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the silt Bills of-the last Saslow' of Ilia hitt trigs. These
■re only souse of ray **climes to Mr. Phtakett as a palette

If it be nit] dim us Catholic I Iran ■o rigid Is 1,111•61,
sity ectuditet by shoo. considerations, II will set coridesees4l
to reply to the slavirle ofirtervatioo.

Perhaps mime Calholin may he incliner to everionk such
topics as du nut belong tx .- or siern cause. Hut M •iaecre:
Catholic will avoid considering Mt. Plunkett's opinions nee
'p►eling oar particular (oration. If Mr. Plunkett main-
tains opiainn■ on the subject of the Veb—ine•tnsisteut
with the purity and safety of that relict on, he ought not to
be interested with any POII2IOII from the Catholics. Thiel is
a proposition which I hope Alt. Shell will nut day.
By the word reto I mean all such m. as would we
the Crows, or the II inistei• of tie Crown, a control UV!,
appoisittneuts in the Catholic Minh is tideland. Those
measures have hsd differeat names. Sometimes they hare
been called the Royal negative"—poeset•mes "Cundithens"
—sometimes " Setimties." But the object of them all was,
in une Ic or the other, to integral the nomination to
Catholic Sees iu [reload.
Allow me here to observe, that the Catholic Prelates have
in public Resolutions repeatedly condemned all such mea.
SIMS. These Resolutions deviated than any each measure
" ISMS tosseml‘ally irsjere, usd meg eventually embrert the
Catholic Religion in Ireland."
Yet 91r. Plunkett is a decided advocate for such WHOM
—so decielird, indeed, that he will not consent to Fansoci.
potion without them. I admit that he luta costarsited to
alraudou the word Veto; and probably may give op the li
direct Royal negative ; thong% I one ►y au means sure that
be will. Bat it is quite metals that he rigidly adhe►es to
°sedition" and " Securities" as indispeasable seers-
pestisi eeats of our relief.—To the Veto under these disguises
ho is Illevisiedly attached.
I rove the truth of this assertion than:—Oe the 1 eth of
June het, Mr. Plookell met ■ Dekgation of the Catholic
Henri, sent he make inquiries of him on this very point.
gave is a written reply, iu which he 'misted on M terms"—
"rosditiona"—.asd "secortties"—as necessarily cuoneeteA
with
Mr. Plankett ens. notwithstanding, by the accidentssallade
ed in is my last publication, intrweird with the late P. titian.
All I cool.' do was to have that Petition accompanied by
Resolutions, declaratory of the destructive tendency to our
Krhgtoo of any Yetuistical stseaseires, and also expressive of
oar ►ostility teeny such measures.

What wan Me Plunkett's reply' His reply as in print,
and t he miatskeii, and it ■vowed with all the rmphs-
sis of italic.--" That hie opinion, on that inhjeet were
DIVVVIIMIT from those re eostrannieated to hiss"—
mad further, " Haut the 'adoption of seek cosidattons woe
not Only IHIOBJECSIOSAILII, but sure end asommealt."
Here is wry decisive objection le Mr. Nutshell—here is
that tablets rill make me ever disavow him as nay Parlia-
mentary Ad. orate. I cutout defer to him on a matter of
importance to my Religion—shove all, I cannot , and
I will never cram concur, in giving him ses opportunity, as
the 'elected wrist of the Catholics, to enforte wiesoures
which the Prelates and permit of Ireland have so repeatedly
-e I. wooed, an in their nature essentially injurious, and pos.
silly sullnersive of ear
This it s which makes me tetressely rejoice that the Pe-
ttit.... for *mitres is defunct. I rejoice that it has
ceased to .3mi—sod I cunideutly loupe it uevee will be
revival.

I only smile at Mr. satire spceisl pending—be considers
• a Pritions to be is its Nature irrevocable, and that he who
once 51(55 11 is bound fur ever ; and this suiserties of his
be rows through all the rsssu of Mr Ispllvr, as if to escape
111,1111111114111 sense.

I aus su caesium that Mr. Plunkett will UM adopt Mr.
Sbeire faveos, sod eouvert se hit° a Peiltismer &piss! my
;unseat, and woke himself my Advocate wahout ply leave,
that I shall Nut add another wend two this topic.

I ►ave neither leisure aor iodisation to follow Mr. Shell
through any more of the affectations; the peacock'sfsalke►s
sod tee volcanoes which glittered in laboured and puny con.
grits. lam now ordain, that to keep we Petitioning is the
aim of the Ministry. It was said bag slate le the French
army, that if a Gentleman concluded himself well as a
Cadet, he would remain a Cadet for life. The reason was
obvivas ; be t►w gave useful services at the cheapest pos-
sible rate; and lbws it will he with as. We have only to
behave ourselves well as Petitioaers ; to be very temperate
and mild and forbearing; to avoid all agitation, •ad to be
mod resiectfil and submissive, sad we shall be allowed the
mighty privilege of coutinuiag Petitioners and Cadets dar-
ing our t xistence.
I may now dimming Mr. Shell is perfect ebeerfuluese. I
may dismiss him to the associatioes of has follow-labourers is
Tye Correspondent and Dublin Journal. For my part, I
think it better policy, as I am awe it is belie principle, to
Joan the British Reformers, and to convince tin m that the
Irish Catholics are nut, as they have been ofteu represented
by Mr. Shears new allies—a fiction, brawling for individual
advaiitages--bni men who anxiously and earoestly desire to
advance general liberty, mad who understand ia what cousti-
tutional said rational liberty shorld enissist.
It ought not, however, to be forgotten, that be has not
disturbed any one of the priputittious which I sought to
estubteh. 1 will sketch them again briefly.
Ist, That an rarefortned Parliament has repeatedly re-
jccied our P. mesas without say rational cause, or even any
plausible pretence for such rejectios.
id, That we have nothing to amead in our political or
moral conduct, or to alter in ou► religious principles—aid
as we cannot improve our merits, we must endeavour to
improve the Parliament, that at may du justice to those
merits.

-3J, Thal an aurelburmid Fishmeal cannot emancipate
us, because it cannot destroy disseution among the Irish—
tbe instrument by which the trisb are at pre•ent weakened
and tilled.

4th, That the present Aileisistratio• is not one from
which any accession of pnb.sc liberty can be expected.
It is curious to see how Mr Shell has met the next topic
in my Addri.,s. Condensed it antoonitd to this:.
sth, That the House of birds in the last Sessions devotta
winutha t.f awaits* So futristo prostitutes and Valet*, and
refused an hour to the rights of Ave millions of fdtow.
subjects.

Dols Mr. Shell deny this?—Su—but he justifies it. He
gays shat she cause of Ilse User., was of "so aZymnilotag achis-
ruder" that it "blocked up all the aaaaa es of the State ;"
and be ad.'s, ur the happiest rein at tin b db, s, " /hat is the
shocks of as earthquake a house is sof to fit re po !ref: ."
•Irbakya--diarsiati nipisbls and sersiolsiaiss prosecution et
t►e Qiirre is, in Mr. Shell's poetic language, "mire*/ of as
earthquake," whilst the 'iglus and Ihr Idw.tlts ut ire mil.
Honour awn ere—" the repairs of a house."

Thies it is that we are undersells. d sod despised by oar
enemies, whilst Catholics of some el. errors. abase that
cleverness by degrading our cease, and making our unjust
sufferings an inferior and minor tossideratioe. *rewriting
iu Mr. *veil, the House of Lords was 'signaled by its alien.
lion to Denton' sod Illajucchi. 1 hese were shock* at the
earthquake. But the liberties of the Csiluiles of Ireland
were mere rarpentri's work, sou sn.chsuical stud base fur
high and *Wile ennuis.
This, host err, is only an instance of bail and vitiated
taste. There is bad feeling as well as bail intent is Mr.
Sheirs Animist. g the Cantata: People as " anitainiirred Nis
pebbles." This bud compliment, soil, he has given us it t.
lies, kit say °Nur isisultsug defamer, should miss the plea.
sure of the application. Ale. Shell is we doubt, iw bid ows&
opinion. it shinstunri of Ilse ins water—he as %heartily
welcome to sparkle at my taperer t bat lee me implore
of ht. stilt all the raineatnem of the pianism prose to
refiat• from Isis siterring sarcasms—Airirted &gooses, after
all, she Sliest Is well as the most faithful-46e long saffer.
tag sad vi ry wretched people of Irtlaail.
DANIEL O'CONNELL.