and it was disgraceful to the present period to think that call : would be attended to. Oh, it will be a happy period of my : life, and I think it fast approaching, when a rival college will be instituted. That would be my my next ambition to having a code of laws that would be clear and intelligible, which would make the administration of the law cheap, and its decisions expeditious. It would be my ambition to have a college established, and it can be proved that moneyed men would receive seven per cent. upon their capital thus expended. I have no doubt there would be found in England, several monied men ready to advance the sum necessary for the institution of a new university; and if we can establish it, we will certainly call one of the wards" Martin's-square." Nothing now remains for me to observe further, upon this late meeting of the Brunswickers in Dublin, than that the sentiments there delivered were less truculent than those at other meetings in the country. I account for it thus; there were but few parsons at the meeting. The most violent and wicked speeches have certainly been made by the parsons; and though they are fond of taking money, they did not like even to expend the few pounds they would have to lay out by coming up to the meeting in Dublin. Parson Horner was not there; and Boyton, poor Boyton, was gagged. Oh! what a horrible thing it would have been if Boyton had died of a "suppression of speech." And as to Stack, he was busy adoring a magpie prelate. The late meeting, however, shews us the necessity of increasing our exertions. The best The best way of opposing them is by collecting the Catholic Rent, by establishing liberal clubs, by registering freeholders; and here I am proud to state, that though in Sligo the enemies of the Catholics have succeeded in establishing seventeen Brunswick Clubs, we will be able to turn out one, and I think the two bigots, who now represent it. Mr. Fitzstephen Ffrench, one of the finest. young Irishmen I know, and one whose great acquisitions and talents must make him an ornament to his country, is certain of his election. We must have the Rent collected in every county in Ireland. Five individuals must undertake to report

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how the rent is collected in the county; they will be respon sible for every fifth week. Let not their report be as it is in some of the churchwardens!" the rent is being collected." I hate the phrase; men should say, the rent is collected. If any clergyman should be found, which I do not think there can, lukewarm in his exertions, his patriotism should be animated by those from a neighbouring county or parish. We have ail the great advantages that have resulted from the deputations made to the neighbourhood of Dublin; and if Mr. Lawless had been permitted to proceed on his mission to the north, the result, I have no doubt, would have been most advantageous But we know that our enemies would endeavour to provoke a breach of the peace; our anxiety is to preserve the peace, and therefore we were compelled to request him to return. We must persevere in our exertions for liberty; we must establish liberal clubs; we must proceed with the registering of freeholds. Lord Teynham, in his letter, has said that (what we could do) return eighty members to Parliament, and doing that, can we fail of success?—I am disposed still further to trespass upon your time. We have now held three of our provincial meetings; and as soon as Lord Rossmore arrives in town, I expect we shall be able to arrange for the provincial meetings in Ulster. We must also have our simultaneous meetings. But whether they shall take place province after province, or altogether, is a subject for discussion. At present I should prefer that 'those meetings should be held in Munster, Leinster, and Connaught, and not until these three had passed over, have the simultaneous meetings in Ulster. We must also have petitions from every parish on the Subletting Act and the Vestry Act. It is most probable that the Subletting Act will be repealed in the next session in Parliament. At one of the blood-hound meetings in the north, it was stated that it was the means of banishing from the country twenty-five thousand Protestants. In the south, it has been gradually driving them out; for the Protestant naturally and properly is not content that his children should be mere potato-diggers; he preferred rather taking them to

America, where industry was indulged, and where man had the power of bettering his condition in society. The Subletting Act was one of the worst attempts that had been made upon the peasantry, making them mere serfs and slaves; from whom, when the last farthing has been extracted, they would not be allowed even the rights of human beings. Having now somewhat fully discussed the affairs of Ireland, I turn to those of England; but before I do so, I must crave the indulgence of the meeting, whilst I throw away two or three remarks on Dr. Magee. It seems he has sent one hundred pounds to the Brunswickers; that is, we are told he has. I am not sure of the fact. I wish we could appoint a Committee to report upon it. I think if we could, it would turn out that he has got all the Rectors of the diocese, and even the Curates; especially those who are so amply provided for out of the Church-rates, to club their shillings or pounds to make up the sum. I would be glad to know what he has given to the Mendicity Association (a voice in the crowd, one hundred pounds). I own I am astonished. Perhaps he has repented of the act; and that, imitating the Popish observance of penance, he has chastized the flesh for it, by throwing his hundred pound note into the coffers of the Brunswickers. If this be not the true history of the matter, I can only conclude that we made him. do it. I suppose all who hear me, must have seen the beautiful letter in which the one hundred pound note was sent to the Brunswickers. The Register of this morning has anticipated me in the literary criticism I would be disposed to bestow upon it. The Doctor knows the English language so well, that he talks of "convening an institution," and when it is convened, holding the meeting at the place called Tuesday, and on the day called Rotunda. This is college education for you; and how interesting when coming from the pen of an Archbishop, with an income of from £14,000 to £20,000 a year. But there is something much more comical in the letter than this. The worthy Doctor talks of the connection between Church and State, and as an Archbishop of the Protestant church; (he here in effect calls himself the

Protestant Archbishop, though he used to be so angry with s for giving him that appellation)-as an Archbishop of the Protestant church, he declares, that without such connection "neither can subsist." What a compliment to the true faith? It cannot subsist without connection with the State; that thing which is ever changing, which was formed by man, which has so much of the rottenness and corruption of our natures, in spite of the best patriots, which is one thing in this generation, and another in the next; this is the great pillar of Protestantism; this is the rock upon which the "pure religion," accord ing to Dr. Magee's letter, is built, or at all events the buttress without which it would fall to pieces and vanish from the world. What a libel upon Protestantism! Oh! that mine enemy would write not a book, but a letter. I would give one hundred pounds out of my own pocket for another such letter as this from Dr. Magee. But this epistle does not stop here. I think I behold the Doctor on his highest stilts, while I contemplate the following passage. He says "were it necessary to resort to an obligation of a still higher order, I should find it in the duty which enjoins an opposition to any power which would exert itself to impede the free circulation of the Holy Scriptures, and which would, in place of Divine authority, substitute the authority of man." Most wise and consistent Dr. Magee! The letter is not very long-that is the best thing in it; but before the Doctor could come to its conclusion, he forgot that he made the Church to depend upon the State, which State is the work of this same "authority of man" of which he discourses in the passage I have just read. He is, indeed, Protestant Archbishop, for in the last sentence he protests against his own doctrine as laid down in the first. But I have not time to waste another word on Dr. Magee or his epistle to the Brunswickers. I hold in my hand, Mr. Chairman, a document which is, I understand, to be regarded as the first fruits of the Protestant Rent. I find that every one has got a copy of it. It is entitled "Massacre of the Protestant population of Ireland," and it professes to be "intended as provincial and county monuments, to perpetrate, to all future

: generations, the infamous memory of the cold-blooded massacre and destruction of between three and four hundred thousand Protestants in Ireland, by the Romanists, in the two years, between 23rd of October-St Ignatius's day-1641, and 15th of September, 1643; and also of the Martyrs, burned by them, in the three kingdoms, at the period of the Reformation." A detail of calumnies, of atrocious and unblushing falsehoods, having this as a title of index, is the first thing that issues from the Brunswick press, after the institution of the Orange Rent. What horrible, what lying caitiffs these Brunswickers are. They talk of a massacre of between three and four hundred thousand Protestants, though Sir William Petty, whom they sometimes quote as an authority, has demonstrated that at this time there were not more than 250,000 Protestants in all Ireland. There was a massacre in these hideous and accursed times. Hundreds of thousands fell by sword, or by the pestilence and famine caused by the ruthless conquerors, but they were not Protestants. Cromwell took a three days ride through Tipperary without meeting a human being, and Tipperary surely was not populated by Protestants. Ludlow, regarded as a patriot in England, made a similar excursion in Louth. He found the country depopulated. The only footsteps of human beings he could discover were near a cave in that county. He inferred that some wretches were seeking shelter in the interior. He did not think it prudent to send any of his followers to penetrate the recesses; but he lit a fire, and caused it to burn at the mouth of the cave for four-andtwenty hours, thinking to do that by heat and smoke, which the most adventurous of his crew of hell-hounds would not attempt to execute by the sword. At length he sent in a person with an iron head-piece, the bett r to secure him against the remnant of mortality that might be supposed to have remained, and then it was discovered that eighteen persons out of twenty-one were suffocated. The three remaining were brought forward, and of these two were instantly put to death. The fiend Ludlow set about amusing himself with the third, and said to him, "Paddy, how or at what time would you wish