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London, England, 1818-03-21 00:00:00

LETTER XT!i.

MR. EDITOR,-1 hive so far redeemed my
pledge to you and to the Public, as to have
brought under your view the principal topics of
this most extraordinary though characteristic
document of the Irish lion Lin Catholic Claimants ;
and although much remains to be said upon
the subject, and much still challenges our en-
quiry, I shall not for the present trespass hitcher
on your time, than with a few closing observa-
tions of a general reference, upon the result of

our investigation.

It is my intention however, %vitt' your permis-
sion, from tittre to time, as new occurrences, or

new schemes of deceptive policy arise, to contti-
hute my humble but zealous efforts towards the
support or those principles to which Our country
stands indebted for the foundation of her Con-
stitution, and for the continuance of those bless-
ings which have from the period of the Revolu-
tion grown and accumulated around it.

Surely, Sir, it were enough to ;wove the insince-
rity of these Papal Appellants that they affect to
ground their right to an equal participation of
privilege and power upon the identity of princi-
ples, both in a spiritual and political semse, with
tho-e of the Protestants. Do men ever descend

to dotvori4l,t olis-siatemervs, or every to equivc

Cation, who are not actuated by sini,ter motives ?
Blnst not deception' be intended where men hold
out false colours ! Is there a document, whether
taken front the highest source of Councils, or
'from the preceptive and doctrinal writings of the
Roman Catholic Doctors, down to their humblest
scribes and pamphleteers, which does not express
abhorrence and detestation of the damnable He-
resies of Protestants—that breathes not anathemas

and persecution against the " unaturol Rebellion,
(to adopt their own expression) of that rotten
-branch, the Church of England,"—which does not
teach the duty of extirpating, and utterly rooting
tip and destroying it Yet with these universally
upon record—with these authoratative tcstinumies,
not merely to the discordance of the two- systems,
but to their utter and peifec: inconsis►ency, to►
their incapability of ever being amalgamated with
each other, or even approximating towards each
other ; the appellants, who are the avowed slaves
to the DICTA of Popes, and who hallow the De-
crees of Councils as. ". THE WORD or GOD," avow
and declare in this their Public Manifesto, that the
identity of principles is the ground of their pro-
posed union with their " Protestant BRETHREN,"
and the plea for their admission to Legislative
Power, and the great Executive Offices of the
State ! Nay, that their admission to these high
privileges and functions is essential to the State,
in order to give efficacy and energy to principles
thus common to Papists and Protestants !

Never, truly, was there an instance of an af.
front so gross, so audacious, publicly offered to
the understandings of a nation of enlightened
men ! We have heard CorBETT, and HUNT, and
WTAITNMAN et hoc genus °nine, talk of their love
and attachment to the Constitution. The mass
of mankind simply smile at their nonsense, al-
though an effect may for a time be produced upon
an ignorant and undiscerniug rabble! But that
the Roman Catholics in a body should dare, in
-defiance of the volumes piled on volumes, autho-
rities upon authorities, Canons, Councils, Balls,

Decretals, and Rescripts, which are open, upon
their own authority, to every reading man in the
United Kingdom, profess themselves to he the
Brothers of their Protestant countrymen, the pro-
fessors of the same Creeds, Doctrines, and nearly

the same Ritual—and the supporters of the same
Political Principles, principles which are essentially
Protestant, is an effort of effrontery which 1 re-
peat, upon my conscience, 1 believe to he without
parallel in the history of mankind, and even in
their own records of Jesuitical Casuistry, ,or the
abominations of Francolin or Le Moine ! !

I am fearful of being tedious, even in selecting
few from the mass of authorities which must
set all cavil at rest upon this head,—but the fol-
lowing extracts will shew, if the usual attempt be
made to throw hack these authorities to remote

times (as if this with a true son of the Roman

Catholic Church could have any power of inva-
. lidating them), that the Papists of Ireland at this
moment do hold, maintain, and enforce, the same
doctrines al their fathers and forefathers, to the
remotest period of their antiquity, The first
shall produce is from a Itomish Catechism, now
used throughout Ireland, entitled, " The most
Reverend Dr. JAMES BUTLER'S Catechism, revised,
enlarged, approved, and tecommended by the four

Roman CatlinliC AtclibisLopi of Ireland, is a g‘z-
neral-Catechistu FOR THIS Ni NGDOM.
" Q. Where are true Christiaus to be found ?
" A. Only in the true church.
" Q. How do you call•ac true church P
" A. The Holy Catholic Churcb (viz. The Ro.
man Catholic.)
"Q. Are ALL obliged to be of the TRUE
CHURCH ?

" A. Yes—No ONE CAN BE SAVED OUT OF
IT ! ! !

" Q. Which are the marks of the true church ?
" A. The tree Church is one, Holy Catholic
and Apostolical!

‘‘ Q. Why do yon call THE. CHURCH nOrnal?
" A. Because the visilde Head of the Church is
Bishop of Rome, And because St. Peter and his
Successors fixed their Sec in Rome."
Is there, Sir, any thing ambiguous or illusory
in this ?—I( is all tangible matter, and Le who
runs may read ! No forensic sophistry or senato-
rial declamation, no rapuusiug metaphysical cant
of the Edinburgh Review, can do this away—z Ere
poennius, it was, it ia, and must be the doctrine
of Popery till Papal Lome is no more. But listen,
Sir, to one short extract more. It is front the
Service usrd by Dr. Taoy, the present Homan
Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, iu ccnsecrating
two Bidwps in EI,C YEAR 1815.
Question from the Arc'ihishop.—" Btlievest
thou that the Holy Catholic and ApostolicalChureh
is the one true Church, iu which the one true
Baptism is given, and the true liemission of all
Sins ?

" A. I believe.
" Q. Moreover, dolt thou ACCURSE every heresy
which lifteth itself up against the HOLY CATHOLIC
CHURCH ?
"A. I ACCURSE THEM ! !"
It would be a waste of words to pursue the
subject further. But, Sir, it has been Said, aye,
311 Ii repeated over and over again in the speeches
and reviews of the EMANCIPATION FANATICS, that
the runtish Church, enlightened by the progress
of science, is in our day very different from that
Citurch, which, at the period of the Reformation,
(-trove all rational and pious Christians into a se-
paration from her. The Bigotry imputed to this
Church is actually transferred to those Protestants
who dare raise their voices, in unison with the
Papists themselves, in declaring that no change
has taken place, or can take place, in their prin-
ciples,—because the corner stone of the building,
the first among those principles, is their Immuta-
bility and Unchangeableness, their chosen and
appropriate device Semper eadem !! But what,
Sir, was the great operating Cause, the, last
weight which raised the leaver, and effected that
most glorious of human revolutions, the REFOR-
MATION ? Was it not the Sale (rf Indulgences
under LEO X. ? Have these evils, these follies,
these corruptions, faded away under the in-
fluence of a more enlightened era You shall
hear. I will give the extract entire, Es it is re-
corded in a work to which I request your Readers
again to refer (" The Dangers with which Great
UI itain and Ireland are now menaced," &c.)
forms part of its most valuable Appendix.
The Titular Bishop of Cork, Dr. Movt.ANT,

on a late occasion, followed the pions7examplc of
Pope Lco X., and issued a Declaration of Plenary
Indulgence and Jubilee for the building a Romish
Cathedral it the City of Cork. The pastoral Let-
ter in which this Cork Popish Titular Bishop pro-
mulgated the. Pope's 801 l of plenary Indulgence,
well deserves the attention of the British Public.
In this Bull of Indulgence, THE PRESENT POPE
not only excuses front temporal Censures, but from
the future Punishments of Sin in the world to- come,
by distributing, at his discretion, the, Divine For-
gicenes ; and he informs the Roman Catholics in

the County of Cork, that his Indulgence shell be
applicAble to the SOULS IN PURGATORY !"

The pastoral Letter of tl►e Cork Mahon calls
this Indulgence of the Yore " an inestimable
Grace," and then proceeds to the Terms upon
which it is to he granted.

" In order (says he) to gain this plenary In-
dulgence, it is necessary to be truly penitent, to
make a good Confession, and to receive worthily
the Holy Conintor ;to assist at least eight
tittles in the pious Exercises, and to 'offer up for
sonic time to God, in a Visit to the Cathedral, pions
and fervent Prayers for :he PROPAGATION Of the
Holy Catholic Faith (weaning Popery), and To
THE INTENTION OF OUR LIOLY FATHER, THE
Pot's, five Paters and five Ares, and a Creed, to

the ABOVE I NTENTiON, will fulfil the Obligation."
This is the Price, united with a Subscription to the
object in view, of Remission, Absolution, and For-
giveness from the actual commission of every
deadly Sin. The pecuniary purchase was,reduced
as low as Twopence per head for a Pauper Sinner,
and the Bishop adds, " Were your sins as red as
scarlet, by TUC GRACE of this Absolution, and the
application of this plenary ludalgence, your souls
shall be as white as snow !"

The consequence was such as might be expect-
ed. This pastoral letter was publicly real in
every Roman Catlinlie chapel and place of ‘vor-
ship in the County of Cork (which the Bishop
calls his Diocese), on lour successive Sundays,
ending on the sth of December—not in 1513

not itl6l3—but in 1813 !! ! The jubilee lasted
for about a month, and many accidents- occurred,
ott account of the "proiligious numbers" who
came from all parts of the country--arid, the two_
pennies collected front the pauper Community
amounted, it is said, to a large SIIIII. So much
for the fact. Hear now, then, the doctrine and
opinion of the learned and able defender of Po-
pery, at this hour living in the midst of us, whose
work issues under the especial authority of the
present Pope and College of Cardinals, and is by
theta declared to be " worthy to be cased in cedar
and in gold." 1111. Gandolphy informs us, that
" the pious sentiment which actuated Pope Leo X.
in raising a vast sum of money by the sale of a
plenary indulgence, was the wish to pay for tire
building of such a cathedral es should prove that
the Disciples of our Redeemer were become LORDS
OF THE UNIVERSE."

Now, Sir, 1 here put the simple question to
the good sense of the People of this Country,
whether they will belie►•e the Pope, the Curt&

nAls, and the Popi3h Prie,thoo,l .of the pre.
sent day upon the nature and character of their
own doctrines and principles, or w•hether they
will take them upon the representation of Mr.
" the tilde horn" of Edinburgh, and
the sceptic band of Dinner Pensioners at 11----d
House

JEFFF.fiti,

There is but one topic more adduced by the
Roman Catholic Appellants upon which 1 shall
slightly touch before 1 finally drop the curtain
upon them. They express themselves highly in-
dignant at the supposition (which supposition, Ly
the way, is warranted by their own avowed and
nucancelled documents), that their oaths are not
binding when pledged to heretics " The inde-
cency (say they) of this charge is not less glaring
than its falsehood 1" P 1 ett.: strong language this,
in a conciliatory appeal to the parties thus impli-
cated. "If (they continue) we entertained no
regard for the obligatb;os of an oath, 8:c. we
could readily accompli•h our political ettianc;pa-
tintt, by snbscribing to the oaths and declara-
tions which are stibscribed to by our Protestant
brethren, and which alone render them eligible
to offices and honours, in prelerence to Roman
Catholics !"

In order to prove that the charge brought for-
ward by the Protestants is as free front indecency
as it is from falsehood, it is only necessary to re-
fer to ducument4 with which the Homan Catho-
lics themselves have futnished us. For testimony
to thelact, I beg to refer your readers to the his-
tory of the Romish Church in every period of its
history, under the head of indulgencies, and gene-
ral absolutions !
Pope Plus VI. in the year MI, certainly did
deny, upon a political emergency, that Faith was
nut to be kept with Heretics, which he conde-
scendingly, for the occasion, softens down to he-
terodox persons. but Ttt s Poem, is for ever bound,
and cannot alienate the duty, << to to
the least tittle the whole system of Faith handed
down to him."

Ile " swears 'o preserve unchanged to the least
tittle, to defend even to blood, and to preach the
Faith as delivered by the eight General Councils, and
those -0f Lateran, Constance, 8;e." (Conc. Const.
Sess. 39-I;asil, :Sets. 37). Ile is hound by the
Divine Authority of Councils to maintain, that

" Oaths of Allegianre, if sworn when the Prince
is a heretic, are nullities, and if sworn before he
becomes an heretic, cease to be obligatory when
THE PAPAL ABSOLUTION FROM THEIR OBLIGA-
TION SHALL BB DULY GIVEN !" The governing pria.
ciple of Catholicism is asserted to be 7HE BENE-
FIT OF THE Cnottcn (the UTILITAS ECCLESIASTI-
CA, in t.h& language of the Rimiish Ecclesiastical
Doctors) which " is to be determined by the proper
famish Ecclesiastical Authority."

It is therefore neither indecent nor false to as-
sert, that the oaths of the Roman Catholics may
be liable to suspicion, since the opinion of their
sanctity may be affected by tin authority which
Protestants do not own, 'and which intervenes
between the direct appeal from man to his Maker
But to recur to the inference (Ira Win by the ap-
pellants; or rather which they desire us to draw,
that the sacred observance of a particular oath
being the only impediment to their due participa.
tion of legislative privileges and political power,
a similar obligation most of course bind their con-
sciences with respect to all other oaths; we deny
the consequence, and we deny it upon the very
ground which they assume for its defence. The
oath of supremacy to THE POPE cannot be dispensed
with, even by THE POPE himself It is au ARTICLE
OF FAITH defined and declared Ilion the divine au-
thority of Councils! It is sacred and indispensable!
and so declared, and so rendered valid and bind-
ing upon the mimi and conscience of every Roman
Catholic, by the very self-same authority, and by
the same decrees of the same Councils, which render
every oath subscribed or taken with here-tics subject,
at the discretion of THE POPE, to be dictated VA-
LID or NULL. Hear the eVidence from their own
mouths z----" They are nut to be called OATHS, but
rather PERJURIES, which are attempted against the
benefit of THE CHURCH (` qua contra atiluatem ec-
clesiasticam attentantur') ; for such an oath cannot

bind; in which the right of the superior should be
SUPPOSED TO BE EXCEPTED. It ought to be so
understood that it should not oppose A RIGHT (a
superior right or• canonical sanction) ; otherwise,
as being a rash oath, IT DOES NOT OBLIGE 1"
Thus speaks the Romtsu CANON LAW (Decretal
50 I. ii. tit. 24. cep 27.—et cap. ID et 21. ad
host ) While these Popish canons have the force
and anthority of Dirine coninwnds, and are, with
every Roman Catholic, articles of faith and the
express test of obedience to the visible [lead of their
Church, tinder THE OATH OF SUPREMACY, what,
we may fairly ask, would become of the obliga-
tion of THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE to the Sove-
,eign of these Realms, ur of any oaths in confirm-
ation of it, IF the Romish Ecclesiastical autho-
rity should pronounce them to be against the belie-
.f t of the Church—" CONTRA UTILITATIZM ECCLE-
SIASTICANI

If it be supposed that these Decrees of • the
Popish Councils ate a dead letter, 0r the anathe-
mas of the Popish Priesthood a mere brutain Jul
men, let the following statement speak for itself
—" At the Spring Assizes of the County of Ty-
tone, held at Onwgh in 1811, two persous were
convicted of having administered the following
oath to 500 of the lu%yer classes of the Homan
Catholics in that county, and in the towns of Ar-
magh, Dundalk, Castle Blaney, and Newtown
Hamilton I do swear, in the presence of the
blessed Lady Mary, that I will maintain OUR HOLY
sLELIGION, by destroying heretics, as far as my
power and propel ty will go (not one exceioted), and
also that I will assist my brethren in every under-
taking against heretics, EIS COMMANDED 111' OUR
HOLY FATHERS. I do further ssNear, that 1 ant
now become a Rae Defender and Ido further,
swear, that 1 will be ready in twelve hours warn-
ing to put our GLORIOUS DESIGNS in execution
against HERETICS of every sort. So help me God
in this oath. Sanct. >lll. P. Then shall the eyes
of the blind be opened, and the ears ‘f the deaf un-
stopped. S. F. C. Isaiah xxxv. 5.' "
Ferbunt non an:plias.

L.INFRANC.

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maricri 21, 1813.

'l'l►e Paris Papers of Wednesday last, whit
Were due morni►►g, t►ave not come to hand.

The Pntscg REGtNT has slignified his intention
to attend Divine Set vice in the Chapel !loyal o'
St..hincs's to-morrow, for the purpose of
ing the example of our venerable Monarch ill
making the usual Easter Offerings.

We find that the KING of Fa.xxce, if we nof
depend on the French Papers, has actually re-cog-7
BEIINADUTTE as the Sovereign of SwEDEN
.We sincerely hope - the report that the other fa"
tentates of Europe are likely to follow his example
is unfounded, and that they will reflect on rbe
consequences of giving such a stab to legitituate
Sovereignty. As to the King of FttAxcE, we co"-
ceive that he has been reluctantly driven 10
measure that will shake the stability of all thronel•
What would he have thought of the Btitisb No'
narelt, if he had with equal precipitation acknow'
!edged the usurpation of BUONAPARTU On the throrl
of France. Nothing in our opinio4l could be wore
disgraceful to Sweden than a tame submission 14°
this Upstart, even were its lawful Monarch lend h
family
,not existence. Deeply, indeed, 5103
we deplore the melancholy fact, if it should lYe
found that the Government of this Country is

not the very last to give such a sanctio" Ic°

usurpation, after all that noble perseverance i►t
support of legititilate tgldts Which incited other
States to follow its glorious example, which re•''
stored the French Ai onarch to the Throne of
,Ancestors, and ended in ,extending the blessings
of peace and security to .the rest of Europe

NEW Co.LITION.—A Meetin, it is said, lia's
taken place among the old and new Candidate'
for the honour of representing the Cities of Luroli''l
and Westminster, and they have entered into 4
Coalition which appears to be sat4factory to ng
the Parties. If we are tightly info:riled, it 1"1
been determined that Sir FRANCIS BCRDETr 2114
Lord COCHRANE are to be left in quiet pasSeSi"ll
at Westminster, and that in return they have pro:
mired to exert all their influence and personal"
efforts, in order to secure the Election of Messrs'
WAITHMAN, IVOOLER, LIoNE, and tic NT 01' 41):
City. At the intended meeting in Palace
on Monday next, some of the particulars of uvl'icit
arc mentioned in another part of our Paper this
day, it is expected that the plan will be fully 'e'
veloped for that purpose, and Major C. 4141.-
wit WIIT, it is said, has promised that his oi)eni";
Speech shall not occupy more than flee hours ag
half.

We present our Iteoders this day with cite last
of that admirable Series of LETTERS s;gile
LANFRANC, which, we conceive, have effectwill/r
refuted the pretensions of the PAPtsTs to fartber
concessions on the .part of Government, and ".'"cls
must have convinced all who are open to C"vici:
;ion of the danger which might attend suci
concessions. We have the pleasure to 81.7
that though this Series Of Letters has en de
we are priunised the assistance of the 11'04
lent ned, pious, and eloquent Writer, tire.
every occasion in which the interests of our
rivalled Establishment in Chute!! and Stare
leasur.,i
demand his attention. We learn with p
that these letters will be collected and publish
of
together, and they will certainly constitute
0.,
of the firm Pillars of the PROTESTANT ASCM4

ANCY.

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The following is a correct Statement
of
no 111 her of Elnigrants arrived at the r°ll3 to
Philadelphia and New Yolk, front JanuarY

December 3I , 1817 :
•, f 053
From England, Inland, and ScOland—At Philadeiphßtils34
Du. du. du. New York : 0
Philaddliii"*. ' 674

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Holland and GuAnany
Do. do.
British Possessions in North Awerica
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Italy au;! Spain
Do. do. .
.111 other Cuunttits
Do. etc
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THE INDE:tiNITY

FOR THE SV,'N..

PART 11.
The mote I think of the opposition to this Just
113414'itt.arBill the more stubborn and malicious
it a
PPeers. • Whatever moved the respective mom-
s.
‘hereof to expose themselves, it is to he la-
-4:en4tl that some overruling necessity had not
.I:hovered over their distempered heads, and lulled
em
into the peaceful slumbers of a death-like
silence.

:jerily
W(44
believe that they all knew the hill
. Pass before they uttered a word against
a ; and that nothing but their rancour over dis-
rPl4/inted ambition, which sunk them in despair,
~..°!°ked them to prove it, by their perturbed ani-
iflosity•
else treat his 'Majesty's Ministers so
as to insinuate that they had imposed on
p";;ianient)F a.nd .induced them, on reports of
gl Committees, to suspend the' Habeas Car-
:o,l. Act,so as to countenance unheard-of mis-
tip!lS atriong poor harmless insurgents, wli9 were
't setting l
g the kingdom on fire ; then, after
S -ng n'ar'y of tlion'to justice, liberating the
Petted
re Parts Why else insinuate that, under other
latu.f partial Corpraittees, they call for Legis-
n "e
Protection and indemnity ? Why else treat:
C"th
t 4 linet9 so rudely as seemingly to charge
eWith making deceptive reports, by conceal-
,l'he evidence on which
.they were founded ?
iiiy%i'rraigning their:conduct as criminals, a-nd
Niti'g them in one common, though baseless
tlie"sfor doing no more or less than what they
4,)aeiel‘'e,s would have done, or ought to have
•3 la.d they shared in' his Majesty's Govern-

telit.

after all such uncultivated behaviour, such
11°Hle and disrespectful treatment of these
ll:)4ltnitt"s, let me ask them, would they have
the:" it
ja private, company ? No. It would
met its due reward it they swerved
clue
rules which regulate: the conduct of
st ell-bred men,
tills it and as CRONO:VELL said to VANE, in the
11 'se of COE111)91iS, " Sir HANEY VAI!M, the
Fordo keel) me from Sir MASHY. VANE," so I say,
.110 Y. ()111)0sitiou, the Lord keep me from you."--
eart3 DeVertheless, he will soon turn ..their
I 14.:em to a state of true repentance;
•anteutttheir weys.

Amen !

OLD NOLL..