gifts unto your children; how much more shall your heavenly "Father give the HOLY SPIRIT to them that ASK HIM." The office of that spirit we learn from John xiv. 26." The Com'forter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send "in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto "you."

Before

Reader;-you and I shall meet again "the great White Throne," where the secrets of all hearts shall be made manifest. Then it will be seen, whether in any strong denunciations of a system, which I believe to be subversive of the truth of the Gospel, dishonouring to Christ the only and all-sufficient Saviour, and destructive to the souls of men, I have been influenced by personal hostility to any human being. It will be known too, whether you have allowed prejudice so to sway you, and irritation of feeling at your views being controverted so to influence you, that you have flung my little book aside, without one fervent petition, one earnest cry, one heartfelt aspiration to the throne of Grace for that Heavenly teaching of the Spirit to which I have affectionately directed you-'till then farewell-may we both be found of Christ in peace, and not be ashamed before him at his appearing.

My Lord; if ought has escaped me derogatory to the honour I desire to give to your rank and position in society, disrespectful to your character personally, or hurtful to your feelings, (except so far as truth is necessarily unpalatable to such as see not its force and power,) I crave your forgiveness. I have desired to be respectful, while I was determined to be faithful.

And beg to subscribe myself,

Your Lordship's

Very obedient humble servant,

Youghal, March 8, 1843.

JOHN ALDWORTH.

POSTSCRIPT.

Since sending the foregoing sheets to press, it has been discovered that the authorised investigation has taken place. The subjects of the supposed divine favours were removed, on or about 2nd March, to a house, a few miles distant. On that and the following day a Commission, composed of several Roman Catholic Priests and Medical Gentlemen, examined into the affair. It was found that the acting was excellent, and the self-command of the principal personages wonderful. Some temporary difficulty was experienced in ascertaining from whence was procured THE BLOOD which smeared the forehead; but at length the Physicians prudently examined the interior of the mouth, and in each subject the lip or inside of the cheek was found to have been pierced, in a manner that permitted blood to be drawn, at will, by suction. It was rumoured that another examination took place at the Castle, on the 10th of March, but of this (which was stated to be for the satisfaction of Mr. Foley) I possess no authentic account.

It must strike every individual of common candour and honesty of mind as passing strange that no authorised account of this conclusive investigation has been given to the public. A veil of oblivion is sought to be drawn over it. A simple announcement from the Altar of the Romish Chapel, in Youghal, that it was found to be NO MIRACLE; and a caution against committing sin by speaking on the subject, is all that is known to have been done on the final authoritative detection of the abominable blasphemy. There has been no indignant disclaimer, no searching investigation into the Authors and Originators of the Imposture. Whether Clerical or Laical, Male or Female, is, as far as the public have been afforded proof, as much a mystery as ever. Surely it will be inferred, if the Church of Rome, acting through her Ministers, and under the sanction of her Hierarchy, were in earnest in endeavouring to avoid fellowship with the accursed thing, she would drag the principals forward whosoever they may be.-She would require the application of the salutary chastisements which the laws of the land inflict, or should inflict, on Blasphemers, Impostors, and Cheats.-Or she would make it evident that she at least had done her best to direct the indignant reprobation of her children against this outrage on Christianity and its Divine Author.

With regard to the present position of the chief actors in this exhibition, I have little information to give. Father Foley is reported to be ill, dangerously ill." Cir Aubert, P.R., O.M., T.M., D.D., lately Professor of DIVINITY at Marseilles," has withdrawn from my observation; whither I know not. Mary Roche, it is supposed, has returned to her paternal mansion, at Clashmore; and I am informed, continues in a quiet way, to edify the neighbours there, with the special favours that are Vouchsafed to her. What has become of the Magdalen Estatica, and of the preparatory subjects of miraculous influences, no one has thought of seriously enquiring.

The College still possesses Students! But-the number of inmates has diminished at least fourfold; and the difficulty, if not impossibility, of now obtaining ordination for its graduates, even in Scotland, is likely to interfere exceedingly with its prosperity; and if it long survives, it will be "a Miracle indeed" of credulity and folly. No popular ebullition such as that courted by Father Foley, (page 16) has taken place against the unconscious Castle; its stones still repose undisturbed each in its appointed bed; and it is to be expected that any such insensate and criminal exhibition of indignation would appear to "every man in the surrounding parishes," to be as unjust and lawless in the perpetration, as it was wild, reckless, and unprincipled in the suggestion, as a measure of revenge.

April 7th, 1843.

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