wick; and was after that held in bonds for seven years? Have you forgotten this; or, remembering it, have you the scandalous effrontery to represent Spaniards as degraded because the troops

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diers. What, base and lying to a King of the House of BrunsLondon, press, do you forget the period from 1793 to 1815? Do you forget the army of foreigners stationed, during the greater part of that time, in Great Britain and Ireland? Do you forget, stupid and ignorant men, the commands of a friendly nation remain for which foreign generals had in a time stationed on their soil? The the heart of your country? Do foreign troops were brought into you forget, that German Generals your country without any civil had, for years, the command of war or commotion being then in English Counties, that they re-existence. But, as we observed viewed the troops in those coun- before, yours is a wonderful naties; that even the English regi- tion. It is an exception to the ments of Militia were under their Principles and command, were reviewed by them, maxims which apply to all other and that men calling themselves nations, have nothing at all to do English Gentlemen and Noble- with it. Hence it is that a Dutchmen, marched along by them, man may go over with fifteen thouabased their swords, pulled off sand Dutchmen, and may place their hats and lowered the Eng- himself on the English Throne: lish colours as they passed, them: the event is "glorious," and he is ignorant, impudent, base and time-a" deliverer." Hanoverian troops serving men, have you forgotten may be stationed in England for these things; or do you think that years; Hanoverian Generals may they have been forgotten by the command English Counties; and world Nay, have, you forgotten Englishmen may be flogged in the the flogging of English Local heart of England under a guard Militia men at the Town of ELY of German bayonets. All this in England, under a guard of may take place without affording German bayonets? and have you the slightest ground for suspicion, forgotten, that, an Englishman, that the English people are enfor having expressed his indigna-slaved or degraded; but if a relation at this, was put into a felons' tion of our King come, not to take gaol for two years, was made to the crown to himself, but merely pay a fine of a thousand pounds to settle a dispute between him

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and a part of his people, and four labour, rather than give them without any flogging going on, or to that band of cruel monsters, any talk about flogging: oh! then, that crew of hardened villains, we Spaniards are the most cow-the dealers in loans and scrip and ardly, the most base, the most de- omnium and per cents; that helgraded wretches upon the face of lish tribe, who, from carrying a the earth! Jews and Jobbers, stop pencil-box, rise up to the fortunes till you hear of Spaniards being of a million of money, merely by flogged under a guard of French watching the turn of the market. bayonets: stop till you hear of that, stupid and base London press, before you again make an outcry about the produce of our labour being consumed by "foreign soldiers."

We say that there is nothing that can be imagined under the name of priest, to whom we would not give the fruit of our labour rather than give it to these monsters, who and whose associates, the bo

But, we do not admit the truth of what you say, or, at least, of a large part of what you say, respecting the idleness of our priests. We must presume you to mean that your priests are not idle; or else it is monstrous impudence in you to abuse us for not putting down ours on account of their

For the present, we will, with roughmongers, have brought the your leave, good Jews and Job-people of once happy England to bers, turn from the "foreign sol- a state of wretchedness absolutely diers," and come to the idle without any parallel. priesthood." This would make a pretty long chapter of itself; but we shall endeavour to shorten it. An idle priesthood" is what we by no means approve of; but to speak of that presently, what is it that you complain of here? Why, it is this, that the Spanish Debt will not be paid, because the idle priesthood will eat up the fruits of idleness. Our priests are in their the productive labour of the peo-churches by day-light, summer as ple. We say that we do not ap-well as winter. Their performprove of an idle priesthood; but ances may not be approved of by we also say that to the most lazy, you; but, at any rate, they are the most profligate, the most de-going on while your priests are in bauched, the most worthless set of bed, or codling over a breakfast of priests that ever existed upon table, stuffing their maws and earth, we would give the fruits of reading newspapers. No matter

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dos accusation against us, of supporting a parcel of lazy monks and drones and priests might come with something like decency from a nation that gave, nothing to sa

for the present which is the reli- that you yourselves had a priestgion of Jesus Christ and which is hood, really consuming forty times led the molim that not : clear it is, that if our priests as much as ours, and not performbe idle, you are the most cowardly ing a fortieth part of the labour? wretches upon the face of the earth; for not a good labor earth; for not a word do you say about the fatness, and the eleven o'clock going to church of your own. Ours actually teach all the children; actually teach them all priesthood; and in answer to suck themselves, without the aid of a nation, we, perhaps, should trumpery establishments called have very little to say. But, đơn Doan dool National Schools, without canting you we have a great deal to say subscriptions to be sent to a wine upon this subject. You seem to and gin merchant of the metro- have a great antipathy to con-polis to promote Christian know-vents. The truth is, you want ledge amongst the people, Our them to yourselves; and you are priests who really visit all the now mad with disappointment at really sick, suffer none to die without having had them wrested from

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giving them you." em such consolation as you. The lazy drones of monks," they are able to give. Is this the says one of your newspapers case with yours? Do they visit Another says, "Our readers, who?! the sick? Let the English people" are so much surprised at the answer that question. As to hu-joy expressed by the Spaniards mility, that characteristic so be- at the success of the French, do t coming in a priest, it is possible" not reflect on the influence of that ours may not be may not be very humble" t humble the priests in a country where or in their hearts; but, in their dress," people are content to be fed by t in their outward appearance, at alms at the doors of convents any rate, they are humble; and This is borrowed from that rob in their manners towards their mance writer, rmance writer, HUME, who, in his flocks, where is the comparison account of the insurrection, which between them and yours? Each arose at the suppression of the of our priests has not a lady wife convents in the reign of the old for tiger, HENRY the Eighth, says. 3that the people, accustomed to be

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idle priesthood, who would imagine fed on alms at the doors of the

convents, naturally had a regard [alms? Is it to be reviled for this?

for the drones that inhabited them. Is it the it the worse for feeding the And yet they call this lying fellow hungry with a portion of its inan historian110 1:59 49/tot a gar come? It be may proper to new These writers prove too much, model the church of Spain; nay, as the lawyers call it; that is to to overthrow it; the priesthood say, speaking properly, tell two may be very bad; but are we to lies at a time, one of which is too to look upon its giving, bread many, because it defeats the in- to the hungry; are we to look tention of the other. Here we upon its sharing its income with have (in the case before us), the poor; are we to look upon drones that live in convents, feeding a lazy people at the convent doors!Where the devil, then, does the food come from? Here parsons of the Church of England is a lazy people and here are con-be loved and respected! vents of drones; and one gives the other foodThere needs no more than this to show that HUME, and that all the Protestant writers, the greater part of whom have been English parsons, have dealt in most monstrous exaggerations.

this as making it more worthy of our hatred and contempt? If this be the case, how must the

The short view of the matter is this: in England you have tithes you have Easter Offerings; you. have burial, christening and maroving rying fees; your clergy have two, three, four or five benefices each; one of your bishops receives as much annually as ten or twelve of ours: your church, in short, costs whether there ought any where to you eight millions o u eight me and millions of guineas a Our church costs us, pro

It may be a question, admitting of much to be said on both sides,

be a church established by law; year. it may be a question, whether there bably, a quarter part of the sum. ought to be any public collections, under the name of tithes or under any other name for the support of a priesthood. But, if there be a priesthood maintained by tithes, and other church property, is the priesthood to be reviled because it gives à large part of its income to reproach us for not reducing our back to the people in the shape of priests to beggary, for the sake of

A full half of that quarter part is, probably, given back to the people; and you, modest Jews and Jobbers, revile our priesthood on account of their idleness and their aims. Devoured as your country is by priests, you have the modesty

getting at their incomes to put those incomes into your pockets.

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are we to be accused of a breach of honour, because we will not ratify the bargain?

But, to return to the priests, for a moment: your foul tongues spare nobody that thwarts your greedy purposes, and, therefore, it is quite natural that you should abuse our priests, whom you find not disposed to give up their incomes to But, let us bring you to the Can you find in Spain, or

On the score of priests, above all things, you might have been silent, while PARSON HAY, Dr. COLSON, and other Parson-Justices, stood so plainly before the world. You might have kept your reproaches, on this head, for your own use, while BISHOP JOCELYN (unele of the fat placeman Earl of you. Boden), was so fully in the eyes test. of Europe. To be sure Parsons in any Catholic country; can you JEPHSON and CLEEVE have been found "Not Guilty;" but, even that ought not, one would think, to encourage you to revile us for not starving our priests for the sake of giving you their incomes. You

find in the history of the Catholic Church; can you find, in all the Catholic countries in the world, or in the records of them all, an account of any priest like PARSON MORRITT of SKIBBEREEN ? Poh! say nothing against your own you base London press! You priests and their fat livings. Nay, have the audacity to revile us, beif we be rightly informed, not a cause we do not put down our few of your priests have dealt in church, while you uphold the "Spanish Bends," in order to get church of which PARSON MORlarge interest for their money! RITT is a priest! Base London And now you call it fraud; you press! You revile us because call it robbery, for us to refuse to we do not approve of destroypay the debts, contracted by the ing a church, which you yourpatriots," who had sold our selves say feeds the poor at the soil and our labour to foreigners! doors of convents, while you What is it a breach of honour in revile COBBETT, and call him us to keep that which these base robber, for proposing to lessen men have not yet taken from us?the income of a church which Is it a breach of honour to rescue sends out armed men to collect ourselves from this real slavery? tithes, and which causes bloody We have been sold by traitors, battles to be fought on such occacalling themselves "patriots," and sions. PARSON MORRITT,

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