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cidedly pacific, the pulse or the money-market is'
rather weak. For this discrepancy it would
be difficult to assign any other cause but the
protracted stay of Prince Metternich in that
capital ; which, having continued longer than
was at first expected, has probably occasion-
ed some alarm. At same time, it is per-
haps suspected, from the long and frequent
conl'erenceg, held at his house, that some
important project is on the tapir ; and, as
only the Ambassadors of Austria, Russia, and
Prussia, usually attend, whilst the Representa-
tive of England has carefully absented himself,
the probable inference is, that some violent in-
terference in the domestic concerns of some
people is meditated. It is clear, however,
that it has no immediate reference to the
affairs of the French nation, as, in this case,
the Rentes would exhibit a much greater
depression. It is now pretty well ascertained
that Greece is the chief, if not the sole ob-
ject of these discussions ; and it would really
seem, from several circumstances, that the
French Government is anxious to remain neutral
on this subject. As to England, her aversion to
the project is more unequivocal ; though it may
be doubted that, in her opposition, she menus to
proceed beyond a moral resistance. The ques-
tion, as it affects this country, is one of extra-
ordinary delicacy, and the part it would be ex-
pedient for her to take we do not feel ourselves
competent to point out".

• (MORNING POST.]
The Bill proposed in the House of Commons
by Sir Francis Burdett for reserving to Catholic
Members of Parliament, their spiritual alle-
giance to the Pope as supreme head of their
church, gives no new securities, except the Po-
pish Board of Correspondence, if that can be
called any security. The oath is the same as
that established in 1791, which may be seen
in Burn's Justice under the head " Popery,"
with the addition that it pledges against dis-
turbing the Church of England. The Catho-
lics therefore concede nothing by taking this
oath, while they demand the highest concessions.
The oath against the Pope's spiritual supremacy
they still refuse to take, insisting that the Pope
shall be their King Spiritual, since George must
be their King Civil. The oath of Supremacy
was substantially tha same in Henry the VIII.'s
time as it is at present ; and although it has
been lately said that the first reformer's favoured
perfect liberty of conscience, yet Henry the
VIII. put Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and
Sir T. More to death, for refusing to take
it. When Elizabeth came to the Crown the Go-
vernment was in the hands of Papists, and she a
prudent Princess began with caution. But she
soon revived the oath of supremacy with some
alterations. She put 15 persons to death for re-
fusing to take it, (Butler, vol. i. p. 173.) and she
put 200 to death altogether on account of Po-
pery. Such was the liberty of conscience granted
by the first reformers. Their cruelties we de-
test. In Butler, vol. i. p. 273, is the oath
proposed by King Jrimes 1; it said nothing
of spiritual power, but it renounced tem-
poral power. It also declared the deposing
power heretical. This was much complained of
(even so late as 1791), and James's oath was
refused. In James the First's time, the Pope
sent a Bull forbidding its being taken. Queen
Elizabeth had been deposed by the Pope, and
James treated Papists in much the same way.*
There was subsequently much quibbling about
the oath. Several attempts were made to re-
concile the Papal Supremacy with the King's
Supremacy, but in vain. The Papists have often,
have recently, and probably do particularly
now, hope to obtain Parliamentary indul-
gence, by engaging to make concessions which
they think the Pope will refuse to sanction,
but which they hope he will not, for the sake
of favouring their power, for a time disturb.
They are afraid the engagements they are of-
fering to enter into. should be officially dis-
' played to the See' of Rome before they have
made them,. and secured the reward, lest the Ro-
man Pontiff should issue a prohibition. Hence

they will precipitate a conclusion as soon as the
details of their plan are known. This seems
probable from Butler's statements in his book,
and from Sir F. Burdett's refusal to delay the
second reading of the Bill for a week, a measure
he cortsplied with only because he found the
[louse would be divided against him. Black-
ston, Vol. 1 V., Public Wrongs, section 55, says,
" if once they" (the Papist) " would be brought
to renounce the supremacy of the Pope, they
might quietly enjoy their Seven Sacraments, their
Purgatory and Auricular Confession ; their Wor-
ship of Reliques and Images ; nay, even their
Transubstantiation. But while they acknow-
ledge a foreign Power, superior to the So-
vereignty of the kingdom, they cannot com-
plain if the , laws of that kingdom will not
treat them upon the footing of good subjects."
Blackstone is a high Constitutional authority with
modern Reformers. The temporal power arising
from the Spiritual Supremacy is well demonstrat-
ed in the case of marriage in particular, that being
a Sacrament in the Romish Churchond the Pope
consequently having a prodigious power through
it, privately in all families. The lawfulness
of a marriage, the legitimacy of children, the
descent of estates, may. all, whatever may be said
to the contrary, he taken for trial before the See
of Rome.

• See a curious passage in Butler, Vol. I. page 28, 15 lines
dowswards: see also a curious explanation next page, 11 lines
from the bottom.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.'
We this day lay before our readers the whole
of the evidence of Dr. Do} le, from which we
yesterday made a few extracts. It furnishes
much information on the present state of
Catholicism, a subject, of which Protestants
possess very little knowledge; and in the future
discussions respecting Ireland. very great im-
portance will no doubt he attached to it. Dr.
Doyle, from first to last, throughout his evidence,
displays an anxiety to meet the wishes of -the
Committee, by putting them in possession of
the most ample information on all the subjects
on which he was examined. There is. an air of