The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-04 00:00:00

OCT. 4, 1816.

your eyes open ? Does the memoir here given satisfy
you—the epitomised public life of him whom Mr. H.
Villiers Stuart " delighted) to honour" and his colleagues
to uphold, by attempting to cry down the man who has
had the becoming dignity and devotion to erect a bar-
rier against such barefaced hypocritical depravity ? Yes,
this is really the conscientious, the magnanimous modern
Pittacus of Sir Richard Keane—the man of measured
words and polished mellifluous phrases—the disinterested
champion of Ireland's woes, and the philanthropic friend
of the poor factory children of England, and to whom the
second estate of this realm is to bow in submission, and
yield the palm of judgment therein to the wisdom and
discretion of Mr. Villiers Stuart!
We may be charged by some of our readers with
making too much of this common disturber of a nation's
repose, and we will readily admit the subject is sufficient.
ly loathing and irksome to dwell upon after the repeated
expositions which have been made of the unprincipled
quality of this man's pretensions ; but we have a justifi-
cation to put on the record ; and, whilst we find indivi-
dual peers and commoners so lost as to continue with
eyes unbandaged to laud his proceedings, we feel it our
duty to prevent, as far as in us lies, any portion of our
fellow-countrymen from falling into the fatal delusion,
by being entrapped into the nets so artfully spread for
them. Our contemporaries of the London conservative
press, infinitely before us in tact and information, still
deem it necessary to notice these post-prandial proceed-
ings, notwithstanding their repeated exhibition, risque
ad nauseam, we cannot remain passive spectators whilst
falsehood and dissimulation stalk abroad with " head and
front offending in the glare of day."
Under the hope, therefore, that we may be relieved
fora time from making this man's proceedings the lead-
ing topic in our discussions, we will endeavour to deal-
with the nefarious impostures practised in the most sum-
. ' Anary way posSible, under the hope that what we have
recently adduced will act as a corrective, within the sphere
of our own circulation, at all events; for we have little
hope of working a practical reform amongst those on the
other side of the channel who are living under :the
priestly dominion of the tenets of Dominics Dens and
the tutelage of Doctors Troy, Murray, and M'Hale, as -
well as of O'Connell. We will, therefore, endeavour to
content ourselves with two general grounds of answer
to the fulmination of Mr. Villiers Stuart, which may
further elevate him and his colleague, in the O'Connell
phrase, on " the Corinthian capital of true .patriots"-
- the first to show the utter indifference of the Irish people,
generally, to the vaunted measure of municipal reform,
the great stalking•horse of the late session ; the next to
prove the utter falsehood of the Derrynane patriot's his-
torical statements with regard to protestant possessions
in Ireland.
Now, it is an established fact, which Mr. Villiers Stuart
must well know, that, from the 4th day of February last,
the first day of the opening of parliament, and when a
determined opposition was fully to be expected on the
part of the tories in the House of Commons, independ- •
ently of the known conservative feeling of the majority
of the peers, down to the 21st of May, the number of
petitions, for reformed or papal corporations, amounted
to only nineteen—the gross amount of signatures thereto
7,520, out of the seven millions of people so ill used by
Lord Lyndhurst and his tyrannical colleagues? What

does this go to establish ? Is it possible that the Irish
Roman_Catholic population, oppressed, persecuted, and
ill-used by its protestant landlords and existing corpora-
tors, should have been so dead to its own interests as to
allow the united parliament to slumber, pending the as
of this great principle of "Justice to Ireland" at
the most critical period of its discussion ? But such in
reality Was the case, and here is a practical illustration
or the sympathy entertained by even the general Roman
Catholic population of Ireland, for the objects of its agi-
tating tormentors, when freed from their presence ! As
to the value that should be attached to the very few pe-
titions which were sent in, it must be purely compara-
tive, as they were the result of organized agitation and
priestly influence.
We feel that we have thus far disposed of the logical
inferences:and, interpretations of Mr. Stuart with regard
to .the question he so profoundly discussed, nationally,
and have shown it to be worthless in the eyes of his own
countrymen. As to his " scathing eloquence," so deno-
minated by the London whig-radical press, in the pay of
the government, the Morning Post has made such a
havoc with it, in its last Friday's number, as to leave
nothing to be desired, even by the great beggarman
himself.

We now come to the second part of our reply, em-
bracing the entire position on which the great Pittacus
'of Ireland founds and justifies his unprincipled agitation
and-hostility to English connexion ; and we shall be very
brief with his honour in this respect, by assuring him
and. his defender, at the onset, that his foundation is a
very rotten one, entirely destitute of truth and of histo-
rical support, as we undertake to establish, should he have
the impudence to dare us to the proof. We, therefore,
take leave to inform Mr. Villiers Stuart, who, it would
seem, in charitable conclusion, is ignorant of the early
history of his own country, or rather of that country he
now inhabits, for his name would imply a Scottish or
French descent, that the first assumed legal connexion of
Ireland with the crown of England took place in a clan-
destine compact between some Roman Catholic bishops,
who, under the assumed apostolical authority of Pore
Adrian the Fourth, and his predecessors, had obtained
an ascendancy in Ireland over its primitive christianity,
to which compact this very Pope Adrian was a party
and it is further related by authorities who perfectly well
know the history of this transaction, that " both Adrian,
and the two other parties who figured in this treaty, in
the true spirit of popery, vied with each other in the
depth of the design, and the truly iniquitous hypocrisy
under which it. was perfected ;"—thus this "Saxon cru-
sade against the independence of Ireland," borrowing
Mr. O'Connell's phrase, was headed by parties strictly
papal! Now, we challenge Mr. O'Connell to disprove
this fact; but knowing well that he cannot disprove it,
it follows that whatever of calamity—of misery—of anar-
chy—which has or may become entailed on. unhappy
Ireland by this act of her elder sister, then strictly a
popish state—" to popery, and to popish treachery alone
is due the homage and the undivided honour, the praise,
and the admiration of Irishmen, for having first inflicted
them—for having first destroyed her primitive system,
which she possessed from the first promulgation of chris-

tianity in these islands."*
There, Mr. Daniel O'Connell is a knock down blow
for you. What becomes of your " Saxon invasion"
now ? Will you answer us ? or are you dumb when
truth stands before you in the garb of indisputable sim-
plicity ? With all your sophistry, can you dispute a fact
recorded in the recognised history—the unmystified ca-
lendar of events in yonr own country? t There was no
heresy, even as the Church of Rome defines it, here at
work ; for protestantism, that daughter of the reforma-
tion; had not yet shone forth upon the earth, arrayed in
the mantle of the Gospel. Let us follow one of our quo-
tations (the first) a little further :—" If the fountains of
her independence ceased to flow—if the crystal springs
of her liberty rose no more, who else but Roman catholic
brothers polluted the one and dried up the other ? Rich
in her poverty and pure in her simplicity, she need-
ed not the gilded trappings of a Roman hierarchq'
nor the infallible protection of a Roman potentate to
save the souls of her sons from damnation ! But, alas
for Ireland! she fell prostrate at the fent of the mistress
of the seven hills,' no longer imperial Rome "! Thus,
in the twelfth century, did Ireland become incorporated
with England by the sole agency of that party of which
Mr. O'Connell is now the leading instrument; but whose
authority ceased in the state in England the instant that
state became protestant, Ireland, by this very popish
Contract; having been previously admitted to form an in-
tegral and component part of the British empire, and-
which very act of incorporation was confirmed by a
Synod of the Rumish clergy, under the express authority
"another pope, held at the very town of Waterford, the
scene of Mr. Stuart's forensic eloquence, and Henry

uovernmGreyent in 's Hisßritait9rican.l Illustration 01835. f the
Edward Princip
sles of Cirii
,t History of Ireland to the great Rebellion; and Phelan's
policy of the Church of home. London : 1827. Cadelt.