A secood lett,r fr.,:a'AIr. Sharman Crawford, " addrossed to the
real frieutis of Iteli,,iotts Liberty," is interided to strt.ngthen the con- vietion that the tliffSO Ilas suffered by " the IniSnlatingennelt Of treachery of leaders," and to draw attention to the dangers to he :mina:bonded " from the present pus.tion of the Irish Church flo:stion." Mr. Crawford thus describes the actual position of the Church of Ireland- " The Estailisited Church is tem seearea its a roveate• tirao mm troll the whole
people ol I relaai., the landlorils arl. only the mmeors, r the ,wttal letvers
t.4 that revena-,) itieed nue of its .;latiog evils Isdng redis..sse, i. PAI its whole establishmeitt ot site:5,11es. existing itt •01 diseus'ing te. suu,iin draw the eflUes for t!"..tluir,rt nit flit' C11111111 IC' 110/gil,!i011 of ti euni- numity cousistiug Or !• '9,1400 WI. set limo 40 ti. 1,0111l. II nil1114- 41414•Slil,;:ab:e t aa,r4it wa: it, gue.l by the se.eletriect. ol • he :Lodtio.* , th it the tithes wet-, paid lo.. the I ill mmli Will, were 4.1.0 Pretesta. .”el not Ii the reople, who were eld id. Catholics or Disomters ; Mit the 1.0,. t, my its 1nrovi,i0,14, clearly mistiso {tele., are pi:oe:ple that the ti. inc !aqua:barge is to he'shiny lilt. 1:111,110111 lit alda:ola to rent, al,: directly. atki t 1,114 itnr,nuos il on too povle jim that form."
31r. Crawford maintains " that matters cannot long continue in such a position as this," and that one of two results tnust f,,llow- " That t!.., catio,lie thtt:ell %till le:ess for 'Ito establislIntetil t.:1 111.4 (71tereli in in awl the I ranster into their hatals ot Church property nil that the!, will succeed in elaim, or cise -that pees's/us in the ;him of bon WI. (as i3 given Inn callous llis-euting bodies) trill be prol.q.Oly ins the C;ohelir clergy. It is holt ostlilv, in my opinant. ltI deny. that, if mn ma esuolisiteteot is to be rnaititaineti Inn ;t mate pro Ishii) in any colour), it oil4lit to In: tilt lilt. great Mass of the CaI111■1111411:. ; amid I think it equally impossible to dole, that, if the menus k..epieg up the oldie:owes ut the Clench to a sectien is levied fona the whole cononitility, there is Ito impte.ative claim on the State time a pros isivn of sone, kind for the n; her clergy of that ow:funnily, I know it has been often stated by the Catholic clergy, individually anti collectively. that they did uot it, sire nut description cf State provision ; but oil, that their people slt':mih I be relieved frau, tile pat inent tor the cletgy of the minor Sect-. I do not loran to express a &alit of their sineetitT; hitt, the struggle being now endol, by which it was hoped to extinguish the titlw impost, and the supremacy of the offeusive establishment beieg maim :lintel without :hy the aet, it caunot belieteil th it ada a 1.1011,11.s:is injastke can he sotlined to without a deal:mit Ow sante descriptum of remedy. .■ no limit dentaati is non Maile-distinctly the loader et the Cat huh,. peoi.dc the leader who suprorttal the late Lill -tt iio, hy that suppott, gave the lieu or el tot...one it the lame of the lamb That same loader who, by this net, Musty Went,: the tithes upon the lands of Ireland, tam again pruclatins the iolustico of the system. and dentatuls a remedy."
Not believing that the Catholic religion Neill be " established" in Ireland, Mr. Crawford thinks that thete will be a comptomise- - Pay will lie ott•red to the Catholic clergy out of the naliocal t reentry . It is well known that many, both of time W Itig and 'loin lenders, would Inc to-tenable to such a proposition. They both desire to ntake the Catholics the political sla‘t-s of the toliug powers ; awl they would expect to do lids throtigh the niediuM ri I he Catholic clergy. It o.ides, such a measitre wouid affool additioual prop. to the domiltalit estahlislettent. Them a hat o ill be the futther cousequetwe tor this measure! Pay will be °tiered to thins clergy of other sects, both it, Britain ;nal Ireland ; and thus every ttem principle, both oh religitets and jnmnthm cal libetty, will he cor,tipted ; the clergy or all :ems will be made the slaves of the state ; awl they will beconto the medium, III lift hands of artist', imliticians and arldtraty governments, to deb .se the public ;Minh and to make the pmple ; instrotneuts in the establishment el both religious anti pOittical thraldom."
Mr. Crawford lays no stress upon the declaration of the Catholic clergy, that they will not be supported by a State provision ; and as- sumes that in all cases the majority will slavishly fellow O'Counell-
- Ile talks to them of Tory tyranny-4w frightens them witluithis oftdold tale. W hilst tits own despotism is beim; established, he tells them to do their own work. Whilst his takes from them the ;sot or of moving, except bv the impulse of the cheek- s' rings held i a his tot u hand, he ilIlillSei then, with new seheines of agitation, the very terms of wit eh prove their roll:Let ; mmiii p.:t 04! 41811 Ilt1.01,10 ore ready to march tipoti t his campaign of delusion. I say vi ith griet, that a p000le so trammelled cats aillnal no securities fka the maintenaece or attainment of either religions or political treeilom. I know that by this tleci trot ion I expose myself to the resentment of the Ualitolie huti). I atu satisfied to suffer it, if by exciting that resentment 1 van stitpulate them to throw otT these trammels, and ph ill, themselves in such a tosi lieu as will seettre their rights, ho mooning the respect ot their British couotry melt, and the conthienee of the friends of liberty."
of the several I an -lies in the proportion in which they are raised from each.
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