tion, to appoint guardians to the children of Roman Catholics; and private tutors were forbidden unless they took the oath of supremacy. See 20th page of the English edition of the History. What new authority then was assumed by this Trish act against foreign education? and what article of the capitulation of Limerick did it violate? The mischief of the education of the king's subjects, in foreign Romish seminaries, is admitted by all. The ridiculous rant of Mr. Burke, too precious a morsel to be omitted in this acrimonious pamphlet styled a History," that this restraint upon foreign and domestic education was part of a horrible and impious system of servitude," cannot be supported upon any principle either of justice or ordinary policy; the expediency of restraining foreign education is universally acknowledged: and no person knew better than Mr. Burke, himself, born and educated in Ireland, that the act did not prevent domestic or national education; for the Protestant public schools throughout the kingdom were open to Roman Catholics, where they might be instructed in all kinds of learning, without any interference with their religion; there were also, constantly, in Ireland, a vast number of Romish public school-masters: the laws in such cases being almost universally connived at, and as for well-informed private tutors, any Roman Catholic who could support the

expense of one, might and did procure him, nơ person whatsoever troubling himself about his religion, or his taking or refusing the oaths appointed by the act to be taken by tutors in private families. The Lord Chancellor had also a power, by the act of the seventh of William the Third, to appoint guardians to the minor children of Irish Romanists; which power he also had by act of parliament before the revolution, as is stated in the History of the Penal Laws itself; and if it had been a new power conferred on the Chancellor, it would not be any violation of the articles of Limerick.

As a second violation of these articles by the Irish parliament of the seventh of William, the History states, with equal justice, that they passed an act for disarming the Irish Romanists; but he omits that the act contains a saving, "that every Romish nobleman and gentleman comprised in the second and third articles of Limerick, shall have liberty to ride with a sword and case of pistols, and keep a gun in their houses, for the defence of the same, or for fowling." This is the substance of the seventh civil article of the capitulation: and the very article demonstrates, that the government, at the time of the capitulation, intended to disarm the Irish Romanists, else why was such seventh article included in the capitulation? The government must be mad

indeed, if it had suffered arms to remain in the hands of a class of the community, which had, for two centuries, at short intervals, made repeated desperate attempts by open rebellion, by massacre, robbery, and devastation, utterly to extirpate the Protestant religion, and all professors of it, out of the kingdom, shewing no mercy to man, woman, nor child, of that profession, on whom they could lay their hands.

The third instance of perfidy, of the Irish parliament of 1697, to the Romanists, stated in this History, is, that they passed an act to banish the Romish priests. This is the act to banish all Romish archbishops, bishops, and other ecclesiastical dignitaries, exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction; and all regulars and friars of the Popish clergy; no secular priests were included in the act, they were at liberty to exercise their functions in their respective parishes; but this circumstance is suppressed in the History, with its usual candour: not a paragraph in the whole, stating the purport or view of any act of parliament, or any transaction whatsoever, that is not impeachable for the suppressio veri, or suggestio falsi, exclusive of the direct falsehood of the greatest number of them, and the false deductions from them. The utmost the Irish Romanists could claim under the first article of the capitulation, were such privileges in the exercise

of their religion, as were consistent with the laws of Ireland; or as they enjoyed in the reign of King Charles the Second; the parliament having resisted the king's endeavours to procure any further privileges for them in the exercise of their religion, and therefore that part of the article being a dead letter. Doctor Browne, in the work already mentioned, in which he confuted the calumny, that the Protestant government had violated the articles of Limerick, has accurately stated the several acts of parliament by which the exercise of the Romish religion was prohibited, and which were in force in the reign of King Charles the Second. A few extracts from this work will demonstrate the downright falsehood of this charge, that the act for banishing the bishops exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and the regular orders of the Romish clergy, was any infraction of the articles of Limerick. The English act of the twenty-seventh of Elizabeth, which it is already shewn extended to, and was the acknowledged law of Ireland, in the reign of Charles the Second, banished all jesuits, seminary priests, and other priests whatsoever from her majesty's dominions, and forbade them to come into them, on pain of high treason, and to entertain them was felony. By the Irish act of uniformity, second of Elizabeth, ch. 2. if any minister refused to use the Book of Common

Prayer, or to minister the sacraments in the order as they were set forth in the said book, or should wilfully or obstinately use any other rite or manner of celebrating the Lord's Supper, or mattins, even song, or administration of the sacraments, or other open prayers, than is mentioned or set forth in the said book, he was to forfeit for his first offence, the profit of all his spiritual benefices, arising in one whole year after his conviction for the second offence, suffer a year's imprisonment, and be deprived of all his spiritual promotions for the third, imprisonment for life. If he had no spiritual promotion, for his first offence to suffer a discretionary imprisonment; for his second, imprisonment for life.-See second of Elizabeth, sects. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. By the 9th, 11th, 12th, and 13th sections of the same act, heavy penalties were inflicted on persons maintaining priests to say mass, or attending on such mass. The 14th section of this act enacts, That all persons inhabiting within the Queen's dominions, shall, having no lawful excuse, endeavour to resort to their parish church or chapel, or upon reasonable let thereof, to some usual place, where the said Common Prayer, and such service of God, shall be used, every Sunday, and other holiday; and there abide during the time of Divine service, upon pain of punishment by the censure of the church, and also upon pain that every per

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