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the world, for he had lived five-and-thirty 
years, thirteen of which had elapsed since he 
began his travels. As a foreigner he was 
under no temptation to exaggerate the supe- 
riority of English travelling, especially to an 
extent incomprehensible by his countrymen ; 
and, in short, I cannot imagine any ground for 
suspecting mistake or untruth of any kind.* 
I have never been at Colchester, but I be- 
lieve it is, and always was, full fifty miles 
from London. Ipswich, I believe, is only 
eighteen miles farther; and yet fifteen years 
later we find an advertisement (Daily Adver- 
tiser, Thursday, Aug. 30. 1764), announcing 
that London and Ipswich Post Coaches on 
steel springs, (think of that and think of the 
astonished Germans careering over the coun- 
try from Colchester without that mitigation, ) 
from London to Ipswich in ten hours with 
Postillions, set out every morning at seven 
o’clock, Sundays excepted, from the Black 
Bull Inn, in Bishopsgate Street. 
It is right, however, to add that the Herr 
Prediger Schultz and his companion appear 
to have returned to Colchester, on their way 
back to Germany, at a much more moderate 
pace. The particulars do not very exactly 
appear; but it seems from his journal that on 
the 16th of September they dined with the 
Herr Prediger Pittius, minister of the German 
Church in the Savoy, at twelve o’clock (nach 
teutscher art, as the writer observes). ‘They 
then went to their lodging, settled their 
accounts, took up their luggage, and pro- 
ceeded to the inn from which the “ Stats- 
Kutsche” was to start ; and on arriving there 
found some of their friends assembled, who 
had ordered a meal, of which they partook. 
How much time was occupied in all this, or 
when the coach set out, does not appear; but 
they travelled the whole night, and until 
towards noon the next day, before they got to 
Colchester. This is rather more intelligible ; 
* It is perhaps right to give his words. Speaking 
of a person who acted as their guide, he says : —“ Des 
folgenden Tages gieng er mit uns 22 engl. Meilen bis 
Colchester zu Fuss; wo wir uns auf die Land-Kutsche 
verdungen, mit welcher wir 50 englische Meilen d.i. 
10 teutsche Meilen bis London, in solcher Geschwind- 
igkeit endigten, dass wir auf dem ganzen Wege kaum 
6 Stunden gefahren sind; so schnell gehen die engli- 
schen Pferde; aber auch so schén sind die englischen 
Wege.” Der Leitungen des Hichsten,’ &c. Zw. Theil. 
Halle, 1772, p. 62. 
but as to their up-journey I really am puzzled, 
and shall be glad of any explanation. 
Yours, &c. G. G. 
SANUTO’S DOGES OF VENICE. 
Mr. Editor, — Among the well-wishers to 
your projected periodical, as a medium of 
literary communication, no one would be more 
ready to contribute to it than myself, did 
the leisure I enjoy permit me often to do so. 
I have been a maker of Notes and Queries 
for above twenty-five years, and perhaps 
should feel more inclined to trouble you with 
the latter than the former, in the hope of 
clearing up some of the many obscure points 
in our history, biography, and poetical lite- 
rature, which have occurred to me in the 
course of my reading. At present, as a very 
inadequate specimen of what I once designed 
to call Leisure Moments, I beg to copy the 
following Note from one of my scrap-books: — 
In the year 1420, the Florentines sent an 
embassy to the state of Venice, to solicit them 
to unite in a league against the ambitious 
progress of Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of 
Milan ; andthe historian Daru, in his Histoire 
de Venise, 8vo, Paris, 1821, has fallen into 
more than one error in his account of the 
transaction. Marino Sanuto, who wrote the 
lives of the Doges of Venice in 1493 (Daru 
says, erroneously, some fifty years afterwards), 
has preserved the orations made by the Doge 
Tomaso Mocenigo, in opposition to the Flo- 
rentine proposals; which he copied, accord- 
ing to his statement, from a manuscript that 
belonged to the Doge himself. Daru states, 
that the MS. was communicated to him by 
the Doge; but that could not be, since the 
Doge died in 1423, and Sanuto was not born 
till 1466. An abridged translation of these 
Orations is given in the Histoire de Venise, 
tom. ii. pp- 289—311. ; and in the ‘first of 
these, pronounced in January, 1420 (1421, 
Daru), he is made to say, in reference to an 
ambassador sent by the Florentines to the 
Duke of Milan, in 1414, as follows: “ L’am- 
bassadeur fut wa Juif, nommé Valori, ban- 
quier de sa profession,” p. 291. As a com- 
mentary on this passage, Daru subjoins a 
note from the Abbé Laugier, who, in his His- 
toire de Venise, liy. 21., remarks, 1. That it 
appears strange the Florentines should have 
