ADVERTISEMENT. THE Life of a Catholic Missionary in this country, can afford little to excite or gratify curiosity. THE REV. THOMAS WHITE, the Author of the following Discourses, was born in London, on the 11th of March, 1764. At the age of ten, he went to the English College, in Douai, where he pursued his studies with success, and received the order of Priesthood. Returning to England in 1790, he exercised his ministry for ten years in different chapels in London; but his sense of the responsibility attached to the priestly office, joined to the humble opinion which he entertained of himself, induced him to solicit a less arduous situation; and in 1800 he |