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Irish disturbance is shewn only to have increased the disease; and his 

 threats and promises alike are thrown in his teeth. 



To make the insolence of this speech of O'Connell's more insolent, if 

 possible, it is speckled throughout with burlesque fragments of advice to 

 keep the peace : precepts of quiet thrust in between principles of furious 

 bitterness ; and the orator figuring in the double unction of the Popish 

 priest, and the impudent demagogue. Yet no man of the " conciliating 

 cabinet" must be suffered to say, that those insvdts to all their boasted 

 policy have come upon them by surprise. They had been declared to 

 the letter a hundred times over in the late debates ; and the declarations 

 were substantiated by the conduct of the papists in Ireland at the 

 moment. But if we are to be told that the fever of the time alone 

 produced violent acts and outrageous language amongst the papists, we 

 demand the attention of our Protestant countrymen to the proof 

 that not a syllable was spoken, nor an act done, which did not 

 emanate from the ancient system of popish arrogance, and projected 

 seizure of the state. It was declared, upwards of thirty years ago, in a 

 work sanctioned by the whole of the popish prelacy and orators, the 

 " Statement of the Penal Laws," that the whole power and property of 

 Ireland, civil and ecclesiastical, belonged of right to popery ; and, as a 

 hint to government of the mode in which the right was ready to be 

 established, that the papists were even then in possession of the means 

 of civil war. 



" They occupy," says this work, " the most valuable positions for 

 military purposes, the most tenable passes, the readiest supplies of forage, 

 the readiest means of attack and defence. They constitue five- sixths of 

 the Irish population. The open country is in their almost exclusive 

 occupation. In fine, the Catholics are, emphatically, the people op 

 Ireland !" By this manifesto it was farther declared, that the popish 

 priests were entitled to claim a share in the church property, propor- 

 tioned to the number of the popish population, which, " compared with 

 those of the Established Church, were as ten to one." So says the 

 Manifesto : and thus the Protestant priesthood are, in the new code, to 

 have property in proportion as one to ten. The IManifesto demanded 

 that papists should have the offices of the College of Dublin, (expressly 

 founded by Elizabeth for the education of the Protestants, and peculiai-ly 

 of the clergy,) in the same proportion — in other words, all. 



And this " Statement" was not one of those accidental and obscure 

 productions that are flung from the desk to the press, and from the press 

 to oblivion. It was written by a Mr. Scully, a popish barrister of the first 

 weight in his party. It was universally acknowledged as the authentic 

 code of their grievances and claims by the party. It was carried to 

 Rome by the popish envoys, Drs. IMurray and Milner, for presentation 

 to the papal prelate, Cardinal Albea, president of the College of Pro- 

 paganda, which holds the actual government of the Irish church : and 

 this cardinal governc r declared himself so fully captivated with it, that 

 he " got almost the entire of the volume by heart." The envoys gave 

 an account of their embassy to the Irish papists ; and the letter announc- 

 ing the happy reception of this IVIanifesto, denouncing war and spoliation 

 to church and state, was read by the " popish primate, in an assembly of 

 a hundred and fifty of his clergy," with infinite applause. 



Dr. Dromgole's speeches in the popish association have been often 

 quoted. He was an insolent and vulgar mouth-piece of the vulgar ; but. 



