CHAPTER XII., p. 296.

" NOTHING can be more instructive at the present moment than to hear the Jesuit historian (M. Cretineau Joly) describing the reappearance of the Society in England after their long exclusion. He tells us (vol. vi., p. 80) that the English, after having passed through a sea of blood, established that liberty of conscience, which could enable them to re-admit the Jesuits to their shores. He recounts the origin of their missions at Liverpool, Bristol, Preston, and Norwich, and where they were received, he says without a murmur. Thomas Weld received them, as the Gentle- men of Liege, at Lulworth, and afterwards settled them at Stonyhurst. All this took place, be it remembered, long before the Jesuits were recalled to Rome. In May, 1803, they prevailed on Pius VII. to sanction their college at Stonyhurst, and appoint Father Marmaduke Stone the Provincial Rector. On their restoration in 1814, Stonyhurst was formally confided to the Order. ' Pitt,' says the historian, ' had neither time nor will to oppose the re-establishment of the Institute.' No sooner were they established at Stonyhurst than they began to quarrel with the Vicars Apostolic. But Milner, the Ultramontane of Win- chester, took part with the Society. This bickering between the Vicars- General and the Jesuits had long been carried on, and will explain the origin of the late revolution by changing the Vicars- General into territorial Bishops. Their admiring historian pro-
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ceeds to relate, with a Jesuit smile, the good nature and liberality of the English Parliament in gradually removing their restrictions till everything was consummated by Catholic emancipation. Nor is his account of Ireland less instructive. It was some time before the Society was welcomed in Ireland with the same kindness which it had experienced in Britain. Amidst all her disturbances and miseries the Jesuits, however, according to Cretineau Joly, were her comforters and apostles ; they wiped away her tears and rendered her as happy as O'Connell himself could desire or express. At length Father Kenney, in 1819, was inspired with the idea of establishing at Clengowes, near Dublin, a National College. It was then that the voice of their favourite pupil, Daniel O'Connell, was first heard in ecstasy. Clengowes was opened in 1822 amidst an applauding multitude. The Society and O'Connell were in perfect harmony. ' The Jesuits,' says Cretineau, ' undertook the cause of education, and O'Connell that of freedom.' (Vol. vi., p. 95.)
"In 1829 their numbers and influence had so increased, it was judged expedient to form Ireland into a separate Province, under the charge of a district Provincial. Father St. Leger was elected, and they now became the right hand of ultramontane bishops. In 1840 the Jesuits, according to Cretineau Joly, on their third centenary, celebrated their own triumphs with those of Father Matthew. In the following year they opened their college of Francis Xavier in Dublin. Their historian cannot refrain from expressing his admiration and surprise that the Order should have been thus graciously received and welcomed by Protestants, while it had been so roughly treated by Papists."
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SEVERAL HISTORICAL FACTS CONNECTED WITH THE ORDER OF JESUITS, AND COMMENTS
THEREON.
[Extracted from the Publications of the Protestant Alliance ; and from a Pamphlet entitled " Startling Facts." — Bulwark, April 1, 1863.]
THERE is every reason to apprehend that the subject of Jesuitism, which is at this moment engaging the attention and awakening the alarm of almost all the principal countries in Europe, is but little understood, if not altogether unknown, by the great majority of the people of this country. We would therefore beg attention to the subjoined paper, containing a chronological table, with historical notes, compiled from various sources, and showing at once the countries from which the Jesuits have been banished, and the cause of their expulsion.
The annexed statistics will shew how inimical Jesuitism is to every form of government which is not based on its principles. If it was found necessary to expel the Jesuits from Roman Catholic countries on account of their " dangerous seditions, tumults, dis- cords, scandals, dissensions, entirely breaking up the bonds of Christian charity," (Bull of Suppression, Clement XIV.) — if Jesuitism was so antagonistic to the system which engendered it — what are we to look for as the fruits of that system in a Pro- testant country, the laws and institutions of which are diametrically opposed to the spirit of Jesuitism ?
The Jesuits have been expelled —
From Saragossa, in ...... 1555
From La Palintine, in . . . . . 1558
From Vienna, in . . . . . 1566
From Avignon, in ...... 1570
From Antwerp, from Portugal and Segovia, in 1578
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From England, in
From England again, in
From England again, in 1586
From Japan, in .
From Hungary and Transylvania, in . . 1588
From Bordeaux, in
From the whole of France,* in . 1594
From Holland, in
From the city of Touron and Berne, in . 1597
From England,f in 1602
* The following are the words of the decree, dated 29th December, 1594, for the banishment of the Jesuits from France :— They were declared to be
" CORRUPTORS OF YOUTHS, DISTURBERS OF THE PUBLIC REPOSE, AND ENEMIES OF THE KlNG AND STATE."
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