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!nay restore their wonted ttgour io the !awS, aod
its predominant splendour tot he Catholic church."
Such were the avowed sentiments of the French
elates in the year 1765, and sudk are i.he avowed
~pinions of the Belgian Bishops in 1815. Dr.
Dromgoole, in his lotions, speech, delivered in the
Catholic Board or Committee, the. Bth of Decem-
ber. 1813, positively declared that the Irish Roman
Catholic, profess the same principles. His speech
received fCte .warm and unanimous approbation,
not only of that, assembly. but of all the provin-
Catholic. Committees in Ireland ; and yet, we
are informed, that the Irish 100 man Catholics
mean again to petition P oliament to lie put
on the same footing with Protestants. To con-
vioce the reader that the persecution of Pro-
testants continued under the reign of Louis XVI.
1 shad refer him to the " Memoires Historignes
et Politiques de Louis 5,V1. par Saidavit." The
following well authenticated incidetit will prove
that it continued even to the eve of the French
Revolution,

In the towns of Toulon. Thoulouse, and Mount-
atiban, 'and in the country contiguous to them,
Protestants are very numerous. In the year 1.791,
the Roman Catholics of these towns, instigated
by their Priests, published an inflammatory ad-
dress against their Protestant fellow-subjects, at
that pious season when tiley c.elehrated the mas-
sacre of the Albigenses. •• On the 18t1i of April
1791, a large patty of these fanatics assembled in
the great HAL a the Augustills, at Montauban,
and adjourned them to the house of a Mr. Des-
harry, the Apostle of the Crusade. The Protest-
ants, without exception, served in the National
Guards, and were strenuous in the cause. ot•li-
berry. Norksithstauding which, this mob of bi-
gots spewed a sanguinary spirit toward• them,
and a design to exttrpate them as infidels and he-
retics. 'They pursued a troop of dragoons, con-
sisting mostly of. ryotestants, into the guard
house, where they cOatinued a welrdirected fire
on them. In vain they hung oat a white fla_g
a token that they implored clemency-; for fie. of
them were killed in the act of submission ; and
the whole of them would have been butchered,
but that the. regiment of Languedoc art ived in
time for their 'chef, and conducted them, covered
with blood and wounds, to the •cominon
while the enraged and fanatic multitude brnially
asked for their heads. At Nism-s, where Pro'es-
tours formed.one-fourth of the point a tun, ninny
of -them were - massacred ; and on the election of
the illunicipality; the Priests were assiduously
employed in swearing. the people not to vote for
Protestants,_ whom they marked by the-appella,,
tioti of, Blacks. r(6) It is singular that this san-
guinary spirit should app ar in the Priests and
their flocks at that time, as there were five Corn -
MiS.d.liers actually employed in the country, by
the • Convention, in taking measnres for the coa-
tiscation of the property of the- rgy, and the
tonal subversion of their order.—Annual Regis•-
ter of 1791, p. 84. •
in the month of September 1815, on:tire-eve
of the election of the Chamber of .13-pities, 42
Protestants were hatchet e:1 at Nismi•S,-lor the
pm pose of der errin,; the electors Iron) nominating
as candiur.:es any person of that persuasion. In
the niglitsof the .IGth and I7th.of October, they
had formed a plan of a general Massacre, and
had even begun to carry it into execution.

CRANMER.

(1) A numerous body of English Roman (;::itholicS as-
sembled at Durban) a short time since, and iit'sisted that this
persecution could not flow from religious prlncipies, and that,
it was directed against tinonaparlisls only.
(2) This has been unquestionably -proved, and that they
enjoyed pure Christionity frouLthe time of the Apostles, in a
learned work, en-titled, " Remarks on the Ecclesiastical'
History of the Albigenses," printed in London, U 192, 4to.
Their religious creed framed in the year 1200, and published.
by Molinaus, in his Monarchia Francorum, evinces this be-
yond contradiction. The Albigenses presented a copy of it
to Francis 1. which is to be found in that excellent work the
Antijacobin Review, vol. 28, p. 442.
(3) I have already•proted that a Popish Priest is bound by
oath to infuse into his flock sanguinary doctrines against all
those who arc not within the pale of their Church.

(4)' Here their total extirpation is recommended by the
Clergy.
(5) Charles IX. and Lonis XIV. were instigated by the
Clergy to persecute the ProtestantS. Henry. tIL and Henry
V. were murdered byl'apal Mandates, because they refused
to do so.

(6) In all the elections since the Irish Papists obtained the
elective franchise, the Popish Priests have stic“ved an in-
temperate zeal to promote. the interest of such candidates as
proniised to support Catholic Emancipation in Parliament.

SCALE OF LITERARY MEIUT.—We are told of a
*arned - gentleman, %rho, in his anxiety to be
esteemed a Alleeenas of literature, made it a prac-
tice to entcrtain all the writers of the . day at.his
table. This mode of patronage was not unplea-
sant to the objects of it. In order, howeyer, to.
pretent all unp!easantnes., the •patron judged it
proper to arrange his vests according to eti-
quette ; he therefore gave the highest piNee to
those who had written a folio, after these came
the quarto authors, the octavo, &c. This may be
the reason why some authors are so anxious to
sport their quartos and broad margins, when
twelves or eighteens would contain all they pro-
duce worth reading. -

EXCESSIVE CRUELTY To A IIORSE.-Thomas
Sutton, alias Old Patch, was charged at Marl-
borough-street Oftice, by his master, Mr. Gates,
a backneymau, in Cumberland-mews, with cruel-,
ty to a horse, and which ended in the death of the
animal. It appeared by the testimony adduced,
that the prisoner went with a fare to pighgate
on Sunday morning, and on his return, accom=
panied by another sort of coachman upon the
:box, he galloped the horses down Highgate-hill,
when one of them fell, and the wheel of the
coach dislocated the hoof joint, so that the hoof
only hung by a sinew, The animal was tied:
hind the coach and flogged along upon three legs,.
whilst the other tlroe the single horse in. the.
coach to a farrier's, at Kentish-town, who after-
wards killed the lame hOrse, at the request of the
owner. The prisoner absconded, and his COJTI-
paninn went to apprise Mr. Giktes or I..hat had
11111111ened. The Magistrate j'egrettvti that the
Act of Parliament
.which tecognized this offence
did not empower him to inflict on the prisoner a
more severe punishment. The offender was sen;
tericed to one month's imprisonment its 131 ide-
well, and to be kept to bald labour.