593. 
the generous tolerance of the late Emprefs 
offered them an acceptable refuge. “This 
migration of the ex-jefuits to the Rufian 
empire has been accompanied, as in the 
military order of Malta, with a transfer 
of their religious allegiance from the hea 
of the Romith to the head of the Greek 
church; and of their civil allegiance from 
the Gallic to the Ruffian fovereign, to 
whofe cabinet they now commit the exe- 
-cution of that magnificent project of Uni- 
verfal- Monarchy (or Cefarchy), on which 
Be fo long rivetted the attention of the 
cabinet of Louis: XIV.-and to the fur- 
therance of which their writings and invi- 
fible exertions throughout Europe were for 
a long feries of years perfeveringly di- 
rected. ‘Their dexterity has favoured the 
acquiefcence of the men of Poland in the 
annexation of that country to the Ruffian’ 
empire: when the projeét-of occupying 
Scandinavia was entertained, their infu. 
ence over a fpreading fet was diftinGly 
employed in a fimilar manner: the very 
plen, and all the predifpofitions for oyer- 
ruling Perfia, are afcribed to the modern 
fucceffor of Krufiniki. 
The writings of the moft zealous pro- 
teftant theologians abound with. charges 
alfo of a religious confpiracy againft the 
whole body of ex-jefuit tS 5 which is repre- 
fented as a¢tuating with its intrigues the 
fower. order of {eéFaries throughout Eu- 
rope, by means both of writers, miffiona- 
ries, and lay-aflociates, in a direction 
tending to the accomplifhment of their 
imputed grand project of contolidating all 
Chriittendom under a new Popery, or Ca- 
tholic. Patriarchate; net. exactly Romi - 
indeed, but more defpotic, and more: in- 
fanely eredulous than tha which radiated 
from. Rome, and which is-now to cen- 
tralife at Mohilow, or Peterfburg, Among 
the ftranger charges. of this plate may be 
diftincuifhed ene” precife one of forging 

Le ee critiche in [chiaramento del vero fiato at- 
tuale dei Gefuiti nella Ruffia Bianca, and is writ- 
ten by a member of the order: though a par- 
tial, it isan authentic document, and defcribes 
the fefuits as forming a ftrong party in the 
Ruffian church, as pofleifed already of the 
epifcopal fee of Mohilow, and as courted with 
rival afliduity by Catherine and Prince Po- 
temkin. ‘The Court of Rome is mentioned 
with concealed bitternefs. The papal letters 
which placed the Roman Catholics of Ruffia 
under the fee of Mohilow, exprefsly excepted 
the Jefuits, as if to recognife their independ- 
~ ence of the Weftern Church. | For the gene- 
val character of their religious fpirit, confult 
a paper ** On the heart of Jefus,” in the 
Varieties of Literature, I. 513. 
Modern Fefuitifin. 
: [Sere 
writings in the name of Swedenbore 
‘many of whofe works. are faid to be i 
lated from Latin originals which have not 
been-difcovered, and many of whofe Latin 
works are faid firit to have Sade nw at 
Strafburg, by the obftetric care of an abbé 
Pernetti. The do&rine of anEvil Spirit, 
Borrowed from the Manieheans, and the 
dogtrine of the Death of God, borrowed 
from the Patripaffans, were By all means 
to be inculcated as. effentiaf to vital reli- 
gion. Works of the Atexandrian Pla- 
tonitts, books of aftrolosy, of oneirosri- 
ticilim, of medical magic, of divination 
by the expofition of feri ature, of nerteto- 
logy (os ghoft-lore), and of 
witchcraft, have been reprinted in cheap 
forms, ar gratuitoufly circulated in every 
European met ropolis. Diftributions hays 
been made among jew-pedlars of engraved 
and waxen fimulacres of faints, with the 
view, it is. pretended, of introducing — 
among proteftants a piety of parade, a 
talte ioe ime ge- worlhitps and a- love of 
holy idclatry. Some of thefe feed-corns 
of {uperftition, it is expected, muft ftrike 
root; and the culture of fuch as are beft 
adapted to the peculiar ignorance of each 
country, is recommended to the induft 
of itinerantsmiflionaries. All -thefe and 
fimilar phenomena, many of which have 
occurred even in our own. country, are 
afcribed to the fyitematic management of 
the ex-jefuits, to an all-embracing confe- 
deracy; and {uch of the Proteftant * 
clergy as favour mylticifm and fanaticifm, 
are accufed ot being fecretly iworn into 
this fraternity of darknefs, of crypto- 
profelytifm, crypto-catholicifm, and eryp- 
to-jefuitifm ; of herefy againft ee and 
{chifm again(t truth. . This was remark- 
ably the cafe with the fociety (Gefellfchaji 
won Beforderung reiner Lebre) for pro- 
moting Chrifian do&trine. Such affocia- 
tions are well adapted to hellenize the pro- 
teftant churches. ~ 
To the confidence of the Hiener claffes 
the ex-jefuits make their advances by « 
nouncing on their part multitudinous con- 
{piracies and herefies. Their obje& 
being evety where to obtain the direCtion 
of the eftablifhed magiftracy, -and of the 
de- 

* See the curious trial of Dr. Stark, printed _ 
under the title &xt/cheidung des &. k. Gerichts 
zu Berlin in Sachen Dr. Stark, kia@ger wider 
Gedike und Bieter. He profecuted the review- 
ers. of his book. Ueber Crypto- Catholic ifmus, 
1787, for calumnioufly imputing to him con- 
cert with the Ex-jefuits, and was nonfuited. 
He then publifhed an Aipolog:/mos 1790, which © 
was an{wered by Bardt, 
eftablithed 
