CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ. lxxi 



treme. Nothing could exceed the disinterested 

 friendship which these two learned and pious 

 disciples of St. Ignatius showed to us during 

 our stay in Rome. Father Glover became our 

 spiritual director. The care which he took to 

 form the mind of my little boy, and the kind 

 offices which we were perpetually receiving at 

 his hands, can only be repaid, on our part, by 

 fervent prayers to Heaven that the Almighty 

 may crown the labours of our beloved foster- 

 parent, with the invaluable reward of a happy 

 death. When my foot had got well, after a 

 long and tedious confinement, Father Glover 

 introduced me to the present General of the 

 Society of Jesus. He is a native of Holland ; so 

 engaging is his deportment, so mild is the ex- 

 pression of his countenance, and so dignified is 

 his address, that it was impossible not to per- 

 ceive immediately that I was in the presence of 

 one eminently qualified to be commander-in- 

 chief of the celebrated order, the discerning 

 members of which had unanimously placed him 

 at their head. 



I had long looked for the arrival of the day 

 in which the Roman beasts of burden receive 

 a public benediction. Notwithstanding the 

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