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Isnot that discontent 'kr/ much committed with 'all the internal
' system of insurrection ,v,d disturbance P-1 should thick is was
but L resided. in Dublin, and I know vary little of the interior a
Ireland.
• Haw you ever served croft (land /arias la Dublin
Dave you ever been called in Court to save P.—l think 1 liaise
been summoned to the Commission Court ; I suppose it was a
l'Grand Jury.
Bare you never been called to the Term !Land Jaen ?
Never.
Are you a freeholder of the city of Dublin .P—No.
Nor a freeman ?—No.
Do you v•aderstand whether the exclusion froth serving upon
Term thar.d Juries is peculiar to the Catbedica ?—.I cannot *wet
that question precisely, for I std over wont to tho'Cialit eat%
self but I have understood it was eitirsly .peculiar lie
Cattfolfes ; I hare heard so.
In. point of fact, &you not knew tat ibt Term Grand Juries
are composed of ?Ambers of the Corporation asiy.l—,Yea; 1 'Me-
in the paper eight or trine or tea Alderman, or Sheriff's Penes. 11,11
Pe9lDOese oniotthtattat dttxticcuasiou i1P646.0f all the inhabitants. of Dublin, tempt
those who are porsessed of p Corporate rank, tend in diminish the
confidence, which the wonid otherwise feel, in the sets,
whether civil or criminal, of those Grand Juries ?-1 should ikitl
it-naturally would; it does ittiby opinion:
Have you ever attended a county eiecdon in. Ireland ?—I hare,
but I believe only once.a it is possiblethat 1 may have bans at s
county election twice, bat then it was only for halt an hour or so ;
but I did once attend for two or three days.
Where was that P-10 the mum., of Dufiliel.
What description of persons, in point Of propetty and elation,
are the forty shilling freeholders whom you then saw vote, Intl
and whom you have seen vote on othri occasions ? —I took asttelt,~
from what I easy, some feeling of objection to the forty.ithafing
freeholders; I rather lamented that there were that description at
freeholders.
Do you think they are in a station of life which gives arty se-
euritv to the public, of a fair and independent exercise of their
francbite think they are not in that station of life that sites
such security.
In the event of a Bill being carried for the Emancipation of the
Catholics, as it 13 termed, do you conceive that it would be desir-
able to make any-alteration in the resent qualification of the free-
holders P—Very desirable, as It strikes me.
Do you conceive that such alteration would be saceptable to the
Catholics, if it formed part of a general measure of Emancipation i•
—lt seems to me, that Catholic Emancipation would be so prams a
boon, that I should think it would be acceptable.
Should you, as a proprietor, think your own power and influence
diminished, by having the elective franchise raised from forty
shillings to twenty pounds a year ?—My own power would not =
for I have not turned my mind at all to political subjects; I have
not even registered my own vote in the county In which I have an.
estate. 31y residence in Ireland is confined to Dublin—l have not
seen that estate these ten years.
Do you consider that it would be desirable that a provisiort
were made by the State for the Roman Catholic Clergy in Ireland ?
—I should think that it would.
Do you think tha: such an arrangement would be acceptable to
the Roman Catholic Clergy or laity, if it were accompanied by
the general measure of Emancipation?-1 should think it would,
if accompanied by Emancipation. but not otherwise.
Do you think that otherwise the Clergy would ever be brought
to accept of ft I—They have entered into resolutions to that effect,
that is, to accept no payment but from their flocks; they thought'
it might impair, if not destroy, the Catholic religion among their
flocks if they did accept it.
Nave you ever beard- of it being likely that any Catholic pro.
perty will be transferred out of Ireland, in use the civil disabili-
ties are longer continued ?—I can answer that question with regard
to myself, for I mean to leave Ireland in consequence of the civil
disabilities existing. I find it not a pleasant residence.
Does the unpleasantness of the residence arise to you, front
the disabilities under which you labour, or from the party feeling
to which religious differences have given rise ?--I take it that the
civil disabilities create that party feeling.
Which is the inconvenience which you peculiarly suffer—is it
the political disability, or the Inconvenience of party feeling ?—I
never sought for any place, it is from social intercourse being
poisoned.
Do you think that there are other Catholics disposed to take the
same step as you say you yourself are inclined to do I—lt is na.
tural to suppose there are; I have heard many say they would
leave Ireland if they could with convenience.
Do you think that any proportion of Irish capital will be trans.
ferred to other countries, in case the disabilities under which the
Catholics labour now are continued ?—I should think there would ;
I have myself some capital in France.
You having retired from business, do not mean to say that in
leaving Ireland you would transfer your capital, but you would
transfer your residence ?—I would transfer my residence.
Because the civil disabilities under which the Catholics labour
make Ireland not so pleasant a residence as you think you can
meet with elsewhere ?—Yes