CONSPIRACY AGAINST OUR KING AND CONSTITUTION.
THE following important letter, which ought to be of interest to all British citizens, has been addressed to members of Parliament by the Protestant Alliance, London:—
To the Members of the British Legislature:
The Committee of the Protestant Alliance, believing that the Government and Members of the House of Lords and Commons are blindly playing into the hands of a foreign conspiracy having its headquarters at Rome, and whose chief—the General of the Jesuits—is the ruling power behind the Pope, earnestly implores your attention to the following:—
This organisation exists for the sole purpose of secretly unsettling and undermining the Protestantism of the British Empire, and subjecting the people to the dictation of a foreign potentate.
The recent introduction to Parliament of a Bill, cited as the “Roman Catholic Disabilities (Removal) Bill,” for the removal of alleged disabilities of Roman Catholics, but which—if passed into law—would upset the foundation of the Protestant constitution and throne.
It must not be forgotten that the “Legitimist Jacobite League” is a Society which asserts that it desires “simply to place the legitimate heir on the throne,” and “She is the Duchess Mary of Modena and Archduchess of Austria Este [a Roman Catholic], the wife of Prince Louis of Bavaria.” This League, in furtherance of its object, declares that—”The Stuarts were kings by the grace of God, the Guelphs by the grace of the Commons,” and “What the people gave they can take away, and action looking to that end is constitutional and cannot be called treason.” In support of which Cardinal Newman is quoted, as follows: “I hold that it is un-Christian for nations to cast off Governors, and much more Sovereigns, who have the divine right of inheritance.” The Legitimist Kalendar states: “The following offices in the State are still prohibited to the members of the Church of Rome—the Throne, the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland, the Lord Chancellorship of England.”
The secret underlying this Legitimist conspiracy is, therefore, to bring about the dethronement of His Majesty King Edward VII.—a Protestant—and to place upon the English throne the Princess of Bavaria—a Roman Catholic. Thus manifestly these two organisations—the Legitimist League and the Church of Rome—are one in their aim and object.
The following item, referring to the “Legitimist Jacobite League,” will possibly be information to many: “The League has two or three friends in the House of Commons; one is John E. Redmond, Member for Waterford.”—New York Sun, 10th June, 1892.
Mr. William Redmond’s Roman Catholic Disabilities (Removal) Bill, as presented to the House of Commons on 24th November, 1908, is therefore forwarding the “Legitimist Jacobite League” programme. The Bill has a clause asking for the withdrawal of all enactments against the Order of Jesuits, notwithstanding the well-known fact that nearly all Roman Catholic countries have had to expel the Jesuits. Mr. William Redmond’s connection with the Legitimist Jacobite League will be evidenced by the following quotation from the Jacobite newspaper, dated 29th May, 1901:— “In the House of Commons on Friday, 22nd March, 1901, the First Commissioner of Works, in reply to a question addressed to him by Mr. William Redmond, M.P., on behalf of the League, as to why the usual decoration of the statue of King Charles the First had this year been prohibited, stated that, in view of the fact that Queen Victoria was, on 30th January last, lying dead, the special circumstances of this case seemed to require that for this occasion —on grounds of good taste and feeling—the customary decoration should not take place.”
In the New York Sun of 10th June, 1892, the representative of the League said: “There is a feeling that, however bad may have been the reign of her predecessors, Victoria is a good woman, and no effort will be made to disturb her; but with the Prince of Wales [our present King] it is different. He has scandalised the nation, and there will be no compunctions felt in the League against preventing his taking the throne.” In a work entitled Treason, written by Mr. Allen Upward, Barrister-at-Law, he assures his readers “That he has ‘not invented the main facts’ of his story, and that he is prepared to produce his authorities should the truth of this booklet be challenged. The most sensational event recorded in it is the Proclamation of Mary III. by the Legitimists as Queen of England, on the walls of St. James’s Palace and elsewhere, on the night that Queen Victoria died. This proclamation,” says Mr. Upward, “was hurriedly taken the same night to Osborne, and shown to Edward VII., the Prince of Wales, and the German Emperor”; and he assures us that “this is the secret reason why the Proclamation of Edward VII. was delayed. This daring Proclamation of a Roman Catholic Queen was the work of the Royalist League, which ‘was set on foot by the Company of Jesus’.”
In further evidence of the active existence of the Legitimist Jacobite League, a packet of literature was addressed to the Secretary of the Protestant Alliance in July, 1908, on the outer cover of which the following was written: “Down with the Act of Settlement; God save the Queen; God bless the Pope-King, and restore them to their thrones.” Inside the cover was the following: “Legitimism is not dead; the rightful Queen shall reign. (Signed) J. HOWELL JONES, Hon. Secy., 42 Claverton St., S.W.”
The Committee of the Protestant Alliance beg most respectfully to call the attention of the British Legislature to the serious facts, as recorded above, which prove beyond doubt the existence of a scheme for removing the Protestant safeguards, and to prepare the way for the enthronement of a Roman Catholic in the succession of the Stuart line, who at the present time is stated to be the Princess of Bavaria.
The Committee of the Protestant Alliance pray that the Members of the Legislature will take the necessary steps for the preservation of our Protestant constitution and throne.
Signed on behalf of the Committee,
HENRY FOWLER, Secretary.
PROTESTANT ALLIANCE,
430 STRAND, LONDON, W.C.,
9th December, 1908.