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THE REV. DOCTOR RYAN.

SIR,

When I read, in the Freeman's Journal of Thursday (the 25th Jan) your Letter to the Right Rev. Dr. Milner, I paused for a moment, to confider if it were worthy of an an fwer: as I was convinced that the learned Prelate, to whom it was directed, should treat it with that inattention becoming a man of dignified learning, which forbids him to notice the impotent attack of an obfcure writer, who poffeffes no literary acquirement or character to recommend him to the notice of the world, but an unbecoming forwardness.

I should have been filent too ;but feeing your billet, under the head of an advertisement, in the Evening Poft of Saturday-and confidering the queries which you call on the learned Prelate to anfwer to be beneath the notice, not only of him, but of a school boy in divinity,-I take this opportunity of informing you, that hall anfwer them, if my health and leisure permit me.

To fpeak candidly, my good Dr. Ryan, the Catholics are not to be intimidated by your vociferations; nor to be fubdued by the menaces of your

party.

I emulate the charger of a fair and honourable foe, by publicly declaring to you that no artifice fhall induce me to be filent, as long as you continue to propagate fcandal and mifreprefentation against the religion I profels. I feel myfelf not only invulnerable-but fo completely your matter, that I will force you ci ther to acknowledge your defeat, or, at least, to retire from the field of arms, and hide your difgraceful wounds, the infection of which already annoys your party, many of

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whom believe you have injured the tottering cause which you laboured to maintain.

The terror which you evince, by declaring that should Doctor Milner, or any of his friends, trouble you fur ther on the fubject of your analyfis of Ward, you would take no notice of them, but publish your queries, evidently implies the fuppofition that you have heard of my having a rod in brine, which was prepared for you by a Catholic priest; and, fhrinking under the afcendancy of Popish genius and learning, you dreaded to contemplate the awful columns that fupport the venerable and unerring Church of God, which pronounces your condemnation.

Whoever could believe your malignant defcription of our B hops and Priefts, muft certainly conclude that they have been, and are still, a brood of contemptible and vicious miscreants You disfigure goodness with the garb of vice; you vitiate intention; you blat, you wither every virtue ;-in a word, Doctor, the extravagance of folly and vice which you impute to them, muft naturally awaken fufpicions favourable to the Catholic caufe. It must render your ravings improbable to the plain and fimple and thofe who are converfant with the matter will continue to exprefs that difguit at your performances which has already been teftified, by every individual who has had the misfortune to read them; and when curiofity has paid the price at which they were taxed, many purchasers never laboured beyond the preface; they are fuperlatively mischievous In fact, Doctor, you come too late to market to fell libels against the Catholic religion; which, ever ancient, and never new, (like the Father of Light from whom it defcends) knows not the viciffitude of a change no, not the shadow of alteration.

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Your calumnies are now ftale ware; they pall the appetite, and are fright ful to men of taste.

Read, I beg of you, the preface to the Proteftant Apology, publifhed by Mr. Fitzpatrick. The learned author of that work, a Catholic priest, has given us fpecimens of your con temptible logic; and I fear no contradiction, when I affert, that he is not inferior, but far fuperior, in point of Jearning, to any one of your party. You prophefied that no other edition of the Errata would appear; your prediction is falfified by the fact-as the fourth will fhortly be ready for fale. However, I think it but fair dealing to give you timely notice to provide an interpreter-as the refutation of your analysis, prefixed to the new edition, poffeffes more eru'dition and biblical criticism, than falls to your lot to difcern, much lefs to anfwer. Controverfy is not that for which God and Nature intended you. It often occurred to me that you were better fitted for cudgeling than dif'puting; and Chriftian charity obliges me to defire you to beware of the fate of Therfites-left, like him, who was the laughing-flock of the Greeks and Trojans, you become the jeft of Catholics and Proteftants.

I conclude, as on a former occa. fion, when the one eyed Layman (whom I believe to be Dr. Ryan) ap-peared in the Dublin Journal, crying out that the Proteftant Church would be in danger, were 1 permitted to. publish Popish books; to which I then and now anfwer," that while he trembled for the mutability of his crced, he must permit me to glory in the unchangeable nature of mine. Fixed on the firm bafis of the faith once delivered by Chrift to his Saints, it has already withstood the violence and calamities of eighteen centuries; and will, as I am well affured by his Divine promife, withstand all heriti

cal oppofition, until the fecond coming of its Divine Founder.

NOTE.

R. COYNE.

Doctor Ryan came forward to defend the Proteftant Bible, against the Immortal Errata, with as much com fidence as if he had the abilities of the learned Doctor Waldron, author of the Polygot. He now gives up the defence of the Proteftant Bible, and ftrives to fcreen his disgrace under the pretext of giving notice to the public that he will write no more on the fubject, though he is convinced in his heart that an answer to his Analyfis is juft ready to appear. But, to fet the controverfy at reft, I challenge Dr. Ryan to a public or private con. ference, where I fhall defend the Articles of Catholic Faith against him

this may aftonish Dr. Elrington, who fhall foon hear from me.)Thanks to kind Heaven, the days of terror and blood are gone by, and a Popish Bookfeller will now find more protection and justice from the honorable Sheriffs of this city, than the profcribed Father Malone; or the learned Father Fitfimons, when brought from the Cafle Prifon, to hold a public difputation with the intolerant Uiher, experienced from the members of the Star-chamber and Sheriffs of their

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well as accommodated in their refpective lines of business, not liable to be expofed to the aggravating inconvenience of doing business in a whipping or police establishment: for within the last month, a police man has transformed himself into a banker, ornamented, titled, and finished, for the better and more efficient dignity of his new employment, by getting the two extremities of his names or namented in the royal manufactory, the Herald office in London.

ion, is publifhed, by a Scotch projector, late of mufical rank in his. Majefty's army. This whillling piece of Caledonian inftruction, is edited by one of Beresford's light infantry, and the true riding boufeitile is diftin guifhed in every page. Between the fife-major and the barrister, the Irish Catholics are to be infulted, for the lit tle time this anti-Irish work is trefpaffing on the property of its proprie tor,

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

SINGULAR CONSTITUTION

OF BASIL,

Rhine.

The Bafilians think their form of government the most perfect in the world: and if the fatisfaction and happinefs of the people, the equal diftribution of juflice, and the prefervation of decency and good order in the community, are proofs of its excelleuce, they have great reafon to be fond of their conftitution. The privi leges it confers on the lower orders of the people, muft for ever fecure their allegiance and attachment to it, for the meaneft citizen is eligible, and has an equal chance with the greatest and moft opulent, to obtain a feat in the fovereign councils of the republic.

A new periodical work, named A Small Republic on the Banks of the "The Satirift,"published by Charles, has lived to the age of three months. This curious production may be justly called the book with the wrong name; we defy the keeneft penetra tion to discover any thing in it, that corresponds with its name; adull and a malicious fpirit pervades it, exerciling its malignity on unprotected female character, and at the expenfe of the different performers on our ftage, without any regard to truth, without any claim to judgment, to humour or taste. We have been attacked in its foolish pages, in its dull manner, we expected this from our Orange adverfaries, our natural enemies 5 but neither the ability of Mr. Conway, nor the loyalty he affects when he traduces us, can hurt us in the public opinion, nor keep alive his Mock Satirift; for like other adventuring cotemporaries, who have joftled with us for public patronage, neither their profeffed abhorrence for Irish principle, nor their talents, could keep them in existence-they have expired in their infancy, deeply regretted by Jome credulous paper-maker.

Another one of the fame complex

Indeed their method of choosing the members of their legislature, is not in fpeculation very favourable to the promotion of good government; for the members are not chofen for their virtues, their talents, their influence, or their birth: the appointment of them is left wholly to the caprice of fortune, who fills offices, and makes counselors of flate in the republic of Bafil, in the fame manner,

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They have been proffituted to the gay luxurious villain, and are now turned out to meet the feverity of winter. Perhaps, now lying at the doors of their betrayers, they fue to wretches, whose hearts are infenfible, or debauchees, who may curfe, but will not relieve them.

and with as little refpect to persons, as fhe diftribut-s prizes in the English Lottery. This fanciful method of conducting elections, and beftowing offices, may fometimes have a ludicrous or inconvenient effect; but as fuch accidental events, neither leffen the dignity of their legiflature, impede the operation, or weaken the efficacy of the laws; the prevention of them is not worth a thought. It might not perhaps be without its benefits, if the fame practice was introduced into fome countries, where matters of this The flightest misfortunes of the fort ftand in great need of regulation; great, the molt imagis,ry uneafineffor it is, beyond difpuie, amoft effec-les of the rich. are aggravated with tual remedy again that orruption, which defeats the nobleft efforts of patriotism, and reduces the best modelled conftitutions to a level with the worst.

THE POOR WEEP
UNHEEDED.

From the Citizen of the World, by
Dr. Goldfmith.

WHO are thofe who make the Atreets their couch, and find a fhort repofe from wretchedness at the doors of the opulent? These are Itrangers, wanderers, and orphans, whofe circumftances are too humble to expect redrefs, and whofe diftreffes are too great even for pity. Their wretchedness excites rather horror than pity. Some are without the covering even of rags, and others emaciated with difeafe. The world has difclaimed them; fociety turns its back upon their diftrefs, and has given them up to nakedness and hunger.

Thefe poor thivering females have once feen happier days, and been flattered into beauty.

Why why was I born a man, and yet fee the fufferings of wretches [ cannot relieve! Poor houseless creatures! the world will give you reproaches, but will not give you relief.

all the power of eloquence, and held up to engage our artention and fympathetic forrow. The poor weep unheeded, perfecuted by every fubordinate fpecies of tyranny; and every law which gives others fecurity becomes an enemy to thein !

CAUSES OF MISERY.

From the Critic Philofopher.

Ireland produces every article neceffary for the fupport of mankind; and might, by proper cultivation extended, produce treble the quantity.

The lower clafs of the people reap very little benefit from profufion, becaule every device is made ufe of to enhance the value of the commodities. requifite for their fubfiftence.

The fpirit of gaming has fo diffufed itfelf through every rank, that the nobleman rifks his thousands on the cut of a card, or the turn of a die; the tradefman ventures his hundreds on the rife and fall of stocks; whilst the mechanic and fervant lose their guineas on the drawing of a lottery ticket.

Ordination

ORDINATION OF ROMAN All the holy Patriarchs and Pre

CATHOLIC BISHOPS.

The Order of the Latin Rite for the (rdination of Bishops in the Roman Catholic Church. Tranflated and Publifhed with the approbation of the Moft Rev. 7 T. Troy..

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Confecrating Bishop. Invocations.

Kyrie eleifon. O Lord take pity on

us.

A. Kyrie eleifon.

phets, Pray you for us. Holy Peter, Holy Paul, Holy Andrew, Holy James, Holy John, Holy Thomas, Holy James, Holy Philip, Holy Bartholomew, Holy Matthew,

Holy Simon,

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Holy Mark,

C. B. Chrifte eleifon. O Christ take Ali you holy Apoftles and Evan

pity on us.

A. Chrifte eleifon.

gelifts,

C. B. Kyrie elcifon. O Lord take All you holy Difciples of the

pity on us.

A. Kyrie eleifon.

C. B. O Chrift do hear us.

A. O Chrift do in mercy hear us. C. B. O Father God, from the hea

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A. Have thou mercy on us.

Lord,

All you the holy Innocents,
Holy Stephen,
Holy Laurence,
Holy Vincent,

Holy Fabian and Sebastian,
Holy John and Paul,
Holy Cofmas and Damian,
Holy Gervafius and Protafius,
All you the holy Martyrs,
Holy Silvelter,

Holy Gregory,

C. b. O Holy Trinity, one only Holy Ambrole,

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Pray for us.

Holy

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