CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ. ci 



flock to it in multitudes, and apparently pass 

 the winter season there with considerable satis- 

 faction. But we Catholics have opportunities of 

 seeing things which I fancy will never be acces- 

 sible to our dissenting brethren, so long as they 

 exhibit such want of decorum during their visits 

 to the sacred temples. Would that they could 

 be convinced how much they lose by conduct 

 so unworthy of those who bear the name of 

 Christian ! Certainly great allowances must be 

 made ; and I am willing to believe that the 

 scandalous deportment of many, may be at- 

 tributed more to early prejudice than to abso- 

 lute impiety ^ for who is there amongst them, 

 of fifty years' standing, who has not been cau- 

 tioned times out of number against the devil, 

 the pope, and the pretender? and although 

 they are informed by history that the last of 

 this redoubtable trio is dead, and cannot rise 

 again to claim his stolen crown, still they are 

 aware that the remaining two are yet on earth. 

 The devil, however, if we may judge by the 

 frightful increase of magistrates and prisons in 

 England, has no spare time to be in Rome ; 

 but the pope is always there; and the firm 

 belief of the misinformed English visiters that 

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