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Kildare and Leighlin, to the Committee of the 
House of Commons. By Doctor J. L. Vit- 
LANEUVE. 8yo. pp. 43. 
3. The Real Grievance of the Irish Pea- 
santry, as immediately felt and complained of 
among themselves, a faithful source of Beg- 
gary and Idleness, and the main support of 
the Rock System. With a Proposal for their 
Amelioration ; to which is prefived an Ad- 
dréss to the British Nation on Roman Catho- 
lic Emancipation. By A Clergyman of the 
Established Church ; for several years the 
Resident Incumbent of a Parish in the South 
of Ireland. 12mo. 
According to the fashion of the day, these 
titles ought to be the text, or pretext for a 
long dissertation on Ireland and the Ca- 
tholic Question. But to pamphlets, how- 
ever important, we can afford little more 
notice than their mere annunciation. The 
first of these intimates, in the very title- 
page, what we are to expect. It is the 
voice of “ the Courier’’ re-echoed through 
the speaking-trumpet (horns are now pro- 
hibited) of a second edition. What glad 
tidings it breathes for poor Ireland, what 
Christian benevolence of toleration and equal 
rights, there can be no hazard in conjec- 
turing. It is addressed, of course, to those 
who believe that if we should be so incon- 
siderate as to treat our Catholic brethren 
like beings entitled to the same privileges of 
conscience as ourselves, the fires of Smith- 
field would be lighted again to roast us; 
and that,.if we ceased to trample the peo- 
ple of Ireland under our feet, they would 
rise up and cut our throats. In the con- 
troversy, of the second pamphlet, between 
two members of the infallible church, about 
the balance of powers between local sove- 
reigns and his universal holiness in church 
(or rather church-men’s) matters, we are 
not much interested; though, at the same 
time, we shall find no fault with any pro- 
yisions in the proposed emancipation act, 
which may shut the door against foreign 
influence, and especially against the intru- 
sion of foreign priests. We would not have 
a red coat or a black cassock, in the realm, 
upon any but native shoulders. But “ The 
Real Grievances,” &c. must be the book 
of books! thought we, as we glanced over 
twelve pages of formidable ‘‘ Contents,” 
closely printed, in small letter; and in 
which we found such propositions under- 
taken to be proved as—that Roman Catho- 
lics are hereditary bondsmen, and therefore 
want no emancipation but from Popery ! 
that Roman Catholics are already privileged 
above Protestants / that the interests of Ro- 
man Catholics themselves are opposed to their 
demands / that Roman Catholic Emancipa- 
tion would necessarily increase the evils of 
Treland / &c.; but what was our surprise 
to find, upon perusal, that, in every one of 
these instances, the pretended proofs and 
Ulustrations consisted in nothing more than 
a verbose and dogmatical reassertion of the 
respective propositions. So that, thus far, 
Monthly Review of Literature, 
— [May I, 
when we had read the table of contents, 
we had read the book; the rest was a 
work of supererogation. But if the author 
have failed to satisfy us that the Catholics 
ought not to be emancipated, we can 
readily agree with him that our Irish bre- 
thren have other calamities to deplore, and 
other grievances to redress; nor should we 
be in the least averse from his proposed 
law— 
** That every individual in Ireland inhabiting a 
house built of stone, and slated, and cultivating any 
quantity of ground, not exceeding two or three Irish 
acres, adjoining the house (with the spade a’one), 
using only the drill husbandry, and having always 
one-half, or at least one-third, under green crops, 
and the remainder under corn or white crops, shall 
be actually and bona fide tithe-free, while they shall 
continue the above course and system of husbandry :” 
or make any objections to the suggested 
clause, for adding “ the privilege of elective 
franchise to those who might come under 
its operation.” 
Neither are we disposed to quarrel with 
him about his ideas of an improved “ Cot- 
ter System.” Undoubtedly, much is requi- 
site to be done, and in a variety of direc- 
tions, for the improvement of the moral, 
economical, and social condition of the 
Irish population : but nothing can, efficient- 
ly, be done till the dissentions and heart- 
burnings resulting from restrictions, stig- 
mas, and proscriptions on the score of reli- 
gious opinions shall be extinguished. 
The Right Joyous and Pleasant History of 
the Feats, Gests and Prowesses of the Cheva- 
lier Bayard, the good Knight without Fear 
and without Reproach! By the Loyal Ser- 
vant. Post 8vo. 2 vols. —* The honour, name 
and praise’ of this flower of chivalry are 
proverbial throughout the world; and if we 
had space, it would seareely be necessary, 
to enter into any detail of his adventures 
and heroic exploits. Suffice it, therefore, 
to say, that he was born in 1476, of a noble 
and illustrious family in Dauphiny; that 
his father, the Lord of Bayard, finding him 
only, of all his four sons, displaying any 
genius or propensity for the most noble pro- 
fession of arms, by the adyice of his bro- 
ther-in-law, the Bishop of Grenoble, and a 
council of his friends, gave him and a spi- 
rited charger (which, though “ be had left 
school hardly a fortnight,” being ‘bold as a 
lion,” he managed and ‘‘ brought under as 
well as if he had been thirty years old,”’) to 
Charles, Duke of Savoy; who gave them 
to Charles VIII. of France; who, again, 
gave them to the Duc de Ligny ;—and that 
this oft-transferred page, after haying be- 
come the most distinguished of the distin- 
guished knights of the age, for valour, faith 
and courtesy,—the admiration, alike, of 
friends and foes—of his suzeraines, Louis 
XII. and Francis I. of France, the Empe- 
ror Maximilian, and that other flower of 
chivalry, our Henry VIII.,—at last was 
slain, in the year 1524, while gallantly 
covering the retreat of the French army, 
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