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Lutheran will for the future be dis- [ sight of that sky, and six feet of used in the Prussian dominions.

A letter from Nantes, dated the 28th of July, copied from the French papers, gives the following account of the arrival there of the monks of La Trappe from this country:

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earth, which they will dig for them selves, is all they will find in their native country; for the Trappist there exists neither paternal roof nor domestic hearth: he can no longer feel any of those enchantments which attach us to the world. He prays for the country of his birth; he daily demands from heaven happiness, plenty, and peace, for his brethren who inhabit it; but for himself he seeks in it oblivion and silence, and requires from it nothing but a tomb.

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Within the last few days we have seen 50 monks of La Trappe arrive from England, where they had resided all the time of their exile.An English gentleman, Mr. Weld, treated them with generous hospitality during 22 years. This noble catholic, less enlightened, no doubt, than our modern philosophers, has Among these religious are many not been ashamed to receive with ve- foreigners of distinction. The inneration these monks: he offered babitants of Great Britain could not them an asylum, and gave a solitude behold without envy the strength of to these children of the cloister, who mind and peaceable serenity of these were wanderers in the world, and monks: it appeared to them that exiled far from their native country. the austerities and privations which "Ourfree-thinkers (esprits forts) are practised in the cloister were will hardly believe, that in the nine-lighter to support than the vexations teenth century the inhabitants of the and cares of the world; and they country where these good monks re- have said to these good fathers, in sided in England shed tears on wit- | addressing them, "We will follow nessing their departure, and followed you every where; we shall die them to their ship, invoking the where you shall die; your people blessings of heaven on those who shall be our people, your God shall had edified them by their virtues, be our God." and testifying their regret for them, who, not having riches to squander, had nothing to give but prayers and holy consolations.

"Embarked at Weymouth, on the 10th of July, on board a frigate of the state, these pious solitaries arrived in France, under the auspices of his majesty, bringing with them instruments of agriculture more perfect than those in our own country, and for which the British goverument granted them every kind of permission and freedom. It is at the ancient abbey of La Meilleraie, which belonged to their order in the time of St. Bernard, that they are proceeding to establish themselves, and pray for the king and royal family, and France, whose delightful sky they at length behold. The

ORTHOD. JOUR. VOL. V.

After remaining at the Hotel Dieu during three days, these holy solitaries embarked from Nantes on the 24th, at night, to proceed to the abbey of Meilleraie, in the commune of that name. They landed at Niort, and performed the rest of the journey on foot. The house they have taken possession of is an old benedictine abbey, which was sold as national property, and has been re-purchased at the same price.

We have seen the copy of a very curious remonstance, lately sent up to his holiness the pope, by the leading members of the self-named board of British catholics, by means of lord Castlereagh and cardinal Consalvi, as we have been informed. The subject of the document is en

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That in accordance with this princi ple, we find their agents endeavouring to bargain at Rome for influence in Ireland, and whilst they affect to guard against inter meddling from abroad, they seek to destroy our liberties and to injure our religion, by means of that very power which they pretend a desire to exclude from any interference in our

tirely of an ecclesiastical nature, and by transmitting it to our chief pastor through the hands of the British and Roman ministers of state, our would-be leaders have given us a convincing testimony of their desire to submit our spiritual concerns to political agents, and how unworthy they are to are to manage even our temporal concerns. The remonstrance is handed, about "for private use," among the select circle; we shall probably make it public next month, and have no doubt but its contents will surprize our read-state, of any court whatever, with the ers as it did ourselves.

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At a numerous and highly respectable meeting of the Roman ca. tholics of the county and city of Cork, on Friday, the 22d of August, 1817, the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to:

concerns.

That we have never recognized, and never will acknowledge in the see of Rome, any other than spiritual authojealousy and suspicion, the interference, rity, and we cannot help regarding with direct or indirect, of any secretary of

concerns of our religion, because we conceive spiritual regulations ought to be independent of political considerations.

That we have therefore learned with the Rev. Richard Hayes, the faithful pain and regret, the manner in which delegate of the Irish catholic people, had been treated by the officers of Rome; when, for his zealous opposition was issued for his banishment from the to the intrigues of our enemies, an order Roman territories, and armed guards placed in his chamber, whilst he lay afflicted with severe indisposition; and we are the more indignant at this outrage, as we are convinced that it was

That we, the Roman catholic people of this country, have long laboured under the unmerited infliction of penal statutes, not for any alleged misconduct on our part; not on account of any in disposition in us to support the constitation; but solely under the pretext of our professing the faith of our ancestors, we are excluded from the blessings perpetrated in the expectation that by of that constitution, which has been removing our delegate from Rome, the founded, raised and maintained by Ro-agents of the British minister would be

man catholics.

That we have frequently petitioned the legislature for the repeal of those odious laws, which not only degrade our body, but brand our nation with a stigma of intolerance, that places it in the rank of those noted for their bigotry in an age of liberality. But we have been as frequently disappointed by the votes of a house of commons, charged with corruption, and in which the king's ministers notoriously command over whelming majorities.

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sanction to arrangements which our more likely to obtain a surreptitious bishops have conscientiously declared to be such as must essentially injure, and may eventually subvert, the catholic religion in Ireland, and which, we are convinced, would greatly tend to the destruction of what yet remains of public liberty.

That our chairman be directed to forward to the Rev. Richard Hayes an acknowledgment of our approbation of his conduct in opposing the intrigues of the vetoists as well as our cordial thanks for his exertions, and our sympathy for his afflictions.

That judging the motives of those ministers from their conduct, we are convinced their object is to traffic upon our rights, and upon our religion, for the That although much discouraged by purpose of increasing their own influour repeated fruitless applications for ence, and in the true spirit of the con- relief, yet, as silence on our part may federation of the holy alliance, to mobe construed into apathy or indifference, nopolize power for themselves, whilst we deem it right again to petition the they give to the people but the sem-legislature for the complete repeal of lance of freedom.

those odious disabilities under which

the catholic people of Ireland at present | such circumstances, I thought it was labour.

That we adopt the petition of the catholics of Ireland, drawn up by the catholic board.

no time for unimpressive general statements, that it was necessary that misrepresentation should be grappled with, and that their religion, and the character of its ministers should stand erect in that house, at least, of which I am a member. That my feelings were in unison with those of that re

That being in union with the catholic board of Ireland, well aware of the present critical and alarming posture of catholic affairs in this country, we entreat our prelates to continue their ex-spectable portion of my countrymen ertions in defence of the integrity of our religion, by taking such immediate steps as, to their piety and their wisdom, shall appear best calculated to defeat the intrigues of our enemies.

That our gratitude is due, and our thanks hereby given, to that uniformly steady and strenuous advocate of our claims, the right hon, earl of Donoughmore, the patriotic supporter of our rights, for his conduct in the late sessions of parliament-to that ornament of the christian prelacy, the right reverend the lord bishop of Norwich, and to the right honourable the earl of Harrowby, for their eloquent speeches on our behalf.

That our thanks are also due, and are hereby given, to sir Henry Parnell, bart. general Thornton, Valentine Blake, esq. and the other members of the house of commons, who have honestly advocated our cause.

That we feel highly grateful to captain James Ludlow Stawell, William Crawford, sen. William Crawford, jun. Richard T. Cuthbert, Thomas Lapp Butler, J. Denis, and W. Lane, esgrs. and the numerous other protestant gentlemen who have honoured our meeting with their presence and sup

port.

who composed your late aggregate meeting, and that I did not entirely fail in carrying them into execution, their kind, and to me truly gratifying reso lution, is a sufficient proof. For their continuing confidence, and your own flattering manner of communicating it to me, I am truly thankful. Your's, dear sir, very sincerely,

"DONOUGHMORE."

"Grosvenor Gate, Sept. 12, 1817. "DEAR SIR, I have just had the ho nour of receiving your letter, conveying to me the unanimous thanks of the nu merous and highly respectable aggre gate meeting of the Roman catholics of the county and city of Cork, holden on the 22d of last month, for my conduct in the last session of parliament, and have to request you will have the goodness to express to them my grateful thanks for the honour they have done me, whenever an opportunity shall occur; and to assure them I shall have great satisfaction in renewing my motion, of which I have given notice, early in the next session, viz. for leave to bring in a bill to repeal such parts of the acts of the 25th and 30th years of the reign of king Charles the second, as require the declarations, in certain cases, to be made against the belief of transubstantiation, and asserting the worship of the church of Rome to be attended with success. idolatrous-flattering myself it will be

The above resolution of thanks to the earl of Donoughmore and gene ral Thornton having been transmitted by the chairman of the meeting, T. S. Coppinger, esq. to the noble "I feel myself much indebted to you, earl and gallant general, the follow-sir, for the handsome manner in which ing answers have been received you have made the communication, from these personages-: and have the honour to be, with the greatest respect, your most obedient, humble servant,

"Knocklotfy, September 3. "DEAR SIR,-It was the fate of the Roman catholic petitioners, during the last session, to be assailed with greater violence and acrimony in one of the houses of parliament, and defended, perhaps, with less vigour and effect than on any former occasion. Under

"WILLIAM THORNTON," The Cork Mercantile Chronicle in communicating the general's letter to its readerss makes the following trite and judicious observations :"It must be gratifying to the catholics

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of Ireland to learn, that the gallant | catholic clergy of the diocese of

general intends renewing his motion in the next session of parliament, for the repeal of those oaths, so peculiarly calculated to wound the feelings of catholics, and which to the reproach of an enlightened age, are still suffered to remain a disgrace to the statute book. In short we would ask, where is the protestant who will openly declare, that he does not feel ashamed at being called upon to swear, that his catholic fellowsubjects (with many of whom he is in the habits of daily intercourse; with several of whom, perhaps, he is connected by the closest ties of friendship, and of blood) are idolators? General Thornton, instead of following the example of other generals, who, intoxicated by the smiles of fortune, would wish to perpetuate the degradation and slavery of their car tholic countrymen, shews, that he at least knows how to appreciate the merits of those, whose valour in the field he must have had such opportunities of witnessing, and whose feelings as men he evinces such anxięty to respect. This conduct on the part of the gallant general, while it must insure him the gratitude of catholic Ireland, affords at the same

Cloyne and Ross, we insert the fol lowing account of them from The Dublin Evening Post, a protestant paper, with the editor's remarks

thereon.

"We mentioned on Thursday last, that the catholic bishop and clergymen of the diocese of Cloyne were appointed to meet together in cons ference on the 27th ult. They have met accordingly. Their resolutions now lie before us, and whether we consider the subject intrinsically, as it relates to the clergymen and the bishop of Cloyne, or whether we look upon the resolutions; and we are entitled to do so, as an emenation of the opinion, generally, if not universally, prevailing among the catholic clergy of Ireland, we must regard this document, as one of the most important papers that has, for a long while, been issued in Ireland, We shall proceed to give a succinct view of the resolutions.

"They begin with asserting, that it is the conviction of the conference, that the catholic church of, Ireland is in imminent danger, affirming, that they would be guilty of" high treason against the King of Heaven," were they to conceal their sentiments from their bishop, at a crisis so alarming. They then pro

time a convincing proof, if any indeed were wanting, how inseparably united true valour and liberality must al-ceed to state their adhesion to the resolutions to which the bishops ways be, and that the soldier who is truly brave, is incapable of tarnish- agreed in August, 1815, against the ing his character, by becoming the veto. In the 4th resolution they declare that they supporter of intolerance and oppres sion,"

The discussion upon this motion of generalThornton, there is no doubt will be of the most interesting nature, as it will come home to the very heart of bigotry, and lay open the religious feelings which operate on those who oppose the emancipation of their catholic countrymen.

Not having seen an official copy of the resolutions agreed to by the

Contemplate, with undisguised horror, every measure which has for its object the concession of any such power, to men who are ready to swear, and have already sworn, that the religion of the Roman ca tholics, as practised in this united kingdom, is superstitious and idolatrous.”

"The fifth resolution is directed against the plans sanctioned by government for the education of the lower orders, We do not coincide, generally, in the extent to which the proposition involved in this resolution is carried. As this, however,

is a very important resolution, and | far as its temporalities are concern

is likely to give rise to much discussion, if not to some very "animat ed" animadversion, we shall, in justice to the parties, insert the entire resolution here:

"That the plans, sanctioned by our government, for the education of the lower orders in this country, furnish us with an additional cause of alarm. Those schools, under the most specious appearances, have, in our apprehension, for their ultimate purpose, the proselyting of our poor ca

tholic children. We see immense sums of

money levied, annually, for the mainten

ance, and education of the children of catholic parents, in establishments which are exclusively protestant-the unwearied

zeal, and increasing influence of bible societies and other anti-catholic institutions

for educating the poor of Ireland, cannot escape the notice of the most indifferent

observer. In those schools a version of the scriptures, not only unauthenticated, but disapproved of by the Roman catholic

church, is made the school-book of the poor Roman catholic children; whilst every catholic tract or explanation of the word of God is sedulously discarded.

"The sixth resolution contains a strong protest against the veto, or any measure, however modified or disguised, that is based upon a principle of temporal protestant interference with the discipline and doctrine of the Irish catholic church.

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ed, for which they do care a great
deal indeed-and the other tenth,
who are either old women, or corpo
rators, or obscure sectaries, are
worth nothing in the scale. These
latter are in truth the bigots-who,
are not worth conciliating; as for
the
mass who are arrayed against the
catholics, they have no more bigot
ry in their carcases than the old
philosopher of Malmsbury, or the
great modern apostle of infidelity
himself, Voltaire. We do not as
sert, that, in point of religion, they
are on a par with these individuals,
because it is no contradiction in
terms, that a man may be full of re-
ligion, and free from bigotry.

"The eighth resolution is a request to Dr. Coppinger to use his influence with his brethren, the catholic prelates of Ireland, to es tablish domestic nomination by dean and chapter, and to submit, whether it might not be expedient, at this period, to assemble a synod for the purpose of averting the evils with which the church is threatened; of negociating with the pope in favour of the ancient discipline of the Irish catholic church; and of appointing an agent at the court of Rome, to transact, at all times at that court, the business of the Irish catholic

church.

"The seventh resolution is in favour of domestic nomination by dean and chapter, (words that should never be omitted when the term domestic nomination occurs,) and "The ninth resolution is applied declaratory of the conviction of the particularly to Dr. Coppinger, reresolvers, that such nomination questing the right reverend prelate would conciliate their political to apply to the holy see for the apenemies." Now this is an inter-pointment of a dean, and to nomiference from which we are compel-nate a chapter.

led to dissent; for we conscientious- "The tenth resolution we shall, ly believe, that nothing-neither Veto -nor Domestic Nomination nor any thing the government could take, or they could grant-will conciliate the enemies of catholic freedom. It is a foolish thing to suppose, that these "enemies" are afraid of the purity or integrity of their church; nine-tenths of them care not a straw about it, except so

restricted as we are for space, copy; because we wish that its recommendation should go generally forth. Indeed, we think the model laid down by the clergymen of the diocese of Ross and Cloyne should be adopted-if the second order and the hierarchy accede, as we hope and trust they will, to the following resolution:

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