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(Cheers.) In proposing the resolution for their: adoption,
the principles and sentiments of which he would maintain,
he trusted they would bear with his weakness and incapacity
whilst merely endeavouring to lay facts only before them.
(Hear.) The first subject to which he would call their at-
tention was one of great importance to this empire and to
the protestant religion. He held a book in his hand, to the
unimpeachable character of which he would shortly call their
attention.

In the year 1812 a baronet in the House of Commons (Sir
John Cox Hippisley) conceived a plan for emancipating the
Roman Catholics, having at the same time securities that in
so doing they should fully preserve the Protestant church
and the Protestant constitution of England. In pursuance
of this plan, he moved for a committee of the House of Com-
mons to inquire into the regulations, ordinances, Ste., of the
Roman Catholics of all foreign states. The committee was
granted, and the minister for foreign affairs requested the va-
rious ambassadors to furnish Sir John Cox Hippisley with all
the particulars sought for, which they did, and the documents
from all these foreign powers were transmitted to him. He
held in his hand the report of the committee, which showed
that while the popish states found it necessary to protest
against papal supremacy, England alone ivas unprotected
against popish agression. There was no law in England to
prevent the publication of popish bulls, or to check the pro-
gress of the Antichristian doctrine, whilst in the foreign po-
pish states no bull was allowed to he "
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.net the sanction of the government of such
In Austria, an empire with a popish sovereign and
,sh lbjects,othe duplicity of that Antichristian tyrant and
,n of , the Pope, was so well known, that a law was in
existence, that no work emanating from him should be pub-
lished without the sanction of the government. The follow-
ing anecdote was told in the report of Sir C. Stuart from Por-
tugal :—" A Portuguese clergyman, intimate with the Nun-
cio, who had written a pamphlet in support of the Italian or
ultramontane doctrines, having been refused the licenses
necessary to publication, printed the work in England ;
and a number of copies having been distributed in this coun-
try, the principles they inculcated attracted the attention
of the censor, who immediately drew up and transmitted to
the government a very able review, showing the dangerous
tendency of the doctrines supported by the court of Rome
in Portugal, and inducing the government to direct the attor-
ney-general to commence legal proceedings against the
author."

previously ob
country

man of sin

That publication was not published any autho-
rity of bishops, but merely by a priest—yet proceedings were
instantly instituted against the author. This popish priest
having charged those who attempted to oppose the ultramon-
tane doctrines of the pope with being Lutherans, the royal
censor of Portugal, reviewing the tract, took up these words
and went back through the act of various sovereigns in the
history of the country who had successively resisted the
papal power, and he stated that they were not Lutherans.
When he came to the Queen of Portugal, he said, " Our

ist queen was not a Lutheran when she ordered to be
examined, and her royal assent to be denied to, two bulls of
the holy father Pius VI., the first super soliditatem, against
a small pamphlet written by Egbel, entitled Quid est Ponti-
fex the second a dogmatic auetorem fide'i against the coun-
cil of Pictoria : nor could all the means employed by the
Nuncio either lull the piety of her majesty, or overcome the
integrity of the Marquis of Ponte de Lima, then her prime
minister." Yet these very hulls, the first of which was
named Super Solititatem, which this papal queen would not
permit to be published within her empire, were published in
ere I this country

.e was the very bull in the canon law
which the popish bishops had set up to govern the Roman

had here their bishops informing us why
is bull. They told us at the head of it,

hat it was published to establish

certain tractate in Dens

to give the force of infallible papal law to certain dogmas in
that author ; and when we turned to those principles which
this bull was so published in order to confirm, we found they

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stn of allegiance to their sovereign. (Hear hear.)
certain bull, the Bulla Ccence Domini, the Romish bishops,
when examined by the committee of bath houses of parlia-
ment in 1825, strenuously denied was or ever would be re-
ceived in Ireland. He could quote extracts from the autho-
rities of all the foreirn states to show how this hull was uni-

lly opr

.nd shut out from all the

papal states in Europe, but he should limit his quotations to
one short extract from a document of the highest possible
authority. It was a requisition from the Attorney-General
to the parliament of France to issue their lawhy this infamous
bull :•—" That this bull has always excited dissatisfaction,

thnt it prejudiced all sovereigns, that it altered the laws and
ordinances of kingdoms ; that it deprived the crown of its
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• of its prerogatives, and its pre-eminence ; that it
abolished the liberty of the Gallican church ; and that, under

the pretence of preserving the rights of the holy see, it in-
vaded the king's power." Mr. M'Ghee then read an ex-
tract from the decree of the parliament, forbidding not only
the publication of the bull by any ecclesiastical authority, but
its being printed by any individual, under pain of being pu-
nished as being guilty of high treason. But whilst the very
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printer or vender of this bull was to be punished as guilty Of
high treason in France, the papal bishops in Ireland could
issue it and pit it in force there. The following note was
given by Cart nal Erskine to Sir J. Hippisley relative to
this bull :—" bull, which is generally named in Ova
Domini, because it was published every year on Holy Thurs-
day, until Pope Clemont XIII., out of a compliment to some
princes to whom some parts of the said bull were obnoxious.

left off the publishing„ of it on. the said day—

though the formality of its publication is now omitted, is
nevertheless implicitly in vigour in all its extension, and is
likewise observed in all countries where there is no impedi-
ment to the erection of the pope's authority. Therefore it
must be legally looked upon as a public declaration to pre-
serve his rights. This bull has undergone at different times
some alterations as to the form by the several popes by
whom it was published. The paragraph above transcribed
is taken from the one published by Gregory XIII., anno
1583, 4th April. It is inserted in the Bullar ad Main-
ardi, tome 4, part 4." "The above is in the hand-writing
of Cardinal Erskine," says Sir J. H. Hippisley ;
" I received
this note from him at Rome in the month of August, 1793 ;
he was then in the office of Promofore della Fide, and in a
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few days a
England.

terwards he departed on a private mission for
_ Soon afterwards he was appointed auditor of the
pope." Mr. M`Ghee next quoted a letter from Dr. Murray,
read by Mr. O'Connell at a meeting of the Roman Catholic
Institute of London ;,, incr. denvinr the publication of

those who had heard the rev. gentleman woul
any way they might be able to the success o
Mr. *Ghee had advocated with such piety
such ability. (Applause.)
The Rev. C, M. Loicc moved a vote of
AP Ghee' and the motion was carried by acclat
which the meeting dispersed.

the Bulla Ccenenisom;(l7yjtli-eLithol:ity-of the Irish bishop
He next read an extract from a letter of his own to Dr. Mui
ray, calling on him to meet the proofs of the fact before the
Roman Catholics of Dublin, which was not attempted ; and
then he read another letter of his own to Dr. Murray, proving
the falsehood of his statements, which was received by the
meeting with loud applause. The rev. gentleman then said
that nothing Nis more manifest than that England was open
to the pope, and that in fact the pope was now legislating for In the evening another m
England. He would,. therefore, call upon every man in tion was held in the School-room. The Rev. C
England to remember, if be had a vote. for a member of par- sided, and the meeting was addressed by the Ch__
liament, that a solemn responsibility in exercising that power Rev. W. G. Cole, the Rev. Brabazon Ellis, the R
rested with him, and to send as his representatives to the Stone, and the Rev. F. Russell. The resolution
commons house of parliament men who would stand up in
unanimously carried.

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