even exasperation.
An occasion arose to put this to the test. The pope issued "a brief,"
constituting an episcopal hierarchy in England instead of the vicars
apostolic. One archiepiscopal and twelve episcopal sees were created,
and the territorial limits of the province and the sees were marked out.
Dr. Wiseman, elevated to the rank of cardinal, was appointed Archbishop
of Westminster. The language of the brief was arrogant in the extreme,
and literally outraged the feelings and the honour of the English
people. It was followed by a document still more offensive, written
by Cardinal Wiseman, which he termed a pastoral, and dated "Out of the
Flaminian Gate at Rome." This was addressed to the faithful about to
become, and whom he treated as though they had already become, his
subjects. The arrogance of this document was such as to move the
Protestant feeling of the country, and to awaken a spirit of hostility
to the Church of Rome which seemed unlikely ever to be quenched. The
irritation created among the Protestant population was greatly increased
by the tone in which the cardinal and his newly-created bishops
addressed their followers upon their appointment to their new offices.
The cardinal adopted the style of a prince, commencing with the
royal "We," his authority to "rule over" the province to which he was
nominated. His vindication of the course pursued by the pontiff was a
bitter sneer at English and Protestant institutions, mingled with an
insulting defiance of the established authorities of the British nation.
He reminded his hearers and the whole British nation (whom he knew
would at such a crisis peruse his address) that he had no authority in
Westminster, or in Westminster Abbey, by law, and that he would still
pay the entrance fee to go into Westminster Abbey like other liege
subjects, resign himself meekly to the guidance of the beadle, and
"listen without rebuke when he pointed out to his admiration detestable
monuments, or show a hole in the wall for a confessional." "He would
still visit the shrine of St. Edward, and meditate on the olden times
when the church would fill without a coronation, and multitudes hourly
worshipped without a service."

The popish Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. Ullathorn, went beyond his master
in boasting, and uttered the following blasphemous address:--"The people
of England, who for many years had been separated from the see of Rome,
were about, of their own free will, to be added