about a mile diftance from home, to recite in the way with his brethren, the little hours of our lady's office; and when he was coming home at night, the vefpers and complin and that his first care after he came home was to withdraw into his oratory, and there to perform his cuftomary devotions of the Jefus pfalter, the feven pfalms, &c. And fuch was the fweetness of his temper, and his comportment, that even his proteftant fchool mafters were very fond of him, At length, having tried in vain to pafs over to one of the Spanish feminaries he fucceeded better in his attempt to go into Flanders, where he was received in the English college of Douay in December, 1605. Soon after his arrival at Douay he received the facrament of confirmation in which he took the name o Edmund (which was the name of his uncle Dr. Arrowfmith) and by this name he was ever after called. He had performed here a great part of his humanity ftudies, when he was obliged by the bad state of his health to interrupt the courfe of them, and to return to his native country; where in a fhort time he recovered, and then his old mafter fent him back to the college where, taking the ufual oath, he was admitted amongst the pope's alumni; and applying himself clofe to his ftudies, though fomew hat infirm in health, he made a great progrefs in learning: but as his too great application threatened a return of his former illness, his fuperiors thought it most adviseable, (he having now gone through a good part of his divinity) to prefent him to holy or ders, and to fend him to England.Upon this he received all the leffer orders in St. Nicholas's church at Douay, June 14, 612; and before the end of the fame year, was advanced to the greater orders at Arras, and there made prieft, December 9. And on the 17th of June of the fol lowing year, 1613, he was by Dr. Kellifon, lately made prefident of the college, fent upon the English mifGion. : In England he quickly recovered his health; and employed his miffionary labours in his own county of Lancashire, with great zeal and fuccefs. The printed account of his death, published in 1630, gives his character in fhort thus: "That he was a man of mean prefence, but of great innoceney in his life, of fincerity in his nature, of great tweetnefs in his converfation, and of great induftry in his function. And that he was ever of a chearful countenance, a moft probable fign of an upright and unfpotted confcience." A fellow labourer of his, in a manuscript which I have in my hands, tells us to the fame purpule, "that though his prefence was mean, yet he was both zea. lous, witty, and fervent and fo forward in difputing with heretics) that I often wished him merrily, fays he, to carry falt in his pocket to feafon his actions, left too much zeal with. out difcretion might bring him too foon in danger, confidering the vehement fudden storms of perfecution that often affailed us." My author goes on: "fometimes I have been in his company, when meeting with minifters fumptuously mounted, I have had much ado to keep him from difputing with them; which if he had done, it would have brought the whole company into danger. In his travels on a time he met with a proteftant gentleman, who feeing him of fo mean a prefence, and understanding by fome in company who and what he was, thought he had got a companion that he might freely jeft at and play upon but his jefts were fo retorted back upon him, that he, fwearing fwearing a great oath, faid, I thought I had met with a filly fellow, but now I fee he is either a foolish fcholar, or a harned fool. (To be Continued.) Mayneeth College. In our laft Number, we gave a general, though a very imperfect acCount of Maynooth College. The animadverfions which we were oblig ed there to make on fome of those who the direction of that eltablishment, have made us, it appears, many enemies. We have even been defied in the newfpapers, to produce proofs of the bad government of the late prefident, Dr. Dunn, and we have been accused of having through malicious motives, originating in private injury, endeavoured to fully the immaculate character of Lord Fingal. Now, with all due contempt for this man in the newspaper, and with a perfect understanding of his own malice in thus artfully coming forward with a fmfy and foolish defence of the meatures lately purfued in the College, to wreft from us any fecret the publication of which might be in jurious to the establishment itself; we will proceed temperately to fatisfy the curiofity of the public which feems to be anxious for a more particular account of the ftudies of the young men educated in it. Let it not, how ever, be imagined that we decline coming to a clofe engagement with any one who really thinks that Lord Fingall and Dr. Dunn can be defended on fair grounds. We are refponfible for what we advance, and we will not defcend to a conteft with any anonymous correfpondent, whofe motives we could not be able to difcover. We have before declared, that it must be an enemy in difguife, who would wish to have expofed the infamous tyftem of the late Prefident, to the preserving of which for four years, piety and order, and learning and juftice were facrfiiced, which in ten months caufed the expulfion of twenty-one ftudents, and which loft to the catholic hierarchy of Ireland, many young men, who might have been made perhaps, its ornamental members. It is our opinion, and that opinion is founded on facts, that Dr. Dunn was totally incapacitated for holding the office into which he was thrust by the afluence of Lord Fingal and in which he w skept or four years by the fame influence, in defpite of the very obvious ruin which he was every day bringing on the eftablishment. As to Lord Fingal, we know very well the merits ard demerits of his character, aud though all the catholic fools of the kingdom fhould ring his praifes, we will always hold him in the molt unqualified deteftation. His $ private character we know not--that we leave to his domeftics and his fycophants; but fcanning the public man or public principles, recollecting his conduct when he bafcly feceded from his catholic countrymen, paffing over in review, his atchievments in the year 1798, and adding to thofe, his conduct as a truftee of Maynooth College, in which capacity he has done moft mifchief to his country, and to his religi on, we cannot but execrate the delegate of the Dublin Catholic Ariftocracy. That Maynooth College fhould be fo long in exiftence, without exciting more general attention and obfervation, is rather wonderful. The advocates of afcendancy, feem to have beheld it with a fullen filence, fearing to be perfectly acquainted with the importance of the establishment. The catholics, on the other hand, de pending pending on the integrity of the men who were at its head, gave themfelves no trouble to inquire into the ftate of a place, which they fuppofed to be in a very flourishing condition. Even Dr. Duigenan paffed it by in his anti-catholic parliamentary harangues without notice, though one would think that the popish college ought to be a fertile fource for calumny and mifreprefentation. This apparent apathy in all parties, did not certainly ferve the college. If its ftudies and its government were more frequently made fubjects of public difcuffion, neither the one or the other would have been fo fhamefully neglected. Dr. Milner, to whom the catholics already Owe fo much, brought it before the public, and tho' his information was very wrong and > very defective, we ought ftill to give him every praife for the uprightness and the patriotifm of his intentions.Since the publication of his Letters on Ireland, Maynooth has attracted univerfal curiofity. It is our wifh, that it may always continue, for furely nothing ought to intereft the catholics of Ireland, more, than the education of their priesthood. - We have learned what was the courfe of ftudies in the year 1800, when Dr. Flood was prefident, and before Dr. Dunn and Dean Coin, the felf-dubed Mafler of Arts, began their crufade againft literature: Dr. Aberne, one of the most celebrated Divines in Europe, then held the first Divinity chair, and Pere la Hogue, a profeffor of Sorbonne and an emigrant, the second Dr. Delort, profeffed Natural Philofophy and the Mathematicks. Abbe Dare taught Metaphyfics and Logic. Mr. (now Countellor) Clinch was then profeffor of Greek and Rhetoric, and Mr. Lovelock prefided at the Humanity Claffes. Mr. Usher was Mafter of Poetry and the English Language; and the Abbe Power of the French. There were alfo on the eftablishment, profefforfhips for the Hebrew and Irish Languages. But tho' Dr. Flood was indefatigable in his fearch for able men to occupy thofe places, they were not filled. It is much to be regretted, that fome unknown difference between this prefident, and Mr. Theophilus O'Flanagan, prevented the latter from employing his talents for the good of his country, in lecturing on a language he was fo eminently qualified to teach. Trinity College in its beft days never poffeffed a greater number of learned men, than were at this period at the head of the claffes in Maynooth. Dr. Flood was allowed by all the Parifian divines, to be the ffrit Scripturist and Casuist in France. Dr. Aberne's fame was fpread thro' all the catholic colleges on the continent, and thofe who have read his Treatife on the true Chriftian Church, declare that it abounds with paffages written in the true ftyle and spirit of Ciceronian latinity. Father la Hogue was for forty years profeffor in the Sorbonne, and though he retains all the imperious and difgufting felf-fufficiency, all the narrow and defpotic bigotry which generally diftinguifhed the Doctors of that famous univerfity, yet he is a clever schoolman, and deeply learned in the history and fathers of the church. La Hogue has tranflated the Letters of St. Cyprian into French, and has compiled various treatifes on Divinity and the Scriptures. Delort the profeffor of Natural Philofophy and the Mathematics, was a great and univerfal genius. He was a polished as well as an erudite scholar; adding the moft refined tafte to the most profound and well-felected knowledge. He was in great repute amongst the literati of Paris, the intimate acquaintance of Linguois, the mathematician, and Lavoifer, the famous chymitt. His tries in the year 1802. He had been in both the English Universities, in Edinburgh, and at the college of Dublin; at each of which places, he converfed with the cleveret men, in the Greek and Roman tongues, After being fome time in the college of Dublin, curiofity led him to Maynooth. It was during the fummer recefs, and moft of the profeffors and ftudents were from home. He met a mathematical acquirements were in fuch efteem, that tho' a roman catholic prieft, he was folicited by the fellowso: Trinity College, to become a profeffor on their eftablishment. He left this country after the peace of Aniens, and refides now in Bourdeaux. To do justice to the talents of Mr. Cinch, would require the pen of Clinch himself. Unless Dr. Johnfon. perhaps a greater prodigy of learning has not appeared in modern times.-lad about 20 years of age, with whom His acquifitions in univerfal fcience be entered into converfation. He and the languages, are beyond cre- afked feveral queftions concerning dibility. There is no fudy which be the internal economy of the college; has not tafted, and none that he has and amongst the reft, if there was a taftecfwhich he does not feem to have profeffor of Greek on the establishdevoured. A linguift, a caronit, a di- ment. The young lad indignant at vine, a hiftorian, a mathematician, the affront offered his Alma Mater, a rhetorician, a poet, a philofopher fpoke to him in that language with -were not the powers of the human the most aftonishing fluency. The mind unlimited and unknown, we Hungarian was truck with wonder, could fcarcely believe that a man of and afterwards declared, that the best Mr. Chinch's age, could already have Greek fcholar he had converfed with acquired fuch a vaft mass of various fince he left his own country, was a knowledge. His talents however, ftudent of Maynooth college. This are fuperior to his industry, and inde- young man's name is Patrick Connerpendent of his acquirements, be may ry, he is now a clergyman, and is a nabe confidered a true original genius. tive of Ballyragget, in the county of By nature an orator, and an orator Kilkenny. From the talents he has of the higheft kind. His rhetorica! already difcovered, and the acquirelectures at Maynooth, were equal in ments he has made in the languages. grandeur and fublimity, to the Les- and univer al fcience, it is to be hopcors of Longinus." He was him- ed, that his future life will redound felf the fame fublime he drew."-He much to the honour of Irith literareared every foul about him, to a greatnefs of fentiment and thinking, and infufed a portion of his own genius into all who heard him. So great was the progrefs made in the languagesby the fcholars under Mr. Clinch, that Greek appeared to be almok their vernacular tongue.As an inftance of this proficiency, we will relate an anecdote of one of them, which does equal honour to the abilities of the mafter and the difciple. A Hungarian, who tranflated fome of Ovid's Elegies into Greek verfe, travelled through thefe coun ture. Mr. Usher, the profeffor of Englith, NOTE. As a proof of the Gothic fpirit, and hoftility to learning, which Dean Coin has invariably evinced, it ought to be known that he made five different efforts, though ineffectual, for this lad's expulfion; and yet this vandal is ftill kept in the houfe !!! Y lifh, a defcendant of the famous Archbishop of that name, and ton of the author of the .6 Free-thinkers Letters, has published an English Pronouncing Grammar, and has written a fhort Tretje on the Profody of Englifo Poetry. He is indeed a truly deferving man, joining the moft engaging manners to a very extenfive informa tion. Such were the men who at this period, directed the ftudies of the Maynooth ftudents, and no college ever boafted a brighter conftellation of genius and learning. Let the enc mies of Maynooth college, and thofe who with the learned Dr Duigenan, are in the habit of regarding it with contempt, read this account, which is far from being overcharged with exaggeration, and blush for their illiberality. Let the Edinburgh reviewers learn the information they required, and do justice to the Roman Catholic college of Ireland. For their fatisfaction, we will give a lift of the clafs books read in Maynooth, and we pledge our felves for its accu racy. In Speculative Theology, the profeffor dictated manufcripts of his own to the tcholars. In Moral Theology Pere Antoine was the chief clafsbook. In Natural Philofophy, the profeffor alfo gave written dictates; but Newton's Principi, Lavoifter's Cyuntry. Kiel's Atronomy, Lingues Bezu, Le Clerc, and other French authors on the mathematics, were univerfally ftudied. In Metaphyfics and Logic, the fame fyftem of dictating was followed; but Clarke and Lock were in every one's hands. In the higher Greek and Latin claf fes, Thuciades, Longinus, Sophocles, Horace, Demofthenes, Ifocrates, Livy, Cicero, Juvenal, Homer, and Terence were read. In the lower, Lucian, Epictetus. Zenophon, Virgil, Ovid, Justin, Sailuft, and Cæfar, IN defiance of parliamentary reftrictions, perfecutions, and charterfchools, the catholic religion has advanced with incredible rapidity in this country. It is certain, that fince the reign of Charles II. the number of catholics has received an augmentation of more than two millions. The English propagandifts in their zeal to force their doctrines on the rifh, in exchange for their lands, confidered that an effential part of the bufinefs would be accomplished by defroying the lifh language, and to effect this, the vandal reformers deftroyed every veftige of ancient Irish iterature which fell into their hands. The very reverfe of what they planned was the confequence, for the catholic faith advanced with the culti vation of the English language. The unrelenting and induftrious courfe of pervertion perfued by the protestant plan of literary and perfcnal extermination, had driven thoufands of men who escaped the fword, to other countries. The women that furvived, remained in Ireland, and intermarried with their English vifitors; who, after fecuring themfelves in the property of the country, became careless or a religion they admired, while it affifted them to acquire plunder. The plunder being in poffeffion, indolence fucceeded, and the apoftle of the fword and the gofpel, fatished with the good things of this world, left the management of the other to his catholic wife. The women of Ireland, remarkable for their attachment to their religion, taught it to their children. English proteftantifin only lingered in the father, and with him it expied, while his defcendants inherited his man.e without his creed. The |