real of our Prelates, let not our actions betray a childish fear and apprehension that they are not capable of defending their spiritual rights. And while we proclaim our ardent and enthusiastic admiration of the true principles of the British Constitution,. to the participation in which we claim an equal share with our fellow countrymen, let us not raise the jealousy of those who oppose our claims, by violating the principles which we are desirous of maintaining. Such inconsistency will expose us to derision, and frustrate our labours.-Impressed with these sentiments, I solemnly protest as an English Catholic against any deputation to Rome from the Lay Catholics of this kingdom, and shall onclude with expressing my sincere egret that the Irish Association hould conduct themselves so unwiseyas to enable their enemies to make strong charge against them, and thus hrow themselves into the hands of the Orange faction,

appear, feeling himself somewhat chagrined that he cannot aspire, in consequence of professing the creed of his forefathers, to the office of AttorneyGeneral, to which his splendid abilities would do infinite honour, has taken upon himself to become an Accuser-General, in which he displays, equally as much inconsistency, partiality, and rude reproach, as his rival in legal knowledge. -At the late Aggregate Meeting in Dublin, Mr. O'Connell accused Mr. Peel of having grossly traduced him in a privileged assembly, and he further accused the Secretary of State of cowardice, by asserting that " Mr. Peel would not DARE, in his presence, or in any place where he was liable to personal account, use a single expression derogatory to his integrity or his honour."- Surely then if Mr. O'Connell was so feelingly alive to his, own character and good name, he ought not to commit the same error for which he had so strongly censured Mr. Peel; and yet in the very same breath he takes advantage IRISH GRATITUDE TO DR. MILNER. grossly to traduce the Right Reverend This venerable Prelate, who has Agent of the Irish Prelates, before a suffered more for the cause of Ireland public assembly of his lay countrythan any member of the Irish Church; men, and accuses him of unmanly sowho has defended the independency of phistry, as well as a degeneracy of that Church with a zeal and fidelity principle and understanding!-And on unequalled by any other divine; who what does the Irish Accuser-General lantarily undertook a journey to found his charge? Why, truly, a conRome at the hazard of his health and fidential letter written to the Synod, existence to preserve the purity of in which the learned prelate states his the hierarchy, and during his resi- ideas no doubt in the most unreserved dence there combatted single-handed manner, a few sentences of which had the whole phalanx of intrigue and been communicated, I blush to say it, corruption arrayed against him by the by an IRISH BISHOP, to Mr. O'ConVetoists and Seceders, with an inte- nell. But let us hear the charge from grity and conscious rectitude that the mouth of the Accuser himself:gained him the applause of the Holy"The next class in the arrangement of Father, the Cardinals, and other emi- the Veto (says Mr. O'C.) are the nent divines Dr. Milner, because he English Catholic Bishops. First of is an Englishman, has been traduced, all I must mention a name that ought misrepresented, and abused, by the not, perhaps, though it will, surprize great Man of the People, and his cha-you-Dr. Milner. Yes, Dr. Milner racter has been unjustly attacked has performed another truly English merely for exercising the reasoning fa- revolution. He was the first to broach culties of his mind, in the discharge of the Veto: he came to Ireland on a vehis official duties as agent to the Irish toistical mission; the Irish rejected Bishops. Mr. O'Connell, it would the mission and the missionary; he

ture, and murder, called loyalty→ (hear, hear, much applause.) But mark, I pray you, how Dr. Milner treats the other horn of the dilemma.

If (says he) the candidate be a loyal man, and that the British Minister shall strike out his name on a suspicion of his disloyalty, he will have an excellent action at law against the British Minister!!!—(much laugh

then recanted his errors, renounced his fi rst opinions-abjured them; nay, he even denied them, and brought no small discredit on himself by the flat contradictions under which he la boured. We, however, thought his repentance sincere, and leaving him to decide his personal quarrel as he could, sustained him for his anti-vetoistical principle. Well, what has occurred now? Why, this identical Dr. Mil-ing.) Yes, an action at law by an ner has gone round again, and has ac- Irish Parish Priest or Friar against the tually written to the Bishops to accede Prime Minister of England, for exer to Litta's plan of Veto. Milner's cising a discretionary power vested in letter was read at the Synod: it was, him!!! Admirable and sublime reI understand, an official document: medy! Who does not at once see its of its contents I can give you certainly efficacy? Yes, I trust that it is the an abstract, because its contents have intellect, not the integrity of this Pres been communicated to me by one of late, that has been thus affected."our Prelates, whose name, if neces- On reading this charge I pronounced sary, I am at full liberty to use. His it to be glaringly false, and evidently Letter requested of the Bishops to ac- full of misrepresentation; at the same cede to the new plan of Veto. It time. I am free to acknowledge tha stated, that the Government would not I felt the greatest disgust at the pro be satisfied with so little, that it would fuse praises bestowed by the speake require more, and therefore, concluded on the superior characteristical inte the candid Prelate-you may with grity of Irish Catholics, and the pain safety accede to this plan. It will he took to make his hearers believ never be brought into operation, and that political purity and religious zea you will have the grace of shewing are not to be found among us Englis your acquiescence without any danger Catholics, being exclusively the pro to the church. (Laughing.)—Such perty of "The Emerald Isle."-Thi was the flimsy and unmanly sophistry however I deny, and am inclined te by which he attempted to conciliate suppose that the national vanity of Mac the Irish Bishops. But well knowing O'Connell obscured his intellectual that there was something in the Irish faculties at the time he was uttering understanding that would scorn such this charge, or else he never would advice, he proceeded to state, and to have entertained his hearers with such solve the following ingenious dilemma a tissue of folly and falsehood.-Now, "Either (says his Letter) the Can-in the first place, the passages didate for Episcopacy in Ireland will Mr. O'Connell has attempted to give be disloyal or he will not be disloyal. as the sentiments of Dr. Milner are If he be disloyal, we would all (con- so contrary to the character and opi tinues Dr. Milner) be rejoiced that he nions which the venerable Prelate has lost the Bishopric."--Now I beg just maintained through a long and ardu to enquire the meaning of the word ous controversy on the subject of the disloyalty. In this country it gene- Veto, that it is evident they were rally means disinterested attachment used, if they are correctly given, for to the rights and liberty of Ireland. the contrary purposes to which the The more honest, zealous, and pure Accuser-General has interpreted them, is the love of any man for his native in the same manner as an Attorneyland, the more certain he is of being General will endeavour to misrepre charged with disloyalty whilst on the sent the abstract opinions of a writer other hand we see plunder, and tor-in cases of libel. For example, if

which

Mr. O'Connell will turn to the first by the flat contradictions under which volume of The Orthodox Journal, hehe laboured. It is certainly very easy will find at the bottom of the first co- for Mr. O'Connell to make these aslumn of page 177, that the passage sertions, but it is not so easy for him which he last quoted as Dr. Milner's to establish their veracity. Dr. Milremedy against disloyalty, did not ori- ner did not broach the Veto; the Veto uate with the Doctor, but with an was agreed to by Irish Bishops long IRISHMAN, who was under the pu- before Dr. Milner ever noticed the pilage of the Prime Minister of the Eng- subject. This assertion is therefore lish Board; and he will also find that false. Dr. M. certainly may be said his condemnation of Dr. Milner's sup- to have renewed the measure in 1808, posed remedy was nearly the same as but he was guided on this occasion by that used by the Right Rev. Prelate the purest intentions, nor can his enetwo years ago, upon his countryman's mies prove him to have been influenced foolish observation.-To save trouble by any other desire than that of disto my readers, I will give the extract interestedly endeavouring to advance which is taken from Dr. Milner's ac- the cause of Catholic Emancipation. count of his Expulsion from the Ca- For this, however, he had to sustain tholic Board: A pupil of Mr. C. the most gross and seurrilous attacks Butler, Mr. B. (for in England even of vulgar and anonymous scribblers some Irishmen support Mr. Butler) in the Irish Press, and he fought his declared that he, this Mr. Butler, own battles, as he had done before, had given an opinion that an action single-handed, with a zeal and intewould lie against the Secretary of grity which will hand his name down State and his colleagues, for refusing to posterity, as one of the ablest schoa certificate to an Episcopal candidate lars of his age, a patriotic and disinwithout sufficient cause.' But, (says terested divine, and an HONEST Dr. Milner) will Mr. Butler support ENGLISHMAN. He was, if I rewith his long purse a poor clergyman collect right, accused of a desire to in any action whatever against the Se- sell the Irish Church, but the accusacretary of State? Will he undertake tion was never established; and he to manage any action, where, in con- was accused of having acceded to a sequence of legal oaths of secresy, no measure which was unjustifiable in a evidence can be obtained? Besides, Catholic Prelate. This latter charge what a farce is it to talk of a Priest's he defeuded, and shewed that the prosecuting the Secretary, when, in grant of a limited Veto was not inconthe first instance, the Secretary has sistent with the principles of the Casent him off to Botany Bay!"-Now tholic Church; but when the Irish is it not evident to every unbiassed Prelates resolved in solemn synod that mind that the Right Rev. Prelate, in it was inexpedient to alter the discistating his sentiments to the synod, pline of their Church, like the hum must use this Irish idea to illus-ble Prelate and the faithful agent of trate the danger of vetoism and the his venerable Brothers, he adopted views which the supporters of that their opinion and retracted his former measure entertain as to its merits.- sentiments, with a sincerity which Mr. O'Connell likewise asserts that does equal honour to his heart as an the venerable Prelate was the first to Englishman and a Bishop. As to the broach the Veto, and that he went on Right Rev. Prelate's denying his opia vetoistical mission to Ireland -- that nion, the charge is too gross, 100 inthe Irish rejected him—that he then famous, to be entertained even for a recanted his errors, renounced his moment, although it comes from the first opinions that he abjured them; mouth of Mr. O'Connell. But has nay he even DENIED them, and Mr. O'Connell never exercised the brought no small discredit on himself practice of denial? Did not Mr

defending than any other individual | the letter, addressed to the Prelates, whomsoever) namely, that IT IS NOT would have a more satisfactory effect; EXPEDIENT TO ALTER THE and as matters have gone so far, we DISCIPLINE OF THE CATHO- must consider it absolutely necessary ILIC CHURCH OF IRELAND, for the vindication of Dr. Milner's they, at the self-same time, resolved character, that the facts should be fulthat I had given a satisfactory expla-ly and fairly stated. He gives his asnation with respect to my conduct at that period, and was entitled to their thanks.

We

sent to the publication of that letter; and, as no other person can have any controul over it, we can see no diffi"With still greater injustice does culty in his accomplishing such a dethe eloquent Orator charge me, in the sire, if he really entertains it. face of the Catholic world, with hav- cannot abstain from adding, that the ing gone over to Ireland on a Vetoisti-information conveyed by Mr. O'Concal Mission, adding, that Ireland re-nell to the Aggregate Meeting, corjected the Missionary and the Mis- responded precisely with that which sion, that I repented, &c. with other we had previously received from sevecircumstances perfectly fabulous. Sir, ral highly exalted and dignified indiI am bold to say, and I challenge con- viduals; and we certainly cannot be tradiction, if fair proof, and not seduced, by any loose inexplicit refegroundless conjectures, are to be ad- rence to the circumstance, from a conmitted in evidence, that I never had fidence in the accuracy of our authobut two Missions in my life, one from rity. We look forward therefore to God to preach his Gospel, the other an opportunity of giving publicity to was from the Irish Prelates to guard the original Letter, which we would the purity and independency of their gladly insert, as we would be not only holy Church. No, Sir, I did not go disposed but anxious to correct any to Ireland in 1808, sent, commissioned, misunderstanding, relative to a Presupported, or encouraged by any man, late, whom we had hitherto been acand I am convinced that no friend of customed to consider worthy of pub any kind of Veto previously knew of lic attachment. If however it should my intention of going thither-I went be resolved that his Letter should confor the sole purpose of complying tinue to be suppressed; we cannot with the pressing invitation of my ever shut our eyes to the deductions which Jamented friend, Dr. Moylan, who all other persons will draw from such wished me to be present at the open- a determination. We rather think ing of his New Chapel, at Cork. that the Right Reverend Prelate assumes a little too much when he imagines that it was the intention of the Irish Prelates, to include his conduct in the present instance, in the vote of thanks.-They thanked his Lordship for his conduct on his Mission to Rome, and it is manifest that his Letter, which is now the subject of general conversation, formed no part whatever of that conduct, and therefore could not have been referred to in the vote of thanks.

"I am,
&c. J. MILNER, D.D.
"September 6."

On the very day which the above letter appeared in the paper, Sept. 11, the Editor prefixed to it the annexed admirable head-piece:

"The following has been transmitted to us for publication; we readily comply with the desires of the Right Reverend Author that we should insert it. We feel, however, much pain in being compelled to add, that it does not appear to us by any means calculated to remove any impression which Mr. O'Connell's speech had made. Perhaps the publication of

"The language used by Dr. Milner, when speaking of Mr. O'Connell, appears to us equally unwarranted by facts, and unworthy of his high sta tion. There is not a man living to