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Rh and houses of the Roman Catholics, &c., in London and Westminster: did publicly revile his majesty—say he was a Papist—had broken his coronation oath—forfeited his right to the crown, &c. Were all Highlanders, had bag-pipes playing, &c. Q. If this would not amount to treason; and who instigated them, but Lord G. Gordon? Mrs. Bond lives in Frith-street, Soho; Mrs. Ewen, in Charles Court.—A hatter, in Charles Court, Strand, had nine journeymen—hatters, who lodged in his house. They were all concerned in the riot, pulling down the Roman Catholic chapels and houses. They have all absconded, since the proclamations were published.

Mr. Morse, of Wardour-street, Soho, says he never had any conversation with any Papist priest, concerning his children, or with any other person: but Mr. Orvillier, Alias D'Orvillier, organist, to Birdstreet chapel told him he would get his children educated for nothing, but they must hear mass; for which reason he refused the offer, He never was offered any money; and believes Mr. Orvillier's offer was out of pure friendship; they being acquainted from their youth.

In the persecution of 1814, the seminary belonging to this mission was burnt to the ground. The students had only just time to make their escape, and the bishop of Zela, coadjutor to the prelate whose martyrdom has already been recorded, and also president of the seminary, had scarcely quitted the house when a troop of soldiers, headed by several mandarins, made their entrance. A beautiful mausoleum, erected to the memory of a deceased president, M. Hamel, was destroyed: the premises were ransacked and pillaged from one end to the other, and the soldiers, after having given themselves up to every excess in eating and drinking, concluded by setting fire to the house, which, in an instant, was reduced to ashes.

Whether or not the bishop of Zela succeeded Dr. Dufresse in the Apostolic Vicariat, does not appear; the annals of the association contain no record of his death; but a respectable French Missionary, M. Escodeca, is spoken of as being entrusted with the government of the mission, during the interval between the martyrdom of the bishop and the appointment of his successor by the Holy See.