The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-10-23 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

III.; and from that very period, pure and genuine .Christianity began to decline; the clergy became tyrants—anti tt seat of empire and spiritual dominion was established, to rule 'and tyrannize over the church of. God. You.now find sirdhat vou.and your cause have gained little !ay _y.our gross atom[ and ramous sweet ijos-atas at . Crotty. In vain-, sir, haS the hue-and-cry of superstition purs, suett, fdr the luny, period of ten years, the man whom you have ice shamefully reviled, -arid' impotently calumniated; in vain hare the dogs of war, the bloodhounds of the inquisition, been let loose upon him; -in vain has a heartless mendicant come to Birr to preach a crusade against him, and endeavour to devote bins to public execration, .by representing him as an enemy to the ish of the people, and ,au impious opposer of Mother Church; in vain have a superstitious priesthood conspired his ruin. and reddened their altars with the blood of his murdered repsitation; itisvain have they proclaimed the infernal doctrine of Dens and liellarmine from the pulpit, and exhausted the thunders of the V-aticanjor the purpOSe of depriving the rev. gentleman of the confidence and attachment of a faithful People ; in vain, then, have all the arts of jugglery and mummery and priestcraft been ' employed, and all the grim and bloody maxims of cruel superstitioli been put in requisiton against him. The rev. gentleman is still in Birr triumphant and• victorious, and enthroned in the hearts and affections of the great majority of the Roman Catholic prishioneri, 'after ten years' 'hard fight'against open enerriica the one hand; and many faithless friends on the other; and this proves that the rev. g,entlernan has little to fear from the impotent endeavours of such a puny adversary as the Freeman's Journal, and that it is in vain for man to attempt to destroy what God has deterinined to save. " Irrita vaniloquae quid cures spicule linguae? Latrantern curatue alta Diana canem ?"  I have the honour toietntilu,..srr, your most obedient and humLleservont, WILLIAM CIthTTY, I Birr, October 15th, 1835. Catholic Priest. Have we said too rashly that the reformation has hegutiin Ireland ? Theie are the sentiments of an honest, intelligent, and conscientious Roman Catholic priest—, he writes in the spirit of the fathers—he has drank at the fountain head of christianity—he has gone back to the apostolic era of the church, and he finds that the mysteries of iniquity in the church:of Rome are mere inventions, and cruel frauds • for the spurpose. of robbing the poor. He has, in fine, searched the truth for himself, and he discovers that the doctrines, of his church are: founded in falsehood, that they are superstitions, calcu• bated to enslave the mind, and that altogether it is a system of intolerable and sanguinary despotism. Thanks to thee, Mr. WILLIAM CROTTY Go on and prosper!  Our readers will perceive with pleasure that it is intended to hold B. meeting, on Thursday next, at the Amphitheatre, for the purpose of forming a protestant assotiation, and for hearing the statements of that able and devoted champion of protestantism, the Rev.