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“THIS IS TRUE LIBERTY, WHEN FREEBORN MEN—HAVING TO ADVISE THE PUBLIC, MAY SPEAK FREE.” —EvunripipEs.

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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.

E. ISLAND, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1848.

[No. 23.

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{From the London Tablet.} THE AFFAIRS OF ITALY.

Whoever knows something of human nature and a little of revolutions, must know that the great Roman subject has two sides ; that while all good Catholics and honest men detest the open hostility of Austria and the cunning intrigues of France, there are many acute ob- servere, devout servants of the Papacy, and zealous well- wishers of their kind, who really do not see everything in the light in which our journalists have represented it ; | do positively distrust the present, and look with unfeign-|

ed alarm towards the future. Are such men— true, |

honest, and good Catholics—to be denied a hearing ?| Or are English readers to be dooined to vibrate between the fanaticism or evil designs of those wlio make Gio-|

berti their god, and the furious tirades of those who) hate equally the Papacy and Gioberti, and desire the, whole experiment to be swallowed up in ruin?

Qur o-vn opirzion keeps something of a middle way

‘counsel together, but it will be defeated. They may

him who in his successors shal! carry them to the end of tim

How bitterly will these impious hopes be disappoint- ed! How would the coiners of them gnash their teeth if they could look into the seeds of time and tell which grain will grow and which will not! Ifthey could look forward but another half-century! Truly, they may take

prophesy, but it shall not be fulfilled. They may gather themselves together, and strengthen themselves, and gird themselves for the day of battle; but they shall be) overcome, they shall stumble and fall, they shall be bro-| ken in pieces, they shall be snared and taken—for God is with us.

which should suspend all law in Ireland. Ministers must have been more {than men ifthey could aave withstood the demand thus made on them. Whilst the earth reeks with blood, itis fitting the horror of man should be exhibited towards those who take the lives of their fellow-creatures, and that even the Constitution should be suspended, if necessary, to track the assassin to his lair, and to inflict a felon’s death upon the hom- icide.

We have no sympathy with the crime—no feeling of mercy for him who has perpetrated it—and no respect for him who has caused it. What we desire to do, and what we wish to see accomplished, is that the innocent

High above the tumult of the people, though in it and) with it, the Pope looks out upon the past, the present, and the fnture, and calmly beholds the symptoms and auguries that speak to him not very far off. He knows| how to want and how to abound ; how to please and how io displease; how to be beloved and how to be hated.

may not be confounded with the guilty; and that not one class of guilty persons alone should be punished, but that all who are guilty should, in proportion to their respective offences, be visited with execration, if we cannot condemn them to any stronger punishment

The murderers of Tipperary are not the only crimi- nals in ireland. If they were, a local Coercion Biil

Hard lesson, but indispensable for a just ruler in hard

‘would be sufficient for their suppression and final ex-

‘times! And those who are boasting over the decay of termination; but great as is the guilt of some persons

‘Roman eaergy, and look upon it that the Popes are a jn that and a few adjoining counties, their atrocity is

between our Roman correspondent and those who see), «1 oe Vig boast s slaieiateth alate h 2 kind of wild beast whom the spirit of the age have tamed not more clear than the innocence, the quietude, the

nothing but what is good in the revolution that is, now, to eee ee rer. ' r - jand subdued, will fnd their error if their days are not terrible poverty, the frightful sufferings, and the mira-

not completed, but commenced. We look witha doubt-) ; ha ' , ' ful eye upon wntveiest popularities. They are not last- | etompmpeite amnenns, baa voerving er have culous patience of the great mass of the [rish peasantry saw: the are not stable; they are nottrue. If Pope ‘changed many things, and have given to many old things in allthe other counties in Ireland. This is an impor- po a ; 1! ‘ yon Shite end ial follo seal new names. But if William Abbot of Metz were now fant fact with respect to the state of Ireland; and it is J y i Oi w } , S25. fh . . yo 2 oo a Z : me Bsus ile Miak hs ‘alive and were now to felicitate on his election John-' one of which our newspaper writers are either shame- im whose Vicar he is—there o doubt that he, ‘Mary Mastai-Ferretti as he once welcomed the redoubt- fyijy j candalousl d wilfull eal art for i ’e believe him with all ourheartsto) | 25. es fully ignorant, ap. scapdaiqusly. ane wilehy Cont a re rs is au b ial ‘ite stuffed fi eal Hildebrand, his words would need very little change, fom their readers. These newspaper writers—such e not a reed Shas iti ; wed figure | ° : . : om : for busy meddlers to carry to and fro in processions a\oer to gulf of gight Rares __ | writers, for instance, ss find a place for their lucubra- th Guy Fawkes on the 5th of Noveiber ; not a. “The miserable adversary fears lest in thet zeal with! ions inthe Spectator—foully calumniate the character ey rr : o deed cr in St. Peter's . to Mbich you are wont to flame against the enemies of the of the Irish people, distort the truth, conceal the fact, miserable pretence of a man se a : ee a oe | ' evlour the questionable designs of nameless individuals i la ony Pe eer 7 ue shames and and invent charges against the Irish nation; and look but ‘tthe ecélesiastic a Prince earnest of purpose aj Pon his crimes, But the more you displease the wick-| for a popularity by abusing large classes who are un- . ’ “led, by so much the more exactly do you please ail the fortunate, as other vile writers make out an existence

ruler devoted to the good of his people resolved to)” . ." ; oe ee ’ : mee, a and be spent for their advanta ve eipable of Urny- 80%" ' for to give offence to the children of iniquity iS! by satires, slanders, and pasquinades upon private indi- oe a ‘neither a slight nor unimportant testimony of your Up-| viduals.

i eir indignation as well as of earning their love,| . ; << 4 ; 4° tak ‘rightness. Now therefore gird thy sword upon thy; ‘This is a circumstance which should not be lost and who fully understands and takes to heart the truth| | * a al hich j —

‘thigh, oh most Mighty ; that sword, I say, which in the) sight of in considering the present state of Ireland—of

the tiara is only a covering for a crown of thorns. | uate ’ that y rt words of the Prophet, and by the wholesome promise of its murders, its assassinations, and its brutal assaults—

he work he has to do is a guarantee that he must and, ss b- be misunderstood by many If, as we believe he |e Lord, is not to be kept back from devouring the flesh) that these crimes are confined to a few localities, and “4 ’

tse h hl RE ‘ofthe wicked. Truly you have seen the Amalechites and . ‘ way) . .

is wise an a so ” sd he Ss : mids r ‘ « ‘Madianites, and the other plagues conspire against the ehalocgy etc: aPRecr maggie “| camp of Israel. You have need therefore of great care,

a-ringraas tenes ror d " — te ‘great counsel, and continual watchtulness to subjugate serve the times; use his power warily; provoke no un-|"

they no more prove a love for blood, or a disposition to conceal crime, in the Irish population, than the wealth of the inhabitants of Belgrave-square, of Grosvenor- square, and of Regent’s-park are proofs that every one

necessary animosities; satisfy all exigencies that are just and tolerable ; and with such popularity as Heaven hall allot to him complete the outline of his institutions and get the new order of things fairly under weigh.

or destroy so many monsters or wild beasts. Let the who has a house in London is able to keep a carriage,

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fear of no man and the threats of no man keep you back 44 to maintain in his kitchen a host of livery servants. form the holy conflict, the spiritual fight; and going out ¢.,ime is not diffused universally throughout Ireland, al- to battle like another Gedeon fear not to break to picces though misery, poverty, and the mismanagement of the the earthen vessels in your hand. Behold, you are plac- janq is as deeply rooted in the country as the supreme

Then will and must come the time of trial. Unless ',3 9, high, upon a watch tower, and the eyes and coun-| we very much misread the signs of the times, a change tenances of all men are turned towards you; and each| in public opinion, slow, but inevitable and profound, is| 4, who remembers your past acts and the glory of | before us, The French Liberal journals are preparing your preceding warfare desires and expects to hear the. the way for this approaching revolution. Among his | great achievements that are to follow.” warmest partisans and noisiest eulogists the Pope has hitherto numbered the enemies of all religion, of all or- seen ialea ieee ua MO? der, of all justice, of everything but a wild and turbulent) ’ anarchy. The enemies of the Sunderbund have lied to} IRELAND.—THE QUEEN’S SPEECH. the world that they are his friends. The enemies of | It is strange, the manner in which Ireland and Irish - the Jesuits have joined in the shortlived mendacity. men were abused by English newspapers for weeks and

His praises have been swelled by men who are on the for months previous to the delivery of the Queen’s, jook-out for something even worse than a new Clement Speech on Tuesday last, and its threat of a Coercion’

domination of the English Government.

Who isto blame for this? Or, who is in fault? If there be crime in this poverty, this misery, and this mis- management of the land, who are the criminals? The [rish—it will be said by the malevolent Spectator; and ‘the Irish’ will be repeated by the ignorant mob of rea- ders who take their opinions from that and other unworthy publications. But to bring home guilt to the Irish, it is necessary to show that they had power of making laws for themselves—that they were possessed with the full powers of a nation, or the restricted powers of a colony, or the deputed powers ofa province. At what time, we

XIV.; who wish to see treason in Saint Peter’s, andthe Bill. When the Irish poor, impressed with the pre- abomination of desolation in the Holy place; who hope cepts of Christianity, submitted patiently in the midst of | to see the Popedoin undermined by the Pope; who de- famine to the worst of all deaths—death by starvation—| sire toturn the thunders of the Vatican against the tru-|they were abused as a base, unmanly, spiritless race of -est sons of the Church; and to make of the chief hus- men; and when the landlords, imposed upon the Irish bandman in the vineyard a boar out of the wood to lay people by the bad government of this country, and pro-| it waste. They have clapped their hands and rejoiced ‘tected in their crimes by the worst |

within themselves that the old race of Gregorys and | vernment enacted, commenced a career of extermi-| and thus pro- colony, and the representatives of a sect; and when it

Innocents is at an end; that the Church—that faithful nation with their famine-stricken tenants,

ask, had the Irish any such powers? The Irish were first legislated for, and tyrannised over, by a band of Norman adventurers. They were next legislated for, and tyrannised over, by colonies of adventurers from this country, to whom the land o” Ireland was given on con- dition of making the Irish people hewers of wood and

aws which that Go-\drawers of water. Even that thing which was call-

ed the ‘independent Parliament’ was the{Parliament of a

mother of children—bears, in what they fondly cali her voked the Irish poor to deeds of blood, of foul murder, parted with its privileges for a price, it did so with the

decrepitnde, monstrous and unnatural births; and that and of base assassination, othe keys of God’s kingdom will be given up to them by try, with one unanimous voice, called foran enactment

then the press of this coun-| protest of the Irish nation written in its blood—in the

torture of hundreds, and the massacre of thousands.