Banbury, Kensington, Leicester, Ingateston, Lynn, Shortwood, Husbands Bosworth, Weymouth, and Lulworth. And almost every number of the "Catholic Magazine" reports the formation of branch institutions in various parts of the kingdom. Further, in Ireland, the Protestant Church, as well as our Protestant brethren individually, have been, and still are, exposed to grievous persecution. The outrages committed upon Protestants in the island of Achill, evidently at the instigation of Popish priests; the assassinations perpetrated within the last few years, in the province of Connaught, on Viscount Lorton's estates, and the still more recent assassination of the Protestant nobleman, Lord Norbury, are awful signs of the real state of that country, and indications of the existence of a conspiracy against Protestants: which have been fully confirmed by the evidence given before a Committee of the House of Lords, appointed in the session of 1839, to inquire into the state of Ireland. In the British Colonies, there are twenty-three Popish bishops, and only nine bishops of the Church of England; and recently, in opposition to the principles of the British Constitution, Popish priests and schoolmasters have been sent out, and are supported there at the public expense. In Lower Canada, Popery is established by law; in Newfoundland, it has a majority in the House of Assembly. After this statement, we ask, Will British Protestants any longer submit to the aggressions of this restless foe to their dearest interests? Will they leave a band of perjured Papists in possession of power which will assuredly be exerted for the ruin of the country? Are these men to hold in their hands the balance of contending parties in Parliament, and to exercise their baneful influence upon the destinies of this once powerful Protestant empire? Are the national resources to be employed in support of the encroachments and abominations of the Church of Rome? 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LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION: AND SOLD BY NISBET, BERNERS-STREET; SEELEYS, FLEET-STREET; HATCHARDS; RIVINGTONS; DALTON; SHAW; FORBES AND JACKSON; AND MAY BE OBTAINED OF ALL BOOKSELLERS. No. XIII. M DCCC XXXIX. [Price 4d., or 28s. per 100. SPEECH, &c. &c. THE Bishop of Exeter said, that in supporting the Petition which their Lordships had just heard read, he should feel it necessary to refer to a great number of documents. It was there stated that a solemn compact had, in 1829, been entered into between the Roman Catholics of the United Kingdom and this Protestant State, in consequence of the former being admitted to the benefits conferred on them by the measure commonly called the Catholic Relief Act. The Roman Catholics then bound themselves not in any way to interfere with the Protestant Establishment. As it had been denied that such a compact had been entered into, he should feel it to be his duty to make a few observations to the House, in order to prove that such a compact had been made. That fact had been denied, if reliance could be placed on the published reports of the proceedings in Parliament (and he did not know why reliance should not be placed on them) by Mr. O'Connell on the 11th of March, 1834. On that day he moved for an appointment of a Select Committee to consider the oaths which were taken, and those, if any, which ought to be taken, by Members of the House of Commons. He then said, "In 1829 we were not asked by the Government to make any compact or contract, and we made none. A seat in Parliament is not to be considered by us as a privilege, but as a matter of right." On that occasion Lord Althorp and Sir Robert Peel both expressed their extreme regret that this subject should have been again brought under the consideration of Parliament. Lord Althorp said, as well as he (the Bishop of Exeter) recollected, on that occasion, that if it had been conceived possible that in five years from the passing of that measure such a proposition could have been made in either House of Parliament, he was quite sure that the Act would not have been carried. Sir Robert Peel went more at large into the subject to prove that there had been a compact. Thus, both Lord Althorp and Sir Robert Peel agreed in the proposition that a compact had been entered into. It never was contended that a compact had been entered into with all the necessary forms of recognised powers on each side; but it was a question of common sense and common feeling whether what had passed on both sides did or did not amount |