direct colleges and seminaries; we authorize them to hear confessions, to preach the word of God, and to administer the sacraments in the places of their residence with the consent and approbation of the ordinary. We take under our tutelage, under our immediate obedience, and that of the holy see, all the colleges, houses, provinces, and members of this order, and all those who shall join it; always reserving to ourselves and the Roman Pontiffs our successors, to prescribe and direct al that we may deem it our duty to prescribe and direct to consolidate the said company more and more, to render it stronger, and to purge it of abuses, should they ever creep in, which God avert. It now remains for us to exhort with all our heart, and in the name of the Lord, all superiors, provincials, rectors, companions, and pup'ls of this re-established society, to shew themselves at all times and in all places faithful imitators of their father; that they exactly observe the rule prescribed by their great founder; that they obey with an always increasing zeal the useful advices and salutary counsels which he has left to his children.

"In fine, we recommend strongly, in the lord, the company and all its members to our dear sons in Jesus Christ the illustrious and noble princes and lords temporal, as well as to our venerable brothers the archbishops and bishops, and to all those who are placed in authority; we exhort, we conjure them not only not to suffer that these religious be in any way molested, but to watch that they be treated with all due kindness and charity.

"We ordain that the present letters be inviolably observed according to their form and tenour, in all time coming; that they enjoy their full and entire effect; that they shall never be submitted to the judgment or revision of any judge, with whatever power he may be clothed; declaring null and of no effect any encroachment on the present regulations, either knowingly or from ignorance; and this notwithstanding any apostolical constitutions and ordinances, especially the brief of Clement XIV of happy memory, beginning with the words Dominus ac Redemptor noster, issued under the seal of the Fisherman, on the 22d of July, 1773, which we expressly abrogate as far as contrary to the present order.

principles of the [Roman] Catholic faith." These pupils of the crafty fathers will form hereafter, a band of traitorous malcontents within his territories. They will count the rest of his subjects, together with himself, heretics! They will keep no faith with him or with them. They will clamour for privileges and struggle for ascendancy, They will yield the Emperor but a moiety of that allegiance which is his due, and they will maintain that the bishop of Rome has a right to dispose of his throne to another. Let the Emperor of Russia judge of the truth of our prediction by the conduct of the Irish Romanists towards the sovereign of Great Britain.

"It is also our will that the same credit be paid to copies whether it manuscript or printed, of our present brief, as to the original itself, provided they have the signature of some notary public, and the seal of some ecclesiastical dignitary; that no one be permitted to infringe, or by an audacious temerity to oppose any part of this ordinance; and that should any one take upon him to attempt it, let him know that he will thereby incur the indignation ef Almighty God, and of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul.

"Given at Rome, at Sancta Maria Major, on the 7th of August, in the year of our Lord, 1814, and the 15th of our Pontificate.

"After the reading of the Bull, all the Jesuits present were admitted, to kiss the Pope's feet; at their head was father Panizoni, who will ad interim perform the functions of the general who is expected from Russia.

"An Act was afterwards read concerning the restitution of funds, the patrimony of the Jesuits still in existence, and provisional compen sations for alienated property. Thus, says the Diario Romano, ended a ceremony eternaliy glorious and memorable!"

INTELLIGENCF FROM ROME.

On the authority of the Dublin Evening Post, we insert the following substance of a letter written by Dr. Murray to Dr. Troy, and read the other day, by the latter gentleman to a meeting of 150 Romish clergymen at Tullagh. The Dub. Ev. Post says that the letter was communicated by a parish priest in the neighbourhood of Tullagh, who was present when it was read.

"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 the 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 lan guage, 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, shewng that the late Rescript was an unauthorized document. Cardinal Litta was greatly shocked at the oath contained in the Relief Bill —He bad also some doubts respecting the oath of 93, which Dr. Murray had some trouble in endeavouring 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."

PROTESTANTS ENTERTAINED BY PAPISTS.

Protestants cannot but know that, in the opinion of Papists, (however they may choose for secret reasons to cloke it), they are excluded Heaven, and consigned to everlasting punishment; that no oaths, covenants, or promises contra utilitatem ecclesiæ are deemed binding; and that, consequently all compliments must be hollow and all ostensible endearments fallacions. Knowing this, how can they submit to be gulled by partaking of a tavern-dinner given by the Papists, or condescend to become their guests? Such entertainments form a part of the machinery by which they endeavour to deceive the public and the legislature; and the besotted men who sit round their tables, reduce themselves to the rank of puppets and tools, and foolishly contribute to their own destruction. How can Protestants be induced to become parties in their revolting orgies? The King was one of the firmest friends of Protestantism. It is not in nature that the Papists could be sincere in the "marks of approbation" which they bestowed upon him; they only cheered the King, in order to insult the Prince, who is as good a Protestant as his revered father. The Papists

* Mr. Clinch is the supposed author of the Statement of the Penal Laws, &c. proba bly the book here intended."

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had formed some visionary hopes that his Royal Highness would befriend them, or even assist in raising Popish ascendancy on the humiliation of Protestantism, in the event of his being called to exercise the power of the King. Thank Heaven! they have suffered disappointment. But setting aside their own views, have the Papists no honour in store for the Regent, under whose auspices Great Britain has arrived at its presenc pitch of glory? Cannot they afford a single huzza to the great personage whose perseverance in a righteous cause has been the source of all our military successes? Will they not allow the Prince any share in the immortal fame achieved by his General, Wellington, and his negotiator, Castlereagh? Do those names kindle no enthusiasm in the hearts of Irishmen? How deadening to every patriot feeling is the spirit of Popery! Are the Papists sorry for the discomfiture of Buonaparte? We know that the victories of the Allies were unpleasing to some of the low Irish, but can gentlemen sympathize with the sensations of the vulgar?

"Dinner given by Roman Catholics to their Protestant Friends, at Cork, on Thursday, Sept. 1, 1814.

(From the Cork Mercantile Chronicle.)

"Yesterday a splendid dinner was given at M'Dowell's, by a number of Roman Catholic gentlemen, to Messrs. Phillips, Beamish, Crawford, Cuthbert, and a number of their Protestant friends. Anthony O'Connor, Esq. of Spring-Mount, in the chair. The shortness of the notice pre-vented the attendance of many Catholics, who were desirous of paying this tribute of respect to their friends, and many of those friends, whose distance from town prevented the possibility of their attendance.

"At half-past six the compary, consisting of about one hundred persons, sat down to the tables, which were covered with a profusion of every delicacy which the sea-on cold afford. After the cloth was removed, Mr. O'Connor, the Chairman, gave as the first toast The King.' This was received with the usual marks of approbation, in the most enthusiastic manner.

"The next toast was

"His Royal Highness the Prince Regent,'

which was received in solemn silence!!! After this was given

"When the long continued applause had ceased, two harpers appeared in the space between the tables, and struck up the favourite air of Patrick's Day, in the first style. The air was repeated with reiterated plaudits.

"Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales-may her filial constancy prove a faithful earnest of patriotic attachment.' *

"His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent-the friend of Irishmen in every clime,' +

"His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex-the ornament of royalty and the friend of the people-long may he live to advocate and to advance the real interests of the empire.'" +

We intended inserting an interesting speech of Mr. Peele, concerning Orange Societies, in answer to Sir Henry Parnell, on the debate concerning the Irish seditious Meetings Bill; and also a Letter from Mr. Peele to Col. Creighton on the subject of Orange Societies; but we are constrained to defer our intention till next month for want of room.

ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL'S TRAVELS.

In laying before our readers the following very elaborate and learned disquisition, occasioned, as it seems, by an article in one of our former numbers, and being indeed a direct criticism upon a part of that article, we must say that we do it with a certain degree of reluctance. Not that we are averse to being set right in any case where we have admitted, or appeared to favour, propositions which are not strictly tenable; or that we 'fear that the sort of contradiction which is here given to what has appeared in our pages respecting St. Peter, may at all prejudice the great truths for which we are contending :-on the contrary, we are fully persuaded that no discussion whatever, or however carried on, so as it be attended with perfect freedom of investigation, respecting the pretended supremacy of the Popes, can end in any thing but the exposure of the futility of their claims, and a demonstration of the multiplied and complicated fraud by which those claims are, and have always been, supported. But we fear lest it should lead to a more particular and extensive controversy upon a subject so obscure, and upon which such great names, both among the living and the dead, have differed, and still hold various opinions, To pursue it properly might take up too many of our pages:

• We understand the meaning of this toast. Foul befal the fomenters of family disputes!

+ Where there any Irishmen at Gibraltar when the Duke of Kent was governor of that fortress? Were their whiskers spared? Did they permit their wives to visit a lady now, or lately, resident at Kensington ?

We leave the Duke of Sussex to repent at leisure the part which he lately took respecting the Princess Charlotte. To have been thus toasted by the Irish Papists wid not much console him.