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682 IhteUigence :- >* LtQfB $ yron . Ireland . Dr . Oudnty .
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out being subjected on that account to any civil pains , penalties or disabilities whatsoever . That in accordance with the principle above declared , we solemnly protest against being called upon , as the condition of enjoying our civil rights , to
take any oath , or make any declaration ) or submit to any arrangements , which may , hi the remotest degree , affect the most free exercise of our religion ; bat as we have already taken , so we shall be at all future times prepared to take , any oath approved by our ecclesiastical
superiors , which will perfectly secure our most full and complete allegiance , in all civil concerns , to the Government of our country . " Mr . Bloiutt was elected Chairman of the new Association ; Mr . Hardman , Treasurer ; and the Key . T . M . Kf'Donnell , Secretary and Chairman of the Committees .
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Lord Byron . —A character of this extraordinary man in the London Magazine for October , has excited much attention . Some of his friends are disgusted with the freedom of the detail of his
Lordship ' s errors , but the general truth of the picture seems to be admitted , and is indeed supported by strong internal evidence . The follpwiug passage relates to his views of religion : — " He left very little behind him . Of late he had been
too much occupied by the Greeks . to write , and , indeed , had turned his attention very much to action , as has been observed . Don Juan he certainly intended fo continue ; and I believe that the real
reason for his holding so many conferences with Dr . Kennedy in Cephalonia was , that he might master the slang of a religious sect , in order to hit off the character with more verisimilitude .
** His religious principles were by no means fixed ; habitually , like most of his class , he was an unbeliever ; at times ^ however , he relapsed into Christianity , and , in his interviews with Dr . Kennedy , maintained the part of an Unitarian . Like all men whose imaginations are
much stronger than the reasoning power —the guiding and determining facultyhe was in danger of falling into fanaticism , and some of his friends who knew him well , used to predict that he would die a Methodist—a consummation by no means impossible .
' * From the same cause—the preponderance of the imagination—there might have been some ground for the fear which beset his latter moments that he should go mad . The immediate cause of this fear was , the deep impression which the fate of Swift had made upon him . He read the life of Swift during the whole of his voyage to Greece , and the
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melancholy termination of the Dean ' s life haunted his imagination . "
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Ireland . Ecclesiastical affairs in this country are evidently coming to a crisis . The Catholic Association has become more vigorous , and unites within its pale nearly the whole Catholic population , including nobility ,
gentry , professional men , merchants and the people , and the clergy of aU ranks , from the prelate to the parish priest . The leaders of this bod y * knowing that money is the sinew of war , have instituted a voluntary tax upon the Catholics , under tbe name of the Catholic Jfewf ,
which has been gradually increasing , and now brings in ^? 300 per week . To this fund , the nobleman and the peasant contribute their proportions . The objecj of it is to employ the press in the Catholic cause , and , above all , to support weekly and daily petitions to the Legislature .
Dr . Doyle , the titular Bishop of Kildare , says in a letter to the Association just published , that the Government must put down this body or grant emancipation . Mr . O'Connell h the leading speaker of the society . His speech at the opening of their present session is abundant in eloquence , if not in wisdom . He praises
the King of France , the Marquis Welles - ley , Mr . Cobbett and the King of England ; and pours out his censures very freely on the Lord Chancellor * Mr . Goulburn , the Holy Alliance and the English press . Other speakers attack the Bible Society and the various proselyting institutions in Ireland . A motion is announced for
an address to the People of England on the subject of these societies . Of late , the Catholics have made a point of attending Bible and other public meetings of the more zealous Protestants , and of pointing out mistakes and contradicting false assertions ; the effect of which has
been , in some instances to cause the meetings to disperse , and will probably be to check the progress of itinerant eloquence in Ireland , which even in England has become insipid , if not tiresome . Cobbett , the political Proteus , is now the avowed advocate of . the Irish Catholics ,
and they have adapted hirir , by a formal resolution , as their champion . It is easy to foresee that Ireland-will fill a ' large space in the debates of the next session of Parliament .
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The late Dr . QuUney , the African Traveller . ( From the Glasgow Courier . J Wjg insert an interesting letter from Lieut . Clapperton , regarding the death of his fellow African traveller , Or * . Ouuney , on the western frontier of Bornou , in the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1824, page 632, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2529/page/56/
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