1829.] The Dublin Public Dinner to Lord Morpeth. 3 
stripped and scourged by public indignation, the King of England 
will be the King of Church and State, of a church unstained by the 
contact of idolatry, and a state strong in the affections, the interests, 
and the strength of the people. 
The Duke of Leinster’s next political exploit was the next Spa- 
fields’ toast—“ The House of Brunswick, and may it never forget the 
principles that placed it on the Throne of England.” This is another 
leaf from the book of the Burdetts, of which even they have been long 
since ashamed. From what circumstance have its present givers and 
receivers dared to conjecture the possibility of this sudden oblivion of duty 
and honour in the King and the Brunswick family? Are we to look on 
the toast in the light of a pious prayer for the preservation of his Majes- 
ty’s memory, of a contemptuous hint that it is gone, or of an insolent 
menace, if it should not be sufficiently pliable? We discharge the chair- 
man of all meaning, good or evil, on the subject. He is an instrument, 
and merely repeated what was put into his mouth; but we shall tell 
him that the Brunswick family will “ not forget the Principles that 
placed it on the Throne.” It will not forget that a weak monarch, 
deluded into the attempt to raise popery into a share of the government 
of England, instantly lost the affections of his subjects, by this greatest 
of crimes against true Religion and true Liberty ; that the pollution was 
publicly resisted by the whole body of the wise and the manly, the 
‘religious and the free; that the miserable dupe of popery was pro- 
nounced, by the voice of his whole people, incapable of holding all 
government ; and that to fill the throne of the banished bigot, a stranger 
was summoned, whose first pledge was the perpetual exclusion of popery 
from power—not simply from the throne, or from the high executive 
offices of the state, but from every shape of influence by which protes- 
tantism could be placed in the hands of popery. The Brunswick family 
will not forget that they were called, on their pledge to protestantism, 
to fill the throne from which the Stuarts had been cast out on their 
pledge to popery. 
The distinctions between the two dynasties are clear to every man of 
sense, though Dukes of Leinster may confound them ; and those are, 
that the Brunswicks were men of their word, the Stuarts were liars— 
the Brunswicks were faithful to the constitution of the country, the 
Stuarts were traitors—the Brunswicks acknowledged no superior but 
the laws, and the Great giver of all Laws—the Stuarts were born with a 
tinge of popish blood, which blackened downwards in their descending 
generation, until the stain of heart broke out upon the countenance, and 
they stood before mankind, the slaves of the popedom, and the wretched 
‘mercenaries of its allies. 
The sentence branded on the brow of James was papistry, and with 
t brand he was driven out, like another Cain, never to return. The 
runswicks have not forgotten the solemn contract under which they 
tered England. The venerable father of George the Fourth declared 
at, if such should be the necessity of the time, he would go to the 
caffold, but never would he break his oath to the Constitution. The 
of that honourable and sincere father, will no more break his oath 
than that father would have done ; and looking, as every man of honesty 
and understanding must, with scorn at the menaces of a knot of ribald 
spouters, settling the state over their cups, he will be proud to take the 
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