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.Uonfeon, SATURDAY JULY 16.

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Uonfeon, SATURDAY JULY 16. WE are not sorry to find that Mr. O Coil- neil begins to show some symptoms of a disposition to retreat from the prominent situation which, unfortunately for his coun- trymen. he has assumed in the management of the Catholic Cause. Certain we are, that that cause iiever can succeed unless taken out of his hands, and those of the whole brief-hunting fraternity. It is a question, however, even whether this step will not now come too late, and whether the indiscretion and apparent insincerity of the Catholic Leaders have not thrown back the attainment of their object to an im- measurable distance. If the cause itself has not lost ground the last six months, it is quite, clear that a much warmer and more general tone of opposition to it has arisen in this country than existed previous to the embassy of the Dublin Lawyers.— That the object is one not worthy of the trouble or fuss that has been made about it, and that the opposition to it is equally erroneous, we have been all along convinc- ed. At the same time we feel persuaded, that instead of retrograding, the cause must have ad vanced with the liberal and enlighten- ed feelings of the age, had it not been for the worse than indiscretion of Mr. O'Connell and his immediate ,tssociates.- We should be slow to impute personal mo- tives to any man; but Mr. O'Connell's memorable reference to his Fee-Book, and his continual harpings about his personal sacrifices, show pretty clearly, we think, that his patriotism, like that of many greater men, is grounded in self. But we would ask, are such paltry objects as finding half a dozen silk gowns and as many seats in Parliament, for Mr. O'Connell and his Learned Frcinds, such as ought to harass and divide a whole coin rii,,iiii (;v'! At any rate, Lord Mansfield's memorable charac- teristics of the person who pleads his own cause in a Court of Justice is strongly ex- emplified in the case before us for we will venture confidently to predict, that as long as Mr. O'Connell is his own advocate, so long at least will his silk gown continue in abeyance. a. IIi8INt

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