England.

"So dishonest and besotted a people as the English, never lived; yes, they are dishonest and besotted! As a nation, I must say, and I can prove, that they are the most profligate, and quite lost in folly! As to English stupidity, it is really become quite proverbial. They are ready to sanction every crime, or to credit any delusion; we enrich the bigots of England, and we leave our manufacturers starving! Are there not, perhaps, hundreds that have been clothed in the fabric of those dullest of all malignant bigots! Let us teach those drawlers and dotards, that they cannot insult us with impunity!”— (Aggregate Meeting, June, 1813.)

Having thus given his sentiments on English capacity; which were, of course, intended to reconcile the Irish to the government and people of England, he gave his opinion of the Irish tribunals, in a speech followed by a resolution, "for a petition to Parliament, calling the attention of the legislature to the state of the judicial system in Ireland, and praying for the Irish Catholics the benefit of that principle, which give to aliens a jury of one half foreigners!"

Papist Sincerity in soliciting Catholic Eman

cipation.

"Ireland lay in torpor till roused by the call for religious liberty; she would I fear, and am convinced, relapse into apathy, if liberty of conscience were conceded! Let them delay emancipation but a little while, and they will find that they have roused the sleeping lion of Ireland to a waking activity which will not permit any slumber, till-IRELAND IS HERSELF AGAIN!"

The English Parliament.

"It was not true that the Irish Catholics had experienced any liberality from the English Parliament. Was it the unremitted continuance of the present unjust and partial system of law, which, in despite of the first rights of humanity, punished men for being true to their conscience, and would reward them if they chose to become hypocrites and perjurers!

"There were recent instances of character which might put the British to the blush. There was America, possessing a constitution more democratic and more free! possessing in all classes and religions, real liberty; where the human mind was left uncontrouled by the impiety of law; where the press was really free;

where the truth was no libel; and where man governed himself!"

Here we have an un-feed opinion from this leader of the "Catholic Board," this lamp of law, by which his compatriots are to shine; this promised and elected sower of the seeds of holy and politic regeneration in the soil trodden bare by the iron step of England. With him, DEMOCRACY is the true shape of freedom! the press, the religion, the laws of America, are the model, and for whom? Let him answer this question as he may. But we are not left to long conjecture; he has another portrait at hand; he calls Ireland to look on America, flourishing in freedom, opulence, and constitutional purity and this is a democracy! He then turns round upon his awakened hearer, and shows-a monarchy !

Look here upon this picture, and on this. "Does the world envy her national debt, her enormous taxation, her millions of paupers, her representation of rotten boroughs, her abject credulity. What is there in England for which an American should envy her?"

"Have you eyes!

Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed,
And batten on this moor!-Ha, have you eyes!

I disdain to draw the conclusion.

Arrangements with the Popish Clergy.

"I must distinctly and emphatically deny, that I was a party to any compact which could directly or indirectly tend to sanction any alteration by Parliament in their ecclesiastical concerns. I will for ever divide with the men who directly or indirectly consent to vetoism of any description!"

In the year 1821, Mr. O'Connell published two letters on the occasion of Mr. Plunkett's Bill of Emancipation, dated "Limerick, on Circuit."

In those hours snatched from the rapid and triumphant progress of his professional glories, he thus casts a reverted eye on the cares of his Church.

"As far as relates to the intercourse with Rome, the Bill requires every Priest to swear, that he will not have any correspondence or communication with the See of Rome, or with any authority under that See, tending directly or indirectly to overthrow or disturb the Protestant government, or the Protestant church of Great Britain and Ireland, or the Protestant church of Scotland, as by law established.'"

"It is to this clause in Italics that I would peculiarly direct the attention of every conscientious Catholic layman, as well as of every Priest in Ireland."

"The first question I will ask is,-will the Priests can the Priests take this oath, without incurring a direct breach of their duty, and the immediate guilt of perjury? At present, it strikes my mind very strongly, that they cannot take the oath at all. As far as relates to the Protestant Church, it appears to interpose frightful difficulties."

He tells us, that this intercourse of the Priest with Rome, is not imaginary, and indulges himself in detailing its pretexts.

"Man may be converted by the efficacy of prayer, by the force of preaching, &c. ; in short, by each and every of the functions of a Catholic Priest. But, with respect to those functions, he must be in constant communication with the See of Rome! he must hold perpetual intercourse with persons acting under her authority. If he take this oath, he must disclaim all communion with that See, and he will thereby cease to belong to that religion which has been clung to with an affectionate tenacity, &c. by the people of Ireland! Mr. Plunkett's new fangled oath will be treated with great contempt by a pa