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London, England, 1813-01-05 00:00:00

CATIIOLIC CLADIS.

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As-the authority of Mr. Fox may have
_weight
Popish witirsame of the present advocates for the
cliniari, 1 beg leaVe:--to transcribe the 'fol-
lowing- passage from his- history of the early part
tkie reign of James'the. Second :
" But the inefficacy of mere hews in favour of
the sidijects, iu the case of the administration of
them falling into the hands of persons hostile o the
spirit Winch they had been provided, had been so
fatally evinced by the general history of England,
ever s'alce the grant of the Great Charter, and
more especially by the transactions of the pre-.
ceding reign, that the Parliament justly deemed
their work incomplete, unless the bilke of York
were excluded from the succession to the Crown.
A bill, thereft.re, for the purpose of excluding
that Prince, was proposed, and-passed the House
of Commons (1679) ; but being vigorously resist-
ed by the Court, • by the Church, arid by the To-
ries, vas lost in the House of Lords. The re-
strictions offered by the King to be put upon a
Popish successor arc supposed to have been among
the most powerful of those means to which he was
indebted for his success.

The dispute was no longer, whether or not the
dangers resulting from James's succession were
real, and such us ought to be guarded against by
Parliamentary provisions but whether the exclu-
sion, or restrictions furnished the most safe and
eligible mode of compassing the object which both
sides pretended to have in view. The argument
upon this state of the question is clearly, forcibly,
and, I think; convincingly, -stated by Itapin, who
exposes -very ably the extreme folly of trusting to
measures, without considering of the men who are
to execute them." Page 36.
The firm adherence of the Papists to the spiri-
tual jurisdiction of the Pope in this realm, has
lately been manifested in a strong and and singu-
lar manner. When the Popish. Question was
brought forward in Parliament in the year 1808,
it was proposed io both Houses, as it were in con-
cot and by authority, that the King should have a
, negative upon the appointment of Popish Bishops
in Ireland. But though this was represented by
the most powerful and most zealous advocates of
the Popish-cause, as tin indispensable condition of
granting the Papists any farther political privi-
.leges, yet it was 'positively and peremptorily re-
fused by the Popish Bishops themselves, in the
name of the whole Catholic Body, upon the ground
• of its violating the rights of their Sovereign Pon•
tiff; although the Pope has not the uncommitted
power of appointing the Bishops is any-kingdom
of .Europe, and the consent. of the Protestant King
of England is necessary for the advancement of
any person to the Popish See of Quebec. Is it to
be belieVed that Papists would* true and faithful
,subjects, if it' ;;:stead with power, to the Sovereign
of these Kingdoms, when they deny him even 'a
negative upon the appointment of Bishopricks
• within his own dominions It is well known
• that Popish Bishops have great influence with
their clergy ; and, that time Popish clergy have
great influence with their congregations ; and
yet it is required that this influence should flow
front a foreign source, through channels, over
which the civil and ecclesiastical head of these
kingdoms is to have no controul, no cheek, no in-
terterence. Can it be sale to place men in au-
thority under the King, who are thus attached to
a foreign power, and,that foreign power at this
1110flient under absolute subjection to the most in-
veterate enemy of this country ? It would be un
instance of the grossest kind of that acknow-
ledged absurdity, imperinnt in imptrio. It would
be to give the Pope it complete command over the
minds mid consciences of men, who would owe an
unreserved and undivided allegiance to another
• master. Let it not, however, he imagined, that I
think this Veto would be an effectual prcsenat ire
• against the dangers to be apprehended frost the
admission of Papists to au equal participation .01
". power with Prote,tants. .1 mention it solely for
the purpose of drawing from it this inference,
which appears to • the deserving:- of • most serious
eon namely, that no.eredit is due to

the nycertion, that the Papists of the present day
Ore ihilerellt 110111 the Papists f.ainer
is it to be supposed that l'apists,-huve renounced
nov of the di4wriminating and exceptionable doe-
trines of the Church of Rome, when we see thew

so pertinaciously uttering to its forms and disci-
pline, at it moment when they mire soliciting fresh
tavommo and privileges, and upon a point too,
which leas been conceded in other countries, and
even in one of our own foreign possessions ? Can
any
sinitance he conceived, which sbutild snore
Strongly indicate an unctinciliatiog temper, or
more distinctly murk the improbability,. of their
mtrqnieseenee in any terms of adequate security,
NVislell many of their advocates tieknowle4e
ue-
cesSaryto,besubstituted insteaditif the existing laws,
but which have never yet been especially stated /
Nor are other proofs wanting that the doctrines
and principles of Papists have undergone no new
alteration; hi a book, published by authority,
fur the use of the students at Maynooth College,
the " Infallibility of the Romish Church," witicla
in fact comprehends all its other doctrines, is re-
peateilty and unequivocally maintained ; and the
concludes with these remarkable words,
r‘ Itagoe maximo inl pretio illurl Concilimn (Tri-
dent:noun habere &them onmes,Clerici
tom rat i one Doginatutu sit veluti (minium priece-
tent.imca ynotlormun, compendium, et ratione
Disciplinam'merito diei possit Manuale Sacerdo—
(minium qui .SacerdotiO stint initiandi."
Those, therefore, who are at this day educated
foe, the Popish Priesthood, in this kingdom, are
not instructed in any new system of theology and
morals, purged of all' the old obnoxions tenets,.
but they are taught to set time highest value upon
the Decrees of the Council of Trent, which, be-
tildes asserting the former errors and corruption
of Popery, tire known to he its the highest degree
hostile to Protestants. And in the .'catechism
taught in die saute College, supported as !t is by