Johnson  {q.v.),  were  free  from  the  con-
ventional prejudices  against  Rome.  Johnson
when  in  Paris  was  sympathetic  with  and
appreciative  of  much  that  he  saw  in  French
religious  life.  The  horrors  of  the  Revolution,
1789,  did  more  to  stir  English  sympathies
with  the  French  Roman  Catholics.  Shute
Barrington,  Bishop  successively  of  Llan-
daff  (1769),  Salisbury  (1782),  Durham  (1791-
1826),  in  a  charge  urged&the  attempt
at  reuniting  the  Churches  of  England  and


Rome  as  a  public  duty  of  the  greatest
magnitude.  That  reunion  he  considered
'  not  very  remote.'  The  charge  is  printed  as
a  preface  to  a  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  by
P.  Gandolphy,  London,  1815.
The  matter  of  Roman  Catholic  emancipa-
tion brought  the  question  of  reunion  forward.
In  the  House  of  Commons  in  1824  a  Mr.  Robert-
son spoke  strongly  in  favour  of  reuniting  the
two  churches,  and  Dr.  J.  Doyle,  Roman
Catholic  Bishop  of  Kildare  and  Leighlin,
wrote  (13th  May  1824)  urging  such  reunion,
referring  to  the  efforts  of  Archbishop
Wake,  and  proposing  a  conference  of  divines.
The  time  was  unfavourable.  Various  pam-
phlets and  sermons  on  the  same  side  followed
as  in  1842,  A  Union  between  the  Roman
Catholic  and  Protestant  Churches  rendered
Practicable,  and  The  Roman  Catholic  and
Anglican  Churches  proved  to  be  nearer  to
each  other  than  most  men  imagine.
The  Oxford  Movement  (q.v.),  on  the
spiritual  side,  made  for  reunion  by  clearing
the  air  of  prejudice  and  emphasising  the
points  of  agreement  between  the  Churches.
But  it  was  in  origin  anti-Roman,  and  J.  H.
Newman  (q.v.)  was  for  long  bitter  in  his
denunciations  of  Rome.  In  conversation
with  Dr.  Wiseman  at  Rome  (in  1832)  R.  H.
