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other slaty flee i of some seethe ChM (Meth in Millis
which was and • the Royal ChlOaine
it
as iliksh PIP
soles Mhy Jams T. this the mama
we mattet and temeseady see vs Masked.
aad yet In IBA Mt Diweirse=hishtit ANNA'S" east
at Is the prams sped of thole whale were they se Mk fee
yam`vi - seek tar asereadat the . Semis H
of
behead. br ' asp+ the Amodaties of
biked. He was thee WM e id he dies sieved ton any
essiedee that they kreelliarialla SIMS day pereseire that
eadiamem had mewl with TIMM and theemien P Ho was Meat
kit he Moth, mil all sore has Ole welds of Mk Medd
' amass to my t hvelopeetive of his. the
ade hest AMMO, bad heed treested ups, WI the
Muman for iss diaqueres wee MI lea allalrs of
Me vied thwa he die peewee et meet
ITlllllVerkreedwidesseseed Mee pitied streets they took a
hid Me smog us Maw that " there is
4 Is • .
wevtle. " the fool has aid la his bait."
vereentative of literates, that petese of
„. ..err "74: a sash elf tie (II r. Oibmilrej, and haw-
his set where eau ttuaelre
' lIIIh estdrigighllrefe of dui aidi
the Art le set setiation. U. sand
,4,.....% ' hit (Mr. 0 Iseeh. sad the wdy solid
would make to it wet to pert ef it *as limit 11110 tree.
OW wets Irish by name. wets thideliessa=
ad they (the Association) le Seth
the viedoe of en me eppessilis. In the
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thew of the french Reskithia. Act wee peoled MI&
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arm to asp e, sr the stentitietatilmi Stlllikje-
died a numuiss al that strength etr err. sty, he Ma lam then Mt.
t.::tediehresh sib Dublio, essotions, beisilmill Ithili the
Lore ant email:Vida of themeatty. The ateeMIII Ohl
p—to lad ft that Are was brief oat saw sod ihit 11101wie as
west he the shield wet hew WO Mad with nt
'bre . le:feMefrigSteirwelitt ehr
sums if by . ll* dimulialerat
end of the sw—Thi- - taw • 1p eendie
*bfleb . allki ' lik lOW
lived's *WA lbw
wows are ' era
Ind ahem te atelier •
wild Mil
/lite wit the4vi' SowVirrillimorn lianee ::rivja
=sti: petheas have spared el at
. preseeded open dithAst el lithe sisair. Ali
heel were
beeily neeesdentlepoli whiles it wqe the
beet which. W might 111 ea. Os to wail re
hen being aF ' eta the Ws, le Wadi hostility it ha
i prtheiplm i t was Dot the eidie bat aa ette=ut the eel&
The ASSSCIAIitWI had heat ebiagfet 41111 Whig
thee s whether they wore se et rot did the Ime=fal 111-e
paths--they *loyal their avoidance, Agar deds sods
armor
womb ism the Prette the
_peewit. wise not die.
peed le tight the milkory Marquis of A the lie& yet
they wore Mot open urging their way y rimy hill MOW
Me the Itheayle el the Constitution. Cerium wait beeped open
them ableteay was poured upon their downed heads, Marie I
ihmeedi they had interested mauves' in forward ibis
great quick, to its eonsummation, brines the A sought
to Stain seats In the Upper House. lie, he hie pay would wet
oath envy than the distinction 0( sildpg le that WIT t 1
that, beseer. dhnheished nothing at arm
es s
they aneteined in beieg excluded Item it Vele tamest
of vituperation that had been poured forth upon this. It was
said that the Catholic body had submitted ea the salience
of agitating lawyers. He felt ea that it was see lie was
an agitating lawyer, and would andaue se Ake the Cwhilies
of bob kingriameaaleed the Titiet initheneee and
aim. Ls bed add ihat he eaSi hut a eilk=.
Re mid urn lawyer, Willeteitellife and
%Meet erminet as as lemeented
=. liallitlhattlehiteter and he adestai tifilkislitykles I"
it phis whom he (Yr. O'Connell ) hid not the pewee sW ~ All
elk he would empire; or if it were to have my MIS son him,
it Ma heath el sting him ten tines as rat is askew as
bees Thom ellbtu of the agitators. as they Ilelet celled, were
elieluille Wit Mat injuries's!, sea! the rime of the •eattatte ;
mid, the nothrae however hemmed •es be the Seth Whenever
an swam werithit of the Gentile was held. Ow • lan *se
quiet. waslialty and good one nuniaills* Ind tlf he west
free Chola it Itsithern (.1 pretty teestheiNt byte" wilirlaabthr)
said the contrary it would be spathes th MS& .11th the
Coatis Association commenced In Ann, itenditeen nth is.
this deem counties in a slate of dimabaneemo um dared ado
sat from ilk dwelling--a law, the met oppeitedita, hinged the
penalty di exile upon any man who prestaini SD Isamu" Mimed
the preens of his house after the grew *se elf do us t thin
law WAS la full forte and operation in hied whilit was aitellegm
te the werfew in England--that mem Moiled taimet of
• usurpers tyranny, the recollects of rehleh tots Sell =
tha=the ancient popular weer of De giant las
dsr My in the pee, or= thin the 118/111111111 In&
dente** people, for the me, of would nut herk sew
A Ise Salk* is that was then in farm In Wirth Mean ems
Zma tle had laid, were in a sum ref dietnehems. und whoalke
t of this country were
tazdi to thir Modes le sett/
no Asaotiation, how many coon le would eet. treirthre Me.
turbid P Just not one. (Nluch ng.) The pied met
see all withdrawn—every thing noiseless* aid ressalls. Dec
that &spode esetment passed, and was submitted slier ihe pea.
pie were 1 emed with just expectations of 4eglifewas nitre It
had hes aid. SIKI with truth, that lawyers were herd of seeselentes
here wasting at least for which he had no love, for it was truly a
i bad precedent. As the law stood, men could not meet by drive.
lion, fur that would subject them to the prosaism at *a Camas.
don Act. They could not meet in a end, far ohm fhb" PIM Nos
within the scope of the six Acts. They amid not west In a non,
for that would be virtual representation. Abundant means were there
provided for enslaving the country, and the Minister who it id the will
to do se had plenty of means within his react. He could crush the
liberties of England without 'single additional enactment. Bat from
the very depth of t heir diotresa did he derive hope. The moisture bore
about it so many indications of having been hatched ins Divan, of
being the device of sonic Statesmen at Constantinople, that he
could not but derive hope from the ultra severity of the measure.
He almost persuaded himself that the reign of OeorgNe IV. would
not be disgraced by the continuance op the Statute-book of a fresh
penal enactment against the people and the religion of Ireland ;
and yet he felt it difficult to tell the people of Ireland that they
should hope under an aspect of their affairs so disheartening and
disastrous. Still he could not but confess, that even in the argu•
mentor which were urged against their righteous cause, there might
be found matter for hope and expectation. When he saw, too, that
though the keeper of the Monarch's English conscience was big-
anted and illiberal—for the King had three consciences (a laugh)—
the keeping of his Irish conscience would soon, he trusted, be con-
fided to a man of the liberal and conciliating cast ; and se to his
Hanoverian conscience, he was the keeper of that himself., and the
world Raw the generous, the liberal, the noble fetlinga which must
animate the breast that governed Hanover. Who, then, could see
this, and seeing at the same time how his English conseience was I
kept, not see a' work in its management the miserable machinery of
a boroughmongering administration? One amongst many of the
arguments that had been used against them was, that if the Cintio-
, bra were emancipated by a general law, it would have the effect of
setting the Dissenters upon an equal footing with the other Pro-
t tenants of the empire. At this he would rejoice. The principles
of religious freedom, advocated by Mr. Wilke and Mr. Pellatt, the
Secretaries of a Society for the defence of liberty of coned. nee,
' were principles that he could justly call his own. They were ex.
I eluded by sacramental test, and the Catholics by an oath, and thote
who desired to see the one removed, must rejoice at the annihilation
of the other. This oath was spoken of as no penalty. 'Prue. the
Catholics might sit in Parliament and hold any office, if, as their
enemies alleged, they kept no faith eith heretics `that is, they had
the same sort of liberty that wan given in Spain ; they might belong
to the Established Church if they could reconcile it to their
consciences. When he spoke of Spain. he would censure
the Cones as much as the King: the latter was tyran ical,
and the former was possibly mare an. for they trampled alike
on the Church and the people. From hie heart he would
rejoice to see the Dissenters set free from the disabilities under
which they suffered. How galling was it to them, and how
opposite to the first principles of justice, that however fitted
they might be for any corporate officeaLhowever numerous
the suffrages by which they shoat be elected, a CI, if they could not
stand the sacramental tests their election would be void, and he
who had the fewest votes would become the chosen candidate ! He
would make common cause with the Dissenters, and by their
common principle of religious. liberty live or die. Reflections con.
netted with this too, kept him from altogether despairing; he did
hope that their petition would make its way through -England,
and that the liberal body of the Dissenters would sympathise
with the wounded feelings of the Catholics. The people of ling-
latd too would speedily see that men were not to be dragooned
into religion ; force and fraud might make hypocrites, it never
, could make Christians. Force and fiaud were never resorted to, but
by him who was conscious he had the worst of the argument.
All that he would ask from his Protestant brethren was a clear
stage and no favour. and leave the question to be de:ided by
impartial and conscientious men. There was an argument used
by their opponent, the Lord Chancellor, or rather he should call
it a word than an argument. His Lordship called the Constitu-
tion of England a Protestant Constitution. That was more an
assertion than an argument, and it had one detect, which &COIN
—and for an assertion it was rather a serious one—was it wee nee
true. (Hear, hear.) It was utterly false and without the slighlait
shadow of a foundation. A Protestant Constitution ! Who *-
rained Magna Chatta, but Catholic Barons? Was it eery
Catholics who instituted the hereditary breath of the Leila.
lature? Was it not by Catholics that the reyereitteaties of
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people in the Lower House of Parliament was eitildhled f Did
not the Catholics institute the trial by jury ? It dishil met he
forgotten too, that the celebrated statute of FAME. 111.. die re a
treason law, was the work of Catholic..-that that refection of
human legislation—that admirable safeguard of human rights, was
the work of Catholics. Tyranny never rose triumphant in this
country without making efforts to destroy that statute, and it was
to the ascendancy of liberal principles that it owed its restoration.
Anti above all Lord Eldon himself should not be slow to recollect
that the office of Chancellor was instituted by Catholics *II office
but for which they should not in the present day have encountered
his hostility. Lord Eldon should remember that the insigt.ia of
his office, the mace and seals now borne before him, had for centu-
ries been borne before Catholic Chancellors and that the last Ca.
tholic layman before whom they had been borne, ttiir Thomas
More, quitted office with ten pounds in his pocket. A very good
Catholic example for Lord Eldon to follow. (Laughter and ap-
plause.) Would he admit that the raising and paying of money