against it, against its holy founder, its | in all the cities and towns which have interior government and policy, have demanded them, notwithstanding what is been compelled to confess the rapidity of ordered in the above cited royal Pragmatic its increase, the admirable prudence of Sanction of the 2d of April, 1767, and its government, that it has produced im- notwithstanding the many laws and royal portant advantages by the good education orders which have been since published of the youth committed to its care, by the for its fulfilment, which I abolish, with great ardour with which its individuals | draw, and annul, inasmuch as may be have applied themselves to the study of necessary, in order that the restoration ancient literature, whose efforts have con- of the colleges, convents, and houses of tributed not a little to the progress of the professed and noviciates, their resi learning; by the able masters whom it dences and established missions, in the has produced in the different sciences; cities and towns above alluded to, may that it can glory in having possessed a be entire and complete; I order this with greater number of good writers than all out prejudice to the re-establishment of the other religious communities put toge- all those that once existed in my domi. ther; that it has exercised its talents in nions, and that thus the persons re-esta the new world with the greatest celebrity blished by this present decree, as well as and splendour in a manner the most use- those who may hereafter be re-established ful and beneficial to humanity; that the by the resolution which I shall publish crimes which they falsely imputed were by the advice of the same council, may confined to a few individuals; that the remain subject to the same laws and or greater number of Jesuits occupied them-dinations, which in consequence of it I selves in the study of the sciences, in religious functions, taking for a rule of their conduct the ordinary principles which withdraw men from vice, and lead them to probity and virtue. shall deem necessary to grant, for the greater glory and prosperity of the mo narchy, also for the better direction and government of the Society of Jesus, Thus exercising the protection which I owe to the religious orders established in my realm, and the supreme and regulated authority which the almighty has placed in my hands for the defence of my subjects and the dignity of my crown. Be this known unto you, aud communicate it for its fulfilment to those to whom it may be necessary. In the Palace, May 29, 1815. A. D. THOMAS MOYANO.", On the 29th of August, an aggre gate Meeting of the Catholics of Ire rendon-street, Sir Thomas Edmonde, land was held at the Chapel in ClaBart. in the Chair, when the follow ing Resolutions were agreed to:That Mr. Hay be requested to act as Secretary. Notwithstanding all this, as my august grand-father kept to himself the just and weighty motives, which, he said to his sorrow, compelled his royal breast to the resolutions which he took of expelling the Jesuits from all his dominions, and whatever else is contained in the Prag. matic Sanction of the 2d of April, 1767, which forms the 3d law, 1st book, 27th title of the latest compilation; and as I am as, sured of his piety, wisdom, and experience in the delicate and sublime art of governing, and as the business of its own nature, relations, and consequences ought to be treated and examined in my council, in order that, directed by its opinion, I might ascertain the prudence of his te solution, I have left it to their decision, together with the many and sundry in stances of the pressing applications, and I doubt not, that after they have consi- ing duty to express, in the strongest terms dered them, they will recommend to me which our language can afford, our perfect what is most expedient and adviseable to and gratitude to, the Most Reverend and confidence in, and esteem and veneration for, my royal person, to my states, and to the Right Reverend the Catholic Prelates of temporal and spiritual welfare of my sub- Ireland; and these our unanimous sentiments jects. Not doubting but that the coun- are deeply and everlastingly impressed on cil will acknowledge the necessity and our minds, by their firm, manly, and decided public advantage with which the restora condemnation of any measure giving to the tion of the Society of Jesus will be attend- Crown, or the Servants of the Crown, any ed, and the demands which have been controul whatsoever over the appointment of made to me for this end being more ur. our Bishops, inasmuch as any such measure gent at present, I have come to the reso-gion, and also materially injure the Civil must necessarily tend to destroy our Relilution of ordering that the religious Socie- Rights and Liberties of the People of Irety of Jesus be established for the present land of all classes and denominations. That we deem it our first and most pleas That our Chairman be requested to transmit, in terms of the most affectionate respect, our most cordial gratitude to those learned, exemplary, and pious Clergymen, Archdeacon Blake, Drs. Lube and Darcy, and the other Rev. and estimable Clergymen of the second order of the Irish Hierarchy, who have concurred with them in constant and unqualified opposition to the abhorred Veto in all its shapes and forms. That we cannot omit this occasion to publish to the British Empire, and the Christian world, the fervent tribute of our liveliest gratitude and most profound reverence for the officiating Catholic Priests of Ireland, a class of men uniformly distinguished by the most unremitting zeal and activity, and by the most incessant charity and disinterested purity, in discharge of their sacred dutiesmen whom no dangers have ever terrified no persecution has ever deterred-no seduction has ever led astray, and no temptation could ever bribe from the faithful discharge of their duties; and who have obtained, as they have well deserved, the heartfelt admiration of all persons of their own persuasion, and the decided approbation of the liberal and enlightened of every other religion. That the Catholics of Ireland having, on their solemn oath, declared, that the Pope has not, and ought not to have, any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority, or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm; we cannot, without exposing ourselves and our religion to just derision and reproach, and also without incurring the dreadful guilt of perjury, consent to any ar rangement by which the British Minister may derive from the Court of Rome any jurisdiction or power over the transactions in civil life and conduct in temporal affairs of the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland, and that our resistance to any such arrangement, instead of operating in our disfavour in the mind of any just and rational statesman, ought on the contrary convince him, tlrat we deserve liberty, as well because such conduct furnishes one more powerful instance of our conscientious adherence to the obligation of an oath, as because it proves that we practically distinguish the spiritual authority of bis Holiness the Pope, which we always fully recognize, from any civil or temporal power or authority in him or derived from him, which we disclaim, and would, if necessary, resist at the peril of our lives.›. That the restoration of the Chapters, and the concurrence of the second order of the Clergy in the nomination of our Bishops, so as to render that nomination purely domestic and national, as repeatedly recommended to his Holiness the Pope by the Prelates of Ireland, without infringing his canonical rights and spiritual authority over the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, would not only destroy every shadow of rational objection to the independence of our Clergy, but would for ever prevent the success of any intrigue or concerted plan by the agents of any British Minister to destroy our Religion, and in jure our civil rights, by obtaining an uncon stitutional and unhallowed controul over the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland. That a Deputation, consisting of Sir Themas Esmonde, Bart. and Owen O'Conor, Esq. with the Rev. Richard Hayes as their Secretary, be requested to present to his Holiness the Pope a remonstrance on the part of the Catholic Laity, stating an entire concurrence with our venerable and revered Prelates, in perpetual and unremitting opposition to any measure which would directly or indirectly authorise the Crown, or the, Servants of the Crown, to interfere with the appointment of our Bishops; and praying his Holiness not to countenance, directly or indirectly, the plans of the bitter and unre lenting enemies of our Religion. That the individnals who compose the Cas tholic Association, be requested to prepare such remonstrance. That those individuals be also requested to prepare and cause to be presented, an Address to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, stating in respectful terms, the recog nized and indisputable claims and rights of the Catholics of Ireland to unqualified Emancipation, and praying his concurrence in that measure. After the usual vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meeting separated with the utmost decorum and good order. On Monday, Sept. the 4th, a most respectable aggregate meeting of the Roman Catholics of the city and county of Cork, was held in that city, for the very joyful purpose of expressing their gratitude to their Prelates, for their late decision in condemnation of the Veto. Dr. Baldwin was called to the chair, by the unanimous suffrages of the people, and the following resolutions were passed without a dissenting voice: That in the Pastoral Zeal of our Venerated Prelates their Flocks have always found Protection, their Religion a Safeguard, their Governors the best Preservative of the Public Peace, our Dissenting Brethren a subject of Admiration, and all Christendom matter of Edification. And their late unanimous condemnation of the VETO deserves the warmest expressions of our Gratitude, Affection, and Esteem, because, by it they have not only repelled the attack which our Enemies had made upon the bulwarks of our Faith, and rendered unavailing the intrigues of sincerity and guile; but have also refuted the calumnious imputation of their subservi ency to foreign authority, and resisted a mis 7 chievous incroachment upon our Civil Rights, That we join with our Fellow-Countrymen in the noble sentiments which they have so eloquently expressed in their repeated declarations of their admiration of the virtues of the Second Order of the Hierarchy and our Officiating Clergymen, and of their gratitude for the continued and eminent services of those valuable men. That we cannot sufficiently express our esteem and gratitude to that patriotic body, the Association of the Catholics of Ireland: and when we consider the multiplied obstacles which the respectable Gentlemen of this County and City had to contend with in the discharge of their duties, and the perseverance by which they have, notwithstand ing the most active hostility to their exertions, so nobly succeeded in maintaining our rights, we know of no words in which we can convey our sentiments of grateful respect and confidence towards those patriotic Gen tlemen. That being equally anxious to secure for our children venerable and independent Guardians of our Faith and Morality as to enjoy their protection ourselves, and being willing to make, even to unwarrantable suspicion, every harmless concession, we intreat of the competent Authorities to establish such regu lations for the future appointment of our Prelates, as will secure their election against Ministerial or Foreign Influence, by vesting it solely in the Bishops and Priests of the Catholic Church in Ireland, without infringing upon the general and canonical Rights of his Holiness the Pope. That we most heartily concur in the Re solution of the Catholics of Ireland, appointing a Deputation to proceed on their behalf to remonstrate with his Holiness upon the subject of the Veto; and as the Gentlemen whom they have appointed possess our entire confidence, from their Mission we expect the most beneficial results. That we feel the highest esteem and gratitude for our uniformly constant Friends, William Crawford, Esq. John Cuthbert, Esq. and our other estimable Protestant Fellow Citizens, who have honoured us with their presence on this day; and to Samuel Ward, Esq. LL. D. for his liberal Com munication to our Chairman, banded in this day. At a meeting of the Conference of the City district of the diocese of Cork, held in the Vestry room of the North Parish Chapel, on Tuesday the 29th day of August, 1815, the following Resolutions, proposed by the Rev. John England, President of St. Mary's College, and seconded by the Rev. Chas. M Carthy, Parish Priest of Passage, were unanimously adopted: That we receive with respect and gratitude the Resolutions of our venerated Prelates, condemning every species of Government in terference in the nomination of Catholic Bishops for Ireland, by which they have evinced their pastoral solicitude for the welfare of their flocks, their zeal for the maintenance of our faith, and have calmed the fears of the inhabitants of this land, whose apprehensions had been excited by the mischievous intrigues of the enemies of our Religion and our Coun try. That we recognise in our beloved Bishops the worthy successors of those Prelates, who, in the midst of bitter persécution, hare, proved the purity of their principles by their constancy, and who have, through many struggles, transmitted to us the sacred deposit of the Faith, decorated with their Apostolic virtues, and who, unawed by power, and unseduced by blandishment, have preserved the rights of our National Church with the integrity of our Hierarchy, and thus enabled us to exhibit at this day to the world the sin gular and glorious spectacle of an uninter rupted line of Bishops, preserved under un paralleled calamities throughout a series of nearly fourteen hundred years. That, should circumstances demand from, us the sacrifice even of our lives, we pledge ourselves to our Prelates that we will adhere to them with fidelity under persecution, as our predecessors have adhered to theirs, and that whilst they are engaged in the defence of their Canonical and Constitutional Rights, whether they be assailed from abroad or at home, they shall always find us zealously co operating with them in that spirit of obedi ence which emanates alike from duty and respect. The Clergy of the conference of Newcestown, in the same diocese, on the following day, adopted the fore going Resolutions of their brethren. the The Most Rev. Dr. Murray, Right Rev. Dr. Murphy, and the Very Rev. Dr. Blake, form the deputation appointed by the Irish Prelates to the Holy See. The Right Rev. Dr. Mur Cork, took a most affecting leave of phy, previous to his departure from his flock at his Cathedral Chapel, in a very solemn and impressive discourse, in which he informed them of the ohjects of the mission to which he was appointed by the Irish Church, and solicited their prayers for the success of that mission. The deputation pass ed through this city on their way to the capital of the Christian world, and the last accounts received stated their safe arrival at Paris. The Irish papers state, that a letter | the humble prayers of the Ministers has been received from the good and of God in favour of their poor and patriotic Bishop of Norwich, in which indigent flock, will extend with a lihis Lordship approves most decided-beral hand, a portion of that wealth ly and warmly of the Resolutions of which the bounteous Maker of Heaven the Catholics of Ireland against the and Earth has gratuitously bestowed Veto, and expresses his opinion, that upon them for the purpose of protoo great a connexion betwixt Church moting the sublime works of Charity and State has always been injurious to and Religion. Subscriptions will be religion. The following is given as thankfully received by the respective an extract from it:-"Many thanks Chaplains, and by the Editor hereof. for your early information respecting a'subject, on which I have always felt, and shall cease to feel, deeply interested. From the age of Constantine, to the present day, the boasted alliance between Church and State, has rarely, in my opinion, been productive of much benefit to true religion; which is invariably more pure, in proportion as its Ministers keep aloof from political interference of every description ST. PATRICK'S CHAPEL. This chapel, having lately undergone a thorough repair, as well as repainted and beautified, was re-opened on Sunday, the 17th instant, with a solemn high nass, and an eloquent and instructive discourse was delivered by the amiable and pious Vicar Apostolic of the London district for the benefit of the establishment. The collection amounted to upwards of 60€. Notwith standing the exertions made by the friends of this chapel, and the liberal donations received for its support, the poverty of its congregation, consisting mostly of labouring mechanics, whose weekly incomes barely suffice to supply the necessities of their own families, has rendered their efforts abortive to prevent the accumulation of a heavy debt, in consequence of the recent decoration of this House of God. The Chaplains of this religious institution have therefore found it necessary to appeal to a generous public in behalf of an establishment principally devoted to the spiritual benefits of the necessitous Sons of Ireland, in the hope that their application will not be made in vain, but that the affluent of the Catholic body, listening to MOIRA CHAPEL.-The Rev. Mr. Jennings, Parish Priest of Moira, in the diocese of Dromore, north of Ireland, finding himself unable, from the increasing demands of Charity throughout the respective dioceses of that Catholic country, to liquidate a debt which he has incurred by erecting a chapel for his parish, which before was without one, has, with the approba tion of his Bishop, the Right Rev. Dr. Derry, undertaken a mission to this country, in the hopes of being enabled, through the benevolence of the affluent and charitable among the Catholics of England, and all religious persuasions, to return to his country with the means requisite to discharge the debt and finish the laudable and holy work he has begun. Mr. J. is now in town soliciting the aid of the pious and wealthy to whom he has issued a feeling address, from which the following is an extract: “From the year 1798, Mr. Jennings' Parish had been without a Chapel, and the flock reduced to meet in the open air for the purpose of Divine Worship. It is now nearly three years since he commenced the work of erecting a Chapel, relying partly on the slender contributions of his poor Parishioners, lic, for the accomplishment of his object.— but much more on the generosity of the PubUnfortunately, this last and chief resource failed bim in a manner which could not be foreseen.-The decline of trade, encreasing kinds, presented to Mr. Jennings, almost in taxes and local demands of similar and other every place, a succession of obstacles; and thus, after many fruitless applications, deunfinished Chapel, encumbered besides with lays and disapointments, he is left with an a debt of more than Three Hundred Pounds. "To liquidate this debt, not to mention the necessary finishing of the house, is what where so many parishes are engaged in buildhe has no prospect of effecting in Ireland, ing or repairing Chapels for themselves; and where the inhabitants of every town and village are literally harassed by demands for Chapel-building, from other parts of Ireland, and even from Scotland. To press further on a people thus exhausted, were unreasonable and indeed hopeless in such times. Mr. Jennings, therefore, feels himself compelled to adopt the resolution of applying in England, in the hope of being enabled, through the kindness of the liberal and benevolent of every religious persuasion, to remove the debt with which he is encumbered, and com, plete the finishing of his needful undertaking: So may the charity of his Benefactors obtain its reward, and the Love of God dwell with the cheerful giver." CATHOLIC. MUNIFICENCE. The present Bishop of Oporto, upon being appointed Vicar-General of the diocese of Lisbon, directed that the income arising from the former Bishop ric, (amounting to nearly 10,000l. sterling) should be entirely appropriated to the purpose of founding a seminary for the education of young persons for the ecclesiastical state. This benevolent and pious undertaking is already nearly completed. not this authority, and that they were not influenced by the terrors which the writer says the Holy Father attempts to frighten us Catholics into subjection. The consequence is, another of these hireling scribes, who writes for The Sun Evening Paper, tell his credulous and simple readers, that "The Irish (not Roman) Catho lutions; 1st. That the Pope is ahe lic Prelacy have come to certain reso retic, for granting any power of inter fering with their. Church in Ireland to the British Government.-2dly. That they will not join his Holiness in thus betraying the dearest interests of the Church which the Holy Ghost has confided to their care. And, 3dly, That they know better about these things than the Pope, as they have already told him through Dr. Mur ray. From all this we gather, (says the sapient scribe) that the Pope is completely out of favour with his affectionate and apostolic children and that if he does not behave better, they will no more have a head to their Church than to their State-or Cerbe 7 other; any trio of independent Priests, any cabal of seditious Agitators!"Such, reader, is the miserable and dis gusting trash daily served up by our literary cooks to please the palates of the most enlightened and bible-read ing nation in the world!!! ENGLISH LITERARY IGNORANCE. Nothing can exhabit in a stronger light the stupid ignorance of English Protestant writers of the nature and es-rus for the one, and Hydra for the sence of the Catholic religion, and the govĕrument. of her Church, than the two following articles, issued from the periodical press of this country, The Literary Panorama for August last, in reviewing the official papers relating to the Roman Catholics, lately printed by order of the House of Commons, says, "The Pope, as a CALUMNY DETECTED. religious person, the head of the Just as these pages were going to Church upon earth, the Vicar-Gene- press, the Editor was favoured by a ral of the Son of God, assumes the friend with the following extract of a power of governing the conscience of letter, from one of the ecclesiastical every individual Catholic, to what deputies to Rome from Ireland, to a ever state he may be politically sub-respectable Clergyman in Dublin, ject. Before such a one, be sets the dated Dover, Sept. 4th: terrors of eternal damnation in case We passed Sunday night with Dr. of disobedience; of misery infinite in Milner, whose heart is with us most duration and degree, in that state to fervently, notwithstanding all the which every son of Adam is hastening cruel calumnies that have been uttered with all the rapidity of time." Unfor against him. My heart bleeds to be tunately for the Editor the Irish hold him so foully denounced as an Bishops, by their memorable resolu-enemy to our cause.' tions of the 25th of the same month, What says the Editor of the Dub informed the public that the Pope had in Chronicle to this? W. E. ANDREWS, Printer, 5, Orange-street, Red-Lion-square. |