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t Po; e in Ireland, by an express Act, this passage in
oath was added, to secure what had been always
inied by the Pontiff. It cannot be said that this
sage might not be emitted arid the oath aimed, be-
ise of because the oath has been amend.
a d a mock oath of allegiance added to it. Yet
y does it remain, "hen it means notl ing of eccle.
stical or priestly jurisdiction, which is not fully con-
ed in other words in the same oath ? But the most
erful argument against it scone, which we are as.
ished not to find in the Digest of the Evidence. on
state of Ireland in 18'21 and 1825, by Dr. Phelan
Mr. O'Sntivan.
his very passage was brought forward by the eels.
ted Bishop Bansu., as a d rect proof that the Porn
cised and claimed a kingly authority in ',eland,
vious to the rebellion of 1641. In urging the proof
is assertion, „the Pore bath another kingdom"
de his spiritual one, he adds these emphatic words,
he POPE bath here a Clergy, the heads whereof are
orpot al oath hound unto him, to maintain him and
egali COSTRA ONNEM NOMMEN, and to execute
indaies to the uttermost of their forces:'—Barnette
of Bishop Bedell—p. 54.
'ow, w hen we consider that the passage " I will help
(the Pora and his successors) to defend and keep
Roman Papacy and the Royalties t f ST. PETER."
introduced into Ireland, when the supremacy of an
sive K;ng had usurped the right which the Pontiff
• ed—when we consider that it has ever been inter-
d as applicable only to a Royal jurisdiction in that
t, y—when we consider, that one of the most un-
ached witnesses that ever bore testimony clings to
passage, as evidence convincing that the POPE
claimed through regal supremacy by the fact of
iish W shops taking this oath—when we consider that
he instrumentality of these Bishops who took this
—by the exertions of the Pri, sts whom Bishlp Be-
t. says" moulded the people to the Pors's obedience'
y the exertions of the inferior Clergy who, he says,
e guilty of an " infamous liberin assuming the !tomes.
ure of the Established Priesthood, and " by the le-
of three, four, five, or six Funds" which the Pi jests
•e at the chapels, that by all these means the rebel.
of 1641 was brought about—W.° that considers
weight of evidence, coupled with the fact that the
still remains, and still is taken by the Popish
ops in Ireland, but will acknowledge that its import
angerous, that it contains masked treason, and is in
If a fountain from which may flow rebellion and
rchy, whenever He, to whom are committed the
s of Easth as well as Heaven, may please to open
sluices of desolation ?
ho will say that the people of Ireland, the abject
es of the Priesthood, could be equally loyal as the
testants of the Empire, when the Popish Bishops
tinue to take an oath which history says is the oath

k REBEL ?
laving said so much, we cannot now advert, as we
rsed, to the conduct of the Committee of the
arse of Lords and Commons, 1r 1824-1825. We
ll only add at present. that a more miserable farce
i never exhibited. The wh, le plAn appeared to be
often down the asperities of P•.pery—to make the
Itches of Reformers demi-Papistical, to turn the
itsations cf hi tory against the Roman Catholic
ch into the dreams of madmen—to win the nation
'mancipation by sophistical jargon and delusive
Lr
Pds tl make pretty sentences, the test of doctrines
exhibi ions c t Jesuistry, the most convincing evi-
Lees that Popery had ceased to be loathsome and
!opt.

he accounts from the late theatre of war, which
ears in the following extracts from the German
lets received this morning, are of too •4kue and
tradictory a nature to require commer t Tie fe-
ted loss of the Russian man-of-war in the Black
containing the trophies captured from the Turks
'aura, appealed in tl is Paper a week since :

JASSY, Dsc.
report is just spread here, that oo the 30th Nov. there were
severe actions in the environs pi Varna, where the Turks are
to have made an attempt to drive the Russians from their
lons. With respect to the issue et these actions, the most coo-
hg reports are in circulation; some giving the victory to tau

Bans, and some to the Turks. Another report which has been
laud here, on the authority of letters from Odessa, is, that
tussian ship which had on board the 12 cannon taken in Varna
which were intended for the monument of King Wladisbus at
saw), together with many other trophies frontVarna, had been
1:1, in a violent storm, towards the Gulf of Bourgas, when it ran
)f* another Russian ship that had been likewise driven thither,
bat the shock was so violent that both ships went to the

l,ati, and every soul on board perished. We hope that this
if net wholly unfounded, will prove at least to be greatly
rated.

NUREMBURG, Dec. 44.
le Municipality of Sonneberg brought an action for a libel
at the proprietors of the Dorf Zeitung of Hildburgbausen, on
int of some remarks on the proceedings of the Municipality on
management of the public business. The Municipality having
her cause before the tribunal of Ilildburghausen, appealed to
'operior Court at Wurtzburg, which has rejected the appeal
decision, the terms of which are extremely remarkable :