Having given this account of the on the gibbet, but with favage cruelty meeting and the fhameful manner in exerted his epifcopal authority to which free deliberation there was cla- anathamatize the expiring being and moured down, let us go back to Fitz to doom him to the damned. 'Tis patricks's, where the old Seceder and abfolutely certain that we would obhis party returned to congratulate tain Emancipation by felling our reeach other and to pursue their fchemes. ligions privileges. The Proteftants Sir Jerome Fitzpatrick whole modely of Newry knew this when they gave we are told would not permit him to us fuch cordial advice; but every fpeak in public, immediately filled the true Catholic will take fuch advice Newspapers with his fyftem for new as the graffeft infult Were the nomodelling the Irish Catholic Church. mination of bishops in the king, we When coming folely from fuch a man may judge of what stuff our boly as Sir Jerome, of whom we know teachers would be made. The very little more than that he holds a poor Irish peafant would foon withvery faug place under a Proteftant. draw his confidence from his prieft! profelyting government, we did not. He would foon defpife the GoVERNfeel much alarm; but when it was MENT TOOL, which the clergyman difcovered that Sir Jerome's princi- would become, and the nextples were taken up and adopted by ftep to contenipt would be herefy. the club at Fitzpatrick's, we confefs. Thus the old and reverend fabric that we were feriously affected by of the Irish Church, which fince the fears of an impending fchifm amongit: days of its apoftolic founder has our body. A party of Catholics withftood the ravages of Barbarians,' with Lds Fland GD, the tempefts and winds of perfecution at its head with Mr. R. MDll, that have blown and raged against it, and a great portion of the Catholic world fall from its bafe by adopting monied intereft arrayed underits stand- the refolutions of Sir Jerome Fitzard, keeping a REGULAR SECRE patrick. TARY to enroll names and to orgaBize its numbers, is not to be defpifed. Such a combination is bigwith danger to the body at large, and threatens to diffolve that cement of religion which has hitherto kept the Catholics together. But the ap pointment or nomination of bithops (To be Continued.] will not nor cannot be yielded to the Obfeructions on Catholic Popu king. 'Tho' the courteous and condefcending titular bishop of Dublin fhould even incline to favour the attempt, we have fill a Coppinger, a Hamil and a Betagh, whofe oppofition would blaft the apostacy of any time-ferving prelate. We hope that Dr. Troy concurs not with the lay-peers; and yet we cannot much depend on a man whom we have feen fo readily devoted at all times to the will of the exiting government; who in the terrible year of 1798 was not fatisfied to fee the Four Irish fufferer atone for his fins I lation. A Nobleman of our Country, who profefles the Catholic Faith, has lately ordered our Magaline not to appear in his houfe, alledging it to be of too bigorted a texture, and breathing patty fpirit. Had his lordship received the cducation intended for him by a late Lord Chancellor, inftead of the fugitive one he received at Leige, we could expect not more illiberal remarks on our publication, If he reads the Anti-Jacobin Review for the laft month month, he will perceive a fpirit of bigotry, falfehood and intolerance occupy all its inflammatory pages. Bi. gotry is not fo applicable to us, who only complain, without friends, privileges or power; as to those who would infult us by the bafest and most unfounded calumnies. We are confcious that the enlightened and liberal of either countries, cannot be influenced against Catholic claims, by the fhameful relations of the Anti-Jacobin; but the belotted, ignorant and felfifh populace of England may be induced to think we are all perjurers, and to value our strength as they do our affistance they are grossly told our numi. bers and not nearly to great as many accurate and unprejudiced writers have ftated. Let the noble Lord read this English publication, and perhaps he may difcover which is the bigot, the perfon who fuffers under all the odium which alice and intolerance ever fabricated, Or the other, who inflicts all thefe wrongs and infults; whether the Irish Magazine, that deprecates the vulgar errors of perfecutors, or the Anti Jacobin, that organizes a new system of injuries to harrafs and afflict our faith and our Nation, the bigot. The Anti-Jacobin writer, firft defcribes Catholics as perjurers, and the popish inhabitants of Ireland, in addition, difgraced by treafonable confpiracies, infurrections and maffacres,' The Anti-Jacobin, however, has not at rempted to ftate, that this popifh population, had ever put all their lift of crimes, into requifition, to affift them to aggravate the mifchief of invading an innocent or even a wicked nation. The Anti-Jacobin would impofe on the national credulity of his ignorant countrymen, by thofe ferious charges of perjury, mallacre, &c. without reminding his readers, that if an English apolle, either political or religious never left the banks of the Thames he never could be drowned in the Stannon, The Anti-Jacobin goes on afferting, though we are fo immoral, we are not very numerons; and on the authority of a very defigning and palpable mifftatement of a Mr. Whitelaw, a minifter of the established church, who fays he counted the inhabitants of Dublin, and the whole amount of the population, was not more than 170 thousand. This fhameful and interefted ftatement, could be eafily refuted by the fimpleft member of fociety, by. recollecting there are at leaft 21 houfes of catholic worship in Dublin, where public mafs is faid, one hundred and feventy times, from feven to two on each Sabbath at which attends more than 172,000 adults, to which if added, the infants and aged perfons, who remain at home, will make it double that number, of catholics only in the city of Dublin. If to this obfervation is added another, it will be found that Dublin contains more inhabitants, living on the fame fpace of ground, than any other city in Europe, houfe rent being confiderably higher, than in any city we hear of, the people are literally piled on each other. From forty to eighty perfons, are very accurately known to be living together in one houfe, every habitation may be faid to be a village, a room in one of those houfes generally lets at eight pounds a year, a funr that would be fufficient for a whole houfe in many parts of London. Sir John Cox Hippefly, who is attacked by this anti-jacobin, fays, there is at least 200,000 Irish catholics, in the naval and military force of Great Britain, Mr. Plowden, whose authority will be confidered equal to the anonymous libeller, fays, of 120.000 feamen who compofe the. marine army, 70,000 are Irish catholics, and we know, that no industry however loyal or bigotted, could make up a fufficient number of proteftants, for the purpose of having them exclusively the militia army of Ireland. Every effort had been tried, they they are not in the country, for nine tenths of the militia force are catholics, and it was that catholic force, that put down rebellion. his execution, then came forward attefted copies of the confeflions regnlarly witneffed by three or four magistrates, who affifted in the ceremony. The Anti-jacobin quotes one of thefe confeffions, from Sir Richard Mulgrave, and fo well finished is it in all the circumstances, that it is calculated to make a very serious im2 preffion on any perfon, not converfant in the manner, with which hanging and torture were conducted in the ebellion. In many parts of Ireland, the antijacobin writer fays the contrary. Our readers know, the catholics are forty to one proteftant. In the town of Car rick-on-Suir, are 11,000 inhabitants, and amongst them are only 230 proteftants. The little town of Kilcock, contains 1,200 inhabitants, of which feven are proteftants, the minifter, his clerk, an attorney, an innkeeper, "Thomas Cleary, the poftillion a colonel of militia and two hedge" of Mr. Turner, was hanged on carpenters! Mr. Tighe, in his ftatistical furvey of the county of Kilkenny, fays, the proportion of Catholics to Proteftants in that country is as nineteen to one ! The R. Rev. Doctor Haffey, Lishop of Waterford, in his celebrated pastoral letter, calculates his flock, to be 24 to one protestant. The anti-jacobin, befides his calculations in political arithmetic, quotes a ftory from Sir Richard Mufgrave, to fhew the wicked conftructions put on the power of abfolution in the catholic church. The circumftance, might have occured for what we know, but we are convinced, that thofe rufe de guerre ! have been frequently put into practice, with a view of deftroying the reputation of catholics, and deriding their religion. The natural fears of diffolution, the hopes of life, and the horrors of the torture, have been all applied to hake the integrity of many unfortunate prifoners in the rebellion of 1758, they have frequently been cajoled to the place of execution, with affurance of life, if they would make an open avowal of fome fuperftitious and feandalous acts of the catholic priefthood, dictated by the gentlenen executioners, who after having fucceeded in getting from the unfortunate victim, the mock confeffion, immediately closed the fecret of the trick by "Wexford bridge in 1798, for be"ing concerned in the murder of his master, and at the place of "execution he declared, in, the "prefence of the high fheriff and "three Magiftrates of the county "of Wexford, who took down and "attefted his confeffion, that he had "obtained abfolution for it from "father Murphy, parish prieft of "Kilrush, and father Ryan, who "officiated at Ferns." conftantly refident in the county, was reduced to the neceffity of inflicting the punishment of whiping ona Whiteboy with his own hand, though he of fered twenty guineas to the lowest of people, and though the execution would have been under the protection of two troops of light hoife, and a company of foot. I knew this fact long face from common report, but would not infert it, till I had the account from the gentleman himself, who impowers me to add, when he was explaining to a party of the Whiteboys on a Sunday, at a Popish Chapel, the nature of the proclamation in a conciliating manner, he was violently attacked, and nearly efcaped being floned to death. therefore provided, wherein is conteyned, that every the King's fubje&‹s fhould be a traitor attainted, yet, notwithstanding what by the default and negligence of the heads and rulers of this land, under the the King's Highness; that the faid eftatues, or ether a&s, were not duly putte in execution, as the willtul appetite of his laid fubjects havinge no remembrance of their bounden duties to their most dread Souvrain Lorde, ther own com noditie, quietnefs, and ptife, ne the uilytie and publique weele of their native countrie, ne yet the contempte or danger of the tranfgreffing of the faid actes, did often and many times, as well marry as fofter with the fame Yerish rebells, and fometymes by fraude and coyne.-Havinge then a perfect knollege, and an intente that every fuch Yerifhe rebell with whom they intended to marry or fofter, wold in parte ufe himfelf wyth the Kynge's true and obediente fubjects, fhould sppertain but for ther owne faultguarde and discharge from the penaltie and The Lord Leonard Grey, Deputy, to the danger of the faid eftatutz and acts, Duke of Richmond, &c. FURASMOCHE as by marriage ulterege and fofteringe the King's fubjects of this his land of Ireland with his Grace's Yerih rebells greate lacke of obedience hath grown to his Highnefs and most noble progenitors of their people within the lande, and by the fame dyvers enormities, my fchiefs, and inconvenyences, have infued and comen to his faid lovying fubjects, from tyme to tyme, for the most parte during this 200 years, and as evidently 10 every of the Kings fubjectes of thi lys lande for the tyme beinge, havinge knowlege and practice, plainely did, and doth appeare, and though in the tyme of the King's moft noble progenitors, the fame i'chieves and in, conveniences which followed fithenceto the utter undoing of his Grace's former fubjectes was then right well perceived, and divers good eftates and and actes, by authority of Parliament 3 duely to delude and difarm the ordinance and purvey of the fame, did procure to niake the fame Irish rebells, with whom they intended to to marry fotter, denizons, by the King's most gracious letters patents. And whereas the faid Yerifh rebells fo made denifons, did or do in noe parte ufe thenfelves as to the King's fubjects doth apperteyne, throughe whichethe King's Highness hath loft, for the more part, the obedience of his people of this his land, and divers mischiefs and inconvenientz to his faid subjects, from tyme to tyme hath infued, and niuch more like to enfue, unless that fome good remedy or provifion be had or provied in that behalf; for reformation whereof be it enacted, ordeyn'd, and established, by autho ritie of this prefent parliament, that no perfon, ne perfon or perfons, the King's Subjects, wythyn this his lande, of what citate, degiee, dignitie, or condition foever he or they be, ihall fuch the advice of the King's Coun.fell, in the fhire or open markett next adjoyning to fuch offenders, then everie fuche of the King's fubjects as fo fhall have married or fottered with any fuch denifon, fo rebelling or of fending, contrary to his othe or cury, fhall utterlie avoide any willfulle tamily, amitie,' or company, with him or them that for fhall offende, unleffe it be to reconcile fuche offender or offenders, to acknowledge their offences committed to the King's Majeftie, or elfe to the xe to have reftitutione of fuch goods es any perfone or periones, fo offering, have taken from any of the king's fubjects. And. if any of his Higher's fubjects, of this his land, doe offend in the premifes, in parcell thereof, thai then any fuch offence fhall be deemed bigbureas fon, and that everie per fon or perfons fo offerding, being thereof lawfully convicted, according to the due order and procefs of the King's laws, fhall pe adjudged a traditor, attained of high treafon, and fhall have and fuffer fuch paynes of deathe, leffes, and forfaitures of lands, tenements, goods, and chattels, as in cafe of high treafon. marry, or fofter themfelves, their chil- And be it enacted also, by the autoritie aforefaid, that yf anie iuch perfone or perfones, made or to be made denizons, do not to his or ther will, knolleach, and power, fulfille and accomplyfh the tenour, purporte, and cffe&te of the faid othe, and of the coadicions of the faid recognisance, and willfully tranfgreffe, and withdrawe ther obedience and bounden due to ther moft dread Soviaine Lorce from his Higaneffe, that then yt any luch perfons or perfons, the King's true fub jets, their friens, and fervarts, that hath have married or fold, or at any time hereafter, shall earry or fofter them felves, their chyldren, kynf folk, or any of them, to or with any fuch pertone or perions made, or to be made, desifons, will doe eyde, mainteyne or fuppexts, fuccour, counsell, favour, or by any other means encou rage |