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Tous les autres exemplairas originaux sont filmte en commenpant par la premiere page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustration st en terminant par la derniire page qui comporte une telle empreinte. Un des symboles suivants apparaTtra sur la derniire image de cheque microfiche, selon le caa: le symbols — ^ signifie "A SUIVRE", le symbols V signifie "FIN". Lee cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent Atre filmte d dee taux de reduction diff^rents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour Atre reproduit en un seul ciich«, il est film* d partir do I'angle sup*rinur gauche, de gauche k droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images n*cessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mithode. 12 3 4 5 6 {J".)^ i PlilESTS AND DEATH ]3ED DONATIONS. ■ „,c„„s resorted, ol,y the Ko,„„„C„..,„li„Cl«,gy,l„u„,„„ esi-edallv l,v ,1,.. 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But, unfortunately, in this eonntry, for reasons hu. too well known'to „, „ , tl ' ■s ■mposs.hle and „e only means left to persons having the n,i,fort„„e of heing so eireumsle T, ■s ,0 throw themselves on the generosity of the ,n„s, enlightened, liheral a.nl j.atriotie membe s of our eommumty end to seek from them th„, support without whieh they mus rema n t oTde under foot, despoiled of their means of suhsis.enee, and „„ already too p'werfn, eo7«i „ 't manently settled amongst „s, the inevitable result of whose poliey mus. be the ae urn la«on of wealth and nehes .can enormous extent, and the eontrol over aU other authorities in « e Zd Religion. Goveninicnt, and Law. ' With the view of cheeking so frightful n calamity and a. the same time being placed in a pos, ,„„ to estabhsh before the tribunals of the conntiy .heir claims .„ justice and , ro cc tal "h nghtfal I eirs to two e,.a.cs which, amongst many others, have been lately ingulfed by .,, "Bod have vvitb the advice of their friends, determined upon making the presen. . ipcal fo; ., ur, ot of eoUeCng. if possible, the amount necessary to enable them .o combat so potent an enemy One of those heirs is Mr. J. P. M. LECOUHT. of , his Citv, Architect and Civil Fiid lecr, whose ease is the following. Some time since his Uncle died in one of our eountr ar ! " eavmg a arge fortune, a part of which he had. for a long time previous, verv naturall, « n, would have come in for. having always been on terms of the warmest friendship with h IC le His surprise and astonishment may he better conceived than described when, on hearing „ J death, and proceeding to his residence, he there finds two priest, encamped, who with a .L frZ ami assurance .pule peculiar to the confraternity, very coolly inform him that his presence Aee .1 left h whole of his property, with a few trifling exceptions, to '■ Sa GV„,„„,r" the Ai* Bishop of Quebec Mr. Lecourt talk, to them about taking possession, which thev. of eont^e augh a telling him that «e, have possession and intend keeping it. He proti.sts,' which .hev' .reat with perfect eofitcmpt. and the am,ir ends by the Holy Corporation walking off with Bags .ml Boxes crammed with gold and silver coins, Bank Notes, and other valuables exeeedi„7fn value, he states , he sum of forty thousand pounds, to say nothing of the plate worth hundre s Of pounds, which hese espisers of earthly goods had taken .he precau.ion of carrving fff^l i: ti'eTiz: ' """• *'■ ■"•• '"'"'■'"" ''■"' '™' " ''■™'" «'•' "- ""■". •> . - r Next comes the case of the nephews of that amiable, talented, and universally beloved Clergy- man to whom the Irish Catholics of this Citv and the public of Canada are so deeply indebted for many of the blessings they now enjoy and lo whom even the Government owes a debt of gratitude for his independant and niiuily exertions at a time when the authority of Her ^Majesty was openly set at defiance and attempted to bo wrested from Her ; services which cannot soon be forgotten. It may, perhaps, be superfluous to observe that allusion is here made to the late Reverend Mr. McMahon. Every one at all acquainted with the estimation in which this pious and venerated minister ol Religion was held by persons of uU creeds and denominations and the "sources he had at command had he been disposed to hoarding up riches, in preference to alleviating the sufferings of his fellow creatures, must very well know that he had it in his power, had he been so inclined, to have amassed a large fortune. But ever careless of his own comforts, that wus not his desire. All he wished was not to leave behind him, in poverty or want, two little Boys, his nephews, residing with him for several yea/s prior to his death, adopted by him, having no one on earth but himself to look to for their subsistence, and whom, by adopting, he felt conscientiously bound to provide for. To this end he bequeaths, by codicil dated the IstofAjJril last, the interest on the sum of about £1000, he had laid by, together with such amount from off that sum as might be necessary to educate and maintain them until they could provide for themselves, leaving, be it well remembered, whatever would remain of that sum of £1000, after these boys had been settled in life, to the Archiepiscopal Corporation. This, however, the latter think is not enough for their share, and that ihey ought to gulp up every farthing of the money, interest a.ul capital, and let the orphans -shift for themselves. What do they do? On the 1st of October last, two days before the Reverend Gentleman's death, he having expired on the 3rd, and whilst he is in a state of mental and bodily weakness and sufiering occasioned by his not having taken any food for weeks before his death, and from other causes— sacerdotal emissaries are dispatched to his residence, in company with a couple of French Canadian Notaries, and he is there, privately, induced to put his signature to another codicil written out in french, revoking in Mo, the one of the 1st of April last and leaving the sum in question, interest and all, to our Holy friends, without any provision for his nephews, who have, by this barefaced piece of Archi-Episcopal chiselling, been deprived oftheir little all and left without a home or the means of subsistence— in which state they must remain, unless there is enough generosity left anion st the friends of the late Father McMahon and those persons to whom the present Appeal, is addressed, to rescue them from the outspread .laws of this gold gutted vulture. Donations in aid of both the above objects, addressed to Mr. J. P. M. LECOURT, Architect & Civil Engeneer, No. 29, Buade Street, Quebec, will be thankfully received and faith- fully applied. Quebec, February, 1852. .