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published by most of the separate corporations. Nothing took place interesting or important to the nation after this meeting, until it pleased the Almighty to revisit our gracious sovereign with that illness, which has suspended the exercise of the executive. On the 29th of October, 1810, the following bulletin concerning his Majesty's state of health was issued.

"Windsor Castle, October 29.

The King has been indisposed for a few days past. His Majesty has had a fever: and his nights have been restless: but he has had several hours sleep this morning.

W. Halford,

W. Heberden,

M. Baillie."

"Resolved Unanimously-That we, the Citizens of Dublin, in Aggregate Meeting, legally assembled, fully impressed with a sense of his Grace's many virtues, seize with pleasure this public opportunity of returning our grateful acknowledgments to his Grace, and of thus recording our unqualified approbation of his Lieutenancy in this Kingdom.

"Sir James Riddall having left the Chair, and Robert Shaw, Esq. M. P. being called thereto,

"Resolved unanimously-That the thanks of the Aggregate Meeting, and the gratitude of the Irish Nation, are due to Sir James Riddall, Knight, not only for his polite and dignified conduct this day in the Chair, but also, for the uniform patriotism, with which he has distinguished his Shrievalty.

Resolved unanimously-That a piece of Plate, of the value of at least, One Hundred Guineas, be presented to Sir James Riddall, as a small token of the respect and gratitude, which his fellow citizens entertain for his integrity, which yielded neither to influence nór menace in the performance of his public duty.

Signed by Order,

FREDERIC W. CONWAY, Sec.

From what has been detailed in the foregoing 1810. sheets it is evident, that a wide and desperate Conclusion.. conspiracy has long subsisted against the civil and. religious freedom of the subject. It has been regularly carried on, first by undersapping the Royal mind, which the constitution guards against assault or surprize by sworn and responsible advisers; next by the seizure and misdirection of the passions and even the virtues of the mouarch, whose person from assumed inability to do wrong, the constitution renders inviolable; lastly by usurping the prerogative, which the accomplices administer with that dangerous, double, and keen-edged weapon, the Royal Conscience; the abuse of which our excellent constitution so much dreads, as to commit it without power even of momentary resumption to the keeping of a good and experienced* man from the accession to the demise of the Crown. This latter event it has pleased the high distributor of Empires to anticipate, ́ by à temporary suspension of the executive powers of the constitution. The confederates have been consequently driven to a fault; their views and objects have varied, their manner and scene of action have been shifted. Their usurpation upon the rights of King George the third has consequently for the moment ceased. As it was anxiously intended, that these

* This awful and important delegation in supposition of law passes with the custody of the Great Seal to the Chancellor or keeper, who in directing the Royal Conscience, is presumed by law and bounden by oath on all occasions to judge and act. Secundum conscilutiam boni & probate viri.

1810.

sheets should, it is humbly confided they do furnish an explicit answer to the quære of the most enlightened and honest politician, that ever wrote cotemporary history. At qui sunt hi, qui rempublicam occupavere?

Sal. Bel Jug. xxxix. As every reader may not have a Sa Just on his shelf, the author submits to him in his native tongue the answer, which compleats the period alluded to in the speech of Menim us to the Roman people, upon the unsatisfactory re. port of an expedition to the coast of Africa. But who are those, who have wrested the management and controul of the state into their own hands? Men of consummate wickedness; their hands embrued in blood; of rapacious avarice; mischievously offensive, at the same time most insolent and haughty; who turn loyalty, honor, religion, in fine every thing both creitable and disgraceful to their own gain and profit.

THE END.

APPENDIX.

No. I.

A Letter to Colonel Newenhum from a Roman Catholic Clergyman of the Diocese of Cork; namely the Rev. Doctor Walsh, who recently died in the 44th year of his age, an illustrious example of evangelical zeal, purity and edification, and literally a victim to the excessive weight and labour of his parochial duties.

SIR,

Conceiving, from some expressions, which dropped from you, when I had the honor of seeing you a few days ago at Coolmore, that a faithful statement of the situation of the Roman Catholic Clergy of this country, would not be unacceptable to you, and desirous to give you every information on a subject, the minutes of which are known solely to the clergy, I take the liberty of sending you a sketch of their truly degraded state, for the accuracy of which I can vouch, but which is not, I fear, as comprehensive as you may require.

The Roman Catholic Church of Ireland is composed of four Archbishops and twenty two bishops. The Archbishops take their titles, as in the established church, from Armagh, Dublin, Cashel and Tuam. Of the Bishops, eight are suffragans of Armagh, and are those of Ardagh, Clogher, Derry, Down and Connor, Dromore, Kilmore, Meath and Raphoe. Dublin has but three suffragans, Leighlin and Ferns, Kildare and Ossory. Six

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suffragans to Cashel, vix. Ardfert and Aghadoe, Cloyne and Ross, Cork, Killaloe, Limerick, and Waterford and Lismore. Four are subject to Tuam, viz. Athenry, Clon-. fert, Elphin and Killala. There is besides these, the Bishop of the united Diocesses of Kilmarduagh and Kilfenora, the one in Connaught, the other in Munster, who is alternately suffragan of Tuam and Cashel,

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As in the established church, we also have a diguitary in Galway, called a Warden, who has nearly episcopal Jurisdiction, and is no farther subject to higher powers, than that he is liable to the triennial visitation of the Archbishop of Tuam.

Every Bishop has a Vicar General of his own appointment, who holds his office only durante bene placito, and whose jurisdiction ceases on the death of the Prelate.

Every diocess has also a Dean, appointed by the Cardinal Protector, i. e. that Cardinal in Rome, who has the peculiar direction of all ecclesiastical matters appertaining to Ireland, and also an Archdeacon, named by the Bishop. These two are mere nominal dignities, having neither power nor emolument annexed to them.

On the death of a Bishop, the clergy of the diocess are empowered by the canon law, to elect a Vicar capitular, who is invested during the vacancy of the see, with episcopal jurisdiction; but if such election does not take place within a specified number of days after the demise of the Bishop has been notified to them, the Archbishop of the Province may appoint of his own authority the Vicar.

The clergy in the mean time assemble, and fix their choice on one of their own body, or sometimes on a stranger, and petition the Pope, or (in technical language) Postulate, that he may be appointed to the vacant See. The Bishops also of the province consult each other, and unite in presenting to the Pope two or three men of merit, one of whom is usually appointed; for the recommendation of the Prelates has always more weight in Rome, than the postulation of the inferior clergy.

The appointment of the Irish Bishops lies in the Cardinals, who compose the congregation de propaganda fide. It takes place on Monday, and on the following Sunday is submitted by their Secretary to the Pope, who may confirm or annul the nomination at will; it very rarely however happens, that he does not confirm it.

It formerly sometimes happened, that Irish officers, in the service of foreign Princes, influenced, in a great measure, through the recommendation of their Courts, the congregation to the nomination of their friends and relations. But as many inconveniences and abuses were discovered to arise from such influence, the congregation issued a decree

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