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frequently _ the _ case
_with Protestants after a

victory ; while their adversaries are ever vigilant,
and are never discouraged by a defeat,from per-
severing in the pursuit of the object of their am-
bition. Let Protestants, therefore, since they
have awoke from their dream of security, watch
with jealous care over their dearest interests—
the blessings of religious and civil liberty, which
they derived from their ancestors, as a sacred
deposit, to be transmitted unimpaired to their
posterity. Let them bear in mind, that the grand
attack, supported by all that artifice can devise
—all that sophistical reasoning, exaggerations,
and misrepresentation can essay—is to be made,
early in the ensuing session of Parliament, upon
that Constitution, under which they enjoy those
blessings. They cannot in ,future plead ignor-
ance, or that they were taken by surprise ; for
it has been mentioned in all the .public prints,
that the Petition of the Roman Catholics of Ire-
land, adopted in the "Metropolitan Chapel," in
the city of Dublin, on the 13th of February last,
has been withheld in the present session, only on
account of the rebellion, which, it was supposed
by the advocdtes of Popery, would be likely to
militate against their views
.; and it has also been
mentioned from authority, that, early in the en-
suing Session, a Bill will be brought into' the
House of Commons, made up of shreds and
patches of Popish loyalty, Popish forbearance,
Popish grievances, Popish numbers, Popish
rights, and Popish bulls, from the same trash bag,
(the Lord Chancellor, in the debate on the
Roman Catholic Peers' Bill, declared, that the
Bill of last Session was the greatest TRASH ever
submitted to that HOuse ; so that the simile of a
trash-bag, though not very elegant, is at least
allowable) from which the former had been pro-
duced. Let those Protestants that set a proper
value upon the blessings they enjoy under our
present happy Constitution, solemnly enjoin their
Representatives in the House of Commons, to'
oppose that Bill on its first introduction ; and,
if their instructions shall be disregarded, it will
be their bounden duty to remember, at the next
general election, those apostates, who shall have
betrayed the trust reposed in them. Had they
earlier attended to this their duty, there would
not- have been a majority in favour of Mr. Plun-
kett's famous Bill of the last Session, nor for
Mr. Canning's dangerous one of the present ; so
happily for the best interests of the country re-
jected in the House of Lords.
Before the operation of _the Convention Act
compelled those agitators to dissolve their illegal
assembly, the " Catholic Board", issued a Pro-
clamation, "commanding, all Roman Catholic
Freeholders to make their votes available, by
registering them in time ; and steadily to resist
the pretensions of any candidate, who would not
'unhesitatingly pledge himself to the support of
Catholic Emancipation ; or who had lent himself,
on was likely to lend himself to an Administra-
tion that had ever been hostile to their claims."
In my fourteenth letter I mentioned that, dur-
ing the election in this City in the year 1812, the
terror of excommunication was resorted to, to
compel Roman- Catholics to vote for the advocate
of Popery, in violation of their promises to their
respective landlords. I shall now only add that,
dpring the contested election for this City, in the
year 1818, an inconsiderable number of Roman
Catholics voted for the late Colonel Longfield,
from motives of gratitude for past kindnesses :
the consequence was, that on the following Sun-
day their names, together with their trades and
places of residence, were posted upon the doors
of all the Chapels ice Cork, to prevent the or-
thodox from dealing with or employing them.—
These circumstances shew the persevering spirit
of% the votaries of Popery to promote their
views ; and they hold out to Protestants, not
only a warning to guard against such machinations,
but also an useful example; for it was and is la-
mentable to observe the apathy with which some
have regarded, and do regard, the storm that
threatens to involve our ecclesiastical and civil
Establishments in ruin. All those, therefore,
that have a just value for the blessings they enjoy
under our present Constitution—blessings un-
known in countries where Popery is the dominant
religion--will do well in future " steadily to resist
the pretensions of any candidate who shall not un-
hesitatingly pledge himself to support" that Con-
stitution in Church and State, as settled at the
Revolution ; or. " who has lent himself, or is
likely to -lend himself," to .a faction that has ever
been hostile to religious and civil liberty, as en-
joyed under that Constitution. From some hints
I have received,' I am not without hopes that a
certain Learned Body, when the power shall
have been restored to them, will not forget some
recent events : indeed it appears a strange ano-
maly, that an University, erected for the ex-.
press purpose of supplying the Protestant Re-
formed- Church established by law 44 with a suc-
cession of pious and learned Divines," should be
represented by a person, let his talents be what
they may, who has uniformly supported the
claims of those that are avowedly hostile to that
Church ; those that have declared her to be " A
44 NOVELTY, with the marks of ruin upon her"—
" THE INTRUSIVE CHUItCH"-44 the most over-
" whelming current of bigotry and intoler-
cc ance that ever disgraced any country ;" those
that claim her " enormous and misapplied reve-
nues, as the first consequence of emancipation,
if meant to satisfy the Roman Catholics of Ire-
land." Surely, Sir, the learned and pious Heads
of that University must be strangely infatuated,
if they shall again choose as their Representa-
tive the man, however gifted by nature,---who
can advocate such a cause. . Some fastidious per-
sons, too, have been of opinion that the late and
present state of Ireland considered, it had been
better, if the Right Honourable and Learned
Member for the University. had followed the ex-
ample of his predecessor in office, who was al-
ways at his post ; though an open rebellion did
not desolate the country, however, it was agi-
tated, during the number of years that he dis-
charged the duties of his high office, with honour
to himself, and advantage to the public. His
great mind was superior to the, empty, and -tran-
sient bubble, popularity. He had no schemes of
aggrandizement, or party, to promote; and, in
watching over' the interest- of his Sovereign,
at the seat of Government, which must ever be

inseparable from that of the Constitution an
in aiding by his
.advice the Councils of the State
he thought he best fulfilled the duties of a sub-
ject, and of the first Law-officer of the Crow'
Though no longer in office, yet he has not redtired from the Council Board, as many 10'14
have done; but, in this time of public dog'.
and calamity, contributes, by his transcendent
talents and profound legal knowledge, to the re
storation of peace and good order in this I°°!
agitated country ; while his successor in offiCe
gaining applause by his speeches in the House of
Commons.
I had intended in this Letter to have made
t
a few remarks upon some late gross and fingrati
misrepresentations as to the Romish population °I
Ireland, whether proceeding from ignorance,
which would be inexcusable in Legislatnr!'
or from evil design, which would be crinn't
nal, I cannot determine : but the subj;encg
would lead me into too great length, has',
already trespassed upon your valuable PaPerto'
and I shall postpone the consideration of it
another opportunity, recommending, in the meatli
time, the following passage from a sermon Preaclieto
by Bishop Sherlock, on the 7th of June, 171" s,
the serious attention of your Protestant Reader f
CC Our fathers who lived under the dread °
" Popery are most of them gone off the stage;
and have carried with them the experience'
" which we their sons stand in need of, to nl9ll
" us earnest to preserve the blessings of iiherta
cc and pure religion, which they have bequeath'
"to us. "0 ! thdt I had words to represent t.or
" the present generatiolithe miseries which tl'elr
" fathers underwent ; that I could describe the a
" fears and anxieties, their restless nights Aatlio
" uneasy days ; when every morning threateney.t.,
" usher in the last day of England's lib: I'4l;j
" Had men such a sense of the miseries
cc times past, it would teach them What consv
" quences they were to expect from anY2il•
" cessful attempt against the present Estau""
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merits."
Cork, July 12, 1822.

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