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placed themselves under Father de Va * rin , formerly a colonel in the regiment of Conde * , in order to re-establish the Society of Jesus under the empire of Napoleon . In the number of these was Father Gury ; he was employed in the establishment formed in the South , and had the mortification to be left in obscurity during the reign of Father de Varin . When the French Jesuits were
united to those of Russia , Father Gury was appointed to succeed him . He was called to Paris and put at the head of the Jesuits of Mont Rouge , over whom he presided during ten years . " If there be any thing strange in France it is certainly this religious house of Mont Rouge . Whilst a king of France may not be able to find in his kingdom
men freely devoted to his service , there is one man not far from the palace of the Bourbons , at the gates of the capital of France , and in the bosom of the most generous and civilized of nations , — a man without arms , without power , without money , without rauk , without reputation , and without glory , —who rules at
his pleasure those who would extend his empire throughout the provinces . His will , uay , even his look , cau raise a thousand hands armed with poignards to assassinate princes and destroy emperors . During ten years the provinces were filled with his formidable slaves , and every day he sends forth others of a more terrific character .
* ' In an obscure apartment of Mont Rouge , the novices , every day of the week , follow in the train of Father Gury to the feet of the statues of Ignatius and Francis Xavier , to learn the mysteries of the society . Here every uovice is obliged to proclaim all the faults and conversations of his associates : every novice in his turn , upon his knees , before the
statues of his founders , is required to declare his tastes , his inclinations , hia defects , his character , and his disposition as to the company . They all swear to sacrifice their personal wibhes to the good of the society , to spare no labours to exterminate the race of the wicked , and to place at the feet of their Father
Ignatius , all the crowns of the earth . They proceed , with their Father Master , to cast at their feet the vanities of the world , represented by a king invested with his regal ornaments , surrounded by broken sceptres , shattered crowns , and ruined thrones . All around , the nations of the world are seen loaded with chains , typified by three animals , the bull , the lion , and the eagle , and by a sublime
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372 Critical Notices ,
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without special permission from the Pa * ther Provincial . The privileged orders are the Professed , who are at the head of the order , aud derive their name from having sworn fo be obedient in all things to the commands of the Pope ; the Cowfyutors Formes , who have sworn to assist the Professed , and are their agents ; the Scholars , who may obtain the highest ranks ; and the temporal Coadjutors , who are employed in the meanest offices , and frequently undertake the most important
negociations . In the body of the work the author aims at placing before the public view a series of portraits of the leading members of the society , with whose characteristic lineaments he seems to be perfectly familiar . The likenesses are sketched with great freedom and spirit , and have all the appearance of being true to nature . The colouring is said to be , in some instances , overcharged , but
the leading features are nevertheless allowed to be correctly drawn . Our limits do not allow of our presenting many of them to our readers ; we shall content ourselves with selecting one as a specimen , referring them for the restr to the book itself . As the author has attached the name to the portraits , we shall willingly do the same , and therefore announce that the person represented is Gury , of Franche-Comte " ( p . 79 ) .
" During the Revolution he was a soldier , priest , missionary , and wished to be a Jesuit . He joined the Ex-Jesuits who had united themselves under the severe regime of Paccanari . His zeal , his fanaticism , and his unconquerable firmness , caused him to be placed at the head of the noviciate established at Rome . Here he distinguished himself by a despotism even more dreadful than that of his master . He exacted from his
novices a ready , blind , and entire obedience . At his command they would throw themselves from the summit of the Capitol , or into the Tiber , just as , at the voice of the Old Man of the Mountains , his miserable slaves would cast themselves from the summits of
precipices to evince how far they could carry their submission . He imitated this tyrant in the measures he pursued . Pleasure , plenty , perpetual gratification , the empire of the world , were promised to them if fyey were submissive to the will of their superior .
" Owing to the fanaticism of Paccanari , the Fathers of the Faith quitted his livery : some retired to Russia , under the orders of Father Brosossoski . the rest
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1827, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1796/page/60/
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