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

had the happiness of succeeding with.his idithott iidughter
—that is, of keeping her in the Anglican faith.
This language may suit Mr. Loveday. !hit the French
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 daughter, 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. H EN'NEgit IN, Advocate.