THE CHRONICUE. 
“Irtso Roman Cartuotrcs. | 
Some time previous to the diffolu- 
tion of the Irifh Parliament, 
_ when affairs. in Ireland bore a 
_ very gloomy afpeét, Lords Ken- 
mare, Trimbleftown, and Fingal 
waited on his Excellency the 
Lord Lieutenant with the fol- 
‘lowing Memorial on the part of 
the Roman Catholics of Ireland; 
To his Excellency Earl Camden, Lord 
Lieutenant of Ireland, the Memorial 
of the under-figned Noblemen and 
Geutlemen of his Majefty’s Kingdom 
of Lreland refpecifully represents to 
your Excellency, 
> -H A T notwithftanding the 
‘& fignal favours conferred up- 
on the Roman Catholics of Ireland 
under the mild’ government of 
our prefent Sovereign, all which 
favours your Memorialifts do with 
the moft lively fenfe of atin 
acknowledge, many  difqualifica- 
tions and incapacities ftill continue 
to affeét that numerous and loyal 
portion of his Majefty’s fubjedts. 
“ Your Memorialifts fubmit, that 
the condition of Ireland would in- 
deed be defperate, if its fecurity at 
this moment were to be fought ra- 
ther in the coercion than in the 
loyalty of its Roman Catholic in- 
habitants, who form a confiderable 
majority of thofe now armed to re- 
pel the enemies of their King and 
country; of thofe who muft be 
called forth at every menace of 
danger, and whofe zealand alacrity 
in their country’s caufe have at all 
times been con{fpicuous. 
“ To the general fidelity of his 
Majefty’s Catholic fubjeéts: — to 
their well-known averfion ‘to anar- 
chy—to their tried attachment to 
his Majefty’s perfon and govern- 
ror 
ment, and to the principles of civif 
fociety, — your Memorialifts beg 
leave to add, as another confidera- 
tion, that the grievances under 
which they labour become fevere in 
proportion as precaution is unne- 
ceflary, inafmuch as they immedi¢ 
ately aggrieve the higher and more 
opulent claffes, who, even ina ftate 
of prevalent difaffeGtion, would bé 
bound by their own intereft, with: 
out any nobler motive, to guard 
againft the effets o an innovating 
{pirit. = 
“Your Memorialifts refpectfully 
fubmit to your Excellency, that, in 
confequence of the feveral acts of 
parliament paffed during -the pre- 
fent reign, for the eed of his Ma- 
jefty’s. Roman CatHelic fubjécts, 
trade, induftry, and the purfuits of 
agriculture, in particular, have been 
increafed, much capital-has been 
fixed in the country, and its wealth 
and refources augmented. They 
feel themfelves juftified in inferring 
a ftill greater increafe of national 
profperity from the repeal of all 
exifting laws which agerieve the 
extenfive denomination of the Irifh 
people—laws which your Memori- 
alitts refpectfully contend, are only 
calculated: to create repining and 
difcontent among meritorious fub- 
jets, to divert the rifing talents of 
the land from contftitutional pur? 
fuits, to wound in the mind of his 
Majefty’s Roman Catholic fubjeéts 
the hopes of many, and to reprefs 
the liberal ambition of.all, 
“ Far be it from your Excel 
lency’s Memorialifts to °ftipulate 
with their country at a crifis of e- 
mergency, or to entertain an opi- 
nion that their political fituation 
fliould be the meafure of their du- 
ties, or certain privileges the price 
of their exertions. Should it again 
K 4 become 
