swered, "To renounce his own will, and to render a blind obedience to the Superior, whose will he is to consider as the will of Almighty God, who speaks to him always by the mouth of his superior."

I continued my journey after I left the convent, whose character seemed to me so enigmatical. I stopped in Milan eight days, where an Italian lord gave me a letter for Cardinal Vidoni in Rome. I found some Catholic professors in Milan, who were true worshippers of Christ; they said to me, "They vend in Rome Christ and his Gospel, but only the Pope is worshipped. You must not go to Rome, because they will put you in prison." I said, "I will satisfy myself about it with my own eyes.

I was introduced to the professors of the university at Milan, and I travelled from thence to Novara, in Piemont, where I had a letter for a nun of a convent. She and all her devout sisters received me with great kindness, and showed me great hospitality. I remained three days at Novara, where I received a recommendation for Cardinal Cacciapiati, and went to Turin. I was so much imposed upon by the landlords in Italy, that I had no more than a penny left when I arrived in Turin. Having recommendations from the foreign ambassadors at Berne to those at Turin and Rome, I went to Count Truchsesz, Prussian ambassador at Turin, and gave him the letter, and said to him, That I should write to my benefactor Duke Dalberg, to solicit some more money, but I did not

know where to stay at Turin, till I received it. He said to me, You need not write for money, you may stay with me and my lady eight or ten days, and I will show you the most remarkable things in this city, and will introduce you to the other ambassadors and some learned men, and after that I will give you as much as you want for your journey to Rome.

I observed the church of Christ among the Waldenses in the valley of Piemont. Count T. gave me eight. guineas. Mr. David Baillie of London, who understood German, was at Turin, and finding me in the house of the Russian ambassador, invited me to accompany him in his journey to Genoa at his expence. By the kindness of that' gentleman, I saved my money till my arrival in Genoa, where I was recommended to the consul of Prussia, who took a passage for me in a ship for Civita Vecchia; but the wind being contrary we anchored at a town twelve miles from Genoa, more than fourteen days. This was an occasion of sorrow, because all things were very dear, and my money diminished from day to day. I could not yet speak Italian, and no one in the ship spoke French. I observed a Dominican monk' from Spain, and conversed with him in Latin. I told him that I wished not to lose so much time in

so miserable a port. The Dominican replied, Patience is a Christian virtue, and we cannot be true followers of Christ without the possession of this virtue, because it proves a want of faith. I' was, from this time, always in his company, and

liked him as a father; he seemed to lose himself in continual meditation on the suffering Redeemer, and united to his religion a humanity which I scarcely found amongst other monks. The con-> trary wind arose as soon as we arrived at Leghorn, and I landed with the intention of undertaking the journey from thence to Rome on foot, because I feared I should not have enough to pay the captain, if I continued my journey by sea. By the time I had walked a quarter of a mile, I was unable to proceed on account of the heat. In the time of necessity men learn to call upon the Watchman of Israel. The reason is this, they perceive no help on the right hand nor on the left; but above they can see a Father of mercy who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains, and who giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry. He who has a heart renewed by the grace of God, who is able to cry, Abba, Father, looks to that Redeemer who died for us, considers the lilies of the field how they grow, and then he begins to knock at the door of mercy; and often God is pleased to open it.

I kneeled down and prayed, perhaps, two minutes, when a coach came up, containing three gentlemen. I asked the coachman whether he had a place for me, and could convey me for a small reward to Florence. He said, he would convey me for half a guinea. I agreed, and I accompanied the other gentlemen, amongst whom was a sea

officer of the kingdom of Piemont, who understood a little German, and talked French very well. The sea-officer asked me where I intended to go! I answered, To Rome, to enter the Propaganda, for the improvement of my understanding, and to become a Missionary. He asked, why I did not agree with the coachman to convey me to Rome, as he would pay the landlord for my dinner and bring me to Rome for four guineas. I replied, Because I have only three guineas and a half. The sea-officer offered to lend me two guineas, if I would promise to return him the money when we arrived at Rome. I promised him to do it, having confidence in God's fatherly providence, that on my arrival at Rome, he would supply me with the means to satisfy this generous' sea-officer. I continued my journey to Rome, and when I passed Siena, a town of Tuscany, I went to see a house which was once the habitation of a Christian lady called Catharine of Siena, whose spiritual works I had read in the German translations; she spoke with great freedom against the pomp of the Pope, and his Cardinals and Bishops. At length I arrived at the gates of Rome, where I saw the cross of Christ, upon which is painted the key of St. Peter with the inscription Pax,' the arms of the pope, placed near the town gates. I was much surprised. I found by accident, Mess. T. and I. H. two truly converted Jews, painters from Germany, on my arrival in Rome; we knew each other by report, and they paid for me to the sea-officer the two guineas I had borrowed. They

introduced me to a respectable Roman priest, who conducted me to Cardinal Litta. The Prussian, Bavarian, Russian, and Dutch ambassadors to whom I was introduced, recommended me likewise to Cardinal Litta, who is the most respectable and learned of all the Cardinals, and the prefect of the Propaganda. He promised me to speak to the Pope that I might enter into one of the colleges at Rome, as a member of the Propaganda, till the college of Propaganda, which had been destroyed by the French, should be re-opened. The first month after my arrival in Rome, before I entered the seminary called Seminario Pontifico, and before I attended the public lectures, was very pleasant. I formed an acquaintance with some Christian clergymen and prelates, and also with many pious painters and sculptors. I saw, before I entered the Seminario Romano, the chief works of Raphael and Michael Angelo; I considered the place in the amphitheatre, where Ignatius the martyr was the food of beasts, for Christ's sake; and where so many other Christians became, as Milner says, God's wheat ground by the teeth of wild beasts; and I gazed with much astonishment at the ruins of the ancient Rome. I saw Pius VII. before I was introduced to him, in the church of St. Maria Maggiori: he appeared to be a man of deep piety, humility, and devotion. I read every evening the Prophets, with the before-mentioned German artists.

The Prince of Gotha and Monsieur Testa, Secretary of the Pope, spoke of me to Pius VII., and on