an active part in this defence, and Gracious Heavens! will he venture to keep him, poisoned as is every communication which comes from such a source? Can that man administer instruction to the poor, steeped as he is in the moral filth of infamy and crime? And yet this is the man who is ushered in and put forward as one of their best witnesses-a'double-souled apostate, a foul liar to his God, and an abominable perjurer."

But we must conclude.

It is now, we think, clearly established, that a strong disposition exists in various parts of this country, amongst the Roman Catholic population, to leave the Church of Rome. Upon this subject, two views present themselves. Either the Romish priests are to be encouraged and strengthened in resisting this tendency of their own people to break from the spiritual bondage in which they have been so long bound; or the missionaries are to be aided and protected in the work of conversion. The first is the view which would seem to be taken by Sir Robert Peel and the present ministers. They propose a large augmentation of the grants for extending and establishing the Romish superstition. They call upon Protestant England to furnish the funds by which a religion, pronounced by the legislature to be idolatrous, may be maintained and extended, at a time when, if left to its own resources, it must speedily vanish from the land. The second is the view taken by the religious community in general, and the Irish society in particular, by whose instrumentality so much good has been already effected, and who may be said to be the precursors of those moral and religious movements which are so cheering to the heart of the scriptural christian.

Can the man who is really acquainted with the actual position of popery in this country, describe the Maynooth project of ministers as any thing better than an attempt to crutch up a tottering superstition against the causes which are operating its rapid decay, in order that the difficulties may be augmented which have been found so seriously to militate against the spiritual emancipation of the people?

Ireland is ripe for conversion. This the Romish clergy well know. This is no age in which a mass performed

in an unknown tongue can be regarded by any class of people as a reasonable service. The question, then, is, shall government lend its aid to an unscriptural priesthood, by largely endowing them at the public expense, at a time when a spirit of inquiry is pervading the masses over whom they preside, and dissipating the delusion upon which their authority is founded? Never, never was there a more unfounded hypothesis than that their domination is destined to endure. We cannot cast our eyes upon any part of the country, without seeing unequivocal symptoms that there are multitudes within the bosom of their church to whom their spiritual tyranny is distasteful; and it is against these multitudes their hands will be strengthened by any project, such as that of Sir Robert Peel, by which their temporal circumstances may be improved.

And what do we require? Simply that government should stand perfectly neutral between the parties who are at present contending for and against the papal pretensions. Is this too much to be expected? Is it too much to expect that Romish priests should be confined, in their contests with a Protestant minister, to what are legitimate instruments of controversy, and not be permitted to wield those terrors by which physical violence is substituted for moral conviction? And is the demand utterly unreasonable on the part of the poor persecuted converts from popery, that they may be taken under the protection of the law?

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But, above all things, again and again, we implore the people of England to distinguish between popery a sect, and popery as a party in Ireland; and to be well convinced, that the party never will be propitiated by any concession made to the sect, while the sect may be continued by concessions made to the party; and that the effect of the Maynooth endowment bill, and all other similar measures, by which a faction is sought to be conciliated at the expense of the Protestant interest in Ireland, will be to convert agitation from an annual into a perennial plant, and to make the system of discord, which at present depends upon the accidents of character and circumstances, as universal as nationality, and as permanent and unchangeable as social institutions.

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