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Submitting these hasty hints to the candid consideration of J . T . I drop my usual signature , and on this occasion subscribe myself ,
Chatha ? n July 7 , 1806 . A Seeker of Truth , P . S . —The mode which J . T . is prejudiced in favour of furnishes a stronger objection to the baptism of the three thousand
( Acts u . 41 ?) in one day , if that was the fact , than any other hypothesis on the subject extant ; while it transfers to such a mode that charge of indecency which has so long been unjustly brought against the people called Baptists .
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CHARACTER OF THE PRESENT POPE PItfS VII . ( From Le Maistre ' s Travels , after the Peace of Amiens , through Parts of France , Switzerland , Italy , and Germany . In 3 vols . 8 vo . Johnson , 1806 , ) I was recommended to Mr . Fagan ( a painter at Rome , who acts as ciceroni to the English ) , and having informed him that Mrs . L . and myself wished to be presented to the Pope , I rereceived from him , a few days afterwards , a very civil note , acquainting me that his Holiness would see us in the garden of
the Palazzo di Monte Cavallo , on the Wednesday following , * ........ » . I must acquaint you , en passant ' , that as the house where the sovereign pontiff now resides was formerly a monaster y * it is contrary to the decorum of the catholic church for any female to be admitted there . On this account ladies are
received 111 his garden At the appointed time ( four in the afternoon ) , we accordingly drove thither , accompanied by Mr . Fagan ; who , 011 our arrival , conducted us to a summer house commanding a very extensive view of the environs of Home , in which we awaited the arrival of the Padre Santo ,
At half past five we perceived the Pope coming from the palace to the cassino where we were sittings accompanied by some of his attendants . These he left at the door , and came in alone . Mr . Fagan immediately fell on his knees and kissed his hand . 1 made an inclination of the bod y > and performed the same ceremony . Mrs . L . also offered to kiss his hand , txut he would not allow her to do so .
Pius the Seventh is a man of grave , respectable appearance , about sixtv vears of aoc lie wore a friar ' s frock , that had once been white , but which was now stained and dirty : over this was thrown a large cloak of scarlet cloth ; and the latter , as well as his hat of the same colour , was edged with gold . In-t Stead of shoes , he had reel slippers , ornamented with a-golden cross . On his finger , 1 remarked a diamond ring of considerable size ; but his hands and his whole dress were covered with
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332 . Character of Pius VII .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1806, page 532, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1729/page/28/
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