gentleman for the purity and perma nency of his faith, when he circuculates a supposed pledge on the part of the regent, that he would never concede emancipation without a power was granted to him to con-trol and extinguish the catholic religion, as a mean of inducing catho lics to offer this or a similar power to obtain a few worldly emoluments or privileges? Surely this act is enough to convince the most hardy of the necessity of withdrawing every degree of confidence from this ambitious and intriguing character. Another report is in circulation in Ireland, that the catholic prelates of Ireland have determined to procure, if they can, the immediate establishment of domestic nomination. The Most Rev. Drs. Murray and Everard, it is stated in the Irish pa the discussion of the catholic claims this session, to watch the progress of the emancipation bill, and suggest to our real friends those measures which alone can tend to conciliate Ireland. vicars apostolic were adorned with a red hat. Knowing, as we well do, the injury which the cause of truth and justice is perpetually experiencing by the method adopted by the leaders of the board, of conveying the information they deem necessary to give to their creatures by private circulars, and being perfectly confident that the respectable editor would not pledge himself on the subject without sufficient grounds, we therefore cannot refuse admitting the verity of the assertion, and add our warning voice against the deceitful tricks of this most wily agent. The object of ahis circular can have no other end than that of inducing those who wish to obtain emancipation either to concede the vèto, or content themselves with remaining in their present degraded state; which lat-pers, are to attend in London during ter situation the titled members of our body do not seem to relish, though the vast majority of the people are determined to forego their civic rights, rather than surrender the free exercise of their religion. To enable the reader, however, to judge of the degree of accuracy to which the contents of this circular is entitled, we think it right to state, that we have heard it asserted as the general conversation in the higher circles of our opponents, that the illustrious personage alluded to in the said conversation, gave it as his opinion, that the catholics were in possession of all the privileges which could safely be conceded to them, and that to grant them more would be to violate the principles which placed his family on the throne of these realms.-Now if this statement is correct, does not the conduct of Mr. Butler, supposing him to have issued such a circular, deserve the highest mark of censure, for practising deception even on his friends? But what are we to say of the attachment entertained by this The meeting on the 14th produced an uninteresting discussion upon the necessity of adopting some means to procure if possible, an unanimous effort of the whole catholic body to obtain a redress of their grievances. A committee was appointed to arrange the propositions to be submitted to an aggregate meeting convened for the 25th instant, but which we understand has since been deferred for a few days, in order to enable the committee to extend their efforts to ensure success in their laudable views. In the house of commons, on the 24th inst. Mr. Shaw wished to enquire whether the notice given by an honourable and learned gentleman, (Mr. Brougham) relative to an intended motion by an honourable baronet, (Sir H. Parnell) referred to the general catholic question or not? If it did, it would be impossible for many members from the sister country to attend, as they would be engaged in the assizes. Mr. Brougham replied, that it did not. The motion, of which he had given notice in the name of his honourable friend, would be for the appointment of a select committee to take into consideration the state of the penal laws affecting the catholics of the united kingdom, and to report thereon. His honourable friend would not agitate the general question, by moving the consideration of the catholic petition, which had been placed in his hands, until a period at which it would be quite convenient for all the members from the sister island to attend, us, that the jesuits are making rapid progress in that country, since their restoration. The collegiate church and establishments of St. Isidore, in Madrid, has been given up to them, and the chapter to whom it had formerly been appropriated, and who had under its care one of best seminaries in Spain, was turned out for their reception. King Ferdinand, as an encouragement, allows each noviciate of the Loyola order a daily stipend of one dollar, by which means thirty noviciates are already among the inmates of St. Isidore, and their numbers were expected to increase." We congratulate the friends of religion and social order on the progress which this illustrious order is making in Spain, as we feel convinced that the labours of the disciples of Loyola will contribute more to establish the happiness of mankind, than all the blustering orations of our demagogues, who are constantly railing against the rekindling of the fires of the inquisition, before a single spark has been lighted, or the hair of a heretic scorched; and ac The following paragraph, copied from a late Morning Chronicle, whilst it shews the malignant spirit of the infidel writers of the present age, must afford the highest consolation to the sincere believers in christianity, in beholding the zeal and fervour of the French clergy, to caution their flocks against the danger-cusing the jesuits of numberless and dus principles inculcated in the works of the anti-christian philosophers of that country: "Initiatory to the observance of Lent, the clergy of Paris have, by their mandate, caused a remonstrance against the writings of Voltaire and Rosseau to be read in all the churches of the capital, in consequence of two editions of the works of those authors having been announced for publication, one calculated for the pockets of the poor, and the other destined for the libraries of the affluent.” atrocious crimes, without advancing a solitary authenticated fact in support of their charge. We have no hesitation in again repeating, that the venerable fathers of the order of Ignatius deserve to be ranked among the best benefactors of mankind, and we refer to their labours in Para guay, as detailed by Muratori, in testimony of our assertion. Rumours having been put in cir culation, intimating that the official approbations of the Rev. Mr. Gandolphy's works, copies of which were inserted in The Orthodox Jourhad been surreptitiously obtained, and were unauthenticated, we deem it a duty, as friends to truth, to give publicity to the following Confirmation and Attestation of the said Approbations, A preceding number of the same diurnal print contained the follow-nal for last August, ing information, which the editor deemed of such importance as to make it the leading article of foreign intelligence: "Private letters from Spain inform by order of the Master of the Sacred | as to deterthem from declaring the truth Apostolical Place, at Rome: IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. To all and every one who shall see these Letters, I most solemnly certify and attest, that I, the undersigned Penitentiary of the Holy Vatican Church for the English Tongue, together with the Rev. father Joseph O'Finan, doctor of divinity, and prior of the convent of St. Clement, of the order of St. Dominick, was, some months back, deputed by the Most Rev. Father, the Master of the Sacred Apostolical Palace, to the Revision and Approbation of the two Works in the English language, one entitled "A Defence of the Ancient Faith," the other "An Exposition of Liturgy," by the Rev. Peter Gandolphy, of London, and a missionary apostolic; which Works having been most diligently examined, as was proper, by myself and my Associate, we together presented our Approbations to the said Master of the Sacred Apostolical Palace, and HE, with his own hand, immediately subscribed his Imprimatur; which, is so true and certain, that it can only be called in question by him, who would deny the light of the sun at meridian day. t on this subject as they are required, lest, therefore, the truth should be sup pressed, or called in question, I have subscribed these Letters, written by the order of the Most Rev. Father, the Master of the Sacred Palace, and have sealed them with the usual Seal of my Office, certifying solemnly to all, that the two Works of the said Rev. Peter Gandolphy have by right, as well as by merit, obtained a FULL APPROBATION FROM THE APOSTOLIC SER Given at Rome, from the College of the Penitentiaries at St. Peter's, Nov. 13, 1816. (Signed) PETER DAMIANI, Conventual of the Order of St. Francis, Master of Sacred Theology, and Apostolical Penitentiary of his Holiness, Pope Pius VII. at the Vatican Church for the English Tongue. (Attested by) Archbishop of THOMAS TOMAGGIAN, MARC ZEIDLER, Conventual of the Order Dyrachium, and Penitentiary Apostolice of St. Francis, Master of Sacred Theology, and Provincial Penitentiary Apos● tolic in the Vatican Church. BERNARD CHARBRIER, Doctor of Divinity, and Penitentiary Apostolic in the Vatican Church. DIED. On the 18th inst. at Ug-3 brooke park, the honourable Robert Clifford, third son of Hugh Lord Clifford, and brother to the present Lord Clifford, baron of, Chudleigh, in the county of Devon. On the 13th instant, the Rev. Mr. Longuet, of Pangbourn, near Reading, in Berkshire, a catholic priest, and teacher of the French language in that neighbourhood. On the above day, Mr. L. paid a visit to the family of Thomas Morton, esq. who resides about six miles from Reading, and quitted Mr. Morton's house between eight and nine o'clock. He had not proceeded many miles before he was at tacked by some villains, who barba Moreover, as anonymous objections against the said Works were afterwards. handed to us, objections weak in themselves, but full of cavilling,-I, the un. dersigned, in order to defend the honour and authority of the said Most Rev. Father, the Master of the Sacred Palace, and vindicate my own judgment on the said Works, immediately drew up the Answer, and presented it to the Master of the Sacred Palace, who, pronouncing the adversary confuted by the evidence I produced, again confirmed his former Imprimatur, giving notice of the same by letters to his Eminence Cardinal Litta, Prefect of the Holy Congregation of Propaganda, to whom the undersigned also presented the same answer; and, in a lengthened discourse with me,rously murdered him, apparently with his eminence acknowledged the unjust persecution of the said Author, and promised to use all his endeavours to bring the adversaries to a reconciliation with him. I But, since the adversaries of the said Author (through their agent in this city) have contrived, by their artifices, to gain over or frighten several into silence, so some sharp instrument; for when he was found on the following morning, his head was nearly severed from his body, and he was dreadfully mangled, cut, and stabbed, in various parts of the body. His body was opened, and in his heart were no less than five stabs, supposed to have been inflicted by a bayonet. W. E. Andrews, Printer, Garlick Hill, Thames Street. CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY NOT RELIGIOUS TOLERATION UNDER CHARLES THE FIRST. IN resuming my remarks on the are as loud in condemning the resistance of the Irish to the long-endured spoliations of merciless governors, as the effect of the sanguinary principles inculcated by the doctrines of popery. To expose the ignorance of our all-knowing patriots, and to tear aside the veil which our protestant writers have drawn over the occur rences of those days, is the task I have imposed on myself, and I have the confident presumption to think that little difficulty is required to accomplish the design; for true is the remark of the learned Lord Bolingbroke, in his Letters on the Use of History, "that a small gleam of light, borrowed from foreign anecdotes, serves often to discover a whole system of falsehood; and that even they, who corrupt history, frequently betray themselves by their ignorance or inadvertency; that when histories and historical monuments abound, even those that are false serve to the discovery of truth: for that, inspired by different passions, and contrived for opposite purposes, they contradict, and contradicting, they con resuming my remarks on the effects produced by the Reformation, so called, in favour, or rather, I should say, disfavour, of civil and religious liberty, I enter on a reign big with the most eventful circumstances recorded in the annals of our country, all of which have been more or less falsified and misrepresented by the popular historians of the day, according as it suited the taste of the party they espoused, or were dictated by the prejudices which clouded their bigotted or fac tious minds. Thus the true causes which led to the three great rebellions which happened in this reign are little known to the public, even in this age of enlightened philanthropy and improved philosophism; on the contrary, we find the present declaimers against the popish tyranny of the Bourbons and the iniquisition, extolling the seditious and traitorous conduct of the turbulent parlia-vict one another." How applicable mentarians of the seventeenth cen- is this observation to the labours of tury, as the very essence of true protestant authors and politicians! patriotism, springing from the love In the present times of unexampled of national freedom, although the suffering and discontent, we find the whole of their public proceedings popular leaders and writers constantexhibit them as the base panders of ly referring to the deeds of their antheir ungovernable passions, and the cestors, and praising their determined cold-blooded persecutors of their in-resistance to ecclesiastical and polinocent neighbours; while the bigotstical tyranny, particularly in the ORTHOD. JOUR. VOL. V. M | and to demonstrate that the cry now raised against the restoration of the Bourbons and the pope, the jesuits and the inquisition, springs from the same source as the bigotted remonstrances against the growth of popery with which the patriotic forefathers of our patriotic reformers were constant the minds of the populace, at the period we are treating of, namely, a deep rooted hatred to the catholic faith, which eventually led to the subversion of the establishment both in church and state. When Charles ascended the throne expulsion of the Stuarts, for their bigotry, intolerance, and despotism; and to this spirit of their ancestors they falsely consider themselves indebted for perfect liberty of conscience-for the Habeas Corpus actfor the freedom of the press-for the trial by jury, &c. &c. Such, at least, is the substance of a set of re-ly assailing the throne, and inflaming solutions passed by the grave citizens of Aldersgate ward, London, in January last, which may be taken as a pretty fair sample of the general sentiments of the people of England at this day.--I have shewn, in my former essays, that to the benign and equitable rule of a catholic sove-in 1625, he had just completed his reign, and not to the spirit of the twenty-fourth year, and was pospeople, we owe the origin of the trial sessed of many excellent qualificaby jury. I have shewn that the spi- tions, with few faults. But no monrit of a catholic people, headed and arch has been more censured by directed by a cardinal, obtained a re- all parties than the unfortunate storation of those religious and civil Charles, the calamities of whose rights, which the tyranny of irreli-reign must be attributed more to the gious and unprincipled monarchs want of able counsellors, and the unhad wrested from them; I have settled and agitated state of his subshewn that persecution for consci-jects, than to any tyrannical dispoence sake was unknown in the time sition on his part. I am not soliciof our catholic ancestors; I have tous of becoming the panegyrist of shewn that this most odious and un- the Stuarts, nor the defender of their just system commenced with the pre-proceedings, but I am desirous of tended reformation; and I shall now proceed to shew that the struggles of the parliament leaders, during the sway of the Stuarts, so far from be ing in favour of perfect liberty of conscience, were marked by the most malignant spirit of intolerance and oppression towards those who differed from them in points of doc trine, and instead of being the bold and disinterested defenders of the genuine principles of the British constitution, they set themselves up for spiritual inquisitors, and quarrelled with their sovereigns for not being as cruelly inclined to the shedding of innocent blood as themselves. In short, my intention is, to exhibit the ancestors of our blustering demagogues in their true colours, particularly as friends to religious liberty, placing the cause which gave rise to the bloody scenes which occurred in this reign in particular in its proper light, especially as our own times most strikingly resemble the early transactions of those unhappy days. When Charles assumed the sceptre, he found the nation engaged in an expensive war, which the parliament had compelled his father to wage in favour of the protestant interest on the continent, with an exhausted treasury, a factious and imbecile ministry, and a people under the most fearful alarms and suspicions of arbitrary power and popery. Under these disadvantages did Charles accede to the crown of these realms, and they were undoubtedly no very light ones. It was the fate of this monarch too to be unfortunate even from |