perusing the Old Testament with more atten- | lords, in particular, " To promote the tion than the New; and admiring the glories establishment of Houses of Refuge, of Joshua, (the son of Nan,) fancied they perceived in the Catholics, the Canaanites of Houses of Industry, School-houses, old; and, at the head of Militia and armed and set the example, upon their own Yeomenry, wished to conquer from them the estates, of building decent cottages, promised Glebe. Such men, I hope, are not so that the Irish Peasant may have, at now to be found in that most respectable Order; and, if they are, I need scarcely add, least, the comforts of an English they should no longer remain in the Commis- Sow;" for an English farmer would refuse to eat the flesh of a hog, so lodged and fed as an Irish Peasant is." sion. 66 Gentlemen-I must further admonish you, if you are infested with any of the Orange or Green Associations in this County, to discourage them—discourage all Processions and Commemorations connected with them, and you will promote the peace and concord of the Country-but suffer them to prevail, and how can justice be administered?" I am a loyal man," says a Witness-that is, “Gentlemen of the Petty Jury, believe me, let me swear what I will." When he swears he is a loyal man, he means, "Gentlemen of the Jury, forget your oaths and acquit the Orangeman." A truly loyal man is one who is attached to the Constitution under which 66 After this just and official description of unfortunate Ireland, does the intelligent reader think there is much merit due to the English Catholics, for boasting of their LOYALTY ? MISSION TO ROME.-We have learn. ed, with much satisfaction, that letters have been received from the Most Rev. Dr. Murray, dated from Rome the 5th July. That Most Rev. Prelate had, together with Dr. Milner, obtained interviews with his Holiness, who expressed his esteem for the Irish Prelacy, Clergy, and Laity, in the warmest terms of attachment and approbaMission proceeded prosperously. The tion. Dr. Murray represents, that the Delegates from the Irish Hierarchy were received with every mark of attention, not only by his Holiness but by all the Cardinals assembled in Rome. Dr. Murray and his Right Rev. Coadjutor are expected to return very shortly. The Rescript and all other proceed we live; and who respects and is governed by the laws, which impart more personal freedom, when properly administered, than any other code of laws in existence. If there are disturbances in the Country, the truly loyal man endeavours to appease them.-The truly loyal man is peaceful and quiet-He does his utmost to prevent commotion; and, if he cannot prevent it, he is at his post, ready to perform his duty in the day of peril. But what says the loyal man of another description the mere pretender to loyalty?" I am a loyal man, in times of tranquillity—I am attached to the present order of things, as far as I can get any good by it-I malign every mau of a different opinion from those whom I serve-I bring my loyalty to market."Such loyalty has born higher or lower prices, according to the different periods of modern times-He exposes it to sale in an open mar-ings that have taken place, have been ket, at all times-seeking continually for a purchaser. "Such are the pretenders to loyalty, many of whom I have seen; and incalculable mischiefs they perpetrate. It is not their interest, that their country should be peaceful their loyalty is a "Sea of troubled waters.' These are the leading causes to which this able and patriotic Judge, and true friend to humanity, attributes the riots and disturbances which are so common in Ireland, and from which he very naturally infers, that the penal laws enacted to suppress these disturbances, under the idea that the parties are seditious and hostile to Government, must become nugatory. Instead of adopting inefficient measures of that nature, he charges the Absentee Land set aside, and Cardinal Albea, President of the College of Propaganda, has been charged with the examination of all the Documents to be laid before that Congregation, for the purpose of coming to a proper decision. It is extremely fortunate that the President understands English very well, and has already perused most of those papers which throw any light upon the subject, and particularly the "Statement of the Penal Laws," which he has nearly committed to memory.He expressed himself in the most unqualified terms of abhorrence of the Oath and some of the clauses of the late Bill. (Cork Chronicle.) The following is the substance of a letter written by Dr. Murray to Dr. Troy, and read by him to a meeting of 150 Clergymen at Tullagh, on Tuesday week.-It has been communicated to us by a parish priest of that neighbourhood, who was present on the occasion. (Dub. Evg. Post.) Rome, July 15. Dr. Murray, previous to his writing this letter, had had but one audience of his Holiness. -He was received most graciously by the Chief Pastor, who professed the highest veneration for the Irish church. His Holiness was much pressed with business, but Dr. Murray took an opportunity of cautioning him against certain intrigues which might have been made in order to obtain an Irish Bishopric for a certain Irish priest, who had more of ********* than of the dove in his composition. Cardinal Litta made a note of this caution. Quarantotti had not been admitted into the presence of his Holiness until lately, because he had taken a qualified oath of allegiance to Buonaparte. His Holiness is now reconciled to Quarantotti, and had appointed him Secretary to Propaganda; but a pro-secretary is also appointed. Dr. Murray presented Mr. Clinch's book, in splendid binding, to Cardinal de Pietro. His Eminence (unfortunately for Mr. Clinch) does not understand one word of English. Dr. Murray regrets that this book was not presented to Cardinal Litta, who is an adept in the English language, and who has read the Statement of the Penal Laws" with great pleasure and instruction. Dr. Murray thinks that every thing for the good of the Irish church will be conceded by his Holiness, who has ordered the Sacred College to examine the documents respecting the Veto. A letter from the Sacred College has been sent to the Irish Prelates, shewing that the late Rescript was an unauthorized document. Cardinal Litta was greatly shocked at the oath contained in the Relief Bill He had also some doubts respecting the oath of 93, which Dr. Murray was obliged to explain. : Dr. Milner was just returning when Dr. Murray arrived-he will, however, wait for Dr. Murray, whose stay will be about six weeks from the date of his letter. On the 4th of August, a meeting of the Roman Catholics of the County and City of Wexford was held in St. Patrick's chapel, when the following Resolutions passed unanimously. That however we regret the circumstances which have induced the Advocates of our great Cause to postpone its consideration in Parliament, we are still strongly confident in ultimate success, and cannot believe it to be possible that the progress of Reason and Justice should be arrested by what we regard as a mere temporary obstruction. That we shall, therefore, continue to petition Parliament for the redress of our numerous Disqualifications, and that we adopt whatever Petition may be agreed upon at the General Meeting of the Roman Catholics of Ireland. That the great events which have raised England to the summit of Empiré, in place of diminishing our hopes, have inspired us with a confidence, that we shall obtain from her magnanimity what we never wished to extort from her disaster--and we are persuaded, that she will feel it, at last, to be a spot upon her glory, that those whose blood and treasure have so largely contributed to her Triumphs, should be permitted to continue in disgrace, and that she will extend to us that Liberty of which she knows so well to appreciate the blessings. That the spirit of discussion, which experience has proved to be of so much advantage to our Cause, should be promoted by every means which are legally within our power. That we return our most cordial Thanks to the Protestant Gentlemen who have this day honored our Meeting by their presence. At DIED-At his seminay of Lismore, Argyleshire, the Right Rev. Dr. John Chisholm, Catholic Bishop of Oria, and Vicar Apostolic of the Highland District 22 years. Woolton, the Rev. Archibald M'Donald, aged 78; many years the respected Roman Catholic Pastor of Seel-street Chapel, in Liverpool. The Rev. Nicholas Molley, of the Order of St. Augustine. He studied philosophy, and defended public theses with great eclat, in Rome, under the excellent auspices of the Rev. George Staunton, Rector of the College of St. Matthew, in Merculana, and was, since his arrival in Ireland, acknow. ledged to be one of the most eloquent and impressive preachers of which the Catholic church had to boast. ERRATUM, in page 289. Line 5, first cotumn, dele "have." Printed by W, E. ANDREWS, Fenwick-court, Holborn, London. THE INQUISITION, THE JESUITS, AND THE THE POPE. writer is to be attributed, must be left for him to explain; but grosser delusion, invective, MISREPRESENTATION, and FALSEHOOD, were never sent forth for the amusement and information of honest John Bull, than have appeared in Mr. Cobbett's Register for the last few weeks. It is certainly pitiable to see a man endued with such great abilities spending his time and talents in sounding forth the praises of an unprincipled adventurer, who was the murderer of Palm the bookseller, of our own countryman, the gallant Captain Wright, and of the Duke d'Enghein, and the Persecutor and Jailer of a Sovereign Pontiff, venerable for his virtues and his age, because he would not become the tool of the despot's ambitious and corrupt passions, and who preferred a spotless conscience and a dungeon, to an unprincipled subserviency and a palace; but when this man stoops so HE sudden termination of the War on the Continent, it was thought, would have left our newspaper scribes without a subject on which to exercise their calumniating talents; but the almost miraculous restoration of the Sovereign Pontiff to the Papal Chair, the zeal and activity shewn by the Holy Father for the renovation of true Religion, nearly annihilated in those unhappy countries which have been the seat of, a long and bloody warfare, and the general wish exhibited by the ill-fated people of the contending nations to return to the faith of their forefathers, from which a great part of them had been seduced by the new-fangled principles of modern philosophy, have furnished not only the hireling writers of the press with copious topics to amuse their besotted readers, but the Journalists, who vainly stiled them-low as to permit his Journal to beselves the opposers of Corruption, and the Champions of Truth, have, all on a sudden, become the most forward in disseminating the foulest abuse and grossest falsehoods against the Catho-tory lucubrations, and consign him to lic Religion and the sacred Ministers of the Church.-At the head of the latter stands COBBETT'S POLITICAL REGISTER, a paper which formerly combated the vile effusions of the corrupt hirelings with the greatest success, and on Political topics must be allowed to have rendered essential service to the cause of Truth. -To what circumstance this unexpected change in the sentiments of this ORTHOD. JOUR. VOL. IK come the promoter of SLANDER and the propagater of FALSEHOOD, it becomes the duty of every man who loves TRUTH to expose the defama the contempt of the candid and unprejudiced reader. To enter into the whole of the calumnious trash to be found in the Political Register of the present month, is a task too disgusting and nauseous for any one to undertake; but if I can prove that the writer is guilty of ignorance, calumny, misrepresentation, and falsehood, my readers at least will know how to appreciate the merits of any article 2 U our a tachment, and our jubilee, in this con- violent shocks. All the Archbishoprics and Bishoprics of the left bank of the Rhine were secularised; most of the princes of the church are dead, and have not been replaced; many villages want pastors; all the foundations have been misapplied or sequestrated. Prompt measures are necessary to remedy an evil which may have the most pernicious effects. Pope, it is known, has already made a serious representation on the sub-sible expression of praise be enough to set ject; he demands the re-organization of the Catholic church in Germany; The and the court of Rome is said to have already traced out a plan with that view. The following is a translated copy from the Latin, of the Address of Congratulation from the venerable Hierarchy of Ireland to the Sovereign Pontiff of the Catholic Church : -- Next, after the homage to your Holiness, the illustrious Senate of your Cardinals will demand our best and most honouring acclamation. But, in truth, neither would any encomium that we could utter, nor any pos forth the heroic perseverance of that Body. immured in separate prisons, confined to dis-Torn away from your paternal embrace, tant places of banishment, far from crouching under the trial, they have gained through out the world an eminent consideration for magnanimity, allegiance, principle, duty and incorruptible character. In a word, they they have saved and rescued this renown from have purchased an exceeding renown, and the ruin and conflagration which overwhelmed their exterior dignities. Such renown must endure, and be worshipped in times to come.. Through the intervention of your Holiness, To his Holiness, Pope Pius VII. the Roman we now beg to congratulate our venerable Catholic Prelates of Ireland, wishing pros-Colleagues, the Bishops of Italy. They also perity. The hope of Christians at last has revived, and the Catholic Church has regained its State and Integrity, in your well-being, good and glorious Man of GoD, Pius the Seventh, our Sovereign Pontiff, who, by resignation, not less than by chieftaincy, have brought home CHRIST to our view; and in your most providential deliverance from those afflictions, which, through one and the same outrage, abased and held captive the Supremacy of your holy function, and the majesty of your personal virtues. To all the several Nations, which, weary of their enslavement, had burst forth into exertion for the overthrow of Despotism, this event has proved grateful; to all the Good, a matter of delight; as, for the Catholics, it had been the grand object of universal wish, and demand, and prayer. But to us, Holy Father, who, in that desofation of the Christian Commonweal, were the foremost to express such sorrow, that the very lamentation of your beloved people of Rome was fully re-echoed by our sighs, on your account; who dared to intimate, that sucht enormous barbarity must be short-lived; who solemnly protested against any usurpation on your inviolable Right, during such captivity; this event has introduced more than a return of the common joy. It has realized even the peculiar merit of a Victory, humble indeed, yet allied with and attendant upon that admirable triumph, in which You reign. In the extremity of all misfortune, we have proved our adherence to you, as unconquered; we, therefore, shall be privileged to avow, with somewhat of ostentation, have encountered misery, and privations, and terror. They have felt lawless authority and expatriation. Their claim is that of Confessors for the Faith; their imputed crime, a splendid one assuredly, had been allegiance to your Holiness. But, ere this, they will have experienced a consoling change. Nor can we omit to mention your invincible and Reverend Clergy of Rome, and of the States, persecuted, as they have been by the frantic excess of tyranny, with deportation into Corsica, or banishment to the Valtelline.These latter on their return will, undoubted ly, share a distinguished partiality of your Holiness, now restored. As to fair Fame they will fully possess it, for they have deserved nobly. The result of manifold perse cution has been to place in evidence this Truth, that the mighty power of Christ in the Catholic Church cannot be worn out by the force of time; that in You, and those united with You, the same energetic Spirit still survives, which of old gave defiance to Death, and trampled it down, in the blessed Martyrs; that, wheresoever dwells the spirit of CHRIST, there also his freedom abides, which knows his immortality to be its own. Let Rome, the asylum of canonized Saints, and the last strong hold of Religion, lift henceforth the head, which a sanguinary and ignoble domination had weighed down. She may now, with safety recollect, that within her precinct the federal altar of Christianity is established for everlasting; that Apostles sit there enthroned to deliver judgment to the Nations, until the world shall end. Let the ashes of her Martyrs exult, and her Aposto lic shrines give token of rejoicing. And You, the partners in founding an imperishable Government under CHRIST'S Sway, O Peter and Paul! shall not even your relics be agitated by this joy, for the re-establishment of Pius the Seventh in the place of his home, and of your repose? editors, when, they speak of the Catholic population, that "were tigers gregarious, they should rather compare them to herds of such savage monsters." Even in the senate, speeches have And, glorious Britain, although divorced been made, and letters have been read, from her Faith, well may she feel proudly to make the members believe that under her burthen of trophies, and in the enIreland was in a disturbed state; and joyment of her high ambition. Her principle the English Catholics have been lately had been to repulse the strides of Despotism, told from their pulpits, that they are to vanquish Usurpation, to give back Peace to the world at large. This principle never loyal and faithful subjects to our most declined nor tottered during the protracted gracious Sovereign. Yea, and that the struggle. It is but justice to assert, that Bri- English Catholic Clergy and Laity are tain, as the prominent leader, and the preKNOWN to be so. siding spirit was that one, which raised the - England has long standard of Unanimity and Enfranchisement been a bragging nation; but it was to an utterly despairing world; that she pro- never expected that the Catholics of digally expended her immense resources, and this country would be so debased as the blood of her population in sending forth, to seek to praise themselves at the exand in every direction, renowned Generals, and invincible armies, of which brave Irish pence of their Irish brethren, and Catholic Legions formed a part; whose more particularly at a time when the achievements in Egypt, Italy, Portugal, latter were suffering under an unjust Spain, and in the heart of France, will stand forward in history. The measure of Catho- imputation. The assizes for Ireland, lic gratitude due to such an Empire is no however, are just concluded; in all other, than that which may be claimed upon the circuits nothing has transpired to Mankind by the Deliverers of the human establish the existence of any treasonrace. We remain persuaded, that you, Holy Father, not only are the most fit to repay able or seditious conspiracy; the cathis debt of gratitude, on the behalf of all, lendars upon the whole have been but may do so with the most splendid effect. In conclusion, embracing heartily and af-been capitally convicted; and in some extremely light; few culprits have fectionately the knees of your Holiness, and demanding for ourselves and our Churches counties the assizes have proved maidyour apostolical benediction, we pray, thaten. In the most Catholic districts, the our LORD GOD, JESUS CHRIST, as he has miraculously rescued you, a successor of Peter, from the arrest of Herod, may prosper you in length of days, and establish your throne in peace. Roman Catholic College, Maynooth, 27th of June, 1814. STATE OF IRELAND. The peace of the Continent, and the consignment of Buonaparte to the island of Elba, having left our hireling scribes without a foreign object on which to spend their calumnious talents, poor Ireland, and with her the Catholic religion, has now become the victim of their slanderous pens. Accordingly the readers of our English ministerial prints are now amused with tales of outrages and murders which "mark Ireland as the most depraved country upon the face of the earth;" and those of the Irish government papers, are informed by their base calendars have been found the lightest, |