Star.
London, England, 1830-03-17 00:00:00

THE JESUITS.

The following extract is from the tenth number of the
Foreign Review just published. It is part of a very in-
teresting article entitled, " La vie de Saint lc) T Act,
Fondateur de la Compagnie de JEsus." In giving it,

we are bound to observe that the number of the Foreign
Review now before us abounds in papers possessing more

than an ordinary degree of interest. Among others we
would direct attention to "Runu A RT'S Life of Sir
Thomas More," and the article on the " Ecclesiastical

Power in France." To return to the subject matter which

our title indicates, the reviewer, speaking of IGNATIUS

LOYOLA, says :
" To follow the remainder of Loyola's life would be to
relate the history of his order during those years. He
lived to see the spiritual dominion which he had erected
extended into the twelve provinces of Portugal, Castile,
Andalusia, Aragon, Italy, Naples, Sicily, High Ger-
many, Low Germany, France, Brazil, and India.
Nearly an hundred Colleges or Houses were founded for,
or transferred to it, in these countries ; and, when he
died, at the age of sixty-fire, thirty-five years after his
own conversion, and sixteen after the establislunent of
his order, the extent which that order had obtained, the
influence which it exercised, the ambitious projects which
it had formed, and the power which it was exerting for
evil and for good, might have made him look to the ca-
nonization he expected as his due. No scheme of policy
ever more effectually answered the purpose for which it
was designed ; that purpose was to support the papal
church, and, therefore, from that church, Loyola well
deserved all the honours it could bestow. But, even
with regard to the papacy, the conduct of the Jesuits
was Jesuitical. If a pope was unfriendly to the order,
his life was deemed to be in danger from their practices;
and whatever truth there may be in the accusations
which, by persons of their own church, have been
brought against them on that score, it is certain that,
when their order was abolished, their vow of special obe-
dience appeared to have been taken with a mental re-
servation, saving always the interests of the Society ;
for as a ociety, in defiance of a Pope's authority, the
Jesuits continued to exist : and as a Society they were
found existing when the papal church, upon a better
view of its own policy, thought proper to revive them.
Hence we may estimate the efficacy of the enactment
concerning them in the late Relief Bill; an enactment
which, like the other notable securities in that Bill, is
worth—about as much as it was meant to be.
" What consequences may be likely to arise from the
restoration of the Jesuits might afford a wide theme for
speculation. It has, indeed, been asserted by one of the
diurnal directors of public opinion, that as a monastic
institution, they hare no more influence than the gypsies.'
Yet gypsies do not exercise more influence over serving
men and maids, than Jesuits have exercised over-kings
and queens, princes and princesses, statesmen, and their
wives and daughters, and their mistresses, who have
sometimes more ascendancy over them than either : the
young, whom they manage by their vices ; the old,
whom they govern by their fears ; and the machiavelists
of middle life, for whom they have a code of morals
which provides a loop-hole for every expedient crime.
This influence they have exercised, not only in the courts
and cabinets of the Bourbon, and Austrian, and Bra-
ganzan families, but in the court and cabinet of Great
Britain. Men may delude themselves and others by
haranguing upon the change of times and the march of
intellect; but human nature is now what it was at the
Revolution, and those persons must be easily deceived
who can believe, that there is at this tine more stability
of principle in our statesmen, more fidelity in our dig-
nitaries of the church and of the law, more integrity in
what are called public men, than at that great crisis of
our civil and religious liberties. The Jesuits of this day
are the faithful successors of those who then by their
intrigues endangered both : they are governed by the
same institutions ; they teach and practice the was
casuistry ; they take the same vow of special obedience
to the head of the Romish church, and to their own
general, locum Dei tenenti ! They have the same
clear, definite, intelligible object in view ; zeal and abi-
lity have never been wanting among them ; and funds
will always be forthcoming to any extent that they ,
isay require, for they draw upon a Bank of Faith'
which never stops payment.
will produce evidence,' says Mr. O'Connell,
show that literature', that science, that everything that
is graceful in classic learning, has been increased man,
by the Jesuits, than by any other glass of men. I win
show' that more heithens and pagans have been con-1
verted to Christianity by the Jesuits, than by
.any
others ; and that more of their blood, as martyrs, has
been shed, than of any other class of Christians.' in
the latter part of this estimate, abating' - from
its amount, a Romanist is bound
those relations which have obtained,

the highest sanction of his infallible church, and in others
its unqualified approbation. They rendered the most im-
portant services to that church in the time of its greatest
danger ; and had it not been for the Jesuits, the Ro-
manist; would not have been more considerable at this
day in Great Britain and miserable Ireland, than they
are in Denmark and Sweden. The sincere Papist cannot
regard tkem with too much gratitude, the Protestant
with too much distrust. The Protestant, however, who
is well versed in their history, will render them justice ;
and it is giving them no equivocal commendation to say,
that when the story of their American missions is divested
of all false colouring, and all fable, what remains might
entitle the memory of their missionaries in those parts to
any honours short of idolatry. There they did nothing
but good ; but in Europe their efforts have been so per-
versely directed, that the best men among them have laid
down their lives with true devotion, in furtherance of
what, in itself and its consequences, was evil.
The reader who desires thoroughly to understand the
principles of this famous Society, should peruse the
Lettres Provinciales ; but let him boar in mind, that in
that work, the most finished and most successful of its
kind, Pascal has dealt as unfairly with the Jesuits, as if he
had been trained in their own school. For the doctrines
and practices which he exposes are charged upon them, as
if they alone were guilty of so teaching and so acting ; ,
whereas the other Regulars held the same opinions, and
went on in the same course of action ; and it is not upon
the Jesuits that the condemnation should fall, nor upon
any other order, black, white, or grey ; but upon that
Romish church, in the service of which they were all
equally engaged, which adopted their legends, applauded
their crimes, and encouraged them to support its cause,
by any means per fas et nefas.
ase
COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

A Common Council was held yesterday at Guildhall,
in consequence of a requisition to consider of reducing the allowances
to the Lord Mayor, and the several Committees, and the salaries of
the officers of the Corporation, which have been raised since the
year 1797, and whose duties and services have not been increased in
proportion to the appreciation of the currency in which they are

ram.
Sir James Shaw acted as locum teleens for the Lord Mayor.
After some Reports from the London Bridge Committee for seal-
ing deeds for the conveyance of property required for the approaches
to the New Bridge, and, some petitions for leases,
The Court proceeded upon the business of the requisition, which
was introduced by Mr. C. Pearson, in a very long speech, who con-
cluded by moving a detailed resolution, embracing his views on the
subject.
A discussion then ensued, upon the propriety of a Committee of
the Court, in the first instance, investigating the matter, and re-
porting thereon, previous to any decision being come to, and several
members having expressed their sentiments in favour of this propo-
sition Mr. Pearson withdrew his original motion, and the Court re.
solved unanimously that it should be referred to a Committee to
consider whether it was just and expedient to make deductions from
the allowances to the Lord Mayor and the Committees, and from
the salaries of the Officers of the Corporation ; and If so, what they
should be ; and a Committee was appointed.
Mr. James was duly elected Secondary of the Giltspur.street
Compter.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

EXTENSIVE ROEDER; OF SILK iiD ATTEMPTED SUlCinr.
Yesterday Sarah Norris: and John Jones were brought up for re-
examination before Mr. Alderman SCHOLEY, on a charge of rob.
bing the warehouse of Messrs. Pallister, Wilkinson, and Pearce,
silk.warehousemen, 29, St. Paul's ChUrch-yard, to the amount of
between eight and nine hundred pounds.
The prisoner Norriss, who has been for two years a servant in the
house of Mr. Pearce. has carried on an extensive system of plunder.
It was the custom for the key of the shop to be kept by Mr. Pearce
In his bed-room till the clerk came in the morning, and when the
milkwoman arrived (which was half an hour before the clerk), Nor-
ris. usually fetched the key, and took the opportunity of abstracting
pieces of silk from the shop, which she gave to the prisoner Jones.
who was waiting to carry them off.
Friday and Saturday, the bah abd 6th inst. several pieces of silk
having been missed, Martin, a constable, was employed, and he
found out that the prisoner Jones, who lived in Baldwin's.gardens,
was in the habit of visiting Norris. frequently about seven o'clock
in the morning, and he took the latter into custody, and,told her that
he had discovered all. She instantly disclosed the system of rob-
bery, and said the property was generally disposed of to the Jews.—
Jones, on being taken, admitted his guilt. Three of the pieces
taken on Friday morning, he said, he sold to a Jew named Ben.
jamin, in Golden-lane, for five pounds, (worth, according to
Mr. Pearce,_ at least forty pounds.) The Jew's
.premises
were searched, and nothing found on them. in Nomss's box
twenty-five sovereigns were found, and in Jones's house twenty.
eight sovereigns were found, which they admitted were the pro-
ceeds of the plunder. The officer was induced to take Susannah
Harwood, sister to the female prisoner, into custody. Some silk
dresses were found upon her, which were part of that abstracted
from the warehouse. She was sent to the Compter on Saturday,
to be brought up with the other, but she cut her throat on Monday
morning, and is in so weak a state that she could not be removed.
The prisoners were fully committed for trial for the capital
offence.