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ready Sycophant to play any fantastic trick, so as to hoodwink, the blear-eyed visages of our puny-intellected Amateurs on the stage of Politics: - these quack Practitioners in the Science of Government, have, accordingly, in the full, reviving bloom of political Jacobinism and liberal Propagandism, been drawn into an alliance, and partnership with French Atheists, Infidels, and Libertines, to harass and pillage an ancient, upright, religious, Protestant ally. And with the approving sanction, of the unprincipled representatives, of the two sister courts, this distinguished Monarch, has been robbed of his vested rights, his inalienable property, ---in the separation of his territories, at the instigation of usurpers and rebels.

dangerous a project. In a similar manner, likewise, we find Mr. Grey, at the commencement of the Addington Administration, in the long debate, occasioned by the motion of Lord Darnley, declaring of the illustrious Pitt's exertions, when that admirable statesman, and truly disinterested patriot, defended, by additional bulwarks our Constitution, though fiercely assaulted on all sides by the rude and savage attacks of democratic fanaticism; and nobly secured the country, against our foreign and domestic enemies, by rousing the loyalty of the nation, and summoning forth all the energies of the friends of government and of order; -that all his efforts had only the effect of immoderately increasing the influence of the crown, and iniquitously invading the liberties of the people!!! Well, let us inquire into the character of this most celebrated of Distingués, who now with his English disciples exultingly triumph, in the unexampled success, and gigantic strides of democracy, and jacobinism. "Descended (says the well-known Author, of a popular work) from one of the most ancient families in France, Talleyrand was born at Paris, on the 7th March, 1754. Being club-footed from his birth, at an early period of his life he was destined for the Church. He commenced his education at the college of Louis le Grand, where in 1769, he obtained the first prize for learning in his class; but as his early depravity was proportionate to his genius, he was at the same time publicly reprimanded for the glaring irregularity of his conduct. During the Easter week, 1768, at which period he was only fourteen years of age, he went to a public brothel, got involved in a quarrel, refused to give his adversary satisfaction, was in consequence thrown out of a two-pair of stairs window into the street, and had both his legs broken by the fall. The Superior of the college having learned the cause of his accident, Talleyrand was refused re-admission; and it is recorded of him, that, when informed of his disgrace, though lying on a bed of sickness, he flew into a passion, and swore that it should not be for want of his active endeavours and pbilosophi

In this detestable and dangerous policy, there are involved principles, which, whenever, occasion may serve, can be made equally instrumental as authorities, to give to the winds all prescriptive titles; and to raise the loud laugh of democratical and revolutionary frenzy over the ashes of all the venerable foundations of Rank, Property, and Government. For if that only safe and adequate tenure of the rights of Royalty-" THE GRACE OF GOD," be converted into the uncertain whims, the varying caprices, and ungovernable passions of the Mob, and Mob-Advocates ; -Kings themselves, will only reign, so long as they unduly relax the strong and elastic arm of power; and so long as they are fortunate enough, to conciliate the kind wishes of the People, by self-destructive sacrifices of their just prerogatives: by countenancing

cal zeal, if, five-and-twenty years afterwards, christian teachers and christian pupils were still found in France; or if churches were not changed into theatres, and colleges into brothels!!! His talents continued to unfold themselves with celerity and splendor, but, if possible, his depravity made a still more rapid progress. In the neighbourhood of his residence lived a Madame Gauchier, a widow, with five children, three of whom were daughters. A scanty pension allowed her by government, her husband having been a captain and knight of the order of St. Louis, proved insufficient for the support of her family, and she and her daughters had taken up the business of mantua-makers. By splendid presents and flattering offers, the unsuspecting innocence of the girls was soon seduced; and in less than six months, Maria and Amy, the one aged eighteen, the other sixteen, were in a state of pregnancy. For the alleged purpose of producing abortion, some drugs were presented by their lover; but, so deleterious were their effects, that they immediately deprived Amy of her life, and Maria of her reason; and, on the same day, the wretched mother followed the remains of one of her daughters to the grave, and accompanied the other to a madhouse! Talleyrand, however, remained unsuspected; the poor widow still received his visits with distinction, consulted him as a friend, and revered him as a benefactor. But the friendly veil of ignorance was at last withdrawn. On her fourteenth birthday, during the carnival of 1770, her third daughter, Sophia, disappeared; and, in such a manner did Talleyrand plan the retreat of his new victim, that she was not discovered until Midsummer. At length, tempted by the reward of 3000 livres, offered by the Duke of Penthievre, his female accomplice disclosed the place of her concealment, and poor Sophia was discovered in the arms of her seducer. She, too, had become pregnant, and in her room

the lawless: and by courting the popularity of the licentious :-the very Idol of whose existence, is an overweening passion to wrest from the lawful possessor, a portion of that power, by which alone he is kept in check, either from injuring his neighbour, or ruining himself.

And further, I may with truth add, that this is a policy which suits too well, the dangerous views of the Anti-unionists, and Infidel Liberals, who now so fiercely, and mercilessly, agitate and distract Ireland. They know full well, how to appreciate, to imitate, and to enforce,-by means of their oft-practised menaces of the Physical force of a brutish and infuriate rabble ;the examples which have, of late, been furnished,-of truckling to intimidation, cringing to expediency, and immolating the laws of truth, and honesty.

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was found a box of pills, which by her confession, were intended to produce abortion. These pills were analysed, compared with the substances which were found in the corpse of the poisoned Amy, and had evidently been composed of similar ingredients! Talleyrand also, from a combination of juvenile indiscretion and depraved vanity, had boasted of his intrigues with, and gloried in the ruin of, the two elder sisters! Sophia was taken into the convent of the Ursulines, near Paris; but notwithstanding every attention which she experienced, an untimely death succeeded premature delivery; and, in two days, her dissolution was followed by that of her mother, from a broken heart, and the same tomb received them both!!! When Talleyrand's guardian, his uncle Count de Peregord, was informed of these shocking events, he convoked a family council, for the purpose of determining on the future disposal of his nephew. Some proposed that he should be exiled to the colonies for life; but at length agreed that a petition should de presented to the king for a lettre de cachet. This was obtained; and in October, 1770, Tallyrand was seized at a gambling-house, and thrown into the Bastille, under the name of L'Abbé Boiteux. In December following, he was removed to the castle of Vincennes, where he remained in solitary confinement for twelve months. By inflicting severe penances on himself, and expressing a desire to enter the order of La Trappe, the most rigid of all monastic institutions, he succeeded in convincing the chaplain of the castle, that his life was not only a life of repentance, but of edification; and, on the strength of such assurance, Talleyrand was liberated, and sent to finish his studies with the jesuits of Thoulouse, where in 1773, he was received as a member of the Gallican clergy!!!" -(See Gifford's History of the Wars of the French Revolution, Book iv. c. i.) Several such traits of Talleyrand's life, from authentic sources, will be given in a succeeding number of the CHAMPION.

INVALUABLE GEMS,

FROM

The best Writers, and the most approved Authorities.

The eleventh daie of Maie [1532], the Kyng [Henry VIII.] sent for the Spekar again, and twelve of the Common House, having with him eight Lordes, and said unto them:-" Well beloved Subjectes, we thought that the Clergie cf our Realm had bene our Subjectes wholy, but now we have well perceived, that they be but halfe our Subjectes, yea, and scarce our Subjectes; for all the Prelates at their Consecration make an Othe to the Pope clean contraire to the Othe that they make to us; so that they seme to be his Subjectes, and not ours. The copie of bothe the Othes, I delyver here to you; requirying you to invent some ordre, that we bee not thus deluded of our Spiritual Subjectes "-The openying of these Othes was one of the occasions why the Pope, within two yere followying, lost all his jurisdiction in Englande.-Hall's Chronicle, entitled, “The Union of the Houses of York and Lancaster," fo. p. 205.

"I rely with the utmost confidence, upon your zealous exertions to promote true piety and virtue-to reclaim those who are in error by the force of Divine Truth, and to uphold and extend among my people THE PREFERENCE WHICH IS SO JUSTLY DUE to the PURE DOCTRINE and SERVICE of OUR ESTABLISHED CHURCH. THAT CHURCH has EVERY CLAIM to my CONSTANT SUPPORT and PROTECTION."-Speech of his Majesty, George The Fourth, to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, and other Lords and Clergy of Convocation, Nου. 28, 1826.

"With respect, my Lords, to the circumstances, which brought our family to the British throne, your Lordships well know, that they originated in the Revolution. The GREAT OBJECT of that Revolution, was to SECURE the RELIGION and LIBERTIES of these realms. These objects were confirmed by the Act of Settlement, by the Declaration of Rights, by the Oath of Supremacy and Abjuration, and by the succession to the Crown in the Protestant line. To maintain and uphold all these, my Lords, our Family was called to the throne. And whatever can militate against these principles, in the remotest degree, it is My BOUNDEN DUTY, as a Member of this Family, and as a Member of your Lordship's House, To RESIST."-SPEECH of His Royal Highness Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in the House of Lords. See also CHAMPION, No. 1. p. 24.

"Accordingly," in the letter, King William wrote in 1697, he said, "I wil give you every privilege I can, consistently with the free exercise of your religion, and every other privilege BUT THAT OF ADMISSION TO CERTAIN STATE OFFICES, AND INTO PARLIAMENT; but I cannot consent to admit you into Parliament, or to those offices which constitute the Executive Government, because I do believe, although I respect you, that you MUST EXERCISE, as members of that Government, an INFLUENCE TO PROMOTE THE VIEWS of the ROMAN CATHOLIC BODY." So that, Sir, King William and his counsellors, when it was determined that the Crown should be Protestant, did not believe that the Crown would be safely secured in that succession, unless offices in the Executive, State, and Seats in Parliament, were denied to those who professed the Roman Catholic faith."-The very eloquent and argumentative speech of The Right Hon. Robert Peel, in the House of Commons, March 5th, 1827.

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I HAVE alluded to the uninterrupted and unrestrained process of intimidation and agitation, which the vacillation, indecision, and weakness of the Executive Government in Ireland, has solely contributed to nurture, promote, and increase. But, though, the effects of such glaring imbecility, and palpable misrule, may for the present cast a destructive blight on that unfortunate country; and though, for a season, the genial blessings of religion and social order, may wither upon its surface, -dry, sapless, and inflammable ; ready to receive the spark which every hireling incendiary may, for the aggrandizement of his party, or gratification of his employers, fling among the deluded rabble;-still, the friends of legitimate control and government will be enabled, thus, to appreciate and uphold, from this melancholy contrast, -the due exertion and vigorous influence of lawful power, whenever it appears in the magistracy, or rulers of the land. The present appearance of the devastating horrors of the increasing fury of a wild democracy, and the tolerating, yielding weakness of the executive power, give also

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I have instituted an accurate inquiry into the conduct of Gregory, on occasion of receiving the first intelligence, of the murder of Mauritius and his family; whilst the assassin and usurper-Phocas, got possession of the reins of Eastern sovereignty; -because, it is the legitimate task of the historical, and philosophic, observer of these remote ages, to scrutinize, impartially, with the utmost diligence, such established facts, as place before the view, a complete develop

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