with an eager anticipation of triumph. It becomes us, therefore, to renewto repeat with tenfold energy, if possible to re-urge, at this moment of "pale apprehension," all the arguments against the abolition of the Tests, &c. &c. which we had before adduced with so much anxiety. And I trust that the Speeches of our Senators will glow with most fervent appeals to the understanding and the heart. For the present, take the following extract from Polwhele's Sermons. Much of the argument, scattered about in various publications, seems to be here condensed. "There are some," says Mr. Polwhele, "so far deceived by false views of the subject, as to think the present Romanists, whether Irish or English, very different from a former generation. But it were easy to prove, that in disposition and habits they are one and the same. It were easy to identify the present with the past. And, governed by the principles which influenced their fathers, the race who now harass us with petitions, or alarm us with menaces, would, doubtless, under similar circumstances, pursue a similar conduct. 'Out of their own mouths, indeed, will we judge them.' The religious opinions of Roman Catholicks (says their own Archbishop) are 'unchangeable, and therefore applicable to all times and seasons.' And in some of their late publications, not only the infallibility of the Romish Church is boldly maintained, but all who are not of that Church are called Hereticks, and against Hereticks eternal damnation is denounced, and to Hereticks is denied the very name of Christians. These are the people, who claim it as their right, to be placed on a footing in all respects, both civil and religious, with the Protestant subjects of this realm! That they were at length relieved from what they deemed oppression, till they were admitted to almost ALL THE PRIVILEGES OF THE PROTESTANT, must beyond contradiction appear, from the penal code which has been repealed, and from the laws of disqualification which have been done away. But there are laws, it seems, still in force against the Papist! Yes! there are laws which allow him not to sit in Parliament, to preside in our Courts of Justice, and to command our fleets or armies. In these disabilities, how very few can have the slightest interest! Yet are we told, that by granting the Roman Catholicks all that they at present demand, we shall at once conciliate mil

lions of faithful people, and secure in our favour the united efforts of all the subjects of the Empire! And it is added, that the Catholicks are in a state of vassalage.' But can it possibly obtain credit? Does the assertion merit a moment's audience,' that the Roman Catholicks of the British Empire are ALL necessarily slaves, because they are not permitted to occupy the highest stations? because they are not Prime Ministers, or Chancellors, or Judges, or Generals? I leave the full discussion of this subject to other times and places.

"What I have stated and observed, must be more than enough to convince us, that our predecessors have done all for the Romanists, which benevolence, guided by sound poliey, could suggest. Let us not call in question their kindness, where claims were allowed, or their prudence, where petitions were rejected; but let us rather stand fast where they stood.

"As Protestants of the Establishment, let us never forget what we owe to those glorious defenders of the faith, who died martyrs to the cause of true religion. Let us recollect the venerable Cranmer, the guileless Latimer! Let us view them in contrast with their relentless persecutors; who even shrank back appalled, from such old age-from such simplicity!

"For the Protestant Dissenters, I need not recall to their memory, their ancestors in the days of Charles II. who saw with lively apprehensions an enemy in the Romanist; from whom, as they were further removed, they were sure to suffer more severely, in case of the Popish ascendancy, than Protestants of the regular Establishment. I need not solicit their attention to the mild, the forbearing spirit of our Church, as opposed to the bigotry and the despotism of Rome; since, duly sensible of our benevolence, they have themselves proclaimed it to the world.

"Let those, indeed, who clamour for liberty, whether Churchmen or Dissenters, let them listen to their own Champion, who instructs them from the scaffold, that Popery and slavery are in ef

fect the same! Let them learn this lesson from their own immortal Russell!'

"In short, let Protestants of all persuasions and communions regard the present contest as one common cause. If they wish for Christian union, let them cultivate that union among themselves be this the test of their sincerity-the test, by which all men may know, that they are Christ's disciples.'

Yours, &c. ANTI-ROMANIST.

Mr.

Mr. URBAN,

Aug. 1, 1818.

DERMIT me to offer you a Drawing which I have lately made from the Parish Church of Witham, in the county of Essex. (See Pl. I.)

The Church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is situated on Chipping Hill, about half a mile from the London road. It is rather a spacious building, consisting of a middle pace and two ailes. The chancel is lofty, the inner roof of which is composed of small pannels curiously wrought. Both the Church and steeple walls are of Roman bricks and flint, except the Tower, which, containing six bells, used to be of timber; but, in the year 1743, it was rebuilt with bricks. This Church may vie, in neatness, with most others in the county of Essex. Between the years 1701 and 1706, the sum of 3147. Ss. for repairs, was collected under the care, and partly by the charge of the Vicar, Dr. Warly, who himself contributed upwards of 291. The names of the subscribers are painted upon boards, which were fixed on one side of the Pulpit; but they have since been removed and fastened to the wall in the North aile. An organ was also given by Dr. Warly, with this proviso, that it should continue to be used, as long as the parishioners should think fit; otherwise, to be removed, by the consent of the Diocesan, to any Church or Chapel the then Vicar (Dr. Warly) or his heirs should nominate. This organ, however, is still in use; though it is now much impaired by the hand of Time.

In the year 1805, an additional gallery was erected on the South side of the Church, which will contain about 250 persons. The pews of the nave, North and South ailes, are of an uniform construction, corresponding with the pulpit and reading-desk, which are situated on the left of the middle pace in going to the altar. Here, the Lord's Prayer, Decalogue, and Creed, are well painted in gilt upon tables neatly decorated, and which are affixed to the wainscot on each side of the Communion-table. The whole Church, I guess, will contain about 1700 persons.

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS. Within the rails of the Altar, on a stone slab, in capital letters:

"Here lyeth the body of Robert Tinly, Doctor in Divinity, late Vicar of this GENT. MAG. March, 1819.

Church, and Prebendary and Archdeacon of Ely; who, for his great learning and integrity of life, was a worthy light in God's Church. He dyed Nov. 25, 1616."

In a niche in the wall, on the South side of the Chancel, are two figures elegantly carved, with this inscription in capitals:

"Here lyeth Mary, daughter and sole heire of Sir Thomas Nevell, of Holt, in the county of Leyceter, knight, and Dame Clare, his wife, daughter and coheire of Raff Nevell, of Throrton Bridge, in the county of Yorke, esquier; dissended by both father and mother from th' auncient and honorable name of Nevell, of Rabie, from whom Therles of Westmoreland are also dissended, was first married to Thomas Smethe, esquier, the second sonne of Sir John Smethe, knight, sometime one of the Barons of th'exchecuer; and she had by him 5 sones and 2 daughters, which Thomas Smethe dyed xth of March 1584, in the 6 yere of Queen Elizabeth. Her second husband was Francis Harve, one of the sones of John Harve, of Inkeworth, in the county of Suffolk, esquier, and the same Francis Harve was one of the honorable band of the Gentlemen Pencioners to the Queen's most excellent Majestie, and there continued, and kept house in worshippfull estate and creditt, at Cressing Temple, in the county of

Essex, the space of xxvii yeares. And she departed this worlde the xxiii of January 1522, and lyeth buried under this tombe, made by the said Francis Harve, Justice of Peace and Quorum in the same shier, 1593."

Arms: Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Gules, a bend Argent, charged with 3 trefoils Vert. 2d, Sable, a lion rampant Argent in a bordure gobony of the second and first. 3d, Argent, a chief Vert, charged with a cross taw between 2 mullets pierced Or.

On a mural Monument near to the above:

"M.S. Viri dignissimi et ab omnibus bene meriti, multumque desiderati, Gulielmi East, de Medio Templo, Armigeri, qui uxorem duxit Elizabetham, Jeremiæ Gough Civis Londinensis unicam Filiam. Ex quâ Filias quatuor (quarum tres, Maria, Sara, et Anna, è cunabulis premittuntur: quarta vero, Martha, Philippo Parker, Baronetto, inque hujus regni Comitijs Senatori, nupsit); Et filios duos, Gulielmum natu majorem, unicæ Filiæ Georgij Cook Militis, in Curiâ Domini Regis de Banco Protonotarij Capitalis, matrimonio junctum; Alterum, Gilber

tum,

tum, de eodem Templo, adhuc cœlibem, suscepit.

"Qui Fortunam paternam, satis amplam, propria virtute, et singulari quidem integritate et industriâ, bene auctam et bene partam, filiis charissimi Patris Vestigia proba prementibus ipsiusque Obitum debitè morentibus* Amicitiæ Sinceritate insignis. Vità semper alacri et hilari (perpetuo pietatis proventu) quamvis morbo arthritico diu et acerrime gravatâ, morte tamen non minus suavi gaudebat.

"Occasum in Terris, in Cœlis vero Ortum splendidum (tantæ integritatis præmium) et æternum Sabbatum, Die Sabbati iv. Id. Martij, Anno Æræ Christianæ MDCCXXVI. annum agens septuagesimum tertium, felicissime obtinuit."

Arms: East, Sable, a Chevron between 3 nags' heads, erased Argent.Gough, a fesse between 3 boars' heads erased, charged with a lion rampant.

On a black mural, to the left of the above:

"Near this place lieth interred the Rev. George Lisle, Minister of the Gos pel, and late Rector of Riuenall, who died in the 75th year of his age; buried March 27th, 1687: as also Ann, his wife, who died in the 70th year of her age: buried the 21st of February 1696-7."

Arms: a fesse dancette between 3 spread eagles, with 2 heads.

At the East end of the nave is a marble Monument, with this Inscrip

tion:

Johannis Southcotte, nuper vnivs Jvsticiary' d'næ Elizabethæ Reginæ ad Placita cora' ipsa tene'da assignati, qvi prædictvm ivdicii locum 23 annos integros tenebat. Dvxit in uxore' Elizabetha' Robins ex civitate Londinensi orta, et ex illa xiii svscepit soboles, ex quibus tres v'vi solummodo supersunt, scilicet Johannes filius svvs et hæres, Martha nupta Francisco Stonour armigero; et Anna in conivgem data Francisco Cvrsor armigero. Postquam annos septvaginta qvatvor plvs minus compleverat, in Christo obdormivit xviii die Aprilis, anno D'ni 1585."

Arms: quarterly, 1st, Argent, a chevron Gules, between 3 blackbirds proper. 2d, Argent; on a fess Sable, between 3 blackbirds proper, 3 stars proper. 3d, Azure, 3 oars erect proper. 4th, Argent, a lion rampant the fess point, Azure, a bend enGules; a chief Azure. On a pale to grailed between two cotices Argent.

In the North aile are several slabs, one of which is thus inscribed:

"To the memory of the late Right Hon. William Lord Stourton, who departed this life the 3d of October, 1781, aged 77. R. I. P."

Arms: Sable, a bend Or, between six fountains proper.

Near to the above:

"Here lye the bodies of Mr. W. Bartlett, surgeon, and Elizabeth his wife. He departed this life the 27th of Sept. 1725, aged 51. She departed this life the 25th of Aug. 1719, aged 43."

On a mural marble Monument, at the end of the North aile :

"Here lyes the Rev. Jonas Warley, D.D. Archdeacon of Colchester, Prebendary of Cantlows, Vicar of Witham, and sometime Fellow of Clare-hall, in Cambridge.

"He was diligent and constant in the discharging of his archidiaconal and pastorall