelt, to the elector'. mud elected. meat ',dike people, enutidence naught have been restored,
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~.•..w, meet p.c.. oldie. for the in. and coorimineist compliance secured. However dionified and
, ~,citeui .1 is o .1. mai y fiends, in a ski I. li which I respectable the usiderialrets en this 'occasion most undoubt-
la..l it dillirsi!i 1., Collll/114,4 a a letter; I shall, of course, edly wets, and zealot's to meet the wishes of the Govern-
,,,• ohlged to recapitulate what you have already braid from meal, they totally failed in their anticipated influence.
~,,. ot detail in homer letters and conversation's. The - The apprehended desenssion a the Catholic Petitions, and
• . ••.0 atom 1 commit to your discretion. The vast import- it. pressure on the mind of the King, was the ostensible
0. ,e of the Catheter. Question, with the incalculable come- cause assigned fur the general change of Admiaistralioti,
a,. 'sees it most have on the empire at large, demands the with an avowed hostility to the Catholic Cause, which loss
.'must precaution 4la a subject, the real state of which is since proved so fatal to the success of our •evei-al Petitione.
;.,uterus so hole understood or attended toe •••. It Thus if in the cominentement of my Secretaryship I
...uld ,',quire the most intimate knowledge of the Mirka. maintained the superiorly of diadimination and judgment,
. ,es and eßrions emoradictury statements this percale the in opposition to the Peers, Bishops, and Gentlensea who haul
actfoent histories of Ireland, at various periods, to form DO coulidently undertaken (what they failed its seeoMplleh_
an adriprete opinion of the valise that Armlet Ire attached to int) to influence the conduct of the Catholics of Irelaisd,
i•..- respective authoritative sesetratices that hare been corn- surely by the must assiduone attention iii the discharge of
mon:rated to the Catholics of Ireland by public functionaries the of
nf my office, Ii coedit not fitil to increase she ge •
rir titmice, %loch have been violated • • • • • •• nerd cm.fi.leorts reposed ts coedit n consequently I became
A stool example of this ileep.rooted conviction ermined at entitled to additional public credit.
t!,e period of the Leoislative Union brtwees Crest Britain I claim she greater Inert: for my Lavine declared the same
so .1 trebled !!! On this occasion the greater pert of the Ca- sentimenta I norw du so ear back as 18.03, on the autfortimate
....Also of 101n...1, toloyea up by the expectation of Doan- Intrudurtiun of the 0 reit," Otto Parliament, being at the
~guidon, to cam.- the slurs of their passive obedience. tone p.m''ol at the diaaossetoti oilier Catholic Pet stiou to thu
• • • • • • Punic faith never eras snore proverbial Hints, of Commons. I VIM appeal with confitience to the
..moue the limonite than Faeatieh faith is with the hist' peso Eucli-d. Oiraos A teroolos, then in laindou, as well as to all
I, eoonce to. ,ilY7l‘ioo ofthe Enettas in Ireland in Ow twelfth unr Parliamentary Frictiets that I met at that time, whether
r .iitufa. llii• innate conviction is demplo fool is. the Irish I slid not foretell Ow bowie and demo, the intelligence .
laeonegs. I.y the word " SASANAGO " Since the Reform:l. would proslnce on Oct Olinda uf the Catholics sit (rebind, as
tarn. and Emirs trent frerSefUtissis of the Catholics, this weird as II as what would he the ultimate theist tttt of Ilan Bishops
la equala. applied to so Englishman and a Itrotesiasit. In and the Clingy. Noterlthst audio; that the •pprobatiou of
-stir linos say Catholic that adventios .1 in ads of oppress. the four metropolitans and six senior suffragans had sig.
con has hems ow:oiled. And to complete the climax, sill laird their approbation of Me measure so far back ma she
Coieslica that are even suspected of favouring the Royal year 1799, was weed ae 3 coueletaive argument fur the &flop.
Vets, sir branded try the Catholic mimic as dismiss of God I titan of the •• veto .....'" is is eomewliet extraordinary that
and thew country •••• • • to she whole of this pretest-dine was kept a profintutt sestet
lo Ow year ITO'!, the Cathithe• of the wrenl counties. I among the ten Bishops concerned until it was publicly de-
et.ez. ond principal towns, ele ded Delegate+ to the General j dared in Parliament, in 1804, although the whole of the
commit, cof the Catholics of Ir. laud. In this asteroid! I Hierarchy was iovolved in its silirratioll• '1 he sills‘rouvUt
• ,nnt nerd my pnl.lic dowse in Cetholic affairs as a !Mr- cousluct of the ten Bishops is a maitifeet proof that they
_ate f.em il.e sr.:Only of Wexford. A Petition was then arse out only I gregoessly mistaken with regard to the luso-
• men up. and presented to the Kier by a special Delega. sure men, hut al-t+ with respect to its political mid reli-
',an from the General Committee. Through the paternal in. giow• effect• and consequences on themselves. on the remain-
taroosition of hie Majesty in 1793, the Catholics of Ireland mg Bishop,, Mg the Clergy, and tau the Catholic Laity of
ecoe reeloret to many substantial privileges of the Coneti. Ireland.
t.,si ,gi lie the Lists Parliament. In 1795, most sanguine The Catholics of Ireland, in all their antecedent proceed•
h. pis er ere tasted:tined of Catholic F.moncipatioo on the up. inc', had most cautiously avoided any introduction of a re-
s.-eminent of Carl bitswilliam, as Lord Lieutenant of Ire- 'teems topic. and strictly (mbued themselves to pelitiou
eat ; but the amble') recall of the beloved Viceroy rinelied for the 'estimation of the political right; of tine British Con-
.. e.op of a 'toed often from the lips of its Callas Leta, mot slit ntiou whieb their ancestors had been &peter.' of in
is.. a time,. iLris musisitnienl is still prulesnoed!!! • • • • angry limes Thus the Catholic body at large ca tttttt tbe in
.11 slo it pra.o.l the Protestants in general made common any degree implicated ill the admixture of religion with
. it:, Will 11111 Callialita. In pnrananee of this public spi. polities.a-TM- Parliamentary supporters of the Catholic
I. .1 heal the honour of bring dectea, along site two Pro- Claims, aloha with the Catholic Bishops eoneerned in the
to.i oit Gentlemen to present a Petition to the King from micalledlor introduction of • miscalculeted measure, which
Oa CA1410141. ra and inhabitants of all religious persoasions leas hitherto proved se fatal to the someone/et of civil and
in the I unity of Wexford. Nothing runlet evince the gene. religions liberty, are hound iu jittice he remedy the evil they
rut prevailing 'sentiments more Ilmu my having obtained have created. They should leave no meats melded, and
e4,`lSl signatures to this Petition in the slim...mace of re there is tot sacrifice they &book! nut be ready to make
*.. li. Ihe tore. ntxtion of this Petition to his Majesty was to quiet the conscience:Motu@ sad constitutional feelings
my brit political introduction to Louder's. I vas then hr. they have rouged into action. I had proceeded from Dub-
route aropixhied wills some ante most distingoisheil of our lin to Leildon in my 081611 collard/I with the Willies'
Paul.: misery ft irials, and have bitted', been extremely for. of the Catholice of Ireland in 1808, to meet Lord Fingal,
haute in cuoivatioo and increasing those aceratotanere where I hail Relived fourteen days previous to the discus-
from time P. time test 1 have been elormeed so London on mon in the House of Commons, during which time I had,
its presentation of oar Addresses to the Prance Recent,and amuse, constant comsnunication with those concerned in
alt planet- on the slisenwi tttt of nor Petit hens to Parliament. Ihr latil'dortion of the refe into Parlianieni; Vett it is as
Its OAS, laas p micularly noticed by the late er lebrated extraordinary as it is tine, That the sit t. circtomper.
Woos. Fox nod Burke. The favourahle civilities of the lot. two was uhterved to prevent the Secretary of the Catholics
v. rla recorded itt a letter, of which I was the bearer. from a Ireland frogs any previons knowkdge of the introaucti.so :
p,,,,,,,,5eeha In Or Hoary, Midi', to the establishment of of this mysterious measure to the (omelet soon of the Le-
a Calli.he College in Ireland. This letter leas been since Ri'dattire• • • • • • • • •
ronsil. ot as au important historical I.,cuunrot. Paid ha* been The principal object the Bishops have had steadily in view,
r,.,:i..li*rAwi my iiirforN of fee insurrection of na County and punnet wish unremitting perseverance, has been to
Wexford, lion, into venous other publication*. I after- secure the umnination of their own under to themselves.-
aeriols or; bonitos.' with a correspondelice sills Mr. Burke, This main object, though never avowed, is appareut
tit his death. For the nattering approbation of Mr. Fox, Ihronohout their otherwise irreconcilable proceedings. This
1 sha,l to for you to a letter, written in 1903, which I set a episcopal apeculat iim Is nut of any long continuance, as it
greater value on than any oilier I ever received, a fie smith 5 originated on the appointment of a Prelate 6611 in exist-
cupy of which is enclosed •. I bad constant interviews I sere. The systematic pi eject bac, as a matter of course,cams-
.ol' Mr. Fox, during the winter of 1804.5, which I term ell the gradual depreesion of the remold order of the Clergy,
in laseeloii, pooling the prawn es of Ow first Catholic Pe and the disuse, on thee part 'Amon coffee' Bishuire, slimly M-
illion possum:ied to the Volts s 1 Parliament of Great Braniff 11111431104. 401. aystcm, that. old militate against their uncou-
and Iceland. loam that period I had the good fortune to trolled jurisdiction
cejoy the coofole ace of this goat man. have acted as if they intended to monopolise the w bole of the
In all the isrssrersliiies of the Catholics of Ireland since eirmaticesication will the Holy See, the better to secure the
laos, I have acted ma 14 y, and have invariably Sl'earril uncontrolled reanagemeut of the Catholic Hierarchy of !re-
it.e public cemidenee of all sanks and ilescrildiumi of the laud • • • la A recent public exempt' of this knot
catholic+ of I, el.l .1, notwithstanding any difference of ...lei. has ncenrred respecting the letter sit Pope Pius VI I. of the
soon that mialit have dieted tot wee'o various parties, that Ist of Fe brnary, line, to the Catholic Bishops of Ireland,
mast naturally astir amidst a populat• of six nailliOns. I which, Mil gh evidently inteuiltd fur the general lo-
bate also mroutnioed au mien:lcy with many of one par. formation of the Catholics of Ireland, yet was kept a
Farneutary fliends, nod have clamed the peculiar 'riven. profound secret among the Bishops themselves until the
tile of a ceofidential currespoodence with • • • • I month of June, 1618! !! lo consequence of a reference from
• • • • • • • See Sem ecee. On some his Holineae, its hie Answer to the Address of the G I
impudent occasions, I have obtained permission to meta I Board of the Catholics of Ireland, an application was made
these toinmonications pehlie, I have thereby enjoyed oppoe. . for the letter, yet it has been but partially given, and
teititta of obtaining information that bait not fallen to the ailhooah there is no reserve in the attastoo by the PoPet that
lot of any other person. Independent of the corryspondeare past which Ma heel' withlwld &Bowls more latitude fur coo-
-1 hate held ,with all rauks of the Catholic Body. there is no jet-titre respecting the supposed animadversions of his Huh.
Peer, or Gentleman of our persuasion, that I have not nes. um the rosiduct of the Bishops •• •.
moo:1y sere on their diming to Dublin-I may say tire amuse ; The total failure of the application ••of the Catholic Bishops
with respect to the Bishops and the Clergy: but the source of 0 through the Logliale Ambassador (Sir C.Stuart) to the King
itifortnatioe nest proves to one to he moet lavalanhle. mous ! of Flatter, in January, 1818, with a view of asostupolising,
from the Catholic trailers and shopkeepers from every city I the funds of the respective national Catholic Colleges iii
mod town its 'reload, who coastanily come to Doblin to I France, is an interfesetwe muds to be lamented!! ! Yun of
supply therneelves with inerchauslow, l'hey are on some I sundae 'rote it rut an example of that general spirit that pre-
otweeione the [worm of comnisioications from Clergymen I viols so mach among the Ministers of all religions per-
and °shore. from their respective neighbourleuode (with 1 suaeicou, which you so ably and elaborately describe M your
snotty of whom I have had Ito previ tttt s pet-stone! acquaint- ! velouble publication, addressed to the Earl uf Mouses.
afire,, which affords me the (seat advantage satiny forth,' ism. I more • • • • • •.
mediate lefortuation I may require. num I have been abbe I Tlw Catholic lii-hops of Ireland sedulously sought for
to command a mass of iutellicence hitherto uneultivated, 1 and enjoyed the unlimited confidence of the Catholic People
Joel I Can further add, delusively by inyeele as no my or. 1 of hasn't Without a assumable return, the consequence is
casional atoosice on public bus.ums in London, the gentle. I obvious • • • • •. All sincere well-wishers of civil sod
awn Mau have supplied my place have experienceit the dig. j religious liberty, whild limy condemn any interference no
advantage of the omisaiun of thesie cogifistential visitors to I the plot of the Catholic Bishops in political and temporal
the Seerstary'a of till my return to Dublin. Neville en- li concerns as disastrous to the cause they intended to uphold,
joyed these peculiar advantages for erverel years, I conned must s 'litany lament the interference of Legislators in the
lie mistaken as to the real stale of the erilloneuts of fir.. Ca. 1 Mallialaill sit of the religions coneenis of any Diseeuters from
'ludo-scut Ireland • • • • • :, the Established Church. What would he the slangs is case
(ho the change of AdministratiOn in 1866, Catholic. Fatinn. :bile SlMalli he sup Catholic iaterforenee in the dispositlioh
^ipaluin was sonsislered se immediate, on the Lieutenancy and nionagement of the Protest:oM Chortle! The posshi sty
ef Ireland being coufereed nu the Doke of Bedford I had 'of any iniermeddling of the kin.) is anticipated by the laws
the IdirOaKtal ft (.001111elidallaall to Isis Grace from his bosom of the realm in the delusion of Catbolies. In the institute
li mid, Mr. Fox, sad • • • • I, as well as 110- sillier or a Catholic posoessiug a properly to which an sdvowaon is
joineipal Members of the Irish Government, with ohon I iltlacheh, the right of nominating the Mean:sliest devolves
Led eon:slant intereourse. I think it material to motet-, that to the Kom as the Head of (tint whom yon, is your letters
tie Catkolice of Ireland relit • due tribute of respect 10 Isi Lord Ll---e so emphatically style the Pope of) the
tmar friend. in power, by withholdong the presents- Protesteot Cluarclal-edes versa-do as you would be done
tem of their intruded Petitions to Parliament in 11106. by-
•• • •
After the ae-eiuses of Pas tosment, tlw moat sanguine I Though our Parliamentary advocates bad, as they ima-
expeetatiorts were elaCift,litall that the assuratteeer that had 'Med, inirodeeed tie reio Into Parliarueut, in unison with
M, n.O coicaidently made to the Cailodies would have beets the dridinination of the Catholic Bishops of Ireland, yet,
realized-they considered that their to idatwes were meat- when the futuadatiou proved to be illusory sod deceptive by
'ended to he the Goverussent, and that they were weglected the decisi tttt of a National Synod, composed of all flee Ca-
b). their Macietesial friends. The mmfilleuee in the Admi. *Mac Sedum, in Ireland, they wills unabated seal continued
mstiatiero kept puce with the declining state of the health of to advocate the reprobated. measure which formed inert of
Mr. Fox, Wide bits macielanseated death mereased to such a the magical arrangemeata of the nuiun of some who were its
'stoat strenuous opposers. • • • • • •
The missile! contrivers, well aware of the unpopularity
• "SC Anoe's Hill, Monda 13th Jane. 1803.
0: ort_Tbemi it is mime thins sincey, I received the copy of the. measure from their lutal silence on the subject, coa-
ct' your ' Hiatero of the Wexford Traesaction: I deferred . tr toed It. so, that et h,,teitt appear fellow from a popular
us knowletiOing doe fawear till I had the upportuoity of read- so"' Cr rho.' they devoutly hyped the appsreat new Pro-
- pool in 180$, might bury is eternal oblivion the original
mg it, for which is Loudwa 1 had no iirue.
: masteries's. juggle. in 1799. The elle:este coonivasee of
I have it, haul that pleasure, asid eau &seam you, that
. t *iliac Bishops wills the principal respective Members dike
1;0, boldness and iimeartiality (us far as I can joslge) with
Al iniStel ial and of the 0 »anion sties, is a melancholy
''kith,
yin Na,.,,.., givese is 1795, rilmgeas kiii.:f.drill,...k.ite 611.2:"Ibe1 irireasemlic. • i soot that the cause of ilireP‘Catbolicr of li eland must be ma.
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ores and setareled ban laical interfereasee of
-atataetioa, and I think Obey usual have had the asses effect . c
t%rtialioL"llishtins • • • I *Y 1.5"
epois every sincere friend to conciliatiou and future trait. , - _.
I have 'wither apace nor time left this pest to add more,
sp.iihty. " 1 mu, heo hr. j
C. J. FOLO but shall resume the subject trouturrow in soother Idler. i
" IJ Edward Hay, Lag.

TO PETER MOORZ, ESQ. M.P.