partial share, they never will be contented while any thing remains to be obtained."

But in this place, in order to do perfect justice to the subject, it may be necessary to enquire what is the creed, and what are the peculiar doctrines of the Romish Church as taught in Maynooth. Not to occupy space with unimportant details, we give the following extracts, taken verbatim from "the Creed as established by the authority of the Council of Trent"

"I profess that there are truly and properly seven sacraments of the New Law, instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ, and necessary, though not all to every one, for the salvation of mankind, that is to say, Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Orders, and Marriage, and that they confer grace. And that of these, Baptism, Confirmation, and Orders cannot be repeated without sacrilege.

"I profess in like manner, that in the Mass, is offered unto God a true, proper and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead; and that in the holy sacrament of the Eucharist, there is really, truly, and substantially the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ: and that a conversion is made of the whole substance of the bread into his body, and of the whole substance of the wine into his blood; which conversion the Catholic Church calls Transubstantiation.'

"I confess also, under one kind alone the whole and entire Christ and the true sacrament to be received.

"I firmly hold that there is a Purgatory, and the souls therein detained are assisted by the prayers of the faithful.

"So also, that the saints reigning together with Christ, are to be venerated and invoked, and that they offer prayers to God for us, and that their relics are to be venerated.

"I most firmly declare that images of Christ and of the ever-Virgin Mother of God, and also of other saints, are to be had and retained, and that to them due honour and veneration is to be paid.

"Also that the power of indulgences was left by Christ in his Church; and that the use of them is highly salutary to a Christian people, I affirm. "The Holy Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church, I acknowledge to be the mother and mistress of all churches; and to the Roman Pontiff, successor of the blessed Prince of the Apostles, Peter, and vicar of Jesus Christ, I promise and swear true obedience.

"All other things also by the sacred canons aud œcumenical councils, and especially by the holy council of Trent, delivered, signed, and declared, I undoubtingly receive and profess; and in like manner all things contrary thereunto, and all heresies whatsoever, by the Church condemned, rejected and anathematized, I equally condemn and anathematize.

"This the true Catholic faith, OUT OF WHICH NO ONE CAN BE SAVED, I profess, truly and sincerely hold, and to this I promise, Vow, and swear. So help me God and the Holy Gospels of God."

Now, were we not to go farther than the contents of this very document, which contains the accredited faith of the Romish Church, we would have asked the Prime Minister of England, could he in the face of a Protestant public, for one moment have assumed the right of having such blasphemies and errors taught to his Majesty's liege subjects in Great Britain; and if he could not, we would have asked him what right or authority had he to pay money out of the public treasury for having them taught to the priests in Maynooth.

In the great charter of the liberty of British subjects, the Bill of Rights-the exclusion of Popery formed a principal feature; and in the oath prescribed to be taken by the King or Queen of Great Britain at their coronation, the maintainance of the Protestant religion as by law established, is specifically set forward, and the exclusion of Popery guaranteed.

Still it may said that Mr. Pitt had taken every precaution to prevent mischief resulting from his concessions to the Popish party-by the guarantee of the oath or declaration, which in the year 1793, it was agreed should be taken by Roman Catholics, and by which every Romanist abjured and

condemned, as unchristian and impious, the various laws made by various Popes against Protestants and heretics. In order to demonstrate the perfect futility of such a guarantee, and to shew the fraud and dissimulation practised by the Romanists of that day, we may here allude to the way in which that oath was agreed to, on which so much stress is laid. The writer of a work in refutation of "A Statement of the Penal Laws which aggrieve the Catholics of Ireland, published in 1813," thus describes the transaction

"The reasons which induced the legislature to enact, that Romanists should take and subscribe the oath and declaration, annexed to the Irish Act of 1793, for the relief of his Majesty's Popish, or Roman Catholic subjects, are as follows; a very powerful opposition was made to this Act, in the Irish House of Commons; the debate lasted for some days; during the debate, Mr. Ponsonby, late Lord Chancellor of Ireland, who advocated the bill, produced a printed paper, containing a declaration, alleged to be published by the Irish Romanists, of the principles of that whole body, in respect to the Protestant establishment and Government of Ireland; this he read in the House, and argued, that there could be no valid objection to the grant of the privileges contained in the bill before the House, to the members of the sect which held these principles. This argument seemed to have great weight with the House; and a member in opposition, who knew that the political principles set forth in this declaration were not truly the principles of Romanists, immediately proposed, that the declaration should be converted into an oath, and that all Romanists claiming the privileges in the bill, if it passed into a law, should take this oath, and subscribe it as a declaration; this proposal was with great

warmth opposed in the House, by the advocates of Popery; the debate continued to a late hour; the supporters of the bill were alarmed, and became afraid to put the question on the proposal: an adjournment took place; and some men, who had a considerable influence in the House, and a great following, who had promised to support the bill, went on that night to the minister who advocated the bill, and informed him, that they and their adherents would vote against the bill, and throw it out entirely, unless the proposal was adopted; Government was obliged to comply, and the oath and declaration was annexed to, and made a part of the bill."

That the principles pretended to be abjured still continued to be the principles of the Romish religion, was made evident by the fact, that in the year 1812, one of the grievances complained of by the Roman Catholic Committee, then sitting in Dublin, was that the Government required that oath or declaration to be taken. Now Mr. Pitt was well aware of the circumstances under which that form of oath was agreed to in 1793; and even during the year which elapsed from the passing of the act in 1793, to the time of the presenting of the petition relative to Maynooth, in 1794, he had numerous opportunities of knowing that the oath of abjuration did not contain the sentiments of the members of the Roman Catholic Church.

It was, therefore, a gross dereliction of the duty of a British Minister, after the warnings and experience he had, to countenance a scheme by which the Church of Rome would not only be advanced; but by which alienation, hatred, and animosity against

his Majesty's Protestant subjects and Protestant institutions, would be engendered and perpetuated. Had he allowed the Romanists to do what they themselves asked for in the memorial, he could scarcely, under the circumstances, have been blamed; inasmuch as under the British Constitution the most ample toleration should be acceded to individuals of every denomination; and there should have been neither let nor hindrance to the Roman Catholics erecting as many academies as they wished to be supported by their own funds; but this would have been a very different proceeding, indeed, from supporting or endowing an institution of the kind, in which doctrines and dogmas, completely opposed to the principles which the various members of the British Government had sworn to maintain and protect, would be inculcated. Besides which, by the erection of an Institution in which none but Roman Catholics would be educated, the Government gave a tacit assent to the tenet that" Roman Catholics are contaminated and rendered guilty of heresy by being educated with Protestants." To sum up the entire, therefore, looking at the measure in any point of view in which it may be placed, it appears plain that it could not be supported on any ground, not even on the ground of expediency, altho' the excuse made by the Government was the necessity and expediency of conciliating the Romish Priests and Prelates, lest they might act in league with the enemies of the country, and instil improper principles into the minds of its people. The measure