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The  clergy,  who  sometimes  have  a  most  admirable  instinct  in
discovering  what  is  for  their  interest  here,  as  well  as  hereafter,
ore  many  of  them  active  against  us ;  they  are  easily  marshalled
under  the   auspices  of  a  right  rev.  prelate  of  the  Established
Church — the  son  of  Popish  parents — the  brother  of  a  Popish
priest,  who  has  published  a  pompous  pamphlet  against  us,  of
great  promise  and  pretensions,  but  of  little  performance,  savo
what  it  effects  by  the  very  difficult  and  novel  process  of  repeat-
ing calumnies  a  thousand  times  refuted,  and  abjured,  and  contra-
dicted upon  oath,  by  every  Catholic  in  Ireland.     I  should  be
content  if  we  were  at  leisure  to  investigate  the  worthy  prelate's
motives,  or  that  we  even  had  an  opportunity  of  printing,  in  the
same  shape  with  his  pamphlet,  another  literary  morceau  of  the
learned  and  pious  divine.     It  was,  I  believe  his  first  attempt —
a  farce,  called  the  "  Generous  Impostor !" — oh,  the  generous  im-
postor!   The  theatrical  dictionary  informs  us, that  this  farce  was
damned ;  a  friend  of  mine  who  happened  to  have  seen  it,  assures
us  that  there  was  a  warmth  of  expression  in  it — he  would  not
for  the  world  call  it  an  obscenity,  which  in  some  quarters  would
Almost  atone  for  its  dulness,  but  it  was  too  dull  even  for  the  vi-
cious taste  of  a  London  audience  to  preserve  it  for  its  seasoning.
