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tO M.IN CATITOL. CS

(Continued 'from our Paikr of Sat -
In 'order to answer Satisfactorily and safely
question of such vital importance as that above pro-
posed, it is necessary to ingnite whether any and
what change has taken place in the fundamental
principles of Popery, nt least as far as those prin-
ciples have tt tendency to produce the qualities
above described ; for the same principles mast
ever be expected to produce the saute effects on
the "minds, dispositions, 4nd charaker of man-
kind. A dotument has lately Made its appearance,
which is rarticularly Calculated to ena!)le us to as-
certain the real .principles of modern Popery, and,
consequently, to judge; whether any change has
taken place i:r the religion of the Church of Rome,
" The-Theotogical Professorof the Popish Col-
lege of Maynooth, in irelaud,, has pablislied a
work, intitled a Treatise on the Church of Christ,
which work is stated to be intended for the ,use of
tbe.sludews in the above-Mentioned colleo.—lt
affords us, therefore, an opportunity of discover-
ing not only what are the principles maintained at
the, present day by the Church . of Rome, but also
what principles- are actually inculcated to our
fellow-subjects of the Romish- persuasion in. Ire-
land. We may look with confidence for a faith=
ful picture of modehr Pdpery; and, considering
by.whom thatpicture is'drawn, we may reason-
ably expect it to exhibit, rather a flattering,
than an unfavourable likeness of the original it
.pourtrays.
-This. book appears in- an academical form, and
in a dead language, and consequently it is not
calculated for general circulation: Bat a recent
publication has brought forward, in a more Mini-
liar shape, those parts of it which relate to the
important question now_hefore us. The publica-
tion alluded 'to is entitled-.--" The Claims of the
Roman Catholics considered, with reference to the
Safety of the Established Church, and the Rights
of Religious Toleration*." In the Sth chapter
ot this publication, extracts are given from the
Treatise of the Maynooth Professor, by
it. is clearly shewn that the Church of Rome still
maintains and circulates the following fundameu-
tal principles :-
Ist, That the Church, of which the Pope is the
bead, (that is to say,
.theChureh of Rome) is the
only true Church of Christ. In this principle; the.
claim to Papal Supremacy is clearly involved.
2nd, That there no salvation out of the
Church.
3d, That. the general councils of the Church
are infallible.
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- 4th, That Faith is not to be kept with heretics;
to the prejudice of the Church.
With regard to the last-mentioned principle, or
tenet, its avowal and inculcation in the
,Maynooth
Treatise afford a remarkable specimen of Popish
_subtlety and delusion. The Professor indignantly
repels the charge that the Church Of Rome Main-
tains the obnOxious tenet,—that it is lawful to
break faith with heretics. -But it appears clearly
from his work to be a-principle of the Romish
Church, that faith is not to he kept with here-
tics—to the prejudice of the Church. A grosser
subterfuge than such a distinction was surely ne
ver employed to impose on the credulity, of man
kiad.

It is- now in the power of every Protestant in
his Majesty's dominions to judge, whether Popery
has laid aside those qualities by which it was for-
merly distinguished, and 'which furnished the
ground-work of the Revolution. ' Th-ose qualities
were, as has been already obseri•ed, its intolerant
character, its persecuting spirit, its invariable ten-
dency to promote arbitrary power. It appears,
.upon the indisputable authority of the Maynooth
Professor, that the Church of Rome still maintains
that she is the only true Chnrch,-=4bat out of
her pale there is no salvation,--that she is it faili-
ble,—and that faith-must not be kept with here-
tics to the prejudice of the Church. If the cha-
racter and disposition of mankind depend upon' the
principles by which they are activated,. it, is im-
possible that a Church which professes„such prin-
ciples should be otherwise' than an intolerant, per-
secuting, and., yrannieal Church,—au irreconeile-
able foe to civil and religious liberty. The con-
nection between such principles and such quali-
ties, and the invariable tendency of the former to
produce the latter, must be obvious to every re-
flecting mind ; but it is so important,- that. the
public 'should be aware of the indissoiutility of that
connection, and impressed with a sense of the den-
ger thence neeessatily resulting to the rights, and
liberties of a Protestant State, that the follow-
ing observations taken front the tract dbove al=
luded to, shall be submitted to the consideratiOn
of. the reader.

" Thus does the Church of Rome still maintain
' and inculcate, upon the infallible authority of its
general councils; principles, which are at direct
variance with both civil and religious liberty, with
the obligations of morality, and with the indepen-
dence of states. Thus does it carefully uphold
,and preserve the two grand pillars of its despotism
over. ti -:stied, by teaching its members—that it
is infallible—and that out or its'pale there is no
hope of salvatiOn. Yt is evident that the human
_mind, when under the influence of these princi-
ples, must be completely shackled. The doctrine,
.of infallibility shuts the door to doubt, and con-
sequently to research : while the belief that ont
of the Church there is no salvation converts the
keenest sensibilities of our nature into invincible
prejudices ; and enlists our liveliest hopes, and
our most agonizing fears, in the firm and,zealouS
maintenance of that faith and discipline, on an in-
variable adherence to which so much is supposed
to depend. Bat the above tenets, besides depriv-
ing the mind of its native freedom, impel those
who embrace them to deny 'that freedom to others.
Such persons cannot recognize any right to dis-
sent from their creed, or to seperate from their
Church.. They must, if they have any love
for their fellow-creatui•es, he intollerant. Ti my
must, if they have any feelings of humanity,
close, as far as they are able, the avenues
,to eternal destruction. They must, if they

To this Tract the Reader is referred for a systematic
dii-
Y:ussiou of all the leading points involved in the controversy
respecting, the claims of the kapists. See also Lord Kenyon's
" Observations on the Roman Catholic Claims," and the
Bislidp of Lincoln's Charge, in 1812.

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be tlieir religions Profes-•'wns, becora!
persecutor;, prOVii!ad they have the power to pe:
see-ute. With them; persecution is not a vindic-
tive, but an burna-ne----aonervative
At events, thou;.rh restrained for avant of op-
portunityi from actual persecution, they n;ut7
upon principle, 'ever be decided foes vit toierA-
don .
In like Manner, aw.l. under the "same authority
of general councj!s, the Church of Rome still in-
culcates the perfidious principle, that faith is not
to be kept with heretics, • to the prejudice of the'
Church. That this principte was both avowed and
acted upon by the COuncil of Constance; that,it
stands recorded as a principle of the Church, on
the decrees of that council ; is evident, even hem
the schoolThook of the Ataynooth •College : iu
which hook it is declired, that general cOuncil4
are infallible. It is true,:-this is no evidence that
the.general principle, so often attributed to the
Church of Rome, that it is, in all cases, law/1111j
violate faith, plighted to heretics, is sanctioned by
the Council of Constance, of indeed by any other
general council. But the principle, in its qualified'
'sense, as applicable wily to cases where the inte-
rests of the Church are concerned, is quite sufli-
cient for all purposes of the present controversy.—
It is co-ectensive with all questions that can arise
bet‘Veen Roman Catholics and Protestants, as-
such ; fi)r all such questions do more or less in- •
volve the interests of the Romish Church. It is
therefore absolutely conclusive against the propo-
sal so often made to us, to ,admit the members of
that Church to a pAlicipation of power; fol. it
prow s that no eupg-euients- into which such per-
sons may enter, by way of security, to a Protus-
tan t state,, can, according to the _principles of their
restrain-thein from doing every thing in
their power, for the • advanceinent Of their own
Church, or the overthrow' of an heretical" establish—
ment ; since, if' such engagements were so to rem
strain them, they would operate " to the preju-
(lke of the Catholic faith."

[To 'be continued.j

. I Melancholy. Catatr6phe.—At Mill of Elrici,..,
on Tuesday morning last, the miller, of the II tilliC
; .of Walker, his wife, and a child, were all found,
dead in their sleeping apartment, as' it would lip-
ewai-nrgooemanisile :I—vhliclhecilteryecseltelii73T,
shetliugs of corn, commonly
put on the fire, as
beoefnresting it during the
opened partly, so as. to
thereby oecasoned
aricaeiiiiiai‘ei,;;;.ftliaeafii:,..tac.itittilil'ilrigettosadilim:;tyi,:ilf,lottiaol:ri:ittsgiee.tillw:tisfaelii:l:
e:lptslt;bothbrieep,
smokeaio:lsge
spreading through the room, proved fatal to this
unfortunate part of the family; The woman was
dead in her bed, with her child on her arm: but
the man was found sitting on a chair near the
bed, and leaning forwai d, having vomitted a lit-
tle.: but nei:hr from this, nor any exertion he had
been able to make, could be, as it appears, ,gain
.the door, in his then weak, and probably in part,
insensible state, so as to escape the deleterious
effects of the vitiated air, in which these unwary •
sufferers had been involved, And to which they
fell victims. This awful example affords an use-
ful lessen of warning and necessary caution,
against the danger incident to all placed in similar
. situations. We understand there are four Chil-
dren and an aged grandmother left to deplore
their melancholy fate.
Ott 'Friday evening, about five o'clock, as Mr.
Benj. Robins, of Dunsley, was returning from
Stourbridge market, he was overtaken by a Mart
who walked and conversed with him for some
distance ; but when within less than half a mile
of Mr.Robins's house, the villain drew behind Mr.
~R. and discharged a pistol at him; the ball, it is. .
supposed, struck Mr. Robins on the back bone,
which caused it to take a direction round his ribs
to near the belly ; from the place• it entered to
where it was found, was frorti 14 to l(i. inches.
The villain, as soon as he had fired, demanded
Mr. R.'s money, wiliosaid, " Why did you shoot
ine first ? If you bad asked me for it before, you
should have had it!' Mr. R. then gave him two
la notes, a 11. note, and Bs. in silver. The •
rascal then said Your watch;" Mr. R. said—
" If you deznand it,- take it ;" when he took the
chain in • his hand, he trembled to such a deur,.
that Mr. 11. thought he could have taken him had h e not betel so badly wounded; and the idea of
not being able to get home to his family operated
upon his mind. As soon as the villain had pos-
session of the watch, he presented another piltol;
and desired Mr. It to proceed or be would shOot
him again ; Mr. R. replied, " You scoundrel,
you have already shot me enough ;. you. have
taken my lite.from me." He then walked home.
The villain made towards Stourbridge. 'Two
sur6.eons- were immediately sent for, and :soon
a
extracted thelall; it was of a large size, and ap-,
peared to have been lately cast. Mr. Robins is
not yet pronounced out of danger. A man is un-
der .confinement at Stourbridge, on suspicion..

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BIRTHS.
On,the sth inst. at Buenos Ayre_,* ::ea" Listion; the Lady of
John L-."-Ckiat?;;E•sq: of ne Artily Pav-OSiee, Whitehall, of a
Son.

On Friday, 'the 25th inst. at. Southampton; the wife of Frt..
derick Charles Street, Esq. of a Son.

DIED. •
At tilt- house of her brother, J..C. Mellish, Esq. Eliza,
wife of 'Alexander Donovan, Esq. of Mertion-street, Dublin,
in the 27th Year of her age.
On Thursday, the 24th'inst, at his house in Clarges-street,
11;char4 AckloM, Esq. of Wiseton, in the County of Notting-
ham, in the ;30th year of his age.
Ou Tuesday, in Hornsey-lane, Isahella,•the third daughter
of James Rolland, Esq.
The same evening; in the 72d year of his age, Mr. George
Pearce, of Piccadilly.
On Wednesday' last, at his house in St. joi.:f4-square,
Uriah Bristow, Esq.- in his 70th year.
On Thursday last, after' a lingering illness, Isaac King,
Esti,. of High Wycombe, one of His Majesty's Justices of the
Peace for the County of Buchs. •
On Christmas-Day, aged f,ur years, Charlotte Jane, eldest
child of John Pardue, .Esq. of T,..uw Layton,. being the third
that helms lost within ten days.
On Saturday, Herman Shtoder, ,Esq, of College-bill and
Clapham, aged 71).
Oa Saturday morning, Mr. Moody, late of Drury-lane The-
atre, '
and the father of the Stage, 'at Lis lions.! L.t Shepherd's
Bus'. in the 85th. year of his age, sincerely regretted by all
who knew him. •

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