The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-06-18 00:00:00

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DR. AUL NER.

TO TIM MI TOR, OF Tli!E STAT,ES:44N.

LETTER
St hwie been waiting near s fortnight for
an answer to my last letter, iusercgd in your Pao,
per of the Gth instant, cooccrising tho disclaPncr
of my political conduct aid writings on the part
of certain persons who met inStanhops.streok on
the '29th of last May ; but atoping L this sort
have I seen, except a wisate apology from some
individuals who formed part of that company. It
then, admitted, tha,t the persons in gnestion
id just as much right to interfere with my agency
en the part of my brethren, the Catholic lkishops
of Ireland, as I have to interfere, with the politics
of China; anal it is demonstrated that Mr. Pox.

NB y Ltd no ;knthurity from me to make ikny.prod

iris tl whit.oevcr to Parlianicat and that, in
seyiag whit he ditt think proper to say to. it, he
stated his own conclusions instead of my opinions.
bei,ng avowedly the case, I think it unneces.
EAT) to h‘li the columns of your useful Pap9r with
i^for.ition of at least a dozen downright false.
and of double that number of gross nil's,
r.epresentati;ms, contained in the report of that
Centleinan'a speech, which my adversaries Was
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kpoteil in their hired, newspapers of the 28tbelt.
and circulated throughout the Empire. Still, as it
is a fact that sonic persons of my communion,
however, kmposed upon by falsehoods, and cir-
cumvented by the artifices of my declared enemies,
on the day following that k'ast mentioned, dis.
claim my writings and conduct, and as the print.
ing of this in the newspapers is calculated to ini.
press the Public with an idea that I have art a
very treacherous advocate of the cause I have un.
dertaiwil and that I have been coneernel in some

coil' political intrigues, I feel it a duty owing to
soy situation to give some account to the POlic of
my writings and conduct, as contrasted Kith those
of my capital adversary, by wbqui the iLvziola.

tiuttisis have been guided.
I must begin with observing, that it is neither a
new nor a very humiliating circumstance kn tux re-
gard to be calumni.ited and decried in the Senate'
of the Nation, and even in my own little body.'
Two years ago I stood at the bar u( the House of
Peers, whilst one of the Ministry accused me of
barb% in print '4 called the KIN 4 an Orangeman,
'r and the Sovereign of a very small part of his
rc Irish sokiects." So the matter appeared, till
the Nobleman Who is iteerest allied to the great
Fox, iu genius as well as in blood, convinced this
Minister that be did not understand the English
:ttgoige. Three years before that period sat in
ga!li:Ty of the House of Commons, whilst a
Member, who is Learned, because he is a l,wyer,
and Wit Honourable, because his IHajestit has I
made him so, maintained that I had taught it to be
a mere matter of conveniency whether oaths
it are to be observed or not.", Mr. Pm) was
astonished, Mr. Psitc.evar was scandalized, and
the whole Housei during twenty-foqr hours,
thonght me a very wicked casuist, till my friend
Dr: la4Witsl4CE produced my book, (mai which
the Irish J 2 actor tilt! 4lrbled half a sentence, when
the tahks were completely turned upon him, and
4 experienced the proJiction of the Poet—

solveatur rise taboly It to miksus abibit.

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S.one twenty years ago I was in so much lilt,
pace with a great part of those of my communion
in Lothlou, that they nicknamed me Lord George
Pordon, and would nut spealf to ate in the streets
for that very conduct for which they are now
phliged to me, namely, fur being instrumental in
preserving fur them their family name, and their
unchangeable creed. In a word, Sir, I have not
the smallest doubt that thu very individuals who
have lately disavowed my writings and conduct not
only will hereafter, but that they actually do now,
approve of them. In fact some of those who
have been the most active in censuring Fre, haye al.
ready confeseed this to me.
It does not appear that the compeny in Stilt-
hope.street thought proper to censure my writings
on History, Antiquities, or Theology, but only
my Idia* writings. Now the only works of
mine which can any way fall under this denomitsa.
lion aro the follewing ; Ist, Lctlers to a Pre.
which have undergone two editions in
England, two in Ireland, and one at New York?
;n America, The object of these Letters is to
vindicate the English Catholics from those foul
aspersions, particularly of plots ama disloyalty,
rich hav,e been the chief source of the prejitiliCes
cf their fellow-subjects against them ; and it has
1.1. en generally admitted that they have answered
their intended purpose. True it is, my domestic
udversary, upon their appearance, entered iutu
an intrigue with my more honourable public ene-
my, and encouraged him in various ways to enter
the lists again with me : still I fancy he would not
tare to tell the Catholics openly dull I had injured I
VAir cause by the work in Question.-4nother
work of the same description is my Letter!, from
Ireland. This was intended Au render, as far as
was in my power, the same service to Irish, as the
former is supposed to have rendered to English Ca.
thulics. jt Ism gone through throe edition's ttt

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