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A LETTER from Rome, datid being truly interesting, their scoles,

July 18th, states, that the Minister of Austria to the Court of Rome dispatched, in the night of the 13th, couriers to Bologna, Ancona, Beneventum, and Ponte Corvo, with instructions to the Governors and Intendants General of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, in the Legations, the Marches, and Principalities of Beneventuni and Ponte Corvo, to deliver them to the Commissioners appointed by the Sovereign Pontiff. Thus the Holy See will be reinstated in the possession of all the countries which constituted the estates of the Church, before the invasion of Italy by the French.

being filled with resolutions, speeches, and essays, on the state of affairs in that mis-governed and persecuted country, which for brilliancy of wit, force of reasoning, eloquence of lan guage, and genuine sentiments of patriotism, far surpass any thing of the kind ever witnessed in this braggart and boasting "land of light and li berty." From the confined limits of this work, it will be impossible to enter into a full detail of the proceed. ings which have taken place, and it is therefore hoped the following concise and chronological narrative will prove acceptable to the readers of the Or thodox Journal. On the 9th inst. a The Pope has written to the King most numerous and very respectable of Spain, to invite him to restore the meeting of the Catholics of Cork was order of the Jesuits in his kingdom, held in the South Parish Chapel, which as a necessary measure for the main- was attended by several Protestant tenance of religion, the reformation gentlemen.-At this meeting, besides of morals, and the progress of the a resolution to address the Regent, sciences.-In consequence of this ap- and the usual votes of thanks to Lord plication, the Supplement to the Ma-Donoughmore and Sir H. Parnell, and drid Gazette of the 30th of May last, their other Protestant friends, the fol contains a decree of Ferdinand for the following were unanimously agreed restoration of the colleges, convents, upon :and houses to the Order, an extract from which shall appear next month.

In consequence of the Letter from Cardinal Litta to Dr. Troy respecting the intention of his Holiness to sanction some Vetoistical arrangements with the Government of this country in the future nominations of the English and Irish Catholic Prelates, the most determined spirit has been shewn,

and the most active exertions have been made by the Irish people, both Clergy and Laity, to counteract the evil effects which must inevitably follow this ill-advised measure, and to preserve the independence and integrity of the fairest portion of the Catholic Church in the universe. For the last fortnight the Irish papers have

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That the frequent Discussion of our great National Question, both in and out of Parlia ment, has at all times been productive of the most signal Advantages to our Cause-before it Prejudice has vanished, Intolerance been hold. And unalterably impressed with these dispelled, and Bigotry driven from its last sentiments, and the eternal justice of our Rights, we will continue to Petition the Le gislature Session after Session for the redress length accomplished that great and impor of our grievances, until we shall have at tant object, the unqualified Emancipation of the Catholic People of Ireland.

That being aware of the active intrigues of our enemies, and being perfectly convinced, by the repeated declarations of our Venera ble Prelates, that the Ecclesiastical arrangements, so frequently sought, and so often condemned, would be destructive to our religion and, knowing ourselves that they would tend to injure our Civil Liberties, we therefore intreat our respected Bishops to continue to as

sist us in our r unabating opposition to those arrangements, which, if carried into effect, would create the estrangement of the flock from their pastors, would be destructive to our Church, and would materially tend to increase the undue influence of the Crown.

dented in the annals of civilized legislation, for the injustice of its policy and the rigour of its enactments, we never shall desist from the constitutional assertion of our claims before Parliament, until we shall have obtained the full and unqualified restoration of our rights,

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On the 11th inst. The Dublin ChroThat, in the honest spirit of Irish Roman nicle published a letter, signed "A Catholics, and as citizens wishing and deserv Cork Catholic," addressed to the ing to be free, we abhor and reject, with Right Rev. Dr. Murphy, Catholic indignation and from principle, the apprehenPrelate of Cork, calling upon the Ve- Pension for the Irish Roman Catholic Clergy ded measures of Veto Arrangements, and nerable Bishop to publish the letter of convinced, as we are, that the adoption of the late highly-respected and truly such measures, by throwing an unconstitu virtuous Patriarch, Dr. Moylan, to a tional mass of influence into the hands of the Crown, would, ere long, strangle the survivPrelate at Rome, containing the senti- ing remnant of civil liberty in this country, ments of that eminent Divine on the and effectually destroy the Roman Catholic subject of the Veto. This requestReligion in Ireland, by depriving a pensioned meeting with the approbation of Dr. Clergy of the confidence of their flocks. Murphy, the Cork Chronicle of the 18th inst. contained the following Extract of a Letter from the Right Rev. Doctor Moylan to a Prelate in Rome, dated Cork, December 7, 1814.

My Dear Friend and Honoured Lord,

As the time approached for holding the Synod, to which the Prelates were summoned on the 23d, the zeal and activity of the second order of the Clergy, and the Laity redoubled. "I am the oldest of the Catholic Prelates The Rev. Dr. Murphy, of Kilcock, in this kingdom, and expect soon to appear delivered to the Right Rev. Dr. Corbefore the awful tribunal of the Almighty coran, elect of Kildare and Leighlin, Judge, in whose sacred presence I solemnly declare, that any compromise made, or cona communication from the Catholic troul whatever given to our Protestant Go-Clergy of that diocese, in which they vernment or Ministers, in the appointment or expressed, in the most ardent terms, nomination of the Catholic Bishops or Clergy their wish rather to endure the griev Pof this kingdom, or any interference whatsoances of increased persecution than to ever, or influence over them, in the exercise of their Spiritual functions, will eventually submit to any arrangement which lead to THE SUBVERSION OF OUR VENERABLE would grant to the Crown or to its HIERARCHY, and in consequence to the RUIN Ministers a right of interference, di OF TH CATHOLIC RELIGION in this long suffering and oppressed Catholic Country. It rect or indirect, in the appointment of Would most certainly cause the greatest dis- the Irish Catholic Prelates, or which satisfaction in the minds of the Catholic Body, would make the Clergy Pensioners of lessen their attachment and respect to the the Crown. The Catholic Clergy of Holy See, and by degrees dispose them for every bad change. But under our present Dublin also entered into a strong reenlightened and most venerable Pontiff, we monstrance against every such arhave nothing to apprehend. The Almighty rangement. The Catholic Associa God has preserved him from his enemies, and tion met daily, and Parochial Meetings restored him to his Church, for its support and the glory of his own holy name. Could I were called in Dublin by the Laity to presume, through you, my dear and honoured protest against a measure so destrucLord, to present the sincere homage of my tive of their religious independence heart to the Holy Father, prostrate most hum- and civil rights. On the 21st, the folbly at his sacred feet, I kiss them with all reverence, respect, and affection, and on my lowing Resolutions were agreed to by knees I most benediction, &c. &c.", earnestly supplicate his paternal the Association : That a Committee of five be appointed to On the 20th, the Catholics of Kil-wait upon the Most Rev. and Right Rev. the kenny held an Aggregate Meeting, at Catholic Prelates of Ireland, and to lay bewhich the two following, among many fore them, in the most respectful manner, the other Resolutions, were adopted: That feeling the sore and galling operation of an excluding code of Penal Laws, unprece

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several Resolutions entered into by the Catholic Body, expressive of their hostility to

any interference on the part of the Crown, or the Servants of the Crown, in the nomination

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or appointment of the Catholic Bishops in | bled, and adopted the following Re

Ireland.

Thatan Aggregate Meeting of the Catholics of Ireland be held in Dublin, on Tuesday the 29th inst. to take into consideration the measures most useful, under the pressure of present circumstances, towards obtaining Unqualified Emancipation.

The next day the Association resolved as follows:

solutions :

That having reason to apprehend that an effort has been made by some intriguing and treacherous conspirators against the Irish Ca tholic Church, to surrender our holy Religion into the power of her enemies, and to disturb and destroy the peace of the Catholic Body of Ireland, by obtaining for the most distin guished and most determined opponents of our Religion, a right of controul over the ap

That the following Gentlemen be appointment of our Prelates, pointed to form the Committee, to wait on the Catholic Prelates of Ireland, viz. Owen O'Conor, Edward Sheridan, M. D. Nicholas Mahon, Daniel O'Connell, and Eneas M'Donnell, Esqrs.

That our Deputation be instructed to enquire in the most respectful manner of the Most Reverend and Right Reverend the Catholic Prelates of Ireland, the nature and particulars of any communication from his Holiness the Pope, or by his authority, rela tive to the vesting in the Crown any controul over the nomination or appointment of Bishops, and in particular, the contents of a letter written by Cardinal Litta, at Genoa, in April last, and directed to the Most Rev. Dr. Troy.

That the Deputation be also directed to solicit from our venerated Prelates information as to the fact, whether there be a Catholic Church recognized at Rome, as existing in Ireland; or if Ireland be considered in any, and in what respect, as a Missionary Country.

The same day the Catholics of St. James's Parish, Dublin, met in their Chapel, and agreed as follows:

Resolved, That we view with the deepest regret the renewed discussion of the Veto,-a measure which we fondly hoped would never again be agitated, after it repeatedly met the reprobation of the Catholic voice of Ireland.

Resolved, That we now again renew the expression of our detestation of this pernicious measure, and, influenced by the duties which we owe our Religion, our Country, and our Children, we thus publicly supplicate our venerable Prelates to tranquillize the public mind, so deeply agitated, and by their final and explicit condemnation of every species of Veto, to preserve to us unimpaired that for which our forefathers died, and for which, like them, we are ready to sacrifice "our properties, nay, our very lives.

We, the Parishioners of Saint Michael and Saint John, feel it our duty to declare, in the awful presence of our God, that no consi deration whatsoever shall ever induce us to submit to such a diabolical and disastrous compromise of our holy Religion, for any temporal advantage of our own, and much

less of the Court of Rome; but resolved ra ther to sacrifice property, liberty, and life it. self, than to survive the illustrious and vene rated ecclesiastical inheritance which ha been preserved at such hazard, and in despite of such precautions, by our ancestors; it is our fixed and unalterable determination to stand to its protection to the last, and to treat as delusive or hypocritical, every advice which shall recommend to us to submit to such an ignoble and irreligions coercion.

That the Catholics of Ireland, having a jut and undoubted right to political relief from the operations of the disgraceful code in embodied, we never can or will admit, that which the ordinances of their persecution are from us any concession of religious feeling, the Minister of the Crown can justly require the price of our Emancipation; on the con trary, even were this claim of right doubtful, been raised, and the blood that has been shed still could we refer to the millions which have by Catholic Ireland in defence of Protestant England, as constituting an abundant claim to the gratitude and generosity of our Gover nors, and therefore a sufficient title for Ema cipation, altogether exclusive of our rightful demand.

That although we feel perfectly satisfied of our utter inability to give expression to the sentiments of esteem, confidence, respect, gratitude, and attachment, which we en tertain towards our venerated Pastor, the we cannot

Rev. Dr. BLAKE, nevertheless,
consent to separate this day, without enter
ing into this declaration, that it would be our
wish to speak of his virtues and of our grati
tude in terms of simple sincerity. We feel
towards him every sentiment which the most
wish which the most pious devotion can ex
ardent admiration can inspire, and every
cite:-Blessed by his care, favoured by his

Resolved, That our most grateful thanks are due to our respected and beloved Pastor, the Rev. Dr. Lube, for his ready compliance with our request, that he would accommodate us with the use of his Chapel to hold the pre-love, instructed by his advice, and cherished sent Meeting, and that we consider his conduct on the present important occasion an additional proof of the justice of his claims upon our confidence and esteem.

The Catholic Parishioners of St. Michael and St. John likewise assem

by his protection, we look up to him with mingled emotions of respect, gratitude, and affection, and will transmit to our posterity titude may provide a reward which we are the recollection of his name, that their gra incompetent to complete,

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That the pious and unpensioned labours of our Pastors, have created a mutual confi dence and dependance between them and their flocks, which has been productive of the most beneficial results to our Religion, and to the peace of the country. project of giving to the Servants of the Crown a Veto, or the appointment of our Bishops; an innovation tending, as we con ceive, to the degradation of our Priesthood, and the destruction of that confidence now so justly reposed in them by the People, and leading to the subversion of the Catholic Religion in this country.

That we view with borror the rumoured

The Catholics of St. Michan's Parish, also met on the same day, and agreed to similar Resolutions as were entered into by the parishioners of St. James's.

These Resolutions were all ordered to be conveyed to the Bishops in the most respectful manner.

In the afternoon of this day the Association met at four o'clock to receive the Report of their deputation. The Rooms were unusually crowded, and Owen O'Conor, Esq. being call

Mr. O'Conor, Chairman of the deputation, advanced towards the table, placed before the President, and adddressed the Primates and Prelates assembled, stating, that the public mind being most deeply interested, and anxiously engaged, in the subject now under their Lordships' consideration, the Catholic Association felt it their and duty to lay before the Synod the offi. cial instruments which expressed the public sense and feeling. It was the ever wish of the Association to adopt the to course which would be esteemed the most respectful towards their Lord. chips, and they would regret sincerely they had not succeeded in selecting ere such a course. Mr. O'Conor then read the Resolutions adopted by the Asso-ed to the Chair, stated, that the De tiation at their Meetings of yesterday putation waited upon the Prelates on and Monday, which the venerable the day before, and were received in Members of the Synod heard with the the most gracious and affectionate has greatest attention.arbounds manner. The several Resolutions had been laid before their Lordships, and the reply of that venerable Body was communicated by one of their Lordships in person, which he was satisfied must be felt as a proof of their dispo sition to meet the wishes of the Asso ciation, in the most friendly and conciliatory spirit. Mr. O'Conor called upon his friend, Mr. O'Connell, to state to the meeting the nature of the reply which had been received, and for himself he would only say, that it ap peared most satisfactory and conclus sive.

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Mr. O'Connell begged leave to add, that this information was sought for by the Laity merely to regulate their Own conduct; that nothing could be farther from their intention than any Species of interference with the duty of the Prelates; on the contrary, they approached the Synod on a subject Postinteresting to the feelings of every Irishman, with sentiments of respect and confidence, and would await the reply in the same spirit.

The Primate stated, that the Synod would immediately take the communi cation into consideration, and send their reply as soon as it should be agreed on.

The deputation then withdrew. On Thursday, the 24th, the Cas tholics of St. Andeen's Parish, Dub ling met and resolyed,

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Mr. O'Connell stated it was his duty now to report to the Association the reply of the Catholic Prelates, to the communication made by their com¦ mittee the communication had been verbal, and the reply was of course verbal also he therefore found that