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exclusion .. of Catholics from . all desirable offices and situations . Whatever was not already com . prehended by the laws stated in the foregoing chapters , whethtr as to power , patronage , profit or
honours , is carefully gleaned together and compiled in this class of proscription . Hence , it is so far from being true , as has been studiously propagated , ihat there now remain besides seats in
Parliament , only 30 or 40 offices forbidden to the Catholics , that this assertion may with perfect truth be inverted ; for , in fact , not more than 30 or forty offices ( nay , not so many ) are really accessible to Catholics \ tender the present laws and , spirit of government .
We shall proceed to our enumeration of the offices not already classed or specified , viz . "Lord Lieutenant , Lord Deputy , or other Governor of Ireland . . i Lord H igh Treasurer , or Lords of *
Treasury ... 8 Custodes Rotulorum of Counties 32 Governors of Counties ( present number ) . - . . . 85 Privy Counsellors ( present number ) 90 Postmasters General ... 2 Chancellor of the Exchequer . . 1
Secretary of State . . . . l Vice Treasurer . . . . 1 Teller or Cashier of the Exchequer 1 Keeper of the Privy Seal ... 1 Auditors General ... . .. 2 Provost of Dublin University . . 1 Fellows of the University ... 22 Offices 248
The foregoing list of offices and situations of trust , emolument or dignity , from which the Catholics are excluded by the express letter of the law , comprises about 248 in number . The Catholics , being thus disqualified from those remaining
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offices , are consequently excluded from all the subordinate situations dependant upon these offices : such as those of deputies , secretaries , treasurers , agents , clerks , &c . &c . and all their lucrative
and valuable establishments . These are all rigidly Protestant ; and their respective preferences , patronage , favour and assistance incline , naturally , towards their Protestant friends and connections .
Throughout the entire Post Office establishment in Ireland , for instance , consisting of several hundred persons , there is scarcely
a single Catholic to be found in a higher situation than that of a common letter-carrier ; and few of even this class . The like may be affirmed concerning all the other
. public boards and establishments of Ireland . Yet the far greater proportion of their salaries and emoluments is extracted from the labours and contributions of the Catholics .
RETROSPECT . An Appeal to Reason and Feeling , on behalf of the Irish Catholics . If there be any candid man , who may be inclined to question this statement as highly coloured , or to view this Anti-Catholic code
with indifference , we invite him to the unerring test of reason and feeling : and weintreathimforamoment to imagine the case of the Catholic to be his own . —Let him suppose himself to be so branded and
incapacitated , as is here shewn \ to be set aside and stigmatized by the constitution as unworthy of filling any office of trust , honour , or emolument in his native country : to b $ forced to distrust the protection of the law , in affairs of property , liberty and life : to be
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548 ^ Penal Laws which aggrieve the Catholics of Ireland
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1812, page 548, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1752/page/16/
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