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e same to the I*rotesiant two other afternoons. Now this i« certainty equity, whatever eke it be ; it is most certainly dealing it with a fair hand brtwo^a Catholic and Protestant ; and, if adopted, it will ino,st certainly put it for ever (o rc*t, whether this country regards the questions of the Refox* mation to be more than idle tales. To eramine this scheme of education, I undertake not, leaving it to tell the tsle ot iu o«-n wi^edom or folly J and I have but introduced it in passingi to VILJ IKCLASKt^S KVIL C(JlKDlTJtf», 1293 -shew that it is no qoeBtion concemtDg seats iit ParliamcDt, or offices in the army and navy, thatu DOW Qt issue ; but whether tbe Catholic rcJigioa is DOtpto uUiDtentsand purposes, Osgood, nghteoufi, and crediUbtc a thing in a state as the Rcfonned. Ah, thou wretched Church of Ireland! to hare permitted this to be a question, thou atiKe of idle- DeEft, thou that hast beea an iocubuB upon the brea^ of the people sleeping the sleep of death, thou dcservest no better, and canst hardly expect any better, for thy coiidiK:t for a century, than to be tn*ali;d asDohc;ttcr, if not wont, lliunthc idulatry and abomination itself. Thou shouldst hare made it apparent to the blindest, n» the Church of Scotland bath, that there is ami^hty difference between a superstition and a religion to tbe well* being of a^tate. But so it is with thee; our liberal mtm puckin^ at thee, and seeking to sjiuil thee of thy wealth and pos*>essions, which tliou h ant too much loved ; to deprive thee of the children over whom thou wast long a^ established the nursing mother; and to raise to the level of thy dignity that base idolatry and superstition, for the extinc- tion uf which thou wastestablinhed, and hant been Sf> long maiatnined. I have little lit-dtrt io defend thee, thou worthless, fruitless sister; and were more willing to blame and censure thee, as the most unworthy of the Protestant family ; but that 1 perceive in thee repentance for thy backshdings, and the manifestation of a great zt'al in behalf of llM«e idolaters whom thou hast so long neglected. But even though thou wert but a leafless, sapless stump, methjuks thou wert a less encumbrance than the upas-tree of the spiritual world, which thc«ie husbandmen of the state arc so fond to il234 IRCLAKD'i KTIL COKDtTloy, fZl&. praifie and to dcfeod from injury, and to water And to cultivate. I do coivudor ull Lhe^e scbenes which are breir- wf; ID tlie luiudft of our liberal polilicuiDS, to be engendered partly of the niatt^ron; if^TKirancd with respect t