Anti-Catholicism in the United Kingdom Roman Catholic ecclesiastical hierarchy in England in 1850 by Pope Pius IX, was followed by a frenzy of anti-Catholic feeling, often stoked by newspapers. Examples include an effigy of Cardinal Wiseman, the new head of the restored hierarchy, being paraded through the streets and burned on Bethnal Green, and graffiti proclaiming 'No popery!' being chalked on walls. Charles Kingsley wrote a vigorously anti-Catholic book "Hypatia" (1853). The novel was mainly aimed at the embattled Catholic minority in England, who had recently emerged from a half-illegal status. New Catholic episcopates, which ran parallel to the established Anglican episcopates, and a Catholic
Pandour (1780) Pandour (1780) Pandour was a French a 14-gun gun-brig launched in 1780 as a cutter, which the Royal Navy captured in December 1795. The Navy took her into service as "Pandora" (or "Pandour"), but she foundered in June 1797. "Pandour" was built as a cutter by Jacques and Daniel Denys at Dunkirk in 1780 and launched on 16 June. In 1782 she was re-rigged as a brig at Brest. In 1792 she was under the command of Lieutenant Bertrand de Keranguen. His successor in 1793 as commander was "enseigne de veaisseau non-entretenu" Hardouin, later "lieutenant de vaisseaux". "Pandour" was based