Resolved, That, the Earl of Moira is fully entitled to our warmest thanks, for his long attachment to the Catholic Cause, and we still consider him our able advocate and sincere friend. Translation. Resolved, that, notwithstanding what was said the other day by a good Roman Catholic, we will continue to pull off our hats to the Earl of Moira, the soul of honour, whenever we meet him. If he had not a shilling in his pocket, his blue ribband would command our respect; and we are fully persuaded that he prefers the remuneration which he has received, to any that could be conferred. He is the general patron of Irishmen; and he has it in his power to befriend some of them; for in addition to the 27th or Enniskillen regiment, which he commands, he has the patronage (as constable of the Tower of London) of the two regiments of Tower Hamlets militia; the officers of which, in a short time, in the event of the regiments' going to Ireland, will find themselves quite at home. Resolved, That, we have heard, with unfeigned pleasure, of the arrival of that most respectable Prelate, the Bishop of Norwich, in this country; and we request him to accept our most grateful thanks, for the genuine liberality and distinguished zeal, with which he has supported our Claims. Translation. Resolved, that as the Bishop of Norwich is come to Ireland, we do hail his arrival; and do esteem that most respectable prelate almost as great a man, and as true a friend to liberality of sentiment, as Mr. Lancaster himself, who lately came, uninvited, to Ireland; where he was liberally fumigated with the incense of public thanks. We congratulate ourselves that we have lived to see a Protestant bishop plead our cause. May he soon be converted to the right faith. We commend him to the protection of St. Patrick. May he soon deserve a red hat! In that case, he would adorn the Archiepiscopal throne in the metropolitan church of Canterbury-a worthy successor of Reginald Pole, once Chancellor of Oxford. • A flaming partizan of the Popish superstition declared, at an aggregate meeting of Roman Catholics in Dublin, after the failure of the Earl of Moira in the negotiation with Lords Grey and Grenville,-that he would not take off his hat to the Earl, should be meet him, Resolved, That, we should be guilty of the height of ingratitude, were we not sensible of our obligation to the Earl Grey, and Lord Grenville, and to our other Friends in both Houses of Parliament, who have so repeatedly exerted their talents in our behalf, and have never ceased to consider Catholic Emancipation as essential to the stability of the Empire. Translation. Resolved, that, our thanks be especially rendered to Lord Grey, of Northumberland, and to Lord Grenville, the present Chancellor of Oxford. We count them Martyrs to the Roman Cause. They are the Decii of modern Rome. They fell from power, self-devoted. It is true, they did not fall in battle; but they built, (we thank Mr. Sheridan for the happy ingenuity of the expression, and we admire its peculiar elegance,) they built up a brick wall, and bravely run their heads against it. Resolved, That, the thanks of this meeting are due, and hereby given to William Dalton Pollard, Esq. our High Sheriff, for his polite attention in granting the Court-house for the accommodation of this Meeting. Resolved, That the thanks of this Meeting are due to James Fetherstone, of Bracklin, Esq.; Robert Sterne Tighe, Esq. of Mitchelstown; Richard Reynell, Esq. Killynon; John Francis D'Arcy, Esq. Lackin; Richard Hugh Levinge, Esq. Levington Park: John Lyons, Esq. Lady'stown, and Harley Hudson, Esq. Green Park. GERALD DEASE, Chairman. CHRISTOPHER NANGLE, Esq. in the Chair. Resolved, That the thanks of this Meeting are due to Gerald Dease, Esq. for his proper and dignified conduct in the Chair, Translation. C. NANGLE, Esq. We return thanks to Mr. Pollard, xai Toç To2015. Mr. Nangle fills the chair, whilst thanks are voted to Mr. Dease, for his proper and dignified conduct in it. * We thank our Correspondent, and are sorry that his favour did not appear in our first Number. CORRESPONDENCE. ROMISH TYRANNY. To the Editor of the Protestant Advocate. SIR;-The claim of unlimited episcopal jurisdiction, exercised over their Clergy by the Romish Hierarchy, has long been considered as a grievance of no ordinary magnitude by the Romish Clergy themselves, rendering them the abject vassals of their superiors, as their superiors are of the Pope, by their Oath of Consecration. It is, therefore, peculiarly dangerous to be tolerated under a PROTESTANT GOVERNMENT. Lord Kenyon, in his masterly Observations on the Roman Catholic Question, p. 43, 48, edit. 4, has called the attention of the public to the arbitrary deprivation of the French refugees, the Abbé P. L. Blanchard, and the Abbé M. Gaschet, "from administering or receiving any Sacrament," within his district, in ENGLAND, by Doctor Milner, Bishop of Castabala, and Vicar Apostolical, cited in his Pastoral Letters, p. 26. And permit me, through the channel of the PROTESTANT ADVOCATE, to submit to public notice a similar instance of the arbitrary exercise of this jurisdiction in IRELAND also, in the recent case of Doctor O'Conor, who was deprived of his functions, by Doctor Troy, titular Archbishop of Dublin. The letter of deprivation, and Doctor O'Conor's justification of himself, appeared in the Hibernian Chronicle, of September 2, 1812, in which a part of the Correspondence was published. I send you the paper for insertion in the Second Number of THE PROTESTANT ADVOCATE ; and if it meet your approbation, I shall send the remainder. With my best wishes. for the due support and encouragement of that most seasonable periodical publication, calculated to undeceive and enlighten the public mind, on the momentous subject of the Roman Catholic Claim of unconditional Emancipation, now under consideration of the Imperial Parliament ;—I am, Yours, &c. We beg to express our acknowledgements to this Correspondent; and we shall always think ourselves honoured by any communications with which he shall be pleased to favour us. We suppress part of Dr. O'Conor's Paper, viz. that which relates to the case of Father Harold, circa 1672; neither do we think it necessary to print the autho rities referred to on various points of discipline and subordination in the Romish Church. What use could such tyrants as Dr. Troy make of liberty? or, rather, how would they not abuse it? Correspondence between the Most Reverend Dr. Troy, and the Reverend Dr. O'Conor; with Observations on the Claim of Unlimited Episcopal Jurisdiction. By the Rev. Dr. O'Conor. ADVERTISEMENT.-The following Correspondence has passed between the Most Rev. Dr. Troy, and the Rev. Dr. O'Conor, who bas lately returned to this kingdom, for the purpose of collating, during the summer months, the MSS. of Ancient Irish History, transcribed by him from the Bodleian Library, with those deposited in Trinity College, Dublin. Doctor Troy to Doctor Ó'Conor. Rev. Dr. Charles O'Conor.-Rev. Sir Since your late arrival in this City, you have had no faculties whatsoever from me. I now think it proper to warn you, that by the exercise public or private, of any sacerdotal function in this Archdiocese, you must necessarily incur the censures inflicted by the Laws of the Catholic Church, on such Clergymen of her communion, as presume to officiate without the permission, or contrary to the express will of the Ordinary.-I remain, Rev. Sir, Your very humble Servant, in Christ, 3, Cavendish Row, Rutland Square, Dublin, 17th July, 1812. THE ANSWER. J.T. TROY. The Rev. Dr. O'Conor presents his compliments to the Most Rev. Doctor Troy, he has received Dr. Troy's note,. forbidding him the exercise of any sacerdotal function in the A. Diocese of Dublin, either public or private; but assigning no cause for such an extraordinary proceeding. Doctor O'Conor is, in virtue of his ordination, entitled by Divine right to offer up the Holy Sacrifice, in any part of the world, to which business may lead him, until such time as immorality, heresy, or schism, is, in a fair public trial, canonically proved against him. This is one of the most sacred and venerable laws of the Catholic Church, to which all Bishops as well as Priests are bound to submit, and so, having the Catholic Church for his guide, and professing the most sincere respect for Episcopal jurisdiction canonically exercised, Doctor O'Conor will continue, with all due Canonical Subordination, as he has hitherto done, to offer up his prayers, modestly and discreetly, for the re establishment of Canonical Discipline in Episcopal elections, by Dean and Chapter, for the restoration of the 2d order of the clergy to their right to sit and vote in Synods, for the Emancipation of Ireland from domestic as well as foreign usurpations, and for the legal establishment of the Irish Church; and this he will do modestly, as hitherto, in a private oratory, without exercising any act of jurisdiction, as becomes a Catholic Clergyman, until such time as, by a Canonical Decree, he is declared out of the communion of the Church, to which he belongs, not by Dr. Troy's permission, but by baptism, by legitimate ordination, and by a laborious and faithful discharge of his duties to God and to his countrymen, of all persuasions, and he trusts also, and be it said with humility, by an exemplary life of 50 years. If Doctor T. has no objection, Doctor O Conor will have his note, with this reply, inserted in to-morrow's Dublin Evening Post. 11, Nassau Street, To this Note Doctor O'Conor, received no reply-and, as silence implies consent, he might have proceeded to immediate publication. Wishing however to leave nothing undone, that might tend to an amicable arrangement with a person for whose character he entertains such respect as he does for Doctor Troy's, he gladly received the proposal of a common friend to wait on Doctor Troy with the following note. The Rev. Dr. O'Conor to Hugh O'Conor, Esq. of Dominick Street. The Rev. Dr. O'Conor presents his compliments to Mr. Hugh O'Conor, returns him thanks for his kind offer to wait on Doctor Troy, and commissions him to state, in as strong terms as possible, that if in any of Doctor O'Conor's publications any proposition can be shewn, in his own words, which is heretical, schismatical, or immoral, Doctor O'Connor will most gladly and publicly retract. 11, Nassau Street, In consequence of this unequivocal notification Mr. O'Conor waited on. Doctor Troy; but he absolutely refused to enter into any explanation, further than to admit that his sole objection to Dr. O'Conor, is founded on his Columbanus; that no immorality, no conduct in any other shape unbecoming a respectable Clergyman, can be alleged against him; and, in short, that Columbanus is his only crime.-Mr. O'Conor begged that he would point out the particular passages to which he objected--but this • Dr. O'Conor is the author of Columbanus ad Hibernos; which work, lying now before us in its several parts, has been thought of such consequence, that Dr. Poynter and Dr. Milner have both condescended to animadvert upon it. What those learned Doctors could not achieve by argument, Dr. Troy endeavours to accomplish by an act of power.-Of Columbanus more hereafter.-For Dr. Poynter's "Theological Examination," and Dr. Milner's Postscript-See Keating's Catalogue, annexed to the Romish Ordo Recitandi, &c. 1812. VOL. I. [Prot. Adv. Nov. 1812.] O |