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litjr. The materials, indeed, are old — as old as the
necessity for the use of them : but they are worked
and burnished with skill in the most approved ma-
nuiactories. Still, however, they are old. 'i'lny
are nothing more than the Brereleys, the Perpetuity-
writers, the Gothers, in new regimentals, or the
Amicable Bishops of Strasbourg, in modern trim,
and fit for immediate service, who, each in their
day, have been put to complete and irrecoverable
rout, by our Mortons, aud Claudes, and Wakes,
and Stillingfleets, and Bumets, and Fabers, &c. &c.
And vet, of the discomiiturcs which the champions
of Borne have regularly received from their oppo-
nents, whenever they have ventured to appear in the
field, most of the present defenders of Popery, are, or
affect to be^ as completely tynoran^,— certainly, are
as profoundly silent^ as if the heroes who conquered
their foreiatiiers, and the defeats which their fore-
fathers suffered, had never existed. This, undoubt-
edly, will do exceedingly well for their own people,
and for weak or disa&cted protestants.
I recollect having heard, some years ago, the
following anecdote from a gentleman, Iio, with a
friendy was present at the exhibition of what was
produced as a Jackal. The friend had visited the
country in which that animal is native, and saw that
it was not the pretended species, but a decidedly dif-
ferent, although similar one. He communicated
this intelligence, in a quiet way, to the exhibitor,
