ditious miscreants have dared to oppose the opening of the Protestant chapels. Our military commandan', while striving to disperse them by persuasion, before he used force, has been assassinated, and the assassin | has, sought an asylum against the pursuit of justice. If such an act should be committed with impunity, there would no longer be public order, nor government, and our minister would be culpable for not executing the law.”—The ordinance concludes with directing the law officers to bring to justice the assassin, his accomplices, and those concerned in the tumult of the 10th at Nismes.-A Proclamation has also been issued by the Prefect of the Gard on the 12th, which states that "the king's orders are to protect all forms of worship, to ensure freedom of commerce to all the French; these orders we have executed, and will maintain to our last breath." loads of sand were carried thither to What say the English" "friends and 66 tête, which nature had endowed him, to Daily at prayer and meditation long before day-light; daily visiting the sick and the poor, whom he never left without administering, together with spiritual, temporal comforts, confided to his hands by the faithful; always poor as to himself, but rich for others, it was at length time to consummate the sacrifice of a life wholly devoted to charity and to his God. "M. Nolhac, whom the banditti themselves had hitherto held sacred, was sent prisoner to the castle, the very day before that on which the six hundred victims were put to death. His appearance among those unhappy persons, who all knew and revered him, was that of a consoling angel; his first words were those of an apostle of souls, sent in order to prepare them for appearing before the judge of the quick and the dead: I come to die with you, my children, we are all going together to appear before God. How I thank him for having sent me to prepare your souls to appear at his tribunal! Come, my children, the moments are precious; to-morrow, perhaps to-day, we shall be no longer in this world; let us, by a sincere repentance, qualify ourselves to be happy in the other. Let me not lose a single soul among you. Add to the hope, that God will receive myself into his bosom, the happiness of being able to present you to him as children, all of whom he charges me to save, and to render worthy of his mercy,' They throw themselves at his knees, embrace, and cling to them. With tears and sobs they confess their fault: he listens to them; he absolves them; he embraces them with that tenderness which he always manifested to sinners. He had the satisfaction of finding all impressed by his paternal exbortations. Already had that unspeakable pleasure, that peace which only God can give, as in heaven he ratifies the absolution of his minister on earth, taken place of fear on their sountenances, when the voices of the banditti were heard calling out those who were to be the first victims, for whom they waited at the gate of the fort. There, on the right and on the left, stood two assassins, each having an iron bar in his hands, with which they struck their victims as they came out, with all their force, and killed them. The bodies were then delivered to other executioners, who mangled the limbs and disfigured them with sabres, to render it impossible for the children and friends of the persons to distinguish them. After this, the re mains were thrown into the infernal pit, called the ice-house. Meanwhile, M. Nolhac, within the prison, continued exhorting and embracing the unhappy prisoners, and encouraging them to go as they were called. He was fortunate enough to be the last, and to follow into the presence of his God, the six hundred souls who had carried to heaven the tidings of his heroic zeal and unshaken fortitude." M. Nolhac, says Mr. Dallas, from whose excellent work this narrative is extracted, was a Jesuit! The Cork Mercantile Chronicle COR tains the following trite remarks up on the late treaty between the Candians and our Government; - “Our readers will find in another column, a curious document regard. ing the Island of Ceylon. It relates to the re-institution of the native establishment of the religion of Boodhe, which was guaranteed in the political settlement made by Gen. Brownrigg on behalf of England, in all its privileges, with all its endowments, in as full form and manner as under the late Government. Quere, had these good people copies of the military and ci vil articles of the treaty of Limerick before them, when stipulating thus with their English friends?--We should fancy that a copy of the Secret Instruc tions, and the other Canadian papers brought before the House of Commons by our Ex Ministre de Culte, Sir J. C. Hippisley, would be an acceptable present to Kobbey Kaduwa Nayaka Unanse, the Chief Priest of Idel Boodho. late the Gospel of the benevolent Sa viour as the rule of Christian life!!" Eut seriously, what man is there of feeling, of experience, or of conscience--what man of sane head and uncorrupted heart, who is not justly in- ANECDOTE. Sir James Macindignant, when, on reading over this tosh, when at Paris, paid a visit to charter, he finds the English Govern- the Deaf and Dumb Institution there. ment, which has for centuries shut -The Abbe Sicard introduced several out five millions of a generous and of his pupils to him, to one of whom, warm-hearted people from the rights Massien, at Sir James's request, the of freemen, and the privileges of an following question was submitted→ admired constitution, merely because" Doth God reason?" Massien, on they differ in some points of specula- seeing the question written, at first tive faith from the monopolizers of appeared perplexed; but soon after the benefits of that constitution-returned this decisive and logical sogrant not immunity only, but protec- | lution-"God sees every thing! God tion and support to the dark, and foresees every thing! God knows every gloomy, and heartless idolatry of thing! To reason is, no doubt, to Boodho! But the cause of this is hesitate, to enquire, the highest at, obvious. Religion is but the pretence tribute of a limited intelligence: God, of this exclusion-it is the political therefore, doth not reason." The monopoly-it is the political influence Abbe, when at Brighton, a short time which deprives Ireland of her rights. since, with Massien, was met at the If it be religion which causes the ex- Custom-house by a gentleman acclusion, why grant freedom and sup-quainted with the anecdote above report to the idolatry of Ceylon? Whylated, and who begged of him again nerve the arm of the weak and tyran- to propound the same question to his nical Ferdinand-why assist in replac-pupil, which he politely did, and the ing on the most Catholic throne in answer returned was-" Men reason Europe, a weak Catholic King, sur- but in order to find truth; God, who rounded by bigots, as Louis the knows truth, is not in want of reason, Eighteenth at present is? We anti- and does not reason.” cipated the answer-it is because religious difference is now as it always The following trait of genuine feelwas amongst Christians, but a pretexting in the Irish character deserves to for persecution. The genius of Chris-be recorded:-Some poor ragged Irish tianity belies the wretch who pleads peasants who had been employed in its dictates as a charter to sanction the late harvest in Bedfordshire, passed bloodshed. As well might the bene- through the village of Cardington, volent Redeemer be painted to us in where Howard the Philanthropist the garb of Moloch, and smeared lived, and where Samuel Whitbread is with the blood of human victims, as buried; they waited on a gentleman to seek to justify persecution from who resided there, and entreated, as the the immaculate page of his Gospel. greatest favour, permission to see the The Irish Catholics are persecuted; mausoleum where Mr. Whitbread's or, if the word displeases, are shut remains are deposited. They were out from the privileges of the Consti- admitted into Cardington Church, and tution under which they live, and allowed to go to the rails which form wherefore? Because they are Catho- the door of the cemetery; and through lics, and that in professing that reii- those rails the coffin of him whom they gious creed, they differ in speculative loved was pointed out to them. They belief from the Administrators of the then immediately burst into a flood of State. And, strange to say, these tears, and deplored the loss of their Administratora preach up and circu- benefactor by that doleful bowl, which, though it be unusual to English ears, deeply affected the Bedfordshire peasants who heard it; and convinced them that the Irish poor can feel when they have lost a friend. OBITUARY. attend to, which regarded the greater glory of God, and the salvation and sanc tification of the souls of his fellow-crea tures. Palaces, colleges, schools, convents, garrets, cellars, workhouses, pri sons, dungeons, scaffolds, equally with confessionals and pulpits, were the thea tres of his love of God and of his neigh On the 3d inst. (November) departed bour. Strict and unbending in maintain this life, aged 62, the Rev. John Griffiths, ing pure Catholic orthodoxy and morality, Chaplain of St. Patrick's, East, in Saint from the very beginning of the unfortu George's Fields, T. C. &c. In recording nate disputes among English Catholics, the death of this truly apostolical Mis on the occasion of their first emancipation sionary, we have to lament no common in 1790, down to the present year, no loss to the cause of humanity and of the consideration of favour or interest, even Catholic Religion in this island: the in behalf of his charitable and pious unanimous voice, the unaffected sighs establishments, could induce him to deand tears of a great proportion of British viate a step from the path of truth and Catholics will stand in evidence of the duty; indeed, it is known to the writer truth of this eulogium. Born of honest of this that the sacrifices which he made and religious parents in the eastern exin the point nearest to his heart, that of tremity of London, he was at an early his pious establishments, to avoid swerv age sent to that nursery of piety and li- ing even in appearance, from the strict terature, Sedgeley Park, then newly es ness of his orthodoxy, were very great. tablished, by the venerable Bishop Chal- To his zealous efforts, those invaluable loner, through the agency of his inmate establishments St. Patrick's East, or the and chaplain, the Rev. William Erring Borough Chapel, and Greenwich Chapel, ton. Here he was distinguished by his are chiefly to be ascribed. By these and talents, his regularity, and morality, and his other apostolical labours, it is impos his strong call to the ecclesiastical state; a sible now to say how many hardened grace of God for which he was ever after- sinners he has been instrumental in con wards most thankful to his divine Majes verting from the ways of death, or how 13. In compliance with his vocation, many thousands of tepid Christians he about the year 1768, being the second has led to a happy union with their God. jubilee of the foundation of that first hope All this, however, will hereafter be of the perpetuity of Catholicity in Eng-known. Having attempted, in the course land and school of martyrs, the Eng lish College of Douay, he was removed thither, where maintaining the character which he had acquired at Sedgeley Park, be was chosen for one of the first pillars of the newly restored seminary of Valladolid, from which the Fathers of the So. ciety of Jesus had been expelled by the fatal politics of worldly statesmen at that period. Having finished a course of Found theological studies and taken orders, he was, for some time, employed at the college in teaching his juniors, and afterwards duly sent into the Lord's vineyard, in the English mission. Here he Soon evinced that he had imbibed the of the present year, to perform the im mense duties of his deccased friend and pupil, the Rev. Stephen Green, at Greenwich, Woolwich, &c. in addition to his overwhelming labours in the borough, he sunk under the burden; his health, how ver, had been previously undermined by cerch as possible, to conceal from the notice certain interior crosses, which he strove, as of his intimate friends. These served to refine his virtues, and to fit him for that crown of glory which, we trust, through the bounty of God, he attained to o the above-mentioned third day of the present month. On the 10th, after a solemn mass and requiem, at which the Right Rev. Dr. Poynter officiated, the remains of this GOOD SHEPHERD were deposited by the side of his own confessional in the Bo rough chapel, agreeably to his own re quest, amidst the sympathetic tears and sighs of an affectionate and afflicted con true spirit of the Cuthbert Maynes, the to attempt, nothing too little for him to Andrews, Printer, 5, Orange-street, Red Lion-square, London. ORTHODOX JOURNAL, AND Catholic Monthly Intelligencer, VOL. III. THE For DECEMBER, 1815. No. 31. PERSECUTIONS IN FRANCE. lice could invent ;-knowing that the THE fanatical and bigoted misre- most barbarous and sanguinary code presentations of The Morning of laws against the professors of the Chronicle, which I noticed in my last, Catholic faith, which ever disgraced appear to have roused that part of the the annals of a Christian country, population in this island denominated was invented and enacted by ProtesDissenters into a state of religious ac- tants, and is to be found in the sta tivity; and meetings for the purpose tute books of England and Ireland; of requesting our Government to in. -so far from feeling it necessary to terfere in behalf of their brethren in make any declaration of my abhorFrance, we are told, will be held in rence of the diabolical scenes at every town in the kingdom. The Nismes, my mind is filled with indig Corporation of London, too, in a fit of nation at the base means which have religious zeal, has thought proper to been followed to raise an outcry at Co-operate in this charitable object, the supposed system of superstition by voting an address to the throne in and bigotry which govern the Catholic behalf of the sufferers; and we are priesthood and people; and at the hyfurther informed, that the Catholics pocritical cry of humanity which now in the North of England, as well as dins our ears for the poor suffering those in Ireland, are anxious to have Protestants of France, while the deau opportunity of declaring their graded and persecuted Catholics of deep detestation of this system of re- Ireland cannot obtain even a sympaligious persecution. For my own thetic sigh from these feeling friends. part, knowing that the doctrines of of religious liberty. Detesting, as I my religion teach me to practice bro- do, from the bottom of my heart, any therly-love towards all my fellow-civil restriction on liberty of consciCreatures; -knowing that the structure of the Catholic Church is grounded upon the most sublime principles of charity and truth;-knowing that the formation of her Constitution is so foreign to despotism as to become a model for that established form of civil government under which we live ; knowing that religious persecution was scarcely ever practised in this and other Christian countries, until it was introduced by Protestants, at the period of the pretended Reformation, with all the refined cruelty which the ingenuity of passion and maORTHON, JOUR. VOL. III. ence, because it is calculated to make hypocrites of those who would otherwise be honest men; I equally detest that execrable system, which condemns one set of men as unfit and dangerous members of society, and, at the same time, employs the abominable means of calumny, detraction, and falsehood to brand them as such in the eyes of their neighbours. I also detest most heartily the conduct of those characters who come forward with the most whining professions of being friendly to religious freedom, and yet, with a degree of refined,hypo 3.M |