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POPISH QUESTION.
PRESENT STATE OF POPERY-FRENCH LAWS.

FOR THE SUN.

There is nothing astonishing in the fact that
the Papists should represent their exclusion from
political power in the light of religious intole-
rance ; whether they so consider it or not, this
view of the question answers its purpose, as
numbers, who would otherwise be the most strenu-
ous opposers of their audacious claims, are shocked
to take part in religious persecution. But it is
_right that the country should be entirely unde-
ceived on this momentous question ; and it
is right that other nations, who are looking
on England either with the hate which her emi-
nence inspires, or the admiration which her cha-
racter and policy command, should know her as
she. is :—that her enemies may do justice to her
motives, and her friends be satisfied that she has
not compromised, even by one act of her consti-
tution, that liberal and ingenuous conduct which
they so justly admire. It cannot therefore be
too frequently or too widely proclaimed that THE
ROMAN CATHOLIC QUESTION IS NOT RELIGIOUS,
BUT PURELY POLITICAL; with the religious be-
lief of the Papists we ' do not interfere, but we
do demand from EVERY MAN who takes an active
share in directing our Constitution, the declara-
tion, " that no foreign Prince, Prelate, or Po-
`tentate bath, or ought to have, any right, title, or
jurisdiction within this realm of England." The
Papists say, they cannot subscribe this ; we tare
not for the motive; but here we will take our
ground, if they cannot subscribe it, they can.
not be safely entrusted with the direction of
the Constitution. They say they would cheer-
fully admit the supreme authority of the King
in civil matters, but in spiritual, they must
reserve obedience for a TEMPORAL, as well as spi-
ritual prince, the Pope. But this is a miserable
subterfuge. What is to become of the temporal
supremacy of a Protestant King, when the spi-
ritual head denounces him as an heretick, and ab-
solves his spiritual subjects from their temporal
allegiance? And this, we suppose, is what the
Pope can do, because it is what he has done.
Every unprejudiced person must see that so long
as the Pope possesses their spiritual allegiance,
the Papists of this kingdom can at best regard
our monarch as his viceroy. To exclude any class
of persons from constitutional privileges, for the
sake of opinions merely speculative, would be
tyrannical and unjust ; but where opinions inter-
fere with those pledges would the constitution
demand for its own security, especially opinions
guarded by the sanctity of religion, it would be
the climax of all folly to extend toleration to the
length of admitting those who held them to po-
litical power. We require from Papists no more
than from Protestants : we require them to give
the only real security that their opinions shall
not interfere with the safety of the State.
This is the only right way of looking at the
Roman Catholic question : on this one point the
whole matter may be rested : if this argument be
invalid, we would proclaim the injustice and im-
policy of our present conititntion as loudly as Mr.
Brougham or Lord Lansdown. Some persons,
however, who are content to set the argument on
this ground, say, that the concession of our secu-
rity would be merely nominal, and that however
true this position may be in principle and theory,
experience and practice would make a wide dif-
ference : Popery has changed with the times, the
Pope is no longer formidable ; and right feeling
and liberal institutions will shew the Papists the
expediency of a virtual acknowledgment of that
supremacy, which we ought not to be nice in ex-
pecting them formally to allow.

On —the first of these common assertions we
would here make a few remarks : premising that
with respect to the second, the very reason of the
temporal weakness of the Pope is to be sought in
institutions like ours ; and that the third is an
assertion purely gratuitous, the falsehood of
which could only be ascertained when the know-
ledge would avail nothing. But of the immuta-
h:lity of Popery we will now speak ; a subject to
which we called the attention of our readers but
a short time since, and on which recent events
have thrown an accumulation of light that might
burst the eyelids of the blind.

We have now lying before us a copy of the
'Government Bill for the punishment of "sacri-
lege," now under the consideration of the French
Parliament, together with the alterations pro-
posed by the Committee. It is not easy to ad-
judge the palm of humanity between the Minis-
ters and the Committee :—et vitulo to dignus et
hie—for the cool deliberation which could sanc-
tion any part of such sanguinary enactments, en-
tirely redeems what is lost by the little chew of
mercy in commuting the capital punishment in
one instance. 44 PROFANATION OF THE SACRED
VESSELS (says the Bill) suALL DE PUNISHED WITH

DEATH. PROFANATION OF THE CONSECRATED
WAFERS SHALL BE PUNISHED WITH THE PENALTY
OF PARRICIDE." (namely, death after amputation
of the right hand.) The amendment says—
" The profanation of the sacred vessels shall
be punished with DEATH, if accompanied by the
following circumstances :-
1. If the sacred vessels contained consecrated
wafers at the time of the crime :
IL If the profanation has been publicly com-
mitted.

The profanation is committed publicly when
it i committed in a public place, and in presence
of several persons.

. The profanation of the sacred vessels shall be
punished with HARD LABOUR FOR LIFE, if it. has
only been accompanied by the second circum-
stance mentioned in the foregoing article.

THE PROFANATION OF TILE CONSECRATED WA-
FERS, PUBLICLY COMMITTED, SHALL BE PUNISHED
WITH THE PENALTY OF PARRICIDE!!!

Together with this, we have the report of the
Committee appointed to examine the Bill, printed
by authority of the French Parliament ; so that
here we can have no misrepresentation, but the
Papists speak their own authentic, unreserved,
undisguised, and authoritative sentiments. Our
readers may judge how perfectly as a matter of
propriety and expediency this document regards
the ordinary punishment of death, from the re-
marks which Ave shall select from that part of it

which relates to the penalty of parricide. After
informing us that the profanation of the wafer is
a greater crime than parricide itself, and that,
after all their mangling, tortures, and murders,
the punishment is still very much less severe
than what the crime demands, we have .the fol-
lowing examples produced as justification of this
atrocious law :

" All collectors of legislative documents, as
well as all writers on criminal law, rightly place
sacrilege in the first class of crimes. We find
there that a young man of Picardy was condemn-
ed, in 1503, to have his hand cut off, and to be
burned alive, for having snatched a wafer which
a priest, who was celebrating mass, had conse-
crated ; that a person named Dufour, who had,
in like manner, snatched away and broken a
wafer, was condemned, in 1386, to have his
hand cut off, and afterwards to be hanged ; and,
lastly, that in 1670, and in the reign of Louis
XIV. a man was condemned to the same punish-
ment for having DRAWN HIS moan against the
holy wafer, 'in the church of our Lady at
Paris." •
Thus we sees while we are defending Popery
from the guilt of ail the enormities of ages im-
perfectly civilized, the Papists are so. far from
doing this, that they bring forward these very
enormities as justifications of new atrocities no
less horrible. And this is in no obscure corner
of the Popish world, but in a country which
boasts itself to be the very center of refinement
and cultivation. Who shall say after this that
Popery is mutable ? No, it has all the immuta-
bility it so perpetually vaunts ! And, were it
to prevail in this country, we might hope to see
the laws for burning heretics revived, and some
wise English Bretruil appealing to the general
sense of " the church" in all ages concerning
heresy, and challenging the murders of our ve-
nerable Protestant martyrs in proof of the expe-
diency and excellence of their new penal code.