To the same fruitful source of mischief we may trace the revolution of Belgium, which separated that country from Holland, and placed Leopold on its throne, the rebellion in Poland, and the present Republic in France. On whatever side we turn our eyes, whether to Spain or Austria, to Sardinia, to Naples, or to Hungary, to Switzerland, to Rome, or to the shores of our own country, there we may trace the disastrous and malignant effects of their interference. Verily, if ever the "Spirit of Evil" could be typified on earth, it is to be found in the Society of the Jesuits! In vain would they tell us, that they are prohibited by their constitutions from taking part in politics; do they suppose that the whole world is blind and deaf, or that all mankind are mistaken as to their real character? Let us only refer to the bull for their suppression, and to the chronicles of every country in Europe, to show the absurdity of such a defence.

The early history of Poland alone may well serve (unless we blindly close our eyes to facts) as a sad warning to England; for it is in the records of the past that we may ever gain wisdom and instruction for the present and the future. Were it not so, indeed, history had opened its luminous pages for us in vain, and its study and perusal would tend to as little practical purpose or utility as the search after the Philosopher's Stone, or the talisman of perpetual

youth, which characterised the pursuits of the philosophers and chemists of the middle ages.

Poland was one of the earliest countries where the Reformation was first established, and yet was eventually and utterly put down by Romanism. How did this happen? There was a small and out-of-theway town in that kingdom called Braunsburg; here it was that the Polish Bishop Hosius (in his heart a Romanist) planted, like Mr. Weld, a colony of Jesuits in disguise; was it not exactly so at Stonyhurst? for I see, on turning to an old directory of 1795, they were not designated as Jesuits, but as "gentlemen of the English Academy at Liege." At Braunsburg the Jesuits opened schools for the education of the young, and especially for the children of the nobles and higher classes. For some years, as in England, they kept quiet and alarmed nobody, acting, while it suited them, the parts of quiet and harmless religious people. But they were biding their time! When once they felt their footing sure, then commenced the downward course of Protestantism. By a series of dark and stealthy conspiracies, they brought back a free and prosperous kingdom to slavery, to superstition, and to Popery, planting their steps on that very law which gave free toleration to all sects. They left it to the nobles to make whom they would their priests, but they eventually contrived, by little and little, that every bishop must be a Roman

Catholic; such importance did they attach, as they do now, to that title. After a time a law was passed, that their king should always be a Romanist. Contrary to the fixed laws of Poland, they founded schools and colleges without number, while by the secret influence they possessed they escaped punishment; and wherever the political liberties of the country interfered with Romanism, where they could not openly crush, they secretly undermined them, till no vestige of either civil or religious liberty remained. Diminished in numbers, persecuted, disunited, their children taken forcibly from them to be educated in Romish schools, the Protestants of Poland were virtually annihilated in 1655. Let Lord Dudley Stuart and the other friends of Poland tell us what' that once great and flourishing country has been ever since-while under the yoke of Rome! These gentlemen can be eloquent enough about the effects, would that they were equally so about the causes which have produced them! Was not the avowed object of the Jesuits then what it is now, and ever will be so long as they are suffered to exist as a society-the destruction of Protestantism by any and every means, exalting Popery and Romanism upon its ruins? Shall we suffer Stonyhurst to be our Braunsburg?

Scattered in all the corners of the world, they cannot be sufficiently guarded against, for they are

everywhere, though they may not be seen or suspected. They were mixed up with every conspiracy against our Queen Elizabeth and King James. The names of Parry, Parsons, and Campion are familiar to all; of Garnett, the mover of the Gunpowder Plot; of Allen and Tolet and Blackwell, the founders and leaders of the English Seminary and Jesuit colleges at Douay and Rome and elsewhere. Dissimulation, perfidy, and fraud have ever been the instruments resorted to in their championship of Roman Catholic ascendancy, and their devotional invocations derogatory to the Redeemer and the great work of his atonement. Neither let it be forgotten that they have been expelled nearly forty times from different *nations of the world, Romish as well as Protestant, because the stability of thrones and the freedom of nations was found to be incompatible with their stay. In 1773, as we have said, Clement XIV. suppressed the order, when they took refuge in Russia, and other countries which cared not for Papal authority. But the Pope knew that his act would bring upon him an untimely death from their vengeance; an apprehension verified by the event. In 1814 Pope Pius VII. restored the order, though more from fear, it is said, than any other cause. In 1817 they were expelled

from Russia. The Roman Catholic Relief Bill of 1829 expressly provided for their gradual suppression. It enacted that Jesuits already in England, or

English Jesuits abroad already made, but wishing to return, should be registered; and that no new Jesuits should be made here, or, if made abroad, be allowed to come to England under severe penalties: and that a yearly return of all the Jesuits in England should be laid before Parliament. In 1830 the number of Jesuits in Ireland was 58, and in England 117. But are there no more than that number now? Since 1814 they have been again legalized in Christendom, and have spread over Great Britain. In 1838 they had eight colleges among us; and now they have eleven!!! Of their dangerous character, and their insidious, unscrupulous, and indefatigable efforts to overthrow the Church of England, the fate of Poland ought to be a sufficient warning.

Let us not think that the enlightenment of the age or the power of the press is sufficient to defend us from their attacks, for there is reason to believe, that a considerable portion of the press is more or less under their influence; and if they can succeed in stifling the spirit of inquiry by their doctrines of absolute submission, the enlightenment of the age may be as fugitive as the polish of that of Louis XIV., and may conceal the deadness and corruption of a cold heart and a seared conscience. Peter the Great, in the ukase by which he expelled them in 1719, thus expressed the feeling which will be re-echoed by every mind which is informed as to their true character:

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