The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-28


lieve, with Bishop Abbott, that he was constant
soti the very life he led being evidence against
such calumny. That he was fond OF female
society, and ndulgcd his weakness to the point OF
public scandal, there can be no doubt. The ladies'
ig living under his roof may have thought themselves
tne martina and Mary OF new reign OF grace but the
Prefect knew that the world would not judge their
conduct IN the pious vein The world condemned
them. The Church condemned them. In the
writings of the secular priests this weakness OF the
Jesuit Prefect was denounced in terms which leave
no room for doubt as to what was meant"
Such is the authors view of Garnet, "the
master-spirit" of the first part of the Anglo
Spanish conspiracy, which ended with the exc
cutions following on the Powder Plot, among
others with that of Garnet, who was hung in st.
PauPs Churchyard. 1t is but bare justice to
him to say that Garnet died like gentleman.
If he exhibited some human fear he controlled,
almost mastered it; and with regard to the
charge laid against him of impurity of life, he
selemnly denied it in nearly the last words he
uttered. At such N time a man would hardly
utter an untruth even If he had received abso-
luton for it before it was expressed, and had
been taught to believe that heaven would not
be further off, if le saved the honor OF the
Church by telling ialsehood
But to return TO the time when the plot was
a-making, which bound itself to the Powder
Plot, and the plotters thought no eye was upon
thcm-
"For many years rost few cautious Jesuts,
under their Project, Garnet, had been hiding in the
country chiefly in the London suburbs and in the
midland shires; but ON the Queens death becoming
Flanders and CASTLE, TO aid in promoting the peace
with Spain. In crossing the Straits they knew they
were breaking the English law, since no member Of
tnelr order could then reside ON English soil; but
they reckoned, not without cause on the Secretary
of State being purposeiy blind TO their coming over,
most ardent wish In Cecil these Jesuits
met Their match. The men who moved the
ORDER were no strangers to him: some of them
were in his pay, still more of them were in his
power list OF the Fathers lay in his desk: a list
giving their true names ana their false, with an ac-
q
persons who helped them to come and go. lie knew
something OF Father isher otherwise Percy, other
he was acquainted with Father OldcOrnc, the Con-
fessor of Mrs. Arlington Of HcnUip Hail Garnet
was his ncigtbor a might almost be called his
chum. Father Cresa Ell Wrote TO him from ValladO-
lid Father Persons fl ON Rome. by these and other
means ne held the I'M ads OF tnelr purpose IN s
grasp and felt that should the day for tussle with
the order ever come he would be strong enough to
drag them down. The fathers We're allowed TO land
an0spread themselves through Cne London SUBURBS
and the country distriats but they were not suf-
lcred to come and go unmatched. The Secretary
had his agents on the quay OF every port and the
deck Of every ship ne jOval skipper who gave
the fathers passage in his Darque, and who seemed
to them the pink OF good fellows, his spy. Tne
bland old priest who elcomed them on shore and
gave them such wise COunSgls, was in his pay. one
band of Jesuits came over i'm the Golden Lion
Francis Burnell commander Fresh lrOu Antwerp
whore tie Austrian Cardinal and the Spanish
Infauta had been proclaimed King and Queen Of
England, these fathers were hot with zeal, uud
finding the skipper lan OF their own mind, they
were tree IN talk aouu' the King of Scots. They
destruction Of ali his LUUse. Before they were pGt
on Shore Captain Buruell had reported their words
to one OF Cecil's spies IN HarWich, who sent copy
OF their speeches to Whitehall. The spy who
watched the coming a. 4 going OF these fathers in
BarWiuh was Francis ileson priest
"A part of Cecils craft in dealing with political
rivals lay in the adrot advantage which he took of
the bitter ieuds then ging in the ancient church,
so as to gain from each party in that church the
means OF crushing The other, when a policy of re-
preston happened to serve his turn. Blood ran so
high between sections of the Catholic clergy-he-
tween the and the Jesuit miSSiDuarnS
that each was ready 10 betray the other into his
hands. Iillets0n was 0t more eager to denOunce
the Jesuits in lIarWich than Garnet was to destroy
the Seculars in London Each rejoced when mis-
rival fell. If Jesuta and Secuars were both opposed
in theory 10 the Crowd they opposed it in different
spirit, and sought O. ir ends by different path.
Each had u purpose and plot and the purpose
dearest to each was to 5etray his fellow priest to the
Some of the best passages in the book are to
be found in the contrasts drawn between the
staunch old English Catholics, noble gentle,
and simple-honest, hearty fellows all-who
were not Englishmen, if you please, but first of
all Papists, and the Ultramontlne Italianized,
halt-Spanish, in nothing English, pupils of the
Jesuits, by whom they were taught that
Spanish King and an Italian Pope were two very
good heads tor England. The English CathO-
lies of the old national type loved their country
first, and abhOrTed even Papal Interference with
it, which always aroused their characteristic ire.
Rome, Spain, and the Jesuits were determined
to reconYert all England to the ancient forms
which she had Systematically resisted. They
resolved to convert English Catholics as well as
Retormers and they once had some prospect of
fatally succeeding.
The Powder Plot was not the first fruit of this
resolution. In the account of it, the author will
probably excite some surprise on the part of his
readers-
'"rhe plot was an actual plot, with living agents
and settled plan. ct the dreameTs who ascribe
this plot, in general terms, to the Catholic clergy
and laity, go further astray from fact than the
dreamers who ascribe it to King James. The plot
was not Catholic plot. This wild project of poll
tical murder was the work of few converts from
the English Church, conducted by gang OF out
laws ana fanatics, not only against the conscience,
but against the interest, of every Catholic in the
realm. The Pope condemned it. The Archpriest
condemned it, All the Secular priests and all their
sober liocks condemned it. What these children of
Powder Plot to bear, during many reigns,
under protests which were seldom heard the social
odium and political penalty of a crime which they
abhOred. Nor was This project properly Jesuit
crime. IL found some friends in the Order of Jesus,
beyond doubt; but these friends Of the Powder
Plot were OF no high standing in the body, and the
society, as a society, gave them no support. Not
one, but many, o! the more eminent Fathers
fought against the sch me The General Caudius
Aquaviya, set his face against the plotters, when
he could only guess heir purpose and when the
details reached him, just as he was entering tho
smitten to the heart. Those who throw the
blame on Catholics miss the great moral of the
crime. The men who cOntrved, the men who
prepared, the men Who sanctioned, this scheme of
assassination were and all, of Protestant BIRTH
Father Persons was Protestant born. Father owen
ana Father Garnet were Protestants born. From
what is known OF WUer's carry life, it may be as
sumed that he was z Prstestant. Catesby and
Wright had been Prot, stant BOYS Guy FaWkes had
been Protestant Inc minor persons were like
their chiefs-aposaes rom their early faith with the
moody weakness which is an apostates inspiration
and his curse. ITeshum was convert, MOnteage was
a convert Dgby was . convert Thomas Morgan,
Robert Kay and Kit " right were all converts The
five gentlemen who Gug the mine in Palace Yard
were all OF English iood and of Protestant birth.
But they were converts and fanatics observing no