The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-11-30 00:00:00

PAsiORAL ADDRESS.

[The following is a sketeli of the Pastoral Address of
the .Catholic Dean of Ferns, which, according to
t‘e Dublin Rvening Post, is causing a great sensation
in Dublin.]
ItLyERRND Sin,—The following Address, or such
Portions of it as you may judge 'mow appropriate, are
to he read by you et each of the Public Masses in your
Parish, on Sundae neat,_ should year have reason to
suppose that any your Flock are connected with, or
likely to enter into any illegal association.-1 remain,
Rev. Sir,
Your obedient, humble aslant in Christ,
J. Don.a.

To the Re,. of the Deanery of
Kileock, Moen: .1 Kildare.
Tuesday, Nov. 19, 113t2.

" DEARLY RELOVND RIISTIIREN 14 CHRIST JESUS.
" We address ourselves chiefly to yon who may have
been seduced into any illegal Association, but above
ail into this idle and wicked Conspiracy which has
been lately detected end exposed in Dublin, and whidi
is known to have extesitted into some parishes of this
Diocess. But before we do so we take yon to tt itness
• this day, that we are clear from the blood of you all;
• whereas for three years we have nut ceased night and
*day, with tears, admonishing wily one of you' to
desist from these Illegal Associations, which have al-
ways augmented the evils of oar Country, and no tend
to bring diagrace upon our Holy Religion. • • •
" And chat were tile motives which infinenced yo*
to act thus, and even to profane the awful name of Hurl
—and rashly to call upon Lim to attest your wicked
purposes? Your distress, your hatred of Orangemen,
your love of religion, your faith in prophecies, your
hope of seeing your country free and happy. Let us,'
my dear Brethren, examine dispassionately each of
these, before we come to show you the &heredity of your
designs, as well es the imposs.bility of ever carrying
them into effect.
" A:.d first, as to Distress.—The Distress that prevails
amongst yon is general and great, and in many instances
cannot be remedied by human power; but it is worthy
•of remark, though I have been and conversed with
many individuals aho were once engaged in those
wicked associations, I love not know n one who was im-
I pelted by want to enter into them. • • • •
" Your hatred to Orangemen.—The Orangemen may
be foolish, may he wicked, may be your enemies—bat it'
they he fools, they deserve your compassion ; if they be
wielted,, rot are obliged to seek their conversion by
prayer and forbearato e; if they be your enemies, voor
Redeemer teaches you how you are to treat them. • •
" Your love of Iteligiort.—Ah, my dear Brethren,
how frequently is the sacred name of religion abused,
and how many crimes and profseatione are committed
in her name ! Could religio,m he weighed in a scale,
there foul.' oat be found Gee onnee of pore religion
amongst all those also have freely entered into your
Associations! • • •
" In this country, your Religion is not only tolera-
ted, but protected ke the law; it is poor, bat poverty is
the Cradle is which Christianity was nursed, and
rights have always been its bane. Your Clergy have a
competency, alike removed from poverty and effluence,
anti derived-front a source which secures to you their
attention, and protects the purity of their own lives.—
They seek—they desire nothing more. It is clear,
Shen, that on the score of Religion, your conspiracies
are without an object, and it is the Angel of Darkness
who transforms himself into an Angel of Light, that be
I enstsedoce you to violate all the Charities of the tios,
!pet under the specious appeal-au* of.seal fee OW
Vaith.

" Your rai tie in Proph cries-114m demmet- Bret,
is *subject which we find it difficult to treat with*.
coming seriousness; and yet it it one which has pro:,
doted among you the most deplorable effects. I have
been credibly informed, that during the course of last
year, when great numbers of you, yielding to our re•
monstrences and these of our Clergy, had withdrawn
yourselves from these mischievous Associations, yon
were prevailed on to return to them, excited by some
absurd stories ralle.l Prtyll ee iee and which dissem-
inated amougst•you by designing and wicked men.—
There have been, to our own knowledge, instances of
persons neglecting their domestic concerns, and aban-
doning their families to misery and want, through a
rain hope, grounded on sonic supposed prophecy. ' that
Mighty changes were just approaching!' For more than
half a century it o as predicted. that George the Fourth
would not reign ; and his very appearance amongst yon
was scarcely sufficient to dispel the allusion. Such ex•
cessi re credulity on your parts, and such a superstitions
attachment to fables, a thonaanti times belied, is a me-
lancholy proof of the facility with which you may be
seduced by knaves. • • •
But your object is to make your country free and happy.
We o Moot reason with you on the end which sou propose
to yourselves; which even if it were laudable, could not
justify the employment cf unlawful means—" as evil"
says an Apostle, " is nut to be done that good may hap-
pen ;" bat we will consider bet a moment your design
itself, and the persons employed to care, it into !Ucua
tion, that if possible the absurdity as well as the wicked-
oess of it may become palpable to you. And first, who
are those who would tindertalte to subvert the Laws and
Constitution of this country? Persons without money.
without etlocation, without arms, without counsel, with-
out discipline, oitliont a leader ; kept together by abond
of iniquity, which it is a duty to violate, and a crime to
observe. Hen destitute of religion. anti abandoned to
the most frightful passions; having blasphemy in their
mouths, and their hoods filled with rapine, and often-
times with blood. Can .tali as these regenerate a
country, and tusks her free anti happy? No, dearest
Brethren, lett even to themselves, they wool(' destroy
eachstlts; but twanged to a regular force, they would .
natter a suck of sheep upon a mountain whew tiara
thunder storm Affrights then,. The year of 1798 is
within the recollection of us all : at that fatal period,
Protestant, and Catholic, and Dissenter of every pro-
Once and lawn. of eyttry class and description, of every
rank and station, not ecru excepting the Army. combined
to overthrow the Government—you witnessed their
failure, the scenes which then occurred, and many of
you experienc-d their fatal c..nsequenees. If then
such was tl:e result of an extensive conspiracy. coot
prising promos of all religions, of wealth and af-
fluence, of intelligence, cottoected abroad, organized
at home, and undertaken at a period when a
revolutionary spirit parvaded Europe, anti when the go-
vernment, agai net which it was directed, was engaged
almost single-hantled, with the most fortnialable enemy
England ever had ; what success could possibly attend
the efforts of the vile and contemptible conspiracy we
nom hear of. A conspiracy, undertaken at a period of
prcfonnii peace. and when the government is rooted in
the affections of every matt who wistios for the happiness
of his country. When every Protestant and every Ca-
tholic, possessed of name, or station, or property, would
rally round the throne, like o.te man, to defend it
3200 the a'sassita of the public peace. Can you men-
tion the name of any individual, not of those classes
which I first enumerated. who has ever joined your un-
holy aasottiatians ? Have not the clergy, priests, and
liiishopa. with one ;mice corAemned you? Has one of
you ever been permitted to partake of a sacraagat,
in
our Church, who has swift:ft renounced Mese assac:a-
lions? ths any fernier of property, or dealer of fortune
or integrity, been ever foam, amongst you ? Has any
honest, sober, and industrious tradesman, or labourer,
seer entered, unless by compulsion, amongst you? Are

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..i•ENMEMME

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and the faro of het tioseroment.—B accounts from
Spain, it apines, that irr the sitting of the tortes on the

10i6 init. a propo.ition was male by Don Hesitant' de Ls

tademand of the French Liovethnient a categorical answer

a• to tlstir disposition townrifs Spain, and to reciaire of

it to refuse protection to those Spaniards who sheltered
themselves in France to conspire against their coutnrc
The proposition vas lost on a division, the nnmhery

being in its favour 54 ; against it 66. The Make de
it is stated, has hero arrested and seat to
Madrid. It is said that lie embarked at Comma, with

the intention of proceeding to England instead of tb• I.th,
of Ivies which was assigned as the plate of his retreat
whilst in exile ; a storm having. amen, the ships were

obliged to put bark, and the flake was phteed svoirt
. At Madrid, according to account. to rue 17. h
inst. there bed bees noeting for some days Wore bot
banques and reoicings on account of the successes ob.
tenet] by the national forces in Cateheals. Respertine
France there is nothing new, except a rase :1 the Court

of Correctional Police. M. Courier, not the celehratot
naturalist, but a person who called hinnelfa vine..lrester,

appeared before the Court, charged with pahlie'ling
libel, under the tide of "Petitio• for the Villagers
who are prevented from dancing." The libel oat
described to he an outrage on IViaioe. at 4

calculated to excite hatred against the Govermes..
It appeared that the libel bad horn written in cons,-

qu►nre of the Prefect' having, on the tecrest of a pries*,
prohibited the nsnal dancing of the peasants nn Snodar
evening. The King's Advocate ob d, that the title
shelved the malignity of the author, as its terms indieated
a general prohibition, whereas the decree of the Pre-
fect of the Indre and the Loire had only interdicted it
in the commune of Azai. He then read several passages,

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the spirit of which was, that the people were now pro-
hibitedfrom working or amusing themselves, and told
that they should do nothing hot prty.—" Bet what
burden do you think we have to hear ?—Chddren, old
tnen, monks, burleys, courtiers—what a number of folks
to maintain, the greater part of them most magnificently. •
Then comes the splendour of the Throne, aa.l the Holr
too!—what costly things!—what an expense!"
After reading a great number of extract., the King's
Advocate concluded by requiring that the seisore of the
petition shonld be declared valid, andcopies bedetaineil:
and, further, that the author should be sesteneed to Id
months' imprisonment, LOW francs fine, and the ex-
penses of the trial. M. Beeville, counsel for the
de-
fendant, made setae legal objections to the prosecution.
He wished the trial to be postponed, in order to discuss
the question of the libel itself. The Gaut withdrew to
deliberate* and on returning pronounced the follouieg
decision

" Whereas the passage, charred in the reprehensible
work of the Sieur Covrirr, published with a view still
more reprehensible. are not sufficient to cosstitete the
offences provided against by the law, the tribesal
disrhistes the complaint instituted against the saki Near
Corder."
Fonts on Wedersday.—Five per Cents. opened se
59f.; roan to 89f. 30c., and dose.' at 112 f. Danis Sham,
NIX Neapolitan Stock, 761. Exchange on L• 14,1!...
one moot 25E 30c.; titre* sleuths. 23f. lisc.-(Coors
ltana s
Ae.)
At a lean hoer than the leasing of the prieterl boar:ei
5 per epees. rose to t'9l. 33e., and Neapolitan tio tack los
761. Spaniels Bonds of 1321 clone lat 592.