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of Saints is the name as in our Church—and that our
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of absolution differs in ;to respect from the Roman C:rubellit r
d ice. Vie, certaitly, are new discoveries, Whh respect tit=
discipline of the Protestant Church • but that, interpretation is 11.1 1 '
Monads, compared vri.h the sliat:edions which the Houma
rethelie writersrpraethe ,aeon the hiatiwy of the country $ ansang
the most distinguished C. tie* close are Dr. tinged Redo Mr.
Butler. Tie tormer has writren.a if istory•of England—Ai e, I
a Iliefory of the Roman Catholic Church. Pm a epithet*. Ore
' their rrialificatimos for this task, let lt.y man mime Dr. lalargyillei
' History (ff t e Reigns of ejiteen nary and queen FAStabalii-4
Queen Mary is desetihell SS X compsestonate, liberal, pions, ,Mel'l i
moral wine:in. and meld' the brat Sovereigns that ever sat It Vert I
' the English throne. We have been accustomed to ermaltar het
• as a midge. rancorous. pod bigowed persecutor—attic Dr. hinged
palliates all her declaim's, by the centfortable doctrine that she 1. :.
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lighted op the flames in ohesitencsetilv to the infallible &wince
of her Unwell. Queen Elizabeth, etc glory and the pride of Keg*
land, is depicted as a relentlesa rimester; and there is not e inlet)! fi:
who lost his life during her reign. for. rebellion re insurrectifen.
who is not deplored as a martyred Saint in the Catholic Cattee.
In Mr. Bfttler's History of the Roman Catholic Church, it id
broadly awned; that the Papists had no hand in the gunpowder
plot—and lie concludes a long review of this horrible affair, by
stating, Om the result of his researches has beets rhos: fievoutable
to the Catholic Cause. Now, Gentletnei, these and 'similar
writings are the publications which from the ground-work of the
education of every Catholic of rank in the history and religion of 1
this country. It is impossible on such en occasion es the pee!
sent to go at length into the examinatioo of such works—but die i' 1
they nor speak for themselves? And. from, the specimens which : 1
Instated. is it not the duty of dery•Protestant to be rather suspl: I I
clots of the liberality and principles of, those men, who are edu-
cated with an instinctive horror of the Reinvention, and who are
acnistoroal to cm:alder the era of Queer El:zabesh, when tie Pro.
testant religion was eetahlielied. and the era ofthe Revolution, when .
Nis Protestant Constitution was formed, as the .0155 periods of sue l. J
history? The same at tempts to gloss over the tense of the Berman ea.
tholic religion, and to diserm the felts of the ltwteatants by a can= I
cenient denial at evasion cf the principles imputed to it. were male
by the Irish Ronan Catholics before the Comnintee of the House of
CoMmona last year; and he had heard hinserted, that the evi.
dence given by those gentlemen had removed many prejudice, •:' !
which existed in the minds of the Committeaf.atainet them. ejt les..
but sio tie•itetien in saying that such an assertimt was destitute or . '- 1
any founded/an i and the only proof given of ane change of opintim,
if indeed he bail tote formed any opinion upon the subject, which
seems very loubtful, was in his friend Mr. Woo:plow, the Member
for Armagh. The impression made upon bid own mind, and, .
indeed, upon the mind of every person who was not wedded to theie
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cause, was by no means favourable to their sincerity,. or calculated •
to remove lit, fears for the safety of the Protestant Constitution,
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The first who appeared was Mr. Blake, a Catholic gentleman of . . .
education, Woo, and independence. He gave indeed dittoes
Which showed how restrictive laws of any kind mutt operate upon .•
a generous mind, but he qualified the espirationtof his own p:r-
sonal ambition, by c most guarded reverence for the Protestant Ili
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Institutions of the empire, and lie has in copse :p eence of his libel':
lily become an object of hatred and calumny to all his bigoted
party. The neat who appeared was Dr. Doyle: and the changes
• and turns of this Right Rev. Gentleman in his different eapacittes
of legislator. bishoe, and wittiest, were en remarkable that the ,
meanest undervan ing could not be deceived by them; he was
withatit doubt a HMI of great taleees and ettenefee Information,
, but the weight of troth was lost in the narrow principles pectiliei tie .
I the Roman Catholic tenet, and to the immeasurable hatred with .
t which he regarded the Protested Church ;he ren'tontieved when a i , 't
t I petition against the Jesuits was presented, a Member of the Horne! '
('/ 1 of Commons triumphantly asked, show me a Jesuit—what is ho
t like ? Is he like the camelenn, sometimes white, teorietimes green;
and sometime+ yHlotf. Ills reply would he, ilehohl him in Dr.
t I Doyle, and there eon can have not only your hoice of any cols ul* fit i-.
r but of all colours combined. He really believed that this political 1
I divine mpde more determined enemies to the Catholic cause than 1
I any other matt; rind that the publication of his etiferce has stirred I i
s up all the fears against Jesuitism which were nearly extinct since ' 0
I the departure of (farnet, Canmean, and Parsons. Dr. :flurry was
I the next witness, and be wished to speak with tee gteateft retirees
I of him, for, with the most thorough and sincere attachment 'to
a Ills own religion tan attachment for whirls every man must respect
him) he mixed up nothing of the politician or the firebrand. lit i • '
is spoke and looked like a Christian bishop, and he was altfloat
_ tempted to forget the e•rors and dangers of the cause, in the sp-
it' parent piet and the holy eloinence of tight pleasing Man.
~Gnat cheery..) Next came 31r. 0 Connell,
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y possible to conclude even this hasty sketch without some review of tt
dim. His character in England and in Ireland is as different an •
r, light is from de kness, and be is now so well known in both catia-
if ones, that it is necessary only to describe hint as hehei Amen hifinelf . .
It in each, to prove whet little weight must he attached to his tekiineny.
dv In England he was humble, submissive' • cringing, end eridea.
souring to soften oppoeltion, 14 an apparent frankness of mariner.
."-• in Ireland he was the arrogant dictator of terms and neemtlaeotts. ' i
1- It England he was the go (I-natured Irishman—in Ireland the t •
at blustering demagogue end unlicensed defamer of every antagonist,
in whether high or low. In England he was the tool of others; or the i
e- victim of his own selfish, ambition—in Ireland the denotfneer of i y
4- every person who ventures to maintain a different opinion; and the
:n boaster of personal sacrifice and dieinteresteinces in refusing briber,
.te which in my heart I believe, said Mr. Dawson, with emphasie, l
ce were never aired, and which. if offered, would have deeerned itn.
ge etachinent on the part of any Minister. It is impossible to deny
stn him the possession of great teems and extensive information ; but i
y. whethetirom a vanity which blinds his judgment, or front et ove. .
it. wetting arrogance which will adtnit Ono compeCiter, he teems
at to succeed in nothing else than to injure the tense *hi&
;al lie undertakes to promote. Next tame Mr. Shell, a gentle. -g. ( .
'IL man who appears to be a most extensive dealer in troves , •
lit and figure : with true Catholic devotion he wend to hie
ray also a worshipper of images—but his images, alas / are
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ng not silent ones, they are rot the dumb but poem': mediators of
on favour and protection, bet they. are awkward and straltiogimegta;
id. the cruel indictee% of discord in the ears, and confusion in the stn. s
m. derstanding. Ile Could not conceive a greater degradation of the i
nd human intellect, than to enlist in a cause of which Mi. Shed is a
be leader; he could not conceive a greater prostitution of thee. sense.
in. and judgment. than to listen for half an hour to the verbiage of this
ia. gentleman. When asked by the Commiuee for a reason, be geha
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es. what he can't! a classical illustration, in which all the rules of pro. 's
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int setly seem to have been forgotten—when asked tier a fact, he gave 's
sn. what he terms a flourish, or A rhetorical artifice. which, in corn-
ion mon parlance, means a mtetetement of facts. Ills exhibition was
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sa. really of the most contemptible kind 3 his friends were in dismay.
ity and thought that they could not get him out of the Committee- '
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art room with shflicient txpOition—his antagonist gave way to pity, 1
las and the English country gentlemen, a body of men rime peculiarly
'est sensible of anything ridiculous. gave way to undissembled laughter.
re. These are the gentlemen wi.e, are said to have changed the
em current of public opinion in England—he never knew a grosser
iris .or a more unfounded assertion. I,Vhat was the fact ? Beier; the
wit publication of their evidences the public mind was almost eslimp •
mi. in England. The people trusted to their representatives to throw .
in. out the measure, but no sooner did they see any prospect of it I i
for change in the Constitution, by the vote on the second restfitg of ,
thy, the Bill, than petitions against Rimmed in front all quarters, and
the in the cour•e of ten days, no less than 37t peritions were presented. ' I '
of to the Douse of Commone—when the Bill passed the Commons ask I ','t
and was sent to the ',mils. In the short time that elapsed between the tfe e
the first and second reading there were meeting,' its all parts of Etot•
not land, and in one week 571 petitions were presented against it. I •
uld Does this faat look like any acquiescence on the part of the people
'ar- of England ? If the Bill had paned the secot.d reading there
ght would have been five thousand petitions against it. Ent there •
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on. gcrtlenun have undertaken also to answt i for their countrymen in ( .
the Ireland. Look at the result. Instead of any acquiescence on the
kith part of the Irish Catholic, in the plans and conc. saions of their - .
the leaders, does there not prevail the greatest Macon' anti :mimetic), t
is, a i ong them ? It is evident to the people, that their leadels are
pect ready to sacrifice them for their own private objects e and not w:161.
I its standing the speeches of their demagogues,- eel the artifices of
ver. their Priesthood. they are not yet prepared for 'etch sacrifice*.
t is, But se for himself. tic doubted the professions and offers both of II i .
this their priests anti orators. They have, in fact, no power to ptineere • t :
ntry , any eteiceseion without the approbation of the rope. What wa%
ame the condom of the Catholics when the oath of atleglaisee wee ten.
the tiered in the reign of...lames I. ? Many Catholics, of the homesick • i
ants and station, took it without hesitation.; but when the oatfr was i
in— submitted to the Popo he thund that it not only Contained a dna- 1
the ration of allegiance to the Sovereign of their country, but a denial : t,l
ents of his deposing power—he immediately forbade any Cathelfe to. 4 •,.
oho- take it, and it was not only refused by the Catholics write last ' , e
• ob- not already sworn to h. but thous who had incautiously token it 1
I on, retracted upon the orders of the Pope. Gentlemen', these are el.:. i' .:
react facts, but are they to be lost upon us, and laueleahnlY wild the?
t the relate to men. whose religious creed is uncllin ger anet utrehangee , •
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' the able ? In referring to historical facts, he ha' always Mond that
reli- spiritual don:mita.) among the Catholics was ineeparefily eorineentt I l
em. with political power—and, notwithstanding all the saphisrey Of tit/.
phi- Doyles and O'Counells, he should, always consider tin,t the- man
mres who confessed the tkaninion of the Pope of,red a diektedsllegf.. , .
low, twee to his own Sovereign. fie thought that the conceseion Of pn - 1 -
'ems litical power would eiwead the increase of religious error all over
loath the world, at 4 that if the Catholics had the mewls they mum be-
time exerted for the destruction of a Protestant Chorell and Protestant e.
we of Constitution. lie should now sit down—having offered them lbw
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*nal tribute of a warm sod grateful heart for their attention.
I his The enthusiastic plaudits which succ..;eded the delivery of tkie i
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g in speech continued for several seconds. . ;
deli. ."Che City cf Decry and ice RepresentatiVe, who is set well
ones known to you as the defender of the sentiments which you foto. . .
roux - hearth so ably discussed by Mr. Dumson"—Three times them-.
I and Immense cheering. "No surrender."
ainst Sir GEOIIGS HILL rose and said—That-however gond' mete- li 'i
olies might demand from him the exclusion of egotism in additessing
d of the present numerous and most respectable meeting. ante id.
erful though uncongenial to his own disposition ti indulge In ir, yet
y on these were occasions when it was in some degree unavoideNie e- .
otion and this surely was one of them—after the very flaw ring rammer-
os in in which his health had been given and received as a toast.
toyed . Thirty.tive years had now passed over since he had linen retutrest
lull . to Perliament, within which period he had hail the honone of se.
Itarsh presenting the C: only as well as the City oft Deny. When her i •
acts sow amongst the presage company many who hush bea his wheat- '
that fellows, add with, whom lie had eve.: lived in iirrienaoy and friend.. i
a the ship, anti when he mail proudly declare lie Lid' samereivehe eta. • i .
berty tivatcd the esteem of the other county gentleman thereassetikted,
Eng- be might be 'emitted to indulge in the exerreeion of self-gradit.
I the cation at such testtimony as had just been brime to his Public lite l;
on is and conduct. lie felt, however, that he had much leas merit 144- r
pray. the prinsiplet" he professed then his friend soil relation who was the
some deserving object of the honourable compliieent i -tended by tlusere. •
:anon sent Ill."Aing. Ile (Mr. Dawsoe), elite:wet meeelitihnot Craw, ,
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