The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-24 00:00:00

with a leading article

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The writer says

Phe chief object of the publication
seems to be, to excite feelings of hatred against the religion
of some seven or eight millions of British subjects, by re-
viving the memory of crimes committed centuries ago, and
which the Roman Catholics of the present day abhor as much
as the Protestants."

Now, if the Roman Catholics do abhor these crimes, they

have a most singular way of

For instance, the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, that
atrocious and cold-blooded slaughter. Il is present Holiness
chews his abhorrence by having the medal in commemoration
of it recast at the Mint at Rome so recently as December
last. It is his Holiness the Pope, then, and not I, who is
endeavouring to keep alive feelings of animosity, "by re-
viving the memory of crimes committed centuries ago."
Do the notes to the Popish Bible published in Dublin, in
UN, shew any abhorrence at the crimes which are recorded ?
See note in 'Hebrew, c. v. 7th v.

" THE TRANSLATORS OF THE ENGIJSII PROTESTANT
BIBLE OUGHT TO BE ABHORRED TO THE DEPTH OF
HELL,"

Again note on St. Matthew, c. aiii. v
" The GOOD (i. e. the Papists',
(i. e. the Protestants) when it is so strollg that it cannot bk
redressed without danger or disturbance of whole Church;
otherwise, where ill men, be they heretics or OTHER MA-
LEFACTORS, may be punished or suppressed, without dis-
turbance or hazard of the good, they may, and ought, by
public authority, either spiritual or temporal, to be chastised
or EXECUTED."

must tolerate the EVI I

So that we Protestants are simply tolerated because we can
not be exterminated without danger to the Church.

These notes were published under the authority of Dr.
O'Reilly, Dr. Murray, and nine other Popish bishops; as I
have before stated, so lately as 1818, and yet Roman Catho-
lics of the present day would have us believe " that they
abhor the remembrance of such crimes as 1 have recorded."
I will go further and contend that a strict Romanist is
bound to exterminate heretics. And this is one solid reason
why we would not wish them to be ascendant. Our cry of
" Protestant ascendancy" is not therefore an idle sound
without a meaning.

We are now ascendant and we persecute not them. No
charges of St. Bartholomew massacres, or inquisitorial tor-
tures can be brought against the Protestant religion. We
wish our Popish fellow men every spiritual and temporal
good, but we do not wish them to have ascendancy.
That Papists have ever been martyred for the religious er-
rors which they held I deny. For treason against the So-
vereign they have been punis,hed, and I trust ever will be.
Could cases of persecution by Protestants have been proved,
it would not be under the sanction of their religion, but in
direct opposition to it, while Popish persecution and murder
would be in strict accordance with their system.

Although I would not attempt to defend the character of
Henry VIII., I fancy he would have made as good a Pope
as John XI., John XII., Benedict IX., Gregory VII., and
a host of others. But let it ever be remembered, that
Henry's vices were Popish vices, and justified by Popish au-
thorities.

I fear I have already takeu up too much of your space, but
let me, in conclusion, again thank the Editor of the Times
for considering my " Protestant Almanac" of sufficient im-
portance to form his leading article.—l am, Sir, your obedient
JOSEPH CRISP.

servant

P.S.—Since writing the above, I find that my Almanack
has also been honoured by the notice of a learned gentleman
of the bar, in his Protector harangue ; and I append these
few lines to inform Mr. John Rosson, and all whom it may
concern, " that certain ministers of the establishment" have
nothing whatever to do with the Protestant Almanack, but
that I alone am responsible for all that appears therein ; and
I defy Mr. Rosson, with all his legal knowledge, to disprove
the events there recorded. The rest of this learned gentle-
man's vituperation may safely be passed over. A little irri-
tation at this time is naturally to be expected from these
Protector gentlemen, and his remarks merely put one in
mind of little boys running behind a coach, who, when cuffed
down by the passengers or coachman, run after, and fling
dirt at them. Trusting, sir, that, should I be allowed to
compile the Protestant Almanack for 20 years, I may not
have to record " John Rosson, a Papist, elected Mayor of
Liverpool," I remain your's, &c., J. C.