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    gating his notions by private letters , as by the press . " So we incline ta think , that if the assertions on the persecutions at Venice be not altogether false , they are greatly exaggerated . Some of the writers on whom Dr . M ^ Crie relies , may be easily convicted of telling untruths—for instance , Vergerio . This man says , according to the translation of Dr . M'Crie , in a letter of April 24 , 155 J , " The news from Italy are , that the Senate cf

    Venice have made a decree that no papal legate , nor bishop , nor inquisitor , shall proceed against any subject , except in the presence of a civil magistrate ; and that the pope , enraged at this , has fulminated a bull interdicting , under the heaviest pains , any secular prince from interposing the least hindrance to trials for heresy . It remains to be seen whether the Venetians will obey . " Now , it is a fact ascertained beyond the shadow of doubt , that

    from the very first moment when the Inquisition was introduced into Venice , it was always under the controul of the civil magistrates . After this we hear that " ample authority is given to the inquisitors , on the smallest information , to seize any person at their pleasure , to put him to the torture , and ( what is worse than death ) to send him to Rome / ' When we see all this

    saw on the faith of an histonan who talks about a bold speech , made at a public audience ^ by an ambassador of the Grisons , who was thanked by severalof the senators for his boldness , whilst we know that no public audience , no thanks of senators , could take place in reference to any ambassador , we are very much inclined to doubt all these tales and the circumstantial histories about the boats , the planks , &c , &c . What we positively know is , that the republic of Venice never yielded to the Court of Rome ; that when the Pope proposed a crusade against the Lutherans , the Venetians not only refused to join in it , but would not send ambassadors to a congress held at Bologna for that purpose ; and that

    Caraccioli , Marquess or Vico , well known as an illustrious Protestant , often mentioned even by Dr . M'Crie , whenever he wanted to see his family , always did it in the Venetian territories , and under a safe-conduct from the government , which was respected by every one in the territories of the republic . Add to this , that we do not find a word about these persecutions and these martyrs in any historian of the republic of Venice , and particularly not in

    the last , best , and most impartial of them all , Count Daru , who had access to the private archives of the republic , and who would have exposed most willingly any villanies of the Court of Rome or of the Inquisition . The fact adverted to by Dr . M'Crie , that there continued to be Protestants at Venice in the seventeenth century , is also in our favour . We should have wished that to all oiher authorities Dr . M'Crie had added those mentioned

    by Daru , as from them it appears that among those Protestants , who exceeded one thousand , there were three hundred patricians , and that they were under the direction of the illustrious Fra . Paolo Sarpi , and of hjs companion and friend Fra . Fulgenfcio . To conclude this rambling excursion : we have heard that chronology and geography are the two eyes of history . We cannot assert that Dr . M'Crie ' s

    history is blind , because we cannot well make out whether or not it has the eye of chronology ; a thing very difficult to be verified in his confused and embarrassed method cf writing , the same persons and p laces appearing and disappearnig many times , without clearly distinguishing any dates . We / doubted the soundness oi' the other eye , that of geography , when we saw Bologna , Modena , &c , separately spoken of , and the Pisano , ( which we suppose means the territory of Pisa , ) and the duchy of Mantua , ( separated

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1828, page 109, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2557/page/37/