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MEMOIRS OF JAMES ROBERT HOPE-SCOTT - VOLUME 2
MEMOIRS OF JAMES ROBERT HOPE-SCOTT - VOLUME 2 ROBERT ORNSBY PROFESSOR OF GREEK AND LATIN LITERATURE IN THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF
IRELAND; FELLOW OF THE ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND; LATE FELLOW OF TRIN.
COLL. OXFORD
IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II.
CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
CHAPTER XVIII. 1841 1842.
Mr. Hope's Pamphlet on the Jerusalem Bishopric--His Value for the Canon
Law--Continued Correspondence of Mr. Hope and Mr. Newman on the Jerusalem
Bishopric--Mr. Newman's Idea of a Monastery--Mr. Newman writes from
Littlemore April 221842--Dr. Pusey consults Mr. Hope on his Letter to the
Archbishop of Canterbury--Dr. Pusey and the Jerusalem Bishopric--Letters of
Archdeacon Manning Mr. W. Palmer Sir John T. Coleridge Sir F. Palgrave
Bishop Philpotts and Count Senfft on Mr. Hope's Pamphlet
CHAPTER XIX. 1842 1843.
Oxford Commotions of 1842-43--Mr. Newman's Retractation--Correspondence of
Mr. Newman and J. R. Hope on the Subject--Mr. Hope pleads for Mr.
Macmullen--Dr. Pusey suspended for his Sermon on the Holy Eucharist--Seeks
Advice from Mr. Hope--Mr. Newman resigns St. Mary's--Correspondence of Mr.
Newman and Mr. Hope on the 'Lives of the English Saints'--Mr. Ward's
Condemnation--Mr. Hope sees the 'Shadow of the Cross' through the Press--
Engaged with 'Scripture Prints' 'Pupilla Oculi' &c.--Lady G. Fullerton's
Recollections of J. R. Hope--He proposes to make a Retreat at Littlemore
CHAPTER XX. 1844 1845.
Mr. Hope's Tour on the Continent in 1844--Visit to Munich--Dr. Pusey's
'Library of Roman Catholic Works'--Dr. Pusey and the Spiritual Exercises--
His Opinion of the Discipline--Mr. Hope's Visit to Tetschen in 1844--Count
Leo Thun and his Friends--Mr. Hope's Interview with Prince Metternich--The
Hon. Sir R. Gordon Ambassador at Vienna--Visit to Prince Palffy and to
Prince Liechtenstein--The Hungarian Diet at Presburg--Letter of Manzoni to
J. R. Hope--Visit to Rome--Bishop Grant and Mr. Hope--Mr. Hope resigns
Chancellorship of Salisbury--Dr. Pusey and the Stone Altar Case--Mr.
Oakeley and Mr. Hope--Scottish Episcopalian Church and its Office--Mr.
Gladstone endeavours to hold Mr. Hope back--Proposes Tour in Ireland--
Conversion of Mr. Newman--Mr. Hope on the Essay on Development--Letter of
Mr. Newman to J. R. Hope from Rome--Reopening of Correspondence with Mr.
Newman
CHAPTER XXI. 1845-1851.
Mr. Hope's Doubts of Anglicanism--Correspondence with Mr. Gladstone--
Correspondence of J. R. Hope and Mr. Gladstone continued--Mr. Gladstone
advises Active Works of Charity--Bishop Philpotts advises Mr. Hope to go
into Parliament--Mr. Hope and Mr. Gladstone in Society--Mr. Hope on the
Church Affairs of Canada--Dr. Hampden Bishop of Hereford--The Troubles at
Leeds--Mr. Hope on the Jewish Question &c.--The Gorham Case--The Curzon
Street Resolutions--The 'Papal Aggression' Commotion--Correspondence of Mr.
Hope and Mr. Manning--Their Conversion--Opinions of Friends on Mr. Hope's
Conversion--Mr. Gladstone--Father Roothaan F.G. Soc. Jes. to Count
Senfft--Dr. Dollinger--Mr. Hope to Mr. Badeley--Conversion of Mr. W.
Palmer
CHAPTER XXII. 1839-1869.
Review of Mr. Hope's Professional Career--His View of Secular Pursuits--
Advice from Archdeacon Manning against Overwork--Early Professional
Services to Government--J. R. Hope adopts the Parliamentary Bar--His
Elements of Success--Is made Q.C.--Difficulty about Supremacy Oath--Mr.
Venables on Mr. Hope-Scott as a Pleader--Recollections of Mr. Cameron--Mr.
Hope-Scott on his own Profession--Mr. Hope-Scott's Professional Day--
Regular History of Practice not Feasible--Specimens of Cases: 1. The
Caledonian Railway interposing a Tunnel. 2. Award by Mr. Hope-Scott and R
Stephenson. 3. Mersey Conservancy and Docks Bill 'Parliamentary Hunting-
day' Liverpool and Manchester compared. 4. London Brighton and South
Coast and the Beckenham Line. 5. Scottish Railways--an Amalgamation Case--
Mr. Hope-Scott and Mr. Denison; Honourable Conduct of Mr. Hope-Scott as a
Pleader. 6. Dublin Trunk Connecting Railway. 7. Professional Services of
Mr. Hope-Scott to Eton--Claims of Clients on Time--Value of Ten Minutes--
Conscientiousness--Professional Income--Extra Occupations--Affection of Mr.
Hope-Scott for Father Newman--Spirit in which he laboured
CHAPTER XXIII. 1847-1858.
Mr. Hope's Engagement to Charlotte Lockhart--Memorial of Charlotte
Lockhart--Their Marriage--Mr. Lockhart's Letter to Mr. J. R. Hope on his
Conversion--Filial Piety of Mr. Hope--Conversion of Lord and Lady Henry
Kerr--Domestic Life at Abbotsford--Visit of Dr. Newman to Abbotsford in
1852--Birth of Mary Monica Hope-Scott--Bishop Grant on Early Education--Mr.
Lockhart's Home Correspondence--Death of Walter Lockhart Scott--Mr. Hope
takes the Name of Hope-Scott--Last Illness and Death of Mr. Lockhart--
Death of Lady Hope--Letter of Lord Dalhousie--Mr. Hope-Scott purchases a
Highland Estate--Death of Mrs. Hope-Scott and her Two Infants--Letters of
Mr. Hope-Scott in his Affliction to Dr. Newman and Mr. Gladstone--Verses
in 1858--Letter of Dr. Newman on receiving them
CHAPTER XXIV. 1859-1870.
Mr. Hope-Scott's Return to his Profession--Second Marriage--Lady Victoria
Howard--Mr. Hope-Scott at Hyeres--Portraits of Mr. Hope-Scott--
Miscellaneous Recollections--Mr. Hope-Scott in the Highlands--Ways of
Building--Story of Second-sight at Lochshiel
CHAPTER XXV. 1867-1869.
Visit of Queen Victoria to Abbotsford in 1867--Mr. Hope-Scott's
Improvements at Abbotsford--Mr. Hope-Scott's Polities--Toryism in Early
Life--Constitutional Conservatism--Mr. Hope-Scott as an Irish and a
Highland Proprietor--Correspondence on Politics with Mr. Gladstone and
with Lord Henry Kerr in 1868--Speech at Arundel in 1869
CHAPTER XXVI. 1851-1873.
Religious Life of Mr. Hope-Scott--Motives of Conversion--Acceptance of the
Dogma of Infallibility--The 'Angelus' on the Committee-room Stairs--Faith
in the Real Presence--Books of Devotion--The Society of Jesus--Letter of
Mrs. Bellasis--Mr. Hope-Scott's Manners--His Generosity--Courage in
admonishing--Habits of Prayer--Services to Catholicity--Remark of Lord
Blachford--The Catholic University of Ireland--Cardinal Newman's Dedication
of his 'University Sketches' to Mr. Hope-Scott--Aid in the Achilli Trial--
Mr. Badeley's Speech--Charitable Bequests--Westminster Missions--Repeal of
Titles Act--Statement of Mr. Hope-Scott--Letter to Right Hon. S. Walpole--
Correspondence with the Duke of Norfolk--Scottish Education Bill 1869--
Parliamentary Committee on Convents--Services of Mr. Hope-Scott to
Catholicity in Legal Advice to Priests and Convents--Other Charities in
Advice &c.--Private Charities their General Character--Probable Amount of
them--Missions on the Border--Galashiels--Abbotsford--Letter of Pere de
Ravignan S.J.--Kelso--Letter of Father Taggart--Burning of the Church at
Kelso--Charge of the Lord Justice-Clerk--Article from the 'Scotsman '--
Missions in the Western Highlands--Moidart--Mr. Hope-Scott's Purchase of
Lochshiel--'Road-making'--Dr. Newman's 'Grammar of Assent'--Mr. Hope-
Scott's Kindness to his Highland Tenants--Builds School and Church at
Mingarry--Church at Glenuig--Sells Dorlin to Lord Howard of Glossop--Other
Scottish Missions aided by Mr. Hope-Scott--His Irish Tenantry--His
Charities at Hyeres
CHAPTER XXVII. 1868-1873.
Mr. Hope-Scott's Speech on Termination of Guardianship to the Duke of
Norfolk--Failure in Mr. Hope-Scott's Health--Exhaustion after a Day's
Pleading--His Neglect of Exercise--Death of Mr. Badeley--Letter of Dr.
Newman--Last Correspondence of Mr. Hope and the Bishop of Salisbury
(Hamilton)--Dr. Newman's Friendship for Mr. Hope-Scott and Serjeant
Bellasis--Mr. Hope-Scott proposes to retire--Birth of James Fitzalan Hope--
Death of Lady Victoria Hope-Scott--Mr. Hope-Scott retires from his
Profession--Edits Abridgment of Lockhart which he dedicates to Mr.
Gladstone--Dr. Newman on Sir Walter Scott--Visit of Dr. Newman to
Abbotsford in 1872--Mr. Hope-Scott's Last Illness--His Faith and
Resignation--His Death--Benediction of the Holy Father--Requiem Mass for
Mr. Hope-Scott at the Jesuit Church Farm Street--Funeral Ceremonies at St.
Margaret's Edinburgh--Cardinal Newman and Mr. Gladstone on Mr. Hope-Scott
APPENDIX I.
Funeral Sermon by his Eminence Cardinal Newman preached at the Requiem
Mass for Mr. Hope-Scott at the Church of the Immaculate Conception Farm
Street May 5 1873
APPENDIX II.
Words spoken in the Chapel of the Ursulines of Jesus St. Margaret's
Convent Edinburgh on the 7th day of May 1873 at the Funeral of James
Robert Hope-Scott Q.C. By the Rev. William J. Amherst S.J.
APPENDIX III.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone M.P. to Miss Hope-Scott [now the Hon. Mrs.
Maxwell Scott]
APPENDIX IV.
Verses by J. R. Hope-Scott
TABLE OF LETTERS ETC.
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MEMOIRS
OF
JAMES ROBERT HOPE-SCOTT.
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CHAPTER XVIII.
1841-1842.
Mr. Hope's Pamphlet on the Jerusalem Bishopric--His Value for the Canon
Law--Continued Correspondence of Mr. Hope and Mr. Newman on the Jerusalem
Bishopric--Mr. Newman's Idea of a Monastery--Mr. Newman writes from
Littlemore April 22 1842--Dr. Pusey consults Mr. Hope on his Letter to
the Archbishop of Canterbury--Dr. Pusey and the Jerusalem Bishopric--
Letters of Archdeacon Manning Mr. W. Palmer Sir John T. Coleridge Sir F.
Palgrave Bishop Philpotts and Count Senfft on Mr. Hope's Pamphlet.
Two days after the date of the letter to Lady Henry Kerr given in the
preceding chapter (Dec. 20 1841) took place the publication of Mr. Hope's
pamphlet on the Anglo-Prussian Bishopric of Jerusalem. It may be described
as a learned and very closely reasoned argument against the measure; and a
dry (even if correct) analysis of it would be of little biographical
interest especially as Mr. Hope's views on the question have already been
abundantly illustrated from unpublished materials. I therefore refer those
of my readers who wish for more extended information to the pamphlet
itself but shall quote from the Postscript to the second edition
[Footnote: _The Bishopric of the United Church of England and Ireland at
Jerusalem_ considered in a Letter to a Friend by James R. Hope
B.C.L. Scholar of Merton and Chancellor of the Diocese of Salisbury.
Second edition revised with a Postscript. London: C.J. Stewart. 1842.] an
eloquent passage on Canon Law which is as characteristic of the writer as
anything I have yet been able to produce and exhibits I think in a
striking manner how singularly this austere subject constituted at the time
the poetry of his life and how largely the conflict between the principles
of Catholic jurisprudence and Anglicanism must have influenced the
reflections which ended in his conversion. Mr. Hope here refers to some
remarks on his pamphlet which had appeared in one by the Rev. Frederick
Denison Maurice entitled 'Three Letters to the Rev. W. Palmer &c.'
(Rivington: 1842).
_Value of the Science of Canon Law._
[Mr. Maurice] sets all lawyers at nought and canonists he utterly
despises. Hastily indeed I think and for the purpose of the moment only
can he have given way to such feelings for he needs not that I should tell
him that the Church of Christ rests not upon speculative truth alone but
upon the positive institutions of our Lord and His Apostles. Surely then
to trace those institutions from the lowest point at which they come into
contact with human existence up to the highest to which our eye can follow
them the point of union with the unseen world in which they take their
rise and from which they are the channels of grace and truth and authority
to the souls of men--to trace I say the outward and the visible signs of
sacraments of polity of discipline up to the inward spiritual realities
upon which they depend which they impart and represent to faith or
shelter from profanation; to study the workings of the hidden life of the
Church by those developments which in all ages and countries have been
its necessary modes of access to human feeling and apprehension; to
systematise the end gained; to learn what is universal what partial what
temporary what eternal what presently obligatory and wherefore; surely a
science such as this so noble in its object so important in its practical
bearings upon the unity and purity of the Church and upon her relations to
the temporal power is not one of which Mr. Maurice would deliberately
speak evil. Yet this is the science of the canonist. [Footnote: Mr. Hope's
pamphlet on the _Jerusalem Bishopric_ 2nd ed. p. 55.]
There are still portions of his correspondence with Mr. Newman belonging
to the same period and subject which must not be withheld:--
_J. R. Hope Esq. to the Rev. J. H. Newman._
6 Stone Buildings Lincoln's Inn: December 21 1841.
Dear Newman--Your speedy reply and return of my proofs was very kind. The
_hard_ passages I did not know how to make easy as they are pure law
so have left them.... I hear that the Bishop of London refused a man orders
last week on three points--Eucharistic sacrifice in _any sense_ real
presence in elements grace in orders. The second point (being also the
Bishop of Winchester's) I have illustrated in a note to my pamphlet (very
briefly) by reference to Augsburg Confession.
You see the young Prince is to have a R. Catholic sponsor on one hand and
the King of Prussia on the other. This is a good balance though the Canon
tolerates neither....
Ever yours
J. K. HOPE.
_The Rev. J. H. Newman to J. R. Hope Esq._
My dear Hope--... You take the canons of 1603 as _legal authority_ I
see. This has been a bone in my throat. I _wish_ them to show the
animus of our Church but directly you make them authority the unhappy
Ward is _ipso facto_ excommunicate for having been to Oscott until he
repent of his wicked error. But there is no resisting law.
Palmer's 'Aids to Reflection' contain some very valuable documents.
What the Bishops are doing is most serious as well as unjustifiable as I
think. Really one does not know but they may meet in council and bring out
some tests which will have the effect forthwith of precipitating us and
leaving the Church clean Protestant. Pray does a _majority_ bind in
such a council? I mean in the way of canons. Can a majority determine the
doctrine of the Church? If so we had need look out for cheap lodgings....
Ever yours
John H. Newman.
Oriel College: December 23 1841.
_J. R. Hope Esq. to the Rev. J. H. Newman._
Palace Salisbury: December 31 1841.
Dear Newman--I am again settled here for ten days or so.... As to the
Bishops meeting and making tests they can _in law_ do nothing except
in Convocation with the Presbyters and under licence of the Crown. They
may however as heads of dioceses agree to enforce particular things but
there is not I think sufficient unity amongst them at present to allow of
this. The Jerusalem business I hope is yet to be of good service to us by
rallying men of various shades against it and by making the Bishops stand
up against what cannot be called otherwise than usurpation of their rights
by the Archbishop and the Bishop of London. The Bishop of Exeter in
acknowledging (to Badeley) the receipt of my pamphlet says:--
'Would that those who direct proceedings of this hazardous and most
questionable character may take warning from the effects of their
inconsiderateness on this occasion! I doubt whether any three Bishops were
consulted or even informed before the measure was completed.' This looks
I think like action....
When I publish again I should like to bring out more fully the bearing of
the Augsburg Confession on the Thirty-nine Articles. I perhaps overrate the
importance of this point but it seems to me to put Tract 90 in great
measure under the sanction of the Archbishop and Bishop of London. If you
think of doing anything more about Tract 90 perhaps (which would be far
better) you would take this up. If not do you think you could get any one
to collect for me the sense of Luther Melanchthon &c. as to the meaning
of the chief articles of the Aug. Conf. I have always understood
consubstantiation to be properly held under that document and if so the
admission of it with our Articles will appear to many people very awkward.
You must not think me unreasonable for thinking that you can get this done
for me (as you did the search about canons) at Oxford. Were our colleges
what they ought to be there would be in each a concurrence of labour
whenever required and I believe that you have men about you who have the
feeling from which this (if ever it does) must spring.
I am not without hope that some public move may be made about the
bishopric. What say you to an address to the Crown praying it to license
the discussion of it in Convocation? I think some Bishops and many clergy
would join in this and it would I suppose be very 'constitutional.' I
have not however looked up the formal part yet. Tell me what you think of
the thing and I will consider it further....
(Signed) J. R. Hope.
_The Rev. J. H. Newman to J. R. Hope Esq._
January 3 1842.
My dear Hope--A happy new year to you and all of us--and what is even
more needed to the English Church. I am afraid of moving about
Convocation. Not that we should not be in safer hands than in those of the
Bishops but though it restrained their acts it would abridge our
liberty. Or it might formally recognise our Protestantism. What can we hope
from a body the best members of which as Hook and Palmer [of Worcester
Coll.] defend and subscribe to the Jerusalem Fund...? Therefore I do not
like to be _responsible_ for helping to call into existence a body
which may embarrass us more than we are at present.
I think your [Greek: topos] about the Augsburg Confession a very important
one and directly more men come back will set a friend to work upon it.
I am almost in despair of keeping men together. The only possible way is a
monastery. Men want an outlet for their devotional and penitential
feelings and if we do not grant it to a dead certainty they will go where
they can find it. This is the beginning and the end of the matter. Yet the
clamour is so great and will be so much greater that if I persist I
expect (though I am not speaking from anything that has _occurred_)
that I shall be stopped. Not that I have any intention of doing more at
present than laying the foundation of what may be.
... Are we really to be beaten in this election [for the Poetry
Professorship]? I will tell you a secret (if you care to know it) which not
above three or four persons know. We have 480 promises. Is it then
hopeless? ... I don't think our enemies would beat 600; at least it would
be no triumph....
The Bishop of Exeter has for these eight years ever since the commencement
of the Ecclesiastical Commission been biding his time and the Duke of
Wellington last spring disgusted him much. This both makes it likely that
he will now move and also diminishes the force of the very words you
quote for peradventure they are ordinary with him. I have good hopes that
he will.
Ever yours
John H. Newman.
The experiment of offering to minds which had lost all sympathy with
Protestantism yet were unable to close with Rome an imitation of the
monastic life by way of shelter from the rude checks which their
aspirations sustained in the world without seems to have answered for a
time and possibly retarded for about three years that rush of conversion
which made 1845 such an epoch in the history even of the Church. This may
be inferred from the next letter written shortly after Mr. Newman and his
disciples were regularly settled at Littlemore. I am not aware what the
report was which he so emphatically denies.
_The Rev. J. H. Newman to J. R. Hope Esq._
April 22 1842. _Dabam e Domo S. M. V. apud Littlemore._
My dear Hope--Does not this portentous date promise to outweigh any
negative I can give to your question in the mind of the inquirer? for any
one who could ask such a question would think such a dating equivalent to
the answer. However if I must answer in form I believe it to be one great
absurdity and untruth from beginning to end though it is hard I must
answer for _every_ hundred men in the _whole_ kingdom. Negatives
are dangerous: all I can say however is that I don't believe or suspect
or fear any such occurrence and look upon it as neither probable nor
improbable but simply untrue.
We are all much quieter and more resigned than we were and are remarkably
desirous of building up a position and proving that the English theory is
tenable or rather the English state of things. If the Bishops let us
alone the fever will subside.
[After a few words on business] I wish you would say how you are.
Ever yours
JOHN H. NEWMAN.
Early in 1842 came out Dr. Pusey's 'Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury
on some Circumstances connected with the Present Crisis in the Church.' In
the preparation of this important pamphlet Dr. Pusey sought the advice of
Mr. Hope and the letter in which he asked it must be placed before the
reader as an evidence of the value attached to Mr. Hope's opinion in the
counsels of the party.
_The Rev. Dr. Pusey to J. E. Hope Esq._
My dear Hope--You will be surprised that I should consult you as a layman
and a younger man as to a work on the religious state of things but I do
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