Her only pleasure seemed to be placed in that of her children. They appeared-and I believe they really were the centre and circumference of her earthly happiness.

In the course of time the sons grew up, and their guardian purchased for both, in compliance with their wishes, and to gratify their youthful ambition, commissions in the army. The parting of these children, the breaking up of this fond trio of brothers and sister, was to the widowed mother another source of grief, and tended to concentrate, if possible, more closely, all the fond affections of the mother upon the daughter. She became the joy of her heart. Her education while a child was an object of great solicitude, and having a fortune at her command, no expense was spared to render it suitable for that station in life, in which her high connections entitled her to move when she should become of age. The whole family were members of the Protestant church, as the Episcopal church is called in that country. As soon as the sons left home to join their respective regiments, which were then on the continent, the mother and daughter were much alone, so much so, that the fond mother soon discovered that her too great affection for her child, and the indulgence given to her were rather impeding than otherwise her education.* She accordingly determined to remove ber

*In the text we have no information afforded us as to the persons, who acted as the instruments advising to this baneful proceeding; we may however infer that the parties blameable were either priestly or lay members of the society of the Jesuits, It cannot for a moment be assumed that right minded Protestants of any sect would be willing actors in such a measure. In the secret instructions of the order of the Jesuits we have the ground work of their course of action thus defined as to how Widows' children are to be treated, to induce them to embrace a religious life :

"As Mothers must act vigorously in this case, while gentleness characterizes our Members, they will instruct them to censure and chasten the children from the tenderest age, and when the daughters are growing up, to refuse them all that is attractive in dress, praying that God may dispose them to a religious life, and promising them considerable portions if they become Nuns, The mothers must press upon them the difficulties of the marriage state, with the miseries they have endured themselves, and let them persevere in this discipline, that the children tired of leading such a life at home, may enter upon a religious one." [Secret Instructions, cap. viii. sec. i.]

governess, who up to this period was her sole instruct¬ ress, under the watchful eye of the fond and accomplished mother herself, and send her to a fashionable school for young ladies. There was then in the neighbourhood, only about twenty miles from this family, a Nunnery of the order of Jesuits. To this nunnery was attached a school superintended by nuns of that order. The school was one of the most fashionable in the country. The nuns who presided over it, were said to be the most accomplished teachers in Europe. The expenses of an education in it were extravagantly high, but not beyond the reach of wealth and fashion. The mother, though a Protestant, and strict and conscientious in the discharge of all the duties of her church, and not without a struggle in parting with her child and consigning her to the charge of Jesuits, yielded in this case to the malign influence of fashion, as many a fond mother does even in this our own land of equal rights and far-famed, though mock equality-sent her beautiful daughter, her earthly idol, to the school of these nuns. Let the result speak for itself.

Up to the departure of the sons for the army, and this daughter for the nunnery, I had been ever from my infancy acquainted with this family, and had for them the highest respect and warmest attachment. The elder brother was about my own age, and only a few years between the eldest and the youngest child.

Soon after the daughter was sent to school, I entered the College of Maynooth as a theological student, and in due time was ordained a Roman Catholic priest by particular dispensation, being two years under the canonical age. An interval of some years passed before

These enemies of mankind talk of the difficulties of the marriage state as an allurement to the minds of women; but when within their grasp they hesitate not to seduce and debauch; and that their impurity and moral turpitude may be the more effectually concealed-they murder their victims !

The author does not state to what particular order in the Romish Church he belonged. We may, however, infer from the whole tenor of the work, that

I had an opportunity of meeting my young friend again; our interview was under peculiar circumstances. I was ordained a Romish priest, and located where she happened to be on a visit. There was a large party given, at which, among many others, I happened to be present; and there meeting with my friend and interchanging the usual courtesies upon such occasions, she -sportively as I then imagined-asked me whether I would preach her reception sermon, as she intended becoming a nun and taking the white veil. Not even dreaming of such an event, I replied in the affirmative. I heard no more of the affair for about two months, when I received a note from her designating the chapel, the day and the hour she expected me to preach. I was then but a short time in the ministry, but sufficiently long to know that up to the hour of my commenc

his principal connexion and intercourse was with the order of the Jesuits and that the Protestant as well as the ignorant minded Papist may have a correct conception of the trammels by which the priests of that order are bound before being let loose on the world for the spiritual deception and moral ruin of mankind, we here insert the oath of secrecy by which every member of the body is bound.

"I. A. B., now in the presence of Almighty God, the blessed Virgin Mary, the blessed Michael the Archangel, the blessed St. John the Baptist, the holy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul, and the Saints, and Secret host of Heaven, and to you my ghostly Father, do declare from my heart, without mental reservation, that his Holiness Pope Urban is Christ's Vicar-general, and is the true and only head of the Catholic or Universal Church throughout the earth, and that by the virtue of the keys of binding and loosing given to his Holiness by my Saviour Jesus Christ, he hath power to depose heretical Kings, Princes, States, Commonwealths, and Governments, all being illegal without his sacred confirmation, and that they may be safely destroyed; therefore, to the utmost of my power, I shall and will defend this doctrine, and his Holiness' rights and customs, against all usurpers of the heretical (or Protestant) authority whatsoever; especially against the now pretended authority and Church of England, and all adherents, in regard that they and she be usurpal and heretical, opposing the sacred Mother Church of Rome. I do renounce and disown any allegiance as due to any heretical King, Prince or State, called Protestant, or obedience to any of their inferior magistrates or officers. I do further declare, that the doctrine of the Church of England, of the Calvinists, Huguenots, and of other of the name of Protestant, to be damnable, and they themselves are damned, and to be damned, that will not forsake the same. I do further declare, that I will help, assist and advise, all or any of his Holiness' agents in any place wherein I shall be, in England, Scotland, and B*

ing to read Popish theology, especially that of Dens and Antoine de Peccatus, I knew nothing of the iniquities taught and practised by Romish priests and bishops.

On the receipt of my friend's note, a cold chill crept over me; I anticipated, I feared, I trembled, I felt there must be foul play somewhere. However, I went according to promise, preached her reception sermon at the request of the young lady, and with the special approbation of the Bishop, whom I had to consult on such occasions.

The concourse of people that assembled on this occasion was very great. The interest created by the apparent voluntary retirement from the world of one so young, so wealthy, and so beautiful, was intense, and accordingly the chapel in which I preached was filled to overflowing with the nobility and fashionables of that section of the country. Many and large were the tears which were shed, when this beautiful young lady cut off

Ireland, or in any other territory or kingdom I shall come to, and do my utmost, to extirpate the heretical Protestant's doctrine, and to destroy all the pretended powers or otherwise. I further promise and declare, that I am dispensed with to assume any religion heretical for the propagation of the Mother Church's interest, to keep secret and private all her agents' counsels from time to time, as they instruct me, and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing, or circumstance whatever; but to execute all that shall be proposed, given in charge, or discovered unto me, by you my ghostly Father, or any of this sacred convent. All which, I, A. B. do swear by the blessed Trinity, and blessed Sacrament, which I am now to receive, to perform, and on my part to keep inviolably; and do call all the heavenly and glorious host of heaven to witness these my real intentions, to keep this my oath. In testimony hereof, I take this most holy and blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist; and witness the same with my hand and seal, in the face of this holy convent, this day of Anno. Dom., &c., Extracted from Archbishop Usher.

Who, among men possessed of even a modicum of common sense, will give credit to the denials we frequently meet with in society, as regards the non-obligation of Romanists to do all that is in their power individually or collectively to injure our Protestant establishment, whether in its civil or religious interests? The above is the bond by which the religious instructor is bound; and are we, for one moment to suppose, that he will lose an opportunity of inculcating, in its most vital and destructive senses, the same doctrines upon the minds of those, who from birth, religious prejudices, or any other circumstance have fallen within the sphere of his advising and controlling power! Assuredly not.

her rich and flowing tresses of hair. Reader, have you ever seen the description which Eugene Sue, in his Wandering Jew, gives of the lustrous, luxurious and rich head of hair worn by Adrienne de Cardoville, and shorn from her head by Jesuits, under the pretence that she was insane; If you have not, take the Wandering Jew, turn over its pages till you find it, and you will see a more accurate description of that shorn from the head of the young lady to whom I allude, than I can possibly give.

Turn back to the picture given by this same Eugene Sue, of the personal beauty, piety, charity, and many virtues of Mademoiselle de Cardoville, and you will have a correct portrait of this young lady of whom I speak. You may therefore easily judge, from her immolation upon the altar of fanaticism, or, more properly speaking, her personal sacrifice to the idol of Popish and Jesuit lust, the nature of that feeling which such an event must have produced in the mind of every Christian believer.

Having no clerical connection with the convent in which she was immured, I had not seen her for three months following. At the expiration of that time, one of the lay sisters of the convent delivered to me a note. I knew it contained something startling.

These lay sisters among Jesuits, are spies belonging to that order, but are sometimes bribed, by the nuns for certain purposes. As soon as I reached my apartments, I found that my young friend expressed a wish to see me on something important. I, of course, lost no time in calling on her, and being a priest, I was immediately admitted; but never have I forgot, nor can I forget, the melancholy picture of lost beauty and fallen humanity, which met my astonished gaze in the person of my once beautiful and virtuous friend. I had been then about eighteen months a Romish priest, and was not without some knowledge of their profligate lives; and therefore I was the better prepared for and could more easily anticipate what was to come. After such