"ing with Mr. Cobbett, a cir- Now, Doctor Black, you had "cumstance which, I dare say. the liberality and delicacy to in"will be gratifying to him to sinuate, that my

"know; that his History of the

work was writ

“Reformation" has caused the ten with the intention of getting

money out of the pockets of the "poor, ignorant, superstitious Catholics," as you had the Scotch

insolence to call them. But, you are continually extolling the welleducated minds of the Americans;

"greatest sensation here of any "book ever offered for sale since "I have been a Bookseller here, " which is now eight years. "Every person who reads any thing on religion, or English his<tory, has read it, and is talking "about it. It is read by all sects. "And such is the demand for it. “that it is now stereotyping in "this city, and, also, two sepa"rate translations of it making "into the Spanish language; "one by a Mexican, and the other by an Irishman, who has lived "with the Spaniards many years "in Colombia and the Islands. it could all be embodied into one "I have just heard from a "Bookseller, who has come today from Philadelphia, that they

and you are not sparing of your
praises on the enlightened state
of the Mexicans and Colombians.
Well, then, Scotch Doctor Black,
have all these a relish for "PIGS'

MEAT" too? Oh, no! All the
Scotch scribbling impudence, if

mass, and used for this one pur

pose, would never make one sin

are stereotyping it there. This gle man of sense believe, that the " is a thing heretofore unheard of, surprizing sale of this work arose of any Book, in this country, from any cause other than that of "except the Bible. I am confi"dent, from what I see, that mil- its great intrinsic merit. It has "lions of them, almost, will be had no extraneous support: it has "sold on this continent. It has the aid of no societies, no combi"created a respect for the Catho❝lic religion, and a kind of regret "for the changes that have taken "place in England, on this sub"ject, with almost every one who "has read it."

nations, of any sort: it has the

countenance of wealthy people

even amongst the Catholics them

selves: but, it has, on the con

trary, had the great mass of power of their approbation of what I had of Church and State at work done, and of what I was about to against it; aye, and it had, too, do in my intended work of the to start with all the Catholic pre- PROTESTANT REFORMATION, Mr. judice against it that MR. CHARLES BUTLER observed, that there was BUTLER'S insinuations were ca- great danger in the Catholics pable of exciting! Yet, it has, identifying themselves with me; like the sun-beams, penetrated that I had attacked some of the into every dark corner. I have most able friends of the Catholics ;. made no particular effort to make that the Catholics did not know. it find its way about. It has never what it was that I was about to resorted for aid to the columns of write under the title of " Protestany of the 300 broad-sheets. It ant Reformation"; and that he has never debased itself by re (Mr Butler) would almost go ceiving the aid of Reviews and down upon his knees to Mr. WHEMagazines. It has rested solely BLE to prevail on him to withdraw' on its own merits and on the his motion. With great reluctance name of its author, which name on the part of many present, the the vile authors of newspapers, motion was withdrawn. This magazines and reviews have been, would have been quite enough to for the last twenty years, en-induce almost any man but mydeavouring to destroy. self to say, "Well, then, defend. I must not omit this opportunity yourselves.” I had never, in my** to call upon Mr. CHARLES BUTLER whole life, been personally acto blush. Mr. WHEBLE (whom I quainted with twenty Catholics. do not know) having, at a Catholic Meeting, in London, made a motion, that the Society should make me a present of Dr. LINGARD'S

I might have turned my back upon their cause without incurring the blame even of themselves. But, their cause was just; they were a

HISTORY OF ENGLAND, as a mark long-calumniated people; false

hood had been at work to depress, produced in so short a time, and

that, too, by the man against whom he threw out such insinuations; can he see this, and still call himself a Catholic, and not express his sorrow for those insinuations ? With this question I leave Mr. CHARLES BUTLER for the present. And, now, DoCTOR BLACK, I quit you also, for the present, with just asking you, whether you hap->

degrade, and oppress them for ages; I knew that my pen was capable of doing them ample justice; it was my duty to do it; and, I was not to be turned aside from this duty by the insinuations of Mr. CHARLES BUTLER, who, if he be a sincere Catholic, must now feel the deepest gratitude towards me, and if he be a man of candour and of spirit, will now frankly and pen to know, where the devil your openly express sorrow for those brother, PETER MACCULLOCH, is insinuations. I told Mr. BUTLER" presently?" when he is going that, without any wish to dispa- to begin Lecturing again about rage the work of Dr. LINGARD, the blessings of a “cheap currenwhich is, as far as it has gone, cy?" whether the Ministers be to: worth all other histories of Eng-be amongst his pupils this year? land put together, I would be when Mr. BROUGHAM and Peter bound to produce as much effect and you and Lord John Russell in one year as the Doctor's work are to open the "LONDON UNIwould produce to the last momenVERSITY," to teach us English of its probable hundred years of clowns the "trewe pranciples o' existence. Was I not right? poleeteccal eeconamy"? Have I not been as good as my It is very curious, that No. XIV.

word? And, can Mr. CHARLES BUTLER see this work of mine already read from Chili to Canada, and from Mexico to Rome;

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of the "PROTESTANT REFORMA TION," which will be published on the first of January, or, that being Sunday, on the thirty-first

can he see this prodigious effect of this month, brings that History.

in the history of the world. Then

down to the fatal epoch, when the will bring the History down to DEBT and PAPER SYSTEM" REFORMATION" the FIFth, or were invented for the express the French Reformation, or Repurpose of keeping down the reli-volution, when openly avowed gion of our fathers! This is really ATHEISM, the natural result of curious; and, it would hardly be the whole, came for the first time superstition to be tempted to believe, that it was something more will come No. XVI., which will than mere accident that had show, which will prove, mind, brought this part of the History that England was more rich, more (coming in its proper monthly or-powerful, more free and more der) out, just at the moment when happy, before the "REFORMAthe country is half-convulsed,TION," than she ever has been when it is actually feeling the since. And, lastly, will come, in scourge, when it is distracted, No. XVII. a list of all the ABwhen it is bleeding at every pore, BEYS, PRIORIES, and other things in consequence, and solely in con- of which the people were despoilsequence, of this PAPER-SYS-ed, placed by counties, and stating TEM, invented for the avowed the value of each at the time of purpose of keeping down, of the spoliation, the value now, and grinding to the dust, those whose only crime was that of adhering

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to the religion of their and our fathers!

the person, or persons, to whom the spoil was 'given. And, then, Doctor Black, here will be "PIGS' MEAT," to be eaten for ages and ages to come.

You will be consoled, Dr.Black, to hear, that the "PIGS' MEAT" is drawing towards a close. No. XIV. has shown how the American Revolution grew directly out of the "Reformation": No. XV. Be you assured, Doctor, that the

In taking my leave, Doctor, let me exhort you, not to play the fool any longer by prattling about senseless panics and Scotch Banks.

space of one six months. It has now forced itself upon the people in all its hideous deformity. They have smarted under it; and, Borough Mongers and Parsons united, cannot keep it above water for any length of time. I always said that this paper money would,

paper thing has got a blow that it] Smith was a dunder-headed fool; will never recover; no, not for the but he had Scotch impudence, and he knew how to live upon the labour of the people of England. PETER MACCULLOCH thought himself in a fair way of doing the same, I dare say; but poor PETER will now find himself deceived; and, in short, the whole nest of vermin will be broken up, and sent to beg or to sweep the streets. They have greatly assisted in reducing the people of England to their present wretched state, and for my part, I wish to see them punished, that is to say, by being compelled to return to the North of the Tweed, and never,

at last, root out the pernicious influence of that numerous tribe of Scotch quacks, who have been,

for more than half a century, and, indeed, for more than a century, devising schemes for pillaging and making beggars of the people of England. This race of lying his

torians, of pretended philosophers, at any rate, to come into England

of tax inventors, of financial again.

schemers, will now be laughed at by the whole world. Audem Smith, in order to flatter the stupid PITT, said that, as to the English Funds, they were as "safe as the

Adieu,

Doctor Black.

WM. COBBETT.

ΤΟ

MR. GEORGE WOODWARD,

AT NEW YORK.

British Government itself." "Yes," On the State of the Paper-Juggle

answered PAINE, "God knows they are; but that is only saying that the British Government is as

safe as the Funds." Audem

DEAR SIR,

in England.

Kensington, 28th Dec. 1825.

I thank you very much for the newspaper accounts which you

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