are equally as binding on the Clergy Catholic priesthood of Cork, the seas the Laity. These precepts are in- cond city of the most depraved nation tended to have the effect of promoting upon earth, I have been credibly in a due sense of religion and morality, formed, the situations of the policeas the laws of the State are enacted to officers and constables are become insure a due regard to the peace and nearly sinecures. Indeed, I have been welfare of society. How far they suc- positively assured by a gentleman, ceed in producing the effect intended, who was in the place about a twelvelet the following comparison shew.-month since, that so orderly were the By the accounts published of the cir- inhabitants of that city, that no watchcuits of the Judges in the late summer men were required in the night; a assizes, the capital convictions through- circumstance almost incredible, but out the different counties in Ireland, abounding infinitely to their honour.(the most depraved country upon the Now, when we come to consider the earth, and the inhabitants of which true state of Ireland, and to obtain have been stiled fiends by the Bigots that, we have only to read the incomof this country,) have, in many in parable Charge of the truly indestances, proved maiden. In the county pendent and upright Judge Fletcher, of Tipperary only two persons were which he delivered to the Grand Jury, capitally convicted; at Kilkenny four; of Wexford in July last, it is impossi at Wexford two. But in England, the ble to withhold our admiration at the most enlightened country in the uni- indefatigable zeal which must have verse, the land of Bibles and of Bible been exerted by the Catholic Clergy Societies, in one county alone, (Lan- of that unfortunate island, in instilling cashire,) the capital convictions, if I the principles of true religion and loy récollect right, amounted to eighteen.alty into the minds of their flocks, to And at the Old Bailey Sessions, for this present month, and which, be it noticed, are held every six weeks, I find twenty-six persons received sentence of death, six of whom were women; fifty-two were ordered to be transported; sixty-one to be imprisoned in different goals; fourteen to be whipped; and several were fined and discharged. Now, will the enemies of the Catholic religion shew an equal number of criminals tried and convicted in the capital of Catholic Ireland, or of any Catholic country in the world, in the same space of time. From what cause, then, I would ask, does this multitude of crimes arise in this enlightened nation? The hireling writers are ever boasting of the superior wisdom and reasoning facul ties of its inhabitants; and affect to despise their fellow-creatures, who are stupid enough to be governed by a religion which was established by our Saviour for the happiness of mankind. These hirelings are continually libelling the Clergy of this divine religion-and yet by the exertions of the ORTHON. JOUR. VOL. IL - enable them to bear so much oppression and wretchedness as we find described by the eloquent and patriotic Judge, with so much fortitude, and so little disturbance. This admirable document has excited greater interest both in this country and in Ireland, than any thing which has lately occurred, and I trust will be productive of the best effects. As many of my friends have expressed a desire that the greatest circulation should be given to the Charge, I have printed it in as cheap a form as possible; and it may be had of all my agents at 6s. per dozen to those who purchase it to give away. WM. EUSEBIUS ANDREWS London, Sept. 26, 1814. NOTE Addressed to the Superiors of every denomination, and to the Members of the Society of the Jesuits, Reestablished by the Bull of Pope Pius VII. dated August 7, 1814. THE undersigned feels himself prompted by the most powerful me 2 Y 8 reader cannot fail to perceive the mo- | the establishment, or if the funda mental laws have been subverted to suit the purposes of some corrupt individuals, it is neither candid nor just, to charge the whole body with the crimes of a few, as the virulent writer in the Register has done. The Constitution of this country was founded and established by Catholics. Magna Charta, by which the rights of the poor man as well as the rich, were se cured, was drawn up and supported by the Catholic Clergy and Barons, headed by a CARDINAL. It is now exclusively in the hands of Protestants; but many of them, and Mr. Cobbett among the rest, are calling out for a Reform of the abuses which have found their way into it, and accusing the senators of corruption and intrigue.Now what would the writer think of a Catholic who should come forward and condemn the whole system, because the Protestant legislators have, in some instances, thought proper to depart from the fundamental laws, as in the case of suspending the Habeas Corpus act, the Irish Insurrection act, &c. with which power, from local circumstances, it has occasionally been judged necessary to invest the arm of the State. If Mr. Cobbett looks back into some of his numbers, he will find accusations brought therein against Ministers for inflicting unnecessary punishments, and against the Legisla tives which govern the spirit of this scribe. His aim is levelled at the destruction of all revealed religion; and to accomplish this his malice is levelled at the sacred order of the Clergy.To attack the Clergy of the Established church would lay him under an ex officio information, the effects of which Mr. Cobbett has had pretty good experience.-But to libel, to traduce, to calumniate, the Clergy of the Church of Rome; to misrepresent and falsify any human institution intended to support and maintain the unity of Catholic faith, is not only safe, but meritorious. No danger is accrued in this country by such a mode of proceeding, and therefore the shafts of the infidel writers are levelled at this sacred body-Hence then the ravings of this infatuated man- -Hence then the attempt to make his readers believe that to the Clergy, and to the Clergy alone, are the world indebted for the establishment of the Inquisition; and that they held the abominable doctrine that faith was not to be kept with heretics. No liberal-minded and candid man, I am certain, can read this passage in the Register, without a blush of indignation, and contempt for the wretch who can charge his unoffending neighbours with being governed by such impious principles, without adducing a single fact in proof of his assertions. In contradiction to the latture for passing the acts by which they ter charge, we have the declaration of two universities in SPAIN, besides those in other Catholic countries, which were laid before Parliament in Mr. Pitt's time, solemnly denying that such doctrine WAS EVER taught by the Catholic church. With respect to the tribunal of the Inquisition, it was originally established to preserve the laws of the State as well as to assist Religion, against a sect, holding the most abominable and pernicious doctrines, inimical to social order and regular Governments, and this, perhaps, may account for the rancour displayed by this atheistical and profane writer.Whatever abuses may have crept into ན་ bid die p. 3 but entradiction of were inflicted; but would that justify me in insinuating, that because abuses have been formerly committed, all ministers and senators, both present and to come, must consider themselves bound by no other motives than those which influenced their predecessors! Ridiculous and absurd as the reasoning may appear, yet such is the mode adopted in Cobbett's Register to instil a hatred in his readers against the Catholic Clergy. Some of them, says he, have been very wicked, and have betrayed the sacred order they belong to; therefore all must necessarily be influenced by the same motives! What a profound logician!!! Jon a direct p. 383 p. RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE JE- | "Lord, hath beaten in pieces thine "" enemy; and in thy multiplied "grandeur, thou hast laid them low "who warred against thee.-Thou "breathedst the storm, and a sea 66 SUITS. Under this head Mr. Cobbett has inserted two long articles in his Register of the 3d Sept. occupying upwards of seven pages, consisting of vague assertions and false charges, and covered them!'-Who, that reads exceeding in malignity and ignorance "this fulsome panegyric, can doubt any thing I have ever read before upon "the entire submission of the Irish the subject. Pitiable indeed is the "Catholics to the See of Rome?" In mind of that man who, to blacken the this short quotation Mr. Cobbett has character of his innocent fellow-men, published three glaring falsehoods, and has recourse to lies and invective; but displayed the most consummate ignowhen a writer, pretending to be the rance. For, in the first place, the Champion of Truth, avails himself of College of Maynooth has no more these auxiliaries to support his cause, controul over the sentiments of the his conduct becomes execrable, his Irish Catholics than the Inquisition, motives infamous, and his character is being nothing more than a seminary sunk for ever. In the article alluded for the education of youth; in the seto, the restoration of this exalted and cond place, the Congratulatory Adillustrious Society, is called an “in- dress of the venerable Prelates of Ire"fernal affair," and hopes are exland did NOT declare that Pius VII, pressed by the writer that the French had equalled our blessed Saviour.people, who, he says, are all es- The words of the address are, "The "teemed Catholics," had no hand in 66 hope of Christians at last has reit. He then goes on to censure the vived, and the Catholic Church has Government of this country, for the "regained its state and integrity, ́in part it took in restoring his Holiness," your well-being, good and glorious and stigmatizes the people of Ireland "Man of God, Pius the Seventh, as "bigotted and ignorant." "It is "who, by resignation, not less than "well known," he observes, "that" by chieftaincy, have brought home "the Roman Catholic College of May-" Christ to our view." Is it possible, "nooth speaks the sentiments of all I would ask the reader, for the most "the Irish Catholics; and that, what- ignorant blockhead to put such a con"ever letters or rescripts they pub struction on these words, as the wri"lish, are regarded, by these bigot- ter in the Register imputes to the vir"ted and ignorant people, as of as tuous characters concerned in the "great authority as any Bull issued address; and yet he sends the asser"by the Pope. We have all seen the tion forth to the world without giving "Congratulatory Letter to Pope the address itself, that his readers «Pius VII, addressed by this body might form their own conclusions. In "to his Holiness, on the 27th of June the third place, the words which this last, about six weeks prior to the malignant man says are applied to the "date of the Bull restoring the Je- Pontiff, are evidently directed to the "suits. In that precious document Deity, to whom is attributed the pow"the Catholics of Ireland declare, er by which the late happy circumthat Pius has equalled Jesus Christ, stances have been achieved, and which "by resignation not less than by appears to have given such chagrin to chieftaincy,' and, to this old and the writer in the Register, by the fall "evidently superannuated Pontiff,they of Napoleon, the persecutor of the "apply these words, which have ever Catholic Church and its incorruptible "been held applicable to the divini- Head.--After alluding to the reasons "ty Thy right hand, O Lord, assigned by his Holiness for issuing "hath wrought for itself renown in the Bull, which the writer considers " mightiness. Thy right hand, O of little weight, he says, "We shall ORTHOD. JOUR. VOL. IL "It is 2X “In twenty form and denomination. tives that can influence the human heart, not to withhold the expression of his joy and congratulation, on one of the most interesting transactions that have marked the eventful period in which we live. About two years ago, the undersigned published the Life of St. Francis of Sales; and, on account of the manifest affinity between the Jesuits and the subject of that work, he, in that performance, in-cast, and expressions conveying the serted a note, which consisted of a most frightful blasphemies, shock the recapitulation of the general merits of piety of the reader. These literary that illustrious body. That slender atheists, however, cannot dissemble tribute of applause bestowed on de- the difficulties to be encountered in parted greatness, soon became the this hazardous undertaking. They subject of unexpected and unmerited find religion perpetually defended by obloquy. To such censure the wri- its body guards, the appellation be ter endeavoured to submit with that stowed by them on the fathers of the equanimity which should ever mark Society of the Jesuits. What, there the conduct of those who publish their fore, was to be their conduct? Let opinions to the world; but he cannot us labour, said they, to obtain the now, refrain from expressing his grati- suppression of this order. The word fication, that his life has been pro- was uttered, and never recalled. They tracted to the day when the re-esta- laboured indeed with effect; for, by blishment of this eminent Society has securing in their interest Choiseul in taken place, at the general request of France, Aranda in Spain, Pombal in the Catholic world. Perhaps it will Portugal, Tannuci in Naples, and be placed to the account of a frank Kawnitz in Austria, they gained a and open temper, if he expresses a sa- complete ascendant in the councils of tisfaction that the opinions which he the most distinguished Sovereigns in published concerning these religious Europe. Thus the work was but too persons, are proved to be in unison soon accomplished; by the arts of in with the sentiments entertained by the trigue, by artifice and intimidation, Father of the faithful. Indeed, to an the Pontiff at that period was induced intelligent and unbiassed observer, it to issue the Bull of Suppression. This appears not easy to form more than statement, which is undeniable, as it one opinion on the subject of this me- rests on the acknowledgments of the morable Society. Those who suppose actors in the scene, demonstratively that the suppression of this body is to proves, that the enemies of religion, be ascribed to the vices of its members, of civil government, and of social or or to the corruptions which had crept der on one side, and the opponents of into their institute, are now proved, the Jesuits on the other, were pres by the evidence of facts, to have form- cisely the same persons. The pub ed very erroneous notions on this im-lished correspondence between Vol portant question. Have they ever seen taire, d'Alembert, and the other leadthe case fairly stated? About thirtyers of the anti-christian cabal, supplies years before the French Revolution, a the most cogent evidence on the subpestiferous society was gradually form-ject. Many citations are spared, from ing for the base and avowed purpose an apprehension of wounding the deliof blasting the hopes of the rising ge-cacy of the reader. Dr. Robertson, neration, of destroying every vestige of piety and religion, and of exterminating Christianity under every who appears to have been ignorant of this design of the impious faction, which produced the horrors of a revos lution, that has convulsed the whole | learning, and for the attainment of of Europe; Dr. Robertson, who is not every useful object, which resulted too partial to the Jesuits, yet owns | from the labours of their predecessors, “ that they contributed so much to- | May "wards the progress of polite learn- add their Order continue to receive sing, that on this account they have merited well of society," (Hist. of Charles V. vol. 3, book vi, p. 202, edit. 1782,) and, "that no class of re"gular Clergy in the Romish Church "has been more eminent for decency, and eyen purity of manners, than "the major part of the order of the Je"suits," Ibid. p. 209. Such is the incontrovertible evidence of facts taken from the testimony of the actors, and such is the attestation even of an ene my. The Jesuits fell victims to that rage, which was directed against religion and every species of authority, against the throne and the altar; and now they are again called into action, to repair the disorders occasioned by one of the most dreadful revolutions that was ever suffered to afflict man lustre, and hereafter boast a long series of good and great men, not inferior to the illustrious names by. which their history is so eminently distinguished. WILLIAM HENRY COOMBES, D.D. To the Editor of the Orthodox Journal, SIR,-If the public press of any country is to be considered as the criterion of the intellectual and moral improvement or degradation of the in habitants of that country, the pages of our Newspaper Editors and Weekly Journalists, both in point of matter and manner, indicate, that, during the short season of peace, the people of England have been rapidly re volving to the age of mental darkness and depravity. Tales, that would have suited well the age of a Titus Oates, when the vilest of miscreants were fostered and paid by a corrupt government for inventing the blackest of calumnies against Catholics, are daily palmed upon a credulous pub, kind; their fall may consequently be deemed as honourable as their revival. They were persecuted by an impious faction, as the guardians of every thing valuable in life; and they now receive a second existence, in order to diffuse among mankind the blessings of reli. gion and useful knowledge, which appeared to be very generally delic; and, if we may judge from the clining. On this substantial ground the undersigned has the honour to pre sent his heartfelt congratulations to the Members of the re-established Society, as well as to the public at large, in consequence of this providential event; and he ventures to hail the ap. pearance of the Bull; a composition, which, for dignity, eloquence, and a paternal regard for the interests of the faithful, has never been surpassed, by any document that has been issued from the Apostolic See, The undersigned cannot close this note without expressing his earnest wish and prayer, that this Society, thus revived, may long flourish for the general benefit of mankind, for the instruction of youth, the reformation of manners, the diffusion of piety and frequent recurrence of such articles in our newspapers, are swallowed with great avidity. Not a print makes it appearance, but the Pope, the Inquisition, and the Jesuits, in large capitals, are made to exhibit themselves as the Bugbears of the day. There certainly was a time when no publication would find a sale in this country that did not give proof of its being truly Protestant, by abusing the ancient religion, and its adherents, charitably nick-named Papists. It is a fact, that Guthrie, after having published his Geography, being asked by a Catholic gentleman, to whom he was under great obligations for past civilities, how he could have made up his mind to insert so many calumnies against Catholics, replied, that a work of the |