The Sun. — London, England, 1822-02-09 00:00:00

REPLY OF MADEMOISELLE REBO IJL 70 THE IMPUTATIONS DIRECTED AGAINST HER IN THE PETITION PRESENTED TO THE TWO CII.AM- BEILS, BY MR. LOVEDAY. 1 do not deny the authority of the head of a faraily who calls for an account of his children. I was even aware that in this sad dispute the contest would be at first unequal. Mr. LoVEDAY is a father. lam a school mistress. Confidence ought by preference to be given to him ; it is an homage acquired by the most sacred of titles. But there is Something more imposing and respectable still; that is truth. The success of taking opinion by surprise cannot in France be along duration. I shall recall, therefore, to. the recollection of Mr. Loveday, eirzarnstances which cannot be effaced from his memory, and his own correspondence I shall find 'my justification., Two 'lawyers have sided me in my defenie. With them I have con sidered the answer which,you are going to read, and which they subscribe along with me. On the 12th of Jdly, 1819, Mrs. Loveday paid a visit to my es tablishinen t. Three days afterwards her two daughters, Emily and Mas tilda, entered into my house. On the 28th of July, or the ?d of August, Mrs. Loveday took possession of a small pavilion, 'situated in my garden, which I sublet to her; in a short time Mary Loveday, her niece,, was received among my pupils. litre I must point out a great difference in respect of instruc tion, between the situation of young Mary and that of her two cousins. . l iliss Emily was then about 20 years of age; 'Miss Matilda nearly 18. 'I education of the two sitters had been concluded : they were to reside in my .hinere not as scholars, but as young per sf,ns whom their patents wished to place in a suitable dwelling. it'was not so with Mary. N! ary was required to complete, or, 'to speak more properly, to begin her studies. _ _ It was agreed that she should join in all our exercises ; that •sne should accompany us to church, and to divine service, and tnat, in a word, she should partake in all the. tasks of her com panions. This was a condition without which it was impossible for me to undertake the education - of this child. MrS. Loveday, undo-standing very well that I could not establish a particuliti mode of instruction. for one pupil, made not the slightest objec t= to it. I did not disguise from Mrs. Loveday toe principles on which I conducted my establishment. She had read my pro spectus, in which will be found the following passage :—" Reli gion, without which there cannot exist good education, is the basis of instruction, and patents will find in the manner the love and practice of it are inculcated on the pupils, the surest guaran tees for the accomplishment of the duties which they wilthave to fulfil in the world." Mrs. Loveday hid' traversed the whole of ray house : she found every where the august signs of our re lieietn. 1 made no mystery to her of the books adopted for being taught. Mrs: Loveday could perceive how easy it was" to per so:A residing in my house to procure to read and to examine - looks of edification and piety. Yet, in the midst of these daily habits of instruction and religious observances, Mrs. Loveday placed her two daughters and her niece. Moreover, she saw our agreement put in practice, as 1 have previously mentioned, she came to - reside in my house, and Mr. Loveday,• in a letter dated London, September 3, 1819, wrotd to me that Mrs. Love day " never spoke of my conduct but in terms of admiration." only quote his words. - . Mr. Loveday returned from England about the end of Oct. or the beginning of November. 1 repeated to him our agree ment, of which he expressed no disapprobation. At the same he questioned Mary on two points; he asked her if she prayed to the Virgin ? Mary replied in the affionative. He then ask ed her, if in church she made use of Catholic boOks. The child declared, that in the solemn festival she took a great pleasure in billowing the service along-with her companions. Mrs. Loveday animadverted on the dispositions of the child, and wished to know how it was possible to place obstacles in her way. I replied that it was neither in my power nor in my in clination to oppose sentiments which God alone can know, and that Mary would in this respect receive no prohibition from me. Why did not Mr. Loveday take away his niece then ? "lie could, • and doubtless he ought, if he had had as much zeal for the Eng lish church as he now tells,us he has. . The two sisters, Emily and Matilda, retired in their apart ments, could indulge themselves at full liberty in the exercises of their religion. It was only on the great festivals of the year that these young lathes, whom their father never led to his own church, accompanied us to divine service, and offered up their prayers to God along with us during a part of the day. I shall say further, and Mr. Loveday cannot have forgotten it, that in cerrespondence he requested me, while speakir% of his daughter Emily, who was indisposed and dejected, to give her all Christian consolations. These are the terms of his letter : and if the examples of virtue and piety which the three young per sons had unceasingly before their eyes; if the imposing cere mothcs of the church, especially on days of solemnity; if the language which they then heard -from the seat of truth (the prlpit); in tine, if the consolations which, to obey a father's wish, I thought my duty to offer them, led them to the neces sity of informing their minds, what right have Mr..and Mrs. 1/Jvcday, who must have seen these results, and who, even in Inp:e respects than one, were the cause, them, to be surprised or tc complain ? Mary gave me in the progress of her studies the greatest sa tisfaction. I beg here that I may be allowed, as the directress of en establishment for education, to enter into some details which I am sure fathers and mothers of families will forgive . are for stating. It was then a practice in my house, that at the end of every mctth I took the suffrages of my pupils. My vote only count ed for one. Three priees were thus awarded, one for piety, one for work, and one for good character., In the months of De cember, 1819, and February, 1829, the prize of piety was con ferred on Mary by an almost unanimous suffrage. Her cousins being witnesses of this—her cousins who were her habitual cow- - Rem:oils in my house—her uncle and her aunt. could not have remained in ignorance of it. Admitted to the examinations of Saint Sulpice with her companions, whom she never left, Mary obtained the grand seal of honour, that is, she was the first strceof- four or five hundred children with whom she entered into competition. I can prove, by documents in my possession,to what extent her knowledge was carried not only in a religious view, but relative to all parts of education At the examination which preceded the distribution of the prizes in my house, she astonish ed distinguished "professors by the correctness of her answers on . grammar, history, and geography ; she obtained three first, and two second prizes. But what I have particularly to state was her disposition—her leaning towards the Catholic religion ; and the leaning towards Catholicism—it has been already stated, • 'axed cannot be too often repeated—Mr. Loveday could not be iarnerant of. early as 1819 Mary besought me to permit her to partici pate in the of penitence with her companions, and during two years I found it necessary to employ all thcerneans which my authority, and, above all, her extreme confidence in rne, gave me over.her to restrain her fromdeceiving my vigilanCe on this point. ?ors little am I able to recal here all the sentiments which lier noul, so fervent and so full of candour, expressed. How littic am I able to state the number of times that I found it necessary to encourage and console this poor child, overwhelmed with sorrow at my refusal. Suffice it to declare, that during two years she was,according to the title which her companions were pleased to give her, the angel of the house.' And why should I not render this public homage to, my dear Mary?-- Her example, her piety, have perhaps powerfully contributed to form my pupils to that piety which constitutes their.happiness and my consolation. I shall only cite one fact. • i was preparing three . pupili to the first communion. They deciared to me,- with their accestorned frankness, that they had badly performed the duties imposed On those who are going soon to approach the holy .table. They begged me -to forgive this failure, and to point out the means of repairirg it. I gave them ray advice. Mary, who was present,could net restrain the transports of her zeal, and the following are her expressions, which can never be effaced from my memory or from that of her companions :—" Ah," said she, " how little do we feel the value of a blessing till we are deprived of it. What Why do you not show more ardour in preparing yourselves for so great a happiness . ? If, like me, you were deprived of that in. eetimable blessing, how much would you desire it Oh, that I were, allowed a first communion I" She then fell sobbing into my . arms. I shall not attempt to describe the effect produced on us all by this touching scene. By this trait, which I select from a thousand others, it will be seen what were the disposi tionecenithis.amiable and interesting child. itfigious instruction was given in my house, and here I must answer to one of the most odious imputations of the petition. One of my pupils had been conducted by her parents to the ceremony which the Church of St. Jean-en-Greve celebrates an nuelly to expiate the profanation of a host. I told on that oc casion what was contained in the ritual of the Church of St. John. I seized the circumstance to. point out to my young au ditor - that the miracles on which repose the Catholic faith, ought not to be confounded with those prodigies often credited by persons snore pious than enlightened. I told ink. children, that in matters of this kind it was not proper to reject every thing, because the power of (god is unlimited ; but neither was it proper to admit every thing, because there exists a great dis tance between the possibility and the proof of a miracle. Such are the instructions which my children received from me. Such is the fact which has been perverted to enjoy the easy pleasure of declamation. in the month of January, 1820, I left rue Montaigne, where coieatablishment had-existed till then, and I transferred it to i rue :ti tre -des-Chsunps. I gave greater importance and extent ie rani 'school. I requested and obtained from the Archbishop ptrudssion to celebrate mass in my house. I inserted in my prospectus the following passage:—" Thera is in the house a chapel, the service of which is performed by a respectable ec clesiastic, intrusted with the religious instruction and direction of the pupilst." Mr. Loveday was not ignorant of these dispositions, intended to render more easy to my pupils the practice of all religious sentiments ; andtx could not disguise from himself theimpret sion which this state of things must have on the heart of his niece, whose sentiments he knew, since she had declared to - him her devotion for the Vir in, and the pleasure which she en joyed in folloWing during the service our prayers and religious chants. Two years had thus passed, when, in the month of July, 1821, Mr. Loveday wrote to me, "th at it was possible the re turn of his daughters to, England might soon become indispen sable, and that 1 was to Make known to them that possibility, in order to induce them to turn .to advantage the tape which. they had w r emain .with me. " fulfilled the intentions of Mr. (.Loveday; and it was then that my sister wrote the letter of the 7th 'Of August, the only one which is quoted in, the petition. lUy sister in saying that we were incapable of abusing the con= fidence of Air. Loveday on the subject of religion, said what was perfectly true. We .did not th e n s uspect on the 7th of August) the secret sentiments with which the two sisters were penetrated ; and, relatively to Mary„llr. Loveday knew the notorious inclination of his niece for the Catholic worship—an inclination which-, apparently, I ought not to have opposed. Mr. Loveday answered my sister (on the 21st of August) that he was the slaye of circumstances, and that he would probably be under the necessity of . leaving.France with his daughters. - We were obliged to be resigned. I repeat it, I knew not the secret intentions of the two sisters ; but'now I understand Well enough the inipression which the last letter of their father mast have produced upon thein. l — to England, from that. time. inevitable, was about to oppose one ittsnrinonntable obstacle to the execution of their project. It was evident that, in a country where the Catholic religion is scarcely tolerated, abjuration would be dill - knit ; and hence' the desire 'of abjuring in France, and hence likewise the necessity of disclosing it to me. It was .thus that, on the 6th Of September only, I was informed by Emily and Matilda of their desire to embraCe the Catholic faith. I was immovable. I should be in the wrong to say that I saw with pain my young and interesting iriencts disposed to leave the paths of error; but I thought that it teas not sufficient to do.good, but to do it in a good way, and therefore that- before any thing was done, their father should be informed. Loveday, who was then in England, returned to France, and on the 23d. of October, 1821, I communicated to.him the intentions of his two daughters, who, on the following day, ad dressed him each in a letter begging his consent. On the 2fith of October he wrote to me " that he sent me the answer to the letters of his daughters." .He begged me not to present it to them till I had the assurance that they would read itithrough. He complained of what he called the duplicity of his daughters, and thus concluded—" I shall have the honour of communi cating to you my intentions regarding Mary by another letter." The correspondence continuetibetween the father and his daugh ters. I was always the person through whom it passed. At last, on the 3d of, November, the Misses'-Loveday, having re ceived an order from their father to repair to the house of their mother, at' noon, I conducted them to Rue Godot,, No. I. Our adieus, our tears, our sorrow at the moment of separation, would be difficult to express. At three o'clock 1 received a letter from Mr. Loveday, en closing one which his daughters had written under his eye. Emily commissioned me to hand to an ecclesiastic nearly sixty years of age, a small church ornament, called a pale, which is placed on the chalice during the celebration of mass. Emily begged me to offer her present with her heart ; and when it is considered that she wrote in the presence of her father—when we reflect upon the nature of the present, upon the character and age of the person for whom it was intended, we must lament that excess of passion which could elaborately discover in this passage a criminal thought ! Doubtless the expression might have been better chosen, but it ought net to be forgotten that Emily is English, and then nothing will be seen in the letter but a desire of expressing strongly sentiments of almost filial respect for a venerable ecclesiastic, whom all my pupils were accustomed to look upon as a second father. Here I am much embarrassed between two assertions of Mr. Loveday. lie says, in page 7of the petition addressed to the Chamber of Deputies, " I learned that my daughter had made bins a present, which the mistress placed in her account ;" and in the petition to the Chamber of Peers—" I learnt that my daughter had made him a present, which the mistress did not place in her account." One must choose between. The truth is, this small ornament in question remains in my chapel ; I declined to accept front Mr. Loveday the 7 francs 10 sous which it had cost. Such is the mystery of this passage, become famous by so many perfidious insinuations. flow unfortunate is it that Air. Loveday should have subscribed with his name a writing, in which things the most innocent and simple are perverted to the great peril of the honour of his daughter. The departure of the fi'fisses Loveday, the confidence which► they had reposed in me, the dangers which they ran in respect to their salvation, had become with me the subject of the most melancholy reflections. I had invariably resisted the sup plications, the prayers of these poor children. They had fore seen all that happened. They had often repeated to me, not in a tone of reproach, but of pain—l might almost say of despair, that in refusing to take in secret their abjuration, and in apprising their father of it, I exposed them to the greatest misfortunes. These sad predictions have been realiz.A—me lancholy thoughts beset . me—but my conscience was tran quil. It was my duty to apprize Mr. Loveday. I had done it—the social duty was fulfilled. But after all, lam a Chris tian and a Catholic. Two young persons whom 1 loved were going to be for ever separated from the church. My regrets and my grief may easily be conceived and patdoned. But what were my anxieties when Mary, whom Mr. Love day had left with me, although he had for a long time known her sentiments, represented to me the danger which awaited her, if I did not permit her to take advantage of the time which Pro vidence still left her. For two yeeirs Mary, under the eyes of her Uncle and her aunt, had given proofs, I shall not say of respect, but of her love for the Catholic religion. She added, ' that her mother, an Irish lady, was perhaps born a Catholic ; and if Alatilda was not bound to silence, she would say that she had made the same observation regarding the mother of :glary. This thought forcibly struos me. If the mother of Mary was a Catholi;;, the daughter might be educated in the religion of her mother. To the pressing entreaties of Mary was joined a reflection which the eonduct of Mr. Loveday, relative to his niece, had produced in my mind. What right had Mr. Loveday, after being apprised by me, to leave me in the most cruel of situations ? By what right could he pretend to charge me to resist indefinitely the will of God himself ? I had informed him of what was going on as head of the family ; I had 're stored the two boarders whom he had demanded ; if he was so true a son to the English church, had not his duties already Zommenced ? In these difficult circumstances—placed between my social and religions duties—wishing to fulfil both,and being,unable, without rashness, to decide between the rights of an uncle representing a father, and the no less sacred rights of a young Christian. who demanded with so much ardoirr, and with such pressing entreaties, the pledge of her salvation, I felt anxious to inform myself. I therefore addressed myself to that illustrious defender of the truth, whom his apostolic labours have encircled with so high a reputation for know- ledge, reason, and wisdom. Who could better than him point out the duties which I owed to God, and those which I owed to the wot Id ? I consulted Prelate., whom the sanctity of their lives has placed too high to be reached by the enve nomed shafts of calumny. These men, whom the glory of their name, and the dignity of their character, have invested with so imposing an authority, recognized in the conduct of Mr. Loveday a mysterious decree of Providence, which be was not permitted to - elude; - and in the-long perseverance of Mary, the irrefragahle proof of the' dispositions required by the church in those whom she permits to approach the sacraments. When these ecclesiastics'had declared their opinions, I could no longer hesitate. On the sth of November, Mary made her abjuration. The church, in recognizing the.efficacyof the haptisin rt ceived in the bosom of the Anglican church, reckon 4 it a duty, however, to confer it conditionally on the disciples of hat church who wish to embrace the Catholic faith'. I'h e fear that baptism has not beers administered, or that the so lemnities of the sacrament have not been regularly observ ed, has introduced this usage, which was not on the present occasion neglected. Marc was conditionally baptized. Mr. Loveday, a• member of the English church, is not obliged to know, that in the state of innocence to which the waters of baptism restore, the neophyte can approach with- Out fear the communion table, and receive the imposition of hands in confirmation. Mary left my house on the 110 of November; and it will easily he perceived that I was no longer accountable for the Misses Loeeday the moment they ceased to reside With me. The whole of my conduct is now before the public, and I ask Mr. Lovedav what portion of the narrative which has been here given can be contested It is a fact that Mary joined in all our religious exercises; and this fact happened under the eye of Mrs. Loveday, who inhabited that pavilion of which Mr. Loveday has carefully abstained from speaking; and afterwards the uncle and the aunt saw their niece accompanying us to church, attending religious instructions, and gaining the prize for proficiency in religious knowledge. If, then, they permitted this state of things, which they might have prevented, tliey acknowledged in it the literal and positive execution of the agreement be tween us. Mr. Loveday will nut say that ever since the en trance of his Alanghters into my house, that is, since 1819, 1 • hare been continually endeavouring to wean them from the religion of the English church; that would he a charge incon sistent with the accusation of a sudden conversion: but what is improbable, he pretends that in the last 15 days I had Vio lently snatched from the religion of_their family, three young ladies, the youngest of whom was 14 years of age, and who are all of them endned• with great understanding. Vlore worthy is the inteiesting Emily of belief, when she states, with . as much candour as stmplicity, the following facts in her printed answer • "-Previously to entering Mademoiselle Ilcbonl's school, in 1819, Miss Loveday was decidetßy prepossrssed against the Catholic religion. But the examples of piny which her com panions daily presented to her eyes gradually dimtnisbell this prejudice. Faithful to the instructions which she had re ceived front Mr. Loveday, Mademoiselle Reliant made no at tempt to change Miss Emily's religion. But the soul of this young Protestant began to be moYed, The examples of a sincere devotion—the impressive pomp of the ceremonies at which she entreated Mademoisell-e Reboul to permit her to attend—the bylllfts of her voting companion-, with whom her heart iuvoluntarily united her—all served to prepare her imagination for the change which her reason was to operate. At length the eloquent Bossuct fell .into the hands of the young Englishwoman. She perused and re-perused his work with avidity; and the powerful reasoning of that sublime writer, who could triumph over the strong mind of Tur,n;te, c in convinced a young and flexible soul, which expanded with delight at the approach of truth, and which was not yet hardened by the delusions of religious habits. But Miss Lovedav was nut content 'with reading. Ilossuet. She in structed herself more and more by the study of tl►e• Catholic faith. She compare:l the cateebistt..s of t two religions be• tween which she had to choose, and it was after this compa rison ( to compare is to reason) th:‘; her understanding con vinced her of the superiority of the Catholic faith to Proles tantkm, and that she irrevocable determined to embrace the religion of Alfred the Great and 'Edward the Confessor." Such is the order of grace. The abjuration of the preju dices of infancy.is not produced in a few days: it is the slow work of example and of time. Let not Air. Loveday say•that he was not warned of it, for he would be confounded by his own letter of the Vith of Oc tuber: let hint not say that his daughters ,were made Catho• tics in my house, for it is known that the younger has never been one, and that the elder became one under the paternal roof. Let him not complain of the conversion of his niece, who has been since made by him to apostatize ; for in leas-- . ing her in my establishment, instead of carrying her away with his daughters, he placed me in the situatio, not to resist. Did be not know, anti that for a long time hefore, the thoughts and the . devotions of Mary? To resist—Why? a 1 a. Christian and Roman Catholic, after having, in ap prising. the family, performed my duty as a schoolmistress, cook' I become an eternal obstacle to the salvation of the child so worthy of tenderness, whom Providence had placed in my hands? Should I have resisted the prayers of Mary, and, the de'cisions of prudent and crib,. Veiled men? No; Air. Loveday could not expect it, and the English them sel VC9,. t laming their countryman, will have the justice to acknowledge that the instructress would have rendered herself guilty ty a further resistance, which nothing could justify. The moment is arrived for me call Mr. Lovreay to account for all the mischief he has done fyy his pamphlet,—Carehtlir collecting, in the title of his pnblication, all the odious traits which be wished to give toe, Mr. Loveday has said, that he complained of the rapt do seduction (enticing away) of his two daughters and his niece, in a.semimary a education in which he had placed them at Paris; and in which the credu lity of these young persons was abused, by means of supersti tious terrors, besettings, and false miracles, fur the purpose of suddenly converting them to Catholicism, in the absence, withotit the knowledge, and contrary to'the wish of their pa rents ! It is not to men who will read the whole of this petition, and who call judge of its contents, that this title is addressed, —it is'intended fur the people ; its the midst of the people it endeavours to throw heat, indignation, and new seeds Qf trouble and disorder. Well, what are the terrors of which Mr. Luveday wishes to speak ? Doubtless he does not mean, by his words, the doctrines df the Catholic chord) ; he in tends to designate practices, ideas, and words, hearing the impress of superstition, and condemned by the church.— It is apparently to justify these odious imputations that the author of the petition has recalled the memory of that profanation, which one of the churches of the capital annu ally deplore's, in a solemn ceremony, respecting which oue of my pupils had questioned me. It is a Jew whom tradition accuses—it is 'a female beggar whom tradition marks out as his accomplice. This at least is all my knowledge of the sub ject. And how could the author of the petition 'refrain from blushing at the bare supposition that I,an instructress, should hare revealed to my pupils the existence of those abandoned women whom the petitioner, Mr.Loveday, wit h a revolting in delicacy describes ?, Mr. Loveday, whatever may be the power and influence of his title as father, must have been met with a sentiment of disbelief, mixed with indignation ; and impar tial readers, without having heard my defence, must hare allowed that I was calumniated. How strong am lin the con sciousness of my rectitude, when Lrecollect that this conver sation, entirely acciden at, gave me an opportunity of putting all those who listen to me on their guard against those miracles of which the church does not demand the belief. The Misses Loveday heard nothing in my hohse that religion does not inculcate and avow ; doubtlessly super stitious terrors and false miracles were not necessary to lead them to the Catholic faith. The clearness, the evi dence of the words prononnced by the Saviour of the world,. instituting the most august of . the sacraments—the tradition preserved and respected throughout the universe since the first celebration of the holy supper, to the appear ance of Luther—the powerful reasons whiCh triumphed over the objections and the constancy of the great Turenne—the fervour which a participation in the sacraments inspires and supports—the consolations of which the Catholic religion is lavish—the beauty of its chants—the majesty of its ceremo nies—the efficacy of its examples, these are the:artifices of the Catholic religion, these are what must have touched the hearts of the three young English ladit s, and which now support,the unhappy Emily in the midst of the tribulations with which she is surrounded, and which render tier the object of uni versal respect and interest. LaAly, the author of the•petition concludes by accusing me of having suddenly converted my three pupils to the Catholic faith—a conversion effected in the absence, without the know edge, and counary to the wishes, of their parents. Doubtless it is not of his daughter Emily, it is not of his daughter Matilda, that Mr. Loveday wishes to speak. Both of them entered ►av house non-Catholics both of them left it non-Catholics. It is since I delivered them into the hands of their father that Emily has made her abjuration; and if the truth, which Emily pursues with perseverance, presented itself to their eyes during I he time of their stay with me, as at all events Mr. Loveday ought to have foreseen, I know not the moment when God touched their hearts. It was on the 6th of Sept. 1521, that I first became acquainted with those in tentions which they would perhaps have still longer concealed, had it not been fort he assurance that they wereto ret urn toEng land. Is it, then, of Mary that Mr. Loveday would speak? But how could he forget the inclination of this young •pet son for the Catholic religion ? How is this! Mr. and Mrs. Loveday know that their niece is about to live in the midst of all tits usages, of all the practices, of Catholicism; Mrs. Loveday, ►tho at first lives with me, who sees her every day, who has the op portunity of observing her connexions, her habits—who knows the fact of her daily frequenting a Catholic church, and that of her participation in the instructions which pupils receive there, and that also of the impression which conversa tion anti example ►were making oft this young scholar—Mrs. Loveday.says not a word; Mrs, - Loveday offers not the slightest obstacle ! The young girl avows to her relations her confidence and her prayers to the Holy Virgin ; she makes them acquainted with her mode of weiship; and yet Mr. and Mrs. Loveday make no endeavour to put a stop to the constantly increas ing progress of our religion in the soul of their niece; and it is a,fter a silence of nearly three years that they talk of a sudden conversion and of seduction! Is it necessary now to go through the twentv-one passages of this petition, circulated with such scandalous profusion, and so justly decorated with a,motto borrowed from the poet of Atheism ? " On • tlee Chi of October," says Mr. Loveday, page 4, " ruy two daughteri avowed to me that they were Roman Catholics, and that nothing could shake their constancy and faith." No, Mr. Loveday, your daughters di.l not tell you on the i'3 , l of October that they were Roman Catholics, for on the 2.3 d of October neither of them had abjured. Your daughters, and myself in the firstinstanee, had informed you of an in tention of abjuration, which I had not permitted to be exe cuted, because I wished to have your consent. Such is the truth, which must always be respected. You go on to say, page 4," Let it he imagined what I must have felt at this terrible news! confidence had been abused, my family seduced, and those rights which religion, nature, and the laws give toe, had been usurped." No, Mr. Loveday," 1 have not abused your confidence, I bate not sedaced your family. To the sacred rights belong ing to you by religion and by nature., I rendered a solemn and painful homage, by resisting for two months, in the case of your daughters, and for two years in the case of your niece, those ardent prayers which most so naturally have found a way to my heart. Mr. Loveday complains, in page 5, that there had been im printed on the memory of his daughters passages of Scripture, perterted by the Catholic church.—He asserts, that he hg. We received this morning the French Papers of Wednesday, which contain news of a pacific nature from Odessa, of the 11th, and from Vi enna of the 25th ultimo. This intelligence is contradicted, however, by an article from Frank fort on the Oder, which states, that at Vienna, and the other capitals of Europe, they are far from being well informed on the real state of affairs relative to Turkey; and that letters from the Russian frontiers, coming from good autho rity, assert positively there is no hope of ad justing the differences between the Porte and Russia, by means of negociation. IVar is con sidered as determined on by Russia ; and the Manifesto of the Cabinet of Petersburg is daily expected to appear, upon which the Russian army will enter the Ottoman territory. According to accounts from Trieste, it ap pears that ALI-PACIIA has quitted his impregna ble fortress, and had advanced as far as Suzang, five leagues from Janina, since CIIOURSCHILD- Paciu had retreated. The Turkish troops were much harassed by the Greeks in their retrograde movements. The Censhorship of the Press in France ex pT:red on Sunday night, and, until the new Law for its regulation shall be carried, .the French will enjoy as unrestricted It freedom of the Press AS exists in this tauntry. The Journals 0 10 now freely discuss the provisions of the propose Law, and point out many of its severities, 1 01 ° it is expected will receive some salutary mod * cations before the L aw p asses th roug h th e n ouse of Peers and is sanctioned by the King. In the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday the discussieli on the 14th article of the Law for the regulatien of the Press (the 17th, as amended by the Cot" mittee) was renewed and carried, after a 10' 1 violent opposition ; several members of the he ft side declaring their intention not to vote, and t° co-operate in passing a Law which was th e death-blow to all their liberties. The 1 1 ° 115e adjourned at half past six, and the debate " fa; to be resumed on the following day. Our priv ate advices from Paris dated on Wednesday eveni n g at a late hour inform us that the lalst article w as discussed on that day, and carried after a strong resistance. rlhe House then divided on the no tion that the Law do pass, which was carried by a majority of 141, there being 231 voters for, all 93 against it. The French Five per Cents. opened on We d " nesday at 39f. 30c.; they soon rose t o 891.45 0 .' but afterwards declined to SSf. 901. Bank St° c/ ‘ on Tuesday closed at 1555 f. There can be but one opinion as to the neces sity of applying instant and vigorous remedies to the present disorders of Ireland, both for the purpose of arr e sting p resen t m i sc hi e f, and of preventing evils greater in their extent and more formidable in their character. The measures which, have been proposed with that view are such as cannot, in themselves, be contempirtte‘ l without pain, but they are precisely adapted t 0 the situation of a country just passing freen sedi tion to civil war, from riot to organized rebellion" On such emergencies, legislation assumes a ol io raster of hostility, and the liberties of men 81.° sacrificed for a time, upon the same pl e a as the ir lives are taken in the field of battle. We on ceive tire present Bills to be justified on t wa grounds ; the urgency of the occasion, and the state of the disturbed districts in Ireland. I t i 5 extremely fortunate, that as yet no attempt /134 been made to strengthen or concentrate the sP irit of disaffection by proposiig to it any religions °r political object. The " theoretic a l p r i n ciples of rebellion," so fashionable elsewhere, have n ot hitherto Mingled themselves in this quarrel, n or has emancipation itself been so mush as mentioned' But 'the even t s o f one d ay, t h e malignity of a single traitor, might convey into the wounds ° Ireland a fanatical or revolutionary poison, Lich would perhaps defy all remedies, till it ha j tainted the entire body. Great, therefore, anti fearfully urgent is the necessity of resorting t) such active courses of c ur e an d o f precautiona t may prevent an enemy from a g gr av a ti n g pres` p n discords to the irreparable inju r y o f Ireland, and the peril of the whole empire. Agreeing, " lc ' ever, in the expediency of adopting vigoro us measures, the several parties in Paeliament 110 e differed much in opinion as to the particular th le to be pursued. An overwhelming increase of th° military force has been recommended in prefe' r ' ence to the ministerial plan, even by those w" are usually most jealous of power entrusted 0.: 014 Aeti the soldiery ; and same, in their unbanu- good opinion of the present LORD LiEtyrrs'A have thought that a dictatorial authoriti, committed into his hands, would be less ( 1311 ' 0:11 gerous than the passing- of the proposed 17 " C t , —lt is highly gratifying in the pre y ''' ' emergency, that his MAJESTY'S Representa tive in Ireland should stand thus high in the estio; lr mation of all parties, and we hope the conktle tlee t so forciblyexpressed will be accepted through ° the country as a reason, not for desiring M g° him invested with extraordinary powers, but f °r cheerfully granting him those which he himself has requested and declared to be essential to t he pacification of the disturbed provinces. grand objection to the Act which subjects e er# lain offenders to transportation without rec ur' rence to a Jury, is made not merely in disrega rdf but in the very face of circumstances exist i. where the law is intended to operate. It is verb • true, that in Buckinghamshire or Berkshi r e a Statute inflicting this punishment for the offence of being abroad at an unseasonable hot I upop the authority of Magistrates, however le : spectable, would be in the,highest degree odi° us c i but it is not recollected that in the distur bed parts of Ireland this enactment has become ne cessary because Juries cannot be assemble" , °r if assembled cannot be expected to !let inaed e rms pendently and without fear, or if they , do P, e form their _duty conscientiously, are h iab li : sooner or later, to expiate their integrity srl , s their lives and those of their families. I t easy for Gentlemen who are comfortabli lodged in London to talk of keeping., '„- v io° late the Institution of Trial by Jury, but can t hey had the happiness of succeeding with.his idithott iidughter —that is, of keeping her in the Anglican faith. This language may suit Mr. Lov e day. !hit the Fr en ch writer, if aCatholit, Who has lent him his pen, how could he thus second the hatred which every Anglican professes for our religion ? How could lie make himself the were organ of Ale. Loreday, outraging, With a kind of pleasure, C4tholicism and its ministers, in the midst, too,. of, a country as yet, thank God, eminently Catholic, and where be found the most ho nourable hospitality ? How, especially, could the writer, without shrinking at the ceiy thought, trace those lines where the Anglican avows the happiness which he feels in the apos• tacy of a new Catholic ? How could it escape him that. he thus Jimmie at Ullee art and part both of the others passion and error? 'Air. ',overlay, page 10, speaks of a letter written by his niece, and which be had intercepted, and says,' " This letter made me think that my dant. , ,hter hail retired to a society, called ' Lk:Mater-trite (the Lying-in Hospital), or Les Enfans- Trouves tthe Fouiulling).' Ido not well recollect wt•hich." It is not to.M r. ',overlay, it is not to a father (I cannot bring myself to if), it is to the writer of the petition that I now make answer. To this person, then, I will say, that before using an expression which led to such cruel interpretations, he ought to have ascertained, as it was easy fur him to do, the date and place of the intercepted letter. 1 will tell him, then, and the correspondence of Miss Emily with me, her correspondence with her father, her printed defence, do not allow the least doubt ou this point, that it was in the Foundl►ng, and not in the Lying-in Hospital, that she took refage. Mr. Lovealay denotmCvd me to the Commissary of Police of my district, and to the Proema.ur of -the King. But he was imprudent enough to lay before - them the letters which he had in his possession ; and oeithe mere reading of these let ters. they told him---" MaJeinoiselle llehoul loss evidently nothing to reproach herself with : you hare nobody to blame but yourself, if your daughter is become a Catholic : you have your youngest daughter Kith you, and yon have brought her back to your own way of thinking : your niece is with you ; and, asno your eldest d a u g ht er , she is of age. You are no longer allowed to constrain her will; and neither the laws nor the magistrates have the'power of commanding her con science."—Such was the answer of the civil and religions'au thorities, whom Mr. Loveday has thought proper to calum niate. 'And, for instance, who will believe Mr. Lovvday when he states, that, at the moment wbeu he was in pursuit of his daughter in a convent, be Was made a prisoner/him self, his son, his youngest daughter, and his niece ;—that they were kept in a room without tire, by soldiers;—and teat he visas at last compelled, -under the duress of four bayonets, to settle a pension on his daughter ?—(pages 14, 15.) Apd these acts of violence ;are alleged to have taken place in the capi tal, in the presence of a great number of witnesses I There can be no further need of refuting a memorial in which such statements are to be found: but it must be a subject of re cta that there are writers who, by lending the influence of their talent, and the authority of their name, to such narra tivts, (Arena their country, and point it out to all Europe as a fatal and dangerous country, which' foreigners ought to I shun. I have fulfilled the painful task which the petition imposed upon me. I have spoken nit to the passions, b.►t to families. I have rendered homage, or, more properly speaking, justice to the three young Christians whose innocence and reputa tion calumny sought to tarnish. My weakness, I hope, has not t►etrayed my will. I have vindicated our usages, our manners, our laws, our institutions, the dignity of our pon tiffs, the independence of our magistrfles, against the decla mations of an Englishman, who' insults us in recompence of that hospitality which he has experienced among us. -, • To this I confine toy answer. It has consisted merely of what was indispensable for, the explanation of my conduct. If I have been fortunate enough not to deviate front the nto duration which was my duty, nor from the reserve which I prescribed to myself, Mr. and Mrs. Loveday, of all my readers, will be those who will best he able to appreciate. But I could not cease to see in them, in spite of the pain they have given u►e, the father and .tnother of Emily and Matilda Love day, the uncle and aunt of Mary Loveday. My defence may, from this cause, have lost some of its advantages ; but I shall never regret sacrifices made to public decorum and to the dignity of heads of families, which has always been one of the first social duties. The adversary who has no hatred to gra tify, does not employ his last arms till the last extremity. The pain which Mr. and Mrs. Loveday have given sue is beyond all they could hare foreseen. But, after all, what does ►t signify? My other pupils, or, more properly speaking, heir parents, my first judges, preserve their confidence in me. Matilda and Mary, God will doubtless yet enlighte►► you! And you, dear Emily, I see your eternal happiness se cure,—With what tribulations, with what misfortunes, ant I not ready to purchase a happiness so great ERNESTINE REBOUL, Sclioolndstreqs BILLEcoeQ, Adrocate. 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