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learning of the church ? what services had been ever rendered by hira to 

 general learning ? what evidence had he ever given of manly ability, 

 directed to the furtherance of religion, by either the defence of its insti- 

 tutions, or the elucidation of its scripture ? Does one syllable from his 

 pen survive ? or did any one syllable ever appear, that any living being 

 remembers ? Not one syllable. But he was Mr. Peel's tutor ! 



And, in the name of reason, can we be surprised at the desperate state 

 of the Church of England, when these things are so ? When the mere 

 fact of having been the tvitor of a man in power, is equivalent to every 

 qualification for the highest and most responsible trust that can be placed 

 in the hands of a human being ? If the instruction of the people in 

 religion be a duty that rests on the soul of the pastor, and if every neg- 

 ligence, folly, or feebleness of conduct, will be solemnly visited at the 

 great tribunal on the head of the offending teacher, what will be the 

 responsibility of the still higher teacher, who comes to his office the 

 mere creature of patronage — the mere manufacture of a worldly interest — 

 Mr. Peel's tutor in morals, honour, and religion! But Mr. Peel's tutor 

 is gone ; and so may every man follow, who has come in by his road, 

 and emulates his hypocrisy. 



There are a thousand cA'idences of the systematic determination of 

 popery to leave not one stone of English supremacy upon anotiitr. 



A celebrated IManifesto of popery, entitled, " A Letter to Lord 

 Grenville, on the Veto," declared, twenty years ago, the unalterable 

 rule of popish ambition. " Catholic emancipation, if an insulated mea- 

 sure, must be in every sense of the word, undesirable. To satisfy the 

 people of Ireland, (the papists), there must be a total change of the 

 SYSTEM OF Government ! There must be the abolition of tithes ! The 

 annulling o? all corporate bodies, \r\c\wdmg the Universitij ! There must be 

 the resumption of the enormous, and misapplied revenues of the Estab- 

 lished Church !" 



And this demand of the whole power of the State, which would be 

 instantly equivalent to the extinction of the Constitution ; and, before 

 half-a-dozen years were past, to the persecution, in the shape of either 

 exile or death, of every Protestant in Ireland, is gi-ounded upon the right 

 of popery to the original possession of the soil — that is, to the robbery and 

 expulsion of every Protestant landlord, and the overthrow of all established 

 property. " The Catholic beholds in the Protestant," says the JNIanifesto, 

 the offspring of a race, neiv and intrusive in the land. If he claims any 

 right to oppose any religious ascendancy, injurious to the great mass of 

 the population, it is from his considering religion in a political view, as 

 connected with the ancient civil rights of the Irish people." This decla- 

 ration was from the pen of IVIr. Keogh, a leader of the party ; and it was 

 followed by the Resolutions of the " Catholic Committee," appointed to 

 make a public statement of their demands. ,This paper asserts, " The 

 right of the Catholics to demand, not only the removal of all parlia- 

 mentary and official disabilities, but the utter abolition of all corporations 

 — the acknowledgment of the full, and unlimited jurisdiction of their 

 church over marriages — ^the imrestrained exercise of her powers of ex- 

 communication — the revival of her endowments and bequests, and a bejitti?ig 

 share of the public revenues, for her hierarchy : a hierarchy, not belong- 

 ing to a sect in the nation, but to the people of Ireland, claiming as a 

 nation, the establishment of its national worship." 



With the daring insolence of this declaration, and a host like it. 



