rators against the PROTESTANT GOVERNMENT OF ENG LAND, under the name of an infallible exposition of the word of God, was in operation amongst the Romanists; no one Popish Prelate or Priest in Ireland gave warning of the danger, until it was published in ENGLAND, in the BRI TISH CRITIC, and proclaimed in the COURIER, from the Land's End to the Orkneys!!!

"As to Dr. Troy's having now, for the first time, 'considered' them; I will only observe-they were most obviously designed, not so much for the consideration of the closet, as for the EXCITEMENT of the MULTITUDE: that he who runs, may read' and see their terrible intent.

"Dr. Troy's authority was printed on the coVERS of the numbers of the work (for it was published in numbers, for more easy and extensive circulation amongst the Romanists); and on the same COVERS was the following statement: The elegant, copious, and instructive Notes, or Annotations of the Rhemish Testament will be inserted.' And for what purpose?- to render the CATHOLIC BIBLE more complete!!!' Were Dr. Troy, and every one of his brother titular Bishops in Ireland, ignorant of all this for the last year or two?

"But, how was Dr. Troy's sanction given to this volume of persecution? By the Rev. P. Walsh, an eminent Roman Catholic Priest, and confidential friend of Dr. Troy, expressly deputed by him, for the purpose of examining, revising, correcting, and sanctioning with his name, the Roman Catholic Bible, then in preparation. Dr. Troy must have been well assured of the principles, and of the integrity of the Rev. Mr. Walsh, or he would not have committed to him an office of such stupendous importance; no less than that of declaring in his name, to the Roman Catholics of Ireland, what was, or was not, to be received as the DIVINE WORD. Of the Rev. Mr. Walsh's principles, the Rhemish Notes speak with sufficient evidence: and, surely, a very moderate portion of integrity would have induced him to mention to his Archbishop the Bible he had sanctioned in his name; with the nature of which, however, his Archbishop (it would now appear) was wholly unacquainted, until after it was published in the last month, to the BRITISH NATION!

+ Some historic memorials of these men were inserted in the British Critic for September 1817:-other records of a similar de scription might be adduced.

"Sir, the subject is painful. I will make but one observation or two more on it: Very bad consequences? (said Dr. Troy, in his private conversation with the Roman Catholic bookseller) have followed,' from publishing his sanction to the Rhemish Notes. He then stated what those very bad consequences were.

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"Were they, that disaffection to the Protestant Government, rebellion against the Protestant Government, persecution of their Protestant countrymen, may have been instilled into the minds of numbers of the Roman Catholics of Ireland?-No-nothing of all this. The bad con. sequences, and it would appear, the only bad consequences stated by him, in private, were, that finding its way into ENGLAND' * * * * Yes-it has found its way into ENGLAND *****• 'finding its way,' he said, into ENGLAND, it had armed our enemies against us, and this at a time when we were seeking Emancipation.'§ Surely this requires no comment. Afterwards, comes forth the public Declaration, Dr. Troy's apprehension, lest the faithful' should be led astray, by a work of such dangerous tendency. Even in this Declaration, designed for the purpose of giving satisfaction to Protestants, he distinguishes the Romanists from their Protestant fellow-subjects, by the epithet of the faithful.' Roman Catholics alone are to be accounted the faithful,' and therefore the accepted servants of the Saviour of the world.

"But, Sir, as long as they shall be instructed to imagine themselves the exclusive favourites of Heaven; to view their Protestant King, (eternal blessings rest upon his head!) and their Protestant fellow-subjects, as the just objects of divine vengeance; and to consign them to everlastig damnation; a spirit must be excited and fostered among them, which, if it should be aided by the powers of the State, would, ere long, produce the fatal fruits of persecution and tyranny. Reason, the history of Popery, the past and present circumstances of Ireland, unite in demonstrating this. A similar principle, operating on the sanguine minds of the motley Sectarians of the days of CROMWELL, in

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When Dr. Troy used these words, he held (it appears) in his hand a paper purporting to be an extract from the British Critic, and containing animadversions on the Notes" of the Rhemish Testament, republished with his sanction. Was he then ignorant of the tendency of those Notes?

volved the English nation, first in the horrors of civil war, and then in slavery.

"With most unfeigned respect for the enlightened, sober, and loyal body of our dissenting brethren, I would entreat them to ponder on the consequences, political and religious, of the example of their separation from the Established Church. To that pure Church do they owe the liberty they enjoy. Its free, tolerant, Christian spirit, circulates through every part of the Constitution, as the lifeblood through the frame. The Church of England, unlike the Church of Rome, unfurls not the auriflam of persecution; displays no motto of military conquest. § In cha racterizing the Church of England, we are unaccustomed to talk of standards. But, Sir, if we were required to describe that Church, with a banner and a motto, expressive of her attributes, we might justly, represent her, bearing on her ensign the DOVE and the OLIVE-and her mottothe Song of Angels: GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST; on earth Peace; Good Will towards men.'

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"P. S. Dr. Troy, at the conclusion of his Declaration, speaks of meekness, charity, peace,' and cultivating the spirit of the Gospel.' I have thought it unnecessary to observe upon this part of the document. Queen Mary's Priests, in their Rhemish Annotations, have said much more in favour of those duties; and with the professed view of promoting them, endeavoured to excite the faithful' to the extirpation of Protestants. Therefore those expressions of Dr. Troy, though highly becoming him to use, appear to me quite insufficient to effect that which seems to be the object of his Declaration: viz. to give satisfaction to Protestants, respecting the republication of the Rhemish An

notations.

"N. B. That the Rhemish Notes do not appear to have produced disturbance in Ireland, during the last year, is no argument against their perilous efficacy. While these Notes inculcate a deadly animosity against Protestants, they at the same time enjoin the politic caution to defer the work of extirpation until the strength of Romanists shall be

"The columns of Catholicity unfurl the auriflam, and display its glorious motto.”—(Speech of the Roman Catholie DOCTOR DROMGOOLE.)

sufficient to effect it, without hazard to the Popish Church." -Courier, Nov. 6, 1817.

ADDITIONAL REMARKS BY THE EDITOR OF THE

ANTIBIBLION OR PAPAL TOCSIN.

In the first place, let it be remembered, that the Dublin edition censured by Dr. Troy, so honourably to his own private feelings, contains nothing more than had been many times (at least five or six times) printed and circulated before, without any scruples of conscience; and that those Notes, from the smallest duodecimo to a folio size, had been bought, sold, or exchanged, as an article of trade, by ALL Roman Catholic booksellers in this kingdom, even up to the very day of Archbishop Troy's denunciation.

We must, therefore, assume that none of the Vicars Apostolic ever interfered to prevent the sale of a work, heretofore sanctioned by various leading Divines of their own Church at Rheims, &c. nor expressed any censure like this of Dr. TROY alone. On the contrary, the pages of the "Orthodox Journal" will bear us out in the opinion, that BISHOP MILNER (the Irish Representative and Agent), and other Roman Catholics of distinction, regard the milder notes of a late stereotyped New Testament as indicating an unwarrantable dereliction of Catholic principles, or a desertion of their true Anti-protestant doctrines. §

The OFFICIAL attestations in favour of the very. Notes to which Dr. Troy now objects, declare (in all the former editions), 66 THAT NOTHING IS CONTAINED IN THIS WORK WHICH IS NOT CONFORMABLE TO THE DOCTRINE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ITS PIETY, OR WHICH IS IN ANY MANNER REPUGNANT TO THE CIVIL POWER AND PEACE:" such, truly, was the original sanction affixed to the vo

§ Vide Orthodox Journal, vol. iii. pp. 259, 282, and 313; also vol. iv. pp. 18, 70, 103, 110, 140, 184, 299, 401, 410, and 429.— The exact title of this Dublin Bible is: "The Holy Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgat; diligently compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and other editions in divers languages: the Old Testament, first published by the English College at Douay, A. D. 1609; and the New Testament, first published by the English College at Rheims, A. D. 1582. With Annotations, and an Historical and Chronological Index. Revised and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures; AND APPROVED OF BY THE MOST REVEREND DOCTOR TROY, R. C. A. D.-Dublin: Printed and published by Richard Coyne, Parliament Street; and sold by Keating, Brown, and Keating, Duke Street, Grosvenor Square, London, 1816." Large 4to.; the Old Testament in 927 pages; the New Testament in 430 pages.

lume; and no opinion of a single Bishop will avail to prevent the general use of this work, except perhaps in a small degree within his own limited diocese. Nor would the prohibition of even a Vicar Apostolic in England prevent such a bookseller as WM. EUSEBIUS ANDREWS from selling it; as he still continues to sell Mr. GANDOLPHY'S obnoxious volumes in spite of BISHOP POYNTER's disapprobation and censure. See his own justification in the Orthodox Journal for October, 1817.

But if it were possible for Dr. Troy to satisfy the public that he has used his utmost endeavours to discourage this abominable Rhemish New Testament (for the Old Testament is more bearable, and the same as that of Bishop Challoner), it would still remain a saleable work; being praised by most of the other Irish Prelates and Clergy, and by some of the Vicars Apostolic in Great Britain. In Bishop Milner's Life of the late Bishop Challoner, he eulogizes the "Rheims Testament and Douay Bible," and the "long Annotations with which it is ENRICHED," calling it THIS EXCELLENT WORK." In such predicament, then, the work will be sold, read, and circulated, notwithstanding the private or individual sentiments of Archbishop Troy and nothing which he alone can do, will tranquillize the feelings of considerate and candid Protestants; nothing short of a synodical and explicit act of condemnation by ALL the Roman Catholic Prelates, can make any atonement to the British public.

Our readers will not forget that Fabricius quotes à Dublin newspaper of July 3, 1817, announcing the publication of this very Bible at Cork, in numbers and parts, "under the patronage of His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. O'Reilly, Roman Catholic Lord Primate of all Ireland; His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Troy, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin; His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Murray, Coadjutor Archbishop of Dublin, and President of the College of Maynooth; the Roman Catholic Bishops of Cork, Waterford, Ferns, &c." expressly naming this Commentary of the Romish Church, -66 WHICH IS THEIR INFALLIBLE AND UNERRING GUIDE IN READING THE HOLY SCRIPTURES AND BRINGING MEN TO SALVATION." Consequently, these very numbers of the Old and New Testament lately sent to Dr. Troy by Mr. Coyne, for his inspection and approval, are at this moment circulating with the highest clerical authority!!! It is known, indeed, that this work, by being published in numbers comparatively cheap, has obtained