make  Europeans  out  of  the  Chinese,  and  this  intention  he  must
strenuously  oppose."

Thus  was  China  henceforth  left  to  the  Jesuits  alone,  and  they
maintained  themselves  there  up  to  modem  times;  for  instance,
JFather  Hallerstein,  a  Suahian,  was  still  active  in  Pekin  in  the
year  1780,  as  Mandarin  and  President  of  the  great  Mathematical
Tribunal.  One  can  now  well  imagine  that  the  sons  of  Loyola,
by  their  conduct  in  China,  made  deadly  enemies  of  the  Domini-
cans and  Capuchins,  and  it  is  equally  self-evident  that  the  latter
took  hold  of  every  opportunity  to  injure  the  Order  of  Jesus  and
its  godless  un-Christian  conduct,  as  well  as  to  attack  with  the
most  heartfelt  satisfaction  its  immeasurable  violence  in  sub-
jugating the  whole  world.  They  succeeded,  too,  in  their  object
throughout  a  great  part  of  Christendom,  and  the  Jesuits  began
to  be  regarded  as  people  who  hunted  to  death  everyone  standing
in  the  way  of  their  missions,  or  daring  to  oppose  them  in  any
respect.  The  Fathers  defended  themselves,  indeed,  in  the
warmest  manner  against  any  such  insinuation,  or,  as  they  ex-
pressed it,  calumny  ;  but  with  every  ship  that  arrived  from  Asia,
new  facts  became  known  which  were  fully  confirmed  by  the
affirmations  of  the  Dominicans  and  Capuchins;  and,  lastly,  pre-
■cisely  the  same  thing  was  ascertained  respecting  their  missions
in  America.  Indeed,  the  cruelty  with  which  they  proceeded
against  Bishops  Cardenas  and  Palafox,  in  the  New  World,  sur-
passed even  their  proved  villainy  in  the  struggle  with  Cardinal
Tourman,  and  I  cannot  do  better  than  give  a  short  description
of  these  two  affairs,  at  least.
