nd might, in his way. But truly so likewise has Father Adam,
ci-devant Marquis Saint-Huruge, in his way. Behold, therefore, on the
Fourth of May, in the Palais-Royal, a mixed loud-sounding multitude; in
the middle of whom, Father Adam, bull-voiced Saint-Huruge, in white
hat, towers visible and audible. With him, it is said, walks Journalist
Gorsas, walk many others of the washed sort; for no authority will
interfere. Pius Sixth, with his plush and tiara, and power of the Keys,
they bear aloft: of natural size,--made of lath and combustible gum.
Royou, the King's Friend, is borne too in effigy; with a pile of
Newspaper King's-Friends, condemned numbers of the Ami-du-Roi; fit
fuel of the sacrifice. Speeches are spoken; a judgment is held, a doom
proclaimed, audible in bull-voice, towards the four winds. And thus,
amid great shouting, the holocaust is consummated, under the summer sky;
and our lath-and-gum Holiness, with the attendant victims, mounts up in
flame, and sinks down in ashes; a decomposed Pope: and right or might,
among all the parties, has better or worse accomplished itself, as it
could. (Hist. Parl. x. 99-102.) But, on the whole, reckoning from Martin
Luther in the Marketplace of Wittenberg to Marquis Saint-Huruge in this
Palais-Royal of Paris, what a journey have we gone; into what strange
territories has it carried us! No Authority can now interfere. Nay
Religion herself, mourning for such things, may after all ask, What have
I to do with them?

In such extraordinary manner does dead Catholicism somerset and
caper, skilfully galvanised. For, does the reader inquire into the
subject-matter of controversy in this case; what the difference between
Orthodoxy or My-doxy and Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy might here be?
My-doxy is that an august National Assembly can equalize the extent of
Bishopricks; that an equalized Bishop, his Creed and Formularies being
left quite as they were, can swear Fidelity to King, Law and Nation, and
so become a Constitutional Bishop. Thy-doxy, if thou be Dissident,
is that he cannot; but that he must become an accursed thing. Human
ill-nature needs but some Homoiousian iota, or even the pretence of one;
and will flow copiously through the eye of a needle: thus always must
mortals go jargoning and fuming,

And, like the ancient Stoics in their porches
With fierce dispute maintain their churches.

This Auto-da-fe of Saint-Huruge's was on the Fourth of May, 1791.
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