mates them," compared with the numbers of the Established Church, is as ten to one;' and as he, and all the party writers, deprecate the idea of paying their Clergy by the hands of government, or of increasing the tithes, directly implies, that the Popish Clergy must be put in possession of nine tenths of the Church property of Ireland!

He demands that Papists shall be eligible to the offices of Trinity College Dublin, the single Protestant College, in proportion to their numbers. That is, that they shall have it all to themselves; for an establishment for the education of the Protestant Clergy, with nine out of ten of its teachers Papists, is an obvious absurdity. He then comes to the government, and demands that the offices of Lord Lieutenant, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Privy Councillors, Chancellor, Attorney General, &c. &c. shall all be shared in proportion to numbers; or as nine to ten, or in other words, that all offices shall be Popish.

In default of all which salutary reforms, the author returns to his carte du pays, and marks out the warlike advantages of the " Faith," whenever it may please to turn from argument to the simpler discussion of the sword!

The printer of the "Statement" was prose

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cuted by the Attorney General; for the author would not avow himself. The Jury found it to be a "false, seditious and malicious libel against the King's government in Ireland." The Chief Justice Downes, declared that it was a MOST ATROCIOUS LIBEL. this was the very work which the Papist ambassadors, Drs. Murray and Milner, a year after, carried with them to Rome for presentation, doubtless as a favourite statement of Popery and its projects, to the Papal Prelate, Cardinal Albea, president of the College of Propaganda, which holds the government of the Irish Papist Church.

In their account of the mission, the Cardinal is represented as being so much charmed with it, as to have "nearly committed it to memory.'

In a second rescript, Dr. Murray mentions his having ascertained that Cardinal Litta "who is an adept in the English language, has read theStatement of the penal Laws' with great pleasure and instruction!"

Dr. Murray was coadjutor to Dr. Troy, the Popish Archbishop of Dublin, and this letter containing the happy reception of a volume, declared by Judge and Jury to be "a most atrocious and seditious libel on the King's government," was read by the Popish Archbishop himself, to a convocation of a hundred

and fifty of his Priests, and, of course, as it was read with good will, was received as law by the worshippers of infallibility!

The second authority which I shall state, is Dr. Dromgole, a Popish physician, a man of ability, perfectly acquainted with the tenets and purposes of his faith in Ireland, a member of the "Catholic Board," and so long as he continued to be a speaker, decidedly the most popular and influential man at the Board.

The "Relief Bill," as it was called, introduced by Mr. Grattan, in 1813, contained some of those provisions for preventing the inimical interference of the Popish clergy with the Protestant establishment, which are called "securities;" which are indubitably necessary, and which their parliamentary advocates declared, that the Papists were perfectly willing to give ; but, what says the Doctor, the honest and candid deliverer of the real sentiments of his Church?

No OATH, Containing what is called a SECURITY can be taken by a conscientious clergyman !"

He further states, that it is his wish that "this Catholic opinion should be distinctly avowed; by which no pretence should be left for Parliamentary interference !”

"No layman, no Protestant, but, above all, no Protestant Parliament, as at present, or in whatever way constituted, ought to be allowed profanely to meddle in the administration of your Church."

"That right belongs to ANOTHER AUTHO RITY! where it was placed at the birth of Christianity, and where only it can safely rest, or be legitimately exercised!"

He proceeds: "Let us show that the anger which we expressed against those of our body, who only seemed to favour those securities, was something more than words; that our opposition to the late Bill was founded upon principle

This popular authority thus gives us the opi nion of his party on the "oath of allegiance."

"Which of you that recollects his feelings, when taking our present Catholic oath of allegiance, does not think that sufficiently galling and insulting, or can, with patience, anticipate any farther multiplication of such oaths!"

"Is it not a matter of surprise that any Catho lic, instead of anticipating new oaths, should not rather speak of the REPEAL of this, which is so insulting and so revolting."

He then propounds, that many men have hazarded their property, rather than take the

oath; and those men he holds up to public admiration, as "high and proud minds, consulting the honesty of their feelings, and encountering ruin rather than submit to the degradation and humiliation which it is calculated to inflict !" The degradation and humiliation of swearing obedience to the King and the laws! And this Speech was received with boundless approba tion by the "Catholic Board," printed and sent through every branch of their commonwealth, and received as law! Who, then, shall talk of pledging such men by Securities for the safety of the Protestant constitution, church, or throne!

But this speaker is still more explicit, if that be possible.

"If the Church of England trembles for its safety, it must seek it elsewhere. We have no SECURITIES to give!"

He then proceeds to say, that she stands in imminent hazard, and gives a sketch of her sects, whom he describes as bands of "associated enthusiasts, furious tribes, and religious warriors!" And last, and most determined and formidable of all her enemies, are, What? "The COLUMNS OF CATHOLICITY, who challenge the possession of her ark, and unfurling the ORIFLAMME, (the French standard, and signal