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though in defiance of those princi- And your Majesty's humble Peti ples of free-trade, so recently ap- tioner, as in duty bound, will ever plauded in the speeches of your pray. Majesty, and though to the manifest injury of all the other classes of your Majesty's subjects, while amongst a large part of those unfortunate subjects, this selfish and cruel and insalting prohibition is, at this moment, producing all the horrors of pestilence and famine.

8. That your humble petitioner is one of those who suffer from these abuses and these evils; that experience has convinced him, that no remedy can be effectual, whether for relieving the people or saving the state, until there shall be such a reform as shall enable the main body of your Majesty's subjects to secure themselves against the power of this particular class; that he deems it

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NO-POPERY";

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THE PURITY OF LANDS AND TENEMENTS.

Ar a dinner at Hull, on the sixteenth of June last, given to Messrs. WILSON and DUNCOMBE, the Rev. WILLIAM KEARY, Minister of Sculcoates, made a speech against the Catholics, in of lands and tenements. After a which he tried the great powers long and violent attack on the Catholic Religion, he came to this matter of a more carnal na❤ ture. He had first tried the terrors found that their roaring did not of the Pope's Bulls. When he seem to frighten his auditors, he next tried the fires of Smithfield. Finding these fail also, he resorted, as to a pis-aller to the old and often tried and never failing really and purely Protestant argument, namely, the LANDS and TENEMENTS! Those convincing, those all persuasive lands and tenements, which first produced the which were, as is clearly seen in the REFORMATION," and

an undeniable fact, that the monopoly in corn is one great immediate cause of the present distress and dangers, while it is evident to all the world that that monopoly springs from the self-interest of this particular and ever-encroaching class; and that, therefore, he humbly, but most earnestly prays, that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to exert your Royal prerogatives and authority in such a way as shall" PROTESTANT REFORMATION, tend to produce a radical reform of the parliament, and as shall, with all possible speed, canse an importation of foreign food of every sort, free from all obstacle and from every species of tax.

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the main-spring of the "GLORIOUS REVOLUTION," and of every from the days of the wife-killer measure hostile to the Catholics, all the way down. Ah! beloved lands and tenements! Piety-inspiring lands and tenements!

"CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION"!!!

The Reverend W. KEARY seems to the Rev. W.KEARY. He tells clearly to understand your vast us that these things might be lookpower on the human heart; for, ed into, if the Catholic Church he reserves you as the last and were re-established. But, why most potent argument. And," may they not be looked into withsays the holy man, "there is out that! He tells us something "another STRONG argument about the immutable laws of the "against admitting the Catholics Church; he ridicules this, or con"into power, which argument, demns it. This doctrine of his "you will, Gentlemen, no doubt, may be played back upon him; "duly appreciate. Perhaps, I know that it ought to be played “Gentlemen, you are not aware, back upon him; and I believe "that a very great proportion of that it will be played back upon "the land in these realms, once him, and upon all his tribe. "belonged to the different monas"tic institutions: and that it is "one of the immutable laws of "the church, that what has once "been given to God, can never "afterwards be applied to any "secular use or purpose. There"fore, Gentlemen, it will behove AFTER the vile uses to which "those who possess property thus these words have been applied; "situated, to look well to their after the various deceptions that "title-deeds, and their future they have given rise to; after the prospects, should the Romish impostures that they have enabled "Church establish herself in po- some of the, at once, most brazen "litical power amongst us." and most hypocritical of mankind Indeed! What the title-deeds to play off on a thoughtless people: called in question? The lands after all these, I am almost afraid and tenements brought into jeo-to put these two words at the head pardy! Say no more about it, of any thing to which I am dethen! That settles the question sirous of drawing the attention of at once and for ever! But, Mr. my readers. But, these words KEARY, holy W. KEARY, is it not have been long in use; and, as possible, that these title-deeds may they will, doubtless, still be used be called in question by a Pro- by the impostors, I shall make testant as well as by a Catholic use of them, in my endeavours to Parliament? Are not we, who counteract those impostors. are Protestants, as much interested in this great mass of property as Catholics would be? Was not the property public property was it not granted away by the crown; and, if the title-deeds can be looked into by Catholics, why may not Protestants look into them?

There is, at this time, a great stir making to persuade the unthinking part of the Catholics, that they will NOW surely get " EMANCIPATION"; and also to persuade them, that this thing, called "EMANCIPATION" will be greatly to the benefit of all Catholics. Pains of all sorts are

I just throw out this as a hint taken to effect these purposes;

delusions the most gross are play-of Parliament, on the Bench, in ed off, and are swallowed: in the Privy Council, and to become short, every Catholic seems on King's Counsel in the Courts, the tip-toe of expectation. and also to be generals and admirals. But, observe, those who are for this "emancipation," or, at least, the noisy and aristocratical ones amongst them, want to aller nothing else! They are for a continuation of the title-system and of the whole of the grasping hierarchy; and, above all things, are they for a continuation of the

Now, when one sees people, and particularly innocent and sincere people, thus deluded; thus treasuring up the means of creating despair in their bosoms, it is not only right to endeavour to undeceive them, but it would be cruelty not to do it, if we have the power. If the endeavour fail, the fault is not ours; but, it is our borough-mongering, or seat-sellduty to make the effort. ing, system. Now, they will never, never, never, gain one single inch in the way of emancipa tion," until there be such a change of affairs as shall repeal the hierarchy, and as shall annihilate for ever the rotten boroughs and the audaciously infamous seatselling.

It is my opinion, not only that there WILL BE ΝΟ "CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION," of the kind, and in the way, of late, and now, talked of; but, further, that such "emancipation," if it were to take place, would be GREATLY INJU BIOUS to the main body of the Catholics, as well as to the main body of the people of the whole kingdom, of whatever religion or sect. These are propositions directly at variance with the incessant and noisy harangues of those who hold themselves forth as the great champions of "emancipation." These are propositions, directly opposed to the anxious wishes of great numbers of good people, who have long been unjustly oppressed. But, as I firmly believe in the truth of these propositions, it is my duty to state them, and to endeavour to prove them to be true.

A REFORM, which would soon put all religious bodies upon one common level, and which would, at once, put an end to, all the sops that the THING has to silence and to fatten people with, would, of course, take away almost every motive for keeping Catholics out of place and power. The THING, as in America, would have so little to give, so very, very little spoil to share, that there would be no motive for keeping out the Catholics. But, as long as the hierarchy shall have eight millions a year to devour; as long as there shall be an As to the first; namely, that army pay, and places, pensions "there will be no Catholic Eman- and sinecures, amounting to ten or "cipation of the kind now talked fifteen millions a year; as long as "of," let us first see what that there shall be bishopricks worth kind is. It is of that kind, which from 20 to 40 thousand pounds a would merely remove the oath of year; as long as there shall be supremacy, and would enable sinecures worth from 5 to 40 men, who still refused to take thousand pounds a year; as long that oath, to sit in the two Houses as these things remain, and as the

church and college and crown lands remain as long as Protestants have these things to enjoy; so long will they shut the Catholics out of Parliament and out of the Council, upon just the same rational and most satisfactory ground that one dog keeps another dog out of the same premises; namely, that he may not come in for a share of the bones. Take away the bones, and all chance of bones; and there is an end to quarrelling between these canine gentlemen. REFORM would take away the bones; and then we should hear of no more no-popery," which, in plain English, means, you shall have none of our plunder."

now; what, then, would be our lot, if this additional, this fresh, this long-fasting and anxiouslylonging set were fixed on upon our already more than half-exhausted veins !

I have long contended for the right of the Catholic peers to sit in the House of Lords; for the Catholics to sit in the other House; and, indeed, for the right of Catholics to be restored to all the privileges of Englishmen. But, I have always coupled this restoration with REFORM: and, I beg that to be borne in mind; for, from that condition, I will never budge. The Catholics have a clear right to all the immunities of Englishmen; but, they have NO RIGHT to seats for rotten boroughs; they have no right to be boroughmongers; they have no right to traffic in

We are all convinced; there is not a man in England who is not convinced, that the great, and, indeed, the only real objection to what is called "Catholic eman-seats as notoriously as the sun at cipation," is, that it would, as the noon-day; they, men or women, "no-popery" people think, let have no right to offices, pensions, Catholics into a share of the good sinecures, grants, and all sorts of things. We also know, that it things without merit or service. would do this, to a certain extent, They have NO RIGHT at all to at any rate; we know, that it any of these; and, therefore, must do it, unless the good things while it is even possible for them were previously swept away by to get at these things, I shall alREFORM. Now, therefore, 1 ways object, as I always have obsay, in support of my second pro-jected, to that measure called position; namely, that "eman-emancipation," which, as things "cipation without reform, would now stand, would be only a crea"be GREATLY INJURIOUS tion of a new batch of place and "to the main body of the Catho"lics, as well as to the main body "of the people at large:" in support of this proposition, let me first observe, that none of us could possibly gain any thing by that additional number of place and pension and sinecure hunters In 1812, Mr. HAY, Secretary that such an "emancipation" to the Catholic Body, in Ireland, would bring upon us. God knows applied to Sir FRANCIS BURDETT there are enough leeches at us to bring forward, or to support,

pension hunters, without any possible good to the main body of the Catholics, while they would have to endure their share of all the evils that this new batch of blood-suckers would inflict upon the country.

the Catholic cause. The answer" does, see clearly, that Reform of Burdett, given in my presence, "would leave him no seat to trafwas this: If you Catholics will"fic in! . . . . . . . Yet, good "join us heartily in the cause of God! can any real change in the "REFORM, you may get your" affairs of the Catholics be ex" rights, for, if we succeed, we "pected, without such events as “shall all get our rights; but, if "would demolish the whole of that "you persist in your own selfish" infamous traffic? For my own object, nobody here will assist" part, if a French army were at you; and, indeed, we reformers" Shooter's-hill, I would say, give "cannot wish you success; for us a constitutional reform, be"that success would place the "fore I march.” "Catholic Aristocracy, and, in- Oh! no. I am, as I always have "deed, all of you, amongst our been, for the " emancipation" of "enemies." This was said to us all at once; and this is the way, Mr. Hay in my presence, and too, in which the thing will and never was there any thing more must come. The Catholic Arisjust. What was just and true in tocracy and Lawyers do not want 1812, is just and true now; and this. They want to get a share of this opinion has been greatly the good things: they want to be strengthened by the recent con- in place: and, once more rememduct of the Catholic Aristocracy ber, that they wanted to get into and leaders, who would, as we place by selling the franchises of all well know, have disfranchised all the poor Catholics; and that, even their own poor freeholders; in order to justify their conduct, who would have actually sold the they, in imitation of our boroughrights of half a million of Catho-mongers and their tools, said, and lics, for the sake of getting seats even took their oaths, that these and silk gowns for themselves! poor Catholics were the basest The middle and working class of wretches on earth, though they Catholics, and the Priests in ge- have now discovered, that they are neral, are reformers, as the Pro- such excellently good fellows, that testants, in the same state of life, they ought to give rise to an orall are; but, the Aristocracy and der of knighthood!" To conthe Lawyers are, perhaps, the very clude, let our decision be-" rebitterest of all the foes of reform. form and emancipation; but, not They know well, that reform would the latter without the former. take away all the sources of plun- Wish, however, as we may, this der; that it would give the middle is what will be. There ought not and working classes a fair chance; to be, but, be that as it may, there and, therefore, they abhor the idea never will be "emancipation" of it. until there be reform.

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In the Register of 30th Octo- In the meanwhile we may amuse ber, 1824, I said, "The Catholic ourselves with observing the capers "seat-jobber would, coming from that the "emancipating" lawyers "Mass, see the whole Irish people are cutting in poor, unfortunate drop dead before him with hun-Ireland, which seems to be the ger, or disease, rather than give almost willing dupe even of fools; up a seat; and he must, and as for example.

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