sand copies of a French translation of the New Testament were distributed among the converted Protestants, by order of Louis XIV.--But (continues the writer) this gentleman does not tell us, that the violent dragooning method employed to convert two millions of persons in France, was a terrible deduction from the liberality of the King. to a Protestant public, for Mr. Butler to insinuate, that either Louis or Inno cent desired to promote the reading of the Holy Scriptures (though in a ormed its members that," there has been an edition of the Douay version of the New Testament, published within this twelvemonth, in which the greatest care has been taken to expunge every note that could offend the Protestants." On being asked by the Chairman, "Is it a cheap edition," He replied "No, it is about FOUR shillings, and in one volume."....It is a perfect insult (he adds) The editor of the pamphlet noticed in the preceding article, indignant at this reply of Mr. Charles Butler, has subjoined the following note at the bottom of the page in which it is print-Popish version)." Now, as it is very ed." The cheapest edition, sold by well known that the Catholic church Mr. Booker, at present, in boards, is never did, never can, and never will, 78. 6d. per copy, and only a small permit the use of the Scriptures, acnumber of these have been printed in cording to the mode adopted by Prostereotype; so that no design could testants, although, at the same time, ever have existed of distributing she enjoins her Ministers assidously to them freely among the poor." This expound them to their flocks who are I have always understood to be the not denied the possession of them aċlowest price of the polite edition of companied with suitable and correct the Board's New Testament, and there notes, to explain obscure texts; it is is also a superior copy for twelve shil- certainly more than an insult to the lings. I was also aware, from the Protestant community to be told by a first appearance of the specimen page, Catholic, or one professing himself a that it was not seriously intended to Catholic, that the Church of Rome be a cheap edition, and therefore could has, at all times desired to promote only be designed as a specious approx- the general circulation of the sacred imation of Catholic tenets to the Bible-writings, which words may be taken reading opinions of Protestants. How Mr. Butler could inform the Committee that the price was about four shillings, when it was nearly double that suni, I must leave that gentleman to explain; but it appears by another note in said pamphlet, that he is accused of a similar attempt at deception. In this note, on the Bull Unigenitus, the writer says - " Mr. Charles Butler must have a strange opinion of the discernment of Protestants, if he fancies that they can be made to believe Louis XIV. was a friend to religious liberty and the fiee use of the Scriptures! Yet he has had the assurance to boast (in a late Essay, designed to shew how much the Church of Rome has, at all times, desired to promote the general circulation and perusal of the sacred writings,) that at the revocation of the edict of Nantes,sixty thou ORTHOD. JOUR. VOL. IV. to imply the same sense as is understood by the Protestants in their plan for distributing the Bible. It is therefore not only insulting, but it is unlawful and dangerous, and contrary to the principles and practices of the Catholic church, which will not admit of any of her members to use ambiguous words or phrases, even for the promoting of a good cause.-Detesting, as I do from the bottom of my soul, every species of fraud and deceit for the purpose of gaining our emancipation, and considering the conduct of the loyal Vetoists of our body to be scandalously disgraceful and highly injurious to the faith, the discipline, and the character of the Catholic church in this empire, (assailed as it is by the most bigotted enemies,) as well as subversive of the true principles of the British Constitution, I here, in the 3 K name of every honest Catholic, pro- | space of eighteen weeks, a few me test against the deceitful transactions disclosed in this number, and feel confident that they will be reprobated by every true-hearted friend to integrity and fair dealing. chanics have, by the contribution of two-peuce per week, raised the sum of 187, to which a benefaction of fivepounds from The Catholic Club, insti tuted for the purpose of social intercourse, and of forming a fund in aid of CATHOLIC CHARITABLE INSTITU- public charities, has been added. A TIONS. The numerous appeals to the few other donations have been also rebenevolence of the Catholic public, ceived, amounting to about four from the pastors of congregations in pounds, making in the whole a sum of behalf of their respective chapels, as twenty-seven pounds, chiefly collectwell as from the trustees and directors ed from the hard earnings of day-laof the pious institutions established for bourers, some of whose wages do not the relief and comfort of our indigent probably amount to twenty shillings fellow-creatures, afford a melancholy a week, and many of them less. Here proof that the spirit which prompted then we have a proof of what a joint the nobly charitable deeds of our rich exertion, by the rich as well as the Catholic ancestors, has unhappily de- poor, would affect towards enabling generated in their descendants, whilst the children of indigent Catholics to from other information, it seems that attend the already established schools, the money which otherwise might which are acknowledged to have the have been appropriated to sooth the means of educating more pupils with. sorrows of the widow and her orphan out any increase of expence, if mea children, or to alleviate the miseries of sures were adopted to cover their naold age and poverty, in a word, to kedness, and render their appearance clothe the naked, and to feed the decent. By the efforts of a few me. hungry, has been squandered in sup- chanics, assisted by some charitable porting corrupt emissaries at Rome friends, they have it in their power to and elsewhere, to promote by clan-equip thirty-six children from top to destine and fraudulent means their temporal preferments, or expended in visionary schemes to obtain a shortlived popularity among Protestants. How different is the conduct of the labouring and industrious part of our little body, to that of our vetoistical gentry. In my last I noticed the exertions of a few individuals in the metropolis to counteract the schemes of those zealous and mistaken bigots, who are actively engaged in getting poor Catholic children into Protestant schools to give them a Protestant education, by teaching them from a Protestant translation of the scriptures, by a Protestant master, namely, by entering into subscriptions for the purpose of clothing these objects of distress and victims to proselytism, that they may be enabled to attend at the Catholic schools to receive religious instruction conjointly with the rudiments of education. In addition, I har pleasure to state, that in the toe, supposing each suit to cost fifteen shillings. Now, if this can be effected by the exertions of little more than a hundred persons in the humblest walks of life, what might not be done by a similar spirit among the affluent and wealthy? I do not wish to detract nor lessen the many private charities performed by our opulent and ancient families; I know that in some instances they are unbounded; but, surely, when our dissenting brethren are straining every nerve, and lavisn ing with profusion their stores on public charities, which are calculated to endanger the souls of the rising offspring of poor Catholic parents; surely a corresponding feeling ought to operate in the Catholic nobility and gentry to protect those whom the providence of God has placed under their guardianship, and to see that they are not seduced, from a want of charity and zeal on their part, into the paths of error and religious ignorance. Let ༔ us hope, then, that they will arouse WM, EUSEBIUS ANDREWS. Somer's-Town, Nov. 26, 1816. P. S. The two pounds received through the hands of my agent at York, for clothing the poor children of St. Patrick's school, has been paid into the hands of the Secretary, and the benevolent donor is requested to accept the sincere thanks of the Charity. To the Editor of the OrthodoxJournal. "who are truly anxious for the safety "of the Catholic religion there, should "find your stomachs heave at the rescript obtained and carried from "hence about six months ago: but f am grieved that you should join in "throwing the whole blame of it on poor Monsigr. Quarantotti's back, "who undoubtedly is reputed by all "here to be a devout and religious man, though not a very deep scho "lar, and who is mostly thought to "have been made Secretary of the Propaganda by the Pope, in order that he might afterwards be turned "into a Cardinal, and wear red stock. ings. That which is to me certain "is, that not Mr. 48,* but the Mi"nutante or Reporter of the Congre "gation, Mr. Galeassi, who is a layman and a married man, is the au"thor of the Rescript.† It indeed can not be denied that he took the pro"hibited oath to Buonaparte, as also "did Monsigr. Anastasio, Monsigr. "Devoti, Padre Belli, and every "other Counsellor of the Rump Pro"paganda in advising the Rescript, "for which, as well as for the Rescript "itself, they have fallen into disgrace "at this Court; nevertheless it is too "true that he and they were deceived "in the affair by a noted Scotch gen"tleman in this city, who is furnish"ed with money from your side of "the herring-pond, not only to feast "the Minutante, &c. but also to tra"vel backwards and forwards from "Rome to London, and from London 66 to Rome, as often as he can serve It is then to the conjointed cunning "the cause of your Cisalpine Board. of the Italian layman (who is the "right-handed man of the Propagan 66 SIR, AS I observe that the good and true Catholics, both of England and of Ireland, continue to the present time to entertain wrong notions concerning a certain Rescript from Rome, dated, I think, in February," 1814, I deem it just and right to inform you, that I have some respectable and well-informed friends and correspondents in that capital, who furnished me in the same year with extracts from letters and other papers, which tend to extenuate if not to absolve, the fault of a respectable Prelate there, A part of these I now send you. EXTRACTS, &c. "Rome, Sept. 20, 1814. "Dear Friend -I do not wonder that "you and all those in your country, da, being very acute and very learn "ed in the canon law) and of the po * His grandfather is said to have raised his family and got his name of Quarantotti, or 48, from his obtaining a prize of 48, 000, crowns, or £12,000, in the Lottery. + This agrees with the report of Mr MacPherson's conduct at a tavern dinner, which was given to him on his bringing over the Quarantotti's health was toasted, he gave Rescript by certain clergymen: When M. that of Mr. Galeassi. 66 "ed against all the clauses of the bill, and particularly against that "which required a Committee for "attesting the loyalty of him who "was to be made Bishop. He af“❝firmed with great vehemence, that no Catholic could directly or in"'directly agree to that enactment without becoming ipso facto a schi "litic Scotch clergyman, (the partizan of Buonaparte and Britain at "the same time,) and not to the good Secretary, that you and friends your are to attribute the mischief-making "letter, which the Pope has now quite suppressed. And yet the conjoint"ed cunning of both these politicians "could not have answered to them," "if they had not laid before the Rumpsmatic. By this opposition, and Propaganda certain letters from "England, to which undoubting cre"dit was unfortunately given by all "here. These letters are now hand"ed about here, though very likely you may have not seen them: there"fore I will give you a few extracts * from them. From N. N. to Mr. P. M'Pn. that of the Irish Bishops, the bill "was rejected, &c.-Sir J. Hippis "ley, among our other friends, was "so offended, that to show the false"hood and calumnies of N. N. he "published, &c. in which the lat ❝ter makes a most pitiful figure, "&c. The Irish Catholics make a 6 6 great clamour and seditious threat"enings. You are already acquainted with the views of a great part of them, namely, the total sepa "I wrote to you in my last that our petition for the Emancipation was discussed with great eloquenceration of Ireland from England. "in the House of Commons, during four whole days, and we succeed"ed by a great majority of votes in 6s 6 getting it committed. Messrs. Grat"tan, Canning, &c. were deputed to prepare, a Bill, &c. On the part of "the Catholics an oath was required "&c. By another clause it was pro"‹vided, that no one could be made "Bishop in these kingdoms who "was not born of British or Irish parents. This was the only clause "which gave us N. N. particular "trouble, because it limited the ju"risdiction of the H. See. Accor"dingly we strongly protested that "we could not agree to this limita❝tion without the consent of Rome. "The two first times that the Bill "was read we had a great majority of voices. On the day fixed for "the third and last reading, N. N. "circulated among the members a "hand-bill which he had written «and printed, in which he inveigh The printed letters extracted from the public Registers of France which the M. Rev. Dr. M. lately brought from Paris to Roine, shew how much he was devoted to Buonaparte-N. B. What is said of this expatriated Scot is not intended as any reffecion on his Rev. Brethren at home; as we have unquestionable proofs of their sincerity and orthodoxy in general. R. N. "Notwithstanding the great uproar "they make for the abolition of the "penal laws, they would be very "sorry this was granted, as then they would lose their pretext for 'making disturbances and inveigh ing against Government. As to "❝us, because we are quiet and pa "cific, we are considered and. re. presented by them as person's ready to sacrifice the Catholic faith, to get employments and seats "in Parliament. From Ditto to Ditto. Rome, July 28, 1813. "I wrote to you last month that "the Bill for our Emancipation was "on the third reading rejected by "a majority of four voices, which "to us, N. N. was a subject of great joy, as there were diverse clauses "'in it which we could not admit "without the consent of the H. See. [ cannct, my dear friend, help noticing the change which took place in the letter-writer's mind on so important a subject, between June 21 and July 28. At the former time he found but one diffi"culty in the Bill, namely, that the "Pope could not make Italians Bri "tish Bishops at the second, he "finds diverse weighty objections, "which he goes on to mention: then "he was very angry with N. N. for defeating the Bill, now he is very glad that it was defeated. N. B. "A great part of the present letter "consists of a divinity lecture on ma"king Bishops which one of your "Ministers (we can guess which of "them it was) delivered to the letter writer, and which he sends hither for the instruction of the Congregation.] The letter concludes with "an eager petition that the Congre "gation will be indulgent to the Eng"lish Catholics, and with the following propositions.It is highly "probable as we said before, that early in the next sessions the bill * will pass into a law, in which case "transportation will be the punish ment of the refractory; how are "N. N. to act? Ought they to tell all the Catholics of these kingdoms, "that rather than submit to the clauses of it, they ought to go all together into perpetual banish86 6 ment, and leave Great Britain without a single Catholic inhabi«tant? We, with God's grace, will «be obedient sons of the H. S. if she tells us to go to the gallows we "will cheerfully go thither.'" Want of time obliges me to pass over another letter from ditto to ditto, with other important documents; but from the extracts which are here given, will be seen part of the foul play that was practised to obtain the Rescript, being such as might deceive a wiser man than Mr. XLVIII. I am, &c. Burgh, Nov. 6, 1816. R. N. For the Orthodox Journal. INTERESTING ANECDOTES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. MR. EDITOR,-Many of your readers have expressed a wish to see your * Not to mention that the letter-writer has quite misstated the Bill, it might not be amiss to ask him where transports, provisions and other necessaries, can be procured for transporting five millions of human beings! R. N. monthly Journal the vehicle of some pious and interesting facts, which, while they record past virtue, may stimulate to future merit. It is an acknowledged truth, that nothing so powerfully excites the mind to virtue as good example; and it is no less true, that moral precepts, or lessons of virtue, are never delivered in so pleasing and engaging a form as when identified with the history of our fellow-creatures. The heart is thus taken by surprise; it yields itself a willing captive; and passes from the dominion of passion to the empire of virtue, almost without perceiving the transition. There is not a scholar but must re member the impression made upon him by the perusal of the many heroic examples of Pagan morality and virtue presented to the youthful mind in the admirable school-book of the great Rollin, entitled Selectæ è profanis Scriptoribus Historia. A work upon the same plan, holding forth to public view the far more sublime and interesting examples of morality and virtue exhibited in the annals of Christianity would be a most valuable addition to the library of the Catholic scholar. A venerable and highly respected plan of extracting from an approved Superiour lately suggested to me the publication some striking examples of virtue, to be conveyed in a series of Anecdotes, through the medium of the Orthodox Journal, to the Catholic public. As I trust these Anecdotes will form a pleasing variety in your Monthly publication, and serve to render it more acceptable to the generality of your readers, I mention the above circumstance, that they may know to whom they are indebted for their entertainment and improvement. Most of the anecdotes are taken from an eventful period of history, which, truly disgraceful to human nature, at the same time that it presents scenes furnishes some of the most noble and exalted traits of patriotism, loyalty, and virtue. Few of these heroic examples are generally known, though the pious zeal of the Abbé Carron |