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114 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,