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man recommended that the envirosel army shculd the address was without effect. From seMea ev
be exterminated to the last man. The Samnitei now , pareof 'Europe was the principle of intolerance tubttl
began to conceive that the Reverend Senator was f let el y banished. He lamented to say diet in •
deprived of his wades, and a third message desired still subsisted in all its force, as was but too SPili"
that he would come to the camp, ,pd unfold the from some recent publications, and a spirit fly
I reasons of the strange advice he bad given. With the acts of the Cortes. had been unliappilecsg2
this he complied,' and assigned as the season of his But if here the Irish Catholic saw were T.tedi
first advice, that by conferringa great benefit upon that intolerance under which he smarted, he would.
the Roman people,- his fellow citizens might look to collect, at the same time, that it was practisedoetie
.a corresponding degree of gratitude being awakened that country which had long been disgracefully.
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in the minds of a powerful people • if this did not eminent in bigotry. Heevould, at the same ti ,tae
please, then, by adopting his becond; they would get to mind how freely we advised the Governors eie Alt
lid of a prostrate foe, and strike a decieiVo blow country to infuse into their system some reiesof.i.
against a Power, from the hostility of which they had berelity. He would beheld us lavire car advises,
every thing to dread. The old Senator (continued others, and would be tempted to wish that we seek
the Honourable Member) concluded his explanation keepalittleof that salutaryandleudableadeieseeeeese
by observing, to use the emphatic language given consumption .; that, acting upon it, we might pit o.
him by the historian, ondlynt tertian's coacilluet Taut, mature and adult Ireland those privileges she '
null° die comeofiter vti. The advice was not adopted, and deserved at our hands, and change the welt
the son thought himself wider than his father, took a frown she now wore to• the serene and tranquil mat
middle step, passed the Romans under the yoke, and of gratitude and, friendship. It was not unsettle
sent them home ; the consequences are well known, oppose the claims of the Catholics by a ref . e
and have left au impressive lesson as to the impolicy the cruelties, which.it was but too certain were Rae
of temporizing measures, of neither acting decisively tised in the first ages of then mighty religioni on
on the one side or the other. But if this principle. vulsion which changed the face of Europe-4w
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were capable of being applied to the question pow should we say if we found the Catholics disposed •
under discussion, in a favourable way,_ heretofore, go back to that very period to find grounds for es,
how much more so now, when the Union of Great minstion against ourselves ? Were they to three%
Britain and Ireland had made so great a differonce the outrages and.cruelties committed by Anah..
the cruel tbite
in its aspect ! He could no longer talk of a Protes. tilts in Munster, or the tyrannical successes of ise
tent geinson in a Popish country. Tire Protestants odious Henry, or the prottstaut ptosecutions pof the United Empire now %Owed a majority, are tteabcciLuad. evenErvelizoabardedh,or in tine
a th
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there was now no minority of: . otestants beset' by rtign
overwhelming numbers, and, tl forte concession, the atroeioos Calvin caused the unhappy Same
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to whatsoever extent it might ri, could create .no safer after belted entrapped him into Wiriest,
darger. There were alarmists, Indeed, who :trill And lastly, the progress of ihe ref* p> ie see
w.h.ild maintain the impossibility of concession, that land, which had given birth to the aboinhelesed
Papists, placed beneath a Pccitestant Government, to which he had adverted in a former pan eft,
would always have a tenceney to shake off the yoke speech, as well as to the turbulent and imam
of the Government ; drat the encroaching spirit of successes of John Knox and his followers. let t;
the Catholic Church could never he at rest, and . hoped the Catholics would aitveye shew thomehe
that if her spirit of persecution were once set loose. ' unwilling to enter into such a contest, and he he
it would soon make us wish, when, perhaps, no only exhibited the strength of their cause, in wti
longer posssible, to retrace the steps we had taken, - thew more forcibly, that if political Theme pi
inipellee by feelings weakly indulgent.—Nonti with i birth to political animosity, it was the botindee illy
respect to the perpetually encroaching spirit iraputed of a Government or a Leislature to remove diet%
to the Church of Rome, he bad to remark, that in the :ability of its being brought into action. Attie we
lapse of two centuries she had lost two-thirds of sent time no apprehension was to be entertaieQd
Europe, the smellest portion of uhich she had not re- this spirit giving bitch to excesses such as Ike
covered. When it was said That Catholics hell it as which, at a ruder period of society, it hailprodwei,
a principle that they would not keep faith with here- and while such wee the case, be could not amok,
tics, that their watch-word was--" Herdicaceiereeguar much he had been chocked of late by observe( A
el exinignato"—lte could not but allow that such te- pamphlet, pureurting to be a History of the Mamie
nets, if really received, challenged the detestation of of St. Bartholomew. Happily there was butaktletee
mankind, and justified their opposed, ,n to those whose soft to fear that such a peulication could praises we
conduct they influenced ; but we were not to allow serious effect ; but the intention of the authorgeli
ourselves to go too fast towel ds a belief that they were not be perceived withal; the warmest feelings di.
really received, we should pause and consider whether dignation. What g'-ell could now be do= by E.
1 the offensive words of the Catholic creed were not truding on the attention of the Public the hew/ 4
1 mere words of course, and whether it could not be such horrors as were enacted in tbet lanionsibie
sliesen that words of a similar import could Dot be gedy ? What had the present age to do with he
found where we would most readily admit that they bigotry and cruelty ,of Chariest the Ninth ? Wlet
were nothing more than sound? It was perhaps but avith the guises, stained with the Woad alibis
little known that in the oath taken by the Sovereigns , fellow-citizens ? What had this counts; to do eiik
of Scotland, and which had been taken by William the charactei of Frenchmen, who went the amnia
and Mary at the time i f the Revolution, there was a these kangutneryand atrocious scenes? or why de*
clause to this effect—u I will carefully root out all he- their atrocious deeds be. blaeomed be the pen cede
retici."—From the taking such au oath he did not in- scribe and the graver, of the artist, and three*
fer any thing prejudicial to the charactersof William ward as a lesson tO men incapable of feelings few
and Mary. l'hey no doubt took it in their own sense, which such deeds could emanate ? Tohrhathe lid
that was, that when in words it pledged them to root already stated with respect to this pious paler***
out heretics, it really 'meant nu.such thing. He did he eas grieved to have to add, that' it wet ;twee
not mean by any thing he had said to justify the Ito- to the memory of the Right Hon. Spencer Petah%
t mish Church for inculcating tenets of the kindle:but and parallel was drawn between the crimedbkl
he would say, that if it was .permitted to another deprived the nation of that lamented* and'aitek
Church to put What construction she pleased on her horuiuied individual, and that to which Admirat(b
tenets, it would be acting unfairly to refusea similar ligni fell a sacriiice.. It was plain from everat
privilege to the Catholic Church. It would. be most of this ebominaele work, that it was not ad
unfair to say, because certain intolerant, principles to persons of that 'cuss of mind, which wisely*.
were to be found in her canons, that with her alone jett its contents to a fair examination and dimwits
such principles were to be endowed with a misclise. of their merits ; it -was addressed to the blind.*
vous activity, and impel her sons ales:gad to. disse- sions of an infuriate mob—such A snob as, bengal'.
minate her doctrine by the aid of the sword, and the this country could not afford to reduce toprataktier
torch. Again, the Catholics were charged with hold- dark designs of a bigoted incendiary. Like biers.'
ing tenets which absolved thorn irom keeping faith. Perceval,•said this respectable person. did Colleh
with heretics, and yet by a curious perversion of all fall, in the exercise of his duty towards his POI
principles of reasoning, an oath was exacted from , his Country, and his GOD. Good Heaves! and
them by the Statutes, by Which they had privileges ;the Honourable Gentleman. rising in all themes&
extended to them, that was, we exacted oaths hem ! and vehemence of honest, virtuous deli
those whose creed and trade was perjury—(Neer, ! and had but one short month elapsed ti
hear, hear !)—He did not see in his place a Right ' perpetration of a crime, the effects ofWith we boo
Hon. and Learned Doctor, with whom this was a never ceased to deplore, ere it supplied reek
favourite doctrine, but it was rather a curious cir. ' for such an attempt is hat which I have blood
cumstance that this Learned per-on, who was loudest Ito expose—an attempt, the fellow of which isolate
in maintaining that no oaths could bind the fugitive . be found, multiplied as they are, an the rem& 4(
and volatile spirit cif those. religionists, was himself, infamy ? It Was fortunate that the assassin of Ma
entrusted. with the task of teaming the very last oath Perceval was neither an Irishman or a Catbabet 101_,
which Ins appointed for • them to take. However lit was possible that he might have been both• ri
little the security of an oath might please a certain if such hid been the CA" he.would ask whet U
chin of r-rsen,, they must of necessity be setisfitcl : have been the effect on the public mind of is
with it till some more powerful obligation could be ikaragraph as that to which be had referreditete.
impose.', and it could not be imposed till it was dis. • mg. as it wouldhale done, some colour of Mom
covered. Again it was said, that the Catholics should' from accidental circumstances, and penned with lt
be content when they contrasted their situation with 'spirit of maligney, which assuredly would twit Yee
that of those persons who were placed beneath Go.- been abated by an increase of probability. Whet?
vernments lees mild than that they had the happiness 'had now laid before the House, together with mg
of living under. * If they looked abroad, it was said 'tidings which had been this day reesived.comthellit
they could no longer be reasonably dissatisfied with ;be conceived, additional arguments for the iIOS
their franchises, however limited. But was it light to !the subject, now under diacessum.into (scandal/os_,
teach them to look abroad ? (Hear, hear, beat !)! when it might be discussed with teeneete eed,9lofre
Much hotter would it be that they should be taught „throligh no distorted medium Rearing to wo_21""
to look at home, but to look at home without find. chievous work on which he had alreedf &me $
ing any invidious contrast to make between their . would observe, that it seas not the ire Ono. .dO4ll.
own condition and that of their fellow citizens; , horrors of the' 102OSACre of Hartholopiow Ow oen
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but suppose they were to look abroad, what imeruce made use of to stimulate the of toot; ag 'II
Lion could they then derive, would they find in the early period of the French At, nen
nations towards which they might direct their view, • placed before the eyes of those whose 10.11.111114
A difference of religion begetting feelings of distrust wit:tossed than, not for the Ferree doer
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and hostility ? Ne ; they would find many of thine not to deter by example from atom of guns •--,_
nations totally divested of such a principle oldie- blood, pot from motives weedeinetilled the I I PP. _
union combined in lime order beneath the sway quest invective of Mr. Bark% in his letter as
of our enemy. Should they turn their eyes towards French revolution. in which be taxes the prod.
Russia, against which' the power of that enemy was with bringing forward the Cardinal de Unit
pnthroeiwncsaliipkdieelcyaontosodlitdnioiiorne:ted, would they find there that giving orders for a eleuend "Ow' tot
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nimiechaptatidoenrivoie order :het:
thprec vfenantgt:iesalusionbrace.thrtrifthit—te;
evil ? No ; there they would find the ruler of a vast secution. The House would reuolaci•_,_ 1114_,...p,..."."
.country supported by the counsels of a Popish Chan- man, whom he 'bad now quoted. whe____lL.lll"l".7—•dut
tenor, and the skill of a Protestant General, while be of the Irish (Jr They would ww"'" amo"---
himself was of the religion of neither. It would be Mr. Fox, the devoted filed of freeskep. wee e--
eesolleeted, that same time since Bonaparte published advocate; thso Mr. Weedllews. Who, Oa al.— al.
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in address to the people of Hungary, a portion of wavy, tr. eperteleds. ellg bbilti ---
itceswrovsuaprcrasdo'sie
finiteethomen,
fewtheinaerertetiofees:eakgndifeeledt to-by thing like
what; *am= millug-2-1-11"sir adv 6" ac4l.`••'" vialff---. *Lb:
. Li but the inform, • was a6t corrocc.rin Hun- of his character by sossele L:ia mu elgr leir
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garY there was no . . of dietWorsi and promote the Uttar/minis I'mlial
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