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Bardstown, Ky. July Gth, 183G. Rev. N. L. Rice.

In answer to your inquiry respecting my having requested the President or Superior of St. Mary's Seminary, to educate James Noland a Catholic, or that it was the dying request of his mother that he should be raised a Catholic, I can say, that I never made any such request of the Superior; nor did I ever hear from any source that it was his mother's dying request to have him educated a Catholic. He was taken by my mother from the Orphan Asylum, at Natchez   his parents having both died with the yellow fever, a year or two previous.

Yours respectfully,

A. J. LOWRY.

3. This Mr. Leeouais the other day proposed to Mr. Lowry the following Jesuitical trick: Mr. Lowry had certified that he gave the Superior no directions to baptize James. " This is all true, said the Jesuit; but you can now certify, that though you did not so direct the Superior, who was from home, you did direct me to tell him! We give the substance, not the words. Can we put confidence in such a man? This is Jesuitism to the life? ;._

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false. Mr. Legouais says, the communication of Mr. Lowry 'left on my mind the strongest conviction   1st That J, Noland was born of Catholic parents; 2d That he was not baptized," &c. Mr. Minnis states, that it is not known whether his parents were or were not Roman Catholics. How, then, could Mr. Lowry have told Legouais that they were?   But even supposing it probable