1799:] : 
eftablihed clergy, in order to approxi- 
mate the government and religion to their 
own feudal defpotifin and Greek hyper- 
orthodoxy, they have contrived two regu- 
Jar and p perpetual alarms or cries of dan- 
ger, t 
for the church, which they renew every 
where. Before the magiftrate,’ they im- 
peach jacobinifm ; and before the. prieft, 
wnfidelity. This has been their train of 
practice for two or three centuries of their 
exiftence, the immemorial order of their 
order. 
‘© There is in China, (fays ee Se- 
medo) a horrid fect called Pee-lien-kia, 
‘always dilpofed to rebellion. This feé& 
confiftts of people who enter into a conte- 
deracy to overtwn the efablifhed govern- 
ment; for which’ purpofe, with certain 
- magical rites, they eleé&t an emperor out 
of their number, diftribute among them- 
felves the principal emp sloyments | of the 
ftate, mark out certain families for. de- 
ftruction, and lie conceated till fome in- 
furrestion of the people affords an oppor- 
tunity of putting themfelves at their head. 
Chita on account of its vaft extent, pro- 
digious populoufnels, and frequency of 
fami mes, is very liable to {editiens, which 
have often produced entire revolutions in 
the ftate. Now as in thefe revolutions it 
has frequently happened that fome of the 
very dregs of the people have been raifed 
to the throne, this encourages the ring- 
leaders to alpire to the empire.”’ Who 
would not fuppofe there had been a French 
Revolution in China? 
Father Merfenne again, in 1523, attri- 
buted 50,000 atheifts to the city of Paris, 
and printed off a lift in feven pages of 
their illuminees or leaders ; a catalogue 
fo refpeétable, that it was thought dan- 
gerous by the magiftrate, and was fup- 
preffed by authority i in all but the earlier 
copies of the Qua/liones in Genefin. Has 
opinion then receded in our own times? - 
As remedies for the political danger, 
the jefuitical writers have every where in- 
dicated the ufe of {pies, of arbitrary im- 
prifonment, of unlimited Jonely feclufion, 
.of the torture, of numerous and vague 
treafon laws, and have tus brought po- 
litical conttitutions nearer to their idea of 
‘a *® perfect covernment, or perfect defpo- 
¢ifm. As refources for theological con- 

* The chara€teriftic feature of the Ruffian 
conititution is the fubftitution of military 
yank, perturbable at the will of the prince, 
‘to hereditary or profeffional diftinétion, A> 
phyfician or a protefior muft be appointed cap- 
tain or colonel to have a ftation in {ociety. 
Modern Yofuitifin 
the one for the ftate, and the other- 
599 
verfion, they, or their partifans, have de- 
fended or practifed book-cenfure, focial’ 
excommunication, inquifiterial -perquifi- 
tion, flanderous denunciation, and houfe- 
razing. Wor are there no fymptoms of a 
concert being really maintained through- 
out Europe by a powerful party, ‘aftiliated 
to diffule thefe alarms, and to ground on 
them thefe or analogous oppreffions. 
I am, however, ice from thinking that 
the confederacy of anti-jacobins (a “party 
founded in this country, as elfewhere, by 
a foreign Jefuit) has ever been quite fo 
formal as the Berlin alarmifts pretend 5 or 
will ever, knowingly, be quite fo docile 
to diftant authority in weftern, as it may 
have been in eaftern Europe. Clubs, pri- 
vate clubs of this defcription may exift in 
moft large towns; they may tran{mit to 
a metropolitan centre fecret obfervations 
on men and manners; they may regard mo- 
narchy as the only effential {tem of a wife 
conftitution; their prefidents, or archi- 
mandrites,, may be obfcurely appointed 
and invifibly indemnified by the central 
fynod of emanation; a board of public 
inftruétion may be connected with this 
laient fynod, iffuing its hue and cry with 
nenftrual, hebdomadal, or ephemeral in- 
ane ae it may, arrogate a monopoly of 
the prefs; thefe fophifticated manufacto- 
ries of public opinion may find interpre- 
ters of different nations a neceflary ap- 
pendage, and, through them, may tranf- 
mit.to and receive from the other Euro= 
pean fynods a variety of intelligence, art- 
fully ting&tured with the eflential oil of 
Loyolifin—but that thefe foreign affiftants 
are, in faét, the cryptarchs. of fuch fy- 
nods ; that thet cryptarchs are all Jefuits 
in avowed or concealed fubferviency to 
the immortal order; that this orderis ga- 
verned by a defcending oligarchy, the 
over-ruling * fynod or diet deputing af- 
feflors to the fubordinate fynods or die- 
tines; that thefe imperious imperialifts are 
fo effeStually ferved as to befpeak at the 
fame time a law againft.their + antagonifts 
in courts not allied, and to obtain im-_ 
plicit obedience—fuch pofitions would 
furely appear to be mere exaggerations 
of difiembled apprehenfion or vulgar cre- 

* The original monarchial conftitution 
of the Jefuits, which is afcribed to Lainez, is 
faid to have ceafed with Riccr (concerning 
whom fee Varieties of Literature, 1. 111.), 
and re have become oligarchic. 
- The magiftrate interfered~with the af- 
femblies of the Free-mafons in Ruflia, in - 
1797; in Prusha, n.17983 and in Great 
Byitain, in 1799. - 
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