looked upon Mr. O'Callaghan's advice as the safest with regard to eternity, and that, therefore, he could not bring himself to make any alteration in the Will.' Thus he died. The souls of the just are in the hands of God; and the torments of death shall not touch them; in the sight of the unwise, they seemed to die; and their departure was taken for misery; but they are in peace; and though in the sight of man they suffered torments, their hope is full of immortality. He was taken away lest wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul: WISD. iii. and iv. Yes, young FITZPATRICK was snatched away from a land of misery, to receive in the land of the living, the reward of his piety and justice. His father also declared, that he would soon restore it all to the owners, and that both he and his family were extremely sorry for the injustice that was done unto Mr. O'Callaghan.' Behold a pious, just family, who are a shining light to mankind. What a triumph they have gained for the truth! May Providence grant to the deceased young man, everlasting bliss in heaven; and pour blessings here, and glory hereafter upon the whole family. 6 Behold me now placed in a singular sphere; suspended from my Clerical functions for no other crime, but for opposing the practice of usury, or the lending money for gain sake-a practice that had been all along, and that is still, condemned by the Catholic Church. What a falling off! When the Bishop, who is bound by a solemn oath, and by every other sacred tie to defend the Catholic faith and doctrine, now turns about to oppose and destroy it ; when he deals out, with the connivance of all the Irish Prelates, censures and penalties against me for having faithfully adhered to the laws and practice of the Catholic Church, what will be the result; if they be now in the ninteenth century, tired of the old path, what path or law will they substitute? That the Prelate impugned the known truth and the dictates of his conscience, is evident from the trepidation which immediately seized him, and from his anxiety that I would resume the ministry under condition of holding silence on the question; for Mr. Molony offered offi cially, as might be presumed, on the very day of the suspension that I should be reinstated, if I would conform to the prevailing practice. The same offer was made by others also. My condition now is far from being enviable, opposed upon a vital question to all whom it should be my anxious wish to revere and obey-to the Bishop and all my Clerical Brethren, with the exception of a few sages, who were like the setting sun, descending in the west. No friend or relative to console or relieve; my parents long since gone by. The clouds now thickening on all sides, and diffidence in self-judgment, would have involved me into the gulf of error, had not God whose right hand upheld St. Peter in the sea, kep me up also. The grief, and fear, and vexation that constantly haunted my leisure hours, vanished into air the very instant I would begin a journey, or make an essay against usury. And again the same merciful God, who has said, I will not forsake nor abandon you, made, some how or other, provision for all my privations and difficulties. From reluctance to yield at this stage of the affair, contrary to the dictates of my conscience, and contrary to the light which the Holy Ghost seemed to have bestowed upon me, I resolved to consult the learned in foreign countries; I called upon the Bishop for Dismissorial Letters, which he granted, as follows: Nos, Gulielmus Coppinger, Dei et Apostolicæ Sedis gratia, Episcopus Cloynensis et Rossensis, dilecto filio nostro Jeremiæ O'Callaghan, salutem. Cum ex parte tua nobis expositum fuerit te quibusdam de causis motum, direlictă nostrâ Diocesi, in aliam transire velle, ibique commorari; ut hoc licite valeas licentiam presentibus hisce litteris concedimus; ac insuper tes tamur te nostræ Diocesis Cloynensis presbyterum esse, bonæ conversationis, et famæ, nullo excommunicationis aliusve censuræ, quoad sciam, vinculo innodatum, quominus munere tuo sacerdotali licite fungi valeas. Datum, Cova, hac 7a die Octobris, A. D. 1819. GULIELMUS COPPINGER, We, William Coppinger, by the grace of God and of the Holy See, Bishop of Cloyne and Ross, to our beloved Son Jeremiah O'Callaghan, benediction. 'Whereas it has been on your part intimated unto us, that you, being moved by certain causes, desire to leave our diocese and to pass into another, and there to remain; that you may be enabled so to do canonically, we do by the present letter grant licence, and moreover we testify that you are a Priest of our diocese of Cloyne, of good fame and conversation, under no excommunication or other censure that I know of; but that you may discharge your sacerdotal functions." Signed as above. What consistency! A Priest of good fame and conversation, and free from canonical censures is fit to discharge the Clerical functions any where but in the diocese of Cloyne and Ross. O fortunate diocese, what must be the character of your clergy? Now furnished with a travelling licence, or Dismissorial Letters, or, as they call it, an Exeat, I turned my thoughts upon France. The SS Louis, Denies, Martins, and Hilaries rose up to my gladdened imagination, like the morning star on yonder sky darting the heavenly rays through the sable cloud. No time is lost in preparing for the voyage. £50 are brought in by the sale of my goods and chattels,-horse and furniture. Thus equipped for the long journey I took a passage in Cork for two guineas and a half, in a schooner laden with butter for Southampton, England, and cleared the harbor's mouth before a fair and very fresh breeze, in the middle of October, at 10, P. M. 6 As I appeared on deck in the morning, the barge worked on through the foaming billows before the breeze that freshened more and more. The deep that was speckled the whole day with white sails bearing for different ports on the English and Irish coasts, rolled mountains high. And at midnight the watch cries out, The lights of Scilly;' which is a cluster of islands or rocks on the south west point of England; most dangerous to the midnight navigators. Whilst the master sat in the little cabin tracing our course on the chart, a heavy sea broke the top mast and boom, and rendered the barge unmanageable. I sprung out of the berth to see the state of affairs upon deck. How appalling the sight to : a juvenile sailor! The vessel drifting, like a heavy log, before a strong gale towards the rocks right a head: staves, spikes, barrels, bulwarks, washed by the successive waves into the deep; the crew lashed here and there, to the mast or helm; the canvass flying at random. The ghastly rocks close by,' they said, will soon dash us to pieces.' But kind Providence decreed otherwise the fair wind wafted us some how safely through the rocks, for when I reappeared in the morning upon deck we were some miles beyond them, close to the Lands End, moving slowly along the smooth surface, before a fair and gentle breeze, under a calm and clear sky. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who conforted us in our tribulation. Meanwhile the boy is busy at the flint and tinder, pans, cups and saucers, preparatory to breakfast; the Captain with his three men hauling down the tattered sails and attaching new ones to the topless mast; the sickly craft waddles on her course. Now the wind, that had been fair ever since our departure from Cork, veers to the north east; and after having struggled against tide and weather for forty eight hours more we put into Plymouth in distress on the evening of the fourth day. As the Schooner was hauled into dock to undergo a thorough repair, I settled with the Captain, and took the next coach for Southampton. There I took the packet, and landed in Havre de Grace on All Saints, where I entered the Churches to offer the sacrifice of thanksgiving to God; afterwards I coached to Paris, and settled in the College of Picpus.' Fourteen years after,' says the Apostle, GAL. ii. 'I went up again to Jerusalem to communicate to them the Gospel, which I preached among the gentiles, but apart to them who seemed to be something, lest perhaps I should run or have ran in vain.' So did I go up again to Paris, 'and imparted to them who were deemed learned, the doctrine which I preached in Ireland, for fear I should run or have ran in vain. And lo, usury for which I had left house, brethren, sisters, friends and relatives, braved the stormy seas, and mingled with strange people, fell under discussion, in three weeks after I entered that College, and received, to my great joy, the most unqualified repro bation; being styled rapine, mortal sin, heresy, and so forth. Having celebrated mass while in that Seminary and afterwards for three months in the Church of St. Stephen in the city, I was invited by the Arch-bishop of Soissons, seventy miles off, to go and undertake the mission. Arrived in Soissons on St. Patrick's day, I was received by the clergy with brotherly affection and placed in the Diocesan School under the care of two talented Ecclesiastics-the one to fit me in Church singing, and the other, in the French language, for the mission; which they expected to accomplish in a very short time. But when I reflected on the dreadful state of religion in the same Archdiocese, where there were no less than two hundred Congregations without any one pastor; and on the inadequacy of the native clergy, with their superior talents, knowledge of the language, and acquaintance with the manners of the people, to stem the torrent of infidelity; and, on the other hand, when I saw myself devoid of all these advantages, I gave up my views on the French mission. Having learned from the clergy in Paris that interest was condemned in almost all the Provinces, I now find that that is the case with regard to Soissons, for although the harvest was great and the laborers few, no foreign priest would be entrusted with the care of souls who would not first profess to condemn interest or increase of all sorts. My sentiments on the disputed question, being thus confirmed and the object of my journey, I thought, fully attained, my thoughts turned once more upon my native Erin which intention I unfolded to the Prelate and his Dignitaries, packed up my baggage, and began to move by Laon, St. Quentin, Douay, St. Omer, Calais, and London, landing about the middle of April 1820, in Cork. Without loss of time, I visited the Bishop, and related how almost all of France was on my side of the question, and requested to be restored. However he, with apparent disregard to their doctrine and practice renewed his wonted offer of reinstating me on condition of giving him a written promise of observing silence on the |