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 the condemnation of the Professor was, and may still continue, a part of the regular conspiracy of the Church of Rome in these times, to recover the dominion which she formerly enjoyed under another Gregory, in modern Europe, and particularly in Prussia, by the agency of the newly elected, jesuitic, perjured, and traitorous Archbishop of Cologne, Clement Augustus, Baron Droste. The character and acts of this imitator of the ecclesiastical ambition and insolence of Saint Thomas Becket of our country, is luminously exposed in the fourteenth volume of the British Magazine. The condemnation of the Professor at Bonn was procured from Rome before his elevation to the archiepiscopate, ostensibly for works not sufficiently favourable to Italian views of religious liberty — that is, liberty to the Roman Church