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principle, was, like many others of the same 
political sentiments, liberal and enlightened, 
refuting, by his conduct, the false and fraudu- 
lent calumnies which have been so long alleged 
the gallant men who supported the cause 
ill-fated Stuarts. Qn St. Peter's day, 
against 
of the 
when 
the 
Pope 
in 
PETSOH 
performs 
high 
H1355 
in 
the 
cathedral, 
the 
Abate? 
offered 
to 
take 
as he could place him among 
West to the church, 
the 
ecclesiastics, 
in 
an 
advantageous 
situation to 
witness 
the 
ceremony. 
Glad 
of 
such 
an 
offer, 
accompanied 
willingly 
NIL West 
him. 
The vast 
edilice; 
immense 
the 
the 
multitude of spectators; 
sublimity 
of 
the 
music ; 
and 
the 
effect 
of 
the 
pomp addressed to 
mind of the painter 
the sight, produced on the 
feelings scarcely less enthusi- 
those 
than 
astic, 
the devoutest of 
which 
the W01'- 
shippers 
experienced, 
OP 
the 
craftiest 
inhabitant 
of the Vatican affected to Feel. 
At the elevation of 
as he was kneeling beside the Abat6, 
the host, and 
their 
equal 
as tonish ment 
he 
heard 
voice, 
exclaiming behind them in a broad Scottish 
accent, " O Lord, cast not the church down on 
them 
for 
this 
abomination I" 
The 
surrounding 
Italian priests, not understanding What the enthu-