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 censures which the Vatican assumes to itself the authority of fulminating. There are some entries, which, besides being new, are rather remarkable. The reader will observe, under the early letter B-, Vestiges of Antient Manners and Customs discoverable in Modern Italy and Sicily. The sensitive and cautious author took some pains not to give offence; but his efforts, it seems, have proved unavailing Rome knows no favour where she is either hurt or alarmed; and the wounds, which such disclosures as those made by our meritorious countryman, open afresh, are peculiarly tender. As the reader, that is, the English, proceeds, he encounters, at no great distance, another countryman, under the title, on the Insufficiency of Unrevealed Religion, and on the succeeding Influence of Christianity, delivered in Rome, if I am not mistaken. It will not be amiss to notice the Spanish Historica, Legal, y Polytica sobre el Celibato Clerical, par D. .. . .L.; and, to transgress alphabetic order, on account of unity of subject, (il) degli Antichi Preti, e il Celibato dei Moderni, &c. (the two next articles are on the same subject) the subject is the Celibacy, enforced, of the