The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-05 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF-THE TIMES.

Sir,—The popish party, with O'Connell at its head, are em-
ploying all their sophistry and ingenuity to blind the protest-
ants to the dangers which menace the established religion of
our. country. They endeavour to overcome the deep-rooted
aversion (lithe people of England to popery, by assuring them
that catholicism is now quite another thing to what it was three
hundred years ago; and that all the execrable and revolting te-
bets ate exploded, and that the church of Rome has actually
become so liberal as.to have no objection to the voluntary aye-
:tem. For the purpose of exposing these and similar misrepre-
ientations 'allow me to produce the following recent "sayings
and doings" of that church:—
In 1801 Bonaparte, in his correspondence with the late pope
Pius VII., proposed the unlimited toleration of all kinds of re-.
ligious worship. The pope's answer was, "We have rejected
this article as contrary to the canons and councils:"
In the same year, after the concordat had been signed, Bona-
parte publis.hed_ with it certain organic laws, which, among
other things, countenanced, the toleration of the reformed
teligion. Cardinal Pecca, by the pope's authority, replied—
" it, is equally' false and calumnious, that the concordat- has
sanctioned the toleration of other forms of worship!" The
pope in this concordat suppressed 146 episcopal sees, and dis-
missed their bishops without any form of judicature, absolved(!)
all Frenchmen from their oaths of allegiance to the lawful sove-
reign Louis XVIII. (whom he had addressed and recognised as
king of France, de jure, only a brief year before), and sanc-
tioned an oath of allegiance to Bonaparte!
In 1813, on the suppression of the inquisition in Spain, the
pope by his nuncio declared that "the abolition of the inquisi-
tion may be extremely injurious to religion, while it actually
wounds the rights and primacy of the Roman pontiff, who es-
tablished it as necessary and beneficial to the church and the
faithful.' .
This was spoken of an institution which put 6,000 persons to
a horrible death within four years after its foundation!
In 1816 his Holiness explicitly pronounced "the toleration of
several religions to be contrary to the principles of the catholic
religion."
In the annotations on the New Testament, 'recommended and
reprinted by the ecclesiastical authorities, such notes as these
occur:—On Matthew xiii.,,y. 29, "The. good must tolerate evil,
when it is so strong that it cannot be redressed without danger
or disturbance to the whole church. Otherwise; where ill men,
be they malefactors or heretics, may be punished and suppressed
without disturbance, and hazard of the good, ,they. nosy and.
ought, by public authority either' spiritual or pmporal, to lie
executed.'

Again, on Revelation xvii., (drunken of the bloods of the
saints)—" The protestants foolishly expound this of Rome, for
that they pat heretics to death. But their blood it not Called
the blood, of saints, any more than the blood of thieves 'mem-
killers; and other malefactors."
I need not mention the bulls of Pius VII. against Bible socie-
ties and schools, nor the indignant repudiation by Dr, Milner,
on the part of the catholic bishops of England and Ireland, of
the four Galilean articles, against the deposing power and infal-
libility of the pope.
F• I think I have sufficiently proved the Roman church to be the
same uncompromising enemy of civil and religious liberty as
she was in the time of yore—still as bigoted and persecuting as
in the days of the Guises in France; and Mary of England..
I remain,- Sir, your humble rvan t,
A PROTESTANT.
P. S., The authorities for the above statements are Wil-
liams's Dictionary
p. or Religion, art. " Roman Catholic ;" Phil-
'pott's •Letters to Butler, p. 302-6; Milner's Supp. to his Pas-
toral Letter, 30; Moitilein's Bed. Hist. edit. 1826.

THE COURT, &c.
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His Majesty continues in the enjoymedt of excellent health
The Queen,. we regret to state, has been suffering during the
week from the effects of a severe cold, in consequence of which
the, Drawing-room intended to have been held on Thursday
was postponed to the 14th instant. On Wednesday the King
arrived at St. James's, and held his customary Levee, which
was very numerously attended.—Age. '
Loan . JOHN. RUSSELL'S PREFEEENCE.— The Ncirthanapton
Herald. a journal of the highest character, states that. Lord John
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Jtursell, when,. asked by a friend his motives for acting so reck-
lessly as he has done, replied,—" I have considered the nation
in 6nger of despotism or anarchy, and. I prefer anarehy."-
111,iserable man! Is he not aware, font the experience of past
• ages, .that anarchy. invariably ends .in dospotism ? -Does he
not know that they who create anarchy in variably and most re-
tributively perish in the storm? Ilas this wretched manikin
forgotten Rohespierre„ Dantou, &c. ? But he has not courage
to be like them, and so he may be safe.—Age.
We-are authorized to state that a petition against the return
•of Mr. Rolfe,. for. Peoryn, for alleged bribery, will be imme-
diately presented on the ineeting_of parliainent.-Age.
Captain Rowley,. the secorid son of the late Lord Longford;
is to lead the pretty Miss Shipley to the hymeneal altar next
week.. .

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Lord and Lady. Ashburton will give a grand entettainment
at Bath' House on the 6th instant.
Lord and Lady•Dacre- have been entertaining a party at the
Hoo, on the oceasiou'of the races there. •

Sir Edward Knatchbull has returned to Whitehall frOm his
seat, Meershant Hatch, Maidstone.

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I'hb new secretary to the Admiralty (Mr'..C. Wood) .and his
a dy are occupying apartments at Mivart's Hotel, until his of-
ficial residence is ready.