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Valentine M’Clutchy, The Irish Agent

CHAPTER XV
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I wish I could stop here but I cannot; there are, unfortunately, still more flagitious motives for their appointment.

English ministers have been found who were so strongly influenced by respect for the religion and Church Establishment of the Irish, that they have not blushed to promote men, who were the convenient instruments of their own profligacy, to some of the richest sees in the kingdom.

But I am travelling out of my record; so to return.

The name of the second paper is the _Genuine Patriot, and Castle Cumber Equivocal_; this last journal is, indeed, sorely distressed between the Catholic and Evangelical parties.

The fact is, that the Evangelicals entertain such a horror of Popery, as a spiritual abomination, that they feel highly offended that their advocates should also be the advocate of Old Broadbottom, as the Orangemen call the Pope; in consequence, they say, of his sitting upon seven hills.


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