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and kialifs; and that he iffued a proclamation, as he 

 panned through Rofetto, in a kind of triumph, that the 

 imperial dollar mould pafs current foF 100 medini ; 

 and after he had bought up a great quantity of rice and 

 linen with dollars, he iffued a firman enacting that they 

 fliould now pafs for no more than 80 medini. 



If you take all thefe circumftances together, yo& 

 will comprehend, that the above ftated fum is certainly 

 not exaggerated ; or that at leaft he took away with 

 him an enormous treafure. 



HISTORICAL ANECDOTES OP WHAT IS TERMED 

 THE DEVOTION TO THE HEART OF JESUS *. 

 WRITTEN TO MR. WTELAND. 



What Raftignas, archbilTiop of Tours, fays of 

 the Jefuits > that " the purport of their inftitution was 

 nothing elfe than to Introduce a religion in direct op- 

 pofition to the gofpel," is true beyond all manner of 

 doubt. In the general affembly in which they chofe 

 that fnallow-pated brother Diego Lainez to be their 

 general and firfb fucceffor of their founder Loyola, it 

 was decreed : To teach a theology fuitable to the 

 times; that is, to chufe, not the gofpel, .but the politi- 

 cal and moral revolutions that arife among mankind 

 from fenfuality and felf-intereil, for the rule of religion. 

 No maxim of chrirYianity is fo facred, but they facri- 

 fice it to this fyftem. Molina, Leflius, and Monte- 

 major immediately laid the axe to the main root of 



* See the trial of the late queen of France, where feveral al« 

 lufions are made to this devotioa, 



vo£. i. t u religion* 



