grateful to the feelings of the parties; and many other inconveniences might arise, if young men should observe great temporal advantages conferred upon their fellow-students, whilst they were restricted to the humble walk of a subordinary Ministry. From these considerations, and conceiving that piety, learning, and subordination would be thereby essentially promoted, your Excellency's Memorialists are induced to undertake the establishment of proper places for the Education of the Clerical Youth of their Communion. Being advised by counsel that his Majesty's Royal license is necessary, in order legally to secure the funds which they may appropriate for that purpose, they humbly beg leave to solicit your Excellency's recommendation to our most gracious Sovereign that he will be pleased to grant his Royal license for the endowment of Academies or Seminaries for educating and preparing young persons to discharge the duties of Roman Catholic Clergymen in this kingdom, under Ecclesiastical Superiors of their own Communion. JOHN THOMAS TROY, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin. For myself, and on behalf of the Prelates of the Roman Catholic Communion in Ireland. ACCOUNTS OF THE CATHOLIC SEMINARY AT MAYNOOTH, FROM ITS INSTITUTION TO THE PRESENT TIME. ....... Paid for house and lands at Maynooth, with Paid the expenses of the establishment, con- Balance against the Seminary...... 6,510 0 10 State of the balance, amounting to 6,510 0 0 3,800 0 0 Not yet drawn from the Treasury 1,150 0 0 2,000 0 0 6,950 0 0 440 0 0 Balance in favour of the Seminary ... The Seminary has accounted before the Commissioners of Accounts for all their receipts and payments to March 25, 1798, which have been allowed to be correct. The accounts for the year ending the 25th of last month, 1799, are preparing for the Commissioners, and will be ready in a few days; these latter accounts have also been passed, and allowed to be correct. STATEMENT OF THE TRUSTEES RELATIVE TO THE STUDENTS AT MAYNOOTH COLLEGE. The Trustees of the Roman Catholic Seminary at Maynooth assembled in Dublin on Monday, April 22, 1799, having observed several late misrepresentations respecting that establishment in the public prints, and heard groundless reports reflecting on themselves, deem it expedient to publish the following statement: 1. That no order was received by them, or any person acting under them, to present their accounts until late in the present session; and that, upon receipt of an order to that effect, they were immediately furnished to the proper officer; a convincing proof that they were not neglected, as insinuated. 2. That the delay in presenting the aforesaid accounts to the Commissioners arose from the Trustees having conceived that, as the Parliamentary grants were appropriated to the building and to the establishment, except in one instance, they could not be satisfactorily closed before the completion of the former, which is not expected before next July. 3. That no part of the Parliamentary grants remains unaccounted for, as will appear on a reference to the Account Office. 4. That, conformably to the Act of Parliament establishing the Seminary, the constitutions of it were presented to his Excellency Earl Camden in the summer of 1795, and approved by him. 5. That scholars were admitted in the year 1795, and lodged in the house purchased from Mr. John Stoyte, and in others at Maynooth, where they were maintained six months before. the foundation-stone of the new building was laid by Earl Camden, in April, 1796. It has therefore been erroneously insinuated in the prints that the Trustees charged for the subsistence of scholars, before there was a house provided for their reception. 6. That, so far from promoting or abetting the late wicked Rebellion, the president, masters, and others of the Seminary, exerted themselves in suppressing it in the neighbourhood of Maynooth: Captain Irwin and officers of the Duke of York's Highlanders witnessed and commended their loyal exertions. 7. That well-grounded apprehensions had been entertained that the rebels intended to force such of the scholars as were not in orders to join them. To prevent this, they were sent to their respective homes, with the approbation of the LordLieutenant, who granted them passports and protections. 8. That the Ecclesiastical Trustees and other Roman Catholic prelates did likewise exert themselves, in the most public and decided manner, in their respective districts, in suppressing the Rebellion, as appears from their printed instructions and uniform conduct. Their clergy in general followed the example. It is to be lamented that it was not imitated by all of them. The following extract from the Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Trustees manifests their vigilance: Friday, May 11, 1798. Present, Lord Fingall in the Chair, Lord Gormanston, Doctor O'Reilly, Doctor Moylan, Doctor French, Lord Kenmare, Doctor Troy, Doctor Plunkett, Doctor Cruise. Resolved: The Trustees, considering with grief the unhappy spirit of political delirium which, after having marked its progress through some of the most cultivated parts of Christendom by the destruction of order, morality, and religion, appears to have made such strides in this kingdom as menace ruin to everything we should venerate and esteem as Christians and as men; and deeply sensible of the perfect opposition between every part of such pernicious system and the beneficent objects of the institution over which they preside, think it expedient to order that the president be directed to maintain the most vigilant inspection over the conduct of every individual admitted in any manner to a participation of the benefits of the College; that he be empowered, and he is hereby empowered, to punish, by expulsion, such person or persons as may, by their actions or discourse, support or abet any doctrines tending to subvert a due regard to the established authorities; and that the scholars and students be admonished that on those topics, and in these critical times, a conduct not only free from crime, but even from suspicion, ought to be expected from their gratitude, their attested allegiance, and sacred professional character. 9. That, as the Irish Roman Catholic clergy have lost their seminaries on the Continent, their ministry in this kingdom must shortly fail if candidates for it be not educated at home. To uphold the religion of a country is a measure of the highest political necessity, especially when the enemies of all social order have fatally succeeded in counteracting its salutary influence in every State which they have overturned or attempted to disturb. The seminary at Maynooth was instituted to preserve the succession of Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland. Two hundred scholars are very inadequate to that purpose. Four hundred were formerly educated for the Roman Catholic ministry in the dominions of France only, exclusive of others instructed in Italy, the Austrian Netherlands, and Spain and Portugal. 10. That the Trustees cannot dissemble their painful feelings on observing their principles and conduct daily misrepresented in the public prints. They consider the indiscriminate censure. and abuse of the Roman Catholic body as unseasonable and impolitic as it is certainly unjust and unmerited, and apprehend that the disaffected of all religious persuasions will avail |