Court Gazette (Newspaper) - July 20, 1844, London, Middlesex THE COURT GAZETTE AND FASHIONABLE WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THK NEW COURT GAZETTE This Journal is published every Saturday Morning at Sir and may be had of all respectable Booksellers and Newsmen in Town and Country price Six Shillings and Sixpence per LONDON JULY PRICE THE REVIEW IN HYDE Written expressly for the Court The rain fell fast during the and the grooms of the Duke of the Duke of and several other brought umbrellas they were im mediately A groom returning with an shut it up and put it under his arm seeming by the force of example rather to enjoy the rain than have any desire to resist its A leaning on the arm of her an Eton requested the loan of the little dreaming by the simplicity of the mans countenance that she was addressing a wit a soldier and a conqueror by the side of whom Lord Saltoun fell wounded on the field of The Conqueror at Waterloo Of fire and water Would rather have a wetting Than seem of duty The stupid grooms they believed That wanted Or Hong Kongt Hera felt While helter Across the Park were seen to Appalled by They knew not now enjoyed the fun This trio of the The rain descending fast and On feet and fine A tedy I beg bat Of taking And to leave this youth I Lest in Should not the The old and smiling groom implied While the rain was falling As matter has the wet ril be your Guard This repartee was rather From menial to a lady The of hall and But it was Grady I The former groom of Charley His footman too I said the BELGIANS BOLT I FOUGHT AT WATERLOO THE STATES IN In our we gave a description of the States of on account of the political interest now ex cited in reference to that portion of the globe by the operations of the French We now present to our readers an historical and statistical outline of the dominions of the as the theatre at present of revolutionary which we have several times referred and which are the indications and preludes of that crisis which is and perhaps to visit and dismember the political and ecclesiastical kingdom of the Pope of Our readers must remember that the Pope is to be considered in a twofold as a temporal and spiritual and although these which have for many centuries been may be ruined from what we shall afterwards little doubt will remain of their complete destruction being on its and also of the loss of the one speedily following the loss of the The States of the or the Papal are separated on the north from the tian Kingdom by the lower part of the river the Duchy of Modena and the grand duchy of Tuscany on the west by a circuitous running from the same river to the Tuscan Sea and it has Sicily on the and the Adriatic Sea on the This tract is about 230 miles and about 90 in extreme the average breadth being about 60 miles it covers between and square and bus a by common of nearly The ancient geographical division comprehended 13 but in 1816 this arrangement was and the State was distributed into 18 which in 1824 were reduced to and these remain to the present The chief and their population as ccm in in the northern are persons in the central pro the southern It was not our on the present to point out the monstrous and cruelty of the Roman Catholic but rather to supply those important geographical and statistical though very which may be useful to our readers who desire to watch the progress of the movements now exhibiting themselves in the dominions of the Pope nevertheless we may be al for the guidance of public to that the history of this gigantic and gorgeous de if considered and must astonish and horrify the its course espe from the tenth to the seventeenth being one of and blood Under the pretext of being the legitimate of who by this church is said to have been installed in the See of Rome by Christ as his vicegerent on a regular line of called have obtained possession of this claiming universal dominion over mens consciences throughout the whole world demanding communion in spiritual matters with the Church of Rome upon pain of eternal and proceeding to excommunication against those who have been delivered to the secular and after frequently enduring the most awful tortures by the over to the executioner Under such claims as as all well know who are acquainted with of Christendom groaned for several centuries and such was the au and power of the Pope over temporal Sove that they were nothing in compari son with this mighty the instigation and command of this person emphatically styled His millions of innocent persons have cruelly butchered for refusing obedience to his spiritual authority 1 The concentrated spirit of fanati cism distilled at the Court of has transfused its deadly vapours throughout the whole body of the producing in the dreadful scene of Bartholomews day in the the almost incredible slaughters perpetrated by the Duke of Alva and in England the fires of Smithfield and Oxford and as the same doctrine and sentiment which directed and animated these officially promulgated many centuries have never been officially man considers himself who a Protestant a and persecute even to if he is think ing this a debt to the and a service rendered to When in addition to these we remind our that the doctrines of the Romish Church are directly contrary to both reason and Scrip ture that her discipline is lax and sensual iu the highest and that her forms consist of that tissue of frothy and yet vapid and unmeaning while they are calculated to inebri ate rather than assist the are taken by the as the whole of his we shall have given a pretty fair specimen of the composition claims of that hierarchy which the whole world is called to worship on pain of eternal perdition If our readers will take the pains of considering the of this in their bearing upon of the Irish they may forma tolerably correct notion of the necessary connection of Popery with and Every one knows that the free use of the Scriptures is forbidden to the people by the Church of For what Simply because the examination of the Bible must necessarily expose the fallacy of such baseless and arrogant Hence necessarily arises the terrific domination of the priesthood over the in ignor ance the most and taught to consider their spiritual leaders are enslaved in the most complete and moved by this overruling and overawing power at Remembering we need not wonder at of REPEALERS being manufactured in a day and this astounding fact of the ignorance of a Catholic and the consequent subjection to an Order to be by whole masses become and im on any Maniacal of question 1 or to consider popery as any thing else a CIVIL and 2 as a conspiracy against and liberties of questions were pushed to their on sound and legitimate principles of we feel convinced that they must be answered in the as a necessary such restrictions ought to be placed upon the profession of is called the as would leave it but a nominal existence in short it ought to be annihilated as a civil and political It is a leaven continually working to the confusion and misery of every thing within the sphere of its and our ancestors well understood when they wisely refused to give it any We feel anxious to one ob servation in reference to the general character of a population the domination of The restriction placed on the liberty examining the Scriptures does not end but every as well as the religious interest of a commu The spirit of in its very nature if allowed in one will extend to and to Thus eyes the press with the most extreme and as well as sinks under its iron If be a spirit of liberty is encouraged which expands and the fear of this reaching to Ecclesiastical questions has always made it the interest of the Romish Church to crush it in its And not only but literary can scarcely be prosecuted to any without throwing before the if must first annihilate the and then the the former of these being necessarily constructed on the same despotic principles as the From these we hope pf the Romish as well as Romish political will be clearly and a few additional observations only will he shew the bearing of these facts the which we the final o of the Church of V It will be necessary to remind our i
