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reign hostile countries; but we are told sow,
for the first time, when the Irish Catholic Clergy
are educated under the immediate superintenslstrce
soil enamel of the Officers of the Crows, that we
should cotenant thole apprehensions. Csts any
thiitg be more offensive or less reasonable ? Surely
it cannot be contended by any person acquainted
with the Instory of Europe, that the Pqpes of the
18th century were not as lumen disposed to favour
the views of the Bourbon Family occasionaliy, is
other Pope or Popes could het to favour the views of •
Bonaparte ; neither can it be denied that the Bout-
buns were as hostile to this country as tier Bnna-
parte was or eau be ; and yet we cannot learn
that when the Irish Priests were eultteitted under the
favour said at the expense of that very family, and
when Cardinal York, the representative of the de-
posed Royal Family of the Stuarts; had a seat itr
the Conclave, any danger or evil betel these coun-
tries in consequence of any nomination by the See
of Rome to any Bishopric in Ireland. If these he
facts (and I challenge any man who hears me to
contradict them) I ask you is it justifiable in any
person to attempt to stop the progress of libetslity
by such an exhibition of risiooury terrors or political
phantoms? It is not, I helieve, imagined that we
have much to dread from tire attachment of his pre.
sent Holiness to Bonaparte; but then the danger
with which we are so plausibly threatened is to fl-
low the election of Cardinal Focht to fill the Papal
Chair, which Gentlemen seem to think most mod
vitably fehow on the death trf the present Pope.--
In the first place, I want to know .who
in-
formed those Gentlemen that Bonaparte and the
Cardinal should survive his Hoiiuva•? for "tiniest
they satisfy you that such most be the case;
their whole argument falls to the ground ; and
surely it' would not he very fair to expect that
on such a bare hypothesis, the whole Irish
lic Ecclrsi•tstical System should be tittered.— •
Now. Gentlemen, I claim the attention of my Ca-
tholic hearers—sFtrst, I assert that Catlin's! Priebe
never will be Pope—and, secondly, I assert that
even though Cirdmal Fesche ►hould lir Plipe, it is
morally impossible fur him to injure, in any degree,
the rights 4.1 the Rio,: in this kingulout. Its support
of this assertion, I say that it has not even been
attempted to he pored that Bonaparte holds such
such a control oter the College of Cardinals as to
in.nre tilleCell to any candidate whom lie would no•
iniii.te; on the cant' arc. ire know that no Court or
l'irrer has prntrstrd with half the spirit of the Court
at Rome a;ainst the usurpation and aggression, of
the tyrant. Really. Guutletnen seem to think that
the election of the Head of the Catholic Church in
Rome is as mud) a mutter of mere inutnmery or
mockery as other elections have been in other
places; they would say with the preatunittnous
shepherd, •, Urban. game dicunt Roma* piaci
hale Notre siterikm."—But, Gentlemen, 1 will
now suppose that Bonaparte may contrive to pick
• Condor, so as to insure a majority of votes for
his friend. I tell you that it sloes not by any
means follow that such • person should be the
Pope; on the contrary, the history of the Church
is dereftly o:iposed to such a doctrine. The elec-
tion, to be valid, mast nor only be canonical, lint
also free. There are a number of cases to prove
this position; it ntatat also he recognised by the
Universal Church in General Council, or rise by the
assent of the several Catholic Churches.
(Fur the remainder et this Speech see the swat par.)