[To TRH EDITOR OF THZ “EPEOTSTOR.1 Elm—You think that "British
Roman Catholics will be unable to read these disclosures without deep pain, if not with a good deal of vicarious shame" (Spectator, April 6th). As a fact, we are overwhelmed with both shame and pain, and, nevertheless, the revelations have come upon us without surprise, for we know and suffer from the whole system of intrigue and deceit. It has reached us here, and there is an instance of it in the very same number of the Spectator, where you tell us that a "Memorandum" has been presented to the Vatican on behalf of Anglo-Saxon Roman Catholics, the object being to secure that they shall have at least one Cardinal in the Consistory of April 15th. We priests know by whom and for what end this Memorandum has been engineered, and we grieve beyond measure that the Catholic Church in England should have fallen so low.—I am,
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