to refer their elections to the revival of, the Crown. Such permission, however, is not likey to be used; since the Irish, who have hitherto refused, to accept an office at the expence of, independence, can scarcely be expect

ment, which would make their Priests: the mere creatures of Government, or at least would prevent the men most distinquished for their zeal for the common weal, from ever reaping the pro-: per fruits of their abilities in leading situations in Catholic Church."

The Dublin Chronicle of the 21st

tion, I have fully explained to your Eminence in former letters, urging at the same time the innumerable reasons which support the right of the second order of the Clergy to elect their respective Bishops. Of the strength of these reasons your Eminence seemeded to submit in future to an arrangemore than convinced, and were so kind as to declare, that whilst you should continue Prefect of Propaganda, you would do all in your power to prevent any Bishop from being appointed for Ireland against or without the consent of the diocesan clergy. Propaganda has during this whole year uniformly acted on this principle of expediency and justice; and I hope that when your Eminence, in the next general Consult. says, "The first and only public gress, states it in all its bearings to the Holy Congregation, their Eminences will pass it into an established and indispensible law. If so, your Eminences will facilitate Catholic E-the Church of England has derived mancipation, remove every ground of pretence on which Government demands the Veto, or any other kind of interference, and confer an immense and lasting benefit on the Church and People of Ireland. Allow me, my Lord Cardinal, to anticipate with the thanks and blessings of my country, this expected favour, whilst expressing my personal and the national gratitude for those already received, I have the honour of subscribing myself, with the highest veneration,

Your Eminence's most humble

and obedient servant, RICHARD HAYES, Deputy of the Catholics of Ireland to the Holy See... To his Eminence Cardinal LITTA, Prefect of Propaganda.

This correspondence, there is no doubt, will make a sensible impression throughout the empire. The Glasgow Chronicle has already made the following observations upon it :

"The Pope has resolved that the Emancipation of the Irish Catholics must precede any conditions respecting the appointment of their Clergy; but, after that right had been conceded, the people of Ireland are permitted

sentiment expressed on the state of neglected Ireland in the sister country, has emanated from that city, which the most venerated Dignitary of

his ecclesiastical title from-a city which is ornamented by the presence: and exalted by the dictates of that patron, who may be styled what Pope called an honest man. The Norwich Resolutions are so replete with public feeling and private sympathy, that we apprehend we could not in justice to their merits, add a sufficient comment on their excellence.". As a native of

this ancient city, and a friend to liberty of conscience, we also wish to add the tribute of applause to the truly

liberal conduct of our fellow-citizens, which forms a striking contrast to the deep-rooted prejudices exhibited at every other meeting in the kingdom, which have been held on the present posture of affairs. The common-hall at Norwich was composed principally of Dissenters, yet throughout the whole of their proceedings, and in the resolutions adopted, not a word was introduced which reflected censure on any religious creed, but the whole was confined to the political grievances of the country. These laudable and praiseworthy dispositions should regulate every public assembly in the kingdom, composed of individuals of different denominations, as it would

contribute in a much greater degree to ensure a restoration of rights and a redress of wrongs, than all the brawling against the Pope and the Jesnits would

ever be able to obtain.

a fitter ornament for such a place than this horrible exhibition, which seems better calculated for a chamber of the Inquisition, than for the chamber of the young Princess, the descendant of Henry the IV. the friend and pupil of Coligny."

The frequent attacks made by this cowardly editor on this amiable and pious Princess, are a disgrace to the country which gave him birth, the natives of which pride themselves on their attachment and gallantry towards the fair sex. During the residence of the Duchess of Angouleme in this island, the breath of slander never dared to assail her character; but the band of Providence having restored

The speech of the King of France to the two legislative bodies of that kingdom, at the late commencement of the session, contains the following sentiments relative to the affairs of the Catholic clergy: "I continue with more activity than ever my negociations with the Holy See, and I have the confidence that their happy terminations will restore perfect peace to the Church of France. But this is not all, and you will be of opinion with her to that station of rank in her own me, no doubt, that we ought not to restore to divine worship that splendour country, of which she had been so which the piety of our fathers had be-long deprived by the conspiring deeds of restless and seditious infidels, she has become an object of attack for the base English press, in consequence of her known predilections for the reigion of her ancestors, and the uncold-blooded malignancy of the above libel must strike the reader with horror, and ought to consign the writer to eternal infamy. But the motive is well known for inserting this atrocious falsehood. The editor had a double game in view. He not only hoped to inflame the minds of his rea

blemished conduct of her life. The

stowed upon it (that would unfortunately be impossible)-but to ensure to the ministers of our holy religion, an independent income, which shall place them in a condition to be able to follow the steps of Him, of whom, it is said, that he did good wherever he went. Attached by our conduct as we are in heart to the divine precepts of religion, let us be also attached to that charter, which, without touching any dogma, ensures to the faith of our fathers the pre-eminence that is due, and which, in the civil order, guaran-ders against the Bourbon family, but tees to all a wise liberty, and to each the peaceful enjoyment of his rights, of his condition, and of his property,"

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The Morning Chronicle of the 6th Nov, contains the following article:"An English gentleman, lately returned from Paris, informs us, that in visiting the manufacture of the Gobe lins he was surprised and somewhat shocked at finding the workmen employed on a piece of tapestry representing the murder of Admiral Coligny, which he was told had been ordered by the Duchess of Angouleme, and was intended for the decoration of her bed-chamber.. We cannot help agreeing with this gentleman, that loves and graces would have been

he also hoped to inspire them with a hatred for the Catholic religion, and for this reason the murder of Coligny was introduced. But, if the amiable Princess really wished to decorate her chamber with a horrible exhibition, could not the editor have found one which would have come nearer to her heart, although it might have awakened the most painful sensations in her virtuous and feeling mind? Why did Mr. Perry pass over the murder of the mild and benevolent Louis, or the beautiful and magnanimous Maria Antionette, or the lovely and religious Madame Elizabeth; the inno cent victims of the abandoned and atrocious disciples of modern liberty and illuminism. This would not have

answered his purpose, and therefore and make a boast of their pious exer

he had recourse to falsehood and malice to cover the wickedness of his intentions.

Rome, Sept. 18.Lord Exmouth has written the following letter to the Holy Father

Algiers, 31st August, on board

the Queen Charlotte.

tions. But the best part of the joke is, the letter of our Christian commander to the Idolatrous Beast of Rome, in which he requests the aid of her prayers, in consequence of his having sent back some Roman subjects, which were happily delivered from slavery by the bravery of our tars. O when will tice consistency? We here see it recordour English Protestants learn and prac

"Most Holy Father-I have the honour of informing your Holiness, for your satisfaction, of the success of the expeditioned, that a British Admiral has claimed against Algiers, confided to my command Christian slavery is abolished for ever; and I have in consequence the satisfac tion of sending back to their families 173 slaves, your subjects, I hope they will be an agreeable your Holiness, and that they wesent to give me a claim to the efficacy of your prayers EXMOUTH."

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the efficacy of the prayers of the Pope of Rome, in return for a benefit conferred on a few of his subjects; and yet this very Commander, who is a peer of Parliament, is compelled by the laws of his country to swear that the illustrious and exalted individual whose petitions to heaven he has soliThe late successful bombardment of cited, and acknowledged his belief in Algiers by the united English and ter! The noble Lord unblushingly and their efficacy, is a superstitious idolaDutch fleets, under the command of Lord Exmouth, it is said "will form unhesitatingly declared in the presence Lord Exmouth, it is said "will form of his God, and the House of Peers, a glorious era in the Christian His-on coming to his title, that the invocatory, as well as in that of the naval tion of Saints, as practised by the annals of Great Britain." That the church of Rome, is superstitious and event was honourable to the british idolatrous, and must of course be arms we are ready to admit, but truth damnable doctrine; but nevertheless compels us to deny that it will form a he very piously requests the supreme “glorious" era in the Christian his- defender of this doctrine to draw dowa tory, because it does not appear that the blessings of God, to whom he the good of religion was the motive must be opposed, if the oath taken by by which the projectors of the expedi- the Admiral is correct, in his behalf, tion were governed, and therefore the and in return, on the next meeting of fulsome praises lavished on the British commander by Catholic writers might renew his damnatory asseveration. → Parliament will, no doubt, be ready to as well have been spared, as it only And this our exclusive civil-privilegeshews they are better qualified to flat-men call religious rectitude and Proter others than preserve their own independence. For our own part, we testant consistency!!! cannot help smiling at the inconsistency of our Protestant countrymen, who, after condemning in the strongest terms the truly heroic and disinterested conduct of our Christian warriors in the dark ages" of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, for attempting to rescue the Holy Land, which an incarnate God once consecrated by his presence, from the infidels, and to set their Christian brethren free from the Mahometan yoke, now follow the example they previously censured,

ing account of a religious ceremony A German Gazette gives the follow, of Thanksgiving by the Italians, whe were rescued from slavery at Algiers, by the bravery of the fleet under Lord Exmouth, in a letter dated Rome, Sept. 26.-Yesterday, as the day of La Madonna della Merceda, was chosen to administer the holy sacrament (of which they have been so long des prived) to the slaves who have been sent back from Algiers by the Eng lish. The ceremony took place in

PERSECUTIONS OF CHRISTIANS IN
CHINA.

and afterwards banished. The head of the Bishop of Tabraca was affixed to a gibbet, with the inscription"Apostle of the Christian Religion, and Bishop of Europe."-The same words were seen on the box, which was adorned with a figure of the Bishop, and contained his head, and which was paraded for some days in all the places where the Christians lived who had been converted by him. His blood was preserved by the Christians, and distributed among the inhabitants of various towns and villages. The body, after lying three days on the scaffold, watched by Christians, was interred with pious devotion.

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Rome, Oct. 1.-The allocution of the Pope at the late election of Cardinals, contains some curious facts respecting the state of the Christian religion in China. It seems, that the Jesuit missionaries to that empire have recently undergone grievous persecutions. Gabriel Dufresse, a French missionary, and bishop of Tabraca and Vicar Apostolic of the province of See-Tchuen for 39 years, has been put to death. Having been banished by the Chinese government, impelled by religious fervour, he returned, but was soon discovered, and put in irons. The Mandarins then suddenly affect ed much kindness, ordering his chains Another missionary, Augustine Fo to be broken, and overwhelming him har, aged 73, was beaten so unmerciwith caresses. But they had honey fully, that he died in a few days. in their mouths and poison in their The Judge who condemned him, adhearts. They boldly desired him to monished him to consider his great abjure: on his side he spoke of the age, and the punishment which would futility of the Chinese dogmas. The follow upon his refusing to renounce perfidious Mandarins had concealed Christianity: and when he was undertwo persons behind the partition, who going the punishment the Judge said, wrote down the Bishop's words. An Now your God has deserted you." accusation was consequently drawn-Oh, no," said Augustine, "He up, and the Bishop was taken before the Viceroy, who, being a sworn enemy to all Christians, condemned him immediately to die. In an instant this respectable old man was stripped of his robes, and led forth to the place of execution, where an immense crowd was assembled. Thirty-three Christians, whom no torments could divert from the true faith, were led out at the same time, surrounded by executioners and instruments of torture. All of them were then told, that they must abjure the Christian religion, or undergo the punishment of the cord. With heroic fortitude all refused to renounce their Saviour, and besought the Bishop to give them absolution and his benediction. The Bishop granted their request, and, after urging them to follow his example with firmness, laid his head on the block, and the exectioner at one blow severed it from his body. The Christians, who had been only brought out to frighten them, were re-conducted to prison, I

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has given me strength to endure all this, and much more!" The Judge, mad with rage, then ordered him to be struck on the face, which killed him.

At the period of the Revolution, says a French paper, when such destruction was exercised on the various colleges in France, none suffered more the vengeance of the demagogues than that of the Scotch college at Douay, in Flanders. Not an atom was saved except the fine full-length original painting of Mary, Queen of Scots, its founder, which was lately discovered in a chimney, where it bad been hidden. It has been brought to Paris, and is now in the Scots College. This painting, with the Prayerbook which the Queen used at the period of her decapitation at Fother ingay Castle, and a table clock, were bequeathed by her to the Scots College, and are mentioned in the College titles. Immediately after the event, they were brought to Douay by Miss