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in Candia ; and those who stole have given him their 

 own daring and heroic nature, for they are great and 

 rising, while Venice and her sons are falling and 

 degenerate. Ercole ! my dear and long-lost son 

 seen but a moment and then lost for ever ! " ejaculated 

 the bereaved father, as, refusing all comfort, he folded 

 his cloak over his face and wept bitterly. 



NOTE. Shortly after these events, Venice, urged 

 at last beyond all endurance, took up arms against 

 Austria on account of the protection afforded by the 

 latter power, to the Uzcoques. The pirate vessels 

 were burned, Segna besieged and taken, the Uzcoques 

 slain or dispersed. The quarrel between Austria and 

 the republic was put an end to by the mediation of 

 Spain shortly before the breaking out of the Thirty 

 Years' "War. 



" Ces mis^rables," says a distinguished French 

 writer, speaking of the Uzcoques, "furent bien plus 

 criminels par la f aute des puissances, que par 1'instinct 

 de leur propre nature. Les Venetiens les aigrirent ; 

 1'eglise Romaine prefera de les persecute! 1 au devoir 

 de les eclaircir ; la maison d'Autriche en fit les instru- 

 ments de sa politique, et quand le philosophe examine 

 leur histoire il ne voit pas que les Uscoques soient les 

 seuls criminels." 



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