Since Brute's letter to Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget they have heard of Brute's return from France. David intended to write several times. Brute told him of the return of Rogers by the same boat, and he wished he had accompanied him to Kentucky. Flaget ordained at the Advent ember days one deacon two subdeacons and eight in minor orders and in tonsure. On Saturday the feast of St. Joseph he will ordain a deacon and a subdeacon Apollinaire Alement They have at the seminary a priest who has not finished his theology 4 deacons, 3 subdeacons. He does not count Spalding who remains as he was and twelve in minor orders. The lettle seminary has a dozen of aspirants. The sisters number 52 of whome more than half are scattered in six establishments. They have 6 at the Grand seminary for laundry and cooking etc. Father Derogaud has as many at the little seminary. 3 teach in Bardstown as is Brute they are engaged in building a college. Two wings are up and they are building the body of the building but they are not getting the help they planned. They have lost the Mother at the Nazareth convent. She left more debts than David suspected. The sisters have great confidence in God. David wonders how Brute can persuade Bishop Edward Dominic Fenwick to come to Bardstown on his way to Cincinnati since it is out of his way. Brute said nothing of the bishop for Father Gabriel Richard Flaget conjectures that if he comes with Fenwick it would be for consecration. David likes the Miscellany but not all its articles. He has written this to the editors. It is too infatuated with republican principles and as ardent democrats beleive in the soberignity of the people. David does not care for accounts of grand dinners and toasts. He is misled in the affaire of the Philadelphia Schism and David beleives with Bishop Henry Conwell that the paper's comments on O'Mealy has enclurged his perserverance. He has received the pamphlet on the new miracle but has not read it. He is pleased to receive a denial that the convent of the Visitation at Georgetown had dissolved. Priests from New Orleans said that the Ursulines there were preparing lodgings for ten. Devid desires the multiplication of the community, the miracle does not contribute to that. As to the matter of superrogation he thinks the bishop should write Brute his explanation. Roger has made the matter clear to him. David has read Liguori on the question proposed by Brute and finds no difficulty. It is question of when the law is sufficiently promulgated. He argues from the obligation of the laws made congress. The Church order determines when a law is decreed. David is not surprised at the end of Father Angelo Inglesi. David sends his regards to Father Dubois, Hickey and the rest. Father Byrne conducts his college with marvelous succes. Father Derigaud has built a college at St. Thomas and has thirty scholars, it is a nursery for the little seminary since the death of Father Charles Nerincks Father Guy Ignatius Chabrat has been superior of the Lorettine Sisters. He perfects their rules and builds a large convent on the place where Badin lived. :: II-3-o - A.L.S. - French - 3pp.9