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years, the impropriate rectories, and the value
of the tithes and glebes thereof, and the patron-
age value, and situations, &c., of the vicarages
and perpetual curacies, and the situations, popu-
lation, and value of the other benefices in the gift
of the Chapter. Those applicable to the expendi-
ture for sacred purposes, and the grants, annual
or occasional, for the augmentation of vi-
carages or perpetual curacies, will, we trust,
exhibit in the strongest light the liberality of
those wealthy bodies, and the judicious application
of the ample funds, with the control and manage-
ment whereof they had been intrusted.

The answers relating to the powers of the
Visitor, and the applications that may have been
made to any other interpreter of the Statutes
since the time of the Reformation, will show the
sharp look-out after abuses that have been kept
up for the last three centuries. There is one
head, however, which appears supererogatory.
To the inquiry, What are the relations of the
Chapter to the Bishops I the answers might
be, with little variations, " Sons, sons-in-law,
brothers, brothers-in-law, uncles, nephews, and
cousins by birth or marriage." The list could
scarcely go much further. There would appear to be
very snug family parties in the Cathedrals of each
Diocese. We trust that Deans and Chapters may
share the fate of Ecclesiastical and Prerogative
Courts. Nothing but the complete abolition of
the system will suffice, and the transfer of the
actual duties to other hands, by which they would
be far more efficiently discharged at less than a
tithe of the present expenditure, and an immense
fund would become available for religious and
educational purposes.

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upon their setting up a Religious Equality Agita-
tion, we assured them of the derision which such
complicity
an attempt muse 6 call forth, unless they
British Catholicism from the stigma ofvindicated
with Tuscan barbarities to Protestants. We
pointed out to them that the cause of the MADIAIS
was more theirs than ours,—that it was a grief
to us but a disgrace to them. We reminded them
of their cries of persecution, when refused by Act
of Parliament, not Bishops and Cardinals, and any
Church Governors they pleased, but merely the
appropriation of titles from our territory, a pro-
hibition which they share with every British sub-
ject ; and we showed them that they would be held
guilty of the most selfish insensibility if they raised
such a clamour about empty names for themselves,
saingnd
eydet, humble
thecanonsilf their ownmelessprotestanatsuh on
torca, c-dun-
geon for years, only for reading and distributing
the Bible. Our appeal was unheeded, as we
feared it would be. Soon after Sir CULLING
EARDLEY invited Mr. LUCAS by name to concur
with him in remonstrating with the Grand Duke
of Tuscany, the Catholic agent in these cruelties.
The invitation drew forth the savage reply, which
Mr. KEOGH and Serjeant SHEE were so honourably
forward to disavow. Still nothing was done. It
appears, however, that Mr. RICHARD BESTE of
Southampton, an English Catholic, did send a
truly creditable letter to the Times, which that
journal, most unaccountably to us, refused
to insert, preferring ten pounds towards the
expenses of a deputation of English Catho-
lics in behalf of the MADIAIS, and exhorting
his fellow-believers to send such a deputation.
The letter was afterwards sent to the Leech Mer-
cury, Lord CARLISLE having addressed the Catho-
lics, on behalf of the MADIAIS in that journal.
His Lordship takes up the view to which we had
previously invited the attention of the Catholics.
He pleads with them their own constant assertion
when seeking liberty for themselves, that their
Church has made the same advance which all
others have in this country, in shaking off the
doctrine and practice of persecution for conscience
sake. Ho suggests to them the propriety of " a
deferential, dutiful, submissive remonstrance to
their spiritual superior, but one which should still
be earnest, importunate, and incessant, till, by its
timely intervention, they are rescued from this
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codes of intolerance once certainly attached to
their Church had not fallen into desuetude,"
as his, Lordship kindly hopes, and Catholics here
have so often asserted. In the number of the
Leeds Mercury following that in which Lord CAR-
LISLE'S bland epistle was published, the Hon.
CHARLES LANGDALE figures as respondent ; but,
alas, it is substantially to the same effect. Like
Mr. LUCAS, he attempts to shuffle off by hinting
at the inaccuracy of the reports of the case cir-
culated in this country. Like Mr. LUCAS, how-
ever, he makes no attempt to correct them, and
how he could do so when the whole legal
proceedings, the indictment and the sen-
tence themselves, are lying before us both in
Italian and in English translation, it is difficult to
see. Very naturally he declines to debate the
question of " the accuracy of the charges," and
tries more plausible ground. The POPE, to whom
Lord CARLISLE suggested that the deputation
should be sent, has, he says, nothing to do with
the matter. The laws of Tuscany alone are in
fault. Well, then, send the deputation to the
DUKE, and let it beseech him, by all the liberty
which Catholics here enjoy, by their liberty to read
and circulate Mass-books, by their liberty to con-
vert English clergymen and ladies, by their liberty
to do every thing but touch the prerogatives of
the CROWN—let it beseech him to be as merciful to
Protestants as England is liberal to Catholics. But
Mr. LANGDALE must know that he is wrong on this
very important point. He knows that the DUKE
is but the tool of Rome. If he does not, every
other Englishman now knows the Papal Canon
Law on the duty of Catholic-Princes towards those
who deedi it the right and duty of all men to read
the Scriptures. Dr. CUMMING has published the
clauses relating to this subject of the Bull Uni-
genitus, which Dr. MURRAY, who ought to know,
declared to be a part of the law of the Catholic
Church. That Bull, after denouncing the Pro-
testant view of the Scriptures, "as false, blas-
phemous, impious, heretical," adds : " And we
venerablea is h brethrenßishops,
tocoerce andcompel
the Pat r iarc h s
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DUKE, therefore, is but a consistent Catholic, and
the POPE the authority at whose bidding he would
immediately cease to victimise in dungeons the
readers and distributors of GOD'S Holy Word.
Mr. LANGDALE'S second argument is, that of
Look at home,
the American ladies for slavery.
he says ; are there not persecuting
T tingTloawwshiacghainwset
Catholics in Protestant S
approaching to
nystthirugrotestants can be
can only answer,
shown in Sweden, we should not rest till Protes-
tants here had done thesiurallitmanostutnoonddeulirvaebrlothdeisir
name and faith from .
grace. But why ,he says, so far as Sweden ?
of the infamous DURHAM
Did not
RUSSELL, the writer
law against mil-
you, Lord CARLISLE, join Lord JOHN
lions of your fellow-
co the Catholics may feel
wonder Letter,
atin enanayct
fellow-subjects persecuting?
to " be the obsequious
and other members of the Protes-
SHAFTESEIJEYS, o.
glowing from the calumnious
followers of the RODENS,
utth
ts
? The folly of thew
pstir about the
to the purpose .
tant Alliance, striinlleigugacltoawni
Ecclesiastical Titles was
outrages of Eseterhall.m"
to it. That Austria, the
onßsturtousheantouigsh,albl
which gave occasion
• 1 WISEIKAN meant an insult to
POPE, and Cardin
may be fairly matched with the pompous follies
England, no man in
foolishsenses to care about,
such an
England was very
insult is now quite as
little doubted. To us it
his will doubt That
the Catholics. At all events, let them not cla-
• 11 Attorney-General is in-
victory on this matter is with
mseoeumrs
ttihllatsotlraieereaLis
ue•lis at.
nitary defies or la,
be honest. Look at the facts
No, Mr. LANGDALE,
Tuscan law with the English
in-
structed to enforce a law which every Catholic dig-
nitary
the supposed aggression of
law. One made to resist
other the unprovokQd off-
& foreign Prince, the
of the case. Compare the