402 Estohlishmtnl at Stoni/hurst College. 



noiince cJiwi (you), and Haw (liand), 

 Ihis docs not argiiu any real liarsliness 

 in the sounds. 'Jlicise sounds are no 

 less natural to a Wclslinian than that 

 is to his English nciglibour. Sliibbo- 

 leth was as easy to tlie Gilcaditcs as 

 Sihhohth was to (he Ephraimitcs. 



Further, sir, I can prove, to tlie 

 satisfaction of every thinking person, 

 that there are two sounds in tlie Eng- 

 lisli language harsher in themselves, 

 and much moredilFicult to be pro- 

 nounced, than ch or //. The ch was 

 rxpelled from tlic alphabet by the 

 English (for it was in the Saxon), on 

 account of its harshness ; yet they have 

 ictained others that are" harder to be 

 pronounced, namely, r and s. I ha\c 

 Keen many children, from four to nine 

 years of aj;o, that could not possibly 

 pronounce those letters, although ac- 

 customed to them since their birth. 

 One can pronounce r, but instead 

 of s he says elk ; another sounds * 

 properly, but it will be vain to expect 

 anything but nl from him in lieu 

 of r. I have seen some that could 

 sound neither »• nor * ; and some'per- 

 sons have spent their whole lives with- 

 out being able to jjronounce either of 

 tliose, notwithstanding they had heard 

 Ihem a Imndrod times every day of 

 their lives. But I never have seen 

 or heard of a child, nor an adult, 

 brought up amongst tlie Welsh, whe- 

 ther the i)arents were English or 

 Welsli, who could not pronounce ch 

 and //. An indubitable proof this, sir, 

 that those sounds are much easier 

 than the two aljove-mcntioncd ones in 

 the Euglisli language; yes, as easy as 

 any sound ever heard, as all that hear 

 them in their youtii are able to pro- 

 nounce them correctly. 



Ieuan Ddu o Lan Tawy.* 

 Swansea; Nov. 25, 1822. 



For the Monthhi Magazine. 



STOWHUIIST COLLEGE. 



^TONYHUKST lies midway in 

 ^3 Lancashire, and within three 

 miles of Whalley, a village, with mar- 

 kets, on the River Ribble, above Pres- 

 ton. The towers and half-court, yet 

 standing strong and nobly, by wiiich 

 the visitor enters, were built in the 

 sixth century, after a design of Inigo 

 Jones, in what maybe called Eliza- 

 beth's style, by a baronet, then eagerly 

 determined to leave his heir a mansion 



* Vide Scren tjonicr, for Oct. 1832. 



[July I, 

 worthy of the projcrty that widely 

 sjireads around. But too goon and 

 painfully was he diverted from earthly 

 hope and ambitious views by the sud- 

 den death of his only ehi'.d, a line boy, 

 in his twelft'.i year, « iio was poisom d 

 by yew-berries, eaten as he played in 

 the dark groves of the garden. With 

 tlic event ceased all prosecution of a 

 work wliieh promist-d, in every detail 

 of style, to be a very higii honour to 

 the country in which it was to be ele- 

 vated, and the age in which it was 

 modelled. The mansion, gaidens, and 

 j)ark, were on a large scale, finely de- 

 signed, and ornamentally executed. 

 The property next, I believe, devolved 

 to a Duchess of Dorset; and from iier 

 to the late Mr. Weld, of Lulworth" 

 Castle, Weymouth. 



Driven by the ravages of a fire, 

 which reduced a large establishment 

 to ashes, from St. Oiiier's, and after- 

 wards, by the urgent dangers of war 

 and the proscriptions of tlie French 

 revolution, from Liege, — an association 

 of English Catholic clergymen, mis- 

 ealled Jesuits, sought safety, and a 

 peaceful prosecution of their charita- 

 ble life, in this country : I say niis- 

 called Jesuits, because the men them- 

 selves do not profess the character ; 

 for, altliough the Pope restored tho 

 order, the bull issued for the purpose 

 contains a provision, that the re-orga- 

 nization shall only take place with the 

 particular assent of the government of 

 the country in ^vhieh the settlement is 

 intended. In Britain, it is superfluous 

 to observe, no ministerial patronage 

 is to be expected for such an object. 

 Indeed it may be doubted v.hether 

 any thing less than a ]iarliamentary 

 act, or, at lea.st, a special proclama- 

 tion, could revive the order amongst 

 us, according to the sense of tho bull ; 

 and the hope of such a measure is 

 absurd. However, therefore, the 

 priests of Stonyhurst may in their pri- 

 Vi^te association emulate the religious 

 exercises of the order, still they can- 

 not publicly discharge any active de- 

 votion peculiar to its prescriptions; 

 and it is well known, that personally 

 the members have been idly subjected 

 to mucli restraint in this respect. 



It was under that parliamentary act 

 of the late king, which gave a Catholic 

 lather legal permissiDii to educate his 

 Catholic child, that this body of priests 

 became domesticated in Britain ; and 

 there 3et live some aged fugitives from 

 ContiueutHl terrors, v, ho dailv recur to 



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