The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-29 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL. STANDARD.

FOR THE PROTESTANT AND ROMAN CATHOLIC CONSERVATIVES

OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
( From the Dublin Standard.)
Who were they that at the period of the Reformation seized
on and possessed themselves of more than three-fourths of the
Lay Impropriations of England, which amounted to Three
Thousand Eight Ilundredand Forty-five ?—( Dorm's Day Book.)
Answer—The Whigs.
Who were they that robbed the native Irish Merchants of
their fortunes for having sent fourteen thousand pistoles to King
Charles the First, to assist him in warring against his inhuman
persecutors ?—(o'Hagyarty, p. 5.)
Answer—The Regicide Whigs.
Who were they that published in the Hue and Cry! of Mer-
clrius Britannicus the following (copied) atrocious proclama-
tion for securing the person of the King?—(o' Haggerty, p. 402.)
Answer—The Regicide Whigs.
" PROCLAMATION.

"If any man can bring tale or tiding of a wilfull King, which
hath wilfully gone astray from his Parliament with a guilty con-
science, bloody hands, a heart full of broken vows and protesta-
tions; if these marks be not sufficient, there is another its the
mouth, for bid him speak and you will soon know him ; then
give notice to Britannicus and you will be well payed for your
paynes.—God save the Parliament."
Who were they that purchased from the Scots, for thirty
thousand pieces of gold, the person of Charles the First. which
he had surrendered to those Scots on the 4th of May, 1646 ?
(O'Flaiterty's Ogyyia. p. 289.)
Answer—The Regicide Whigs.
Who were they, that, on the 2d January, 1648, passed the
following resolutions in the British House of Commons ?—(Life
of Oliver Cromwell, p. 2i8.)
Answer—The Regicide Whigs.
" First—That the people are, under God, the original of all
Just power.
"Secondly—That the Commons of England, being chosen by
and representing the people, ale the supreme power of the na-
tion.

"Thirdly—That whatsoever is declared for law by the House
f Commons, assemble,' in Parliament, hath the force of law,
though the consent of the King and the House of Peers be not
bad thereunto."

Who were they that constituted " the High Court of Justice"
to try King Charles the First, to examine witnesses. and to
pass sentence of death upon him ?—(Life of 0. C. p. 258.)
Answer—The Regicide Whigs. •
Who were they that on the 30th January, 1648-9, brought
King Charles the First to the scaffold before Whitehall, and
there beheaded him for a less crime than the Irish Beggarman,
O'Connell, has been annually perpetrating on the pour of Ire-
land for the last seven years?—( 0' Flaherty, 289.)
Answer--The Regicide Whigs.
Who were they that passed the following atrocious law, im-
mediately after the execution of Charles the First, for the pro-
scription of the Royal Family, and the abolition of the heredi-
tary Monarchy in England ?
Answer—Tee Regicide Whigs.—( Life of O'C., 297.)
" That the paines and penalties shall be visited on any person
proclaiming, or promoting the interests of the person, Charles
the Second.
"'That those persons who had voted the late King's ' conces-
sions to have been a sufficient ground for peace,' shall be for
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thensome and dangerous, and shall be abolished ; and that the
form of Government shall for the future be a Commonwealth,
under the directions of forty persons, by the name, style, and
title of the Keepers of the Liberty of England.'"
Who were they that, when Charles the Second was crowned
at Scone, in Scotland, on the Ist of January, 1650-1, sent hire-
ling murderers to intercept him on his return to the Continent,
and to put him to death, and from which he narrowly escaped
in disguise to the coast of France ?—(O'Flu. p. 291.)
Answer—The Regicide Whigs.
Who were they that forced William the Third, of glorious
and immortal memory, to destroy the Irish Woollen Manufac-
ture—(Parliamentary Register, p. 176,)
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When,? during the very worst period of suffering, on the part
of
the
Irish Roman Catholics between the years 1751 and 1761,
Bishop Berkeley, the Rev. Mr. Barton, the Rev. Mr. Contarine,
and the " humane Primate Stone," all Protestants, did all they
could to console and keep up the spirits of the drooping Roman
who were they that oppressed them, and of whom the
venerableCathole,
isCharles O'Connor, of Belanagare, said, that " they
were in search of Liberty as Herod was in search of Christ, to
crush it in its infancy, and have all to themselves ?—(Alemoirs
of Life and Writings of C. 0. C., p. 212.)
Answer—The Regicide Whigs.
Who were they that, from the formation of the first Roman
Catholic Committee, in one thousand seven hundred and fifty-
seven, up
to the year one thousand seven, hundred and seventy-
eight, when Luke Gardiner, an Irish I ory, brought the first
Roman Catholic relief bill into the Irish Parliament, never
made one one step towards modifying or mitigating the rigour
of the Penal Laws, under which the Roman Catholics of Ire-
land were so long suffering ?
Answer—The Regicide Whigs.

Who were they that, from the year seventeen hundred and
seventy-eight, up to the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine,
comprising a period of 51 years, never proposed one single le-
gislative measure of relief for the Roman Catholics of the British

A proposition is on foot for detaching the church of Saint
Michael from the rector• of Bath, and for providing it with a
separate endowment.—Bath Chrunkle.