"Go teach all nations.".

perfectly consistent with the safety and integrity of the Catholic Religion? It would not be difficult to tell what the conduct of the primitive Christians would have been if one of the Roman Emperors had spoken of his Supreтасу inall matters Ecclesiastical-and I can see no better claim to such authority in his Most Sacred Majesty than in any one of the Emperors. Temporal rulers are appointed to look after temporal concerns, and to preserve the public peace. It was not to Pontius Pilate nor to Herod that our Saviour said, They were not members much less Governors of the church when he said, "Let him who will not hear the Church be to thee as a Heathen and a Publican." It was to the Apostles he addressed himself in giving the commis sion, and they were the governors of that Church which. he commanded all to hear. He drew a clear line of demarcation when he desired his followers to “ give unto Cæsar the things which were Cæsar's, and to give unto God the things which were God's."-But here both are confounded, and the Ministers of his Majesty claim for him the two swords of Civil and Ecclesiastical authority. They must prove that he has received ecclesiastical power before Irish Catholics will allow him Ecclesiastical supremacy. Had our forefathers sworn that he was supreme head in all matters Ecclesiastical, they would have preserved their property-And did the Irish Catholics now swear the same oath, the bulwark of the penal laws which keeps them outside the constitution, would crumble like the walls of Jericho. Let those who are disposed to barter their Religion for temporal things admit the principle, and leave us uncontaminated by their company Let us see what is the will and pleasure of his Majesty's Ministers,

"Ist, That all appeals to, or correspondence with any "foreign Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, of any nature or “ kind soever, be absolutely forbidden under very severe "penalties."

Why was not the punishment of incurring a Promunire mentioned, aud then it would be exactly the statute of Henry VIII. when he created the English schism.

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Now, look at anada-Catholics believe that the Pope is supreme head of their Church, and that since their Church is not a monster, it cannot have two heads. The people of one of the English Religions tell them, "We will allow you to be Catholics, but our king must be your supreme Ecclesiastical Governor, and we will punish you severely if you shall attempt to have any correspondence of any nature or kind soever with the Pope (who is a foreign Ecclesiastic)." Then" says the Canadian Catholic, "My religion is infringed upon. You want me to deny the supremacy of the Pope." "Not at all,” replies the Minister, "I do not prevent your believing him to be the supreme head,or whatever else you choose-I only say I will punish you severely if you hold any correspondence with him ""Now, surely," says the Irish protester veceder," this man cannot complain, because the essentials of his Religion are preserved. He is not required to deny one single article of Faith."-" But," says the Canadi"what signifies my being permitted to hold a speculative tenet, when I am not allowed to reduce the principle to practice." "Now," rejoins the protester seceder, "This is one of the misfortunes of a people of warm imagination this poor man really thinks his Religion is upset because this instruction is issued-You need not fear; it is but mere matter of form; it will never be acted upon, you may rest assured that Sir Geo. Prevost gives himself but little trouble about your Religion; he has something else to mind. What object could he have in view in disturbe ing you?-Sir George has too much sense, to irritate the people of Canada-he dare not do it, you may make yourself easy upon the subject. The instructions will not be acted upon." Did they act, I ask, upon the Irish convention law which slept upon the statute book near 20 years before it was awakened?"You have perhaps a good lease of your Religion and God knows what changes may take place before twenty years, come about. Sure you may teach your children that the Pope is head of the Church, and thus preserve the Faith or his Holiness may appoint a Vicar in Panada and thus you see how easily the obstacle is.removed"

2d lause, "That no Episcopal or Vicarial powers be "exercised within our said Province by any person professing the Religion of the Church of Rome but such only as are indispensably necessary to the free exercise of "the ROMISH Religion; and in these cases not without Licence and Permission from you under the seal of our "said Province, for and during our will and pleasure; and “under such limitations and restrictions as may correspond with the spirit and provisions of the Act of Parliament, of "the fourteenth year of our Reign, for making more effectual provision for the Government of the Quebec; and no person whatever is to have HOLY ORDERS conferred upon him, or to have THE CURE OF SOULS, without a license for that purpose first had and obtained "from you."

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Now, good friends, look at this-- Neither are appeals nor intercourse with the Pope allowed; nor will a Vicar of his Holiness be allowed to live in Canada, and yet the Pope is the spiritual head of the Canadians!!! The English Government then cuts off the intercourse between them-it seversthe head from the body, and yet it means no harm !!! But surely Vicars may be allowed to exercise their functions iu Canada, and even the Cope's Vicar; so that the Roman Catholics are really permitted the full exercise of their Religion, and the only Vicarial powers which are not allowed are those which are not essentially and indispensably necessary to the free exercise of the Romish Religion.--Now who is the judge of what powers are essentially and indispensably necessary? Sir Geo. Prevost or his Government of course. So that really and truly the head of the English Religion is to determine the powers of the Vicars of the Romish Religion-Quere, what would Parliament think of introducing a clause into the Relief Bill enacting that no Ecclesiastical Vicar of the ENGLISH POPE should exercise any authority in Ireland without license both as the nature and the extent of the authority first had and obtained from the Roman Catholic Board?-This suggestion should be made to Lord Donoughmore and Mr. Grattan. See the extent of the Vicarial powers, the indulgence of a Government which is hostile to the Romish Religion" and in those cases not without a license and "permission from you under the seal of our said province

for and during our will and pleasure, &c." But suppose this Vicar thus appointed and permitted, had abused his power by the oppression of the Bishop or of any of the Clergy, this indulgent government will not permit either of them to appeal to the foreign Ecclesiastic who is the ordinary. And all this is liberty for the free exercise of the Ro mish Religion. An appeal to Quarantotti (who is a foreign Ecclesiastic) did not tend to overthrow or weaken the Protestant Religion nor the Protestant establishment of this kingdom-Ŏ how readily such appeals are permitted and aided and abetted!!!—Quere, who paid the expenses of that appeal?

But of all the curious regulations that have been devised the following deserves a place amongst the first class. And 86 no person whatever is to have holy orders confered upon him, or to have the cure of souls, without a license for "that purpose had and obtained from you."

I am sure you will stop to enquire where we have a precedent for this, did our Saviour send the Apostles for a license to Herod or to Pontius Pilate before he ordained them?-I should like to see one of those licenses to know if it be like a license to sell whiskey; or tobacco and Shuff, or to deal in groceries-Bless us! so a poor little Romish boy who wishes to be a Priest must go to a Protestant Governor for a licence to be manufactured." And I suppose he must have this license ready to produce to any Custom-house officer that may chuse to de mand it, and have printed over the door in letters two inches long at least, "JONAS SIMPLETON LICENSED TO BE IN ROMISH ORDERS," And thus certain persons with Sir George's leave, may deal in that contraband article called POPERY:

The 3rd clause as to the first part which excludes fo reign Ecclesiasties may perhaps be sufficiently unobjecti onable, except that considering the state of Canada it is zather calculated to injure the Roman Catholic Religion inasmuch as that there is no great facility for proper edu cation, in that country, and but few of the Canadians are generally disposed to enter into orders, and even Irish Priests cannot be in Canada. But the second part is totally injurions to Catholic principles, inasmuch as it makes spiritual Jurisdiction an appendage of

civil authority. "That no person shall be allowed to fill 'any ecclesiastical benefice, or to have or enjoy any of the "rights or profits belonging thereto, who is not appoint"ed by us or under our authority, and that all claim

to the patronage of benefices as a civil right be abso"lutely abolished." The third part of the clause `regarding the prohibition of pluralities is very good ; but it is to be regretted that his Majesty's Ministers do not equally manifest fondness for their own church by adopting similar regulations. This over fondness for the Romish Religion would lead one to fear that their loving embrace had in it something of the nature of the Bear's hug.

TO BE CONTINUED.

The following Essay on the rights and dignity of Parish Priests has been received from a highly respectable Ecclesiastic, to whom the Editor feels deeply indebted for the communication, and inserts it with but this remark-That if the object be only to prove that Parish Priests have not their jurisdiction jure divino the Essay appears to be conclusive

'PARISH PRIESTS.

The Ecclesiastical history of the first three or four centuries would incline us to think that there were then no such things as parishes, nor, of course, Parish Priests; if there were any at all they must have been very few, as Thomassinus declares in his Treatise on Church discipline, part the 1st, Book 1st, ch. 21st. The Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles of St. Paul, the Book of Revelations, mention no other than churches of considerable titles and Bishops and riests residing there. Sts. Ignatius and Cyprian addressed their letters to the Bishops of great cities only, nor do they even advert to Priests or Deacons of the country around, neither is the smallest vestige to be met with of any Church, not governed by a Bishop. St. Justin'in his second Apology says, "That on the Sundays the faithful of town and