guage of the ministerial paper, the Courier, in reference to the topic, is remarkable enough. "The policy of the British Cabinet," says The Courier, "is a consideration wholly distinct from the situation in which its Allies have placed themselves; and as its influence has manifestly not been sufficient to prevent the Sovereigns of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, from issuing such a document as the Circular we yesterday published, to which it seems England was no party, though she had her Representative at Verona, it may be that it will fail in arresting the progress of whatever measures are contemplated as the result of that Circular." That she has totally failed, by negotiation, we doubt not-whether she will not try to counteract effectually, the ultimate purposes of the sovereigns, remains to be seen. Her pride, her honour, her higher interests, all appear to us to be involved in the point of convincing them, as she may do, that she is not to be disregarded in her advice and wishes with impunity-that in the great struggle between Despotism and Freedom, she can, by throwing her weight into the scale of the latter, decide its final preponderance. There are probable chances which may relieve her from the necessity of much exertion; which kindle a glow in the heart, as they present themselves to the imagination. We mean the immediate recoil of the French forces upon the enemies of Liberty at home-a march to Paris with the tri-colored cockade-the subversion of the present rule-the rising of Italy-an imitation among the German troops and people-a general confederation against Legitimacy, -Or, the successful resistance of the Spaniards, and as a certain consequence the downfall of the government in France, that dared to invade their soil, and hoped to extinguish their sacred liberties. We may place in their mouths the language of King John in Shakespeare, and trust that it will be verified through out. "Peace be to France, if France in peace permit Our just and lineal entrance to our own! If not, bleed France, and Peace ascend to heaven! We have received our file of the London Morning Chronicle to the 30th Jan. inclusive. That paper annexes to the warlike speech of Louis XVIII. the following remarks. "Thus then the sword is fairly unsheathed. One of the most unprovoked aggressions the world ever witnessed, is about to be committed against the Peninsula. "We hope for the best. It would ill become us, however, with our imperfect information as to the state of things in France, to pronounce how far the French army is or is not to be relied on in this unholy and unprincipled attempt. We would fain persuade ourselves that the brave Spaniards will find brethren instead of enemies in its ranks, and that the arms commissioned to rivet the chains of the Peninsula, may aid in restoring France itself to liberty." A Paris correspondent of the same paper, in calculating the particular propriety of moderation and liberality on the part of Louis, observes "A glorious opportunity now presents itself of making some small atonement for the incalculable miseries which his ill-fated family has entailed upon Europe. He should reflect that the three kingdoms submitted to their sceptre, France, Spain and Naples, have for ages been notoriously the worst governed in Europe; that in the former their profligacy and misrule generated the Revolution with all its horrors, while he himself was only restored to the throne of his ancestors, by two bloody invasions of his native country-that in Naples the King, after swearing to the New Constitution, came back at the head of an Austrian army, to massacre his own subjects, and has ever since been gorging the axe and glutting the gibbet with the blood of his best citizens;-that in Spain, after the whole county had been devastated for years, and bled at every pore, for the re-establishment of a third Bourbon, it was again enslaved, oppressed and tormented with a hideous ingratitude, of which his tory, so fruitful in royal crimes, offers no parallel." THE EVANGELICAL WITNESS. VOL. I. MAY, 1823. NO. X. Letter to the Editor of the Evangelical Witness. POPERY IN THE UNITED STATES. SIR-In a publication such as yours, admitting a variety of discussion, I hope room will be found for the following. We have been in the habit (I speak of Christians generally,) of thinking that Papal exertions, hopes and influence, are at an end. A remarkable fact has taken place, not unfrequently observed by aged Christians, that Protestant ministers of the present age, have almost entirely ceased to pray as did their forefathers for the downfall of Anti-Christ. This can have arisen only from a belief that the prayers of their pious predecessors have been answered. That they are mistaken, however, may be seen at a single view of the extensive countries in Europe, which "worship the beast," from the very rapid increase in numbers, and power of the Papists in this country-from the audacity of Papal bulls, against reading the bible in this age of bibles, and from the reverence which almost all the crowned heads of Europe have not long since in one way or another bestowed on the Pope. The people of this country, ardent in the love of liberty, and devoted to its preservation, receiving at the same time with great cordiality, all who take refuge on its shore from European oppression, while they look with great and commendable jealousy up on every indication of a disposition to introduce the political tyranny of Europe, are little disposed to imagine that the monster who for so many ages abused and oppressed the nations of the old world, can have the presumption to attempt the dissemination of his principles here. To correct such an imagination in the minds of those who may examine the pages of the Evangelical Witness, I shall introduce to their notice, something of the character and principles of "the United States Catholic Miscellany," a paper published at Charleston, S. C. professedly to explain and maintain the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. If I might offer an opinion of its merits, its editor is not deficient in the parade of learning, in ingenuity, extensive correspondence, and the most indefatigable industry, in the impious cause he has adopted. His learning is shewn, in the almost endless reference to the ancient councils and fathers, and his ingenuity in the felicity with which he endeavours to apply his facts and principles to the existing state of things in this country. I believe his paper does not want an extensive circulation and patronage. The first article in the prospectus is the followingin which he states the design of his publication to be "the simple explanation and temperate maintainance of the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church; in exhibiting which, its conductors are led to hope that many sensible persons will be astonished in finding they have imputed to Catholics, doctrines which the Catholic Church has formerly condemned, and imagined they were contradicting Catholics, when they held Catholic doctrines themselves." Your readers will perceive that here is no slumbering, and no disguise of the design, though it is artfully expressed—but a direct, active and open attempt to disseminate the doctrines of the Romish Church, which Protestants ever since the Reformation, have looked upon with truth, as a heretical, im pious, tyrannical, and bloody engine of Satan. And that they were right, I shall prove hereafter, if you will give me the occasional use of your pages. How far the assertion which I have ventured to change into Italic is correct, I leave those to judge who are better acquainted with public opinion than I ammy fear is, from a variety of causes, that it is extensively and lamentably true. He promises also, intelligence "from Rome, Paris, London, Dublin, Canada, South America, and the various parts of the United States," as well as "other portions of the world;" and if all the articles on the pages of his Miscellany, are what they profess to be, he certainly redeems his pledge. It abounds with intelligence, displaying at once the activity of Papal emissaries, and the lamentable success with which they meet, particularly among the unsuspecting citizens of this country. Biographical sketches, and anecdotes, illustrative of the piety, &c. of the servants of the Pope are not wanting. One of the most conspicuous articles, and the most important in itself, is a laboured vindication, not from scripture, to which the writer only alludes, but from the decrees of councils, and Church history, of the Supremacy of the Pope, on two features, of which I mean to offer a few remarks, as the article strikingly illustrates the real nature and designs of the Church of Rome. The article is not original, but transcribed from a British Journal of the same Church. In the course of his successive papers on this subject, the writer discovers, that the "Mother of Har lots" has not yet forgotten the labours of John Calvin, minister of the Reformed Church, at Geneva, nor the merited shame to which he exposed her by tearing off her highly decorated garments, and discovering her nakedness to the view of all Europe. Every other Protestant writer, almost, who is mentioned, is treated with some degree of decorum. Nothing but the most vulgar abuse is connected with that |