SUPPLEMENT.] SUPPLEMENT TO THE PROTESTANT DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ROME ;CONCESSIONS TO POPERY. TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL, M.P., FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY, &c. &c. MY LORD, It is not so much in the hope of gaining your Lordship's attention, as of influencing the minds of others that the present letter is addressed to you. In this free country opinion goes a great way, and each man, whether he will or no, contributes something positively or negatively to the formation of such opinion.. The Seals of office are in your hands, but the reins of Government seem to be elsewhere. To seek for a renewal of diplomatic relations with Rome, is to confess yourself incompetent to administer the affairs of the empire without the intervention of the Pope, or the Court or Church of Rome. Popery has never been the friend of England, and never can be. Nor will those statesmen provide most wisely for her welfare, or the peace of Europe, who augment the influence of that system. From what source the policy may have been suggested that would seek to unite Rome and England, is beyond me to determine; but this may be safely affirmed, that such policy will be in defiance of history, at variance with principle, and in opposition to Scripture. Alike unsound in theory, in principle, and in practice, it can only aggravate existing evils, and tend to bring down a curse, rather than a blessing. The policy pursued by the Ministers of Queen Elizabeth, and the Ministers of Queen Victoria, contrasts most strikingly. I do not refer to persecution of Romanists, but to the protection of our Church and country from those, who would corrupt the one, and enslave and ruin the other. But it is contended that the power of Popery is no longer to be dreaded. Much too is said as to the present Roman Pontiff, Pope Pius IX. He is spoken of as the Liberal Pope, the benevolent Pope, and in terms of a similar nature, expressing, on the part of those who use them, their conviction that he has bought, or should have done so, golden opinions from all sorts of people. Admitting such to be the case, we still cannot assume that "His Holiness the Pope" is more benevolent, humane, and Christian than "Her Majesty Queen Victoria." The virtues, power, or weakness of the individual cannot change the essential properties and nature of the system, though they may greatly affect the vigour of its administration. Need I add, that the system of Popery is diametrically opposed to the interests of this Protestant nation. The two august personages above-named may be regarded as the heads of two distinct systems-with the separate and distinct details of which, and their numerous ramifications and consequences, they are not supposed to be too minutely acquainted. Evils at a distance have but little weight. Proximity seems in some degree needful to sympathy. The moaning of a sick child or a dying relative would occasion a more intense and longer pain to an affectionate parent than to hear of thousands of men lost in the Caucasus, or sacrificed by a fresh irruption of Abd el Kader. Pope Pius, and Queen Victoria, each of them MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1847. ELECTOR. [GRATIS. Pope's Bulls and Romish influence as trifling, even whilst they are disturbing the peace of Europe, and dislocating the framework of society. through the instrumentality of their respective ministers, advisers, and functionaries, may thus cause to be done acts, which individually they would never think of performing. The late Lord-Chancellor, Lord Lyndhurst, gifted The judge passes sentence of death-it may be with as he is with vast powers of mind, and justly celea tearful eye, and a bleeding heart. But the stern brated for his high judicial attainments, treated with a necessity of a public duty imposes it upon him. Even jocoseness alike unworthy of himself, the subject, and the executioner may sympathize, while he inflicts the the place, the introduction of Romish Bulls, and is reextreme penalty of the law, and the inquisitor of ported to have said facetiously that they should have heretical pravity, tremble, while, from a mistaken been put in the new tariff. sense of duty, he tortures his victim. Now the crime They play with these Bulls, as little children beneath of what Rome calls heresy, is held by writers of the the walls of a fortress, sport themselves with the canRomish Church, to entail guilt and punishment as non balls which destroyed their ancestors; ignorant or severe, as those with which the crimes of theft, and forgetful of the havoc they have occasioned, and not even murder itself, are visited; and the decrees, aware that the forge of the Vatican in which they whether of the authorities at Rome, or of the legisla- were cast, can revive, as with a magic touch, their ture at St. Stephen's, which affix punishments-and slumbering powers, and send forth others which may the sentence of judges which inflict them, are alike again shake the thrones of monarchs; march conthe results of judicial authority and unimpassioned tending armies to the battle field; convulse our whole judgment. empire, and deluge the plains of Europe with blood shed in religious war. Our Most Gracious Sovereign, surrounded by her Privy Council, most potent, grave, and reverend senators, may issue orders or a decree that shall cause a fleet to go out to China, the effect of which may be to seize a few forts, sink a few junks, and destroy many hundreds of men. The theology of Popery is not changed. Her aim is what it ever was. Her emissaries are bent upon attaining it; and would rejoice to see a highway prepared by renewed diplomatic relations with Rome, and endowment of the Romish priesthood. wisdom of our understanding has procured, but his bounty has bestowed; if we dishonour him with it, and make his favours the means of more openly teaching and supporting what he has denounced, how can we expect a continuance of his blessing? But the national joy, the festivities of the palace, are Will you, then, consent to this? Will you, my not interrupted by this. Nor is the serenity of the Pope Lord, assist in this policy? Will you not bear in disturbed, or the joyousness of the Eternal City lessened mind that God is still the Governor of the world? when Bulls or edicts go forth from Rome to excite His written word still the guide to be followed in the rebellion or revolt in the dominions of heretical princes, administration of its affairs? If we dare take of or a Nuncio is dispatched, with secret instructions to that wealth which not the might of our arm or the organise among the faithful, a system which shall uproot heretical pravity, and transfer the reins of Government power from St. James's, to the Vatican. I ask you, my Lord, if we should have stopped in the Chinese war short of the seizure of Canton, or the capture of the Emperor himself, unless fair terms had been arranged? Respect for the inhabitants of the Celestial Empire would have been vainly pleaded, all would have been alike forgotten before the paramount importance of maintaining British ascendancy. My Matters relating to mere fiscal regulations you may Lord, the Pope will no more regard Great Britain as alter, the eternal principles of truth you cannot sacred than we should have considered China in the change. like case. The interests of the Church of Rome are to the Pope what the interests of the British empire are to Queen Victoria. What with famine and fever-political and mercantile convulsions we cannot be said to have much whereon to felicitate the statesmen of the present day. Acts of Parliament cannot alter them-public opinion cannot affect them. Time cannot change or destroy them. Fixed and immutable as the throne of the Eternal, from whence they emanate, they stand The intrigues of the Vatican, are to promote sublimely removed from all the efforts of their petty throughout the universal world, Papal supremacy. The deliberations of our Parliament, the consultations of our Privy Councils are to advance the interests of British commerce, to maintain British power. Those who deliberate in each of these two systems, in the exercise of their respective functions, may have to decide upon measures in which the happiness and prosperity of multitudes may be concerned. The wretched man who would make Royalty itself the object of his murderous attack is justly punished by the laws of his country. Treason against the life of the Sovereign is almost universally regarded as one of the highest crimes a subject can commit. It endangers the peace of the whole community. assailants,-frowning indignantly into wretchedness and ruin, those who, whether as nations or individuals, withstand their influence; and blessing incalculably those who yield homage to their power. Human legislation cannot alter the nature of Divine Truth, nor destroy the inseparable connexion which exists between national religion and national prosperity,-individual religion, and individual happiness. But, it may be said, this is nothing more than a repetition of the objections which, for the last half century, have been urged against any concessions to Roman Catholics,-objections which have been urged repeatedly, and have been met and overruled a hundred times. That such objections have been repeatedly raised, and that on principles of sound policy and pure reliThey, my Lord, who would renew diplomatic region,-whether by that constitutional lawyer, Lord lations with Rome strike a not less fatal blow at the Eldon, and others like-minded, or by pious and honour and independence of the British Crown, and tian divines,—is true beyond a doubt. the happiness of the people. That such objections, too, have been as repeatedly Statesmen in the present day treat the subject of overruled, is also true. IPPLEME Chris ELECTOR PROTESTA Not the Act of 1829, nor any subsequent concessions, including the increased grant to Maynooth THE PROTESTANT CHARACTER OF College itself in 1845, have in any degree tended to conciliate the spirit of Popery, or to remove the inveterate hostility which it bears to the principles of our Divine and scriptural faith, or our civil and religious institutions. Nor can it do so. No. Popery and Protestantism will be antagonistic systems till one or the other becomes extinct. That sentiment your Lordship may have heard in the House of Commons, from King Alfred. a Roman Catholic Member of the House of Norfolk. Shall the light of the past shine in vain upon the present? Shall the page of history be spread uselessly before us? THE BRITISH Edward III.-Richard II.: Statutes of Præmunire-Laws made against Foreign Interference of the Pope-Even when this Country and Church were Roman Catholic-Such Laws still necessaryContinental Romish Nations have very stringent Laws on this point. Recapitulation-Nature and Aspect of the Present Times-A Severe Test and Scrutiny going onPrinciples must be resorted to-Importance of Acting Individually, and Nationally, on Christian Principles. neries SYLLABUS OF LECTURE II. Schools Introductory Remarks-Anecdote of King George III.-The Romish Controversy revived-Duty of Protestants well to understand, and to act up to THE ENCROACHMENTS OF POPERY AND THE DUTIES their Principles-Definitions-Constitution-ProOF PROTESTANTS. testant.-Christianity planted in Britain at an early Introductory Remarks-Importance of the subPeriod-Augustine's Mission-Monks of Bangor-ject-Spirit in which it should be treated-VindiIcation from the charge of Bigotry-Of Political Spiritual and Temporal Power of Popery-Partizanship-Opposition to the Principles of Is there then, my Lord, no reason for consistent Anselm-King Henry I.: Investiture of Bishops-Popery, not the Persons of Roman Catholicsstatesmen, wise, prudent, and profound politicians and Anselm refuses Homage to the King-The King's The Church of Rome may flourish in the Country Christian men consulting for the interests of a Pro- Reply-Compromise. which it Ruins-True Christian Charity-Nu testant Church, and the welfare and independence of Canon Law prevalent in Europe-Thomas à merical Increase of Roman Catholics-Bishopsthe Protestant Monarch of a Protestant people to Becket-Henry II.: Cause and Origin of Dispute- Priests-Chapels-Convents — Monasteries - Nunpause before taking any further step towards Rome? Constitutions of Clarendon-Becket's Assent-Given - Colleges - Guilds - Jesuitsto let the matter be well understood in all its length Revoked-Why ?-King John-Pandulph, the Vicars-Apostolic-The Press-Literature-Political and breadth, its principles and details, before any step is taken to renew diplomatic relations with Rome, or Pope's Legate. Influence-Privy Council-House of Lords-House involve our nation in the guilt of further endowments of Commons-Causes of its increased Influenceof, or concessions to, Popery? Various Concessions reviewed-The Policy of them Has it answered ?-Act of 1829-Anecdote, the Red Lion Painter-Maynooth Endowment Act of 1845-Opinions of Foreigners on the subjectProsperity no Criterion of Truth-Numbers not the Test of Truth-Sincerity alone, no proof of being Is it not more than probable, my Lord, that these measures, instead of giving the British Government Henry VIII., 1509-A Roman Catholic-Was Rule of Faith-The Bible alone is-Chillingworth right-Public Opinion not the Test of Truth-Nor any influence or control beyond what it now pos- what Popery made him-Persecuted Protestants as The Bible and Rome opposed to one anothersesses, will tend most assuredly and rapidly to place a well as Roman Catholics-Quarrel with the Pope-Quotations from Canons of the Council of TrentWhy-Theological Errors of Popery referred toresistless power in the Roman Pontiff, who, by Discovery of the Bishop's Oath to the Pope- Creed of Pope Pius-Dr. Doyle's Catechism-Dr. of his spiritual power exercised upon Divided Allegiance-Pope Pius III. absolves all Butler's Catechism.-Superstition and Reasontemporal matters, through the agency of Good Works-Purgatory-Masses-Penances-InRomish archbishops, bishops, Papal nuncios, Christian Princes from Obligation to keep any dulgences-Influence on Politics and Society-Illus vicars apostolic influencing the minds of a vast portion Oath to King Henry-The Reformation-Popery, trations-Conscience-The present Liberal Popeof the people, may have such an ascendancy as neither Idolatry in Religion, Treason in Politics, Des- Denounces Bible Societies-Exhorts to pray to the your army, nor your police, nor your military, may be potism in Government-Creates Imperium in Im- Encyclical Letter quoted-Catholic Scriptural CateVirgin Mary and all the Saints in Heaven!--His perio-Modern Romish Writers and Periodicals chism-Anti-social Principles-Persecuting Prin referred to. ciples-Dingle-Achill-Madeira, &c., referred to. -Anecdote of King James I. and Lord-Chancellor Edward VI.-Queen Mary-Principles of Popery Bacon-Is the Pope Antichrist ?-Popery a Political referred to on Subjects of Perfidy-Persecution System-Dangers from it to our Institutions in Divided Allegiance.- Reiffenstuel quoted-The tween Protestant Ascendancy or Romish AscendChurch and State-Principles-Our choice beMarian Persecution-Queen Elizabeth-Pope Pius ancy. excommunicates her Convocation Connexions between National Sins and Namade to Assassinate Queen Elizabeth-Articles- Blessings-Archbishop Tillotson quoted-Short tional Judgment-National Religion and National Canons-Prayer Book-Breviary quoted-Sincerity Address to Statesmen Quotation from Mr. Southey as to Puritanical Tactics, applied of Roman Catholics not doubted, but no Proof of to Romish Tactics in the Present DayTruth-The Tablet, on the Interference of the The Bishops and Clergy Appealed to-Laymen Pope. Generally Addressed-Dissenters Appealed toEssentials and Non-essentials-Illustrations-Quotation from Speech of Sir R. Peel-Religiousness of Man's Nature will not Save-Bordeaux ancient Mistranslation, and Interpolations-Pilgrimages Romish Version of the New Testament quotedSacrament of Marriage-The Mass-PurgatoryThe word Roman interpolated in First Epistle to Timothy, c.iv. v. 1, before the word Faith!-The word Hosts also inserted in St. Peter, First EpistleDuty of Protestants to take Care that only the Authorized Version be used in Education of the means able to resist. There was one who is reported to have said that concession had gone its utmost limits, but his resolu tion faltered while his tongue gave utterance to the sentiment, and power fell from the grasp of hands which were too feeble to retain it. There are others, my Lord, who think the same. Let them act up to principles which they know to be right; they will not find themselves without support. Our Church and nation have before been distracted and in peril from the intrigues of Rome; but in the good providence of God, the prayers and efforts of his people have been blessed to avert the intended ruin. May it be so again! And that it may, it becomes those who wish well to their Church and their country not to be overmatched by the intrigues of Italian diplomacy, nor to succumb to the intimidations of Popery in Ireland, but to maintain, in order to secure the peace, integrity, and independence of the British empire, that no foreign prince, prelate, state, or potentate, hath, or ought to have, any power or jurisdiction, ecclesiastical or civil, within this realm. I have the honour to remain, Your Lordship's very obedient, humble servant, Attempts James I., Nov. 5, 1605.-Charles I.-Protectorate Charles II.-Roman Catholics excluded from James II. His arbitrary proceedings-Imprison- testant Ascendancy-The Pretender-Ireland- Concessions in favour of Popery.-Commencing People. A cheap edition of the above Lectures has been ant Association, 11, Exeter Hall. printed and may be had at the Office of the Protest Price of Lecture I., containing 23 pages, 2d. each or, 12s. per 100. Price of Lecture II., containing 36 pages, 3d Objection answered, that the Roman Catholic each, or 18s. per 100 for distribution. by the wisest and the most experienced, that a crisis is at hand. "Our baffled statesmen, worn out by their long contests with Popery,-ashamed of their past defeats,-but without manly boldness enough to confess their errors and retrace their steps,seem resolved to rush for protection to Rome; and to call in the power of the Pope to aid in governing the subjects of Queen Victoria, rather than to throw themselves upon the Protestant energies of the country. "Our theologians,-in whom, by virtue of their sacred office, the majority of the people of this country have been wont to repose confidence, have, with a few noble exceptions, instead of emulating the example of the Seven Bishops, stood aloof whilst the wolf was ravaging the flock. They have, unhappily, as a body, looked on in silence, if not in apathy; and even where the alarm has been given, the ecclesiastical trumpet has sent forth so uncertain a sound, or a note so feeble, that it has been almost unheeded, if not unheard; and those who sought for reasons to avoid the conflict, have availed themselves of that uncertainty, or feebleness of sound, to excuse themselves from coming forward to the battle. "As patriots, and as Christians,-as lovers of our own country, and desiring the advance of Christ's pure religion throughout the globe, we deplore this sad state of things hinted at rather than described. "Our religion makes us loyal to the Crown,-to revere the ministers of our faith,-and to respect the station, even where we cannot approve the policy or principles of those who, in the providence of God, have been called upon to exercise the functions of their respective offices. "But shall we be bound hand and foot and delivered over to Popery? Will the Protestants of this country witness without strong remonstrance the efforts now being made to reconcile their country with Rome? We believe we know they will not. What, then, is to be done? "From theologians who mislead, and from statesmen who betray, we turn to the Protestant Electors of the United Kingdom. With them, under God's blessing, it rests to say, by their votes at each new Election, whether Popery shall be endowed or encouraged by us. To them we say, Your own interests, and those of your children, are at stake: you and yours must suffer if bad laws are made; the more so, as you have the power of returning those who may make good laws. When laws are framed by human authority, not sanctioned by, but opposed to the laws of Him by whom alone kings reign and princes decree justice, they are sure to bring down not a blessing, but a curse upon those who make them. "We have assisted in replanting the tree of Popery uprooted by our ancestors, and its baneful shadow seems rapidly bringing a blight upon the peace, happiness, and prosperity of the country. The further encroachment of Popery must therefore be opposed. "To assist our brother Protestants in carrying out this work, the PROTESTANT ELECTOR' is announced. It is for them we labour, not for ourselves; and if they value the existence of a journal which shall with brevity and faithfulness chronicle passing events, and seek to promote the great cause in hand, they will see the importance of aiding this publication. Let those, then, who approve the object announced-the principles on which we would have the policy of this yet great nation conducted—let them aid us with their best energies,-let them circulate our paper, let them assist us with their literary and pecuniary contributions.. The work is great-and the time is short, the crisis urgent. By prompt, prayerful, united, energetic efforts, much good may yet be done, through the Divine blessing, and much evil averted. "Those desirous of aiding in this movement are requested at once to intimate their willingness to do so by becoming Subscribers." The support which our paper has met with has not been such as to justify its continuance beyond the period at first announced, and before yielding to the suggestion of friends to publish a weekly paper entirely devoted to the Protestant cause as the Tablet is to that of Popery, we feel it due to ourselves, in order to prevent a recurrence of the loss already sustained through the "PROTESTANT ELECTOR," to have a sufficient number of subscribers guaranteed beforehand. Indeed without this, it were comparatively useless to proceed. As a mercantile speculation we would never have entered upon it, and it is evident our desire to do good will not be effective unless we gain a larger number of readers. Those desirous of seeing such a weekly paper as above referred to set on foot, are requested without delay to fill up the subjoined form, and return it as directed. To the Publisher of THE PROTESTANT STATESMAN, 3, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street, London. TO POPERY. Published on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. shall be no more. of the Apostasy, and the accessions she is [PRICE 3d. THE TELESCOPE OF PROPHECY APPLIED the traditional and Antichristian system of Popery | stream, the source of which must, be dried up. In And whilst the reviving power other words Protestantism must be exterminated. If poisonous in Ireland, surely the same in England, and therefore must be got rid of here. The tactics of Rome vary with circumstances. She has one object, supremacy. To set off the moderation of Dr. Wiseman against the violence of Dr. M'Hale, and so conclude that all Papists have not the same object in view, is about as wise as to conclude that because a general employs sappers and miners as well as a breaching and storming party, he does not wish to take the town he is attacking. the As the astronomer, by the aid of optical glasses, brings under his notice distant stars which the naked eye could not discover,-describes their magnitude and movements, so the telescope of prophecy brings future events to bear upon present, and makes known to those who study them, something of the councils and dealings of Him who ruleth in the armies of heaven and earth. Prophecy may be regarded in some respects as standing, with reference to future events, in the same position as that occupied by the telescope with reference to distant objects. It is true the shepherds of the plain and infant children can perceive and admire the twinkling stars which glitter by night in the blue vault of heaven; but wide is the difference between the gaze of the philosopher and the peasant-the unscienced shepherd and the scientific explorings of a Newton or a Laplace. Nor alone in astronomical observations is the telescope useful. It is of service in a variety of ways. It makes us acquainted with distant scenery, and brings to our knowledge some of the most delightful objects of creation. By this the watchman and the mariner discover dangers at a distance, and take precautionary measures to meet and overcome,-or to avoid them. Not to discern the signs of the times was a reproach to those who, though they lived in the time of Messiah's first advent knew not that he was come; and though the predictions contained in the inspired writings with reference to Antichrist and Popery seem equally as clear and explicit, still multitudes seem not to appreciate or understand them. Now for the astronomer to neglect his telescope would be to proceed to the study of the celestial bodies destitute of the aid of those optical instruments, by the use of which alone his explorings can be carried on satisfactorily. DR. M'HALE AND THE NOXIOUS It seems important that the attention of the Fund :- "As the payment of debts is now the favourite of the Association. THE TWO SWORDS. We resume our subject, and our materials are so plentiful, usque ad nauseam, that were we to specify each act of Papal tyranny and haughty usurpation, it would require volumes to enumerate them. That the Bishops of Rome have deposed crowned heads, disposed of their kingdoms, and absolved their subjects from the oath of allegiance, is a fact too notorious to admit of a question. When Pope Julius II. deposed John II., King of Navarre, and gave his kingdom to Ferdinand, King of Spain, he made the following discourse to his Cardinals in full consistory :-"We must assist the King of Spain, and draw the two swords against the people' of France and Navarre, the common enemies of all good men. And in the meantime, whilst we are sharpening the secular blade, we must make the necks of those schismatics feel the edge of the spiritual."-Anton. Nebrissenius, a Spanish writer, lib. 1, c. 1, 2, 3. Accordingly, the King of Navarre was denounced' a heretic and schismatic; was deprived, he, his wife and children, of his kingdom and tempoDr. M'Hale was a student at Maynooth, and ralities, and the whole adjudged to the King of afterwards a Professor. Spain. I would just observe, the plan of the Doctor to Pope Sixtus V. fulminated a Bull of excommustarve the Protestant clergy of Ireland, and so get nication in the same haughty style against Henry rid of religious differences, is the same in King of Navarre and the Prince of Condè, in the spirit as the policy of Rome in previous year 1585. He employs very strong language, when Nor less wise as it appears to us is it for the days. To get rid of bigotry and animosity, he says, "that the power given to St. Peter and Christian to neglect the right use and study of pro- to dry up the source, the Inquisition in his successors is superior to all the powers of the phecy. It is a sure word; it is a light shining in a Spain, burnt and tortured thousands. Bartholomew kings of the earth; that it belongs to this power to dark place. To say that it is useless were to dero- night drenched Paris with blood, and Smithfield enforce the observance of the laws, and punish the gate from the wisdom of him who gave it; to say that blazed with continual fires. Will England never refractory by deposing and levelling them to the it is difficult or obscure, should not lead to its rejec- awake to the designs of Rome? How long is ground as ministers of Satan; that he is constrained tion; but prove an incentive to a more diligent and the cry of liberality to deceive our rulers and by the necessity of his office to draw the word of prayerful investigation. our countrymen. We hear not a word here correction against Henry, formerly King of Na of the two streams running side by side varre, and Henry, Prince of Conde, a spurious and Scriptural Christianity reign supreme,-when diffusing blessings, but we hear of a poisonous and detestable offspring of the illustrious house of Divine truth, we know, shall have the victory, PROTESTANT |