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    Deputies , Court officers , Clerks of the Grown * , Clerks of- the Peace , Assistants iti the various law offices ^ Solicitors and Treasurers to numerous public Boards and establishments , i&ge&ts * clerks to great public

    officers , &c . Of all these subordi * na £ e- --but lucrative , offices we may reasonably estimate the actual number as exceeding 1000 . Thus there appears to be a total number of nearly J 50 O * offices connected with the profession and administration of the laws , which are interdicted to the Catholics *

    either by the express letter ^ or by the necessary operation of the present penal code *

    < P ^ iap . v . Of the Laws tvfiicfy djfmflify t j he CptfyHcsjrom holdi ngSMgcg 4 * ' j £ e Army qnd Nayj / t 9 ayg . ffi struct them in exprci $ i $ fr th ^ f i ^ J ^ p li g ion thereifi . ' .-. ' . . \ Until the Act q / Union , in jigOO , the military wx 4 , mp . ml 8 " $ t $ h \\ shments of Ireland had remained fjbtmct and separate from those of Great Britain . They are now in * corpojc&ted into one ; ami the

    / chief goveirnrfH'nt and superinten . dance of the united force axe seated in Great BintaJn . tt ia manifest , therefore , tkn * t the laws and re ^ u-Ibtiwm * wtuch affect its ipembec »«

    ought to he uniform , consistent and geneial , not varying with the accidents of place qx service . The f ^ ray tind nti yy of the empife are hnhle , from their yevy nature , to frequent changes of station . The oi

    prd ^ f d ^ tritmtion , which allots the Britisk or foreign service to a fegirttcnt of a ship of war in due year , may render Ireland the des . ttned station in the year following ; tod K < # ieeversa . " Hence it must

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    bid a nugajfory system , a pitiful mode of tevying armies , that would quality a man for this service io the oiie island , and dis * qualify Iviia in the other . To in . vite the Catholic in Ireland , for example , t& enter into the army sstd Inavy , by holding out to his hopes the mcttnett * of qualified

    promotion , or ^ hy other induce * teenjt local and limited to Ireland ^ guaranteed solely by an Irish statute , bat denied by . the laws of Great Britain , is a proceeding as illusory towards the Catholic , s > s it is unworthy of a wise and li beral legislate re .

    Now the Jaw of England rigidly excludes all Catholics from the right of bearing ofl&ees in the army atfd « avy ; nay , it inflicts penalties upon a ** y C&iholifcs , who shall presuine to hoJd them . A similar law , but with still

    heavier penalties , was enacted m Ifretand , and wjmained in full force until 1793 * wJien it v ^ Hs repealtd by all Irish statute , as to all military offices , except thoseofcMaster or Lieutenant General of the Or *

    dnance , Commahder in OWef ot the tbtcesl VW ^ G ^ ti ^ rals on th ^ Staff . But the disqualifying laws o ^

    threat &ruain . up cm tfeis suojeci ^ remain , StfH in Ytril forre ; , ^ tern ^? ^ WtfMgft ^ r Hence arises af ^ aJ piible : ineon * gruiiy in thfe military feystem of this-empire : and an effectual r&r . pulsion against all CathoTics , Ipoih aj i and the

    m t ^ je y i « navy What a ^ aik tbe h i ^ h status of ^ 7 ^ 3 to the C atholi c -ensign or midshipman , i f the reflaq \^ l of ^ regiment o&atiip ., f * t * m the tofe l 0 the English station , renders ttw mrbjeft t 9 the English Test Act ,

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    54 § 9 enbl Ltms which aggrieve th ? Calholits of ' * Jr * km& *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1812, page 546, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1752/page/14/