into the hall of the chapel of Sextus in the church of St. Peter's, and three large pictures will furnish an answer to the assertion!

"Catherine de Medicis having caused the head of the good Coligny to be cut off and embalmed, she sent it to Gregory III. On the reception of the horrible present, the holy father not only ordered a solemn procession, and the return of public thanks for the happy day of St. Bartholomew;' he not only sent letters to Charles IX. felicitating him on that atrocious butchery, and conveying blessings to him while he was still dripping with the blood of his murdered Protestant subjects; he not only caused thousands of masses to be said, and directed his preachers and writers to exert themselves in praise of that immense massacre; but he pressed the fine arts into his service, and made them consecrate the Catholic carnage, which was so dear to his heart;' he ordered the principal Roman painters to depict the scenes of St. Bartholomew, that the Roman clergy, who had been deprived of the opportunity of being present in reality, might at least be present in illusion. The painters obeyed, and their pencils were dipped in blood. The first picture represents Coligny after having been wounded by a shot from the arquebuss of the assassin Morevel, carried to his house. This picture bears the inscription of Gaspar Colignius amirallius accepto vulnere domum refertur. Greg. XIII. Pont Max, 1572.' The second picture exhibits the admiral and his relatives massacred in his palace, with Teligny, and some others. Underneath is the inscription Cades Colignii, et sociarum

ejus.' The third picture displays the King of France receiving the intelligence of the murder of Coligny, and manifesting his satisfaction at the deed. It is inscribed Rex Colignii necem probat.' Here a group of assassins are seen carrying in triumph the corpse of the unfortunate Coligni; their ferocious looks seem to reproach death for having too soon delivered him from their torments; there are beheld other butchers, with the cross in one hand and the poignard in the other, pursuing women and children; and in the back-ground are beheld a crowd of murderers mounting on a heap of bodies to effect the escalade of a house in which some whom they wished to massacre had taken refuge.

"When the court of Rome shall, at last, be cited before the tribunal of Justice and Humanity, as the author, or at least the accomplice, of that enormous crime, these three pictures will be produced as accusing witnesses. The living picture would say, 'Two hundred and fifty years have elapsed since I became the ornament of the Vatican. I have seen fifty-two Popes 'succeed the author of the massacre; all have visited me to refresh their sight with the assassinations which I represent, and they have rendered me, like other images, the object of their worship.' What will the advocate of the Popes answer-that the pontiffs who have succeeded Gregory XIII. suffered these pictures to remain in deference to the memory of their holy brother? Such a subterfuge is almost unworthy of reply. The sovereign pontiffs constantly, and without

scruple, cause the decrees of their predecessors to be revoked and annulled. Has not the last pontiff reinstated the Jesuits, whose order was abolished by the solemn bull of Clement XIV.? Does not the present Pope pass every day before these pictures, which are of the largest size? And is not this pontiff Prefect of the Holy Inquisition, whose thousand eyes are always open?'

"Yes, the existence of these paintings are an indelible proof, renewed each day, of the sanction given by the Court of Rome to the conduct of those detestable cannibals who were actors on the day of St. Bartholomew. But this is not all. The Pope caused medals to be struck on the occasion. The obverse of the medal contains his own figure. On the reverse is represented an exterminating angel, with a cross in one hand and a sword in the other, standing as if in the act of piercing all that oppose themselves to his progress. The inscription is Ugonotorum strages!'"

The author displays great ability in developing some of the pious frauds of the priesthood in the "Holy City," which is said to contain the pure fountain from which the whole of Europe is supplied with true religion. The moral abasement of a people subjected to such a system must necessarily be most deplorable.

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The author states, "I have not yet had the good fortune to witness any miracles, but I amuse myself by gaining a knowledge of all those that have been or may be performed for the edification of the faithful; and one

day, as an expiation for my sins, I may perhaps publish a small anthology, or collection of the flowers of miracles, and call it the Beauties of Saints.'

"I examined lately the tomb which the Jesuits have raised for their brother Louis de Gonzague. He was a young monk, endowed with the happiest dispositions for the good of the Society; adroit, supple, enterprising, and gifted with docility and patience, proof against every trial-disguising boundless ambition under a modest and reserved exterior; in short, he was born a Jesuit. The Society had the greatest hopes of him, but he died. Disappointed in not having been able to make him a conquering missonary or the confessor to a king, they made him a saint, and endowed him with all the privileges attached to this title.

"Perceiving near his mausoleum an oblique aperture, I asked what purpose it was intended for? To receive letters,' replied a young man of the brotherhood, with whom I was talking. 'What!' said I, a letter-box near a tomb? With whom is the correspondence carried on?'-' With Saint Louis de Gonzague.'-' Are the letters franked?' They pay at least a mezzopaolo (about three-pence) with each.' And when do they set off?'' Every hour.'-' I understand then, the post of death is always going, but what can the corrėspondents of the Saint ask from him?'- All that they can desire, whether spiritual or temporal. Those devotees who have a special confidence in his protection write to him often; but on the day of his festival, the number of letters is so great that several horses may be

laden with them.'-' But, my reverend father, pray tell me, does Saint Louis answer all the letters which are sent to him?''Do you doubt it?' replied he.Very much.' The brother seeing that he spoke to an unbeliever, made a gesture of compassion, and went away, to attend to his pious avocations."

CONDUCT OF THE PRIESTS TO THE
QUEEN OF CHARLES I.

In illustration of the enlightened creed of the Queen of Charles I., and of the beautiful influence of the Catholic superstition, we copy the following curious

extracts:

The French domestics of the queen were engaged in low intrigues; they lent their names to hire houses in the suburbs of London, where, under their protection, the English Catholics found a secure retreat to hold their illegal assemblies, and where the youth of both sexes were educated, and prepared to be sent abroad to Catholic seminaries. But the queen's priests, by those well-known means which the Catholic religion sanctions, were drawing from the queen the minutest circumstances which passed in privacy between her and the king; indisposed her mind towards her royal consort, impressed on her a contempt of the English nation, and a disgust of our customs, and particularly, as has been usual with the French, made her neglect the English language, as if the queen of England held no