one wish to secure the permanency of the established church; the other wish to promote their own temporal inte rests; the means employed by both are the degradation and subjection of the Clergy. This is the plain statement of the question; and if these local circumstances had been stated to M. Quarantotti, he would not have recommended silent submission to the Pastors of these insular Churches.Loyalty and obedience he would cer tainly have recommended, if the Cler. gy had been either disloyal or rebel. lious, but silent acquiescence to mea sures which would ultimately be ruin. ous to the Church, had they been properly stated to him, he would never have recommended. But this was not his fault. He spoke the pure doctrine of the Church without any regard to local circumstances. Thus it is that the Clergy is the only body assailed-assailed both by friends and enemies. It is to be hoped that they will not have to fight the battle alone. The cause of the Clergy is the cause of the Laity: it is the cause of diffidence, or any thing like an uncertainty in their minds on that subject, they would have forsaken it long ago. But they are afraid of making a noise: they are afraid of irritating the minds of those who understand not our religion, and who will not be informed concerning it: they are afraid of being reckoned in the number of bigots, or of those who, according to the interpretation given to the word bigot, by Protestants and Freethinkers, are convinced that their own religion is true, and that all others are false. This is what they are afraid of. They are willing to be silent themselves, and to herd, undistinguished by religious sentiments, in the general circle of the world; and it is their object to induce the Clergy to be silent likewise, that so nothing may prevent the attainment of their desires, that no cause may be found for jealousy or suspicion, and that nothing may be considered as an obstacle to their being placed on an equal footing with the rest of their fellow-subjects. The proposed measures are calculated to produce these effects in process of time. Depend-Religion itself. I am rejoiced that the ence creates abjection: and where subsistence and emoluments have their source, there will be found submission, adulation, and bondage. And as this is the object of many of the English Laity, they are zealous in promoting it: and thus willingly consent to sacrifice the spiritual independence of the Church for temporal advantages to themselves. It may be that they do not consider that they are endangering their own Church thereby, or think that they are acting criminally. But the world is uppermost with them: and had they lived in the times of the Apostles, they would have endeavoured to repress the ardent zeal of those men, and to have subjected them to temporal authority in the same manner as they wish to reduce the Pastors of the Church in these times. Thus, the object of the Ministry, and the object of the Catholic Laity, are different, although the means of accomplishing both are the same. The Catholics of Lancashire have begun to speak out. They will not want sup port from a great majority of the Catholics of this island.-Be pleased to excuse my prolixity; for I wished to make known the sentiments of this neighbourhood on this important bu siness. With every sentiment of es teem, I remain, dear Sir, your hum ble and obedient servant, St. Chad's, Birmingham, EDWARD PEACH. DOMESTIC NOMINATION, From the Dublin Evening Post, July 19, 1814. Qur Readers perused with those sentiments of sorrow which Irishmen never fail to experience when they are deprived of the excellence which adorned the public and private virtues of the late Right Rev. Doctor DELANY, Bishop of the Diocese of Kildare, whose death we announced in our last then, things have been managed so as to reconcile all the jarring and opposite opinions which have hitherto been advanced upon the subject of the appointment of Catholic Bishops-the wishes of the Country, in favour of Domestic Nomination, have been duly respected-the Clergymen of the Diocese have been permitted to exercise their legitimate right in the nomination of their future Bishop; and the Government of the Country has the most undoubted assurance, in the appointment of Dr. Murphy, how desirous the Clergy are to select the most. distinguished of their body for their number. We are confident that those | who knew him-and these, thank GOD! were many-will agree with us, that even the vivid and eloquent pen of Mr. Burke, would be inadequate to describe the merits of his religious and charitable life; he not only preached, but he practised all those virtues which ennoble and exalt the human' character. His Episcopal life, which was long, was employed in the pious and faithful performance of those saered duties which our REDEEMER recommended to all his followers. It is, however, consolatory, that this melancholy event has been the cause of affording the most happy prognos-patriotic and zealous exertions, which tic of a speedy termination to all the unfortunate religious dissensions which have torn and disgraced our unhappy Country. A great proportion of the Priests of the Diocese of Kildare, to the number of eighty, with their Archbishop, the Most Rev. Doctor TROY, at their head, and an innumerable concourse of Protestants and Roman Catholic Laymen attended the sad ceremony of the interment of the mortal remains of this Pious and Holy Prelate. The scene was awfully instructive it reminded the truant how he ought to live, and the good man how he should persevere in those acts of benevolence and charitable love, which Doctor DELANY had given so Christian an example of. The Clergy assembled were anxious that the Archbishop would nominate a Clergyman to officiate as Bishop of the vacant diocese of Loughlin and Ferns, until the determination of the Court of Rome should be obtained. The Most Rev. Prelate replied, he would not take upon himself such nomination, but intimated that whomsoever they elected from amongst them, he would feel it his duty to appoint. The Cler-bounded confidence of the King's Ofgymen accordingly retired-a ballot took place, and on a scrutiny of votes, a majority appeared in favour of Dr. Murphy, of the united Parishes of Kilcock and Newtown, whereupon the Most Rev. Dr. Troy declared Dr. Murphy should act as Bishop, Here, they have been all so disposed to make use of, whenever our Country has been the scene of any fermentation or disorder. In the unfortunate period of 1798, the services of Dr. Murphy were very conspicuous-the neighbourhood of his residence became the theatre of several outrages on the side of the Rebels, and likewise on the part of the King's troops. To his indefatigable labours, as well as to his intrepid courage, the Country was indebted for the speedy termination of the Rebellion in the County of Kildare. General Grose, if he was living, Sir Lowry Cole, and many other Officers, who served at that unhappy period in the County of Kildare, would bear testimony to the many and inestimable services which Doctor Murphy rendered to the Government and the People. He was the means of preserving both parties from the committal of those atrocities which, at that eventful moment, were perpetrated in many other parts of unfortunate Ireland; inestimable, indeed, must that man's conduct have been, that at such a crisis entitled him to the most un ficers, and also of the Leaders of the misguided People who were in arms against their Sovereign and the Government of the Country. If the Of ficers we have named cannot be resorted to, we presume the Government will find, upon reference to Sir Fen ton Aylmer and Michael Aylmer, Esq. | the subject, will, I hope, be a suffi of Kilcock, that we had not over-coloured the portrait of Dr. Murphy.Thus, we say, all the Parties who have made so much noise about the danger of allowing the future nomination of Bishops to be unrestricted, ought to feel, that it is as unnecessary as it is unwise, to meddle or interfere with the Ecclesiastical concerns of the Catholic Church; the mode and the appointment of Doctor Murphy is a sufficient example to teach them more moderation and good sense than they have hitherto evinced; and the persons who have been doubtful of the dispositions of our Bishops to carry into effect an arrangement with the Pope which would prove agreeable to the Country, should be satisfied, by the conduct of Dr. Troy, that the instructions given to Dr. Murray and Dr. Milner are the most liberal and wise. We cannot, we repeat, entertain the smallest doubt of the success of the Catholic Question in the next Session of Parliament. The Restrictions of Canning, Grattan, and Co. we have no doubt will be scouted by Parliament. The appointment of Dr. Murphy will leave them without a single argument wherewith they can urge the necessity of superintending the conduct of the Catholic Priesthood of Ireland. We thank Dr. Troy, on the part of our Country, for the great service he has, upon this occasion, rendered to his Catholic Brethren. He has done more by this one act towards the attainment of Catholic Emancipation than has been achieved by all its Advocates for the last twenty-five years. To the Editor of the Orthodox Journal. SIR, The unceasing efforts of our enemies to undermine our faith, and the sort of mental blindness with which the dangers surrounding us are surveyed by those persons in our own communion, who, from eminence of rank, and superiority of talent, should possess the clearest perceptions upon cient apology for my presuming to ad- of sacrificed in procuring peace for Eu- | their flocks, and let us indulge the earnest expectation that the Laity will be content to suffer still more, if such should be their doom, rather than submit for a moment to the degradation of their Clergy. While this happy bond of union and confidence exists among them, they may safely be content to look with an eye of calm forbearance on all the visitations which the malice of their enemies may prompt them to inflict. How infinitely better off they are in this respect than ourselves the occurrences of the last few rope, her wounds alone are not to be healed: that, while all around her is joy and exultation, she shall be doomed to hopeless dejection: that, while new blessings are shedding over the rest of Europe, her miseries are to pass unnoticed and unregarded; while every other nation is calculating upon days of happiness and prosperity, Ireland alone is to be doomed to bitter suffering and persecution. All the glories achieved by her sons are to pass unrewarded; all the griefs of her children to remain without one sooth-years will suffice to shew. In this ing ray of consolation to cheer them at this moment (to other nations) of universal joy. It is a sorrowful subject to dwell upon, and the evil consequences of the recent injuries inflicted must rest upon the heads of those who have incurred so heavy a responsibility. Every one acquainted with the present and former condition of that nation, will easily perceive that those harsh measures are now resorted to, in the expectation that some improper ebullition of public spirit may afford a colourable pretext for the revival of some of those persecutions which every friend to the welfare of both countries must wish should be totally forgotten. But the Catholics of Ireland, I trust, will frustrate the expectations of those enemies to their prosperity; that by proceeding temperately, firmly, and legally, in the prosecution of the sacred cause in which they have engaged, they will fully and plainly evince the purity of their motives and rectitude of their actions. They have amidst their afflictions and sorrows one source of joy, which they possess in a greater degree perhaps than any other nation in Europe; I allude to the mutual confidence subsisting between them and their Clergy; and while this subsists, whatever personal afflictions they may be exposed to, they will be infinitely happier than any of their persecutors: we have seen the Clergy of Ireland enduring ages of persecution to promote the spiritual welfare of country we are placed in such an unfortunate situation, that we really, in my opinion, have more to fear from our friends than from our avowed enemies. We need go no further to prove this, than refer to the late curious, enigmatical, Relief Bill, which, if suffered to pass into a law, would have remained a lasting memento of the folly of the Board of British Catholics, and the designing duplicity of those by whom that Bill was framed. Thanks, however, to the vigilant care of a faithful guardian of the Church, the attempt to enslave our Clergy was defeated, never I hope to be proposed again. Being foiled in their hopes, it was natural that the framers of so incongruous a measure should have recourse to other means to accomplish their purpose, and in due time was produced the famous Rescript of M. Quarantotti. There, however, the arts of the Junto and their adherents were again defeated-the rescript came too late to accomplish their purpose, and will, I trust, be consigned to its merited oblivion. I am sorry to perceive that the observations in your Journal upon the dangerous tendency of this document have excited such animadversions as those of your Correspondent, N. G. which appeared in the last number. It is impossible to read the various articles which have appeared under that signature without feeling sentiments of respect and approbation for the writer; but it appears to me, that in noticing what he seems to consider plied to that paper, he seems to forget the boldness (to use no stronger phrase) of M. Q. and his co-operators, in presuming to set their opinions against the declared sentiments and published opinions of a whole National Church. Let me entreat your valuable correspondent to bear in mind that this is not a party, a faction, in Ireland, or in this country, who have established themselves in opposition to the Holy See; but a few individuals at Rome, whose understandings, I fear, have been imposed on, who have had the presumption to obtrude themselves in opposition to the sentiments and wishes of the Catholic hierarchy and the People of Ireland. I know nothing of M. Quarantotti, having never heard of him till the appearance of the rescript; but, in my opinion, the more consideration it receives, the more apparent becomes his presumption, and our rejection of the decree more essentially necessary.-I am, Sir, yours, A. M. C. C. the illiberal terms which have been ap-rous cataracts of tears over the sable day-labourers of the American Archipelago; after all the eloquence poured forth in redundant copiousness from the lips of senators in either house of the British parliament; after all the speeches, sermons, pamphlets, handbills, advertisements, songs, and other two-penny matters;" after the more than mortal labours of the moral Hercules, assisted by the subordinate efforts of the imitatores servum pecus,' congregated and summoned by the telegraphs of magnificent philanthropy; after all these things, Sir, I would simply ask, who are the real slavesthe slaves, not of a physical, but of a moral description? Are they, or are they not, the professors of the ancient faith of Christendom? The true Slave Trade, Sir, is to be found in the land of liberty! An anomaly this, which, had it existed in the dark ages, as some of our sapient countrymen delight to call them, would have served as matter of abundant ridicule and execration for such writers as are fond of contrasting-the days which are with the days which were. What tirades should we not have read about political inconsistency, and errors in the science of government, with all the other topics which the fruitful pen of speculation is capable of dilating into octavos of splendid appearance and promise!-But, as the case really is, the attention of "the most enlighten"ed country in the world" must needs be called away from Hibernia, or from Albion, to rove among the western isles of slaves,-slaves I grant ;-but what slaves? Why, they are not mentally so, not spiritually so-not slaves in the most important sense; they have not minds, fettered by the dogmas of a novel system; or, I should rather say, not attempted to be thus subjugated; for, I believe, no Catholic is even yet to be found, not withstanding all the egregious fables and egregious exertions of the Biblemen, who has his mind in any degree chained by the successors of Calvin and Luther. No, Sir, whatever talk July 21, 1814. THE SLAVE TRADE. To the Editor of the Orthodox Journal. SIR, The public of the united empire have lately been most marvelously amused by the universal burst of popular feeling on the subject, the eter nal subject, of the Slave Trade, as it is described to exist in certain of the colonies belonging to the maritime powers, and reviving, as it would ap. pear, under the restored government of the Bourbons in France. Oh! the good easy nature of John Bull and of his amiable family!-always ready to sympathize with the miserable, to go forth to protect the injured, and to do every thing kind to every body, in every country, under every discouragement, except to his own relations! For, after all, the declamation of those sublime philanthropists, who clasp whole continents within their endear ing embraces, and shed almost boiste |