With such qualifications He would have been an ornament to his Country: That He possessed them, He had given proofs in his earliest infancy, and his Parents had beheld his dawning virtues with the fondest delight and admiration.

Unfortunately, while yet a Child He was deprived of those Parents.

He fell into the power of a Relation whose only wish about him was never to hear of him more; For that purpose He gave him in charge to his Friend, the former Superior of the Capuchins.

The Abbot, a very Monk, used all his endeavours to persuade the Boy that happiness existed not without the walls of a Convent.

He succeeded fully.