on the whole respectable body of lawyers. This is the argumentation which reason and justice tell me I ought to adopt. Now just let these limbs of the law, adopt this line of argumentation with regard to Jesuitism and Jesuits, and then, they will be both limbs of the law, and limbs of fair play. [E] But some one will perhaps inquire, does the Protestant Church consider _your_ Catholic Ministers _really_ ordained? I reply she does, for were any Catholic Priest to go over to the Protestant Church, she would not ordain him. And why? Because the Protestant Church got her ordinations (if she has any) from us, and to question _our_ ordination, would be to strike at the foundation of _her own_. [F] "Catholicity, which has been this night, the subject of so much abuse, has been the belief of the most extensive, and enlightened nations in Europe, and of the most illustrious characters, that ever did honour to the name of man."--(Speech of Lord Hutchinson in the House of Lords, May 10th, 1805.) [G] The following are the words of Mr. Cobbett, a protestant, writer respecting the introduction of the Protestant religion into these realms. "The Queen (Elizabeth) reigned for forty five years, and these forty-five years, were spent in deeds of such cruelty, as the world had never heard of, or read of before; and all for the purpose of compelling her people, to submit to this established (Protestant) Church. With regard to the cruelties of this monster, in woman's shape, her butcherings, her rippings up, her tearing out of the bowels of her subjects, her torments of every description, in which she was always cordially supported, by the lawgiving makers of the (Protestant) prayer book, I must refer the reader, to my history of the Protestant reformation; suffice it to say (here), that in these forty-five years, which were employed in the establishing of this Church, there were more cruelty, more bloodshed, more suffering, than ever were witnessed in the world, in any other country in a like period of time." (Cobbett's Legacy to Parsons, p. 38.) AN ADDRESS TO THE CLERGYMEN OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. "A marvellous project, (is) i'faith, and a merry jest withal!" MOST REVEREND GENTLEMEN, You cannot be _surprised_, that I have _not_ taken my text from the _Scripture_, for many of you tell the people, that we _Catholic_ Clergymen wish to conceal from the people that sacred volume. To have, therefore, taken my text from the _Scripture_ for the _sake_ of the _people_, would be like falsifying your words, and to have quoted it for your instructions, would have been most presumptuous on my part, as every one knows you are masters of Israel, both in word and deed, in the knowledge of that sacred volume. Had I, therefore, been so presumptuous as to have quoted Scripture for _your_ information, you might have perhaps addressed me in the words of the Poet--