The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-03-15 00:00:00

FROM MEXICO.

Our New Orleans slips of the 11th inst. bring us the un-
accountable information that Santa Anna has again become
the president of the Mexican. republic ; but how we are not
distinctly informed. The news was brought by a French
ship from Vera Cruz, which port she left on the 26th of Ja-
nuary. At the time of her sailing,! the intelligence had just
arrived by express from the capital.
President Bustamente is said to have marched, or been on
the point of marching, with 4000 men against Urrea, at Tam-
pico. We presume, therefore, that the call of General Santa
Anna to the presidency is only temporary, during the absence
of Bustamente. It may be, however, that the whole is an
arranged affair, and that Bustamente intends to remain ab-
sent, at least until the war with France is brought to a close
one way or another.
The decree for the expulsion of the French residents was
to be put rigiorously in force on the sth instant. The Mexican
inhabitants, it is said, were returning to Vera Cruz. The
English and French squadrons were lying quietly before that
place, and some of the accounts say that perfect good feeling
existed between them.

The New Orleans Louisianian, however, states that the
arrival of the English fleet caused so mnch dissatisfaction
among the French, that Admiral Baudin addressed a note of
remonstrance to the British admiral, in which the latter was
politely but firmly requested to withdraw. That an interview
between them followed, in which it was agreed that two of
the English seventy-fours and three frigates should proceed
to Havannah ; which agreement was carried into effect. We
do not know how to give entire credence to this story. It
may have grown out of the sailing of some of the English
ships for Havannah—probably for supplies.
It is stated that Admiral Baudin entertains no hope of an
amicable adjustment with Mexico, and only awaits the arrival
of troops to recommence hostilites. The assumption of the
government by Santa Anna certainly affords room for believing
that negotiations are not likely to end the quarrel, known as
he is,. to be resolute for war.--New York Spectator of Feb. 25

ECLIPSE.—There will be a total eclipse of the sun, the
15th instant ; and though this will be the case on or near the
central track, yet to the northern parts of Wales and
England, the whole of Scotland and Ireland, this eclipse
will be entirely invisible ; but to the southern parts of Eng-
land and Wales a small part of the sun's disc will be ob-
scured near the lower limb. At Beachy Head, where it will
be greatest in England, it will be but of trifling magnitude.
The eclipse at Greenwich begins at 3h. 83m. 54 sec. and ends
at 4h. 4m. 24sec. p.m.

MURDER IN IRELAND.-At the Longford assizes, a man
named Kenny was found guilty of the murder of Moorhead,
a tenant of Lord Lorton. The court was densely crowded
in every part. When the culprit was asked in the usual way,
" Had he anything to say why sentence of death should not
be passed on him ?" he called on God to witness that he was
as innocent as the child unborn—that he was not nearer the
place when the murder was committed than Ballinarnuck the
night it took place. Baron Pennefather, in the most feeling
language, proceeded to pass sentence on the wretched
criminal. He recapitulated the horrid facts of the case, and
expressed his entire approval of the verdict of the jury, and,
in conclusion, admonished the prisoner as to his awful state
in a manner which drew tears from many of the crowd, feel-
ings of emotion in which the learned baron himself partook.
The last sentence having been passed, the prisoner, who had
all along listened with attention to the address of the judge,
exclaimed in a loud voice—" A long day, my lord.', The
judge had not fixed a day at this period, and appeared to be
considering the subject, when a child of the wretched con-
vict, who stood among the crowd which surrounded the dock,
commenced uttering the most lamentable cries. The pri-
soner's, attention was aroused to this •, his face changed to
the colour of a corpse, and clenching his fist, he struck the
bar of the dock violently with it, exclaiming,—" The soul
won't be forty-eight hours out of my body when I will be
revenged of my judge and jury, and my prosecutors !" The
manner in which this atrocious sentiment was uttered dif-
fused a thrill of horror through all who heard it. On being
removed from the dock to the gaol the crowd loudly cheered
him as he passed, and some were heard to say, " Cheer up,
Kenny, you die for your holy religion I" When he came to
the gate of the prison he turned round to the populace,
looked up at the gallows, which was over his head, and ex-
claimed, " Never fear, I'll die like a man."

FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1339.

We perceive that t,he opinion we expressed in our
paper of Friday last, relative to the probability of hos-
tilities between this country and the United States, has
been borne out, notwithstanding the dOubts expressed
since then by some of our contemporaries in this town,
and by several London and Dublin papers.
The following extract is from the Dublin Evening
Mail of last Monday :

"RUMOURED WAR BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

" Not only public rumours, but private letters which we
have received, are full of something more than hints that a
war with America is not to be looked to as any very distant
event. In fact we are told that ministers are actually in
possession of despatches—perhaps we might more correctly
say communications—the contents of which it would be ex-
tremely inconvenient, not to say unpleasant, to speak•about.
We are, however, quite certain that conservative politeness,
carried as it now is to its most exquisite pitch, will not dis-
turb them at so delicate a juncture."
We cannot fathom the tone of certain personages in
both houses of parliament, unless there be more known
by private individuals of high rank in the metropolis
than has as yet been made public. There appear a
mental reservation, a tacit acknowledgment, by Minis-
ters, of the present precarious condition of this nation,
notwithstanding the boasted assurances from Foreign
Powers of their friendly disposition towards us, which
look ugly. Anguis in herba latet.

HOSTILITIES HAVE ALREADY COMMENCED !

Since the above was written we have received New
York papers up to the 25th ult., which convey to us
the important, but
,painful intelligence. that war has
actually commenced in the State of Maine, between
the United States and her MAJESTY'S subjects. •
Very full extracts from these papers will be found in
our columns to-day.
Sir JOHN HARVEY, Governor of New Brunswick,
issued his proclamation on the 21st ult., calling all
magistrates, sheriffs, &c. to act with vigilance and zeal;
and commanding the officers of the first and second
batta!ions of the militia forthwith to proceed tc the
drafting of a body of men, &c. He has ordered 1,000
men to proceed at once into the disputed territory ;
and regular troops have been ordered from Frederic-
ton, St. John, and Halifax.
The Governor of Maine, on the other hand, has
commanded 1,000 men to march with all speed to the
scene of trouble, in aid of the force already there.

Sir JOHN HARVEY addressed on the 13th ult. a
very judicious letter to the Governor of Maine, im-
ploring that he should not be placed under the painful
necessity of either abstaining from the fulfilment of the
commands of his SOVEREIGN, or by acting up to
them, place the two nations in inveterate and active
hostility.
On the receipt of this, the Governor of Maine sent
a second message to the Maine Legislature, in which
he paid little or no attention to the above friendly and
humane letter; but merely went over the old question of
the boundary line. In a postcript to this message, he
adds, " In regard to all this I have only to say that,
for one, I see no reason to doubt the entire correctness
of the course we have thus far pursued, and that with
the blessing of GOD, I TRUST WE SHALL PERSE-
VERE." "No SUCH ARGUMENTS AS THAT AL-
LUDED TO BY THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR (Sir
J. HARVEY) CAN BE RECOGNISED BY US 1"
ACcordingly the Legislature of Maine forthwith
passed a resolution appropriating 800,000 dollars to
the support of 10,000 men, which force she is now
calling into the field; and calls upon the State of
Massachusetts to join in the expense.
Let not the public forget our prediction in our paper
of last Friday.

" If you will not have warehouses you shall not have
docks," said the chairman of the .Dock Committee, a
few days ago, to several highly respectable merchants
on 'Change. And this very liberal sentiment was re-
echoed, on the same day, by that convenient tool of
Messrs. WALMSLEY and EVANS, who, wincing under
the lash of his unsparing task-masters, is always at
hand to do their dirty work. Who is Mr. VINCENT
HIGGINS ? We protest we never heard of this man,
except as a fifth or sixth-rate iron-merchant, before
the reform tempest whirled him and a few others to
the surface of the political pot, where they are tossed
about like so many chips, and where they may proba-
bly remain till the good sense of the people shall scum
the cauldron, and return them to the places whence
they came. Yet is this man and a few such, whose
presumption has got the better of their judgment, sent
to legislate for the merchants of Liverpool, by men
who never paid, nor ever will pay, a single shilling of
dock-rates as long as they liv6 ! And they have now
the audacity to stalk on 'Change, and tell the merchants
of Liverpool, that " if they won't have warehouses they
shall not have docks." Our able contemporary of the
Mail has, with his usual talent, dissected the " report"
of the Finance Committee ; but there are a few points
which he has not touched upon connected with the
question, and to them we beg to direct the attention
of our readers.

It is a well-known fact, that a motion was made in
the Finance Committee that a portion of the able and
well-digested report of Mr. OKILL should be expunged.
Our readers will do well to recollect, that of all men
living Mr. OKILL is the best acquainted with the dock
and corporate estates. His invaluable services are
appreciated by all. In asking him, therefore, for his
opinion, the committee were right. In attempting to
expunge one sentence, they were acting most disho-
nourably towards so able a man, and, they were prac-
tising a fraud upon the town at large, who had a right
to know his full opinion. He says :—" It cannot be
denied that the projected erection of dock warehouses
has latterly had a considerable effect in promoting this
decline [in the demand for land], and the experience
of the last twelve months tends materially to strengthen
this conclusion. One lot of land only, and that sub-
ject to a restriction of warehouse doors, has been dis-
posed of by the Improvement Committee ; and two;
mainly subject to the same restriction, and one small
lot out of the reach of such restriction, have been sold
by the Finance Committee, in this period : and I may
safely say, that, since my appointment to my office, in
1824, I never knew so few inquiries made for land;
and I feel it my duty to state, which I do with all de-
ference, my own conviction that the construction of
warehouses, to the extent proposed in the plans sub-
mitted by the Dock Committee, would necessarily tend
to a further reduction in the value of land, and also to
a depreciation of the interest of the Corporation, in the
warehouses and other mercantile erections held under
their leases."

" Much has been said as to the very great increase
of warehouse property of late years. The increase of
the trade of the port has required it, and the competi-
tion arising from this increase has been such as to
keep the rents from yielding more than a fair return for
the outlay of capital, and from being otherwise a bur-
then on the trade. But, in estimating the increase, it
is requisite to take into consideration the great decrease
of warehouse property by the impiovements under the
Dock Act of 1825 and the Improvement Act of 1826 :
no less than eighty-nine warehouses were destroyed;
and this deficit ought to be allowed for in estimating
the recent increase."
In this business-like manner does Mr. OKILL'S
valuable testimony dispose of the statistics of Mr.
WALMSLEY. No wonder those who wanted to carry
the bill would have gladly expunged such testimony,
had they been able. Much of a similar character to
that above might be given, but this is sufficient for
our purpose at present. Mr. THOMAS BOLTON says
the Warehouse Question is net a party question; but,
we ask, has not Mr. JOHN CROPPER been called
" a traitor" ?—have not Messrs. Jo HN and HENRY
HOLMES been nicknamed " pocket patriots" ?—and
has not Mr. been called a conservative, because
he has supported the rights of property ? There are
persons, calling themselves gentlemen, who can answer
these questions if they choose. In preserving those
sacred rights, many of the members of council have
certainly departed from the practice of modern
liberals. Have the public ever thought of the
patronage that the Dock Committee would possess,
if they carried the bill ? A secretary is the first
thing wanted, and Mr. TINDAL ATKINSON, of the
Reform Association, and the busy tool of WALMSLEY,
would have no objections to the situation, with £6OO
or £BOO a-year ; a treasurer, with £BOO a-year ; a su-
perintendent, with £5OO a-year ; an inspector, with
£4OO a-year ; a posse of clerks, with £l5O each;
cashiers to every dock establishment, with £2OO each;

dock warehouse-keepers, under-keepers, or assistants,
ticket-porters, and coopers ; all to be appointed by the
Dock Trustees, with a long list of et ceteras. Here is
a splendid vista open to the view of many a hungry
and flaming patriot, enough to make a thousand mouths
water, and all this to be done that monopoly may be
destroyed and trade be free and unrestricted ! Does
any man in his senses suppose that one single cooper,
carter, or porter would be employed in these establish-
ments who ventured to give a conservative vote ? We
protest that we never knew a deeper scheme for grasp-
ing at all power and patronage of'the town, under pre-
tence of forwarding the interests of trade, than the
scheme under review. But it wont do. To divest it
of a political appearance, every possible use has been
made of a few conservative names, whom we deeply
regret to see in such company ; and they have 'been
thrust prominently forwards, whilst the men who have
been pulling the strings have been laughing in their
sleeves at the deception practised on them.
No exception could be taken to the statement of the
warehouse owners ; and in reference to the compara-
tive charges between this port and London, they say in
one of their communications, " To remove all doubts
from the minds of your committee as to the accuracy
of the Liverpool charges—members of the association
would undertake to land and warehouse cargoes of any
article of the produce enumerated in the accompanying
statement at the rates therein specified."
We shall have something to say in our next pub-
lication on this part of the question. The ware-
house owners were needlessly alarmed at the agitation
of the subject. Had the Dock Committee gone to
Parliament for such a bill, the first day's evidence on
the necessity of their application would have settled the
whole hash, and they would have been seen, like the
corn law delegates, returning home in some second
class train, wiser, if not better men than when they
started on such a ridiculous errand. The sooner re-
porters are admitted to the meetings of the Dock Com-
mittee the better for the interests of the public.

To what a lamentable condition our country must be
reduced, when she suffers herself to be governad by
men as destitute of confidence in their own proceed-
ings, as they are of fortitude or courage to meet the
attacks of those opposed to them.
It will be recollected that a few weeks ago Mr.
DUNCOMBE, member for Finsbury, obtained an order
from the House of CoMmons for permitting the thea-
tres in Westminster to be opened on Wednesdays and
Fridays during Lent.
Notwithstanding this resolution of the house, her
MAJESTY'S ministers thought proper to instruct the
LORD CHAMBERLAIN to interdict that order, and
issue his proclamation that the theatres should not he
opened on those two days during Lent.
On Monday last Mr. DUNCOMBE moved that a vote
of censure be passed on ministers for this conduct.
The resolution was as follows :—" That this house
learns with regret and surprise that her MAJESTY'S
ministers have thought fit to interfere with the wholly
unfettered discretion which the Legislature has been
pleased to vest in the LORD CHAMBERLAIN with re-
spect to theatrical entertainments within the city of
Westminster, by directing that officer of her MA-
JESTY'S household so 'to exercise his discretionary au-
thority as to defeat the manifest object of a resolution
of the Commons' House of Parliament."

Without at all adverting to the propriety or impro-
priety of theatrical performances, we cannot refrain
from concurring in the propriety of Mr. DUNCOMBE'S
motion ; for here we find an instance, and it is not the
first instance, of our whig government attempting to
constitute an authority virtually irresponsible and su-
perior to the Commons' House of Parliament. Ought
not such conduct as this open the eyes of the people of
this country to the real spirit'of whiggery ? If minis-
ters were confident that these theatres ought not to be
opened on Wednesdays and Fridays during Lent, why
did they not, like men, take their stand when first the
question was introduced by Mr. DUNCOMBE ? Why
did they not on that occasion raise their voice, defend
their conduct, and divide the. house on the question ?
Two circumstances prevented them: first, they doubted
their strength ; secondly, they feared offending the ra-
dicals.

Now, as their imbecility, cowardice, and trickery in-
duced them to allow the House of Commons to pass a
resolution authorising the LORD CHAMBERLAIN to
grant permission for the opening of the theatres on
those evenings, how dare they, after that resolution was
legitimately passed, interfere, and privately direct the
LORD CHAMBERLAIN not to comply with the order of
the House of Commons ?

We verily believe such conduct is unprecedented.
But this is only the "first act" of this drama; and,
omitting the intermediate "acts," we arrive at the
"farce."

Mr. DUNCOMBE, indignant at this proceeding, and,
although he is a radical, we say justly indignant, moved,
as we said before, a motion of censure on ministers for
their conduct. •

Now for the courage, the consciousness of rectitude
of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, et hoc anine genus ! Did
they, like men of mind, like men regardless of the opi-
nions of others, provided they were conscious that they
were acting right, meet this attack, repel it, defend their
principles, and say, " We believe we have acted right—
we are prepared for our defence—we will argue the
merits of the question, divide the house, if you please;
but we will not yield one atom of our opinion as to the
propriety of our conduct, to the demands of radicals or
to the censure of tories ?" No, no ! Lord JOHN RUS-
SELL feared the consequences—he feared to offend the
radicals—he succumbed to the attack ; and, like a
coward and a sycophant, sculked away, and took refuge
under a promise to act better for the future—a virtual
apology ! What a glorious 'minister !
" A Daniel come to judgment !

Yea—a Daniel !"

His lordship having demanded, after Mr. DUN-
COMBE'S friends had expressed their desire that the
motion would be withdrawn, that the house should di-
vide, reminds us of the semblance of courage exhibited
by the crowing of a little bantam, while retreating with
all possible speed from the attacks of a bird he dared
not encounter.

By what species of infatuation the Protestant Dis-
senters of Great Britain are induced to form an un-
holy alliance with Infidels and Papists, as they now do,
thus promoting the cause of Infidelity and Popery, we
cannot devise.

Have they lost sight altogether of the nature and
history of Popery and Infidelity ?
One would imagine that their attachment to certain
political principles, or their zeal against the Esta-
blished Church, has driven out of their minds the his-
tory of what Popery has been ever since the reign of
CONSTANTINE THE GREAT; and the history of the
black and diabolical deeds done by Infidels in France,
under the name of liberty, during the revolution of 1793.

How any body of people profesiing the great
truths of Christianity, as the INDEPENDENTS, BAP-
TISTS, and others do, can reconcile to their con-
sciences the joining hand and hand with Papists and
Infidels in order to pull down that Church, which,
under GOD, has preserved that unadulterated Bible
which those Dissenters profess to value above all
things ; and in which Church the LORD JESUS
CHRIST and the Apostles are preached, " being read
every Sabbath-day," (Acts xv. 21,) is what we cannot
comprehend : particularly when we recollect, that the
substitution of that Church throughout the land would
be, if it were pulled down, either Popery or Infidelity,
or both !

We would ask the above-named Dissenters, do they
flatter themselves that their disapproval of the mode
of worship in the Established Church is a sufficient
ground, in the sight of GOD, for their aiding and abet-
ting, as many of them are now doing, the open ene-
mies of the Bible, the covert enemies of the Gospel,
and the unqualified enemies of the divinity of the SON
of GOD ?

We know well the way in which they are deceived
by those who lie in wait to deceive : they are told that
there is no possible danger of the Church of Rome
ever becoming the Established Church of this land ;
and that, if it even were the established religion, the
same privileges would be allowed them that they now
enjoy.

Putting altogether out of the question the ungodli-
ness of in any way promoting the cause of Anti-Christ,
we would take leave to ask, why is there no possible
danger of the Church of Rome becoming the Esta-
blished Church here ? Was there ever a time when it

was not an aspiring Church 2 Does not the Popu,
and do not all his ministers, consider it their bounden
duty to advance the cause of their politico-religious
Church, to the extermination of all other Churches ?
Have they not sworn so to do ? Has that obligation
ever been cancelled ? We answer, it never has. Is
there not danger, then, considering the above oaths—
considering the immense resources of that Church—
considering how much calculated her ordinances are
to gratify the flesh and to delude the multitude—and
considering that Infidels would much prefer that
Church (for obvious reasons) to any reformed Church,
is there not, we ask, very great danger of that Church
becoming the established religion of this country, if
the present Establishment (which GOD forbid) were
ever pulled down ?
From what we have read—from what we have wit-
nessed at home and in foreign lands—and from what
we know, we firmly believe that the Church of Rome
would, in case of the above event, become the Esta-
blished Church of this country.
She aspires to it ; she teaches her people to believe
it will be the case; and it is only from her present
inability, that she does not openly avow it. She says,
as one of her champions did a 'few months ago, " We
cringe when weak ; but we demand when strong."
This he no doubt learned from her pulpits.
But, it may be said, if she even were in power she
would not now persecute—she would be tolerant ; 'we
should enjoy as much liberty then, as now.
Would you ? Pray from what data do you draw
your conclusions ? If from none, but from her avn
promises and declarations now made, recollect that
such promise necessarily involves the violation of her
oath—so that you depend on a promise, the keeping of
which, necessarily. involves the promiser in perjury !
Verily, a good foundation. But it may be again said,
the spirit of the times, the march of intellect, the spirit
of Englishmen would never submit to it. Pray, is
there not as much spirit of liberty, as much march of
intellect amongst the lower classes of the community in
the United States as in England ? We say there is.
Then we can prove that the Protestant population of
that country seriously apprehend the establishment of
Popery in that land. And if they do in the United
States, which are separated thousands of miles from
the seat of the beast, and where there is no Established
Church, much more ought we to apprehend here such
an event.

We shall here lay before our readers the testimony
of one, who lives m a country where there is no Esta-
blished Church, who is himself a Dissenter, belonging
to the Dutch Reformed Church ; and whose remarks
must therefore be valued by the Dissenters in this
country. We allude to the Rev. Dr. BROWNLEE, of
New York, one of the most learned, talented, and
exemplary clergymen on the face of the earth. In his
work called "The Roman Catholic Controversy," pub-
lished in New York, in 1834, on pages 306-7-8 and
195, the following incontrovertible remarks will be
found :

" But all the world knows that the order of Jesuits
was revived in 1814, by Pope Pius VII., for the ex-
press purpose of gaining ghostly power in Europe, and
especially to gain over the United States ; and, latterly,
the Roman Catholic princes of Europe have entered
deeply and zealously into the enterprise. These, it is
true, care little for the Pope, and far less for his sys-
tem of inventions, which he is pleased, facetiously, to
call the Christian religion ! The truth is, that as men,
entertainini their own private opinions, neither Pope,
nor the Roman Catholic princes, in Europe, ever grave-
hr affected to believe in the system of the Romish reli-
gion. Viewed strictly as a regular system of priestcraft
and tyranny, it is a wretched substitute for Christianity,
and to it, strictly speaking, as such, is applicable all
that Voltaire and Hume wrote. In their ignorance of
the Holy Bible, they mistook Popery for CHRISTIAN-
ITY. So does the Pope; so do his ghostly court; so
do .the despotic princes of Europe."
" Hence the present conspiracy, and combined ef-
forts to execute that conspiracy, by these European
despots. And the Jesuits—who have convulsed every
nation and government in Europe, they have, as the
last resort, selected as the means to accomplish our
ruin. And every man, in our union, who has eyes to
see, and has looked steadily on for a few years past,
has perceived that an army of Jesuits are at work over
the land. The effort now made—and I implore my
fellow citizens to mark it, and watch the progress ;
the untiring effort and aim of these foreign emissaries
of European despots, are to get the education of our
children and young people, male and female, into their
own hands ! And all those unhappy victims whom they
can obtain, they send home—verily ignorant enough
of the usual ornamental and useful branches—but then
their one, only grand aim, is achieved. They send them
home into the bosoms of their families, unblushing,
irreligious, bigoted Roman Catholics ! This, as you
know, reverend fathers, is the plan adopted in the con-
spiracy against our free institutions."

" They are teachers of religion.' Yes ! and that
religion dooms all heretical governments, and teaches
that no heretic has a right to rule, or even hold pro-
perty; that no Protestant heretic has a lawful heir, be-
cause no heretic is lawfully married, according to the
Papal law ! They are teachers of religion !' Yes !
But in every nunnery, and in every male seminary, it
is their religion to hold up
,the Pope as the legitimate
master of all magistrates, and his court, and platform
of rule, as the only model of perfection in the art of
government ! No politics—no political emiBsary—no
armed bands, can be more fatal to our country than
these teachers of religion !' And their very jealousy,
and eternal outcry of religious persecution,' when we
expose their conspiracy against our unsuspecting peo-
ple, is, to me, a manifest demonstration that their whole
system is a political conspiracy. The teachers of pure
Christianity court publicity : they move in light, and
triumph by the force of truth. But those religious'
conspirators creep into houses,' and move in dark-
ness, and fear nothing more than light and publicity!"
" It is a matter of recorded fact, that the Pope claims
power over the bodies and souls of men, Protestants
as well as Catholics,' and over all Protestant as well as
non-Protestant government ! The Protestant govern-
ment of England and of the United States are only re-
bels, who are to be regained back by the conversion of
Jesuits, or by force of arms in due time ! It is the so-
lemn belief of every Pope, and every true Roman Ca-
tholic, that the Protestant kings of Holland and England
have no more right to reign than had the excommuni-
cated HARRY VIII. and Queen ELIZABETH ! It is the
solemn belief of the Pope and every Jesuit, that our
Protestant and venerable chief magistrate has no more
right to bear the reins of government than HARRY
VIII. or Queen ELIZABETH had in England ! The
fact is, every Protestant prince, every Protestant pre-
sident, subject and citizen, are annually excommuni-
cated at Rome and in these United States. And I as-
sert in the face of the most unblushing Jesuit, and
before the American community, that it is matter of
the most notorious evidence, that on every Thursday
of Passion week, annually, according to the bull In
ccena Domini, our Protestant president, and all our
Protestant magistrates, governors, and every Protes-
tant member of our city corporation, are publicly, for-
mally, and. solemnly excommunicated, cursed, and sent
to hell and perdition, in. every Romish chapel in the
United States ! But then it is pronounced in Latin,
and not generally known. Every priest takes 'an oath
on the evangels and the cross' to do this. And if there
be one of them that can have the assurance to deny
that he does this, then he is, by his own confession, A
PERJURED KNAVE !"

We request our Dissenting readers not to forget that
this clergyman, being virtually a Dissenter, and living
in a country where there is no Established Church,
could have had no motive for making the above re-
marks, but a conviction of the utter impossibility of
PROTESTANT DISSENTERS living under a Papal su-
premacy.

Lastly. Not many years have elapsed since Inde-
pendents, Baptists, and others united hand in
hand with Churchmen, including her most religious
Bishops, Prelates, and Clergymen, in a HOLY AL-
LIANc E---an alliance to promote and defend the cause
of the Bible. We allUde to the British and Foreign
Bible Society. But now Dissenters have, with strange
inconsistency, formed an alliance with the enemies of
that Bible—conduct, which no power of argument
could convince us is not attributable to political and
secular motives, rather than to spiritual ones. Let
those Dissenters, who really know and love the truth,
only examine their own hearts, and we think they must
come to the same conclusion, as to the primum mobile

of their actions ; and we doubt not but on due reflec-
tion, with the Bible in their hands, they will shudder
at the thought that they are now aiding and abetting
the cause of the Papist and of the Infidel—the enemies
of God and man ! The question will soon be, and
even now is,