s which were not theirs, and the like foul-play in that
matter, had been sorrowful to see, for some time past. The Elector of
Mainz, Chief-Priest of Germany, is busy in the same bad direction; he
and others. Indeed, ever since the Peace of Ryswick, where Louis XIV.
surreptitiously introduced a certain "Clause," which could never be got
rid of again, ["CLAUSE OF THE FOURTH ARTICLE" is the technical name
of it. FOURTH ARTICLE stipulates that King Louis XIV. shall punctually
restore all manner of towns and places, in the Palatinate &c. (much
BURNT, somewhat BE-JESUITED too, in late Wars, by the said King, during
his occupancy): CLAUSE OF FOURTH ARTICLE (added to it, by a quirk, "at
midnight," say the Books) contains merely these words, _"Religione
tamen Catholica Romana, in locis sic restitutis, in statu quo nunc est
remanente:_ Roman-Catholic religion to continue as it now is [as WE have
made it to be] in such towns and places."--Which CLAUSE gave rise to
very great but ineffectual lamenting and debating. (Scholl, _Traites
de Paix_ (Par. 1817), i. 433-438; Buchholz; Spittler, _Geschichte
Wurtembergs_; &c).] nibbling aggressions of this kind have gone on more
and more. Always too sluggishly resisted by the CORPUS EVANGELICORUM, in
the Diets or otherwise, the "United Protestant Sovereigns" not being
an active "Body" there. And now more sluggishly than ever;--said CORPUS
having August Elector of Saxony, Catholic (Sham-Catholic) King of
Poland, for its Official Head; "August the Physically Strong," a man
highly unconcerned for matters Evangelical! So that the nibblings go
on worse and worse. An offence to all Protestant Rulers who had any
conscience; at length an unbearable on to Friedrich Wilhelm, who, alone
of them all, decided to intervene effectually, and say, at whatever risk
there might be, We will not stand it!

Karl Philip, after some nibblings, took up the Heidelberg Catechism
(which candidly calls the Mass "idolatrous"), and ordered said
Catechism, an Authorized Book, to cease in his dominions. Hessen-Cassel,
a Protestant neighbor, pleaded, remonstrated, Friedrich Wilhelm glooming
in the rear; but to no purpose. Our old gentleman, his Priests
being very diligent upon him, decided next to get possession of the
HEILIGE-GEIST KIRCHE (Church of the Holy Ghost, principal Place of
Worship at Heidelberg), and make it his principal Cathedral Church
there. By Treaty of Westphalia, or peaceably otherwise, the Catholics
are al