The following Refolutions and Addrefs were propofed. and unani moufly agreed to: Refolved, That our most graceful and cordial thanks, are imperiously, and defervedly, due to our highly refpected and venerated the Molt Rev. and Right Rev. R. C. Prelates, affembled in National Synod, in September laft, for their folemn, judicious and definitive decifion on a quellion of the most vital importance to the dearest interests of our Holy Religion; an innovation infidioufly attempted in our Ecclefiaftical Difcipline which, had been unhappily acceded to, would, in our opinion, tend to the gradual, but certain, fubverfion, nay even extinction, of catholicity in this portion of the United Kingdom. Refolted, That the Refolution, by which our Prelates pledge them. felves not to recommend to the Court of Rome any candidate for Epifcopal order but fuch, whofe loyalty to the prefent exifting government of this realm fhall be pure and unim. peached as his faith and moral character, meets our fincereft concúr. rence and approbation, and calls forth our warmest thanks Refolved, that these our refolutions, together with the following addrefs of thanks, be published in the Evening He a and Drogheda News Latter. To the Most Reverend AND RIGHT REVEREND. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRELATES, OF IRELAND, Compofing the National Synod, held in Dublin in September laft. Mo Rev. and Righ Rev. Prelates, Attached, from the pureft conviction to our faith and anxious to preserve inviolate the rights and independence of the catholic church of Ireland the laft and hitherto unimpaired privilege now remaining to us), we the underligned catholic clergy and Laity of the county of Louth, consider it a duty imperiously obligatory upon us to prefent you the fentiments of our unqualified and warmeft approbation of your steady, virtuous and highly meritorious conduct, in the discharge of your facred duty, by your determined and canonical refufal of EVER confenting to any Innovation in the mode hitherto adopted in the nomination of cathoic Prelates, and to beg your accep ance of our grateful Thanks for having manifeiled that zealous attach ment to your Holy Religion, which fo gloriously dutinguished many of your illuftrious Predeceffors, and fecured to their memory the veneration of a grateful and admiring pofterity. In your judicious and loyal declaration that in unalterably adhering to the ancient canonical, and hitherto unimpeached mode of election of Roman catholic prelates, you will never recommend any candidate for epif copacy to the fee of Rome but fuch whofe loyalty to the prefent exifting government of this kingdom, fhall be as immaculate as his faith and morals, convinced of the purity of your intentions we beg leave to affure you that fuch resolution meets our warm eft approbation; and, in fo doing, we are confident, not only that we exprefs the fentiments of the catholic population of this county, as well as that of Ireland at large, but also that by fuch an union of faith and conduct, our holy religion fhall flourish unfaded and unimpaired until time shall be no more. EDWARD MAGENNIS M'ARDLE, D.D. Chairman. The Rev. Doctor M'Ardle having left the chair, and James Keiran. Esq being called to it, the thanks of the meeting were unanimously voted to Doctor MArdle for his very proper conduct in the chair. JAMES KEIRAN Rev. Edward M. M'Ardle, D. D. P. P. Lundalk. } Rev. Thomas Smyth, Curates of ditto. Rev James Byrne, P. P. Carlingford. Neal Coleman, fen Dundalk. William Keiran, do. M. Carragher, Cardiftown. Thomas Byrne, Rofs M'Key. James Kelly, Hunftown James Kelly, Black-Rock. Patrick M Kone, Killcurly. Owen M'Kone, fen. Delrobin. The undersigned is authorised to ftate that Five Thousand, Two kundred and forty four Signatures, in, cluding the above, have already been received, and that others are daily pouring in from every quarter of the Country. Signed by order, Secretary. 1 (History and Biography, Continued to affaffinate Mazarin. Several of from p. 592.) NEARLY at the fame time, and while the exiles were still overwhelmed with joy, the duke de Beaufort was honoured with a letter from the queen,'with whom he was on good terms, befeeching him to return immediately to France. On this we fet out that very night, re-embarked at Rye, and landed at St. Valeri, where we purchased horfes without difcovering who we were, as we learned that orders had been received from court to arreft all the French who came from England. At the beginning of the year 1643 the duke de Beaufort fent M. de Campion to Paris, to negociate about the return of his father, but his treaty proved abortive, in confequence of the jealoufy of the other agents of the prince. This defirable object, however, was at length effected; for Mazarin who had fucceeded to Richlieu, found it neceffary to obtain the fupport of the houfe of Vendome. Meanwhile the duke de Beaufort flattering himself to be able to govern the queen entirely after the death of Louis XIII. an event then fuppofed to be at no great distance, that minifter became his declared enemy. Her majefty, however, appeared at that period to place great confidence in him, for he was entrusted with the care of her children, and the command of the troops, Ou the the duke of Orleans and the Prince of Conde becoming jealous of this new favourites, joined the party of the minifter; and the cardinal hav ing gained the ladies in the queen's confidence, that circumftance, together with certain imprudent pro ceedings on his own part, foon loft the duke her majefty's efteem. Beaufort, at the inftigation of the ducheffes of Chevreux and de Montbafon, now entered into a confpiracy B the nobility alfo, and fome officers of theguards were acquainted with this plot, againft which, to the credit of our author, he remonstrated. He even appears to have faved the minifter's life more than once by bringing falfe accounts &c. to his patron. Notwithstanding this, he was at length prevailed on to mount on horseback, and lay wait for him on his return from court with a body. of armed men. Beaufort, however, was on his guard, and foon discovered by means of his fpies, that a project had been formed against his life. On this the queen having affembled the Duke of Orleans, the Prince de Conde, and all the minifters, it was agreed after a long confultation, that the Duke de Beaufort fhould be arrested. Accordingly, in the courfe of that very evening, happening to repair to the Louvre, as ufual, he was feized and carried to Vincennes. On this, M. de Campion, at the requeft of the Duke de Vendome, immediately fled to Anet, while feveral of his friends were taken up, and fent to the Baftille. As the cardinal had conceived an idea, that our author was privy to the whole confpiracy, he by means of the Prevot of the Ile of France, laid a trap for feizing his perfon, and had it not been for a mere accident he would have been taken and imprifoned for many years. In order to avoid this in future, he deemed it prudent to take refuge with a relation who lived in the foreft of Bretueil, in Normandy, while the duke de Vendome,to preferve his own liberty, was obliged nearly at the fame time to fly in difguife firft to Geneva, and afterwards to Switzerland and Italy. At length, M. de Campion, deemed it neceffary to quit the kingdom alfo. He accordingly repaired to the coaft of Brittany, and embarking near to S, Brieux, on board a fmall veffel, reached Jersey, after a quick paffage. 9 The governor of this ifland," fays he. "who was the alfo Vice Admiral of England, received me and my companions with great politeness, and promiled us his protection, He was called Cateret, and appeared He was to be very estimable man. extremely zealous in behalf of his king, who ftill difputed his crown with the party attached to the parlia ment, and had retaken Jersey from the rebels. We became fo intimate,, that I dined with him almost daily. He had a very amiable and fociable wife, with whom I often converfed freely, but always in the most honourable manner, and having ob tained a great number of excellent books from France, I spent my time partly in reading partly in focial intercou fe. I alfo took great delight in walking along the ftrand, amidit the folitary rocks that furrounded my dwelling, which looked towards the fea and afforded me a full view of that vast and changeable element. "I beheld equally unmoved the tempeft and the calm. I confidered that although fhut up in an island three leagues long, and one in breadth, where I was a stranger and deftitute of any permanent property 1 might till be more happy, provided I exhibited more wildon than thofe who had occafioned my difgrace. I refected that if I was exiled from the place of my birth by their authority, they were reduced to the fame fitua tion, in respect to their native country, by their good fortune, and that if they spent their time with greater Splendour, mine pafied away amidft fuperior tranquillity. Confiderations of this kind taught me at length to know, that my happinefs depended entirely upon myself, and I auctually Spent feven months in this favage fpot, without evincing the leaft des fire to leave it." He was at length perfuaded however. by the duke de Vendome, to follow him to Italy, On this he landed at Coutances in Normandy, and travelled by unfre ented roads to the house of his brother the Abbé, where he concealed himfelf during fome months After this he fet out on horfeback for Geneva, then repaired to Venice, and rejoined his, patron at Florence; but he was received with great coolnefs, and after a short stay at Rome returned first to France, and then to Jerfey. Thence he paffed over once more into Nor; mandy, and remained concealed at the houfe of a relation during the years 646 and 647, without any ane knowing the place of his retreat, a fingle female fervant only excepted, 1 t length, thinking that the plot formed by the Date de Beaufort was entirely forgotten, he married Mademoiselle Martinville in 648, purchafed the estate of Boscferei near to Elbeuf, and was about to refide there, when he learned that his friend had efcaped from Vincennes. Oa this he prepared to rejoin the duke de Beaufort; but was coolly requested by that nobleman to return home and the troubles which had originated at aris, having now extended to the Provinces, M. de Campion embraced the party of the duke de Longueville, who difputed the government of that portion of Francə, with the Couot de Harcourt Lor raine. Having accepted a commiffion under him he advanced with a body of troops to lu cour Evreux, and having formally abjured the fervice of the duke de Beaufort" he in 1652 @btained the command of a regiment of infantry from his new protector, During the fiege of Bar le Duc, qur author was introduced to the cardinal Mazarin, who treated him with great diftinction; and in 1653, he was prefent at the fieges of Chateau Porcien and Vervins. I had time about this period, (1653 to vifit my own Home, fays he) and fpend a few days with my wife and children; and found any eldeft daughter to handfome, fo witty, and above all fo intelligent, although only four years of ae, that her redfon appeared fuperior to my own. I then repaired to Sens on purpofe to eftablish a garrifon there, after which I returned once more to my own houfe, and paffed two months there, with every thing around me calcu lated to add to my fatisfaction; and yet I was at the fame time over, whelmed with an unaccountable de gree of melancholy, which was but a warning of that extreme affliction that I was foon unhappily deftined to experience. I became greatly a Jarmed on this occafion knowing that God had conftantly intimated to me all my misfortunes, by dreams, pre fages or internal admonitions. On repairing to Italy, in quest of the Duke de Vendome, a weazel croffed my path, in the neighbourhood ofGeheva; a circumftance which to me has always been the forerunner of fome finifter ev nts. On arriving at Rome, another traversed the road in the fame manner, and the day before my friend Beaupuis was arrested, I was informed of the event in a dream, as I told him in the courfe of that very forenoon. The self fame incident occurred to me at the capture of Ganseville, when a third weazel made its appearance. In fine, I ex prienced a fimilar adventure, when I went in fearch of the Duke of Beaufort on his escape from prifod "I have nothing of fuperftition in my constitution he is pleafed to add) but I believe God poffess fo much goodness, that he occafionally inchoes to warn hankind of the evils which are about to befall them, either that they fhould be enabled to avoid them or to let them know, after they have occurred; that they are the effects of his immutable will, refoved up in from all eternity, to that being thus obliged to fubmit, they may not murmur against Divine Providence. I was exactly in the fituation juft defcribed, without being prevented owever, from diverting myfelf in appearance, with my wife, my friends, and more eipecially with my daughter, when on returning one day after dining abroad with a neigh bour, my mind ftill occupied with finifter prognoftication refpecting my dear little favourite, i found her in the crisis of a virulent fever! Soon after this, the finali-pox broke out, for which difeafe a phyfician to whom I had fent administered the proper remedies; but on the morning of the fifth day the puftules difappeared, my dear and beloved child died on the 16th of May, 1633. "In the courfe of the next forenoon I ordered the last duti s to be performed, in the choir of my parish church of huitsignol, and cauled a tombstone to be cut, on which de fcribed my grief: it was fo great, that from this moment I never have enjoyed a fingle hour of happiness. I had conceived an idea that my child would form the confolation of our declining years, and had I begud to affociate her fo completely in all things with myfelf that I thought it was bereaving my daughter of her due, to take pleafure in any event of which the could not partake." After this, M. de Campion repaired to the army, and propofed in vain to the uke de Longueville, to disband his regiment: he then ferved in Picardy, under the orders of Mar fhal de Turenne, and was taken ill? notwithstanding this, he found means to be prefent at the fiege of Monfony |