OR, THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER: A R. CATHOLIC MONTHLY MAGAZINE, &c. &c. BIBL VOL. III. FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, 1810 "SI QUIS CATHEDRA PETRI JUNGITUR-MEUS EST." S. Hieron London: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY KEATING, BROWN AND KEATING, 38, Duke-ftreet, Grosvenor-square, AND SOLD BY ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS, VOL. III. A History of the United Kingdom of Great-Britain, from the earliest Ages to the Treaty of Amiens, in 1802, compiled from various Authors, and intended chiefly for the young Ladies educated at the Ursuline Convents. By a Member of the Ursuline Community in Cork. 2 Vols. 12mo. O the shame of our historians, it may be truly said, that no modern History of England has yet appeared on which the smallest reliance can be placed as to its account of facts of personages in which the honour and interests of Catholicity are concerned. Exaggerations, suppressions, artful misre presentations, bold and insidious falsehoods, are the weapons but too uniformly and successfully employed to perpetuate a sort of justificatory basis and sanction for endless and inveterate prejudices, hereditary restrictions and punishments, forming collectively a formidable and fearful crusade against the feelings and interests of the persecuted objects of them. Thus is the spirit of falsehood interwoven in those parts of our history in which it is of the most vital importance that the reader should be truly informed, lest he may be taught to despise or to hate the memory of those facts and personages whom he should hold in perpetual benediction, or shudder and shrink from principles which it is his first interest and duty to venerate, to love and to cherish, at the risk of all a cruel and seducing world can offer in exchange for them. It is certainly due to our Milners, Lingards, and Plowdens, to say, that there is no misrepresented personage or fact in British Catholic History that will not be found to be truly represented and successfully vindicated in their works; but it is not from the accumulation of Catholic vindication in controversial works, or local history, that the British Catholic name can be fully restor ed in the historic page to its proper and native dignity; the Catholic historical advocate must present to the searchers after historical truth an entire history of Englaud, or of the United Kingdom, on a scale suited to the magnitude and importance of the object. In the absence of so great work, we are happy in presenting to the notice, especially "The History of the United Kingdom," the production of a lady devoted by religious vows to the instruction of youth in the principles of useful knowledge and virtue; and we are satisCathol. VOL. III. a of the parents and instructors of youth, A JULY 1816. |
