[55] See the English edition of his work, called "A Relation of the Missions of Paraguay," pages 113, 181, _et passim_. [56] M. Lally Tolendal. [57] See the Life prefixed to his Sermons. [58] Bausset's Life of Fenelon, vol. i, page 21, &c. [59] Appendix, No. II. [60] See the Institute, vol. ii, p. 74. [61] Juan and Ulloa, Vol. II. chap. xv, p. 179 and 180. [62] Juan and Ulloa, Vol. II, chap. xv, p. 182 and 184. [63] See Memoirs of the Ministry of Carvalho, Marquis de Pombal. [64] Barruel's _Histoire du Clergé pendant la Revolution Françoise_, page 152. [65] Infinite are the false reports, made by interested writers, of the missions of South America. The solid refutation of them may be found in many Spanish works, but more agreeably in the _Histoire du Paraguay_ of Charlevoix, the voyage of Juan and Ulloa, and the _Cristianesimo Felice_ of Muratori, already cited. [66] See vol. i, page 58. [67] In 1768, when the Jesuit missionaries from Spanish America arrived at Cadiz, a number of them, natives of northern countries, were shipped off to Ostend, to make their way to their respective homes. Their poor garments were almost worn to rags. A new hat was given to each, with a very small pittance in money, proportioned to the distance to which he was to travel. Those, who came from California, reported, that, before they were brought away from Mexico, the priests, who had been sent into California, to take their abandoned stations, returned in the ship, in which they had been sent out, refusing, one and all, to dwell in such a country. [68] De dign. et aug. Scient. I. 7. [69] It was a law of the society, with which the general could not dispense, that no rewards or alms were to be demanded or accepted, whereby the spiritual and literary duties of the institute might seem to be recompensed. Even the usual honorary retributions, attached to spiritual functions, and regulated by the canons, were excluded. Hence, when clergymen of other descriptions had preached a course of sermons in royal chapels, they were usually, and very justly, complimented with some considerable benefice, frequently a mitre: when Jesuits had performed the same duty with success, they were thanked in the king's name, and informed, that his majesty would be glad to hear them another year. Perhaps this law of the Jesuits, and their renunciation of church dignities by vow, were among the motives, which engaged princes to employ them so much in spiritual concerns. [70] Cardinal de Maury's "Eloge de M. l'Abbe Radonvilliers, prononcé le 7 Mai, 1807." [71] See cardinal de Maury's "Essai sur l'Eloquence, Panegyriques, Eloges, &c." vol. ii, printed at Paris, 1810. [72] They are found, principally, in the fourth part of their "Constitutions," in the rules of provincials, rectors, prefects of schools, masters, and scholastics, and in their _Ratio Studiorum_.