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the monarchs upon earth, juftified it in every particu? 

 lar, and extolled it to the Ikies in lpfty panegyrics. 

 Strongly enveloped in his pontifical holinefs, and re- 

 plete with the blind conceit, that the caufe of his or^ 

 der was the caufe of the church of Rome, he gave 

 himfelf up to the moft fcandalous exceffes. He evinced 

 that his pertinacious reliftance was not founded on the 

 love of his order, but folely on felf-interefted motives, 

 and views of ambition. 



To the helplefs brethren of his order, who, on 

 being expelled from Portugal and Spain, from the 

 eaft and weft Indies, were brought to Italy in the deep- 

 eft indigence, he not only refufed to open the treafures 

 of his fociety, but never once admitted even the moft 

 antient and infirm into the colleges of Rome and the 

 other kalian cities. A jefuit of Cologne, who was be- 

 come grey-headed in the american millions, a venera- 

 ble and virtuous man, whofe name I cannot now recol- 

 lect, met with no very brotherly reception at Rome, 

 The only riches he had amatTed during a ftay of twen- 

 ty-four years in America, were his manufcript collec- 

 tions on the language and manners of the Peruvians. 

 Thefe, together with a grammatical work he had com- 

 pofed of that language, which he had Ibencealed undeE 

 his habit, were all wrefted from him at Rome. I had 

 the pleafure to fhew him what was worthy of notice 

 at Florence, and to render the fhort time he ftaid at 

 that place as agreeable to him as 1 could. A man of 

 fuch liberality of fentiment, fuch honefty of difpoliti- 

 on, and fuch modeft deportment, I have never met 

 with among the jefuits. Happy man be his dole ! 

 may peace and fatisfaclion attend him, if he be yet 

 5 alive I 



