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Bucoeflioni of St Pet» are not even now indifferaKt
to temporal wealth, and that, should the opportu-
nity occur to the Bomish priesthood in this country,
of instating themselves in its tithes and emolum^ts,
they would not fail to improve it. Eut these are
future matters, and not yet quite settled. I only
add, as a somewhat interesting peculiarity of the
little volume before me, that it is a presentation
copy, haying the autograph — Fcr Charles Butler^
Esq. B. Oradn>eU^ Bome^ 12 JAw. 1824/' Dr.
Gradwell was at the time Hector of the English col-
lege in Borne. He soon after came into England,
and vas coadjutor to the V. A. of the London dis-
trict, in which station he died in 1833, at the age
of 57. He is spoken of with esteem; and in all
that his peculiar faith could not, or did not, vitiate,
he prohahly deserved the commendation bestowed
upon him.
I cannoty of course, be ignorant, that the doc-
trines and practices which fmn the subject of tbc^
present volume, as well as all other peculiarities
and enormities of the Church of Bome, co9tinne to
be disguised, and softened, and vindicated, by her
sons. It must be so, unless they are content to en-
counter the palpable obligation to recant, together
with all besides which such a course must cost. And
it cannot be denied, that the defences put forth in mo-
dem times, with a dexterous adaptation to modern
taste and propensity, have some portion of f lausibi-
