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London, England, 1810-07-21 00:00:00

Mr. °Voltaire heisted hr t mild hear no more of arrange.
asents. Why call fur them at all > 11 hi throw the shade of
disloyalty, nu our chip 1 `Hey were Now educated at May-
mamba ouster the eyes iit the (ruin-asocial, and lyed to t tie
country by Mb seri and giatituele. Lien when they Me'
estoldisliments us the l'olititieut, when there was danger of
their Leung eeurateil we: uieipL s Latin] to a t;siostit a-
lion that proses dint, nod a Gorr rinnent that persecuted
Them; when dine u .IruLter that Iley would keep up dan-
gerous comionnieatious b, twee', the Irish Brigade and their
connectives in l.etsud I not no instance could he pointed oat
of disheyalty in the whole areiem of their Bishops > was it not,
therefore, a me-erable pretext to suspect them at present ?
As ton', eit.Minglintent fur the Catholic clergy, it was •
measure as del-stable as the Illunies—it would detach the
clergy from the people, and throw them into the hands of
the Aristocracy. If the measure went merely to increase
the prerogative of the Crow n, sin that score alone, he would
Dever oppose it ; iu the present state of the country, he would
not object to the distant, lenient, regular, and paternal con-
trol of Minted Minuichial authority ; hut the contiguous,
capricious, intermit, and overbearing exercise of. Acishiera.
tical power, was moot odious and oppressive. The powers
of the Irish Aristocracy were already too exuberant all the
substantial power* of the monarchy were in their heads;
they disposed of all subordinate plates, they taxed 4011 aid
not represent ; their own demesnes were eacuipt its a great
degree. All the burtheno were thrown nu the peasantry;
The rapport of the est:ll4'4,er, church, the grand jury jobs
bing funds, the money for raisin the militia, and support-
ing their families, all On ilw peasantry; and the sup-
port of the Catholic clergy would exclusively fall on them, if
the pre:scut mode of voloutary contribution were changed to
a eras. The Catholic gentry would cave paying any of it.
Would not this be great injustice! Would they have nu
cotuparsioa for ibis wretched rare, the deseethlaislis of the
former proprietors of the country, who were abut out from
all the blessings of the Coma out ~,,,, and were expose I to in-
jury and insult, without remedy sr redress, by the Manicure
expense attendiug legal proceedings 1 In this state of naked-
sem, the isidepearleore of the priests was some shelter, is they
often resealed the spoon:li of their oppi errors, and dragged
them to the tribunal of justice a bat if the priests were midi
to look up to the Aristocracy fur preferment nod ensulumeat
iastead of protectors, they would heroine oppressors, SW spies,
or informe s, uneler:isigs of uppresision This measure would
seduce them from meekness to kanghtioess, room indepead-
eut spirit to servility aunt seyessphaiwy ; at would rouse the
very worst passions of the bunion heart It would also de-
prive the peasant of incalculable resources in his ditties,:
bon to drudge and toil for others, the moment he was by
disease, or over-stn oined labour disabled, Ise was abandoned
by all the world, with wit money to bay Ineditine CO food but
bog potatoes, o, drink hut stitch water lie was exposed to the
danger of the last spark of Isle heti% extioguished by famine.
But iu this state of dirsulattou Leaves hail sir priest at hood,
to help him in his distress, to administer to his wank, and
to comfort Lisa its his alithetions : hue this moment would de-
prive misery of its cooly refuge, and poverty of its only re-
source. It would corrupt the monster uf heaven, and seduce
Lim from h,s prevent zeal mid iunotty, to disgust aril Mist
fairence. The tye of iuterevit was stronger than the ty es of
morality sod reheats. The priest would not, if emancipated
from Lis deperience on the people, sacrifice his comforts
to the performance of Ins duty —(lle, tine war n cry of so,
a...)—lye. O'Connor disclaimed all :atomism to the Catholic
clergy, but argued how the general Sufis-amities of human
nature.

It was, be said, imagined by some, that these measures
would destroy Popery, and the isflueoce of the clergy. lle
asked what brazen image would they set up in its place, to
recoucile the peo.atit to his destiny ? what means they would
devise to control the spirit of despair! They ought to
tremble at the awful state of the world, and the alarming
state or Ireland. A power had arisen ou the Coutincid,
that had prostrated at its feet all the kingdoms and nations
of Europe, except their own. Its whole power was then di-
rected against them ; they had but one way of evading the
pressure of its colossal weight, by a coalition of all parties.
They should beware of increasing their dirisious, particularly
the great dir moo that mussed between the poreity and the
property of the casualty ; they should beware of destroying
that order in the state, the Catholic clergy, that balanced
the unequal coudiiiim ut the others mid kept them cosi-
neetelle.eif they did, the ruin and dm:oh:thou of the cuartry,
the ilestruetios of their 'properties, and the establishment or
unieersai despotism, woukl b • the consopsence. He seri.'
oppose Mr. °Garman's lievalutions, because they would iu.
voter them in fresh enibuirassatenti; and as the proceedings
of last year were dug, are soil contradictory :he world, to
reduce :hem to consistency, more a continuance of the prin-
ciple ailopte•l in the first :eoillition of last year, of out
Immune under cant tog eirminutances.

Mr Ct.' II st,in a rev./ able speech, of consider:it& length
'trunk. the suacnant • t of Mr. trlAmator.

Mr KEOGH LOC —lie said that i.e Cane Orr tl will, many
of the prine.ii rs uud acietisocuts isoprene.' by the. elivver, al-
though hr could not .oseist to the conchnom elevern front
them that before he should enter ammo the immediate sub.
jeet of discontent, ineleed before be could expect elleir nttenv
tom to the opioitens and reamosstleut hr was %ileum to advance;
respect fur them and a justl,lll. lii 0,1,11 character, re-
quired him to Sive re to a publication, whit is had app.-arm' in
Ttr Pn-eentre's Jarred of il•at day, u ith the •igesatare otTo-
TOOLICeS 11911 t ;ender wi.irl, title Ike irsiber Lad thought
proper to heist furs ar•l his political conduct with re-
spect to the affairs of the %saheb. s of Ireland, charges of the
Must flogitimis hued; unit iota entonly Law, because tittered
with a ronerionsiates allover lie had a right to
assume that the willow is as pri a lit—he horn he was ; and
now, io the fore of his inenetes noel of Lis Catholic brethren,
called openu hitioolared defied I to stand Imaged,
to substantiate uoe tot Iv of the charges he haul made; which,
although taken 14 mortise, with the short notice of hill au
hour, he s Mr. Kr ogle' fraws lii :Ippl'itt ill hie 00 II iroyarienre,
and a reit orp, lu his iis,l lift, pit died la refute ;
and to prove the serume a li., sod x calumniator. Hsi it
teas MI for the purpose of grim:diem abuse, ilea L. called up.
011 the OS11111\11:1' 10 :111,V11,t old a,. he ass, and yunnic •• lie
presumed the .. 11l mous tilliiilSSlU to la:, lie eau. rtmly to
Intel Ism in any 11111int'r Ii einem to appoint, need would non
rd J. 01,11, 1,1 fine aumppartuesity lii appear, if the
liar %as sum ..!.o u coward.

Derr Mr kcogh sat %/mu fur a few momenta ; but se no
oor saline fur.ard.
Coonseltur 1.117.6 l l E Lt. declare,' th-tt he ski ant hriseve
that there oat one Cathodic is. Ireland carodote such bm.e
iegrattlude a 1 to utter the arnadalous charily contain% d
ander the oaralture of Cotes/ire, fp,. 'le thoingliclt no
the cuntraoy, the production of suttee emus.. to the Canonise
cause, bOtill 8141411110( orangesamo. and WWI Ca Pitch C.. 31 Sr.
lion—a eolorit,ml4 Ike attarbasent and all stints a %eery
Irislintalt In that revere.' iteatlemau, he propooed that the
imitation' should resolve that,
IMF:THANKS OF TN E CATHOLICS OF IRELAXD
ARE EMINENTLY DUE To JOHN KEO(.II, E.su.
FOR HIS 1.,%!%G, FAITHFUL, ANI) UNPARALLELED
skitricr..: TO THE CAUSE OF 1111 SH CATHOLIC:
EMANIIPATION.

The ersulioinis of Conniellor O'Connell seas carried with
loud and unanimous acclanialiom.

Mr. ecoGn returned the meeting and the aturrr hie aid.
care arinionledgmeata fur this nowinirocal proof of their

kind sad *ii ciionate ronti.krice, E
lie obin;vonl that the
author, by &chiming to conic forward, had poked, what
Mr. Keogh had first advanced, that he knew bin amebas@
to be Use ; and the rr.pertahk nocrtiii;r, which he had the
honour In address, would row perceive to grim lruß h a goo.
ardtv *commit,' may be tempted to go, to (entity a spirit of
malignity. Cut he was resolved not io ay.ul himself of what
might be considered us the 'Get of their partiality, the sp•
proMitios they had unanimously etprested of his eashatt ;
bet would now, enuspelled as he was by this sneerymose
serAbler, prodoee, in his town vindication, a detail a fasts
which he would otherwise have carried wall him tis the
grave.
A chug' made by this writer it, (said Mr. Keogh) that,
whi e Bomiscipetiine was intended by • trembling Coast,
through my woos the great measere dwis4led down to
11w petty pars/opts of adulation to the her, to the may, sal
to the eimi.ve tramline. !Such is the assertion of Catiartieur
/psi. la auswer to which, I assert that rang syllable 4 that
asaertion is false.; sad to prove my allegation I have weity to
call the attention at this ameba( M the eaudition of the
Catiolic Body, both at and before the period alluded to,
which I shall do, and au the pusses 0: essay geotkeee,