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London, England, 1818-10-22 00:00:00

COMM/SSW!! OF INQUIIin

On Friday lest an inquiry took place at the Swan
lon. St. Peter's Mancroft. Plorwich+ under a, Cum- .
mission from the Lord Chancellor, on the Petition
of Mrs. Ellis.' sister and contisigeut devisee to the
Isle Mr. Bailey Bird, as to the stile of mind a
Bailey Bird, Elf'. of that city. Counsel for Ike
Petitioner Mr. F.dwaid Alderson and Mr. Presto' .
arid Mr. Cooper for Mr. BIM. The Counwssioi.-
ers, wee Mr. Steward Alderson. Mr. Cooptr,
Dereham. and Mr. Jackson. of Ipswich.
The tcase was very ably opened by Mr. E. Ale
derma, and Mr. Cooper. with great rogeriony
ability, maintained the defence.
Many witneMirs were examined on both sides. but
the evidenie of YOUe went to prove he wee of
mind, or capable of managing his own
Mr. E. Alderson suede an eloquent and energetic
reply to Mr. Cooper.
The Jury, after -half an hour's deliberatiori. rt.
tented the following verdict, 0. that Balky Bird
of unsound mind, so that lie is out capable of gs.•
vetoing himself, his manors, rods, chatiels,
estates.”—We understand t .Jury were :a g
to the tricapecity of Mr. Bird to ronaluct his ptei..
Mary affairs, but not as to the wording of ihr v., -
diet I the majority contending fur the to-clii.u..4
phrases of the Lord Chooreibre, office, Si ijit4l
Bailey Bird wee ineopaide or governing tritt‘..l'•
&c. :" that iu no One imitative was it knows., ii,tr
power lodged with any Lord Chancellor hsri
abused iespectiog lurrattetor ;wrens of
miod (Mr. Bird comes under the lair I r.eerripti......
who were placed by the tag; ender his pryteciii..-.
The minority, however, maintained that Mr. 11...1
had' for 90 yeare been kft to the tricoold.ii-i
monigtotent of himself,.. and that lie am
tiolvti to design any harm to himself or
Without entering tutu
.the minutiae of the
cannot Gist feel, as generattriesuls to .
the subject, 014 Ole permit of oo
he has not Offended against the law% e, boi
Lit:lid *lnd itiviel4tile:—(NOrieirCi'vpir.i

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THE CATHOLIC CAUSE.
The following is the copy of a letter sent by P.
Moore* Roil. M.P. to Edward Hey, El. Capri-
Meet, Dublin:—
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" MY DEAS have your kind favour of
• , the *7th, as to the subject of Catholic Emanci-
pation* and " soy dread or the re-esta.diolneent
• . of the Inquisition." If the former depended on
..my simple opinion, the Catholics should not be
*nitwit it, no, not one boor. However I may
• differ in opiciun, I will never, intentionally, quer..
lel with any 1111+111, either on the Ware or rehgioa
or politics. If the • lof men be not free, per-
fectly free, as his Maker isitendoetl, it is very imuse.
Serial in what condition the hotly be placed, and
the Inquisition itself become. mintemptible. This
empowers both points, of your leper. I would give
• you emancipation without the •shadow of restric-
tion, and, in the same spirit, to all religious order..
The.. perhaps, is ii•liat yob allude to, as a senti-
ment or 'nine. when you mingle the idea of re.
viviug the Inquisitson. and my dread of it. I have
Me such idle dread. and never had, at you wall
" perceive iu a portion of my Hovey use the subject.
addliessed to Lord Dosiouglimore. 1 have not •
cup'` to refer to, but I think it is in the final emu-
Nary t and as es eusesecipation. I advocate not for
tiatiolico exclusively. but fur all schismistics, so
• they are denominated. In religion. I adhere to
the spirit of the Gospel, and am not to he deluded
and eupleisticated by intereoted and corrupt inter-
preters, wimps chief aim ever hos hero more intent
•on rout-reills than on rubrics. Give them the
tout-rolls, and they will be wholly indiffemia as to
the fats of the rubrics. In all age., is, sell time,.
ea
far at least as any knowledge I have ever ob-
tained, the, great object and end of the Priesthood
bus been the acquintion of property. Relinquish
the isropetty, mid. as they have ever been most
Linda/gnat towards sinners of all Lees, they will nut
scruple to relinqui•li both prayer and preaching, av
in other times; and the compronebse will "never be
in danger of being in the least disturbed. Let me
ask you, fairly and °pestle, die you Hut thick and
iwbeve, that if year Priesthood had the aseem
dainty. they would met. as to the rent-roll, ju.t as
any other l'riesthooil, even our., dues, and strive to
keep all awl every thing exclusively to themselves ?
1 argue it. as I really feel it—e queatiou or property ;
harasser ill the limited comport between Slate and
Church is at all 'WI, is troth, in every part of the
world ; the venerated church. the ancient co-partner
of stale in times of ignorance, I lament to tibia, is
folk') to the degraded condition of the dependent
and corrupt slave of the State—l mean. the
poli-
tical State; and all the sanctity of an Archbishop,
with all his former participation of power, might,
unsje.tv, and dominion. now reduced to the de-
graded born of the holder of a corrupt political
office layman for corrupt party purposes of his
own, is not, in these times, one tenth part so formid-
ehle in all his costumier, paraphernalia as a ragged
constable with a greasy staff in a country village.
What. then, is to be apprehended front your
Emancipation? The Inquisition! Folly in the ex-
treme ! Nonsense ! Inquisition is but a gaol ; sod
without your Emancipation, we have im many gaol.,
end, in my humble opinion. such diogracrful user
made of them, that we need not fear Catholic
Emancipation would mill either to the number of
gaols, or increase the abuses of them. Nor, nerd
you examine this point on this side the water.
Your own vicinity affords more coarse evidence thaw
is anjllcieat for the honorer and integrity of both ;
and all the waters of the Shannon and the Liffey,
the Thames and the Medway, can never purify
either from the everlasting downier imposed by the
long panted for milleanium Vibe 1911 i century after
the payment of too thousand millions of money to
purchase it.—Then, my good Sir, let us not he
terrified any longer about the loss of religion, that
constant political theme of imposition fur fraud
wed devastation amongst poliiiciane. both Proles.
LOOS mid Catholic.. Religion is planted in the
heart of man. rod man cameo tear it from him,
whether politician or priest. If it he not in the
limit, it is 110 where; and if iu die heart, it coo
only be sacrificed or by the possessor
lintioellt it is out of the reach both of politician
and rivet, and securely in the custody of its owls
natural breast. You are a Catholic, I mu a Pro-
testant. You would not exchange your religion
with me; nor would I with you and if we did
attempt it. I du not know that either of us would
benefit by it. I feel that we could not ; but
if property, that tangible mint of all evil,
were the object. we might both profit by an
eythange....your land for my gold, or my gold
for your lend; either might suit us both be-
neficially. In this, there might be good sense,
wisdom, and honour, to be applauded, amongst
the occurrences of imenkind. But, what arrant
fouls we should be declared. if we met to exa
change our religious persuasions....your Catholicism
he my Protestantism. or *kg verso. '4 Your reli-
gion for yourself, mine for myself," said the
literal Heathen. a• We are both beggars for the
same bounty." So say I, my good Sir. It is NlS-
cient that I can answer fur myself. like every other
human creature. I would not wish to see a con-
vert but on his own perfect conviction. much less
would I punish for the secret feelings and vihratious
of the heart, in its namesl and sacred commune
with the Creator of menkiod, who endowed the
heart with him own virtue end free will, ogee and
ages before crafty priests and wily politicians in-
vented vicious projects to deprive human nature
of both. I feel no disposition to dictate to you, a
Catholic, any st stew of religion. I will not ; and
I will take equal and special care that you shall
nut so dictate to me, a Protestant. Titus, both

sincere, we must be agreed : and, thus, both Ca-
tholics and Prutestanti ought to be agreed. Front
whom, then, are we to dread the terrors of revived
inquisition ? Inquisition is the technical term of
gaol amongst religionists: gall is the technical
term of an inquisition amongst politicians : but the
detention, the oppression, the miseries of both are
au very much alike, that they cannot revile each
other; and I think heretic and persecution just as
applicable to. the one as to the other : us the heretic
in polities, is as criminally treated as the heretic in
religion ever was by the Dominicans, the cruelest
Order' f Monks : and, I believe, for the very same
vicious and corrupt purpose. The nineteenth cen-
tury may proceed with more forms than the eleventh
m.d twelfth, but does tot inflict less clime, less

htuominy, ouless misery. Property holes' valuable,
or rather more plentiful than it was in the earlier
periods of human sufferings; but human nature is
not snore spared by the voracious pangs of tyranny,
penecntion. and incLoisitioo, under its politic') de-
um
oinatioo. The Larliolics honoured the barbar-
ous ages. and themselves. by Le Trier de Dien :
hot its this halcyon age of the professed prevalence
of civilization and humanity, she sacred blessing.
of price are nut defended either Ly the sacred en-
chiridion of religion, or the irresistible sword
of liberty. much and proudly as we profess both;
the old base sordid root still poisonously vegetates,
and Ammar continues to kneel is pain. I offer you
no opinion for the exclusive question of Catholic
Einancipotiois. My attachment and devotion is to
the State, of which I um • faithful subject, and
my mind is thus engaged. It is for the exclusive
benefit of the State that I advocate your Emancipa-
tion, not for your religion, for in that, be it right.
or be it wrong. you are not interrupted; but that
you may be under the same law as you are under
the same God, exercise ass equal right of guardian-
ship over your *an property, 44 introduce the
powerful weight of your masculiM minds and ma.
issfuld virtues into the service of the State. By
tins, the Catholics may be served, but, I know,
that the State will k served. Whet the number
of my remaining days of sojourn here mar he, I
do not Calculate. Of that lam quite iadifferent,
so far as regards thyself ; but, be those days many
or few, I do not tlnnk I shall hastily change my
sentiments on throe several points auy more than
my religion • nor homily cease to esteem the real
pressmen for his undaunted, firm. and unwearied
perseverance in the honourable, virtuous, mud
righteous pursuit of the everlastingtreve of religious
feuds. All I can add is. go oar, %yid' coutinurd
honour mod undeviating dignity, in the true spirit
of my family motto—el Resolve well, persevere"—
under the influence of which our elation has exten-
sively benefited. from personal service, and the
common enemy felt the irresistible streugth of its
vigour. • "My dear Sir,
" Yours. ever faithfully,
" P. Moots.
" elbseestoviro. Swig Ma sty, ta. sr. •
Slat Davao'. 1.17.