to be
very inimical to Popery--this divine might well be suspected of having a
motive equally creditable for writing against the Papists, as that which
induced him to write for them, as soon as his patron, who eventually did
something more for him, had espoused their cause; but what motive, save
an honest one, can the present writer have, for expressing an abhorrence
of Popery? He is no clergyman, and consequently can expect neither
benefices nor bishoprics, supposing it were the fashion of the present,
or likely to be the fashion of any future administration, to reward
clergymen with benefices or bishoprics, who, in the defence of the
religion of their country write, or shall write, against Popery, and not
to reward those who write, or shall write, in favour of it, and all its
nonsense and abominations.

'But if not a clergyman, he is the servant of a certain society, which
has the overthrow of Popery in view, and therefore,' etc. This
assertion, which has been frequently made, is incorrect, even as those
who have made it probably knew it to be. He is the servant of no society
whatever. He eats his own bread, and is one of the very few men in
England who are independent in every sense of the word.

It is true he went to Spain with the colours of that society on his
hat--oh! the blood glows in his veins! oh! the marrow awakes in his old
bones when he thinks of what he accomplished in Spain in the cause of
religion and civilization with the colours of that society in his hat,
and its weapon in his hand, even the sword of the word of God; how with
that weapon he hewed left and right, making the priests fly before him,
and run away squeaking: 'Vaya! que demonio es este!' Ay, and when he
thinks of the plenty of bible swords which he left behind him, destined
to prove, and which have already proved, pretty calthrops in the heels of
popery. 'Halloo! Batuschca,' {322} he exclaimed the other night, on
reading an article in a newspaper, 'what do you think of the present
doings in Spain? Your old friend the zingaro, the gitano who rode about
Spain, to say nothing of Galicia, with the Greek Buchini behind him as
his squire, had a hand in bringing them about; there are many brave
Spaniards connected with the present movement who took bibles from his
hands, and read them and profited by them, learning from the inspired
page the duties of one man towards another, and the real value of a
priesthood and their head, who set at