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disgust, the suspicious hurry of its progress, and the insolent avowal 

 of a determination to force it by the weight of majorities, whose sud- 

 den creation is among the secrets of the cabinet. They listened with 

 stern and contemptuous incredulity to the promises of the minister and 

 his menials. Nothing could be more lavish tlian those promises. Where 

 are they now ? The Treasury benches echoed, night after night, to 

 tropes and figures of felicity. Lord Plunket, the slave of every party 

 in succession, was brought l^om his coui't in Ireland, post haste, to lift 

 up his presbyterian voice, and retune his old Commonwealth songs to 

 the new chaunt of Church and King. The whole cabinet was a chorus 

 of the new era of Utopian tranquillity. Church and State were to be 

 secured for ever by this fortunate effort of ministerial energy. The 

 howl of Irish riot was to be turned into gratitude and loyalty. Discon- 

 tent was to perish, and the hereditary malice of popery was to be 

 changed into a marvellous rivalry in the race of conciliation ! What 

 has been the fulfilment ? Unless a great statesman be a personage whose 

 predictions are to be falsified within the month, the Duke of Welling- 

 ton's claims to the character are empty as the wind. We demand — 

 has not every one of those pompous promises been falsified ? Has 

 popery softened down a single feature of that hostility, which in every 

 other land, hates and persecutes truth, grasps at power, and makes a 

 burlesque of oaths, and obligations, gratitude, and principle ? Are not the 

 feuds of Ireland more extensive, systematic, and murderous than ever ? 

 Do not the late trials, the proclamations of the Irish Government, and 

 the language of the popish leaders, shew irresistibly that the most furious 

 atrocities are, throughout Ireland, hourly committed by the papists ? Do 

 not the despatches represent them as assembling in camps, exercising 

 with ai-ms, and marching in divisions, with military ostentation, to the 

 attack of the Protestants ? There has not been a single conviction of 

 an Orangeman in the late sessions. Has the law reclaimed this spirit of 

 outrage ? Lord Francis Gower's letter makes the acknowledgment — and 

 we know the reluctance of that noble Liberal to make any acknowledg- 

 ment of the kind— that ever since the examples of justice in these 

 Sessions, papists have publicly, and in large bodies, continued those 

 attacks and murders. 



One of the boasted securities of Protestantism, was the stipulation that 

 the popish Bishops should not adopt their titles in public. Nothing 

 could be more impotent than the stipulation, except its performance. 

 In one week the popish Bishops did take their titles, use them with the 

 most contemptuous publicity, and, after having scoffed at the prohibi- 

 tion, wrung the right from Government. Has Mr. O'Connell, or any of 

 his fellow haranguers, limited his insults by a single syllable since ? Con- 

 cession, that was to have pacified and satisfied all the world, has but 

 taught this orator to demand the Repeal of the Union, the formation 

 of an Irish papist parliament, and the abscission of the Church pro- 

 perty. It has even stimulated him to the announcement of " further 

 views." A mysterious phrase, which will soon contain no mystery. 



Thus has the Great Statesman done in the most boasted operation of 

 his greatness. Perish such illusion ! Perish the charlatanry of a name 

 found faihng in every political promise that it has ever made ! Perish 

 the vapouring wisdom, that is openly and instantly baffled by every 

 droning priest, and di-ivelling demagogue ! 



The country has now had the Duke of Wellington before it during a 

 period long enough for the most complete trial ; with the most unusual 

 opportunities for the unrestricted display of whatever ministerial ability 



