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FRIENDS of Mr. GODFREY, (the gentleman who
I appeared at he Theatre-NOV:11, in the characters of
- ROMEO and RICHARD III.,)
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LIVER THEATRE, fur this present FRIDAY EVENING,
the 10th instant, when he will have the honour of representing
SEVERAL OF HIS MOST POPULAFHABACTENS.
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FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1835.

Bp the ship Orwell, Captain DALRYMPLE, which ar-
rived here yesterday, we have received Canton Regi3,
ters to the 25th February. Some rather interesting
extracts will be found under the proper head.

Monday next, we believe, is the day fixed by Lord
NIOI2PETII for the second reading of the Irish protestant
extirpation bill, or rather the Irish popery encourage-
ment bill, in the House of Commons. That, we confeis
with shame, will not be the first. time, since the whigs
came into office, that an attempt has been made to esta-
blish the idolatrous superstition of the Church of Rome
upon the ruins of the blessed institutions founded at the
reformation. But all former attempts sink into insigni-
ficance before this deep laid but daring scheme of fraud
and injustice of which poor Lord MORPETII, in an evil
hour and for the purposes of faction, became the foster
parent.

In the struggle to which this momentous bill will giie
rise we must be excused if we place Lord MottPErn in
the background altogether. He is a nonentity in the
contest. He is merely the shadow of the monster robber
behind the curtain. He and his colleagues only hold
place by the cruel mercy of DANIEL O'CONNELL ; itis
the said DANIEL who gives the word of command which
Lord MORPETH, Little John, and Friar Tuck are com-
pelled to obey ; the bill is framed according to the dire--
lions of DANIEL; its levelling provisions are dictated by
him ; its concessions are arranged to promote the views
of DANIEL and the popish pritsts, whose paid servant
and degraded hireling lie is. •

If the protestants of England could only be persuaded
to look at the measure in its true light, we feel assured
that their spirits would revert to nobler and better times
—to that ever hallowed period in the history of their
country when their fathers trampled the idols of popery
underfoot, scourged the traffickers in blood and crime from
the precincts of the temple, chased from the bedside of
the dying parent the plunderers of the widow and or-
phan, and restored to the people of these lands the pure
faith, the unadulterated precepts, and the cheering con-
solations of the gospel. Alas the while ! and for a long
while, the eyes of the people of England have been half
shut to the inroads and the artifices of popery. Like the
man with the adder they have said, " Bless the poor
harmless thing ! it is benumbed with cold ; it is a beau-
tiful innocent; let us warm it in our bosom !"
They did so—need we tell the result For the last
forty Years the Roman catholics of Ireland have been
treated by the British nation like a spoiled child. Our
ancestors, who knew them better, kept them at a dis-
tance, and gave them pastures beyond the pale. They
often tried to softct, civilize, and conciliate them, but all
in vain. Every trust they reposed in them was abused—
benevolence essayed her charms without effect—the first
fruits of kindness were made bitter—their confidence
was betrayed—their alms and their penal relaxations
were converted into the auxiliaries of rebellion, ending
in cold-blooded massacres of the too confiding protes-
tants. In short it was sad necessity alone which imposed
upon our fathers the unpleasant duty of exclud►ng Ro-
man catholics, and the Roman catholics of Ireland in
particular, from all participation in the legislative and
judicial honours of the state.

Recently, however, we have given them another
For the last fifteen years a sort of spurious liberality has.
been the fashion of the day. Men of estimable talents
in pursuit of liberality have entirely forgotten principles.
Religion was deemed of minor consideration in all ques-
tions of political expediency. It was held to be expedi-
ent that the Roman catholics should be conciliated, but
the expediency of injuring or undermining the Church
of England was never considered. The expediency too
was all on one side. We have invariably been called
upon to be the surrender...mg...party._ %% were called
upon to make a door here and a window there—a loop-
hole in one place, and a postern-gate in another—all for
the benefit of the Roman catholics. We were desired
to remove a barrier, cut down a tree, fill up a fosse, erect
a mound, for the benefit of the Roman catholic.; and
unhappily, like besotted fools, we obeyed. But 18 hat in
the name of justice did we ever get in return for all this
concession and implicit compliance with the demands of
expediency ? It was give, give, on cur side; hut when
did we receive a bond, or mortgage, or security, or ac-
knowledgment of any kind, in return ? When we wele
giving power to the Roman catholics, by admitting them
to legislate on matters more or less remotely connected
with the interests of a protestant state—while we were
admitting the subjects of the pope into the British fa—
mily—did we ever, upon a principle of reciprocity, exact
from his holiness permission to build protestant chapels
in the Roman territories ? While we were "creating
new worlds," (to quote the fustian of the day,) did we ever
claim the right to erect a protestant place of worship in
the " worlds" we had created ? No ; our liberal policy'
was to give, not take—to surrender, hut not to demand
an equivalent—to yield every thing, but to exact nothing
in return. Is it any wonder then that we are losing caste
among the nations of Europe ?
-• The folly of a nation, like the folly of an individual, car-
ries with it its own sting and its own punishment. We
are now beginning to feel the effects of our mistaken li-
berality. We have levelled the fence, and the .Trish beg-
gar besets our gates--the Irish wolf preys in our pas-
tures—the Irish traitor, in a place where he is safe, li-
bels our country—and the fetid priest, whom we have
reared with our alms, tampers with our daughters, claims
our charity and turns it against the peace of our families.
administers his lying nostrunia' to our vonth, and has
even the audacity to attack, with baguing brand and
loaded musket, the ministers of mil- ored religion and-

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the outposts of our church establishment in Ireland. It
is not by the arm of the spirit that we are assailed. Our
doctrines and discipline are not challenged by an appeal
to the high authority of the canons of GOD. The charge
against us is not supported by the artillery of reason—
by arguments addressed to our conviction—orby assump-
tions founded upon apostolic dogmas which we are unable
to meet and refute'. No ; the advocates of popery and
idolatry know better. Theirs is the warfare of the lay
Pirate who hoists the black flag, and decides.all by brute
force at the muzzles of his guns or by the edged his
sabre. Murder with them is the legitimate argument.
To waylay a protestant clergyman, to shoot him, to hat-
ter out his brains, to dance upon his mangled corse, to
howl like incarnate fiends over the foul deed of blood—
these are the arguments against ills To do in Ireland
what would disgrace the most sanguinary savages in the
darkest dens of the earth is considered no offence
in the code of morals, but strictly a popish duty incul-
cated by the priests, and recognised as a virtue by the
legislative scoundrels of that communion whom we have
nursed in our false pride, and warmed under the impres-
sions of a spurious and mischievous philanthropy. These
are the begrimed fruits of our fatal liberality, which cry
aloud to HEAVEN ! These are the murder stains which
reward our generous concessions! These are the marks,
imprinted by traitors and assassins, _as witnesses to the
bond of protestant concession ! Is there an Englishman
of:so frigid a temperament, of so callous a heart, of so
weak a mind, of so torpid an understanding, of so seared
a conscience,- or who is so alienated from all
.that is
good, and noble, and valorous, as not to feel his blood
boil at the indignities thus offered to his king, his coun-
try, arid his religion ? N.o4there is not one in ten thou-
sand ; and that one is a greatening slave, pitiful in mind
and manners, an outcest of doubtful origin whom no one
recognises, or a thief Isis4habit and instinct; or, vhat is
nearly the same thing, a jacobin in politics, and an uni-
tarian—that is a robber of presbyterian chapels,—in what
he pleases to call. religion.
We now return to Lord MORPETH'SbiII, but not to
Lord MORPETH. He is merely a drOdge in this matter,
the agent of what he cannot possibly understand, and
we have, as before stated, thrown him overboard, as we
would the wrapper of some Smyrna goods supposed to
contain the virus of the plague. Lord MoRPETH, then,
is supposed to be sunk.; but we must return to the bill
which we are menaced with on Monday next.
To make the matter simple, we shall assume O'Cos-
NELL to be its conductor in the House of Commons, hav-
ing no doubt whatever that he is its author, and that for
purposes intimately connected with his influence and po-
pularity
.it has been concocted. Now what is this bill ?
It enacts that where fifty protestants are not avowed
and declared, if not proved communicants of the episco-
pal church, in any parish in Ireland, such church shall
be destroyed, and the revenues of the said church shall
be given to promote the objects of general education.
By "general education" is meant, placing poor children
under the influence of the popish priests, denying* them
the benefit of a gospel education—feeding them upon
adulterated scraps from an adulterated bible—thrusting
upon them false translations and perverted tenets—giv-
ing them as texts what are dishonest interpolations—and
rearing them in a faith, founded upon these texts, which
islarse, delusive, and destructiVe. Such isonational edu-
cation in Ireland, under the protection of the present
government, and for which we, the protestants of Eng-
land, are called upon to pay. s
This, we contend, would be had enough if the tax for
its support were .levied exclusively from the Roman Ca-
tholics of Ireland. It would not be so bad if the expense
of it were defrayed by MAtimoun the Sultan of Constan-
tinople. But to think that we protestants of England
should be taxed,- as we are, to furnish the agents of the
Ourch of Rome with the means of perverting the early
and eradlin's principles of the poor children of Ireland is
so morrstroua, so indecent, and so dishonouring, that we
consider every protestant who assents to it, without so-
lemn protestation, as falling under the judgment which,
bible be true,., it is sure to provoke. If the sacred
seiptures be not a fallacy—if the apostles be not impostors
—if the -MESSIAH be not come; era' the writings
concerning Him be not fictions, this sort of education is
fraud, impiety, and shameless blasphCMy. He who de-
tracts from, the written beisk—he who adds thereto—he
who mars or obliterates—his name, saith the Scriptures,
shall not be written in the books of heaven. It is for
those who have countenanced this departure from duty,
if they be christians, to reconcile their conduct with the
awful inhibitions, and the consequences, to which we
Dave alluded.
But the bill to be read on Monday goes much further
than merely tolerating this system of jesuitical and anti-
christian education. The bill takes a wide leap beyond
encouragement. It proposes that the protestant church
• in Ireland shall be made directly, by its income and its
misfortunes, the nursing mother of this spurious educa-
tion, and by consequence the active auxiliary of popery.
Where fifty protestant communicants are not found in
any parish, no matter how rich the donations given in
support of our religion may be, the church revenues be-
come alienated to the crown, and are given to the sup-
port of the spurious and unscriptural education which we
have described. •If there be forty-nine protestants there
is no help fdr them. If fifty they are safe. But how
easy is it to reduce sixty, eighty, or even an hundred, to
less than fifty?' The intimidation and murder regime
would be instantly resorted to. The midnight visitation
—the fire-threat—the death's head and cross-bones—
frighten peaceful families more titan the plague or pesti-
lence. Dire are the hardships to be encountered in
planting a farm and sustaining life amid the woods of a
Canadian forest; but these, painful in prospect, as they
• sever all domestic ties, and embitter -the recollections of
•a once happy home, are still more painful in reality. Yet
.who
.amongst the proteStant peasantry of Ireland, surs
rounded by popish priests and their legion of Incendia-
ries, would not brave the miseries •of the " middle pas-
.sage," and hazard death by starvation in the woods of
Anierica, rather than expose themselves and their child-
ren to the denunciations of the popish priests ? In every
lonely parish Which O'CoNNELL might choose to reduce
below the prescribed and ' the proscribed number, he
would only have to order his savages to work, and the
,reduction from eighty or an hundred to forty-nine would
be accomplished in a very short space of time. In fact,
it is frightfill to contemplate the blood that:twilit(' be shed,
-and the cruelties inflicted under this extirpating clause.
It appears by the returns, that them are 193 parishes
iu Ireland in which there are not more than twenty pro-
testants. These returns, we know, are shamefully false.
We believe they are, in most cases, fraudulent returns,
:concocted for the persecuting and extirpating purposes
• which O'CosN'Eta. has in view. Still they are the re-
Aurns.upon which the present governmentTely, and mean
to act. We most, therefore, take them as showing the
amount of robbery which is intended. There are, by
west returns, 133 parishes, the protestant, population of
which does not exceed thirty souls ; 107 not containing
forty, and 77 not containing more than fifty souls. These
put together give us five hundred and fifteen parishes,
;containing seven hundred and nine small congregations
of protestatats, which this bill is calculated to deprive of
every pittance• of church revenue, leaving the pastors
and their flocks destitute of the means of worshipping
Gad! When did any thing more atrocious, more
im
pious, more sinful, or more insulting to the Majesty of
Heaven ever enter the minds of men ? These poor
people are to be deprived of a consecrated house of
.prayer, merely because their numbers do not reach fifty.
• Fifty ! may the word stand ever accursed in the annals
':of England ! Fifty ! it is cruel mockery ! Why not
say five-hundred ? It would be more bold ; it would be
an equally honest and more daring act of sacrilege. And
• • perhaps five hundred would have been the minimum
. number but front the fdar of open resistance. O'CONNELL
• knows what the protestants can do when exasperated ;
• and, therefore; like a cunning pirate, be preys only on
• the Weakottie unarmed, and the defsnceless.
, Such, ,however', is the bill which is to be read a second
" - time on Monday next. Its 'principle, it, would appear,
• is not to be opposed on 'the second rending. This, we
• presume, is dictated by weakness, and in order to pre-
vent unnecessary and repeated dinuasiun. Sir RopEgr

PEEL and Lord STANLEYhav'e both formally intimated
their intention to divide the hill and oppose the spoliating
and appropriating Clauses. We may, therefore, ApeCt
a tremendous struggle and a fresh trial of strength.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL declares that he will not yield, aiad
if he succeeds we have no chance left but in the Hoese
of Lords.

The electors of Oldham have returned a very excel-
lent conservative in the room of W'rLLlAar COBBETT de-
ceased: The son of the late member had a respectable
minority, and of all the candidates, with the excep•
tion of Mr. LEES, he would have had our preference.
One Mr. ASHTON YATES went over to Oldham with
£ll7 15s. 9d. in his pocket, thinking he could persuade
the electors to acknowledge his pretensions; but they
would not listen to him, and he was returned to Liver
pool minus his travelling expenses. Mr. FEARGUS
O'CoNNoR, however, had more courage, although per-
' haps less cash, and he
.stood the brunt of the first day,
in which, out of eight hundred electors, he had the ex•
tensive merit of obtaining thirty-three votes. Mr. JoHN
COBBETT polled 3SI, and Mr. LEES, who is returned,
394.

Oh Mr. FEAecus O'CoNxoß, descendant of an Irish
king, that you should have come all the way from
the mail coach office in Cork to be rejected by the wea-
vers and spinners of Oldham ! It is a mighty calamity !
Consider, Mr. FEAR.GUS O'CONNOR, the money you
have spent, and the terrible oratory you have wasted,
anti the magnificent pledges you have made—all in
ifain! The electors of Oldham have treated you as
Englishmen generally treat tail soup—they have made
spoon meat of' you ; your name, your reputation, and
your connexion. going for nothing. It is a melancholy

business!
But, joking apart, is it not pleasant to observe that
not one of the-Irish joints can malie the least, impression
upon any popular constituency in England ? Even
O'CoNNELL himself, we venture to say, would not com-

mand a hundred votes in any county or borough in Grew
Britain. This is consolatory, for it shows the protestan.
feeling. Long may it prevail 1.