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London, England, 1818-11-20 00:00:00

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(Frew " The WHRIy Froemeses Jorrnall

The following letter from the Right lion, Mau-
rice Prager&ld, in vindication of his speech. deli-
verroi at the Irtv F.1.-ction for the County of Kerry,
tar teen put into en► hand. IT the very respectable
Gentleman to wl ii wee Ire•sed

" Val. wig. Noviasher S. 11118.
Mc DRAR ink yon fo-r ml' the small
pamphlet, which you "'AI ilewrilie. and •hick probably.
euald out otherwige have travelled on far. It bits attempted
to give mwre rmaseenee than a Newspaper report gene.
.ally has. to a most *woolens's statement t.f what I said on
•he hisstiugs at Are Isle General Election.
" A very stmoihle maw told MP, ow seeing the gulatate.
carol of my speech in she Kew paper. that an argument
ignowit the Cid...lie Claim. would be finsoded on it. I And
:hat he ono right sa.l, thee. fore, though as far as lam
wrtionslly concerned I ohniehl probably have enticed neither
1 the owe one the other, I cannot ruler a great public eager
II he slandered through eves so lomolde an advocate an 1
es. I need sot tell yea that I neither retract Der ginallfy
illy seillowent whit* I altered.
" Mt O'Citouell hash., expressed an opinion mach too
of my modest with the exception of in, voile on
he Voimi, I ass made to say,' that I thanked Mr.
erplatillag MAW In Ike Union—AM Lord
Cornw•lli• had ahrvm me o distinct pinumise, written and
gued by Mr Pitt, by which the Vision will to be followed
'iy a total and env...ldled Ematocipation of the Catholics

" I did say that I thanked my Mend, Mr. °Tamen
ISM for explaining. WI) for giving me an opportunity of es.
dainiog the motives which indwell me to yule for the
iiiiion. I did not nay that Lord Cornea/ha had shears one
he paper; sor did I ineothin the same of Lord Cornwallis,
rof Mr. Pitt, or of arty ether person • hat. yer, •s eos.
weed aids that measure. Neil's" did Mr. O'Cummell soy
hat he hoes I longed anxiously to reload the ITaba. Nose
f these thinp were said; and, therefore, though I may sot
egret more than you do the reasonior powers of the writer,
.ad most allow that he may have been misled, as to his facts,
•I is lietwasory to destroy Ike ifunadatioa of kis calrmaium
inaiusatione.
Mr. C7Connell Mated. and in did I, shit I repelled my
mat so the Union. I regret it, because itU the predicted
oils, and some ado. promised benefits. have revolted from
.1. I stated, at the same time, that I viewer had gives ovule
with more lowest intentions ; that gross delusion bid brew
intetioeil to carry the measure, m the eyelet proved. 'Thaw
lelasions were more formally and authoritatively embodied
is the 'peer+ of Alt. Pitt on that *erasion. All ibis I bare
epratedly stated is Parliament, and io moth stronger las.
:sage than I ever osed at a public meeting.
" If toil Cornwallis had alwwn me • paper signed by Mr.
Pitt, it most have bees of a private name', sad it would
save been breach (not of • Privy Counsellor's oath,
insinuated, fur I was not them • Privy Colowellsr,
wit) of the of • Gentleman to have betrayed it.
Lord Cornwallis did give to me, sot in couilleisce or
reefer", bat expressly for circulation, • duroment, which
ow been sow fremiestly published sod seated, as 'vomiti-
ng she 41. rlaration of the then retiring Cabinet. This
Ito I have slated is Parliament, bat JiJ out asestios at my
itletterM.
.11aball sever shrink from avowing the motives which,
sisibr the eireounstatices in which Ireland was, Loitered
/WM vote Arc the Uoluo. I voted for the Union 1,, gamed
sandast the possible re-enartownt of the • Petal Lowe,'
AAA sew craufearplared. To procure the extinction of 04-
.iitovees publicist and relen.ss distiortime among my
•wnelnytnins, end to oblates • safer es pport avid mare dignified
*hector to the Protestant Church than is compatible with
he prreent tithe system, more holmium to its Clergy than
!wen to the t stkulic fanner.

" Exurb, tl • leading objects which I had in wiry, sad In
shier I sacrificed my prejadiecs in favour of the theory of
wr iamb?. ut Lexistaturc, 1 have permed in my humble
lane sincerely and steadily, bat comb sitionally sad That
.hose, and some other, were my motives and principles in
wprieting she Valois, the serviettes of those Statesmen who
larricd the measure full well brow—se did those who ars
NM no SUM.
With rasped to • r Repeal of the Union; should ameba
armere be proposed in Parliament, I should 'demi it at-
,seridog to the coosekatitioe dictate of my judgmeal, regard-
' Las either of pow or popular favour.
" A:though I ate drfy the isnissitaliii, that any thin
scouslatrail sith my duty as 'a Privy Coussellur was *li-
lted 4 lorinc the mimed of triumph on a penal elettims:
I slid, I. the strongest language 1 eonld euanatand, express
ay pride am only at brief supported by the rank and pro-
wrty of my comity, Protestant as well as Catholic, but the
siiliatiou in the attachment of the humbler dabs of my
',Conseil/arms.

• To the insinuations founded oa what lam suppmed to
lave said at my election, the 'ether has added • reptile.'
sari lotion—unworthy cif solace, twelve as indicating the
pirit is which he writes.—He saps, that ' after the death of
Mi. Pitt, I a •tered isle office with an alainistration that
-sine into power, first pledging themselves sit to dimsm
•hr factitive of Catholic Itsnanripaiiim.'—Tbe fact is, that
refused, alms solicited, lueinuisise iii office with the ad-
alisistratiou which gave that pledge, sod resigned—although
jlt we vivre persons hi that adminlstiatio• whom I perms**,
*new erg +riled.
As it is a duty is public mew to gaud themselves
igaisat unfounded obluqny, I request of you to give publi-
city to Ibis is whatever meaner apron to you must proper.
"Believe me, very fiiitbfullp, pours,
0 M. FITZGERALD.
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