case certainly was pitiable: I related all the events of my life,
and the purport of my journey; conjured him to save Schell, who was
unable to proceed further, and whose wounds grew daily worse; and
prayed him to entertain him at the convent till I should have been
to my mother, have obtained money, and returned to Thorn, when I
would certainly repay him whatever expense he might have been at,
with thanks and gratitude.

Never shall I forget the haughty insolence of this priest. Scarcely
would he listen to my humble request; thou'd and interrupted me
continually, to tell me, "Be brief, I have more pressing affairs
than thine." In fine, I was turned away without obtaining the least
aid; and here I was first taught jesuitical pride; God help the poor
and honest man who shall need the assistance of Jesuits! They, like
all other monks, are seared to every sentiment of human pity, and
commiserate the distressed by taunts and irony.

Four times in my life I have sought assistance and advice from
convents, and am convinced it is the duty of every honest man to aid
in erasing them from the face of the earth.

They succour rascals and murderers, that their power may be idolised
by the ignorant, and ostentatiously exert itself to impede the
course of law and justice; but in vain do the poor and needy
virtuous apply to them for help.

The reader will pardon my native hatred of hypocrisy and falsehood,
especially when he hears I have to thank the Jesuits for the loss of
all my great Hungarian estates. Father Kampmuller, the bosom friend
of the Count Grashalkowitz, was confessor to the court of Vienna,