the events of late years cannot have contributed to revive any such wish in their breasts. Indeed we cannot help indulging a hope, that if they will coolly and seriously contemplate the state of religion as well as of civil government, in this country and in France, they will see good cause to adopt our institutions, and to follow our example in the one case as in the other.

After what has been stated above, we cannot wonder at the following instructions said to have been sent out to Sir George Prevost, Bart. the Governor of Lower Canada, dated the 22d of Oct. 1811. We copy them from the Orthodox Roman Catholic Journal, where they appear, p. 245, and where, of course, they are reprobated, although we are confident that all reasonable men must be of opinion that they are founded in true wisdom, and that they have a direct tendency to free the inhabitants of that province from the intolerable yoke of Popish tyranny under which, contrary to existing stipulations, it has suffered so severely.

INSTRUCTIONS, &c.-" That all appeals to, or correspondence with, any foreign ecclesiastical jurisdiction, of any nature or kind soever, BE ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN, under very severe penalties.

"That no episcopal or vicarial powers be exercised within our said province, by any person professing the religion of the church of Rome, but such only as are essentially and indispensably necessary to the exercise of the Romish religion; and in these cases not without a licence and permission from you, under the seal of our said province, for and during our will and pleasure; and under such limitations and restrictions as may correspond with the spirit and provisions of the act of parliament, of the forteenth year of our reign, for making more effectual provisions for the government of Quebec; and no person whatever is to have holy orders conferred upon him, or to have the cure of souls, WITHOUT A LICENSE for that purpose first had and obtained from you.

"You are not to allow the admission of any new members into any of the religious societies, or communities of the church of Rome, (those of women excepted,) without our express order for that purpose. Let the society of Jesus, (i. e. the Jesuits,) be suppressed and dissolved, and no longer be continued as a body corporate or politic, and all their rights, POSSESSIONS and PROPERTY be vested in us, for such purposes as we may bereafter think proper to declare our royal intention to be; and let the present members of the said society, as established at Quebec, be allowed sufficient stipends and provisions during their natural lives.

"Let all missionaries amongst the Indians, whether established under the authority of, or appointed by, the Jesuits, OR ANY OTHER EccleSIASTICAL AUTHORITY OF THE ROMISH CHURCH, BE WITHDRAWN BY

DECREES, at such time, and by such manner as shall be satisfactory To THE INDIANS, and consistent with the PUBLIC SAFETY; and, let PROTESTANT missionaries be appointed in their places.

"Let all ecclesiastical persons, whatsoever, OF THE CHURCH OF ROME, be inhibited under pain of deprivation from influencing any perSODs in the making of a will; or, from tampering with them in matters of religion. And let the Romish priests be forbidden to inveigh in their sermons against the religion of the church of England."

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Bedel's communication has reached us, and nothing but the space occupied by the Index could have excluded it from the present number. We shall insert it in the first number of the third volume without fail. In the mean time we shall be glad to receive the continuation of his biographical sketch.

We must make the same apology to Mr. Graham.

Indagator's second letter, correcting Popish Misrepresentations, shall appear in our next. He will see the use which we ourselves have made, in this number, of several documents supplied by the Romish Orthodox Journal.