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 to invade and destroy the liberty of all others. This scheme has been eagerly pushed by the whole Papal power of late. Besides eulogistic lives of Gregory VII. and Innocent III., from the German and French press, (both, stars of the first magnitude in the celestial sphere of pontifical usurpation and arrogance,) we have witnessed a French translation of Professor History of the Popes of Rome, distinguished for its infidelity, and the insidious attempt to make it subservient to present hopes and acts entertained by the subjects and soldiers of the Pope. Simultaneously appeared an article in the Dublin Review of the same tendency, evidently aiming, from the character of the former part of History, which represents the reaction in favour of the Roman power immediately succeeding the Reformation,