protection of the Holy See, which "reserves the power of "prescribing and directing all that may be necessary to conso"lidate the Society more and more; to render it stronger, "and to purge it of abuses, SHOULD THEY EVER CREEP IN." The Society and all its members are then recommended "strongly to temporal Princes and Lords, to Archbishops and

Bishops, and to all persons in authority, who are exhorted "and conjured, not only to suffer them to remain unmolested, "but to see that they are treated with all kindness and "charity." The Apostolic constitutions of the Founder of the Order, Pope Paul III.*, and others are revived in favor of the Jesuits, and in short they are placed in the same condition of privilege and power as they anciently enjoyed. The Bull is directed to be inviolably "observed, in all future time, and "that it shall never be submitted to the judgment or revision

of any Judge, with whatever power he may be clothed; "declaring null and void any encroachment on those regula"tions either knowingly or from ignorance." The Bull of Pope CLEMENT XIV. who abolished the Order, is then expressly abrogated-and it is lastly stated that" if any one shall attempt by an audacious temerity to infringe or oppose any part of this ordinance, he will thereby incur the "indignation of Almighty God, and of the Holy Apostles."

The publication of this Bull was followed by an Act ordaining the restitution of the funds which were the patrimony of the Jesuits, and making compensations for their confiscated property.

It was sought to render the above measure palatable to the British public, by a laboured vindication of the Order which

* In a Bull of that Pope dated March, 1545, he permits the Jesuits to alter, annul, or revive at pleasure as times, places, and circumstances might require, their Constitutions made or to be made; and in another dated 25 November, 1549, he sanctions the despotism of the General, by giving him complete jurisdiction over the members, and power over the funds of the Society, together with the privilege of sending any Individual of the Order wherever he might please.

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appeared (together with a copy of the Bull) in one of our newspapers which has the most extensive circulation! In this apology the measure is stated to "promise more for the "future good of Europe than any event for the last twenty years." Europe is represented as "owing infinitely more "than half its civilization to the Popes." CLEMENT XIV. is called "a weak and imbecile prelate, who was partly flat"tered and partly menaced into an act of self-destruction in "the abolition of HIS BEST BULWARK, THE SOCIETY OF THE "JESUITS." It is then affirmed that "the Romish Church "has had ample reason to repent this unfortunate concession; for HAD THE SOCIETY OF JESUITS REMAINED, THE FRENCH "REVOLUTION AND ALL ITS EXCESSES WOULD NEVER HAVE 99 OCCURRED. A negative which perhaps the friends of the Society will have some trouble to prove, but which MR. DALLAS, as will appear hereafter, adopts, and argues upon. The Order is then described as a body of men" set apart for “the propagation and defence of their religion, who (whilst "other Monastics confine themselves to solitary devotion, and "ascetic exercises) inform their minds with learning, and "being thus fit for the business of life, go forth adapted to "every condition to which they may be called." It is added that "a man who thus unites religion and learning, should be "able to confer the greatest blessings on a kingdom; and that

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ALTHOUGH SUCH TALENTS HAVE BEEN ABUSED TO THE WORST 66 PURPOSES, AND HAVE THUS BEEN ONLY THE INCREASED MEANS OF MISCHIEF” (no mean admission), " yet that it is a "very vulgar error to argue against the use from the abuse." There then follows a panegyric on the protection afforded “ "learned men and their writings by the Convents," although it is not clear how this can redound to the honour of those who were not monastics. It is further stated as "natural to "expect that even the clergy themselves should partake of "the errors and ignorance of the dark ages, and very unfair "to object to the priesthood of the present day, what was the "character of the priesthood formerly; the vices and follies

"in question having been those of the age and not of their "Order." This defence is closed by a declaration that "the" "Order has been most heavily slandered, by those who were "inferior to them in every good talent;" and the following question is put in conclusion: "Are not the enemies of the "Jesuits, enemies of OUR religion in every form ?" — An inquiry which leaves no doubt of the Apologist having been of the same religion as the Jesuits themselves.

To return to the Pope-It may perhaps be worth considering what claims that Pontiff has acquired to the love or admiration of the world, since his elevation to the Papacy; and how far the act of reviving the Order of Jesuits comes recommended to us by any knowledge we possess of the character of Pius VII. The act itself will be considered more at large hereafter.

On adverting to the public and political character of this Pontiff, we shall find that his arrogance, fickleness, and time-serving policy are worthy of the darkest ages of Romish superstition. Claiming and exercising the deposing and dis-’ pensing powers which his predecessors from the time of GREGORY VII. had constantly practised, he placed the bloodstained Usurper (BONAPARTE) on the throne of the BOURBONS; and in the name of JESUS, he invoked the Holy Spirit in consecrating a sceptre, wrested from its lawful inheritor, by at series of atrocities, flowing from the French Revolution, such as had never before stained the annals of human crimes: he deprived of his crown Louis XVIII. the legitimate successor of a long race of Kings, who had been regarded for many ages as the eldest sons of the Church, the founders of all its temporal powers, and the liberal benefactors to whom they owed all their princely possessions. Dr. O'CONOR observes upon this—"Notwithstanding the oaths of allegiance by which "Roman Catholics swear, that the POPE has no power over "the temporalities of States, the Irish titular Bishops, assem"bled in Synod at Tallow, so lately as the 6th of July, 1809, "extolled as just, holy, and legitimate, those Bulls of Pope

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"Pius VII. by which he absolved all Frenchmen from their "oath of allegiance to the BOURBONS, expressly alienating, 66 not only the Crown of France, but also the property of all "French loyalists, secular and ecclesiastical, and driving from "their Sees a hundred French Bishops, who were guilty of no "other crime than that of a conscientious regard for their oaths, " and their fidelity to their Prince; and this too, without stipu "lating for any compensation-without giving them a trial, though they demanded it-without granting them that which ❝ was not denied to the Irish, even by CROMWELL." The Doctor quotes Pope Pius VII.'s Bulls, " Qui Christi Domini," published at Rome, November 29th, 1801, and "Ecclesia Christi" of August 15th, 1801; against which the Bishops, thus hurled from their Sees for their fidelity, appealed. Their appeal was printed and published by DULAU, London, in 1804. DOCTOR O'CONOR gives some extracts from these extraordinary Bulls, which contain the following paragraph :

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The Pope could not plead in excuse for this very extraordinary conduct, that he was impelled by fear, or that he obeyed any mandate of the Corsican Tyrant. The following incidents prove the assertion, and shew that he acted with the coolest deliberation: On the 29th of October, 1805, some time previous to his setting out for Paris, he convened a Consistory of the Cardinals at Rome, and informed them, "that

* See Dr. O'Conor's Historical Address on the Calamities occa sioned by Foreign Influence, signed Columbanus, Part iii. pp. 5, 27 and 36.

he cheerfully and gratefully complied with the desire of his "beloved Son in CHRIST (NAPOLEON) to be anointed with his "holy unction by the hands of his Holiness: to be placed

by the most solemn rites, performed by his Holiness, in the "highest rank; to receive the Imperial Crown by a solemn "inauguration from his Holiness, impressing the ceremony "with a character of religion, and calling down the benedic"tion of Heaven;" in other words, to cover over the crimes of this upstart tyrant with the broad mantle of hypocrisy; to consecrate, as the zealous and pious supporter of the Holy See, the man who had made a merit with the people of Egypt, that he was the servant of their Prophet-who had marched to Rome to overthrow the Pope, because he had invited the Christians to make war against the Mahometan religion.

Louis XVIII. on the 6th of July, 1804, protested against this usurpation, and the Pope's sanction of it. His protest appeared in the Moniteur, and in the newspapers of every country in Europe. Should not this have made his Holiness pause, before he placed this sanguinary tyrant on the throne of St. Louis? On the contrary, he did every thing in his power to prove that this disgraceful deed was the result of cool deliberation; and as if glorying in it, he did his utmost to proclaim it to the world in the most ostentatious manner. On the 26th of June, 1805, some time after his return to Rome, he called together a Consistory of the Cardinals,which is regarded as the most august assembly the Pope can convene or address, and in his Allocution to them he said, "that he, the Suc"cessor of St. Peter, and Vicar of Christ, went to France for "the purpose of decorating his beloved Son in Christ, Napo"leon, with the ensigns of imperial dignity; that he assem"bled them to communicate to them the salutary consequences "which, by the blessing of God, had resulted to him from that "Journey. What joy, what pleasure, we experienced in our "first interview with the Emperor, whose fame has sounded "to the extremities of the world, and whom God has chosen