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alive ! His puerile limplicity was the admiration of all 

 men, a limplicity perfectly unaffedted, and which was 

 become habitual to him from his long fojourn among 

 ' the favages. He had tranflated all the churqh hymns 

 into the peruvian tongue, and had even compofed new 

 fpiritual longs of his own, which he had introduced 

 into the affemblies of the favages that were baptized, 

 While we were at table in the houfe of the general - 

 auditor of Meurs, who was a countryman of his, he 

 fang fome of them to us, with an animation and en- 

 thuliafm, which made us partake of his own pious emo- 

 tions. Poor and dellitute as he was, he yet fhewed an 

 uncommon brilknefs of fpirits, and rejoiced in the 

 profpecl: of the day when he was to make the fourth 

 profellion of the vows of his order. So worthy, fo de- 

 ferving a mam, who had travelled fo many thoufand 

 miles by fea and land, and now had to take a long 

 journey from Rome to Cologne, did the hard-hearted 

 Ricci not only difmifs with empty pockets, but even 

 with tattered cloaths that would fcarcely cover his 

 nakednefs. 



It was eafy to be forefeen, that, after the death of 

 pope Rezzonico, the monarchs concerned would em- 

 ploy $J1 their faculties to elevate one who was difpofed 

 to forward their views as the fucceiTor in the apoltolical 

 throne. There was not one of the whole facred college, 

 who, in the affair of the jefuits, had declared himfelf 

 fo much in favour of the foreign courts, as Ganganelli. 

 His vote in the congregations that had been held on 

 that fubjecl: had ever been for complying with their ur- 

 gent demands. They were now fo accultomed to this 

 uniform conduct, that his opinion was no longer ailced, 



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