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the condemnation of the Professor was, and may still continue, a part of the regular conspiracy of the Church of Rome in these times, to recover the dominion which she formerly enjoyed under another Gregory, in modern Europe, and particularly in Prussia, by the agency of the newly elected, jesuitic, perjured, and traitorous Archbishop of Cologne, Clement Augustus, Baron Droste. The character and acts of this imitator of the ecclesiastical ambition and insolence of Saint Thomas Becket of our country, is luminously exposed in the fourteenth volume of the British Magazine.[1] The condemnation of the Professor at Bonn was procured from Rome before his elevation to the archiepiscopate, ostensibly for works not sufficiently favourable to Italian views of religious liberty — that is, liberty to the Roman Church
- ↑ This great exemplar was not wanting in a specimen of perjury. Matthew Paris, who was no enemy to him and his cause in this instance, relates, that to the Sixteen Constitutions of Clarendon, the archbishops, bishops, &c. juraverunt; & firmiter in verbo veritatis promiserunt viva voce tenendas, & observandas domino Regi, & hæredibus suis bona fide & absque malo ingenio in perpetuum. The archbishop himself in particular, it is said, eas observare juramento firmasset. He, however, repented of his oath — the next thing to violating it. And so he did. The hypocrisy and perfidy began with penitence and ostentatious demonstrations of it — all in order-suspendens se
