No. XXVI.] APPENDIX. 339 



The same intimate cordiality seemed to exist as formerly during 

 these visits. 



But why ? He told me that Faber was dying, and he ceased to see 

 him ; and upon Faber's head and memory the obloquy of separating him 

 from his family rests; and I assert, not only did Faber separate him, 

 but the public have a right to know how many others he has separated 

 from their families, and to what extent the same practices are now 

 prevailing. 



The Oratorians, present and future, will have the money. I regard 

 all as co-partners, and doubtless a full inquiry will lead to an important 

 change in the law of this country. Secret and private burial-grounds 

 should be rendered public ; authorized burial registers should be kept ; 

 and paupers under the veil of religion should lose the power of getting 

 the money of those whom they persuade must be obedient to secure their 

 salvation. 



Therefore it is not a matter of wonder that others have not com- 

 plained ; it is only extraordinary that I can bring my mind to expose this 

 terrible faculty which Faber possessed. 



Faber did not use the unnatural faculty for nothing ; he had no pro- 

 perty when he met my relative at the Bishop's house ; and how many 

 families whose money he has obtained, and was in process of obtaining at 

 the time of his death, may never be clearly known. 



Now, Dr. Dalgairns, I have but one more word ; you insinuate insult 

 in your concluding paragraph, and will perhaps carry it into the House of 

 Commons by members under your control. If you deceive yourself, you 

 will not deceive the world, as to our present position. I give you and your 

 colleagues credit for courtesy and kindness of manner, and have not a 

 word to say against you or them personally, and, as far as my limited 

 acquaintance is concerned, I should esteem them. This question is not a 

 question of religion, and now I have no comment to make upon the form 

 of religion which you follow. I am acting in my capacity as a civilian, 

 and not as a partisan for any one special form of religion ; and I ask all 

 Roman Catholics, Protestants, and Dissenters to join in considering calmly 

 the question, before the entire country is roused to indignation. Retract 

 in time, Dr. Dalgairns, if you wish justice. My complaint against you, 

 Dr. Dalgairns not personally, but as the head of the Oratory is : 



1. That you have a private and secret burial-ground, without public 



access or boundary walls, which has no public register of burials, 

 and where the names on the tombstones are changed. 



2. That this private and secret burial-ground, and the means of con- 



cealment you have in your houses, are used to obtain money from 

 converts under religious intimidation. 



3. That one of your body did cause my relative, under the fear of 



eternal damnation, to appropriate upwards of 40,000 to purposes 

 dictated by your Superior. 



I quote one case to illustrate the general principle, and for that I 

 ask that your Order of St. Philip Neri may be banished from this country, 

 and the control of the burial-ground may be assimilated to the general 

 law of the land. 



There are clauses in the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829, by which 

 Act members of that Church were admitted to Parliament and to various 



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