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manded the applause of Eugene. They 

 were formed into one regiment, com- 

 manded by their own officers. In 1694, 

 our King William gave Arnaud a regi- 

 ment, and a company to his brother. Ar- 

 naud himself ended his days, at the age 

 of 80, at Schouberg, in the Duchy of Wir- 

 temborg, not being allowed to live and 

 die on his native soil. In 1706, Victor 

 Amadeus took refuge among the Vaudois, 

 when a fugitive from his capital, besieged 

 by the Duke of Orleans. In 1726, two 

 years before his death, he received their 

 oath of allegiance, and promised them 

 security in their vallies, but at the same 

 time diminished their boundaries, and 

 banished those who were not born within 

 the limits. The Vallenses of Wirtemberg 

 are the descendants of these exiles these 

 victims of treacherous ingratitude. From 

 this period to the usurpation of Piedmont 

 "by the French, the Vaudois were only dis- 

 tinguishable for resignation to an oppres- 

 sive government, and adherence to their 

 faith. " With Napoleon's empire a gleam 

 of prosperity (says Mr. Acland) passed 

 over the Vallies. The Vaudois were re- 

 stored to their civil rights. But on the 

 replacing of the old regime the old severi- 

 ties were resumed; and they are now 

 again excluded from office^ civil and mili- 

 tary compelled to serve as soliliers, but 

 cannot rise above the rank of serjeant ; as 

 attornies and apothecaries only can they 

 practise in law and physic, and this prac- 

 tice must be confined to their own vallies ; 

 the holidays of the Romish calendar must 

 be observed by them ; their pastors are 

 depi'ived of their additional salaries; they 

 may build neither churches nor presby- 

 teries without special permission ; they 

 are allowed no printing presses; and a 

 duty, amounting to prohibition, is laid on 

 bibles and books of instruction; correspon- 

 dence with foreign clergy is forbidden ; 

 the very ties of nature are dissolved, for 

 children may be taken from their parents 

 to be converted from the faith of their 

 fathers; and marriages between a Vaudois 

 and a Romanist be annulled at the will of 

 the Romanist in short, it is the old code 

 of England inflicted upon Ireland in its 

 worst stage of severity." 



A dozen engravings of the scenery of 

 the Vallies, beautifully executed, accom- 

 pany and adorn Mr. Acland's volume of 

 his own drawing. 



The Nullity of the Roman Faith, #c., 

 lij the Rev. I. Garbett, M.A. ; 1827. The 

 world must, and of course will, get on as 

 well as it can ; but the truth is, there is 

 too much liberty among individuals to suf- 

 fer sound policy to pursue its own wisest 

 course. Every witling must have his opi- 

 nions, and crude and ill-timed as they may 



be, must publish, or though probably 

 himself a mighty stickler for authority 

 public liberty is infringed. For our own 

 parts we sometimes think a little restric- 

 tion would be very usefully applied, par- 

 ticularly upon theological controversy- 

 we think so, not merely as reviewers 

 for that nobody will doubt but as friends 

 of the best interests and moral progress 

 of men. With respect to Catholicism, the 

 effectual mode of extinguishing its autho- 

 rity in Protestant countries would be to 

 leave it to itself take no notice whatever 

 of it, and soon no notice would be left to 

 be taken of it, except to record its former 

 existence as an historical remembrance. 

 And no notice, we are persuaded, would 

 in our days be taken of it, were it not for 

 the Protestant clergy, who are worked 

 upon by too many motives to keep their 

 tongues and their pens still. Among some 

 of them exists a sort of hereditary and 

 unreasoning terror of the Catholic power, 

 cherished by the records of Smithfield 

 among others perhaps a fixed belief of the 

 rampant ambition inherent in the hierarchy 

 of Rome, and the consequent necessity of 

 stedfastly watching her outbreaks, gather- 

 ed not from the actual conduct of that 

 church in our own limes, but from the 

 course of professional study and limited 

 reading among some a thirst for exhi- 

 biting their sagacity in research, and their 

 dexterity in debate among others, a lurk- 

 ing apprehension the revenues of their own. 

 church are in danger while among others, 

 more cunning than candid, the corrup- 

 tions of Rome prove an excellent stalking 

 horse to their own personal ambition ; and 

 we verily believe there is no surer method 

 for the unbeneficed to catch the smiles of 

 their ecclesiastical superiors than display- 

 ing their zeal against popery. 



By which of these, or of other motires, 

 of equal value, the writer before us is in- 

 fluenced, we presume not to determine 

 by one or other, or more of them, there 

 can be little doubt for convinced are we, 

 were a man at once sane, honest, and en- 

 lightened, he would never again stir up 

 tha controversy he would waive it as 

 superfluous, or spurn it as worthless, or 

 shrink from it as an impertinent interfe- 

 rence with the prejudices of his fellows, 

 Or abandon it from despair of grappling 

 successfully with the stubbornness of per- 

 sonal interests. For ourselves we are sick 

 of the controversy. The one party argue 

 like lawyers to have and to hold and 

 the other are fools enough to take up the 

 argument on the same ground. The 

 Church of Rome claims infallibility. The 

 Protestant, instead of looking solely to 

 the foundations of the claim, goes cack- 

 ling about, searching for instances of 

 practical fallibility, and at every petty 



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