the same Number of your Journal, and purporting to be a Report of what fell from Mr. John O'Connell, M.P. for Kilkenny, at the last Meeting of the "Loyal National Repeal Association ;"-a Parliament-man, and AntiFederalist; and who, as such, as well as because of his Relationship to the Liberator, is generally selected to represent him in his Absence. I trust, Sir, that you will give the World your Judgment of the discreditable Production.

"He glanced at the present Relations of England with "the Foreign Powers, at the cavalier Way in which the "President of the American Republic talked of taking the

Oregon Territory, and annexing Texas to the States; of "the Aggressions of Russia on the Danube, and by the "Decree against the Jews, who were the Traders for Eng"lish goods; of the Determination of France to do what "she would in Tunis, and what she would in Spain, without "regard to England's Pleasure, or Displeasure. The Cloud

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was darkening round her. The Irish People would not 66 give vent to open outspoken Declarations of Joy at her Dis"tress; but would they be not less or more than human, if "they could refrain from feeling Pleasure, when they saw "their Oppressor humbled, and her who had trampled "them in the Dust herself humiliated? (Hear.) Let her "make a Friend of Ireland, and be safe. But, if she would "still reject her as an Ally, and desire to make her a Slave, "why then

"Yon Britain soon shall own a Master's power,

"And those kind friends whose friendship now you scorn, "Whose cries you scoff at, and whose claims you spurn, "SHALL WITH LESS GRIEF TO CESAR BOW THE KNEE,

"When, in their LORD your TYRANT too they see !"

Here you have the Orator invoking the Dominion of the Czar, rather than submit to Slavery from England. Of course the Czar enslaves Nobody!

Here you have him preparing himself (he not being more than human"), to crow over the piratical Conquest of Oregon and Texas by the United States, in the Name of Ireland's independent Nationality!

Here you have him ready, for the same reason, to applaud the piratical Conquest of Tunis to be effected by France, and the Destruction of Spanish Independence by the same Power; and the Consummation which Russia is to give to the Extinction of the Ottoman Empire. For why?—that which spites England cannot but be grateful to the Irish!

Here, in fine, you have him proclaiming to all the World, that between the two Countries, so long as the Legislative Union lasts, there shall not be an Executive Union. Ireland, according to him, will welcome every Alternative, even Crime itself, rather than forego her own, She will clap her Hands at the Destruction of this Empire. nay, of every Empire in the World, rather than not get the Union back." Surely, Sir, the Man who could utter, and the Men who could cheer such Thoughts as these, are unfit for the Freedom they are aiming at!

Did it occur to the "honourable Member," that this is not the likeliest Way to achieve Repeal, or to make the Agitation popular with "good Men ?" I, too, am a Repealer, but of another Stamp. I desire the general Downfall of Injustice, the general Restoration of Rights usurped, the general Revival and Performance of long-forgotten Duties. I am no Federalist. While the Prerogative of establishing Peace by means of War remains in and is exercised by the Sovereign, I see no reason why the Irish Parliament, and the Scottish Parliament, and the old Palatinates of England, and the Principality of Wales, and every Municipality and Shire Court in these Realms, should not, as in Days of Yore, be severally applied to for supplying the Means of War, nor why any One or

more of these should not, if so minded, stand out against the Rest, nor why the Sovereign should not, if so minded, make War with such Supplies as She may have been able to obtain from a Few of these Jurisdictions. I suspect that I am much more of a Repealer than Mr. John O'Connell himself.

This then is my Motive for addressing you. I call upon you to vindicate the good Cause from its Defenders. Its sole Support is in the Justice of Heaven and the Laws of Earth. In giving up these, we abandon our last Citadel. Not to defend these is to betray them to the Foe.

A REPEALER.

PART I.

"O that mine Enemy might have Disciples."

IDOLS discipular, like Idols common, are of four Kinds. I. 'Idola Specus,' 'Idols of the Cave' or 'Den'—or connected with individual Peculiarities.

II. Idola Tribus,'' Idols of the Tribe'-or connected with the Tribe or Class.

III. 'Idola Fori,'' Idols of the Street or public Place,'— connected with Society and Words.

IV. Idola Theatri,'' Idols of the Theatre or Lecture Room,'-connected with Exposition and Exhibition.

I. IDOLA SPECUs.-The Peculiarities of the Disciple, when good, he himself gets the Credit for: when bad, the Master hath the pleasure and profit of bearing them. A Disciple delighteth to hunt the Fox; he is accounted a jolly Fellow. "A Friend of Fox-hunters and Sinners!" crieth the scandalized World, in judgment on the Master.

A Disciple is lavish, and spendeth away his Goods like a Fool!-He is accounted a generous Man. Heruineth himself by his own proper Folly:-" Behold He ruineth our young Men !" shouteth the Public after the Master.

He ruineth our young men,"-" even as Socrates corrupted the Youth of Athens."

A Disciple is perverse, and then hardeneth himself, and is punished, even with the Rod. If he amend, and thank the Master for the wholesome Chastisement, he getteth Credit unto himself for nobleness of Mind: if he hardeneth himself still the more, and the Master still the more "spare not the Rod," "What a Tyrant!" exclaimeth the whole School. Stout is he, if they, having bound

him, scourge him not with his own Rod: but whether or not he prevail over them, (and great is the Uproar, and many are they that rise up against him,) he, ever after, is looked upon as a Monster, and the Disciple, whether expelled or triumphant, shall go down to History as a Martyr.

Such are the Idols of the Cave.

II. IDOLA TRIBUS. Idols of the Tribe or Class. Disciples, as a Tribe, have in all Ages had like Idols; and the whole 'History of Philosophy' may be briefly spoken thus-that wherever there has been a Teacher in the world, his Work hath been "rising early and late taking Rest," to break Idols, and his Disciples' Work after him to make them. Nay, but his Work is more than thrown away for where he doth break but one Image, they do out of each part of the broken, make many new ones greater than the old. Nay, but his Work is more than thrown away; for the Image that he broke was in proportionas Body, Limbs, and Parts. But they do make, each for himself, a greater Image, but having the Shape only of the Part that each does pick up.

This also do they, not only when he is dead, but even while he is yet alive; and when he has broken with his Hand an Image before Night-Lo! when he riseth early in the Morning, he findeth fifty Images new set up and polished, where he did break one Image the Night before.

Likewise do they see how, with a Hammer, he breaketh the Heads of Images. Then say they, "We also will break Images, even on the Head." Then take they for a Hammer, even for a Hammer, their own Images which they have made, and with them do they hammer, as with a Hammer, other Images on the Head; and great is the hammering thereof. Then sayeth the World of the Master, "This man is a Traitor unto Truth," for he calleth "himself a Breaker of Images; and, lo! the World is full