INTRODUCTION. XXIX 



edition of his New Voyage to Itahj, 1714, wherein he 

 states : — 



" Some Time ago, a friend of mine wrote me word from 

 Holland, that a certain Priest of the Romish Sect^ had pub- 

 lished a French Translation of a little Italian Book, which is 

 a small Abstract of the Lives of the Doges of Venice ; and that 

 this Man takes an Occasion to speak iindecently of the worthy- 

 Mr. Amclot and of Us, because of certain Truths that we have 

 both Written with some Freedom, concerning that Country. 

 If that Book happens to come into England, and it should 

 fall into our Hands, we may perhaps consider it a little, and 

 say something more particular of it in some other Place. But 

 since it seems to be condemn'd to the Scombri of Horace 

 and Marticd ; and none of those that pubhsh Journals of 

 Litterature, having yet vouchsafed to mention it, I may 

 very well say of the Censures of this Author, what the same 

 Martial said of the despicable Verses of a certain Diaidus ; 

 without giving myself the Trouble of refuting him any other 

 Wa}'. 



Vey-siculos in me narrant scripsisse Diaulum; at 

 Non scribit cujus Carmina nemo legit. 



I will then content myself with adding a Word concerning 

 the Book of Mr. Leguat (A good and honest Gentleman) in- 

 which they assure me that the Priest speaks much otherwise 

 than he ought to do. It seems, say they, that he grounds his 

 unjust Liberty upon the Account he has seen of Mr. Legucd's 

 Book, in the Journal that is intituled, Nouvelles de let R&pidj- 

 liqiie des Lettres ; in which the Author of the said Nouvelles 

 uses very ill, without any Pieason, both Mr. Leguat, and the 

 Iielation he has published. 



" These sort of Journcds ought not to be turn'd into Defa- 

 matory Libels, no more than Sermons. The Journals o^ Paris 

 Amsterdam, Leipsick, Trcvoux, nor any of the Rest, have 



1 Casimir Freschot. 



- This should probably read " of tohicK", judging from the con- 



