Protestant king-from whom he receives his orders. Will the Irish do something of the sort, and disown this Janus, bi-faced, monstrous subjection? The time for reform of all abuses is arrived, let them look to it, and pass for something in the state, leaving Rome to its Vandals.

Do we confine ourselves to a provision for the Catholic clergy? No; we wish all clergy to be paid, of every Christian denomination, having regular congregations, and, of course, claims on the public purse, they all belonging to the great family who read and own the book, but who, like smaller, may have little differences though much love between their different members. Sectarian asperities of pastors and people would be softened, and a good will growing out of such liberality, would leave little even to the national establishment to wish for. Had these been the order already, the outcry against the church through the country would not now be alarming its sincere and best solicitous friends.

Toleration was a great boon, while England's liberties, in the fortress of her religion, were in danger; but now that all of them are secured with other great advantages, this toleration should be succeeded by liberality and reward to all, who, though not within the fortress, were within the firing range of the danger, doing excellent service

as auxiliaries. Let the pastors of all denominations, whose brethren bore a name in the days of danger, be paid from the public; but for the sake of Ireland's hope, her education, extend to her this boon of generosity.

This attracts the soul,

Governs the inner man, the nobler part.

MILTON.

CHAPTER IX.

Public Men-Confusion-Armour of Man-Late Marquis of Londonderry-Charges false and base-Anecdote-Militia -Duke of Wellington-Massanissa-Syphax-Catholic

Emancipation-Manœuvre-Misconceived-MostRev.Dr. Curtis-The Duke's Mode-Thomas Moore, Esq.-Captain Rock-Fire-Worshippers-Daniel O'Connell, Esq.— Right Rev. Dr. Doyle-Lord's Prayer-Doubts for Christians-St. Patrick—Probable Origin of the Connexion with Rome-Illustration-Divine Liberator-Emperor TitusDespots of Russia and Rome-Mass in Latin or Greek— Neighbours-Exchange-Orangemen-their character, by Sir Francis Burdett-Repeal, generates a Dysentery--Advice, in pathetic Stanzas, by Spenser the Poet, in 1591.

ANOTHER Subject extremely important to Ireland, is her mode of estimating the characters of public men, in reference to their conduct to herself. Prejudice appears to be so much the rule, and passion the measure, in such estimates, that no great man will engage twice to serve her, sure of being misunderstood, impeded, perhaps ill-used.

We seem as irregular as our own ocean's storms, and alike capricious, and judgment is a quality which we appear without, having probably lost it in the whirlwinds.

Ireland has had, also, much fair weather; but that has done hurt; the quiet and peace it should produce, is changed by some elves or jugglers into tempests, of which Belzebub seems the controllerevery thing is confounded; friends are called foes, and vice versa; gifts are gyves, and hearsay, without any consideration, determines all questions in honesty, humanity, philosophy, and even heresy itself. The understanding and reason which God has given us for our own lamp we do not light, but follow in the borrowed light of others, and, as was intended, we are ever stumbling and going astray. While there is such a taste for error, such a distaste for any trouble of examining or comparing facts or causes dispassionately, truth cannot prevail, nor reason conquer. We must depend for our conquests upon brute force-trusting to claws, clubs, or teeth, like the depredators of the desert or forest, instead of reason, which is the best armour and arms of man, truth being his never failing directress.

In this absence, extinguishment of truth and reason, the services of some of Ireland's best friends and lovers, have been not only unseen, but

they themselves have been abused, calumniated, maligned. It is thus we must account for the groundless and ungenerous obloquy heaped on the character of that man, who was most likely the best, and sincerest friend to Ireland, of any of her sons, perhaps, yet born, the late

MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY.

If what is already stated in reference to Irish parliaments be incontrovertible, it follows, that that man who grappled with, and crushed that monster, whose sole unvarying principle of legis lating was, for the few against the many, making gods and tyrants of themselves and their handful of idolaters; and slaves of the millions, with the infliction of the principal physical evils incident to man. To annihilate such a hydra, one would naturally suppose, would be a safe path to a nation's heart and calendar; but instead of its being the subject of a nation's approbation and thanksgiving with Ireland, he was left to die in the consciousness of its ingratitude.

Regardless of the inveterate hostility he raised against himself, Lord Castlereagh proceeded boldly to produce the summum bonum of political capacity to Ireland. He at once united, indissolubly, the poorest people in Europe to the richest; the most obscure to the most distinguished; the most barbarous to the most refined.