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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

what avail is the sharpness of the sword, if it be not ready
to the hand of the smiter ? Once more we say, be up and
he doing, lest the curse of Meroz abide with you Fur ever.
" Curse ye, Met oz, seith the angel of the Lord, curse ye,
bitterly, the inhabitants thereof, because they came not
to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against
the mighty."—Carlton Chronicle.

LETTER TO FATHER TOM MAGUIRE, PROM THE
REV. L. J. NOWLAN.

October 26, 183 G.
Rev. ste,—Having but this moment received from a Chris-
tian friend a Freman's Journal, containing a letter of yours,
dated from Liverpool, and directed to the Rev. Hugh M'Neile,
I must say, that it is a document of the most unparalleled ef-
frontery, containing a wilful Misrepresentation of my character,
and giving a barefaced denial to certain facts whose authen-
ticity cannot be impugned. Your letter seems to be the emana-
tion of your pen at one of those jovial hours when the privaa
tion of sense liberates you in some degree from the temporal
responsibility of proportionate atonement. But, Sir, as the
praise of an unrighteous man is as touch to be dreaded as the
censure of a Christian, so should I rejoice at your divapproba
tion, but repine at your eulugium. To moralise with you Sir,
would be only a loss of time. To use the implements of Chris-
tian warfare with such a character, would, I fear, be a profana-
tion of the Gospel, whilst a partial delineation of your offences,
is, I consider, one of the most effectual modes fur reducing you
to some standard of moral civilisation. . But, previous to my
entering on such a subject, or adverting to the passages in your
letter, it may be necessary I should lay a few facts before the
public to explain the cause of this correspoudence.
.About, six months ago, I published a letter in. the public
prints, accusing you having read from your pulpit, during your
Lent lectures, certain letters which
.you said had been written
by Protestants, but which, I heard from unquestionable.autho-
rity, were actually concocted and written by the Priers of the
Chapel where you preached. I accused you. of having teed
those documents from your pulpit for the purpose of: daceiving
the public, and attracting some share of attention to your un-
couth and vulgar lectores, and that you were privy to the com-
pitatien of those forged documents.—Such is the statement I
then. media and which I now feel convinced to be true,—such
were the accusations published in all the constitutional prints
of the day,—and such, were, the constitutional grounds upon
which theltev. Mr. 111`Neile refused any intercourse with you
until those accusations were rebutted.
• now then, Sir, have you answered those accusations ? I will
tall vim. Six full
.months elapsed before yes attempted to an-
swer these charges; thus affirdieg to the public, from the length
,r pair silence, a most substantial proof of the justice of the
allegations and the conscious:se:se. of your own guilt. Another
proof of the justice of the accusation against you is this : the
Rev. Mr. ApNeile, a Christian Minister, revived those charges
against you, by introducing before.the public an extract from
.my letter that contained them. How did you, Mr. Maguire,
act on the occasion? According to your usual vauntiug, hunt-
bugging, equiyoeatin, and jeauitical, plans, you simply den
the charge, and as the only, proof; of your innocence you call
on an English audience, or a " Liverpool tribunal," to try the
allegations that have °been so justly imputed to you in Ireland,.
This reminds me of an infamous character, by name
who, in the evasion of punishment for his crimes, fled from this
Country to America, and being there upbraided us ith the enor-
mity of his offences, appealed to the Atherican Council to sign a
declaration of his innocence. Yout. case is similar. What.
could a British audience or a Liverpool tribunal learn by such
an investigation? Why not call for an inquiry in your own
country, where the justice of the allegations could he easily at-
tested Your self asseverations of innocence are of no weight
in public estimation.
In your letter you say,'" I accept the defiance of naming the
Protestants from whom letters were received and read from the
pulpit during my Lenten lectures." I now call upon you, sir, to
name those Protestants. Tell us their residences and situations
in life. If those Protestants, whom you mention, were so scru-
pulous upon the subject of religion as to send you controversial
letters during your Lent discourses, how is it possible they
should remain silent as to my supposed unjustifiable attacks
-upon your character; or why should they not write to me either
publicly or privately, and say that you were an injured man, and
that I wrongfully accused you? But no such communication
has ever reached me, though six months have now elapsed since
. I arraigned you before the public for the forgeries. But per-
lisps, sir, you have suborned some nominal Protestant to assist
you in this emergency, and to accept the responsibility of your
. forged documents. Have you found during. your six months'
silence such a Protestant, who, on this occasion, would barter
his title to religion for mere mob popularity, and would sacrifice
principle for the attainment of priestly interests? Appoint, sir,
a public inquiry. Let us appear before that tribunal; and, in
addition to my former charges, I will establish other facts of no
less importance. 1 will clearly prove you admitted to many
Romish Priests that, during your controversy with the Rev. Mr.
Pope, you had recourse to fictitious documents, by referring to
supposed works that never existed; whilst you also boasted that
you had taken extracts from German books, which extracts you
had known to be unjustly curtailed and falsely applied. Bow,
therefore, can the Rev. Mr. M`Neile, or any other Christian
Minister, enter the list of controversy with so unprincipled an
antagonist ?
In another part of your letter you denominated me as " sus-
pended, degraded, and -apostate priest." Is this the language
of what you call yourself at the commencement of your letter, an
"inoffensive advocate ?" No, sir, but it is the language of a
reckless calumniator, who would substituteabuie for argument,
and who, being afraid openly to controvert the motives that
influenced my religious change in life, would endeevourto fasten
this unwarrantable stigma on my character. Yes, sir, your
charge is a gross, palpable, and wilfully malicious representation,
and which, now in the attitude of fearless defiance, I call upon
you openly to substantiate, by your mentioning the time, the
place, or cause of your pretended suspension. But, sir, this you
cannot do, fur you are perfectly aware that your allegation is a
gross, false, and unfounded calumny, unworthy of any man save
the character of my accuser. Are you not perfectly aware, sir,
that from the day of my ordination to the morning of my re-
nouncing the superstitious errors of Romaulam, I always
exercised the privileges and discharged the duties of a Roman
Catholic clergyman ? Are you not aware, sir, that this state-
ment, together with my interview with the Roman Catholic
bishop upon my leaving the Church of Rome, were published
in the public prints of the day, as also in my pamphlets, and that
none had the effrontery to contradict their truths ? But, sir, by
whom is the charge of my being a suspended priest brought
against me? It is brought by the innocent, the blameless, the
harmless, and religious Rev. Tom Maguire—by you, sir, whose
eights are turned into days, because of Your revellings—by you,
sir, whose money, when either acquired at the gambling table,
or wrung from the wretchedness of an impoverished people, is
seldom expended among the circles of honourable life.
Yes, sir, the unfounded charge of suspension is Made against
me by you, who had been often temporarily suspended, and
frequently silenced, by your own bishop—whilst your daily and
nightly crimes are so many successive transgressions of your
clerical statutes, and continually call for the punishment of per-
petual suspension. Who, then, sir, should enter the lists of con-
troversy with such a character as you, whose projects are for po
other purpose than that of attracting notoriety, and 'in whose
life no single trace of even external religion is observable ?
At the conclusion of your letter you request that the Rev. Mr.
M`Neile would answer you, either on the evening that you had
written or next morning, and acquaint you whether he would
enter on oral controversy with you or not. Is the Coryphtts
of Romanism entirely mad, or is there no remnant of sobriety
left him ? In the commencement of your last letter you rank
yourself among the ineensive advocates of ymir religion, and
still in the same breath you wilfully and maliciously Call' me a
degraded and apostate priest !! ! Again, in the conclusion of
the same letter, you call upon the Rev. 'Mr. M`Neile to Matt-
tute an inquiry before a British audience or a Liverpool tribunal
to investigate certain charges against you, and upon which the
Rev. Mr. M'Neile deservedly grounds his objections Of bolding
any intercourse with you, until such charges be rebutted; and
yet, before any British audience could be appointed, or any Li-
verpool tribunal appealed to, you call upon the same Rev, Mr.
M'Neile to answer your letter the saute Rev. Mr. M'Neile to -
answer your letter the same evening on which it is written, and
acquaint you whether he will hold an oral controversial inter-
course with you or riot!!!
In conclusion, allow me to conjure you to turn from your evil
way's, and be converted to the Lord. Though your crimes be
numerous, still the Lord is mighty to save, and merciful to par-
don. You know, sir, that you disbelieve many of the supersti-
tious novelties of the RoanshChurch. You know, sir, yeti have
often expressed your doubts upon the doctrine of Transubatae.
firm and the inconsistencies of the Mass. Yon know, sir, I of: en
challenged to meet you either publicly or privately upon these
subjects, and am always ready to do so in the spirit of good el-
iug any tirn,, place, or under whatever circumstance you rimy
appoint. Should you meet tne I would easily. prose to you,
that our works, though good arid pleasing to (god, when they
are grounded on faith, should nut be said to merit salvation ;
for we are pour, sinful, and finite beings, and consequently no
action of ours could be said to merit an infinite blessicis, and
that it is through the merits of Jesus Christ alone, and his
atonement we can expect salvation; for your Roman Qathelic
Bible say*, in the 3d chap, of 'Titus—'• N.t• by,. the works of;
justice whieb we have done, bet according to hiunercy he saved
iss; " and again, iu the 2d of Ephesiame it is said—"BV grace
you are saved thiou;h faith, and that net of yourselves, for it is
the 'gift, of Goa and not of works, lest any man Should, boast."
, Hoping, sir, that a regard for impartial justice will obtain
in-
sertion for this, article in the Fireman's Journal, and the Other
papers that contained your unfounded calumnies against my ,
character--I remain, your well-wisher in Christ,

L. J. NOLAN.
P.S.--The above letter will snffice, as an answer, bcf,re a
discerning public, for another document of yours, dated Bal-
linamore, October, 1835, and which appeared in the Freeman's
Jousmit and Morning Register.

FURTHER EXTRACTS FROM ftlE NEW WHIG
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under the crimo of poverty.--Broom.
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CONDITION OU THE BRITISH LEGION IN SPAIN

TO. THY. norroa OF THE TIgSS.
S'tzt.—Having'a few moments of leisure from avocations im-
portant in comparison with these of the legion,l am induced,
by hearing stirne of.the radiCal-whig community endeavouring
for throw incredulity over the; recent letter by an ex-officer of
the British Au,xili;ry Legion, by asserting that the statement
was a forgery of The litnem...

Leavin-g sfr,tosettb; that point with them, I proceed to
relate a few anecdotes in illustration of what I have advanced,
and also to prove its anthentiCity. To do this the more effec
tually I shalt give the_ sentiments or opinions of those with whom
I have conversed on the matter in point.
"In sober seriousness, the legion, when it first came out,
amounted to nearly 12,0(.X) men, (in Mtftch, 1836, the time
spoken of:) I think now that it is not 5,000 strong." flow can
you account for sip great a diminution? But few hundreds have
fallen by the enemy's'shot.

"At Vittoria alone I should think that near 3,000 were car-
ried.off by the fever!' a fever arising from privations of divers
kinds, but principally front the general's choosing that malaria
spot to play at s,ltliers in."
A second person :—" So great was the mortality, that the
dead were taken off by cart-loads, and thrown into a hole ; but
on one occasion so loaded was one of these Spanish horses, that
it broke down in the public market-place, and precipitated its
contents into the streets, and presented such a spectacle that
Spanish blood ran cold."

:Could the general have averted the calamity of disease break-,
ing out among, his troops ?—Yes, because no man ought to have
undertaken so arduous a duty, unless be was well acquainted
with the unhealthiness of,this among other parts of Spain, and
the plains of Vittoria'are notorious for being the burial-ground
of foreigners. What Wellington's army suffered.onght to have
been his experience. "Happy are those who profit by the ex-
perience, but still more so are those who profit by the expe-
rience of others." Wellington had not the opti6ri of choosing
his ground, but Evans had, in a great measitre, his.
,Again, by a third:—" The old general, one would think by
his proceedings, considered the art of war consisted in the play-
ing' of soldiers." The fact is, the men have been jaded by un-
necessary drillings, being often at it from five o'clock in the
morning till sunset. Even the horses were knocked' up by this.
ill-judged And unsoldierly system. By four o'clock a. in. they
were ordered to be taken to be watered, and often when the
water WAS frozen. The consequences were, that the two regi-
ments of Lancers were reduced to about 200, and 'e.nsolidated
in one regiment, the Ist, whose strength is about that number,
the effective horse force of the British Auxiliary Legint.
The old general likes to have about him men in full tug; and,
he generally judges of a man by his expensive equipments; a
fine feather seems more his-favourite than a brilliant action. A
word as to their every day, I may say every hour, courts-martial.
So annoyed was a surgeon of the British Auxiliary Legion by-
the repeated sittings of these jacks in office at his billet, when
some poor devil or anothir had got. into a scrape for some frivo-
lous infraction of the strict letter of their childish "general oi-
ders-," that he satirically inquired—
" What poor cat was to be tried to-day,
For killing a mouse on a Sunday?".
London, Nov. 5. EUW. FAITHFUL, an ex-Officer.