has overlooked the main drift and avowed object of Dr. Milner's performance. This defect the Reviewer professes to supply; and yet extraordinary, as the circumstance may appear, the latter overlooks it himself, while he publishes a long dissertation, which, if even it proved its points, namely, that the Catholic church is not infallible, would not refute Dr. Milner's End of Controversy. No doubt the doctor holds, as all other Catho→ lics do, that his church has the promise of Christ, that his Holy Spirit shall lead her into all truth; but that is not precisely the point which he lays down and establishes; but rather this, that there must be an ultimate and definitive authority in the kingdom of Christ as in all other kingdoms and associations of mankind, for interpreting its laws and constitution, and for preserv ing peace and mutual combination among its members; and in a word, that it would be better, as Fenelon observes, to have no laws at all, than to have the best laws, if every member of the community is left to explain them according to his own interest or fancy! Neither judges nor the legislature itself is infallible; yet what would be the state of society among us if they were taken away! This convincing reasoning Dr. Milner confirms by a detailed account of the follies, impieties and crimes into which the fanaticism of those Christians who have supposed themselves to be guided by a private spirit, and the presump tion of those others, who undertake to expound the sacred scriptures each one for himself, invariably lead them, in every age and country and of every description. On the other hand, he shews that the Catholic Rule of Faith, which is the whole word of God, whether consigned to letters or delivered by Tradition, is that which was established by Christ, followed by the Apostles, and maintained by the ancient fathers: that it preserves the whole church in unity of faith and government throughout the world, and tranquillizes the breast of each individual Catholic during life and at the hour of death. With respect to the ancient fathers in particular, so far from contesting their authority with Dr. M. as Mr. Grier attempted to do, our Re viewer gives them up to him without reserve, and expressly charges the most ancient of them in the Latin church, Tertullian, with the same presumption, shamelessness, and sophistry," which he ascribes to Dr. Milner, But enough, Mr. Editor, has been said to shew that, if Mr. Grier has got fast stuck in one of his brother-in-law's (Dr.` Magee) sloughs (as the learned world agree that he has), it is not in the power of the British Reviewer to drag him out of it. The latter talks of the expected effect of his own and his client's publications on the religion of Catholics; when he can refer to a single instance of a Catholic having changed his belief in consequence of his own, or Mr. Grier's, or the bishop of St. David's arguments (Dr. M. asserts that he can prove many conversions of Protestants to have been wrought by his End of Controversy), such an instance will make more for his purpose than all the publications in question put together. 众众 Establishment of her Majesty Queen Catharine, Consort of King Charles II. To Father Anthony Fernandez,t our confessor, for himself and his companion To Bishop Russel, Father Patrick, Father Manoel Perreira, Father Paul d'Almeide, almoners, each To Dr. Thomas Godden,§ preacher and treasurer of our chapel To the Syndick of our Fathers Arabadoes, to be spent for them in 300 0 0 250 0 0 240 0 220 0 0 1000 0 0 'Afterwards' Cardinal. This luminary and benefactor of the Dominican order, died 18th June, 1694, aged 64. + Of the Society of Jesus: he died in England, 23d of April, 1674. His companion was John Fernandez, a lay brother, and particularly skilled in me dicine. This worthy president of the English college of Lisbon, was consecrated bishop of Portallegro, 27th Sept. 1671, § Whose true name was Tilden. His learning was only equalled by his mo desty. Ob. Dec. 1688, see Dodd's Church History, vol. iii. p. 470. To Father Gregory* Stapleton, Father George Tonchèt,† Father To Mr. Bennet Hankinson, one of the lay brothers who serve our To Francis Bridges, who playeth on the violin To Timothy Faria als Tiple To Manoel Dias, one of the clerks of our chapel To Mr. Clement Rocke, for four boys of the chapel, at 401. each To Father Philip Howard, our great almoner, for necessaries for PENSIONERS. To the Countess of Penalva To Mary Retz, baker To Dr. Bras Nuns Manana, physician To Father Huddleston, one of the English Benedictines To William Lord Viscount Brownlow To William Erule, yeoman of the wine cellar To Joan the dairy-woman To Michael Lourero, our cook, at 4s. per diem, which is To Sebastian Barrossa, who helpeth in our kitchen, at 3s. per diem *Of the holy order of St. Benedict. I believe he died at Dieulwart, Aug. 4, 1680, aged 58. + O. S. B. Second son of Marvyn, the 9th lord Audley, and 2nd earl of Castlehaven. + This ornament of the Benedictine order, and mirror of loyalty, died at Somerset-house, London, in 1698, aged 90. The journals of the lords, 17th December, 1678, shew, that he was specially exempted from the visitation of thei penal laws. His zealous and learned uncle, Richard Huddleston, O. S. B. to whom so many families, particularly in the north of England, are indebted for the precious jewel of the Catholic faith, died 26th Nov. 1655, aged 72. § I think he died prior of St. Edmund's Benedictine house at Paris, in 1677, aged 56. He was a native of Exeter, and became the pupil of Orlando Gibbons. In 1657, he published "the Little Consort of Three Parts for Viols." The music for the public entry of king Charles II into London at the restoration, was composed by Lock. He was among the very first who attempted dramatic music for the English stages, and with what success, his Macbeth, Tempest, and Psyche abundantly demonstrate. To him the musical world is indebted for the first rules on the thorough bass ever published in England. This work, entitled "Melothesia," appeared in 1673. Lock died in 1677. See Dr. Busby's Hist. of Music. vol. ii. p. 296. OFFICERS OF OUR REVENUE. To Denzill Lord Holles, high steward of our revenues To William, Lord Viscount Brounlow, chancellor and keeper of our great seals To John Hervey, Esq. our treasurer and receiver-general 50 0 0 To William Mountague, Esq. our attorney-general To Sir Robert Atkyns, Knt. of the Bath, our solicitor-general To Harold Kinnesman, Esq. our auditor-general To Sir Frederick Hyde, Knt. our serjeant at law To Richard Marryott, Esq. clerk of our council, and register of More for keeping of our register of our court of chancery To Richard Rose, keeper of our council chambers To Samuel Flemyng, one of the messengers of our revenues To our treasurer's clerk, for his wages and attendance concerning our money To our auditor's clerk, for his pains and attendance concerning the engrossing our accounts Sum Total of all the Wages, Pensions and Allowances aforesaid 12,958 4 10 CATHERINA R. Our will and pleasure is, that all the aforesaid fees, wages, pensions, and other allowances contained in this our establishment, shali be paid quarterly or half yearly as they grow due, out of our revenue and receipts, by our treasurer-general. And whereas we shall have occasion, from time to time, to give rewards and gifts (as we shall see cause) unto divers persons. These are further to require our said treasurer, that he pay, or cause to be paid, such several gifts and rewards unto any person or persons as we shall command him, or signify our pleasure unto him, by our officers or servants; the sum not exceeding in any one particular the sum of twenty crowns, being six pounds English, and all such bills for grooms, messengers, watermen and others, as shall be signed by our chamber lain or vice-chamberlain, as in the like case was used in the time of queen* Anne, and the queent mother. And our said treasurer, certifying the same under his hand-writing to our auditor, shall be a sufficient warrant to our said auditor, to give allowance thereof, upon our said treasurer's accompt. her Majesty's command. R. BELLINGS. To the EDITOR of the CATHOLIC MISCELLANY. By SIR,-Inclosed are some trifling remarks upon a passage in Mr. Dawson Turner's " Tour in Normandy;" a book both entertaining and instructive, though in one or two places disfigured by a little of that disingenuous and uncandid spirit towards the Catholic faith, which even yet appears too often in the works of our Protestant countrymen. His description of the churches of Rouen, and in particular of its beautiful cathedral, are excellent, and his observations on the want of taste in modern Frenchmen, barbarously evinced as it is, in the destruction of so many splendid monuments of the better days of France, are merely just, though bitterly severe. But we cannot wonder, even when we condemn, the disciples of the heartless, godless, sneering, superficial, and obscene Voltaire, may well delight in such work of desolation; they would, like the same race in our own land, gladly sweep away every vestige of times when blasphemy and rebellion were not deemed virtues. Let me not be misunderstood, I say the better days of France, for Richelieu had not yet arisen to reduce the form of government to a despotism. There was much, very much, in old France, as unfortunately there is a little in old England, requiring the pruning knife, but the men I speak of, wish only, mean only, to use the axe. They are indeed but a small party, but let all among us, who desire to preserve and renovate where necessary, those institutions under which our country has held so long a course of glory and prosperity, beware of them. "Bayeux cathedral, like other Neustrian churches, has been Queen of James T. She died at Hampton-court, 17th Nov. 1618. + Henrietta Maria, married June 1625, at Canterbury, to Charles I. She died at Colombe, near Paris, Aug. 31, 1669.' |