tween Cologne and Berlin, from which last he of course derived his official intelligence of the Archbishop's arrest, is so paltry, so contemptible, so thoroughly modern-Roman, that we forbear to enlarge upon it. The punctilious in such matters may find an answer to all their difficulties in the reply of Baron Altenstein.

Thus have we gone through the various matters in the allocution, and shown that every assertion is either an equivocation, or a direct downright falsehood, or a wanton and insidious complaint. With a copy of this allocution the Prussian minister at that court was greeted, on his return to the papal states for the purpose of laying the matter before the holy see. On his remonstrating on its outrageous character, and offering, notwithstanding, to fulfil the duties of his mission in proving to the court of Rome the guilty acts of the Archbishop; he was met by the constant reply. that the court of Rome would hear nothing until the Archbishop was restored to his diocese! A degree of ludicrous insolence, which nothing but a consciousness of strength, and a real regard for its own Roman Catholic subjects, could have prevented Prussia from chastising as it deserved.

The persistance, however, of the court of Rome in this silly impertinence, effectually prevented any concessions on the part of Prussia; and the Chevalier Bunsen, with a patriotism worthy of all commendation, thinking that, from the virulence with which he had been attacked personally, both in the allocution and the Esposizione, his further presence at Rome might be an obstacle to reconcilement, applied for and received from his majesty a permission to retire from his post in that city. His place is supplied ad interim by a chargé d'affaires; with small prospect, however, of effecting any conversion to good sense or good feeling on the part of the court of Rome, if we may judge from the recent allocution on the occasion of establishing a bishopric in Algiers, which appeared in all the papers of the day.

We have nearly done with this utterly disgraceful matter; not so, however, we fear, either the Roman Catholics of Prussia, or their government. The hierarchical reaction triumphant in Belgium, and communicated by contagion to the Rhenish provinces, and in the spirit of which all Baron Droste's actions were conceived at the beck of a ruffian party there (with whom he has subsequently been proved to have held close correspondence*),

The unexpected length to which this article has reached, compels us to give only in a note the following most illustrative letters, written by the archbishop's Chaplain, Private Secretary, Professor, Theses-composer, Factotum and Leporello, Michaelis, to the Pfarrer Binterim, at Bilk, near Dusseldorf. They were found in the house of the latter by the police when on another scent, and have since been acknowledged by Michaelis as his. They need no commentary; but are themselves invaluable as such

has yet to receive further development ere it meet from civil governments the check and the chastisement it merits. The shibboleth of this party is that flimsiest of all the flimsy inventions of sophistry

on the subject of our article. We give them in a literal translation; premising only that the Jesuits are strictly cxcluded from Prussia by the laws.

"Most reverend and most honoured Sir,

"I have attended to the affair of Father Schulten. In answer to your agreeable letter, now, two requests. 1. Could you give me a short characteristic of the deacons of our diocese; (a) how disposed towards Rome; (B) towards celibacy and omnem habitum clericalem; (7) as to science and adroitness? 2. For the first, it is of essential importance to get some good men (tüchtige Männer) to Cologne. Herr Laurent will probably come; only 'tis a pity that no living is now vacant for him in Cologne. Could you give me the names of any young people qualified in those three respects, especially from Belgium? It would give us (sed tantum inter nos) great delight to smuggle in some Jesuits (einige Jesuiten hereinzuschmuggeln). Could you tell us of any who speak German fluently? From Switzerland or Rome would be too marked. Speak, I pray you, secretly on this subject with Father Schulten. If some of them are to be found, then we must consider in what way to commence further proceedings. If you are acquainted with Herr Laurent in the diocese of Liege, pray write, and beg of him to accept the small thing; there is only this chaplaincy of St. Columba vacant, which has been offered to him; further promotion will soon follow. Keep quite secret, pray, this obscure letter. &c. &c. EDWARD M..

Cologne, 7 April, 1837. In haste. o. a. m. D. g. To the Pfarrer Binterim, &c. &c. Bilk, near Dusseldorf.

(From the same to the same.)

"Most reverend and most honoured Sir, "Your much esteemed letter of the 25th of last month has given me great delight, Just hear how far matters are matured. The archbishop gives his benediction (Segen) to every thing, but meanwhile still shut his eyes to every thing; so that the enterprise is only a private enterprise. I shall shortly contrive to introduce into (unterbringen) Cologne four Jesuits one by one, and then one into Bonn. They will soon find a field of action here. I am now directing the minds of some talented youth exclusively to this end, and in Bonn are very many of the most talented theologians, who are desirous of entering into the order. With these I will form a bond of faith, and bring them into connection with the Jesuits of this place. From Rome two Jesuits are expected. The two Prussian ones at Nivelle are well known to me; they lived in our house at Münster. I could wish that for the first, the younger Joseph Van Hamm should be promoted as soon as possible hither. One need only refer him to me; I will, take care of the rest. For safety's sake he may bring with him a medical certificate, prescribing for him a residence on the Rhine. In Burtscheidt and Aix, the Society of the Mission is starting again into life; here things move more heavily; but 'twill soon

come.

"One thing more only. The archbishop wishes much that all processions should be restored. To a petition for a procession which was to last many days, the archbishop returned for answer, that he gave the permission of the church to it; only they must see that the civil authorities would not object.' Pray work, and keep, moving, that all that has fallen into desuetude may come back to life. The Bonn gentry have been forbidden by the Ministry, 1. To name the name of Hermes; 2. To make use of any of his writings, especially the Phil. & Positiv. Introduction; 3. To propound any one of his doctrines. Hilgers has been prohibited lecturing on dogmatics, &c. &c. E. M.

Cologne, 2d May, 1837. o. a. m. D. g.

For safety's sake, not paid; you do so too.

There was also another letter in the same strain, but let these two suffice; they speak volumes as to the loyalty and honesty of the Archbishop.

and logodadaly, or verbal finesse-" the liberty of the church;" i. e. of the church of Rome, and its entire independence of the state in any form or relation whatever. These men are wise in their generation, and know full well the value of a word-liberty, even though it mean the liberty of evil-doing, sounds sweet in ours as it did in Athenian ears. But the liberty which these men preach and advocate, is despotism; despotism, too, in that form which to express seems almost a contradiction in terms; a despotism at once the most intense and the most expanded; the liberty whereof they speak, and the church's entire independence of the state, are compatible with the liberty of no state whatever, nor with the independence of any other body within it. With one principle alone are they compatible-a principle, the very enunciation of which will, we are aware, excite a smile on the faces of some of our readers, but which we know has never abandoned the councils of the Vatican; and which now, owing to causes that lie upon the surface, number more advocates on this side the Alps than at any period since the Reformation. We mean that principle which places all temporal power in subordination to, and derives it from, the ecclesiastical; and recognizes states, in fact, but as parts of the mighty organism of the church. If any one doubt the present activity of this principle, let him read the disciplinary, doctrinal works with which France, Belgium, and Bavaria abound; let him read a practical illustration of it in the dominant spirit of the Belgian clergy, since their own revolution, and in the acts of the Baron Clemens-August Droste von Vischering.

We much deceive ourselves if the nineteenth century is not to witness still greater efforts to carry into practice this long-dormant, but yet living principle. The efforts, we believe, will be strong, unceasing, virulent; yet we have no fears for the ultimate result; nor have we fears for any but passing evils to Prussia from the experiment which has there been tried. We know that the monarch of Prussia has taken his part; that, secure in the zealous attachment of his Protestant subjects, and conscious that in the course which he has pursued he has exercised power but to secure eventual liberty of conscience to all his subjects, he will not be scared by that evil principle which has been well described as being but the ghost of the old Roman empire sitting enthroned upon its tomb.

We know that further concessions to the Romish hierarchyalready pushed to an extent which has excited the sorrow and anger of many among the most liberal and loyal Protestants of Prussia-will not be made. The forbearance which the insolence and besotted bigotry has hitherto derided as weakness will

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not be proof against fresh aggressions or even against the hostile attitude recently assumed. But a few years since, the RhenoRoman Catholic Church lay in the dust. Its revenues were exhausted or alienated; its temples in decay; its priesthood wallowing in brutish ignorance-even the spelling of a breviary being beyond the attainments of some! From that state of ruin and inanition it was raised to its present splendour and noxious power by the care of the monarch alone. Behold the bitter fruits which the hand that tended and watered the almost sapless trunk, and fenced it round, and guarded it from the spoiler, has gathered from its regerminating strength!

In viewing the case of the Archbishop of Cologne we have studiously avoided much allusion to the hostile state of feeling in the Rhenish provinces, as connected with other subjects of complaint more fully treated in a subsequent article.

It cannot however be denied that the Prussian government itself sought to gain its ends not only by open kindness and forbearance, but also by manoeuvring, as of old; and at the selection of Baron Vischering for Cologne was to win over the Westphalians: a bold measure; and able, had it succeeded. But Rome will, even now, succeed only so far as popular discontents support her steps. Her efforts in all quarters have been latterly addressed to resuscitating the influence of her religion. Malta, France, England, Canada, Chile, and Buenos Ayres, are strong evidences of this, as also the important letters given in our note pp. 261, 262, to which we cannot too strongly call the reader's attention. It is in truth the general outbreak of a grand Roman Catholic movement EVERYWHERE. The real defect in Prussia, as in Canada, is the having two systems, one actively hostile in its nature, the other passive, both recognized by the government. Yet we are told this ought to be the case in Ireland. If, however, a despotic government, like the Prussian, cannot check and control the evil, how can the British constitution prove competent to the task?

Although Prussia cannot venture to risk much at the moment, and against the formidable rivalry of Austria, yet we doubt if the latter will seek to embarrass her farther. Still the former power is bound to maintain the course she has taken, and may soon, and must ultimately, separate from the Roman supremacy, though not from Catholicism.

ART. II.-Die Seherin von Prevorst.

Eröffnungen über das innere Leben des Menschen, und über das Hereinragen einer Geisterwelt in die unsere. Mitgetheilt von Justinus Kerner. Zweite vermehrte und verbesserte Ausgabe. (The Female Ghost-Seer of Prevorst. Discoveries concerning the Inner Life of Man, and the Invasion of our Sphere by a World of Spirits. Communicated by Justinus Kerner. Second improved and enlarged edition.) Stuttgard and Tubingen. 1832. To such English students as with strong faith and ardent hope are just setting out on a journey of exploration into the wondrous fields of Magnetic Science, this work must be an inestimable treasure: a mine of glittering facts;—a plentiful harvest of miraculous results, that cannot fail at once to enrich the faithful reader, and furnish him with the means of prosecuting still grander discoveries in the magic realms of which it treats.

In England, animal magnetism has, unhappily, never taken very deep root: as a science it has never been well planted, nor properly tended in this country; our soil is too hard and ungenial for its delicate nature; and our scientific husbandmen too harsh and impatient to follow lovingly (as Germans only are wont) the capricious phenomena of its growth. Ridicule has always blighted its earliest buds, and where ridicule has not sufficed to destroy it, committees of inquiry have sprung up to handle it so roughly, that an unnatural and untimely death has ever been the inevitable consequence. How can a sensitive plant in a rude and foreign climate be expected to survive such treatment. But let not its enemies suppose that its not having prospered on our inhospitable shore is any proof of its absolute want of a vigorous vitality. The German gardener cares little for the fate of the seed which has fallen on our stony ground: under his own fostering care the plant has waxed into a noble tree, and in its shade-solemn as elephants under the far-spreading Banian-sit many philosophers, digesting its goodly fruits, and chewing the cud of their contemplations; amongst the most noted of these we descry Kerner, Mayer, Eschenmeyer and Görres. From the tree in question the work before us is, as it were, a leaf, which, having caught in its sybilline flight, we shall attempt to decypher, and, in simple and unstudied phrase, explain to the reader; that is, so far as we can understand it ourselves. But first, with respect to the formal authentication of the marvels which we are about to unfold, we would fain address a remark or two to the cautious public. Not having ourselves been their wit