It is acknowledged by the Romanists themselves, that ST. PETER, under whose alleged title the Bishops of Rome claim their supremacy, was Bishop of Antioch before he was Bishop of Rome. The pastoral epistle to the Romans, transmitted to us in the New Testament, was written by ST. PAUL, and not by the ardent, affectionate, but FALLIBLE PETER, whose crucifixion in the city of Rome appears to be the only reason which the bishop of that see can allege for his assumed supremacy over the churches of Antioch, Jerusalem, or any other Christian church on earth.

This ACT OF JUSTICE Would set the Christian world at rest from the distressing apprehensions of a recurrence of those dreadful and atrocious means which have been for ages resorted to by the Bishops of Rome, in the maintenance of their unjust and Anti-christian claim; and it would be inevitably followed by a decided and formal rejection of those spurious articles which, in support and furtherance of this said supremacy, were superadded to the creed of the Apostles by Pius IV. and the Council of Trent, fifteen hundred years after the promulgation of the Christian faith.

Such, Sir, is that debt of gratitude which the Bishop of Rome is undoubtedly the most fit man in the world to repay, to his GoD and OUR GOD, in whose hands we have been the acknowledged instruments which accomplished the late glorious deliverance of Europe. This boon would, in the true and full sense of the word, emancipate the Roman Catholics of Ireland; it would ensure the repose of a troubled world, and facilitate the extension of the light of the Gospel to the darkest and remotest corners of the earth.

I am, Sir, your correspondent,

Loughinsholin, Aug. 19, 1814.

Bedel.

THE POPE'S BULL RE-ESTABLISHING THE ORDER OR SOCIETY OF THE JESUITS.

In the concluding number of our second Volume, we had the mortification to register the decree of the King of Spain re-establishing the Inquisition within his territories; and, in this first number of the Third Volume of THE Protestant ADVOCATE, we encounter a fresh shock, in recording the bull of the Pope re-establishing, generally, the Jesuits. -We have affixed a few notes to this latter document, and shall only observe here, that, upon the breaking out of the French revolution, it was often asserted that it never could have happened if the order of Jesuits had continued. This opinion was founded on the idea that the Jesuits, by means of their confessionals, and having many crowned heads

for their penitents, were masters of all state secrets, and having ready channels of communication with each other, could easily have given intelligence of the dangerous conspiracies which were on foot previously to the revolution, and thus have put most of the sovereigns of Europe on their guard. This idea supposes that the Jesuits were honest men; that they never deviated into the intricacies of crooked policy; that they never consulted (as they vowed) the interests of Rome in preference to all civil duties; that they never used their power, and the influence they had over princes, to the aggrandizement of their own order; that the Jesuits' morals were of the purest sort; that Pascal was a calumniator, and that poor Ganganelli was not poisoned by these unprincipled intriguers. We are free to confess our persuasion that the Jesuits would not have stirred a finger to save Europe from desolation, any further than their own wealth might have been increased or their power promoted by endeavouring to preserve it. To couple public spirit with Jesuitism were absurd. The crafty fathers have at last, however, worked their re-establishment on the prevailing false opinion.

From the Times, of August 31.

"On Sunday, the 7th instant, his Holiness went to the church of Jesas, to celebrate high mass at the altar of St. Ignatius. After having heard another mass, his Holiness proceeded to the neighbouring oratory of the congregation of nobles, where he was placed on a throne prepared for him. He then handed to a master of the ceremonies, and caused him to read with a loud voice, the following bull, which re establishes the company of Jesuits:

"Pius, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God.

"(Ad perpetuam rei memoriam.)

"The care of all the churches + confided to our humility by the Divine will, notwithstanding the lowness of our deserts and abilities makes

• They order these matters most imposingly at Rome. The church of Jesus,—the altar of St. Ignatius-here is a sort of a rebus: the Jesuits were founded, as a society, by Ignatius Loyola. The simplicity of doctrine which distinguished the Divine Author of Christianity forms a perfect contrast with the principles of the Jesuits; and that blessed martyr the Bishop of Antioch, St. Ignatius, if alive, would protest against the re-establishment of an order of men whom none of the primitive Christians resembled.

This is a modest assumption. On St. Paul fell "the care of all the churches"but where is the authority for vesting this care in the Bishop of Rome?-In Scripture? Certainly not.-In tradition ? So the fabricators of this tradition would have us believe. They first forge an authority, and then gravely insist upon its admissibility_im evidence.

it our duty to employ all the aids in our power, and which are furnished to us by the mercy of Divine Providence, in order that we may be able, as far as the changes of times, and places will allow, to relieve the spiritual wants of the Catholic world, without any distinction of people and nations.

Wishing to fulfil this duty of our apostolic ministry, as soon as Francis Kareu (then living) and other secular priests resident for many years in the vast empire of Russia, and who had been members of the company of Jesus suppressed by Clement XIV. of happy memory, had supplicated our permission to unite in a body, for the purpose of being able to apply themselves more easily, in conformity with their institution, to the instruction of youth in religion and good morals, to devote themselves to preaching, to confession, and the administration of the other sacraments, we felt it our duty the more willingly to comply with their prayer, inasmuch as the then reigning Emperor Paul I.* had recommended the said priests in his gracious dispatch, dated the 11th of August, 1800, in which, after setting forth his special regard for them, he declared to us that it would be agreeable to him to see the company of Jesus established in his empire, under our authority: and we, on our side, considering attentively the great advantages which these vast regions might thence derive; considering how useful those ecclesiastics, whose morals and learning were equally tried, would be to the Catholic religion, thought fit to second the wish of so great and beneficent a prince.

"In consequence, by our brief, dated the 7th of March, 1801, we granted to the said Francis Kareu, and his colleagues residing in Russia, or who should repair thither from other countries, power to form themselves into a body or congregation of the company of Jesus; they are at liberty to unite in one or more houses, to be pointed out by their superior, provided these houses are situated within the Russian empire. We named the said Francis Kareu general of the said congregation: we authorized them to resume and follow the rule of St. Ignatius of Loyolat approved and confirmed by the constitutions of Paul III. our predecessor, of hap

Francis Kareu and the Emperor Paul-"this is worshipful society!" Here is a Romish Jesuit acting in a remote country against the authority of the Pope, who suppressed his order; and here is an Emperor of the Greek religion, held in professed respect by the Pope, who re-establishes the Jesuits. Pius VII. must have been a good deal distressed for reasons and motives before he could descend to impertinences like these.

Is the ST. Ignatius above-mentioned one of the Pope's Saints, after all? We must look into the gloxing Mr. Eustace's Travels for a little information on this point.

py memory, in order that the companions, in a religious union, might freely engage in the instruction of youth in religion and good letters, direct seminaries and colleges, and with the consent of the ordinary, confess, preach the word of God, and administer the sacraments. By the same brief we received the congregation of the company of Jesus under our immediate protection and dependence, reserving to ourselves and our successors the prescription of every thing that might appear to us proper to consolidate, to defend it, and to purge it from the abuses and corruption that might be therein introduced; and for this purpose we expressly abrogated such apostolical constitutions, statutes, privileges, and indul gencies granted in contradiction to these concessions, especially the apostolic letters of Clement XIV., our predecessor, which begin with the words, Dominus ac Redemptor Noster, only in so far as they are contrary to our brief, beginning Catholice, and which was given only for the Russian empire.

"A short time after we had ordained the restoration of the order of Jesuits in Russia, we thought it our duty to grant the same favour to the kingdom of Sicily, on the warm request of our dear son in Jesus Christ, King Ferdinand, who begged that the company of Jesus might be re-cs-, tablished in his dominions and states as it was in Russia, from a conviction that, in these deplorable times, the Jesuits were instructors most capable of forming youth to Christian piety and the fear of God, which is the beginning of wisdom, and to instruct them in science and letters. The duty of our pastoral charge leading us to second the pious wishes of these illustrious monarchs, and having only in view the glory of God and the salvation of souls, we by our brief, beginning Per alias, and dated the 30th of July, 1804, extended to the kingdom of the Two Sicilies the same concessions which we had made for the Rossian Empire.

The Catholic world† demands with unanimous voice the re-establishment of the Company of Jesus. We daily receive to this effect the most pressing petitions from our venerable brethren, the archbishops and bishops,

Paul III, of happy memory, in whose Pontificate, the council of Trent was called, who established the Inquisition, and approved and confirmed the order of Jesuits; suppressed by Clement XIV, also of happy memory; and re-established by Pius VII. Here are three infallible Pontiffs ;-the first does an act, uadone by the second, and re-enacted by the third.

+ Tre [Roman] Catholic world unanimously demands, &c. Russia is of the Greek church; that country is first indulged with a revival of a Romish order ;-the kingdom of Sicily next enjoys it; and at last it is to be extended to the whole Catholic world. Is Ireland included in this world of the Pope? Have the Popish hierarchy of Ireland dared to demand the establishment of Jesuits in that country?

and the most distinguished persons, especially since the abundant fruits which this company has produced in the above countries have been generally known. The dispersion even of the stones of the sanctuary in those recent calamities (which it is better now to deplore than to repeat); the annihilation of the discipline of the regular orders (the glory and support of religion and the Catholic church, to the restoration of which all our thoughts and cares are at present directed,) require that we should accede to a wish so just and general.

"We should deem ourselves guilty of a great crime towards God, if, amidst these dangers of the Christian republic, we neglected the aids which the special providence of God has put at our disposal; and if, placed in the bark of Peter, tossed and assailed by continual storms, we refused to employ the vigorous and experienced rowers who volunteer their services, in order to break the waves of a sea which threatens every moment shipwreck and death. Decided by motives so numerous and powerful, we have resolved to do now what we could have wished to have done at the commencement of our pontificate. After having by fervent prayers implored the Divine assistance, after having taken the advice and counsel of a great number of our venerable brothers the cardinals of the holy Roman church, we have decreed, with full knowledge, in virtue of the plenitude of apostolic power, and with perpetual validity, that all the concessions and powers granted by us solely to the Russian empire and the kingdom of the two Sicilies, shall henceforth extend to all our ecclesiatical states, and also to all other states. We therefore concede and grant to our well-beloved son, Taddeo Barzozowski, at this time General of the company of Jesus, and to the other members of that company lawfully delegated by him, aif suitable and necessary powers in order that the said states may freely and lawfully receive all those who shall wish to be admitted into the regular order of the company of Jesus, who, under the authority of the general ad interim, shall be admitted and distributed, according to opportunity, in one or more houses, one or more colleges, and one or more provinces, where they shall conform their mode of life to the rules prescribed by St. Ignatius of Loyola, approved and confirmed by the constitutions of Paul III. We declare besides, and grant power that they may freely and lawfully apply to the education of youth in the principles of he Catholic faith,t to form them to good morals, and to

The Pope acting in this way is deemed by the principles of the church of Rome to decree infallibly. So`did Paul III,-so did the amiable Pope Ganganelli, Clement XIV !

Is the good Emperor Alexander aware of the mischief plotted by the Pope and his advisers and counsellors against the religion of his country and the security of his crown? The Jesuits are empowered by the Pope to educate young Russians "in the