The savage beast is the Pope's late dear son Buonaparte, waited on at his solemn investiture with imperial powers by infallibility itself!!!

ADDITIONS TO CRITO'S LETTER, Page 8.

In our anxiety to communicate articles of importance to the public, we submit them to the press, sometimes, so quickly, as to allow no opportunity for the previous insertion of such supplementary ideas as occasionally occur to our correspondents on after-consideration of the subjects which have engaged their attention. Our valuable friend CRITO bas sent us what he calls deuTegal portides, after his interesting remarks on "the letter of congratulation from the Irish Roman Catholic prelates to the Pope" were printed and published. (See Prot. Adv. for Oct. p. 7.)-We seize this opportunity of inserting his ingenious addition with the greater pleasure, because of the hope which he gives us, in a note, that he may notice the liturgy of Mr. Gandolphy.

Our readers will be pleased to refer to the quotation from Horace, (p. 8.)

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"Cum tot sustineas et tanta negotia SOLUS,-
Præsenti TIBI maturos largimur honores,

Jurandasque TUUM per NUMEN ponimus aras."

Here insert (says CRITO) the following translation: "When state-activities, so many and so great, you singly sustain,-on you, at present, we lavish ripe honours, and erect altars for adoring your divinity, after your beatification."

"This close and appropriate translation is humbly submitted to their high mightinesses, the M. R. and R. R. prelates, Troy, Murray, &c. &c. subscribing the epistle; and to their worthy coadjutors the professors Delahogue, &c. &c. R. R. C. C. M. for the edification of their flocks and students; and both are earnestly recommended to the Rev. P. Gandolphy, for insertion in the next edition of his Romish "Liturgy," Englished, " for the use of all Christians in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland." The original, with this inscription, Pio VII. VICE Deo, to be subjoined to the Latin service of the mass, at the end of the book;

Milton, in his admirable tract on Toleration, quaintly styles the political intrigues of the court of Rome "state-activities," which term seems to be a correct rendering of negotia, in the original.

+ I may, perhaps, in some future article, examine this liturgy, for the benefit of all Christians.

and the translation-" To PIUS VII. VICE-GOD," &c. immediately after "the litany of Loretto, in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary," p. 359; who, in the Romish creed, is "the successor of Diana of the Ephesians," Acts xix. 23-28. the Pagan "Queen of Heaven," Jerem. xliv. 17-25. and the Romish "Queen of Angels-Patriarchs-Prophets-ApostlesMartyrs Confessors-Virgins-and all Saints;" "the Holy Mother of God-our Creator-our Redeemer," &c. and "the gate of heaven," &c. &c. &c. p. 360.

"Then follows the passage-" Nor is there any prospect, &c." to the end.

"CRITO."

CANADIAN INSTRUCTIONS, AND THE INQUISITION.

(Continued from p. 82.)

THAT the same person who looks, or rather affects to look, upon the Canadian instructions in such a terrible light, who sees in them such monstrous oppression, and tyranny, and fraud, should treat as perfectly ridiculous and uncalled for, all apprehensions, and all indignation, excited by the re-establishment of the inquisition, may to some of our readers appear strange; but in truth it has nothing in it beyond what is natural. It is owing in both cases to the same error of the understanding, arising from the same perverseness of the will, which having once given itself completely over to a false view of religion, and determined to receive and to adopt nothing which is inconsistent with it, is cared at no difficulty, and can with perfect complacency give its assent to reasonings and to statements the most discordant and contradictory, and sanction the most glaring distortion and misrepresentation of facts. The way in which this is done in the present instance, is, by representing the "horrid barbarities laid to the charge of the inquisitors" as mere fables, invented by "wicked men," "to gull the people of this nation!" We are told, further, that ever since the year 1774, the King of Spain reformed the abuses which had crept into the institution, and that the inquisition is now no more than a college of enquiry into religious matlers !! And this," it is added, "is sufficiently evident from the spirit and the language of the document issued by Ferdinand;" and which is very gravely subjoined. In the same spirit, this protegé of Bishop Milner's (William Eusebius Andrews) goes on to tell us, "The fact is, as

* Orthodox Journal, p. 289. And yet it seems these abuses still remain, as FerdiBand professes himself about to reform them!

he has been informed by the most upright and intelligent persons, who have long resided in that country, and on whose veracity he can rely, that the office of the inquisition is to prevent the circulation of FALSE DOCTRINES IN RELIGION, either by preaching or the circulation of books.—A censorship is therefore placed upon the press and if any person is bold enough to disseminate his erroneous opinions, he is summoned before the inquisitors, who examine into his principles, and if they find the opinions which he has imbibed are contrary to the TRUTH of religion, he is forbidden to preach his false doctrines, in order that others may not fall into the same error. But if he persists in his determination, he is then confined within the precincts of the prison, where his accommodation is far preferable to what is to be met with in the gaols of this country!!

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After this amiable picture of the inquisition and the inquisitors, and their prisons, without, however, one word of the tortures which belong to them, and the confiscations which they practise, but which no doubt are equally accommodating, we have the commendation of the motive.

"The motive here is the PREVENTION OF ERROR, which ought to be the desire of every well regulated government! I am well aware that it is a favourite maxim with the Protestants in this country, that every one ought to have the liberty of forming his own creed-this is a natural consequence with all persons who wish to shake off a legitimate authority: but the Spanish nation believe that the Catholic religion is the divine faith of our blessed Saviour, and of course that it is the TRUE and ONLY RELIGION" (his own capitals, Orthodox Journal, p. 292,) "established by him. They know this faith is immutable, because truth is always the same and while they believe this, they must wish to preserve its unity, and prevent its being attacked by error."

After this ingenious apology for persecution in general, which is precisely such a one as Innocent III. or Torquemada would have made, this champion of Popery goes on in a subsequent number (that for September, p. 327,) adopting the words of Ferdinand; and would have us believe that "to the existence of this tribunal Spain was indebted for her escape from those horrid massacres and sacrileges which occurred in France and Germany during the sixteenth century," (does he mean the massacre of St. Bartholomew, among the rest?) "from the seditious doctrines disseminated by the apostles of "evangelical liberty, and the reformers of Popery!!" And that while Holland, Flanders, Switzerland, Germany, and France were exhibiting scenes of the most violent commo

*This is admirable! And this absurd, this weak man does not see how all this cuts up their fine arguments, even in their own way of putting the question, against our disabling statutes.

tions, dreadful civil wars, and detestable plots, to promote the seeds of reformation-in Spain the sciences were cultivated with distinction, and that country produced a multitude of men distinguished by their knowledge and their piety !!!"

We really believe that the man, who could thus gravely set this down as credible, and as receivable any where but at Madrid, did it with concealed irony, and well knowing that he could not be believed: did it, laughing at his employers. But he further goes on, (p. 359,) laying stress upon Ferdinand's declaration that in re establishing the Inquisition his desire was to make it USEFUL to his subjects;-and he adds, "Well, if such is the desire of Ferdinand, what business have the people of England with it? who gave them authority to interfere in the internal concerns of an independent nation?" Upon this we shall only make two short observations. One, that he forgets the application made to the Cortes by his friends in Ireland, to desire those foreigners to interfere with our Sovereign on their behalf. Secondly, that the gentlemen who devised the Inquisition, and established it by decrees of councils, are the same who say that their religion is the TRUE and ONLY religion, and must be received in all countries, under pain of everlasting damnation: and that they entertain missioners, such they call them, in this very country, for the avowed purpose of bringing us into subjection to that religion, or rather sect of religion; and so, in fact, are in the constant habit of interfering with us and all other nations.

However, our intention in giving the sentiments of this journalist upon this head, was not to argue upon them, but simply to make known what are the opinions which go forth accredited with the name and authority of Bishop Milner. And therefore we will only further mention the amusing proposition here found, outdoing the assertions even of that learned Doctor, that "he much questions if the whole of the tribunals (meaning those of the Inquisition) have immolated one balf of the number of victims who suffered for the sake of religion in this country, under the despotic and cruel reign of Elizabeth alone." This is only to be paralleled by what follows ;" and let it be observed, that those who suffered by the laws of the Inquisition were not condemned solely for heresy, but because the doctrines they preached were dangerous to the state." To the state of the Pope, indeed, they might be dan

* P. 327. This, indeed, is what might be truly said of the executions under Elizabeth: they went wholly on the ground that the men who suffered were dangerous to the state: and accordingly on them was passed the judgment of HIGH TREASON, not of heresy. They were subjects of the Pope, who had declared Elizabethi's crown forfeited, and was doing all in his power to have her deposed.

gerous; but to any other state, not only they were never PROVED (to use his own capitals) to be dangerous, but were never even charged to be so. But had it been so, is not this a pretty way of defending the inquisitors, thus to allege that, professing to persecute heretics and heretics only, and framing all their proceedings with that object only apparent, they were, in fact, a mere engine of state policy, abusing the sacred name of religion to mere temporal ends, and thus adding the guilt of most deliberate hypocrisy to their sufficiently heinous sins of most refined and studied cruelty and injustice? "Call you this backing your friends?" Indeed, the gross stupidity of all this must have kept us from at all noticing this publication, if it had not been for what we have before mentioned, that it is the accredited organ of Dr. Milner, the great leader of the staunch Papists in this country.

Such, then, is the view which our thorough-paced votaries of the Pope entertain of the Inquisition. With a tolerable degree of openness, they let us see that they are of opinion with their Holy Father and "the beloved" Ferdinand, that it is no bad thing. But our readers will recollect that there are also among us Roman Catholics of a somewhat different description, upon whom the slavish yoke of Popery does not sit so easy; who are ashamed of the absolute subjection of the understanding which is required in that communion; and which, therefore, they are constantly labouring to persuade themselves, as well as others, does not really exist. The misfortune of all this is, that, as they are attempting to do that which cannot, consistently with truth, be done, they are too frequently betrayed, almost without being aware of it, into employing those dangerous weapons which are in constant use with their bolder brethren, misrepresentation and falsehood.

Of this nature is the following document, which we lay before our readers as the manifesto of the mitigated Papists. It is authenticated with the date of York;" and appeared in the York Herald of August 13. The county of York, as it is well known, contains many of the most respectable families of Roman Catholics, and we have no doubt that it is from some of them that the following disclaimer of the Inquisition has issued. In this paper Ferdinand is spoken of in a very different manner from that in which he is treated in the Orthodox Journal: but as the Pope is to be whitewashed at any rate, he is defended in the only way in which every defence is made for him, that is, at the expence of truth. This we shall establish most clearly.