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Ti1e Court Of Rome.
parties who have employed you , wish to make a drum of the head of the church , I beg they will find some other person to officiate as tambour-master . " Inquiries soon made the Pope master of the whole affair , and from that moment an effectual bar seems to have been put to the promotion of Dr . Wiseman ; for on Dr . Bains , one of the English Catholic bishops , demanding him as his coadjutorhe was refusedand his lordship was at
, , the same time commanded never to name him again . The affair caused much regret in Rome , where the Doctor is much respected , and where his talent as professor of oriental literature at the University of the Sapienza has procured him many friends . It is a circumstance highly honourable to the English college in Rome , that its rector should , have been chosen to fill so important a chair as that of oriental literature ; and that during the absence in England of the professorthe Vice RectorDr . Baggs
, , , should have been the person selected as most capable of supplying his place . Among the persons domiciled in the Eternal City , is an Englishman known as Count Hawks le Grice , a person of obscure origin , who was ennobled by the late Pope on the occasion of his conversion to the Catholic church . He has established a library in the Piazza d'Spagna , where controversial hooks are lent gratuitously to strangers . He is the
last hope of those who have no other means of getting presented , in doing which favour he generally finds his account . Lord Rossmore , when in Rome , employed this person to procure him the order of the Golden Spur ; and the writer of this article has seen a letter which was presented to his holiness , stating his lordship ' s devotion to the holy see , and
setting forth the services he had rendered the Catholics of Ireland . Nothing but the fact of his lordship being a Protestant prevented the success of the application ; but to soften the disappointment , the Pope sent him a case of gold medals , which his lordship gratefully acknowledged , and declared should be conserved as an heir-loom in his family . Among the Cardinals remarkable for their talent , are Mezzofanti , the celebrated linguist , and Pacca and Odescalchi , the latter of whom has latelresigned the hih office of Pope ' s vicarand entered as a novice
y g , into the order of Jesuits , whose influence and power may one day raise him to thepapal throne , Cardinal Pacca was the minister of Pius VII . and the companion of his captivity . His memoirs , which are extremel y well written , have been translated into nearly every European language . Mezzofanti , who has been raised to the purple since the writer left Rome , is one of the most gifted characters which this or any other age has ever produced ; he not only speaks every European tongue , but the dialects
of many of the American tribes . In a visit which the author of this sketch had the honour of making with him to the Propaganda—where youths of every country , Greeks , Turks , Ethiopians , Egyptians , and Syrians are educated ^ as missionaries—he heard him converse in sixteen languages fluently , without hesitation or a moment ' s consideration , changing the language as he turned from boy to boy . Of his talent he can in some degree consider himself qualified to jud having frequentl
ge , y conversed with him in French , German , English , Italian , and Latin , all of which he spoke with purity and ease . A student of the Scotch college afterwards told him that his knowledge was as extraordinary in the . Gaelic tongue . Society in Rome , from the peculiar nature of the government , is of a . mixed character , and presents a picture to be found in no other country ;
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Ti1e Court Of Rome.
parties who have employed you , wish to make a drum of the head of the church , I beg they will find some other person to officiate as tambour-master . " Inquiries soon made the Pope master of the whole affair , and from that moment an effectual bar seems to have been put to the promotion of Dr . Wiseman ; for on Dr . Bains , one of the English Catholic bishops , demanding him as his coadjutorhe was refusedand his lordship was at
, , the same time commanded never to name him again . The affair caused much regret in Rome , where the Doctor is much respected , and where his talent as professor of oriental literature at the University of the Sapienza has procured him many friends . It is a circumstance highly honourable to the English college in Rome , that its rector should , have been chosen to fill so important a chair as that of oriental literature ; and that during the absence in England of the professorthe Vice RectorDr . Baggs
, , , should have been the person selected as most capable of supplying his place . Among the persons domiciled in the Eternal City , is an Englishman known as Count Hawks le Grice , a person of obscure origin , who was ennobled by the late Pope on the occasion of his conversion to the Catholic church . He has established a library in the Piazza d'Spagna , where controversial hooks are lent gratuitously to strangers . He is the
last hope of those who have no other means of getting presented , in doing which favour he generally finds his account . Lord Rossmore , when in Rome , employed this person to procure him the order of the Golden Spur ; and the writer of this article has seen a letter which was presented to his holiness , stating his lordship ' s devotion to the holy see , and
setting forth the services he had rendered the Catholics of Ireland . Nothing but the fact of his lordship being a Protestant prevented the success of the application ; but to soften the disappointment , the Pope sent him a case of gold medals , which his lordship gratefully acknowledged , and declared should be conserved as an heir-loom in his family . Among the Cardinals remarkable for their talent , are Mezzofanti , the celebrated linguist , and Pacca and Odescalchi , the latter of whom has latelresigned the hih office of Pope ' s vicarand entered as a novice
y g , into the order of Jesuits , whose influence and power may one day raise him to thepapal throne , Cardinal Pacca was the minister of Pius VII . and the companion of his captivity . His memoirs , which are extremel y well written , have been translated into nearly every European language . Mezzofanti , who has been raised to the purple since the writer left Rome , is one of the most gifted characters which this or any other age has ever produced ; he not only speaks every European tongue , but the dialects
of many of the American tribes . In a visit which the author of this sketch had the honour of making with him to the Propaganda—where youths of every country , Greeks , Turks , Ethiopians , Egyptians , and Syrians are educated ^ as missionaries—he heard him converse in sixteen languages fluently , without hesitation or a moment ' s consideration , changing the language as he turned from boy to boy . Of his talent he can in some degree consider himself qualified to jud having frequentl
ge , y conversed with him in French , German , English , Italian , and Latin , all of which he spoke with purity and ease . A student of the Scotch college afterwards told him that his knowledge was as extraordinary in the . Gaelic tongue . Society in Rome , from the peculiar nature of the government , is of a . mixed character , and presents a picture to be found in no other country ;