Star.
London, England, 1825-11-09 00:00:00

It ►eems he is reduced to the humil;ation of

himself against the attacks of his ungrateful clients,
like all other men of the people, ancient and m
from THEMUITOCLES down to the learned and ell
Hamm HUNT, Mr. O'CONNELL finds the spring•tide
popularity followed by such an amazing ebb, tl
like a goodly vessel, he is at length left high and
on the shore, a prize to every puny meckster t
chooses to tear his hull asunder. They accuse h
unjustly as we truly think, of interested views in
late negociation, from which he defends hinvelf
great length ; although his defence, even on this Fe
is strongly assailed by an unrelenting antagonist WI
Morning Herald of ye terday. They also accnseb
of excessive vanity, and if they had added extremes
of judgment, and of capacity to bring his missions
successful conclusion, we fear Mr. O'Coatau vl
have had little success in rebutting the charges ;tbs
it is not the less certain, that if he had possessed'
abilities of MErTERNICH, and the disinterestedness
BOLIVAR, his services would have been rewarded•
just the same wages—envy, contempt, obliNo!,
an utter disavowal of any and every stipul4tim ii
which he might have entered on behalf of his on
tuents. So fared a much abler advocate, Artsi,l
Mmaza, on the former occasion of the Veto; spa I
been, and such will continue to be the fate of e
champion of the church of Rome, who won:1161in!
lenity attempt conciliation with the Protestant
tablishment.

And why is this so ? Because, from suong and c°
tuning circumstances, there is too mach reason toff
that, unknown to the leaders in the foreground, t 1
is in the dense ranks behind them a pervading
work, to which equality of political privileges is bill
pretext for agitation, not the ulterior end in Tien, °
to which peace and conciliation, on any terms short'
that end, were annihilation. That Mr. 0 Co'sta
the unconscious agent of that spirit we %ell belief;
that his projected Census of the Roman Cabo& real
for the obvious purpose of intimidation to the Poll
ant interest, and of encouragement to its imPlacal
foes, is also an inspiiation of the same evil princiPit'
equally perceive. Such, we are convinced, go ll'
wise the latent source of the Roman Catholic !lentil
of that most formidable redresser of grievaneeh
never-to-be-forgotten Association. But the ti
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of the disastrous primary cause to which we
cannot be altogether veiled from men of disco
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7liarlace it in its incipient efforts, and call there
easgy card against its ultimate purpose.
trhO is there that loves England, that vs"
glory of his conntry, and the good of mankind
won,kl rejoice in the welfare of the people of WI

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Ivho that is not dead to all sense of worth and talent,

but would rejoice in the promotion to place, pteminence,
3n(l power of her high-born Nobility, and generous,
honourable, and kindhearted Gentry, of whateimr per•
suasion, if a large portion of that People and Gentry
acre not most unhappily under an influence which is
directly at variance with the cii►il and religious liberties
or the majority of their fellow-subjects, and actively op-

posed to the improvement and enlargement of the human
mind? That such are its baneful effects, witness the

degradation of Spain and Portugal, the decrepitude of
Italy, and tie utter prostration of intellectual faculties
among the people of Ireland itself, than whom there is
Ant, under Heaven, a race mote capable of advancement
in ails, learning, and science.
It it be urged that this their misfortune is no reason
for shutting them out from the higher dignities in that
State of which they form so essential a part, we answer,
that they would gladly be admitted to the summit of

political power, if, like others, they came unaccom-
panied by associations dangerous to those with whom

►hey are to co-operate. Our mariners are excluded

for a time from their hospitable native shore, until it is
certain that their admission brings no evil to the com-
munity. if, suffering under contagious disease, they
aie shut up in the lazaretto, we lament their misfor-

tune, but cannot consent to endanger our own safety
by introducing the pe.tilence. True it is, that many

bold innovators assure us there is no danger. But
the plague raged once among us, and the ex peti-
ment is perilous. So might the conscientious ani
upright Roman Catholic be admitted into the Council
of our King, if hi. own and the King's councils were
not, by auricular conf.ssion, at the mercy of his Priest.
Übe has submitted his intelligence, bis will, his reason,
and his conscience, to the domination of another, chit

other is equally and more efficiently than himself of the
n g's Council. We lament this, but cannot help it.
If tt-,c Psiest is also the sworn vassal of a foreign
Bishop—if that Bishop arrogate to himself the right to
compel : is Clergy to resist the lawful decrees of their

natural Sovereign, and disturb the peace of their native

country, by raising opposition to the ordinary affairs of
civil government, as we see is done at this very moment,
we also lament this, but cannot help it.
If the foreign and native Priest, by the Canons of
their Church, both concur in obliging the conscientious

layman to resist the progress of know ledge among the
poor, and to prohibit their having recourse either for com-
fort or instruction, to the revealed will of the AUTHOR of
our Ittuclos, as we see with our own eyes, is perpe-

trated in Ireland, we are compelled to say that such a
layman disqualifies himself for the office of which he
is desirous, and that the tenets by which he is influenced,
and which are so pernicious to human nature, arc to be
resisted as a nuisance in society at large, and as destruc-
tive of the great attribute which distinguishes man from
the brutes that perish, namely, his gradual advance-
ment in the scale of intellectual and moral improvement
Our cotemporary of the Times, with the zeal of a
new convert, suggests a remedy for all those evils, very
effectual, indeed, if accomplished, as was the sage de-
vice in the council of rats formerly, to place a bell
round the neck of their enemy, and about equally
practicable. We will transcribe it, however, by way of
encouragement to him to persevere :
u We should really think it not impossible but that the Protest-
tmt Powers of Europe might combine and put an end to the Pope-
dom (say at the death of the present incumbent), and then there
would be nothing to fear from the foreign authority which the
Catholics of Ireland refuse to disown. A Pope at present seems
to be suffered as the Barbary States are suffered—each hopes that
be will annoy his adversary. But in the meantime, under Papal
authority and infuence—that is, under misgovernment and super-
stition—ltaly is gradually sinking into a state of iscivilization equal
to that of the northern coast of Africa. Miracles are performing daily,
and travelling b dangerous. Who should set up a Pope, if England
only, and the Power whose ecclesiasdcal establishment is the Greek
Church, should say that the title should be put down ? France is
essentially a deistical State; Spain is nothing at present; Austria
might murmur openly, but would not venture to bring her armies
into the field for the purpose of enslaving her subjects to a foreign
ecclesiastical jurisdiction."
Reverting to Mr. OTONNELL'iI 7ery singular letter,
there are two circumstances mentioned by bins, which
are sufficiently remarkable.
If these will not demonstrate the surpassing vanity
of that individual, and that the Roman Catholic Peo-
ple, who could find no wiser advocate, are marvellously
deficient in mental calibre, all argument is useless.
First, he asserts as a fact, that in the year 1811, and,
as he says, at a time when BONAPARTS could hay*
invaded Ireland, he Mr. O'ConstaLt was offered
from Government a pension of 1,2001. a year,
merely to be somewhat moderate in his conduct.
and that the offer was made from high, if not the highest
authority. This, probably, was about the time when Mr.'
WELLTSLRY POLE. (now Lord MARTBOROVG4 was
Secretary for Ireland; and the phrase is so worded as
to refer to a person in that or a similar high station.
If so, it will doubtless be immediately contradicted. We
do not question Mr. O'Counat.is veracity, and believe
simply, that in convivial conversation after dinner,
be has mistaken a casual opinion of some glorifying
public functionary, for an authorised overture.
But we also know two facts: first, that there never was
it time, since 1806, in which BONAPARTE could have
invaded Ireland—for why, namely, because he had no
Alps to carry an army there: secondly, there never was
a time et all, when Mr. O'Conwat.t.'s silence was worth
£l2OO a-year to Government, simply, because if he
were mute, a wiser and more dangerous leader of his
faction, would probably have come forward. In the
nett place he rates, that having, some ten years ago,
publicly outraged the feelings of Mr. Pam, unjustly as
he confesses (who, by the way, as publicly required
Prim to give 5.c1/faction sectradstas arteas), he was only
►ash year induced to apologize to that Gentleman, be.

cause, consi Irving Mr. Peat the most formidable op-
ponent of the Roman Catholic claims, he, Mr. O'Coil•
veLL,believed such opposition could only have originated
in personal hostility to himself.
This profound conclusion we, with all humility, beg
leave to pass over without comment, not doubting that
its sagacity will be justly appreciated by our Readers.

We have received from the wreck of the Ogle Cade,
the &Joky Courier of the 25th ult. and papers to the 24 of July
have reached us by another channel; the latter state that there were
only two passengers as board the ill-fated Ogle Castle, Lieutenant
Wiwass Noyes and Lieutenant Wu.uass HOWARD. On the 7th
of June, Sir Rama Parana took the usual oaths and Ms seat, as
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature, at Madras.
The English brig Marianne, belonging to the Mauritius. had
been two days in the port of Barbara, on the North Coast of Africa,
when the Captain and his brother, the Chief Mate, were seised by
the natives while on shore, and placed in confinement. Afterwards
forty or fißy natives went on board, took the crew by surprise
killed two, and wounded two others, when the rest jumped over-
board and escaped to the down anchored near them. The Captain
and the Chief Mate were afterwards rescued by the crews of the
native down trading to the port, and were carried to Mocha, from
which place they were conveyed to Madras, where they arrived en
the 24 of June, in the American brig Ann, Captain Mu.s.mr. The
Marianne was completely stripped and plundered.

The French Papers of Monday have reached us.
One of them, on the authority of a Letter, said to be received by

* a respectable House in London, which communicates with
Brazil," states " that the Emperor Dow PEDRO had written to
Bouvaa that be would send a Deputy to the Congress at Panama,
to represent the Empire and defend the interests of Brazil."
These papers contain two articles of good news from Greece
namely, that 6,000 Arabs, left in the Mores by Isasuix PACMA,
had been defeated, aad that the meddling French General Doctor,
had embarked at Napoli di Romania fur Toulon.

It is rumoured in Paris, that the King of FftANCE is

on the point of marrying a Princess of Saxony, the widow of the
Grand Duke of TUSCANY; the bad health of the young Duc de
800 RDIAOR giving little hope of the perpetuation of the Bourbon
dynasty, is said to have induced Ousts' X. to take the resolution
of giving a Queen to France. Ilis blaairsev is supposed to have
alluded to this circumstance in his answer to the congratulations
on his Saint Day on Thursday last, when he said, " I must not
only occupy myself with the present happiness of my people, but
prepare their future felicity."

This forenoon files of American Papers to the 21st
of October, were received at the North and South American
Coffee-House, by the packet ship Crisis. They contain intelligence
from South America, including an interesting letter from General
&MAR to the Vice-President of Colombia, congratulating him en

the recognition of the independence of that Republic by Great Bri-
tain, which he emphatically calls—the " Mistress of Nations."—
Them Papers also contain a letter from General Sucax. announcing
what has long been known, the surrender of Colonel Vwwss, with
the last hostile Spanish force in Peru, and stating what has appeared
before, that 18,000 Spaniards had been put tiers dv combat between
September, 1824, and April, 1825.
From C,arrhagena we have intelligence so late as the 23d Sept.—
A large naval force was assembling there for some important expedi-
tion, which however remained a secret. Dr. Gear., Secretary of
&ate for Foreign Affairs to the Republic of Colombia, was expected
to arrive at Carthagena, on his way to meet the General Congress,
the duties of which had been marked out by Howes in a circular.
The Navy of Colombia was to be greatly increased. The duties of
the Intendente of the Department of Canhagena bad been separated,
the civil and military forming new distinct departments.
Mr. OToosos the son of the Irish Patriot, Rooms, and nephew
of Manua ()Totowa, is Chief of the Staff in Peru; he has attained
his high distinction by the force of his own merits, and is said to be
an accomplished Meer.

rnent in the scale of intellectual and moral improv
Our cotemporary of the Times, with the zes
new convert, suggests a remedy for all those evil
effectual, indeed, if accomplished, as was the la
vice in the council of rats formerly, to place
mind the neck of their enemy, and about
practicable. We will transcribe it, however, by
encouragement to him to persevere :
u We should really think it not impossible but that the
tint Powers of Europe might combine and put an end to I
dom (say at the death of the present incumbent), and tl
would be nothing to fear from the foreign authority w
Catholics of Ireland refuse to disown. A Pope at prey
to be suffered as the Barbary States are suffered—each
be will annoy his adversary. But in the meantime, un
authority and influence—that is, under misgovernment al
stition—ltaly is gradually sinking into a state of iscivilism
to that of the northern coast of Africa. Miracles are perform
and travelling is dangerous. Who should set up a Pope, h
only, and the Power whose ecelesiasdcal establishment is
Church, should say that the title should be pot down ?
essentially a deistical State; Spain is nothing at present
might murmur openly, but would not venture to bring h
into the field for the purpose of enslaving her subjects tc
ecclesiastical jurisdiction."
Reverting to Mr. O'CoNNILL's 7ery singult
there are two circumstances mentioned by him
are sufficiently remarkable.
If these will not demonstrate the surpassin
of that individual, and that the Roman Cat&
pie, who could find no wiser advocate, are mart
deficient in mental calibre, all argument is us
First, he asserts as a fact, that in the year 11
as he says, at a time when BONAPARTS cot
invaded Ireland, he Mr. O'Connal.t. was
from Government a pension of 1,2001.
merely to be somewhat moderate in his
and that the offer was made from high, if not th
authority. This, probably, was about the time i
WELLTSLRY POLE. (now Lord MARYBOROVI
Secretary for Ireland; and the phrase is so w
to refer to a person in that or a similar high
If so, it will doubtless be immediately contralti
do not question Mr. O'Conuat.is veracity, at
simply, that in convivial conversation after
be has mistaken a casual opinion of some
public functionary, for an authorised oven
But we also know two facts: first, that there r
A time, since 1806, in which BONAPARTE CO'
invaded Ireland—for why, namely, because I
1 ships to carry an army there: secondly, there'
.a time at all, when Mr. O'Couwea.t.'s silence
£l2OO a•year to Government, simply, beca
were mute, a wiser and more dangerous kit
faction, would probably have come forward
neat place he rates, that having, some ten
publicly outraged the feelings of Mr. Parx,
he confesses (who, by the way, as publicly
him to give 5.c1/faction setwadseas (Won), be
►ant year induced to apologize to that Gault