The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-07-07 00:00:00

LONDON:
TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1814.

Dublin Papers have reached us to the sth inst. by
which our statement respecting the forged letter that
appeared in last Tuesday's Courier, is officially and
completely confirmed.

CATHOLIC BOARD, 4, CAPTL-STREET,
SATURDAY, JULY 4.

This Day, a Special Meeting of the Members of
the BOARD assembled, in order to refute the foul
calumny published in the Courier Newspaper, on
Tuesday, the 30th ult. respecting the alleged EXTRA.
ORDINARY MEETING of the Catholics of Dublin.

Mr. KEOGH, the person alluded to, in the fabri-
cated Letter (which is stated by the venal Priut
to have been received from Dublin), after an able and
animated speech, in which he refuted every fact
therein stated,' moved the following Resolution,
which was seconded by Mr. O'CoNNErt., and unani.
mously adopted :
Resolved, That the paragraphs inserted in the London Mini-
sterial Newspaper, called the Courier, of .the Silth of June and
Ist of July, respecting a Difference of Opiuitm amongst the Ca-
tholic Body, as to the Resolutions of the late AGGREGATE
Merrtsa of the CATROUCS of IRELAND, are totally PAMIR, acid
destitute of any the slightest foundation is f 'cc, and were calca•
laced fur the wont of purposes.
GEORGE BRYAN, Chairman.
TDONIAS DROMGOOLE, Set.

Those atrocious frauds daily practised upon the
public by the Courier, and other ministerial prints,
are enough to distress the moral feelings, and to
Isicken the soul of every honest man in the nation;
; they are enough to bury the heart in despair, for
; they seem to be among those sad and dreadful
symptoms that precede the dissolution of Empires.
If a guilty calumny of this sort can be adopted, as
o much state sagacity—what State can hope to
j flourish or prosper, which is conducted upon such
, principles ?—And if it be not countenanced or con-
nived at, and let it be hoped that it cannot—if it
be no more than the act of a low-bred slave,
!'who seeks to gain from bigotry, that which vit.-
ttfe denies him, let public reprobation shower
down heavily upon his head ; and let the nation,
by their contempt and scorn, disown any accessorial
concurrence after the fact, with turpitude of so vile
a stamp. Men may indulge their heat at the im.
pulse of their prejudices, if they will ; but if a Mi.
nistry can maintain power by the lies and guilt of a
nefarious Press principally—by bribing every un-
lettered slave they can lay-hands upon, and by thrust.
ing into public offices, men who are no more tl.aa
the agents of their imposture—if, we say, such
a circumstance as we state, should be possible,
and should unhappily ever take place—that coun-
try, which can endure such a Ministry, cannot long
escape dissolution. There are symptom of moral
decay as plain as any of those which announce the
I •
approaching mortality of animal life ; but, of all
the former, there are none so unerringly significant of
what must follow, as to see power maintained by an
alliance with open vice, and a nation quiet specta-
tors of scandalous artifice, and ready to commend
it, as a mark of pri;ctical and meritorious dexterity—
whenever this happens to a nation, farewell to its
greatness—fleets or armies cannot avert its quip.