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THE
.REPLY OF MISS EMILY LOVED4Y •
TO THE PETITION PRESENTED IN THE HAMS OP
ERR FATHER TO THE CESINIIIII OW PERM
Divided between Iwo sacred obligatioes, the for* exercise
of the religion which an intimate eireelettos has compelled
her to adept, sod the respect d.. to the wit! of a father,
Mw Lends, woad have wished I. hove remised oiliest
sad to have emseealed her stilettos. fee would have wisher
to bow, thereased Nib the weereitisr of appraise the poblie
orioles, sad to have coolest," it emelt with seeking cow
notation at the foot of the altar, awl alleviating the weiibt
of paternal wrath, by oSeriag uplaesennat prayers fur the
aothor of her day.: but she has 4lanotrered is the petition
presented by her father to the Chambered' Peers, view. which
casuist emanate alone from the ageeved paternal love. She
is persuaded that her father, a steeper to France, hes teen
deceived with respect to the amain of the pelitiou draw.
up for him; that perfidious advisers have meek' to convert
Sato • party isvective, an expeettsios of paternal grief. She
saw, in common with all sensible persons, that that petition,
of wbicb her father is absolved, was a libel tending to raise
suspicion in the most irreproachable quarter, and to torn to
ridicule and eentenspi the sacred religion which she has em-
braced : she thee determined on re lyirr<.
Replying—to whom ?—to bee father? her father ! Alt! it
is not to her father that she replies ! If those who have fur-
nished Mr. Loved.; with their officious eloquence had con-
gaed their attacks to his daughter alone, she would have
respected his patersal anger, sad the blied though ratted
weapon with which she bad been assailed; the sliest* of
filial piety would have been her only answer; she world have
eadeavoured to mitigate her father's auger by her tears and
irreproachable cuedeet dose. No ; it is not to her father
that she replies, it is foe her religion that she speaks. Her
object is to re-establish I. his esteem thew persuas whom her
fattier honoured with his conlidesar. Her digit.e is to fulfil
the first, the most sacred of duties—to avenge calomatated
ionocruce nod virtue.
Those persons who limier, who cosmic MISS Loveday, is
vale assure bee that her father is wreag in appealing to the
law of natters, and the French laws, iu the circumstances In
which he is placed; that those laws, os the contrary, mo-
dems him; that rellgioa is a 'malaria right, which no law,
so power can affect; which all natious at all enlightened
respect; and before which the paternal authority, all-pow-
erful as it is, from the natural seethes with which God has
endowed it, most give way; since this right of choosing
and ackeowleilgiiig God is tempreserlptihie, nod resoles from
the divine essence of the soul, and its immortality; that
the only real fanaticism is Met which tends to restive the
conscience, and to pretreat a heart, conviared of the excel-
lence of soy relives, from htlievieg sod observing it.
Ignorant of laws, Mow Luveday rejects these discussion of
right, which alarm her filial piety, and contents herself with
seeking to re.establish the truth of the facts which are dis-
figured iu her father's petition.
Previously to entering Mademoiselle Krivoi's school, in
1519, Mies Loveday was decidedly prepossessed against the
Catholic religion. But the examples of piety which her
euenpastuns daily presented to her eyes gradually disei•iebed
this prejudice. Faithful to the inetructione which she bad
received frum Mr. L.veday, Mademoiselle licheel made no
attempt to change Miss Emily's religion. Bet the soul of
this young Protestant began to be moved. The examples
of s sincere devotion; the imperative pomp of the ceremo-
nies, at which she entreated Mademoiselle Reboot to permit
her to attend; the hymns of her young comparsons,
with whom her heart Involuoterily united her--all
served to prepare her Iniegioatioe for the chalice which
her reason was to operate. At length the eloquent Buasurt
fell iutu the hands of the young Eaglishwonise. She perused
and re-perused his work with avidity ; and the 'powerful
reasuoiug of the sublime writer, who meld triumph over
the strong mind of Tommie, woe convinced a young sail
flexible suet, which expanded with delight at the approach
of truth, and which was not yet kardersed by the delusions
of religious habits. But Miss Loveday was not content
with readier Boseeet. She Instructed herself more and
more by the study of the Catholic faith. She compared the
catechisms of the two religiose between which she had to
choose, and it was after this comparison (to compare is to
reason) that her wederstaniling cuevineed her of the supe-
riority of the Catholic faith to Protestantism, mad that she
irrevocably determined to embrace the religion of Alfred the
Great sod Edward the Coelessor.
Miss Loveday here formally deelarea, that ..body Imo se-
.drced her, nor prevailed ea her to eusbraee the Casbolie re-
lignio. By her uwa will she has beets decided. After core-

• Ili* Loveday toot so part in the Fr/leaded letter from
Me* Leveileyrtstubtellser, nod acktioiledre only ibe pre-
'eat reply„

iodises, is Miss lovedny's chosen of Michael; hut tint the
young lady studied the Catholic religiose, as it were, Is
stealth from her goveruese.
On the refers of their father to Erase*, the Mimes Love-
day did, indeed, ou the 13d of October; 11121, avow to him
their animation to diecoses Rousso Catholics, but not Mat
they were Romaa Catholics; for they could sot so be motif
after their abjoratioa, which they had not then made.
From that day to the 10th of November, Mr. Loveday
endesvcoired to oppose the new faith of his daughters. Niel
dieser, he was every day shut up with theme omit one is the
stormier, daring which lime be unceasingly urged sew argil
seems against the Catholic religion, aid new reas..s is
favour of the Pioteatant. He succeeded with his yammer
daughter. But Miss Emily, whose faith was better grounded,
sod whose understanding was more advanced, remained on-
shaken. She, therefore, was not ',dared, stave her father had
full time to soomask and to combat what be calls sedndioa.
Mr. Lovodsy then dictated, letter which he made his daugh-
ter write to Mademoiselle Rebosl, with the design of in-
dociog that Lady to believe that Miss Emily bad reverted to
the religion of her father, and that else was going to leave
Paris with bias on a journey. This made Miss Loveday
apprehend that her father meant to carry her to &g-
-lued, where the Catholics are not treated as the Protestants
are in Fraser, and where she would perhaps be compelled to
adhere to Protestantism. She consequently resolved to at-
tach herself to the Catholic religion by • bond more &Scull
is be broken, sod on the 10th November she left her father's
Musa sad solemnly made her abjuration.
Mrs appointed a meeting with her father at the house of
Mademoiselle Reboot, by a letter bill of the most affectiosate
and submissive expressions ; but fearing to cause isomerism
to that lady, she clime soother place.
That was the Convert des Eases Trouves (the Found.
Bogs), kept by holy Nuns, whither she repaired, and not to
the hospital of la Materuite, as, by as infamous trick, had
been reported, but in which she set her foot.
Wishing to give some account of herself to her father,
gsd to save him from anxiety respectisig her situation, she
ialyote to him; but as she did not wish to go near him until
tie and the atieatioo of his relineds had soothed his eager,
shascaused her letters to be stamped with the postmark in
the eusotry, is order that her residence in Paris might fur
some lime remain uukuown.
She afterwards repaired to the house of Mr. Jerninghain,
that her father, who esteemed that gentleman, might not be
warm sospootion the weiadoisen ales bad elsosso. Tines bar
father fogad her. If be stopped under the gateway till two
o'clock in the murrain, that was contrary to the pressing so-
licitations of his daughter, who requested him to come into
the house.
She did not make her escape next moraisg before Mr.
Joraisgbars's family rose. She went out late is the day with
Mr. Jerniughani's permission, sod returned of htr owe
accord to her father's house, being determined to remain
these, if he changed his conduct towards her. But he be-
llowed always in the same manner; and she observed ap-
pearasces in the house which made her conclude that it was
Weeded to remove her, sod carry her out of France.
The fear of being conveyed to England made Miss Love-
day alter her plan, and she once more resolved to seek ••
irreproachable asylum, iw which she might be at liberty to
practise her religion.
She consequently repaired to the coaveat of Notre Dame,
In Rue de Sevres.
The Superior, so the recowinieudation of Madame M—,
• lady distinguished for her piety and ber rank, affoided the
hospitality required, and applied to that lady to know what
the parents of the young person wished to be done with her.
Hoge Miss Luveday cannot refrain from remarking the
injustice of the charges made monition the Superior of the
wavelet of Notre Dame. What has Madame the Superior
done ? A young girl, a foreigser, claims her hospitality,
and she grains it. She endeavoured several times to recon-
cile Mr. and Miss Luveday, gird it was sot until after she was
convinced that ibe father persisted in his obstinacy, end the
daughter is bee fidelity to the Catholic religion, that this lady !
determined to retain the latter in her house. She was per.
beaded that if she refused Miss Loveday an asylum in her
bootie, the fear and solitary situation of that young lady '
might, perhaps, lead her into inevitable misfortunes. What,
then was done by the Superior of the convent of Notre
Dame, which reason and humanity do not approve? lit
what country would not each a uoble spirit of hospitality be
admired? Doubtless it is because it proceeds from a ours,
that the ponies which it deserves are withheld from it.
Miss Loveday was of age, sod she wished to remain is
the comment. The Superior could sot, without inhumanity,
reran ber an asylum. But it tbeu became necessary to con-
form to the customs of religious houses, and loot to see
her father except at fixed hours. The Superior informed Mr.
Loveday of this; but he would not submit to the rubs which
were observed by all other parents who had childreu is the
sonvent. He desired to be long io company with his dough.
ter, and would see her every hour, as in his toss house. lie
threatened several times to spend the night in the resti-
bele of the copycat. This indecorum could not be allowed
ie as asylum of peace sod relives. Madame the Superior
employed at first gentle means; the Official of the house en-
deavoured to calm Mr. Lovedsy; the Commissary of Fotsce
made the same attempt. At last, that which would have
been done to defend ibehorse of a most obscure citizen was
adopted—gendarmes were employed to protect a dwelling of
peace against the violence of Mr. Lovedsy. He was mut
held • prisoner. He was only requested to wait until the
Commissionary of Police should arrive. He was nut guarded
by soldiers; hut the armed force was called in—a measure
which, hum the threats of Mr. Lovedsy, appeared to he Ile.
eessary, and which the officer of police has always the right
to require. He was out made to contract a compulsory ob-
Bretton under four bayonets; but he very willingly signed •
promise not to return to the cowered, the order and peace of
which his presence disturbed, and not to grant • prowia.
Notwithetsodiag the well-knows truth of the facts which
it has been endeavoured to distort, the Superior of the Con.
vent of Notre Dame has been uriblasbingly represented as
an inhuman gaoler ; bee boast, the asylum of beaeficence
and religion, has been called • Assaf ; prudent measures of
the Commissary of Police have been pronounced illegal; sad,
filially, a timid and submissive girl has been painted as a
fury who felt a barbarous pleasure is tormenting her father.
Mims Loveday here calls Noon the author of her days to
say whether the portrait which has been drawn of her is
true? At the painful moment when her father's rage made
her nitrides, from him (roc the scene of the presecutitros
sad the bayonets I. all imagisary), did an insulting smile
really appear on her lips ? Ah! how is that smile to be re-
coscikd with the team which Miss Luveday shed when, Ite-
rated by her father's imprecations—her limbs ceased to sup-
port WI mod she sank metal times meatless to the 'mood!

*amide
7 - the petition t.
`+m
imbuntasity appear to be ascribed altogether to
aawtio gave her an asylum, while Mr. Loveday is tierc-
es a model of gelidness sad patient. Sat how
%sight the scene of the Ist of January, of whicii his thhiginer .
was Wont the victim, to be cherish r;seel ? ><bs was guise
Into the Superior of the Convent of the &tine Tunny, 'be..
father met her eta the Misheard du Idont-Parsiane, as
endeavoured to carry her off by Lice. This uncommou no-
, leen attracted it crowd ; the father and the lenitive Jaisch•
tut ere carried to the Commissary of Police, whose prone-
Jeaves so doubt of Mr. Loveday's intention.
; . 'Orb is the picture of this conversion—effeeted. it is said,
'trelenterters! Such are the crimes of the seducers of the
iune Loved'', and then of the übject of their seduction'
The seducers ! Who are they ? Why have they Out b. en
Man ? If there be no harm is naming those who are ae
cued, there is very great harm in allowing suspicion to
hen" men a whole class of virtuous and respectable person •
Mb/ tbeeis trommeniments, which are more criminal than
;Ikea ? Why Not clearly designate those er 1.
UMW sem gdl Al! those imaginary (Tunnels are, no daub
sons mlf these MPS whose spotless names defy cahoot', au d
and mode Daily ideas of ausratigy sod
▪ It is *hied to stigmatise the voluntary conversion of Min
Lsvedsy *ith the name of rapt de sedeetket! (inveigling or
Plights slimy.) What a *ironic abuse of terms! What
lOW et inveigling could iodate a young female to subject
lipesdflo a religion destaudiag the exercise of the must sus.
:let. virtues ? Miss Loveday, it is said, was, it is true, of
see, thew she was converted; but then the seduction which
her conversion commenced when she was a
ellawwwllkee her father left her at the house of Made.
=seßtbOtli it is, therefore, alleged that that unworthy
seduced a young inexperienced girl is the +benne
or her father.
In the first place, Mies Loveday has exonerated Aladin:pi-
e/elle Rebind from the false charges made against her. Miss
Loveday has declared that her gunnies*, far from working
epos her conscience, *ever endeavoured to prevail on her to
snit the religion of her father; that the real author of her
conversion is her father himself, who, though he wished her
to cosine' faithful to Protestantism, imprudently pl.eed
her hi a horse where, for several years, she necessarily beheld
the practice of a religion which appealed more powedfully
to her heart. Beside", the act which could alone form the
gerund of the charge of rapt de &audios, is a word, the
conversion of Miss Loveday, was sot accomplished until she
came of age, when the law declares her capable of ratifying
as well as of assailing premises which artifice or seduction
might have wrung from her during her minority. This con-
version did not take place until the age at which Miss Love-
day. understaadiag bad attained its full maturity, whets
she could freely judge of her own 'coon; and eves after
her father had employed every possible argument to iodine
her to change her resolution. Thus the charge of rapt de
sedisettos falls of itself.
Min Loveday, therefore, was sot seduced by her virtuous
governess. She has hems guided by her own isclinations,
of whichshe has to reader au account to God aloft. Neither
did her sand receive leopressiotts of terror from ridiculous
fables, absurd miracles, and vulgar superstitious. It was
the flame of the tbusderbolta, with which the eagle of
Matsu crashed all the doctors of Protestantism, that iodine'st
her to embrace the primitive religion of her country. That
religion will out COMIC her to disavow the 'nisi virtues aid
her duty to bet family, fur those duties are one of the first
eommaadmeuts of the faith she has adopted. Sties Love-
day will storeys respect and love her father. She is
indebted to him for life I she is willing to make his a
sacrifice of hen • bet ohs received her soul from the divi-
ly, sad ber father should sot wish to tyreseise over that,
and to nod her with kis maledictios, because she exeiciacs
'the sense which be himself took pain to form.
FISMOO will not be astonished at the voluntary convention
of Miss Loveday, nor at the resistance which she has shown
to her father on the subject of her religion ; since they are
the effects of that liberty of conscience established in this
Roble country. &imagers will always luck hither because
they will fad themselves more free than I. countries where
the Catholic religion is marked with the seal of reprobation.
The petition, which would establish rape de seduction in
the voluntary conversion of !digs Lovedey, Cannot, there-
Ow, be listened to: it belongs to Miss Leveday alone to
• sv-
tlsfy sad appease bee father.
Istprednat father!—Listen to the voice of your daugh.
Me who supplicates you! Consider, she beseeches. you, the
Ape iota which perfidious counsels are plunging you.
Tee did out dictate the words which your band has signed.
114.! it is not you who wished it to be suspected that an.
Imileceot mystery existed in the language of your daughter,
sad who desired to cover her with opprobrium, by pretend-
' Ise to attach an odium' sense to the artfully exhibited words
Res Eafeas Troares, de Matenale. It is out that these
OBloMoies can wooed Miss Loveday. It is fur your sake, it
Is fur her father that the beseeches you to reflect upon their
ginger. Do you not see that eudeavuuring to cast a veil of
doubt over the conduct of your daughter, yourself and all
your family are insulted ? Disavow, thee, this tinting,
which has proceeded hums the seal of.. imprudent defender ;
or rather alluw your daughter, raising herself to you, since
it belongs to the sentiments 'downer, Isere to speak, to -avow it fur you, amt to say—..' No, my father could not sal-
scribe a libel against the honour of his daughter."
Why accuse your daughter of baying been seduced, when
you know that ber conversion resulted only from the free
exercise of her reason and her will ? Why, then, this obsti-
fumy trident cane? Why this bitterness against a religion
that year daughter has had the happier:a to Ind g'iod? eh!
If the fret of your aucestors who embraced the Protestant
religion bad experienced from his father the same resistance
Which you sow oppose to your daughter, perhaps you would
sot rennet( be of that religion which yue want to compel
her to follow!
Why, then, do you refuse to your daughter the same right
by which you bold your modern system of faith ? Pardon
her, then, perdue your daughter! Let her no longer be the
object of your wrath. Receive her I. your bosom; but leave
to her her sew faith. Do sot be offended by the words shoo
addresses to you; leave her to adore in peace the God of bee
adeptios. If she importunes him with her prayers, if she
bathes with tears the marble of his holy ahem it is fur you
it is for her father ; it is to pray that be msy grant you that
happiness, which she names enjoy without the free exercise
it the religion, which her nano sod intimate noncan t
have 'saluted her to adopt.

sou ra AMERICA

RECOGNITION OP THE INDEPENDENCE OF

CHIU.

[From t►e Goverment Gazette of Chili.]

SANTIAGO, SEPTEMBER. 29.
LETTER FROM THE DEPUTY OF HIS MOST FAITH-
FUL MAJESTY WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF
BUENOS AYRES TO THE ENVOY /ROM CHILI
WITH THE SAME GOVERNMENT.

His Most Faithful Majesty, my Sovereign, at the time of
hls retort' to Europe, thought lit to rreoguise the Net of the
lodepeudence of the proviuces of the Rio de N Plots, which
arc to obedience to their respective Govirronairsts, and to
eater tot* these iatiatato rirlasioas of flisodship which be
bad Nag marked to nastoisi• with the p•opis of the teteit•-
ries adjoiniug is hie kingdom of the Bruits; mid it wits
oily a fatal ersocurreoce of circtiontaaces, squally rape.
risseed in the interior of both couotrica, or ind.cd ratterr
the vacillatiog policy of the States of ilsoope, wh,cb
could have prey/sled hie Majesty Ns mootreattaki hafou
lb* MOW ',web the whole eldest of his liberal afro,.
814,00,4hshful Majesty, reU reseeded of the lila.