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long apparent struggling, took, at | undoubted supremacy over all the last, an upward direction, and nations in the world!-This gutcame foaming out in a grand brag- ling braggery has not, it seems, gery, as follows: The "Lord escaped the French newspapers, Mayor," as they call him, had one of which (the Etoile) has the complimented the Ministers on the following remarks upon it :-"The liberality of their conduct to-"LORD MAYOR gave Mr. CAN wards foreign nations," In an- "NING's health, who, in a short swering this compliment, our flashy" reply, asserted, that England blade said, "That the SUPRE-" was in a state of supremacy, "MACY of this country, with" with regard to other nations, "regard to foreign nations, was so "from which no event could cause completely established, and so "her to descend. The same Mr. universally recognised, that there" CANNING declared some months "was no danger that any thing" before, in a solemn sitting of the "which he and his colleagues "House of Commons, that it could 66 might yield to those nations," not be concealed that since the "would be looked upon as pro- war with Spain, Great Britain: "ceeding from any motive other " had descended to the SECOND "than that of liberality." Aye, "rank among the powers of Eujust as we know that it is not from rope! We should like to know fear, that the grown man suffers" which of the two assertions of the child of three years old to kick "his Excellency we are to behis shins, or thump his knee! And," lieve."--The French are always: so, when we stood still and saw very slow to hurl defiance. They the French enter Spain, occupy seldom let out more than is absoit, and garrison Cadiz and Co-lutely necessary to be let out. This runna, this standing still was not writer could, if he had liked to do to be imputed to our weakness, or it, have told Mr. CANNING pretty fear, but to our well-known "su-nearly how and when his “suprepremacy over France! The macy" would be put an end to în a prime Minister (Liverpool) ex-manner the most complete that pressed his opinion, that the French can be conceived, and the most would fail: and our flashman pub hostile to beardless sea captains licly, in parliament, put up a and to the pimps and bastards of prayer that the French might boroughmongers! But, it is all fail. What, then, here is a devil brag; all big brag; and that, too, of a proof of " acknowledged su- from pure fear and cowardice. premacy"! We pray against the The braggart knows that the French. They go and occupy a country that we pray they may be driven out of in disgrace. We do not stir hand or foot to drive them out. They occupy that country yet. And with this before our eyes, our Foreign Secretary has the impudence-no; the emptiness (that is the word) to proclaim, at the great London guttle, that we hold an

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THING cannot go to war. He
knows that; and he thinks that big
blowsy talk will deceive foreign.
nations at the same time that it
deceives us. He knows that there
is no fight in the THING. If F
had been the French minister. I
would have punished him for this
saucy speech. I would have sent
him a crusty note. He would have

had a fit of the gout in two minutes
after he got it.
In about two
years we shall see where the su-

premacy will be, unless those
changes take place, here and in
Ireland, which to expect would be
to set at defiance all our expe-

rience.

AMERICAN TREES.

THE TRENCHES. It is curious enough, that, while I was, last week, writing to Mr. O'CONNELL about the ASHTOWN TRENCH and his Bible

speech at Southampton, Mr.

O'CONNELL was himself, at that very moment, in public meeting in Dublin, rubbing down, curryIr is my intention to publish, ing pretty well, this same “Trench when I have room, (and it was my family," one of whom, he says, intention to do it here, but I could brought out the JOCELYN not bring myself to leave out the HORSE to disperse the people, other matter,) an account of the when peaceably met for the purLocust Tree as cultivated in pose of petitioning against the France, where there have, within Union. It may not be amiss for a few years, been millions planted. the Bible-people of Southampton Besides this, there is the account to know this.-Another thing; by HUNTER, in EVLYN'S SYLVA. while I was writing to Mr. However, these I must leave for O'CONNELL, and observing to another opportunity; and here say what I have now for sale. The leaves are hardly off; so that there is plenty of time. Locusts, White Oaks,

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him how I rejoiced when CASTLEREAGH cut his throat, and how I loved those of my countrymen who groaned, hissed, and cheered in triumph when his carcass was going into its last hole; just at the time when I was saying this to Mr. O'CONNELL, he was, in Dublin, calling on his countrymen to trample on the grave of CASTLEREAGH"! Apropos: why this CASTLEREAGH was "No Popery" man! Aye, he came in, in 1807, under the cry of" No Popery." I had almost forgotten this. Wonderful were the merits of that Castlereagh! I shall never forget, that, when he came back, after having what was deemed stripped and crippled France for ever; I shall never forget how he was received by clapping of hands and cries and shouts of applause, by the very basest and most corrupt and most unfeeling, and, at the same time, the most stupid crew that God ever suffered to disgrace the earth. The same crew ought all to have

been at his putting into the hole; justice." Why did they dread

and, if they had all taken it into their heads to cut their throats too, what a happy riddance!

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them? I will tell you: because they had plundered them and the poor; and they were afraid that they would take the plunder away. A very sufficient and just cause for dread. Aye, Mr. CHRONICLE, FROM all sources I hear that and be you assured that the the stir in Ireland is great. What same cause of dread still exists.will be done by the THING I do The Chronicle says: "The Renot know. I hardly think that any "formation has been productive thing will be done. The fire-" of the most beneficial effects, shovels will never yield but to" even on Catholics themselves, positive force. To tell them of" for it will be found generally ruin to the country from their" throughout Europe, that the grasping, is to tell them of nothing" Protestants rank higher in the that they care about. The country "intellectual scale than Catholics, with them means what they can "and that the Catholics in the get; or, rather, it means them-" neighbourhood of Protestants selves. What is to them the use" are more intellectual than those of saving the country,, if you, in" at a distance from them." doing it, take away the means of A man must have a pretty good puffing out their cheeks and stock of even Scotch Presbyterian paunches. This must be done, or cast-iron covering to his face, to nothing effectual can be done; assert, in a public print, that an and, to do this, will require a state event which totally ruined the of things that does not yet exist.-Catholics, that put hundreds of There must be a little shaking, a thousands of them to death, and good shock or two, before the fire- that stripped ninety-nine hunshovels will dream of giving way. dreths of them of their estates, was However, all in good time: plenty an event " productive of most be of time before this day five years. neficial effects to them." A pretty Let us have a war, talked of, I good covering of cast-iron it remean; only talked of; and the quires to put this upon paper. fire-shovels will begin to shake. But only think of a Catholic being -The Morning Chronicle has" MORE INTELLECTUAL some odd notions about the Ca- for being" in the neighbourhood tholics. "Our forefathers dreaded of a Protestant"! No matter, I "the Catholics, and with justice. suppose, what sort of Protestant? "Our repealing most of the penal No matter which of the 304 sorts "laws against them, proves that of Protestants? All equally ca"we are no longer under the pable of communicating, by sound "influence of fear."- Indeed! or smell, I suppose, the intellec The repealing took place, how-tualness to the Catholic? Mugever, when the Government had, gletonian, Jumper, Shaker, Freefor its own defence, put arms into thinking Christian, Cameronian, the hands of the Catholics: mind or any thing, no matter, the neighthat! Oh! our 66 forefathers, bouring Catholic must catch the the Protestant ones, to be sure, intellect? Precious nonsense! "dreaded the Catholics, and with But what is that other bold

Protestant Church; and that every publicity should be given to our sentiments when there is found a Committee-man unblushingly to approve what he ought to condemn; I wish to avail myself of the wide circulation of your Register, for the expression of my honest indignation at his Grace's false liberality, and the unfortu nate approval of the Committee. man.

assertion of this writer? That, throughout Europe, "Protestants "rank higher than Catholics in the "intellectual scale."-Now, I am not sure what is here meant by "intellect;" but if the writer mean the scale of knowledge in the arts and sciences; the scale of perfection in what is usually called literature; the scale of perfection in the polite arts: if he mean these, if these be what he mean by intellectual scale, then his as- St. Paul, in the enumeration of sertion is not only false, but noto- his many perils, complains of the riously false, and so perfectly no- perils of false brethren; and of torious, that one wonders how it these, Sir, our little body in this could find its way into the columns part of the kingdom has had but of a public print. Come, kettle too much cause to complain. But of the Carron-Foundry; come, tell be it remembered---and you, Sir, us at once, that MICHAEL ANGE- will no doubt remember---that this LO, RUBENS, TENIERS, CLAUDE, noble Duke was one of the liberal LORRAINE, POUSSIN, and all the three Peers who offered to take rest of them, would have been the oath of supremacy with some much cleverer fellows, much shuffling explanations, which their "more intellectual," if they had bishops by no means considered had the happiness to live in the satisfactory; or, to complete their neighbourhood of those PRO- degradation, in any other form TESTANTS, who annually cram that should please the wisdom of Somerset-house with those nasty, Parliament. Thank God! we fiery red, staring, plastered daubs, were saved from our false brethat make all foreigners laugh, thren, and even their degrading and that would make us hang our offer was scouted by the wisdom of heads, if we were not stuffed with Parliament. We Catholics, howlies by the puffing newspapers. ever, must remember these three; and we shall remember them. Recollecting this, it was no great wonder to me to see the account of the noble Duke's misnamed liberality at the new church affair at Attercliffe. But it was to me, and many Catholics, a subject of deep affliction. If it has not called forth much public notice from our body, I am convinced it has been because we were ashamed for our noble leader; we wished the affair to be hushed up and forgotten--we would not have it told in "Gath, nor published in the streets

DUKE OF NORFOLK. MR. COBBETT,

MAY I solicit a place in your next Number, for a few lines expressive of my feelings on a disgraceful transaction, justly stig matized in your last Register? Conceiving that every Catholic who loves his religion, however deeply humiliated in this country, is bound to censure strongly the false liberality of the Duke of Norfolk in laying the foundation of

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"of Askelon; lest our enemies not omit to mention, that our faith"should rejoice." I was sorry ful champion, Bishop Milner, to that it had not escaped your eye; whose vigilance we owe three esbut, Sir, accept my humble thanks, capes, almost miraculous, from the that when you did speak of it, you fetters prepared for us by false gave it all the censure it richly brethren. Bishop Milner thus. merited. This was doubly valu- expressed his disapprobation in. able, as coming from one not of print. Alluding to this liberality our Communion, and more than of the Duke's, he says, "We we had a right to look for. have had mournful experience You have rightly said, Sir, that that these things have been done this act of the Duke's was of a very" by Catholics. On the other decided character. I scarce know" hand, there are numberless good of any more decided approval "Catholics who declare they are that his Grace could have given," scandalized at their doings, and of all that has been done to de- there are not wanting prelates spoil, and degrade and persecute" who openly condemn them."--us, than to lay the foundation of a Here, Sir, is illustrious authority, temple for the service of those who to which even the Duke of Norhave done, and continue to do, folk, as a Catholic, ought to bow; these things. We are accused of and the Committee-man ought to being illiberal; but did a Protes-know this, and ought to have retant ever call us so, because we refused to build his churches? Did a Protestant ever go so far as to say, We have robbed the "Catholics of their churches and "monasteries, we have hanged "and exiled their clergy, we have degraded their nobility, and dis"franchised their laity, and the "illiberal rascals will not even "help us to establish our church 66 upon the ruins of theirs!" No, Sir, the Duke will never be respected by either party for this. We must be friends with our Protestant neighbours, and I trust we ever shall be; for we are com-without; from Jocelyn-schools and manded to love and forgive our the bible-saints, besides the bayo enemies; but we must be friends nets of Skibbereen and Loughrea; only as far as the altar, amicus ad it is bad enough to have the vile aras. Let us live up to our prin- calumny, the atrocious lie put ciples, and we shall be respected; forth against us in the bigoted St. but away with the liberality which James's Chronicle, that the Pope sacrifices principle and conscience. had published a general pardon I said, Sir, that little public no- for all sins to be committed next tice had been taken of the Duke's year in these realms by Catholics, liberality by our body; but I must and to be reviled as we are on all

membered it before he boasted of this miserable liberality. I have conversed with many of my clerical brethren on this miserable affair, and they have all condemned it. I have found very many of our laity, illustrious ones too, who have as strongly reprobated the Duke's liberality. This may serve, at least, to show that we are not at all like the Committee-man, and God forbid that we should be. He might well conceal his name, but I think we shall find him out. It is bad enough to be sufferers from so many enemies