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 have thought and written in a style very different from that which characterises his present work. He and his sovereign, like honest men, were full of charity and confidence towards the subjects of the Pope. But the Archbishop of Cologne has taught them both, as the events of the last ten years have taught us, that the only natural reward of kindness and favour towards true sous of the Italian See, is the gratitude of the cherished viper. As to the defects of the Memoirs, of which I am sufficiently sensible, and only wish that the task had fallen into abler, and as willing, hands, I can only say, that my real object was, not to display study or learning, but to give the public information in a simple, straightforward way, which, it is no affectation to add, would not be otherwise within their reach. And upon this point I am not at all anxious to dwell. Fact, which is plainly fact, must be known.

"And now, to come nearer to the main point, it is assumed, and really asserted, by the Dublin Reviewer, that Ranke has refrained from quoting the Memoirs. He clenches the assertion by the following statement, that Ranke's opinion of the work was the reason of the omission. It should be understood, that