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134 TRAVRLS IN EUROPE.he made profitable as a matter of traffic, it must meet sorne encouragement;and the various entrepÔts for commerce in this article, Hie bureauxor offices open in diffêrent towns, and dispersed through thesametown, with " Aquise sacan lasanimas,"(" Here souls are redeemed outof purgatory,") superscribed, show a very s'mart trade to he dri,yen inthis way.:Military men of the 61'st distinction have been denouncedto the holy office by their inferiors, on the most frivolous accusatiolls,in diseharge of benefits conferred, too great to be repaid 0'therwisethatiby sorne black aet of ingratitude, that shou;J,à; inits effects sweep awayaIl remembrance ofthe obligation with the presence, and it might almosthe si:lid in the blood, of the donor. rrhe accusations, and those whopresented them, were treated as they deserved by the grand inquisitor,the virtuous and enlightenedarchbishop of SeviUe ;-but mark what delationis!-,~hese·men stiJl take those they have thus wronged by thehand; and appearances must he kept up, inreturn fortheir 6iffrontery,with them.And aH this the world hasbefQreit fO'f et&arn:ple, and to beinfeeted. byas $uch. No action lies for this wrong. lt is not suffi·cientfor Spain that the Inquisition sleep; it should never breathe. Whatev~erdetrimentaJ form the religious motive can assume has its fosterage,as matter of course; (there may not be ahvayssuch a grand inquisitor)whether it he in its concentration as bigotry, its tf1'0e"/'IJ as enthusiaSlll,or its malignityas fanaticism. 'rhus, as a precious specimen of whatwill he attempted under such a patronage, Jet he taken the practicehere of distributing for sale vile copper-plates, ofJewscrucifying aChristian child, with every enlargemeIlt and refinelnent ofcrueltythemalignity of human nature cansuggest, even such as it might nothavenerves to carry it through the execution of. 'Ve must begin in selfjustification,for this is always a necessary process in everyiniquity, bycriminating those WhOlll we mean todestroy. But even now, that