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am as far, sir, from doubting of the soundness of the catholic board, as I am of the soundness of his majesty's board of exchequer; but as the system of implicit confidence is justly

is as absurd as it is unjust. It is at- it: all that we have learnt is, that tempting to produce the shadow of there is a committee of finance, coma shade! It may answer your purposed of members of the board. I pose of deceiving the nation into an opinion that you are the catholics of England, but the hundreds of thousands, who really constitute this body, must and will, for the safety of their religion, resist the attempt.-exploded with respect to the finances It appears from your printed paper that two country gentlemen, the Rev. Mr. Dunn, of Preston, and Mr. Rosson, of Liverpool, were active in carrying the resolution. What the former good-natured gentleman may effect for the board in his former congregation I cannot tell: he may engage them, for any thing I know, to consent to all the reformations de- | vised by the busy baronet, and, among the rest, for the persecution of a certain meritorious body of ecclesiastics, which is known to be an essential part of his plan; but, I can venture to say, that Mr. Rosson will never engage any comparative number of the catholics of Liverpool to bind themselves to the resolves of the junto which voted the 5th resolution and the bill of 1813.

Come we now to the business of June 16th, in which I and a great many more of my friends and neighbours, including several of the clergy, are deeply interested. It seems, then, that the funds to which we have contributed are exhausted, that the secretary has been obliged to advance several hundreds of his own, and that, after all, large debts, due from the board, remain to be paid. In short, we are called upon, from the highest to the lowest, at this time of general distress, to contribute our money, in order to relieve the wants of the board. Things being so, I am bold to say, Mr. Editor, that, if there ever was a matter which demanded inquiry, it is this. So far from knowing how our money has been spent, we have hitherto not known who has had the spending of

of the nation, so it ought to be with
respect to those of our little body,
Perhaps a few leading questions or
hints may shorten the proposed in-
vestigation. Mr. Silvertop, the
mover of the resolution, pleads the
necessity of money, in order to refute
the encreasing libels and misstate-
ments on the character and princi-
ples of catholics. But what refuta-
tions of this kind has he or his friends
of the board put forth since their as-
sociation. The editor of the Ortho-
dox Journal indeed, is month after
month laudably and powerfully em-
ployed in publishing such essays;
but I have no reason to believe that
the finances of the board are one shil-
ling the poorer for any thing which
he has received from it. About two
years ago a learned gentleman of the
catholic party, J. J. D. insisted upon
being paid £300 for alledged service,
and I believe he actually recovered
that sum from the board.
may know what this gentleman's ser-
vices are, but, I am confident, the
body knows of none. Again, it is
publicly known that Mr. M Pherson
came express from Rome to bring
signior Quarantotti's famous rescript,
the same which the pope soon after
disavowed, and that he was sent back
thither, post haste, to help the same
cause of the veto; as was, soon after,
another more respectable character;
and, though a special subscription
was set on foot for the latter, there is
reason to believe that it was far from
covering his expenses. Again, the
above-named Scotchman is said pub-
licly to declare himself, and to act as
the official envoy of the whole catho-

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P. S. One of the resolutions referred to consists of a high-flown but equivocal vote of compliments, which, from the recorded sentiments of its movers, cannot be understood without an explanation. In short, it is one of those compliments which a celebrated author says, makes a Frenchman smile and bow, but which makes an Englishman knit his brows and think!

Forma Declarationis a R. D. Petro
Gandolphy Eliciendæ.

lic body! Now all this, Mr. Editor, clearly announces a very great expenditure, which must be made good by the committee of finance, at the sanie time that the expenditure is obviously made contrary to the known wishes and true interests of the catholic body. I have also heard of bills brought in and paid for travelling and other expences on other still more important occasions, of which I will say no more than that they are precisely the occasions on which we would wish not to hear of any money transactions, But, to make an end, I strongly protest, Mr. EGO infrascriptus ardenter cupiEditor, that I will not promote or ens Rmo. Dno. episcopo Haliensi countenance in my populous parish vicario apostolico Londini, præsuli any such sub-committee of the Lon- meo, ex animo reconciliari, fateor, don board, as it has resolved on ap- ac declaro, mihi ab aliquibus perpointing; and that I am determined suasum fuisse, approbationem mednot to raise or advise the contribution rum operum, quibus titulus-Exof any money among the catholics positio Liturgia et Defensio antito whom my influence extends, for quæ Fidei, quam Romæ a Rmo. the use of the board, until it gives a S. P. A. Magistro obtinui, idem plane satisfactory account of the monies | esse ac sedis Aplicæ. adprobationem: it has already received, and until qua opinione fretus, putavi, opera there is a sufficient pledge that what ipsa immerito ab antistite meo damit may receive in future shall be ex-nari, ac prohiberi, eique propterea pended according to the known wishes of the catholic clergy and laity of the kingdom. These sentiments, I am well assured, are those of nearly all the catholic clergy and laity in Engand and Scotland.

I fear, Mr. Editor, that your publishing this plain but unanswerable letter will encrease the outcry that is raised by a certain party, who, instead of refuting your arguments endeavour to stifle your voice; but let such persons reflect for a moment on the inconsistency of their conduct. They incessantly reproach parliament with injustice for refusing certain constitutional rights, in the mean time they are exerting a domestic tyranny over the mass of their own people, and trying to rob us of the first of our constitutional privileges, the liberty of the press. I am, sir, truly, A COUNTRY CATHOLIC July 10, 1817. CLERGYMAN.

me objeci. At fateor, me deceptum fuisse,et quam obtinui adprobationem, talem non esse, ut vere dici possit suprema ac definitiva S. sedis adprobatio. Re enim vera aliquando opera, quæ cum venia ejusdem R. Magistri edita sunt,-judicio S S. Congregum. vetita deinde, atque improbata fuerunt. Nunc igitur errore detecto, in quem me adduxerunt, veniam humiliter peto ab eodem Rmo. Episcopo de mea inobedientia, ac de üs omuibus, in quibus illum quoquo modo offendi, ejusque restiti auctoritati; et quidquid in monito a me edito ad populum die 5 Octobris, 1816, et in aliis quibuslibet, vel in illum, vel in aliquos ex clero protuli, sponte revoco, ac retracto. Promitto me imposterum onine obsequium, ac subjectionem eidem sincero animo præstiturum; et menda quæque sive errores, qui in iisdem operibus a S. sede, vel a præsule meo notati fue

rint, me prompte, ac fideliter correc- I have advanced in my printed adturum. Interim a promovenda eorum-dress to the public of the 5th of dum operum evulgatione, quantum October, 1816, and in any other of in me est, penitus abstinebo, donec ea legitime castigata non fuerint. Demisse rogo præsulem meum, ut mihi clementer ignoscat, et in suam gratiam, ut spero, benigne recipiat.

PETRUS GANDOLPHY.

Londini, die Sva Julii, 1817.

A TRANSLATION.

Form of Declaration to be made by the Rev. Peter Gandolphy.

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THE HAPPY NOVICE.-AN AIR.

wandered;

When reflection recalls those sad hours I've squandered, [the tears flow; How swells my sad heart, and how fast A stranger to peace and content have I [never no! Can I e'er cease regretting? () no, pursuit of a phantom whole years have [show; I sought it in pleasure, amusement and ne'er in those scenes any sweets have

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my publications, either against him or against any of the clergy. I promise that I will in future sincerely show him all obedience and subjec tion, that I will readily and faithfully correct any mistakes or errors, which shall be pointed out in the same works by the holy see or by my own prelate. In the mean time, as far as it depends upon me, I will entirely refrain from promoting the circulation of the same works as long as they shall not have been lawfully I, the undersigned, ardently wish-corrected. I humbly entreat my preing to be sincerely reconciled to my late that he will kindly forgive me, prelate, the right reverend lord bishop and, as I hope, graciously receive me of Halia, the vicar apostolic of I.on- into his favour. don, do profess and declare, that I was by some persons, led into the persuasion, that the approbation of my works, entitled Exposition of Liturgy" and "Defence of the Ancient Faith," which I obtained, at Rome, from the most reverend master of the sacred apostolic palace, was exactly the same as the approbation of the apostolic see; on the ground of which opinion, I thought that these works were undeservedly condemned and prohibited by my bishop, and on that account I opposed him. But I acknowledge that I was deceived, and that the approbation which I obtained, was not such as may be truly called the supreme and definitive approbation of the holy see. For in reality some times works, which have been published with the licence of the same reverend master, have been afterwards prohibited and condemned by a seutence of the sacred congregations. Now, therefore, having detected the error, into which they led me, I humbly beg pardon of the same right reverend bishop, for my disobedience, and for every particular in which 1 have in any manner offended him, and resisted his authority; and 1 willingly recall and retract whatever

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I wasted,

I tasted,

Or found but affliction-O no, never no!

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entered,
[low;

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In my God all my hopes, all my joys are
now centred,
[ver no!
Can I e'er cease to love him? Ono, ne-

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All love and obedience in future I'll show, And ne'er feel a pang for the fate of to

morrow,

Or repent of my.vows-Q no, never no! When death with its terrors shall hang ou my pillow, [blow Undisturb'd at his dart I'll meet the dire Resigning my bones to lie under the wil low,* [never no! Where nought shall disturb them-O no, That God for whose sake worldly toys have quitted, [do bestow,

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Who rewards even here hundred folds Will He let my soul die unpardon'd,unpitied, Or refuse me his mercy? O no, never no.

A willow overspreads the burying grouand of

a Convent.

THE

EPITOME OF INTELLIGENCE.

affixing the name of sir J. C. Hippisley to an harangue fraught with malignant invective on the conduct of several of the best and most courageous defenders of catholicity the present age can boast. This modern mode of attacking individuals in a way which they have not the means of repelling, is neither just nor honourable, and betrays a cow ardly conviction, on the part of the speaker, of his inability to meet his adversaries in the open field of literary warfare. Another unfair advantage arising from this mode is, that the slander is circulated through the medium of the daily press to every corner of the kingdom, while the refutation is restricted to a small proportion of the public. As to our selves, we conceive it to be the highest mark of integrity which a sincere

THE events disclosed in the pre- | sent month have been so numerous, and are of so interesting and momentous a nature, that we have felt it our duty to devote a considerable space of this number in recording them. The reader will find that the banishment of the reverend Mr. Hayes from Rome, which some individuals, on the first arrival of the news, were unwilling to credit, and therefore considered it a hoax, is confirmed under circumstances which must reflect indelible disgrace on the ministers of the pope, and on all those of our countrymen who had any share in the transaction, but more especially such as profess to believe in the unbending principles of the catholic church, which are ever opposed to the intrigues of corruption and oppression, though unfortunately too many of her believ-catholic could covet, to obtain the ers, both clergy and laity, are guilty of such unhallowed practises to forward their own sensual gratifications and temporal interests. For our own parts, detesting from our hearts every species of injustice or chicanery, whether committed by a Roman cardinal secretary, or an English foreign minister a Scotch priest, or an English barrister vicar apostolic, or a lay baronet a public body, or a private clubwe here protest against the lawless and despotic proceedings touching the delegate of the Irish catholics, as contrary to every sentiment of religion and humanity. Disgraceful, however, as this transaction must appear in the view of every friend to liberty and justice, we understand that a certain busy baronet assumes all the credit of Mr. Hayes's expulsion to himself. But this ought not to surprise us when we see the reporters of parliamentary speeches

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censure of such a character, whose insinuations would be unworthy of notice, were it not well known that he is connected with, and encou❤ raged by, a faction existing in the catholic body. In his attack on Dr. Milner, the baronet is reported in The Globe paper to assert, that in a solemn address to the members of the house, Dr. M. was pleased coarsely to accuse sir J. C. Hippisley with the wilful statement of an untruth. Sir J. H. read the original words of archbishop Egan's letter, which Dr. Milner attempted to fasten on him as a fabrication.”We have referred to this solemn address, or Humble Remonstrance of a native catholic prelate, and in a note, p. 30, we find him stating, that "Sir J. C. Hippisley, in his printed speech in 1810, asserts, that an alien bishop was sent by Rome on a private mission into Ireland in 1794.' Nothing (adds the prelate) is more

rint, me prompte, ac fideliter correcturum. Interim a promovenda eorumdum operum evulgatione, quantum in me est, penitus abstinebo, donec ea legitime castigata non fuerint. Denisse rogo præsulem meum, ut mihi clementer ignoscat, et in suam gratiam, ut spero, benigne recipiat.

PETRUS GANDOLPHY.

Londini, die Sva Julii, 1817.

A TRANSLATION.

Form of Declaration to be made by

the Rev. Peter Gandolphy.

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I have advanced in my printed address to the public of the 5th of October, 1816, and in any other of my publications, either against him or against any of the clergy. I pro mise that I will in future sincerely show him all obedience and subjection, that I will readily and faithfully correct any mistakes or errors, which shall be pointed out in the same works by the holy see or by my own prelate. In the mean time, as far as it depends upon me, I will entirely refrain from promoting the circulation of the same works as long as they shall not have been lawfully corrected. I humbly entreat my prelate that he will kindly forgive me, and, as I hope, graciously receive me into his favour.

THE HAPPY NOVICE.-AN AIR.

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When reflection recalls those sad hours I've squandered, [the tears flow; How swells my sad heart, and how fast A stranger to peace and content have I [never no! pursuit of a phantom whole years have Can I e'er cease regretting? ( no, [show;

In

wandered;

I wasted,

I sought it in pleasure, amusement and ne'er in those scenes any sweets have

But

I tasted,

Or found but affliction-O no, never no!

I, the undersigned, ardently wishing to be sincerely reconciled to my prelate, the right reverend lord bishop of Halia, the vicar apostolic of I.ondon, do profess and declare, that I was by some persons, led into the persuasion, that the approbation of my works, entitled Exposition of Liturgy" and "Defence of the Ancient Faith," which I obtained, at Rome, from the most reverend master of the sacred apostolic palace, was exactly the same as the approbation of the apostolic see; on the ground of which opinion, I thought that these works were undeservedly condemned and prohibited by my bishop, and on that account I posed him. But I acknowledge that I was deceived, and that the approbation which I obtained, was not such as may be truly called the su-To serve such a master, in joy or in sorrow, preme and definitive approbation of the holy see. For in reality some times works, which have been published with the licence of the same reverend master, have been afterwards prohibited and condemned by a seltence of the sacred congregations. Now, therefore, having detected the error, into which they led me, I humbly beg pardon of the same right reverend bishop, for disobedience, my and for every particular in which 1 have in any manner offended him, and resisted his authority; and I willingly recall and retract whatever

At length in Religion's sure path having
entered,
[low;
I find all that bliss I can hope for he-
In my God all my hopes, all my joys are
now centred,
[ver no!
Can I e'er cease to love him? Ono, ne

All love and obedience in future I'll show, And ne'er feel a pang for the fate of to

morrow,

Or repent of my vows-Q no, never no! When death with its terrors shall hang ou [blow my pillow, Undisturb'd at his dart I'll meet the dire Resigning my bones to lie under the wil low,* [never no! Where nought shall disturb thein-O no, That God for whose sake worldly toys I have quitted, [do bestow, Who rewards even here hundred folds Will He let my soul die unpardon'd,unpitied, Or refuse me his mercy? O no, never no.

* A willow overspreads the burying grouund of a Convent.

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