miraculous, and he gives implicit credit to an English clerk, that Ireland ought to be put under a political interdict, and this implicit faith he holds in open and avowed contempt of the most incontrovertible facts, as communicated to him by men who knew full well, that Ireland was not in the fituation that Mr. Elliott or himself defcribed her. In 1789, Alderman Warren's police lookingglass was an heavy offence against the flate, and excited the full meafure of Mr. Grattan's patriotic ire; but in 1809, the Duke of York's corrupt transfers of the honours and emolu ments of the army, through the agency of a proflitute, were not of fufficient moment to attract his attention, or deferve his chaftifement. This political Proteous" predicted that Henry Flood would be corrupt. ed in a foreign clime :-how fully does this prediction, unhappily, for Ireland, apply to himself! for to us it is very evident that he has imbibed all the peftiferous qualities of a foreign foil by tranfplantation. We have adduced thefe facts, as indifputable proofs that Mr. Grattan has deferred fuffering Ireland ;-whence comes it therefore, that the Catholic petition is to be prefented in the Imperial Commons Houfe by Mr. Grattan? Let it not be fuppofed that we difapprove of Mr. Grattan's agency upon the principle of Catholic emancipation, being a queftion of vital importance to Ireland. Not fo; but that we apprehend the people may be induced thereby to believe, that the Catholics have restored to him that confidence which he has so deservedly forfeited. We understand this selection of Mr. Grattan has been the work of four Catholic barristers who hold the committee in leading frings; thefe gentlemen, from the perpetuat din of their eloquence, which Auns the JANUARY, IS1O. puhlic ear through the daily prints, would appear to an injudicious obferver to be the tutelary genii of Catholic emancipation. Far otherwise is the cafe, and this adoption of vir. Grattan, to prefent the Catholic petition is a measure fo obnoxious to every faithful Irishman, whether Catholic or Proteftant, that we will examine the claims of thefe lawyers to Catholie attention or confidence. Of the four, only Mr. Scully has been regularly elected to the committee, the other three were admitted by ballot, on pleding in "forma pauperis;" and recanting the errors of the Marlborough-fireet divan. Mr. O'Connell, we recollect, was orator at the Catholic meeting held in the Exchange, where Mr. Ambrofe Moore prefided, to fright Mr. Pitt from the accomplishment of the Union; the only part of Mr. O'Connell s fpecch on that occafion worthy of remembrance, was "Rounded Periods." At the laft Catholic meeting in the Exhibition Houfe, he repeated the fchool boy's hiftorical talk of "Bare Bones," the Puritan, &c. &c. and at the Tralee Jubilee Dinner he bedaubed (and not skillfully) Lord Granard, and moved that there fhould be fimilar annual commemorations, to make us thankful for the continuance of that reign which virtually defignates learned Muniter lawyers, aliens in their native land; and to complete the meafure of his claims to Catholic leaderfhip, he has been chiefly inftrumental in committing the Catholic petition to the care of Mr. Grattan, the officious and fanguine fupporter of the Irish Infurrection act. Mr. Scully has written a loyal verbofe pumphlet, intended principally to convert the Irish peafantry from difaffection to loyalty: it gives them to understand that if the French € fhould fhould unhappily invade Ireland, they will fcare away the peasants best friends the tythe proctors, and as how the French will rob them of their one acre of bog, and their half acre of potatoes, and as how the Irish peafant should never furrender the inestimable bleffings of a tythe proctor's guardianfhip, a fmoky cabbin with potatoes and falt, to any foreigner. Mr. O'Corman at the laft Catholic meeting in Dublin, did mathematically demonftrate a felf-evi dent propofition! for which he is entitled to our everlasting gratitude. And Mr. Huffey, though last not leaft beloved," what has he done for the Catholics? Why, Mr. Huffey is like "Artaxerxes Longimanus," he never permits his left hand to witnefs the good his right does--and yet thefe are the trumpets, the advocates, the would-be leaders of Catholic emancipation, men before whofe ora'torical fame, that of Demofthenes or Cicero tuft fhrink and wither. But for their felection of Mr. Grattan in this inftance we fhould never have condefcended to notice their ridieulous meetings, or their more ridiculous orations, as the Irish Catholic people are in no wife interefted in fuch fplendid nenfenfe ; for we know full well they would not give the value of the worst of thefe gentlemens empty law bags for Catholic emancipation, fituated as Ireland now is.— Obferve, we don't reckon fome fifty peers, baronets, and barristers the Catholics of Ireland. We ask these importunate fcowling barristers, will Catholic emancipation reftorc a refident legislature, and renovate a decaying capital? Will it alleviate an ? Unequal and oppreflive taxation will it abolish the obnoxious fyftem of tythes will it leave the heart-broken Irish peafant in the undivided poffeffion of his potatoe garden's produce? Oh! no, they will answer, it cannot do all thefe fine things. What will it then do? We will anfwer for them-it may obtain feats in the Imperial parliament for a few Catholic peers and commoners, and it may procure places or penfions for fome Catholic lawyers who have neither talents or induftry to faife themfelves in their profeflion. Doctor M'Kenna, as being long configned to the family vault of all the capulets, we will fay nothing more of, than that he obtained a penfion from government for advocating the Catholic caufe; Counsellors Bellew and Lynch have had penfions baftowed on them, for fimilar praife worthy exertions This generous difpofition in our governors, to remunerate all thofe Catholic lawyers, who have been sturdy difputants for our rights, is, we apprehend, the great ftimulus to the labours of the Munfter barrifters: we will give them a fhort but ufeful advice; let them make a few more boisterous orations against the government, for withholding Catholic emancipation, properly interlorded with the groffeft adulation, fuch as the incenfe offered by Counsellor Lynch at the William-freet meeting, and let them alternately at the parts of Rern declaimers, and courtly fycophants, and they will infallibly fucceed. Thanks to Providence, amidft this mafs of folly and corruption, the Irish Catholics are not deltitute of that, which neither courtly ruft or worm, can corrode or decay they poffefs an Irish and a Catholic "Detector "wbo for fertility of genius, profound erudition, and the perfect acquifition of every fcience that ought to make a man eminent and eftimable in fociety, is not inferior to any in the empire, and an Irish “ star of the first magnitude" world he have been long ere this but he is a Catholic, We need no proofs to convicee us that Catholic Catholic emancipation cannot now be profitable to Ireland, in the extenfive fenfe that many take it, and we are fure that every Proteftant in Ireland, participates fully in this conviction ; we do not include Orangemen, we know they are not My Lord, Proteftants, and we are doubtful are they Chriftianstis only by perpetuating the prefent mifchievous fyftem they can hope for prolonged exiftence, for like the toads they batten on the poifon which is destructive to all around them. 000000 To the Earl of Fingal. yet, that beauteous ecclefiaftic, who has fo often adorned your own board, and who could lecture on fycophantifm, practical and theoretic, nearly as well as on the fubject of his profefforihip. The fefforihip. Monfieur Abbe Delahogue, another Gafcoine, is there too, the gentleman who fired the boys into mutiny, by calling them a parcel of plebians, for which mutiny Collins one of the first clergyman of his years in Ireland, was expelled, and that by the pointed interference of your Lordship-it was your Lordship chiefly who Frenchified the college, and I believe, although the Frenchmen fay the fled here for fake of religion, and kingly government, every one of them has as much of the ufurper in their way, from Abbe Dare to Monfieur Le Barbier, who shaves your Lordship, as even the Corfican upstart. When the Frenchmen were provided for, then came other patronage; every truftee had his man for a place, and in procefs of time, we found patronage had fo outraged all common fenfe, that we faw a filly weak man, taken by Mr. Monel from the place he was only fit for, curate in Meath-street chapel, and placed prefident of the college, and as fimilis gaudet fimili, the promotion of ignorance and toily began; one Lovelock, who was a hedge fchoolmafter in Connaught, was put in the chair of rhetoric; Mr, Coen, a vulgar poor man, with talents merely to Your rank as a Roman Catho lic, and your place as truftee to Maynooth college, may be fufficient grounds for addreffing you upon the prefent ftate of that houfe. The importance of its conduct is felt by every Roman Catholic, its management involves the character of the Irish priesthood, which must include the welfare of the Irish Catholic community, and thefe confiderations cannot imprefs themselves lightly up on thofe concernel in this inftitution who regard religion, and who have power to correct the abufes that may arife in it. Your Lordthip has always fhewn much vigilance as a trustee, and your zeal for the establishment, has been unabating. The ftate of that house fince its inftitution has had always fomething that was not right, the foundation was ill laid and that was the caufe of its condition ever fince. When it was founded, there were a number of French emigrant prieits, burthenfome to the ta bles of every rich Roman Catholic here; that nation has the gift of imdence, and pretends to every thing, and frequently the claim is allowed. The first blunder of Maynooth was to take in upon its foundation a fwarm of thefe jabbering pretenders, who no fooner got infide the door, than they affected to ufurp dominon and infulted every one who did not buckle to them. Abbe Dare is there ⚫gueit guest oatmeal for a Connaught friary, was made Dean. One Montague was promoted to a high office in the kit chen, and got the ear of the predent; the apothecary to the house loft his fon and patronage was even exerted here Surgeon Rooney, of whom your Lordship perhaps has not heard at your end of the town, re commended an apothecary's boy to Mr. Dun; Mr. Dun gave him the title of Dodor, and furrendered the lives of the boys to his fkill; Coen faid no one else thould attend them, as he was his countryman, and your Lordship recollects the tragedy of the boys who died, which I know will never be reacted at Maynooth whilft Dr. Byrne is prefident. Pa tronage indifcreetly ufed has ruined Maynooth. There are at prefent two French men, two barbarous Connaught men, and a vulgar Northern in office there, which five ought to be removed; the infolence of the French is infufferable, always offending the Irish character, and defending their impudence by pretenfions to loyalty, and rafcally infinuations of difaffec tion against those who oppofe them. This is annoying, and ought to be remedied; but I am fure it will not, and I expect to fee a Frenchnian prefident of the college before the confummation of all its abufes. My Lord, you can do a great deal in one way, you would amazingly serve the college, if you would do it in anoher; call a bourd, and remove these five ignorami impudentes, and if you only replace them by your own footmen, the college will not loose in learning what it may gain in' peace.. For the barbarous flate of ignorance of that college, behold the letters coming from it-malevolence and nonsense, such as might be expected from the pupils of Gafcony gentle men and Irish barbarians. I have of fered thefe thoughts to your Lordfhip, wishing that they may have fome good effect, but deluding myfelf with no hope that the peace of the college will be confulted in preterence to the accommodation of a party. -000000 Maynooth, Dec. 17, 1809. To His Grace the Duke of Richmond. Newgate, Jan. 1, 1810. SIR, I have been committed to this dreary habitation of guilt and infamy, until I pay into his Majefty's treasury the fum of fixty pounds, a penalty awarded against me, for ne glecting to fettle a debt of EIGHTEEN SHILLINGS, which I was told I owed to his Majefty. I had the honor, as it is called, to memorial your Grace, for a mitigation of the penalty, and have been anfwered by a crowd of conftables, who dragged me from my houfe, my family, and my induftry, like a common malefactor to the common jail of Newgate, on the feventh of laft month. In my memo rial, prayed your Excellency to extend the benefit of the Jubilee proclamation to your petitioner, as the offence, if it is one, was committed in June laft, and warrants were iffued against me long before your proclamation of the 25th of October, but whatever influenced your Grace's counfels, the bearers of your Grace's anfwer were not your fecretary, the brother or coufin of the magnanimous conqueror of Spain, but the ragged agents of the police. The offence of which I was guilty, was too great to be forgiven; and yet, from the recent exercife of your benevolence, I was fo weak as to prefume, that your Grace, who gracioully beltowed 401. out of your falary to the relief of his Majefty's infolvent fubjects con fined in jail, would in your clemency order thet I should not be profecuted for the eighteen fhillings I owed to the crown. It is much to be regret ted by the people, who pay the taxes, that in defiance of the awful examples before us, of proftrated dynafties, and a difmiffed and mendicant nobility, the victims of their pride and oppreffion, that the fame temper lives in fuch of their cotemporaries and brethren, as yet exercife the privilege of governing; and fo infenfi ble do they appear to the opinions of their people, or to the tremendous events that have arifen from the ruins of ancient defpotifm, that even at this eventful hour, there are men who are not ashamed to imprison me for a debt of eighteen fhillings, at the very moment Lord Melville is offered the title of Earl, a man who has been convicted of the most fhameful abufe of office, and of tealing the public money to the amount of more than a million. But, my Lord, when I recollect that I am a papift and an Irishman, fynonomous terms of reproach and perfecution by the No Popery minifters, under whofe directions you are obliged to act, I am at a lofs whether to attribute your filence to my applications for mercy, to your own difpofition, or to the inexorable bigotry of your mafters, the Talaverian family, on the affurance of the abhorrence they entertain for me in common with thofe of my countrymen, who regret the extinction of our independence, and are indignant at the degraded state of the Catholics of Ireland; for, had you any power to exercise your benevolence, of which the nation had fo edifying an example in your late gift of 401. you my Lord, would not hesitate in the feafon of your generosity, to let me be forgiven the fum of eighteen fhillings, particularly when it might be remitted without injuring your Graces paternal eltate or official remuneration. When I reflect, as I must naturally do, in his retreat of mifery, on the pride of power and the contempt with which indultry is treated, I re-. call to mind that the fame providence that precipitated the gaudy and idle nobility of the Continent into all the miferies that attend fallen aud guilty" greatnefs, can deliver me from this living tomb, from which you have heard me complain with the most unfeeling apathy. In a life not prolonged to much extent of years, I have in many countries perfonally witnesfed feveral examples of adverfity. fuch as I have alluded to; I have in many places in the United States enjoyed the felicity of obferving the proud Duke and haughty Marquis, foliciting alms at the gates of indul trious opulence, or humbly employed as journeymen artificers, and to aggravate the pride of the pillars of polished fociety," the ladies gay," whofe brilliancy and charms enli vened the feftive fcenes of former days, reduced to fuch circumftances as to traffic their Graces, for a livelihood, to the meanelt of fociety. So far have the mighty fallen, and fo far am juftified, from the notorious vices of thefe unfortunate wretches, that a punishment fo merited and feafonable, muft be a matter of fatisfac tion, not only to me but to every perfon who values the safety and tranquillity of fociety. Before I had the prefumption to intrude my complaints on your Grace, I applied to the Lords of the Treafury for a mitigation of the eighteen fhilling affair, and after many enqui ries |