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I asked my relative if I should be damned, as I was the keeper of my own 

 mind. He replied that I did not know the necessity of obedience : he did. 

 He was bound to act from his knowledge of this necessity to salvation ; 

 but that God, of His mercy, might pity my ignorance of it, though, if 

 once I realized that necessity to my mind, I should imperil my soul if 

 I did not yield. 



Dr. Dalgairns says it is implied that the secret burial-ground would be 

 used in cases of murder. This is an ingenious phantom he has raised 

 simply that he may knock it down. Such a thought never occurred to 

 me; but, as he has raised the question, is it desirable as a matter of 

 prudence to let any confraternity have a secret and private burial-ground ? 

 Now, when Dalgairns disdains to notice the allegation as to scheming 

 monks without visible means of living, I tell him he cannot answer it, for 

 it is true, in substance and fact, that Father Faber had not one farthing 

 when he secured my relative, and that he was even supposed to be living 

 upon the charity of his family at that moment. He had no cheque-books 

 at that time ; he had no banking account that Dr. Dalgairns could 

 examine. If there be one redeeming point of that man who subverted 

 natural affection, it was that he for conscience sake left a good church 

 preferment and became a pauper. But an ambitious man made no bad 

 exchange when he secured the formation of the Oratory, and was consti- 

 tuted its head. 



Again, when Dr. Dalgairns asks how he can disprove that the house 

 of the Oratory is so constructed to favour the concealment of men of posi- 

 tion, I reply, Show the plan, when everybody will see that it is a house 

 within a house, and admirably adapted for concealment. 



I have frequently had the greatest difficulty even to know how my 

 relative was, when by long silence his sister feared illness. 



Dr. Dalgaims alludes to my assertion that I am prepared to offer 

 myself for election to Parliament, that I may ask the Secretary for infor- 

 mation which he stated he would only give to Parliament if I cannot get 

 it by other means. But Dr. Dalgairns must see that I am bent upon 

 action, not upon trashy words and arguments. Private and secret burial- 

 grounds must cease ; religious obedience must be controlled ; and I am 

 prepared to offer myself, at any convenient opportunity, to support 

 measures to prevent priests of any denomination obtaining money from 

 those over whom they hold control under the fear of eternal damnation. 



It is perfectly true I am well off, if not to spend my income is to be 

 well off. 



Were I otherwise situated than I am, how could I dare brook the 

 denunciation of a confraternity with such great power as the Oratorians, 

 who pride themselves on managing the Legislature of this great kingdom ? 

 There was always the most intimate affection between my brother-in- 

 law and myself, and up to the latest day of his life he took great interest 

 in watching everything I was doing, and frequently knew more what 

 appeared in the papers with reference to myself than I did. I heap no 

 obloquy upon my relative ; I place it on the head of Faber. 



My relative was one of the kindest and best men I ever knew, and I 

 must confess it was a great consolation to me to have been permitted to 

 see him the last few weeks of his life for which I give the Oratorians my 

 best thanks. 





