THE WORD "PROTESTANT."
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " BrBerkroa.-] Six.—To the very seasonable letter of "Presbyter" on this subject in the Spectator of December lfith, permit me to add two important facts. (1) The succession to the English crown is by Act of Parliament limited to the descendants of sophia, Electress of Hanover, being Protestants. According to the now popular theory, this excludes the Sovereign from membership in the national Church. (2) At the coronation the Archbishop of Canterbury administers to the Sovereign an oath that he will "to the utmost of his power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established byelaw." It is time iliac people should be reminded that the opposite of Protest- ant is not Catholic, but Roman, or, as our less mealy-mouthed ancestors called it, Popish.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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