The National Register. — London, England, 1814-01-16 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. JAN. 16. Egmont and Horn, heard yc that holy cry, Martyrs of freedom, from your seati in Heaven? And William the deliverer, doth thine e3e Regard from you empyreal realm, the laud For which thy blood was given? What ills bath that poor country 'diced long! Deceived despised, and plunder'd, and opprers'd, Mockery aid insult aggravating wrong! Severely she her errorihath atoned, And long in angitiAli groan'd, Wearing the patient semblance of despair, While fervent curses rose with every prayer! In mercy Heaven at leugtb its ear inclined ; The avenging armies. of the North drew nigh, Joy for the injured Hollander,—the cry .Of Orange rends the sky! All hearts are now in one good cause combinefl, Omee more the flag triumphant floats on high,— Glory to GOD! Deliverance for Mankind! When shall the Dove go forth? Oh when Shall Peace return among the Sons of Men ? =Hasten, benignant Heaven, the blesses! day Justice iuu,t go before, _ And Retribution must Make plain the way ; Force must be crusted by Force, The power of Evil by the power of Good, Ere Order bless the suffering world once more, Or Peace return again. Hold then right on in your auspicious course, Ye Princes and ye People, hold right oil Your task is not yet done: Pursue the blow,—ye knew your foe, — Complete the happy work so well begun ? tiold on, and be your aim with all your . strength Loudly proclaimed and steadily pursued ! So shall this fatal tyranny at !Militia Before the arms of Freedom fall subdued. Then when the waters of the uliod abate, The Dove her resting-place secure may tin'l ; And France restored, and shaking off her chain, Shall.ioin the avengers in the joyful strain, Glory to Goti! Deliverance far Mankind. THE WATCHMAN. No. 6. - Heresies have all the same pretence, And quote the Scripture in their own defence ; Squadrons of texts drawn out on either cide, 1100 shall thc controverted truth be tried Without a last appeal to some uufai!in Guide ? • I)HYDEN. DOWNFALL OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND; AND THE EXTERMINATION OF PROTESTANTISM. PROGNOSTICATED BY PETER GAN DOLPHY, P.R. C.C. Priestcraft was formerly so much the topic of declamation among certain would-be wits, modernly called athiests, that the cry of the Church being in danger was in all cases treated as if it were raised by those only who fe!:. tbeir interest to stand connected with the temporalities of religion. It really does seem as though this pei sua , ion had taken deep root in the minds of the members of the established church of this realm ; and that neither the religious revolutions of neighbouring nations, nor the evils which thieaten their own fold, have hitherto served to awaken them from the lethargy of an imaginary security against both. The wolf nevertheless, at their doors. Secured as they appear to think themselves, they are on all sides menaced; and nothing but instant aex ertion, followed by vigilance, can avert the realization of that danger whose approach has so long been either unbe comingly derided or obstinate:y discredited. Of the catholic clergyman whose sermonic prognostics 45 have suggested the expediency of the present article, it is pretty generally known, by this time, that he lately published ' A Congratulatory Letter to Dr. Herbert Marsh (Margaret Professor of Divinity in Cambridge University) on his judici ous Inquiry into the Consequences of Neglecting to give the Prayer Book with the Bible ;, awl in which.tract,•according• to Mr. Candolphy, the Professor concedes the vital prin ciple of Protestantism, in a manner worthy of the hero and the saint. Mr. Gandolphy thus felicitates Professor Marsh. You may easily conceive," lie says, addressing' Dr. Marsh, " with what real delight I observed that you eon , tend for this principle, True religion cannot he found by the Bible alone.' The soundness of this doctrine was ori ginally contested by Luther ; and, as you well kn: , w, has beeu a subject of dispute between Catholics and Protest ants, from that period to the pi esent. Allow me, then, to congratulate you, and religion, on the bold and in:inly man ner in which you have given up this vital principle of Pro testantism ! To err, is the common accident of our na ture; but to acknowledge error, is the act of the hero arid the saint." Contemplating the professors of the reformed religion is this light, while he felt satisfied as to the stabil! v of his own, it was natural for a • Priest of the (Roman*) Catholic Clinic:lt' to augur unfavourably as to the condition of our vcclesia-tical establishment, and, under this feeling. indulge his hopes of the eventual ascendancy of catholicism. Those who were acquaint ed with Mr. Gandolphy's views, therefore, and knew the cha racter of his mind, were of course prepared for the avowal of those opinions so explicitly tiefolded iu the sermon de livered by him at the Spanish Chapel, near Manchever square, on the sth of December last. That sermon was isa many respects a most uncommon one. Having dwelt at dae length on the authority and antiquity of the Church of Rome, and traced its universality, through a succession cf ages, the preacher made some pointed remarks on the revo lutionary infidels of France, coupled witil the subsequent re storation of the national religion in that country ; and in ferred, upon the whole, considering the present awe, t of istendom, the ultimate preva!ence.- of Catholicism, which, like the rod of Moses, was destined to swallow up the rods of its (wows. hose churches that inid separated fro in the communion of the Church of Rome, time after time, rue oacher, though he did not forget to characicrize the Greek. church and the scotch, mo:e particularly adverted to the es tablished Church of England ; for he evidently estimated * " Catholic is our family name, come down from ,!:e earliest agig. We do not object to the aniunet of Roman, because it ,•liews the connection we hold with our ecclesiast:cil ; otlturwi,c4. the single word Catholic ever bag di•tinguistied o 4 from all otkac Christian societies. Christimms 'town est s tathl!ieu:: riro cognomen,'— was said by a Spani-li Itivhop, arguing 41:zai;p:t the No vations, as far back as the fourth century."—ller. Lainglok's latices to the lieu. John Erans,refatict to ie t The abolition of . religious rites is eonfesNed to le.tve hccn one of the grossest mistakes ontlie part of the revolutionist.; lictr,iyinl au utter ignorance of mankind, and eliecially of the Froich. i'liimptree (who happened to be present at the Restoration of Ca tholici,m Ili 1 1 46 , 0, represents tie people as expi-4s,ing the itip•r vivid Satistlactimi at the brilliant sight that tinhowiceti t:.e !elm the inipoiog ceremonial of the Roinish " o;.: gone by," says tlliti lady, . 1 compaii4ons ui a!ritril::cee be gan to Iv: made lieween the splenttoid• now displayer;, am/ the incan appearance at every thing thiriog the reign of j 4. ophinisin ; which all ended to the di•ati-atanc • 11 :(' 1 4 4 ter, awl the aflyantaoe of the pi esient " nut et,it si. mesquite (14143 C.' lean t . st d'une telle qlte lii France !" • Mi-s Plumpti•ne eetint to bulle‘e that ver.ooc have inereascil in I:ittlee; partly beraii-e clitrk is 41111:-c41 free inquiry in reli•ion, a,,(1 because a Irt :g interv: 4 l s t „d ‘cus ity had occasioned a tof.: . e reflecting turn of inio l / 4 1 the,e, I. 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