On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    tbe service of thi church , affixed tfce docuttifeiii td thfe <* & 0 fl of St Peter ' s , Santa MaHa Maggiore , and St Giovanni L ^ teratifl ^ as well a $ some of the gat ^ es of the city , and managed so well , that he not only escaped himself , but the excommunication became known to hair llome before the proclamations were discovered by the trench .

    For this service , upon the fall of Napoleon and the triumphal return of Pius VII * Mingaccio was rewarded by being raised to the equestrian order , and receiving , for a term df years , the patent monopoly of the mills upon the Tiber and Monte Giantcolo . He died the other day Suddenly , but full of years and riches , and his family have performed the last rites to his remains in a way that a name now belonging to history seemed entitled to . More than three hundred monks , of different convents , assisted , each of whom received a handsome fee ,

    besides an enormous wax taper ; and fees for masses , to the atnount of Several thousand scudi , were * confided' to the chttreh . These RorbattSj who have no idea of giving eight gtriiteafc fot a dress-coat or 200 / . for a nag , are very profuse in their Morttf&ry ceremonials , and \* ould be much shocked at the set oat of two

    Wack coaches and four , with a hearse and six , and a train of empty carriages , which we think so genteel . In many ggge'S ; particularly if the body be that rjf a child of a very yflung person of distinction , the coffin is not closed till after the fchurcJi cererfiony . A funeral passed my windows the other day ; of the daughter of a noble Roman family , whose name I forget ; thfe coffinborne upon a superb bier ., was openand its tehatit ;

    , , tiig corpse erf a lovely chila of eleven or twelve ye # i& of agg j wss richly dressed > leaving the hands and face exposed ; dfia as it faicived along the street , preceded and followed by r t ^ funeral train , flowets were scattered upon the bier frotn motet &f the windows beneath which it passed . This might shock &ft E&glisfe public , to whom an unrelieved morbidity andhfcS ? ittg ##

    of gloom seem so necessary an attendant on the last scfcfte , expressly that it may leave the most painful impression possible ak th £ memory . But I do not see why the shedding 6 f aotiii g gleamfc of beauty , sad though they be ? around the dead , should excite sttch antipath ^ i except upon grounds of prejudice tfiid ciifitom : for there is something in the aspect of , —

    —* - —^ " beauty dead Ere the fitst day of defath ha § ffed , — 4 i . > i tkat elevates the mind , and fills the heart ^ ith purer and betier ftejingd j compelUng even the worldJirtg to a momeritary sense # | hi ^ feer thing * than th ^ hollow phantasms be bitd b * 4 ft ^^• fljBW wvW ^ pf"' ¦ - ' '

    Untitled Article

    Wt ¦ mmm & *»(* # * M

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/59/