The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-10 00:00:00

DR. KALLEY.

(From the London Record.) , _aiie,
eThe case of Dr. Kelley, now the object of PP" rwili
scution in Maderia, is a subject to which our readegch
of
be happy that we recur. It is one, indeed, to
T'`ll.
supinenessem e m
Foreign-office beorf ttwhheaesmg
government
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atnrmawer
nee
tit in,
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übstiincduhsn which
l deep
necessity we must recur. and in which all will feel . • 0,
interest who hear in mind the apostolic achnonttuito ,
reply to the representation that was trade to the
The .th.es
to be greatly quickened by the
force of public opinion. ~
Dr. K II the riaciple or
aey commenced his labours on Poh of
conciliation, conceiving that there is quite en ug
common ground in the Roman Catholic and Protestant_
religions, to form a basis of instruction for the roof
ignorant Portuguese, without touching on points orr.,,` 0
ence. It is clear, however, that his practice ha bee
better rro
better than his theory : he has raised the standard o.
ire
testantism, and openly preached the Gospel. For erre
time he proceeded with the acquiescence, and 8,5800-
approval, of the native authorities of Madeira. 1 _d
ary last, however, the began to imprison his COnvertstsot.
shortly after he himself was subjected to the series 0f.,11
pressive acts which we have already noticed, and Which
led to applications for protection to our Foreign Secret IY,
These, in the first instance, proving quite fruitless: a;
persecutors were encouraged to proceed farther; On; he
July last, he was put into the common prison, Where subjects
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ar
ebt hi
gye6. ::
remained when the last accounts left Madeira. British His
prisonment was effected by an artifice. Every„ ,„,e,
subject is entitled, by treaty, to what is called 117sed
sou Lt
nagem"—i.e., imprisonment in his own house—if
of any violation of the laws of Portugal, till he is bro F.,„
to trial. But Dr. Kelley was requested wore0n214.1
the officers of justice while certain papers e preps
em::
and was thus inveigled into the place of CO
Had he been aware of the snare that was laid for birat,.o
would have insisted on his rights as a British subject, aolc
refused to accompany the officers to the prison. 11,dislicing
intended to try him on a capital charge,
" Catholics" from the true church, there being, 8 la
vihich assigns to this office the punishment of delta, to
the meantime his enemies were proposing to se" foci('
the liken, a prison on a fortified island, or rather ' iiii
bability, .
on the coast of Madeira, in all
where,
friends would be no longer able to communicate viit bole
Indeed, if once he goes there, we think it not iroPr°. ioas
we shall never hear of him ; for the enemies of relltios
reform in Portugal have ofiate manifested civildiaP°:rs of
to proceed to extremities ; and in the late ..rof or
that country, it was a common practice to get 11" DV
Ponents by sending them to submarine dungeV.sih at
those of the Ilheo. As to the punishment of dead of
signed to Dr. Kalley's alleged offence by the, It
Portugal (and that death we believe by burningP;jectv
be thought hardly likely that it will be carried into `."O, for
heresy; and since that another, a foreign
tion in the present day. But we have good anth°rLisboa
(privately) so recently as 1812, for the alleged
stating, that an individual was burnt Alive et •__.e of
for s,, itio,
officectrirPa ttbee,
Portuguese service, though we cannot state the eXaCti ajey
It is a melancholy fact that there exists a gene,r,,arotee
opuression in Madeira that our government will 0' 700'
reountrymen resident in the Portuguese dooi..essof
Thisidea is countenanced by the apparent remissiwto.
the Foreign-office in this case, nclincourages theii; A
guese authorities in their treatmentsea of Dr. 1•., i;Che
officeßman.ist ;
similarr impression is prevalent in Lisbon, ita ...-Oor
hed by such circumstances as the folloa-inge;ori
ministerhis
s at Lisbon, Lord Howard de Walden. liev,•,o dis'
face at the British church ; and it is a ques`l", re'
ctussed in Lisbon, ironically perhaps whether I;e isis or,
restant or a Romanist. Our Consul at Lis bigote,
jeod to a Roman Catholic. The Vice-consul isi3,oota'
is also a Romanist. The Consul 8t 31'ubi5 re'
to
attri,
perni noc iip harsher
audacitylr
smhoteftnrh oti
sefrbmus)i ntehsast i
pri Lr..o:ditiriiii;stbist
only nominally a'Protestant ; and it is chefly
persecutorsliar ' • em"
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whole system of our foreign representation 'Lis— and ifoo,
hassadors, ministers, but especially consu„ atteOi.gy
consuls, is highly deserving of serious Pub"co, Peg,
It is indeed obvious, that in whatever degree natiollri.
man is tainted with Rornanism, he loses his rport
and consequently is so far an unfit person t°51,1 CothotS
tish interests abroad, especially feßlt
in 1314ipanIP
countries—a fact which is now sorely
of Roman Catholic Europe.