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When I had been here but a few days, the Rector began to examine me in a very jesuitical way. He came into my room with great indifference, and asked me, with a laughing mien, "Have you not discovered Jewish inclinations since your baptism? did you never agree with Protestants in sentiment?" I answered him simply, that I wondered he could ask me these things with such a levity of manner and then he did not venture to put any more questions to me. The same Rector commanded me to write to some of my old Protestant friends to remit me money, that I might give it to the convent. The law prohibits the Ligorians from having more than eleven of their body in this Canton, but they had more than twenty, though not all under the public name of Ligorians, but as teachers and secular clergymen. I met there with a Ligorian, who came from Vienna to Freybourg, without a passport. The soldier who watched the town-gates of Freybourg asked him : "Do you belong to this city, or are you a stranger?" He said within himself, I intend to belong to the convent at Valsainte which is under the dominion of Freybourg, and he answered under this system of mental reservation,-"I belong to Freybourg." An insatiable covetousness was exhibited here, such as I never saw before. Two Protestants without property came there to turn Catholics. As soon as the Rector discovered that they were poor, he advised them to go to the Capuchin monks. But when a rich citizen of Bern

came to Valsainte, not with the intention, of be-coming a Catholic, but only to lodge there one night, the Rector, as well as the others, endeavoured with great anxiety, to prove to him, that he could not be saved out of the Roman Catholic Church. I was obliged to write Italian letters to Rome and Naples, to procure them money for saying mass. They told me that this is authorized by Scripture, for St. Paul says, He who serves the altar shall live of the altar. One day a father of the convent said, "I will shew you, my brethren, the effects of my mission!" and he then produced some golden earrings which he had procured for the convent, saying, that a woman whom he persuaded of the vanity of this world, and that many went to hell on account of their extravagance in dress, had given them to him. The whole convent rejoiced at this fruit of his mission.

After I had been two months in the convent, the above mentioned P. Sabelli came from Vienna to Valsainte, and supposing I had now entirely given

up the idea of returning to liberty, in consequence of my banishment from Rome, he began to initiate me more and more into their system. They say, Christ requires prudence, as appears by the following passage: "Behold I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." Acting, as they said, on this precept, when one of the fraternity wanted a passport and could not obtain it, another wrote one for him, imitating the writing of a di

rector of the police, and it was so good an imitation, that the Police of the towns through which he passed acknowledged and subscribed it.

After this, Sabelli told S, that the Police of Vienna had found out the place were Rosalia resided, and that she was brought back again, but by the grace of God she confessed nothing. This is the lady that escaped from Vienna, as before mentioned. The fact is this, Hofbauer intended. to establish a female school in Bucharest, for the instruction of the schismatic Greeks, and for their conversion to the Romish Church.

Lady Rosalia, who was completely duped by him, brought her pearls to him, and he procured for her journey to Bucharest 250 crowns, she gave the half of it to P. Hofbauer: and Hofbauer.commanded his Secretary, to write to the Rector of the Ligorians in Bucharest, that he might now establish the school, as Rosalia would soon arrive. S-assisted her in escaping from Vienna: and S and Rosalia, who well knew that the police of Vienna, and her rich parents, and the Bishop, would examine him as to where she was, and what she had said, agreed together, that she should tell him nothing, but only confide in him. Sengaged a ship to carry her to Presberg; as she was conveying her clothes from home, her sister observed it, and asked her what she was doing; she answered, I am going to make a present of them to a poor nun-she calling herself in her own mind that poor nun, that she might not tell a lie.

Hofbauer gave her the benediction, and she

escaped by means of the ship provided for her, changing her name, and S- accompanied her to the ship; and one hour after her escape her parents perceiving she was gone, went to Hofbauer, S-, and Sabelli, and asked them whether they knew where their daughter was; and they said, "We do not know," meaning, we do not know where she is at this moment. Her aged parents, her brother, and her sister, kneeled down, and said, We do not wish her to return, but only wish to know where she is, and whether she told you any thing; and they answered, "She told us nothing!"

S- confessed himself, when he related this history, that he was much moved by the lamentation of her parents, but still he did not confess any thing. The news of her escape quickly spread through Vienna, and one Priest thought he saw her in the street, another heard that she was gone to Rome, and Sand Sabelli made use of these reports, when they were examined by the consistory of Vienna. Hofbauer instead of answering when questioned on this subject, began to preach to the magistrate about justice, and all he would say was, "I don't know!"

Twizan, (director of the consistory of Vienna,) said to P. Sabelli, "Did Rosalia never tell you that she would escape?" Sabelli answered, "Yes, and she said so likewise to her parents." For Rosalia indeed said so very often, but in a way, that they all thought she was not in earnest. Sabelli availed himself of this to deceive the consistory. Twizan asked, "Do you know where she

is now?" Sabelli answered again, "Yes, she is in Vienna, for a priest called Job saw her." When he was asked at another time by the consistory about her, he said again, "I know where she is now." And being desired to name the place, he said, "At Rome."

S escaped afterwards to Valsainte, and in the hour of recreation, related the circumstances. I felt grieved, and I found that I was in dangerous society. I said to S-, "You told an untruth in this." He said, "No, for I asked my confessor upon the point, and he said that I was sincere, and that he should have said the same, which was impossible had it been an untruth." Hofbauer was S-'s confessor, and thus we can form a judgment as to his principles. When Rosalia was discovered and brought to Vienna, she went to Hofbauer and said, that she would only confess to the Police, that she received money through a knight of Malta, a friend of Hofbauer, which would be of no consequence. Sabelli said to her, "You can do so," and he went therefore, at twelve o'clock at night, to C. D. and informed him about this, who said, "I fear nothing on this account, because I may give my money to whom I please."

I detest the spirit of Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, because they have blasphemed Christ, who is God over all, blessed for ever; yet must I agree with them, in what they have written against many who are called ministers of Christ, especially with what they have said against jesuits and monks.

My health was not good from the first moment