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'REPLY TO " AN OF SAS :: , 11.AL OF }lls' 4AJCSTY'S itomAN CA, t h)LiO SZJEJECTS „THEM PILO TEaTANT IegLLOW-SUBJECTS." BY A DISPASSIONATE PROTESTANT. The ktrious inst.lnces enumerated by his Majesty's • . . • . . _ . Reis= Catholic SubjeCts of their meritorious, pa ' trustie s :and exemplary conduU in their Address, fur the purpoSe.of substantiating their ample claims . to the unlimited confidence and affeolio t it of theirFel low-subjests, do not furnish any just criterion of the , truth of their allegation, or and .any adequate Pl' ' .idge or security to the Protestant' Establishment . for the affedion and confidence which they are anxious to obtain. . The disappointment they express at recent ot eurrences, induces them to infer that " they are ageip publicly traduced," and that " attempts are again made to prejudice the public mind against them." These are not fads deduced .from any premises, or exernplified by an specific proposition ; and I am, firmly persuaded tucre is no foundation wh a te ver i n truth ter teem. No man can 1 1 410r4 sincerely de• prccate than I do the effeets of religious differences end attimosities, nor more solemnly condemn the nu of fomenting them, by exciting popular in dignation against the professors of any mode of re, ligious worship, 'on any occasion whatever, but more particularly with the view to accomplish any pol tical or publie measure. The history of this coun try, in particular, furnishes many instances of dread ful and unparalleled ads of cruel outrage, blood-shed, and murder, oceasioned by the wild fury of religious dissentiou ; and nothing certainly can be more, like ly to contribute to the recurrence of such national calamities, titan the 'senseless and unprincipled ch.; moor :of "No Popery"—so constantly resounding from various quarters ; . but the question--wh ere does ,this , incoherent' jargon , originate, and by whom, and, for what purpose was it introduced and blazoned forth in the, way it has been ? —lt dOes net appearin any of the recent debates in either of the Houses of Parliament on the discussion of the gnestion which produced the late change in his , Majesty's Councils, that this yell of " No Popery," or any thing of a similar tendency, was made use of, or resorted to, by any party; neither does it, appear by any legislativ e procee di ngs, or from any official proceedings of 'any city, or town ' corporation, or other national institution, that any such artifice has been used, directly or indireCily, to inflathe the people, Or for any other purpose what ever. Whence then it does originate, it is not my present purpose to inquire, though it does. appear , extremely probable that it has been suggested 'and • employed as' a mere stalking horse for loading his Majesty's Government Nvit4 opprobriums, and to excite the resentment and enmity of his Majesty's Roman • Catholic - Subjeas towards it, for the',only purpose of inducing them to withdraw their whole interests and support from his Majesty's Ministers. I Would ask, by what means and in what manner, are the Roman Catholic Subjeds traduced? or in what manner and by what means have any " at. tempts been made to - prejudice the public mind against ilteni?" Surely they cannot feel they haVe been traduced by: the condia of his Majesty in his firm, dignified, and conscientious determination of keep ing inviolable faith with his Protestant Subjeets, by refusing to giVe the Catholics equal power in . the State with them ; neither can they feel they have been traduced by the measures resulting from such a step ;, tor though 1 hare great personal respell ter many prOt'essieg the Roman Catholic Faith, yet I ‘ do most seriously believe and decidedly affirm, that they are, and would be, from the nature and o bVi ous ten deocy of some o f their religious tenets, the most unfit and dangerous people in the world to . possess . power in any Protestant State, and more particular ly in a country where such horrid and brutal scenes of savagelmy and barbarity have been so often per petrated front a similar cause. There is no doubt but,that a great portion of the Roman Catholics Who have had the advantage of a liberal education, are equally enlightened, humane, and beneficent as any men can be, and as conscientiously guided by honourable and reciprocal feelings and principles; but it is nut the men I object to ; it is the danger ' oes influence of their religious tenets, , whit* are necessarily and unavoidably inimical, and dire&ly hostile to the Protestant Establishment, and every other Establishirent the professors of which are by them considered as heretics.. Although I admit there are a great many very worthy. and honourable Cpa racters in the Roman Catholic community, it is trii possible not to• be aware that there are an infinitely greater euniber :of other's in the sanie persursion, who are bred up from early infancy in gross! bigotry end superstition, and with unaccountable hatred in stilled in their minds towards the Protestant Church. Is must be absolutely iti vain as well as absurd, ,for any professing the. Roman Catholic. tenets, ' however Mire and irreproachable their general chit rafter and demeans:An may be, to offer any pledge ter thy purity and integrity of their religious and civil priticipleS, as long as their present mode of faith, and the titndamental articles of their Clin'rch,. : are periniteed to remain as the general rule of their ' eondudi, In their-lArida:6S they ask their Protestant Fellow-subjeCts---" Whether they maintain a Sitigle. .' tenet inconsistent with the purest loyalty; or in terfering in the slightest degree with any one duty which an P.:eglishinan owes his God, his King, or his Cousins' ' . •-•.-".l.'he. answer to this broad question may be correctly formed by referring to the islet's' tical articles . and tenets which constitute the rudi ments and tenndation of their retie:ions faith,' Is it' not a fundament - al at tiele of their religion, that:their Priests are s . mpowered to receive the confession of those of their Steels who hove committed any crimes; ! and to gig e tt,cut absoltition ? Gan any one . deny ' the affirmative ? What Oen can possibly .be more indiscreet cl dangerously impolitic than giving eower toethose ,who : n ay commit with impunity _ ee ,ry sort of sin and.w it:Leduc:we egainst " his God; his king, or his Coutitry,!' and alterwerds be wholly ab s elved on cenfession to their Priest. It cannot be denied that they are enjoined to confession at ,e s turi)r .igeof seven ; tied it may, therefore be na esesis eoissludell, that. they. begin to cotttess betere t hee, beein to sin. If they tio not thteeconfess to se:s Priests and perpetually continue so to do, they s se asssiled ai,d veseaced with the horrid anathema , 1 LONDON : Printed h At tlw, Of eternal damnation 6 sq that their minds are pro gressively trained up and disposed implicitly to rely and. depend on their Priests .for absolution and par don forever) , sin' and wickedness which they either have cemmitted or intendlo commit. The oath prescribed for such Catholics who find it convenient to. take it, may :be, and I have no ,doubt is, received by Many of them with the • most solemn conviction on their-minds of the awful 'ne cessity of keeping it inviolable : but what pledge or security is this from the large body orßoman'Ca - tholics, the majority of whom - , may assert, without incurring 'the imputation. of want of charity, hold their religious tenets and principles. more rigidly than - any oath they can bite in opposition to them ? What can be, more natural for them, than to conclude that they should, pay mere deference and homage to their religion than to any oath they "can take, when they can be absolved by their Priest for any .and every violation of'it ? The extreme and glaring inconSist r "ency of such a do6trine forcibly points out the great and momentous danger ,in entrusting those who are governed by it with general power in a ProteSt ant State. Unless this and many other monstrous tenets and principles are suffered to be totallyex punged fro:n the Roman Catholic Religion, no Pro testant could ever find his person or property. secure, While their se& are in power. It is not contended that the Protestant subjeas are better subjeas than the Roman Catholic subjeas ; but it is contended that the Protestant Religion does not hold out those irresistible inducements to sin as the Roman Ca tholic Religion does ; and it is in this respe& alone that my objection is founded: . With respea to the threequestions' as to the ex istence' and extent of the Pope's dispensing newer,' &c. which .were sent to the koman Catholic Univer sities'abroad for their opinien, by the desire of Mr. PITT, and the answers subjoined ; theydo not alter the actual nature and tendency of the Ripon Cath6. lie Religion, as prffessed and praaised 'in this' coun try neither do they, make it appear that the tenets and principles inculcated by such religion are not adhered to and enforced. in this country in the man ner here stated, and particularly — the doctrine of con fession to the Priest; and his absolution consequent • , thereon, the objeaioh to which nothing can temOve but its total extinction. The mere opinion of the Universities abroad as ; to the influence the Pope or . others may, or may not, have over those professing the Roman Catholic Religion in this country, has no reference at all, and can.have nothing to do with the tenets and principles hefore alluded to, which arc aaually practised and enforced in, this country, The objea of these three questions and answers is 'therefore wholly stn.erseded. It is. Well known that the doEtrine of confession and andolutidn is' Made subservient, by many lower orders of Catholics to the most wicked purposes. Those Catholics remote from the metropolis .are much moie bigotted, as Well as wantonly uncharitable in their private opi nions towards the ProteStants, than they are in and near the metropolis.; and they . use more illiberal ar tifices to convert, delude, and alienine illiterate per sons from the religion they and their ancestors were bred up in. - Various instances can be mentioned to exemplify to what extent the dreadful influence of 'inch' dangerous tenets, may lead some of its. pro fessors. Among the many other highly objectionable principles and articles of faith' to which the Roman Cat holies adhere,the verymonstrousl y uncharitable be- lief they entertain, that eternal salvation is exclusively their own re ward,and that all otherseas ditferlogfram them are doomed to eternal perdition, is too diabolical • to be repeated; and though I have heard this (latrine disclaimed by many of them, yet it is -most clear and incontrovertible, that in most of the Country' Ca tholic Seminaries it is rigidly adhered to and incur , cated. There are many other .equally obnoxi ous articles of faith promulgated among the Ca tholics which are. wholly repugnant to and incompatible with the Articles of Faith, professed in the Church of England. The universal belief with them, that all are hereticst no oltheir persuasion, and that with whom they are not compelled to keep faith in conieouence, must operate as a powerful ott• je&ion to their admission to equal power with the Protestants, It may be said, and I believe with much truth, by many members of their Church, that they do not believe in nor a& upon any of these dreadful anathemas and principles; as I from my own personal knowledge of several worthy and meritorious charaelers of their persuasion, with whom I am on intimate and • friendly terms, and for whom I have-great personal regard; am fully per suaded that they are as incapable of ,being guided by or in any shape acting upon any of the monstrous doctrines .here alluded to, 'as any Member of the Church of England ; but it is at the same time most' indisputably' manifest that such are the great fundamental errors in their articles of faith, and in the very -rudiments which are early initiated and inculcated into the minds of their youthful flock,. that all those, who are, from their sitnations in life, unfortunately de prived of a 'liberal education, and consequently an extensive knowledge of the world, and whose men tal powers and intelleas tve not sufficiently enlarged and cultivated 'to cherish that genuine spirit of phi lanthropy, which can' alone supersede illiberal preju dices, are led and trained up from gross, ignorance and infaruated superstition, , to .a_ state of enthusiastic bigotry, prejudice, and. unconquerable enmity to every human being without-the pale of their church, and the proportionable number of this description must necessarily constitute more than , nine tenths of their eoumninity._ A DISPASSIONATF.PROTRSTA NT OP THE CHURCH OF ENCLAND, A considerable wager is said to have been lost, on rTnesday last, from no Prize cutting- pp, on the first day's drawing ot'the Lottery, above tool., Tlie Odds were much in favour of a higher Prize, ,from 2000 Numbers being drawn on that day. Few, however, will venture odds, that three principal Prizes will not be forthcoming on Tuegday- next. The - attraaions of Telemachus, the new`Comic Pantomime brought out at Amey's Ampliitheatre, .bids fair to rival even those of that surprising fa vourite of the Public, 7'/w Brave Catsack ; the union of:both, therefore, cannot fair of producing two of the happiest effeets; viz. highly pleasing every class of the Public, and amply tiAitig the pockets of the Manager. fronfil3, of,No, 4, Martlettycourt, Bow street feu No. 112, Skraud; where .eldverlisements, Orders vdecnvA no hr. REPORT OF THE COI:LEGE OF PHYSICIANS, JUST LAI'D BEFORE 2,AitLIAMENT. The following is an Abstraet of the Report upon this important sub.leet; by'which'it appears that the College. is decidedly in favour of the efficacy of Vaccination, and deem it.thei}• duty to recommend ; The' Report begins by - stating, that the College haa applied not only to all the Medical and'Surgical Galleges in the United Kingdom, btit to all' the. Societies; besides which, it invited individuals to contribute all necessary information. Upon the immense mass of evidence thus obtained, the Ohllege has made its Report, of which the following is an . AbstraCt : Vaccination appears to be in general perfe6tly safe; the instances to the contrary being extremely rare. : The disease excited by it is slight, and seldom pre vents those under it from following their ordinary occupations. It has been communicated with safety to .pregnant women, to children during dentition, and in their earliest infancy, in all which'respe6ts it possesses material, advantages over Inoculation for the Small Pox ; which, though produaive.. of a disease .generally, ,mild, yet sometimes occasions alarming symptoms, and is in a few cases fatal. The security derived from Vaccination against the Small Pox, if not ab so l u t e ly pe r f e el, i s as ne a r l y so as can perhaps be expeCted from any huritan discovery ; for amongst several hundred thousandcases with which the College have been,made aequainted, the ntimber of alledged failures has been surprisingly small, so Much so as to form certainly no reasonable objection to the general adoption of Vaccination ; for it appears there are not near. so many failures in a given num ber of vaccinated persons as there are deaths in an equal number of persons inoculated with the Small • Pox. Nothing can more clearly demonstrate the periority of Vaccination over the Inoculation of Small Pox, than this consideration; and it is a most im 7 portant fall, which has been confirmed in the course of this inquiry, that itf, almost every case where the Small Pox has, succeeded Vaccination, whether by Inoculation or by ca s ual infection, the disease has . varied much from its ordinary course;. it has neither been the same in the violence, nor in the duration of its symptorlis; but has, with very few exceptions, beep remarkably, mild, as if the Small Pox had been deprived, by the - provioui Vaccine Disease, of all its usual malignity. The testimonies before the Col.; lege of Physicians are very decided in declaring that. Vaccination does less mischief •to the 'constitution, and less frequently gives rise to otherdiseases, than, the Small Pox, either natural or inoculated. The College feel themselves called upon to state this strongly, because it has been objeeted to Vacci nation, that it produces new, unheard-of, - and mon strous diseases. Of such assertions, no proofs have been produced; and, after diligent inquiry, the Col- lege believe therri to have been either the inVenticiiis of designing, or the mistakes of ignorant, men. In these respects then, in its mildness; its safety, and its consequences, the individual may look for the peculiar advantages of •Vaccination. The benefits Which flow from it to society are infinitely more con siderable, it spreads no iufeEtion, and can be corn- Municated only by Inoculation. It is from a consi deration Of the pernicious eiretis of the Small Pox, that-the real value of Vaccination is to be estimated. The natural Small Pok has been supposed to,destroy a sixth part of .all whom it attacks; and that even by Inoculation, : where thytt has been general in parishes and towns, about ,one in 309 has usually It is not sufficiently known, or- not adverted to, that nearly one-tenth, some year more than one tenth, of the whOle mortality in London is occasion ed 'by - the Small Pox; and however beneficial the Inoculation of the Small Pox may haVe been to in dividuals, it appears to have kept up a constant source Of, contagion, which has bee 9 the means of increasing the number of deaths by what is called the Natural Disease. lit. cannot be doubted that this mischief has been extended by the inconsiderate .manner' in which :great numbers of persons, even .! since the introduClion of Vaccination,are Still every year inoculated with the Sctiall Pox, and afterwards required to attend two or three ti'mes a week at the. places of Inoculation, through every stage of their illness. From this, then, the public are to expea the great and: uncontroverted. superiOrity of Vacci nation, that it communicates no casual infeCtion, and, while it is a proteetion to the individual, it is not prejudicial to the Public. • It has been already mentioned, that the.evidence is not universally favourable, although it is in truth nearly so, for there are a few who entertain senti ments differing 'widely froth those of the great Majo rity of their brethren. . The College, : therefore, deemed it their diary, in a particular Manner, to en quire upon,*hat grounds and evidence the 'opposers of Vaccination.rested their opinions. From. personal examination; as well as from their writings, they endeavoured to learn the full extent and weight' of their objeCtioni.. They found theM without ,expe 'rience in Vaccination, supporting•their opinions by hearsay' hiformation, aria hyp9thetical reSsoning ; and, .upon investigating the. fads which they ad vanced, they foued them to be either misapprehend ed or misrepresented, "or that they fell under the description of eases, of impeded Small Pox, before noticed, and which the College have endeavoured fairly to appreciate. The, practice of Vaccination is but of eight years standing, and its promoters, as well as opponents, must keep in mind, that a period so short is too li mited to ascertain every point, or to liring theart.to' : that perfeCtion of- which it may be capable. The truth of 'this will readily be adinitted by those ic quainted with. the. history of Inoculation for the Small:Pox. • - • Though the College of 'Physicians 'have confined themselves in. estimating .the evidence to such fads as have occurred in their own Country, because. the accuracy of them could best . lie' ascertained, they cannot be insensible to ihe confirmation these. re ceive from the reports of the mece:isful introduetion of Vaccination, not only in every patt of Europe, but throughout the vast Continents of Asia and Ame rica. With respe6t to the charge against Vaccination of producing various new diseases of frighttni and mon strous appearance—representations'of some (t these hare beell exhibited in.printsi ip away to alartn the feelings of parents, and to infuse dread aid appre hension into the mind; of the tininforthed. Publi cationa with slid: representations'have 'been widely circulated; andithoughahey originate either M gross ignorance, or wilful misrepresentation, _ yet have, they lessened the confidence of many, particularly of the lower classes, in VacCination ; no permanent effeeS, however, .in retarding 'the prtigretianf Vacci nation, need.beapprehended from such causes; tor, as soon as the public shall view thetn.coollyaud without surprise, they will excite contempt; and not fear. Were encouragement given' to Vaccination, by offering -it to the poor classes without tlpenbe; there is little doubt but it would . in time supersede the. Inoculation for the Small Pox, and thereby various sources of variolus .inteaion. would be cut off; .but till Vaccination becomes general, it will be: itupus. _ sible to prevent the constant recurrence of the natu ral Small Pox by means of anise who are inoculated, except it should appear proper to the Legislature to tidopt, in its wisdom, some measure by which: those who still, from terror or prejudice, prefer the, Small Pox to the, Vaccine Discs;;, may, in thus, consulting the gratification of their own feelings, be' prevented from doing-mischief to their neit.,ihbonm From the whole7ot the above considerations, the College of Physicians feel it their-duty strongly to i.ezommend the practice of Vaccination.. They have been led to this conclusion by na preccriceived,opi , pion, but by the most unbiassed judgment, formed from an irresistible weight of p;idence which has been laid before them. For when the,numher, the respe6tability, the disiuteresedness, and the extenn sive experience of its adiocates, is compared with the feeble and impede& testimonies of its fey posers .and when it is considered that many, who were once adverse to Vaec . been 'Con vinced by further trials, - and aro no,;. to be-ranked . among its warmest supporters, the truth - seems W be established as firnilv as the nature Ofrsuch a guts tioit admits; So that t.:e Cuile;r.e.' of - Pl 3 s lcians con= ceive that the public may reasonably look -forward, with - some degree of hope to the tinvy when all op= position shall cease, and the generld-Concurrence. of mankind shall atlength be able to 'put an end to the ravages at least, if not to the existence, of the •Stwall .Pox. LucAs PEPYS, President. Royal College of Physicians, loth April, 1807. HEIvEy, Regis s ter. 4 • [An Appendix follows, containing the communications of the several Colleges in the United Kingdom, all of - Which are favourable to the pradice.l ' The question of, the right of pa ;sage through,tlie Sound, we have every reason to believe, will shortly be brought to a. final. issue. The force intended to bent to the Baltic will consist. of.twenty-one Sail of the Line. Sir JOHN Duciovoarn will, have : the chief command. Sir SIDNEY SMITH and SIV Sim MUEL 'HOOD will have commands under hint What will the Nation think of the principles of the. Oppp r. . sition on this occpion, whO cry out against every, measure Of vigour,' and advise us to sacrifice our:in terest and compromise, our honour, rather than re sent the 'at% of insult and hostility with which we are now threatened by Denmark. If .Dentriark, at the instigation of France, or to gratify that hostile. feeling which she is supposed to entertain against this country, is to close, whenever she please, the only safe and practicable passage leading to the shores of the Baltic, against the flag of.. England, there ism end.of our naval supremacy. BIRTH. On the t lib inst. attht Dowager Viscountess Hawardert'N the Lady William Stuart, of a Daughter. MARRIED. • Yesterday, by special licence, at St. George's, Hanover square, the Right lion. Lord St. john, of Bletsoe, to Mis 9 }louse Boughton, eldest daughter of Sir Charles W. Rouse Boughton, Bart. of Rouse Lcveh,, in ' the County of Win' "ccs ter. The same morning, at St. Martin's Church, Mr. David .Morley, to Mist Randall, bath of Cockspur-street. Yesterday, at tValthamstow, Arthur Howe Holdsworth, Esq. M. P. for Dartmouth, to Catherine Henrietta Easta ibrooke, only daughter of the late john Eastabrooke, Esq. of Stoke, Devonshire. The same day, at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Richard Rogue, Esq.. Captain in the Royal Horse Artillery, to Miss 'Hanson daughter at john Hanson, E. of Russell-squar e- On Tu esday last, at Plaistow, in Essex, Alfred Lloyd, Esq. Di Birmingham, to Miss. Anna:Lloyd, of London. • tin the 18th of May, at Bermnda, Captain C. I. Austell of His Majesty's Ship - Indian,. to Miss trances V. Palmorf daughter of ~ G. l'alther; 'Esq; late Attorney. General ax the above Island.; - On the ad inst. at Ahern Church, near Cork, Captain _ A IL W. White, of t h e 8 5t h R eg i ment, to ' Miss 1.. A. W ood' d atignter of the late Captaio,Wood, of the 34t h Reghtital; n oor. 1. itely, of Colonel Baker's, Fort William, near Cork , seph Leycester, Esq. to Mi ss Wrison, daughter of:the Ism Nicholas Wrixon, Esq. of-Dublin, DIED. - • On Tuesday the t4thicist. •at an advanced age,. Mrs. fired' soil, widow, Of: the late Edward I ludsoll, Esq. of theStrandf Banker, and also of St. Mary Cray, in Kent. " Yesterday, in Gloucester-sticei, Queen.squart, s ul. . Lashley, daught e r o f Thomas Lashley, Esq, tate of,GrF 3 ' lames -street. The wine morning, in the 6oth'year of his age, Mi. PO I " Kruger Watson; of the Old 'Change. t . * . The same clay, at Vicar's-Hill, near Lyrnington, after.:3n r afflicting illness tit several years, anti ui toe Itail car of ' t i c age, Mrs. Gil p i n, relid of the Rev''Vl‘a' Ot Botire, and Prebendary'ofSidisbury • Lately, iota) faclobn, Esq. F.A.S..- A few days ago, George. 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