as sick as I am of curses. This, sirs, is a Church of England document, to be read now once a year; and Mr. Lestrange, a learned commentator upon the Liturgy of that church, shows that it used to be read, at least four times a year, in the early days of that church:

“A Commination Or Denouncing of God's anger and judgments against Sinners. With certain Prayers, to be used on the first day of Lent, and at other times, as the Ordinary shall appoint.

After Morning Prayer, the Litany ended, according to the accustomed manner, the. Priest shall, in the Reading Pew or Pulpit, say:

"Brethren, in the Primitive Church there was a godly discipline, that, at the beginning of Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin, were put to open penance, and punished in this world, that their souls might be saved in the day of the Lord; and that others, admonished by their example, might be the more afraid to offend.

"Instead whereof, (until the said discipline may be restored again, which is much to be wished,) it is thought good, that at this time, (in the presence of you all,) should be read the general sentence of God's cursing against impenitent sinners, gathered out of the seven-and-twentieth chapter of Deuteronomy, and other places of Scripture; and that ye should answer to every sentence, Amen: To the intent that, being admonished of the great indignation of God against sinners, ye may the rather be moved to earnest and true repentance, and may walk more warily in these dangerous ways: fleeing from such vices, for which ye affirm with your own mouths the curse of God to be due.

"Cursed is the man that maketh any carved or molten image, to worship it." "And the People shall answer and say, Amen.”

Answer: "Amen."

Minister: "Cursed is he that removeth his neighbour's landmark."

Answer: "Amen."

Minister: "Cursed is he that maketh the blind to go out of his way."

Answer: ""
'Amen."

Minister: "Cursed is he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and widow.''

Answer: "Amen."

Minister: "Cursed is he that smiteth his neighbour secretly."

Answer: "Amen."

Minister: "Cursed is he that lieth with his neighbour's wife."

Answer: "Amen."

Minister: "Cursed is he that taketh reward to slay the innocent."

Minister: "Cursed is he that putteth his trust in man, and taketh man for his defence, and in his heart goeth from the Lord.''

Answer: "Amen."

"Minister: "Cursed are the unmerciful, fornicators, adulterers, covetous persons, idolaters, slanderers, drunkards, and extortioners.''

Answer: "Amen."

In the Litany of the Church of England, to be said or sung upon Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and at other times, that is, at least

one hundred and fifty-six times as often as the Roman excommunication, there is this petition:

us.''

"From all false doctrine, heresy, and schisms, and so forth. Good Lord, deliver

Why do you see the mote in your neighbour's eye, and not cast the beam out of your own?

I shall add two of your articles of religion:

"Article xviii. Of obtaining eternal salvation only by the name of Christ. They are also to be had accursed, that presume to say, that every man shall be saved by the law or sect which he protesteth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that law, and the light of nature; for Holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the name of Jesus Christ, whereby man must be saved.

"Article xxxiii. Of excommunicated persons, how they are to be avoided. That person, which by open denunciation of the church, is rightly cut off from the unity of the church, and excommunicated, ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faithful, as an heathen and publican, until he be openly reconciled by penance, and received into the church by a judge that hath authority thereto.'

You have, sirs, lately complained of my letters being severe, gross and personal. I ask you, could any severity be too great for your wanton attack upon the land of my birth and the religion of the great bulk of the Christian world? How many falsehoods have I detected? How much ignorance have I exposed?-How many calumnies have I refuted? The task was easy because the fabrications were palpable; the want of correct information apparent, the desire to injure your fellow-citizens manifest. The language could not be other than severe. There are writers, who, even when they err, should be treated with respect, because they continue to be gentlemen in their manner, though their matter might be censurable; but when the manner is that of an outrageous gladiator, who, in his unrestrained fury rushes to destroy and insult with ribald slander the object of his hate; such a drawcansir is supposed to have none of those feelings which, if existing in himself, he would respect in others.

No man of correct feeling would stuff his article with phrases like the following:-"Dangerous Popish tenets;" "Papists inconsistent with their profession;" "Papists better than their profession;" "Papists having no idea of all the enormous corruptions of the faith they acknowledge;" "The Roman Catholic Church is of its own nature a persecuting church;" "In the Romish Church the more consistent she is with herself, the more of the spirit of persecution will she manifest;" "The Romish Church abstains from persecution only from want of power, or want of Roman Catholic faith!!!" "The persecutions of the Romish Church have exceeded in malignity, cruelty, perseverance, extension and continuance, not only those of all other sects, but even the anti-christian

violence of the Heathens;" "Horrible massacres, extensive and exterminating, are perfectly consistent with Roman Catholic doctrine;" "Horrible massacre and extermination of Protestants, must be justified by every consistent member of the Romish Church;" "Shocking as this is, it arose undoubtedly from the Romish faith;" "The Pope was consistent in his savage conduct;" "Savage conduct is consistent with the tenets of his infallible Church." Here is a pretty collection of phrases in an article of not two octavo pages. And this man complains of gross writing!!!

Besides this pretty and becoming collection, he compares the Irish Catholics to "wretched criminals banished" from their country: "traitorous conspirators against their country." He denounces the American. Catholics to their fellow-citizens, as "opposed to the spirit of toleration;" as "opposed to republican institutions;" as hypocrites whose "fears occasion their not inculcating in this country doctrines, which, however, they believe;" as "hiding in America doctrines which they cannot deny." He denounces us, as villanous conspirators of the worst description, "waiting only till the Romish Church shall be sufficiently powerful in this country to seize torches to burn the Protestants, and scourges to persecute them." And this man expects to be treated with courtesy!!!

There is much in habit. The people of America have been accustomed to find Roman Catholics treated in the manner that you have treated us. But, sirs, if I were to write of Protestants as you have written of Catholics, would any vituperation be considered too gross. You deserve worse treatment than you have received. I have been too lenient, too sparing. But should it be necessary for me to take you up again, do not calculate upon much forbearance. I stand in America upon an equality of right with you: and though I have against me vast prejudice, for which the people of America are not to blame: I have to contend in presence of a discerning, intelligent, patient, investigating people, who love truth and will neither strike me down by the hand of power, nor drown my voice in clamour. They are not like the British Parliament, who put the lock of the law upon the mouth of truth.

You complain of my personality. First, I believed that writers like you did not deserve to have your feelings so very sacredly protected after having outraged, and wantonly outraged the feelings of your unoffending fellow-citizens. Secondly, I feel too deep a respect, too high a regard, too sincere an attachment towards a great number of very respectable members of the Church to which you say you belong, to wound their sensibility by identifying you and them.

Their religion does not urge to such a course as you have chosen;

their charity would protect me from your dagger; their patriotism would save me from your proscription; their candour would disclaim any connexion with your misrepresentations; their information would detect your historic falsehoods. Some of them are the descendants of those very men whose massacre you would charge upon me, a century before my birth. Your malice would sow between us a deadly hate, which, if we permitted to grow, would poison the air by which we are surrounded. Whilst we take each other by the hand, and lament our difference of creed, we unite in charity and affection; we trample upon your unholy cultivation, and whilst I blame and condemn the cruelty of the French court towards their ancestors, their kindness soothes down much of that irritation which the British cruelty has created in me. They tell me, and I agree with them, that it is better to weep over the faults of those, who, professing each creed unholily, persecuted those who professed the other: and taught by the unfortunate sequel of this double crime, we shall endeavour to make America more rational, more charitable, more flourishing than Europe was. Neither will molest the other for the profession of a different creed. Neither will charge upon the church of the other, the crimes of the individuals who might be in that church, and therefore I charge not upon the Protestant Episcopal Church, but upon the Reverend William Hawley and his associates the unfortunate article which I have reviewed.

I am happy to subscribe myself, sirs, in wishing you adieu,

Yours, devotedly,

A CATHOLIC CLERGYMAN,

A native of Ireland.

CONTROVERSY WITH "MOUNT ZION MISSIONARY."

[The controversy with the "Mount Zion Missionary," occasioned by some strictures of the editor upon a sermon of Dr. England, preached at Warrenton, Ga., April 5th, 1824, appeared in the United States Catholic Miscellany, for 1824-6.]

SECTION I.

The following article is copied from a Georgia paper called the Missionary, and is its leading paragraph for April 12. The name of the place of publication is Mount Zion.

We shall always act towards others, as we would they should act towards us. Our readers shall have from the authors themselves the sentiments upon which we shall make comments.

We complain of misrepresentation, we shall not misrepresent.-Miscellany.

DOCTOR ENGLAND

"Rarely has a pulpit orator received such encomiums as have been bestowed upon this Roman Catholic Bishop. Many have heard him and acknowledged his powers. That he has a popular address and talents considerably above mediocrity cannot be denied. For without these he could not command the attention of an enlightened community, who are not, to say the least, prejudiced in favour of the Catholic religion. We shall suspend our opinion of his sentiments, till we give an abstract of the only sermon which we have ever heard him deliver-it was on Monday last, at the opening of court at Warrenton. As we rely upon our memory alone, we shall not pretend to draw all the lineaments of this discourse with an accurate pencil, and we would crave his indulgence for the unfinished and mutilated manner in which we shall present it, promising, at the same time, to submit to any corrections which either he or those who heard him may think proper to make.

After an introduction in which he mentioned the embarrassment under which he appeared, as an advocate of a religion against which the prejudices of the community were enlisted-as the minister of a church whose tenets had been grossly misrepresented-of a church the