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in suppressing the Jesuits, he was at least sincere. If we may rely on the best sources of information, hypocrisy formed no part of his character; the attempt, therefore, of MR. DALLAS to extract from the Letters which have been ascribed to CLEMENT, any evidence to shew that he was personally attached to the Society, and that he abolished it in opposition to his better judgment, must needs fall to the ground; nor will his assertion (in p. 109) avail him any better, where he informs us that throughout the whole Brief of Suppression, CLEMENT "does not once advance an opinion of his own adverse to "the Society."

The same observation, indeed, occurs in a work, entitled, Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire Ecclesiastique pendant le dix-huitième Siècle; where it is observed, "Le Pape ne porte "point de jugement à l'égard de tout ce dont on les accusoit;" and MR. DALLAS has probably taken his hint from thence.

It is only necessary to observe upon such a remark, from whatever source it may proceed, that the whole tenour and object of the Brief of Suppression completely refutes it; since that document contains an abstract of the History of the Jesuits, so far as regards the various public condemnations of the Society by several Popes who had preceded CLEMENT: all which censures having been found (as he expressly declares): utterly inadequate to the end they had proposed, he resolves to adopt the only effectual means, by laying the axe to the root of the tree, and abolishing such a Society altogether.

If this be not a tolerably explicit statement of an adver opinion, it is not very easy to divine what MR. DALLas would consider such.

In a note to p. 109, MR. DALLAS denies that the Jesuits were connected with THE INQUISITION, with the same confidence as if he had really the means of disproving that con

nexion.

The passage in the Brief Account of the Jesuits, which gave rise to this denial, was as follows (p. 15): "One pecu"liar object of the Society, is to direct and aid the operations

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"of the Inquisition where it exists, and to exercise its several "functions secretly in countries where it is not established, "particularly with reference to the governments of those "countries; and one of the first acts of XAVIER on landing "at Goa, was to establish the Inquisition there; an Institu❝tion whose great object we know to be, the discovery and 46 punishment of Heretics, or, as we should call them, Protestants, and which the same Pope who has revived the Order of Jesuits, has therefore with perfect consistency "re-established."

With regard to the public connexion, which has always subsisted, and must ever continue to subsist, between the Jesuits and THE INQUISITION; it is the less necessary to dwell upon this point, because (to say no more of their great apostle XAVIER having actually established the Inquisition of Goa) there is no account of the Inquisition, either ancient or modern, in whatever countries it may have existed, in which the Jesuits are not proved to have been (in conjunction with the Dominicans, and others) active and cruel members of that bloody tribunal of tyranny and oppression *: but as their secret exercise of Inquisitorial functions, in countries where that monstrous engine of injustice does not exist, is perhaps less known, a single Extract shall be adduced to establish it.

The apology of GERSON the Jesuit contains the following avowal: "Inasmuch" (says he) "as, from the nature of "their Institute and their fourth vow, it belongs to the Jesuits "to exercise the office and functions of Inquisitors, in coun"tries where no Inquisition is established, as appears from "the Bull granted by PAUL III. in the year 1549, in favor

* See, among other works, DELLON'S Account of the Inquisition at Goa. THE BISHOP OF ANGELOPOLIS, also, in his Letter to POPE INNOCENT X. speaking of the persecution which he and his Clergy experienced from the Jesuits, observes, "They employed at the same "time the jurisdiction of Inquisitors, who, under pretence that the "people of my Diocese cared little about Excommunication, impri"soned many of the Laity who resisted them, and threatened them "with still rougher treatment if they would not submit."

"of the Jesuits*:"-and he then proceeds to shew their mode of putting Kings on their trial among themselves, and employing their devotees to execute their intentions of destroying them.

MR. DALLAS, in p. 113 et seq. examines SIR JOHN HIPBISLEY'S objection to Jesuits going abroad for Ordination; and observes, that "SIR JOHN does not appear aware that in an "Order, it is requisite to obtain Ordination through a Supe"rior of the Order:" after which, he states that SIR JOHN must be aware, that "no Priest of the regulars can assume

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any exercise of ministerial functions, in preaching or admi❝nistering sacraments, without license of the diocesan pre"late." He then gives a confused account of two Ecclesiastical Students, who went to Palermo in 1806, for their health, but were not allowed to officiate as Priests, and on recovering their health returned home: he next informs us, that in three ensuing years one Priest and ten Students went to Palermo. The whole result of this statement is, that, instead of nineteen, there were only nine who obtained Orders, one of whom (says MR. DALLAS) "is the distinguished President of the "new Seminary of Education in Ireland." He adds, "for "the last six years not one Catholic Student has had a "thought of following their example:" and he concludes this branch of his argument, by observing, that "such trifling emi"grations of a few Students will neither alarm nor surprise "those who know that, for more than two Centuries, the penal "laws have driven all English and Irish Catholics, who were "not content to live in ignorance at home, to seek education "abroad; that this had become an invariable custom, and that every year scores of British subjects went abroad."

MR. DALLAS appears to be deeply versed in all the art

"Siquidem Jesuitis ex naturâ sui Instituti et quarti voti, incum"bit, officio Inquisitorum defungi iis in Provinciis ubi Inquisitoris, offi"cium nequaquam institutum est, ut patet ex Bullis Pauli III. anno "1549, editis pro Jesuitarum Instituto," &c. Apolog. pro Gerson, p. 198 et seq.

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and mystery of Popish Ordination; but to what does this profound respect for the regular and irregular Orders of the Papacy amount? If MR. DALLAS succeeds in proving that Catholics have no need to go abroad for ordination, because, by a strange contradiction, such ample provision for ordaining Popish Priests is now made in the heart of our Protestant nation, that they may obtain ordination here; will this prevent their going abroad for the same purposes of sedition and rebellion, as have ever hitherto connected them with the Continent? But let us suppose them to emigrate no more. If Ireland, that vulnerable heel of the British Achilles, is still to continue the nursery of Popery, and therefore the hot-bed of disaffection and disorder, will it be any consolation to MR. DALLAS'S Protestant Readers to learn, that the Romish Priesthood may be preserved in all its integrity without emigrations to Italy? So long as Bishops of the Catholic Church may ordain Priests, in any number, in England and Ireland, and so long as Superiors of the Order of Jesuits may make members of that Order in either country, MR, DALLAS must not expect to remove our just apprehension of the consequences of such privileges, by gravely informing us-that Ecclesiastical Students will no longer emigrate to Italy and elsewhere; but that they intend to favor us with their company in perpetuity, since it is utterly impossible that they can at the same time pay a foreign allegiance, and love a nation of Heretics.

MR. DALLAS's flattering compliment (p. 116) to the person whom he is pleased to call " the distinguished President "of the new Seminary of Education in Ireland," may lose a little of its value, when the public come to be informed that this Seminary is no other than the Establishment of Jesuits at CASTLE BROWNE, which received £30,000 for its foundation; which maintains a constant communication, on the one hand, with the Jesuits' College at Stonyhurst, near Preston in Lancashire, and, on the other, with Spain, Italy, and France; that this Irish College of Jesuits is daily increasing in extent; that it educates all the youths it can obtain, and, in particular,