"the oath of secrecy, which even the passage I have here quoted from his own Journal. The writer admits that the original laws of the Inquisition, as stated by ALL Spanish authors, are good regulations, and were he only made acquainted with the fundamental laws, he might, perhaps, be led to pronounce it a wise and excellent Institution. But when he dips a little into its history, when he examines even superficially its subsequent acts, why then he is justified in saying that it is, as now constituted, the wickedest, and the most abominable institution that ever existed on the earth. and every menial servant of the office "was bound to swear; and notwith"standing the terrible punishments "which were inflicted, as an example "to others, upon some individuals "who, in spite of their oaths, did not "hesitate to make disclosures. Not"standing all this, there have been "numbers of well authenticated cases "published, from which it appears, "that even the Holy Office, even "where the persons accused of offences against their Order were known to be "Catholics, considered themselves jus"tified in departing from their esta-And from whom does he gain his in"blished laws, whether as to receiving "information respecting the charge, "the mode of conducting the pro"ceedings against the accused, his "treatment in prison, the restoration " of his property, or the manner of his "punishment. In no one instance, "indeed, have they scrupled to disre"gard their own rules and regula"tions, when they found it conve"nient, or calculated to promote the "interest of the Order, to depart from "them. How then is it to be ex"pected that the clergy in Spain, of "the present day, will consider them"selves bound by any other motives "than those which influenced their "predecessors? Will not their con"duct be looked to as an example de"serving of imitation? and, in answer "to any charge that might be brought "against them of innovation upon the "laws of their Order, will they not "plead the innovations of former In"quisitors, as a precedent in their fa"vour? Is it very likely that a body "of men, so formidable in number as "the Spanish clergy, and possessing, "as they do, so unlimited a controul " over the people, will be disposed so readily to give up any part of the empire which they have so long ex"ercised over the mind?" Never, since I have been accustomed to read Mr. Cobbett's Register, have I seen him select an article from the most venal print of the present day equalling in virulence and falsehood If a formation? The names of the histo- made to the works of some author who was interested in calumniating and misrepresenting the Catholic religion. The same is the case with this writer, he finds from the accounts given of the Inquisition by all Spanish writers, (and who are so competent to treat upon the subject as those who live upon the spot, and are best acquainted with its proceedings,) that the institution may be a good one. But then come the abuses, which are detailed to anonymous historians by perjured individuals; and these are to be considered as deserving of greater credit, than men whose reputation stands unimpeached!!!-What absurdity is this in a writer who pretends to so much candour and impartiality.-But the the establishment, or if the funda mental laws have been subverted to suit the purposes of some corrupt individuals, it is neither candid nor just, to charge the whole body with the crimes of a few, as the virulent writer in the Register has done.-The Constitution of this country was founded and established by Catholics. Magna Charta, by which the rights of the poor man as well as the rich, were se cured, was drawn up and supported by the Catholic Clergy and Barons, headed by a CARDINAL. It is now exclusively in the hands of Protestants; but many of them, and Mr. Cobbett among the rest, are calling out for a Reform of the abuses which have found their way into it, and accusing the senators of corruption and intrigue.Now what would the writer think of a Catholic who should come forward and condemn the whole system, be cause the Protestant legislators have, in some instances, thought proper to depart from the fundamental laws, as in the case of suspending the Habeas Corpus act, the Irish Insurrection act, &c. with which power, from local circumstances, it has occasionally been judged necessary to invest the arm of the State. If Mr. Cobbett looks back into some of his numbers, he will find accusations brought therein against Ministers for inflicting unnecessary punishments, and against the Legisla reader cannot fail to perceive the motives which govern the spirit of this scribe. His aim is levelled at the destruction of all revealed religion; and to accomplish this his malice is levelled at the sacred order of the ClergyTo attack the Clergy of the Established church would lay him under an ex officio information, the effects of which Mr. Cobbett has had pretty good experience.-But to libel, to traduce, to calumniate, the Clergy of the Church of Rome; to misrepresent and falsify any human institution intended to support and maintain the unity of Catholic faith, is not only safe, but meritorious. No danger is accrued in this country by such a mode of proceeding, and therefore the shafts of the infidel writers are levelled at this sacred body-Hence then the ravings of this infatuated man-Hence then the attempt to make his readers believe that to the Clergy, and to the Clergy alone, are the world indebted for the establishment of the Inquisition; and that they held the abominable doctrine that faith was not to be kept with heretics. No liberal-minded and candid man, I am certain, can read this passage in the Register, without a blush of indignation, and contempt for the wretch who can charge his unoffending neighbours with being governed by such impious principles, without adducing a single fact in proof of his assertions. In contradiction to the latture for passing the acts by which they ter charge, we have the declaration of two universities in SPAIN, besides those in other Catholic countries, which were laid before Parliament in Mr. Pitt's time, solemnly denying that such doctrine WAS EVER taught by the Catholic church. With respect to the tribunal of the Inquisition, it was originally established to preserve the laws of the State as well as to assist Religion, against a sect, holding the most abominable and pernicious doctrines, inimical to social order and regular Governments, and this, perhaps, may account for the rancour displayed by this atheistical and profane writer.Whatever abuses may have crept into were inflicted; but would that justify me in insinuating, that because abuses have been formerly committed, all ministers and senators, both present and to come, must consider themselves bound by no other motives than those which influenced their predecessors! Ridiculous and absurd as the reasoning may appear, yet such is the mode adopted in Cobbett's Register to instil a hatred in his readers against the Catholic Clergy. Some of them, says he, have been very wicked, and have betrayed the sacred order they belong to; therefore all must necessarily be influenced by the same motives! What a profound logician!!! contradiction of this Jos a direct p. 383 RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE JE- "Lord, hath beaten in pieces thine 66.6 enemy; and in thy multiplied 666 grandeur, thou hast laid them low "who warred against thee.-Thou "breathedst the storm, and a sea ❝covered them!'-Who, that reads this fulsome panegyric, can doubt "the entire submission of the Irish "Catholics to the See of Rome?" In SUITS. Under this head Mr. Cobbett character ofan who, to blacken the this short quotation Mr. Cobbett has 66 published three glaring falsehoods, and vived, and the Catholic Church has "regained its state and integrity, in s'innocent fellow-men, has recourse to lies and invective; but when a writer, pretending to be the Champion of Truth, avails himself of these auxiliaries to support his cause, his conduct becomes execrable, his motives infamous, and his character is sunk for ever. In the article alluded to, the restoration of this exalted and illustrious Society, is called an "in"fernal affair," and hopes are expressed by the writer that the French people, who, he says, are all es"teemed Catholics," had no hand in it. He then goes on to censure the Government of this country, for the part it took in restoring his Holiness, and stigmatizes the people of Ireland as "bigotted and ignorant." "It is "well known," he observes, "that" "the Roman Catholic College of May"nooth speaks the sentiments of all "the Irish Catholics; and that, what"ever letters or rescripts they pub "lish, are regarded, by these bigot"ted and ignorant people, as of as 66 great authority as any Bull issued by the Pope. We have all seen the "Congratulatory Letter to Pope Pius VII,' addressed by this body ❝to his Holiness, on the 27th of June "last, about six weeks prior to the "date of the Bull restoring the Je"suits. In that precious document "the Catholics of Ireland declare, that Pius has equalled Jesus Christ, "by resignation not less than by chieftaincy, and, to this old and "evidently superannuated Pontiff, they "apply these words, which have ever "been held applicable to the divinity Thy right hand, O Lord, "hath wrought for itself renown in ❝mightiness. Thy right hand, O ORTHOD. JOUR. VOL. IL your well-being, good and glorious "Man of God, Pius the Seventh, "who, by resignation, not less than by chieftaincy, have brought home "Christ to our view." Is it possible, I would ask the reader, for the most ignorant blockhead to put such a construction on these words, as the writer in the Register imputes to the virtuous characters concerned in the address; and yet he sends the assertion forth to the world without giving the address itself, that his readers might form their own conclusions. In the third place, the words which this malignant man says are applied to the Pontiff, are evidently directed to the Deity, to whom is attributed the power by which the late happy circumstances have been achieved, and which appears to have given such chagrin to the writer in the Register, by the fall of Napoleon, the persecutor of the Catholic Church and its incorruptible Head.-After alluding to the reasons assigned by his Holiness for issuing the Bull, which the writer considers of little weight, he says, "We shall 2 X 66 + Roman priesthood. This is so curious a specimen of logic, that I hope Mr. Cobbett will oblige his readers, by ex. plaining how the Greek churches are supported, who officiate in them, and what the congregations are composed of, when the inhabitants are ALL Catholics, and consequently in opposi tion to the Greek faith. Not content with laying this inconsistency before his readers, he follows it up by the most palpable falsehood ever made public; for he impudently asserts, that it does not appear that the Inquisition, or the Society of Jesus, have any partizans in the Russian dominions. That the Inquisition has no partizans there, I readily believe, and I should be sorry if it had; the Catholic religion stands not in need of any such tribunal. But to say that the Jesuits had no partizans in Russia, is as void of truth, as to say that they have no ene mies in this country. The truth is, and I challenge Mr. Cobbett to prove the contrary, that in Russia, and in Russia only, the Society was cherished and preserved in all its purity, after it had been suppressed by the Head of the Church, who ought to have been its protector, and was persecuted and expelled from those Catholic states that should have supported it, even for their own interest, as time has suffi. ciently proved. Russia, (says Mr. "soon see, whether the magnanimous "Alexander, the Liberator of Na"tions, will permit the existence, in "his extensive dominions, (where the "Greek Church, in opposition to the Roman, is now established,) of an Order, whose fundamental princi"ples are the subversion of all other "ecclesiastical establishments, and the 66 bringing of the whole universe un"der the unrestricted sway of the Ro66 man Pontiff. We shall soon learn "whether the Russian clergy, sup"posing the Emperor to have agreed 66 to the measure, are so tame as to submit to so manifest an encroach66 ment upon their dignity and rights. "For my part, notwithstanding the " wide strides which the Romish clergy are now making to establish their "former domination, I do not think έσ they will make any impression upon 66 Russia. The Inquisition and the Jesuits may be restored in Italy, << because the people there are already devoted to the see of Rome. But in Russia, though the inhabitants are 66 Catholic, they have a priesthood of "their own, who have constantly been ઠંડ hostile to the Roman priesthood; and the same causes which always existed for their being so, now exist "in their greatest vigour. Neither "does it appear that the Inquisition, "or the Society of Jesus, have any "partizans in the Russian dominions."" Plowden in his Letter to Sir J. C. This article is certainly contrary to "Hippesley,) is the chosen spot on Mr. Cobbett's usual mode of reason, “which this plante si rare has been ing, and is quite sufficient to shew the "effectually preserved, and is at this ignorance of the writer; but yet one ❝ hour in as thriving a state, and in cannot help blushing at the impudence the same genuine purity and vigour of the man who dares to lay such pal-as it ever was under any of the ninepable contradictions and falsehoods before his readers. In one passage he briefs, bulls, or rescripts, sanctionsays the Greek Church is established "ed, commended, and confirmed the in Russia in opposition to the Roman," institute.-Russia ever has been in(that is, the Roman Catholic Church); "exorable in her refusal to permit the yet a few lines further he informs his "destructive brief of Ganganelli to readers, that in Russia, yes, this very "be received, promulgated, or exe same Russia, in which the Greek "cuted in any part of her extensive church is established, the inhabitants" empire. White Russia also con are ALL CATHOLICS, and that they "tains near three millions of Roman have a Priesthood of their own, who "Catholics. There the Jesuits have have been constantly hostile to the several considerable establishments: "teen Popes, who had by special "through many other parts of the em- | the insinuations of the Register against the sincerity of the Pope's professions as stated in the Bull.-Mr. Cobbett has been a great advocate for Reform, but I now begin to doubt the integrity of his intentions, since he permits his Register to be filled with the foulest calumnies against the most zealous and most courageous enemies of immorality and corruption. When the advocates for a Reform in the abuses which have crept into the Constitution of this country, urge the necessity of adopting some measures to remedy the evil which they contend exists, are they not in general answered by im "pire they have colleges and resi"dences, They have their general, “their provincials, their procurators, "and all other ranks and degrees of "the Order, who live in their habit, "and in community, with as much "publicity and regularity, as they did "in the days of their founder at "Rome. They live under the imme"diate obedience of their Superiors "within dioceses, according to the "Bulls of their institution, their own "approved institute, and the general 66. usage of the Roman Catholic Church, ❝with reference to all religious Or"ders. The court of St. Petersburghputing improper motives to the indivi"has unceasingly persevered in coun66 tenancing, encouraging, and sup"porting the Society. At this moment, the rising generation of the "Russian noblesse receive their edu46 cation from the Fathers of the Society at the capital, and in other "principal towns of the empire. The "Society sends out its missioners, as formerly, to foreign countries of "idolaters and infidels, and generally "follows up all the pious, edifying, 16 and useful ends of its institute." What does the reader think now of this Champion of Truth? What idea has he of Mr. C's knowledge of eccles siastical history. "But," says he, (6 I shall be told, however, that the 66 views and intentions of the Pope, in wishing to restore the Jesuits, are of the most benevolent kind. I shall be referred to the Bull itself, as af" "fording proofs of these philanthropic "intentions of his Holiness. It is 60 very true, that repeated professions "are there made of the Pope's wish," that the members of this Society should be enabled to apply them selves more easily, in conformity with their institution, to the in-existed, have done more mischief, struction of youth in religion and or occasioned more bloodshed in "good morals, to devote themselves" the world, than the order of the Je"to preaching, to confession, and "the administration of the other sacraments.Before I proceed any farther in this quotation, I shall take leave to make a remark or two upon تا duals, and questioning the sincerity of the views proposed? These insinua tions Mr. Cobbett has combated with the happiest effects, and demonstra tively proved, that the having recourse to such means, was a complete conviction of the badness of the cause, and unworthy the character of upright and enlightened men. Now, if this is the case on matters of civil polity, surely it is equally so when the purity of Religion is the subject. Why then, I would ask, does Mr. Cobbett permit these weapons to be used against the virtuous Ministers of the Church, when he reprobates the use of them against the independent Senators of the State? "But," says the Regis ter," does the history of this Order shew, that they always conformed to the rules of their institution, and that no other objects were concealed "under these regulations? On the contrary, does not that history pre sent the most memorable examples of the ambition, the intrigue, the "vice, and the cruelty of these men in almost every corner of the globe? No sect, no order, in fact, that ever suits." The order of Jesuits is not of very old standing; only 274 years have passed since its first establishment; I therefore think it would have been the credit of the writer, had |