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into a meaning which the present Manifesto bears

upon its front !

The Constitution, Sir, from the period of the
Revolution, has been essentially PROTESTANT.—
Separation front the Church of Rome is its berg
foundation and its corner-stone. I repeat, then,
it is essentially Protestant, because the REFORMA-
TION went no further than to exclude the POPR
fl OUI all Jurisdiction within these realms,; bnt
his many adherents and instruments, whose bi-
gotry still retained them in their bondage to him,
mole than once threatened, by their intrigues and
false professions, to impose
,again time galling yoke
upon our necks ! The last and almost successful
attempt on the part of JAmEs 11. to second these
efforts roused the Nation into action, and that
weak and priest-ridden Monarch was driven from
the Throne by an United Nation of Protestants.
\Witt was the natural and obvious policy which
followed upon this Revolution ?—A system which
went not only to the Exclusion of the POPE from
all direct interference, against which the laws had
already provided, but of his indirect influence
through the Instrumentality of POPERY, by de-
priving PAPISTS in this Country FOR EVER of the
power by the use of which they might again be
rendered mischievously effective against the Con-
stitution. To assume, therefore, that the Con-

stitution is imperfect, because the Papkts are ex-
clock(' trona its Administrative Functions, is to
falsity History—to assert that the admission (not
time re-admission) of them to these functions, is

not an innoviition upon the Constitution, is a pal-
pable untruth. Observe, however, the fallacy of
their own reasoning, even if their facts were un-
questionable, for in the two first paragraphs of
their Address they take upon them to assert, that
the Constitution, as established at the Revolu-
tion, i; "unjust and unwise," whilst they deny
that they wish for any innouation! Surely, it the
existing laws are in their view of the case really

"unjust and unwise," they cannot consistently
desire, that they shOuld be persevered in ; how
then is it, that they profess their object to be "to
accelerate their unrestricted operation?" What !
Is their object to give fall and unrestrained opera-
tion to unjust and ruinous Laws? If not—they
must purpose innovation ? On which of the horns
of this dilemma they are disposed to hang their
cause, is to me immaterial . they may decide ac-
cording to the best and most able of their Ca-
suists, from Loyola downwards ; but I defy them

to prove, according to their ()wt./ " simple" state-
ment, that the Laws and Constitution, unwise or
unjust us they may appvar in their eyes, are not
the Laws and Constitution which were establish-

ed at the Revoluri►►n ; and further, atm the claims
which they now set up, are not incompatible
with, and in d►rect opposition to them, and that,
therefore, a compliance with them would not be an
innouation—l use the moder4te term under which

they cloak their approaches against the Const

tion—hut with the History of my Country before
me, I have no hesitati►►n in exten►ling the term

to the fullest construction of a Cout4THR-ItavoLu

TroN ! ! The Constitution was reformed, and
purged of the evils which had for a length of time
produced convulsions and agitation, threatening
its very existence. These evils were principally,
if not altogether, found to arise out of the repeated

struggle for Ascendancy among the Followers and
Abettors of Popery and its constant concomita►►ts,
arbitrary principles of Government. To preuent
efectually the recurrence of these evils, the Pope
anti Pomy were FOR EVER excluded as consti-
tuent parts of the Legislative or Mi►►isterial lune-

tions of the State. It was this exclusion, the went
labour of the Constitutional Whigs, which charac-
terised the Revolution ! Ihe PROTESTANT As-

CENTRANCY (now so unfashionable a term) was
the darling object of Britons, and the still wore

_ -
recently exploded cry of " No PoPEEv," was the
rallying word of every Constitutional Man, who
considered himself and his posterity as for ever res-
cued front the chains which an unsettled Consti-
tution had imposed upon their fathers, and held
suspended in terrorem over themselves !—This
was Tux REVOLUTION : this was the boasted and
glorious signal of perpetuated Freedom' to Eng-
lishmen. It was this, and little beyond this, and
nothing unconnected with it, which marked and

distinguished that EPOCiI in our history, to which
even the Miscreant Rabble of Subscribers to the

support of Blasphemy and Sedition pretend at
least to refer, as the security of Constitutional
Rights and the Freedom of their Countrymen !
and nothing can more strongly testify the de-
plorable and mischievous consequences likely to
arise hum the proposed subversion of the Con-

stitution, than the. constant support given to the,
Claims of the Roman Catholics for power, by
those bitter and inveterate enemies to the Govern-

went ct our Couutry, the Patriots, Blasphemers

and Reformers in the present day. It is by them
anticipated as a vast accession of strength to the
Cause of Jacobinism, because it will put arms into

the hands of those who are like then;selves hostile

to every Institution, both in Church and State—
forgetting in. their ignorance, and in the pride
and vain conceits of their hearts, .that they would
be the first victims of the newly acquired powers
of Papal and Arbitrary Governors. If these poor
puling and wretched Orators at Common Halls,
Clubs and Taverns, were even acquainted with
the outlines of their own History, they would
know that the most active among the puritanical
and 9ctlitious Demagogues in the Great Rebellion

were Papist* acting under Papal Dispensations,
and that the strength and influence thus acquired
enabled them to make those desperate advances
towards the Establishment of Popery and Ty-
ranny, which the United Force of the Country
would have found it difficult to check, had not
JAMES H. been as dastardly in his abdication as
he was bigoted in his principles.
The situation of the Country, Sir, is appalling
to the feelings of every honest and sincere Lover
of the Constitution. The State is assailed by a
faction of blood-thirsty and relentless Reformers,
whose principles are steeped in the foulest and
most loathsome dregs of the French Revolution.
They are desperate in Character and Fortune, and
elated by an unimpeded and hitherto saccessful
career, towards the gratification of their abomi-
nable aspirations, they rush on headlong to their
purpose. They have triumphed over the Tribu-
nals of Public Justice, and sapped the foundation
of our Rights, by intimidating and overawing
Juries, who are the Constitutional Guardians of
those Rights ; and Corruption, which is slander-
ously imputed to our Governors, is boldly practised
by THEM, in substituting the passions and pre-
judices of men for the even and impartial course
of Justide. It matters not on which side the
Laws are infringed; if they be infringed, the
safety of the Subject is compromised, and our
Liberties endangered. But, Sir, our danger stops
not here. Not only are the minds of the People
poisoned by the senseless miserable trash of the
democratic cheap Press, which the mistaken mode-
ration of Government, in my mind, has tended to
encourage, but by that which we have hitherto been
taught to consider as a Constitutional Safeguard
to our Liberties, the Opposition Party of
Statesmen, who, whatever may have been the ob-
ject of their union, have hitherto been supposed
to contend for the Constitution, and the Constitu-
tion only, but appear now to be identified with the
basest and lowest of the Jacobin Tribe of Level-
lers and Reformers ! Has despair of office, which
first engendered the system of Calumny and per-
sonal Insult towards our illustrious REGENT, who,
before his rejection of this Party, was loaded with
their most fulsome panegyric and high sounding
epithets of greatness and magnanimity ?—has the
despair, I ash, occasioned by protracted banish-
ment from the conduct of Public Affairs, blinded
the Party to all just discrimination of Principle ?
Are they resolved to identify themselves with the
outcasts of Society and the dregs of Jacobinism,
in order to compass the ends they have view,
of FORCING themselves into the Councils of The
PRINCE REGENT, and defeating their political Ad-
versaries, who have raised the Glory of the Coun-
try to an height unknown to our Forefathers, and
that too, in honourable and progressive confuta-
tion of the daily prophetic Diatribes of these men,
against the measures and policy which have
atchieved this greatness ! The Party had, indeed,
sufficiently degraded itself, by still retaining in
their ranks men so apostate from the honour and
principles of their Forefathers, as to uphold a
Military Usurper against the Interests and Glory
of their own Country ; who, forgetting all the
ties of Patriotism which bind men in Society against
a Common Enemy, made Common Cause with
that Enemy, and surrounded a Tyrant, whose ob-
ject was Universal Domination, with the tomes
of their Incense, covering the worship. of their
Idol with the Titles and Insignia of Liberty ; who
at the same time made WELLINGTON their scoff;
the Butt of their licentious Ribaldry, and prognosti-
cated defeat and disgrace up to the hour of the
most signal victory ever gained to the arms of a
Country in ancient or modern Times; who felt
the disgrace and overthrow of BUONAPARTE with
all the sympathy of Partisans, and wept his fall,
instead of hallowing with their 'gratitude the
glory of their Fellow Countrymen ; I say, Sir,
degraded even as they appeared to be by conduct
which would have consigned men to exile and
ignominy in the freest times of the Free States of
Greece and Rome, we could not have extended
our suspicions without being justly charged
with illiberality,
,so far as to have sup-
posed them capable of identifying their cause
with the Upholders and Supporters of such
a Being as HONE, who is known to them
only aS the Preacher and Publisher of open Sedition
and Blasphemy ! Yet, Sir, we have seen a Bri-
tish Peer, an Earl of Great Britain, head the list of
Subscribers to REWARD this Man; and time Organ
of the Party—the Official Editor of their acknow-
ledged and avowed Journal, not only contributing
to and supporting the same Cause, but volunta-
rily stepping forward to propose to the Country
as an object of Public Veneration and Gratitude,
Sir F. BURDETT ! 111 such a moment of anar-
chy—in the full tide of anticipated success against
the State, where the Constitutional Opposition
(though rejected and spurned upon former occa-
sions by the Rabble of Democrats) are identified
with the lowest and most desperate of the Jaco-
bins ; in such a moment, I say, the Enemies of
the CHURCH start forth, and embodying their se-
veral phalanxes, march, hand in hand, with the
Champions of Reform. One Division under the
Dissenter's Flag (which alas ! is saluted from
within) the other under the Orifiamme of the Pa-
pists ! Every enemy that our noble Constitution
has had hitherto to contend with separately, is,
in the present Crisis of the Country, united and
combined against it. Blasphemy and Hetero-
doxy, Sedition, and Newfangled Creeds, Fana-
tics, and disappointed Statesmen, Preachers, and
,Patriots, disregarding all minor points of differ-
ence, sympathise in one universal object, their de-
testation and abhorrence of " THINGS AS THEY
ARE." Is this a moment to temporise? Is this
a period for doubtful or hesitating or halting po-
licy ? Let this picture of Facts speak the an-
swer ! Come forth ye Men of Honour and Pa-
triot-worth, for such still abound in this Coun-
try Let not the Cabals of Party, or time machi•
nations of Faction, appal or disheat ten you.—
Rally round the Throne of your Sovereign ; array
yourselves before the Altar of your Forefathers--
assemble and unite in force irresistible to save
your Country. Let every Town present a tally-
log point for honest and patriotic Citizens. Le,
the old-fashioned and truly British Feeling- • ere
the alloy of France and her spurious aid pullfir-
ing Philosophism had mingled in ii, burst rotti to
loud acclaim for " CHURCH. AND KING." Let
the enemies of Freedom and the Laws neno:(1 the
strength and force of those who will uphold them

with their lives and fortunes.—Let Petitions and
Addresses pour forth from every County and ever?
Town against the abuses of the Press, the lire;
tiousness of those base panders to the yitiareu
passions of their ignorant followers ; let the bead'
ers be pointed out individually, as titled adulterers
and titled swindlers, as apostate hirelings in th°
service of the enemy, as tr-liiors and conspirators'
Let the new4angled Philosophy he exposed in l"
tree character:* and divest, d of the Nomenclature
of the Illumines and Encyclopedists ; let not
murder, rapine, and extortion be any longer tole'
rAted under the name of Patriotism, or ravening
e
selfishness appropriate to itself the Attribute 01
Public Spirit. In a voice of thunder, and with
a gesture not to be misunderstood, let us proclaim
our Resolution never to desert our Chartered
Rights—