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to our Lordship's conscience, whether !
could be silent and maintain that conss-
tency of principle and conduct which an
honest man must ever desire to main
tain :"-Rep. London Quarterly Review,
Vol. XIV. p. 70.


At large meeting held year or two
since at Exeter Hall, London, to petition
concerning Maynoo,h College, Ireland
the petitioners say, " Receiving the writ
ten word of God as the only true standard
of faith and morals, and convinced by its
testimony that the peculiar tenets Of the
church of Rome as defined and settled by
the Council of Trent, are anti-chrislian,
idoatrous, anti-social, and utterly incapa-
BILE of being reconcilcd with the general
doctrine of the gospel, &c. Lord Ken
yon was Chairman of the meeting, and a
great number Of noblemen and gentlemen
appeared upon the PLATFORM" The great
number of learned and intelligent writer's
of Britain, France, Germany, and other
! European countries, and the United States
who have expressed substantially the same
views upon this subject, is too numerous
to be mentioned. We will add an exam
pie or two to show that intelligent Catho-
lies are familiar with these views and wri-
tings of Protes,ants. The Council Of
Trent, the last general council held for
eighteen years, whose DEGREES were signed
by four legates, two cardinals, three Pa
triarchs, twenty five Bishops, seven
Abbots, thirty nine proxies and seven gen
erals of religious orders says THAT those
are men of impious sentiments who deny
that the saints who enjoy eternal happi-
ness in Heaven are to be invoked or who
affirm that they do not pray for men, or
that to beseech them to pray for us is
idolatry." A Roman priest, in sermon
preached at the dedication of chapel in
Leeds not long since, mentioned several
times in the course of his discourse that
Protcs'ants called the Catholics idolaters
We think we have brought a sufficient
number Of examples to show what the
general sentiments Of Protestants are res
pectIng some practices of the Roman
church whether right or wrong, to eXhon-
crate us from the implied charge of ignor-
anCe or unfnirness in our statements of
Protestant doctrines.


We have in this letter dsavowed all
the charges Of intolerance and persecu-
ton brought against the missionaries.
We have stated frank ly W at they do be-
lieve on some points. We have brought
examples sufficient to prove that it is not
the ignorant and the Hawaiian Govern
ment alone who have made the objection
able and offensive remarks respecting pa
pacy, and that the writer who makes such
statements must himself be extremely lg-
norant of history or seek to deceive his
readers. So far as the declaration that
Popery is idolatry by sovereign, legislature
or people is matter of grievance to
papists there exists as much reason for
the defenders Of papal worship to open
their batteries upon London, Stockholm,
Copenhagen, Berlin, New York, Balt-
more, and many other places as on Hon.
olulu.


We have only stated our belief and
facts required in vindication Of and JUS
tice to ourselves without entering upon
the question whether it was right or
wrong, this being entirely foreign to our
purpose. Yours, S. N. c.