yoke of England. (Hear.) The Rev. Gentleman produced a copy of the book of laws set up by the Romish bishops, which contains all these principles, distinctly commanded to be enforced. And these facts were confirmed further by the evidence of persons who could not be suspected of misrepresentation, viz. commissioners, magistrates, police inspectors, &c. employed under Government. A further development of the perjury and sedition of Popery was to be seen in the conduct of those Popish demagogues whose hatred to the British Protestant Constitution was no longer concealed after they gained the power they sought. Only contrast the oaths taken by the Romish Members of Parliament with their public declarations. They, by the Act of 1829, faithfully promised to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of their power, the Protestant succession of the Crown, that Act limiting the succession to the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and the heirs of her body being Protestants. (Hear.) Now, read a portion of a speech of a man who had taken that oath in Parliament a speech recently made by O'Connell to his constituents. (Hear.) Take my advice," said he, "we are engaged in a most noble and constitutional struggle. Let there be no riots, no violence, no assaults. Let us not call our opponents mad dogs. We will call them Hanoverians. When you see an elector giving a bad vote, call that man a Hanoverian. When you happen to see a man ready to sell his vote, say Hanoverian,' and pass on. I like to call everything by its right name. They are Hanoverians, and we will call them so. Down with the Hanoverians, say I." (Loud cries of "Hear, hear.") This term "Hanoverian" afterwards was used by the priests in their denunciations of Protestants from the altar; by incendiaries and murderers in their threatening notices; and the brutalized peasant sinking all sense of favours conferred by his landlord, threatening the latter with death, and using the same term, "Hanoverians." Here we have (continued the Reverend Gentleman) the man who had taken the oath of loyalty to the house of Hanover, standing upon the hustings, when admitted a Member of the British House of Parliament, selecting the name of the Royal Family as one of infamy, opprobrium, and insolence; as the name that marks the unhappy Protestant as a victim for scorn, vengeance, and death. (Hear, hear.) We have, too, the priest echoing the term at his altar, and the murderer roaring it out as he darts from his den of blood. We have the name of the Royal Family branded and marked for vengeance by the oratory of the demagogue, the denunciation of the priest, and the dagger of the assassin. (Immense cheers.) There were times when Popery knew how to speak well of Protestant monarchs. In 1807 O'Connell said, he could not tolerate the calumnies on their good old King (George III.) At a Meeting in Dublin, at which Lord Glenelg presided, he said, “That monarch had raised them from abject slavery to freedom, and he had an enthusiastic reverence for the great father of his people." Now, on November 17, 1838, Mr. O'Connell said, that of our Royal Family, the first was a German boor, the second a German bigot, and the third left the country worse than he found it, and struggled not only against the rights of Irishmen, but those of his most distant colonies. (Hear, hear.) And this was the man who complimented our youthful Sovereign. (Hear, hear.) He insulted our gracious Sovereign by attempting to compliment her at the expence of every feeling of her heart and every affection of her soul (loud cheers); by heaping insult and contempt, and, on his own showing, false charges on the memory of her Royal ancestor. (Cheers.) He could gloze and he could flatter, and he could fawn on Her Majesty, when it was necessary for his purpose so to do (hear); and he could, when it was convenient, throw off the disguise, and let fall the cowl, and exhibit the brazen front of the despicable and perfidious traitor. (Vociferous cheering.) In another section of the oath the Roman Catholic member swore to defend to the utmost the settlement of property as established in these realms, and when Sir R. Inglis proposed that the word "ecclesiastical" should be added, Sir R. Peel thought it unnecessary, as the words, as they stood, must be taken to include all property. That, then, was the known intention of those who framed the oath. Moreover, the deponent declared a disavowal of any intention to disturb the Church Establishment as settled by law, or to disturb or weaken the Protestant religion, or Government of the United Kingdom. Such was the oath: and in his evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons on Friday, the 4th of March, 1825, Mr. O'Connell was asked what he would require if a carte blanche were given him He answered, "That both Houses of Parliament should be thrown open to Roman Catholics; that they should be eligible to hold the office of judge, and other places of emolument in the State, and he recommended the abolition of the forty-shilling freeholders." When asked to explain the ground for that recommendation, he said, that it was for the purpose of securing the established religion in Ireland, and that no concession whatever should be made to the Roman Catholics until the Establishment in Ireland was considered safe and inviolable. When reminded that those sentiments were very inconsistent with those he had uttered in the Catholic Association, he said, that he did not feel bound by what he had said in that assembly, and others under particular circumstances, and that many things were spoken in the heat of debate, of which in his cooler moments he did not approve. (Laughter.) Now look at his conduct! After taking that oath, he declared that the revenues of the Church of Ireland should not be applied to the purposes of that Church. "We demand this justice," said he, "and that speedily,—Ireland is no longer to be trifled with." (Hear.) Could there be a more flagrant act of base and iniquitous perjury? (Hear, hear.) He most solemnly declared before God that if he were a member of the House of Commons he would not degrade his sense of what is due to the country, to justice, to truth, to religion, to God, by taking his seat without first giving notice that he would impeach that man for the blackest and grossest public perjury. (Loud cheers.) He would care not who were his patrons or protectors, but he would take these documents and place them on the table of the House, and if that House durst pass a vote of acquittal for O'Connell, and pronounce him not guilty of perjury, he would stand alone by the word of God, and the British House of Commons should go down to posterity an object of contempt and execration to the world. (Tumultuous and prolonged cheering.) That man was acting out his perjury by calling on the Legislature to second him, and telling them that if they did not he would stir up rebellion against his Sovereign. (Hear, hear.) But were these doings confined to Ireland only? No? in a publication called the Phanix, of no later date than April last, it is asked, "Is this the tenth year of emancipation, and do men still endure tithes and church-rates? but wonders will never cease! Sir R. Inglis declares that 16,000 churches are insufficient. What, 16,000 churches of error and falsehood not enough!" Hear the language of Popery when it throws off the mask! "Shall we," says this writer, "put up with this? No; by eternal justice! the cup of iniquity runs over. The greatest of evils is the Church of England, a Church founded on fraud, cemented by blood, and upheld by worse than Carthaginian perfidy-Delenda est Carthago! (Hear, hear.) Was O'Connell the man to whom, he would not say British statesmen, he would not say British noblemen, he would not say British gentlemen, but he would say the poorest man that ever bore the name of Briton-was this the man with whom they were to compromise the honour, the justice, the religion, the salvation of their country? (Hear, hear.) Was this the man at whose feet they were to lie down, and to come and to go at his call-to stoop for the very crumbs that fell from his table. (Hear, hear.) For his part “he would rather be a dog and bay the moon" than such a Briton. (Cheers.) But England, Protestant England, was to lie down at the feet of traitors like this man. (Hear.) The British lion was to growl and lash his tail, and crouch beneath this Papal Van Amburgh, as he shook his wand of Papal power. (Loud cheers, and laughter.) It was said in our national anthem, Rule, Britannia, Britannia rules the waves, What! not slaves! when our liberties, our laws, our religion were made the toys of slaves, the basest slaves in England, the slaves of the Papal priesthood. (Immense cheering.) What was to be done? Repeal the Catholic Reform Bill. (Loud cheers.) He would endeavour to lay before them a practical plan that would either put Popery out of the British senate, or else, what was far better, break the heart of Popery itself in this country-by scaring the superstition from the hearts of our poor degraded and insulted Roman Catholic fellow-subjects. (Hear.) Such a plan ought to be evidently corrective of the proved crimes of the Church of Rome; it ought to place her by herself, and not allow her to take advantage of the divisions among Protestants, or to deceive the people by raising a false cry of " Civil and religious liberty;" it should separate her from all classes of Protestant Dissenters, and make her stand out in her own native deformity, as the mother of harlots, and the abomination of the earth; it should bring her plainly before the minds of the Roman Catholic laity; it should be so plain as to commend itself to the common sense of every Protestant; and it ought to expose and lay bare the craft and policy of the Papacy so as to bring be it under discussion in Parliament, and prevent Parliament from treating it, or pretending to treat it, as a mere question of theology any longer. (Hear.) The Rev. Gentleman then proceeded to submit a "pledge for civil and religious liberty for all electors and all persons elected or appointed to any office in the British empire," of which we cannot do more than give an outline. It commenced by reciting, from the third Canon of the Fourth Lateran Council, held in 1215, the anathemas against condemned heretics at length, by which they are condemned, if of the clergy, to be degraded from their orders, and if laymen, to have their goods confiscated, and left to the secular powers to be punished in a fitting manner. Those suspected only of heresy are to be excommunicated, and if they persevere in excommunication, they are to be condemned as heretics. The secular powers are also instructed to exterminate from the lands under their jurisdiction all heretics denounced by the Church, or failing to "cleanse his country from heretical filth," any temporal lord must make satisfaction, and give up his dominion to be occupied by the Catholics. A believer receiving, defending, or abetting a heretic, is excluded from all public offices, and made intestable, and deprived of all the protection of the civil law. Archbishops and bishops are directed to inspect their dioceses, and to report the heretics in them once a year, and they are to be punished according to the Canons; and those prelates who fail to purify their dioceses from the leaven of heretical depravity are to be deposed. The "pledge" then recited the 14th Canon of the 7th session of the Council of Trent, on baptism, which enacts that if any man shall say, that baptized children who, when grown up, will not ratify what their sponsors promised, may left to their own will, he shall be anathema; and that all baptized persons must submit to the domination of the Church of Rome, or suffer pains, penalties. and persecutions. The "pledge" concluded in the following manner:-"I, A. B., do solemnly, in the presence of God, renounce and abjure the Canons aforesaid, so far as they have now been recited. I believe the same to be immoral, anti-social, intolerant, repugnant to the laws of God and to the statutes and Constitution of this realm, and fatal to civil and religious liberty. I declare that I believe the Popes and General Councils, who enacted these Canons aforesaid, were, in so doing, not only fallible but totally in error, and that they have not and ought not to have any power, weight, or authority over my conscience. We whose names are hereunto subscribed, electors of do hereby for ourselves cordially adopt this pledge. We consider that any man who refuses to do so is not fit to hold any office of civil power, or to vote for any man to fill any office in the State; and we do hereby pledge ourselves to call on any man who solicits our votes as a Member of Parliament to subscribe it himself, and to use his utmost exertions in Parliament that it shall be made a test for every man admitted to a seat in the British Legislature, or to vote at any election either for Members of Parliament or for any other office in the British empire." (Hear, hear.) It was only by such a test that Roman Catholics could be secured. The oaths which they now took did not hold them with the power of a If a Roman Catholic refused to subscribe to that test, he would be unfit to sit in the Parliament of this Protestant country. There was no hope of the country being delivered from the tyranny of the Church of Rome, unless Roman Catholics themselves were delivered from it. We must emancipate them from Popery. (Hear.) O'Connell talked of reform-he (Mr. M'Ghee) was an ultra-reformer-he wanted a radical reformation; O'Connell called for a Repeal of the Union, he wanted a repeal of the union between Ireland and Italy. (Cheers.) What right had that old Antichrist at Rome, that calls himself the Vicar of the Lord Jesus, to dare to usurp authority over the liberty and consciences of Christian freemen. (Renewed cheers.) Oh, guilty England! to pay for training up his priests whom he durst send forth to abuse, enslave, and degrade the people of Ireland, and their wives and daughters, in their dark and damnable superstitions. (Hear, hear.) Stand forth, O Englishmen, in the name of God, and with the word of God in your hands, and you will shake the yoke of the Papacy from the necks of the people of England and Ireland. (Cheers.) The Rev. Gentleman, after reading the document, took a pen, and said, "And now, publicly, in Exeter Hall, I sign this pledge," suiting the action to the word amidst loud cheers. He would use his best exertions to get every member of the University to which he belonged to do likewise. (Hear.) He regretted that Protestantism had been in any degree compromised,-that the least advantage had been given to her insidious enemy, Popery: Protestants had retreated too far already. The passing of the Emancipation Bill was the first fatal step in retreat; straw. it led the way for violated oaths and perjured demagogues, who assailed the Church and sought to deprive the people of the Bible. Thus have we been betrayed and deceived "Talibus insidiis, perjurique arte Sinonis." But Protestantism was to recede still farther. The last remnant of her civil power in Ireland, the Corporations, were to be destroyed by the miscalled “ Municipal Reform Bill""Scandit fatalia machina muros, Fota armis." (Hear, hear.) Protestant England had submitted to the spoliation of the Church; ten Bishops were given as a sop to the Papal Cerberus; after that one-fourth of its property was given away; an iniquitous system of national education had been imposed, and now the municipal corporations were going. Our Protestant institution, bit by bit, were sacrificed to the Papacy, for permission to retain the wretched remnant of them in peace. What was to be done? "If England has the spirit of a nation," (said the Rev. Gentleman) "if her people will stand up like men, let them from this time come forth and cry out, For God and for England, No Popery and No Surrender!" The Rev. Gentleman's speech was followed by enthusiastic cheering. The Resolution was agreed to with but one dissentient. The Rev. A. A. S. THELWALL proposed a vote of thanks to the Noble Chairman, which was seconded by Sir JOHN CROFT, and carried by acclamation, and the Meeting was adjourned. EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE. A ROMANIST ELECTED CHURCHWARDEN FOR PADDINGTON. To the Editor of the Protestant Magazine. May 7th, 1840. Sir, Happening to look in the Morning Chronicle of this day, I read a letter to the editor of that journal, written by an individual styling himself a "Liberal Whig," and who, from the tenor of his correspondence, I should suppose is one of those professing but falsely called "liberal Protestants" of the present day; who not only from conscientious motives refuse to support our venerable church as an establishment, but who are at all times ready and willing to join hands with Papists, with Infidels, and indeed with any but orthodox Christians, in endeavouring to uproot the constitution of that church, and thereby to overthrow the anti-papistical and scriptural doctrines which she has ever set forth. The letter referred to, is one of congratulation at the result of an election of a churchwarden at Paddington on Easter Tuesday last, and which terminated in the unanimous election of Dr. Walsh, a Roman Catholic. The author states that Paddington is considered a Conservative parish, and further inquires what the O'Sullivans and McNeiles would say to such a circumstance. I for one, Sir, do not believe that Paddington is a conservative parish; not that I know anything of that locality, but I cannot conceive the idea of conservatives joining hands with these liberal whigs and with them unanimously electing a Roman Catholic to the influential office of churchwarden. As to what the clergymen to whom the writer refers would say, if their opinion were asked upon the subject, I for one, in common with all true Protestants, rejoice to know that there are in our beloved country still a few left who have not (either professedly or practically) bowed the knee to Baal, and who, for the sake of the orthodox principles they advocate, and the eternal welfare of the multitude amongst whom they labour, are willing to sacrifice their temporal ease and even to become a bye-word and derision among these liberal whigs. What a fresh incitement is there even in this single but important instance, for Protestants to unite and uphold the principles and spirit of our once Protestant constitution and our yet Protestant church;-how ought it (both on the score of principle and expediency) to actuate us to fresh exertion and (in forgetfulness of all minor differences of opinion) greater union; for we may rest assured that if Popery once gets the upper hand, we have only to read Foxe's Martyrs and other records of bloody persecution, in order to be made acquainted with our own fate. And the idea of the probable future ascendancy of Popery in this country is no chimerical suggestion;-after obtaining an important share in the legislature of this professedly Protestant country, -after wielding the chief power of the state, and getting her supporters and members into such important and influential offices as Churchwardens of Parishes-High Sheriffs of Counties -and Counsellors to the Queen,-who can suppose that she will ever rest satisfied with anything short of absolute power, over both our bodies and our consciences. Yours, &c. And a reader of the Protestant Magazine, ALTERATION OF THE SECOND COMMANDMENT IN ROMISH CATECHISMS. Oxford, May 11 1840. Dear Sir, I think it would be well if the attention of your readers was called to the conduct of the Church of Rome in regard to the second commandment, as there appears to be some misunderstanding on the subject among Protestants. It appears that there are circulated by Roman Catholics two different versions of God's commandments. In a catechism published by Keating and Brown, London, and in several, I believe, which are in use in Ireland, not a vestige of the second commandment is to be found. In others it is appended to the first as follows: "Thou "shalt not have strange gods before me. Thou shalt not make |