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31131(IRANDUM,

In the latter iid of autumn, lunG, some printed
c'ituc•s of an arra or decree, signed Napo/eon, Hugh
B. Mare:, tri.anspa4ny, and Walsh, Administrates,
Gourd, dated 28th Floreal, An. xiii.
the English, Irish. and Scotch Eccle'siasti-
a•al East, -lit tat the Freucl► dominions, under
tie general administration of the Reverend Doctor
Walsh, lute Superior of the Irish College at Paris,
were sent Prow thence, via No►nburgh, to Euglaod
and Ireland.

At the same time Doctor IValsh invited the stu-
dents of St. Patrick's Irish College at Lisbon, to
repair to Paris, to prosecute their studies, and
encouraged them to undertake the journey, by
promising that the expenses of it could be de-
frayed.

The Roman Catholic Archbishops and other
Prelates, Trustees of Msynooth College, having
met in Dublin on business concerning it in J.
unary, 1807, availed themselves of the occasion, to
express their unqualified disapprobation of the in►i.
tation from Paris, in alettcr to the Reverend Doctor
Crotty, Meter of the Irish College, at Lisbon, a coil
of which was sent tollr. Secretary Elliott. and at.
luded to by Earl Grey, then Lord Hosick, in the
let Parliament.

The Catholic Prelates of Ireland, either collec-
tively or intlivid nal ly, never received any docunie:A
or paper a hatsoever signed by Bonaparte LAI
Talleyriad, or either of them, except as above.
Dahlia. 34 J y. iAOs. • J. T. T.
Dabhu, st4th lasuary, tar.

Rte. Da —eta—We, the undcnigned Archbishops, and
Bishops, Lave been lately made acquainted with an entree,
dimay proposal of the Rey. Dr.Wahh, of Paris, to the youve
men, at pieseut under your care and guidance, in Lisbou, in-
titling then. to abandon that Estabbrame tit, and repair to the
Seminary established by the Head of the French nation, en.
der ►ia direction, in that city. Yon may easily concenn the
degree of indiguation we felt at midi a propcsal, nor can we
believe t►at it proceeded from any bet very sinister motives.
We shall refrain, on the mese:it 011ealiOn, to snake those COM-
IMMO which occur to us un the general conduct et Mr
Walsh, since the period of the French revolution, but we
cannot ovoid remarking, that the great inducements bald
out to the young men of your house seemed eakolated to
inspire than with renerati.in fur, and ettaclicient to, the
present French Government ; Mhlle, at the same time, lie
seems actuated by • d. sire to alienate them from that alle-
giance which they one to the Government of their ewe
country. It is aireilless to remind you, Sir, that one of the
principal duties of a Clergy luau is to inculcate sulwrdtu•tiuw
to the laws, and &Hygiene,- to the established autbor:ties 'ln-
dio which he lives. We consequently eisbniit to your con-
sideration, whether an education received under an hostile
power, eon pi.ssibly tend to enforce those maxims. We
have not tlie most detant idea of atturlaaeq blame to you,
Sir; but wr arr extremely anxious that you should be the.
roughly acquainted with our seutinerste ins a matter of such
serious moment. Bound L. we are by every tie of gratitude
to the present Government, fur its very liberal support of
an itecksiastieal eatabinkment at Maynooth, and which,
under the auspices of the present Adminietration, w c hope
will very shortly be consider ably enlarged, we not only fret
it our duty to declare, in the flout unequieoral terms, oat
reprobayiou of inch attempts to seduce the youth of coin
holier; but are determitied to use the authority seated it,
us, in order to pnveut even the possibility of excuse
on the part of any of our Students who might at-
trislA to accept of that insidious offer. We there-
fore desire you will conserve all those who are under your
care, and make knows to them that we never will give any
Eeeksiantiral faculty in our dimes", to those icelividuals
who should *crept of the offer and that we aittheirise you
to declare is all those in holy orders, that by an acceptance
of • similar offer,tbey will iucur • •nspruoouu, ipm forte, at
the same time, bo i.ever, that we pronounce this sentence,
we do cimSde, that t►eir own sense of duty is sufficient to
prevent the necessity of it ; ionise do hope, that they will set
suffer their principles of allegiance to thus law ful Sovereign
to be biassed by the intriguing dispolittoe of those persons
who arb the instruments of his avowed enemies, in Mole-
initiating discord sad discontent.
Signed by the Archbishops and Bishops,
RICHARD O'REILLY, FRANCIS 3fOYLAN.
THOMAS BRAY, JOHN CRUSE,
J. C. TROY, D DELANY,
EDWARD DILLON, P. S. PLUNKETT
To the Rev. Doctor Crotty,
Rector of t►e Irish College at Usbon.

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