at the Cross in Cheapside, originally erected in the year 1290, by king Edward I, in memory of his beloved wife Eleanor, and afterwards rebuilt in consequence of a license procured in 1441, by John Hatherly, the lord mayor. This pious monument of antiquity exhibited the resurrection of our Redeemer; the figures of the blessed Virgin and of the infant Jesus; of St. Edward the confessor, and of many other saints. It early attracted the notice of our godly reformers, and in the plentitude of their zeal, they mutilated the representation of our Lord's resurrection, and placed under it the chaste figure of the heathen goddess Diana, spurting from her breasts water, which was conveyed for that purpose from a neighbouring conduit. But water was not a favourite beverage with our first reformers; the considerate young Edward, aware of this, very kindly caused the hospital of Saint Martin's-le-Grand, at the entrance of Newgate-street, which had existed many a century, to be taken down, and a wine ta→ vern to be erected in its place. Were we to turn a little to our left, and giving loose to our feelings, examine the venerable and magnificent pile of St. Paul's, and the many chapels at tached to it; the cross, from whence discourses upon the great truths of the Christian religion, were frequently deliver→ ed to an almost countless audience; the belfry, with its noble statue of St. Paul, and which Sir Miles Partridge won of king Henry VIII at a game of dice; too much time would be consumed to make a further progress on the same day. Continuing therefore our route through Newgate-street, the splendid church of the Grey Friars, where four queen's and many of our nobility lie interred, with the monastery, covering over a vast area, and every where exhibiting marks of Christianity, must arrest, for some moments, our progress. Proceeding over the bridge, we should soon reach the stately palace of the bishop of Ely, and shortly after leaving the Black Friars, we should then be in the country, and even here, the hospital of St. Giles would merit a little examination, and we might be permitted to donbt of the policy of a custom which prevailed here of giving to each criminal, who passed by on his road to Tyburn, a large bowl of ale, of which he was permitted to take as much as he chose, that he might be enabled the better to support himself at the fatal tree. We should now have nothing more to notice after

crossing the bourn, and taking a cursory view of the old church of St. Mary. Tyburn could then have no attraction for the Catholic, a place set apart for the execution of malefactors, whose lives were forfeited for injuries done to their neighbour or to the state. But the sensations of a Catholic at the present day, who should visit this spot, would be far different; here he would recollect a Wilson and a Campion, expired under their tortures, besides fifty other priests and laymen, butchered under the ruthless Elizabeth; here he would call to mind the sufferings of a Drury, of a Gervase, and of thirty-three other champions of the faith, who were cruelly sacrificed to the prejudices of the times, by order of the bigotted James, of the misguided Charles, or of his voluptuous son. And truly what were the crimes imputed to this glorious troop of martyrs? They were these; that some among them practised the precepts of that religion which taught them to love God above all things, and their neighbour as themselves. It was the contemplation of the cruel sufferings of these generous lovers of their Redeemer; of these imitators of the apostles, and the primitive disciples, as they were of Christ Jesus; that induced Baronius, in his notations upon the life of St. Thomas archbishop of Canterbury, to subjoin the following hounorable testimony to the merits of our dauntless countrymen, who were sacrificed upon the altar of religious bigotry and intolerance during the spiritual supremacy of the virgin queen. "Our age, most fortunate in this respect, has merited to see a host of Thomases, most holy priests, and other most illustrious men, natives of England, crowned with a more ample martyrdom, if I may be allowed the expression, and adorned with diamonds of a double lustre; since they by a most glorious martyrdom generously sacrificed their lives, not merely in defence of ecclesiastical immunities, as St. Thomas had done, but for the protection, the restoration, and preservation of the Catholic faith. Amongst others, a very conspicuous place must be assigned to those whom the holy society of Jesus has, by divine instructions in its hallowed retreats, recently prepared for martyrdom, as so many innocent lambs, the most acceptable offering to the God of heaven? and to those also whom the Roman and Rhemish colleges (which I would denominate strong towering bulwarks facing the north, and the finest safe

guards of the faith) have sent forth to triumphs and conducted to the rewards of victory. Mayest thou be endowed with courage, mayest thou be endowed with virtue, O most noble and glorious band of Englishmen, which has entered upon such an honourable service, and by thy sacred engagements hast plighted thy blood. I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God when I behold you candidates for martyrdom and already destined to rank among the most noble of the martyrs. I am even compelled to cry out, may my soul die the death of the just, and may my last end be like unto theirs." I am, Mr. Editor, yours, &c. 5th March, 1823. W. Y.

FOR THE CATHOLIC MISCELLANY.

MR. EDITOR,-At length one of the Reviewers; not indeed: the first, in point of character, nor the second, nor the third; still one of the Reviewers has taken notice of Dr. Milner's con troversies with Protestants. His works on history, antiquities and architecture have generally found place, and not a disho nourable one, in the public Reviews: but his publications on the most important part of his professional studies have hitherto been overlooked or rather blinked at by our periodical critics, even when they have been recommended to their notice by the lords of parliament, as was the case in the memorable dispute between lord chancellor Loughborough and bishop Horseley, concerning the merits of Dr. Milner's Letters to Prebendary Sturges. There must have been a cause, Mr. Editor, for this remarkable silence; which cause probably was the subsequent interference of the very personages with the Reviewers, who had originally recommended the controversy to their notice. It is plain, however, that neither this nor any other cause has restrained the No-Popery zeal of the British Reviewer.

In casting an eye over Dr. Milner's End of Religious Controversy and the present writer's criticisms on it, the intelligent reader will not fail to remark some extraordinary circumstances in the tactics of the latter. In the first place then, though the principals in the religious controversy that has been

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going on of late years, are the bishop of St. David's and Dr. Milner, the Rev. Mr. Grier being only a second to the prelate, yet the Reviewer takes no notice whatever of the former's different publications in this business, that is, neither of his Protestant's Catechism nor of his One Word to Dr. Milner, nor of his Grand Schism. Is it that the writer is no friend to episcopacy? Or that he is ashamed of a bishop's catechism which contains not one christian truth, nor one moral duty? Or that he wants nerve to support the numerous revolting and sometimes contradictory absusdities, which his lordship is in the habit of advancing, on the strength of his own authority; such, for example, as the following: that the Protestant religion existed during six centuries before the Catholic religion, and yet that "Protestantism is the abjuration of Popery, and the exclusion of Papists from all power ecclesiastical and civil !"

The intelligent reader will be equally surprised that, in borrowing so many objections to Dr. Milner's End of Controversy from Mr. Grier's Reply, the Reviewer should take no notice of the former's Vindication of his work, which was published and advertised five or six months before his last number made its appearance. Is it that this purveyor of literature was ignorant of the existence of such a publication? or that it suited his purpose to take no notice of it? However this may be, certain it is, that The Vindication of the End of Contro versy, (which is of the same form and sold at the same booksellers with it) answers all the objections and cavils in question, whether from reason or scripture, whether from the fathers or from later writers, and turns Mr. Grier's batteries against himself, by convicting him of numerous falsifications, suppressions, misrepresentations, and other literary frauds, and (what still more affects his moral character) of scandalous fabrications against his opponent's reputation in particular, as well as against that of the Catholics in general. Of the latter kind is the infamous falsehood that the pope has one or more sacerdotal bankers in every diocess in Ireland, to whom the other priests remit sinners for the purchase of pardons and permission to commit every species of crime!

The few objections to Dr. Milner's book of controversy, for which the Reviewer is not indebted to Mr. Grier, are almost

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beneath the serious answer of a theologian. example, that the term Theotokos, Deipara, as applied to the B. Virgin Mary, is both " unwarranted and unprecedented;" in doing which he proves his utter ignorance of ecclesiastical history, and subjects himself to the first anathema of the ge neral council of Ephesus, held in 431 against the Nestorian heretics. Again, he maintains, that, admitting the doctrine of transubstantiation, the council of Trent would still have erred in deciding that, not only the Body and Blood, but also the Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ are contained in the B. Sacrament, which is a further confirmation of his Nestorianism, by his implied separation of the hypostatical union between the divine and human natures of the second person of the blessed Trinity. I do not include among the Reviewers own objections, the cavil, on which he so much insists, concerning an alleged misquotation of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, because this is borrowed from Grier, and in all probability without his ever having seen the original catechisms of that holy father, which, however, it is known that Dr. Milner had before his eyes when he wrote each of his late controversial works, and from which he invin cibly proved both transubstantiation and the sacrifice of the mass. Mr. Grier also furnished the Reviewer with his cavils against the council of Trent, for having declared, that, among the different Latin translations of the bible, the Vulgate is the one received by the Catholic church. Mr. Grier's numerous blunders and contradictions on this subject are successfully exposed by Dr. Milner in his Vindication: such, for example, as these: that the old puritanical version of the bible by Tyndal and Coverdale, and king James's new corrected version, though differing from each other in numberless passages, have “ each of them the best version in the world ;" and that the Latin Vulgate is the turbid stream of an impure fountain, at the same time that he allows it to contain the true doctrine on the most important articles of the Christian religion, while the original Greek text, in all its ancient manuscripts has been corrupted.

With all the obligations the Reviewer has to Mr. Grier, he owns that he is very far from being satisfied" with his Reply to the End of Controversy, because, as he alleges, this writer