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 whereas by this Bull such a proceeding was directly incited; while the proposed power of proxy is quite without precedent. In the end of August, Cardinal Antonelli had arrived in Venice, and was congratulating himself on this act, the final promulgation of which he thought that he had secured. But the hesitation of old age reverted on Pius, when in his lonely cell he saw brought to him for ratification the instrument wherein, by a stroke of his pen, he was so gravely to modify ancient constitutions. The Bull of the previous year had been promulgated in concert with his Cardinals; but this one, involving far more