M. Cayla, in his able sketch of the most important of the

lay affiliations of the order, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul,f shews, that the Jesuits availed themselves of the French revolution in 1848, in order to break up the constitutional monarchy, of Louis Philippe ; and that after manipulating the Republic, they were engaged in preparations for the coup d'etat of 1852; whereby they promoted the establishment of a despotic form of government, —the form of government, which, if it be Roman Catholic, they always favour, as most amenable to their intrigues. How they assail an autocratic government, if not submissive to their dicta- tion, is illustrated in the case of Russia, by Prince Gortchakoff's remarkable Circular Despatch.^
In every country, and under every form of government, the
efforts of the Jesuits, however varied in their phase, have been,
and are, the same in their tendency. Wherever the influence or
Eevoiution. power of their order is not supreme, the Jesuits are revolutionists.
They work against the State through the disorganisation of
France.
Kussia.
* " Instructions Secretes des Jesuites." Par Charles Sauvestre. Paris, 1863.
f "Les Bons Messieurs de St. Vincent de Paul." J. M. Cayla. Dentu, Paris, 18G3.
I This remarkable document was laid before the House of Commons, and printed in the Session of 1867.
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society. The effect of their supremacy, wherever established, has Eesuits of always been the same ; the establishment of a retrograde and suPrema(T- debasing tyranny ; and then, as the result, frequent attempts at revolution on the part of the oppressed peoples. This is abund- antly attested by the former condition of Italy; by the remarkable series of events that have taken place in Spain and France ; to say nothing of the convulsions and crimes against Grod and man, of which they were the instigators, in South America. S. America.
No person, who has taken the trouble to inform himself on this subject can, with truth, assert, that in affording our readers this " Glimpse of the operations of the great Secret Society" we are inviting them to accompany us, while we rummage among the dusty records of a danger that is past.
It may naturally be asked " How has this revival of Jesuitism The Keviva] : occurred? The public know little or nothing about it." The how effected, answer to this question is very simple. In 1814, just before his 1814. restoration to the sovereignty of the Pontifical States and of Rome, in effecting which Protestant England bore so large a part, the Pope re-established the Order of Jesuits ; an act, from which the Papacy had abstained, since the suppression of the order by Pope Clement XIV., in 1773. In October, 1836, the late Pope, as M. Cretineau Joly the Jesuit historian tells us, held a Function at the Gresu in Rome, and by a Papal brief, bearing that date, placed the whole of the missions of all the regular Orders of the Church of Rome under the direction of the Jesuits. This memorable act was little known, and attracted little attention at the time, but its consequences have been of the widest and deepest importance. The Pope, as the head of the Church of Rome, then virtually resigned himself and his Church to the domination of
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this Praetorian order. The Propaganda, the central office of the Propaganda, regular missions of the Church of Rome, became merely a depart- ment of the Order of Jesuits ; and it is remarkable, that by the Brief of 1850, justly described as the act of Papal aggression i850. upon England, the whole authority of the Papacy, as regards the Church of Rome and her adherents in this country, was permanently delegated to the Propaganda. The present Pope was on his accession inclined to be liberal, but the events, which led to his early flight from Rome to Gaeta, terrified
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him into subjection to the Jesuits ; he appears to have returned from Gaeta quite changed. His subsequent arrogant and aggres- sive conduct plainly shows that he had then become identified
Ultramon- with what is commonly called the " Ultramontane, " but that which really is the Jesuit faction or sect, in the Church of Rome. They have thus for more than twenty years been dominant over the Papacy and the Church of Rome, and have reproduced in France, and other countries, a state of things in politics, morals, and religion, analogous to that described by M. de la Chalotais, as having been the result of their influence during the last century.
The speech or report of M. de la Chalotais, to the Parlia- ment of Bretagne, in 1761, was the consequence of u great stir in the minds of the French people, caused by the out- rageous conduct of the Jesuits. Anger was justly excited against this anti-social association by such acts as the following, the account of which is extracted from "Histoire Abregee des Jesuites,"*
Father Chau- Tome II., page 26 : "A certain Ambrose Guys, originally from Ambros ^P^' disembarked at Brest in 1701, with a considerable fortune,
Gays. which he brought from Brazil. His packages contained one mil- 1701
lion nine hundred thousand livres in gold, a considerable sum in
silver, a great quantity of precious stones, and other objects of value. Being ill, he was taken, with all his effects, to the house of one named Guimar, an inkeeper on the quay 'De la Recouvrance.' Feeling uneasy in his mind, he sent for a Jesuit confessor, and committed to his care some letters, with which he had been entrusted by the Jesuits of the country, from which he had come. Judging by these letters of the importance of the chance that this man afforded them, these gentlemen (the Jesuits) committed the execution of their plan to Father Chauvel, the proctor of their establishment. He engaged Guys to leave that inn, where he was badly entertained, and to come into the house of the Society, where he would be taken the greatest care of. The sick man. The sick man consented to this ; but he expressed his desire first to make his will. The Father Chauvel approved of this proposal, and
* Quoted by M. Charles Sauvestre in the Introduction to his work on the " Constitution of the Jesuits."
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the same evening the unhappy Guys signed his will before a notary, assisted by four witnesses. Now this pretended notary was in fact simply the gardener of the Jesuits ; and the four witnesses were certain Fathers of the Society of Jesus, disguised as citizens. The sick man was carried to the house of the good Fathers, where he The g°ocl died three days after.
" Frances Jourdan, niece of the deceased, and wife of a man named Esprit Beranger, of Marseilles, having learnt by public report, what had happened to her uncle, presented on the llth April 1715, a petition to the Judges of Brest to be allowed full 1715. information on the subject. The Jesuits, foreseeing the rising Pej^°gneg°tlie storm, caused Beranger to be threatened with assassination, if he Assassination did not give up the proceedings he was instituting. Tbat poor fellow,'frightened and ruined by two years of litigation in Bretagne, found himself obliged to listen to these threats. The Chancellor,