noble course, through evil report and good report, and the greater part remain till this day, while some are fallen asleep in JESUS.

Very different from this is the policy of your church. The Priests work for proselytes with incessant activity, but silently and unobtrusively. By intermarriages they link many a weak Protestant into their system, and many more they beguile into conformity by false miracles. Every Roman Catholic is an unwearied missionary, who perpetually harasses the ignorant Protestant, who happens to be his companion, with clap-traps about Henry VIII. and Martin Luther—with invitations to attend a high mass, or some other pompous ceremonial of his church—with reports of priestly miracles, positively asserted to be facts, until, at length, he is inveigled to the chapel and the confessional. The latter is to ignorant Protestants like the lion's-den: many footsteps may be traced to its entrance, but none returning. The converts are watched over with great attention, and are uniformly treated both by Priests and people with especial kindness. They are the most violent bigots of the party, and are ever readiest to perform their dirty work.

This cautious silence, however, is sometimes broken, when the Papal net has drawn up some

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great fish, whose capture may be turned to account. There is then a shout of triumph raised throughout Europe, and echoed back from the walls of the Vatican. It is hard to say which party boasts loudest the Unitarian about Rammahoun Roy, or the Roman Catholic about the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Spencer.

These attractive takes are converted into baits, and by these means a great number of small fry is brought within reach of the modern Peter, the fisher of men.

I well remember reading in one of the provincial newspapers shortly before I left the Church of Rome, a flaming editorial article to the following effect :

"A young gentleman of most interesting appearance, and splendid talents, rushed into the presence of the Right Rev. Dr. — and

having fallen on his knees, he lifted up his hands, and earnestly implored the Bishop to receive him back into the bosom of the church from which he had been unhappily seduced, since which he had enjoyed no peace of mind day or night. The Bishop graciously gave him his hand, and commanded him to rise. He was at once received into favour, and congratulated on his deliverance from walking in ways of difficulty.'

I afterwards was made acquainted with all the

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particulars of this person's history, and a most curious one it is. A volume might be filled with an account of the tricks he played on both parties alternately, for he was one of the cleverest of imposters-the Bamfield More Carew of the religious world. He was certainly a very interesting little person, had a smattering of all sorts of knowledge, and was also a correct and an eloquent speaker. He went over to the Protestants when very young, and they made some use of him at public meetings, where his harangues were popular and effective. He fancied, however, that his services were not properly appreciated, and with the fickleness which belonged to his capricious nature, he went suddenly back to the Roman Church, as above stated. He was then placed in the College of where anxious attention was paid to his education, and he was treated with all possible tenderness. He could not apply himself to study, and his negligence was passed over with unexampled indulgence; and while others were punished he was petted. They brought him forth to the Bible meetings, which were held in the neighbourhood, where with consummate impudence he abused and misrepresented those clergymen of whose generous hospitality he had partaken, until one of them confronted him by producing his own letters to

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prove that his statements deserved no attention. Nevertheless, he was borne back in triumph on the shoulders of the people as their favoured champion, and also warmly congratulated by the Bishop, who remained behind the scenes and laughed at the sport.

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Our young hero, however, soon got weary a college life. He was fond of change, and display, and excitement. Accordingly, the cherished little bird fled one morning from his cage, and perched among Protestants once more. He now, however, selected Scotland for the field of his experiments, and actually persuaded the rigid Presbyterians to let him exhibit in their pulpits, which are closed against their ministerial brethren in Ulster. I cannot, however, follow him through all his turnings and doublings. I was introduced to him by a gentleman who had been his fellowstudent at College. I found him in a small room, where was a press-bed, out of which he had just crept, leaving the little spot which he had occupied open under the clothes, so as to give you the idea of a fox's hole. With a black handkerchief round his aching head, he sat at a round table, so diminutive, as to be in perfect keeping with the rest of the picture. The tout ensemble was truly amusing. I went, feeling a deep interest in so extraordinary a character, who had

been alternately the champion of Popery and Prelacy, and had the art of winning the confidence of those whom he had deceived and slandered. An air of the most imperturbable assurance rested on his countenance, which was handsome, but care-worn. His language flowed gracefully-the periods harmoniously turnedthe words accurately pronounced, and each dropping quietly and deliberately into its proper place. He spoke of his grievances; of his temptations from poverty; of the cruelty of the church clergy in judging of the occasional indiscretions of a young man of genius, by the rigid maxims of puritanic morality. The excessive pride which he manifested in vindicating every step of his wayward career-the tone of bitterness in which he alluded to the piety of the Evangelical clergy, told you at once of the unrenewed character, and excited very painful feelings in the mind. But his first appearance prepared me for unfavourable impressions: I had seen the man before. I had heard him in a public reading-room spouting infidelity for the amusement of a knot of sceptics --and when I saw him now putting forth his claims on Protestants as a religious character," and imposing on a benevolent clergyman, by whom he was supported, I was filled with indignation and disgust.