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From the Right Hon. the Lord Chan- 
~ cellor tothe Earl of Fingall. 
. Ely Place, 
>8MEy lord; Sept. 6, 1803. 
I find myself as little qualified as 
your lordship represents yourself to 
be, to discuss with the persons to 
whom you refer me on the points you 
mention. I can only say, that the 
impression made on the minds of 
those of the lower orders, certainly 
does not correspond with the doc- 
trines which your lordship repre* 
sents to be the doctrines of the re- 
ligion you profess. I have no doubt 
that ‘your lordship heartily and 
conscientiously embraces and acts 
upon those doctrines—the ‘whole 
tenor of your life shews that you 
have done so; but the whole tenor 
of the conduct of the lower orders 
of ‘the people of the Romish persua- 
sion shews, that such doctrines are 
not effectyally taught to them ; and, 
if I am to judge from the writings, 
as well as the conduct* of some of 
tlie higher orders of the laity as 
well as of the clergy, T cannot be- 
lieve that they are thoroqughly im- 
pressed with the feclings which ap- 
péar to guide your lordship’s liberal 
and beneficent mind. On the con- 
trary, in many instances, it appears 
to me, that the conduct of some, 
high amongst the priesthood, is cal- 
culated to excite in the minds of 
those under their care, hatred to 
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their protestant fellow-subjects, and 
disloyalty to their government. 1 
am assured; from’ very high and 
very respectable authority, that (at 
least in one district) the’ priests 
who were instrumental in saving the 
lives of ‘the loyalists. in’ the’ late 
rebellion, are universally discoun- 
tenanced by their superior;* and 
that a priest proved to have been 
guilty of sanctioning the murderers 
in 1798, transported to Botany 
Bay, and since pardoned by the 
mercy of government, has been 
brought back in triumph by the 
same superior, to what, in defiance 
of the law, he calls ns parish, and 
there placed as a martyr, in a man- 
ner the most insulting to the feel- 
ings of the protestants, to the jus- 
tice of the country, and to that 
government, to whose lenity he 
owes his redemption from the pu- 
nishment due to his crimes. 
It is strongly reported, that the 
successor to Dr. Hussey, (whose 
disaffection was so manilest, that, 
perhaps, government consulted its 
disposition to Jenity much more 
than its duty, when it permitted 
him to return to Jreland) is’ to be 
a man also notoriously disaffected. 
If the appointment. is to be made 
in the usual manner, at the recom- 
mendation of the higher order of 
your clergy, I cannot think that 
much of loyalty is to be expected 
from those who recommended such 
aman.+ If the authority of the sce 
. of 
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bi Tn the district alluded to, the “ Superior” selected for his vicar-general, (the 
highest situation in his power to bestow) aclergyman, who, in the year 1798, had 
been happily instrumental in saving the life of a respectable gentleman, by putting 
him on his guard against an assassin. 
t.The successor to Dr. Hussey is not yet named, and it was impossible that the 
noble writer could have accurate information on the subject. The recommendation 
to Rome is in the bishops of the province—of whom one is Dr, Moylan, and an- 
ether Dr, Coppinger ; both have eminently distinguished themselves by their per- 
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