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wita85 40 years pa ft, very active in all the pub- 
4ic affairs of the City. He was likewife many 
a Chairman of the Affociated Livery of 
wondon, a fociety formed in O€tober, 1775, 
3h oppofition to the party which prevailed at 
‘that time ; andto the fpirited, exertions of 
that fociety in fupport of Mr. Alderman Hop- 
kins, at the memorable election for Chamber- 
dain, on the refignation of Sir Stephen 
Janfien, in 1776, Mr. Hopkins owed, in a 
@reat degree, his fuccefs 5 and from that 
€vent the Aflociated eat for fevéral years 
‘afterward, took the lead in moft of the elec- 
tionsat Guildhall, The Deputy was a man 
of firong underftanding, and poffeffed a clear, 
found, and intelligent mind; and from his 
age, knowledge of bufinefs, and being well 
‘acquainted with the cuftoms of the city, he 
e@enerally, on moft public occafions, was fe- 
deed to fill the chair, in which fituation he 
always preferved orderand decorum. He was 
a good hufband and father, a fincere friend, a 
cheerfal and entertaining companion, and, 
for his years, remarkably a@ive, mixing in 
company until a few weeks before his death. 
In his private concerns he was punétual, re- 
gular, and attentive to bufinefs. No man in 
his {phere of life, lived more refpected, or 
died more defervedly lamented. ] 
[ The late Reverend Father Arthur O’Leary, 
announced in our laft, was a native of Ire- 
Jand, whence, when young, he embarked for 
France ; ftudied atthe college of St. Malo, in 
Britanny,and at length entered into the Prone 
cifcan order of Capuchins. On the comple- 
tion of his ftudies he was appointed’chaplain 
to a regiment in the fervice of the Prince in 
whofe dominions he had been educated; but: 
Hot entering warmly into the meafure of en- 
gaging the fubjedts of thefe kingdoms to en- 
lift in foreign battalions, he incurred the dif- 
pleafure of thofe in power, and foon after re- 
turned to the country which had given him 
birth. By the affiftance of fome friends, he 
built a fmali but decent chapel in his native 
city ; and a circimftance foon occurréd which 
procured him fome little provincial celebrity. 
Awork, about this time, was publifhed in 
Cork, entitled * Thoughts of Nature and 
‘Religion.’ It was written bya Scotch phyfician; 
and as no one anfwered it, Father O’Leary 
applied to Dr. Mann the bifhop of the diocefe 
in which he refided, for permiffion to enter 
the lifts; now the cHuvehies of England and 
Rome happening to think alike on the matter 
in difpute, he immediately granted leave. 
Accordingly, foon after this, appeared his 
«* Defence of the Divinity of Chrift, and the 
Immortality of the Soul.” When the Par- 
Tiament of Ireland framed a teft-oath for the 
Roman Catholics, many perfons of tender 
coniciences {crupled to takest. -On this, Mr. 
O'Leary publifhed itis ** Loyalty Afferted, or 
the Teft-Oath vindicated 5° in which he ex- 
sige ae the feemi ped difficulties that occurred, 
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| Account of the late Mr. O’ Leary. 
[March f, 
unanimoufly fubfcribed. Previoufly to thisy 
no Roman Catholic clergyman prefumed to 
argue, much lefs to write, againft a perfon of © 
a different religion. Thefe publications gained 
him friends among‘the liberal, and were pro- 
duétive of no fmall degree of envy among the 
priefts, allof whom were afraid, and the 
greater part unable, to actin the Cane manner. 
O'Leary, however, enjoyed his triumph, and 
after having, in oppofition to moft of his bre- 
thren, eftablifhed, by his able ‘and “eloguent’ 
writings, that the Roman Catholics of Ire=” 
land might, confiftently with their’ religion, 
{wear that the Pope poffeffed no temporal au= 
thority (which was the condition on which 
certain indulgences were granted to them,) 
he became the favourite and friend of almoft 
the-whole of the eminent political and lite- 
rary charaéters in that kingdom. He was, 
about that cime, attacked by Dr. Woodward, 
the then Proteftant Bifhop of Cloyne ; and his’ 
reply, which confounded the Bifhop, is a maf. 
ter-piece of wit. argument, dejicate irony, 
and a¢mirable writing ; and was nor lefs re- 
markable for the rapidity with which it was — 
written (in lefs than eight hours), than the 
point of animadverfion which pervaded the 
whole, His other produétions were of a va+ 
rious and mifcellaneous- nature; and feveral 
effufions are fuppofed to have come from his” 
pea which he did not think it neceflary or pru- 
dent to father. Atthat critical period, during 
the unfortunate war with America, when rhe 
combined fleets of France and Spain rode tri-- — 
umphant on the Britith coaft, and threatened’ 
an invafion of lreland, he addreffed his Catho- 
lic countrymen in the moft energetic lan= 
guage, and in fuchan effe€tual manner as te 
merit the thanks of every guodcitizen. To 
an Irish bifhop, who challenged him to prove 
the exiftence of Purgatory, he meekly an- 
{wered, 
monitrative proof, 
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Let the affair remaia as it 
rfe’? About 13 years fince, when a con= 
Gikrabie number of no€turnal infurgents, of 
the Romith perfuafion, 
excefles in the: courity of Cork, particu- 
larly towards the tithe-proétors of the Pro- — 
teftant Clergy, he rendered hinifelf extremely 
by his various literary addreffesto the — 
deluded people, in bringing them to @ proper — 
This 
laudable condu@ did not efcape the attention 
of the Irith Government ; and induced them, 
ufeful, 
fenfe of cheir error and infubordination,’ 
when he quitted Ireland, to recommend hi 
to men,of power in this country. 
ple of hi s colar ied pia a two years’ 1} 
fince, 
the Duciefs of Devonfhire anda great con- 
courfe of the Englith Nobility. This vene= < 
rable clergyman mingled true piety with cone © 
vivial talents, which to. many would appear ~ 
rather inconiftent. He was always cheerful, — 
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