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also maintained with mistake° seals and as he had
heretofore meutioned„ were industriously circulated
through the Press, by erninent Prelates of the E.-
tahasisnmenti liv one Right Rev. Divine, the te-
nets of the Cathclice are held to involve the crimes
of idolatry. sacrilege, and blasphemy. By another
-Prelate, that their Church arrogates to itself sit-
perste over flings:—that they openly pro-
fess, that no faith is to be held with those differing
from them iu communion farther, that they
should be considered and dreaded at the enemies of
all law human and dirive,--and as such, ex-
cluded or driven from the eenate cud the army
,—" ikettriii militul tweets accuse ea," are hii

words:
A
th Rightleiee the.nPrelate, in • charge to his
Clergy,
last on debate this
Question. and entitled, " The Petition
indeed,
the Ito-
manpublished Catholics Considered :" admits, the
moral and civil integrity of Catholics, " that
their political integrity is unimpaired. we cannot,
say. he, so unrceeriedly and unexceptionally
In this declaration his Lordship however is at issue
with the statute of his present Majesty., which de-
clares them to be " g cod and loyal subjects."
Hu Lordship seems to think it also to be no
hardship that the Catholic Military should be
obliged to attend the established service. provided
they are permitted " likewise to attend their own
Chapels." And he expresser much surprise at
st the oseruloes laiignage" of Catholics, in capers.
sing disgust at bring °Aged to legalize their mar-
' nitre at the altars of the Estsblisheil Church; al-
though the Jew and the Quaker are exempted from
• similar violence to their feamge, by the some
Act which infarct. the necessity upon the Catholic.*
And these observations of the Learned Prelate are
the more extraordinary, as he has noticed, in the
some publmition. the ..penal injunctions of the
Church of Rome in the most express terms, against
any attendance at the religions .ervice of another
comunnoion. The Learned Prelate concludes his
charge with a recapiridation of various Catholic
plots and massacres through a succession of cen-
turies, terminating with the Irish Rebellion of
I 71)& which he states on the authority of the
Lamed Civilian (Dr. Dotgeoan), in preference to
that of Mr. Pitt, which expressly contradicts it.
Sir J. H. observed, that he could not but notice
also a recent publication under the assumed name
of Philegatharkes. dedicated to Lord Sidmouth.
which gravely tells us, that the Deist and the Mas-
se/man may be credited on their oaths—hut the
Atheist and the Catholic arc not entitled to the
same indulgence.
That opinions as decidedly in f 'your of the po-
litical as well as the moral end Mid principles of
our Catholic fellow subjects, as those recited were
opposed to them. have been avowed by other
Right Reverend Prelates, both in Parliament and
in their Diocesan charges, is well known. but
that the adverse opinions have been very ni.eratise
and widely spread, and necesamily Oillat h hive coo-
siderable influence upon the minds of many oat
disposed persons. can scarcely be doubted : miter
Can we fall to recollect that these adv. use opinions
are of the earliest growth. and with ditfi..uliy era-
Sir J. H. observed, that his object in thn• re-
ferriog to the hirable commons of individuals of the
higher order of the +-trip which had been toi 1.11-
lailly urged, both in diocesan charges. an,l from
tie pulpit ; (and on.. of them, and indeed the union
unqualified in assertion of our iininineot dangers
which thresteued the State faun their adiniasum in
rift% or military sititons, had been delivered before
the Provincial Synod of Canterbury, and publirli.
ed. joss* Renereadissiatif was in support of
own opiuion. that his Right floc. Friend cold
not look forward. with any confidence, to • suc-
cessful issue of his motion et the present how. If
it is contended. that the Catholic population con-
stitutes a fourth or fifth part of the United King-
dom, the conceioiou must gs to the adinirsion that
three-fourth. or four-fifths of Ito population are not
professing Cie Catholic coraniucion. and the far
greater part of that great worprity most prnhalaly
Influenced by the honiat prejudices of early teduc•-
too, and set • little cosifiritici by the xcalone, and
qnesitinsable w. 11-intentioned efforts of the great
quasi of their spiritual gordes, offing under a simi-
lar influence.
Ii wa. from a persussioo of this truth that Sir
J. 11. owl, that he should have been disposed to
have taken a wider cones*, if he hail been the
mover of a question founded mitt Catholic claim..—
lie wis well aerste, with lies Right Roc. Friend.
'hot the atanditig order of the Mince required that
any mentors, connected with religion, moat be re-
ferred to a Commutes of the tohnle Douses but he
shoot! have stated that it was 1141 t his intenioni to
originate any imente.liate Bill for the telly( of the
Catholics, in coneervence of this prelimmary nen-
two beiug conceded, but that lie shout 1 have pro-
posed guis.l2 into a Committee of the douse motels
ea/of/al, lie miler to 010,11 for the appututinent
of • tail-et Committee. in the usual forma. with
powers to send far persoesr popeff, mad seconds,
and to report such ficis as might the
wound-work of further proetedmits.
Upon such • COttliOltlee he would wish to Ore op-
pollard the King's law ielfe....ta. civilian% and ram-
moil lawyers 01 eflitorner, a. well as other member.
of the House. who sl 1.1 be deemed most compe-
tent to tutor upon the casino aims of that desert' -
lion of evidence that might be Norfolk prodninst.
And that la Ofiuthirf plate, be slinult bolo: t we a
similar Common, a. conatitireil, *ph the adilstion
Of eminent prelates. who twat« Ily ought to take
• sieten.l port in sun h ar siorestigarioo.
If elvoithl have moved se an lifitfug Ilan to sorts
• Coinnviter. that they should ritualise and report
ih• star of the •51.1p00g *Wulff. as hearing en the
Comatirt of the l•aittd kingdom. Timor (caused
1111 the dais of our it•stho!te ca.tor., which we
awl to be ranktd among toe mist aahriari. and
*owl) framed, as appl) sum check• to foreign enr
eroachenent, rod flime iiitiffeit,f• al to the Iforto-
in-t on, of wh ch that of the h lit, of Eta. ch ip. 2,
es life moss prinnioeot. offerisig. se he had more
term fall.erse I in thea another Lamer
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