MR. DALLAS, in p. 53, professes to consider HUME's objections to the Order of Jesuits. This has, at first sight, some appearance of candor; but how does MR. DALLAS state

"kinds. But she refused to enter into any treaty with him. Pius the "Fifth that succeeded him in that Chair, resolved to contrive her death, "as is related by him that writes his life. The unfortunate Queen of "Scotland was forced to take sanctuary in England; where it was re"solved to use her well, and to restore her to her Crown and Country. "But her own officious friends, and the frequent plots that were laid for "taking away the Queen's life, brought on her the calamities of a long "Imprisonment, that ended in a tragical death: which though it was "the greatest blemish of this reign, yet was made in some sort justi "fiable, if not necessary, by the many attempts that the Papists made "on the Queen's life; and by the Deposition which Pope Pius the Fifth "thundered out against her; from which it was inferred, that as long as "that party had the hopes of such a successor, the Queen's life was not "safe, nor her Government secure.

"This led her, towards the end of her reign, to greater severities "against those of the Roman Communion, of which a copious ac"count is given by Sir Francis Walsingham, that was so many years "employed, either in foreign Embassies, or in the secrets of state at "home; that none knew better than he did the hidden springs that "moved and directed all her councils.

"He writ a long letter to a Frenchman, giving him an account of "all the severities of the Queen's Government, both against Papists and "Puritans; the substance of which is, That the Queen laid down two max"ims of State: the one was, not to enforce consciences; the other was, "not to let factious practices go unpunished, because they were cover❝ed with the pretences of conscience: at first she did not revive those 66 severe laws passed in her father's time, by which the refusal of the

oath of Supremacy was made Treason, but left her people to the "freedom of their thoughts, and made it only penal to extol a foreign "jurisdiction: she also laid aside the word Supreme Head, and the re"fusers of the oath were only disabled from holding benefices, or "charges, during the refusal.

"Upon Pius the Fifth's excommunicating her, though the Rebellion "in the North was chiefly occasioned by that, she only made a law "against the bringing over, or publishing of Bulls; and the venting of "Agnus Dei's or such other Love-tokens, which were sent from Rome, on design to draw the hearts of her people from her, which were no

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the question? He represents HUME's objections to be "their "zeal for Proselytism," and "their cultivation of learning "for the nourishment of superstition;" and he then replies to these objections: but before he attempted to answer HUME's objections, he should at least have let HUME speak for himself.

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First, as to the Jesuits' " zeal for proselytism;" HUME'S account of that zeal is as follows, by which it appears that their zeal for proselytism was rather political than religious. "The restless and enterprising spirit" (says he) " of the "Catholic Church, PARTICULARLY OF THE JESUITS, is in some degree dangerous to every other communion: such zeal of Proselytism actuates that sect, that its Missionaries have penetrated into every nation of the globe, and in one sense "there is a Popish Plot perpetually carrying on against all "States, Protestant, Pagan, and Mahometan." (Hume's History, Charles II. Anno 1678.) MR. DALLAS, therefore, in treating HUME's charge of a "zeal for proselytism" as a RELIGIOUS zeal, has neither stated HUME's sentiments, nor refuted his arguments, but has merely produced another view of the subject, which was not taken by HUME himself; and has then combated that imaginary view. HUME does not accuse them of a religious zeal, as MR. DALLAS chooses to represent; but of a political zeal, hostile to all other religions and governments except their own,

"essential parts of that Religion; so that this could hurt none of their "consciences. But when, after the 20th year of her reign, it appeared "that the King of Spain designed to invade her Dominions, and that "the Priests that were sent over from the Seminaries from beyond sea, "were generally employed to corrupt the subjects in their allegiance, "by which, Treason was carried in the clouds, and infused secretly in "confession; then pecuniary punishments were inflicted on such as

withdrew from the Church and in conclusion she was forced to "make Laws of greater rigour, but did often mitigate the severity of ❝ them, to all that would promise to adhere to her, in case of a foreign "Invasion." See Burnet's Abridgment of the History of the Reformation, Book iv. p. 381.

2dly, Mr. Dallas, in representing HUME to have charged the Jesuits with cultivating learning for the nourishment of superstition, has made HUME assert what he never did. HUME's words are as follows: "This reproach they must bear "from posterity, that by the very nature of their Institution they were engaged to PERVERT learning, the only effectual "remedy against superstition, into a nourishment of that "infirmity; and as their erudition was chiefly of the ecclesi"astical and scholastic kind (though a few members have "cultivated polite literature), they were only the more enabled "by that acquisition to refine away the plainest dictates of "morality, and to erect a regular system of casuistry, by which "prevarication, perjury, and every crime when it served their ghostly purposes, might be justified and defended." (See Hume's History-Elizabeth, ch. 41. Anno 1581.)

The above want of fidelity in making HUME state that the Jesuits cultivated learning, for the encouragement of superstition (when HUME charges them with " perverting” it), in order that MR. DALLAS might be then let in to shew that the Jesuits were justified in cultivating learning, as he then proceeds to do, is a circumstance which requires no comment.

MR. DALLAS, however, not only misrepresents these objections of HUME to the Order, but he suppresses HUME's other objection; as, 1st, their violent hatred of, and opposition to QUEEN ELIZABETH, occurring in the following passage: "They "infused" (says HUME)" into all their votaries, an extreme "hatred against the Queen, whom they treated as an usurper,

a Heretic, a persecutor of the orthodox, and one solemnly "and publicly anathematized by the holy Father. Sedition, "rebellion, sometimes assassination, were the expedients by

which they intended to effect their purposes against her; "and the severe restraint, not to say persecution, under which "the Catholics laboured, made them the more willingly receive "from their ghostly fathers such violent doctrines."-Hume's History-Elizabeth, ch. 41. Anno 1581.

2dly. MR. DALLAS does not notice HUME's objection to

the training of the Jesuits and Priests abroad, for the express purpose of inculcating rebellion in England, as thus expressed: "These seminaries" (those of Rome, Rheims, and Douay), "founded with a hostile intention, sent over every

year a colony of Priests, who maintained the Catholic super"stition in its full height of bigotry; and being educated with " a view to the crown of martyrdom, were not deterred either "by danger or fatigue, from maintaining and propagating their "principles." "Hume's History, Ibid.

3dly. MR. DALLAS does not notice HUME's next objection, which goes to the dangerous inculcation by the Jesuits of the doctrine of Papal Supremacy, as occurring in the following passage: "The Jesuits, as devoted servants of the Court of "Rome, exalted the prerogative of the Sovereign Pontiff "above all earthly power; and, by maintaining his authority "of deposing Kings, set no bounds either to his spiritual or "temporal jurisdiction. This doctrine became so prevalent among the zealous Catholics in England, that the excommunication fulminated against Elizabeth, excited many scruples of a singular kind, to which it behoved the Holy Fa"ther to provide a remedy. The Bull of Prus, in absolving the subjects from their oaths of allegiance, commanded them to "resist the Queen's usurpation."-Hume's History, Ibid.

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After these observations which have been left on record by HUME, with what face does MR. DALLAS affirm (in p. 58) that "the treasons and crimes which have been imputed to the "Jesuits, HUME HIMSELF HAS SHEWN, were falsely charged "to them?"

There really is an audacity in this attempt to distort the evidence of a modern Historian, whose work is in the hands. of every one, which it is presumed can only tend to excite the indignation of all sincere inquirers after truth.

It may suffice, however, to have merely produced these instances of suppression, leaving it to every reader to draw his own inferences.

We will now revert to the passages which MR. DALLAS

does quote from HUME, but which he has been already shewn to have quoted incorrectly.

"Zeal for proselytism," he says (p. 53), " is a natural "sentiment of the mind, and has been the chief propagator "of every sect since the Reformation to the present moment, ❝ and not without symptoms of rebellion, and even of King"killing."

To prove these counts of rebellion and king-killing, MR. DALLAS cites HUME on the subject of the Association, into which the heads of the Reformers in Scotland entered, for the purpose of resisting the tyranny and cruelty of QUEEN MARY of England (better known in this nation by the significant epithet of Bloody Queen Mary), and THE QUEEN REGENT OF SCOTLAND, MARY OF GUISE*; the simple object, however, of which Association, in the first instance, was to protect the Protestant faith, and its professors, from utter destruction, and afterwards to establish the Protestant religion in the room of the Romish."

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It was in that æra of darkness and bloodshed, that the Protestants of Scotland felt it necessary to speak plainly respecting a system which threatened nothing less than the extinction of the Protestant religion, and the destruction of its supporters. That the language of their bond, as given by HUME, does not read very classically in the nineteenth Century, may be readily conceded†; but so far as its spirit is con

* "She was a branch of the family of all Europe that was most zealously addicted to the old superstition; and her interest, joined with the Clergy's, engaged the King to become a violent persecutor "of all that were of another mind."-BURNET'S History of the Reformation, abridged by himself, p. 268,

+ It is not very clear that such distinguished characters as the Earl of Argyle, his son Lord Lorne, the Earls of Morton and Glencarne, Erskine of Dun, and the other Heads of the Reformers, ever signed the Bond or Convention, with which HUME is pleased to connect their names, in his 38th chapter (Ann.. 1559), since it contains both false concord, and many vulgarisms. An observation of PROFESSOR ROBERTSON, in his History of Scotland, on the official papers of that time,