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    brought us , and returned to the palace of the Cardinal at Frascati , whitfrer he followed us in a coach drawn by six horses . At his house we found assembled a society of monies , priests , and shabby looking Jaics . The Cardinal soon appeared , and again gave us a hearty welcome . Dinner was now announced , and we entered an eating room

    of small dimensions . The repast was neither particularly excellent of its kind , nor served with any extraordinary degree of cleanliness , but no person could complain : our venerable host shewed such a disposition , to please , that he niust indeed have been ungrateful who could have failed to acknowledge his hospitality . By way of compliment to us , a dish dignified with the name of an English plum-pudding was

    put on the table , and though in appellation alone it resembled that favourite of John Bull , we all declared , ( it was surely a pia fraus ) , that the London Tavern could not produce a better . The old man was delighted at these assurances , and with voracious appetite ate of the commended pudding . He was not very clean in his manner of eating , and much oftener used his fingers than his knife in the

    separation of his food . The chaplain , during the whole dinner , continued to remark how little his royal highness" ate , while we were astonished at the quantity of various things which he contrived to swal - low . After dinner we were led up stairs , while the cardinal took hi » evening sleep . We were shewn his oratory or private chapel , and his mitre covered with diamonds , which latter constituted the fortune of

    his mother , a princess of Poland . There were several crucifixes , and pictures of saints and holy martyrs , scattered over the walls of the house ; while the majority of the persons with whom we had dined were ecclesiastics of various ranks and orders . In short , every thing seemedfto prove that the Cardinal of York retains all that bigotry for which his familv were Ions notorious * and which made them , as Louis

    XIV . well observed ^ exchange three kingdoms for a mass . After ascending to the top of the house , acompanied by the bishop who is the favourite and destined heir of the Cardinal , and admiring the view which is really beautiful * and commands Rome on one side and the

    country as far as'Tivolion the other , we descended again to the draw - ing room , and , taking our leave of " his royal highness , " set out on our return to Rome . In going away ^ the old man gave Mrs . L . a medal , on one side of which is his likeness in a eaxffinars dress , with th * following inscription : —

    " Hen . IX . Mag . Brit . Fr . et Hib . Rex , Fid . Def . Card . et Tusc . Epis . " and on the other , a figure of the Virgin Mary , with these words —• ** Non desideriis hominum , scdvoluntate Dei * . " How his eminence can reconcile tfife contradiction conveyed in thi * motto , I know not . Man may certainly not like what God ordains , * " Not by the choice of men * but by th * will of Goc }/'

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    Account of the late Cardinal York . 47 S

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1807, page 473, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2384/page/21/