ADDRESS TO NONCONFORMIST ELECTORS.

An address has been issued to the Nonconformist electors, dated 16, New Broad-street, calling on them to make their views known and their influence felt at the general election, by voting, or refusing to vote where no fitting candidate comes forward. Towards the close of the Address the writer thus proceeds:―

The step we recommend may, in some instances, carry you right athwart personal respects and friendships. We are not disposed to esteem such things lightly. But you sustain a closer relationship, you owe a prior duty to truth than to any individual, whatever may be his qualities. That truth you have seen treated with haughty disdain, denied, scorned, insulted, vilified. Conduct which, had it affected you only, might have been gracefully forgiven, must not be overlooked when it heaps contempt upon your principles. It behoves you to deal with men guilty of a grave political offence, not in the spirit of revenge, but as a public example-to warn future representatives from a like evil rather than to mortify such as have already committed it. Parliamentary representation will degenerate into a farce if such proceedings as marked the passing of the Maynooth Act, and the grant voted on the Minutes of Council, are permitted to pass unrebuked. Concern for the common weal calls aloud for severity on the wrong doers. It behoves you to be firm and inexorable in passing judgment. However painful the duty, you are not at liberty to spare.

THE PRIESTS' CURSE.

The following fearful malediction is from a paper put forth by the Priests' Protection Society for Ireland, as advertised in a preceding number of our journal:

"The Pope's dreadful curse, being a form of
excommunication of the Church of Rome, taken out

of the ledger of the Church of Rochester, now in the
custody of the Dean and Chapter, there written by
Ernulphus. Bishop Ernulph was consecrated Bishop
of Rochester, December 26, 1115, and died March,
1124. London, printed and sold by L. C. on
Ludgate-hill, 1681. 13 LL. C. 1."

"By the authority of God Almighty, the Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost, and of the holy canons, and of
the undefiled Virgin Mary, Mother of God, and of
the heavenly virtues, angels, archangels, thrones,
dominions, powers, cherubims, and seraphims, and
of all the holy patriarchs, prophets, and of all the
apostles, and evangelists, and of the holy innocents,
who, in the sight of the Holy Lamb are found
worthy to sing the new song of the holy martyrs,
and the holy confessors, and all the holy virgins,
and of all the saints, together with the holy and
elect of God-we excommunicate and anathematize
him; and from the thresholds of the holy Church of
God Almighty, we sequester him, that he may be
tormented, disposed, and delivered over with Dathan
and Abiram, and with those who say unto the Lord
God, depart from us, we desire none of thy ways.
And as fire is quenched with water, so let the light
of him be put out for evermore, unless he shall
repent, and make satisfaction." Amen.

"May the Father, who created man, curse him! May the Son, who suffered for us, curse him! May the Holy Ghost, who was given to us in baptism, curse him! May the Holy Cross, which Christ, for our salvation, triumphing over his enemies, ascended, curse him!"

"May the holy and eternal Virgin, Mother of God, curse him! May St. Michael, the advocate of holy souls, curse him! May all the Angels and Archangels, principalities and powers, and all the Heavenly Armies, curse him!"

"Fellow Dissenters, glance forward to the future. What are the questions which promise to occupy the attention of the next Parliament ? During the coming seven years what topic of discussion will be thrown most frequently upon the surface? Do not all the signs of the times point to the probability that the relation of the State to the religious bodies of the empire will in one shape or other come up perpetually for consideration? Can the Church in Ireland remain as it is? Have not the leaders of both the dominant parties given you fair warning of their intentions with respect to the Roman Catholic priesthood? Are not the affairs of every British colony thrown into confusion by ecclesiastical encroachments? Must not the educational plan of "May St. John the Beloved, and St. John the Government undergo some change? And with such Baptist, and St. Peter, and St. Paul, and St. Andrew, prospects before you, can you, when the constitution and all other of Christ's Apostles together, curse invites you to speak, maintain silence on the only him! and may the rest of his Disciples, and the matters likely, during the next Parliament, to Four Evangelists, who by their preaching converted involve, to a serious extent, the moral condition of the universal world, and may the holy and wonderthe community? At present, you may not have it ful company of Martyrs, and Confessors, who by in your power to send more than a very few their holy works are found pleasing to God Almighty, members into the House likely to give expression to curse him! May the Holy Choir of the Holy Virgins, your distinctive views; and wherever this can be who for the honour of Christ have despised the done we doubt not you will do it. But you can, if things of the world, damn him! May all the saints, you will, convince the Legislature that there exists who from the beginning of the world to everlasting a large body of constituents, numerous enough to ages, are found to be beloved of God, damn him! turn the balance of parties, with whose interests May the heavens and earth, and all the holy things it is unsafe to tamper-who have sufficient self-contained therein, damn him! respect to resent gratuitous insult,-attachment "May he be damned wherever he shall be; enough to their principles to stand by them against whether in the house or in the field, in the way or in any and every political confederacy,—and resolu- the path, in the wood or in the water, or in the tion enough to cast off all allies who have thought church! May he be cursed in living, dying, eating, fit to betray them. Such a display of quiet deter-drinking; in being hungry, in being thirsty; in fastmination on your part will not be without its influ- ing, sleeping, slumbering, watching, walking, sitting, ence on the proceedings and decisions of the next lying, working, resting, and in bloodParliament. Let it but be seen that you can think for letting. yourselves, feel strongly, and act independently, and many a floating vision which statesmen are hoping ere long to realize, will be dissipated like a dream.

"May he be cursed in all the faculties of his body!"

"May he be cursed inwardly and outwardly
May he be cursed in the hair of his head! May he
be cursed in his brains, and in the crown of his
head; in his temples, in his forehead, in his ears, in
his eyebrows, in his cheeks, in his jawbones, in his
nostrils, in his foreteeth and grinders; in his lips,
in his throat, in his shoulders, in his wrists, in his

"Fellow Dissenters, the time is close at hand.
Take your resolution at once! Publish it to the
world! Stand by it unshrinkingly when the day of
election shall arrive. We have appealed to some
motives which we think ought to sway you. We
conclude by reminding you of your illustrious ances-arms, in his fingers!
tors. Small is the sacrifice demanded at your hands, "May he be damned in his mouth, in his breast,
in vindication of God's truth from the assaults of and in all his inward parts, down to his very
State power, compared with that which they cheer- stomach! May he be cursed in his veins, and in his
fully rendered. Let it be seen that you inherit their groin, in his
in his hips, in his knees, in
spirit-that you have caught their falling mantle! his legs, in his feet, and toe-nails! May he be
Check the presumption of meddling politicians, who cursed in all the joints and articulations of his
would irreverently carry with them the ark of God, members; from the crown of his head to the sole of
in the hope of thereby influencing their contests with his foot, may there be no soundness in him!
the people. Whether you vote or stand aloof, let
your conduct be a dignified and intelligible protest
against all State interference with religion.

"SAMUEL MORLEY, Chairman.” The names of upwards of 150 gentlemen are also

subscribed.

"May the Son of the living God, with all the glory of his Majesty, curse him! And may heaven, with all the powers which rejoice therein, rise up against him to DAMN him, unless he repent and make satisfaction. Amen. So be it. So be it. So be it.

Amen."

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ADVERTISEMENTS.

NITY of LONDON ELECTION.-The Committee for conducting the Election of the Four Conservative Candidates for the City of London take leave to address a few words to their brother electors in reference thereto.

They desire, in the first place, emphatically to state, that this contest has not been provoked by the Conservative party. They have, on the contrary, taken every possible means to prevent it. They have frankly pointed out to their political opponents, that the state of parties being so evenly balanced in the City of tical affairs so little to cause political agitation, the course of London, that there being, moreover, in the actual state of poliwisdom and moderation lay in not attempting to disturb the balance of political power in the City of London, which has now for many years past been enjoyed in equal proportions by the two political parties therein.

This advice has been set at nought. The opposing party has assumed to itself the right of endeavouring, altogether, to exclude the Conservative body from any share in the repreforced upon the citizens of London the evils of political strife and sentation of the City in Parliament; and has, thereby,

division.

The Conservatives have done nothing to deserve this treat

ment. No opposition has been offered to the Whiz Government since it came into power. Great legislative changes had previously taken place. Under whatever aspect those changes have been viewed by Conservatives, individually, they have abstained from all opposition to the Government, and have been calmly and patiently abiding the issue of them.

This moderate and becoming course has been mistaken for weakness and division. The assertion has been put forth, that the register shows a large preponderance of voters adverse to Conservative opinions. The assertion is utterly untrue. The returns of the City Conservative Association-a body which has been indefatigable in its attention to the annual registrationshow that there is not the slightest pretence for this statement. The Committee have no intention to make remarks personally disrespectful to any one. It is on legal and constitutional grounds alone that they ask-why the electors of London are invited to go through the solemn mockery of returning a representative to the House of Commons who cannot hold his seat if he be placed in return thereto the name of a gentleman who cannot by possithere? Is it a respectful answer to the Queen's writ, to present bility, in the existing state of the law, sit in that house to which the Sovereign commands a fit and proper member to be returned? Is it for the metropolis of the empire to set the example of so irregular and illegal a proceeding?

And may we not further ask, whether it be a seemly and becoming spectacle to see the Prime Minister of this country placing himself at the head of this movement, associating hinself as a colleague with the candidate who desires to make the electors of London the stalking-horse on whose back he is to be forced into an assembly in which he cannot sit-who says, in fact, to the electors, "I know that I am disqualified by law; I

will not wait until that law shall have been reconsidered, and, as

hope, repealed; but I ask you to return me at once to the House of Commons in open defiance of that law." Is this, we ask, a proceeding which should be sanctioned, and actually encouraged, by Her Majesty's Prime Minister? Conservatives of London. They did not oppose his re-election when he came into office; they had no intention of offering to

Lord John Russell has been treated with perfect respect by the

him any opposition to him on the present occasion. In return

HE PROTESTANT ELECTOR. Cabinet. The church of Rome may flourish in the country which

CITY OF LONDON ELECTION.
No. VIII.

The circular issued by the Conservative Asso-
ciation has been widely circulated amongst the
It contains the addresses of the
City electors.
four Conservative candidates, prefaced by an
address of the Conservative Committee.

We have perused the document with mixed feelings of pleasure and pain; of pain, because while the Conservative Committee dwell upon the intolerance of the so-called Liberal party in endeavouring to return four Liberals for the City, they

make no allusion whatever to the Protestant ques

tion, which, it is evident, is the only subject now that will rouse the great mass of the electors into action; of pleasure, because, despite the apparent indifference to Protestantism on the part of the Conservative Committee who are to have the management of the election, all the four candidates have, with more or less particularity, declared their objection to the encouragement of Popery.

The addresses of Mr. Masterman and Mr. Alderman Johnson have been prepared for the occasion; those of Mr. Bevan and Mr. Freshfield have already appeared in the public prints.

Mr. Masterman briefly, though decidedly, states

Therefore it is that Popery is to be regarded lics in workhouses and prisons, and of their children that he shall oppose the endowment of Popery.

even in a political sense as the giant evil of the day, such places for the Catholic Priest at all times, We wish he had said more. The endowment of

THE PROTESTANT ELECTOR.

Popery, it is true, is just now the main point in | London; and its circulation may increase the
debate connected with that unscriptural system; number of those holding such sentiments.
but it is not the only one. Popery is daily seeking
to make fresh inroads upon our laws and Consti-
tution.

These must be resisted, as well as its endowment; and we are confident Mr. Masterman will

resist them.

He is a tried man. His votes against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, against the Maynooth grant, and against Mr. Watson's Bill of this session, stand

out in noble contrast with those of his fellow-Conservatives, who misled by the plausible sophistries of their leader, forgot for a time, we trust it was only for a time, their own consistency, and the religion of which they were the chosen defenders. We say, we wish Mr. Masterman had said more on this subject, not because we in the least doubt the course he will pursue, but because a full avowal of his sentiments would have proved a stimulus to others, and thus have promoted the great cause we have at heart.

Mr. Alderman Johnson speaks out as becomes a Protestant. We know scarcely anything of the character of the worthy Alderman, but if his conduct in Parliament be answerable to his address, the City Protestants will have no cause to regret their votes in his favour,

We have before alluded to Mr. Bevan's address, and we therefore would only remark here, that if such a candidate as Mr. Bevan is, be not returned, it will be a lasting disgrace to the Protestant citizens

of London.

Mr. Freshfield's address is, we regret to say, not as specific as we could desire. If he had only added after the expression of his opinions, that it was his determination to resist the endowment of Popery and all encouragement to it, his address would have inspired more confidence.

It is not too late for Mr. Freshfield to add something of this kind, and we are sure, by doing so, he will increase his chance of success.

But why make these remarks, some of our readers may say? We will tell them, we wish all our friends to observe the necessity that exists for them to declare frankly and fully their Protestant principles. Let them, as opportunity offers, demand full explanations from the candidates on the great questions of Popery and Protestantism, and plainly make known, that it is not because of their views respecting free trade, or the currency, or the Poorlaws, or any other civil matter, that they vote for the four Conservative candidates, to represent the City, but because they believe them to be sound

cannot suppose it likely to produce any conse-
As a Memorial, however, to the Noble Lord, we
quences of a beneficial character.

avowed his willingness to endow the Romish
He has already answered the question, and
priesthood in Ireland.

THE TRIAL OF ANTICHRIST.

(Continued from our last.)

The Apostle Peter's Examination-continued. The Attorney-General, addressing the Apostle Peter, said, you will please to observe that the pri all the world; he therefore styled you Prince of presumed to declare that you received orders from soner, when he established his throne at Rome, our Lord the King to invest him with power over the Apostles and said that you sat in his chair as such. And he takes upon himself to say that he is your successor, the Vicar of Christ, &c.

the views of the Noble Lord, the course
Should any, however, wish to hear at this crisis
them to adopt the following, or some similar Me- his government. I never had any such power given
is open for
Peter.-I am totally unacquainted with him and
to me by my Lord, and as I never received it, he
never could have obtained it from me.

morial.

London, beg leave to express to your Lordship,
"We, the undersigned electors of the City of
with all respect, but with all frankness and firm
ness, our deeply-rooted sentiments on a matter, in
and connected with the discharge of our public
our judgment, of vital importance to the nation,
tion that any further concessions to the Roman
duties. We are deeply impressed with the convic-
Catholics, but more especially the concession so
much of late discussed in Parliament, and we grieve
to add not unsupported by your Lordship, that of
a State-endowment to the Roman Catholic Priests
errors, is one alike opposed to the voice of Scripture
in Ireland, in effect a partial promotion of their
In conveying this deliberate impression to your
and fraught with imminent danger to these realms.
Lordship, we do not aim at any unfit reference to
your present position in the Government, although
as our present representative, and a candidate for
it cannot be wholly without its weight with us: but
the same post at the approaching election, we con-
our conscientious determination, to exonerate our-
sider it nothing short of a duty to express to you
selves from any share in the responsibility of pro-
moting or assenting to so dangerous a measure.
you would avail yourself of your seat in Parliament
"We therefore beg to ask your Lordship whether
either to originate or advance there, the particular
proposition of endowing the Roman Catholic
feel constrained by our views on so vital a point to
Priests in Ireland?-as in that event we should
use our efforts at least towards obtaining another
liament."
representative of our opinions in the ensuing Par-

Lord John Russell, it is announced, is to meet

the electors of London to-morrow.

Christ said to you, "On this rock I will build my
Ant. Do you remember the time when Jesus
Church," and when he gave you the keys of the
kingdom of heaven?

with the present case? what my Lord said to me is
Peter.-I do very well, but what has that to do
who have said that you were at Rome, and that you
one thing, and what you profess is another.
Ant.-I can produce a number of Holy Fathers,

were the first Pope.

Peter. All that is very possible. But can you
prove from the Word of my God, from either of my
whether I was there or not, I am certain that my
Epistles, or from any of the writings of the Evange
thority whatever.
gelists or Apostles, that I was ever at Rome? But
Lord never commissioned me to give you any au-

he would convince you of your mistake.
Ant. If the blessed Apostle St. Paul were here,

The Apostle Paul, being in Court, was then called
and sworn.
There was a striking resemblance be
tween him and the Apostle Peter.

Sovereign told me that I should testify of him there,
Q. Were you ever at Rome in Italy?
A. I was; I know Rome well; my Lord and
but a prisoner, I was suffered to dwell two whole
and after a perilous voyage I landed safe. Though
years in my own hired house, preaching the glorious
gospel of the grace of God. I wrote several of my
Epistles to the different Churches from Rome, and
one Epistle to a Church of Christ there, and the
last Epistle I ever wrote I wrote there. (a)
resided a long time at Rome, and professes to be
Q. Do you know the prisoner at the bar? he has
intimately acquainted with you.

has the advantage of me, and I am quite in the
A. If he is intimately acquainted with me, he

dark in this matter.

Q. Do you recollect having ever seen the Apostle Peter at Rome?

THE DISSENTING DEPUTIES.-The Dissenting deputies not only have an object in view, but they Had my brother Apostle been there, as I wrote so A. I never saw him at Rome when I was there. pursue the attainment of it by means adapted to the therefore unite their efforts to make Parliament frequent opportunities of mentioning my fellowend. They know the power of Parliament. They many Epistles from that place, I should have had speak their own language. The Church party- labourer. But though I named many, I made no Like large bodies, the most powerful when in pians and Colossians, and also to Timothy and the Protestant party-have too much neglected this. Churches of the Galatians, to the Ephesians, Philipmotion, they are, in a quiescent state, ridden over by Philemon, without ever mentioning St. Peter's mention of him. From Rome I wrote to the those of inferior magnitude to themselves. The ties took place on Tuesday afternoon last at the King's Head Tavern, in the Poultry, when the Tychicus, Onesimus, Aristarchus, Marcus, and usual half-yearly Meeting of the Dissenting depu- name, or sending any salutation from him. It is quite clear that he was not there when I election of Members of Parliament on the approach- Justus, I added, "These only are my fellow-workers wrote my Epistle to the Colossians; for mentioning proceedings lasted for four hours, and were exing dissolution was taken into consideration. The tremely irregular in consequence of the difference of said in that letter, unto the kingdom of God." (b) Peter was not there opinion amongst the deputies as to the claims of the stood with me, for all forsook me." (c) Nor was he when I wrote my second Epistle to Timothy, for I various gentlemen submit.ed to their notice as canAt my first answer no man cies, the Dissenting interests of which they repre- named Eubulus, Pudens, Linus, and Claudia, but didates for the suffrages of the several constituen-Timothy that all the brethren did salute him, and there at the time of my departure, for I wrote to tion and recrimination, and much opposition, a sented. At length, after much discussion, crimina- not Peter. (d) Now, as when I wrote from Rome, I Resolution was carried to the effect, that from the though I saluted so many, Peter was not among replies of the following gentlemen to the questions the number. (e) They therefore who wish to make it sent no salutation from him, so in writing to Rome, submitted by the Committee of Deputies, they were considered worthy of the support of all Protestant lived there on very unfriendly terms. appear that he was there, must suppose that we and Dissenting electors in the ensuing general elecPROPOSED MEMORIAL TO LORD JOHN Lacy Evans, M.P., Charles Lushington, Esq., Sir tion, viz., J. Pattison, Esq, M.P., General Sir De RUSSELL. Benjamin Hall, Bart., M.P., T. S. Duncombe, Esq., The following form of Memorial has been for- D'Eyncourt, M.P., George Thompson, Esq., Thomas M.P., T. Wakley, Esq., M.P., Right Hon. Tennyson warded to us by a Correspondent. WW We insert it, because we believe it to speak the sentiments of a large portion of the constituency of

hearted Protestants.

Let every constituency act thus, and then we may reasonably hope that our Protestant representatives will no longer, in their place in Parliament, support a temporizing policy with regard to

the claims of Protestantism.

Pierson, Esq., D. W. Harvey, Esq., and Alderman
Allcock, Esq., Hon. P. Locke King, Sir W. Clay,
Bart., M.P., Rear Admiral Dundas, M.P., Charles
Humphery, M.P. The Meeting then terminated.

it. Even many Protestants say that you were at in one prison? Several of the Fathers have proved Ant.-Were not St. Peter and you both confined Rome.

all that fathers or others have asserted. I do not Paul. What I have said is sufficient as a reply to I never saw you personally there; but from the desdeny that they have said it, but they have not proved it. You may have lived at Rome, though cription my Lord gave me of the "Man of Sin,"

and of his awful character, I must conclude that
THOU ART THE MAN. I therefore warned the
people of your approach in several of my epistles. A. I did; we were compelled to do so, to escape
Court. (To the Apostle Paul.) Did the Apostle the unbounded rage and savage cruelty of the pri-
Peter claim a supremacy over any of his fellow-soner at the bar. Previous to my coming into
apostles, or over you?
England, I lived with a considerable number of
persons, like minded with myself, in the valleys of
Piedmont, who had long refused to acknowledge or
submit to the Papal power. The prisoner then, by
every instrument of destruction, which malice could
invent, slaughtered, or scattered these inoffensive
people; and I, with my companions in tribulation,
was driven from place to place on the continent of
Europe, until we embarked for England.

me.

Paul. No. When I disputed with him, (ƒ) I gave evidence that no such notion was entertained by Q. Did you ever hear of his being called Prince of the Apostles, Vicar of Christ, His Holiness the Pope, Prince over all Nations, God on Earth, &c.? A. Never. The Apostle Peter was better taught by his Lord and Master, than to dare to assume such titles, and to offer such indignity to the God of Heaven.

Q. Did he ever adorn himself in Pontifical vestments of the greatest splendour, and wear a mitre or triple crown, bedecked with diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, chrysolites, jaspers, and all manner of precious stones, such as the prisoner at the bar now wears?

A. No; I never saw a greater contrast than that, between an humble disciple of Jesus Christ, as Peter was, and the prisoner.

Q. Did you ever hear of a college of cardinals being established, while you were in Judea or Rome ?

A. Never; I am quite a stranger to the name. Q. Did you ever hear of the Apostle Peter collecting annually from all nations, wherever he could, a tax, called "Peter's Pence ?" A. Never.

The passage, which was much crowded, was now eleared to make way for a considerable number of other witnesses, chiefly martyrs, who made a most brilliant and magnificent appearance. The prisoner's countenance seemed for the first time to be depressed, but the change was only slight and did not last long, as it was quite evident to the most superficial observer that he was completely "hardened through the deceitfulness of sin." So heavenly was the appearance of the witnesses, that it was the general opinion of a crowded court that they came from the celestial city in Upper Salem. They conversed with the two Apostles, like intimate friends, and the brotherly intercourse which took place between them was peculiarly gratifying to the multitude, by which they were surrounded. The apostles, the martyred witnesses, and Mr. Historical Truth, a most essential witness, stood together and did not mix with the crowd.

Peter de Bruis, sworn.

Q. Did you not act under the prisoner's authority?

A. Í did. But when it pleased our most Gracious Sovereign, of his free grace and mercy, to show me my error, and to pardon my rebellious conduct, I rejected his authority and swore allegiance to our Sovereign Lord the King. This change took place while I lived in France, in the twelfth century. Afterwards it pleased our Sovereign to engage me in his service. I therefore preached for several years in France, what my Lord had taught me from his word. I preached the fulness and freeness of divine grace, as directed by our Sovereign Lord, and in opposition to the prisoner's theatrical mass, merits of good works, prayers for the dead, worship of crosses and images, &c.

Q. Did the prisoner usurp authority over you?
A. He did; and I was committed to the flames,

until I was dead.

Arnold of Brescia, Preacher, sworn.
Q. Did you live in the city of Rome, where the
prisoner has resided for many years?

A. I did. I recollect seeing him there.
Q. Did you not reject his authority in an open and

decided manner?

A. I did. I publicly declared the danger of all such as lived and died under his government, in rebellion against our Sovereign Lord and Everlasting King.

Q. What were the consequences that followed? A. I was dragged to his bar at Rome, condemned as a heretic, and publicly burnt in the year 1155, as was supposed to death, because some ashes, said to be mine, that were found in the fire after my deliverance, were cast into the Tiber; but my good and gracious King took me to live with him, as one of his adopted children, in his own country beyond Jordan," the glory of all lands."

Alba Gerald, sworn.

Q. Did you and about thirty more come into

England, as persecuted Waldenses, about the year | a priest under the prisoner's Goverment, and who
of our Lord 1160?
is considered an historian of high repute. He
says," Against the Waldenses, when exquisite
punishment availed little, and the evil was exaspe-
rated by the remedy which had been unseasonably
applied, and their number increased daily; at
length, complete armies were raised; and a war of
no less weight than what our people had before
waged against the Saracens, was decreed against
them; the event of which was, that they were
rather slain, put to flight, spoiled everywhere
of their goods and dignities, and dispersed here
and there, than that, convinced of their error,
they repented. So that they fled into Provence
and the neighbouring Alps of the French territories,
and found shelter for their lives and doctrine in those
places. Part withdrew into Calabria, part passed
into Germany, and fixed their abode among the
Bohemians, and in Poland and Livonia. Others
turning to the west obtained refuge in Britain.

In these wars, when the rebels under the command of the prisoner took the city of Beziers, they put to the sword above 60,000 persons, among whom were many of their own profession, the Pope's legate crying out, "Kill them all, for the Lord knoweth them that are his."

Cross-examined by Counsellor Quibble. Q. Do you not recollect the many abominable heresies and vices the Waldenses were charged with?

Q. Did the prisoner pursue you to England? A. He did. After I came there, I laboured to bring back some of the inhabitants from their rebellious ways to the obedience of the laws of Jesus the legitimate King. The consequence was, that I, with those who took refuge with me in England, was committed to prison by order of King Henry II., who then acted as one of the prisoner's agents. We were all brought before an assembly of his bishops at Oxford, when, being asked who we were, I answered, "We are Christians, that hold the doctrines of the Apostles." After further examination, we refused to own the Pope's suWe were then premacy, or to obey his laws. declared heretics, and condemned as such to be punished. We were burnt with hot irons in the forehead as heretics, and whipped through the A. What they were charged with by those who streets of Oxford; but we were enabled to re- were totally unacquainted with them, I do not conjoice for being accounted worthy to suffer for sider worthy of notice. The prisoner seemed our King's sake. There being then no law in to lay it down as a fixed principle to find all England, which authorized the burning of here- guilty of heresy, who were enemies to his tics to death, the prisoner commanded that authority; but to prove the truth of my statement, none should presume to receive us into their houses, I will produce three of the most respectable Roman or grant us the most trifling comfort, so that we Catholic authors, who have written in defence of might perish with hunger and cold, as enemies to the prisoner at the bar. The first I shall name is his government. He considered that this cruel Reinerius Sacco, whose testimony is the more reorder was carried into effect, but our beloved Sove-markable, as he was of the order of St. Dominic, reign did not lose sight of us, and removed us to a more peaceable and delightful country.

Mr. Historical Truth again examined.
Q. Are you acquainted with the prisoner's con-
duct to the people called Waldenses?
A. I am, and so is Europe. They have been
designated by various appellations. The first name
by which they were known was Vallenses; so saith
one of the oldest writers of that people, Ebrard of
Bethune, who wrote in the year 1212, "They call
themselves Vallenses, because they abide in the
valley of tears," alluding to their situation in the
valleys of Piedmont. They were also called
Albigenses, from Alba, a city in the southern part
of France, where a great number of them resided.
They were afterwards denominated Valdenses or
Waldenses, from one Peter Valdo or Waldo, an
opulent citizen of Lyons, and one of the most active
of these people. They were also called Leonists,
from Lyons, its ancient name being Leona.

From their writings, and the testimony even of
their most violent enemies, it appears that they
maintained the following principles, the very
reverse of the doctrines laid down by the prisoner,
that "The holy Scripture is the only rule of
faith and practice-Christ Jesus, the only Sovereign
head and lawgiver of his Church-salvation by
Christ alone-the Pope, Antichrist-the Church of
Rome, the whore of Babylon-Masses, impious-
purgatory, an invention of men-monkery, a stink.
ing car case-invoking of dead saints, idolatry-the
Host, an idol-and so many orders of the clergy, so
many marks of the beast."

In the beginning of the thirteenth century, they had spread so far, and were increasing so rapidly, that the prisoner became alarmed, and employed every effort to annihilate them. For this purpose a crusade, or holy war, so termed in the prisoner's language, was proclaimed against them, and the formidable and odious tribunal, called the Inquisition, was erected; the one to kill the body, the other to enslave the soul. It is enough to make the blood run cold to hear of the horrid and wholesale murders committed at this time, and of the vast number of persons who were sacrificed to the blind fury and malice of the prisoner. It is computed that in France alone, no less than a million of human beings were slain, who had the boldness to oppose his pretensions; and yet this immense multitude of victims was inadequate to satisfy the rapacious desires and insatiable appetite for blood of the prisoner at the bar.

I will just notice the testimony of one Thuanus,

and Inquisitor-General, about the year 1254. This cruel Inquisitor, who exercised a zeal amounting to fanaticism for the destruction of the Waldenses, lived about eighty years after Valdo of Lyons, and must therefore be supposed, from his inquisitorial occupation, to know their real character. He said:"Among all the sects, which still are, or have been, there is not any more pernicious to the Church than that of the Leonists. And this for three reasons; the first is, because it is older, for some say that it hath endured from the time of Pope Sylvester; others, from the time of the Apostles. The second, because it is more general, for there is scarce any country where this sect is not. The third, because when all other sects begat horror in the hearers by the outrageousness of their blasphemies against God, this of the Leonists hath a great show of piety, because they live justly before men, and believe all things rightly concerning God, and all the articles which are contained in the creed; only they blaspheme the Church of Rome and the clergy, whom the multitude of the laity is easy to believe."

The credit of Thuanus, as an historian, has been always admitted by those under the government of the prisoner, and he was wise enough to distinguish between their real opinions and those falsely imputed to them. He gave a good account of them.

By the Court.-Did not the prisoner, through the instrumentality of such as acted by his authority, circulate a variety of false reports in order to excite Princes to take up arms and destroy them on account of their unnatural and shocking appearance?

A. Yes; so extravagant were some in describing their persons to Philip, Duke of Savoy, that he was induced to examine into the truth of the reports, principally with a view of gratifying his sight, by witnessing such extraordinary and monstrous beings. He therefore ordered some of their children to be brought from the vallies to satisfy himself whether they were not born with black throats, shaggy manes, and four rows of teeth, as described.

(a) Acts xxiii. 11; xxviii. 16, 30, 31. (b) Colossians iv. 11. (c) 2 Tim. iv. 16. (d) 2 Tim. iv. 21. (e) Rom. xvi. 3, 15. (f) Gal. ii. 11. (To be continued.)

THE HARVEST.-The reports from all parts of the kingdom continue to describe the crops, including the potato, as luxuriant and fast ripening, giving every promise of an early and abundant harvest.