The herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1835-1837, 1836-02-08


rer, after abusing us Catholics for year, attrbuing
our priesthood all the wickedness earth-cutrng up
like savage Daniel OConnell, right and left comes
out on Saturday with long wisded article in favor of
the French Comedian Catholic Clergy, and blows up
regularly Miss Maria Monk, her book-her publishers
and all that to her PERTAINS including also all the Pro-
testant sects, save and except the Episcopalians
Whether this extraordinary somerset has been produced
by another bonus Of from the breeches pocket Of
the Bishop of Montreal the effect Of an UNIV arranta-
bic attempt of the Nun herself seduce and lead asray
the Innocent of the Courier have not yet asceraned
TO mathematical accuracy. Meantime the public ex-
element is increasing every day.
On Saturday. Miss Monk rode down to Nassau street
in the Dry Deck stage. She was mufHed up in an
elegant cloak. While in the STAGE her " Disclosures
became the subject Of conversation. know her very
wel said gentleman sitting opposite, and looking at
her-4she is nasty, dirty, little baggage old and ugly"
Maria smiled she heard this effnson, but said
nothing. On reaching Nassau street, she entered the
book store of Van Nostrand & Dwight, l46 Nassau
street, who intended be the first publishers of
her work. Here she presented with a copy of the
Herald Of last Saturday. On reading the account we
gave of a recent interview she smiled, and desired
gentleman to hand the following correction of the
book for publication:
~ MARIA MeSK wishes us to saw that there are
several slight in her book which escaped her eve
in reading the proof One she wishes us to conect:-
She did not intend TO say that the Priests did not inform
the Superior what the nuns confessed them but that
she long believed they did She discovered her mis-
take before leaving the convent.
In relation to the extract published on Saturday, said
to be taken from the Catholic Pilot paper published
in Boston, and conducted BY DIR. j. s. Bartlett stating
ne lsclO nf l. r..
word for word and letter for letter. proper names only
being altered in book translated from the Spanish or
Portuguese language, in 1881, called The Gates of
Hell opened Development of the Secrets of Nunne
ries We have received the following contradiction -
Jas. Gordon Bennett Esq.
Dear Sir: The above, which was taken from t.is
mornings Herald Is false. Still however as the writer
says that he is ready and willing declare upon OATH
&c, we deem II no more than proper to say, that
will pay HIM one hundred dollars il he will produce
book bearing the strong resemblance which he describes
New York, Feb. 9, 1886. HOWE g. BATES.
We further learn from the best authority, that Mr.
Theodore Dwight Jun l46 Nassau street, is the gentle
man who wrote the book Maria Monks dictaton. II
was written last summer, and Mr. Dwight took great
pains go and the details of facts so as to
catch the Nun in self contradiction but could not
find the slightest discrepancy in her strange statements
If the story is fabrication it is truly astonishing in
stance of retennve and accurate memory, applicable
to the imagination equal in every point woman's
recollection Of undoubted facts.
In the present state Of the question, admit that
do not believe the horrors of the book- may be found
ed ON somefacts-bu il cannot possibly be all true, and
we say soemny, that is the duty of the respectable
Catholic Clergy Of Montreal, and of this Diocese, to
prove its alsehoods by legal examination. Maria is
al this moment debating 10 an annanuensis anoh.r
book, full Of horrors than the present. As
to the Rev. Mr. Hoyt he is, has been in Jail. He is
a man Of bad repute. He came as an agent from the
Canadian Sunday Schools to this city, and recon-
mended to Dr. Brownlee, whom he egregousy deceived
Hoyt collected about 500 for his mission, and then
appropriated the money to his use. IL the Dis
closures" are the result Of conspiracy between the
Rev. Mr.. Hoyt and Miss Maria Monk let him be pun
ished for disgrachg his CLOTH but let her escape on ac
count of her fine eyes and pretty face.