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ence, and all the abuse of upstart authority, into the
hands of the popish priesthood. If passed into a law it
will turn Ireland, not only into a confederacy of rebels,
but a vast portion of it into a community of heartless and
hardened assassins ; and before it is six months in opera-
tion it will compel the protestants of the north—a bold,
brave, and fearless people—to take up arms in their own
defence, for the protection of themselves, their wives,
and children.

But why, will probably be asked by some simpering
half liberal of good intentions and easy virtue—why not
trust the Roman catholics of Ireland, who form the vast

proportion of the population, with the management of
corporate trusts, the administration of local justice, and
the control of borough patronage ? Why ? We will
tell you—for this is not the time to mince matters—be-
cause no faith whatever can be placed in the papists of
Ireland. We cannot trust them because, under the in-
fluence of their dishonest and DENs-polluted priests,
they cannot be believed on their oaths in any matter that
jars with the interests of their abominable church, and
because they are, almost to a man, the rancorous and in-
domitable haters of the protestauts and the pure religion
of the Church of England.

Are we asked our reasons for this belief ? Here they
are. In every political negotiation that the government
or the people of England have had with the Roma❑ Ca-
tholics of Ireland, the latter have proved false and treach-
erous. When did they ever keep any engagement ?
When the franchise was given to the Roman Catholics of
Ireland, some forty or fifty years ago, their leaders told
us that with this concession they would be content—that
all religious feuds would cease, and that national prospe-
rity would be the reward of British liberality. We
pledged them in the goblet of unsuspecting sincerity,
and they returned us the poisoned bowl. In 1798 they
were in open rebellion against the crown of England
After the rebellion came a short, but a delusive, calm.
The tiger that had been bled bad regained new vigour,
and thirsted for more blood. The scoundrels we had
trusted, and in our unbounded charity had not hanged,
commenced the work of patriotism. The grovelling bi-
got called himself a liberal. The slave of a fetid priest
passed as a whig. The sons of house burners and rebels
reared at Maynooth as priests, at the expense of Eng-
land, became candidates for independence like parish
paupers, by first decrying and then turning like angry
vipers upon the hand which had fostered and fed them.
Some vapid tories of immensely circumscribed intellect,
who were content to feed upon borrowed ideas which had
no resting place but in ,expediency, took part with the
pretensions of these ill-used and blackberry-babes in the
wood. CANNING, CASTLEIIEAGII, HUSKISSON, PALMERS -
TON, and many others who never will figure, except lu-
dicrously, in the history of British statesmen, were all
in favour of what the foppish and liberal folly of the clay
called " catholic emancipation." It was this hybrid set
of superficial torie4 who encouraged the various associa-
tions of papists in Ireland which have inflicted such dire
miseries upon the people of that country. They se-
cretly encouraged the seditious combinations of men who
were in heart rebels. The doctrinaire, Lord LIVERPOOL,
was a soft. milliner, of plain trimmings, but of conse-
quential vanity, easily inflated, and as easily imposed
upon, in their hands. The world said that Lord LIVER

POOL had no prepossessions in their favour. It was his

I forte to appear to have none. Ile may have been sin-
cere, but it was Lord LIVERPOOL, so honestly endowed,
who cultivated neutrals at the expense of true friends--
who leaned to the opposite party in all his patronage—
who despised those Nvlto worked hardest in defence of his
avowed principles--and who courting the alliance of
those who execrated him, turned his own best friends in•
to bitter enemies. Lord LIVERPOOL'S reign was the
most inauspicious of ,any in our modern political history.
He not only lost the confidence of those who had
served him on the score of principle unthanked and un '
rewarded, but he suffered every quack upon the opposite
side, to rob, and devastate, and retire unpunished. The
editor of the London Courier, could, if he felt disposed,
explain what we mean. Some of tile cheap-shoppery of
our contemporaries have alluded to this subject. In
cha-
rity, we have not noticed them; but They must not
tempt us too far. One word from us would annihilate
the most active and ingenious of their ministerial con-
temporaries. He knows it!
But the pliable policy of Lord LIVERPOOL led to the
organization of the rebel societies and the Roman Ca-
tholic association of Ireland. There again the British
public were most monstrously imposed upon. They were
told—forgetting the old lie of the priests about the fran-
chise—that if the papists of Ireland were admitted to
parliament there would be for ever an end to all agita-
tion, to all outrage and all crime. Declare us, said they,
only eligible to the honours of representatives, and Ire-
land, the gem of the sea, will become a. second Canaan,
where peace shall be uninterrupted, where honey shall
drop from the leaves of conciliation, where plenty shall
hang like icicles from the eaves of a poor man's thatch,

where fertility shall throw its charm over the stubborn

soil, and the lamb of concession sleep soundly with
the papal wolf of reform. They promised us this and a

great deal more. They assured us that the admission of
Roman eatholics to parliament would stop all the wounds

and heal all the sores of Ireland. They told us that

concession would be like oil upon the waters—that storm,
and turbulence, and agitation would be stayed, and that

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a new and beautiful creation, decorated with all the mo-
ral attributes of peace, and health, and happiness, would
join in hailing England the kindest of mothers and the

serves Gory by perpetrating the most fearful crimes—he
asserts that such a-man is entitled to the same apportion-
ment of sufFrage as the owner of a thousand acres, who
is well educated, unprejudiced, generous, benevolent, and
equally above want and temptation.
Such is the doctrine of the forensic leader of the Irish
rebels, who holds his Majesty's ministers in chains!
Does it not make an Englishman sick to listen to such in-
solence ? Is it not enough to make an Englishman frag-
tic to learn that such a man has so much influence with
the advisers of our most gracious sovereign ?
This man, DANIEL O'CONNELL, demands that all the
municipal and magisterial power, patronage, and influ-
ence
of Ireland shall be placed at his feet, otherwise he '
threatens a repeal of the union. The despicable minis-
ters dare not consent to the repeal; but as they are una-
ble to retain place without the aid of the rebel, they are
mean and cowardly enough to concede the power in or-
der to avoid the threat. This is the whole question in
dependence between the British nation on the one hand,
and the King's servants and the Irish priests on the
other.

Repeal would be civil war—the power ready to be
conferred by municipal reform in Ireland must lead to ci-
vil war. On Monday next, as far as the House of Com-
mons is concerned, this momentous question of war or
peace—peace such as it is—is to be decided.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S bill for destroying and re-creat-
ing corporations, sheriffs and borough justices in Ireland,
was read a second time on Monday last. Its provisions
are the full sacrifice required by and yielded to O'CoN-
NELL for his corrupt support in parliament. It is a bill
of surrender of those protestant principles and privileges
for assailing which JAMES If. lost his crown, and was very
near los* his head. It professes to be a bill giving to
all classes of the population of Ireland the privilege of
electing the various officers and legal functionaries of all
cities and towns. It is therefore apparently a most li-
beral bill. It is a project with a fair exterior but a frau-
dulent design. Under the form of justice it aims at po-
pish ascendancy, and must lead to strife, oppression, and
despotism. If passed into a law it will be impossible,
with any regard to personal security or the safety of pro-
perty, for any protestant to live in Ireland, except
amongst the brave presbyterians of Ulster. If passed
into a law it will throw the whole government and local
judicatory of Ireland—all the patronage, all the influ-