fulfilment of prophecy in respect to the Jews was one of the most striking evidences of Christianity, so she might with equal certainty expect that there would be about this time an extraordinary revival of Romanism in England. It seemed then to the author as if a miracle could scarcely prostrate the mind of English men and of English women to a belief in Papal infallibility, and to all the degrading consequences, moral and intellectual, which that belief involves. She has lived to see, in many mournful instances, her mistake,—she has lived to see, that perhaps her aged friends had interpreted prophecy aright,-and she has lived to fear that the warnings of far abler pens than her own will be given in vain. The desire for usefulness, which is the only hope that ever gave activity to her pen, has induced the author to attempt a representation of that pestilence walking in darkness, which seems about to overshadow the happy land of her birth; and it has been only after many days of hesitation, and many nights of intense anxiety, that she has at length resolved on bringing her opinions thus before the public, as a word in season to the young of her own sex. Many will tell her, and some have done so already, that such sub

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jects are beyond the depth of a female pen; as the chief danger threatens the feelings and opinions of girls, the author, remembering the days of her own happy girlhood, feels an resistible desire, before following those who then warned and instructed herself, to do for others what was once so affectionately done for her. Many will censure the attempt,—many will call it presumptuous, and some old friends who differ from her will be displeased; but the author has in many an anxious hour counted the cost with sorrowful anticipation, and yet felt that the happiness she has experienced in a Protestant church is a debt that can be best acknowledged by recommending that greatest of all blessings to others with whom friendship, sympathy or relationship may give her any influence.

When the present Pope took flight from his own subjects, disguised in livery, to Gaeta, he owed his restoration to the Jesuits, to whom he has ever since remained entirely subjected; therefore, the Romanism propagated in England now is entirely that of Jesuitism. It is a curious coincidence that, in London, the nearest public building to the Popish Cathedral is Bedlam; and those who study the

Jesuit doctrines will allow, that there could scarcely be a more appropriate neighbourhood.

One of the most learned clergymen of the English Church, who died some years ago, left behind him, printed for private circulation, a pamphlet which he spent many years in arranging, and which the author hopes one day to see published for the public benefit. It consisted entirely of extracts from the writings of Jesuit authors, verified by a laborious reference to the pages and chapters in each book, and stating in what library at Paris or elsewhere the volumes could be found; and the whole collection formed a complete revelation from their own words, of their own doctrines and sentiments. Should any of the incidents in the following story be thought over-stated, the author hopes her young readers may one day have an opportunity to compare them with the pamphlet she has carefully studied, and should any lady obtain such an opportunity as she has had to ascertain the full extent of those new principles now progressing in England, she thinks they would require no stronger warning to

BEWARE OF ROMANISM.

BEATRICE.

CHAPTER I.

"One master grasps the whole domain;
Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.”

GOLDSMITH.

It con

IN the year 1820 an excellent bridle-road led to within twenty miles of Clanmarina, a village on the west border of Inverness-shire. sisted at this remote period entirely of low ruinous mud huts, no better apparently than living tombs for their almost starving inhabitants. The little sea-shore hamlet, sheltered among wild, uncouth naked-looking mountains and gigantic cliffs, appeared from the far distance like a flock of sheep cowering beneath the hill side, and the spray as it dashed up in tall pyramids on the overhanging rocks seemed for a moment instinct with life and vivacity, the white draperies of foam frequently resembling the apparition of a tall female figure. like the White Lady of Avenel springing up the

precipice, and instantly sinking back into the dark rolling waves which came booming and thundering with sullen roar along the echoing precipices.

Each humble dwelling at Clanmarina, roofed with turf and floored with bare unhewn rock, exhibited a miserable equality of desolation; and within the whole extent of that wretched village it would have been impossible, probably, to find a single article of luxury, a room pretending to ordinary comfort, or even one entire pane of glass throughout the long row of patched, broken, and slated windows which met the eye, some stuffed with an old blue flannel petticoat, and others with an old hat of the scarecrow species.

The very few travellers who during these bygone days hurried through such a scene of indigence, might have looked in vain for a "rest and be thankful," as the only "public-house” in that forsaken neighbourhood carried a notice at the window, intimating the utmost extent of conveniences it afforded in this stately announcement, "Bread and Peats sold here."

"The little window, dim and drake,
Was hung with ivy, breere, and yewe;
No shimmering sun here ever shone;
No halesome breeze here ever blew."

Strangers could not but wonder to see that human life was actually carried on in a scene of