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London, England, 1815-11-10 00:00:00

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17:e reto of the `l7;l.itYz: "bcfl;l,.t:'
Ilas .trueli like i i t 4.0(1 St e}
Adad hinder() ‘‘ at it coo Id tiC-t.

• Hasn't' ric5.:31..1.2r0g.
The 1.7ct0?-=-This \v“rd d=one tolerable inis-
tltief in France ; 'ar:d it seems destined to per-
form its share in Ireland.
Paris•and Dulkit have managed it precisely in
the 'samt. manner. Th.e French Demagogues in-
vented it, 'f(Yr• the:sake of. clothing the King with
a diniihiShefl atithority, instead of his legitimate
r'iver. The Irish Demagognes imported it, for
the sake of so proMising an experiment.
The, French Dtmagognes sneceeded in bringing
their.Alonarcii to Abe scaffold. The Irish Demo-
' tnguestt ith the acknowledged inferiority of imi-
la!ors, 'could never reach tiiis splendid original.—
is.to be apprehended, that the English resi-
fiener- of Our Sovereign will oblige-them to coo-
tie their operations to a Viceroy. Bitherto,
they have not been able to get beyond a Chief-
4nstice ; and this, in the vulgar way of assassina-
ti" and as twelve V:.ars have passed sin•:e this
=evolutionary Itachcol),..they may now, very rca-
ionahlv, he ready for dinner. •
13" who shall despair of perseverance ? In the
Int- time, as this word—VeTo—has been wOrk-
" inset so much importance, and has laid the
foundation of so many meetings, and resolutions,
and s.,
• pecches, we may be well excused in endea-
'enuring to define its meaning.
th" 'VET(); 'then, is simply this :—A privilege
rested, car .to‘ be rested, in some 4Omestic authority, of.
Ille,gutiving the appoint; tent of the Roman. Catholic
rkithood by the foreign authority of the Pope.
detinit lour illaV he wrong ; but it is extract-
from the Roman Catholic Petitioners and Ora-
t°t' float their attestud harangues. and their ac-
Ndited publications. If it be incorrect, they
Rill favour it n itti their correction.
Itut VEro—hhe all their procedures—is
P°tinded upon a fallacy. is not sufficient for
that the complaint which they advance
tho
"hl he deceptiou;; the relief which they .etk. au"
3t be equally misrepresented. •
Such is' the quality of a bad cause ! Its nature is
toi
Iterahle ; its character is irre:ersibie. Tunth
11."uld •• -
" I niarN., • ; falsehood .alcue can do it set'-

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;rit:iNnt:thiti::lvil.:tervutsit."--iti'all:e4iret:>joeasu'i'ttsteb;e'':;eialin the
:ld
8(11:51t.i1:1Co;
tater;:il in the spirit of fals.hood.
tlhow cite settled the preftsilbility,- they best can
tell "s: hut DR YDENhas itit it Off with tolerable
rkataess
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SPIT
RONIEST I'
Or R STUMBLES : :,:ro TELIT EI lt E-
°P LYING..
t. Tii"----whea they refuse to the
.sovereign the
Wit of , „egativiog. the Pip ii appointment, they
)11
teat
Ali el
Iti tgi laaatltel;:oi,sind
)t Ourl!ev
(.snatie((l)ttirneii saes int(lsiticti
v. of such
i::.e..ai
ti appointmenttli, ii
a vaes
"Qt Yet . enumerated
.among their gricrattees the
die, i. .
Ste_44 ItY of such an assumption in the Rollllsll_
1
WIIP
11. -11
"ICY shall havC worried our Legislature
tli.::,,,tel,i."("sl'ing thii fictitious privilege, 'which
1:--..y themselves have set up for the purpose 'of
11111)g
il
°'
anti
then they will denounce our
able 14"104 law and our oldest statutes as incomp4-
trite"l. the relinquish new.
.t, ii ills, the disclaimer of what
We Ito not OSEeSS be tortured ,
ihstession into the p
surrender of our actual':
It .
these no peculiar shrewdness to suspect
ke ' men.' i„ertain Company, we instinctively
'mill °LH' hands in our pockets; neither, even
1 11
l'4.l6teti for alms, do we withdraw them,
4 Zest the;
our 4necessful mendicant should slip off with
~.. rurse.
iit
.1114, peri!aPs, is not liberality ; but at least it
ik 'l:4l(leriCe' A dull sort of virtue to be sure, but
ttY us
' t L't actint"! one, sounding very unpoetically,
& . ,
,4443 .k. bet y Profitably.
111.(l'il „; we are obliged to let "I dare not," wait
Ntthat l4llid."—We cannot give to the crutch,
"lust be guitded from the cud*
el.
el.
ti
If •
els be a misfortune, the fault is tbuirs, not
lrs. ~„
'fleY' must blame their own subtlety, not
A "I "caution-. .-
D'eida
It '''s this, they have a.uew hick, of which
'etl.es::.(reiness almost excuses the mischief :—They
1, -411. e more than they expect, so as to come down
1 .a)ltePH44.. for their original expectation. They %val.
ts—e"-ty• thing, and they will accept any thing
.:Itilatt'er t liow small the boon, it helps the argu-
-1 • e tA.'ll.-frek zh concessions, and means of acquir-
14g‘ them.
Like
.1
•-% : ‘.V'l7 Ilecllars, they sell us their rotten
114r."'41,,7';111"1 Pitt O. Fltheir bad change. Of such a
" we cduiio t easily praise the cheapness.
l'osstis,
Whic..t,
-"IY, 'l+4“ve, tier, they learned this- trick, at.
,
' - '''-e Must la .ugh too heartily to be yeyy

IngrY,•llof Sytragogne, but icl t4.l:itircati-
lu'o.ks so cliptomntic, that iiigi iikeliii‘ood they
picked it 1,) is rehearsing their embassies to the
Cortes and the POPE.

It is pleasing enough, to be sure; but n'lien
it ka's amused us sufficiently, we luny order it
down stairs, without exactly making it our eptn,

pan ion.

The fox will push in his nose wheresoOler
bc, can. Our ancestors hunted him out of their
to ritories : we invite him to kennel in our chain-
bet S. If he accepts the invitation, which shall we
V 1 jn►e--Lis impudence, or our folly ?'

t ill
the Romish Board—Committee—Associa-
tion—whatever title this many-named and many-
tongued Assembly at present may chose—will they
instruct us precisely what they would be at ?
\%e apply to the wrong source for instruction.
The puppets cannot explain :—we must ask the
Managers.
Well then--behind the curtain we will look for
this furour.•

We might have spared ourselves such superero,
gation of trouble. Counsellor O'CoNNELL files
a dilatory plea and ArabiAop Troy postpones
his reply to the Greek Calends.

The Managers then will not speak ; and the
Puppets cannot, or dire not. Be it so. We
must put in an answer fen• them. If we answer
wrongly, the Managers will reform it with their
correction ; if we answer rightly, they will con-
fess it with their silence.

'They desire their Pon to he invested, in our
Protestant State, with an authority which he never
possessed, even when our State %vas Rotriish.

They desire the absolute, sweeping, implicit,
and unconditional repeal of half our rider code ;
of those venerable ordinances, by which our an-
cient monarchs, our EDwattos, our HENRYS,
and our ELIZABETH, preserved the existence of
our Church.

" Oh but"—(says the Archbishop or the Coun-
sellor)—" the poor oppressed Catholics have no
'' such desire! They de''y you to slew, in
"-their petitions, the.remotest tentiency to,lard
" the shadow of such an insinuation ! And if
" their Parliamentary Advocates introduced the
" allusion, they Were extremely displeas!,r! at
" clauses, so officiously indiscreet, so vexati,u,ly
'' ill-timed, so mischievouslv'incourenient."

Were they ihrterd ? And imAA, Are tecollect,

they.did manifest much a:-friust
CANNING, and his precipitate unhaLtgiug, of the
cat. They did not tell us in their petitions, that
Emancipation is imperfect and uselessoind " not
" worthy of the ace:ptance of the Catholics--
as' :Mr. PoNsoNB 't had it—unless the most ;indent
institutions of England are aboiished !—:q7r most
ancient statutes !—(ter most ancient common law !
—the law which WiLLIAm the Conqueror found
among us,• and respected, and preserved !—the
Law of EDWARD the Confessor Law of
EDGAR !—the Law of ALFRED ! —the Law, which
even in those anemia reigns was venerated as. an-
cient I—the Ltw, which is coeval with Eugland'a
Christianity !—the Law, which twelve hundred
years ago rejected the Papal Mission of Aucus-
Tim: as a modem usurpation !
They have not told us, that Tins is the anti-
(pity which they style a novelty, and which, in
consequence, they desire us to annihilate.
No, certainly. They have not so foolishly fore-
gone their accustomed cunning,
The season has not yet arrived for shocking us
with this enormity. In their chapels, to be sure,
they are already singing, " VENTET DIES,
DIES ILLA !"—but our eyes are not yet habi-
tuated to the broad and insufferable glare of its
danger.

What an unholy insinuation ! cries the Arch-
bishop—Anathema Eslo! cries the Conclave—and
the censure echoes from Maynooth to Norwich.
Well. As they have said nothing about the
Statutes of Provisors, of Prtemunire, and of
Supremacy, suppose we receive their petition as
unconnected with these laws, and grant just as
much of its prayer as is compatible with their
enactments !

When we have played ourselves so simple a
trick, the petitioners will be satisfied with their
new liberty. How long
Until its first exerciserans them in the teeth of the
old la u. Then, they will return to the Legisla-
ture ; and we too well know the previous process
of tumult, irritation, and sedition—and complain
of the delusion.

Aye, but the delusion is their own, not our's.
The opposing law is not hidden in ambush it
stands full front in the way: it cannot be jumped
over ; it may be prostrated : it cannot he evaded ;
it may be extinguished : it blazes, it flames upon
them ; the blindness which refuses to behold it,
is wilful, ft audulent, and treacherous.
They have not enumerated it among their'
• grievances, they cannot enrol it among their M-
I juries.
But we, who know the purpose of the Roman
• Catholics; their temper, their character, their

4,cloets-their nrioeinles
21.7 ER lose sight of this I.w. hey ):aVe. not
"Pen!y sought its repeal : but we will grant them
nothing whie,h is incotlsistent with its continuttoce:
• Already the Veto belongs to our Sovereign.
He does not need B.0:;lsli confirmation to secure
Agiat Original possession.
• . • S)4OLLETT, in one of his novels., Rodegic Ran-
webelieve, puts this matter in ifs trite light.
Ail Irish fortune-hunter came a ‘l,ioOing a Lich
heiress, Sir, says the good eareini !I:601er, you
do my daughter a v,Vst deal of honour allow inc
.f to ask. you what settlement you intend, to make
iipon her ?-7sladam, replies he, I aura Gentleman
• bred and born, my glair,: are in some little disorder,
but your daughter shall be trated like a gentle-
woman, and I will settle her own fortune upon
her and ber.heirs for ever: You are extremely
generous, Sir, answers the mother, but 1 wont
give you the trouble of settling upon my daugh-
ter what is hers already. When you next .tlo us
the honour of a visit, we shall be not at home.
* *
English Protestants !—lay to Your pilloWs and
your hearts this single consideraticiii:
The Veto, which the Roman Catholics affect tó
refuse to, or compromise with, your Sovereign is
his oldest prerogative. Nay, lie possesses more;
much niore c Not only he can forbid. any ap-
pointinent by the POPE, but he can noilee every
appointment himself. The propriety or the im-
propriety of the papal choice has nought to do
with the question ; because the Pore can make in
the British 'Empire no appointment at all.
Hatt can the Bishop of RoAth fill tip a vacancy
whereof Ito notification can be legally transmitted
to him, aml whereupon no communication can bc
legally received from him. ' •
Between the Bishop of ROME and every sub,
Jeer of tlr British Empire, there is a great gulph
fixed,
It is not necessary that that gulph should be
filled np, or the ancient Temple of bur Law de
!polished, to build over it a new bridge. The
Porv. who can manage this Will iudeedlpe Pantifex
Maximus.
No, it is not necessary ; our Romish ancestors
settled their ecclesiastical affairs without his Ho-
liness through several centuries—Why cannot
their Romish descendants ? •
In a word, that Emancipation which' goeS be-
yond the mode Wherein our Roguish Church WdS
governed under our Romish Sovereigns, cannot
now be essential to the free exercise of the RomiSh
religion.
In a word—the Emancipation, which goes be:.
yond that mode, is designed, not for spiritual
berty, but for political power : to increase the il-
legal authority of the Pore, it conspires to reduce
the legal-authority of the King.
English Protestants Will you submit to this
conspiracy ? will p.m suffer this impoSture to pas§
cot rent ? will you concede equal privileges to those
who reject eq,.,al laws ?
Nu.—Yon will not.

POETRY.

LINES WRITTEN AT GIBRALTAR IN IMITATION Or A
MOORISH scigq.
The Leopard's eye is full and bright,
And white are the tusks of the Boar,
And yellow the sands when the orb of night
Shine 9 lovely on the shore;
But brighter still is Leila's eye,
And the pleads of her lip more fair,
And the sands that glance to the gem of the sky
Less height than Leila's hair.
I climbed the mountain's lofty crest,
I gazed en the azure deep, •
SmoOtli, smooth, said I, is the ocean's breast,
Oh ! love 'me,'Leila, and mine shall rest,
In as calm and holy a sleep.
- Oh ! to the thirsty soul 'tis dear
To meet in the wilds a spring,
'Tis sweet when Mecca's 1-.Yesins ring - •
On the wayworn pilgrim's ear,
But dearer,- sweeter, far to me,
Oh love, the voice will be,
- • That whispers lam thine for ever,
Death, itself, shall part us never.

BY AN OFFICER.

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