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 1836, the Italian version of  Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in Italy takes its place with other criminals. Another of the 4th of July, 1837, proscribes the Biografia di Fra Paolo Sarpi di ; and likewise his Scelte lettere inedite.

A Decree, dated May 2, 1838, claims particular notice, and the reader has already been prepared for it — Considerazioni imparziali sopra la legge del Celibato Ecclesiastico e sul voto solenne di castità proposte segretamente ai consiglieri, e Legislatori degli stati Cattolici dal professore. — C. A. P. This notice attests the compulsory celibacy of the Romish Clergy, and the remonstrances against it. Of the policy of the law there can be no secret or doubt. To have a body, with no local or family attachment, with no diversion of effort or property, devoted to the service of their spiritual sovereign, though at the tremendous expense of morally certain profligacy of the most detestable description, is just the same policy as is pursued by the Turk in the institution of the military order of Janizaries — men taken into the service at an age, when all attachments may be easily overcome, denied marriage except at the will of their officer, which is equivalent to absolute prohibition,