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    but that man can frustrate what the Supreme Ruler of the nnrrerse chooses , is a position which it requires the skill of a cardinal to explain , and the faith of a catholic to comprehend . I need not tell you liow many reflections were excited by this visit to the last descendant of a long race of kings , thus humbled by fortune and weakened br

    age . He who might under other circumstances have occupied the throne of a mighty empire , now lives in a little parsonagehou $ e % dignified with the name of a palace , yet not larger than the ordinary habitation of an English clergyman . Instead of performing the high , functions of executive magistrate in a great kingdbm , he passes his time in the ceremonies of a church , and has changed a court of

    statesmen , legislators and peers , fora conclave of friars , monks and abbots . He receives , . however , pour le dedowmager ^ the titles of royalty and the soft incense of unceasing flattery . Perhaps , considering theinclu nations and th £ capacity of the man , lie is happier in his present situation , than he would have been had he worn the crown of his illustrious

    ancestors . I must do the Cardinal of York the justice to add , that , though weak in intellect and debilitated hy age , he appears to have an excellent heart . He spoke with much attachment of Englaiid and Englishmen , and took an opportunity of observing , that in his misfortunes he had received assistance from a quarter whence he had the least reason to expect it , "—alluding to the pension of four thousand

    pounds , first allowed him by his majesty , and since confirmed by parliament . This declaration was indeed but the payment of a debt of gratitude ; yet the avowal was noble , and as such , I have much pleasure in recording it . The arms of England were painted on his

    carriages ; and his servants who were numerous , wore liveries of yellow and red , which 1 suppose are the colours given by the Stuart family , I ought perhaps to mention before I conclude my account of the Cardinal of York , a delicate attention shewn him by his attendants . While the French were quartered in the Ecclesiastical States , he fled

    with most of his brethren to Venice , and in his absence all the furniture of his house was taken away by the enemy . To prevent his feeling this misfortune , his chaplains concealed the circumstance , and ordered the episcopal palace to be furnished anew , taking care that every ar «* tide should be precisely of the same quality and form as that , the

    place of which it Was intended to supply . When therefore the good old man returned , he found his house , exactly as he had left it , and congratulated himself on the fortunate escape which his property had experienced . We returned to Rome the same evening , well pleased with our visit to this last descendant of our ancient kings .

    * The Cardinal said one day to an English visitor , — i € This house was built by ^ French cardinal , and it is now inhabited by an English . . . > ti $ besita ^ dc and at last added " Cardinal . " '

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    4 74 Account of the late Cardinal York .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1807, page 474, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2384/page/22/