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among us would have accepted the bull, if 
the pope hadnot, by his nuncio, commanded 
it? Our very acceptance of it would itfelf 
Ihave been a crime, which would not long 
have remained unpunifhed. It would have 
heen deemed an encroachment on the infal- 
libility of the holy father; for to dare to 
aceept what he decides, isto judge that he 
has decided aright. Now who are we fo 
add our judgment to that of the Pope? When 
he has fpoken, filence snd blind obedience 
are our portion: we mu bow down in per- 
feet adoration to what he has faid, and fur- 
render, as 1 may fay, into his hands, our 
will, memory, and underftanding. So that 
far from daring to contradiét, move any 
amendment, or afk for any explication, we 
are not allowed to approve, accept, or do 
any thing, that befpeaks an active part in 
what he decrees. 
‘¢ Such, Sir, is the nature of the accept- 
ance given by, Spain, by Portugal, and by 
Italy, and which, I find, is fo much extol- 
fed in France, and held ont as the free judg- 
ment and approbation of all the churches aud 
fchools! But, in truth, they are no better 
than flaves, whofe matter has condefcended 
to open his lips, and has prefcribed the form 
of words that they are to pronounce, and 
which, without the change of a letter, or an 
iota, they have fervilely pronounced. ‘This 
is the pretended judgment, that is fo much 
talked of in France, and which we have 
given indeed unanimoufly, becaufe the fame 
form was prefcribed to us all! 
6¢ At this view of the calamitous fituation 
ef the church, the archbifhop could no longer 
contain himfelf, but melted into tears. He 
ntreated me, for obvious reafons, not to 
mention to any one what he had taid. Ac- 
cordingly I kept the fecret inviolably as long 
as he lived, but as he is now no more, I 
think myfelf equally bound to reveal it to the 
world.” 
The inquifition, Mr. Editor, which 
generally narrows and debales the mind 
of thofe who live within the {phere of its 
activity, had little or,no effect, it fcems, 
on this fenfible primate of Spain, who- 
ever he was—for I am not {uffciently 
converfant in the hiftory of Roman Ca- 
tholics to know his name, nor of what 
conftitution and bull he fpeaks, unlefs of 
that which is called Unigen:tus, which, 
as hiftory tells us, convulfed all France 
and Flanders in the beginning of the pre- 
fent century—yet, as his language ap- 
pears to be fo very unufual in the mouths 
of bifhops of the Romifh communion, I 
fhall be glad to learn, from ome of your 
correfpondents, what degree of credit 1s 
due to Louis de Saint-Simon, and to the 
rchbifhop. Permit mealfo to atk, whe- 
ther the inguifition ever found its way 
into England before the Retormation 5 or 
. 
Kitchen Library....Hatting. 
[Feb; 
whether any fuch tribunal now exifts 
among the Roman Catholics of this 
kingdom. I hope, for the credit of 
Englifhmen, they are under no fuch bane- 
ful influence, Yet as they acknowledge 
the Bifhop of Rome to be the head of 
their church, they cannot but be influ- 
enced, in fome degree, by him. What 
then has hitherto been the nature of this - 
influence? and, what change is it likely 
to undergo from the prefent fate of af- 
fairs at Rome? Ss. R, 
February 4th, 1799. 
a ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
CONSIDER myfelf much obliged ta 
your two Correfpondents, W. H.and 
E. F. (particularly the latter) for their 
attention to my queries on my kitchen li- 
brary; the lift of the latter correfpondent, 
I imagine peculiarly fitted for fuch a 
plan; the cheap repoftory mentioned by 
the former, is, Iapprehend, alfo particu 
larly fuitable. A bible, and prayer book, 
has hitherto, I believe, been all that the 
generality of kitchens have had to thew. 
J would at the fame time fuggeft to W. H. 
that, if the. prizciple mentioned in my 
latt be true, I am afraid thofe two will — 
not fo exaétly anfwer ; I have had them 
long, and in addition to the church of 
England prayer book, I have added a 
colleCtion of prayers for the ufe of fami- 
lies, publithed at the expence of the fo- 
ciety of Unitarian Chriftians, eftablifhed 
in the Weft of England, for promoting 
chriftian knowledge, and the practice of - 
virtue, by the diftribution of books ; 
printed at Exeter, by M’Kenzie and 
Son, and fold by J. Johnfon, St. Paul’s 
Church- Yard, London; not prefuming ta 
dictate in what mode my equals, though 
my fervants, fhould worfhip the power 
that created them. My with, Mr. Editor, 
is to mix the ufeful with the agreeable and 
to zavite my domettics to the habits of 
free enquiry and the practice of morality 
by the cllurements of the rational volup- 
teary, and I folicit your correfpondents 
will continue to fuggeft fuch books as 
may in their opinions be fuited to fuch a 
fcheme. I hope I fhall foon meet with an 
informant equally able and ready to com- - 
municate on the hatting bufnefs as E. F, 
on my ‘* Library.” Perhaps, Sir, it 
would be afhifting, in fome degree, the en- 
quiry on the fecond fubjeét, to inform you, 
that one kind of hat is called Cody or 
Cordeback, which I am told took its 
name trom a townin France,* where cod 
Editor. 
wool 

* Caudebec. 
