The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-04 00:00:00

TO PROTESTANTS OF ALL DENOMINATIONS

Mr. Nolan, a dissenting minister of Manchester, having
been so dastardly and contemptible as to attack me by name
from the pulpit of Stepney Chapel, Warrington, when I was
not present to defend myself, or prove the charges I felt it
my duty subsequently to make against him, I now, in jus-
tice to myself, and before taking leave of the subject, give a
statement of facts to the public. But previous to doing so,
I would warn Mr. Nolan of the responsibility of pan-
dering to the depraved taste of his hearers, by tickling their
ears with personal sarcasm while professing to preach the
gospel.
At a lecture, delivered in Warrington in 1838, this person,
amongst other grossly incorrect statements, gave out the
following :,--
Ist. That all the efforts made by the Church of England
for the spiritual welfare of Ireland have been of a party kind,
and in one way or another to serve some party or political
purpose.

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2d. That, in Sligo, the Protestant magistrates actually
tried to burn a meeting-house because the minister preached
against adultery.
3d. That, although there was much talk of the murder of
Protestant clergymen in Ireland, he knew no instance of a
quiet; peaceable Protestant, who took no part in politics, be-
ing murdered.
4th. That the Church of England is divided-into three
sections in Ireland, viz., the Heterodox, the Orthodox, and
the Evangelical, and that " the latter are the most bigotted
portion of the whole."
These statements I heard him make, sand thrice have I
requested him to prove or retract them, without receiving
any reply. •
Finding that the same person was to lecture again at War-
rington lately, I called upon him, for the fourth time, to
prove his statements, or retract them ; and he, perceiving by
this time that the affair was beginning to work to his preju-
dice, addressed a most insulting and evasive letter to me,
not proving one of his statements, nor retracting one of his
charges. In this letter he would have it believed that he was
alluding to a past state of Ireland, and that if I would meet
him at a friend's, he would satisfy me respecting his state-
ments. But this will not do. Public' slander must not be
privately explained. Public charges; if groundless, must be
publicly retracted.
Now, for the first time, does Mr. Nolan state that the oc-
currence respecting the Protestant magistrates of Sligo took
place before either he or I were born. .Does this look ho-
nest, does it look straight-forward ? He also now says,
" that some of the most exemplary Christians lie ever met
with in any community were members of the Church of Eng-
land," and " that he has witnessed a devotion, earnestness,
piety, and self-sacrifice amongst the clergymen of th;.: Irish
Church, which he has never seen surpassed, and seldom
equalled in any others." And yet, in 1838, he reviled them
as acting from hasty and political motives, and called them
bigots. If these were his opinions, why not answer my let- .
ters, as any gentleman was bound to do ? He appeared as a
public lecturer, and I simply asked his proof for some of his
statements. But a clue can be given. This first lecture was
addressed to ears willing to listen to abuse of the. Church of
England, with very little idea that any one was present to
question the veracity of his assertions.
This expression also occurs in this gentleman's epistle :
" I cannot help recommending to you, and those with
whom you act, less precipitancy, and more calmness of dis-
cussion, and an endeavour to avoid exciting the Prejudices of
Catholics., and the just displeasure of Dissenters." Satan
reproving sin, I declare. The man who will rake up pre-
tended crimes, committed by Protestants, which he dare not,
because he cannot prove, and which- he now says took place
before he was born, actually recommending " less precipi-
tancy in others !" The man who declares he knows no case
of a quiet, peaceable Protestant clergyman being murdered,
recommending to endeavour " to avoid exciting the preju-
dices of Catholics"—(falsely so called by Mr. Nolan.)
When this statement was made, must not the conscience
of the lecturer be pricked if the murders of Dawson, Goring,
Ferguson, Hewson; Whitty, and 'Houston crossed his mind,
all clergymen of the Church of England, and martyrs within
the last few years to Popish malevolence?
And was it from any relenting, on the part of the Papists,
that the Rev. Messrs. Armstrong, Coate, Thompson, Ban-
ner, Goold, Marks, Athell, Butler, Fitzgerald, Nash, Sa-
vage, Trail, 'Walsh, Whitty, Young, Shaw, and many others,
were not murdered, when they' were fired at, stoned, and

violently assaulted ?
This mawkish attempt at charity to Papists, at the expense
of Protestants, may suit Mr. Nolan, and the time-serving
notions of this world ; hut should he ever gain sound views
respecting the duty of a preacher of the gospel, he will think
very differently.'
Considered individually, this person's assertions, false or
true, would not be worth notice, and my apology for bringing
them forward is, that he is, or was, agent to the. Irish Evan-
gelical Society in 183 S, when he dhl.'or ought to have known,
that the Protestants in his own county (Sligo) were suffering
the most violent and cruel persecutions from the Papists.
Your's ever faithfully, •
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JOSH. CRISP.

PLAIN QUESTIONS PRACTICALLY ANSWERED.

I what institution is proved to be the most abominhble hot-
bed of bigotry. intolerance, and superstition
What institution 'engenders in the students alratred and
abhorrence of the-English name ?—MAYNHOTH.
What institution teaches that " heretics, when strong, are
to be' committed to God; when weak, to the'execiitioner ?"
—MAYNcOTH. •
What institution teaches that every form of Gospel reli-
gion is a damnable heresy, and that every Protestant is a
child of hell ?—MAysooTn. - -
What institution teaches that it is essential for a Roman
Catholic to believe that it is lawful to murder Protestants,
and break faith with heretics ?—MAYNOOTH.
What institution spreads over the country the most violent
agitators of murderous and monstrous bigotry ?--M.a.v-
NOOTH.
What institution teaches the most abOminable and atro-
cious lies, and also that they are lawful when for the good of
the church ?—MAlrsooTh.
What institution teaches that Protestants are heretics and
schisniaties, the. bane and disease of the time ?—MAYNOOTH.
What institution teaches that the service of the Church of
England is damnable, and her ministers worse than a den of
•
thieves ?—MAYN-ooTn.
What institution teaches that the Protestant clergy of all
denominations are thieves and murderers ?—MAYNGOTH.
What institution teaches that the prayer of a Protestant
cannot be heard in heaven, and that their speeches and
preaching are pestiferous and contagious ?—MAY-AtooTn.
What institution teaches that the Protestant Bible and
Prayer Book should be abhorred to the depth of hell, and
that all Papists are bound to horn them ?—Ms.tsibo-rn.
And yet .£9,000 per annum are paid by a Protestant Go-
vernment to support this hotbed of sedition!
Churchmen, Methodists, Protestant Dissenters ! protest
against this enormity, by SIGNING THE PETITION which lies
for signature at Mr. Joseph Crisp's office, 38; Church-street ;
Standard-office, 4, North-crescent ; Mail-office, South Cas-
tle-street ; Courier-office, Castle-street ; Gore's Advertiser-
office, Castle-street ; Tradesmen's Conservative Newsroom,
Church-street ; Operative Conservative Newer m,
,
Hough-
ton-street, Clayton-square ; Air. Perrie,s,
and Mr. Ledges London-road.

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The Statistical Society of Paris havettleited G. A. Walker,
Esq., metropolitan surgeon, hotiorat member of their
association, in conbequenoe of the publicitioh of his work on
the grave yards of the metropolis, which is now attracting so
much notice.—AfOrmiv Port, lastsiary 27, WO.