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

OCT. 4, 1836,

your eyes.open ? Does the memoir here given satisfy
You—+tl►e_ epitomised public life of him
Villiers Stuart delightetb to honour" and his colleagues
to uphold, by attempting to cry down the man who has
had the-4ecoming dignity and devotion to erect a bar-
rier against stich.barelaced bvpocritical depravity.? Yes;
this is really: the.Coni:Cientious,The magnanim6Us modern
Pittacus of Sir Richard Keane—the man of Measured
words and polished ellifluous plirases—the disinterested
champion of Ireland's woes, and the phillinthrepie friend
of the po„►' factory children of England, arid to whom the
second estate of this realm is to bow in submission,-and

yield the palm of judgti;,,nt therein to the wisdom and
discretion of Mr. Villiers Stuart !

We may. be, charged 'by some of our readers with
making too much or this common disturber of a nation's
repose, and we will readily afimit the subject is sufficient.

ly loathing and irksome to dwell upon after the repeated
expositions whiChhave 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, usque
ad nauseam, we cannot remain passive spectators whilst
falsehood and dissimilation stalk abroad with " head and
front Offending in the glare of day."
Under the hope, therefore, that we may be relieved,
for a time from making this man's proceedings the lead-
ing topic in oar discussions, we will endeavour to deal
with the nefariOuslinpOstures practised in the most sum-,
Warr lv y possible, 'tinder the- hope' that what we have
recently adduciql will act as a corrective,within the sphere
of ng:36WraCirculation, at all events; for we have little
11.)pkWNiaing a practieillreflirnramongst those on the
other. Side of 'the chanter Who are living under Vile
priestly dominion of tin 'tenets of Dominus .Dens and
thetilitelage -ceDoctorsTrOg; Murray, and M'Hale, as
well as of O'Connell. We will, therefore, endeavour to;
content ourselvei with tiro 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, persectited, and
ill-used by its protestant landlords and existing corpora-
tars, should have been so, dead to its own interests as to
allow the united parliament to slumber, pending the as.•
sertion 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
of the sympathy entertained by even the general Roman
Catholic population of Ireland, fur the objects of its agi-
tating tormentors,•whea freed franc their presence ! As
to the value that should be attached to die very few pe-
titions which wer:eisen(ine it must he purely compara-
tive, as they werellif„rersult of _organized agitation and
priestly infuence r• - _

•
We feel that, we have thus far disposed of the logical
inferences and interpretations of Mr. Stuart with regard,
to ;the, question be .so profoundly disoussed,,nationally,
and have shown it to be worthless in the eyes of his own
co.,untrymen. AFltft-his " scathing eloquence,7 so deno:
minated by the,4ondon whip-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 tile second part of our reply, em-
bracing the entire position on which the great Pittacas
of Ireland founds and justifies his unprincipled agitation
and hostility to English connexion; and we.shall be very
.brief'.w•ith 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-
tical 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 Por.e
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 stale--“ 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.promulg,ation of chris-
tianity in these islands."
There, Mr. Daniel O'Connell is a knockdown blow

for you. What becomes, of your ." Saxon invasion"
• 'now Will you answer its'?` or -are you &nub when
Arndt stands before you. in the garb of indisputablosim-
'plicity ? With all your sophistry, can you dispute a fact
recorded in the 'recognised history—the unmystified ca-
lendar of events in your own 'country t There was no
heresy, even as the Church of Rome deGnes 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 hierar.chq'
nor the infallible protection of a Roman potentate to
save the souls of her sons from dathnation !• But, alas
;for Ireland ! she fell prostrate at the, feet 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, bJ.,
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
Syndtof the Romish clergy, under the express authority
of another pope, held at the very town of Waterford, the
scone of Mr. Stuart's forensic eloquence, and Henry

* Grey's Historical illustration of theme Principles of Civil
Government iu Britain. London: 1835. wards.
t History of Ireland to the great Rebellion; and Phelan
Policy of the Church/a Rowe. Londan : 1827. Cadolt. 's