Star.
London, England, 1804-02-07 00:00:00

TIIE CITHOLIC IffESTION.

Chrrefroadaiet between the Right Hon. Leid Roomette. Lord
High Chioceikar of Irekus..l, sal tie Riess Hoa. the Earl oir
Fir Goss. As. Ste. Ste. hoot the tici of AKA, to tit 16th
of flepeanbct, dog. To vrbkh is added, the oarrathe of the,
Rey. P. O'Nets, a pas% psi& of the musty at Cost. related'
to to the oserefratatence.—.Cadrialfraw navies STALL

. • (NUMBER 5.)
FILO* TI! LOAD CNANCILLOIL, TO TUS BAIL OF
PINOALL.

My-place, Dublin. Anzio se. 1803.
My Lord—The high raped and eaten* I bear for
your Lordlhip, whole loyalty and humanity have
been at all times conSpicuous, and the manner in
which your Lordthip, in the letter with which I was
honoured yellerday, has expiated your regret, that
any part of your former letter Should have given me
pain, compels me again to trouble your Lordibip
wiyh a few words. The pain I felt arofe from an
apprehenfion that I could not hope for fuels a change
in the fentimenta of thofe of the people of Ireland,
who adhere to the See of Rome, towards thofe who
refute obedience to it. as might lead to their living
together in peace. In tome parts of Europe, mjsfor.
tune appears to have produced to much of humility,
that the perfons, who have occupied the choice of
that See, iave been inclined to bend towards countries
in which tome of its molt important pretenfions have
been rejeaed ; and in this Rate of humiliation, it
might have been ho pa that a fenfe of the weaknefs
and imperfeaions of man might have been Cu far felt,
as to lead the adherents to that See, in Ireland, no
longer to teach their followers a doarine to repugnant
(as it appears to me) to the repute of mankind, a,.
that to Avhieh I had alluded in my letter. I conclude
from your Lordthip's letters to me. that there is no
perfop amongft the adherents of the See of Rums, in
Ireland, whofe mind, however cultivated. however
liberal in other retinae, can be thought to confider
. any perfons as Chrißians, who refute obedience to
that See. I conclude alto, that the prießs of that
perfuafion, Rill teach their flocks, that all who refuk
obedience, are guilty of a wicked rebellion againll
divine authority, which mull produce their eternal
damnation in the next world, and render them ob-
jais of horror pad diaike in this. As long as this
doarine (which, with all humility I fay it, appears
to Int to be repugnant to every idea of Chrithan
charity taught by the Scriptures) (hall be preached
to their congregations; and until thole congregadna,
(hall be taught that Proteßants of every defcnption,
although in their opinion in error on certain points,
are to be confidered as members of the Church of
Coma., and their brethren in the faith of Coats?. it
teems to ene, that there can be.no hope that ekhor-
tations to loyalty and obedience to a Proteßant Go-
vernment will have any effea. Men of education and
property may feel loyalty and obedience to fuch Go-
vernment to be proper, or at leaft expedient; but
preaching to men of the lower orders, and efpecially
to thole without property, loyalty, and obedience.
under fuels circumllatices, cannot be fincere, without
fuppoling their minds of a refinement of which they
are utterly incapable; and teems therefore to me to
be either mockery or folly. Perhaps I am too pre-
(umpteen& in forming this opinion. but it teems to
me confirmed by recent events. and 1 cannot other.
wife account for the faa to generally afferted by the
Prießs of the Ramiro perfualion, that during the late
Rebellion, their exhortations .to loyalty and obedience
bad no effea. I find it alfoionerinesi by the circum-
fiances, that thofe Prießs were. I prefume, utterly
ignorant that thofe under their initiations had ever
conceived hi their minds the horrid purpofes which
they manifcited on the 23d of July. and which.perfoos
came from all parts of Ireland with defign to area.
I have the honour to be, with much yelper,
My Lord,
Your Lordthip's obedient bumble fervant.
The lad ot Etnsall. Ike. az. Ike. aszrestrat.s.
(No. 6.)

Minna. IT THE EARL OF VIROALL.
Grad Denmark- then. Sept 4
My Lord—l mud beg your Lordthip will be kind
enough to excufe my not having (Roper aekasiwledg.'
ed the receipt of the IA lent. you disi me the hn-,
none to addrefs me, which has been occationed by my,
abfence from town tor tome days pad. Honoured.
as I mutt feel by your Lordfhip's correfpondence,'
and the expreffions of perfonal regard towards me!
contained in your letters, I am the more anxious to
imprefs your Lordthip with that favourable opinion
of the perfons in this country who profefs the fame
religious faith I do myfelf, which it has been my an
deavour to prove to you:: Lordthip they are defers,.
ing of. Nothing but my with to procure for them
an objet fo deferable, and my high refpett for your
Lordthip, would have induced me to touch at all
on a diicalLon of religious ruble& ; and not having
been, I fear, fortunate enough yet to fatisfy your
Lordliiip's mind, u to the objeaions you make to
our religion, I mould be glad, with your Lordthies
permiffinn, to flare them to tome of our fupenor
clergy, who would, I am pretty certain, enable me
to convince your L.rdfhip, that our religious do trine
preaches chnity and brotherly love to ALL mankind,
a ithout diiiinetion of reli;ion ; true and fincere al-
legiance to our good King—inviolable attachment to
the Conditution and our Couutry ; from an honeft
and confcientious cony idion that fuels is the duty of
god fobjcel, and a good Catholic. be the religion.
of the Monarch what it may. For my own part,
my Lord, I cannot attribute the unfortunate fituation
this country to any thing conflated with matters
of religious faith; Jacobinifm, and French princi.
pies and politics, the want of morality, and the de-
praved date of the human mind, are. I conceive, the
fources of our inisfo, tune. ; Religion may have been
made a toot by wicked and defigning people : this
has often happened ir. every country, and is ealily
dialed when religious differences end. The dif-
trafted an.i melan:holy date we are in, every body
mud lament ; how it is to be amended is a matter
for tire :t.a.:fmon ; and Purely it would be diffinet to
find an objef. more worthy of your Lordthip's high
talents any

I have the honour to be, with the greatell refpea,
My Lord, your Lordfhip's very humble
And obedient (avant. fICCALL.
To the Meat Hoc. I Aid liodefdale. kr- tee. to
(No. 74
fIOW TPS RIGHT PPP. THS. LORD CPANCELLOIL