Popish Bishops who were denying books, documents, and principles on their oaths-were at that moment illustrating the blackest exhibition of the books, and principles, and documents they were denying by the grossest prevarications, falsehood, and perjury:

If it could have been demonstrated, that at the time they were denying before your Committees, for example, that a Bible, with notes inculcating the murder of Protestants as heretics, was in circulation among the Roman Catholics, under the authority of any Priest or Bishop, it was at that moment in circulation under the very authority of the man who was denying it, and of all his brother Bishops of most influence and power in Ireland:

If it could have been demonstrated, that while they were denying the very existence of the third canon of the Fourth Lateran Council, and trying to cast a doubt on the fact of its having ever been enacted, they were actually inculcating on the candidates for the office of priests, in the College supported by the Government, the identical canon which they were denying, and that it was authoritatively recognised and inculcated in the decretals of that very Council which every beneficed Priest in Ireland is sworn to obey:

If it could have been demonstrated, that while they were denying the existence of a certain bull, called the Bulla Cœnæ Domini, as of any force in this country, in which a sentence of formal excommuni-cation is pronounced against all heretical princes and other heretical powers, and all other heretics, by the Pope, they had this same bull not only authoritatively recognised as of universal and perpetual obligation in their standard authorities, for the instruction of the students in Maynooth, but it was actually briefed in the Manual, which was not only read in their colleges, but which was the universal conference-book for their Priests, and by which those Priests were to direct the consciences of the poor unfortunate people committed to their charge:

If it could have been demonstrated that, while they were denying the power of the Pope within these realms, they were actually inculcating doctrines of such deep sedition, that it was clear, from them, they only wanted and waited for the opportunity to undermine and supersede the authority of the British Sovereign in this empire:

If it could have been demonstrated that the declaration and oath of the Irish Bishops so pompously obtruded on the nation to gain the confidence of the Protestants, was only one black proof of all the treachery and falsehood which it professed to abjure:-if all this, I say, my Lord Duke, could have been demonstrated to the British Parliament, I would not insult your Grace, by asking if you would have conceded political power to Popery, for I know you would rather have laid down your life upon the threshold of the Protestant Constitution. But I will ask your Grace, if you think there was one man of any politics, Whig, Radical, or Revolutionist, who would have dared to lift his voice within the precincts of the British senate, and propose that men should be admitted to political power, who were the slaves of a system of tyranny, and treachery, and treason, such as this?

But now, my Lord Duke, to come closer to the point, let me

humbly ask your Grace, if, after political power had been granted to Popery, the Popish Hierarchy and the Papal Court have proceeded from theory to practice-if not only have they held these atrocious principles, but if, since power was given them they have erected those principles into laws

If they have published in Ireland, for the secret instruction of their Priests, a code of Papal statutes never before published but in the Papal States

If they have introduced these laws into Ireland not only to guide the Priests themselves, but that the Priests may make those laws the guides for the consciences of the people

If they have actually by name published every single obnoxious statute which they had by name abjured (as not in force, because it was not published) both in their examination before the Parliamentary Committees, and before the Commissioners of Education at Maynooth

If they have published the third canon of the Fourth Lateran Council for the extermination of the Protestants of Ireland

If they have published a bull of Pope Benedict XIV. for the entire restitution of Protestant property

If they have published the bull of universal excommunication against the Sovereign of England, and all the estates of the realm, being Protestant

If they have published bulls of the darkest ages of Papal cruelty for putting heretics not only to death, but to torture, by the Inquisition

If they have published a bull empowering certain privileged persons to grant pardons for all treasons, murders, and crimes whatsoever that may be committed, public and private—

If, in short, they have practically outstripped in the actual statutes which they have published all the crimes and cruelties and atrocities that ever their most inveterate opponents had anticipated—

If we can prove on their own testimony that the very fact of publication of their bulls among their priesthood gives to them the force of laws binding on their consciences, and to be made by them binding on the consciences of the people

If, to crown all, they have published a decretal, bringing the whole spiritual power of the Church of Rome to bear on enforcing obedience to the orders of the Pope in this country, denouncing with excommunication and suspension from orders and offices, and with the brand of infamy, all who dare to resist, or to countenance those who resist, the mandates of the Court of Rome; so that, in fact, my Lord Duke, the laws of the Queen of England are but a mere contemptible nullity, and her power a mere shadow of authority over the body of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, whom the spiritual authority and power of the Papacy can influence and govern—

If, I say, my Lord Duke, all these facts can be so demonstrated as to be wholly incapable of refutation, so that no man can be so blinded or infatuated as to doubt them, then, my Lord Duke, permit me, with all respect, to ask your Grace, what is to be expected at the hands of

those statesmen who have given political power to Popery in this country, and to whom are the Protestants of Ireland to look as their protector?

At present, my Lord Duke, it would be presumptuous in me to anticipate your Grace's decision when you read this letter, as I trust it shall promptly meet your eye. I take the liberty of addressing you merely on matters of fact. You demand proof.

Then, my Lord Duke, I assert before the British empire that every syllable of this letter, and far more, is not only true but capable of demonstration. I am, my Lord, a poor and humble individual: I have, I trust, in my blessed Redeemer, a well-founded hope in the life to come; in this I have but one small treasure, but it is my all-my character as a man, and still more as a minister of Christ. I stake that character, my Lord Duke, upon this letter. I see, through a criminal policy, of which it were not fit to speak as I feel, in addressing your Grace, ruin-no less than ruin impending over my Protestant brethren, and over the laws, the liberties, and the religion of my country. I stake, then, I say, my all upon the die, and I pledge myself, before my country, my character as a man-I pledge my character as a minister of Christ—that if your Grace will summon me to the bar of the House of Lords, and give me plain unfettered liberty of speech, that I will lay upon their Lordships' bar facts, documents, and proofs-which are in my hands, and which defy the powers of human talent or Papal falsehood to refute-which shall establish and lodge for ever on the records of the British Parliament the facts I state in this letter. If I might dare to ask a favour to give additional validity to the demonstration, it were this,—that if the Parliamentary power of their Lordships' House extends so far, they would command the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin, Mr. Daniel O'Connell, to appear at their Lordships' bar to refute, if he is able, the statements laid before them; or if it is not within their province to command his attendance, that their Lordships would signify their good pleasure if he ventures to attend.

I have the honour to be,
MY LORD Duke,

Your Grace's most obedient and very

humble Servant,

R. J. M'GHEE,

Minister of Harold's-cross Church,
in the city of Dublin.

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