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    through the lofty aisles , the loud peals of the mass for the dead * It is certainly an imposing moment . " Misericordia for his soul ! misericordia for his soul f He knew not that this midnight hour Would hear his mass ring in the tower ,

    He knew not that the day was come To summon him to death ' s dark home , —•

    And every monk from beneath his cowl Chants , * Misericordia for his soul 1 * Mortality ' s brief deeds are done , The trial course is lost or won , And as it falls , the tree must lie To rise but in eternity , — And every monk from beneath his cowl Cries , ' Misericordia for his soul !'"

    The temptation to commit verses was too great to resist , and many less enthusiastic might have been impelled to sin in a similar way , for it was an impressive and picturesque ceremony , and one which at that hour ( midnight ) might have reduced the most matter of fact into a little flight of imagination .

    The funeral was that of the Cavaliere Mingaccio , who , although he died in the ranks of the equestrian order , was born a simple plebeian , but , luckily for his fortunes , with full faith in the Santo Padre ; in short , a stanch Catholic , a thick and thin thorough-going papist . When Napoleon had finally determined upon the destruction of the temporal power of the Popes , and making the departement de Rome as much a component part of the empire as the departement du pas da Calais , or the departement de Seine , the military Governor of Rome

    received directions to publish a preparatory edict . The avant courier of his fall was but too well understood by Pius VII , who emphatically exclaimed , upon its perusal , Consumatum est \ but , with a rare courage and devotion , determined upon using the only means left to him , the thunders of the Church . He decided , in conjunction with his principal secretary Pacca * upon fulminating a bull of excommunication against Napoleon and all his advisers and adherents in the spoliation of the

    church . But how was it to be published ? The French , in expectation of some such measure , had piquets of observation at every point , and consequently the means of preventing , or at all events instantly suppressing , any public proclamation whatsoever . His Holiness was , however , determined to speak Latin to them : the bull was prepared and privatel y printed in the Quirina itself , and Mingaccio , a poor vittunno , was the man who , in face of almost certain death , devoted himself to

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 105, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/58/