The National Register.
London, England, 1808-06-06 00:00:00

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POLITICAL DISQUISITION.

children ? Why is a military force maintained there, and
why his military law been enforced ? Why base the foes
of Catholic tmancipation so constantly eMployed, as one
of their arguments, a tleclansatinn ou the disaffected spirit
which they assert to be inherent in the Popish profession
It is but too plain that discontent dues exist; and it is
equally plain that this discontent should be allayed. Since
attachment has been stilted in the bosoms of the Irish, it
becomes uccussary that we eudeavour to conciliate them
by hope. But the opposers of their Claims
,emiteud, that
their discontent is unreasonable, and would not he stilled
by the measures proposed, Laresionable, the discontent
of freemen deprived of the rights freedom ! rnreason,
able, the discontent of brothers defrauded of the heritage
of nature if these be unreasonable discontents, then where
is the reasonableness of the boasts that the happier mem-
bers .of the community are so constantly uttering about
their own invaluable freedom, and their own unrivalled
constitution ? But it is said that the concession of the
immunities now solicited would not allay these discontents,
If indeed the want of these immunities be not a reasonable.
cause for discontent, the cunceision of these immunities
will not perhaps be an adequate cure for discontent but
we think that we can easily prove the alleged causes of
uneasiness to be fully adequate to the eflects that we see
in some mode or other existing among the Irish Catholics,
There are people who say, " Oh, it is impossible that the
" poor people, the peasants, and the mechanics, should:
" expose themselves to the dangers of rebellion, merely for
" the sake of procuring to two or three hundred rich men.
,46 the chance of seats in Parliament, pr of certain high
" offices in the civil and military departments, And then
"so few persons at any rate would be able to gain
" these great offices, that the dillerence would never be
" sensibly discerned even by the higher orders of people."
It must. be observed that most of the prohibited offices
are offices of high dignity. The people of consequence
who would aspire to these offices have a weight which
makes their mortifications become a matter of genes
cal interest in. society I their relatives, their frieeds,
their tenants, their dependents, down to the lowest
ranks of the state, are influenced by the temper of
their chief, arid moved • perhaps more violently than
himself, inasnonch as their • understandings are leas
vated. They, have a pride in- the dignity of their leader
they have a. mortification in his discredit ; the cause of
the chief is the cause of the party : and that power which
is felt to operate upon the great, operates downward, even
to the remotest individual who stands linked in the *Wee
of society. The stone that fal!s upon tho water, not only
makes a ring round thit little spot where it drops, bat ex,
tends the undulation of the surface in a hundred eiretcsl
one beyond another, each wider than Ow which have
preceded it.
But the middling classes of society fbel the orera'.'on pf
the existing disabilities, pot merely thrQush in diem
yrne

NUMBER TW ENVY-TIBREE.
ON TUE CATHOLIC. pvamos, AND ITS"
It If:Ct.:VTR/N.
( Continued from oar last. ) • :!. g
Whenever the rulers of tliis nation have occasion to
detnand•upon the people, it is their custom to ex-
British tinipre is placed in a situation of
peril, and that it
,behoves all classes of men
ifices for the defence of their country. But
which we live, be indeed times of difficulty
ich we are sorry to confess is the case, does
necessary for the Government to take all
means of surmounting its difficulties, and ob-
vers, of increasing rather than diminishing
.rength, and conciliating rather than disgust-
of the people at large ? Yet at this period of
calamity, Great Britain is content to de-
natural rights, four millions of men, the
of her islands, the subjects of her Govern.
io might be an army fighting her battle's,
is exasperating to ho an army arrayed
„istence. The old watch-word still rings in
Britain must exert herself to weather the
how does Britain make her exertions ?
entering to swim on this tempestuous ocean with
Abs bound uselessly to her side. Her Roman
iubjects, a fifth of her whole population, are ex.
common interests of Britons. And why ?
o ;. but because, three hundred years ago,
councils have passed ecclesiastical decrees,
the spirit of the mode of worship now esta-
Britain.
owe persons who admit the value of the
such a population may afford, but who ex.
population will Ann.(' its ass:stance without
vo or subsequent reward. These are not the
Jman nature, \o man wilt serve another,
attachment in the first instance, or from the
Inpence after the service is performed. The
neither attachment nor hope to engage
service, So far from entertaining attachment
been long nourishi;ig discontents of a very
descriptiou discontents which it is the imperious
Government to allay. This is an argument
terrifies the antagonilps of Catholic Emancipft-
, seek consolatiou from tlwir fears in argu-
means consistent.with each; other. Sometimes
any great discontent does exist among the
ilick pf Ireland in general. But if no great
, exist among the Roman Catholics of Ire-
Olt why have rel.plions deluged that unfortu-
for twelve years vast with the blood of her

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Catholic subjects,
eluded from the co
fpr a crime
Boman Catholic cm
repugnant to the
blished in Groat H
There arc sum
assistance that suc
pect that this pop
previous ►gotive 01
principles of hum
unless from sated
hope of recpmpen,
Irish have now n
them in our servic
to us; they have bl
alarming clocripti4
ditty of our•Gofei
that always territi
tinn c and they se,
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they deny that an
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