our a tachment, and our jubilee, in this conjuncture of all happiness." Thy right hand, O Lord, hath wrought for itself renown in mightiness.-Thy right hand, O Lord, hath beaten in pieces thine enemy; and, in thy multiplied grandeur, thou hast laid them "low, who warred against thee. Thou "breathest thy storm, and a sea covered "them."

violent shocks. All the Archbishoprics and Bishoprics of the left bank of the Rhine were secularised; most of the princes of the church are dead, and have not been replaced; many villages want pastors; all the foundations have been misapplied or sequestrated. Prompt measures are necessary to remedy an evil which may` have the most pernicious effects. The Pope, it is known, has already made a serious representation on the sub-sible expression of praise be enough to set ject; he demands the re-organization of the Catholic church in Germany; and the court of Rome is said to have already traced out a plan with that view.

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The following is a translated from the Latin, of the Address of Congratulation from the venerable Hierarchy of Ireland to the Sovereign Pontiff of the Catholic Church :

To his Holiness, Pope Pius VII. the Roman Catholic Prelates of Ireland, wishing prosperity.

The hope of Christians at last has revived, and the Catholic Church has regained its State and Integrity, in your well-being, good and glorious Man of GoD, Pius the Seventh, our Sovereign Pontiff, who, by resignation, not less than by chieftaincy, have brought home CHRIST to our view; and in your most providential deliverance from those afflictions, which, through one and the same outrage, abased and held captive the Supremacy of your holy function, and the majesty of your personal virtues. To all the several Nations, which, weary of their enslavement, had burst forth into exertion for the overthrow of Despotism, this event has proved grateful; to all the Good, a matter of delight; as, for the Catholics, it had been the grand object of universal wish, and demand, and prayer. But to us, Holy Father, who, in that desofation of the Christian Commonweal, were the foremost to express such sorrow, that the very lamentation of your beloved people of Rome was fully re-echoed by our sighs, on your account; who dared to intimate, that such enormous barbarity must be short-lived; who solemnly protested against any usurpation on your inviolable Right, during such captivity; this event has introduced more than a return of the common joy. It has realized even the peculiar merit of a Victory, humble indeed, yet allied with and attendant upon that admirable triumph, in which You reign. In the extremity of all misfortune, we have proved our adherence to you, as unconquered; we, therefore, shall be privileged to avow, with somewhat of ostentation,

Next, after the homage to your Holiness, the illustrious Senate of your Cardinals will demand our best and most honouring accla mation. But, in truth, neither would any encomium that we could utter, nor any pos

forth the heroic perseverance of that Body. immured in separate prisons, confined to dis-Torn away from your paternal embrace, tant places of banishment, far from crouching under the trial, they have gained through

out the world an eminent consideration for magnanimity, allegiance, principle, duty and incorruptible character. In a word, they have purchased an exceeding renown, and they have saved and rescued this renown from the ruin and conflagration which overwhelmed their exterior dignities. Such renown must endure, and be worshipped in times to

come.

Through the intervention of your Holiness, we now beg to congratulate our venerable Colleagues, the Bishops of Italy. They also have encountered misery, and privations, and terror. They have felt lawless authority and expatriation. Their claim is that of Con fessors for the Faith; their imputed crime, a splendid one assuredly, had been allegiance to your Holiness. But, ere this, they will have experienced a consoling change. Nor can we omit to mention your invincible and Reverend Clergy of Rome, and of the States, persecuted, as they have been by the frantic excess of tyranny, with deportation into Corsica, or banishment to the Valtelline.These latter on their return will, undoubted. ly, share a distinguished partiality of your Holiness, now restored. As to fair Fame they will fully possess it, for they have de served nobly. The result of manifold perse cution has been to place in evidence this Truth, that the mighty power of Christ in the Catholic Church cannot be worn out by the force of time; that in You, and those united with You, the same energetic Spirit still survives, which of old gave defiance to Death, and trampled it down, in the blessed Martyrs; that, wheresoever dwells the spirit of CHRIST, there also his freedom abides, which knows his immortality to be its own.

Let Rome, the asylum of canonized Saints, and the last strong hold of Religion, lift henceforth the head, which a sanguinary and ignoble domination had weighed down. She may now, with safety recollect, that within her precinct the federal altar of Christianity is established for everlasting; that Apostles sit there enthroned to deliver judgment to the Nations, until the world sbali end. Let the ashes of her Martyrs exult, and her Aposto

lic shrines give token of rejoicing. And You, the partners in founding an imperishable Government under CHRIST's sway, O Peter and Paul! shall not even your relics be agitated by this joy, for the re-establishment of Pius the Seventh in the place of his home, and of your repose?

And, glorious Britain, although divorced from her Faith, well may she feel proudly under her burthen of trophies, and in the enjoyment of her high ambition. Her principle had been to repulse the strides of Despotism, to vanquish Usurpation, to give back Peace to the world at large. This principle never declined nor tottered during the protracted struggle. It is but justice to assert, that Britain, as the prominent leader, and the presiding spirit was that one, which raised the standard of Unanimity and Enfranchisement to an utterly despairing world; that she prodigally expended her immense resources, and the blood of her population in sending forth, and in every direction, renowned Generals, and invincible armies, of which brave Irish Catholic Legions formed a part; whose achievements in Egypt, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and in the heart of France, will stand forward in history. The measure of Catholic gratitude due to such an Empire is no other, than that which may be claimed upon Mankind by the Deliverers of the human race. We remain persuaded, that you, Holy

Father, not only are the most fit to repay this debt of gratitude, on the behalf of all, but may do so with the most splendid effect.

editors, when they speak of the Catholic population, that "were tigers gregarious, they should rather compare them to herds of such savage monsters." Even in the senate, speeches have been made, and letters have been read, to make the members believe that Ireland was in a disturbed state; and the English Catholics have been lately told from their pulpits, that they are loyal and faithful subjects to our most gracious Sovereign. Yea, and that the English Catholic Clergy and Laity are KNOWN to be so.. England has long been a bragging nation; but it was never expected that the Catholics of this country would be so debased as to seek to praise themselves at the expence of their Irish brethren, and more particularly at a time when the latter were suffering under an unjust imputation. The assizes for Ireland, however, are just concluded; in all the circuits nothing has transpired to establish the existence of any treasonable or seditious conspiracy; the calendars upon the whole have been extremely light; few culprits have been capitally convicted; and in some counties the assizes have proved maid

In conclusion, embracing heartily and affectionately the knees of your Holiness, and demanding for ourselves and our Churches your apostolical benediction, we pray, thaten. In the most Catholic districts, the our LORD GOD, JESUS CHRIST, as he has miraculously rescued you, a successor of Peter, from the arrest of Herod, may prosper you in length of days, and establish your throne in peace.

Roman Catholic College, Maynooth, 27th of June, 1814.

STATE OF IRELAND.

The peace of the Continent, and the consignment of Buonaparte to the island of Elba, having left our hireling scribes without a foreign object on which to spend their calumnious talents, poor Ireland, and with her the Catholic religion, has now become the victim of their slanderous pens.Accordingly the readers of our English ministerial prints are now amused with tales of outrages and murders which "mark Ireland as the most depraved country upon the face of the earth;" and those of the Irish government papers, are informed by their base

calendars have been found the lightest, while, on the contrary, where the orange societies exist, the disturbances have been the most frequent.-In short, the executions in that country a e less than those which take place in this land of boasters. With all these circumstances combined, the ORTHODOX JOURNAL can announce, without fear of contradiction, that IRELAND, yes, CATHOLIC IRELAND, IS AS LOYAL, and it is with pleasure the Editor makes it known, as Great Britain. And when we come to consider the privations, the provocations, the proscriptions, the miseries of the Catholic peasantry, and the degradation in which both them and the nobility and gentry of that religion are held, we are lost in admiration at the indefatigable labours and exertions of the Irish Catholic Clergy to instil the sublime principles of our holy religion

money; hasty decrees on civil bills; and illicit distillation.-With regard to illegal societies, county assessments, and religious discord, he observes,

into the minds of their flocks, and in-
structing them to endure such a galling
state in which they are placed, with
such general quietness and good order.
That the picture here drawn is not
overcharged, the reader's attention is
requested to the following extracts
from the most admirable and eloquent
charge of Judge Fletcher to the Grand
Jury of the county of Wexford, de-
livered at the summer assizes for this
year, in which that able and upright
Judge has given a most interesting
picture of the state of Ireland for the
avowed purpose of shewing that the
coercive Bills, lately passed in Parlia-t
ment, respecting Ireland, are wholly
inexplicable and unnecessary.-Judge
Fletcher denies that the disturbances
in that country, of which we have
heard so much on this side of the wa-
ter, proceed from disaffection to the
the Government. He says→→→

"I have found that those Societies, called ORANGE SOCIETIES, have produced most mischievous effects; and particularly in the North of Ireland. They poison the very Fountains of Justice; and even some Magistrates, under their influence, have, in too many instances, violated their duty and their oaths. I do not hesitate to say, that ALL Associations of every description in this Country-whether of ORANGEMEN or RIBBONMEN whether distinguished by the colour of Orange or of Green all combinations of persons, bound to each other (by the obligation of an Oath) in a league for a common purpose, endangering the peace of the Country, I pronounce them come before me to decide upon the question, to be contrary to Law. And should it ever I shall not hesitate to send up Bills of Indict ment to a Grand Jury against the individuals, members of such an Association, wherever I can find the charge properly sustained. Of this I am certain, that, so long as those Asso▾ ciations are permitted to act in the lawless manner they do, there will be no tranquillity "In my circuits through other parts of the in this Country and particularly in the North -kingdom, I have seen the lower orders of the of Ireland, There, those disturbers of the people disturbed by many causes, not pecu-Yeomen, frequent the fairs and markets, with public peace, who assume the name of Orange liar to any particular counties-operating with more effect in some; but to a greater or less extent in all. I have seen them operating with extended effect in the North-West Circuit, in the Counties of Mayo, Donegal, Derry, Roscommon, &c. &c. These effects have made a deep impression on my mind. My observations, certainly, have been those of an individual-but of an individual, seeing the same facts coming before him, judicially, time after time; and I do now publicly state, that never, during the entire period of my judicial experience (comprising sixteen cir cuits), have I discovered or observed any serious purpose, or settled scheme, of assailing his Majesty's Government, or any conspiracy connected with internal rebels, or foreign foes. But various, deep-rooted, and neglected causes, producing similar effects throughout this country, have conspired to create the evils, which really and truly do exist."

arms in their hands, under the pretence of self-defence, or of protecting the public peace but with the lurking view of inviting the that, armed as they are, they must overcome attacks from the Ribbon Men-confident, defenceless opponents, and put them down. Murders have been repeatedly perpetrated upon such occasions; and, though legal prosecutions have ensued, yet, such have been the baneful consequence of those factions Associations, that, under their influence, Petty Juries have declined (upon some occa sions) to do their duty. These facts have fallen under nry own view. It was sufficient to say—such a man displayed such a colour, to produce an utter disbelief of his testimony; or, when another has stood with his hand at the bar, the display of his party badge has Gentlemen-I do repeat, that these are mitigated the murder into manslaughter. He then proceeds to develope these my sentiments, not merely as an individual, but as a man discharging his judicial duty, I causes. He arranges them under the hope with firmness and integrity.With these two general heads-POLITICAL and Orange Associations I connect all CommeMORAL. Under the former, he class-morations and Processions-producing embites, high rents; paper currency; an over active Magistracy; the existence of Orange and other Societies; large County assessments; and absentee landlords. Under the latter, he puts, exciting discord between Catholic pastors and their flocks; the existence of tithes; County presentment code, and

tering recollections and inflicting wounds
upon the feelings of others; and I do empha-
tically state it as my settled opinion, that,
until those Associations are effectually put
down, and the arms taken from their hands,
quillity or peace.
in vain will the North of Ireland expect tran

Gentlemen-That moderate pittance, which the high rents leave to the poor Peasantry, the large Country Assessments nearly take

but of a continued series of want, and labour, and privation; and if the hopes and fears of a future state are withdraw from them, by an utter separation from their own Pastor, what must be the state of society? The ties of re

from them; roads are frequently planned and made, not for the general advantage of the Country; but to suit the particular views of a neighbouring Landholder, at the public expense. Such abuses shake the very foundation of the Law-they ought to be checked-ligion and morality being thus loosened, a Superadded to these mischiefs, are the permanent and occasional Absentee Landlords. residing in another Country, not known to their Tenantry, but by their Agents, who extract the uttermost penny of the value of the lands. If a lease happens to fall in, they let the farm by public auction to the highest bidder. No gratitude for pass services-no preference of the fair offer-no predilection for the ancient tenantry, (be they ever so deserving) but, if the highest price be not acceded to, the depopulation of an entire tract of country ensues. What then is the

frightful state of things has ensued-Perjury has abounded-The sanctity of oaths have ceased to be binding, save where they administer to the passions of Parties, The Oaths of the Orange Associations, or of the Ribbonmen, have, indeed, continued to be obligatory.-As for Oaths administered in a Court of Justice, they have been set at nought."

Respecting an over active Magistracy, Tithes, and the administration of Justice, the charge contains the following judicious remarks:

"Gentlemen-This subject brings me to a consideration of the Magistracy of the Country. Of these I must say, that some are over zealous others too supine: distracted into parties, they are too often governed by their private passions, to the disgrace of public justice, and the frequent disturbance of the Country.

wretched Peasant to do? Chaced from the spot, where he had first drawn his breath; where he had first seen the light of Heaven, incapable of procuring any other means of existence-Vexed with those exactions I have enumerated—and harassed by the payment of Tithes-can we be surprised, that a Peasant, of unenlightened mind, of uneducated habits, should rush upon the perpetration of "Here let me solicit your particular atcrimes, followed by the punishment of the attention to some of the grievous mischiefs, rope and the gibbet? Nothing (as the Pea-flowing from the misconduct of certain Masantry imagine) remains for them, thus harassed and thus destitute, but with strong hand to deter the stranger from intruding upon their farms; and to extort from the weakness and terrors of their Landlords, (from whose gratitude or good feelings they have failed to win it) a kind of perference for their ancient tenantry.

"Such, Gentlemen, have been the causes, which I have seen thus operating in the North of Ireland, and in part of the South and West. I have observed, too, as the consequences of those Orange Combinations and Confeder⚫acies, men, ferocious in their habits-uneducated-not knowing what remedy to resort to-in their despair, flying in the face of the Law, entering into dangerous and criminal counter associations, and endeavouring to procure arms, in order to meet, upon equal terms, their Orange assailants.

gistrates. One is occasioned by an excessive eagerness to crowd the Gaols with Prisoners, and to swell the Calendars with crimes. Hence, the amazing disproportion between the number of the committals and of the convictions, between accusation and evidence, between hasty suspicion and actual guilt.— Committals have been too frequently made out (in other Counties) upon light and trivial grounds, without reflecting upon the evil consequences of wresting a Peasant (probably innocent) from the bosom of his family--immuring him for weeks or months in a noisome Gaol, amongst vicious companions. He is afterwards acquitted, or not prosecuted; and returns a lost man, in health and morals, to his ruined and beggared family. This is a hideous, but common picture.

"Again, fines and forfeited recognizances are multiplied, through the misconduct of a Magistrate. He binds over a Prosecutor, under a heavy recognizance, to attend at a distant Assizes, where, it is probable, that the man's poverty or private necessities must prevent his attending. The man makes default-his recognizance is forfeited-he is committed to the County Gaol upon a Green Wax Process-and, after long confinement, he is finally discharged at the Assizes, pursuant to the Statute; and, from an industrious Cottier, he is degraded, from thenceforth,

*“ To these several causes of disturbance, we
may add certain moral causes. There has
existed an ancient connexion, salutary in its
nature between the Catholic Pastor and his
Flock. This connection has been often, with
very little reflection, inveighed against, by
those who call themselves friends to the Con-
stitution in Church and State. I have had
judicial opportunities of knowing, that this
connection between the Catholic Pastor and
his Flock, has been, in some instances, weak-
ened, and nearly destroyed? the Flock, goad-into a Beggar and a Vagrant,
ed by their wants, and flying in the face of
the Pastor, with a lamentable abandonment
of all Religious feeling, and a dereliction of
all regard to that pastoral superintendence,
which is so essential to the tranquillity of the
Country.--For, if men have no prospect here,

"Other Magistrates presume to make out vàgue committals, without specifying the day of the offence charged, the place, or any other particular, from which the unfortunate Prisoner could have notice to prepare his defence. This suppression is highly indecorous,

"There are parts of Ireland, where, from the absence of the Gentlemen of the County, a race of Magistrates has sprung up, who ought never have borne the King's Commission. The vast powers entrusted to those Of ficers, call for an upright, zealous, and conscientious discharge of their duty.

which, that it may benefit the Cottager, should be brought home to his door. Such an Administration of Justice would greatly re concile the lower orders of the People, with the Government under which they live; and, at no very distant period, I hope, attach them to the Law, by imparting its benefits, and extending its protection to them, in ac tual and uniform experience.-Gentlemen, if you ask me, how may this be accomplished? I answer, by a vigilant superintendence of the Administration of Justice at Quarter Ses sions, and an anxious observance of the conduct of all Justices of Peace.-Perhaps, the Commission of the Peace, in every County in the Kingdom, should be examined. During a long war, in seasons of popular com motion, under Chief Governors, (all acting, unquestionably, with good intentions, but upon various principles and different views) it is not improbable, that many men have crept into the Commission, who, however useful they might occasionally have been, ought not to remain.-The needy Adventurer

"Gentlemen-As to Tithes, they are generally complaine of as a great grievance. In the times in which we live, they are a tax upon industry, upon enterprise, ahd upon agricultural skill. Is a man intelligent and industrious-does he, by agriculture, reclaim a tract of land, and make it productive of corn, he is visited and harassed by the Tithe Proctor; does his neighbour, through want of inclination or of skill, keep his farm in pasture and unimproved, he is exonerated from the burden of Tithes, and from the visitations of any Clergy, not belonging to his the Hunter for Preferment-the Intemperown Church. Far be it from me to say, that ate Zealot-the Trader in false loyalty-the Tithes are not due to the Clergy. By the the Jobbers of Absentees-if any of those law of the land, they have as good a title to various descriptions of individuals are now to their Tithes as any of you have to your esbe found, their names should be expunged tates; and, I am convinced, that the Clergy-from the Commission; and if such a mode of man does not, in any instance, exact what proceeding should thin the Commission, vahe is strictly entitled to. But this mode of cancies might be supplied, by soliciting every assessment has been much complained of; Gentleman of property and consideration to and it is particularly felt in this Country, be- discharge some part of that debt of duty, cause the Catholic receives no spiritual com- which he owes to himself and the Country, fort from his Protestant Rector; he knows by accepting the office of Justice of Peace. him only through the Tithe Proctor, and he-Should their number be inadequate to suphas, moreover, his own Pastor to pay. This is the reason why he thinks it a grievance; and, I must admit, that, although the Clergyman does not receive all that he is entitled to, and although it may not be a grievance in another country, yet the Tithe system is a painful system for Ireland.

"Gentlemen-When I visited the House of Industry at Clonmel, (which is liberally and conscientiously conducted by an association, consisting of persons of every religious persuasion, with the Protestant Parson and the Catholic Priest at their head) never did my eyes witness a more blessed sight-I immediately asked, "what do you pay to the Matron, and to the Manager?" The sum was mentioned-it was small," I suppose," said "it is no object of a County job."Mr. Grubb-the benevolent Mr. Grubb smiled, and said, "You have hit it, my Lord that

is the fact."

"But there is one remedy, that would, in my estimation, more than any other, especially contribute to soothe the minds of the discontented Peasantry, and, thereby, to enable them patiently to suffer the pressure of those burthens, which cannot, under existing circumstances, be effectually removed-I mean the "Equal and impartial Administration of Justice;"-of that Justice which the rich can pursue, until it be attained; but

ply the deficiency, Clergymen, long resident on their benefices-more inclined to follow the precepts of their Divine Master-by feeding the hungry and clothing the naked Catholic, (although, adhering to the commu nion of his fathers, he should conscientiously decline to receive from him spiritual consola tion,) not harassing and vexing him by a new mode of Tithing, and an increase of Tithes; but seeking to compensate the Dissentients from his communion for the income he derives from their labour, by shewing a regard for their temporal welfare-attached to their Protestant flocks by a mutual interchange of good offices, by affection, and by habit.Such a man, anxiously endeavouring, not to distract and divide, but to conciliate and reconcile all sects and parties, would, from his education, his leisure, his local knowledge, be a splendid acquisition to the Magistracy, and a public blessing to the district commit. ted to his care. Men of this description are retired and unobtrusive; but, I trust, if sought after, many such may be found.-Persons there have been of a sort, differing widely from those I have described,-These men identify their preferment with the welfare of the Church; and if you had believed them, whatever advanced the one, necessarily pronoted the other.-Some Clergymen there may have been, who, in a period of distraction,