us hope, then, that they will arouse themselves from that inactivity which has so long distinguished them, and come forward to support in a body, those excellent institutions, which have lately been begun by honest and industrious mechanics, and which reflect the highest credit on their good intentions. Let us hope that the same zeal for religion, and the same fee!ings of benevolence which animated the actions of their ancestors, will still glow in the breasts of our titled and rich families, and that renouncing at least some of the follies and superfluities in dress, as well as some of the luxuries of the table, to bestow them on the helpless and the needy, they will henceforth prove themselves worthy stewards of the household of the Lord. WM, EUSEBIUS ANDREWS. Somer's-Town, Nov. 26, 1816. To the Editor of the OrthodoxJournal. 66 "who are truly anxious for the safety "of the Catholic religion there, should "find your stomachs heave at the re"script 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 scholar, 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 Congres gation, Mr. Galeassi, who is a layman and a married man,. is the au"thor of the Rescript.+ It indeed can6. 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 SIR, AS I observe that the good "the Minutante, &c. but also to traand true Catholics, both of England: vel backwards and forwards from and of Ireland, continue to the preRome to London, and from London sent time to entertain wrong notions to Rome, as often as he can serve concerning a certain Rescript from Rome, dated, I think, in February," It is then to the conjointed cunning "the cause of your Cisalpine Board. "It 1814, 1 deem it just and right to in"of the Italian layman (who is the form you, that I have some respectable right-handed man of the Propaganand well-informed friends and corres"da, being very acute and very learn pondents in that capital, who furnish"ed in the canon law) and of the poed 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, * His grandfather is said to have raised his family and got his name of Quarantotti, or 48, from his obtaining a prize of 18, 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 Rescript by certain clergymen : When M. Quarantotti's health was toasted, he gave that of Mr. Galeassi. 488 EPITOME OF INTELLIGENCE. Western districts, to be by him laid before the Propaganda for their in struction and intimidation. To this disgraceful instance of servility and baseness on the one part, and officious presumption on the other, we have to add a most extraordinary act of Vetoism practised in another quarter, which we copy verbatim from the London Chronicle of the 13th instant. "The following paragraph appears in an Irish paper : VETOISM EXTRAORDINARY. T has been the invariable rule with the favourers of Vetoism, when contending with those who oppose its dangerous tendency, to build their main defence of the system upon the ground, that Government requires no more than an assurance of the loyalty of the candidate destined to fill the chair of episcopacy; that it has no desire to interfere in the religious concerns of the Catholics; and they cannot see the impropriety of such a mea- COOKSTOWN, Nov. 4. The sure, which to them appears both Synod of Ulster are just assembled reasonable and just. On the other here, and an universal astonishment hand, the Anti-vetoists observe, that to seems to pervade the whole assembly require a security for the loyalty of a on hearing, from undoubted authority, Catholic prelate is casting a suspicion that the chief object of their meeting, on the very principles of our faith, the appointment of a Professor of Di which inculcates a firm and faithful vinity, to be supported at their own ace to the laws and constitution expeuce, and attached to the Acadeof the state, and therefore it can only mical Institution of Belfast, was likely be a pretence for appointing such men to be frustrated by the following inas are likely to become the political telligence: On Friday last, Lord tools of the Ministers, and the servile Castlereagh sent for the Secretary hirelings of a faction which is desirous of the Institution, who attended of subverting our religion altogether. him, accompanied by one of the manaHitherto nothing has transpired by gers, to whom his Lordship expressed way of proof on either side in support his surprise at the synod of Ulster conof the arguments used by the opposing necting itself with the Belfast Acadeparties, but the contents of this nun-mical Institution, and appointing a ber, we think, will completely remove the dubiousness of the question; and must flash conviction to the mind of the unprejudiced reader, as to the evils attendant on the arrangements devised. - We have seen, by the extracts of letters from Rome, p. 431, that in consequence of the eager desire of the leading members of the self named Board of British Catholics to gain their emancipation on any terms, a Protestant statesman has had the insolence to give a divinity lecture to them on making bishops, which some individual, in an official situation, had the weakness to send to the pensioned ecclesiastical agent of the London and Professor of Divinity without consulting Government! by whom he thought the Professor should have been selected, and not by the synod. His Lordship added something to call to the recollection of the members of the synod, that the Regium Donum was a voluntary grant which might be withdrawn. How this will end we do not yet know.' 939 Now, if any sincere Catholic before doubted the harmfulness of Vetoism, his doubts, we conceive, will be entirely removed after the perusal of the above statement.-If the Presbyterian Synod of Ulster is not to have the privilege of appointing their own Pro fessor of Divinity without consulting | Crown. This intended plan was clearGovernment, under the threat too of hav-ly perceived by that truly-disinterest ed senator, Lord Stanhope, who, we lament to say, is not likely again to vindicate the cause of unqualified emancipation, he being fast approaching to the regions of eternity, where py reward for the noble stand he has made in our behalf. This patriotic peer, on the late discussion of the Catholic claims, after noticing the sa tisfactory and conciliating proposal of the Irish Catholic bishops, of filling the future vacant sees by the ing the pensions of its members withdrawn, can we expect that a Synod of Catholic Prelates or Vicars Apostolic will be treated with greater respect? And if Government is to be consulted in the choice of our bishops, is there anywe sincerely hope he will meet a hap one in possession of his rational faculties so stupid as to imagine that the choice will fall on the most worthy for his zeal and abilities to propagate that faith which Christ commanded should be preached to ALL MEN. On the contrary, should we not rather have those who would endeavour to sup-mode of "Domestic Nomination," press every work that breathed the spirit of freedom, or exposed the deformity of religious error, because, truly such works were contrary to the present delicate ideas of "liberality," and frustrated the efforts of our har monizers of the Gospel, by wounding the feelings of intolerant bigots? And thus, in fact, instead of having our prelates chosen under the influence of the Holy Ghost, we should have them selected by Protestant statesmen, for their skill in intrigue, and their readiness to prostrate the sacerdotal character to wealth and power. To prevent these direful evils from falling on their religion is the imperative duty of every Catholic; and it is equally the duty of every Dissenter, who believes with sincerity in his own creed, to avert the blow which threatens its independence. He must see, with unfeigned sorrow the state of vassalage to which the Presbyterians of Ulster are reduced in consequence of their accepting the Regium Donum; and it is to be hoped the Catholic will avail himself of the woful experience of his dissenting-brother to avoid falling into the same error.-The Dissenting Clergy in Ireland subdued, the next aim of Government is to inwrap the Catholic hierarchy in the same link of dependance. This once accomplished, it only remains to subact the Dissenters of this country, and every vestige of religious independence will be -swallowed by the influence of the thus cutting off all foreign influence, exclaimed," Is a Veto necessary over the Catholics and not over the Quakers, the Unitarians, the Presbyterians, or any of the other sectaries; or must we, for the security of Mother Church, have an Anabaptist Veto, a Calvinistic Veto, a Presbyterian Veto, an Independent Veto ?" That the zealous children of the venerable lady will be satisfied with nothing short of this we are perfectly satisfied; and we have the opportunity of knowing that such also is the opinion of some Dissenting Ministers. We have it from good authority, that when Lord Stanhope was at Carlton-house with an address to the Regent soon after the debate on the Catholic claims had taken place last session, he there accidentally met with a body of Dissenting Ministers, who had come with an address on the marriage of the Princess Charlotte. His Lordship embraced the opportunity of sounding them on the subject of the Veto. He found them full of the old terrors of Rome, but completely convinced of the justice of emancipation if the influence of the Pope could be cut off; and perfectly agreeing, that if the Government succeeded in imposing a Veto on the Catholics, it would next attempt the same on the Dissenters of every description. From this conversation the noble Lord, we understand, is of opinion, that in the event of Domestic Nomination obtained, and a Veto demanded powers on the Continent. This report, which Mr. Canning hoped would published for the use of the Senators, much less for the information of the public. In the mean time, the activity and influence of the vetoistical party is shewn in suppressing the discussion of this important question, wherever they can intimidate or bribe the conductors of the press. Under these circumstances, it is essentially incumbent on the English Catholics to be upon the alert, and to be ready to seize the moment with avidity and eager ness, when justice and duty may call upon them to declare their dissent to the measures which may be proposed. We are under apprehensions that an attempt will be made to separate the Irish and English Catholics, by proposing a similar enactment to that infamously oppressive clause introduced by the Protesting-Catholic-Dissenting Committee into the Bill of 1791, which was intended to subject the conscientious Catholic to all the pains and penalties of a Popish recusant, if he refused to take the oath condemned by his ecclesiastical superiours. It is not improbable but the Machiavellian policy of our Foreign Secretary, at the suggestion of the leaders of the Board, may prompt him to propose the granting emancipation to those only who will submit to a control on the part of the Crown to nominate their bishops, in which case we know that the whole people of Ireland will refuse such terms, and we feel confident that our Catholic countrymen will spurn with contemptuous reprobation, the proffered boon, and join their voices with those of their Irish brethren, in a firm and legal demand for a full, free, and entire admission to the privileges of the British Constitųtion. by any Minister, several petitions numerously signed would be obtained against it from the Dissenters. Whe-be widely circulated, has not yet been ther the Propaganda will accede to the proposal of the Irish prelates remains to be decided; it has been strongly urged to the ongregation to tak it into their early consideration by the Rev. Mr. Haves, as a probable means of accelerating the emancipation of his Catholic countrymen; but as to the "terrors of Rome," and the "influence of the Pope," such idle fears we trust will now be totally banished from the minds of every friend to civil and religious liberty, and consigned to the closets of scriptural pharmocopolists or infatuated beldams. The present situation of affairs between the Pope and the Irish clergy completely overthrows all the calumnies and slanders raised against the Catholics of paying implicit obedience to the see of Rome. But, although the Anti-Vetoists have so far triumphed; although the Vetoists have been discomfited, in the refusal of the Holy Father to interfere, until the question is decided; the victory is not yet won; the battle is not terminated; there are other foes to conquer, before complete success can be obtained.From the declarations of some of the Parliamentary advocates for emancipation, we must not flatter ourselves that they will so soon give up their legislative notions of a controlling power in the Crown over the appointment of Catholics bishops, together with the appendant machinery of Boards, and Commissioners, and long-winded oaths, and so on. No, it cannot for a moment be doubted but Castlereagh, and anning, and Hippisley, will use their united influence to obtain the accomplishment of their avowed and favourite object, in which they will be seconded by the intrigues of some weak and dangerous members of the Catholic body. The report of Sir John Cox Hippisley, we are informed, is translating into different languages, no doubt for the purpose of being circulated among the different foreign Should a petition from the English Catholics, deprecating the attempt to impose Vetoistical restrictions on the Clergy be adopted, conjointly with the Catholics of Ireland, and we sincerely hope it will, there can be little by rank, learning, and character, would, on such a question, have more influence, both on the bench and among the peers, than any Cabinet minister. With such a host of friends in our favour, and against the pernicious view of our Veto-Board, shall we hesitate to declare our utter dislike to the shackling measures proposed to reduce our venerated Clergy to a state of vassalage and dependance? No, let our voices be heard in conjunction with our brethren on the other side of St. George's channel, for nothing can be more preposterous or unjust, than to grant to Ministers a control, either directly or indirectly, in the choice of the Pastors of a Church which they annually swear to be idolatrous and superstitious. Having said thus much, we now proceed to lay before our readers the following important Correspondence between Cardinal Litta and the Rev. Mr. Hayes :— No. I. or no doubt of its meeting with suc. cess, as nearly all the principal members, distinguished by their worth and talents, in both Houses, appear to be against the plan. It is true, the opi. nions of the majority are not generally made up on the subject of a Catholic Veto, but the likelihood of its leading to a Veto on the Dissenters must operate on the minds of many, and raise a powerful opposition to the Minister who shall have the folly to propose the measure, even if he used his influence, as such, in pressing its enactment.From the result of the late debate, it does not appear that Parliament is either inclined to impose the Veto, or dissatisfied with Domestic Nomination, as a sufficient security. In the House of Lords, particularly, with the exception of the Marquis of Buckingham and Viscount Sidmouth, and perhaps the Duke of Sussex, (who talked rather suspiciously of Parliament legislating for the people,) we are not aware that any of the peers uttered a syllable favourable to it; while, on the MY LORD CARDINAL,-About to other hand, the Bishop of Norwich, leave Rome in the ensuing month of Earl Stanhope, Earl Grey, Lord Do- October, on my return homeward I noughmore, Earl Carnarvon, Lord came to the determination of humbly Liverpool, and even our old friend, requesting your Eminence through Lord Redesdale, have spoken against your exceeding affection for the Cait; and others, viz. Lord Holland, Lord tholics of Ireland, and through the Grenville, and the Marquis of Lans- not less constant than prudent zeal, downe, have, we are assured from un- with which you are inflamed for our doubted authority, distinctly resigned holy religion, to be so kind as to the idea of pressing a measure which is declare to me, your most humble sernot likely to be acceptable to the Catho- vant (as far as your Eminence shall lics. From the same source of informa- consider just and proper) the sentition we have been told, that the Arch- ments of his Holiness with regard to bishop of Canterbury has spoken of these matters, pertaining to religion, the plan of a Veto in the most con- which for these several years have been demnatory language. His Grace con- subjects of contention between the Casidered the Veto a mere cobweb mea- tholics and the most powerful Governsure, which the Catholic clergy, were ment of the British Empire; in order they disposed so to do, might easily that I may be enabled to give on the render nugatory Indeed, it is the part of your Eminence some answer to opinion of one of our best and warm- my countrymen respecting an affair, in est parliamentary friends for unquali- which their temporal peace and eternal fied emancipation, that a Veto Bill or salvation are so vitally interested. The a Veto clause in a Catholic Relief points upon which I foresee I shall be Bill, especially if opposed by the Dis-principally interrogated, are, senters, would have the entire oppo- Whether the Letter of your Eminence sition of that distinguished prelate, who, bearing date Genoa, April 26, 1815, 1st. |