The National Register.
London, England, 1814-05-08 00:00:00

TILE NATIONAL RECISTER.

Little did the poor ignorant creatures, who without know-
ing ex:.criv whether it he something to eat, or to wear, have
been taught to rave for- emancipation, suppose that against
which they were last year instructed to raise their voices,
was that, which the ilead of the C ch would counsel them
to accept with thankfulness ; and little (lid those who arc so
unmercifully fleeceins: these unfortunates expect the course
of events would so soon unmask their hypocrisy. Little
did they imagine that within one short twelvemonth
it would he stated in a commtmication direct from Rome—
it had beim d{'rre, d, nfier ev:lrlining, in a Council of
the most Lea, pcd Frellies and 1.b,010Q-ians, the letters trans-
mitted from "that the Catholics do receive, Nvith a
content and g•a•eful th:• propositions which were last
year brought tocsraid for thcii• ettlaucipation ;" or that, in
such a quarter, language like that which follows would be
held

" That the I.`,lonarch should desire to be assured of the al-
lc!_'iance of those promoted to the office of Bishop or Dean,
and be secure of their possessing those quali,ics which beh,ng
to good suh.l( c.:3; filet he should hesides appoint a commit-
tee to e;:tantne into tneit habits of life, and to report to him-
self, as your Excellency has detailed; and, finally, that Ite
f.hotild. for the time to come hold excluded men not British
temp, or Who had not lived fur the five preceding years in
his dominions, arc all, as matters of civil regulation, entitled
to the indulgence of the Church. It is besides of no slight
importance that our higher Clergy should be acceptable and
plea,ing to the Monarch, that their ministry should be exer-
cised with his full approbation ; and, finally, that even those
who arc not of the bosom of our Church should have no sus-
picion of their probity (as the Apostle teaches: I Timothy,
7.), " It hehaveth us to have a good testin.ony cf those
'who are without."

Doubtless there is now among the Catholic Board Gentry •
nothing Ira weeping and %veiling and gnashing of teeth, for
well they ...low the day is at hand which shall consign them
to their native insignificance, when neither the rhymes of
Mr. Phillips, nor the raises of Geueul Mathew, will de-
tract fiem their respectal:i!ity, nor add to their disgrace.
Yes the eyes of the Irish Catholic-. must at last be °pellet.'
to the scmlid motives, by which the paltry speuters of the
Catholic Board have been :u atql the proudc t he
.'.inong them, shall fall like Lucifer (and Mr. Kit Ilutehinson'..,
to rise no more. It w ill now be found th:a those who pre-
tended to raise a hue and cry, after a thief.where no robbery
bad been committed, did so but to plunder those whom they
pretended to assi:;'. It is hardly too much to suppose the
general indignation will give those something of sensibility,
who never possessed it before ; that every where met by con-
tempt, and pursued by execration, Messrs. O'Connell and
Maegrath will do something more with their " loaded ',Nth,'
than flourish them before a mob. The multitude who wit-
nessed the stupendous display of cowardice, which these /wet
heroes when advancing (like one vastly their superior—Den
Quixotte) to the windwill, had the fortitude to exhibit, will
perhaps have another ramble and a better days sport. How
mere mortal men can withstand the torrent of hatred and

scorti which threat( ns to overwhelm them, surpasses our
comprehension. These with the O'Gorman's, and the
Scully's, and the Drumgoore's, are nearly gone by. How
mast they reproach each other with their common degrada-
tion. We must alwaym b! enemies to the duelling system,
but at the same time we must admit Swift might have had
f.orne meaning, when he declared he could see no reason
by Pools and zicouudrels sltuulci trot be rernaitted to destroy
..ime another.