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their religious duty: his person was death, unless within twenty-one days considered sacred, and protected they quitted the service of, and left with a degree of faithful attachment, all communication with, the rebels." very different from that shewn to his Here let me ask the opposers of the less fortunate brother by prótestants catholic claims, the advocates of proin the moment of his misfortunes. scription and exclusion, and the stig Nor were the Irish catholics at this matizers of catholic loyalty, if they juncture less conspicuous for their can deduce from the page of history loyalty than their English brethren. a chain of facts, on the part of proNotwithstanding the slanderous im- testants, equalling the undivided alputations of bigoted and prostituted legiance here established on the part writers, the pen of the impartial and of catholics to protestant sovereigns. faithful historian has left records of But this is not all. After the second undeniable authenticity to vindicate James, whom the Irish looked upon and establish their unbroken and as their legitimate sovereign, had disinterested allegiance to protestant abandoned his crown, they submitsovereigns. When England and ted by treaty to the arms of William, Scotland submitted to the usurpation and swore allegiance to him. By this of Cromwell, Ireland presented a host treaty the catholics were granted all of armed catholics, confederated in the privileges and immunities of the the royal cause. Propositions were most favoured subjects of the kingmade by the parliamentary generals dom; and notwithstanding the Eng to the catholic citizens of Limerick, lish parliament, by the most perfidioffering them the free exercise of ous act of treachery, not only violated their religion, the enjoyment of their the articles of this treaty guaranteed estates, churches, and church-livings, by a British monarch, but passed per beside a free trade and commerce, secuting statutes to harass and proif they would allow the protestant scribe them, yet not a single breach rebel forces permission to march of allegiance can be brought against through their city into the county of their civil conduct. But in the subClare. Although these terms were sequent reigns of George I. and II. more favourable to them than any that is, in the years 1715 and 1745, which had been granted or promised when presbyterian Scotland and part by the king or his deputy, yet did of protestant England presented a they reject them, because it was in- rebellious confederacy in favour of a consistent with their notions of alle- catholic pretender against their progiance. Nor were the catholic clergy testant sovereign, Ireland, catholic less backward in the cause of their Ireland was faithful and tranquil, in sovereign' than the laity. Further spite of the base efforts of the pulpit favourable overtures having been and the press to instigate and irritate made by the protestant regicides, its population into acts of outrage, whilst the general assembly was sit- to cover the mercenary proceedings ting at Louglirea, "au excommuni- of protestant rulers. Proceeding cation, (says Carte) was denounced onwards, we arrive at the fatal peby the catholic) bishops, and a pro- riod of the rebellion of 1798, which clamation issued out by the deputy the malevolence of no-popery pa(lord Clanricarde) against all per--triots has stigmatized as a popish insons, that either served in the army of the rebels, or entertained any treaty with, or made any submission to them, declaring them guilty of high treason, and punishable with

surrection; but the loyal conduct of the catholic clergy and respectable body of the laity, evinced in their remonstrances to their locks, and addresses to the throne, gives a flat

have stedfastly adhered to their de claration to their advice and example in this instance, you should look up as a pattern for your imitation, and not suffer yourselves to be seduced by the profligate insinuations of unprincipled people, who wish to deceive, the easier to destroy you.If it was your misfortune to have been seduced to join in any oaths,

your sovereign and your country, we solemnly declare to you, that such oaths are highly offensive to God, no way binding on your conscience, and absolutely forbidden by the second commandment. Adherence to such sacrilegious ties, is not

and positive contradiction to the cafomnious insinuations of their nemies. It is a well-known fact, that the prmcipal leaders in that rebellion were protestants, tinctured with the rania of French democracy, whose traitorous designs were assisted by the discontents of the people, occasioned by the house-burnings, free quarters, tortures, and military executions of orange (protestant) yeo-repugnant to the allegiance you owe manry and magistrates, as may be seen on a reference to the examinations of the executive committee of the united Irishmen before the house of lords. In the remonstrances issued by the catholic bishops on this occasion, the rebellion was uniformly designated as unnatural and conexcusable on the plea of an erroneous trary to the principles of the catholic conscience; for, obstinately blind religion. Dr. Troy and his suffra- must be the person who shuts his eyes gans published a sentence of excom- against the light of reason, common munication against all those of their sense, and common honesty, all flocks who should concur in pro- which are betrayed by the object of moting the present insurrection and such oaths." The celebrated Dr. rebellion, whether by action, word, Hussey, catholic bishop of Waterford, writing, or message; or designedly in a letter to Dr. Hearn, his vicar attempt to join the insurgents and general, after noticing his pain and rebels, or any part of them;" by grief at hearing that unlawful assowhich they were excluded from the ciations, at which criminal oaths bosom of the church, and, of course, were administered, had been estaceased to be catholics. The remon-blished in his diocese, uses the folstrance of the then catholic bishop lowing energetic and impressive lanof Limerick, Dr. Young, which was guage:-"I again and again charge read from the altars in his diocese you, and all the clergy of the dioevery Sunday, during the disturb- cese, to exert themselves, to instruct ances, after admonishing the people their respective flocks, to deter them of the obligation the divine law lays from such unlawful meetings and them under, of obedience and subor- oaths, and to exhort them to a peacedination to the civil authority of their able and loyal submission, and obecountry, exhorts them to lose no time dience to the laws. To impress upon in conforming themselves to the no- their minds the unquestionable doctices and ordinances of their rulers, trine of the catholic faith, that an and in giving up to the magistrates oath, or promise, calling God to witany arms they may have concealed. ness it, which has not the glory of "Hesitate not a moment, (says God, nor the good of our neighbour the prelate) to take the oaths of alle for its object, is void in itself, and giance to his majesty and his govern- criminal in the observauce, especialment, which may God long preserve ly when from these associations and of this your clergy, in this diocese unlawful oaths, plunder, or bloodhave, therefore, set you the example, shed, or any evil to society should and are ready to do so again, and follow. That when the peace and

quiet of a country are disturbed, to ciety and the happiness of mankind. presume to justify such proceedings Instead then of comparing the influ upon the score of religion, is a dar-ence which the religious ingredients: ing impiety against God, and is af- of the churchman, the dissenter, and fording a handle or pretext to the the catholic, is supposed to operate enemies of the catholic faith, to re- on the respective professors, for the peat those misrepresentations of our purpose of grounding an inference, tenets, with which they have so often that, because the catholic believes endeavoured to blacken us, but which in the spiritual supremacy of the we have as often rejected with in- pope, his allegiance to his temporal dignation and horror. The life, the sovereign is the less complete; in property, or the good name the which case our Saviour and the apostemporal or the spiritual welfare of ties, who did not acknowledge spianother, without distinction of what ritual obedience to the Jewish sansect or religious persuasion he may hedrim or Roman councils, were be, are sacred objects which the CA- equally as faulty and divided in their THOLIC RELIGION forbids us to in- civil duty; instead of thus attemptjure or to offend, upon pain of eter- ing to lessen the civil worth of his nal punishment. The good of the catholic fellow-subjects, let the right church can never justify or excuse reverend prelate turn his eyes to the the smallest injustice against our present state of this protestant counneighbour. Though the most bril- try, and of presbyterian Scotland, liant and uncontrolled establishment where arrests are daily taking of the catholic religion in Ireland place on charges of high treason; might be obtained by one act of in- where the personal liberty law of justice, whether offered to a believer those whose allegiance is complete, or an unbeliever, yet that one act and others which suffer no drawback would be a crime deserving God's from ecclesiastical authority, is susanger and punishment, and conse-pended, for the alleged purport of quently forbidden by the tenets of preserving the constitution both in the catholic church. BECAUSE church and state, from a conspiracy EVIL IS NOT ΤΟ BE DONE, entered into for its subversion, and he THAT GOOD MAY FOLLOW!!!" will soon discover the inconsistency of With these just definitions of catho-his arguments, and the fallacy of lic allegiance and catholic principles, his reasoning. He will discover, I take my leave of the speech imput- that the catholic never has occasion ed to the right reverend bishop of to doubt which power he should Landaff, confident that I have dim- obey, the spiritual or temporal; he med the clear light in which he is will discover, that there is no power said by The Courier to have put to command the conscience of a caforth his convincing arguments, tholic but his own free will; he will and removed the obstacles on which discover, tirat a well-instructed cathohe grounds his opposition to the ca- lic is as little likely to be diverted by tholic claims. A strict adherence foreign intrigue from his duty to his to the above dogmas of his church temporal government as the promust cause civil worth and civil con- testant; he will discover, that the reduct in the catholic believer; and if ligion of a catholic will qualify him religion entitles one man more than to execute a civil office, full as well as another to the occupancy of civil the religion of a protestant will entitle office, a purer doctrine cannot be him to fill the situation of clerk to a devised than that laid down by Dr. chapel of the establishment and Hussey, to promote the peace of so- keeper of a brothel, as is now the ORTHOD. JOUR. VOL. Y.

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case with Bedford chapel, in this metropolis, according to the police report; and he will further discover, that he and his fellow prelates would render much more service to their country by following the example of the catholic prelates in 1798, in Temonstrating and exhorting their flocks to return to the principles of religion, "which abideth not in commotion, and shudders at those internal convulsions, which are ever the harbingers of massacre and rapine, and the powerful fomenters of every degrading passion,"rather than arraying themselves to oppose the just rights of those men, whose ancestors constantly employed them in support of the protestant establishment, in times of similar discontent and dissatisfaction.

WM. EUSEBIUS ANDREWS. Somers'-town, June 24, 1817. INTERESTING ANECDOTE.

If any one thing can have a tendency more than another to fortify the mind of young persons against the dangers of the world, it must be the example of one of its victims happily snatched from its chains, and undeceived by a timely and merciful interference of Providence. The

following is an interesting recital given by a young lady of her own past errors, and her sincere repentance, "You request," says she, writing to her friend, "that I would favour you with a short account of my conversion, or rather, of the mercies of God towards me. I comply with

your request; and you are at liberty to shew to others the history which I now send you. Alas! how unfortunately did I begin my career! My mother loved me tenderly; but, not being satisfied with my conduct at home, placed me, at the age of ten years, as a pensioner in a conveut of religious ladies, distinguished for their happy method of educating

youth in the path of perfection. With me, however, their method failed: all my endeavours were directed to the turning of my school-fellows from the line of duty; and in this I too often succeeded. The exercises of religion I looked upon with disgust; and it was soon perceived that the practices of piety were, to me, a kind of punishment. The director of the young ladies did every thing to inspire me with sentiments of religion; but his advice was entirely lost upon me. Many of my companions, by his sage direction, were formed into so many saints; while I became a complete demon. The time came for preparing us for our first communion; but, though I had received a full instruction in religion, and was much older than the rest, being in my fourteenth year, I was not admitted to the holy table. My mother, who felt sensibly this refusal, sent to have a private interview with me.Our affliction was naturally great; she made me very few reproaches, but expressed her feelings by a flood of tears. I was softened, and promised to amend; but I never fulfilled this promise, persuading myself that it would be impossible to renounce my habits of sin, particularly of one dreadful vice to which I was attached. I therefore resolved to play the hypocrite. I deceived the guide of my conscience, and thus contrived, for the time, to satisfy my mother. The illusion, however, did not continue long; a young lady of great piety informed the superiour that I offered to lend her some bad books. Upon this, my box was searched, and in it were discovered several obscene publications. My mother was desired to send for me home, as one diseased sheep soon infects the whole flock, and I was accordingly removed from the convent. Some months after, my mother had the weakness to yield to my entreaties and conduct me to the theatre; but

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this was taking a wrong method toner to speak to her confessor, that, stifle in me the love of the world: through mere complaisance, I assentmy passion increased; from the thea- ed. This holy and zealous priest, at tre I flew to the ball, and from the my very first address, perceived that ball to the opera. Thus I had been a complete worldling, ruin my was completed. My mother died.-I and, by my first replies, no less clearwas then twenty years of age, and ly understood that I was not yet a possessed of a good fortune. The penitent. He spoke to me of the gentleman who married me was de- necessity of converting myself to serving of a virtuous wife, and of God, and the best means of promotevery domestic happiness. I proved ing my conversion. You must,' a continual cross and uneasiness to said he, mortify that body, which him, by my little attention to his ad- you have hitherto made your idol; vice, the indecency of my attire, my as it is only by this means you can extravagance, my passion for gaming, bring it into subjection and subdue at which I lost considerable sums, your passions; begin, therefore, by and by my bad choice of company. fasting once in the week from this I soon lost my husband, my unfortu- time.' I replied, it is impossible nate husband, whose value I knew for me to fast, I am under the neces not till I no longer possessed him.sity of taking often some substantial Alas! I was perhaps the cause of his food: fasting would kill me.' death, by continuing, as I did, my ir- deem, then,' said he, your sins by regular course of life! I wept, in- abundant alms; the poor will pray deed, at his death; but my tears for you; remember the sums you were soon dried up. I again gave have squandered in play and so many myself up to my former vanity; I useless expences.' I answered, 'my dashed into the very vortex of world-income is much less than it formerly ly society; and the praises which vile flatterers were continually bestowing upon my beautiful hands and handsome figure, inflained me with a fresh desire of pleasing. The different mirrors, placed at frequent intervals in my apartments, served to fan the flame, I gazed with pleasure, and believed that what my flatterers

said was true.

"At length, oh! how admirable was the providence of God in my behalf! a lady, whose piety was of the most amiable kind, who had lately lost her husband, and, like myself, was only twenty-four years of age, sought my acquaintance, solely with a view, to bring me back to the path of virtue. At the approach of a solemn festival of the church, she spoke to me of disposing myself for the sacrament. At this I laughed, and told her that I had never been at confession since I left the convent. She then pressed me in so earnest a man

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was, and living is more expensive;
besides, dress costs me a good deal,
and I must appear like others.' In
like manner I objected to prayer and
pious reading, alleging, that
thing was so irksome to me as
prayer, and that whenever I atempt-
ed it I found my mind entirely oc-
cupied with something else." Why,
then,' said the good man, have
you presented yourself to me in the
confessional, if you will do nothing
to which I advise you; if you will
neither fast, nor give alins, nor un-
dertake the work of your conversion?
Remember, that Jesus Christ has
said, 'unless you do penance you
shall certainly perish.' If you re-
fuse in this life to offer satisfaction to
the justice of that God, whom you
have so grievously offended, you must
suffer eternal punishment in the
flames of hell.' Having delivered
these words with an air of dignity
and authority, he paused for a mo-

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