1 The Orthodox Bifhops of Ireland lic Church to be misreprefented in forefaw the confequences likely to her doctrine. Our enemies will coin refult from this dangerous innova-for us articles of belief, and then intion; they stepped forward in the filton our admitting them as our own. hour of danger, and regardless of all To difavow them in the most folemn worldly confideration and human re- manner, is a fruitless task. But no fpect, delivered their fentiments on part of our creed is fubject to so much the important point under their dif- mifreprefentation, and seemingly fo litcuffion. Their Refolutions were fuch tle understood, as the fupremacy of as did them honor, both as fubjects the Pope. In the meridian of the Pato their King, and as faithful depofi- pal power, the heretical hemisphere taries of that divine hierarchy,which, refounded with the imaginary thum at the rifk of all they held dear, they ders of the Vatican, of Popes depofing were determined to hand to their fuc- Kings, and withdrawing the alleceffors in the fame unpolluted formgiance of subjects from their lawful in which they received it from their lovereigns; and now that he has lost predeceffors; and at a fecond general all his temporal dominions, and a meeting, fo far were they from re- prifoner, he is equally dreaded, and Good fcinding their former decision, they the danger even encreases. not only confirmed it more emphati God! what inconfitency! To what cally, but fet the ROYAL VETO to extravagance do the exceffes of bigofleep for ever, to the complete con- try and prejudice hurry the human fusion of its difappointed agitators, understanding? Under every circumand to the entire fatisfaction of Ca- ftance, the alarm and outcry of the tholic Ireland. Church and State being in danger, mult be vociferated, for the very laudable purpose of perpetuating the fufferings and degradations of devoted Hence it is, that our fincere friends in parliament tell us, that the question of Emancipation is now become more embarraffed than ever, and that no "Are these the pompous tidings ye At length they have acted with fincerity: we believe them; and feel grateful at the confoling communication. They are filed with feemingly great apprehenfions concerning the Sovereign Pontiff being, or likely to be a fubject of France; inferring that any ecclefiaftical authority, flowing from fuch a fource, could not be fafely exercised amongst us. Since the unfortunate, and never fufficiently lamented era of the Refor. mation, it was the f of the Catho Ireland. In vain we have informed our Englih maters, that we never acknowledged the flighteft shadow of temporal power or jurifdiction in the Pope, beyond his own dominions. True it is, he ever was, and in spite of all the artifices of human ingenuity, he ever fhall, be acknowledged the Supreme Head of the Univerfal Church, in what regards religion, whether as to faith, manners, or difcipline; the primacy both of honor and jurifdic tion over all other Bishops belong to him, as being the centre of unity:Kings as well as fubjects of all Chrif tendom, from the time of Conilaa tine the Great, until the days of Henry VIII. acknowledged this fupremacy, because entirely Spiritual.Hence comes it, that our obedience to him, is the fame in prison or exile as when feated in the Vatican ; nor is it a matter of confequence to us, so far as concerns our allegiance to our own fovereign, whether he holds his fee at Rome, Paris, Conftantinople, or London; whether he be a fubject of the Emperor of the French, or the Emperor of the Turks; and I believe there is not a Catholic in Ireland, who would not prefer at this -moment his being feated in his pontificals, and furrounded by his cardinals, in the metropolis of Great Britain, as a subject of our own most gracious fovereign George III. to his being humbled, as he now is, at the feet of the faint-making Catholic NAPOLEON. These are our genuine principles refpecting the fupremacy of the Pope, and if our parliamentary friends, inftead of liftening to the fuggeftions of calumny and mifreprefentation, would confult our best writers, they would find them all unanimous on this point. I would particularly re commend to their perufal, that animated work, entitled " Reflections on the Spirit of Controverfy;" and whoever should refufe to yield his affent to the honefty of this writer's pen, must be fteeled against conviction.Speaking of our principles, this inimitable author fays "We revere our fovereign, be his religion what it may, as the vice-gerent of Heaven; and, indepen dent of the nature of all the various fyltems of right, we confider the obligation of fubmiffion and obedience to him, as a ftrict and formal injunction of our religion. We admit, and make the plaineft diftinctions between the privileges of the church, and the prerogatives of the ftate; between the power of the pontiff, and the authority of the monarch. We own both to be of a nature entirely diftinet, and independent on each other —so that neither all the privileges of the church, nor all the power of the pontiff, can, in any cafe, detach às from the allegiance which we owe to the state, nor absolve us from the allegiance which is due to our lawful fovereign. We admit no temporal jurisdiction in our Popes, beyond the limits of their own territories; and we should regard their most flender, if illegal, interference, in the civil rights and regulation of states, foveteigns and fubjects, as a deviation from the nature of their own power, and a departure from the maxims of our religion. Such are the principles of Roman Catholics; we fay anathema to him who rejects them." Thefe being our principles in relation to the ftate, and confirmed by the awful folemnity of an oath whence comes this great anxiety about the Veto? if conceded, how in the name of reafon could the conceffion make us more loyal? Why then is the door of preferment fhut against us? Why deprived of our rights? and why does government fo long unfeelingly fport with the delicate fenfibi lities of four millions of a fpirited people? But the riddle is folved :The pretended friends of the Crown are refolutely bent on the ruin of the religion of Ireland, or the ruin of the conflitution; according to their fyl tem of policy, either muft happen. But let them remember, the one is of divine, the other of human inftitution the one rapidly encreafing in ftrength and vigour, whilst the other, alas! committed as it is to the bun. gling management of our present minifters, may with melancholy propriety be compared to an ill-fated patient under the care of an empiric, whofe quacketies, fo far from reftoring health, rather debilitates the difordered frame, and ultimately difpofes it to a rapid diffolution, or as they exprefs ita galloping decay. Limerick, April 19, 1810. то 'SIR, With fincere and humble deference to your refpectable and legal character, I prefume to apply for your advice how I am to be guided in regulating my official conduct. As I have one of the Head Offices, and in an oftenfible fituation in this city, (tho not allowed any more falary than the bounty of my cuftomers,) the public perfuade me that it is an imperious duty on my part, to explain to them the real etiquette to be obferved in any connection they may fortuitoully have in the other HEAD Office, ap pointed by law. Several friends of my establishment wifh to beinformed, if it is neceffary or becoming that his Majefty's fubjects, feeking redress or making defence in Exchange coure office, should make ufe of the words "Your Honor," or " Your Worship?"" There is fo much meannefs in giving compliments against a man's will, and to much arrogance in mean men to extort them, that the Irish mind, however terrified by former misfortunes, is not fo reduced beneath its natural level, that any honeft man, no inatter how laboriously employed to maintain a family and pay taxes, can brook with patience, or countenance without indignation. If the law does not impofe the ufage of mean terms, or humb e fujugation, I depend on your example that Alderman Pemberton, or his affiftant, Major Sirr, may be reproved officially by you, and publicly by me I am not inclined to connive at an act that would lower the character of a good magiftrate; nor would I wifh to elevate an ignorant one at the expenfe of the people; becaufe, I I know, as you do, that though a people may be misled, they are fuch articles that without them "power is a dream, and a kingdom must be a defert or a church yard”—that it would be more prudent even to difcharge two magiftrates than to exterminate two baronies-and if the words fhould in their meaning caufe fuch a "Your Honor," or " Your Worship," difference between ignorant magiftrates and haughty though milled advice will not be filent when the public opinion, your conftitutional hall be infulted or an infolent magifquestion is pat, whether the people trate authorized. The hiftory of hu man frailty is familiar to a man of corrupt magiftrate or a bad king has your experience and literature: -a frequently occurred to torment and exafperate; and their follies, however perilous to themfelves, are of fuch an incorrigible compound, that they of the unfortunate men who were have only terminated with the lives very awful period of time we live in weak enough to perfift in them. The fhould awaken a fpirit of reconciliation: fo many kingdoms erafed, and created, would teach reflecting minds fo many dynasties removed and others that MAN, (for who is more?!) in of revolution! When I remind you every station of life, is the creature of these ferious occurrences, I am not applying the leffon of policy or of inftructing fuch an elevated chajuftice to Major Sirr, with any view racter--it is only on the general application which magiflerial functions of found understandings and modeare capable of, in the hands of mea rate conduct. Enlightened men, like you, may not have adequate powers to restrain the progrefs, which the vague conftruction of our inftitube applied, to hurry, us into the untions or a perverle ufage of them inay Сс certain certain refources of revolution; yet if you cannot correct abuses by your authority, you have it in your power to temper them by your advice; and if the evil cannot be avoided ultimately, your apprehenfion of it will acquit you in the eyes of your countrymen, and poftpone our misfortunes -like the long day which the convict folicits while death is diftant, hope is a mitigation of misfortune! Your most humble servant, WALTER COX. Head Office, 150, Abbey-freet. S DUBLIN NEW GLOSSARY. Coutinued from Page 193. A Prudent Man-a perfon in good circumstances, whom no heavenly or earthly confideration can betray into any act, word, or deed, injurious to his intereft-who has his feelings properly blunted to all affaults of charity, compaffion, or tenderness; -the perithing of a hero, or the falling of a fparrow, he views with equal eye; he has no friend but a perfon who can ferve his intereft and promote his views; and he bears no open enmity to any crime in man or woman but poverty; he finds out va-. rious cogent reafons, why it is impoffible for him, confiftent with his character, to be on terms to fee or to relieve the wants of a poor man, but particularly a poor relation; at the fame time he becomes placable, and fees matters in a light he never faw them before, when thofe characters get a prize in the lottery, or a legacy that lifts them in life; he never forgives nor abates a debt due to him; he never knows a bankrupt till he fets up his carriage; he is always ready to oblige you as a friend, and difcount a good bill, by allowing indirect ufury: he is never infolent where it may hurt him, nor polite unlefs he has a view in it. A Charitable Man-is one who loves himself above all things, and ferves God Almighty and his neighbour whenever it is his intereft; he fubfcribes a guinea a year to a dispen fary, and gets himself made a committee-man of it, and attends full meetings, calls the physicians (who fpend three hours a day there) to ac count, is folicited for his vote to appoint doctors, tells every where that he fupports that charity, which he does by his impudence and his guinea, making about three farthings a day diminution of his property, or feven and eightpence annually lefs than he gives the newfman, for a pennyworth of daily reading in Saunders's News Letter; holds the plate at all charity fermons, and puts 0thing on it of his own; fuperintends the building of foup fhops and pays the men: receives alms for advertif ing beggars; can't bear beggars in the ftreet; has made a refolution never to give public alms; thinks people need not beg only it is their own faults; regulates the bequests of dying perfons as to charity, undertakes the difburfement of it-dies, and is found to have been a hypocrite and a humbugger. A Keen Clever Fellow-a perfon who is afhamed of nothing that can ferve him, and fhewed courage occafionally in doing what entitled him to the gallows; when he fails, he fecrets his property, fo that all may know but no one can prove it; when he fets up again, and launches at once into greater ftile than he held before, and fails again for double the former fum, he asks you do you want cafh for a bill? takes your bill, difcounts it for himself, and keeps you out of it it for two years, laughs at you, and alks you to dine with him during this tranfaction, infults you when you compel payment; fays the world is a pack of rafcals; is put in jail, takes to drink, dies, and thus pays all his creditors. A Wife Man-he that makes money any way you please; keeps it to himself; fays nothing upon any fubject; thakes his head when he is plea fed, and shakes it when he is vexed; regulates all his conduct by the golden rule-" Keep a rogue on your fide, for an honest man will do you no harm." A Pious Lady (a Papift)—any old gentlewoman who goes to mafs every day at a late hour, with a bundle of prayer books like a flying ftationer ; tays two or three hours at the chapel; never gives a halfpenny at the door nor to the beggars; goes to card parties every night, and plays Caffino until morning; defames all her female acquaintance; thinks herfelf the only gentlewoman of family in her neighbourhood; fcolds her fervants, and if they vex her by infift ing on their wages, fays in confcience fhe cannot give them a characterthen they are obliged to enlift, if men-and if females, to go on the him, and disturbs all the neighbour.. hood finging pfalms and bellowing exhortations; never gives charity in herown perfon, but makes the man of God her almoner, to whom the gives all he can give herfelf, or steal from her husband; fis eternally figh ing after the Lord: is fhockingly afraid of Popery, and will not keep a Popish fervant for fear of being poifoned, as all the Papifts have worn to murder all the Proteftants; has all the ftories of Popish maffacres of women and little children; buys up beggar children, and fends them to Swaddling fchools to learn the horrors of Popery; gives bibles to those who cannot read them; thinks herfelf a great favorite of God Almighty, and perhaps drowns herself in her hurry to fee him. A Man of Confequence-one fully appointed with coach, fervants, town and country houfe; he seems to think every thing in life beneath him -and fhews his fuperiority by a filent fupercilious treatment of any one with lefs money than himself; makes the poor in the country addrefs him as your honor, and keep off their hats in the rain when they are talking to his honor; threatens to go live in England, and damns the Irifh; talks much of his friend Lord Bladderchops and Lord Scourge, and never mentions as an acquaintance any one worth less than five thousand a year; is very anxious about the reprefentation of his county, and to keep down Popery and rebellion; is laughed at by all men of fenfe, and is mocked by the common people as a booby. (To be continued.)" IMPOR. |