d
afterwards of his wife, the princess of Nemours.

I would here leave the reader, with this fact fresh on his mind, to enter
upon the book before him, but that I wish to detain him a moment longer to
request him to carry also along with him the asseveration {xix} of the
author, that he is entirely unconnected with the individuals of the body,
whose character it is the object of this volume to place in a just point of
view. Though familiar with accounts of the society, I am unacquainted with
a single individual of it. The interest I feel is that which has been
inspired by their virtues, and by the injustice and cruelty of their
enemies, which I have ascertained to my complete conviction.

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CONTENTS.

PAGE
INTRODUCTION 1

CHAPTER I.

_Remarks on the Objects of the Author of
"A brief Account of the Jesuits," and
on his mode of conducting his Argument_ 5

CHAPTER II.

_Inquiry into the Character of the Authorities
against the Jesuits, and of
those in favour of them; with a notice
of some of the Crimes imputed to
them_ 23

CHAPTER III.

_Of the Order of the Jesuits, with the
prominent features of the Institute_ 173

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CHAPTER IV.

_Character of Pombal. Summary Observations,
and a brief notice of the tendency
and danger of Education independent
of Religion_ 229

THE LETTERS OF CLERICUS 259

APPENDIX.

_The Bull of Clement XIII_ 335

_The Judgment of the Bishops of France
in favour of the Jesuits_ 346

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ERRATUM, or Omission, Page 81.

At the end of Henry IV's speech, add a reference to Dupleix, the same
historian referred to in page 72. The speech is also to be found in the
Memoirs of the Minister Villeroi, the confidant of Henry IV, in the
Pleadings of Montholon, in the French Mercury of 1604, and in Matthieu,
Henry IV's historiographer, whom that prince himself furnished with memoirs
for his history. De Thou himself reports it, but in a mangled way, and
professedly as _an extract_, yet clearly enough to corroborate the
substance of it.

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