The Trouble With Jesuits, Part VI

Father V. reminded me about this exchange from Patrick O'Brian's "Reversee of the Medal". It's part of the Aubrey/Maturin series, the 11th book in a series consisting of 20 books (all of which I have read at least once).
 

 Captain Jack Aubrey is in England's  Royal Navy circa 1800,  and Stephen Maturin is his trusted surgeon, a spy, an Irish Catholic, and best friend. Aubrey finds out he has fathered an illegitimate son who is not only a Catholic (a bad thing in England at the time) but also a seminarian. His concern? That his son is being trained by Jesuits.

Jack: "You remember the Gordon riots, and all the tales about the Jesuits being behind the King’s madness and many other things.  By the way, Stephen, those Fathers were not Jesuits, I suppose?  I did not like to ask straight out"

Stephen Maturin: ‘Of course not, Jack.  They were suppressed long ago.  Clement XIV put them down in the seventies, and a very good day’s work he did.  Sure, they have been trying to creep back on one legalistic pretext or another and I dare say they will soon make a sad nuisance of themselves again, turning out atheists from the schools by the score; but these gentlemen had nothing to do with them, near or far.’