森新 ༈ ། church, and the ascendancy of the Catholic religion in Ireland. Their prelates could no longer refrain from expressing their anticipation of this long-wished-for feast. Dr. Curtis, the titular primate of Ireland, informs the archbishop of Dublin, that he is an usurper, that he holds his archiepiscopal chair by sufferance, and that he is no more entitled to it, than he is to the dukedom of Leeds. Dr. Doyle says, in his letter to Mr. Robertson, a member of this House, "that the whole body of the Catholics is impatient, that disaffection must be working within them, that the ministers of the establishment are and will be detested, that if a rebellion were raging from Carrickfergus to Cape Clear, no sentence of excommunication would be fulminated by a Catholic prelate, and that the Catholics possessed of property in Ireland will not render any efficient services to the government, should eventful times occur; that from such men the to the Society of United Irishmen; was actually convicted of sedition, and whilst in prison he was attainted of high treason. His associate in treason, the Rev. Mr. Jackson, was tried and convicted, but put an end to his life in prison. Mr. Rowan was more fortunate; for he escaped from prison, and suffered exile for many years from Ireland. After a long lapse, he was allowed to return to his native home by the indulgence of the government; and the best reward he can make for this clemency, is by becoming a member of an Association as dangerous and unconstitutionalas that of the United Irishmen; and what is still more remarkable, and tending to show the spirit of the Catholic Association, the accession of this attainted traitor is received with thunders of applause; and in the address presented to him, direct allusion is made to those circumstances of his life in which he plotted against the peace and laws of his country, as deserving of the applause and gratitude of his Ro-vernment has only to expect defiance, and man Catholic fellow countrymen. Now it is impossible to mark proceedings of this kind, without contemplating the result of these transactions. Why is every violent sentiment applauded? why is every dangerous man received as an useful ally? why is such publicity given to these mischievous sentiments? The object is plain; it is to alienate the people from their attachment to their rulers, to disgust them with the laws, and to prepare them for the overthrow of the Protestant religion. go open hostility." Another priest, a Mr. L'Estrange, declares," it ought not to be expected that the Catholic clergy, who have a divine right, were bound to meet men not dignified with the same exalted character: perhaps all the gentlemen present [this was uttered in the Catholic Association] were not aware, that they, the Roman Catholic clergy, deny any character whatever to the bishops, or other clergy of the Protestant church." This is the denunciation of the Catholic clergy; it is fulminated from the altar, it But much as he condemned the exis- is reported to the Association, it is read in tence of the Catholic Association, he every cabin in Ireland, as a useful lesson thought it would be comparatively inno-to the rising generation to cultivate cent in its operation, if it was not for the obedience and resignation to the estaagency of the Roman Catholic priesthood.blished laws of the country. But it is To the conduct of the priesthood he attributed most part of the evils which had desolated Ireland for so long a period: he regretted to be obliged to make this avowal, but these were times when the truth must be told, and when a delicate forbearance may prove an everlasting injury to the country. It was his misfortune to differ entirely from his right hon. friend below him, the Attorney-general for Ireland, in his opinion of the priesthood. In their conduct during the last five or six years, he had seen very little to approve of, but a great deal to condemn ; and he could view their alliance with the Catholic association in no other light than as the first step towards the attainment of their grand object, the overthrow of the Protestant said that we are indebted for the present tranquillity to the Catholic clergy: he really believed so, but he believed also, that we are indebted for the late disorders to the same persons. He recollected in a trial which took place in the county of Cork, before Mr. Blacker, who presided as king's counsel under the Insurrection act, that Mr. Blacker asked a Catholic priest if he was aware of the disturbed state of his parish. The priest, with considerable reluctance, confessed that he was aware of it; and being pressed by Mr. Blacker, he allowed that no plot could be in agitation without his knowledge, and moreover, that every priest in Ireland must be aware of what was going on, if he did his duty. He recollected also that a priest of the name of O'Sulli- Mallow, advises his parishioners to con- In a letter from Mr. Duggan, the parish church upon the ruins of the Protestant INDEX TO VOL. XII. NEW SERIES. INDEX TO DEBATES IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. Catholics, Roman, 642, 644, 936, 964, 1270, 1326, | Navy; State of the, 591 1335, 1361 Address on the King's Speech at the Opening of the Dissenters' Marriages Bill, 1236 Session, 31, 82 Army Estimates, 925, 957 Army Extraordinaries, 998 Assessed Taxes, Repeal of the, 901 Duties on Foreign Spirits, Tobacco, and Tea; Re- Duties on the Importation of Iron, Copper, &c, 996 East India Sugars, 1081 Elective Franchise in Ireland, 1246 Emigration from Ireland to the Canadas, 1358 Episcopal Unions and Pluralities in Ireland, 1341 Felonies Pardon Bill, 1162 Financial Situation of the Country, 719 Game-Laws Bill, 528, 950 Ill-treatment of Animals Bill, 1160 India; Removal of British-born Subjects from, 652 Joint-Stock Companies, 717, 1074, 1279, 1314✔ Ireland; Episcopal Unions and Pluralities in, 1341 Ireland; Justices of Peace in, 624 Ireland; Landlords and Tenants in, 621 Ireland; Parish Vestries in, Bill, 617 Ireland; Unlawful Societies in, Bill, 124, 166, 168, Irish Bankers Co-partnerships Bill, 1039 Irish Linen Trade, 1340 Irish Marriage Acts, 142 Irish Miscellaneous Services, 1076, 1355 Irish Linen Board, 1078 Irish Poor Relief Bill, 1136 Isle of Dogs Railway, 662 Juries Regulation Bill, 966 Justices of Peace in Ireland, 624 Reduction of Duties on Foreign Spirits, Tobacco, Removal of British-born Subjects from India, 652 Roman Catholic Association, 124, 166, 168, 275, Roman Catholic Claims, 757, 764, 1030, 1134, 1245, Roman Catholic Clergy, 1246 King's Speech at the Opening of the Session, 31, 82 Roman Catholic Priests, 754 Kirby, John; Petition of, 754 Roman Catholic Relief Bill, 1134, 1143, 1151 INDEX OF NAMES-HOUSE OF LORDS. Bath and Wells, Bishop of (Dr. Law), 713, 714, | Dudley and Ward, Viscount, 4, 945, 1271 Bathurst, Earl, 148 Eldon, Earl of, see Lord Chancellor. Ellenborough, Lord, 939, 942, 1018, 1020 Exeter, Bishop of (Dr. Carey), 936, 937, 1326, Falmouth, Earl of, 941 Gort, Lord, 15 Gosford, Lord, 887 Darnley, Earl of, 162, 591, 712, 872, 937, 941, Grey, Earl, 862 948, 1270 Grosvenor, Earl, 126, 142, 642, 885, 941, 950, Harrowby, Earl of, 165, 898, 1020 Malmesbury, Lord, 1016 Holland, Lord, 142, 163, 712, 714, 868, 1019, Melville, Lord, 591, 711 1020, 1276, 1328, 1334, 1362 King, Lord, 17, 165, 716, 881, 936, 1272, 1275, Norwich, Bishop of (Dr. H. Bathurst), 1361 1327, 1333, 1335, 1363 Kingston, Earl of, 891 Landaff, Bishop of (Dr. Van Mildert), 1333 Lansdown, Marquis of, 20, 126, 128, 162, 644, Lauderdale, Earl of, 17, 128, 940, 1018, 1194, Limerick, Earl of, 940, 941 Liverpool, Earl of, 23, 126, 137, 160, 163, 855, 859, 872, 938, 1016, 1020, 1194, 1276, 1277, Teynham, Lord, 883 1337 Longford, Earl of 888 Lord Chancellor Eldon, 31, 127, 866, 939, 941 Wellington, Duke of, 937, 1015, 1018 INDEX OF NAMES-HOUSE OF COMMONS. Abercromby, Hon. James, 167, 191, 646, 900, 983, | Calcraft, John, 306, 531, 639, 854, 911, 917, 965, 1359, 1369, 1373 Baring, Sir Thomas, 531 Benett, John, 1138, 1234 1020, 1022, 1064, 1132, 1150, 1357 Calvert, Charles, 919, 991, 992, 1354 Canning, Right Hon. George, 72, 463, 791, 1091, Carew, R. S., 363 Cavendish, Lord George, 1245 Chancellor of the Exchequer (Right Hon. Frederick Clerk, Sir George, $48, 592, 597 Colborne, N. R., 528, 649, 1264 Bernal, Ralph, 750, 933, 1021, 1142, 1166, 1263, Colthurst, Sir Nicholas, 284 1267, 1354 Blair, James, 1085 Bourne, Right Hon. Sturges, 1138, 1139 Brougham, Henry, 51, 119, 124, 497, 522, 542, Browne, Right Hon. Dennis, 168, 300, 1363 Brownlow, Charles, 370, 754, 757, 899, 1256 Copley, Sir John, see Attorney General. Croker, John Wilson, 350, 662, 665, 785, 1025, Carteis, E., 966, 988, 1021, 1077, 1138 Davenport, D., 151 Davies, Colonel, 285, 638, 745, 931, 986, 1139, Davis, Hart, 745, 990 Burdett, Sir Francis, 447, 472, 544, 757, 764, 839, Dawson, George, 157, 167, 357, 756, 1040, 1257, Butterworth, Joseph, 120, 121, 519, 661 1375 Denman, Thomas, 111, 262, 632, 647, 694 Buxton, Thomas Fowell, 649, 660, 753, 1056, 1087, Dickenson, W., 422 1278, 1313 Doherty, John, 288, 676, 677, 853 |