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370 CAIRO. 
February 19.- — In the morning I returned the visit of the reve- 
rend Fathers of St. Francis. The Jerusalem Convent is a very good 
building, and sufficiently strong to keep out the natives in a time 
of tumult. The church is handsome, and has some tolerable pic- 
tures, but they are spoiled by having gold crowns inserted over the 
heads of the saints. A very reverend Father, with a silver beard, 
who had lived fifty years in the convent, but who was still lively 
and intelligent, shewed me, with great satisfaction, the figure of 
St. George, his patron saint. He was extremely delighted when I 
told him that my name was George, and advised me to recommend 
myself to that saint, night and morning. They all seemed gay and 
contented. The Superior was a man of sense and information. These 
are the Capuchins whom Bruce mentions, as he always does the 
clergy, with disapprobation. They have a good organ, and a library 
tolerably filled. It has been formed by an accumulation of the pri- 
vate collections of such Fathers as have died in the convent: they 
who remove, always take their property with them. This is the 
most ancient establishment of the Franciscans, and has a noble 
friend in the house of Rosetti. In the sacristy they shewed me the 
splendid habilliments, in which the Cardinal de Rohan formerly ce- 
lebrated high mass, and which were given to them by Mr. Macardle. 
They are entirely supported by charitable contributions. 
I next visited the Franciscan Fathers of the Propaganda, whom 
Mr. Bruce accuses of having instigated the assassination of Monsieur 
de Roule. He gives a minute detail of a transaction, which passed 
seventy years before he was in the country, but does not quote his 
authorities. This, at least, he should have done, when accusing a 
reverend body of so horrid a crime. They had heard of his accu- 
