Excerpt from Popery: British and Foreign
Somewhat more than a century ago, a dignitary of the Anglican Church published a clever and facetious book, entitled A Tale of a Tub. Outcries were raised against it as irreverent and profane. Irreverent it certainly was toward the Church of Rome and the Church of Geneva; not profane however. Our gracious queen"s ministers, I mean her parliamentary, omitting her ecclesiastical, have profited by the hint of this tide, and have lately thrown out a tub to the mighty occupant of the northern and southern seas, which he now is tossing over and over, and certainly will never swallow.
Lord John Russell, in a letter both undignified and unwise, addressed to the Prince-bishop of Durham, protests his indignation against the audacity of the Pope"s encroachments. Does any man believe his lordship feels the slightest? Does any man doubt he is heartily glad at seeing public attention turned toward the Vatican, and aside from his relative at Ceylon, from the torturer and murderer of the Cephalonians he retains and protects in Corfu, and from the jesuit he enthroned at Malta?
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