A Curious Correspondence.

" Catholicus " is again inaccurate in attributing to me the statement that " eleven crimes have been justified or palliated by more than three hundred Jesuits . " I went still further , for I spoke of "no less than eleven different classes of crimes and sins . " In reply to his challenge , I beg to submit the following tabulated statement , given in the well-known work by M . de Pradt , late Archbishop of Malines , entitled " Du Jesuitisme ancien et moderne . " Paris , 1825 , pp . 212 , 213 : —

Subjects . No . of Authors . On Probabilism 50 On Philosophic Sin , Invincible Ignorance , and Erroneous Conscience 33 On Simony ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 14 On Blasphemy and Sacrilege 7 Onlrreligion 35 On Impudicit 17

y On Perjury and Bearing False Witness 28 On Prevarication , by Judges 5 On Theft , Occult Compensation , aud Receiving Stolen Goods 33 On Homicide 36 On Treason and Regicide 68 Total 326

All these works were published with the express sanction of Generals , such as Aquaviva , Vitelleschi , Gonzalez , Oliva , Piccolomini , and Caraffa , and ' were approved of by other high Officials of the Order . All of them were registered as of the greatest authority in the official Jesuit Catalogues of Ribandeneira , published in 1613 with the approval of Luccres , Vice Principal ; of Alegambe , published in 1643 with that of VitelleschiGeneral ; ancl of Satuel , published

, , in 1675 with that of Oliva , General . I now come to the charges against the Jesuits regarding the Massacre of St . Bartholomew ancl Regicide . I deem it convenient to take them together , as " Catholicus " has done ; for they were both the result of lawless and unscrupulous appeals to Catholic fanticism . The Jesuits , as I have shown in my former letterdid not hesitate to employ forcewhen it suited their purpose

, , , in order to extirpate the Protestant heresy and restore the Papal supremacy . They did not , however , content themselves with persecution under legal forms , but even instigated assassination . Mariana openly taught that any one might ill an usurper or a tyrant . He says : " Est salutaris cognitio , ut sit principibus persuasum , si rempublicam oppres ' serint , si vitiis et fceditate intolerandi erunt , ea conditioue vivere , ut non jure tai . tum sed cum laude et

gloria perire possint " ( "De Rege et Reg . Inst . " Toledo , 1599 , p . 11 ) . This work , it should be observed was warmly praised by the Censor , and bears the signature of the Visitor . Sa says : " Tyrannice gubernans juste acquisitum dominium non potest spoliari sine publico judicio ; lata vero sententia potest quisque fieri executor ; potest autem deponi a populo etiam qui juravit ei obedientiam perpetuam si monitus non vult corri gi . At occupantem tyrannice

potestatem quisque de populo potest occidere si aliud non sit remedium est enim publicus hostis " ( "Aphorism . Confessariornm . verb . Tyrannus" ) . Molina says : " Tyrannum primo modo nefas est privatis interficere ; possit tamen respublica quoad capita convenire , eique resistere , lataque sententia deponere ab administratione atque ilium depositum punire . Secundum modo tyrannum quivis de republica potest licite eum interficere " ( " Comment . " p . iv ., tract iii .,

disp . 6 ) . Toletussays : " Adverte duplicem esse tyrannum ; unum potestate et dominio qui non habet titulum verum sed tyrannice occupat rempublicam : et hunc licet occidere , dum aliter non potest liberari respublica et dum spes est libertatis , probabilis - , aliter non licet private cuilibet occidere . Alteram administration ! qui habet qnidem verum titulum sed tyrannice tractat subditos , et hunc non licet absque publica auctoritate occidere " ( " Summa Oasuum Conscientiee , " lib . v .. c . vi ., p . 653 ) . Suarez taught that the people was subordinate