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enlarge that and he will put an end to much of the
crime—let him do so, and though it is the first in 300
years, he will live to see the good effects of it. Let
the confessional be filled, and the houses of vice and
infamy will become empty.—(Loud cheers.) Upon
this point I must again quote our friend Gleig. He
says :
" I have ventured to assert that Prussia is not a reli-
gious and moral country."—Vol, 1. p. 120.
" Whoever will take the trouble to investigate the his-
tory of Protestantism in Germany throughou: the last 80
or 90 years, will find that the spectacle presented by it to
the eye of the Christian is exceedingly sad. Throughout
that extended period, the Reformed divines have not only
rejected for themselves all belief in the divine ( rigm of
Christianity, but have laboured with is zeal worthy of
b.-tter cause, to instil their own pernicisus opinions into
the minds of others."—lb. p. 120.
" When we come to the region of morals, I should say,
that though higher than that of Prussia; the standard in
Saxony is not very elevated. There is here the same
lamentable deficiency of religious principle, which we
find ail over Protestant Germany."—lb. p. 234.
Romanist in his teeth—(Cheers)—could he not be civil
to us even while he was praising our virtues ? he might
be civil. But after all I like Gleig ; he was a gallant
soldier once, and he is a gallant Parson now. Look at
what he says of Protestant Prussia ; is it a flattering
picture—does it say much in favour of Protestantism?
What is the Court ? The Court is Catholic, and the
Court and the upper classes are omitted from this cen-
sure. Let the bigots calumniate us as they please, I
refer to these evidences. These are Protestants who
say these words—they are not mine, I anly repeat them.
Your esteemed Chairman has told you that there is a
strong feeling of religion in England. Blessed be God,
infidelity makes little way amongst the people; and
sectarianism, although it may be mistaken in its object,
is to be suspected as emanating from a religious
spirit. Many a pure heart is lifted up in error
to the God of truth, and God seeing their purity,
will not allow them long to go astray, but will pity and
pardon the erratic judgment which would be right if it
knew how. Yes, we must look with respect upon
their immense subscription of 107,0001. a-year for the
distribution of the Scriptures. Why, I knew the folly,
the vanity, and inanity of that mere distribution un-
accompanied by oral instruction and missionary zeal
and piety, but still we must respect the men who make
such sacrifices, and I would that it pleased God to
let the light of his truth shine upon their disinterested
virtue.—( Hear, hear.) The French papers of Satur-
day last brought me an article, a translation of which
I shall read to you. We hear of Protestant missionaries
armed with guns, and carrying out their wives
and families, but here is an account from the
neighbourhood of Tongking in China—
" CATIIOLIC MISSIONARIES.
" Since the horrible persecution in Japan there has ;seen
seen nothing equal to that which actually rages against the
Christians in Tongking. The reigning Prince has resolved
to extirpate Christimity altogether from his State. A de-
cree of death has been published against all the missionaries.
Eighteen have already perished, the greater part having
been decapitated; and among others, two Bishops, natives
of Spain—the one, Vicar Apostolic, and the other coad-
jutor Bishop of the Eastern Tongking. Two missionaries
have died of famine and fatigue in the woods where they
lay hid. The Rev. Mr. flarard, a Frenchman, who was
Bisbee and Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Tongking, has pe-
rished of a sickness brought on by the violent persecution
which he went through. Desolation reigns amongst tl
unhappy Christians of Tongking. There has already ar
rived the first list of martyrs. In that list we find—
" Ist. The three Bishops above earned.
" 21. Three Priests, natives of Spain.
"3 i. One Priest, a native of France.
" 4th. Nine Priests, natives of Tongking.
" sth. The Abbey Jacarl, a native of Savoy, put to
death after an imprisonment of five years.
" 6th. A young student of Divinity.
" 7th. A French missionary, who died in endeavouring
to escape to Cochin Chita."
Only think of the melancholy catalogue, when you heal
so much of Protestant missionary zeal. There an.
nine native priests—they must Live been educated ane
instructed in the Latin language, as well as theoloo-y
before they were ordained. But they have sealed their
faith with their blood ; and as the blood of the martyrs.
in former times, was the seed of the Church in Europe.
it is not presumptuous to hope that those saints whe
have raised their bloody and blessed bands to the God
of glory, and laid down their lives in his honour, mitt
conduce to the spreading of Christianity, even in that
remote and benighted land.—(Loud cheers.) I have
shown you that in this country the Catholics founded
colleges and Italia, and schools and hospitals, but
that zeal and devotion was not confined to the male sex.
Females of the highest rank devoted themselves to the
charitable task of educating the poor, and when the
convent doors were opened, and the nuns had to come
forth to the world, England presented a spectacle the
most extraordinary and admirable. Not one of even
the youngest or loveliest of that devoted body would
forsake the vows she had pledged to God on entering
these sacred walls.—(Cheers.) These were women of
your own family, and even in these days they have
devoted themsalves as the daughters and sisters of
your -ancestors; and have —offered themselves to God
as a pure sacrifice of fidelity and charity.—(Cheers.)
It was a mighty example ; but on the other
side, tell me a single crime that was not
perpetrated—robbery, peculation, spoliation, assassina-
tion, murder, the scaffold—the blood of one wife, fol-
lowed by that of another—crime of the most obnoxi-
ous nature, every timing degrading and disgusting to
human nature. Do I calumniate it ? No ; for did not
the mere reading of Halen's " History of the Reforma-
tion," induce the Protestant daughter of Chancellor
Hyde to become a Catholic ?—(Much cheering.) Need
I remind you of the closing scenes of persecution of the
horrible Titus Ooates' plot—a thing the tnost extrava-
gant, the most incredible, and the most impossible—
but because two or three miscreants swore to what
was so utterly absurd and impossible, the leading
men of the clay were slaughtered.—(Hear, hear.) And
when the ancestor of Lord Ashley, Lord Shaftesbury,
was asked, how can you insist upon such cruelty and in-
justice ? his reply was, " Oh, if we cannot make the
people of England believe greater nonsense than that,
there is no use in governing."—( Hear, hear.) Two
Parliaments were induced to declare that the plot was
true. It was an absurd lie, and every man now admits
that to be the case.—(Hear, bear.) Two Houses of
Commons and the House of Lords believed it—time
city of London actually raised barricades with wooden
costs and iron chains, and Sir Thomas Player, when
Urging upon them the importance of preparing to resist
it, said, who knows but we may go to bed some night
and wake in the morning with all our throats cut.
—(Great laughter.) And of this Titus Oates' plot—
of this horrible conspiracy—seventeen persons, including
an Irish Archbishop and an English Peer, Lord Stat.
Gerd, were the victims, the King hitnself being afraid
to rescue them. Who did this ? Not the low and the
vulgar as they are called, but the Lords and the Corn
inoes, the Judges of the land, who wiped their blood-
stained hands in the ermine—the witnesses were ears-
shme, wile (lid not use the danger but the Testament of
God, and human blood flowed on this occasion of
and folly, and crime. Oh, I ask you if the
Wesleyan Methodists could accuse the Catholics o,
such a crime—if they say that in Catholic France.
or in Catholic Spain, that there was not
a popular out-break, but with a judicial pro
ceedieg. In the former country, indeed, there was
the horrible massacre in the time of Charles IX., but
they must not forget that there were previous to it
three Protestant massacres which the people thuS
has; end brutally retaliated. But let there show me
any instance in which there was so infamous and villain-
ous a conspiracy got up under the semblance of a judi-
cial proceeding. There was perjury before the Magis-
trates,perjury before the Grand Jury, perjury before the
Petty Jury ; and the Judges, the Sheriff, and all were
perjured, and the sin of perjury was followed by the sin
of the murder and blood of the innocent victims. No
eouatry on the face of the earth has ever been so stained
and stiematised,and when the Wesleyan Methodists come
our upon me, can I not taunt them with the very first
pcint in their history in 1780, when John Wesley their
founder, attempted to get up another Titus Oates' plot ;
when the Catholic Chapels and the houses of several
Catholics were burned, and we have seen here to day
the grand children of some of the persons whose pro-
perty
was burned on the occasion. They destroyed
also a quantity of Protestant property—they burned
the King's Bench, they burned Neregate, and they
were right.—( A laugh.) They were going to seize and
plunder the Bank, when some one at length awoke,
and the first Wesleyan blow at Catholicity was extin
guished in the blood of its victims. They are ready to
he at us again—they want to keep time Tories in power,
and they have denounced the reasonable and rational
determination which was come to by the Queen's
Ministers on the subject of Education, and for which
they deserve our eternal gratitude.—(Loud cheers.)
When they found that amiable and excellent young
person, who now to the pride of her sex and the glory
of her country fills the throne of this country, and
may she long and happily fill that throne.—
(Vociferous cheering.) When they found that she
in her gentleness and goodness leant to what
she herself had proclaimed . the principle of
freedom of conscience, they again came out and sent
their circulars all over the country to rouse up the op-
position of their party to it.—(dear, hear.) They
have organized a million of property, hnd they have
organized a despotism in religion, but I don't care for
that, it is no concern of mine. They are not able to
repeat the Titus Oates' plot, nor the burnings of 17:80,
but they do all the mischief they can—they calumniate,
they libel, they attack, they assail us in our creed,
and they call on Parliament not to do us justice.
They stir up against us every organ of iniquity
and injustice, but I will meet them in the arena of
justice and truth and principle, and I tell them, blessed
be God ! the time is come when they can no longer
be powerful.—(Cheers). I have done, and it is high
time for me. I only beg of you in conclusion not to

despair. Lcok abroad ! Look to America—there was
only one Catholic Bishop in America when the revolu-

timi was over ; there are at the present moment twenty-
three 13i,hop and one Arehbisnop.—(Loud dicers.)
Look at Protestant Germany. Read Mr. Gleig's