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with the most serious alarms respecting 
its consequeices, 
Notwithstanding these gloomy fore- 
bodings, which he could not dissemble, 
he resolved to comply, induced equally, 
perhaps, by his desire of not disobliging 
the pope, as by his wish of visiting at 
Paris MM. Gaspard d’Anse de Villoi- 
son, Silvestre deSacy, and A. L. Millin. 
The retinue with which he set out 
left Rome the 3d of November, 1804. 
Searcely had he arrived in Savoy, when 
he was seized with a troublesome cough, 
which might probabiy have been over-. 
come had proper means been employ- 
ed; but gs he would listen to no advice, 
the malady -became aggravated, and 
forced him to stop at Lyons, where. he 
died on the twentieth day after leaving 
Rome. 
Extracts From the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. (Dec. 1, 
His body, after being embalmed, lay im 
state during three days in the archiepisco- — 
pal palace. His funeral was celebrated ~ 
with great pomp, and accompanied with 
the tolling of bells and the discharge of 
cannon. His remains, after having been 
carried in procession through all the 
public streets, were deposited in the 
metropolitan church, where the Abbé 
Bonnevie pronounced his funeral ora- 
tion. 
Thus lived Stephen Borgia, the orna- 
ment of the College of Cardinals, the uni- 
form defender of the Romish church, the 
zealous patron of the arts and sciences, 
the Maecenas of men of letters, the bene- 
factor of his country, the pride and glory 
of his family; a man, in short, whose 
name is justly celebrated throughout 
Asia and Europe. 
Serer rere reernpenerennn incre tremens senate enmmnaanin 
Extracts from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
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THE TRIAL OF THE SEVEN BISHOPS. 
HE expences attending the trials of 
the seven bishops in ” the reign of 
James II. amaunted to 6091. 8s. 9d. which 
were iP aages by an assessment at the 
rate of 62. 10s. 5d. for every 100/. of their 
episcopal incomes, which were valued in 
the following manner, 
The Archbishop of Can- 
terbury 40001. per. an- -260 16 8 
num, 
Bishop of St. sinha COC ey 42 at 
Ely, 2,000. . 120 8 4 
Chichester, 7701. 50 3 8t 
Bath and Wells ie : 
9001, A isl a ag 
eae Aq a 
Bristol, 350). . 22 16° 5% 
609 3 9 
Their counsel were, Sir Francis Pem- 
berton: M. P. Pollexfen; Sir George 
Treby; Sir Creswell Leving: Mr. So- 
mers; Mr. Bedford; Mr. Finch: and Sir 
Rober Sawyer. The two last refused 
their fees of twenty guineas each. The 
whole of the lawyers fees’‘was 240/. 16s. 
6d. 
CADMUS, 
A native of Tortola composed in 1792, 
a work entitled Cadmus, which was 
printed at Philadeiphia -the following 
year. . Its object is to substitute a new 
alphabet for that now in use. Addi- 
tional characters are suggested for th, dh, 
ng, sh, and wh; and, in the author’s opi- 
nion, he thus diminishes the extent, and 
ascertains the pronunciation of every sen- 
tence in the language. 
Certainly the two great principles to 
be adhered to in the reformation of lan- 
guage are abbreviation, and analoyy. 
Whatever word can be shortened, with- 
out becoming less intelligible, thereby 
saves labour to every future reader, 
writer and printer. Whatever word can 
be withdrawn from among the anoma- 
lous, and placed among the regular words 
of a language, is instantly declmed and 
inflected aright by the children and the 
ignorant. Abbreviation mends languave> 
for the lear ned; and analogy for the illi- 
terate, 
Tie author of Cadmus, Dr. W. Thorn- 
ton, very rationally proposes, that small 
and capital letters should differ poly in’ 
size, not in form. 
CHARING-CROSS. 
This appellation is commonly spelled, 
asif it were corrupted from Chairing-cross, - 
and described as a place where the mem- 
bers for Westminster were chaired. Pro- 
bably it derives from Sharing-cross, and 
designates the site of a cross, where two 
roads share, or divide. This use of the 
word share may be still traced in plow- 
share, share-bone, and in Milton’s 
** Deep entering sbar'd 
All his right side.” 
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