=1 influenced by a patriotic love of free- | man would more gladly had their re dom, were, at least, restrained by sentiments of shame, from craving further ignominy; and, though the Veto had its friends, and arrangements, and securities found their admirers in our Body, nevertheless, public decency retained so much influence, that the Slave still boasted of his desire for freedom, and prayed for such relief as an honourable man should wish to obtain. But now another era has arisen, and a secession is resorted to, because the People have the audacity, forsooth, to express their opinions hostile to Vetoes and Arrangements, and to Petition for such a measure of relief as men conscious of the justice of their claims should demand. Yes, truly, it is reputed extremely indelicate for Irish Catholics to ask for unqualified Emancipation, and it is openly avowed, that the present secession has originated in an hostility to that measure. I cannot, then, admit, so long as the Seceders proceed upon principles so directly hostile to public feeling, and to every notion of legitimate Freedom, that the return of such men, disposed to act upon such principles, would be an advantage to the great cause of Civil and Religious Liberty; neither would I recommend that the Catholic Body of Ireland should condescend to go about to holes and corners, and to the other places, where those men are, but ought not to be found, to petition them to return; on the contrary, much as I esteem the private character of many individuals amongst them, at the same time that I do not acknowledge them, even in that point, to be a whit superior to those they have left behind them; still I must in candour say, that so long as they profess themselves advocates for a qualified Emancipation, and, consequently, for Vetoistical Arrangements, so far from considering their return beneficial to the public interests, I would esteem it most injuriously prejudicial, and, therefore, would not desire it; but let them renounce those evil principles, and no turn. "I have dwelt thus long on this point, because I am aware that there exists a great disposition to misrepresentation respecting it; and I was therefore anxious to state the ground upon which my opinion was formed. No person who now hears me can mistake the real objects of those Members of the Ministry who advocate or patronize the measure of a Veto; and neither can any man be ignorant that whether the term used be Arrangement or Security, still the Veto is the measure contemplated and desired, though under other forms of expression. The objects of those men are the destruction of our Religion, the extension of Patronage and Corrup tion, and, ultimately, a complete controul over Civil and Religious Liberty. Towards the furtherance of the first object, the Administration would be ready to pay to our Clergy certain annual stipends; being convinced, as indeed they well might, that a hired Clergy, like any other body of Pensioners, would very soon become corrupt, and, of consequence, lose the confidence and affections of a great proportion of their Flocks; and indeed the probability of such consequences is much strengthened by the recollection of the pernicious effects produced among such of the Presbyterian Clergy in the North of Ireland, as consented to become the Hirelings of the Crown, by the acceptance of the Regium Donum. There can be no doubt of the disposition of the men in power to take our Clergy into pay. Even within these two years, new overtures have been made; have it from the lips of that venerated Patriarch, who, within this week, passed to that abode where alone his virtues can meet their reward: I need scarcely add, that I allude to the late Right Reverend Dr. Moylan. He informed me, that he was waited upon by Dr. St. Lawrence, Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross, who communicated to him the dispositions of the Govern I ment to pay certain salaries to the Ca- "I have heard it very gravely said, tholic Prelates and Clergy; specify- that it is not fair to anticipate that the ing, if I mistake not, their relative Minister would exercise his influence amount. The venerable Prelate in such an offensive or injurious manscoffed at the overture, and told his ner: that, indeed, he could have no Lordship, that the Ministers should inclination or interest to object to the be just before they would be generous; appointment of any fit person to prethat they should restore to the Catho- side over a Catholic Diocese, or to lic Laity their rights, which were un- urge the appointment of any unfit perjustly withheld, before they would son to such a station. I confess I am offer to the Clergy favors which they not sufficiently charitable to discharge did not desire, and would not accept. all suspicion and apprehension from It plainly appears, from this circum- my mind, in direct opposition to facts stance, that the Government feels ex- and circumstances. I cannot expect tremely anxious to render our Clergy that our Protestant Government would ministerial to their purposes. I re- be more anxious for the purity of my collect having once heard one of our Religion, than of their own; and liberal friends, a man of title too, say, when I observe that the promotion of that if Mr. Perceval would follow his the Clergy of the Established Church plan, there would not be a Catholic is not founded on spiritual considerain Ireland in the course of fifty years. tions, but rather upon temporal views He proposed that the Bishops and and motives, I cannot consent to subClergy should receive large salaries, mit, that the appointment of our which would make them altogether in- Clergy to the higher stations of their dependent of their Flocks, and enable order, should be directly or indirectly them to live luxuriously; he calcu- influenced by the servants of the lated that luxury would generate in- Crown. How often do we observe, dolence and indifference on the part of that in the selection of the individual the Clergy, and distrust and contempt to fill a vacant See, or vacant Rectoron the part of the People. The Peo-ship of the Established Church, the ple would desert their altars, and neg- man of characteristic benevolence, lect their religious duties, and thus, who, by his learning and moral deby a regular gradation, would ulti-meanour, is best qualified for advancemately abandon all affections for their ment, is overlooked; and he who has Religion and its Ministers. I need no other recommendation than his not, I am satisfied, say, that I dif- connexion with some family of elecfered entirely with him upon his ori- tioneering influence, or his having ginal hypothesis, but I have no hesi- been some great man's tutor, is pretation in admitting, that I am as well ferred! But I need not go so far for convinced as he could be, that if the a ground work, upon which to raise Clergy could be cajoled into a prefer- an argument adverse to the admission ence of Royal Pensions to the gratui- of this so much desired Veto. You tous offering of a pious and attached all recollect the Trials of Dr. SheriPeople, that then, indeed, all the con- dan and Mr. Kirwan, when the Civil sequences which he anticipated would, Rights of the Catholics of Ireland in all probability, be realized, and were put in jeopardy. It is the duty therefore it is, that I feel such strong of the Government to protect those desire to prevent any interference rights, and the Sovereign is actually whatever in an Anti-Catholic Governsworn to maintain them. Mark how ment in the controul or direction of the Veto of the Crown was exercised our Clergy, and that the affectionate on those occasions; not only every and indissoluble connection between Catholic on the Pannel was put by, the Clergy and the People should con- but every Protestant who was suptinue to subsist. posed to be in any degree liberal те raise ssion You Sheri hose ally OW cause they have thought proper to violate their duties, we should also neglect our own, or allow the Enemies of our Cause to enjoy at once the benefits of their co-operation, and of our apathy or acquiescence. It has been intimated to me, that other Resolutions will be proposed this day, more likely to obtain unanimous adoption than those which I have moved. I have not seen them, but I cannot hesitate for a moment to state, that provided the same spirit is retained, I will not offer any opposition whatever to them, being perfectly free from any personal predilections for those which I have submitted for adoption, my only desire being, that the Meeting should, before its dissolution this day, adopt such Resolutions as will satisfy their Friends and their Enemies, that their shared the same fate, and those only Mr. O'Gorman, after some introductory observations expressive of his wish that no expressions should be introduced into any resolutions calculated to irritate or offend any Members of the Body, moved the following Resolutions: Resolved-That the Chairman be requested to transmit to the Earl of Donoughmore the thanks of the Catholics of Ireland, in the strongest terms of respect and gratitude that language affords, those terms being inadequate to express the emotions which were excited in the minds of his suffering countrymen, of the consistent manliness and patriotism of his exertions in our behalf. Resolved-That the letter from the Right Hon. Henry Grattan, be referred to the consideration of the voluntary Association. Resolved-That the Association do report to an Aggregate Meeting on Thursday, the 23d inst. Ireland are justly tenacious of the long tried Resolved-That the Catholic people of purity and spotless integrity of their vene rated Clergy. Civil at the same time that I feel myself eland bound to make this declaration, I duty freely add, that no man can lament more than I do the determination they have made, as no man regrets more sincerely than I do that any portion, or even any individual, of our Body, should pursue a course so obnoxious to the Civil and Religious Liberties of our common Country. But I never Resolved-That any such alteration or can subscribe to the opinion, that be-arrangement cannot be even contemplated by ed Resolved-That they again earnestly deprecate any alteration or arrangement in the present mode of nominating their Clergy, which may in any manner connect them with or subject them to the controul of political or ministerial inquisition; their servants or nominees, from what class or religion so ever they may be selected. the Catholics of Ireland, without alarm and abhorrence, as founded in the most unwarrantable imputations upon the conduct and reputation of their Clergy-degrading to the high character of their religion-and in all consequences seriously menacing the very existence of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Mr. E. M'Donnell, considering that the spirit was retained, would not oppose the amendment, and Mr. O'Gor man's resolution passed unanimously. Mr. O'Gorman then proposed a Resolution, calling upon the Catholics of Ireland to make good their engagements to Daniel O'Connell and Edw. Hay, Esqrs. he was supported by N. Mahon, Esq. Mr. O'Connell most earnestly implored the gentlemen not to urge the Resolution, so far as it affected him; they must be sensible that it would give rise to new calumnies and reproaches, when brought forward at the present moment; and he therefore entreated his friends by their regard for his character and feelings, not to press such a Resolution. He declared, that if he had the most remote suspicion of the introduction of such a Resolution this day, deeply and anxiously as he felt disposed to offer his hum. ble aid on every occasion to the furtherance of their great cause, he would for once have suffered his feeling of public duty to give way to the impulse of private sentiment, and have declined attending. The Meeting, however, would not suffer the Resolution to be withdrawn, and, after some amendments, it passed with unanimous applause. After some further discussion upon questions of minor consideration, the Meeting adjourned to that day week. DEATH OF THE RIGHT REV. DOCTOR MOYLAN. At half-past one o'clock on the 10th Feb. inst. this venerable Irish Prelate calmly breathed his last. Born in days of bitter persecution, educated amidst the perplexing difficulties in which a barbarous Code had entangled Catholic intellect forced to seek that knowledge in a foreign clime from which he was shut out at home exercising the arduous duties of a laborious ministry upon his return→ occupied in the establishment of those various seminaries of learning and piety, which have so much contributed to the improvement of the country-unwearied in the diffusion of instruction-powerful in restraining vice-zealous in promoting virtuedisinterested in his views disengaged from the world-uncommonly liberal to the poor, with a heart overflowing with tenderness and benevolence-firm and conciliating in the discharge of his pastoral duties he lived esteemed, honoured, and beloved by all who knew him, as his death is the subject of unihas pervaded his flock, in conssquence of this versal regret. Indeed, the general grief which event, is ample testimony of the prelate's worth -"his life should be held up for example, and his virtues for reverence and for imitation," nor should the benefit of his pious example be suppressed." Attached from conviction to a peculiar mode of religion, though he might conceive that others were in error, he did not look upon himself as therefore bound to seek their injury or their degradation-he considered that the genuine spirit of religion obliged him to be puuctual in the performance of what he looked upon as truth, but indulgent to those who differed from him, and he opposed them only when he found them attempting to injure that which he was bound to defend. He exhibited the true virtue of liberality, by forgetting in civil life, the distinctions of religion, and proved himself truly charitable, by never enquiring whether the object of his bounty professed the same religion as he did. He never made the halffamished victim of penury purchase a mise rable pittance of temporary relief at the price of conscientious peace.-He did not, whilst he satisfied the cravings of hunger, create torturing remorse and base hypocrisy, but like the Master whom he served, he went about doing good to all-Looking upon the instruction of youth to be the most efficacious mode of establishing morality;-he was the patron and supporter of every institution which was calculated to promote this great object. It was at his special request, that the late Pope, Pius VI. established the ladies of the Presentation order into a religious body, and that the present Pope confirmed their institution. Hundreds of female children, who would otherwise be lost to themselves and to society, have been educated in a in a way most beneficial to them as individuals, and to the community of which they are well-conducted members. He also established schools for the education of boys, from which many have come forth well instructed, and have been enabled to appear with credit in society; and hence, when he was informed that similar institutions to those which under his care had produced so much good, were persecuted in a neighbouring country by those persons who should be their protectors, he expressed his indignation in the most pointed terms, and took the most effectual steps to put a stop to what he called an unjustifiable aggression of obsequious sycophancy. "This * diocese during eleven years, he was translated to Cork upon the resignation of the late Lord Dunboyne, and has during nearly thirty, seen two successors in the diocese of Kerry, and witnessed the death of a valuable friend, whom he had appointed his coadjutor in the diocese of Cork. Country had not a more disinterested friend, | nor his king a more loyal subject," and "when the taint of revolution spread from its infernal source, and distempered the ig-years been bishop in his native city; he has norant and the thoughtless of this good shepherd's flock, Doctor MOTLAN stood forth with the intrepidity of a christian to maintain the sovereign's throne and his country's laws, and to refute the friends of democracy, which were threatening to imbrue the land in blood. The thunder of the gospel was not ineffective in his hand, nor were his pastoral exhortations barren of good fruit." He well fulfilled the sacred maxim, for when he had thus given to Cæsar what was due to him, he boldly stood forward to prevent the aggression on what he considered due to God-"and had this good man been suffered to lead a large portion of his countrymen and fellow-christians through their political pilgrimage, before this time they may have reached in peace the promised land of their civil hopes," for he would have preserved them in that union which has always formed their strength, and had the seceders followed that advice which he often, and with an earnestness peculiar to himself, gave many of them in private, we should never have witnessed that division which has led to their defect. However, with some of them he could not succeed, though “he was calculated to disarm prejudice, to soften opposition, and to win his way to whatever his reason and conscience told him he should seek after yet, however, the impression which his virtues have made on the minds of all who had the happiness of being acquainted with him, may after his decease produce an effect which his admonitions failed to bring about while he lived. He was acquainted with many of the leading characters of the British empire, and particularly with those who sat at the helm of the state, and he frequently declared, that from their notions of the Catholic religion, and other circumstances, he was convinced that nothing could be more dangerous than to make any arrangements whereby they may have the shadow of a right to interfere in the religious concerns of the Catholics. He enjoyed all the mental faculties in the utmost perfection, until about two hours before his death; and for many weeks previous to his decease, he was aware of his di approaching dissolution, of which he spoke with the most perfect composure and utmost resignation. Doctor MoYLAN was one of the ten prelates who signed the Resolutions of 1799, and he has frequently, solemnly, and energetically declared, that the prelates who signed that document never contemplated the evil consequences which have since arisen; and from the statements which were made to them at that time, he declared they had no idea of the construction which has been since put upon those resolutions. He felt the highest indignation at the attempts which had been frequently made since that period, to drag forward that declaration in support of what he called the odious, abominable, and destructive measure of Securities. To the knowledge of the writer of this article, he was more than once called upon by Official Authority of late, for the purpose of inducing him to give his support to a plan for pensioning the Catholic clergy; but he rejected the overture with scorn. He uniformly attended the meetings of the prelates when the state of his health at all permitted it, for the purpose of opposing, with all his might, every effort in favour of arrangements, and in the memorable meeting of May, 1814, when the bishops were deliberating on Mr. Grattan's bill and Mr. Canning's clauses, some of his brethren were recommending the expediency of a little delay, when the venerable `patriarch arose, and procured an instantaneous decision, by using an expression which alone would be sufficient to mark his character"Let us put expediency out of considerationLet us consider what is RIGHT, and LET US ACT LIKE IRISH BISHOPS."-One of the last letters that he wrote, was to Doctor Milner, intreating that prelate, for whom he always entertained the most glowing affection, to tell the Pope, that he, the eldest bishop in Ireland, both in age and consecration, cast himself at the feet of his Holiness, and after intreating his apostolical blessing, begged to assure him, that the giving the government of the country any controul whatever over the appointment of Catholic ecclesiasties, would BE THE DESTRUCTION OF THAT RELIGION IN THIS COUNTRY. He often within the last two Doctor MOYLAN was son to an eminent years of his life, expressed the pain which it merchant, formerly in Cork, and was in gave him, that the most forward abettors of the eightieth year of his age, as venerable a arrangements, should be found amongst those figure as we have ever beheld; his manners committed to his charge. We feel but little were courtly and polished, and to all the ease hesitation in saying, that he fought the good and elegance of the gentleman he added the fight; he has preserved his faith, and we trust dignity of the bishop. He officiated as a priest he has obtained the reward due to a life of in the city of Cork during upwards of four-meritorious exertion and undeviating virtue. teen years, when in the year 1775, he was appointed Bishop of Kerry, being the first prelate for whose consecration the last Pope, Pius VI. issued Bulls. After governing that Great as the loss of this venerable patriarch must be felt throughout his diocese, and Catholic Ireland in general, at this particular crisis, it is a happy consolation to know |