been said on that subject, in the times of Queen Elizabeth. What! with a priestly orthodox education, how dare you advance such egregious lies? Was that the doctrine when you were at the university? Religious education is a matter of fact. I am well informed, by a respectable friend of mine, that Roman Catholic education flourishes now, by the grace of Almighty God, in France. If all the priests had acted like you, and your schismatical tribe, the Roman Catholic religion might be nearly extinct in France by this time. I say, that I am informed, by creditable authority, that the Roman Catholic, Apostolic, Universal (the only Religion upon earth) has been entrusted, even before your execrable Controversie pacifique had made its appearance, to some ancient intrepid confessors of that holy faith, and that in spite of the guillotine, in spite of transportation and persecution; whilst you and your schismatical tribe were lurking at a respectable distance, at ease, upon a sinecure, squeezed out of the pockets of the industrious laborious poor. As to the female part, the Roman Catholic religion has been constantly propagated and preserved, in the worst of times, by those angelic creatures, the Nuns, chiefly Urselines; of which number not a single one has betrayed their faith; though several hundreds of them were slaughtered, and whose coagulated virginal blood will be reeking and crying for vengeance, like that of our holy missionary priests, as long as this world exists. There are at present, in your own country, Mr. Blanchard, several zealous ancient professors of your acquaintance, who have weathered the storm, and are now at the head of hundreds of pious youths, who continue faithful to the ancient faith of Jesus Christ.

At the opening of an archiepiscopal seminary at Tours, the numbers that flocked there as candidates to receive Catholic clerical education was immense; only a small number could be adopted, for want of professors; the harvest was truly great, but the labourers were few, on account of the lurking deserters. If you call yourself soldiers of Jesus Christ, you are very cowardly ones; you don't like to fight, nor to suffer for your Master; whose whole life was a

series of sufferings, for our example, and chiefly for priests, the spiritual soldiers of our Holy religion, under the banners of the cross..

So Mr. B. you thought that our holy father, Pope Pius VII. had no right or power to sanction or ratify the Concordat between him and the French Emperor, and to dispose of your benefices, or fill up your places until votre bon plaisir was known, and that your colleagues in iniquity were consulted! and to prove all this, you reason exactly as Martin Luther reasoned, when the devil had tempted him with the lust of the flesh, and debauched a nun; and I really suspect that you and your adherents labour under the same temptation; but unless you become open to conviction and repentance, you will share the fate of that arch-heretic, who has done every thing to get rid of that odious nickname Lutheran ; and your party, (which is already divided and subdivided,) will never be disencumbered from that detestable nickname Blanchardist.. To become divided and subdivided, has ever been the fate of all sects; I defy you all to describe. to me any sectmongers, which did not immediately branch out into divisions. Such is already your fate; some of your party, that have assisted in broaching, by the instigation of Satan, your new doc. trine, now hate and detest you, and have already made some additions or diminutions to your tenets; this is the predetermined destiny of all sectmongers who lose the point of that BLESSED UNION ! You are lopped-off branches, separated from the universal Church. You have found fault with the Pope, and so have all ringleaders of sects: so have many of the Jews; for they found fault with Moses, and they said :-Hath the Lord indeed ONLY spoken by Moses? Hath he not spoken by us (by Blanchard) also? and they gathered themselves together against Moses, (the Pope) and against Aaron, and said unto them, ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them; wherefore, then, lift ye yourselves up above the congregation of the Lord? Numb. xii.

And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the chilren of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown. Ibid. 16. If you and your tribe escape the same punishment, as Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, you will have the fate of the heads of all other sects; the pains and torments of their damnation will increase until the end of time, in proportion to the number of deluded associates they have dragged into the devil's net, if they die in their delusion.

One of your tribe (a priest as he was) told me the other day, that, if I had the Pope on my side, Mr. Blanchard had bishops on his side; aye, and so had Arius, Luther, Calvin, and a million of others, not only bishops on their side, but powerful monarchs, princes, famous in the congregation, men of renown, and with all their famous men, (famous in rebellion) in losing the blessed point of union, they remained lopped-off branches from the holy Catholic Church.

Your Blanchardist church, in miniature, can hurt no more the Roman Catholic Church, than all the Calvinist, Lutherian, Armenian, or albathe national churches united together, ever have done; not any of all, or all united. together, can form the Holy Universal Apostolic Church, instituted by Jesus Christ. That the church of Jesus Christ does not depend upon numbers is evident by the. ten schismatical tribes, who were led into captivity by Salmanazar, king of Assyria. Out of twelve tribes, only two remained faithful, which farmed the true church, until the coming of our Saviour.

To conclude, gentlemen, you have seen in the Dia logue entre Pierre et Thomas, &c. &c. that the Pope has incontestibly the fullness of power vested in the papal dignity, to erect or create new sees, or bishoprics ; to set limits to ancient ones; to reunite the one, or di vide others; to transpose the former, or divide the latter, according to the circumstances of the times, or as the situations require; a power which acknowledges no restrictions nor limits but those laid down by its divine Legislator; an unalterable and invariable power; a power

which will follow every where the Vicar of Jesus Christ; a power which will accompany him to the end of ages, and without which power, in all its plenitude, the thread of union must be broken; which union is the touchstone of the Catholic Church, and the disunion of all the sect mongers or mushroom ministers that ever were, or ever shall be.

You speak a great deal, gentlemen, in your verbose writings, upon reasonable obedience, and not implicit obedience, to the See of Rome; self-sufficient pride makes you talk so, and self-interest is your guide. To read the rights of the Gallican Church, and perusing all the canonical laws, as you send your readers to, the life of a man would be too short; besides, it is entirely useless; a fool cannot err in the Catholic religion; implicit obedience is all that is required: if we listen to our pastors, we are always in the right; he who hears you, hears me; and he who despises you, despises me; says our divine Saviour. By your apostacy, you and your followers are effaced out of the rank of legal Catholic pastors as the following declaration evidently shews. (To be continued.)

JOHN, BISHOP OF CENTURIIÆ,

VICAR APOSTOLIC OF THE LONDON DISTRICT,

To all the Clergy and Faithful in the London District.

Dearly beloved Brethren and Children in Jesus Christ,

IT has ever been the first object of our pastoral solicitude, to preserve, in the flock committed to our care, the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. (Eph. iv.) For, the true Church of Jesus Christ, which is spread over the whole earth, is but one body, animated by one spirit. All its members are called to the enjoyment of one great object of their common hope. They are all subject to the dominion of one Lord; they all profess one faith; they have all been initiated into the body of Christ by one baptism; they are all adopted children of one

God and Father of all. (Ephes. iv.) Happy union! by which we are the body of Christ, and members of member; (1 Cor. xii. 27.) by which we enjoy a mutual communication of heavenly graces, derived to us from our divine head. How great, therefore, is the necessity and happiness of ever remaining inseparably united, as living members, to the mystical body of Christ! How great is the crime, and the misery of those, who wilfully separate themselves from it!

The body of Christ, which is his Church, is composed of members united together, not only by the profession of the same faith, and by the participation of the same sacraments, but also by their subordination, and submissive attachment to lawful Pastors, particularly to the visible Head of this mystical body, the Vicar of Christ on earth. How admirable is that subordination, divinely established in the Church of Christ! by which the Faithful, in all nations of the earth, are subject to their respective and immediate Pastors; and all, Faithful and Pastors, are subject to one Head, to one Supreme Pastor of the whole, to whom, in the person of St. Peter, the plenitude of power was given by Jesus Christ, to feed and govern all. He is the one shepherd, to whom the whole flock of Christ is entrusted; whoever is not subject to him, is not one of the sheep of Christ. He is the head of the whole body of Christ on earth; whoever is not united with him, is not a Member of Christ. He is the common center of that Unity, by which the great body of Pastors and Faithful are held together in one spiritual government; whoever does not adhere to him by true obedience, is a schismatic.

As all are commanded to obey the Head of the Church on earth, on account of his supreme authority; so all are commanded to respect him, on account of his supreme dignity. Indeed, if obedience and respect are due from children to their parents, and from subjects to kings, and to all who are in power, how much more strictly are all the children of the Church bound to obey and respect this common Father of all the Faithful, this Vice