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STATE Ol' IRELAND.
WHAT recollections does the re-
rrosi native view of that unfortunate
country awake!—For the long course
of seven centuries, .
been an uninterrupted acnea ot pub
lic distraction :<f-d private misery—
the property of the victims was dis
tributed amongst the ministers of his
undistinguislung vengeance. Ireton
completed what his leader had left
unaccomplished ; and it has been
i'ts history hadi com P utc< ^ l ^ ;it o ue 'fifth of the whole
population were immolated totherage
of those ferocious monsters. On the
restoration, the sufferers appealed to
a disgusting narr«f*A e a the justice and gratitude of Charles
famine marched before him. Net* unfit for any higher duties and em-jferred an older birth-right, on their ?PP r ^
iher acre nor sex were soared ; and'nlovment than may be performed bvlprotestant brethren ? None of these inconce.vablj < upop ot.r_nea i ,as me
theragenorsex were spared, ana^yment ^ exist . The most perfect suspicious reluctance of heir patrons
judged l v the same august body, un-equality of intellect and feehng, mo-does upon oqr minds, the uiger.cy
qualified to ride, at least, good hor-ral sentiments, and social affection, ol removing instantly, before comph-
ses. A law was, therefore, passed,iis visible in both. Even the micros-ance may not be thought a joon, the
that, u non a tender of five pounds, copic glass of the “No Popery’discontents that convulse Ireland,
the Catholic possessor of a horse,jintriguer, or the disfiguring prism "
should it be worth fifty tunes that
sum, was obliged to deliver it to the
bidder. We will make no reflecti-
pations and unavailn Z* V.-ujll. but that unfeelingtind unprir.ci-
liideOus, sanguinary dra » ‘pled Sovereign afforded them no re-
every succcssiv e act inspi. * , itj rC8S< aT *d left the property of theloy-
d adherents of his family in the hands
could
"horror* Would to God ! wl (
draw a veil over that painful intend.
that we could consign to eternal
oblivion the injured and the aggres-
{., us ; their sufferings and atrocities.
We might, in that case, begin a new
era, unembittered by recollections.
Confidence, so necessary in the pre
sent crisis, might spring up ; and
sentiments of reciprocal esteem unite
two islands which nature and a sys
tem of contracted policy had separa
ted. Wc trust there is not one o!
<Mir readers, who does not perceive
the advantages ot such a union ; who
does net ardently wish to see it es
tablished, and would not make somi
sacrifices to promote its attainment.
It would secure more solid ’benefit
than the conquest of both Indies. All
the gold, silver, and diamonds of the
universe, would not make us a hap
pier, and certainly not a more power-
of his father’s murderers. Their un-
;-.countable attachment to the Stuart
fam.’l'/ was not extinguished even by
this inshmee of injustice, arc! they
embraced, with their usual ardor, the
fortunes and cause of J anies 11. Che
result of this unsuccessful effort was
the expatriation of a very great num
ber of the aboriginal inhabitants, the
massacre of many more, and the to
tal confiscation of the remaining pro
perty they had in their hands. They
were thus reduced to a level of mise
ry and degredation with the descen
dants of the Incas, and forced to roam
as outlaws, or cultivate the lands be
longing to their ancestors, as slaves
to the new proprietors. The mea
sures of security adopted by the lat
ter, were worthy ol the Spanish pro
totype ; and even the horrors of the
ons upon the subject ! The suffer
ers & the torturers arc now consign
ed to the same common mansion,
where no inequality, no fifsmmptions
are tolerated ! The illiterate, broken
hearted, and ill-treated peasant, and
the haughty savage landlord, have
long since appeared before a Judge,
who makes no difference between the
Catholic and Protestant, the Quaker
and the Methodist.—He hears the
complaint of the wretched, and makes
allowance for the folly and violence
of prejudice and passion. The dis
graceful memorials of that time have
disappeared before reason and huma
nity ; and few vestiges of those bat
barous laws are now extant. Some
restriction*; are still suffered to dis
grace our statute book ; but it is to
be hoped, that this stigma will not
long resist the benign and concilia
tory voice ol justice and policy
of the most squinting zealot, could
not discover an atom of superiority
in the favored sect.
but the public, we mean such as
deserve that name, the enlightened,
the impartial, and the just, acknow
ledge the justice ol the demand, and
press the urgency ot compliance.—
The proteslant gentlemen of Ireland,
who arc nearer the object, and more
in the habit of contemplating it; who
tremble at the consequences of at
obstinate uncomplying repulsive po
licy ; who foresee so much dangei
from the hypocrisy", prejudice and
prostitution erf the “ No Popery”
faction, to themselves and children
who esteem the Catholics, but know
they have the feelings and spirit ol
men ;—who are sensible of the dan
ger their country is exposed to, ancil
of the imperious necessity of union ;
Who know they must stand or fall
with that country they advocate
strongly the justice and policy ol
Catholic emancipation, but every
To recommend this beneficial! Englishman, from the king to the
change, to press it upon the feelinglcotiager, has an iuterest, a strong, an
and understanding of the reader, to|immedi;Ue cr,e, in this great questi
on. Severed from the nations ol
tied nothing to tire ge
national prosperity. 1 hey have en-
rit bed a few individuals ; added some
titles to the peerage > cncrcased the
influence of the Crown ; augmented
the number of livery servants, equi
pages, parks, and villas. Hut in re
turn, they have diminished the -com
forts, and injured the morals of the
people. Are the great mass of the
English population better dad, lodg
ed, and fed; do they enjoy greater
political freedom, and their children
a more useful education, since the
succession of the East-India Compa
ny to the Empire of the Moguls?
Certainly not. Whereas every acre
of hog, that is drained in Ireland ;
every manufacture and school, that
are established there ; every penal
law, which is repealed ; every mea
sure, tending to conciliate the minds
of her hardy, enterprising, and ni
che Irish pretestant shot a catholic
priest, wherever he met him, without
any trial. The congregation and the
priest, if they were found in the trea
sonable act of attending and celebra
ting mass, were punished as outlaws
and rebels ; and the punishment was
as summary as the pretext lor inflict
ing it was abominable. The atro
city and injustice of these measures
appear more revolting, when they
are contrasted with the articles of the
capitulation of Limerick, by the
King William promised the Irish
Catholics the full enjoy ment of their
political and religious rights. This
solemn act placed the latter on the
completcst footing of equality with
their Protestant brethren, but the
policy, liberality, and good sense of
William III. were obliged to yield
to the bigoted principles ol his par
ol tier Iiaruy, cmci m iauig, nuu “i- .11 .1
dent population, ha! a direct and per-■*> '“ s !'™
rnanent tendency to promote the pow ,''' e ,l " ; cap.tulat,-
cr and prosperity of the empire. K »" “ s •»l«>»ion», m the groa-
scst violation of the most sacred en-
As our obiect, m the present fexa-,
. “ toJiragcmcnt, were annulled bv an act
nunatton, is to conciliate, and not to o b ’
xvn renrohale everv thimr ot lhe legislature.
irritate—as wc reprobate every thing
that tends even remotely to foster a
spirit of alienation, we will allude,
without harshness and warmth,to that
abominable policy, to those extermi
nating passions, which from the close
of the 17th to the middle of the lEth
To justify so gross an outrage up
on good faith, honor, and justice, the
reader may*, perhaps, infer that some
may make to its introduction, is the
earnest and ardent wish we feel in
this moment, and shall continue to
express. The numerous body, whose
cause we advocate, attempts to force
their claims in a degree of temper,
which does honor to their moderati
on and good sense, proves themwor
thy of the rights they demand,’ and
exposes the violence and partiality
of their opponents. It is an inhuman
and perilous policy, which excludes
four millions out of sixteen, from an
equal participation of benefits. This
exclusion, did it extend only to ten
thousand, would be barbarous in the
extreme ; lor so mortifying a distinc
tion must wound every manly feeling,
and create the strongest resentment
on the part of the persons excluded.
But when a fourth part ctf the entire
population, composing the great ma
jority of an insulated and very vul
nerable province, arc pronounced un
worthy of equal rank and similar
tights, with the rest of their fellow-
citizens, we may conceive how teem
ing with danger this severe act of
disqualification must be ! The ur
gency of such a measure must be
great indeed, must silence every pos
the Continent ;—the line of partition
becoming denser and higher—En
gland will feel daily the importance
of union between her and Ireland.
The frothy*, ignorant, prostituted de
CHARACTER OF THE EARL OF
CHATHAM.
/
The secretary so. >od alone. Mo-\
Jem degeneracy had not reached him.
Original, and Unaccomftiodating, the
features of his character had the hai -
lihood of antiquity. His august
mind over awed majesty*, and one of
his sovereigns thought royality so
impaired in his presence, that he con
spired to remove him, in order to
lie relieved lrom his superiority.——*
No slate chicanery, no narrow sys-
n *i of vicious politics, sunk hi hi to
the vulgar level of the great; but o-
verbearing, persuasive and impracti- i
cable, his object v. as England, his
ambition was fame.—Without divi
ding,he destroyed party; without con
rupttug, he made A venal agt unani
mous. France sunk beneath him.
With one hand, he smote the house
oi Bourbon, and wielded in the other
the democracy of England. The sight
of his mind was infinite, and his
schemes were to affect, not England,
nor the present age only, but Europe;
and posterity. Wondeiful were the
means by which timr.e schemes were
accomplished ; always adequate ; the
suggestions of an understanding, ani
mated by nrdour and enlightened by
prophecy*.
The ordinary feelings which make
life amiable and indolent, those sen-
clamation of a City Contractor, will sations, which soften, and allure, and
not com into her that the present vulgarize, were unknown to him.
crisis is not a very* awful one. The No domestic difficulties, no domes-
revolutions which have occurred, are tic weakness, reached him; but a-
occurring, and are still likely to oc-Hoof from the sordid occurrences cf
cur—which have all terminated tojlife, and unsullied by its intercourse,
the aggrandizement of our most jhe came occasionally* into our system,
inveterate enemy ; a man, combining
audacity with suppleness, persever
ance with unparalclled activity*.—
Under these circumstances, the in-
lividual who has the hardihood to
say that our situation is not critical
to counsel and to decide.
A character so exalted, so strenu
ous, so serious, so authoritative, :*s-
tonished a corrupt age, and the trea
sury trembled at the name of Fitt,
through all her classes of venality.
in the extreme ; who denies that thelCorruption, imagined indeed, she had
crisis becomes more awful, must bellound defects in this statesman, and
either one of the far-seeing, loyal, talked much of the inconsistency of
and eloquent politicians of the city ;|his glory, and much of the ruin of
or the most consummate simpleton, his victories ; the history cf his coun-
VVith such an individual it would be try, and the calamities of the enemy,
folly to reason. For such wc do not
write.
recent acts ol rebellion on the partible objection, and press itself in-
of the Catholics, provoked this severe
act of retaliation. But the reverse
Ul UlU Will 1A# lilt iUlUU»\( Ut Mio - -
century, rendered the population olican be proved ; and there never was
Ireland the most injured, as well as'a period in the history of that coun-
the most wretched, upon the face of try, so tranquil, us at the very time
tlve earth. It is intended as an ap- when this perfidy was committed,
peal to the justice, humanity, and In fact, the natives were so desirous
good sense of an English public. It
Acquires no declamation to provoke
their compassion in favor of the suf
ferers, and their indignation against
the authors. The abhorrence it ex
cites, may prevent the revival of those
abominable prejudices, which, at one
of repose, that this infamous outrage
was even insufficient to rouse them
to resistance. T he fierce and tur
bulent natives were gradually mould
ed into the most submissive, tranquil,
and harmless beings, that then exist
ed upon the face ol the earth. Dur-
time, threatened to convert that fer- ing this state of torpid resignation
tile province into an uncultivated, their task-masters published that code
waste, and its inhabitants intofcroci- of penal laws, which has not a parallel
ous savages
We will pass over in silence the
circumstances of a lingering conquest
They excite pain, without conveying
instruction, and may be comprised in
one sweeping sentence—they consist
ed in sanguinary occurences of an un
interrupted period of live hundred
years, between the natives and the
in the worst and most unfortunate e-
ras of the world. The object of these
humane legislates was to brutalise the
poor inhabitants, to reduce them to
the level of drudgery and intellect of
their oxen. To effect this humane
and enlightened purpose, the most
stantly upon the conviction of men
of sense, when it is suffered in the
present stats of public affairs, to per
petuate discontent in so important a
part of the empire. The religious
and political principles of the disqua
lified body*, must breathe a direct
and avowed hostility to the rights
,md independence of the other mem
bers of the community* to justify so
hazardous an expedient. Nothing
less than absolute and immediate ru
in, in case of compliance, could ex
cuse the necessity of an act, so par
tial in its operation, so ominous in
its effect. YY'c are the only* people in
Europe, who have not adopted, to its
full extent, the toleration recom
mended, in every chapter, in every
verse of the gospel. This deviation
from policy, religion, and philosophy,
is supported upon the binding force
of an oath, as if any obligation were
binding which religion condemns,
coercive and jealous measures werejphilosophy rejects, policy disavows,
resorted to, to deprive them ol the and philanthropy abhors. Catholics
invaders, of their property and inde- benefits of education, and the benign'in every other country are good sub-
pendemy. The result is known, influence ofrcligiou. Catholic school-ljects and citizens ; mid for heaven’s
Success constitutes a people rebels oi
patriots, and, as the original inhabi
tants were unsuccesfui, they suffered
masters were lmnged ; Catholic ec-jsake why should they not be so m
clcsiastics were also hanged 5 and, Ireland ? In Spain and Austria they
( to complete the inhuman outrages,lhave made the greatest sacrifices,
the penalty of ineffectual resistance—jthe unfortunate victims never daredjand evince the most glowing nttach-
the confiscation of their property, andjappear before their petty tyrants, but ment, for their country and seve-
the forfeiture of their independence.jm the most abject state of humilia- ' "
Time,howcvet\ that great decider oi lion—with uncovered heads and
stwks, had gradually accommodated! prostrate bodies. Yes, reader! the
and itipetty*,hall-savage landholders in the
their minds to the change
would have been fortunate for them
hail they submitted, in quieesent re
signation, without interfering in the
quarrels of their new masters. '1 hi
civil war began, anil they had the
imprudence to declare decidedly ii
f;i\or of Charles 1. Their loyalty to
»h.it unfortunate monarch was tre
mendously punished. CroniWiU tra-
south and west ol Ireland, enforced
this ceremonial, whenever their Ca
tholic tenantry appeared in their pre
sence. You may be anxious to knou
how the latter conducted themselves
under this complication of outrage
and insolence, l hcy were tranqui
and submissive ; repeated acts of in
justice and insult had broken tliei.
cerscil the lountiy with tlx desolat- spirits to the yoke. Hut that is not al
tug effect uf a pestilence.—Death anu!—men \\ iioiu the legislature though
ign. In the misfortunes of the
Prussian monarchy, the inhabitants
of Silesia, the great majority of whoir
are Catholics, displayed more loy
alty towards their sovereign than a-
ny other portion of his subjects.—
\Y*hy then should they he traitors in
Ireland ? And if they are not, when
;s the right upon earth, or where i*
-he pretext to disqualify them ? An
-heir affections less ardent; their pas
dons more irregular ; their facul
ies more limited ; sense of right am
vrong less distinct ? Has natun
tamped a mark of superiority, con-
But we appeal to men who prize
independence above every* other bles
sing—who would not survive the li
berties cf their country—to whom
the name or a tyrant, particularly a
foreign one, is as loathsome as hi 11;
who would kiss the cup, arid press
the hand, that offered them deliver
ance from the yoke of un usurper ;—
the thermometer of whose patrio
lism does not rise, or fall, according
to the smile, or frown, of a Minis
ter’s Secretary or W ; and whose
zeal is not measured by the size of
a contract;—To men of that descrip
tion we appeal, and they coincide
with us, that the danger of our situ
ation becomes tnore and more im
minent * That our burthens increase,
the means ot paying them diminish ;
that the prospective is more alarm
ing than the present. That, from
these considerations, they must ab
hor the men, and the measures, which
contribute to deprive the country of
a single arm and a single heart.—
That they repugn, as we do, at the
jesuitical policy, the time-serving
prostitution, which make men bar
ter their consciences for profit; and
thus support measures they know
to be ruinous. Fie ! upon the con
tracting, peculating, place-hunting,
preaching hypocrites! what is the
country, her freedom, her glory, to
such men! Under every form of
things and government their pros
titution will make them thrive ; will
insure them contracts, and places,
and lavor. And these are our exclu
sive loyalists ; the monopolizers of
attachment to the person and fami
ly of the Sovereign ;—who, in their
pharisaical insolence, look down with
upercilious, unsufferable contempt
on truly honest men ; and thank Hea
ven, that they are not such alarmists
and jacobins !—These are the men
who support the infernal yell of
“ 110 popery,” who maintain discord
md jealousy in the bosom of the
-mpire. YY’ho are preying upon the
/itals, and sucking the best blood of
lie country ; and, when they have
educed her to an emaciated blood-
ess carcass, would fling her to thi
aighest bidder, as carrion. The dis-
answered and refuted her.
Nor were his political abilities hir-.
only talents—His eloquence was an
era in the senate : peculiarly spon
taneous, familiarly exprqgsin^ gigan
tic sentiments, and instructive wis
dom ; not like the'torrents of De
mosthenes, or the splendid conflagra
tion of Tully ; it resembled, some
times the thunder, ar.d sometimes the
music of the spheres.—Like Mans
field, he did not conduct the under
standing thro’ the subtlety of argu
mentation ; nor was he like Town-
shend, forever on the rack of inven
tion ; hut rather lightened on the
subject, and reached the point by the
flotihings ot the mind, which like
those of his eye, were felt, but could
not be followed.
LTpon the whole, there was in this,
man, something that c6uld create,
subvert, or reform ; an understand-
ing, and an eloquence to summon
mankind to society ; or to break the
bonds ot slavery asunder, and to rule
the wildness of tree minds with un
bounded authority—something, that
could establish, or overwhelm em
pire, and strike a blow in the world,
that should resound through the U-
niverse.—European Magazine.
Mammoth Carriage.—On Saturday
this village was visited by a foifr
wheel carriage, drawn by six horses,
ot extraordinary size. The felloes
were 12 inches wide, and the car
riage in length, and several oth>.r
respects, bearing equal proportion.
Thirty students of Union College,
were passengers on board.
Baltimore American•
A gentleman from Lynchburg in
forms us, that he saw a letter from
Mr. Coles, (Mr. Madison’s private
secretary) to his brother Capt. Coles,
stating that Mr. Smith, the present
secretary of state, is to be superced
ed by the appointment of Col. Mon
roe to that office. We give this as
we received it.—Winchester Gazette-
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