er among what people, must be the first care of those who look
forward to better things. Legitimacy is the doctrine of the Gospel."...
This is what I was in search of. "Ireland is well adapted for the
experiment. A people of believers under the sway of a nation they detest
will eagerly grasp at what will alike establish the Church they
revere and the nationality they covet. If you really have a legitimate
descendant of the Stuarts, and if he be one equal to the demands of the
crisis, it signifies little in what quarter of Europe the first essay be
made, and we will throw all our efforts into the scale with you, always
provided that you can show us some great political head, some man of
foresight and reflection, among your party concurring in this view--such
a one, for example, as the Cardinal Caraffa. We have money, men of
action and daring, only longing for occasions to employ them, but we are
sadly in want of such capacities as Caraffa represents; so at least the
Prince tells us, for I have no personal knowledge of the Cardinal."'

'I am flattered by his Royal Highness's remembrance of me,' said Caraffa
proudly.

'And this,' said Massoni, showing a few lines on a simple slip of paper,
'this came enclosed within D'Allonville's letter.

"I am willing to open direct relations with his Eminence the Cardinal
Caraffa on the subjects herein discussed.--D'Artois."

Are these enough, sir?'

'More than enough to gratify a loftier pride than mine,' said Caraffa,
with a flushed cheek; 'but let us turn to a worthier theme. What is it
that is proposed?'

'The project, in one word, is this--to make the rising now about to
take place in Ireland a royalist, and not a revolutionary movement;
to overbear the men of destruction by the influence of wiser and safer
guides; to direct the wild energies of revolt into the salutary channels
of a restoration; and to build up once more, in all its plenitude, the
power of the Church.'

'Remember, Massoni, what Mirabeau said; and though I do not love the
authority, the words are those of wisdom: "Revolutions are not the work
of men--they make themselves."'

'It is from men's hands, however, they receive their first impulses. It
is also by a secret and firm alliance of men--steady to one purpose, and
constant to one idea--that revolutions catch their tone and colour. None
of us could expect that, in a great national struggle, there will not be
many acts to deplore--grievous crimes committe