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A Letter from the R. C. Metropolitan Prelates of Ireland, to Sir J. C. Hippisley, dated Dublin, 4th December, 1808. Letter from the R. C. Prelates of Scotland, to Sir J. C. Hippisley, dated 26th August, 1801. . 118 Extract of a Circular Letter from the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, to the R. C. Prelates of Great Britain and Ireland, dated 7th February, 1795. 119 Letter from the Secretary to the Congregation of State, dated 26th May, 1795. 120 Extracts of Speeches of Sir J. C. H. on the subject of the Catholic Claims, from 1805 to 1812 inclusive. 126 Extracts of Speeches, &c. of the late Bishops of Llandaff, Elfin, St. Asaph, and of the Bishop of Norwich. 130

Letter to Cardinal Litta.

Copy of a Licence obtained from Cardinal Severoli, when Nuncio at Vienna, for the establishment of the Jesuits in Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies.

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Of the Claims of Alien R. C. Prelates to the exercise of Spiritual Jurisdiction within the British Colonies, and of the proceedings of Bishop Hussey at Madrid and at Paris.

[Note] 20

Extracts from the Appendix of the Report of the Select Committee of 24th June, 1816, respecting the regulations of Pontifical Rescripts in Tuscany.

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of the Municipal Law of the Austrian Empire, respecting Pontifical Rescripts.

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Note respecting an Address presented to H. H. P. Pius VII. in favor of the College at Stonyhurst.

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A Note of the Conference between Mr. Secretary Peel and Mr. Kenney, Principal of the College at Castle Browne, in Ireland, as stated by Mr. Peel in Parliament.

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Of the Conduct of several of the Continental States respecting the proceedings of the Society of Jesuits, subsequent to the date of the Pontifical Bull for the Revival of the Order. . 34 Of Mr. Butler's Historical Memoirs of the Church of France, in relation to the Society of Jesuits.

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References to the Opinions of the Spanish Bishops, Melchior

Cano, and Palafox, and also of Archbishop Browne of Dublin, respecting the Society of Jesuits.. 39, &c. Extracts from Supplementary Papers printed by both Houses of Parliament, (27th March, 1818,) respecting the Jesuits in various States of Europe.

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Copy of the Address presented to H. H. P. Pius VII. in favour of the College of Stonyhurst.. . . 50 Notice taken by Mr. Butler, in His "Historical Memoirs" of Sir John Hippisley's Parliamentary Conduct respecting the Catholic Claims. .

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Copy of a Note annexed to the Report of Sir J. C. H.'s Speech introductory of his Motion for a Select Committee, on the 11th of May, 1813, with Extracts of the Resolutions of the R. C. Prelates,-Aggregate Meetings in Ireland, &c. &c.

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62

Extracts of Speeches of Viscount Castlereagh, the Right Hon. George Canning, the Right Hon. H. Grattan, &c. respecting the Report of the Select Committee. Anomalies of the Law respecting the State of the Roman Catholics in several parts of the United Kingdom. . . . . 64 A Note respecting the concession of the Representative Franchise to Roman Catholics, the mode of regulating Elections, in the event such a concession took place. . . 67 Extract from a Letter of Bishop Milner respecting the R. C. Bill of 1813. .

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ERRATA.

NOTES TO THE LETTER OF CARDINAL LITTA.

Page 20, line last, for constitution read regulations.

31, line 24, for does not disavow read avowed.

55, line 8, for preparatory read prefatory.

70, line 27, for the cause assigned, read that cause was assigned72, line 9, dele, and the Colonies.

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To the Lord Viscount Castlereagh, K. G. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, &c. &c. &c. &c. -London.

Rome, April 28, 1818.

MY LORD;

THE circumstances which led to the accompanying "Statement of Facts," will, I trust, justify both its original destination, and its present transmission to your Lordship-as the head of that department of the State, in which the "Inquiry,' preceding the "Report" adverted to in the following pages-had originated.

The confidence reposed in me, at that period, by your Lordship, and likewise by Earl Bathurst, when charged with the Seals of the Foreign Department, during your Lordship's absence from England, has a natural claim to my defence of a measure, which had been adopted under such high official authority, and sanctioned by a vote of Parliament.

The reiterated and gross misrepresentations, especially directed to excite prejudice and alarm in the minds of the Sovereign Pontiff and his Ministers, and to indispose the great mass of the Catholic population of the United Kingdom, against the government of the state, and the principles of the constitution, will, I trust, also be considered as a sufficient inducement to shield this proceeding from the imputation of an unwarrantable and officious interposition.

The short interval allowed me to avail myself of the despatch of a French courier, must serve me as some apology for transmitting the Papers in a state, which, from their bulk, I have no present means to improve. I forward them, under a flying seal, to His Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, and in any respect in which they can be considered of utility, they are necessarily subjected to your Lordship's disposition.

I have the honour to be,

With great respect,

MY LORD,

Your Lordship's most obedient Servant,

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A STATEMENT OF FACTS presented to the Sovereign Pontiff P. Pius VII.

IN compliance with the desire expressed by His Holiness, Sir J. C. Hippisley thinks it his duty to state, distinctly, the substance of his communications at the audience with which he was recently honoured at the palace of the Quirinal.

When Sir J. H. presumed to request that His Excellency Monsignor Riario Sforza, Maestro di Camera to His Holiness, might be present during this audience, he could not but anticipate misconstruction and perversion on the part of those, who, for such a length of time, had been active in misleading their fellow-subjects, by fictions and calumnies of the grossest imposture. On such an occasion, those who had not hesitated to libel, at once, the government of their own country and that of His Holiness, would be forward to calumniate