the highest importance; but whether the unqualified admiffion of Roman Catholics to political power, which they folicit, and which is fo improperly called emancipation, be the means of obtaining the object fo much defired, has been queftioned upon grounds, which the advocates of that measure will not eafily remove. The author before us has at

tempted this talk with a moderation, generally fpeaking, in his language, and an ingenuity in his arguments that undoubtedly claim attention. His propofal refpecting tithes, fo far as it applies to the leafing of them with the land, and fettling the amount by an arbitration, may poffibly be an useful and practicable expedient for preventing the difpures and animofities which are faid to arife on that fubject in Ireland; nor do we conceive that a legislative provifion for the Roman Catholic clergy in that kingdom would, under proper regulations, be found impracticable or dangerous; but his opinion, that tithes fhould bear the burden of fuch a provifion in a greater proportion than the profit rent of land, is, we think, highly objectionable; though our limits will not permit of our entering into the argument. The author, however, who refers to a former work, seems at laft, though reluctantly, to yield to the general fentiment which oppofed this favourite measure.

On the fubject of what he calls "Catholic Emancipation," he argues at great length, ftating the leading tenets of the church of Rome, in order to fhow that they have not, in a moral or political view, any dangerous tendency, and that "religious tenets have not placed an infurmountable barrier in the way of that harmony which fhould fubfift between Catholic and Proteftant." He gives a fhort hiftory of the Pontificate, in order to prove that the caufes which once rendered its power fo formidable no longer exit. This may, in fome degree, be true; but if, as the author juftly obferves, the Emperor Conftantine committed an error "fatal to the peace of the Chriftian community, by making the fpiritual independent of the temporal power in the ftate," how are we, fhould we (as the author propofes) revive that erroneous fyftem, to be fecured from many, if not all, its mifchievous confequences?

That the doctrinal errors of the Romish Church might be harmlefs as to political effects, would perhaps be true, if the fpirit which animated that church in many countries (and in none more than Ireland) were, as the author fuppofes, extinguifhed. But the contrary too plainly appears from various proofs, and even from the late publications of their moft eminent divines; in whose writings the fpirit of aggrandizement, of profelytifm, and of hoftility to the national church, is manifeft, although it was peculiarly their intereft at the prefent juncture to conceal them. But on this part of the fubject, and indeed on the general queftion, we cannot do better than to refer our readers to the temperate and judicious tract called *Catholic Emancipation; in which the expediency of the measure fo ftrongly preffed by this writer, is very ably combated, and the mifchiefs likely to enfue from it, ftrikingly pointed out.

* See Brit. Crit. for Feb. 1805. P. 157.

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The remaining part of the work before us is employed in obferva tions on the opinions of Dr. Duigenan, who, though a powerful, is certainly not always the moft judicious advocate against the Catholic claims; and, by the frequent ufe of intemperate expreffions, has laid himself open to many attacks. The question, however, is not whether the civil broils and maffacres, fo frequent in the hiftory of Ireland, may not have arifen in part from political, as well as religi ous motives? But whether there is not, from that hiftory, fufficient ground to believe that Proteftants and Catholics, in Ireland, could not poffibly be brought cordially and peaceably to unite in the participation of political power? An Addrefs to Parliament, which this author propofes fhould be figned by the Proteftants, in behalf of the Cathofic claims, feems to conclude this work. As our copy wants a few pages at the end, we have only feen the first page of it; which is in very bombaft and inflated language; and addreffes the Parliament (improperly called Imperial) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in terms too nearly resembling the Addresses to the mock Legiflators of France.

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