50 PAPERS relating to The Royal College of St. PATRICK.. MAYNOOTH. — 14.— Copy of a Paper marked N° 5, enclosed in a Letter from the Reverend Doctor Dunn, Treasurer and Secretary to the Trustees of the Royal College of ST. PATRICK MAYNOOTH, to Jame Trail, Esq. Undersecretary in the Civil Department of the Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle. State of the ESTABLISHMENTS on the Continent for the Education of IRISH CATHOLIC SECULAR CLERGYMEN, previous to the French Revolution. The Scholars generally went to the public Schools or Universities, otherwise the number of Masters would have been at least double. The whole number of Scholars in the Colleges of the Lombards, Nantz, Doway, Antwerp, and 20 in Bourdeaux, received Priest's Orders before they went abroad, and by the exercise of their functions were enabled to support themselves during the course of their studies. In the Community at Paris there were foundations for about sixty scholars made by various persons. In Toulouse twelve. In Bourdeaux twenty were defrayed by Pensions from the king of France. In Salamanca thirty- two by the king of Spain. In Rome sixteen. In Lisbon twelve. In Louvain twenty, by foundations of different persons. Of the whole number there were supported by Foundations - - 166 And by the exercise of their functions as Priests ... - 260 Total who may be considered as receiving gratuitous support - 426 True Copies, C. W. Flint, Irish Office, April 5th 1808.