CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ. Xxill 
educated at the Jesuits’ college in St. Omers, hav- 
ing learned that these inestimable disciples of St. 
Ignatius had put things in a proper train for the in- 
struction of youth, took me to Stonyhurst, and placed 
me under their care. 
Voltaire had said repeatedly that he could not sub- 
vert Christianity until he had destroyed the Jesuits. 
Their suppression was at last effected ; partly by his 
own impious writings, and partly by the intrigues of 
kept mistresses at the different courts, who joined 
their influence to the already enormous power in the 
hands of the infidel ministers of the day. The woes 
unutterable which these poor followers of Jesus 
Christ had to endure at the hands of the wretches 
who had caused the breaking up of their order, 
seemed to have made no alteration in their disposi- 
tion ; for, on my arrival at Stonyhurst, I found them 
mild and cheerful, and generous to all around them. 
During the whole of my stay with them (and I 
remained at their college till I was nearly twenty © 
years old), I never heard one single expression come 
from their lips that was not suited to the ear of a 
gentleman and a Christian. Their watchfulness 
over the morals of their pupils was so intense, that 
Iam ready to declare, were I on my death-bed, I 
never once had it in my power to open a book in 
which there was to be found a single paragraph of 
an immoral tendency. 
My master was Father Clifford, a first cousin of 
the noble lord of that name. He had left the world, 
and all its alluring follies, that he might serve Al- 
mighty God more perfectly, and work his way with 
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