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    on his death-bed , and declared he could not die comfortably , nor like a Christian , until h $ had revealed the truth . He did it , and died like any saint .

    However , so little decency is left in the world , that the crime and the avowal transpired , and even the criminal ' s name and profession . It is a great consolation to find that his orders

    were deficient in regularity , and such being the case , he might have married as well as murdered . Those who deny this , deny it at their peril , and

    some of them have already been visited by God's judgments , have been taken off by fevers , in prison or out , and not in the hot months .

    I have occupied the precious time of your Excellency too long in this trivial matter of a servant , when the appalling death of God ' s vice-gerent , the Holiness of our LordLeoXII . is before me for contemplation and contrition . His Beatitude died

    of sundry sores in divers parts of the body natural , wherewith it pleased Him whom he represented on earth to afflict it for many years . The visitation came first upon his Beatitude in Bavaria , where he represented at the Court of Munich

    our departed Lord , Pius VI . Theologians have discovered a striking similarity between the disease vouchsafed to him , and that wherewith another great favourite of the Most High was smitten for his good . We Christians have a sacred book

    which we are commanded to venerate , but forbidden to read , entitled Bibbia . The French

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    who resemble us in being Chris ^ tians , although they have declined and departed from the beauty of our discipline , call it ! La Sainte Bible . In this book

    we find ( we who are priests and ! are so disposed ) mention made on a certain King Bavidde , King ? of the city of Jerusalem and ! parts adjacent , long before the time of the Saracens and

    Crusades , i he aforementionedl King Davidde describes his own complaint just as the best surgeons describe the late Holiness of our Lord ' s , which was bestowed to him from God ' s

    exceeding love , to his ( the same King Davidde ' s ) great subsequent joy and present emolument . Of these ulcers his

    Beatitude died , and as some say , rather impatiently , for he had resolved on many great works , chiefly the destruction or demolition of those

    completed or commenced by his predecessor , and of hunting in the Maremma ; and he was sorry to leave so young a family of spaniels and setters not well

    broken-in , as they would have been the next September , under his Holiness's superintending and all-seeing eye . Furthermore , he had declared that

    when he had done all this , and some few other things he held in petto , with certain motuproprios , he would see what he could do for the father , the

    widow , and the children of the unlucky man who was knocked on the head by mistake , but according to sentence .. that is , provided they were sage , and did not make bad worse . I kiss &c . &c .

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    High and Low Life in Italy . 18 SS

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 1899, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/45/