that his successor the Rev. Dr. Murphy, inherits all the zeal, virtue, and abilities of his late bishop, and that he has pledged himself to be a firm supporter of the rights of the clergy, and a strenuous defender of the Irish church. THE FUNERAL. chapel walked, in scarves, and were the persons Upwards of four hundred gentlemen of all religious The entire forming one of the most so- Upwards of 50,000 people lined the windows, walls, linneys, &c.-in many places the roofs were crowded with people, who could not move forward. On Monday, the body was interred in the North Chapel, which presented a most awful and solemn appearance. On entering it, the mind was irresistibly impressed: the large windows were all hung with black, and in the centre of each appeared a death's head; the railings of the galleries all round this large edifice were covered with black cloth, and at intervals appeared the arms of the prelate and death's heads; the organ was covered with crape; at the great altar there was jnst sufficient light to enable the officiating clergymen to read; the rails of the sanctuary were also hung with black, and in the centre of the choir the representation of a tomb was erected, to which there was an ascent of At about four o'clock, the body was depotwo steps, which was covered with black sited in the vault under the North chapel, cloth-the body of this structure was black. and the gentlemen retired to the adjoining On the end facing the chapel was the coat of parish school room, for the purpose of enarms, and on each side the same device with tering into a subscription for raising a monutwo death's heads. Upon this, at the height ment to their departed friend and pastor. A of about five feet from the ground, rested the considerable sum was immediately raised, coffin containing the remains of Doctor Moy- and a sub-committee appointed to receive LAN, and three lighted candles at each side.subscriptions for the purpose. In the choir were assembled about fifty clergymen in surplices, and the students of St. Mary's College. The Right Rev. Doctor COPPINGER sat in his episcopal robes near the coffin-and in the large returns at each side of the choir, and in the aisle of the DIED. On Friday, the 17th February the Rev. Mr. Thayer breathed his last, at his lodgings in Limerick, in the 57th year of his age. This lamented and much esteemed in dividual, was a native of Boston, in America, church, immediately in front of it, were up-genius-a liberal mind, and unbounded love -of respectable parents-gifted with great wards of four hundred 'gentlemen of all religions, in scarves; the galleries were principally filled by ladies, who were admitted by tickets;-upon the whole, we seldom witnessed a more solemn and impressive spectacle. After the usual office for the dead, and solemn High Mass, which was celebrated in black vestments by the very Rev. Archdeacon MURPHY, assisted by the proper officers, the ceremony of sprinkling the coffin with holy water, &c. was performed by the Right Rev. Doctor COPPINGER, and four parish priests of the diocese, after which, the mitre and crosier were removed from the coffin, and the funeral procession moved forward in order. When the coffin was removed, the edifice rung with lamentations. The procession went through the principal streets back to the chapel, in the following order : of study. In the early part of his life he became a minister of the gospel, according to the Calvinistic communion, in which he was reared. He visited some of the principal states in Europe, France, Italy, &c. During his stay at Rome, he embraced the Catholic faith, and was raised to the order of its priesthood. To that faith, and to that order, Mr. Thayer was a bright ornament. He lived and died in the communion and ministry of his adoption, in a manner worthy of his eminent virtues and pious simplicity—he decked religion in mildness, and he reclaimed the wanderer by captivating the heart. In the social circle, he was completely the gentleman, the scholar, and the wit-he had an even gaiety of temper, a clearness and aptrarely equalled, certainly never exceeded. ness of expression, and facility of anecdote, No wonder his death is lamented-but his is the death of the just.-At the chapel, Greenwich, the Rev. Mr. Green, whose death is a heavy loss to the mission; and whose pious zeal, benevolence of heart, and unaffected simplicity of manners, will long endear his memory to those who had the happiness of knowing him. In Castle-street, Holborn, the Rev. Mr. Chamberlayne, secretary of the London district.-At Chepstow, the Rev. William Davis. Andrews, Printer, 5, Orange-street, Red Lion-square. THE ENGLISH PRESS AND JESUITISM.pient reviewer, it was impossible to N my last number I slightly no- restrain the risibility of one's features, one's mind whether my labour would not be lost in noticing the recommendation of this brainless scribe. However, as my inclination is to defend the innocent against the blind but wide-mouthed monster CALUMNY; and as my desire is only to display TRUTH in its proper garb, it may not perhaps be wholly useless to lay before my readers some of the unjust charges brought against the highly-talented Jumpies inserted in The Times newspaper against the Jesuits, by a writer who signed himself "Laicus." These uncharitable effusions have since been printed in the form of a pamphlet, and are now in circulation, to gratify the stupid credulity of the English people. The crack-brained author of 'these letters. has contrived to get his work noticed in the Literary Panorama (New Series) of last month; and the reviewer, after detailing the im-society of the Jesuits, by the partial moral and blasphemous doctrines attributed to the venerable Fathers of the Order, favours his readers with the following profound and sagacious observation:"All this is bad enough, and surely too bad! What can be worse? Why, really, after what has happened, it is still worse to see the English Press in the form of one (we are thankful only one as yet) of our public journals, opening a battery of commendation in favour of the Jesuits, on the simple heart of inconsiderate John Bull. We had hoped that, whatever influence the Papacy possessed among us,-yet Jesuitism could not have polluted the pages of any paper printed in the metropolis. If the editor of that paper has a grain of integrity, let him learn from the pamphlet, the true character of the Society he has been serving, and prove by his conduct, his recollection remember that ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY."After reading this grave admonition of our saORETD. JOUR. VOL. III. and bigotted writer, and which the reviewer has recommended to the editor of the paper in question, to inform himself of "the TRUE character of the society he has been serving." For my own part, it was with the greatest difficulty I could bring my mind to wade through the dirt and filth which this poor man has raked up from the works of the most abandoned and depraved authors of the two preceding centuries-works evidently written with the intention of instigating and infuriating the igno rant and unwary multitude against body of men, whose conduct was without blemish, and whose superior abilities were the cause of the unjust. charges poured forth against them.The writer has divided his charges into four heads, viz. 1st. As to the Constitution and Rules of the Society; 2d. The Miseries arising in all Countries from their secular spirit, cruel persecutions, and restless intrigues; 3d. Their infamous practices in at M tempting the Lives of Sovereigns hos- | is governed, so that the reader may see the extent of gullibility practised upon the English people, and how credulous they are in believing charges, however false and absurd they may be, when they are shot at the unfortunate professors of the Catholic religion:"Every member, (says the writer) though a Bishop or a Pope, is abso nable to its General....The General acknowledges no authority above him, spiritual or temporal....The society has prisons, independent of the secu lar authority, in which refractory members may be put to death....It may lawfully receive men of ALL RELIGIONS, and (he adds) M. de Vallory, ambassador from France to Prussia, records the singular fact of a Lutheran merchant, at Hamburgh, honestly refusing to become a Freemason, alledging as a reason, that he should be COMPELLED to reveal whatever secret it might contain to a Jesuit, who was HIS Confessor." This is really a very pretty story, and I judge the relater of it was much such another tile to their views; 4th. The moral doctrines of the Jesuits, which will best explain their practice. Such are the charges laid at the door of this order; and from the manner and stile of language, the total want of argument and truth, and the flippancy and absurdity of the assertions therein contained, I am inclined to suspect|lutely bound by the society, and amethey are the offspring of the unhappy and bible-bewildered man, who first exhibited his prowess at misrepresentation and slander against the professors of Catholicity, in the quotations attached to the Bible Correspondence published about two years ago, and who has since taken every opportunity of shewing himself a staunch antipopery zealot.To follow him through all the assertions which he has heaped together in this mass of bitter and unchristian reflections, is totally unnecessary; neither shall I enter into a defence of the last charge brought against the order, because the tenour of the lives of the venerable members composing it, gives the lie to the shocking doctrines which this un-wiseacre in religious ideas, as the aufeeling calumniator has imputed to the whole body. But as the third charge, namely, the attempting the lives of Sovereigns, has been a prolific source of slander against the Catholics of this empire, and as it is still a stumblingblock in the eyes of many well-meaning men, I shall endeavour to shew 1 that the writer, instead of pourtraying the society in its true colours, has basely attempted to affix the odious crimes which have been perpetrated by the abettors of the Reformation and the enemies of Popery, upon men whose splendid talents were exerted to inculcate and promote a spirit of pure morality and due observance to the laws of the state, and whose lives display an example of self-devotedness and contempt of worldly dangers unequalled in the page of religious history. Before, however, I proceed to this task, I shall quote some of the heads which this scribe declares to be part of the rules by which the society thor and reviewer of this true charac ter of the society. I have seen a good many curious tales about the Jesuits, and the Monks, and the Priests, but I do not recollect ever hearing of a Protestant going to confession to a Catholic priest, without abjuring his former creed. How could this hap pen? Were the Protestant Ministers unworthy of being trusted? Were they blabbers? Or was this Jesuit possessed of a supernatural power, by which he compelled this poor Lutheran to relate his misdeeds against his will? Did he deal in the art of hocus pocus? For I do not see how else he could force a man to speak unless the latter chose to do it. And if the Jesuit was so clever a hand as to be able to compel this Lutheran to disclose the secret after he had obtained it, I should think, if the Confessor had any desire himself to know about the craft of Freemasonry, he would have laid hold of one of that body, and COMPELLED T sions lately erected by the liberality and wisdom of Parliament for lunatics and brain-distempered authors. Indeed it is truly pitiable to observe to what a when it is thus stated by a man, respectable from his situation and profession in society, and announced to the nation at large through the medium of a public paper of extensive sale and circulation, that in matters of faith and practice the Jesuits obey the society and not the church, when it is notorious that the fundamental article of the Catholic faith is to believe all whatsoever the church teaches, because fortified by the promises of Christ, she cannot err.-Again, that "the society is subject to no autho him to relate it. What ridiculous folly, what egregious nonsense, is served up to tickle the palate of our English Protestants!-But, proceeds the writer, "In matters of faith and prac-state men's minds can be reduced, tice, its (the society) members are bound to obey the society and not the CHURCH...In fact, notwithstanding their vow of papal obedience, the society is, by its constitution, subject to no authority temporal or spiritual, when it interferes with its own interests; but is WHOLLY EXEMPT from the laws and authority of Popes, Bishops, or Kings, when they oppose it, to ALL of whom it has PUBLICLY REFUSED OBEDIENCE, especially to Popes Clement the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th, Popes Benedict the 13th and 14th, Innocent the 10th,rity temporal or spiritual, when it in11th, 12th, and 13th, the last of whom terferes with its own interests; but is was universally understood to have wholly exempt from the laws and au been murdered by the Jesuits, against thority of Popes, Bishops, or Kings, whom he was meditating some strong to all of whom it has publicly refused measures. It appropriates to, and obedience," especially to twelve of the unites in itself, the rights and privi- former who are particularly named.leges of ALL OTHER SOCIETIES, Now, if this was the fact, how came past, present, and even FUTURE, Clement XIV. to suppress the society although the last position involves an as a religious order, and place the disabsurdity in terms. It claims supre-banded members upon the same footmacy over all other bodies, and may annul THEIR privileges as belonging only to itself. Its vow of poverty is the same fallacy as that of papal obedience; since it can lawfully collect the largest wealth, both real and personal, and has ever done so. One peculiar obiste ject of the society is to direct and aid We the operations of the Inquisition where it exists, and to exercise its several functions secretly in countries where mer it is not established, particularly with reference to the Government of those countries." Enough, the reader will exclaim, has been given of this farrago of incongruities; for surely the writer of these absurd contradictions stands in need of some charitable physician to purge his phrenzied brain of this Jesuitaphobia which appears to have seized him, and prevent his falling a victim to the unhappy malady, which sooner or later must consign him to one of those spacious man b to си ing as the secular clergy, without opposition from it ? If the Jesuits were so refractory as to set at defiance all authority, and publicly to refuse obedience to the predecessors of Ganganelli, is it not astonishing that these Popes should protect the order against the wicked machinations of its enemies? Would it not be more reasonable to suppose, that if the conduct of the Jesuits had been such as is here represented, that the Popes themselves would have been the first to have got rid of such disobedient children, and have urged the temporal power to exert the arm of the sword to disperse such rebellious subjects? And yet one of these very Popes, whom the author says the Jesuits publicly refused obedience to, viz. Clement 13th, implored the protection of Lewis the 15th in their behalf, in a letter to that king, dated June 9th, 1762, in which the Holy Father says, "With themselves were the only victims to bitter grief we lament the intended abolition of the order in your Majesty's dominions, where those religious men are so advantageously employed in the instruction of youth, in teach ing sound doctrine, and promoting the practice of all those pious works, by which faith and religion are culti vated and maintained."In the year preceding the date of this letter, a synod was held at Paris, of cardinals, archbishops, and bishops, about fifty in number, to deliberate upon the points laid before them, concerning the usefulness and constitutional government of the Jesuits. The decision of these prelates was highly favourable to those calumniated individuals, who are stated to refuse obedience to Bishops as well as Popes and Kings. "The Jeeuits are of infinite service to us in our dioceses," say the prelates; "they enforce and give new life and vigour to PIETY and RELIGION by their sermons, their catechistical instructions, &c. all which they per-ject of the Jesuits "is to direct and form with our approbation, and BY OUR AUTHORITY....To religion and THE STATE their usefulness is manifest; their doctrine is sound; and, from the nature of their internal government, no danger to France is to be apprehended."- As to the charge of the society uniting to itself the rights and privileges of all other societies, past, present, and even future, the writer himself was so well convinced of the gross falsehood he then advanced, that he acknowledges that "the position involves an absurdity in terms," but still he knew it would be swallowed by the credulous inhabitants of this enlightened country. If the Jesuits had the power of unit-popish one, never had existence in ing in itself the rights and privileges of all other societies, what a strange forgetfulness did they labour under, when they found themselves besieged by a host of foes, not to exercise this power in order to strengthen themselves, but, instead of so doing, permit the members of these societies to remain unmolested, and even to take a part against their own order, while aid the operation of the INQUISITION this country, nor I believe in France; |